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But he didn’t get why doja cat in ost and Britney Spears, because Elvis make pop industry someway, colonel invent that humiliating management practices in industry
I think if this is his first Baz Luhrman movie, I can see how he would dismiss it. BUT as a fan, I think it's kind of a return to form for Baz. Not a 2. More of a 6 or 7 for me.
One of the main reasons why the 1930's All Quiet on the Western Front feels so real is that most of the background soldiers were actually veterans of the First World War, so they knew what drills they did during that time and what methods they used during the fighting.
elvis had the most shots, so it had the most cinematography. this is the primary metric by which the oscars give their awards, like how dramas are automatically nominated for best screenplay because they have the most words.
For nominations, yes. I have no idea why Elvis was nominated otherwise. For wins, especially for Cinematography and Film Editing, it’s actually more correlated to a film that the Academy allocated to what I like to call “winning the techies.” That includes Cinematography, Sound, Film Editing, Production Design, etc. Dune deservedly won several of those last year, but it wasn’t the film with “the most editing” or “the most shots” at all. It won because it was already winning a ton of other techies, among them Sound. Same goes for films like Mad Max: Fury Road and to a lesser extent Sound of Metal. All were deservedly winning techies. And sometimes, it’s absolutely undeserved, like with Bohemian Rhapsody and to a lesser extent Dunkirk (which was a great film all things considered but Baby Driver easily should have won those techies instead). As for what will win this year, I’m actually predicting the various techies are gonna go to multiple different movies. Elvis is probably gonna easily win at least two of the three Art Direction related categories; Costume Design and Makeup, neither of which I think are deserved. EDIT: I was wrong, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever won Costume and The Whale won Makeup, both deservedly so in my opinion. Much better wins than Elvis. Babylon will likely win the third Art Direction category, Production Design, and deservedly so. EDIT: Oh come on, why did All Quiet win this??? Either Babylon or All Quiet on the Western Front will win Score. The former would be a great win, the latter… not so much. EDIT: Welp, All Quiet won. Completely undeserved. All Quiet on the Western Front is probably winning cinematography; it is the “prettiest” movie of the five nominees even if it is not the most ingeniously shot. Top Gun: Maverick will probably win Sound. Everything Everywhere All At Once is, hopefully, winning Film Editing. It could go to Top Gun though. Avatar: The Way of Water is very obviously winning Visual Effects.
This reminds me of a book i have that provides parody advice for amateur theatre, that suggests the main aim for any person involved is to be noticed, even if it is detrimental for the rest of the production - so a lighting designer should always try and put in as many different lighting effects so the audience will leave saying "wow, what lovely lights'
@@IDHLEB in like one or two scenes, yes. The bulk of the film’s editing is more unremarkable than bad. That may have been one of the reasons, but it definitely wasn’t the sole reason. It was still being allocated to winning the techies. That’s the main reason why it won.
You do have to wonder if the new "All Quiet" begins with an action scene because the filmmakers were genuinely worried people streaming it would hop out if it started slower, the medium having a tangible effect on the form.
I really like that it started with an action scene. Because it showed the mindset of this war. Everyone was replaceable. We follow a soldier who scare for his life, he lose a friend and then end up dead. And then his uniform is striped, washed and stitch up for the next soldier. Like cog in a machine. But that cool if it wasn’t effective on you, I personally really love this movie though I haven’t seen any other versions of this book.
@@Marvelfan-nu7ve It's not about it being better or worse per se - I hate critiquing any film on purely good vs. bad terms - but it's a structural choice that firmly locked the film into one central theme: war being mechanical and dehumanizing. That probably agrees more with our modern sensibilities, but it also badly weakens a major theme in the original story and film: how young soldiers were duped into glorifying combat. The reason this choice stood out to me is because it very much resembles the television "cold-open", trying to get its teeth in before the opening credits. Movies never had a need for hooks because, well, if you've already driven to the theater, paid for a ticket and popcorn, and sat down, you're probably not going to leave if the first ten minutes no matter how much you dislike it. But today, in an era where most movies are watched at home, that no longer applies, and every movie is competing with every film available on-demand at all times.
I think they started with that cuz we had to follow what happened with the dead soldier's clothing. So by the time our protagonist gets his recycled outfit, we realize what he's really in for.
Did you missed the imagery they were going for of war making lives disposable? We saw the process of a soldier's uniform being ripped from it's corpse, sent back to be recycled as "new" uniforms, and then when Paul gets it he just rips out the name tag and tosses it like garbage. And it's kinda the point of the drone. It's played only in battle sequences or whenever we see the war machine in action. Because it sounds like a machine or siren. What part of this basic symbolism and motif aren't you getting?
They count sequels as “Adaptation” because they’re “adaptations” of characters that already exist. So that’s why Top Gun and Glass Onion are in that category. It’s VERY stupid.
Yeah I remember casually looking at that category and I saw Glass Onion and the Wikipedia page for it said something like: Adapted property: Benoit Blanc Like, yeah, great adaptation of the main character of the series. What does that even mean?
EEAAO may not be everyones favorite, but it winning would be a win for movies generally. Mid budget action sci fi is something we always needs more of. And damn if the movie doesn't have heart.
I don't know why you have the caveat of it "may not be everyones favorite". It's universally acclaimed and it'd be damn hard to find someone who doesn't like it.
Ugh no it wouldn't be a win for movies in general. A movie that is just a string of action scenes with a single gimmick that is also filled with redundant and over bearing exposition and some really crappy performances.
@@Keihzarulook man, I get you didn't like it but that was a terrible criticism. The performances were objectively awesome and by "single gimmick" I'm assuming you mean the theme of the movie?
I saw someone else mention this and it's so true. Lilo and Stitch was more tasteful (and just around better) in their usage of Elvis music then the Elvis film was
I thought about Lilo and Stitch's better use of Elvis while watching Elvis too. I also thought about Lilo and Stitch when Adum brought up how movies are purposefully being made to be longer. Lilo and Stitch was made when Disney had a strict 90 min. rule so their movies could get more screenings. So, they had to leave out some ideas and scenes that could've enhanced an already good movie. The movie doesn't feel like it drags, so I doubt it would've ruined the pacing. It's just a shame that movies might've been lessened by guidlines that are no longer an issue. Now that movies don't have to worry (too much) about the run time, it feels like they have way less things to say or ideas to execute.
Why so much hate to Lurman's Elvis and Lurman himself? Gatsby is great and Elvis is a good movie as well. Whats wrong with the editing in this movie? Whats wrong with cinematography (it wins at guild awards)? Whats wrong with Butlers performance? I get some critique about Hanks performance, but the concept of a movie with Unreliable narrator makes it more intriguing. I watched the latest documentary (the searcher) about Elvis and its about 80% true to timeline and history. Im not from USA, and i knew Elvis only for his most popular songs, and this movie not only gave me a look the tragic fate of a man, but give a push to explore new songs of his discography.
@@daims8041 I personally find his films to be very "style over substance". So if the style isn't quite right, or even to your personal taste, it leaves very little left to praise or admire about the film. For instance, the use of Elvis' music. Making some awful remix to suit some sort of style to appeal to the younger generation, rather than just using his own music that was very popular for a reason. I wasn't joking, Lilo and stitch use Elvis' music better, with no crappy filters, just pure love and respect for the music, and enough respect for the audience to recognise and enjoy it. and that was a "kids film".
