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"He has no flaws." Ummmm he's addicted to heroine!

10:11 I don’t think most guys were thinking “that’s my guy I’ll pick 😊”.

Amanda’s opinion of felicity jones here seems like she has an axe to grind, or came in with a need to invalidate the performance. Her character is totally fine. I don’t think amanda is being objective here. I understand this is film criticism, but she seems overcritical here. It’s art, Amanda, it doesn’t need to all play out ro your expectations. . It would pay to remember that.

Great video

I watched the brutalist recently & I found the film to be deeply beautiful, yet very frustrating & ultimately unfulfilling in a way that left me uninterested to give it more of my attention.. I don’t know how I feel about it winning best picture, but on a technical level, it is a wonderful achievement that should receive some recognition.

😂😂😂😂😂 @ Joanna saying the academy will prefer The Brutalist over Emilia Perez because of boys vs girls. She really is a one issue candidate

sean is a next level glazer

Here’s my brutally honest take on the brutalist: it’s a masterpiece and I loved every minute

Joanna is the Greenbook of podcasters

42:24 “handjobs? We’ve all been there. It’s a part of life!” 😂😂

I think there's a good chance Complete Unknown will snatch the win with this ranked choice voting system. Brutalist and Emilia Perez are too polarizing and will either be people's nr1 spot or much lower. Anora could swoop in as well but it's possibly too sexual for the Academy and failed at the globes as well. A Complete Unknown could very well step in for the win as most people's nr 2 vote.

Libs pretending they don't understand why this film was so heavily nominated is truly hilarious. A mask off moment.

I saw Amanda’s Instagram story before I watched this - “I mean it wasn’t THAT brutal” as her one line review killed me 😂😂 but so much better in partnership with this episode

Just finally saw Presence. I really liked it. For those not sure about it, I think if you go in not expecting a "horror movie" but an intimate psychological family drama then you might be pleasantly surprised. Very simple on the surface but a lot of intriguing depth in the character development and how the narrative is dealt out. Maybe a bit heavy handed at times, but not so much to spoil the emotional tension. I liked Soderberg's chat with Sean as well and am going to return now to Spotify to listen again.

“This broke me” - Amanda Dobbins, via her Instagram

This is like QVC for collectors 😂

"What makes these seemingly diverse brands of music fit together so well?” Well, that's easy. All of the band's you've mentioned so far were jam packed with stellar musicians, juicy tight performances, and quality melodies and rhythms... Rap didn't contribute to the adult contemporary music, it just borrowed from it, and attracted a new audience who came for the familiarity, and stayed for the slick slam poetry... That is if the Urban artist had game... Many didn't bring enough to the table to continue you on their own

Amanda was brilliant in her analysis and critiques here 💝

While grand auturist ambition, craftsmanship and lofty, challenging ideas should always be welcomed and celebrated in cinema, (and are frankly desperately needed now more than ever), I don't ultimately think it should matter at all in how you ultimately rate a movie. To paraphrase Roger Ebert, it's not what a movie is about but how it's about it. Does the end product connect with you emotionally and offer a pleasurable experience. Which is why, even though I liked The Brutalist, I'm fine with rating something like Speak No Evil, Snack Shack or even The Beekeeper higher on my letterboxd.

I remember Bed Bath & Beyond used to play a lot of Yacht Rock

There's something admirable about the Big Picture never committing to one podcast set.

i feel like we're not considering enough that A Complete Unknown winning Best Picture would be...insane. Second to Wicked, at least. It is not a notable film in any way outside of the talent involved.

Syracuse catching strays!

I dont think you need to worry about spoilers aint nobody watching the brutalist😂

STOP NOT SEAN KNOWING MATTY HEALY BY NAME THAT'S CRAZY

Hard agree with y'all's take on that SA scene with Van Buren. It was such an obvious way to say the rich is screwing the poor non-consensually and also just completely unnecessary. They could've gone about it some other way. It made me not like the movie as much while before that specific it felt pretty perfect like Oppenheimer did.

