Pairing the 2023 Oscar Nominees with Whiskey

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On today's film and whiskey, I'm

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joined by a very special guest
to break down the 10 best

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picture nominees at this year's
Oscars and pair each movie up

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with its perfect whiskey.
That's all ahead on filmin

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Whiskey.
Well, hey, there everybody

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welcomed into the film and
whiskey podcast.

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I'm Bob book, and I am kinda
sorta flying solo today.

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Luckily, you don't just have to
listen to me.

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We do have a special guest
today, but as we mentioned, at

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the end of our bracket episodes,
not only are we taking some time

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off for the month of March as we
ramp up for season 7 but Brad

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just had a baby or rather it
would be more appropriate to say

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that his wife had a baby and
Brad is helping to That baby

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into the world.
So Brad's taken some paternity

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leave right now and that means
that as we talk about the

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Oscars, you get to listen to the
more pompous half of film and

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whiskey wax, poetic about his
favorite time of year and

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joining me to do, that is one of
our very favorite people.

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A guy who drags me back down to
Earth, every time we talk and is

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also probably more educated than
me, so he's a, he's a perfect

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balance and renders me obsolete.
Zach, Johnston.

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From up rocks.
Zack, how are you today?

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I'm doing very well and I hope I
can be half the man.

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Brad has.
Listen, I'll say it because he's

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not here.
Being Half the Man, Brad, is, is

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only about two foot six.
So that's that's all you gotta

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be, man.
Well, maybe I three times man.

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Yeah, yeah, we are recording
this on Wednesday night.

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This episode is going up
Thursday morning in advance of

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the Oscars.
So we're going to do as little

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editing as possible.
No pressure zaph But we can't

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screw up.
We gotta plow Straight Ahead

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through here.
What Zack and I are doing is

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we're releasing this episode in
conjunction with an article

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that's coming out on uproxx
under Zacks by line and we're

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going to be looking at the 10
best picture nominees at this

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year's Oscars.
And we're going to be pairing.

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Each one of them up with a
whiskey.

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I'm super excited to do this.
It kind of goes off the up rocks

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article.
We had a few weeks back where we

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just took 10 movies that we've
reviewed on the show.

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We're here.
We're narrowing it down, we're

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honing our craft, a little it to
talk specifically about this

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year's Best Picture nominees
Zach.

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Had you seen all ten of these
before?

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We got this idea, I have
actually okay.

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I sort of I had been through
them, I thought I hadn't but I

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turns out I had so write,
stories act.

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Yeah, exactly.
As a guy who watches tons of

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movies, the pre Oscar
nominations season is always a

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little chaotic because there's
always a bike, 15, 20, movies,

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that could be nominated.
You always know that there's

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like five to seven that are
locked.

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So then those last three, no one
really knows what's going to

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happen.
And so like we're going to talk

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about movies like triangle of
sadness, and women talking.

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And I remember women talking
came out in my area like the

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weekend before Oscar nominations
hit.

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And so I just happened to get it
in just under the wire before

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before they nominated it.
But maybe it's really hard to

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keep up with some of these
especially in markets like you

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and me, like, I don't live in
New York, I don't live in LA.

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And a lot of times these Movies
don't come out in theatrically

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to like February.
Exactly.

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Yeah, it's it's really hard to
catch up.

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I would be really surprised, you
know, if we did a film and

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whiskey Nation, pull if most
people have seen more than like,

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five of these, like, it's just
and it's another year where a

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lot of the Indie movies are
represented here.

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There's not a ton of
Blockbusters.

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There's a few obvious
Blockbusters, but not a lot of

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movies that I would expect.
Everyone has seen.

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No.
And I even compared to how it

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was even five ten years ago.
Much less 20, 30 years ago.

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All this stuff is Jean streaming
now, but it's also it gets lost

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even there.
I mean, try to finds you know, I

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said, women talking, you have to
go and look for it it's not

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like, you know, Top Gun which is
all over Apple TV.

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Yeah.
Paramount you know you can't

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miss it or even how many how
many people actually have All

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Quiet on the Western Front pop
up on their Netflix page as some

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right and the watch, you know.
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Exactly.
So it's a good, it's a good

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point, because I remember when
banshees a finisher and hit HBO

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Max, it was just like on a
random Tuesday or something and

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it was it immediately buried.
And, you know, as a movie guy, I

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knew banshees of, in a Sharon
was going to be a movie that was

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likely to be nominated for best
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And then I got this news that,
oh, it's actually coming to HBO

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Max in like, five days.
And I was pumped.

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I'll tell everybody like this
really important movie is going

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to hit HBO Max and then, of
course, like there's no Banner

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on the The top, there's nothing
for you to like, to draw your

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attention to it.
It's almost like you have to

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know what to look for, even when
you're going into the platforms

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that are hosting these things,
right, right?

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Yeah, exactly.
It's been it's, you know, it

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would almost be easier if they
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Even if it was, you know, like
an art house theater and the AMC

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and maybe a landmark because at
least you know where to find

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them, somewhat.
Yeah, man.

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So, what we're saying is we
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millions and millions of page
views because Because of the

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popularity of these movies.
Before we jump into the best

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picture nominees Zach, are you
sipping on anything tonight?

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As we talk?
I am.

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So I was thinking about just how
the sort of Glamour of it all

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because it's still got like that
old Hollywood by and so I

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grabbed myself a dow more.
Oh, scuse me.

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Know now more and the cigar
belt, it's one of my favorite

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just sort of easygoing
Singapore's.

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It's cover.
A lovely sort of, you know, that

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caramel peppery nose to it.
Yeah.

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And it, you know, it's just one
of those nice sippers that

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perfect for midweek.
You know you just want one good

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whiskey.
I'm sippin on some Doc's win

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since tonight and turn their
blenders cut.

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It's a five-year Bergen, we just
reviewed it on.

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I think our last bracket
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So it's still sitting here next
to my computer and I was like,

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you know, I might as well
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absolutely it's delicious and
be, they sponsored us this

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season.
So when you Me money.

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I will drink your whiskey
numerous times on air.

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Let it be known film in whiskey.
Let's be nice.

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Doc Swenson is a it's a
fantastic toddler.

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They're getting some just really
special stuff out there and yeah

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a third Washington for sure.
I really enjoy everything after

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I.
All right, Zach.

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So as we get into the Oscar
thing, you know, every year when

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nominations come out people talk
about snubs and movies that

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didn't get nominations.
That should have gotten

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nominations.
What do you think back on your

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movie watching year of 2020?
To like, what movies that aren't

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that we aren't going to talk
about today?

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Do you want to mention what
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I mean, I think the menu was
see, kind of snubbed because, of

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triangle of sadness.
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I think those films have similar
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Also, it kind of felt like it
just Ray Fiennes character way

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from Ray Fiennes in the menu was
phenomenal.

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Like just how he didn't get a
nomination is beyond me and

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listen.
I know how it works.

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You have, they have to go out
for the campaign and they have

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to put in for it, and it's a
whole huge thing and maybe he

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just didn't want to do it.
Totally, get that.

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To me, that's still one of his
Great Performances.

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That was overlooked.
Yeah, that was, I would say

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that's the big one for me.
There's other little films that

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I really enjoyed, I really got
back into or this year.

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I really like fresh and
Barbarian but you know, that's

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never going to get anything from
right out of me.

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And I again fully aware same
thing with like pray.

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This kind of surprised, pray
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costume or a special effects.
I really enjoyed the fights.

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Things in that, I enjoyed, you
know, the entire look of yeah,

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for sure for be really
fantastic.

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And then there were, you know,
other little things that you

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kind of get surprised about I
guess I would say as in I kind

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of like Babylon because it was
so crazy and I kind of felt like

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that should have fallen right
into that narrow thing where

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it's Hollywood celebrating
Hollywood.

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I know it got a couple side
nominations that nobody cares

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about but I don't know, that's
kind of guess it was not Margot

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Robbie's here between right.
Right that and her other films

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put out this year.
I don't know, it's sort of

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wasn't like the most exciting
year for like, mainstream

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mainstream stuff outside of the
obvious that Avatar and Top Gun.

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Because I don't think anyone
thought everything everywhere.

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All at once would be no no way
game.

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And that was the thing I was I
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and they were talking about how
typically like the the film that

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would come in second place in
best picture, that's like a

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little too risky or a little too
out there to win best picture.

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Well, normally win.
In the screenplay Awards and

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this year it looks like
everything everywhere.

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All at once might win a
screenplay award but it's also

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the lock for best picture at
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It just like this is the kind of
movie that you know, like what's

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the, What's the phrase?
Like the jet?

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Not General consensus.
But general knowledge would tell

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you if, you know your Oscars
history that this is not the

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kind of movie that wins that
award.

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Exactly.
Yeah, it would be it's the

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Tarantino effect.
Hyo-eun screenplay, but never

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best picture.
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Daniel's would get screenplay.
But no way we get this picture.

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That being said, I do put a lot
of weight behind the baffles.

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There's a lot, a lot of
continuity between those two

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Awards.
And I also put a lot of weight

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behind beautifully made war
movies, that Academy voters

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cannot help themselves to vote,
right?

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So I could see that being an
upset, but I don't ask, I guess

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it, you know, very out there
think that it would happen.

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I Like mcdonough's.
Going to get the screenplay this

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year.
Hmm, because that's the out sort

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of the outsider Tarantino choice
and it's all Bantry.

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It's completely dialogue-driven,
you know, you could have it is a

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stage play.
Just set on what three locations

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to be houses in a pub.
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And so, to me because it is so
dialogue-driven, I can see that.

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Yeah, you can like that, but I
also I don't know.

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This is another thing, I've
noticed, like, Steven Spielberg,

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never does interviews and you
did a whole late night, little

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bear.
She met.

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He is out there campaigning hard
right now, right?

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So hard.
And that makes a difference in

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the reality of the voters.
Yep.

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Same thing with Tom Cruise
showing up being on Kimmel going

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to the Oscar parties that which
he never ever does.

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Yeah that makes a difference to
so you know and those they are I

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called yep that people.
Door and the Daniels are just

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straight up.
Not like I don't mean to be

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blunt or and everyone loves
Michelle yeoh.