I came here just to say that I’m extremely angry about Aftersun not being nominated for Best Picture. Even if they’d never award it due to being such a subtle masterpiece, it ABSOLUTELY deserved to be there at the very least. Same with Charlotte Wells for Best Director, it boggles the mind how they didn’t nominate such an impressive debut after being lambasted for lacking female director representation.
It makes me chuckle that the two best films of the year, for me, were both female directed, and they couldn't even somehow get one female director in, when there were two there alone (Aftersun and Women Talking)
Unanimously agree. Aftersun is a rare film not only was beginning to end natural, but naturally powerful in character depth. Charlotte Wells has my absolute respect.
If I remember right, actors in talkie films from the early 30s were so expressive because they were still coming off silent films where they had to be more expressive to convey emotions well to the audience
The way I see All Quiet’s horn soundtrack is that it is industrial in its nature. It is a repeating tone that sounds like a factory horn. It makes sense that it is put over the scene of the uniform being repurposed. The industrial cogs of war keep running and churning in and out the men that get chewed up by it
I totally agree! When Adam played an example of the horns(?) I could totally understand why it would be jarring and uncomfortable to hear, but imo that might have been the point of using it. Not just to portray the industrialism of war, but that infuriating, sickening realization that punches you like those horns when you see that the soldiers are nothing but cheap equipment, objects, to be crushed and thrown aside for the sake of battle. But I also fully understand why someone wouldn’t like that choice of music. On the flip side you could see it as too obnoxious and irritating, maybe disrespectful to the reality playing out on screen, so I get where Adam’s coming from.
I’m in the interesting position of being a fan of the Elvis movie in large part because of Confused Matthew, who’s favorite filmmaker and movie are Baz Luhrmann and Moulin Rouge. Tbh I do wonder if my reaction to Elvis would be similar to Adam’s if I hadn’t watched Confused Matthew’s videos and gained an understanding and appreciation of Luhrmann, so I’m kinda glad I made space in my brain early on for the kind of movie Elvis was.
Moulin Rouge is great. Moulin Rouge is purposeful in it's editing and everything, it's intentionally emotion over logic, and intense in a melodramatic way to show how the characters feel and to pay homage to musicals and Bollywood. I feel like Elvis lacked that purpose and intent.
This would be hilarious. I never made it past the first scene so I just rewatched a clip: Editing where the timing is completely off the music. Singing that's completely out of sync. Shots are overexposed seemingly at random. It's like a sensory and technical nightmare.
The shellshocked guy is actually pretty accurate in the 30's All quiet. It's not dissimilar to what they actually were like when you watch old footage of real shellshoked WW1 veterans. Shaking and making faces like that.
Not a vet but I have PTSD from my family and I can believe it, PTSD fucks with your body down to your expressions. I’m not saying it makes the performances perfect, but it’s an interesting topic I guess
@@idontcheckmynotifications Sorry, I don't really care if I'm being rude, the PTSD you have from your family isn't comparable even in the slightest to the PTSD from someone fighting in one of the most deadly and horrible wars of human history. They shouldn't even be given the same term.
@@ziggle5000 This is like the worst thing you can say to someone suffering. It's as braindead as the "Shut up if you're hungry/hurt, think of the children in Africa" argument. It's stupid because someone out there in this giant and horrifying world is ALWAYS suffering more than African children or WW1 soldiers and probably won't be even remembered or known by anyone, doesn't change the fact the guy still suffers awful PTSD or is in any sort of pain no one should suffer. He simply said that he knows from experience that PTSD can make you look shellshocked and nothing else, what is you major malfunction?
It's kind of interesting that the 1930s All Quiet still has decent sound design considering the first sound movie came out only the year prior and this movie was Milestones first sound film ever
Looking at his credits, Milestone ( a 2 time Oscar winner) sure did some interesting projects- from the first film version of Of Mice and Men and the Noir classic The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, to the original Ocean's Eleven!
to be fair the ostrich animated short was a student film made by one guy on his own so its super impressive that it even got nominated. i attended a q and a with him and he seems lovely but i think a lot of the "hollowness" of the messaging behind it does come from it being an outcome for his phd and thus needing to hit various research marks lol. i didnt like it as much as i liked ice merchants and my year of dicks but im still rooting for it because its an australian student film
I thought the score in All Quiet was really good. It was reflecting the fact that it was a new Industrial Age of war. The first Modern massive war with this insane technology. Plus the cinematography was incredible, those wildlife shots were perfect. Plus I understand the idea of the slow build up from Adams POV, but the actual start does well to show that everyone is disposable. We follow this kid, expecting his story to go on, but he dies uneventfully and his uniform is casually given to a new person to be thrown to the slaughter. It’s a powerful image that fits with the “lions led by sheep” philosophy of WW1
I think Tar should be nominated for sound awards. While I didn't love the film, I thought the aural experience of the film was stunning. Completely diegetic and amazing in a cinema.
this was genuenly a fantastic year for movies, I've never been to my local cinema more often, and I've never seen my local Cinema have such a massive variety of movies on, you'd almost have to watch a movie (like Aftersun) immediately when announced, because two weeks later other movies were pushing it out again, and this is a cinema that doesn't even show the mainstream stuff anymore, it was just packed with A24, foreign films, underdogs, just amazing. Here's to hoping this year continues right on!
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse, is a fabulous short graphic novel by Charlie Mackery, it's full of sweet metaphors and ideologies on life, its truly a great book I enjoy to skim through when I'm feeling like shit, which is such a rare quality in media. The charcoal art is gorgeous and visually portrays the way the world is seen from the artists perspective. Overall, It works for a book, not for a short film. When I saw the short, it lacked that essence that a film needs. I didn't realise the book was this well received enough to be adapted, I was really confused about what could be adapted from a short collection of phrases that display a variety of different views on life. It's a shame when an adaptation is made around something so simple and good, and try to turn it into something more complex when it's not needed.
Tom Parker was a Dutchman named Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk. What you hear in the interview with him is what a actual Dutch accent sounds like. And it's not even that thick, there are examples of way thicker Dutch accent's. Tom Hanks does a fake German accent. A Dutch interviewer asked Tom Hanks about the accent at Cannes and he walked away without saying anything. The accent is by the way not the only thing off about his performance.
All quiet started with that war scene so you could see that the people were expendable and the recycled clothes highlighted that. The way it ends adds to the cycle
The drone is also suppose to symbolize the inhuman dread of the war machine. Literally every other part of the score is a more traditional orchestrated score, except for that leitmotif. Like seriously it kinda gave me chills when the General ordered them all to go back out one last time before the ceasefire and that drone gradually kicks in while we watch Paul's dead-inside face march to his death, because he's completely broken.
I went to see Triangle of Sadness twice, the second time I took my bestie with me and 30min in when there was an emphasis on the boat moving a lot she whispers "dang I hope no one pukes in this I'm extremely emetophobic" I didn't know what to do I was just (• ▽ •;) (I ended up warning her right before the puking started, she plugged her ears and didn't look for at least 10min but she still regrets watching it lmaoooo)
The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse is based on a book. It’s mostly just a collection of quotes and nice messages. It’s not the best kind of book to make a short film about. But the book is very wholesome
Remember kids, as long as you play a famous person in a biopic with lots of makeup and go on sappy media tours talking about people making you feel insecure with your accent, your vocal cords being messed up, the passing of someone related to the person you played on screen, etc, then you too can win over three superior lead performances.
