March 14, 2026
We Watched 23 Hours and 10 minutes of Best Picture Nominees So You Don’t Have To!
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RSS Feed This year’s Best Picture nominees are a huge investment of time, but it certainly makes watching the Oscar’s that much more fun when you’ve got some skin in the game. We know most people don’t have the time, energy or even interest to sit down and spend an entire day (and night) watching these acclaimed films. Let’s be honest, several of these movies weren’t box office hits, and most people might not even know the premise of some of them, so we took the last two weeks and watched each and every movie to share our cliff notes with all of you. Full disclosure, there were a couple of films that took us days, as in multiple days, to finish watching because of the heavy subject matter coupled with our heavy eyelids.
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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Saturday, March fourteenth, It is Oscars weekend. And if you have not watched all of the Best Picture nominees, you still got time, but you ain't got much because it will take you twenty three hours and ten minutes to watch all of them. Don't want to do it. Me and Robes we did it for you. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. That is true. One caveat we'll add later, but we had to make the effort. Robes, Oscars is coming. We said, oh crap, we've only seen a couple of these movies. Isn't that what everybody does every year? Owne?
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Speaker 2: I feel like that is almost every year because so often. Look, these are films that are being acclaimed and accredited for having incredible cinnamon, Like I can't talk.
00:00:56
Speaker 1: You say cinnamon, I say cinnamon. I can't talk, I don't pinnotography.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was more like there was value. I was trying to say, there was value in watching them. They're not necessarily box office successes or like I have to go see this movie in the theater kind of films. These are more ones that have value, right, or some sort of contribution to the arts, and so they're not necessarily movies that people are clamoring to go see.
00:01:25
Speaker 1: Some of these, right, they expanded it to ten several years ago, but some of these did have box office success overwhelmingly. To your point, no, they did not, because most people when they see the run times, frankly, it's not attractive some of the run times. But also who has that kind of time.
00:01:43
Speaker 2: It's a huge investment and you have to really be Look, there are folks who get excited every year, for your consideration, want to go watch all of the movies. And I will say it absolutely makes watching the Oscar so much more fun when you see the movie. When you've seen the movies, even if you didn't like it, or you're rooting for it or you're rooting against it, but you have skin in the game, so to speak, because you're invested because you watched it and you took the time to see if it was good or not or what you thought about.
00:02:12
Speaker 1: Is that the argument for so many years, the why the ratings were down was because so many movies nominated were not fan favorite.
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Speaker 2: Movies, without a doubt. Without it, people are like, what movie, huh, when was that in theaters. I mean every year I do that too. I'm like, when did that come out? Even if they have big name actors or actresses, if the subject matter feels heavy, which oftentimes best picture subject matter is heavy, This year is no exception. It just feels like more of a duty rather than a pleasure to go see. You kind of have to get in the right headspace to see some of these films, and that's a lot for many folks especially, I would say in these times where things are already heavy, you already have We're in the middle of a war, we have so much political strife and discord, So why go to a theater to continue that theme? I mean, I do think that is why people get turned off from seeing some of these epic films.
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Speaker 1: And epic is because what qualifies as epic? What long? How long do you have to go past two hours or two and a half hours before it's considered an effort or does it needs to be three? Because this ain't Lawrence of Arabia, that's not going with the wind. They're not knocking on the door of those times.
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Speaker 2: No. But for me, anything over two hours you have to prove to me why it's worth my time.
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Speaker 1: Okay, then there is only two out of the ten movies that come in under two hours.
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Speaker 2: And one of them is at one hour and fifty eight minutes.
00:03:42
Speaker 1: So what are you trying to say? They're all except for one. We got one movie essentially that clocks in under two hours.
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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, and it took us the longest to watch, So that is a true true story. Okay, So the shortest movie of the ten, nominated for Best Picture, took us the longest to.
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Speaker 1: Watch because we had some of these obviously we streamed most of Okay, we should say that off the jump out of the ten movies, only one did we go to the theater to see.
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Speaker 2: That's true, and I think everyone can guess if you are a fan of this this podcast, you know we're massive horror movie fans, so you can imagine. The only movie we actually were excited about seeing and went to the theaters to go see was Sinners. Sinners.
00:04:26
Speaker 1: But the rest on the list we never I think, gave a moment thought to going through a theater.
00:04:31
Speaker 2: To take issue with that, we actually saw Bogonia before we ever even considered doing this episode or seeing Oscar movies. We actually thought it wasn't the theater, I said theater. Oh, oh, I meant just choosing to watch on our own time.
