Movie Mindset Oscar Preview ‘24
Added 2024-03-08 21:49:02 +0000 UTCWill and Hesse review the top films of 2023 in this special Movie Mindset Oscars Preview. We go through the major Best Picture nominees, give our takes on each, and give our picks for winners in the major categories, plus some discussion of notable snubs. Also, a little preview of Movie Mindset Season 2, launching April 24th.
We’ll have a blog post with a full official Season 2 schedule (plus where to stream/watch/consume options for each film) up sometime next week.
Comments
What you're effectively complaining about here is that Oppenheimer was about one thing when you wished it was about another. Not the film's problem!
Steeeeve
2024-03-24 12:02:53 +0000 UTCThank you!
Morgan
2024-03-18 12:45:11 +0000 UTCOh dang I thought this was a little preview not a 2 hour thing
Dustin Nelson
2024-03-18 02:55:15 +0000 UTCAnyone got time stamps for the movies
Matt
2024-03-17 21:02:34 +0000 UTCFor the new Movie Mindsets how have I only heard of 1% of these movies wtf
Burrito_Bandito
2024-03-16 17:51:22 +0000 UTCWrong fool
Nathan E Simpson
2024-03-16 05:37:43 +0000 UTCnah they should just talk about saint jack
jack flowers
2024-03-14 21:17:48 +0000 UTCbarbie and oppenheimer: two great movies, one great viral marketing campaign. more please!
jack flowers
2024-03-14 20:04:57 +0000 UTCYes, bring on Hari Nef!
StephenHotChips
2024-03-14 18:32:24 +0000 UTCSpeeding Motorcycle?
The Children of Jack Acid
2024-03-14 04:35:42 +0000 UTCThe Hit Factory podcast blocked me on Twitter because they got ragebaited by a parody account pretending to be mad about sex scenes and I pointed it out
J.P. McD.
2024-03-14 03:54:44 +0000 UTCOppenheimer is insufferable because two half-assed attempts at portraying his feelings of guilt cannot conceal the fact than Nolan doesn't give a shit about the actual crime against humanity. All he cares about is non-geniuses being mean to geniuses. That's what the overwhelming majority of the film is about : one part genius porn (and I'm not talking about the smut, I'm talking about "you learned enough Dutch bla bla ?!"), two parts stakes-less hearings (don't pretend any of it was interesting). It is 100% like the Zone of Interest in that it is entirely from the point of view of the perpetrators of absolute evil, except the difference here is Nolan is in Love with his subject.
Josselin Moneyron
2024-03-13 15:04:11 +0000 UTCIf I may suggest a Movie Mindset topic (and apologies if already done/in the works) -- Peter Bogdanovich, specifically Targets and Last Picture Show. I think that would be a fun episode, those seem right up both your alley!
Ryan
2024-03-13 02:25:20 +0000 UTCI agree with pretty much every movie opinion/commentary mentioned except that, on the list of things Carey Mulligan was good in, I thought she was good in "Promising Young Woman" however I have a viscerally uncomfortable reaction to that movie because of the death scene and the realistic and graphic horror of it.
BK
2024-03-13 01:07:38 +0000 UTCPast lives sucked shit
Go'Thrak
2024-03-12 21:59:26 +0000 UTCAmerican Fiction was very funny. Not great.
k v
2024-03-12 19:08:51 +0000 UTCPoor things is one of the best films in decades.
k v
2024-03-12 19:07:24 +0000 UTCAmerican Fiction was good
Lellow
2024-03-12 18:26:17 +0000 UTCHe's discussing The Zone. Tell me what Israeli along the border of Gaza or in West Bank or at Nova was not living and exalting in the same hellish spectacle on their periphery? People keep trying to get me to feel something for people caught out in Oct 7th and I simply don't. I can't. They are Nazis and they bore witness each and everyday to the reaving which elevated them.
K H
2024-03-12 17:45:35 +0000 UTCSuper excited for the Fassbinder episode. In a Year of Thirteen Moons is one of my absolute favorite movies of all times… and definitely the most affecting on first watch!
Ekaterina Sedia
2024-03-12 11:28:08 +0000 UTCThis is correct. In fact, if you were to write Höss phonetically it would look more like Hesse ... wait a minute!