@@athenajaxon2397 mid at best. And he didn't look like him to me. And fat suits are a cop out. If Sharles could gain weight for Monster, this guy could. I don't see him having much of a career after this as well. His conduct has shown him to be pandering disingenuous. I would as an actor also not have taken the role on the fact his wife was 14 when they got married. And the sexualisation of her was extremely triggering for me as a survivor of csa.
@Athena Jaxon He was pretty mid. He had the same expression throughout almost the entire film. His crying and other emotions weren't convincing at all and there were barely any layers to his character. The makeup did a lot of the work for him. Especially in comparison to Colin Farrell's, Brendan Fraser's, and Paul Mescal's performances and how difficult it was for them to do such minor details in how their characters act. His singing wasn't too great either. He was solid, but the other three were far superior. I do blame the editing and the way the film was shot on some of it though. I doubt he was given enough breathing room to perform as well as he could've.
Brendan Fraser better win Best Actor. It was probably the most realistic and genuine and believable performance I’ve ever seen in my life. It felt like losing my dad again except this time I was watching it in real time. Probably the only nomination I’m really pulling for outside of most everything from EEAAO
Omg Adum THANK YOU for mentioning how lame the bunker scene from modern "All Quiet" was, even though you've never read the book, where it was absolutely horrifying. The dumbest thing is, there was no need in any flashy CGI explosions. Just proper raw performances, lighting and sound. The sound of devastating WW1 shelling that could last for hours and was akin to a drumroll of deafening volume, driving people insane.
Gotta say I’m really happy with the Best Animated picks this year. Yeah Bad Guys should’ve been nominated over Sea Beast, I agree with that completely, but 3 out of the 5 were genuinely great movies, and Turning Red like you said is completely fine. Nice to see non-Disney/Pixar films getting the spotlight this year and it leaves me feeling optimistic for the future
Animated films in general weren’t given additional nominations which was weird, I really thought Ciao Papa would’ve been nominated for original song at least 🤷🏼♀️
@@thecinematicmind I really liked the sea beast ngl, preferred it to turning red. But pinocchio, marcel and puss in boots are much better than them both.
I actually really liked Turning Red, but I would love for GDT to get his props and shit on Disney. Shout out to Mark Gustafson and Henry Selick as well. And Puss in Boots should win too
For a Pixar film that came out in recent years, Turning Red is surprisingly okay and in some aspects quite refreshing. That said, yeah, it winning instead of the other nominees this year would be very lame.
Top Gun: Maverick got a Best Picture nomination totally had nothing to do with the fact that the Oscars' viewership get worse and worse every year and they thought giving a Best Picture nomination to the biggest movie of the year would get eyes on them.
Adum’s favorite movie of every year- There will be blood Synecdoche New York The white ribbon Black swan The kid with the bike Amour Her Birdman Anomalisa The handmaiden Three billboards Climax The lighthouse I’m thinking of ending things Listening to Kenny g TÁR
@@Szokynyovics OK but this one actually makes sense in terms of what the movie was trying to do was to relate to everyone to say that Elvis is so important to the music industry that they used Doja Cat, Eminem, Britney Spears Very WELL known artists and I know I have a point to explain why I use the meme but I can’t explain it because I only have a 10 minute break from my full-time job right now
The beginning of All Quiet on the Western Front 2022 felt more like it was setting a tone for the movie, watching how the uniforms were taken off of the dead bodies of the characters we just followed to watch them be washed, repaired, and given to the new recruits like it's nothing felt so eerie.
Thank you. Omg I’ve been shitting on Elvis ever since it came out and everyone I’ve ever talked to praise the living hell out of it. You hit the nail right on the head Adum! It’s real shame too, this biopic had so much potential 😭 Never let Baz touch the editing room ever again pls 😅
Also you are so right about the potential. Baz dropped the ball and made a pretty insignificant film. Elvis has a wild career and pop culture icon, changing the music industry forever. It could have been way more interesting.
The best thing Baz Lurman ever did was a Netflix show called "The Get Down," which tells a partially fictionalized story of the origin of R&B. It was really fantastic. It was the most expensive show Netflix had ever made by that point, and it was going to get a second season, but Lurman considered himself a film maker and did not want to be distracted from making films, so it never happened...
Thank you for mentioning this. It’s prob in the top for best productions Netflix has ever made, too, at least in its category. As a New Yorker, they really grasped the energy of that moment in time
Re: Baz Luhrmann - I highly recommend ROMEO+JULIET. I think that’s the perfect synthesis of his style, where it utilizes his high-energy approach while not looking like it’s in a computer (which is a good way to put his post-2010 work, kudos for that haha)
Why so much hate to Lurman's Elvis and Lurman himself? Gatsby is great and Elvis is a good movie as well. Whats wrong with the editing in this movie? Whats wrong with cinematography (it wins at guild awards)? Whats wrong with Butlers performance? I get some critique about Hanks performance, but the concept of a movie with Unreliable narrator makes it more intriguing. I watched the latest documentary (the searcher) about Elvis and its about 80% true to timeline and history. Im not from USA, and i knew Elvis only for his most popular songs, and this movie not only gave me a look the tragic fate of a man, but give a push to explore new songs of his discography.
I'm honestly hoping Everything Everywhere All At Once gets best picture. I liked All Quiet on the Western Front and Fabelmans just fine they're both 7-8 out of tens for me, but they seem like the choices the Oscars usually go for when you think of Oscar Bait. EEAAO is the stand out movie of this year. It isn't Oscar bait, it isn't a franchise like Top Gun, Black Panther, or Avatar, it's an original movie that has become universally loved.
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is based off of a picture book where every bit of dialogue is a motivational quote. The difference in the book though, is that it's intentionally framed as little snippets of interactions between the characters (as the focus is on relationships and discussing emotions), while your mind fills in what they do the rest of the time. It's implied the characters do more over their travels and we're just checking up on them every so often. The short is a good example of why some things being adapted exactly won't always work. This would have worked more as a series of 1 minute shorts so the time between each was ambiguous, rather than forcing all the interactions to be crammed into 30 minutes (it would also make the "eagles style" twist seem less weird lol) Having the short only be the quotes from the book and whizzing through them all makes it lose something, which is a shame because all the voice actors and animators did such a fantastic job capturing the feel of the gorgeous illustrations and characters.
Argentina 1985 did start slow yeah, but the aesthetic and main character did keep me interested. The second half gets quite a bit more emotional as we get into the courtroom drama parts, where they show all the witnesses giving their testimonials. So many innocent people were tortured and disposed of, and just declared missing afterwards during the dictatorship and hearing the families tell their horror stories in court was quite heartbreaking. I think they even intercut the scenes with the real world footage of the trial which gave it some extra oomph to me.
FINALLY SOMEONE SAID WHAT NEEDED TO BE SAID ABOUT THE MUSIC IN "All Quiet on The Western Front." The only scene where it made sense to me is in the scene with the tanks, that would have made it seem almost alien like, but apparently not
All Quiet was released in 1930, just 3 years after the first major sound film (The Jazz Singer, Oct 1927.) Recording any type of sound ( dialogue, sound effects) was extremely difficult. On the performances, do keep in mind that the cast would have largely worked in Silent cinema before this, where these types of mannerisms were the norm.
It really does feel like they choose the same 10-15 films on their nomination ballot to nominate for every other category, outside of the odd one here and there in one category, in a random generator thing instead of bothering to check out other films for specific aspects. The films they nominated for editing and cinematography over films such as Decision to Leave and costume design and production design over films such as The Northman is pretty laughable.