00:04:44
Speaker 1: I said theater. Ten movies. None of these crossed our mind when they came out, they go, hey, let's go to the theater this weekend. Sinners was the only one yes to your point about horror movies for us. But this is a Michael B. We love Michael B. We love Ryan Cooklan, we love this cag we love Dale Roy Lindo. It was something in there for us. It was an automatic. It was no dire, There was nothing robes. We never got close in discussion on any of these other movies. Hey, you want to go see it this weekend.
00:05:13
Speaker 2: I thought about Frankenstein.
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Speaker 1: You didn't talk. Wait, that was Netflix. It didn't have a theatrical release.
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Speaker 2: Did I thought it did. Oh, I thought it did have a theat a short one.
00:05:22
Speaker 1: And then they put yes, but no, we didn't connect.
00:05:24
Speaker 2: This was probably something else. I considered it, and then I saw the run time. And this is another full disclosure moment. We really prefer movies at an hour thirty or less. And I think movie fans and maybe also we're a product of the times where we're just we have shorter attention spans. And you know, I hate to bring Timothy Shallomes misstep into this, but that is the truth. We've all kind of become conditioned to give it to me. Quickly, tell me what I need to see to be entertained, and then I'm done.
00:05:53
Speaker 1: Are we like that?
00:05:54
Speaker 2: I think so I am, and I think we're becoming more and more like that given the way we consume entertainment or any kind of media.
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Speaker 1: All right, so let's tell you what we're doing with ten movies here. I'm really curious how many ask yourselves, how many of these ten have you seen? That's one question? And how many of the ten did you see because you had a desire, like you were really curious about that movie or really interested in that movie? Yeah? I was curious about some. But here are your run times for your Best Picture nominees. The longest one was this a tie at the top.
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Speaker 2: It's a tie at the top.
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Speaker 1: For the longest two one bat laughed, another and the Secret Agent.
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Speaker 2: Both of them coming in at two hours and forty one minutes. This was shocking to me. The run time. The next longest movie was f One, the movie with Brad Pitt two hours and thirty five minutes, So a movie about fast cars took a long time to tell.
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Speaker 1: I kind of have to say it did move. Now, that is one that didn't feel like some of these that were shorter than that felt longer. That is true, that would move a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Mart two hours and twenty nine minutes. Tied with Frankenstein at two hours and twenty nine minutes.
00:07:06
Speaker 1: That one dragged for me. Both of those movies dragged for me, all right. Centers of course it shot through two hours and seventeen minutes. Love that had music in there that really helped and added sentimental value two hours and thirteen minutes. This one is this the one. It took us a while to watch. This one too, didn't.
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Speaker 2: It took us a while to watch this one. But the I will say, the one that took us the longest was the shortest. We'll get to that. But yeah, sentimental value, it's it's just heavy, phenomenally acted but very heavy subject material. And speaking of that, coming in next at Hamnet at two hours and five minutes felt like four hours.
00:07:45
Speaker 1: Yes it did, and we'll get into that in a second. Bagonia hour fifty eight like you just said, but just still right at that two hour mark. And then train dreams as dreams right, I wrote dream? Oh, trained dreams or dream much?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Actually that's the funny. Is it plural?
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Speaker 1: That's how much we ran through the movie, Folks. We don't even know if it was a singular or plural when it comes to yeah, with an s. This took us a while. This was a heavy and a beautiful picture in a lot of ways, but it was heavy. We want to tell you all we're talking about this now. This is kind of our introductory episode. We are going to do minisodes on each one of these movies. We'll let you know what we thought about them. We'll let you know what it took to watch them, how we felt going into it, coming out of it, and what we think about their Oscar chances. We're gonna also it'll be a little cliff notes version if you haven't seen, we'll get you caught up enough that if you're watching the Oscars Sunday night, you'll go, oh, okay. At least Amy and TJ got me somewhat up to speed on this movie.
00:08:39
Speaker 2: It's cliff notes. I mean, how many times in college were you maybe like not tending all your classes, you could buy some cliff notes, get some from some friends. That's exactly what this is going to be. Today and tomorrow. We'll get you caught up so that when the Oscars actually begins on Sunday evening, you'll feel like you have a good idea of where each movie stands.