THEKILLERWHALE
2024-03-12 09:03:19 +0000 UTCShe’s right
Joey Fazzoli
2024-03-12 07:57:38 +0000 UTCDo you know if theres an opposite community that edits out everything except for the rap sections? I just wanna hear the rap parts everything else sucks
Joey Fazzoli
2024-03-12 07:53:05 +0000 UTCFellow Beau is Afraid truthers standing strong 🫡
Taylor McFarland
2024-03-12 07:19:25 +0000 UTC5:00 Maestro 15:15 Zone of Interest 28:20 The Holdovers 34:20 Anatomy of a Fall 44:15 Barbenheimer 1:00:30 Poor Things 1:02:30 Killers of the Flower Moon 1:19:15 Beau is Afraid
KHL
2024-03-12 06:30:47 +0000 UTCI LOVE HESSE LFG
Shivvy
2024-03-12 05:55:45 +0000 UTCHessa was right that Rudolph Hess went and got himself captured by flying into Scotland because MI6 had convinced him the Duke of Hamilton was going to negotiate Britain's surrender. Rudolph Höss was the commandant of Auschwitz and the main character in Zone of Interest. But because German is a fucking stupid made up language their names sound the same.
Garrat M
2024-03-12 04:10:23 +0000 UTCI found Oppenheimer's third act very compelling: to me it was less about letting Bobby O off the hook and more about how the power structure was able to turn on all of the commie science nerds because they had paperclipped in all of the nazi science nerds. Agree Agree Holdovers had me from the first strains of Silver Joy - I actually laughed out loud at myself that I'm that easy. And I get what you're saying but there's something in Giamatti's - sacrifice/letting go of the safety and ease that was almost more a prison - for Sessa; I read it as Payne saying that's what the boomers would have done if they actually cared about any of the values they claim to have. It felt like a pretty good meditation (see what I did there) on what's empty and what's worth holding onto or making room for.
Matthew Krueger
2024-03-12 03:01:45 +0000 UTCwill one of you watch zone of interest with me im too scared to watch it alone
Reece Coren
2024-03-11 23:22:13 +0000 UTCI think it was probably over Will's head and he should stick to reviewing Mark Wahlberg's Shooter or whatever.
Trevor Wookfield
2024-03-11 20:14:50 +0000 UTCTerribly concerning that Will liked Barbie but thought Poor Things “had nothing to say”. Sheesh.
Pedro Lippe
2024-03-11 19:30:08 +0000 UTCOppenheimer - the main problem was that the 3rd act was boring and uncompelling. Poor Things - Banger. Great film. A fun, stylish picaresque that asks: what if a woman was free of the conditioning of growing up in a patriarchal society because Frankenstein. Beau is Afraid - Tha god Ari Aster does it again The Holdovers - I felt like I had seen this movie several times before. Pretty trite.
Bushwald
2024-03-11 19:27:12 +0000 UTCBlaming will menaker personally for Lily Gladstone losing to Emma Sadstone
nat
2024-03-11 19:26:39 +0000 UTCmmyeah
ScorPWNok
2024-03-11 19:18:48 +0000 UTCSomething that bothers me with a lot of Nolan’s output (and the most egregious example I can think of is Inception) is the Hans Zimmer-esque score almost never stops. You have a procession of more or less identically scored scenes that makes you lose sense of when the really important things are happening. It kinda touches upon that “procedural” comment Will made. It’s like, I’ve come to associate that Nolan sheen with Batman so much that every time I’m watching any of his other movies I subconsciously keep waiting for Batman to show up. I don’t know… Anyway, I thought both The Zone of Interest and Killers of the Flower Moon were better. Past Lives was also great.
Amir Šabanović
2024-03-11 18:48:45 +0000 UTCUnder the skin is so fucking good. The movie just creates this gutting, horror that doesn't happen in the book. But the book is also good, imo.
EaZy E
2024-03-11 17:55:57 +0000 UTCI loved Mother!
ChapoFan inParis
2024-03-11 17:43:53 +0000 UTCI will not stand for Yorgos slander 😫
Vinnie Pergola
2024-03-11 14:58:30 +0000 UTCman you just reminded me of the community on youtube that edits out all the rap sections from gorrilaz songs
Fingerless
2024-03-11 14:14:21 +0000 UTCEmergency podcast to talk about who won actually best actress.
Marie
2024-03-11 13:05:38 +0000 UTCThat’s hella dumb.
Chip’s Mom Dre
2024-03-11 08:09:58 +0000 UTCI felt like that movie was nothing special. Great character study. But idk. I saw it at home. Probably would have been better in theater
Chip’s Mom Dre
2024-03-11 08:07:39 +0000 UTCAFTER HOURS / REPOMAN!
THEKILLERWHALE
2024-03-11 08:06:30 +0000 UTCIt is important that the Oscar for Best Actress goes to the film we are least likely to discuss or remember in ten years time.
THEKILLERWHALE
2024-03-11 07:52:36 +0000 UTCI really feel like the trial in Anatomy has absolutely nothing to do with how the French legal system works.
ChapoFan inParis
2024-03-11 07:51:33 +0000 UTCBradley's conducting was awful, apparently.