Yeah the Northman really should have gotten way more recognition. I didn’t like it as much as the Vvitch due to how much I’ve seen Hamlet stories in other movies, but if Eggers is a master at anything it’s authentic set/costume design.
13:17 good news, Tom Hanks both won Razzie awards for Worst Supporting Role as the miscast Colonel Parker and Worst Screen Couple for his latex makeup design and that thick accent. So yay!
I like how when it came to Wakanda forever, when you spoke of them being mentioned for make-up and hair styling, that frame had mostly bald people, and we all know bald people are known for fantastic hairstyles.
Am I the only one who loves Top Gun 2's screenplay nomination? There's an art to making a proper legacy sequel and a big emotion-driven blockbuster spectacle, and Chris McQuarrie is well-respected.
It was alright. Felt like it hit a lot of the same beats as the first one without saying anything new. Good movie but I’m not sure what the hype is about
You describing Elvis is literally describing every Baz Luhrmann film. When I watched Moulin Rouge I played a game in my head to make it more interesting and see if a single shot lasted longer than 3 seconds. Not a single shot in that film was longer than 3 seconds.
I used to agree with Adam's opinion on The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I thought the messages were pretty forced. But I started appreciating it more as a "comfort movie" of sorts, like the dialogue in the film is something that people with depression, like myself, need to hear every day. I started recommending the movie to my friends because I genuinely felt like they all had to hear what the movie had to say. It of course isn't for everyone and I'm not fully disagreeing with what Adam said, but I still recommend it.
I like the old All Quiet because it keeps it real, focused solely on the soldier's experience, which is the whole point of the story. No broader politics, just pure grinding hell.
My biggest complaint about All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) was that they hired Daniel Brühl to play Mathias Erzberger, the guy with glasses who leads the armistice conversation. His Swabian accent was god-awful and I'm from that area. Why not hire a Swabian guy ? I'm convinced they wanted some kind of actor who is known in the US to play a "major role" in this movie. I know the international viewers don't care about our dialects, but if you're going to do the dialect, do it right and not some kind of pseudo-Austrian.
I saw all quiet on the Western Front in Theaters in Germany. And oh boy, the score worked there. It was one of the most intensive Cinema experiences I ever experienced. Felt like being on the battlefield myself. I believe this movie isn't designed for a first watch netflix experience.
About Anderson Cooper in „Black Panther 2“: Most people forget that this used to be very common in the first few MCU-movies. They put all kinds of famous, real-life people into the first two Iron-Man movies. I never liked that, for the same reason Adam gives here. But it is actually consistent.
I remember when I was watching Elvis my dad told me it was the same director as Moulin Rouge and I told him "Oh, that explains why I'm having a seizure right now."
I feel like Woman Talking was well structured because it’s these woman slowly adjusting to and evaluating how they’re gonna live. It is sort of interesting that the main thing highlighted early on is that these women are voting for the first time. It’s women who haven’t had a chance to use their voices finally taking steps to use them and addressing the fears that come with the society that’s built around them. Idk, I thought it was one of the best movies of the year
Always look forward to these videos. 57:15 Thank you for reminding me of the onion clip. Gave me a good chuckle 1:00:45 re:dubbing I've been watching a lot of older Hong Kong Jackie Chan movies, and this happens in a lot of those too, where the Cantonese and Mandarin tracks are both obviously dubbed (and in a lot of cases, Jackie Chan is dubbed over by someone else)
The score for all quiet on the western front sounded exactly like the score from annihilation, which fit for that film, a sci Fi lovecraftian horror, but not for the 20s war movie
EEAAO is my winner of the year. I loved Banshees too but EEAAO just touched my brain so deeply and really helped me reframe how I looked at things I was unhappy with in my own life. I cry every single time I watch it, and I usually hate rewatching films.
Tbf Baz Luhrmann has always done the weird time period clashes, like there's an infamous scene in The Great Gatsby where they're all getting drunk in a hotel while dubstep plays and it's not as artistically impressive as it would like to be
I'd really like to see Adam on Chapo Trap House or their adjacent movie podcast "Movie Mindset" to hear them discuss their different opinions from their vastly different perspectives.
I have ADHD and I hated the editing in Elvis. Really obnoxious and all over the place. You hit the nail on the head when you said the whole movie is edited like a trailer.
I knew as soon as I watched Tar that it would be your favorite film of the year. It was mine too. That's why I love this channel. I can count on you to get behind challenging movies made with great care.
also the Eagles couldn't take Frodo because they might have also been corrupted by the Ring and probably just thrown the hobbits overboard and picked the rings from their corpses. Frodo specifically must carry the ring because he is a hobbit of privilege who wants for nothing. He has friends, family, food, and until the ring comes into his life: safety.
The thing about Im Westen nichts Neues (All quiet on the Western Front) is that this is by far the best thing the german film scene produced in quite some time, only barely now dethroned by Sonne und Beton Yeah it's a bit janky, yeah the sound and music are a bit off, but if given the choice between this and yet another Schweiger flick, this wins 238% of the time
31:14 really man, just went through to see Maverick and literally go to the bathroom? What the hell do you drink? Yay, Maverick is still the best rendition sequel than the first one.
This was nominated for bushiest eyebrows. I mean they were kinda bushy but nothing that special - I dunno why you'd give bushiest eyebrows to this movie honestly. It was also nominated for deepest pockets. Some characters did have large pockets on their clothes but the pockets in at least three other films I've seen this year were definitely more cavernous. Now here we have a nomination for most capricious secondary characters. I think this was a solid shout because in a lot of instances did some characters seem to flip opinions without warning so I'm okay with this one. I think The Quiet Girl will win the oscar for best sound design but I don't think it's deserved as at one point you could clearly hear an extra farting into the mic during a pivotal scene - it was kind of embarrassing.
I think Argentina 1985 only really works for argentinians like me because we grew up knowing the horror of what happened around 1976 and 1983, it was a horrifying time to be alive for many people in the country, countless argentinians were forcibly taken from their homes and executed without no one noticing, to this day there are mothers and grandmas that have not seen their children and grandchildren ever again, and it definitely adds to the viewing experience, being able to see the horrible people involved in these acts get their well deserved punishment. It's a period of time that has heavily impacted the country and it's people, and i think the way you expressed your disinterest for the whole ordeal was somewhat heartless? But then again, you aren't argentinian, so i guess you just couldn't see how impactful of an event it was. It also of course doesn't help that you didn't even finish the movie, but oh well, can't get you to rewatch it if you really didn't enjoy it, still, i really enjoyed your other critiques, and it was because of you that i found out about everything everywhere all at once, and puss in boots being so good before they came out in argentina, so thanks for that becuase those are my top 2 movies of 2022 now.
1:09:01 let’s face it, The Last Wish is the best Puss in Boots film in a good spinoff from the Shrek series so I’m planning to see on my birthday bash on Peacock so yay, it’s a clever DreamWorks comeback movie. Suck on that Boss Baby!
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how long after the oscars will the scoot & gael watchalong be released mane?
Tom Hanks: "He's white 😱"
Logic: "I'm Biracial. 🤓"
I'll be checking out OMBs
"the Raven's" award show.....
I thought that was how the movie actually looked at first and thought “Wow, these movies have worse cinematography that I thought they would.”
Did Adam not watch Living or Causeway? They were pretty good movies.
If Bohemian Rhapsody can win for best editing, ANY film can get that award.