00:09:01
Speaker 1: All right, So the so these ten before we get into them individually and those minishodes, we wanted to get on and let you know what we're doing, but also just a collective and roades. I think it's no question when you think about the crop of Oscar movies, the thing that absolutely stands out, and we were asking beforehand take centers out of it. The movies. Quite frankly, it didn't for us. They didn't feel entertaining, they didn't feel fun. They did and again movies don't have to, but they were. So you just used the word I'm saying weighty and heavy. You just use something else, another word before we started that really gets to it. They're just a load.
00:09:42
Speaker 2: Baby, yeah, And so you kind of have to be in the right headspace to appreciate these movies, and they are worth appreciating. But it's one. I was saying that, given the times we're in, sometimes I think it's hard to go in knowing it already feels heavy, and then you walk into something that's even heavier. It's it's, it's and not everyone is like us. But when I when I watch a movie, I tend to prefer either laughing, jumping, just feeling something that is either thrilling or exciting or uplifting or funny. It's it's hard for me to go into something knowing I'm about to get weighed down.
00:10:24
Speaker 1: I did know that about some of these movies, and some of them are so heavy to the point that you again my feeling, I'm not turned off by a drama or or heavy themes ropes, and you know what, maybe I should include this part. We watch these in a two week stretch.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, about two weeks, okay, and we.
00:10:43
Speaker 1: Were watching something every night, and some of these took us several nights to get through. But it maybe that added to it.
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Speaker 2: It was like homework.
00:10:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I felt like we were getting beat down like h again. And these performances are now, there are some performances in here you definitely need to check out.
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Speaker 2: They're worth watching. And I will say in several of these movies, I was brought to tears, like absolutely brought to tears, felt tremendous emotion, and connected to the storylines, the characters, all of that, and that is what artists about. It isn't just about having fun or smiling or laughing. I get it. It makes you feel things, and when you feel things, you're connected. And I do think that's important and I understand all of that. It's just sometimes these movies are are intense at a time when maybe you're not wanting to feel intensity.
00:11:29
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the word. Before we started the episode, Babe, you used a word that was perfect. I'm trying to think of what it was. It was the exact thing for how these movies make you feel. As a collective, you use something perfect. I'll try to keep thinking of it. But that is, Folks, as you go into these, I don't know which one I would recommend. I would say we I think we said the most entertaining of them. Yes, Centers is awesome and entertained, but still it was violent and it had heavier thing. We weren't laughing through that at all. But the one movie that I am surprised made The Oscar List is probably the one that is the most fun or entertaining, if you will f one.
00:12:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I actually was. We were both looking at each other saying how and no offense to the artists and anyone who put this movie together. We were kind of like, how is this like the others? It just it stands out out to all the other movies that were nominated for Best Picture. It's a fun movie. It's a thrilling, exciting, well acted movie. But I just wouldn't have ever considered it for Best Picture.
00:12:41
Speaker 1: I had all didn't top Gun, the last one didn't get to you know what?
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Speaker 2: This Could it be the Academy's way of giving a nod to box office successes.
00:12:52
Speaker 1: Yes, that's what they said. They added this. They started they used to just be five.
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Speaker 2: You remember that, and maybe we should go back.
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Speaker 1: Okay, how about that? You know what, I'm gonna say that till after the break, if we had to just do five, we didn't plan on doing this. I'll have that on the back of your mind, Rode, if we had to just do five, what your five, okay would be? We will get into that. Also coming up, we're talking about just how long these movies are. I assure you they are not even close to being as long as some of the longest Oscar winning movies in history. Stay here, all right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. You got your five.
00:13:41
Speaker 2: I was gonna do it on the fly.
00:13:42
Speaker 1: On the fly. Okay, out of the there are ten Best Picture nominees. They used to several, maybe a decade ago. Even they only used to be five. So if you had to pick five robes, what would the five Best Picture nominees be?
00:13:58
Speaker 2: Okay, mine would be Sinners of course, with you there, Frankenstein, Sentimental Value.
00:14:12
Speaker 1: Okay, that's four.
00:14:14
Speaker 2: That's four, and then my fifth one would be Secret Agent.
00:14:20
Speaker 1: Why I liked it.
00:14:22
Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting, it was unique. I thought Emma I thought I thought it was Emma Stone. I thought it was well acted and creative, and I was intrigued the whole time. I was. I was interested to figure out what the hell was going on.
00:14:38
Speaker 1: Jesse, I can't remember it almost always we'll get into that, right. And he never looks the same in any.
00:14:47
Speaker 2: He's lost so much weight.