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Yeah.
But you know I kind of feel like

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people really get their hopes up
about her getting Oscars like I

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can see it going other ways
because for sure they it's the

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Oscars they often go to
Sentimental.

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Route will get into all that I
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I want to give a couple of my
like I guess what do you want to

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call them?
Honorable mention movies, movies

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that Did not make the Oscars cut
when I look over my like Best of

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the Best of the year list here.
There's a few of them that Sonic

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tubes, Sonic 2 Electric
Boogaloo.

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I mean, the movie that I keep
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like all year, I talked about
Michael Bay's ambulance, which

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was just yeah, just chaotic and
one of the best, a movie theater

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experiences, I saw.
So I saw ambulance and the

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Indian movie rrr on the same day
in the movie theater and I have

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Never been as overwhelmed, like
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Like I walked out of the theater
and I think my ears rang for a

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day and a half afterwards.
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It was just looking for a fight
for no reason.

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It was awesome.
Yeah, I wanted to go out and

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find a tiger.
It was freaking incredible, man.

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So both of those movies are
worth mentioning, you know,

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obviously, Brendan Fraser's up
for the whale, the whale is a

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movie directed by Darren
Aronofsky, who, I really don't

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like any Darren Aronofsky
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I just there's something about
him as a director that has never

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done it for me.
Me and I'm not here to bash

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anybody, but but I was surprised
at you.

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I thought the movie itself was a
little corny, not gonna lie.

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But well, he's kind of like
creepy, Uncle Soderberg, right,

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yeah, right that.
So, the movies based on a stage

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play, as is women talking, and
both of those films, I really

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waited until the last minute to
see, because I could tell they

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built just seem like they're
going to be downers and they

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felt like Oscar bait.
They felt like they were going

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to be super didactic and like I
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and roll my eyes.
That how hard these people were

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trying to win an Oscar and I
have to stay with both of those

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movies.
What really struck me was how

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entertaining they were, like
they told a heavy stories, but

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they knew when to use humor,
there were some big laughs in my

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theater for both women talking
and the whale at very specific

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moments.
And I like, if nothing else were

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both of those movies, I'm glad
to see screenplay nominations

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because I thought that they were
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sure.
Absolutely.

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All right.
Man, three women, talking that

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movie kind of blew me away
freaking blue, and no one's

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talking about it.
Like, I can't believe it.

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It's when you look on gold
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use to kind of track the odds of
what's, you know, what the

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experts are saying is going to
win.

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They have women talking as the
10th Place finisher right now,

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in best picture, it just never
seem to get any traction.

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I thought they held it a little
too long.

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They really didn't release it
publicly until right before

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nominations came out.
And I just I don't know if it

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was a lack of Of campaigning
effort or funding, or what.

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But I was surprised to even see
it sneak into the best picture

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race, to be honest with you
because like, literally nobody

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was talking about it, right?
Yeah, it's sort of, I remember

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seeing the trailer, like got
nine months ago, six months ago,

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not he read another thing about
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All right.
Well, on that note, I think we

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should just jump in here.
And what we're going to do is

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we're going to use these gold
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break.
It down our ten nominees here.

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We'll start at the bottom with
the movie women talking.

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And what I wrote about women
talking was essentially this, I

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would not have expected this
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it is.
It's a movie that really catches

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you off guard.
There's a love story at the

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center of it and it's, I mean,
it's a heartbreaking movie, but

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it's not a downer.
And I think that's the thing

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that really shocks me about this
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It, it told a complete narrative
Arc, I thought it asked some

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really beautiful ethical and
Theological questions.

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You know, if you listen to our
podcast, you know that movies

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like Life of Pi are among my
favorite movies because they ask

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these questions and they don't
offer easy answers and this

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movie does the same thing.
And when I think about women

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talking and what I could pair
that movie with whiskey wise, I

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went with a tried-and-true film
and whiskey classic going all

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the way back to, I think season
one.

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It's the Glenmorangie Keen to
Reuben if they're after Bill.

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You know?
If there is one whiskey that

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That people continually ask us
about, it's the cancer.

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Reuben, because we've listen II,
you know, I have no idea what

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kind of Roi Glenmorangie is
getting off of our podcast here,

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but they have invested zero
dollars and they have gotten at

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least 100 bottle sales just for
me telling people about it like

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Word of Mouth wise because it's
like a 50.

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I think it's up to about 57
dollars now in my area and it's

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still a steel, it's a 14-year
single malt, it is like one of

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the most Beautifully finished
scotches that we've ever had.

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It is a perfect entry way into
the world of single malt

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Highland Scotch.
If you've never been a scotch

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person, I always always
recommend the key to Reuben.

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And so, I think that both women
talking and the King to Reuben,

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are more than meets the eye.
You know, I didn't expect much

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from women talking going in and
I was really pleasantly

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surprised.
And I think cancer ribbon really

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fits that bill as well.
Absolutely just to add to the

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the Glenmorangie or than all I
would argue one of the best port

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finishes that you can actually
afford and get that gives you an

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exact idea what that means
without going overboard or

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getting to musti.
It's so well attenuated that

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you're like oh this is what they
mean by Port finish.

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This is something special that
is extra and clearly so hmm.

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All right Zach, what's your Is
your first movie to break down

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here.
So going off, our goal Derby

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list, it's the menu, sorry, I
mean, triangle of sadness.

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So I did enjoy triangle of
sadness because it did go in a

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direction that I'm not going to
spoil here because again I don't

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know how many people have
actually seen this movie.

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It went in a direction, I did
not expect many was actually

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kind of refreshing and I really
got into it in the back half.

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The first half I found kind of
derivative that's why I don't

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think it's really going to win
anything.

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Yeah, that I mean it was there
were funny moments, don't get me

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wrong, I was giggling.
When I supposed to be giggling

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and, you know, but because of
the sort of, you know, parasite

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of it all, I feel like this is
that nominations slot for that.

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And it's always about class,
right?

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And so, I think anybody who
watched the trailer knows it's

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about the Uber Elite rich, And
you know, the people who have to

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work for them unfortunately, and
then the film goes in a very

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different direction, focusing on
what people know from the

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trailer and the general thrust
of evil rich versus poor and it

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being such an elitist film.
I had to go with the most

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elitist bottle of whiskey, I
could think of.

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So I'm going with Pappy Van,
Winkle 2000.

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I love it.
I love it specifically because

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that is my least favorite Pappy
to.

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So it is it is what those books
on that ship would be demanding

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to drink.
So you should pour a glass of

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that if you're going to watch
this movie.

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So I was actually, I'm so glad
to hear you say that we and we

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have not revealed our picks for
this article to each other at

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all yet.
So I'm literally hearing your

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picks for the first time here.
I was going to say I was so

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happy that triangle of sadness
ended up on your list because it

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was of the 10 movies.
It was the only one that I can

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say.
I really didn't like I thought

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it was entirely too long.
It was at least a half hour.

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Too long.
It's a movie that split into

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three acts and only two of the
acts.

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I feel like really actually are
pertinent to the plot like the

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first kind of prologue act.
Really has no bearing on the

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rest of the plot.
It sets up two characters but I

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don't really know that it adds
very much to the theme of the

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movie.
And the thing is, it's very

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flawed.
The thing with this movie is,

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you know, a few years ago, I
feel like there was really kind

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of a Groundswell of people
pushing back on specifically

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movies that were being made by.
Disney and how, you know, there

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was a perception of the way that
they were portraying.

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Quote-unquote woke - right and
Brad and I never talked about

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woke nests on this podcast.
I lean more left, Brad leans

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more, right.
But I felt like they were a

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couple films in a row that were
released by Disney that there

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were, there were characters and
they were thematic developments

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in those movies that weren't
earned and it felt like they

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were really trying to check
boxes.

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And I think that people Studios
have taken note of that now, but

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what they've pivoted to is
taking that really simplistic

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understanding of diversity.
And instead they've made a

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really simplistic theme which is
just like rich people, bad.

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And so like we get movies this
past year like Glass Onion which

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I really liked and liked the
menu which I liked quite a bit

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and and like triangle of
sadness.

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But I think people are starting
to hit their limit with these

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kind of movies, even if we All
agree with the core premise of

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the movie.
And even if we really do like

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seeing arrogant and pompous rich
people meet their downfall, this

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movie of those three, I thought
was the most simplistic and

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reductionistic and like it just,
I don't know.

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It beat its principal into your
head and it beat you over the

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top of the head.
I'll say, for 2 hours, and 40

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minutes, without letting up, and
I don't know if Academy members

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were just kind of like
bludgeoned into liking this

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movie.
Not but it didn't do it for me,

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man.
Again I almost want to say it's

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just a parasite slot.
Everything.

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Everything everything ever were
all once is the superhero slot,

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you know, like I it sounds very
basic in terms but it kind of is

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that we're all.
So if you do watch triangle

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sentence, I would argue you can
skip the first our names, just

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start when things go awry.
Yeah.

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When people start vomiting.
Meeting.

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That's where you need to start
the movie.

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Exactly.
And that being said, the reason

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I pick the most elusive Pappy,
is that.

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That's what those Rich aspect
would be demanding.

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Okay, I just felt right.
Yep, I feel it.

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Alright, my next pick, which is
listed currently as Avatar.

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The way of water at number 8.
I loved Avatar the way of water

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and I only kind of liked Avatar.
James Cameron is back babies,

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freaking back.
And I'll tell you what, I went

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to see the re-release of Titanic
in the theaters a couple weeks

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ago and was once again reminded
that that is truly one of the

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great films to ever come out of
Hollywood.

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It is a Monumental achievement.
And when I think back on the way

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of water, which I've seen twice
now, it is much closer to being

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Titanic than it is to being the
first avatar.

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There is a great there's a Level
of Storytelling there there's

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really rich thematic
developments.

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I feel like every character is
finally fully fleshed-out the

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new characters that are
introduced I think are really

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great additions to this world of
Pandora.

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And I mean I got to say man,
Cameron does this thing with

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every one of his sequels where
he takes the source material of

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the first film and he says,
okay.

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But what if we make them a
family?

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Now what if we introduce a kid
and it never fails, he does it

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with aliens.
He does it with T2 and he's

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doing it here with Avatar and
the introduction of kids and

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familial responsibilities.
And the sort of like, I don't

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know, the the weight of
Parenthood.

