Have you ever walked out of a movie theater feeling like you've just lived a hundred lives in two hours? Get ready for that sensation multiplied as Katy, Juddy, and I, Natey, unpack the emotional rollercoasters and cinematic masterpieces contending for this year's Best Picture. Our lively discussion begins with a heartfelt look at "The Holdovers," a film that resonates deeply with our own experiences and draws out the beauty of authentic storytelling. We don't hold back on our varied reactions to "Anatomy of a Fall" and the puzzling absence of a nomination for its young star.
Movie lengths can be a deal-breaker, can't they? This episode zeroes in on the narrative behemoths like "Killers of the Flower Moon," sparking a friendly debate over its suitability for the silver screen versus a mini-series adaptation. We also dissect the historical intrigue of dramas that send us down the rabbit hole of real-life events, before shifting to the unexpectedly delightful "Barbie" and its divisive reception. Plus, don't miss our in-depth take on "Oppenheimer," a riveting epic that manages time as well as it does atomic particles.
As the golden statues loom on the horizon, we share our personal Oscar predictions and the contenders we believe will dazzle the academy. Will "Oppenheimer" detonate the competition, or is there an underdog poised for an upset? Katy, Juddy, and I bring our unique perspectives to the fore, culminating in a heartfelt acknowledgment of the films that left their mark on us—and those that fell short. So, grab your popcorn (quietly, if you're watching "The Zone of Interests") and join us as we cast our votes in this cinematic celebration.
Have you ever walked out of a movie theater feeling like you've just lived a hundred lives in two hours? Get ready for that sensation multiplied as Katy, Juddy, and I, Natey, unpack the emotional rollercoasters and cinematic masterpieces contending for this year's Best Picture. Our lively discussion begins with a heartfelt look at "The Holdovers," a film that resonates deeply with our own experiences and draws out the beauty of authentic storytelling. We don't hold back on our varied reactions to "Anatomy of a Fall" and the puzzling absence of a nomination for its young star.
Movie lengths can be a deal-breaker, can't they? This episode zeroes in on the narrative behemoths like "Killers of the Flower Moon," sparking a friendly debate over its suitability for the silver screen versus a mini-series adaptation. We also dissect the historical intrigue of dramas that send us down the rabbit hole of real-life events, before shifting to the unexpectedly delightful "Barbie" and its divisive reception. Plus, don't miss our in-depth take on "Oppenheimer," a riveting epic that manages time as well as it does atomic particles.
As the golden statues loom on the horizon, we share our personal Oscar predictions and the contenders we believe will dazzle the academy. Will "Oppenheimer" detonate the competition, or is there an underdog poised for an upset? Katy, Juddy, and I bring our unique perspectives to the fore, culminating in a heartfelt acknowledgment of the films that left their mark on us—and those that fell short. So, grab your popcorn (quietly, if you're watching "The Zone of Interests") and join us as we cast our votes in this cinematic celebration.
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Speaker 2:I'll try your luck. You may be Donald Duck. Hooray for Hollywood. Hooray for Hollywood. Hello everyone, and welcome to the special Oscar Prediction episode of Nady and Katie at the Movies. I'm your host, nathan aka Nady, of course, and on this super awesome Oscar Prediction episode, I have not just one, but two co-hosts. You've heard them before it's my good friend Katie and my good friend Judi. What's up, katie?
Speaker 3:Oh, I'm excited. I got to chat with Judi last episode, so I'm pumped to hear his thoughts on the Oscar nominees.
Speaker 1:What's up, Judi? Hey friends, I love movies and I love talking about movies, and so this is the perfect storm.
Speaker 2:Let's get her going, yes let's just get right into it. This is going to be a super packed episode, so let's just get started. The Oscar-nominated movies for Best Picture are the Holdovers, anatomy of a Fall Oppenheimer, killers of the Flower Moon, barbie, american Fiction, the Zone of Interest, maestro and Past Lives, and I named them in a certain order because that is my favorite to least favorite Oscar-nominated movie. So that means my favorite is the Holdovers, which if you've watched any of our quick reactions of any of these movies on our TikTok then you already knew that. And my least favorite and Judson's really going to hate me is Past Lives, because I thought it was boring.