ChapoFan inParis
2024-03-11 07:20:58 +0000 UTCYou're both wrong.
Poppy Chulo
2024-03-11 06:33:22 +0000 UTCIs that what you did in band?
Lord-Admiral of the Pyrenees
2024-03-11 06:28:21 +0000 UTCyeah, it's a pretty exciting short film that's book-ended by hour-long slogs of incoherent sound mixing. i like a lot of nolan's movies, but i think this is by far his worst.
Joseph Horak
2024-03-11 05:31:05 +0000 UTCIt was far too slow. They didn’t have to actually show Minnie’s death. Also could’ve reduced the amount of time Lilly was just breathing on her death bed scene after scene
Peter Sullivan
2024-03-11 05:20:02 +0000 UTCShailene Woodley’s awful acting / accent tanked the entire movie for me
Peter Sullivan
2024-03-11 05:17:29 +0000 UTCThe departed?
Peter Sullivan
2024-03-11 05:13:42 +0000 UTCabsolute shocker that Will hasn't seen a subtitled movie.
Christopher Price
2024-03-11 05:10:50 +0000 UTCa very simple rule in Oscar forecasting is paying attention to which movie puts the most effort into costumes and art direction, because all those art nerds in the academy vote and they like rewarding movies with visual flair.
Christopher Price
2024-03-11 05:05:20 +0000 UTCThey snubbed our queen
HarshMalarkey
2024-03-11 04:20:58 +0000 UTCI love Movie Mindset episodes ❤️
Drew
2024-03-11 04:11:56 +0000 UTCAnatomy of a Fall... coming away I didn't see the protagonist as being guilty or not guilty, the "hung jury element" of it made it so good
Connor Mauche
2024-03-11 03:55:34 +0000 UTCI haven’t watched any movies this, or last year, or the year before that, so pls no spoilers
William
2024-03-11 02:44:17 +0000 UTCSorry, could you name a podcast that people actually listen to
William
2024-03-11 02:41:59 +0000 UTCOppie haters seething
Gordon Schmidt
2024-03-11 02:41:57 +0000 UTCNeeded this
Travis Gabe
2024-03-11 02:40:12 +0000 UTCI took band as an elective in middle school and high school (I just fucked around with percussion instruments I’m not a fucking loser) and I can confirm for the vast majority of the band if they know what they’re doing the conductor might as well take the baton and do Happy Gilmore humping w the construction cone.
Nolan
2024-03-11 02:21:01 +0000 UTCI watched Zone of Interest based on this glowing review and what a ripoff. This could have been a short film or even a still image. You "get it" from the first shot of the concentration camp in the background of their suburban house, and there's never anything more than that. Still very relevant, though, because this is what Israel is doing to Palestine. I just wish it has been a still image instead of a feature length movie. Edit: I only listened to the very beginning of the Zone of Interest review and skipped to the next movie so I wouldn't get spoilers, so maybe this is my fault.
T
2024-03-11 01:46:49 +0000 UTCit’s truly horrible, maybe the worst intro i’ve even heard.
wolfgang
2024-03-11 01:38:46 +0000 UTCyes, Marty has done it again, and again and again. he’s rehashed the same film over and over.
wolfgang
2024-03-11 01:37:54 +0000 UTCY’all slept on Poor Things. Definitely gonna win some awards.
Dan Couch
2024-03-11 00:33:39 +0000 UTCWith Barbie it’s not just the marketing though, pandering to libs is part of the text
J.P. McD.
2024-03-10 23:34:19 +0000 UTCPenis from Heaven
T
2024-03-10 23:24:54 +0000 UTCEntire review of Anatomy of A Fall doesn’t even mention the kid?
snafujesus
2024-03-10 23:20:24 +0000 UTCThat was so nice y’all
sarah
2024-03-10 22:54:21 +0000 UTCThe god Michael Mann getting shafted, Ferrari rocks
Layton ONeil
2024-03-10 22:54:06 +0000 UTCmy moms review of zone of interest was that she didn’t get it and nothing happened
Kamran Husain
2024-03-10 22:53:31 +0000 UTCPoor Things is good, you’re just a prude
treat
2024-03-10 22:12:13 +0000 UTCSorry but Podcast for the New American Century still has a superior intro
MoldyTolge
2024-03-10 21:42:46 +0000 UTCI hate that Barbie and American Fiction and to some extent Poor Things were positioned as "important" movies. They're cathartic but they're as deep as a puddle. The marketing just seems like pandering to libs--making them feel their entertainment is part of a larger conversation and absolving them from actually thinking about what might be causing the phenomena being mocked. It's a form of pandering that if Erasure were written today, it would probably satirize.