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I feel like I really made Jake
Sully a better character.

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I thought that the choice to end
the movie with the scene that he

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does which is like a very quiet
meditative kind of like

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recollection.
It's kind of a really

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heartbreaking ending to the
movie and I thought it was just

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one of the more poetic things
I've seen from Cameron and his

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whole career.
I really love the way of water.

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Unfortunately, I went as
simplistic as possible with this

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pairing, and I wanted something
kind of aquatic to match it up

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with.
Now, there is an aquatic themed

448
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,200
whiskey out there that is aged
on the high seas.

449
00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:24,500
But you've heard Brad.
And I talked about that before

450
00:24:24,500 --> 00:24:26,500
and it's not one of our favorite
Whiskey's out there.

451
00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:30,900
So I went with my second pick,
for aquatic themed whiskies and

452
00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:32,500
I went with Barrel.
Seagrass.

453
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,700
Rad's favorite, whiskey of all
time.

454
00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:38,600
The only whiskey to ever achieve
a 50 out of 50 from either of us

455
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:43,500
in the history of the show.
It is just a beautifully complex

456
00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:46,700
rye and it pairs up pretty
perfectly with the way of water.

457
00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:48,900
Yeah.
I mean this is one of my

458
00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:53,100
favorite Whiskey's as well.
It's just so beautifully done.

459
00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:56,600
I mean with the team over a
barrel are doing is just kind of

460
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,700
like Doc Swenson were talking
about earlier.

461
00:24:59,300 --> 00:25:03,400
They're just doing wonderful
work and the fact that It's kind

462
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,800
of a global issue whiskey as
well.

463
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,000
So it kind of pairs with Avatar
that way in that, you know,

464
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,000
Kentucky, Indiana and Canada's
all in there.

465
00:25:10,100 --> 00:25:11,000
Yep.
Yeah.

466
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,800
Martinique rum barrels.
And vedera from Italy and

467
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:14,600
apricot.
Brandy.

468
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,600
Barrels.
You know, it's like all this

469
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,600
different stuff.
Coming together to create a

470
00:25:19,608 --> 00:25:22,100
beautiful poor of whiskey.
Yeah, for sure.

471
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,900
All right, Zach you're up man.
All right, let me let's see.

472
00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:32,000
So that takes me too.
Something that I like I said

473
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,900
before, it might be, this is the
sleeper win just because I

474
00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:38,500
believe the power of the baftas
but All Quiet on the Western

475
00:25:38,500 --> 00:25:42,400
Front.
And in all honestly this was

476
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,700
actually one of my favorite
films of the year like top

477
00:25:45,700 --> 00:25:46,600
three.
For sure.

478
00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:53,400
I'm a huge fan of book.
It has one of my favorite

479
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,900
stories of all time in the
publishing of it.

480
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,900
I'll tell a very quickly because
it's a quick story but it's

481
00:25:58,900 --> 00:26:04,000
proof of the power of Human
translator in translating from

482
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,800
one language to another in that.
The name of this book is

483
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,600
conditional is investing that
there's nothing new in the west,

484
00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:16,900
but the translator didn't
literally translate it because

485
00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:18,000
that wouldn't have to say
meeting.

486
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,200
He went from Snick noise and
investing to All Quiet on the

487
00:26:22,208 --> 00:26:26,500
Western Front which is the power
of truly beautiful arched in

488
00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:31,600
translation Because if you're an
English speaker, there's nothing

489
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,300
new in the west sense, stupid
fight on the Western Front but

490
00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:40,100
that's not right.
It sounds poetic that aside such

491
00:26:40,100 --> 00:26:43,300
a beautiful film to look at.
I mean, the scene when they're

492
00:26:43,300 --> 00:26:46,700
standing outside the farm in the
snow and it's quiet, but you can

493
00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:50,700
almost hear the snowflakes
falling and you hear, you know,

494
00:26:50,700 --> 00:26:53,000
the geese and the pigs and
everything inside the farm and

495
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:59,000
it's just so beautifully put
together as a film. that you

496
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:04,500
kind of get transported in a way
in The Quiet Moments is a very

497
00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:06,700
loud film.
There's no massive amounts of

498
00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:09,300
cord violence of course because
it's about trench warfare.

499
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,700
But I think why the film is so
good?

500
00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:16,500
Is it has that balance of both?
It can be quiet and beautiful

501
00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:21,100
and tragic and funny and they
can be loud and bombastic and

502
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:26,700
horrifying and heroin bloody.
And so for me, it just hit every

503
00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:29,500
moment of that film going
experience.

504
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,800
For me, on top of which, after
all that, the story is also

505
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,100
great.
It's classic for a reason.

506
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,300
So, I didn't go with a classic
whiskey.

507
00:27:40,300 --> 00:27:43,200
I went with the German whiskey.
All right?

508
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,000
So this is sort of like my
ringer outside sort of

509
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,400
curveball, but for your fans, I
live to Berlin for 14 years.

510
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:51,900
I basically lived in Europe for
20.

511
00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:54,900
I really got into German rise,
German Whiskey's.

512
00:27:54,900 --> 00:27:56,900
There's a lot of very
interesting things going on in

513
00:27:56,900 --> 00:27:59,600
Germany right now in the whiskey
scene, of course a lot.

514
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,600
Don't get it.
Oh get over here but back in

515
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,200
2020.
The number one Whiskey in the

516
00:28:05,208 --> 00:28:07,700
world according to the I WS C of
the world spirits.

517
00:28:07,700 --> 00:28:10,200
Come here, natural world,
Spirits competition which is

518
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:15,800
like the Oscars of spirits
competitions name this whiskey

519
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:20,000
best whiskey, the world and
that's the Vespa lien 2012.

520
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000
Six year old single malt.
That's a peated.

521
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,800
German single malt.
Wow.

522
00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:28,800
And so this whiskey is is 100%
delicious.

523
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,200
I mean I Lucky enough to years
ago at solingen Germany I was

524
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:37,300
able to get my hands on some and
the nose has this sort of multi

525
00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:39,600
vanilla chocolate.
He's sort of like a Whopper

526
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,200
sense to it you know those like
ball.

527
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,100
Like yeah malted milk balls.
Yeah multiple balls.

528
00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:50,300
Yeah with sort of like a floral
vanilla and marzipan and like

529
00:28:50,300 --> 00:28:54,700
freshly grilled pancakes with
you know floral honey and old

530
00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:59,000
leather and you know dried
peacoat orange teeny and just

531
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,500
and In the penis is like,
layered in just so beautifully

532
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,000
that you kind of expect
surprises you.

533
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,400
Hmm.
But is part of the overall

534
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,000
ecosystem of the whiskey, like,
it all makes sense.

535
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,600
A sort of like you've lit those
teams on fire or you've, you

536
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,700
know, you've lit them all balls
on fire and I see sort of It's

537
00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:23,900
just a beautiful whiskey.
Like I can see why they named

538
00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:24,900
it.
The best whiskey in the world,

539
00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:28,600
back in 2020.
It's extremely hard to get your

540
00:29:28,608 --> 00:29:29,800
hands on here.
You can get.

541
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,000
It just really expensive again.
Sorry, I have expensive picks

542
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:37,800
but vest Fallen is Fallen.
They do a whole bunch of stuff.

543
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,700
They do a great ride, they do a
great Court whiskey.

544
00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:42,100
They do a lot of great single
moms as well.

545
00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:45,100
Of course, obviously peated, and
on peated.

546
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,600
And it's just one of those
things where it's like hardcore

547
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,900
whiskey nerds making whiskey in
Germany and doing a really Job

548
00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:54,700
one was and I'm not going to let
you come on my show and tease me

549
00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:56,400
with this whiskey that I've
never tried before.

550
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,100
So I'll be expecting my sample
in the mail here.

551
00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:03,600
In the next few days I will do
my best to find us a bottle.

552
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:05,800
All right, we both have three
picks left.

553
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,400
I think this is a good place for
us to hit pause.

554
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,200
We got to get to a quick break
and then we'll come back and

555
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:14,100
we'll finish out our nominees.
Alright, I'm back with Zach

556
00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:17,000
Johnson, we're walking through
the top 10 movies of the Year,

557
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,700
according to the academy, we're
talking about, the best picture

558
00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:22,200
nominees.
And we're looking at a movie

559
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,600
that I freaking loved that, I
really did not expect to like it

560
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,100
all.
And that is the movie Elvis a

561
00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:32,900
smash success at the box office.
I remember seeing the the

562
00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:38,200
trailer to this movie narrated
by Tom Hanks as some sort of

563
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,200
Dutch Foghorn Leghorn.
I don't understand exactly what

564
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,600
that accent.
It is, but in the context of the

565
00:30:44,608 --> 00:30:47,400
film it works.
And the reason that it works is

566
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,700
that this is a film directed by
baz luhrmann.

567
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,500
And if you're not familiar with
baz luhrmann, if you've ever

568
00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:56,800
seen Moulin Rouge, if you've
ever seen the 1996 Romeo +

569
00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:00,500
Juliet movie.
If you for some reason, watched

570
00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:03,700
his movie Australia, which I do
not recommend, or have you seen

571
00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:07,200
the Leonardo DiCaprio, The Great
Gatsby, then you have an idea of

572
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,700
baz luhrmann's filming style.
It is frenetic.

573
00:31:10,700 --> 00:31:13,500
It is kinetic.
It is Hunting.

574
00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:19,200
And it is designed to be as
opulent and over-the-top and

575
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,400
maximal istic as possible.
And what better?

576
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:27,500
Subject matter for a filmmaker
like that, then Elvis Presley, a

577
00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:32,100
person who seems Larger than
Life who's like, if we're being

578
00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:35,200
honest here, whose life story
were really not that interested

579
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,300
in, as consumers, we want the
Elvis mythology.

580
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,300
And what I think is so brilliant
about this movie is that it has

581
00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:47,400
almost No interest in being a
biopic quote-unquote, it doesn't

582
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:48,900
care.
If the story that it's telling

583
00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:51,800
is true or false.
It doesn't care if most of it is

584
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,300
the legend and not the facts.
Because as we learned from the

585
00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:57,300
movies, when the legend becomes
fact, you print the legend.