Speaker 3:So let's get Nathan. That's hilarious because I just read an article about someone who said Past Lives was their favorite. That's like the reverse of what they're ranking was.
Speaker 2:Well, we can't all be right, so let's get right into each movie. So what we're going to do is we're going to say a movie and we're all going to go around and say what our favorite part and what our least favorite part of those movies are. Some of these movies I know Judson and Katie have not seen. I'm the only one who has seen every single one, because I am 100% dedicated to our fans. So let's go right to my favorite movie, and that is the Holdovers. So the main reason I like this movie and I'm just going to go ahead and say I think this movie needs to win Best Picture it's because this is the only movie to me.
Speaker 2:That was just a good movie. It just told a good story. It had great performances in it. Of course, it was a story that we've all heard before, but it was just very well done. It had no agenda to it. It did not have any check the box moments to it. It was just a good movie. Now, the only thing I didn't like about it was that they introduced a love interest randomly and didn't do anything with it. So that was my only hang up about this movie. So, katie, have you watched the Holdovers and if you have what was your best and least favorite part of this movie.
Speaker 3:Well, nathan, I watched it because you said it was your favorite, so I knew it needed to be on my list. I would agree with you that it was one of those movies that's just like a feel good. It's just a nice, like feel good movie. You and I are both teachers by trade, so I think there's another piece of that that just feels so relevant and feels so I feel so connected to that experience. It's literally watching a movie about what I would imagine my best case scenario just like an adult impacting and helping a child move through maturation and also understanding like I can mature too while I help these students learn. I love the movie. It was almost like if similar to that French film we watched. Honestly, were you watching like a coming of age, for both an adult man and also a high school student. So I loved it as well. It wasn't necessarily like I wasn't cracking up laughing, I wasn't crying, but it was a feel good movie.
Speaker 2:I liked it? And, jensen, what did you think of the Holdovers?
Speaker 1:So I have my list and out of the 10 movies I did not place, and out of May, the fall, the only one that I'm missing, so I currently have nine, and Holdovers is number six on my list. I think this is a really good movie. I really really enjoyed it. I had a really, really good time with it. For me personally, I you know you can, I could see the ending a mile away.
Speaker 1:You know what's coming, you know you know most of the beats and it had really sweet, sweet, great moments and fantastic performances by Paul G Umadi and I'm I can't remember the kid actor's name, but fantastic. I also love the tone and you know they're going for that kind of retro cinematography and editing and stuff and it was wonderful and beautiful. But I've seen it before and it didn't really like strike that chord with me that like this is breaking new boundaries and this is telling me something different. It's great, I had a great time with it, but I've seen it before and it's not going to like stick with me longer than some of the other titles on here. So Okay.
Speaker 2:Well, like I said before, it's okay to be right and it's okay in your case to be wrong. So, moving on to my number two favorite best picture is anatomy of a fall. I was actually surprised that I put this as my number two because I remember talking about it and I've said it really could have been a French miniseries. But I will say I enjoy the performances. I think that's the biggest highlight. The acting in it, I thought was superb. The young boy who played the Sun I still think should have been nominated for at least best supporting actor. I thought he did so good in it. And my least favorite part is that I had to read subtitles. I think that would be it, because I don't like reading while I'm watching a movie. Katie, did you watch this movie and what was your best and least favorite part?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was. I was curious if Judson watched this one. I was a little nervous to watch it because you know I don't like scary movies and it has such a thriller type vibe to it. But it is just like a murder mystery. There's not. It's not scary.