Jon
2024-03-10 20:46:38 +0000 UTCGenuinely what did you like about it
Jon
2024-03-10 20:37:22 +0000 UTC“Charlie Wilson’s War” was originally going to end with 9/11 until lame Tom Hanks said “we can’t do that this comes out on Christmas Day”
Petrorenminbi
2024-03-10 19:36:32 +0000 UTCKotfm sucked. Talk about boring.
——
2024-03-10 19:00:05 +0000 UTCMan I love this series, but the theme song is horrible imo
Jones Kolbinsky
2024-03-10 18:40:22 +0000 UTCLol @ Chris shutting down where that riff was going
bogswallop
2024-03-10 18:38:49 +0000 UTChaven't seen aby best picture noms besides Barbenheimer but honestly spoilers get me more excited to do so sometimes. I think it's funny wills opinions on poor things and BIA heavily contrast the ones I seem to see! It's really fucked up how KOTFM or ZOI can win best picture but the room is full of zionists who refuse to connect the dots
nat
2024-03-10 18:37:26 +0000 UTCAmerican Fiction is actually a good movie. I urge you to actually see it.
Beowulf Rochlen
2024-03-10 18:33:35 +0000 UTCThe guy to went to Scotland is Rudolph Hess. This movie is about a confusingly similarly named Nazi named Rudolf Höss.
Beowulf Rochlen
2024-03-10 18:32:49 +0000 UTCDamn just let a girl live
Maddie Peltier
2024-03-10 18:00:34 +0000 UTCI think Hesse is correct in that R. Hess did try to defect to Scotland. He went on some solo missions to the UK (peace brokering? idr why)
owen
2024-03-10 17:55:01 +0000 UTCWatched it last night on internet archive its excellent
HarshMalarkey
2024-03-10 17:44:47 +0000 UTCPoor things is good, actually.
Nathan
2024-03-10 17:40:18 +0000 UTCSuch a great movie
K
2024-03-10 17:25:58 +0000 UTCGlad to know Hesse and I feel the same about Saltburn
Sam Lewis
2024-03-10 17:15:08 +0000 UTCInterjection! The defendant’s breasts look weird in that jacket! Also she’s a whore!
I am become reply guy
2024-03-10 16:39:34 +0000 UTCHoly shit I gotta see Beau if Afraid. I’ve never laughed so hard to a summary a movie I haven’t seen
Justin
2024-03-10 16:16:51 +0000 UTCHARI NEF FOR MOVIE MINDSET
cori
2024-03-10 15:50:54 +0000 UTCI know nothing about film and didn't like it at all. I have no boner to give Mr Scott. Never even seen Alien in full. It just was a bloated and mostly unenjoyable film. The ice action scene was cool though.
nat
2024-03-10 15:33:35 +0000 UTCI’m so glad y’all liked Beau is Afraid so much it’s like maybe my favorite movie of the past 10 years. Such an original and daring piece of art. It’s terrifying and insane but it weirdly makes me feel seen as an insane person and I really love that about it 🧍🏼♀️
Janie Danger
2024-03-10 15:11:48 +0000 UTCBringing Up Baby! 🐆
Erin Filson
2024-03-10 14:03:54 +0000 UTCI think Carey Mulligan’s problem is that all the roles that she would be good for end up being cast with Michelle Williams, and so Mulligan ends up in all the productions that couldn’t nab Michelle Williams
Adam Foster
2024-03-10 13:11:48 +0000 UTCGot to see Pennies From Heaven when it came out cos my parents couldn’t get a babysitter. It was fucking mesmerising as a tiny kid.
Leyland
2024-03-10 11:29:27 +0000 UTCIf you're doing a 90's noir episode you have to include "The Usual Suspects"
Poppy Chulo
2024-03-10 06:35:31 +0000 UTC"Saltburn" was great and "Napoleon" was good. Enough with the Ridley Scott hate boner shit.
Poppy Chulo
2024-03-10 06:19:15 +0000 UTCCheck out “Tony Erdmann” also with Sandra Heuller. A retired dead beat dad desires he wants to reconnect with his daughter while she’s on an evil consulting job in Romania.
ResilientBastard
2024-03-10 05:45:03 +0000 UTCThe way they describe Josh Harnett in Oppenheimer is spot on, always liked him
MKatieUltra
2024-03-10 05:18:36 +0000 UTC"Past Lives" more like "Paint Dries"
Poppy Chulo
2024-03-10 04:51:02 +0000 UTCCrucially Hoss doesn't actually throw up like Hesse says, he dry heaves
godruler
2024-03-10 02:20:20 +0000 UTCBeau is afraid was awesome, absolutely hilarious. Iron Claw was probably my favorite, or killers of the flower moon. Anatomy of a fall was insanely boring and dog shit, so awful and boring couldn’t wait for it to end
More Human than Human
2024-03-10 01:20:19 +0000 UTCSound of Freedom was robbed.