To be fair, BR surely had the most editing of them all
@@nicovelardita8619 search on youtube “whiplash every cut bohemian rhapsody.” Made laugh until I cried
Bohemian Rhapsody's editing was LITERALLY cancer. I'm gonna go and kill myself. Aliens, please if you hear this.. God, I miss Leafy :))
Suicide Squad dances into frame!
I’ve never agreed with a comment more. ANY comment.
“It had a personality…I didn’t like the personality” is the perfect Elvis critique
But he didn’t get why doja cat in ost and Britney Spears, because Elvis make pop industry someway, colonel invent that humiliating management practices in industry
Nice Arca pfp
Igualito, mira su pasito que le da igualito
Based Arca enjoyer.
I think if this is his first Baz Luhrman movie, I can see how he would dismiss it. BUT as a fan, I think it's kind of a return to form for Baz. Not a 2. More of a 6 or 7 for me.
One of the main reasons why the 1930's All Quiet on the Western Front feels so real is that most of the background soldiers were actually veterans of the First World War, so they knew what drills they did during that time and what methods they used during the fighting.
Veterans? of WWI? so "most of" the extras were over 100 years old? Gonna have to call BS on that one
surely this is a joke post
@@MeEncantaMoss Read the year I'm talking about
@@MeEncantaMoss Do you have brain problems?
@@MeEncantaMoss All Quiet on the Western Front came out in 1930. About 15 years after WW1.
elvis had the most shots, so it had the most cinematography. this is the primary metric by which the oscars give their awards, like how dramas are automatically nominated for best screenplay because they have the most words.
For nominations, yes. I have no idea why Elvis was nominated otherwise.
For wins, especially for Cinematography and Film Editing, it’s actually more correlated to a film that the Academy allocated to what I like to call “winning the techies.” That includes Cinematography, Sound, Film Editing, Production Design, etc.
Dune deservedly won several of those last year, but it wasn’t the film with “the most editing” or “the most shots” at all. It won because it was already winning a ton of other techies, among them Sound. Same goes for films like Mad Max: Fury Road and to a lesser extent Sound of Metal. All were deservedly winning techies.
And sometimes, it’s absolutely undeserved, like with Bohemian Rhapsody and to a lesser extent Dunkirk (which was a great film all things considered but Baby Driver easily should have won those techies instead).
As for what will win this year, I’m actually predicting the various techies are gonna go to multiple different movies.
Elvis is probably gonna easily win at least two of the three Art Direction related categories; Costume Design and Makeup, neither of which I think are deserved. EDIT: I was wrong, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever won Costume and The Whale won Makeup, both deservedly so in my opinion. Much better wins than Elvis.
Babylon will likely win the third Art Direction category, Production Design, and deservedly so. EDIT: Oh come on, why did All Quiet win this???
Either Babylon or All Quiet on the Western Front will win Score. The former would be a great win, the latter… not so much. EDIT: Welp, All Quiet won. Completely undeserved.
All Quiet on the Western Front is probably winning cinematography; it is the “prettiest” movie of the five nominees even if it is not the most ingeniously shot.
Top Gun: Maverick will probably win Sound.
Everything Everywhere All At Once is, hopefully, winning Film Editing. It could go to Top Gun though.
Avatar: The Way of Water is very obviously winning Visual Effects.
This reminds me of a book i have that provides parody advice for amateur theatre, that suggests the main aim for any person involved is to be noticed, even if it is detrimental for the rest of the production - so a lighting designer should always try and put in as many different lighting effects so the audience will leave saying "wow, what lovely lights'
Bohemian Rhapsody had the most cuts, so it won the best editing award.
@@IDHLEB in like one or two scenes, yes. The bulk of the film’s editing is more unremarkable than bad. That may have been one of the reasons, but it definitely wasn’t the sole reason. It was still being allocated to winning the techies. That’s the main reason why it won.
You do have to wonder if the new "All Quiet" begins with an action scene because the filmmakers were genuinely worried people streaming it would hop out if it started slower, the medium having a tangible effect on the form.
Damn, that’s interesting. Never considered this, but it makes a lot of sense.
I really like that it started with an action scene. Because it showed the mindset of this war. Everyone was replaceable. We follow a soldier who scare for his life, he lose a friend and then end up dead. And then his uniform is striped, washed and stitch up for the next soldier. Like cog in a machine. But that cool if it wasn’t effective on you, I personally really love this movie though I haven’t seen any other versions of this book.
@@Marvelfan-nu7ve It's not about it being better or worse per se - I hate critiquing any film on purely good vs. bad terms - but it's a structural choice that firmly locked the film into one central theme: war being mechanical and dehumanizing. That probably agrees more with our modern sensibilities, but it also badly weakens a major theme in the original story and film: how young soldiers were duped into glorifying combat.
The reason this choice stood out to me is because it very much resembles the television "cold-open", trying to get its teeth in before the opening credits. Movies never had a need for hooks because, well, if you've already driven to the theater, paid for a ticket and popcorn, and sat down, you're probably not going to leave if the first ten minutes no matter how much you dislike it. But today, in an era where most movies are watched at home, that no longer applies, and every movie is competing with every film available on-demand at all times.
I think they started with that cuz we had to follow what happened with the dead soldier's clothing. So by the time our protagonist gets his recycled outfit, we realize what he's really in for.
Did you missed the imagery they were going for of war making lives disposable? We saw the process of a soldier's uniform being ripped from it's corpse, sent back to be recycled as "new" uniforms, and then when Paul gets it he just rips out the name tag and tosses it like garbage. And it's kinda the point of the drone. It's played only in battle sequences or whenever we see the war machine in action. Because it sounds like a machine or siren. What part of this basic symbolism and motif aren't you getting?
They count sequels as “Adaptation” because they’re “adaptations” of characters that already exist. So that’s why Top Gun and Glass Onion are in that category. It’s VERY stupid.
That is so stupid. I was confused what top gun Maverick could possibly be an adaptation of
Yeah, especially since "adaptation" implies that they're being adapted into a different medium
That's some lawyer bullshit right there.
thats. really stupid
Yeah I remember casually looking at that category and I saw Glass Onion and the Wikipedia page for it said something like:
Adapted property: Benoit Blanc
Like, yeah, great adaptation of the main character of the series. What does that even mean?
EEAAO may not be everyones favorite, but it winning would be a win for movies generally. Mid budget action sci fi is something we always needs more of. And damn if the movie doesn't have heart.
I don't know why you have the caveat of it "may not be everyones favorite". It's universally acclaimed and it'd be damn hard to find someone who doesn't like it.
Ugh no it wouldn't be a win for movies in general. A movie that is just a string of action scenes with a single gimmick that is also filled with redundant and over bearing exposition and some really crappy performances.
@@za-ir5ni Someone that just replied doesn't like it lol
Single Gimmick? Wow what a take.
@@Keihzarulook man, I get you didn't like it but that was a terrible criticism. The performances were objectively awesome and by "single gimmick" I'm assuming you mean the theme of the movie?
I love how Adum keeps using that cursed picture of Neytiri for every Avatar themed video. It gets funnier and funnier every time
Why is it cursed ? Sexual implication?
@@CATDHD yeah I don't get it either
@@CATDHD i guess when its out of context from her yelling it just looks like shes doing a real weird pog-type expression
@@unnamechannel yeah this was my interpretation
Blue Pog
Adum watched Marcel the Shell and his heart grew three sizes that day.