Speaker 3:I really did like the kind of a psycho psychological thriller that it was. I'm not gonna spoil it for anyone, but I do feel like at the end you get sort of this Closure but not closure, like you're still left it. You know, is this person guilty or not? And whether they're physically guilty of murder. It's like were they maybe Influencing the murder, regardless whether they pushed the person out or not? What was it? Were they playing a role in that person, you know, taking their own life? But I would agree with you that young boy, really, even though he didn't have a lot of words, he runs. You have like a little Gladstone from Killers of the Flower Moon, not a ton of actual script like Verbiage, but just his acting and what he was not saying was pretty incredible. But some of my, my normal genre.
Speaker 2:So I wasn't a huge fan necessarily and Judson did not see this movie, so his opinion does not matter. So let's move right on to Oppenheimer. This is something that we all saw, so we can all give our opinions. My favorite part again was the performances. I thought the scope of it was really well done. I thought the the shot of it was really good. The directing obviously Christopher Nolan, is just fantastic, and so overall, I thought the biggest thing for this movie was the performances. You got Killian Murphy, who's nominated for best actor. You got Robert Downey Jr nominated for best supporting. You got Emily Blunt nominated for best supporting actress I believe, not best actress, I could be wrong but yeah, just overall, great performances. The only negative and there's gonna be a couple movies that are like this the only negative is the length. I thought it was long, but it need, I think. I think it needed to be long because the story it was telling, but at the same time it was just a really long movie. So, katie, what did you like and not like about Oppenheimer?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm curious to hear what Juddys says about this. I agree with you, it's long. That's one of my probably big critiques as well. It's long, long movie. But man, I maybe I'm just spoiled from Peaky Blinders, but I do just love me some Killian Murphy Murphy. I felt like he was incredible. I thought it was a great story choice. I love the idea of we can get so wrapped up in technology say AI, say atomic bomb that we forget to look up and say what is the root of the repercussions of our scientific discovery. So I just like the content of the movie choice. I like Emily Blunt. I love her as an actress. I feel like she was such a side character. I'm kind of surprised that she's even getting nominated. I feel like there's a lot of other ladies I'd like to see as supporting actress. But yeah, killian Murphy for me sold the show and I'd really liked Oppenheimer. I felt like it was a good movie and I would watch it again.
Speaker 2:Jetson, we're all interested. What you thought I?
Speaker 1:Adored this one. This was number two on my list and I didn't think it was gonna be there. I wasn't the biggest fan of Dunkirk and I really did not like tenet and tenet was really up my alley for Chris Nolan type sci-fi. And so going into Oppenheimer, especially with the marketing, the marketing stuff, saying this is one of the most important stories ever told, like I don't know, I haven't been really vibing lately, I don't know, but I Pursued barbenheimer, saw this in IMAX alone and I had a little depressive episode right after it, just because it was just that hard-hitting and I was not expecting that from a Majority courtroom drama.
Speaker 1:A three-hour movie, right, the performances were fantastic. You know, even Robert Downey Jr like I cannot believe that performance and that the cast is absolutely stacked. The, the effects we talk about, the, the actual Test, trinity, test scene, phenomenal pacing, the music, gorgeous it was. It was quite the delight and I'm really happy with the way it turned out. A Downside, I mean I think the three hours are completely earned and I'm also an advocate for three hours as long as they're earned. We'll talk about the three hour movies later in the other titles, but this one I was not not upset about in the least the down. The negative I do have for it is that I never want to watch it again, which is unfortunate. There is another movie that we'll talk about later that I feel the same way, which is unfortunate because it's just so near and dear to my heart and I absolutely love it. But I just know it's gonna like make me feel like a little Ball of trash and I'm gonna want to go to sleep and cry.
Speaker 2:So all right. Well, moving on to the fourth movie out of ten guys, but we got ten of these movies that we're talking about. Killers of the flower moon is my number four pick and Again the highlight was the performances. I I'm surprised Leonardo DiCaprio did not get nominated. I feel like that is a snub. If we're gonna talk about snubs, I thought he did a phenomenal job.