Jerimiah
2024-03-10 01:17:35 +0000 UTCSaltburn is amazing if you want a Tom Ripley Jr. story. Don’t expect surreal artsy class conscious nonsense like the trailer tries to make you think it is.
J.P. McD.
2024-03-09 23:46:18 +0000 UTCWelcome to French court, we will now commence with the epistemic foundations portion of the trial — madame, what is truth? What is knowledge? Foucault said…
Horseloverfat
2024-03-09 23:46:15 +0000 UTCDude the first scene where Hoss goes into the camp and the polish guy has to come and wash the blood off his boots. That sets it all up and my stomach was in the floor the whole fucking movie.
Peter Hager
2024-03-09 23:39:27 +0000 UTCPast Lives one of the best I’ve seen in a while
Goji
2024-03-09 23:37:05 +0000 UTCGreat episode!
Tony Brut
2024-03-09 23:25:58 +0000 UTCTurned this off after they hadn’t seen Past Lives and American Fiction. Those are the best ones!
Uriah Wilson
2024-03-09 23:21:48 +0000 UTCGreat bonus episode, but someone please coach Hesse on the superfluous, nonstop “Yes”ing.
Tyler S
2024-03-09 23:06:58 +0000 UTCWill has to see “The Father”. Hopkins 100 deserved that Oscar. Absolute earth shattering performance.
Drew McGill
2024-03-09 22:43:30 +0000 UTCBeau is Afraid heads vindicated
Thomas Ceparano
2024-03-09 21:38:25 +0000 UTCwas so thrilled to see this in my inbox this morning, love this duo, love the commentary, and so hyped to watch all these movies, many of which will be new to me! LONG LIVE MOVIE MINDSET!!!!!!! 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
Strawbiery
2024-03-09 21:21:41 +0000 UTCwould love a Movie Mindset about Where Eagles Dare, upon hearing more Zone of Interest discourse. WED forever remains one of the most satisfying nazi-killing action movies of all time, with Clint Eastwood playing supporting actor to Richard mfing Burton
Thom
2024-03-09 21:14:17 +0000 UTCAlso Rudolph Hess specifically was the guy who tried to enter an insanity plea at Nuremberg, there’s a gigantic controversy as to whether he was faking it
Matthew Black
2024-03-09 21:12:48 +0000 UTCI had Tarr and Maestro confused in my head for like the first ten minutes of this.
Matthew Black
2024-03-09 20:54:48 +0000 UTCPast Lives mid
Janie Danger
2024-03-09 20:53:16 +0000 UTCTar 2: Re-Tar
I am become reply guy
2024-03-09 20:51:43 +0000 UTCAgreed, it ruled. I’m making a stand.
CJ
2024-03-09 19:35:47 +0000 UTC🚨BLONDE MENTION🚨
red rock breast
2024-03-09 19:19:26 +0000 UTCIf you guys want to get both Will Talks Movies and a delicious performance by King Matt Christman, they're in a 2022 episode of We Hate Movies talking about Point Break.
Tim O'
2024-03-09 18:56:07 +0000 UTCMight kill my husband if he constantly blasted a Caribbean instrumental cover of p.I.m.p
Lilbean
2024-03-09 18:18:42 +0000 UTCA rare Will disagreement here, I adored Poor Things
James Wallace
2024-03-09 17:48:21 +0000 UTCyeah laugh up your long money WOMEN TALKING pick, Hesse. i lost $10 on that bet!
Nathan Explosion
2024-03-09 17:45:44 +0000 UTCWere it not for Zone of Interest, Beau if Afraid would have been movie of the year for me. It was astounding.
Samuel Z Goldberg
2024-03-09 17:13:25 +0000 UTCAnd there’s really nothing to interpret. The hint is Isbell’s character telling DiCaprio that Isbell and his now-wife (the sister of Isbell’s previous and now-dead wife) got a pretty sweet deal from the Schoen Bros (the crooked docs) in buying their house.
Dude of H-town
2024-03-09 16:50:49 +0000 UTCLoved Will’s comment on Isbell’s character in Killers (who obviously was a real guy). He is not a good dude or sympathetic. He’s just a villain in competition with another villain, both perpetrating the same scheme.