00:14:49
Speaker 1: I am with you. I think maybe not Bogonia for me? Okay, my list would include yes, Sinners were on the same page. Sentimental value for sure for me, one battle after another, the Secret Agent, and what's left maybe I don't know. I'm stuck on the last one. Maybe Bogonia, maybe Frankenstein. You know what. Forget both of that. Put in Train Dreams. Train Dreams interesting not because of my interest to how much I loved it, but Rose that was a beautiful It was a beautiful movie. It was a heavy movie, but it was deep and it was probing. And Joel Edgerton, who I don't think is nominated, was great. I always loved to watch him.
00:15:33
Speaker 2: He was so good he was not nominated. And to follow up on your last question, Jesse Plemmons also was notably snubbed for an Oscar nomination in Bogonia, which is really interesting. He got a Golden Globe nomination and an Actor Award nomination, which is the SAG formerly known as the SAG Awards, but he was snubbed for the Oscars.
00:15:57
Speaker 1: Or five again. So I got Trained Dreams, Secret Aids, one Battle after another, Sinners and sentimental value.
00:16:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, mine were Sinners, Frankenstein, Bogonia, sentimental value and Secret Agent.
00:16:15
Speaker 1: We agreed in two or three out of two just sinners in the Secret Agent. That's a little surprising sentimental value.
00:16:22
Speaker 2: It's weird crying. I was so moved.
00:16:24
Speaker 1: It might be the one. It might be my it's my number one acting recommendation. You've got to see these people acting this movie.
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Speaker 2: And look, two of these movies are completely subtitled. I mean there was a little bit because l Fanning was in sentimental value, so there was a little bit of English in there, and she was great. The acting, Oh my god, Stelen scars Guard and I can't remember the female, the main females.
00:16:51
Speaker 1: They have three women nominated in acting categories understandable, one for lead and two for supporting. Correct. This movie is a little bit deserve. Do you know people say, well, actors, this is not hard, and they don't this. You appreciate the art when you see these people perform. Wrote this other level.
00:17:08
Speaker 2: And the complicated relationships between fathers and daughters. Like I was just moved. I was crying, I'm with.
00:17:15
Speaker 1: You, I'm with you. That's other level stuff. Well, so got senators, we understand why Frankenstein for you.
00:17:22
Speaker 2: I just thought it was beautiful and epic and sweeping, and Germo del Toro is just he knows what he's doing, and it's just it was just wonderfully acted and just I love the mood and the feel of it. I love the story Mary Shelley's sprink is sign Truth. That was my senior play. I was Elizabeth soon to be von Frankenstein, so I don't know. I felt a connection to the movie too. I loved it.
00:17:49
Speaker 1: One Battle after Another is not on your list, It's.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I had high expectations, and maybe that's why I think so much of this is when you go into watching a movie, you think you're gonna like it. For me, that was Marty Supreme as well. I had an expectation and then the reality fell short of it, and then I just for me, I didn't put it on my top five.
00:18:08
Speaker 1: That was one. I think we'll talk about this in the episode that we are specific about. One Battle after Another that was one robes that I just felt like I needed to appreciate and recognize the type of movie making and storytelling and acting that was throughout. Sean Penn.
00:18:25
Speaker 2: He was incredible.
00:18:25
Speaker 1: Okay, he makes you stop and pay attention to his performance, his look, everything about him agreed, and this movie was something else. But we talked about how long these movies are Robes. They're not even close to the longest Going with the Wind. There's some debate about if it's the longest because it has an intermission and all this stuff, but it is considered the longest that's out there. Did it feel that long to you? Do you like Going with the Wind.
00:18:47
Speaker 2: It's been a while since I've seen it, but I think I've seen it two or three times, and yes, I enjoyed it. I did. It's it's a phenomenal movie.
00:18:56
Speaker 1: Three hours fifty minutes, three hours.
00:18:58
Speaker 2: And I didn't realize minutes.
00:19:01
Speaker 1: Lawrence of Arabia three hours forty minutes, Been Her three hours thirty it's one of your favorites.
00:19:06
Speaker 2: One of your favorites.
00:19:08
Speaker 1: I thought, ben Her was take amendments.
00:19:10
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, they're interchangeable.
00:19:13
Speaker 1: To me, there's long movies with all white dudes in them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, doesn't he like ben Her? No techment?