Speaker 2:I don't think Robert De Niro should have been nominated. I feel like he just played himself. And Lily Gladstone, I think she could be a sure win. I really think it's gonna be Emma Stone, but I think she could win because her performance was really well done. So the performances are at it for me. And again, another dislike of that this movie was way too long and I feel like this movie. I felt the length. I didn't really feel the length of Oppenheimer, I felt the length of this. So what do y'all think?
Speaker 3:Yeah, nathan, I think we did an episode on the Cozones of the Flower Moon and I said that I feel like this would have succeeded as a mini series. I understand that certain categories that wouldn't fit in, but this story deserved to be told at the length that it was and maybe even a little longer. But I didn't want to see it in a movie format. So I would agree like I think that they deserve the length they took. I just don't want that in a movie theater. I agree with you on Lily Gladstone.
Speaker 3:I think this would be at the top of my like one or two on my list because I think it's the history both side of me. I just find it so fascinating to understand the real. Some of these are historical drama. I just really found myself. I mean I think I was kind of alone in the theater so I was sitting there googling constantly the whole movie. I'm googling is this real? Is this real, what happened to these people? And it really made me deep dive into the history. So this was one of my favorites, for sure.
Speaker 2:Jettie.
Speaker 1:A similar note to the Chris Nolan thing earlier with Oppenheimer. Like I love Martin Scorsese movies, but I'm not a diehard and I there are some recent movies like I didn't watch the Irishman and I'm just not that interested, and so it's kind of like it's kind of left that power his name has left that power to go see it. So I didn't see this in theaters. I'm also been booked all year, but I did end up watching. This was like the last one that I saw before recording this, just because I knew this was going to be the one where you feel the length and the three hours isn't going to feel as earn, and I was. I was right in that.
Speaker 1:I will say, though, I was pleasantly surprised because I found myself feeling like, oh, three hours or what, three and a half something, even longer, I don't know the exact runtime, it's a beast. And I'm like, oh, guess, like let me try to get an hour in here in this session, right, or something. And I just find myself just still watching it and I'm like, oh, I'm, I'm invested in it, you know, and the structure of the scenes and the way that the story unfolds and the way that scores says he tells the story is really he still. He still got it, obviously, and he still he didn't phone that and just uses name to sell tickets, like he is still trying right, which is which is nice, and I I did end up enjoy watching it throughout, and I love mysteries.
Speaker 1:I'm no history buff. I do like learning about history in this way through my favorite form, and so learning about in this way through an, a murder mystery, it's like it was fantastic. Performances were great, off the charts too, but the three hours was not earned. You could have driven this. I saw a lot of fat in there that could have been trimmed, and for this it's number eight out of nine on my list, but I still really, really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2:All right, moving on, we have Barbie, which I remember I ranked I rated this pretty high, surprisingly, because I thought about it later. So my best part, ironically, is Ryan Gosling. I think Ryan Gosling stole this movie. I know it's supposed to be about Barbie. Mark Robbie got America whatever last name is who got nominated for best supporting basically just for a monologue. That's all I'm going to say about that. She got nominated for a model. Ryan Gosling, I think, stole this movie. I thought he did a fantastic job. So the dislike is basically everything else.
Speaker 3:So Katie, what did you?
Speaker 2:think of Barbie.
Speaker 3:Well, you remember, we recorded, you and I did separate episodes for this one and we I ranked it lower than you did. I was just not so underwhelmed by this movie. To be honest, I think it was maybe overhyped. I agree with you, ryan Gosling, but stole the show. And I also agree with you the America Ferrero obsession and you know so and so deserves it, so and so deserves that. I just can't get into it. I don't know if it's political game or what, or if we're all just trying to say a woman power. Obviously I'm a woman, I support women. I want it to succeed, but I wasn't that impressed. Out of all the movies, I would not rank this in the top five, for sure. But, jenny, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 1:It's sick and twisted to hear this slander come from Katie. Oh, what am I doing here? Barbie was number five on my list.
Speaker 2:It was a surprise and it's number five on mine too.