586
00:31:57,700 --> 00:32:01,000
That's what baz luhrmann is
doing here, when Brad and I were

587
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,000
in seminary and in college, you
know, we studied biblical

588
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,200
studies and we learned a lot
about what's called form

589
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:11,400
criticism which is where you
look at the genre of the text

590
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,200
that you're reading and Talk
about how the genre itself,

591
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,400
informs how you're supposed to
read that text, that's pretty

592
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,300
simplistic way of explaining it,
but what baz, luhrmann doesn't

593
00:32:21,300 --> 00:32:26,000
this movie is he takes the form
of a biopic and he takes all of

594
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,800
the tools of Cinema to make
something that is so much more

595
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,000
than a biopic.
It's a movie that comments on

596
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:38,000
myth-making and myth building,
at the same time that it is

597
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,800
totally leaning into that
myth-making and myth building.

598
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,800
It was just Such an immersive
impressive experience.

599
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,600
It was freaking bananas.
I loved every second of it and

600
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,100
for a movie like that, I got a
pair it up with something as

601
00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:59,600
grotesque as Elvis's.
Appetite itself as over the top.

602
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,200
Elvis's, favorite sandwich.
Very famously was a grilled

603
00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:06,000
peanut butter banana and bacon
sandwich.

604
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,300
And while I couldn't find a
whiskey that had all of those

605
00:33:08,300 --> 00:33:11,500
flavors for me, one that came
very close, was Jack Daniels

606
00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:14,700
triple Mash Which is one that we
just did on the podcast, this

607
00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:18,400
past season, this is a new issue
release from Jack Daniels.

608
00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:22,800
It's coming in those 700 mL
bottles, not 750s, which it was

609
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,800
a bit of a controversy for a
little bit there, but it has all

610
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,200
those classic Jack Daniels notes
that we got on, you know, the

611
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,700
Baseline offering lots of banana
on Jack Daniels and ever see a

612
00:33:32,708 --> 00:33:35,200
lot of people mention it, but I
always get banana on Jack

613
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:39,500
Daniel's and then there's this
beautiful, peanut butter and,

614
00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:42,600
and maple, it just, it tastes
like a stack of pancakes.

615
00:33:42,700 --> 00:33:47,000
Is covered in maple syrup and
peanut butter and it is for $40.

616
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,800
I think one of the best values
out there.

617
00:33:48,900 --> 00:33:52,100
So Elvis is getting paired up
with Jack Daniels.

618
00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:56,100
Triple mesh.
Yeah, I love this movie.

619
00:33:56,300 --> 00:33:58,200
I think I've watched it three
times.

620
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,100
Perfect.
I saw in the Cinnabon.

621
00:34:01,100 --> 00:34:04,600
I've watched it twice since on
HBO Max like it's almost like

622
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:05,800
comfort food.
Yeah.

623
00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:08,800
You know.
Like a, I guess like a peanut

624
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:13,600
butter that a bacon sandwich.
Just yeah, I agree. 100% like

625
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,199
baz luhrmann found his perfect
Muse for gaudiness and

626
00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:22,000
Ridiculousness and his editing
style and I don't care about

627
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,000
Boston, Butler's accent at all
the kid.

628
00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:27,000
Hit it out of the park, like
just unreal.

629
00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:32,699
Yeah.
And I, you know, I think A+ A+

630
00:34:32,699 --> 00:34:37,800
on the pic in the movie before
Brad had his child and had to,

631
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,199
you know, dip out of this
recording.

632
00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:42,300
And we had two sub Zach in here.
Elvis was one of the movies that

633
00:34:42,300 --> 00:34:45,800
Brad was going to be reviewing
and he had to watch it.

634
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,199
Still I told him like, look,
man, I tried to convince you to

635
00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:49,900
go see it in the theater.
It's not going to be as good on

636
00:34:49,908 --> 00:34:53,199
HBO Max and he's like, dude, it
shouldn't matter if it's a good

637
00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:55,900
movie, I should like it anyway.
Brad G.

638
00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,000
Not a fan of the movie Elvis and
I know this because we share an

639
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,200
HBO Max account.
And I saw the he made it about

640
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,900
20 minutes in and stopped.
And the next day, he watched

641
00:35:05,900 --> 00:35:08,700
about another half hour and he
finally made it to about the

642
00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:11,200
halfway mark and now that he
doesn't have to record this

643
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,000
episode, I can tell you. 100%
certainty that he will never be

644
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,200
finishing this film.
So, it's nice to have Zach here

645
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,500
because that means that we both
are fans of Elvis.

646
00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:25,600
I do a lot of people complain
about certain aspects of it.

647
00:35:25,700 --> 00:35:30,100
It's like it's baz luhrmann, and
it's fantasy, write fanfiction,

648
00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:33,900
you know, and even even like I
thought Tom Hanks was brilliant

649
00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:35,900
in it because how else is it
Dutch?

650
00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:38,900
Cardi want to be Kentucky?
Yeah, that's supposed to sound a

651
00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:43,800
cent piece, but it's so like He
was a weirdo.

652
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,800
Yeah.
But now you know, you talked

653
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,400
about, you know, some movies
being slaughtered in like the

654
00:35:48,408 --> 00:35:50,300
parasite, slider the superhero
slot.

655
00:35:50,300 --> 00:35:53,500
I think this movie is being
slotted into, you know, the

656
00:35:53,500 --> 00:35:57,200
Bohemian Rhapsody slot from a
couple years ago and trillion

657
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,100
times better.
And that's the thing I've been

658
00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:02,400
trying to prep my defense of
this movie where I hated

659
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,500
Bohemian Rhapsody and I think,
ultimately what it comes down to

660
00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:09,400
is this neither of these movies
is interested in the truth, but

661
00:36:09,900 --> 00:36:13,800
only one of these movies feels
like it has Intentionality

662
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:18,200
behind it and is like actually
the vision of a Visionary

663
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:23,100
filmmaker, Bohemian Rhapsody was
all over the place man but also

664
00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:26,800
even grappa's Rhapsody felt like
a betrayal because it was so

665
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:31,700
heavily influenced by Brian May.
And the former band members into

666
00:36:32,100 --> 00:36:36,000
their Narrative of someone
else's life, who they didn't

667
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,600
really get on with that.
Well, yeah.

668
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,200
And didn't like that much and
that was bullshit on top of

669
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,300
which Grammy Malik.
It looked like he was always

670
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,300
like a scared rabbit who just
got like shocked by a cattle

671
00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:50,600
prod in every scene.
Listen, man, I can't believe

672
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,400
that like, in the year of Our
Lord 2018, or whatever, that

673
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,500
movie came out, that the
solution was just.

674
00:36:57,500 --> 00:37:00,900
Let's put big fake teeth in his
mouth and it'll and he'll look

675
00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:03,300
like Freddie Mercury.
It was the most ridiculous

676
00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:07,300
looking thing I've ever seen and
it was I think I've nothing

677
00:37:07,300 --> 00:37:10,700
against him as an actor, he can
obviously do great work, it is

678
00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:12,600
all on the director and the
producer.

679
00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:16,700
Ooh, sir of that film for what
was put up on that screen, he

680
00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:19,100
was doing his job and what he
was told and you know, he

681
00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:23,900
brought what he brought but that
is one of those that up there

682
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,100
with crash of ridiculousness at
that.

683
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:31,700
I've got an award like just
come, I specially especially

684
00:37:31,700 --> 00:37:34,500
they fired the director and the
director is next film was rocket

685
00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:37,100
man, which Again full on
fantasy?

686
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,400
Yeah, I'm fiction, but 10 times
better.

687
00:37:40,700 --> 00:37:42,000
Ten type.
Again, that's a movie.

688
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,900
I watch probably once a year.
Maybe it's a crappy movie can

689
00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:47,700
throw out on a Sunday while
you're folding laundry.

690
00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:50,100
I know.
All right.

691
00:37:50,100 --> 00:37:55,900
Zach what's your next pick here?
So I'm going with another heavy

692
00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:58,400
hitter that probably five people
have seen.

693
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:03,900
That is tar tar.
I initially went to see this

694
00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:09,600
because it was Kate Blanchet
because she is the goat.

695
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,800
I mean is there?
No my gosh, it was better but

696
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,100
also it was filmed in Berlin.
Like I said for you to live in

697
00:38:16,107 --> 00:38:22,100
Berlin, blah, blah, blah, I know
also, another thing about me, I

698
00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:24,100
first two years of college, I
was a music Major.

699
00:38:24,100 --> 00:38:26,500
I was going to be a concert
pianist, I've been playing since

700
00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:29,200
I was six.
I was home-schooled so I could

701
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:34,500
practice piano, six hours a day,
like so movies like this, always

702
00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:39,200
get my attention again without
spoiling too much of the movie.

703
00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:44,700
You know, this is very much of
its time, I think to its

704
00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:48,500
detriment.
In that it's about, you know,

705
00:38:48,700 --> 00:38:51,600
looking back at artists and
asking whether the art is ever

706
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,100
worth it.
If the person making the artist

707
00:38:53,100 --> 00:38:57,400
a piece of, I don't know, I'm
not going to stop watching The

708
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,500
Shining because Cooper was a
piece of shit to Jack and you

709
00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:04,300
know his actors it's a very 2022
movie.

710
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:11,100
Yeah that won't be timeless gem
because of that I do think Kate

711
00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:15,900
Blanchet is phenomenal in it.
Of course I think the directing

712
00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:19,300
is Excellent, it looks great.
You know he's got some

713
00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:21,200
interesting ideas.
I think it's an important

714
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:25,600
conversation but as with
anything, a conversation that is

715
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,300
pertinent to a year for the
last, how many times have you

716
00:39:28,308 --> 00:39:33,000
talked about Kramer vs Kramer?
You know, those conversations

717
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,900
passing?
We forget the movies that were

718
00:39:34,900 --> 00:39:38,000
part of the conversation because
we hopefully move on and better

719
00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:41,500
ourselves.
That being said, I picked the

720
00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:47,700
whiskey and it's abrasive and
overdone and let's just say an

721
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:52,500
acquired taste and that's the
optimum or 13.3 Edition.

722
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,600
Mmm, super heavily peated, Ila.
Single malt scotch for the last

723
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,600
year.
It's the sort of whiskey that if

724
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,700
you are not attuned to heavily
peated, I love Scotch.