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Speaker 1: Sorry, Rock three hours and thirty two and then Lord of the Rings Return of the King three hours and twenty one minutes. So these aren't knocking on the door of those necessarily, but right it's all it's a commitment if you're going to sit down and watch a two hour and forty one minute movie that's subtitled.
00:19:36
Speaker 2: That's tough, that is that can be to be wide awake with a coffee in yourself.
00:19:41
Speaker 1: All right, folks, look for these. We're gonna start posting these immediately. We're going to do five movies today, five movies tomorrow. Again, separate little minisods with your cliff notes and our opinions about these movies, what their chances are, if we like them, if we love them, if we hate them, if we think you should watch, and why. All of that coming your way, so you can look for that. But for now, we always appreciate you spending some time with us on this Oscars weekend. I am T J. Holmes for my dear Amy Robot. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Saturday, March fourteenth, It is Oscars weekend. And if you have not watched all of the Best Picture nominees, you still got time, but you ain't got much because it will take you twenty three hours and ten minutes to watch all of them. Don't want to do it. Me and Robes we did it for you. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. That is true. One caveat we'll add later, but we had to make the effort. Robes, Oscars is coming. We said, oh crap, we've only seen a couple of these movies. Isn't that what everybody does every year? Owne?
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Speaker 2: I feel like that is almost every year because so often. Look, these are films that are being acclaimed and accredited for having incredible cinnamon, Like I can't talk.
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Speaker 1: You say cinnamon, I say cinnamon. I can't talk, I don't pinnotography.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was more like there was value. I was trying to say, there was value in watching them. They're not necessarily box office successes or like I have to go see this movie in the theater kind of films. These are more ones that have value, right, or some sort of contribution to the arts, and so they're not necessarily movies that people are clamoring to go see.
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Speaker 1: Some of these, right, they expanded it to ten several years ago, but some of these did have box office success overwhelmingly. To your point, no, they did not, because most people when they see the run times, frankly, it's not attractive some of the run times. But also who has that kind of time.
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Speaker 2: It's a huge investment and you have to really be Look, there are folks who get excited every year, for your consideration, want to go watch all of the movies. And I will say it absolutely makes watching the Oscar so much more fun when you see the movie. When you've seen the movies, even if you didn't like it, or you're rooting for it or you're rooting against it, but you have skin in the game, so to speak, because you're invested because you watched it and you took the time to see if it was good or not or what you thought about.
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Speaker 1: Is that the argument for so many years, the why the ratings were down was because so many movies nominated were not fan favorite.
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Speaker 2: Movies, without a doubt. Without it, people are like, what movie, huh, when was that in theaters. I mean every year I do that too. I'm like, when did that come out? Even if they have big name actors or actresses, if the subject matter feels heavy, which oftentimes best picture subject matter is heavy, This year is no exception. It just feels like more of a duty rather than a pleasure to go see. You kind of have to get in the right headspace to see some of these films, and that's a lot for many folks especially, I would say in these times where things are already heavy, you already have We're in the middle of a war, we have so much political strife and discord, So why go to a theater to continue that theme? I mean, I do think that is why people get turned off from seeing some of these epic films.
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Speaker 1: And epic is because what qualifies as epic? What long? How long do you have to go past two hours or two and a half hours before it's considered an effort or does it needs to be three? Because this ain't Lawrence of Arabia, that's not going with the wind. They're not knocking on the door of those times.
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Speaker 2: No. But for me, anything over two hours you have to prove to me why it's worth my time.
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Speaker 1: Okay, then there is only two out of the ten movies that come in under two hours.
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Speaker 2: And one of them is at one hour and fifty eight minutes.
00:03:42
Speaker 1: So what are you trying to say? They're all except for one. We got one movie essentially that clocks in under two hours.
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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, and it took us the longest to watch, So that is a true true story. Okay, So the shortest movie of the ten, nominated for Best Picture, took us the longest to.
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Speaker 1: Watch because we had some of these obviously we streamed most of Okay, we should say that off the jump out of the ten movies, only one did we go to the theater to see.
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Speaker 2: That's true, and I think everyone can guess if you are a fan of this this podcast, you know we're massive horror movie fans, so you can imagine. The only movie we actually were excited about seeing and went to the theaters to go see was Sinners. Sinners.
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Speaker 1: But the rest on the list we never I think, gave a moment thought to going through a theater.
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Speaker 2: To take issue with that, we actually saw Bogonia before we ever even considered doing this episode or seeing Oscar movies. We actually thought it wasn't the theater, I said theater. Oh, oh, I meant just choosing to watch on our own time.