Speaker 1:Hey, but then you're talking about the negatives and stuff. So let's relax, because Barbie was a really nice surprise. Coming from Warner Brothers, I'm like, oh boy, product placement, here we go. But I love Greta Gerwig and she had a story to tell through this and with anybody else, any other filmmaker, any other cast, anything else, it would have been just that and that would have been fine. It would have sold the thing, but that's all it would have been is just to sell things and get things on and sell tickets, whatever. But Greta had a story to tell with this and it took me for a surprise, it took me for a loop.
Speaker 1:I genuinely laughed and I was not expecting that from a Barbie movie, but alone this one, and I actually had a really sweet moment at the end. And again, no spoilers for any of these, but you know what I'm talking about and I think that's really special in my book, do I think? Now, of course, I absolutely despise. Jokes aside, I don't like the Oscars. Art is subjective and I'm very much, very much that, and so we're.
Speaker 1:I know we're doing this for fun, but I'm not a big fan of Oscars, anyways, or hitting them against each other, but this is, it is a strange get to have Barbie next to the Scorsese flicks and Oppenheimer and stuff like that. It is a little strange, I will admit, but I think it is very special in its own way and that's kind of like a cheap way. I made a shaky, is that right now, like I it's. It's kind of hard to explain and put a pin on it, and in the nature of IP and you know, we also had a Transformers movie this year too we had a bunch of other IP related movies and they didn't hit nearly as hard as Barbie. And that's even outside of the marketing overhype with barb and Heimberg and stuff like that. So this is going to hold a special place in my heart for that very reason.
Speaker 2:So yeah, and moving on, we have American fiction. Katie did not see this, so her opinion does not matter. I saw this because, again, I saw every single one. The biggest thing I liked is I thought it was an interesting way of telling the story that they were trying to tell. Going into this, if you watch my quick reaction, I was kind of hesitant of how I was going to feel about it. I guess it's because I'm a white dude, I don't know maybe, but I was pleasantly surprised how they told the story. So that, right, there was my biggest like.
Speaker 2:My biggest dislike Judd he's already going to know is what I felt was a big old check the box moment. I love Sterling K Brown. Is that his name, sterling Brown? I love him. I thought I think he's a fantastic actor. He was in this Is Us, but what they did with this character? I just was like to me and that's just my personal opinion that that was my biggest dislike. But the movie was very well done and I did enjoy it. Judd, what did you think of American fiction?
Speaker 1:I thought this was really fun. It was a little lighter than I thought it was going to be because of the kind of subject matter and the themes that they're going for. I also not, and it's weird. It's weird to talk about it. It's not that I was like let down and disappointed in any way, but I walked out of it like OK, I kind of have seen this before. It's a big comparison that I was pulling from with Sorry to Bother you, and it's not a one to one comparison, the direct comparison or something. But some of the themes in subject matter rain a little familiar for me, so that brought it to number four on my list. But I still had a fantastic time with this.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm always a fan. Anytime you get Jeffery Wright on camera, I'm like all right, you got me. And Sterling Brown I guess that's his next. I remember it. I'm blanking. There's so many movies Fantastic in it you also have. You also have a fantastic cast in great direction in this and the stylized cuts and the quick riddied writing. I absolutely adored it.
Speaker 2:I did enjoy that film. Moving on to our final three on the list, the zone of interests comes in number eight on my list. This is a movie that Justin and I literally just saw a couple a couple of weeks ago and I the biggest thing I liked about it is I liked that they took it in a different direction than they're usually you're used to seeing in a movie about the Holocaust. Again, they did it from the perspective of the Nazi family and how great their life was living right next to a concentration camp, and I just I thought the performances were great.
Speaker 2:The same actress and anatomy of a fall is in the zone of interest. I thought she did a fantastic job in this as well. I think she's just, she's just good, and the fact that she speaks French, english and German is is really impressive to me. So I thought the performances were great. I thought it was a very interesting movie. My biggest dislike is that it was just really quiet and I couldn't eat my popcorn without being really loud in the movie theater, so that would be my biggest dislike. There's like really awkward silence moments. So, judson, what did you think of this?
