Switch The Envelope

Tommy Lee Jones vs. Leonardo DiCaprio vs. Val Kilmer

This week Super Time Computer Al switches it up and changes the category for the first time and sends our hosts to a year when Bill Clinton became president, grunge music swept the nation, Leonardo DiCaprio loses his first Oscar, Hollywood lost a young star, and The Academy actually gave the Best Picture Oscar to the right film. In a year that was stacked with good films Jeff and Cory discuss the Best Actors in a Supporting Role that were nominated and a couple who weren’t. Along the way Jeff learns how to pronounce Ralph Finnes name, Cory hates on one of Jeff’s favorite political thrillers, and they coin another five finger metric to apply to actors.

This week Super Time Computer Al sends our hosts to a year when there was an impeachment of a President, a school shooting rocked the country, and a viral web campaign was passing off fiction as truth. Clearly so much has changed since 1999. Along the way Jeff and Cory discuss one of the most influential years of their film appreciation, wonder why Hollywood loves the pairing of older males with much younger women as love interests, Cory has a message for Helen Mirren, Jeff runs us through the millennial renaissance of the edgy teen movie, and both are perplexed by some of the movies the Academy passed on this year. They add Man on the Moon and Fight Club to the list of nominees and run them all through their patented five finger rating system to find out if the Academy should Switch the Envelope.

This week Al takes our hosts to a time when Vice Presidents were shooting people in the face, Michael Jackson was found to have not touched those kids, and Crash became the least decorated Academy movie since Rocky to win Best Picture. That’s right, 2005-2006. Cory finds the perfect on screen formula for sleeping through a film. Jeff discovers some strong feelings toward E.T. Together, with Cory having seen all the nominated films and Jeff having seen only their trailers, they run the nominees through their patented five finger metric to determine who should’ve rightfully got the envelope.

Hosts Jeff and Cory analyze the 1990 Academy Award nominees for Best Picure and decide if Driving Miss Daisy should have beat fellow nominees, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, Born on the Fourth of July, and My Left Foot. And…why were Glory and Do the Right Thing, snubbed.

This week, in the inaugural episode, our hosts debate the 1995 Best picture nominees. Along the way they find out how Bruce Willis really made his money in the 90s, discover how easy it is to chisel your way out of prison, appreciate the boom of 90s writer/directors, and we hate weddings; we hate funerals, so why in 94′ did so many people like a movie about both events.