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Speaker 1: I said theater. Ten movies. None of these crossed our mind when they came out, they go, hey, let's go to the theater this weekend. Sinners was the only one yes to your point about horror movies for us. But this is a Michael B. We love Michael B. We love Ryan Cooklan, we love this cag we love Dale Roy Lindo. It was something in there for us. It was an automatic. It was no dire, There was nothing robes. We never got close in discussion on any of these other movies. Hey, you want to go see it this weekend.
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Speaker 2: I thought about Frankenstein.
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Speaker 1: You didn't talk. Wait, that was Netflix. It didn't have a theatrical release.
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Speaker 2: Did I thought it did. Oh, I thought it did have a theat a short one.
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Speaker 1: And then they put yes, but no, we didn't connect.
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Speaker 2: This was probably something else. I considered it, and then I saw the run time. And this is another full disclosure moment. We really prefer movies at an hour thirty or less. And I think movie fans and maybe also we're a product of the times where we're just we have shorter attention spans. And you know, I hate to bring Timothy Shallomes misstep into this, but that is the truth. We've all kind of become conditioned to give it to me. Quickly, tell me what I need to see to be entertained, and then I'm done.
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Speaker 1: Are we like that?
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Speaker 2: I think so I am, and I think we're becoming more and more like that given the way we consume entertainment or any kind of media.
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Speaker 1: All right, so let's tell you what we're doing with ten movies here. I'm really curious how many ask yourselves, how many of these ten have you seen? That's one question? And how many of the ten did you see because you had a desire, like you were really curious about that movie or really interested in that movie? Yeah? I was curious about some. But here are your run times for your Best Picture nominees. The longest one was this a tie at the top.
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Speaker 2: It's a tie at the top.
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Speaker 1: For the longest two one bat laughed, another and the Secret Agent.
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Speaker 2: Both of them coming in at two hours and forty one minutes. This was shocking to me. The run time. The next longest movie was f One, the movie with Brad Pitt two hours and thirty five minutes, So a movie about fast cars took a long time to tell.
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Speaker 1: I kind of have to say it did move. Now, that is one that didn't feel like some of these that were shorter than that felt longer. That is true, that would move a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Mart two hours and twenty nine minutes. Tied with Frankenstein at two hours and twenty nine minutes.
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Speaker 1: That one dragged for me. Both of those movies dragged for me, all right. Centers of course it shot through two hours and seventeen minutes. Love that had music in there that really helped and added sentimental value two hours and thirteen minutes. This one is this the one. It took us a while to watch. This one too, didn't.
00:07:22
Speaker 2: It took us a while to watch this one. But the I will say, the one that took us the longest was the shortest. We'll get to that. But yeah, sentimental value, it's it's just heavy, phenomenally acted but very heavy subject material. And speaking of that, coming in next at Hamnet at two hours and five minutes felt like four hours.
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Speaker 1: Yes it did, and we'll get into that in a second. Bagonia hour fifty eight like you just said, but just still right at that two hour mark. And then train dreams as dreams right, I wrote dream? Oh, trained dreams or dream much?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Actually that's the funny. Is it plural?
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Speaker 1: That's how much we ran through the movie, Folks. We don't even know if it was a singular or plural when it comes to yeah, with an s. This took us a while. This was a heavy and a beautiful picture in a lot of ways, but it was heavy. We want to tell you all we're talking about this now. This is kind of our introductory episode. We are going to do minisodes on each one of these movies. We'll let you know what we thought about them. We'll let you know what it took to watch them, how we felt going into it, coming out of it, and what we think about their Oscar chances. We're gonna also it'll be a little cliff notes version if you haven't seen, we'll get you caught up enough that if you're watching the Oscars Sunday night, you'll go, oh, okay. At least Amy and TJ got me somewhat up to speed on this movie.
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Speaker 2: It's cliff notes. I mean, how many times in college were you maybe like not tending all your classes, you could buy some cliff notes, get some from some friends. That's exactly what this is going to be. Today and tomorrow. We'll get you caught up so that when the Oscars actually begins on Sunday evening, you'll feel like you have a good idea of where each movie stands.
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Speaker 1: All right, So the so these ten before we get into them individually and those minishodes, we wanted to get on and let you know what we're doing, but also just a collective and roades. I think it's no question when you think about the crop of Oscar movies, the thing that absolutely stands out, and we were asking beforehand take centers out of it. The movies. Quite frankly, it didn't for us. They didn't feel entertaining, they didn't feel fun. They did and again movies don't have to, but they were. So you just used the word I'm saying weighty and heavy. You just use something else, another word before we started that really gets to it. They're just a load.