Speaker 1:I thought this was a really interesting, interesting one. I think that has really special moments. We talked about this other quick reaction. I think it has various special moments and scenes that are really chilling, that I'm still thinking about being like a week removed from it. I just think, as a whole, I don't. It doesn't connect and add together.
Speaker 1:I'm also a sucker for a really good story and this seemed like a slice of life. So I felt like I was a little lacking in the storytelling specifically, just as a whole. I also know that their technique, with it being hidden cameras and getting really organic performances I'm always appreciative of that. It just seems a little experimental and although I love you know the way that they flipped the, it's not just another Holocaust story. We're actually getting a slice of life from the enemy lines and seeing how they're raising their little Nazi kids and being institutionalized and talk having that conversation. I thought that was really interesting and a great get for it. I just it just didn't all hit home for me completely as a whole. Like I said, the segments and scenes and bits and pieces, but yeah, so this oh, this is also number nine out of nine on my list.
Speaker 2:All right. Going down to the final two on my list, we have Maestro starring Bradley Cooper, about Leonard Bernstein. My biggest like is probably Carrie Mulligan's performance. I think if I didn't already think that Emma Stone was a sure win for best actress, I think Carrie Mulligan would get it. I thought she did a fantastic job with her performance. Yes, it's the type of performance we've seen before in movies, but I thought she knocked it out of the park and I thought she just did phenomenal. My biggest dislike is that it felt like a movie that was going for an Oscar and I don't know if that necessarily sounds like a negative, but you could just tell that Bradley Cooper had been working really hard on this for years and he just wanted that Oscar. So bad that I thought sometimes the performance was a little bit over the top dramatic, and so that was my biggest dislike. This is a movie that I believe all three of us have seen. So, katie, go ahead. What did you think of Maestro?
Speaker 3:Sorry, I have the hiccups. I do want to say, based on what you guys shared, I think I may go see American Fiction, but I'm not interested in the other one that you guys mentioned. American Fiction just seemed like kind of boring. It's about an author, but the more you guys talk about it I'm interested, this movie watched because it was on the Oscar list. I watched the trailer and there was nothing about it that made me excited to watch it. For me, the most the easiest summary would be it's the backstory of a person that I didn't know about and I never cared to learn more about. So not really that exciting. But I would agree with you in terms of acting best supporting actress I could see. If it wasn't for maybe some of the other bigger name ticket items, I would say Carrie Mulligan Mulligan is that her name. Carrie Mulligan was just like stole the show. I liked her more than I liked the about Bradley Cooper's version.
Speaker 2:Jettie, what'd you think of Maestro?
Speaker 1:Thought it was great. I was actually impressed throughout the whole thing. I know you were talking about it earlier, but a lot of people haven't talked about. Oh, it's Oscar Bate. He's so desperate to get it and you know, even if he is, he did the thing. And I'm really impressed that. The makeup costumes these looked fantastic. The studying, the amount of studying you have to do to get mannerisms, the fact you were able to direct and act in it, and to this scale, is really impressive For me as an artist that is also trying to do the dank thing. And so, yeah, even though Carrie had the performance and Bradley was doing his best to keep up, it was still really impressive to see all that combined together, and so I'm still not convinced conducting is a real career, but the composing aspect especially is very, very impressive. Don't come after me for that, conductors. I'm sorry I had to.
Speaker 2:Well, let's move on to our last movie, and that is Past Lives. This is another movie that all three of us have seen and, as you can tell, it is the last movie on my list, which means I thought it was boring. That's my biggest dislike, and I honestly can't think of a like about this movie. I guess the performances were good, but I just didn't like it, and this was one of the movies that I only went to go see because it was on the Oscar list. I'm sorry, jetson, I already know you liked it, so just tell me what you liked about it and make it short, sweet and to the point, my friend.