I saw someone else mention this and it's so true. Lilo and Stitch was more tasteful (and just around better) in their usage of Elvis music then the Elvis film was
I thought about Lilo and Stitch's better use of Elvis while watching Elvis too. I also thought about Lilo and Stitch when Adum brought up how movies are purposefully being made to be longer. Lilo and Stitch was made when Disney had a strict 90 min. rule so their movies could get more screenings. So, they had to leave out some ideas and scenes that could've enhanced an already good movie. The movie doesn't feel like it drags, so I doubt it would've ruined the pacing.
It's just a shame that movies might've been lessened by guidlines that are no longer an issue. Now that movies don't have to worry (too much) about the run time, it feels like they have way less things to say or ideas to execute.
Why so much hate to Lurman's Elvis and Lurman himself? Gatsby is great and Elvis is a good movie as well. Whats wrong with the editing in this movie? Whats wrong with cinematography (it wins at guild awards)? Whats wrong with Butlers performance? I get some critique about Hanks performance, but the concept of a movie with Unreliable narrator makes it more intriguing.
I watched the latest documentary (the searcher) about Elvis and its about 80% true to timeline and history.
Im not from USA, and i knew Elvis only for his most popular songs, and this movie not only gave me a look the tragic fate of a man, but give a push to explore new songs of his discography.
@@daims8041 I personally find his films to be very "style over substance". So if the style isn't quite right, or even to your personal taste, it leaves very little left to praise or admire about the film.
For instance, the use of Elvis' music. Making some awful remix to suit some sort of style to appeal to the younger generation, rather than just using his own music that was very popular for a reason.
I wasn't joking, Lilo and stitch use Elvis' music better, with no crappy filters, just pure love and respect for the music, and enough respect for the audience to recognise and enjoy it. and that was a "kids film".
I'm so pumped for the Adum & Pals Oscars edit
Gonna be months from now
@@ankurama42 and?
We all wait for our horse and saviour adum
Any day now...
I came here just to say that I’m extremely angry about Aftersun not being nominated for Best Picture. Even if they’d never award it due to being such a subtle masterpiece, it ABSOLUTELY deserved to be there at the very least. Same with Charlotte Wells for Best Director, it boggles the mind how they didn’t nominate such an impressive debut after being lambasted for lacking female director representation.
Oscars ain't worth the anger. It's like clockwork at this point
Tbh it was surprising even to see Paul Mescal nominated, glad he was
....Like Clockwork is the best rock album of the last decade
It makes me chuckle that the two best films of the year, for me, were both female directed, and they couldn't even somehow get one female director in, when there were two there alone (Aftersun and Women Talking)
Unanimously agree.
Aftersun is a rare film not only was beginning to end natural, but naturally powerful in character depth. Charlotte Wells has my absolute respect.
If I remember right, actors in talkie films from the early 30s were so expressive because they were still coming off silent films where they had to be more expressive to convey emotions well to the audience
The way I see All Quiet’s horn soundtrack is that it is industrial in its nature. It is a repeating tone that sounds like a factory horn. It makes sense that it is put over the scene of the uniform being repurposed. The industrial cogs of war keep running and churning in and out the men that get chewed up by it
Yeah, I really loved the score
Babylon’s is still better
It sounds like an emotionless industrial monster, it was perfect
I totally agree! When Adam played an example of the horns(?) I could totally understand why it would be jarring and uncomfortable to hear, but imo that might have been the point of using it. Not just to portray the industrialism of war, but that infuriating, sickening realization that punches you like those horns when you see that the soldiers are nothing but cheap equipment, objects, to be crushed and thrown aside for the sake of battle.
But I also fully understand why someone wouldn’t like that choice of music. On the flip side you could see it as too obnoxious and irritating, maybe disrespectful to the reality playing out on screen, so I get where Adam’s coming from.
Still shit and inappropriate lol
We need to get Adum to see Moulin Rouge. It'll break him.
Its a guilty pleasure movie of mine, I love that over the top theatrical kinda shit
I’m in the interesting position of being a fan of the Elvis movie in large part because of Confused Matthew, who’s favorite filmmaker and movie are Baz Luhrmann and Moulin Rouge.
Tbh I do wonder if my reaction to Elvis would be similar to Adam’s if I hadn’t watched Confused Matthew’s videos and gained an understanding and appreciation of Luhrmann, so I’m kinda glad I made space in my brain early on for the kind of movie Elvis was.
Moulin Rouge is great.
Moulin Rouge is purposeful in it's editing and everything, it's intentionally emotion over logic, and intense in a melodramatic way to show how the characters feel and to pay homage to musicals and Bollywood. I feel like Elvis lacked that purpose and intent.
@@thegirlleastlikelyto oh I love the movie. I gotta feeling Adum won’t.
This would be hilarious. I never made it past the first scene so I just rewatched a clip: Editing where the timing is completely off the music. Singing that's completely out of sync. Shots are overexposed seemingly at random. It's like a sensory and technical nightmare.
Adum saying he’d be fine with Top Gun: Maverick winning Best Picture was certainly not what I expected from this video
words i never ever want to hear again.
The shellshocked guy is actually pretty accurate in the 30's All quiet. It's not dissimilar to what they actually were like when you watch old footage of real shellshoked WW1 veterans. Shaking and making faces like that.
Not a vet but I have PTSD from my family and I can believe it, PTSD fucks with your body down to your expressions. I’m not saying it makes the performances perfect, but it’s an interesting topic I guess
@@idontcheckmynotifications Sorry, I don't really care if I'm being rude, the PTSD you have from your family isn't comparable even in the slightest to the PTSD from someone fighting in one of the most deadly and horrible wars of human history. They shouldn't even be given the same term.
@@ziggle5000 is there any need for this?
@@ziggle5000 This is like the worst thing you can say to someone suffering.
It's as braindead as the "Shut up if you're hungry/hurt, think of the children in Africa" argument. It's stupid because someone out there in this giant and horrifying world is ALWAYS suffering more than African children or WW1 soldiers and probably won't be even remembered or known by anyone, doesn't change the fact the guy still suffers awful PTSD or is in any sort of pain no one should suffer.
He simply said that he knows from experience that PTSD can make you look shellshocked and nothing else, what is you major malfunction?
@@ziggle5000 Obvious bait.
It's kind of interesting that the 1930s All Quiet still has decent sound design considering the first sound movie came out only the year prior and this movie was Milestones first sound film ever
Looking at his credits, Milestone ( a 2 time Oscar winner) sure did some interesting projects- from the first film version of Of Mice and Men and the Noir classic The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, to the original Ocean's Eleven!
to be fair the ostrich animated short was a student film made by one guy on his own so its super impressive that it even got nominated. i attended a q and a with him and he seems lovely but i think a lot of the "hollowness" of the messaging behind it does come from it being an outcome for his phd and thus needing to hit various research marks lol. i didnt like it as much as i liked ice merchants and my year of dicks but im still rooting for it because its an australian student film
I thought the score in All Quiet was really good. It was reflecting the fact that it was a new Industrial Age of war. The first Modern massive war with this insane technology. Plus the cinematography was incredible, those wildlife shots were perfect. Plus I understand the idea of the slow build up from Adams POV, but the actual start does well to show that everyone is disposable. We follow this kid, expecting his story to go on, but he dies uneventfully and his uniform is casually given to a new person to be thrown to the slaughter. It’s a powerful image that fits with the “lions led by sheep” philosophy of WW1
I think Tar should be nominated for sound awards. While I didn't love the film, I thought the aural experience of the film was stunning. Completely diegetic and amazing in a cinema.
this was genuenly a fantastic year for movies, I've never been to my local cinema more often, and I've never seen my local Cinema have such a massive variety of movies on, you'd almost have to watch a movie (like Aftersun) immediately when announced, because two weeks later other movies were pushing it out again, and this is a cinema that doesn't even show the mainstream stuff anymore, it was just packed with A24, foreign films, underdogs, just amazing. Here's to hoping this year continues right on!