725
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,100
You will probably spit it out
because it is hard to swallow.

726
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:11,400
If you love that stuff or are
willing to take the time to

727
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,100
enjoy it, like you have to be
willing to take the time to

728
00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:18,900
enjoy a lot of the classical
music and tar-like baller and

729
00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:21,500
holds and Bach and stuff like
that.

730
00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:25,700
Once you take the tide will find
this whiskey is quite excellent.

731
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,200
Hmm.
And very very, very delicious,

732
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:34,600
very deeply built.
If you can get past the insanely

733
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:40,000
heavy ashy penis where it feels.
Like you're licking the inside

734
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:45,600
of a smoker that's been going
for a week, you do find these

735
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:51,100
lovely layers of dark fruit, and
leather, and vanilla and lovely

736
00:40:51,100 --> 00:40:57,400
floral honey, and brininess and
like, all of the The Luminous

737
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,500
and it's just a phenomenal
whiskey.

738
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,600
And so I chose it for that
dichotomy tar as an idiot are

739
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,000
being that like Ike this, she's
too much.

740
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,200
I can take it.
But then the classical music

741
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:13,800
side of the film being like, if
you Grace it and get a time, I

742
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:16,200
assure you.
You'll start to love it.

743
00:41:17,100 --> 00:41:20,500
Did you like the movie tar?
No, I didn't either.

744
00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:24,300
Yeah, well, I'll tell you where
I fell on it.

745
00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:27,200
I gave it a six out of ten and
okay.

746
00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:32,300
Yeah, so it reminds me of a very
particular brand of movie and

747
00:41:32,300 --> 00:41:36,100
you mentioned Kubrick and I have
a very love-hate relationship

748
00:41:36,100 --> 00:41:39,600
with Kubrick because I feel like
in his later years, he was put

749
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,900
on such a pedestal that his
movies were allowed to be.

750
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:48,700
As overindulgent as they want it
to be and no one ever questioned

751
00:41:48,700 --> 00:41:51,400
him.
And in fact it for me it's

752
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,200
always been like an Emperor's
New Clothes thing.

753
00:41:53,700 --> 00:41:56,200
Like I just don't see what's
there in some of those movies

754
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,000
and I think that people just
know that they're supposed to

755
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,100
Revere Kubrick and so they do
and I think that carries over

756
00:42:02,100 --> 00:42:03,500
into today.
There are certain movies that

757
00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:07,800
come out that are very Kubrick
Ian and I think of like some of

758
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,900
my, the Lesser Paul, Thomas
Anderson movies, for me, do

759
00:42:11,900 --> 00:42:13,800
this.
I was not a phantom.

760
00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:17,800
I'd guy right now.
I'm also not really a master

761
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,100
guy.
I know a lot of people love the

762
00:42:19,100 --> 00:42:24,500
master, but this movie reminded
me so much of, you know, some of

763
00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:26,400
the more pompous scenes in There
Will Be Blood.

764
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:30,700
Some of them are pompous moments
of phantom thread, where the

765
00:42:30,700 --> 00:42:33,800
length of the movie seemed, like
a challenge to the audience.

766
00:42:33,900 --> 00:42:35,500
Like, can you even get through
this?

767
00:42:35,900 --> 00:42:38,800
I thought that the movie was
probably 40 minutes too long to

768
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:40,500
tell the story that it wanted to
tell.

769
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:45,100
I thought that that final joke
of the movie I was just, I mean,

770
00:42:45,100 --> 00:42:50,000
it was vicious and I laughed for
sure, but it reminded me a lot

771
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,100
of There Will Be Blood and the
way that that movie ends on

772
00:42:52,100 --> 00:42:56,500
this, weirdly out of place, out
of character, kind of joke.

773
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,200
So if you're a fan of There Will
Be Blood but you'd like to watch

774
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:04,000
a movie where nothing happens
like Phantom thread.

775
00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:07,100
I think that you might be a huge
fan of tar.

776
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,800
If not if those movies, didn't
do it for you.

777
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,000
I don't know if tar is going to
be your movie.

778
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,800
It's interesting because I would
push back a little bit about PTA

779
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,600
in that.
Fathom, thread, does have a more

780
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:25,400
Universal albeit.
Very fetishized, POV mmm.

781
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,900
Also with the master, I mean,
the master is just very limited,

782
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,500
I mean, yeah.
You know, Lord, bullingdon

783
00:43:33,500 --> 00:43:35,800
getting tortured by Barry Lyndon
and tell, you know, they have

784
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,800
their moment at the end.
That's literally the master.

785
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,000
Yeah, that's Philip Seymour.
Hoffman, torturing you up,

786
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,700
blocking Phoenix.
And so I agree with you there.

787
00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:50,200
I enjoy Barry Lyndon more than I
did the master, but I'm I get

788
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,200
nerdy about the way that film
looks.

789
00:43:52,300 --> 00:43:54,200
Oh, it's beautiful.
See the atmosphere?

790
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:58,000
Yeah, like, he actually feel
like you're in those places in a

791
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,500
way.
That is kind of mind-blowing to

792
00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:02,000
me because it's rarely
replicated.

793
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,800
Yeah, I feel with tar, I guess
going back to my earlier point

794
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,600
is it's so painful to such a
specific conversation about our

795
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:15,100
culture.
Now that It just felt too flash

796
00:44:15,100 --> 00:44:19,700
in the pan.
Like, I kind of felt like there

797
00:44:19,700 --> 00:44:22,700
is a bigger, there was a bigger
conversation that was like,

798
00:44:22,700 --> 00:44:27,700
lurking behind that that they
didn't quite get to like, yeah,

799
00:44:27,700 --> 00:44:30,400
we know, artists have pieces of
sometimes, and, but they create

800
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,100
great art.
How do we deal with that?

801
00:44:32,900 --> 00:44:35,400
Obviously, is 2022.
So cancel culture became the

802
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,200
sort of way that's dealt with.
And obviously there's the

803
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,000
grooming aspects and, you know,
she's a horrible person.

804
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,700
Like it's made, very clear that
she's a horrible person.

805
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,600
Person.
But the sort of like, what is

806
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:49,100
the bigger message there?
That I think with something,

807
00:44:49,100 --> 00:44:52,500
like with was taking their
really blood with PTA, like the

808
00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:55,800
bigger message there is that,
you know, universally, no matter

809
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:59,100
what area you're in, that sort
of person in that sort of

810
00:44:59,100 --> 00:45:02,500
wealth, that sort of Drive is
going to destroy everything

811
00:45:02,500 --> 00:45:06,000
around you and it doesn't matter
what the art is.

812
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,400
It doesn't matter what the oil
did, it doesn't matter.

813
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,700
You know, I kind of feel like
wood Parts like well, it

814
00:45:11,700 --> 00:45:14,100
emphasized too much on the art
and not enough on the person.

815
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:15,400
Right.
That makes sense.

816
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,700
Yep, yep.
All right.

817
00:45:17,700 --> 00:45:20,100
Well, we're pivoting from.
Probably the most pompous of the

818
00:45:20,100 --> 00:45:25,000
Ted event that in triangle is
sadness to the least pretentious

819
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:28,100
movie of the time.
When we're talking about top gun

820
00:45:28,100 --> 00:45:30,800
Maverick, probably my number one
film of the year.

821
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,300
It's either that or women
talking if you want to truly

822
00:45:33,300 --> 00:45:36,400
insane, double feature.
Okay, great top gun.

823
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:41,900
Maverick was a movie that I saw
in the theater and I loved but I

824
00:45:41,900 --> 00:45:45,000
wondered if my love for that,
movie was a All bit

825
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,800
performative.
If I was just falling victim to

826
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,000
how everyone loved that movie,
because let's be frank here.

827
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,400
Some of the dialogue is really
bad, some of the dialogue is,

828
00:45:55,400 --> 00:46:00,400
you know, it's classic 80s
action movie, dialogue brought

829
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:05,000
into 2023 so that Tom Cruise can
look directly in the camera and

830
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,600
tell Ed Harris.
I'm not going extinct today like

831
00:46:08,900 --> 00:46:13,800
it's it's over the top, it's
cheesy and yet every moment of

832
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,100
it works, And I went back to see
it a second time and I was still

833
00:46:17,100 --> 00:46:19,000
a little iffy on it and then I,
you know what I did.

834
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:23,800
I saw it a third time in the
theater sack because that movie

835
00:46:24,100 --> 00:46:27,100
The cinematography that the
incredible cameras at they

836
00:46:27,100 --> 00:46:29,400
mounted inside of those
airplanes.

837
00:46:30,100 --> 00:46:35,500
The entire last 45 minutes of
that film is one of the best

838
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,900
edited piece of pieces of
Cinema.

839
00:46:38,100 --> 00:46:42,400
I have ever seen.
I don't know how much film or I

840
00:46:42,408 --> 00:46:47,300
guess digital footage they Had
to comb through to get all of

841
00:46:47,300 --> 00:46:52,200
those shots and if some of them
are assisted with CGI, but it is

842
00:46:52,300 --> 00:46:59,200
like a truly staggering work of
Cinema, it is so tangible that I

843
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:03,300
can brush aside, the sort of
like action movie trappings of

844
00:47:03,300 --> 00:47:07,100
the first half of it because the
back half of that movie is like,

845
00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:09,600
it was like a Transcendent
experience, man.

846
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,300
Absolutely.
But I would add to that, they

847
00:47:13,300 --> 00:47:16,300
are self-aware.
Yes, trappings it's not.

848
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,600
You know, it's not people
weren't laughing at it because

849
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,600
it was dumb, were laughing with
it because they were making the

850
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,300
joke, right?
Right.

851
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,600
So that's why I think it
connected.

852
00:47:27,700 --> 00:47:29,800
Yeah.
I think it did too and maybe

853
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:32,500
this is an awkward segue because
I don't know if people are

854
00:47:32,500 --> 00:47:34,500
laughing at or with this,
whiskey at all.

855
00:47:34,500 --> 00:47:37,400
But I'm certainly not because
the whiskey that I decided to

856
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,800
pair this with comes from
probably my favorite current

857
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,200
line of Whiskey's, and that is
the rebel distillers.

858
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,400
Collection interest.
I am a huge fan of rebel.