Speaker 1:This was number one on my list. This is a fantastic piece of media. This was the director of debut. This was beautiful performances and it's so simple and touching and beautiful. And Nathan is wrong. Also, maestro was number seven on my list, for fun fact.
Speaker 2:So there's nothing you disliked.
Speaker 1:I disliked how I felt sad and lonely after watching it. I disliked Nathan's hate towards this movie. That's what I dislike. All right, katie what'd you think?
Speaker 3:I mean, I'm a sucker for a rom-com or, as maybe a second option, a romance movie, so I did like it. It wasn't definitely not my number nine, but I think what happens is the whole movie. There's this very great tension. So you never see your kiss, you never see your big hug Excuse me you never see your culmination of all these strong feelings. So the whole movie, I thought they did a great job of building that not sexual but like romantic tension, both with the main character and maybe her potential lover and also her husband. So I liked that we end with something that's maybe not as Hollywood romantic, but I felt like it was more real and I really honestly loved the ending. It was sad but I loved it. So I'll put this movie towards the top of the list for me, but I do like feel good movies and this was not a feel good movie by Nianne Stretch.
Speaker 2:All right, so that is the Oscar nominated movies. So let's get right into what. We ain't got time for this. You don't got time for poor things Best movie of the year.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about poor wait.
Speaker 2:Yeah, poor things is on the list.
Speaker 1:Oh, please don't forget poor things. It doesn't exist for me.
Speaker 2:And we only got like four minutes left. Poor things. What do we think? I'm already gonna tell you what I thought. I thought it was terrible. That's actually below past lives. I thought it was dumb. I thought talk about overrated people, Piece of poop. There is nothing good about this movie at all, Jetson what'd you think?
Speaker 1:Because I know you liked it. We're not talking about Emma Stone's performance. We're not talking about Mark Ruffalo's performance. We're not talking about Yorgo's direction and his world building and his creative CGI and artistry and color grading. We're not talking about any of this. We're not.
Speaker 2:No, we're not Sick Maybe. What do you think?
Speaker 1:It's beautiful.
Speaker 3:I actually like this movie more than I liked Barbie. I felt like it was a stronger feminist movie than Barbie was and I really liked it. I was caffeling, laughing at a lot of the parts. I loved just the idea of an adult going through life and learning the social cues and you know, kind of making fun at how we build society. I love Mark Ruffalo's performance. I thought Emma did a great job. I do think sometimes it can be a little political or overly trying to state some kind of message, but I thought it was a quirky, fun movie and I would put it towards the top of my list as well. Sorry, nathan, I think we, judi and I, are outruling on this one.
Speaker 2:Well, again, every one's are allowed to be wrong sometimes, so let's get right into what we think it gets the honor of best picture. I'm gonna go ahead and I feel that holdovers should get it. But what do I think is gonna get it? Poor things, because Hollywood is just dumb. I think this is this. Poor things is the type of movie that will win best picture, because movies like the Shape of Water has have won the best picture before. So that's what I think will win. I think poor things will win, but I think the holdovers should win. Jetson what do you think will win and what do you think should win? And are they the same for you?
Speaker 1:I think Oppenheimer is gonna win this one. Based off of Kristen Nolan's career and the impact that this summer made for movies and that in ticket sales, I really wanted Iron Claw to win, but I didn't get nominated, so that's my pick. Yeah, that would be my honorable mention would be the Iron Claw.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 2:Hey, what do you think will win and what should win?
Speaker 3:Right. Well, I mean, I don't think Wonka should win, but it was my favorite movie of 2023. I know that's silly, but there's definitely some good movies that I enjoyed this year that didn't get nominated. But in terms of movies that I think will win, I would agree with Judi. I think Oppenheimer will win, but my personal opinion is just because of how stacked the cast was, like. They're just too interconnected and there's too many big names to not win. I feel like they're a little bit cheating in that way.
Speaker 2:And there you have it, folks. That is our Oscar prediction episode. Thank you so much for listening everybody. You guys are great. I love you and keep listening to Nady and Katie at the movies we love you a little bit kind of sort of guys.