Dude of H-town
2024-03-09 16:38:14 +0000 UTCZone of Interest and Beau is Afraid is kind of the same movie
Marc Silverstein
2024-03-09 16:23:28 +0000 UTCBtw, the score of The Zone of Interest was written by the amazing queer musician (and regular Glazer collaborator) Mica Levi. They also did the score for Under the Skin https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cRi7gkIXKPA
Anat Pick
2024-03-09 16:07:40 +0000 UTCReally excited for the back half of the season, the last 4 weeks have some of my all time favorites. I’ve seen dozens of fassbinder films at this point and he doesn’t miss, there are some that are better than others but they all have that RWF magic in them, can’t wait to hear their thoughts on him (In a year of 13 moons is also Linklater’s favorite fassbinder)
noah m koebler
2024-03-09 15:29:04 +0000 UTC(Will is also queen)
Blank
2024-03-09 15:14:17 +0000 UTCHesse is queen
Blank
2024-03-09 14:46:35 +0000 UTCLong money bet: barbie doesn't win best picture, resulting in a 1/6-style insurrection at the oscars
reclusiver
2024-03-09 14:35:12 +0000 UTCSo happy to have Movie Mindset back.
Yeah but in my defense
2024-03-09 14:25:11 +0000 UTCIf you guys do another Ghoulvie Screamset slate this fall, please please PLEASE talk about The Empty Man. One of the only horror movies of the last 10 years that has really stuck with me, beyond just having good scares or whatever, for YEARS. Love that one, don't miss it!!!
Taylor Leibel
2024-03-09 13:50:32 +0000 UTCI love movies I thought I was the only one !!!! Keep it up! Great work bill and Jessica!
mb1059
2024-03-09 13:42:42 +0000 UTCAMERICAN FICTION is the most "it's fine" movie of the year. The "meta" non-ending doesn't add anything but it's pretty painless. Also it's nice to see a satirical concept play out where there are almost no characters that are treated like complete dummies: there are a couple of vapid white ladies and the one publishing house rep, otherwise that's it. (And w/the latter there's a hilarious character detail: massive screen prints of RBG on her office wall.) All told I would have liked to see Wright nominated for ASTEROID CITY. Or THE FRENCH DISPATCH, just a few years ago! Remember when he calls Liev Schreiber a silly goose?
Rohmer Simpson
2024-03-09 13:42:15 +0000 UTCYeah the movie is about Rudolf Höss not Hess
Twistedsister
2024-03-09 13:36:03 +0000 UTCI haven't seen Oppenheimer but it sounds like it has the same moral as Franky's backstory in one piece
RubbishBinMan
2024-03-09 08:39:48 +0000 UTCAmerican Fiction was fucking hilarious what the fuck
Elai Kehler
2024-03-09 08:22:54 +0000 UTCIts legit this has been an incredible Friday
George Lochinski
2024-03-09 07:11:50 +0000 UTCDon’t let the haters tell you you’re wrong
Peter Sullivan
2024-03-09 06:13:26 +0000 UTCI love these episodes so much, but I disagree with Will about Poor Things. He claimed it was all style and no substance - which in my view more accurately describes Asteroid City - which leads me to believe he missed the films stirring rearticulation of the Enlightenment idea of the perfectibility of man, the absurdity of existence, and its unabashed optimism about the potential of salvation through scientific progress
Brodi Craddock
2024-03-09 05:37:32 +0000 UTCAmerican Fiction does actually have a definitive ending and not a Clue-like thing where it gives you options. I'm not sure I would say it's the best film of the year (for me that would either go to Beau is Afraid, or a Japanese film I saw a t a festival called River, seriously check it out), but I think it's a pretty charming and funny movie that's about a lot more than what the trailer lets on. I think it's worth seeing at least for Jeffrey Wright's performance. I also think if it wins best picture it would create an ouroboros.
Rory Blank
2024-03-09 05:14:24 +0000 UTCPerfect Days is really good though.
Rory Blank
2024-03-09 05:06:36 +0000 UTCgoing long on the holdovers for best picture
Industrial Girlboss Complex CEO
2024-03-09 04:55:21 +0000 UTCCooper as Bernstein = Harris as Pollack. Two actors who felt like they knew the man so well, that they were actually inhabiting the character so completely that the actual script was immaterial
PETER C
2024-03-09 04:53:21 +0000 UTCI'm a film idiot so hearing my favorite movie Night of the Hunter echoed makes me feel valid
Aaron Christmas
2024-03-09 04:32:36 +0000 UTCAnd Godzilla was fucking robbed
Julian
2024-03-09 04:22:34 +0000 UTCCan't wait for the Fassbinder episodes one of my all time favorite directors but a truly horrible person
Jenkum Terry
2024-03-09 04:20:30 +0000 UTCThe week of slop!
Doom Hermit
2024-03-09 04:19:13 +0000 UTCLove these episodes. One of the most chilling parts of Zone of Interest was when the mother in law wonders aloud to Hedwig if the lady she used to clean for is “over there”
Twistedsister
2024-03-09 04:17:41 +0000 UTCHad the same beau is afraid experience as will, except the next day I was still mad. I'm still mad at the penis monster. I'm sick of my gf making me watch movies about ari aster's weird relationship with his mom
Julian
2024-03-09 04:16:06 +0000 UTCdamn this was worth all those scheduling fuck ups. what an embarrassment of riches.