859
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,300
I know a lot of people look down
on it and I think it's because

860
00:47:51,300 --> 00:47:54,200
it's always competing with
Weller in people's minds as a

861
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,600
weeded Mash bill.
You know, the not so well kept

862
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,700
secret for a long time was that
this was being sourced from

863
00:47:59,700 --> 00:48:02,700
Heaven Hill.
I know that lux row Luxe.

864
00:48:02,700 --> 00:48:06,200
Go is making its own distillate
now and so I'm not sure exactly

865
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,100
like what's in the bottle at
this point.

866
00:48:08,100 --> 00:48:11,000
I think is probably still, at
least somewhat sourced.

867
00:48:11,900 --> 00:48:17,800
However, The rebel distillers
collection is basically the the

868
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,800
Luxe.
Go response to well or

869
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:22,400
foolproof.
Well, if foolproof I believe

870
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:26,600
clocks in at 114 proof, always
distillers, collection, always

871
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:33,000
clocks in at 113 proof, it is 50
times easier to find it is $40.

872
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,800
If you can find it on the Shelf,
there's not like a huge

873
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,500
secondary market for it so you
can usually even find it on

874
00:48:38,500 --> 00:48:41,000
secondary and it's not going to
be marked up that much and it is

875
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,800
to me every bit as good as
Weller foolproof is and you

876
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,400
don't have to do the legwork to
track it down.

877
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,400
So for me, it was just a
question of whiskey and a movie

878
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,900
that didn't want to be anything
more than what they're trying to

879
00:48:53,900 --> 00:48:57,700
be a movie and a whiskey.
That remind me of the good old

880
00:48:57,700 --> 00:49:00,100
days.
Tom Cruise still living His

881
00:49:00,100 --> 00:49:03,200
Glory Days.
I love this whiskey.

882
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:07,300
And I love this movie Zach.
And, you know, it's a perfect,

883
00:49:07,300 --> 00:49:10,000
it is perfect.
In that I've had this looks key

884
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:13,400
and my biggest takeaway or what
I remember most about it is It's

885
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:16,600
like a root beer float and
nothing says like Diner

886
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:20,400
Nostalgia, then a root beer
float and it looks like I could

887
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,900
imagine having a root beer float
and watching Top Gun Maverick

888
00:49:22,900 --> 00:49:27,400
like it just feels right.
All right, we've got I think

889
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,100
you've got two left, I've got
one left.

890
00:49:29,100 --> 00:49:33,000
Let's get to these last three.
Movies is the Banshees of in a

891
00:49:33,008 --> 00:49:36,000
shattered.
And I saw this movie in

892
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,600
Portland, I was there for work
and had an afternoon off and I

893
00:49:39,607 --> 00:49:42,600
was like, ooh, I can actually
see this on the big screen and I

894
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:47,900
vastly enjoyed it because I love
Hello Gleason and Farrell and

895
00:49:47,900 --> 00:49:50,100
just their banter back and
forth.

896
00:49:51,300 --> 00:49:55,800
You know but I'd or Ireland I've
been there over a dozen times so

897
00:49:55,800 --> 00:50:02,500
it was nice seeing it in film
Carrie kind of condom.

898
00:50:02,500 --> 00:50:05,500
Okay Condon.
Yeah yeah Terry Collins and I

899
00:50:05,500 --> 00:50:07,900
thought was fantastic.
He said incredible sort of

900
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:11,900
calling them all the tasks you
know and speed like be talking

901
00:50:11,900 --> 00:50:14,000
about your old dull.
I love that.

902
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:18,600
I love that monologue. you know,
and just obviously there's a lot

903
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:20,500
of things, you know, the Civil
War, you know, the stuff on the

904
00:50:20,508 --> 00:50:24,500
surface but also, you know, the
only therapy access to therapy

905
00:50:24,500 --> 00:50:27,600
or help to have is a priest that
comes once a week and there's no

906
00:50:27,607 --> 00:50:31,600
one else to talk to and you know
the hypocrisy, if you do Gleason

907
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,300
going and hanging out the pub
with the worst man on the island

908
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,700
and waste his time, drinking
with him but not with his best

909
00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:41,200
friend from, you know, the last
their life and the hypocrisy of,

910
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:47,200
you know, all that and I do like
this film but I also understand

911
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:51,500
the criticisms of Irish people
who do not like McDonough or a

912
00:50:51,500 --> 00:50:57,700
film like this.
So that said, it's kind of got

913
00:50:57,700 --> 00:50:59,200
to be an Irish whiskey.
No.

914
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,600
Yeah.
Like how fun it would be if I

915
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,500
was just like Jack Daniels Old
Number 7.

916
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,300
But this is where I've talked
about this with you guys before

917
00:51:10,300 --> 00:51:13,800
and how you guys kind of create
a nice balance for me because I

918
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:15,700
feel Work.
I get sent a lot of stuff when I

919
00:51:15,700 --> 00:51:19,800
end up having a lot of higher,
ed whiskies that tend to be what

920
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,200
I gravitate toward.
I like talking to you guys

921
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:25,300
because you, you focus on things
people can get and you are care

922
00:51:25,300 --> 00:51:28,100
about the price, which is
extremely important.

923
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:31,300
And I forget that sometimes.
Yes, and this is an example of

924
00:51:31,300 --> 00:51:34,600
me, forgetting that sometimes
because I chose writers.

925
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:36,000
Tears, red.
Hello, nice.

926
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:40,100
Which is a fairly new ish
expression like it's not brand

927
00:51:40,100 --> 00:51:42,100
new but it is not going around
that long.

928
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,200
Writers tears, always does some,
you know, classic stuff.

929
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:48,700
This is a, this is a single
malt.

930
00:51:48,700 --> 00:51:52,300
Actually, you know it, rest and
Status all oloroso, Sherry

931
00:51:52,300 --> 00:51:54,300
butts.
Until you know, it's just drags.

932
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:59,100
It's actually bought a little
bit higher at 46 percent, which

933
00:51:59,100 --> 00:52:02,800
is nice is no 43. 40 percent is
more that you have in Ireland.

934
00:52:02,900 --> 00:52:06,900
So, this has a little bit more
depth to it, and it's just for

935
00:52:06,900 --> 00:52:08,800
me.
It trampled, transports, me

936
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:12,300
there, where I'm sitting in a
pub and you, you smell the pies

937
00:52:12,300 --> 00:52:14,300
baking.
In the back and you smell the

938
00:52:14,300 --> 00:52:18,500
Guinness and you kind of, you
know, you get that old world

939
00:52:18,500 --> 00:52:23,700
Vibe of mincemeat pies and you
know, old vanilla cakes and

940
00:52:23,700 --> 00:52:28,000
cupcakes and you know, you know,
English or Irish Breakfast tea

941
00:52:28,500 --> 00:52:32,500
and you know, Creamy Honey and
orange marmalade on scones and

942
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:36,800
all this lovely stuff that just
takes me to Ireland.

943
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:41,300
So for me with this film being
so beautifully sort of rendered

944
00:52:41,300 --> 00:52:44,500
in the, you know, Irish Pastoral
Countryside.

945
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:46,400
It just felt like the exact
right thing.

946
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,200
Plus you know, redhead police
and made sense.

947
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:52,200
It's Colin.
Farrell does such incredible

948
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:55,300
eyebrow work.
In this movie, I feel like Colin

949
00:52:55,300 --> 00:52:58,500
Farrell deserves that best actor
nomination and maybe even the

950
00:52:58,500 --> 00:53:01,000
trophy, but his eyebrows
deserved to be nominated for

951
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:02,800
best supporting actor because
they are.

952
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:05,200
So they are incredible in this
film.

953
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:08,800
All right, they really are the
number two movie on this list.

954
00:53:08,900 --> 00:53:10,600
I guess it's the number three
but we're going out of order a

955
00:53:10,607 --> 00:53:13,700
little bit here.
Is another Dark Horse.

956
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,600
I really do think that even
though everything everywhere,

957
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,600
all at once, seems to be the
lock at this point, there's a

958
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,700
couple movies that could just
kind of get a Groundswell of

959
00:53:22,700 --> 00:53:24,700
support in these last few days
of voting.

960
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,700
And the Fable men's is one of
them.

961
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:31,800
This is, Steven Spielberg's
autobiographical telling of his

962
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:33,000
childhood.
Essentially.

963
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,500
You know, it's a slightly
fictionalized version.

964
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,600
The family's name in this movie.
Obviously, is Fable m'n.

965
00:53:38,700 --> 00:53:41,800
It is not Spielberg but it is
Steven Spielberg's story.

966
00:53:42,700 --> 00:53:45,900
And what I love about this movie
is that despite what the

967
00:53:45,900 --> 00:53:50,600
trailers would lead you to
believe, this is not a sappy

968
00:53:50,900 --> 00:53:54,500
saccharine.
Look back at the 50s and 60s,

969
00:53:54,900 --> 00:53:59,900
this is somebody who is 75 years
old still grappling with his

970
00:53:59,900 --> 00:54:02,700
childhood trauma.
Still grappling with his own

971
00:54:02,700 --> 00:54:07,600
response to that still grappling
with his Cummings as a person

972
00:54:07,900 --> 00:54:12,500
and his inability to communicate
and it's really like you can't

973
00:54:12,500 --> 00:54:15,900
divorce the Steven Spielberg hot
divorce, you can't divorce the

974
00:54:15,900 --> 00:54:21,900
Steven Spielberg divorce.
Origin story from his discovery

975
00:54:21,900 --> 00:54:26,500
of Cinema because his coping
mechanism is to make movies and

976
00:54:26,500 --> 00:54:29,600
he has said it himself, there's
a great documentary on HBO Max

977
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:33,000
called Spielberg and he says, in
that documentary, I never went

978
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,400
to therapy because making movies
was my therapy.

979
00:54:35,900 --> 00:54:38,400
It's all through his movies to
the point that it's become a

980
00:54:38,408 --> 00:54:40,000
running joke on film and
whiskey.