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Speaker 2: Baby, yeah, And so you kind of have to be in the right headspace to appreciate these movies, and they are worth appreciating. But it's one. I was saying that, given the times we're in, sometimes I think it's hard to go in knowing it already feels heavy, and then you walk into something that's even heavier. It's it's, it's and not everyone is like us. But when I when I watch a movie, I tend to prefer either laughing, jumping, just feeling something that is either thrilling or exciting or uplifting or funny. It's it's hard for me to go into something knowing I'm about to get weighed down.
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Speaker 1: I did know that about some of these movies, and some of them are so heavy to the point that you again my feeling, I'm not turned off by a drama or or heavy themes ropes, and you know what, maybe I should include this part. We watch these in a two week stretch.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, about two weeks, okay, and we.
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Speaker 1: Were watching something every night, and some of these took us several nights to get through. But it maybe that added to it.
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Speaker 2: It was like homework.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I felt like we were getting beat down like h again. And these performances are now, there are some performances in here you definitely need to check out.
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Speaker 2: They're worth watching. And I will say in several of these movies, I was brought to tears, like absolutely brought to tears, felt tremendous emotion, and connected to the storylines, the characters, all of that, and that is what artists about. It isn't just about having fun or smiling or laughing. I get it. It makes you feel things, and when you feel things, you're connected. And I do think that's important and I understand all of that. It's just sometimes these movies are are intense at a time when maybe you're not wanting to feel intensity.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the word. Before we started the episode, Babe, you used a word that was perfect. I'm trying to think of what it was. It was the exact thing for how these movies make you feel. As a collective, you use something perfect. I'll try to keep thinking of it. But that is, Folks, as you go into these, I don't know which one I would recommend. I would say we I think we said the most entertaining of them. Yes, Centers is awesome and entertained, but still it was violent and it had heavier thing. We weren't laughing through that at all. But the one movie that I am surprised made The Oscar List is probably the one that is the most fun or entertaining, if you will f one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I actually was. We were both looking at each other saying how and no offense to the artists and anyone who put this movie together. We were kind of like, how is this like the others? It just it stands out out to all the other movies that were nominated for Best Picture. It's a fun movie. It's a thrilling, exciting, well acted movie. But I just wouldn't have ever considered it for Best Picture.
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Speaker 1: I had all didn't top Gun, the last one didn't get to you know what?
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Speaker 2: This Could it be the Academy's way of giving a nod to box office successes.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that's what they said. They added this. They started they used to just be five.
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Speaker 2: You remember that, and maybe we should go back.
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Speaker 1: Okay, how about that? You know what, I'm gonna say that till after the break, if we had to just do five, we didn't plan on doing this. I'll have that on the back of your mind, Rode, if we had to just do five, what your five, okay would be? We will get into that. Also coming up, we're talking about just how long these movies are. I assure you they are not even close to being as long as some of the longest Oscar winning movies in history. Stay here, all right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. You got your five.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna do it on the fly.
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Speaker 1: On the fly. Okay, out of the there are ten Best Picture nominees. They used to several, maybe a decade ago. Even they only used to be five. So if you had to pick five robes, what would the five Best Picture nominees be?
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Speaker 2: Okay, mine would be Sinners of course, with you there, Frankenstein, Sentimental Value.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's four.
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Speaker 2: That's four, and then my fifth one would be Secret Agent.
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Speaker 1: Why I liked it.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting, it was unique. I thought Emma I thought I thought it was Emma Stone. I thought it was well acted and creative, and I was intrigued the whole time. I was. I was interested to figure out what the hell was going on.
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Speaker 1: Jesse, I can't remember it almost always we'll get into that, right. And he never looks the same in any.
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Speaker 2: He's lost so much weight.
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Speaker 1: I am with you. I think maybe not Bogonia for me? Okay, my list would include yes, Sinners were on the same page. Sentimental value for sure for me, one battle after another, the Secret Agent, and what's left maybe I don't know. I'm stuck on the last one. Maybe Bogonia, maybe Frankenstein. You know what. Forget both of that. Put in Train Dreams. Train Dreams interesting not because of my interest to how much I loved it, but Rose that was a beautiful It was a beautiful movie. It was a heavy movie, but it was deep and it was probing. And Joel Edgerton, who I don't think is nominated, was great. I always loved to watch him.