Eon Gattignolo
2024-03-09 04:08:27 +0000 UTCPRIEST: Uncommitted ME: Yes. Good PRIEST: Springtime for Germany ME: Great. Go on. keep em comin PRIEST: ...Movie Mindset ME: No (just kidding, this is awesome)
demonsweat
2024-03-09 03:55:18 +0000 UTCHannah and her Sisters plzzzz
CactiFlowFlow
2024-03-09 03:40:59 +0000 UTCI haven’t seen Holdovers yet, but I saw a still in which they’re standing in front of The Chateau in Waltham, MA and I popped.
Tim
2024-03-09 03:09:52 +0000 UTCI got so mad at the pace of Oppenheimer. The middle section at Los Alamos was great, but the rest…meh.
Lilly Merrill
2024-03-09 02:58:06 +0000 UTCRudolph Hess was the Nazi that secretly flew to the UK. Maybe it’s not the same person as in the movie but that did happen IRL.
Nathaniel Gordon
2024-03-09 02:33:14 +0000 UTCAlso American Fiction is good though
Sage
2024-03-09 02:32:18 +0000 UTCWhen I was a kid I thought the world was black and white until the 70s 😳
Axel Herrera
2024-03-09 02:29:55 +0000 UTCI just want to say I have two music performance degrees and I completely agree with will about conducting
Philip Wailes
2024-03-09 02:00:22 +0000 UTCI'VE GOT THE OSCAR FEVER
albrechto
2024-03-09 01:57:56 +0000 UTCThat is "humanizing" in a sense, but not in a favorable way. Maybe the people interpreting it as such just see too much of themselves in the humans on screen and can't help but feel its favorable.
zeeee (rang shim bombo)
2024-03-09 01:57:11 +0000 UTCJodie Foster has two Academy Award wins. A few years before Silence she won for the trauma-porn movie The Accused. I have not seen it in decades, but the brutal final scene (which I don’t really want to describe, look it up if you want, it’s a tough watch) is something I have never fully shaken off. I don’t know if I’d even call the movie “good,” but it may be as vulnerable as I can remember any actor making herself.
Michael Landreth
2024-03-09 01:55:15 +0000 UTCBeau is Afraid was fucking incredible, go watch it right now
thicchatlogan
2024-03-09 01:43:02 +0000 UTC*norman rockwell painting guy voice* I thought American Fiction was good
CJ
2024-03-09 01:30:15 +0000 UTCZone of the Ending must be what it's like to be an Israeli settler
Michael Xin
2024-03-09 01:17:54 +0000 UTCExcellent interpretation of the Zone ending here: https://www.vulture.com/article/the-zone-of-interests-vomit-inducing-ending-explained.html
TheTonyScottFan
2024-03-09 01:06:40 +0000 UTCwill gets zone of interest exactly right, no surprise
Daniel E
2024-03-09 01:05:52 +0000 UTCDarkslop
T S
2024-03-09 00:52:38 +0000 UTCsurprise saltburn diss
Billiam
2024-03-09 00:18:46 +0000 UTCWould love a look into Jim Jarmusch. I love Movie Mindset!
Erika Stecz
2024-03-09 00:06:31 +0000 UTCim so ready for my Fromslop lore
Franklin Shepard Inc.
2024-03-08 23:59:42 +0000 UTCI loved poor things
Michael LeBoeuf
2024-03-08 23:48:47 +0000 UTCpiggies eating good this week
Andrew Cross
2024-03-08 23:47:10 +0000 UTC100% correct on Beau is Afraid being the best movie of the year. Between that, Zone of Interest, and Killers of the Flower Moon - this was a banner year for Michael Haneke-core. Anti-cinema and reminding the audience that they are complicit in horrors beyond their comprehension; from genocide to forgetting to call your mom.
steven bassett
2024-03-08 23:42:56 +0000 UTCHaving seen Oppenheimer, Zone, and Killers and considering them the best of these, both individually, and to some extent in combination, in the context of these times, is uhh pretty fucking brutal to wrangle with their distinct notions of perpetual incidental evil that has always been there and seemingly always will. Feeling GREAT, really good movies and episode
TLT
2024-03-08 23:22:56 +0000 UTCI have to imagine Bradley Cooper only made that movie because of tweets from Brooklyn podcast types who were all really obsessed with Leonard Bernstein in 2019.