981
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:47,300
But there is a moment in this
movie where Spielberg his his

982
00:54:47,300 --> 00:54:51,600
Avatar Sam is watching.
As his parents, finally

983
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,900
announced that they are going to
get a divorce and he sees his

984
00:54:54,900 --> 00:54:59,800
little sister, just breaking
down and sobbing and he glances

985
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:03,100
up into the mirror, that's
hanging on the wall and he sees

986
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:07,800
an imagined version of himself.
Entering the frame carrying a

987
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:11,600
camera filming the whole thing
and it's this really tragic and

988
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:18,900
kind of heartbreaking, you know,
ponderous on how filmmakers like

989
00:55:18,900 --> 00:55:22,000
him and artists in general,
don't know how to express

990
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:25,600
themselves in any other way, but
through their art and how it is

991
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:29,500
both rewarding.
And the most crippling thing

992
00:55:29,500 --> 00:55:32,900
about them, there's a scene
where he's talking to his sister

993
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:36,700
behind closed doors and she's
asking him, like, I can't

994
00:55:36,700 --> 00:55:39,000
believe like this isn't
affecting you more essentially

995
00:55:39,300 --> 00:55:41,500
and he doesn't know what to say
and she gets up to leave and

996
00:55:41,500 --> 00:55:44,700
then he just says, will you
watch my movie with me as if

997
00:55:44,700 --> 00:55:46,200
that is?
The only way that he can make

998
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,200
contact with her?
It is I mean, I'm selling it

999
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,500
like, it's a complete Downer,
it's also not a complete Downer,

1000
00:55:51,500 --> 00:55:54,500
it's a great, great movie.
And it's told with that classic

1001
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:58,100
Spielberg Showmanship.
But what I loved about this

1002
00:55:58,100 --> 00:56:00,200
movie was its ability to
balance.

1003
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:05,700
The really delicate notes with
some truly hard hitting and and

1004
00:56:05,700 --> 00:56:07,800
hard to.
Wallow moments.

1005
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:10,200
And for that reason, I paired it
up with one of my favorite

1006
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:13,700
Bourbons Noah's Mill.
Now, it's a polarizing, very

1007
00:56:13,700 --> 00:56:15,500
nice.
It's a polarizing bourbon

1008
00:56:15,500 --> 00:56:17,100
because it comes from Willy and
everything.

1009
00:56:17,100 --> 00:56:20,200
That will, it makes I feel like
is polarizing amongst okay you

1010
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:24,100
know amongst the populace here
but it has that great.

1011
00:56:24,100 --> 00:56:25,600
I always call it the Willett
funk.

1012
00:56:25,700 --> 00:56:28,800
I think I've come to just accept
that will it has these wonderful

1013
00:56:29,300 --> 00:56:33,600
rose petal notes for me.
I get tons and tons of rows on,

1014
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,300
will it products?
And Noah's Mill is probably the

1015
00:56:35,300 --> 00:56:37,400
one I get it.
The Most on that.

1016
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,200
That's another one.
That I thinks it's right around.

1017
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:43,100
114 proof.
I love Noah's Mill because it

1018
00:56:43,100 --> 00:56:47,600
has that high proof, you know,
Kentucky hug on the way down.

1019
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,900
But you never lose that floral
know that sits right on top of

1020
00:56:50,900 --> 00:56:52,900
everything.
And I think, you know, if I

1021
00:56:52,900 --> 00:56:56,300
could pick a whiskey to
epitomize that balancing act

1022
00:56:56,300 --> 00:57:00,000
that Spielberg has its Noah's
Mill, Absolutely.

1023
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:04,100
I mean, great great whiskey.
I love it at Manhattan's, but

1024
00:57:04,100 --> 00:57:07,300
also, just on the rocks on its
own, it's always always

1025
00:57:07,700 --> 00:57:10,400
delivers.
And the film was one of my

1026
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:11,800
favorite films of the year as
well.

1027
00:57:12,100 --> 00:57:17,000
Another one I could watch again.
And I think, you know, a lot of

1028
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:21,100
those sort of things people
talking about, you know, oh,

1029
00:57:21,100 --> 00:57:22,800
Paul dado and she'll Williams
aren't Jewish.

1030
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:26,000
Why were they cast?
It was like, if you watch the

1031
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:30,500
cold air interview, they put up
or Spielberg Cooks up a picture

1032
00:57:30,500 --> 00:57:32,900
of his parents and they look
identical.

1033
00:57:32,900 --> 00:57:37,000
Home to his parents buying the
Louise Brooks haircut on his mom

1034
00:57:37,300 --> 00:57:40,400
that like sort of Dopey tall,
gangly dad was glasses.

1035
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:43,000
Yep.
And it's shocking how much they

1036
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,200
look alike?
I mean obviously it's movie

1037
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:47,500
stars versions because of course
it is.

1038
00:57:47,900 --> 00:57:51,000
But I'm he told such a touching
story that, you know, he, when

1039
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,100
they were doing rehearsals and
going over the script.

1040
00:57:53,100 --> 00:57:55,700
He's like, listen, I've already
been through all my emotions

1041
00:57:55,700 --> 00:57:58,500
with this when we get on said,
I'm there to protect you and

1042
00:57:58,500 --> 00:58:01,100
guide you and don't worry and he
said the first day he got on

1043
00:58:01,100 --> 00:58:05,100
said he saw pulled out on the
show Williams in their full

1044
00:58:05,100 --> 00:58:07,500
costume and makeup at his
parents and he just broke down

1045
00:58:07,500 --> 00:58:10,700
sobbing and they had to hold him
for a while until he was able to

1046
00:58:10,700 --> 00:58:17,500
calm down, you know, start the
day and I think That goes back

1047
00:58:17,500 --> 00:58:19,900
to sort of what I was alluding
to and car or what we're talking

1048
00:58:19,900 --> 00:58:24,600
about with PTA and Kubrick is
it's a universal movie.

1049
00:58:25,100 --> 00:58:28,000
Like there's it you'd like yes,
some of takes place in the 60s

1050
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:32,300
but that kind of doesn't matter
like anti-Semitism is real.

1051
00:58:32,300 --> 00:58:35,900
Now my kids are going through
that right now and happen for

1052
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:39,900
I'm internal, you know, and you
know, people find their Arts

1053
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:42,700
through hardship, but not that
bad a hardship.

1054
00:58:42,700 --> 00:58:45,000
But one of the things I like
about the films like he had

1055
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:48,400
supportive parents like he was
Like oh you know like you know

1056
00:58:48,700 --> 00:58:52,500
what was it a Straight Out of
Compton where it's like you know

1057
00:58:52,500 --> 00:58:54,100
raps not going to put any food
on the table.

1058
00:58:54,100 --> 00:58:56,200
What are you wasting your time
with that for right?

1059
00:58:56,300 --> 00:58:58,900
You know he had a father's like
I will move to Los Angeles and

1060
00:58:58,900 --> 00:59:01,900
change my job so you can follow
your dreams because that's what

1061
00:59:01,900 --> 00:59:04,900
happened and you know, that's
why aren't you good parents do,

1062
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:08,300
right.
And probably happens more often

1063
00:59:08,300 --> 00:59:13,400
than not and, you know, I've
always sort of Always kind of

1064
00:59:14,300 --> 00:59:17,100
pushed away from the idea that
art has to be created from pain.

1065
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:19,800
Obviously, even through a huge
trauma and has been dealing with

1066
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:23,100
that pain, but he also had a lot
of support as well, and it's a

1067
00:59:23,100 --> 00:59:25,400
balance.
Everybody has a balance, you

1068
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:28,900
know, and some good, some bad
and he's been able to create.

1069
00:59:29,300 --> 00:59:32,300
You'll be most some of the most
iconic films of all time from

1070
00:59:32,300 --> 00:59:37,000
that and to see him come full
circle with his film, especially

1071
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:39,600
as someone who grew up in the
80s with these movies as an

1072
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:41,800
iconic.
Cornerstone.

1073
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,500
Of my cultural heritage.
I mean, I was crying like 10

1074
00:59:45,500 --> 00:59:48,100
times in this movie, I do, you
know, I was thinking sitting

1075
00:59:48,100 --> 00:59:50,700
there in the theater by myself,
just solving away, shutting

1076
00:59:50,700 --> 00:59:55,200
popcorn and I'm out, you know,
it was that, but it is another

1077
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:56,300
film.
Like, it's one of those films,

1078
00:59:56,300 --> 00:59:57,800
like, I will probably watch
every year.

1079
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:01,300
Yeah, you know, at least one now
I will say this, this movie is

1080
01:00:01,300 --> 01:00:06,500
still no ET which I have come to
acknowledge and accept is maybe

1081
01:00:06,500 --> 01:00:09,100
my favorite movie and probably
one of the 10 best track in

1082
01:00:09,100 --> 01:00:11,900
movies ever made and I will
fight Brad in a cage.

1083
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:13,800
Which to defend the honor of
that film.

1084
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:17,200
But just to say that it's not
ET, doesn't mean that this is

1085
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:19,800
not a great movie.
And it's honestly, it's one of

1086
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:21,900
the Spielberg's best from this
Century.

1087
01:00:21,900 --> 01:00:25,300
I would say, oh yeah, I would I
would agree.

1088
01:00:25,300 --> 01:00:28,200
That's well it.
What's also interesting is how

1089
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:32,200
Sheree is in the stories, he's
telling them that he knows what

1090
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:35,800
it's about, he goes in knowing
full well what he's there to do

1091
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:38,400
and again if you go back and
watch that Colbert interview,

1092
01:00:38,900 --> 01:00:41,200
you know, Colbert brings up War
of the Worlds in a way.

1093
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:45,300
Where he has a incorrect
assumption about what that book

1094
01:00:45,300 --> 01:00:47,100
is about.
Smokers like no, no that movies

1095
01:00:47,100 --> 01:00:49,900
about 9/11 and US dealing with
the Fallout of that and just

1096
01:00:49,900 --> 01:00:53,500
moves on because that's what
that movies about period.

1097
01:00:53,500 --> 01:00:56,500
Like there's no no ew.
What's the secret meaning of is

1098
01:00:56,500 --> 01:01:01,200
like that?
It's about 9/11 and that's what

1099
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:04,100
makes him a great is he knows
what he's doing.

1100
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:08,500
And he's confident in telling
that story at that time and it

1101
01:01:08,508 --> 01:01:11,800
being essential and that's what
I started with.

