Time Honored Pictures

Director John Ford’s debut on our show gets us talking about the history of the IRA, state sanctioned violence, oppression of the masses by the British, excuses made for violent men, and anything else that isn’t the plot of this dull, politically barren trod through history. ‘The Informer’ wins the Oscar for Best Director, and Bartly Mulholland wins our award for ‘Best Revolutionary’.

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It may not have happened overnight but Frank Capra did it! He made a romantic comedy. With better shot composition and editing then most Hallmark movies but the same conservative values, this piece of film is a fun romp held back by lazy shorthand. ‘It Happened One Night’ sweeps the Oscars for the first time in cinema history and receives our award of actually being a coherent film.

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Mothers, we love ‘em, we love to forget ‘em, as does this movie. This play turned film, like its characters, fails to learn any lessons from history. While it hits you with the sledge hammer of symbolism you’ll find that its shallow and tepid much like the moral of the film. Frank Llyod gives himself an Oscar for every couple he kills in this1930’s nationalist propaganda piece. Cavalcade won the Academy Award for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Art Direction. Andy apologizes for his terrible audio this episode, he just couldn’t stay within one foot of his microphone.

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Shield your eyes, Theys’ and Thems’ , because this morality tale has implied premarital sex! Frank Borzage returns directing a book-to-play-to-movie adaption, with little to no care for the poverty set dressing or the women stigmatized. Bad Girl wins the Academy Award for Best Director and watching it goes down like bad orange juice, pulpy.

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This month we decided to talk about anything other than this poorly adapted stage play. Watch us scramble all over this hotel as these characters struggle to find symbols, theme, or even a plot. Directed by Edmund Goulding, The Grand Hotel wins the 1932 Academy Award for Best Picture and was not nominated in any other category and that is suspicious as all get out.

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This month we decided to skip the book and go straight to the adaptation of Edna Ferber’s revisionist, white-savior, historical epic. In what feels like a never ending runtime, we watch a movie that can only be described as racist, sexist, and boring. Directed and produced by Wesley Ruggles, Cimarron wins the 1931 Academy Award for Best Picture and, in theme with the movie, we can revise that award away.

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Our surprise is rivaled only by Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s corpse as we find ourselves in the 1930’s and World War I. In these bloody fields of France we learn important lessons, like, “don’t stab a man in the ribs,” and “only treat women with respect when they’re on a poster.” All Quiet On The Western Front wins the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director, and Maevas’ Award for Best Boots.

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As we near the end of the roaring twenties we find that the roller-coaster ride of sexism has no end in sight, that interesting characters do not make for interesting plots, and that a “musical” can be anything without a pulse. The Broadway Melody wins the Academy Award for Best Picture and Andy’s award for “Best Asshole Getting Punched in the Face”.

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Our 2nd episode is a harsh plunge into sexism, using poverty as set dressing and unintelligible war scenes. 7th heaven wins the academy award for best director with one cool stairway shot and little else.

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