The Other Half

After watching all of the movies nominated for best pictures, Mike and Ethan sit down to talk about them and rank the list! They also talk about the best-animated movies as well.

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What better way to honor a movie about Women Talking than having two men talk about it? The boys give it their best shot discussing a movie about the choices women have to make in a Mennonite community when faced with the trust about a string of assaults. Honestly, maybe you should just go see the movie, it's actually shorter than most of the other movies we watched for the Oscars!

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Tár is so good we talked about it for over an hour and a half and didn't once mention it was directed by Todd Field who has only directed three movies before this. Tár follows a famous conductor, played by Cate Blanchett, who has recently been accused of abusing her employees. This talks about the fallout of it. Is Tár a monster? It's time to hunt for the answer in one of the longest podcasts we ever put out.

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Finally, we're watching the most expensive movie of all time, Avatar: The Way of Water not for fun, but for the Oscars! Were we both a little skeptical about how this movie could be nominated for best picture when it clearly should just be in the special effects category, but hey maybe we're wrong. Perhaps this time they make Jake Sulley into an interesting protagonist instead of just the most cookie-cutter white dude imaginable. At least the boring general is dead in the first movie, so maybe the villain will be the stand-out this time!

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If you make fun of rich people and how out of touch with reality they are, like Triangle of Sadness, you're going to be nominated for an Oscar. This black comedy focuses on the fashion industry and the service industry as a whole and how there is a fairly obvious cast system, especially on a luxury yacht. Directed by Ruben Östlund, the boys dive in to see if this is worth an Oscar nomination.

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If a remake of All Quiet on the Western Front comes out, a movie most people read in high school, you know it's going to be nominated for an Oscar. This german retelling of the classic book doesn't shy away from the grit and futility of war. In fact, that's the theme of it. Maybe this movie based on an almost 100-year-old book echoes a little close to current events right now.

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It's Oscar season folks where all we do is watch Oscar movies until the big day and we're starting off with a bang, The Fabelmans! This is a movie directed by Steven Spielberg about how he fell in love with movies. It also features a lot of the family drama I didn't think you'd want to talk about if you make a movie about yourself, but I'm not the most famous director of all time am I?

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St. Elmo's Fire is about a group of friends navigating adulthood after college. It's a shame all of the men are trash people. Joel Schumacher directs a box office hit that didn't land with critics, but maybe after all these years, it will have aged better than you expect. It is from the '80s after all!

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Michael Bay is getting back to his bad-boy roots with Ambulance. No wildly-looking transformers here. It's about driving around L.A. with two criminals who stole a hospital (ambulance) and simultaneously have to keep a man in the back alive after they shot him. Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul‑Mateen II take Eiza González, an innocent EMT, on the ride of her life against her will. Hopefully, she doesn't get attached to the patient she has to keep alive, a cop, because that would be any EMT's nightmare. Does this bring Micheal Bay back to his glory days?

But the actual plot of this podcast is, Mike and Ethan are two criminals who steal a podcast and have to keep the listener interested while explaining a Micheal Bay movie.

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It's pretty cold this time of year, wouldn't you like the be Under The Tuscan Sun? Well, Diane Lane is in Italy to recover from a devastating divorce. This movie is about trying to move on from the catastrophic loss of a long-term relationship. Mostly by buying a Tuscan villa against your better judgment and by banging handsome Italian men. Come listen for some humorous vibes!

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