Nolan
2024-03-08 23:16:39 +0000 UTCthe most delicious slop, thanks chapos. been fiending for more movie mindset!
godheks
2024-03-08 23:16:13 +0000 UTCI have been surprised by some of the negative reviews of Zone of Interest. Some people seem to have seen a different film from the one that I saw. It was pretty powerful. Little things like the Mother-in-Law waking up from a nap because she's choking on the smoke from "next door". The constant steam in the distance as the trains are arriving. The way that the two boys clearly know what's happening next door. It was intense. Some reviewers seem to have thought that the movie was humanizing the family of Nazis and I have no idea how you could get that impression. They clearly painted these people as the personification of the banality of evil. I had to go for a very long walk after leaving the theater.
James Proulx
2024-03-08 22:58:47 +0000 UTCI saw it, it was brutal
Will Menaker
2024-03-08 22:52:34 +0000 UTCAnthony Hopkins for the father was like one of the few times the actual best acting performance of the year ... won the oscar. it wasn't a "pat on the back for your career" award - yall gotta see it. it's an incredibly haunting performance.
ThatAintChocolate
2024-03-08 22:47:41 +0000 UTCImpossibly based
kiefer robinson
2024-03-08 22:36:18 +0000 UTCIt’s Chapo’s biggest night!
Rohmer Simpson
2024-03-08 22:36:06 +0000 UTCCheck out The Important Cinema Club
emalco
2024-03-08 22:35:13 +0000 UTCLet's go
Mikey Cera
2024-03-08 22:30:40 +0000 UTCthat's right baybee Movie Mindset back ridin my dick like Muad'dib
Thom
2024-03-08 22:25:52 +0000 UTC🐷 🐷 🐷
Silver
2024-03-08 22:20:42 +0000 UTCHell yes, I was hoping you guys would do this again this year
Sage
2024-03-08 22:20:23 +0000 UTCYes & Yes!!
Axel
2024-03-08 22:17:38 +0000 UTCI've been looking for podcasts about movies like this since you finished last season but no one I've found understands that all movies are funny
Sean Tennett
2024-03-08 22:15:43 +0000 UTCHave I died and gone to hog heaven? Thanks for the swill, Will. 🐽
T
2024-03-08 22:15:07 +0000 UTCNow if we just get our other best friend, Nick Mullen on.
Tom Joad
2024-03-08 22:12:44 +0000 UTCMuch needed
Ryan Massari
2024-03-08 22:09:47 +0000 UTCWe’ve been blessed, thanks chapo
Red Chud
2024-03-08 22:09:21 +0000 UTCThis should hold me over until the real Oscar special on Sunday
Sir Kev The Perv
2024-03-08 22:07:13 +0000 UTC3 episodes and a two hour preview episode. Is it Christmas?
Tvvvv
2024-03-08 22:06:40 +0000 UTCSeason 2 should be called Sigma Movie Grindset. I don’t care how stupid it sounds.
Paul F. Holzfäller
2024-03-08 22:05:56 +0000 UTCI've got the oscer fever, hope you got it too
BAAAAAARNES
2024-03-08 22:05:35 +0000 UTCMaybe I have too much slop to eat today. My bully is bloated
JD Nonce
2024-03-08 22:05:34 +0000 UTCAmerican Fiction was touching and hilarious. Big thumbs up.
James Blackmon
2024-03-08 22:05:08 +0000 UTCNot having watched past lives before doing this recap is irresponsible. But still thank you for the slop.
SH
2024-03-08 22:04:41 +0000 UTCMy best friends are back to talk about movies with me personally again
Olivia Kali
2024-03-08 22:03:25 +0000 UTCWow we are eating good today boys
Megan
2024-03-08 22:03:19 +0000 UTCYesss
atatrs251
2024-03-08 22:03:08 +0000 UTCthis is what we wanted!
g$
2024-03-08 22:02:51 +0000 UTCHell yeah daddy o
No Fear T Shirt
2024-03-08 22:01:54 +0000 UTCmassive wet egg on the face of anyone who complained about not getting their slop…fucking peasant mentality!
will michel
2024-03-08 22:01:31 +0000 UTCyayy ❤️
bobguy234
2024-03-08 22:00:33 +0000 UTCLet the slop flow
TheTonyScottFan
2024-03-08 22:00:30 +0000 UTCHuge time to be a Chapo shithead
Don Tickles
2024-03-08 22:00:28 +0000 UTCWill got on those good uppers, putting out 5 eps in one week
Joshua
2024-03-08 22:00:21 +0000 UTCSo much quality slop!
Daniel Johnston
2024-03-08 22:00:14 +0000 UTCMr Menaker we need a Dune 2 review soon
Will
2024-03-08 22:00:04 +0000 UTCLetsgoooo
Will
2024-03-08 21:59:48 +0000 UTC