Just curious, but what films did you love? It seemed a pretty dead year, to me.
@@jdunnatl same brooo
@@jdunnatl istg 😭
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse, is a fabulous short graphic novel by Charlie Mackery, it's full of sweet metaphors and ideologies on life, its truly a great book I enjoy to skim through when I'm feeling like shit, which is such a rare quality in media. The charcoal art is gorgeous and visually portrays the way the world is seen from the artists perspective. Overall, It works for a book, not for a short film. When I saw the short, it lacked that essence that a film needs. I didn't realise the book was this well received enough to be adapted, I was really confused about what could be adapted from a short collection of phrases that display a variety of different views on life. It's a shame when an adaptation is made around something so simple and good, and try to turn it into something more complex when it's not needed.
Hey everyone, he finished the movies. You see, he finished them. He did it. He’s a real reviewer now.
Tom Parker was a Dutchman named Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk. What you hear in the interview with him is what a actual Dutch accent sounds like. And it's not even that thick, there are examples of way thicker Dutch accent's. Tom Hanks does a fake German accent. A Dutch interviewer asked Tom Hanks about the accent at Cannes and he walked away without saying anything. The accent is by the way not the only thing off about his performance.
I quite liked Elvis but I'm Dutch and I did not realise that was supposed to be a Dutch accent until it was basically spelled out.
“Best picture of the year. . No, thank you” I love the abrupt politeness 😂
Ikr
All quiet started with that war scene so you could see that the people were expendable and the recycled clothes highlighted that. The way it ends adds to the cycle
The drone is also suppose to symbolize the inhuman dread of the war machine. Literally every other part of the score is a more traditional orchestrated score, except for that leitmotif. Like seriously it kinda gave me chills when the General ordered them all to go back out one last time before the ceasefire and that drone gradually kicks in while we watch Paul's dead-inside face march to his death, because he's completely broken.
I went to see Triangle of Sadness twice, the second time I took my bestie with me and 30min in when there was an emphasis on the boat moving a lot she whispers "dang I hope no one pukes in this I'm extremely emetophobic" I didn't know what to do I was just (• ▽ •;)
(I ended up warning her right before the puking started, she plugged her ears and didn't look for at least 10min but she still regrets watching it lmaoooo)
I'm glad I'm seeing these comments because I am definitely one of those people who just can't handle that. Sounds like a good movie though!
The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse is based on a book. It’s mostly just a collection of quotes and nice messages. It’s not the best kind of book to make a short film about. But the book is very wholesome
Remember kids, as long as you play a famous person in a biopic with lots of makeup and go on sappy media tours talking about people making you feel insecure with your accent, your vocal cords being messed up, the passing of someone related to the person you played on screen, etc, then you too can win over three superior lead performances.
That's such a dismissive take. He genuinely did a fantastic job
@@athenajaxon2397 mid at best. And he didn't look like him to me. And fat suits are a cop out. If Sharles could gain weight for Monster, this guy could. I don't see him having much of a career after this as well. His conduct has shown him to be pandering disingenuous. I would as an actor also not have taken the role on the fact his wife was 14 when they got married. And the sexualisation of her was extremely triggering for me as a survivor of csa.
@@iciajay6891 he actually did gain a lot of weight! He talked about it in an interview
@Athena Jaxon He was pretty mid. He had the same expression throughout almost the entire film. His crying and other emotions weren't convincing at all and there were barely any layers to his character. The makeup did a lot of the work for him. Especially in comparison to Colin Farrell's, Brendan Fraser's, and Paul Mescal's performances and how difficult it was for them to do such minor details in how their characters act. His singing wasn't too great either. He was solid, but the other three were far superior. I do blame the editing and the way the film was shot on some of it though. I doubt he was given enough breathing room to perform as well as he could've.
Austin Butler seems like an awesome person. Have some respect.
Brendan Fraser better win Best Actor. It was probably the most realistic and genuine and believable performance I’ve ever seen in my life. It felt like losing my dad again except this time I was watching it in real time. Probably the only nomination I’m really pulling for outside of most everything from EEAAO
Your dad was a gay man who ate himself to death when his boyfriend died?
@@lukess.s nah, he was straight and just drank himself to death. Roughly the same feelings tho
Omg Adum THANK YOU for mentioning how lame the bunker scene from modern "All Quiet" was, even though you've never read the book, where it was absolutely horrifying. The dumbest thing is, there was no need in any flashy CGI explosions. Just proper raw performances, lighting and sound. The sound of devastating WW1 shelling that could last for hours and was akin to a drumroll of deafening volume, driving people insane.
Idk about others but the score in the fanny pack fighting scene for Everything Everywhere is really memorable for me
Gotta say I’m really happy with the Best Animated picks this year. Yeah Bad Guys should’ve been nominated over Sea Beast, I agree with that completely, but 3 out of the 5 were genuinely great movies, and Turning Red like you said is completely fine. Nice to see non-Disney/Pixar films getting the spotlight this year and it leaves me feeling optimistic for the future
Mad God should have won it.
GDT’s Pinocchio really should’ve been nom’ed for Best Picture too
I agree.
Animated films in general weren’t given additional nominations which was weird, I really thought Ciao Papa would’ve been nominated for original song at least 🤷🏼♀️
I personally don't think so. But it is a beautifully made film.
I couldn't make it through that movie. I hated that puppet so much. It looked neat but was unbearable to watch
@@ClarifyEht Ciao Papa should have totally been nominated for best song
Animation line up is stellar. How ever, if pixar wins, I will riot
I would be *much* more annoyed if The Sea Beast wins.
Praying Pinocchio wins because it’s a huge middle finger to Disney since their 2022 version isn’t nominated for anything.
@@thecinematicmind I really liked the sea beast ngl, preferred it to turning red. But pinocchio, marcel and puss in boots are much better than them both.
I actually really liked Turning Red, but I would love for GDT to get his props and shit on Disney. Shout out to Mark Gustafson and Henry Selick as well. And Puss in Boots should win too
For a Pixar film that came out in recent years, Turning Red is surprisingly okay and in some aspects quite refreshing.
That said, yeah, it winning instead of the other nominees this year would be very lame.
Top Gun: Maverick got a Best Picture nomination totally had nothing to do with the fact that the Oscars' viewership get worse and worse every year and they thought giving a Best Picture nomination to the biggest movie of the year would get eyes on them.
The only nomination I would throw out for Top Gun Maverick is Best Original Song.
If that were true they would've nominated Spiderman no way home
Many people would consider it to be one of the best movies of the year also.
@@anthonymartensen3164no but it’s too popular for me to like it
@@anthonymartensen3164those are people that probably haven't seen too many movies
Adum’s favorite movie of every year-
There will be blood
Synecdoche New York
The white ribbon
Black swan
The kid with the bike
Amour
Her
Birdman
Anomalisa
The handmaiden
Three billboards
Climax
The lighthouse
I’m thinking of ending things
Listening to Kenny g
TÁR
Thx Adam for putting so much effort into your content about stuff you love it really makes me happy and makes me want to continue the things I love
I absolutely loved Puss In Boots 2, really hope it will win the nomination. The only movie I cared about this year.
Banshees of Inisherin was definitely my favorite film of the year.