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Speaker 2: He was so good he was not nominated. And to follow up on your last question, Jesse Plemmons also was notably snubbed for an Oscar nomination in Bogonia, which is really interesting. He got a Golden Globe nomination and an Actor Award nomination, which is the SAG formerly known as the SAG Awards, but he was snubbed for the Oscars.
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Speaker 1: Or five again. So I got Trained Dreams, Secret Aids, one Battle after another, Sinners and sentimental value.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, mine were Sinners, Frankenstein, Bogonia, sentimental value and Secret Agent.
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Speaker 1: We agreed in two or three out of two just sinners in the Secret Agent. That's a little surprising sentimental value.
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Speaker 2: It's weird crying. I was so moved.
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Speaker 1: It might be the one. It might be my it's my number one acting recommendation. You've got to see these people acting this movie.
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Speaker 2: And look, two of these movies are completely subtitled. I mean there was a little bit because l Fanning was in sentimental value, so there was a little bit of English in there, and she was great. The acting, Oh my god, Stelen scars Guard and I can't remember the female, the main females.
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Speaker 1: They have three women nominated in acting categories understandable, one for lead and two for supporting. Correct. This movie is a little bit deserve. Do you know people say, well, actors, this is not hard, and they don't this. You appreciate the art when you see these people perform. Wrote this other level.
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Speaker 2: And the complicated relationships between fathers and daughters. Like I was just moved. I was crying, I'm with.
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Speaker 1: You, I'm with you. That's other level stuff. Well, so got senators, we understand why Frankenstein for you.
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Speaker 2: I just thought it was beautiful and epic and sweeping, and Germo del Toro is just he knows what he's doing, and it's just it was just wonderfully acted and just I love the mood and the feel of it. I love the story Mary Shelley's sprink is sign Truth. That was my senior play. I was Elizabeth soon to be von Frankenstein, so I don't know. I felt a connection to the movie too. I loved it.
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Speaker 1: One Battle after Another is not on your list, It's.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I had high expectations, and maybe that's why I think so much of this is when you go into watching a movie, you think you're gonna like it. For me, that was Marty Supreme as well. I had an expectation and then the reality fell short of it, and then I just for me, I didn't put it on my top five.
00:18:08
Speaker 1: That was one. I think we'll talk about this in the episode that we are specific about. One Battle after Another that was one robes that I just felt like I needed to appreciate and recognize the type of movie making and storytelling and acting that was throughout. Sean Penn.
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Speaker 2: He was incredible.
00:18:25
Speaker 1: Okay, he makes you stop and pay attention to his performance, his look, everything about him agreed, and this movie was something else. But we talked about how long these movies are Robes. They're not even close to the longest Going with the Wind. There's some debate about if it's the longest because it has an intermission and all this stuff, but it is considered the longest that's out there. Did it feel that long to you? Do you like Going with the Wind.
00:18:47
Speaker 2: It's been a while since I've seen it, but I think I've seen it two or three times, and yes, I enjoyed it. I did. It's it's a phenomenal movie.
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Speaker 1: Three hours fifty minutes, three hours.
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Speaker 2: And I didn't realize minutes.
00:19:01
Speaker 1: Lawrence of Arabia three hours forty minutes, Been Her three hours thirty it's one of your favorites.
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Speaker 2: One of your favorites.
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Speaker 1: I thought, ben Her was take amendments.
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Speaker 2: Oh sorry, they're interchangeable.
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Speaker 1: To me, there's long movies with all white dudes in them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, doesn't he like ben Her? No techment?
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Speaker 1: Sorry, Rock three hours and thirty two and then Lord of the Rings Return of the King three hours and twenty one minutes. So these aren't knocking on the door of those necessarily, but right it's all it's a commitment if you're going to sit down and watch a two hour and forty one minute movie that's subtitled.
00:19:36
Speaker 2: That's tough, that is that can be to be wide awake with a coffee in yourself.
00:19:41
Speaker 1: All right, folks, look for these. We're gonna start posting these immediately. We're going to do five movies today, five movies tomorrow. Again, separate little minisods with your cliff notes and our opinions about these movies, what their chances are, if we like them, if we love them, if we hate them, if we think you should watch, and why. All of that coming your way, so you can look for that. But for now, we always appreciate you spending some time with us on this Oscars weekend. I am T J. Holmes for my dear Amy Robot. We'll talk to you soon.