Spoiler warning needs to be like the Alamo intro about not texting 😄

Always love Bobby's insights

Again! ROMA won almost every major category it was up for except picture. It even got acting noms for the 2 women who were virtually unknown in America. Cuaron won director and screenplay. Let’s stop this narrative as it being a big loser. It was the biggest winner that night! And it should have won picture if not for the nonsense that was Green Book. Also also, THE POWER OF THE DOG is only the 2nd film in Oscar history to have a woman win for best director. That’s also not nothing!

4 TIMES. Might do 5 this weekend.

35 minute mark. I think Amanda is actually right on the money with how most people should view art. Which is value the art without putting the artist on a pedestal.

The unevenness of 2nd half of this movie might cost it the Oscar for best picture.

Zach Baron seems like a cool dude, but he couldn't help but remind me of David O. Russell in looks and voice. Eerie similarity.

Amanda's thoughts on this film seem completely disconnected from the movie I saw. Bizarre critiques.

Loved Bobby's take (around 1:20:00)! Very well said.

Loved hearing Amanda’s thoughts on this, felt the same way after seeing the movie last week. An impressive movie but one that left me with a queasy feeling, and not in the way I wanted it to. Hope to hear her talk on Queer soon! Feels like it’d be in her bag

There should be a separate "Best Auteur" category, and all writer/directors can compete against one another, or even some Actor/Directors for actors who have a lead role in a film that they also direct.... (this could also lean more toward indie or genre films that don't typically get awarded for best writing and directing....like DUNE or Saturday Night), and leave Best Director, and Best Screenplay categories alone. It's strange to be that some "Best Director" nominees also wrote the screenplays and some didn't. Doesn't seem fair in a way lol.

I wish they released the final rankings and counted down instead of just announcing the Best Picture winner...Or do they evenually show the full vote tally?

I've heard Sean talk about how big this film is and literally call it an epic and also flat out say "it's not an epic" lol. First off I don't care whether or not it should be considered an epic, and second it's the perfect example of the way critics often talk themselves in circles while overanalyzing every single part of a film.

Great conversation. Really agreed with Amanda here

This movie is just a more boring Megalopolis with a better Score. A meadnering Great Man story that is tonally inconsistent, acting epic, but with nothing actually that enlightening to say. A movie looking beautiful dosent make it prestigious if the story is written in crayon.

The Zionism part was the only area of the film I didn’t like. It seemed insensitive to the era we live in specifically the genocide going on in Gaza. Overall great film about america and immigration and capitalism.

“IN THE MOVIE TRAP THERE IS A DAD. AND THAT DAD HAD A DAUGHTER. THEY GO TO A SHOW”

Does any sensible person think 'Wicked' was anywhere near the Best Picture of the year.....????

Feels like we're living in the darkest timeline, which points to Emilia Perez winning Best Picture

Sean, my guy. Nosferatu is a successful movie financially. also, as of 01/31/25 and over a month of release it has brought in just under 168 Million worldwide. it will not cross 200 million, much less 250 million as you state. there is no need to be willfully wrong about such publicly known figures. all love.

It's stunning how charitable I see folks being to this film and I've still yet to hear anyone clearly describe why it's so great. And now I learn nobody got paid? Lolol my god that's disgusting

Great discussion. The Brutalist talk is premium The Big Picture.

I’m glad The Brutalist is getting a lot of love and appreciation because It’s such an impressive movie. Even more impressive that it got made and Brady was able to do it his way. I liked it fine enough but was expecting to be blown away and wasn’t. On a technical level, it’s wonderful. It looks and sounds so so good. I just didn’t really feel attached to the story they were telling. I thought the ideas and themes weren’t worth writing home about. I have only seen it the one time so maybe I’ll feel differently on a second viewing… Still very happy to have seen it and that people are enjoying it.

The first half of The Brutalist was such an experience. I was blown away from the moment I sat down right up until the Intermission. I personally feel the movie doesn't hold up all that well in the second half and especially the epilogue. Quite an experience to see it on IMAX none the less, it's very well crafted.