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It's been 84 years since the first Avatar came out and talking about the sequel was so boring we turned half of this conversation into a therapy session. An unexpected theme this year is spectacle over substance and it was demonstrated so wonderfully here by James Cameron. Is he a visionary? Yes. Is he is a great story teller? Not so much. Listen to us groan about this long awaited continuation of a white man taking up space in a place not meant for him.

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Is it true? Has Martin McDonagh been absolved of his Three Billboards crimes? We can't believe it either. Listen to hear us talk beautiful Ireland, Jenny the donkey and the fantastic Colin Ferrell!

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Listen to our Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Lady Bird episodes

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It's time for our Sixth Annual Conversations with Oscars Series. It's a new year, a new group of movies, same three friends gabbing about movies. We're starting off with All Quiet on the Western Front, the German adaptation of the novel of the same name. Listen as we discuss how this stacks up to other war movies we've seen, and how this compares to the novel.

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Listen to our other war movie episodes 1917, Dunkirk, Hacksaw Ridge, American Sniper

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Have you asked "How soon is too soon?" about a piece of media released not too long after a historic/public event? We asked that back in 2012, and again here in 2022 about Zero Dark Thirty. Yes we now know that this movie was already being made when the events of May 1, 2011 occurred, but that doesn't change our question. While war movies aren't generally our thing, we did appreciate the Kyle Chandler double feature this season. This movie also changed the trajectory of Jessica Chastain's career, so we can't be too mad.

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Listen to our American Sniper here.

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And the Oscar goes to...ARGO. We finally made it to the end of the Oscar season and it really comes full circle for us here at We Have Thoughts. This movie may not be the best Best Picture winner, but it will also be a special one to the three of us. This Oscar season marked a decade of attempting to watch all the BP nominees for Ana and Crystal, and it was Crystal's very strong Ben Affleck opinion's that made us stop and think, "Hey, we should record these movie musings" that got us here today.

Enjoy this final episode* of the season! We'll be back with the current Oscar season in the new year. Stay tuned for more thoughts! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram and tell us your rankings!

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*Not so final because of an unavoidable error, but so keep an eye out for one more episode.

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We're nearing the end of our look back at the 2013 Oscar Season. Crystal and Ana get to reminisce about their early screening experience, Joy gets to talk about her love for this film all while we acknowledge the grossness that IS David O. Russell. Go back and listen to our thoughts on American Hustle for a fuller understanding of what we think. The only reason this film isn't as messy is because there is a base material, a novel, from which Russell had to work with to frame this movie. We encourage everyone to not go see his latest film, Amsterdam. We hear it is actually pretty bad anyways, so no loss there. 

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Read the book -  In Love With A Boy by Joss Stone - Watch Widows - Watch Stoker - Listen to our review of American Hustle 

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We're nearing the end of our look back at the 2013 Oscar Season. Crystal and Ana get to reminisce about their early screening experience, Joy gets to talk about her love for this film all while we acknowledge the grossness that IS David O'Russell. Go back and listen to our thoughts on American Hustle for a fuller understanding of what we think. The only reason this film isn't as messy is because there is a base material, a novel, from which Russell had to work with to frame this movie. We encourage everyone to not go see his latest film, Amsterdam. We hear it is actually pretty bad anyways, so no loss there. 

**Sorry about the mistake when first uploaded. The Audio has been corrected. 

The combination of one of the greatest directors and one of the greatest actors almost made Lincoln worth the it's lengthy run time. Daniel Day-Lewis IS Abe Lincoln and there is no doubt that this story is an important one, but we were missing the tension and struggling to stay awake. A cast this stacked couldn't keep us interested.

What did y'all think of Lincoln? Did you watch it in your history class? Let us know!

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Ang Lee's visual epic took home four Oscar Statues in 2013, including one for Best Director. The story of Pi's harrowing journey at sea was brilliantly translated from page to screen giving us some of the most beautiful visual effects and Irrfan Khan stoic performance kept what could be a laughable story of a young man lost at sea with a Bengal tiger beautifully grounded. We also couldn't help but notice Suraj Sharma's name missing from the Best Actor category.

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Les Misérables is an epic, sweeping musical. It was one of the longest running shows on Broadway, a beloved community theatre production, and if you’ve ever seen the inside of an audition room, you’ve probably heard a gaggle of girls butchering On My Own or I Dreamed a Dream. It is a sung-through operatic style musical, so for this movie to have been a success all Tom Hooper needed was a cast that could sing. Instead, we got awkward close up of actors who can kind of hold a tune. The casting of this movie, save for Samantha Barks, Aaron Tveit and Anne Hathaway, was probably the most egregious error made, and all others that followed were made worse by Hugh Jackman screaming the score at us.

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Neil Patrick Harris and his 2013 Tony opening

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