Some big picture Best Picture Oscar theories.

***This Oscar Sprint Profile on Vice has a Spoiler Section***

Intro / What’s an OSP? / How We Prepared For This One - Top of the Show

Cast & Crew & Inside Christian Bale’s Living Room - 2:23

Story Inception & Production Notes & Flu Inspired Stories - 9:38

Movie Specs & Some Best Picture Numbers That Don’t Make Sense - 13:07

Plot / Premise & The Curious Case of Dick Cheney - 16:35

Oscar Lens Magnified Throughout Non-Spoiler Review:

Some big picture Best Picture Oscar theories - 21:02

Best Director, Liberal Hero Adam McKay - 25:28

Review of Performances led by Bale & Adams - 29:23

The Rest of the Categories & the rest of the Critics - 32:26

Spoiler Warning Dance Music - 36:25

SPOILER-FILLED REVIEW

Watch or Don’t Watch Carryover - 37:34

Best Scenes - 51:56

Worst Scenes Recap - 56:51

Final Grades - 59:24

Outro / Social Media / Words of Wisdom - 1:01:55

Adam McKay’s Vice has become the most polarizing film of the season. Most Oscar experts predict the film will be nominated for a bunch of awards. The Golden Globes, Critics Choice, and SAG’s then affirmed those predictions by including Vice in their field of nominees. Now in a shocking turn of events, the rest of the movie critic community weighed in upon this film, and all the scores plummeted. WTF happened?

We may begin this normal Oscar Sprint Profile the same way with cast & crew filmographies, story production notes, and movie specs. But we dive into several rabbit holes of substantive conversation including some politics, film theory, and of course, Oscar prognostication. If ever there was an opportunity, if ever there was a year, if ever there was a podcast to dive into these weighty topics, it was this episode of MMO, and we did our best to approach these topics with as much honesty and integrity as we could bring to the podcast table. Hot takes flew fast & furious from our admittedly partisan lips, but we also tried to think big picture about this Best Picture contender. The result - we didn’t necessarily break this movie down in as much detail as we have done in other OSPs. Though we tried to make up for any lack in film criticism by addressing these incredibly important topics.

This is our 29th OSP. Go to our Soundcloud account for a handy playlist where we have grouped them all together. There’s also a 2018 Movie Event playlist, and we review another half dozen films or so every Monday on MMO Weekly. Of course, we also have several fun series of reviews including our coverage of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Halloween Franchise, Conjuring films, Mission Impossible movies, and most recently, our Very Merry MMO Holiday Movie Reviews where we reviewed 3 childhood Christmas favorites. So if you’ve seen & loved or have loved to hate a film in 2018, or if you’re deciding whether or not to watch one of these awards season contenders, or if you’re just planning your next movie night, do check out our massive catalog.

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