1102
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,000
Plus, he got an amazing
performance out of Seth Rogen,

1103
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:18,000
which I thought was impossible.
All right, we have just one

1104
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,900
movie left Zach, it's it's all
up to you now.

1105
01:01:21,100 --> 01:01:26,100
Bring it home, man.
So surprising about the

1106
01:01:26,100 --> 01:01:30,200
surprisingly, the almost longest
name of any film on the list.

1107
01:01:30,900 --> 01:01:35,500
Everything everywhere all at
once which other people seem to

1108
01:01:35,500 --> 01:01:39,000
really like, hmm.
Of course it's a Multiverse

1109
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:44,300
Phil, but I would argue done in
A very intelligent way compared

1110
01:01:44,300 --> 01:01:47,600
to I mean I'm out I go see all
the Marvel movies, I'm not

1111
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:50,600
saying they're dumb, I'm just
saying this kind of took the

1112
01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:53,600
idea of a Multiverse and had a
lot of fun with it.

1113
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:58,500
Also brought a lot of emotional
depth ending the main character

1114
01:01:58,500 --> 01:02:01,900
Evelyn her.
Her journey is something again.

1115
01:02:01,900 --> 01:02:03,200
I feel like it's a universal
thing.

1116
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:07,400
We can relate to where you, this
doesn't really spoil the film.

1117
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:11,400
But, you know, as opposed to not
listening the people around you

1118
01:02:11,500 --> 01:02:14,000
making Her life's better people
around you in your life.

1119
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:18,200
Will be better.
Universal truth, not always

1120
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:20,600
accomplishable.
You can always do that but

1121
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:23,300
sometimes you got to stop and
remind yourself that you can.

1122
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:26,800
And that's why I think why this
film connected so well, but also

1123
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:29,200
looked great but it's not
tonight, it looks, it's flashy,

1124
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:33,000
it's got great costume design.
Great, you know, production

1125
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:36,900
design Act is amazingly.
Well, you know seeing Short

1126
01:02:36,900 --> 01:02:40,100
Round come back for my childhood
was the most amazing thing that

1127
01:02:40,100 --> 01:02:44,600
left field.
I never expected to see and I

1128
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:47,500
really hope.
If he gets an Oscar for best

1129
01:02:47,500 --> 01:02:51,300
picture for this, you know, as
much as I want All Quiet on the

1130
01:02:51,300 --> 01:02:53,800
Western Front of wind and fine
with that getting best

1131
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:58,700
International teacher because
this is such a wonderful

1132
01:02:58,900 --> 01:03:05,000
cinematic experience that again.
I don't think anyone thought

1133
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:06,000
this was going to be what it
was.

1134
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,400
I think it was just going to be
another Daniels movie that's was

1135
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:12,000
in the art houses.
The cool film kids would talk

1136
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:15,300
about and that would be it.
Instead, it's here, huge hit.

1137
01:03:15,700 --> 01:03:18,000
Critical hit, could win some
Oscars.

1138
01:03:19,700 --> 01:03:23,900
All of that aside, I had to go
with where the film starts

1139
01:03:23,900 --> 01:03:26,100
starts at the Lunar.
New Year, when Evans father

1140
01:03:26,100 --> 01:03:30,300
comes to celebrate and this is a
bottle that still on shelves

1141
01:03:30,300 --> 01:03:32,600
right now because the Lunar New
Year and that's Johnny Walker

1142
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:34,100
Chinese New Year, you're the
rabbit.

1143
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:37,400
Mmm.
I love these bottles because

1144
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:40,700
they're hand-painted, and
they're always beautiful, but I

1145
01:03:40,700 --> 01:03:43,000
think they're hand-painted and
designed by Chinese artist.

1146
01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:47,800
They look great.
They're special their unique,

1147
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,500
there's something you only see
once a year, you know, kind of

1148
01:03:50,508 --> 01:03:54,200
like everything everaldo once,
it's very unique and looks

1149
01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:56,500
beautiful.
So the bottle in the film sort

1150
01:03:56,500 --> 01:04:02,900
of matches in that, that
aesthetic of beauty and I find

1151
01:04:02,900 --> 01:04:06,500
Johnny Walker Blue to be a good
pour 40.

1152
01:04:06,500 --> 01:04:09,200
Want to watch a good fun movie
as you don't have to think too

1153
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:11,900
much about the whiskey and you
can just enjoy the film and get

1154
01:04:11,900 --> 01:04:14,400
a buzz on.
I personally like Johnny Walker,

1155
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:17,600
Green that is My go-to if I'm
drinking Johnny Walker.

1156
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:21,100
That is in no way saying Johnny
Walker Blue is bad.

1157
01:04:21,200 --> 01:04:24,400
It's great fine.
It's got dead.

1158
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:28,000
Distillery juice in the mix
stuff, you can't get anywhere

1159
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,700
else so it is kind of like
traveling to a different

1160
01:04:30,700 --> 01:04:34,000
Universe where whiskey that
doesn't exist anymore is in this

1161
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:39,100
bottle are isn't being made
anymore at least plus it's just

1162
01:04:39,100 --> 01:04:42,700
one of those I feel like you
know Johnnie Walker Blue is fine

1163
01:04:42,700 --> 01:04:46,300
but the New Year bottles really
are special and you know they

1164
01:04:46,300 --> 01:04:48,800
have they Have something to
them.

1165
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:51,500
That's just that little bit
extra like this bill.

1166
01:04:51,500 --> 01:04:53,700
This is something to this film.
That's that little bit extra.

1167
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:57,600
Yeah, hot dog fingers aside.
You don't just go with it.

1168
01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:00,500
Enjoy it and don't think too
much about it.

1169
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:05,400
Yeah, I mean it's it's probably
the first movie in.

1170
01:05:05,500 --> 01:05:09,200
I don't know how long that has
been a a genuine crowd-pleaser

1171
01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:12,900
and be had this much consensus
around it like I just I can't

1172
01:05:12,900 --> 01:05:15,700
remember another movie, you
know, back in whatever it was

1173
01:05:15,700 --> 01:05:20,100
2018 when green book one, no one
wanted that movie to win even

1174
01:05:20,100 --> 01:05:21,600
though it is a crowd-pleasing
movie.

1175
01:05:21,600 --> 01:05:24,100
And so like it's the complete
opposite of this film.

1176
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:26,800
Was this my favorite movie of
the year?

1177
01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:28,700
No.
Like I think I gave it an eight

1178
01:05:28,700 --> 01:05:31,000
point five when I first watched
it because I thought it was a

1179
01:05:31,008 --> 01:05:34,200
little too silly.
A little too long before the

1180
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:38,500
heart of the movie came in that
last Act is unimpeachable, man.

1181
01:05:38,500 --> 01:05:42,100
I have no complaints about the
way that movie wraps up and I

1182
01:05:42,100 --> 01:05:44,200
have no complaints.
If this movie wins best picture,

1183
01:05:44,900 --> 01:05:46,900
it's a feel-good movie.
It's a movie that you can

1184
01:05:46,900 --> 01:05:50,500
recommend to people.
It is just wacky enough that I

1185
01:05:50,500 --> 01:05:52,300
can't believe I'm about to see
it.

1186
01:05:52,500 --> 01:05:55,800
Maybe win best picture.
Like when I think about Jamie

1187
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:58,900
Lee Curtis and Michelle yeoh
sticking their hot, dog, fingers

1188
01:05:58,900 --> 01:06:01,900
into each other's mouths.
And then, I think this is gonna

1189
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:05,500
Have a Blu-ray with a sticker on
it, that says Academy Award for

1190
01:06:05,500 --> 01:06:08,000
best picture like that, blows my
mind.

1191
01:06:08,100 --> 01:06:11,100
And I think that I kind of want
to live in a world where that

1192
01:06:11,100 --> 01:06:13,500
happens.
And so I'm really excited if it

1193
01:06:13,500 --> 01:06:17,900
wins it wins and it has my full
support in that regard so like

1194
01:06:17,900 --> 01:06:19,800
Robert Evans.
That's a picture baby.

1195
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:25,500
But yeah, as fully fully agree
and it's the for, you know what,

1196
01:06:25,500 --> 01:06:29,300
it reminds me of and I don't
mean this in story or anything

1197
01:06:29,300 --> 01:06:33,100
like that because it is longer.
It's the The cable movie that

1198
01:06:33,100 --> 01:06:35,300
you're flipping through the
channels and it's on and you're

1199
01:06:35,300 --> 01:06:37,700
going to stop and watch the rest
yappin, just like once upon a

1200
01:06:37,700 --> 01:06:41,000
time in Hollywood, like that is
the perfect flipping around

1201
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:43,200
film.
And if you hit it to right, seen

1202
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:44,000
your in.
Yeah.

1203
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:47,500
But you're never going to watch
the whole thing from the start,

1204
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:50,100
unless you're like a high
college student at door.

1205
01:06:51,900 --> 01:06:52,700
Hi there.
You have it.

1206
01:06:52,700 --> 01:06:55,600
Those are the Oscar nominees for
2023.

1207
01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:57,000
We'd like to know what you
think.

1208
01:06:57,200 --> 01:06:59,300
Hey, how many of these movies,
have you even seen?

1209
01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:02,600
How many do you intend to see
and what would be your Pick for

1210
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:04,600
best picture.
You can find us on our social

1211
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:08,200
media accounts, Facebook,
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1212
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:11,200
whiskey Zack, where can the
people find you and find our

1213
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:15,300
article?
So it will be on uproxx.com.

1214
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:17,700
Have a look there.
You can also find me there

1215
01:07:17,700 --> 01:07:21,500
everyday writing about whiskey.
Usually very profusely.

1216
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:25,100
You can find me at ztp Whiskey
on Instagram and not on any

1217
01:07:25,100 --> 01:07:28,400
other socials or go to up.
Rocks life on Instagram but

1218
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:30,700
aprox, not calm.
CTP whiskey.

1219
01:07:31,200 --> 01:07:34,400
All right, we we will be back
next week with one more bonus

1220
01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:36,600
episode and then you're not
going to hear from us from a

1221
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:40,100
couple more weeks until we promo
and preview season 7.

1222
01:07:40,300 --> 01:07:43,300
So that'll do it for us and
signing off without Brad.

1223
01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:45,800
I am Bob book and we'll see you
next time.