Haven’t seen it. I should have known it’s good because the actors are both phenomenal
Same. It's in my top 5 of all time now.
My favorite part in the Elvis movie was the end credits when Eminem came up and said it’s Venom Time! And proceeded to wrap Venom!
I hate myself for always laughing at these... XD
@@Szokynyovics OK but this one actually makes sense in terms of what the movie was trying to do was to relate to everyone to say that Elvis is so important to the music industry that they used Doja Cat, Eminem, Britney Spears Very WELL known artists and I know I have a point to explain why I use the meme but I can’t explain it because I only have a 10 minute break from my full-time job right now
Tom Hanks’ old man makeup at the start of Elvis looks like Mike Myers as Goldfinger in the 3rd Austin Powers movie
Tom Hanks has no talent for accents. Why is he allowed to keep doing them
The beginning of All Quiet on the Western Front 2022 felt more like it was setting a tone for the movie, watching how the uniforms were taken off of the dead bodies of the characters we just followed to watch them be washed, repaired, and given to the new recruits like it's nothing felt so eerie.
My Year of Dicks is a genuine achievement in short film history of animation and adaptation of a memoir.
Adam uploads an hour and half long video
Me: “Sure! Great! Why not?”
Thank you. Omg I’ve been shitting on Elvis ever since it came out and everyone I’ve ever talked to praise the living hell out of it. You hit the nail right on the head Adum! It’s real shame too, this biopic had so much potential 😭 Never let Baz touch the editing room ever again pls 😅
Eh I didn't mind the movie, but I knew what I was expecting with Baz Luhrman, Adum is definitely hitting the nail on the head calling it adhd.
Also you are so right about the potential. Baz dropped the ball and made a pretty insignificant film. Elvis has a wild career and pop culture icon, changing the music industry forever. It could have been way more interesting.
"felt like it was a videogame"
is a very good description of 75% of all action movies nowadays especially war movies
The best thing Baz Lurman ever did was a Netflix show called "The Get Down," which tells a partially fictionalized story of the origin of R&B. It was really fantastic. It was the most expensive show Netflix had ever made by that point, and it was going to get a second season, but Lurman considered himself a film maker and did not want to be distracted from making films, so it never happened...
Thank you for mentioning this. It’s prob in the top for best productions Netflix has ever made, too, at least in its category. As a New Yorker, they really grasped the energy of that moment in time
Re: Baz Luhrmann - I highly recommend ROMEO+JULIET. I think that’s the perfect synthesis of his style, where it utilizes his high-energy approach while not looking like it’s in a computer (which is a good way to put his post-2010 work, kudos for that haha)
Why so much hate to Lurman's Elvis and Lurman himself? Gatsby is great and Elvis is a good movie as well. Whats wrong with the editing in this movie? Whats wrong with cinematography (it wins at guild awards)? Whats wrong with Butlers performance? I get some critique about Hanks performance, but the concept of a movie with Unreliable narrator makes it more intriguing.
I watched the latest documentary (the searcher) about Elvis and its about 80% true to timeline and history.
Im not from USA, and i knew Elvis only for his most popular songs, and this movie not only gave me a look the tragic fate of a man, but give a push to explore new songs of his discography.
RRR definitely should get the music award. But that’s just my personal bias towards that movie, and Bahubali. I fucking love them both.
I'm honestly hoping Everything Everywhere All At Once gets best picture. I liked All Quiet on the Western Front and Fabelmans just fine they're both 7-8 out of tens for me, but they seem like the choices the Oscars usually go for when you think of Oscar Bait. EEAAO is the stand out movie of this year. It isn't Oscar bait, it isn't a franchise like Top Gun, Black Panther, or Avatar, it's an original movie that has become universally loved.
Couldn't have said it better myself... I'll be very disappointed if it doesn't win
@@AndrewAnstrom And it won! This has honestly been one of the best Oscars in a long ass time imo.
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is based off of a picture book where every bit of dialogue is a motivational quote. The difference in the book though, is that it's intentionally framed as little snippets of interactions between the characters (as the focus is on relationships and discussing emotions), while your mind fills in what they do the rest of the time. It's implied the characters do more over their travels and we're just checking up on them every so often.
The short is a good example of why some things being adapted exactly won't always work. This would have worked more as a series of 1 minute shorts so the time between each was ambiguous, rather than forcing all the interactions to be crammed into 30 minutes (it would also make the "eagles style" twist seem less weird lol) Having the short only be the quotes from the book and whizzing through them all makes it lose something, which is a shame because all the voice actors and animators did such a fantastic job capturing the feel of the gorgeous illustrations and characters.
You and your friends reactions are the only reason I support the Oscars XD
Argentina 1985 did start slow yeah, but the aesthetic and main character did keep me interested. The second half gets quite a bit more emotional as we get into the courtroom drama parts, where they show all the witnesses giving their testimonials.
So many innocent people were tortured and disposed of, and just declared missing afterwards during the dictatorship and hearing the families tell their horror stories in court was quite heartbreaking. I think they even intercut the scenes with the real world footage of the trial which gave it some extra oomph to me.
FINALLY SOMEONE SAID WHAT NEEDED TO BE SAID ABOUT THE MUSIC IN "All Quiet on The Western Front." The only scene where it made sense to me is in the scene with the tanks, that would have made it seem almost alien like, but apparently not
All Quiet was released in 1930, just 3 years after the first major sound film (The Jazz Singer, Oct 1927.) Recording any type of sound ( dialogue, sound effects) was extremely difficult. On the performances, do keep in mind that the cast would have largely worked in Silent cinema before this, where these types of mannerisms were the norm.
Watching Elvis in theaters was a surreal experience
It really does feel like they choose the same 10-15 films on their nomination ballot to nominate for every other category, outside of the odd one here and there in one category, in a random generator thing instead of bothering to check out other films for specific aspects. The films they nominated for editing and cinematography over films such as Decision to Leave and costume design and production design over films such as The Northman is pretty laughable.
Yeah the Northman really should have gotten way more recognition. I didn’t like it as much as the Vvitch due to how much I’ve seen Hamlet stories in other movies, but if Eggers is a master at anything it’s authentic set/costume design.
13:17 good news, Tom Hanks both won Razzie awards for Worst Supporting Role as the miscast Colonel Parker and Worst Screen Couple for his latex makeup design and that thick accent. So yay!
I like how when it came to Wakanda forever, when you spoke of them being mentioned for make-up and hair styling, that frame had mostly bald people, and we all know bald people are known for fantastic hairstyles.
Am I the only one who loves Top Gun 2's screenplay nomination? There's an art to making a proper legacy sequel and a big emotion-driven blockbuster spectacle, and Chris McQuarrie is well-respected.
I agree.
Yup
I guess but the screenplay isn't anything to write home about. I liked the movie, but it was basically just a high budget propaganda film
@@davidtaylor142 I still would rather vote for it than _Women Talking._
It was alright. Felt like it hit a lot of the same beats as the first one without saying anything new. Good movie but I’m not sure what the hype is about
God. Tom Hanks sounded like he was making a Adam Sandler impression in Elvis.
You describing Elvis is literally describing every Baz Luhrmann film. When I watched Moulin Rouge I played a game in my head to make it more interesting and see if a single shot lasted longer than 3 seconds. Not a single shot in that film was longer than 3 seconds.
I used to agree with Adam's opinion on The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I thought the messages were pretty forced. But I started appreciating it more as a "comfort movie" of sorts, like the dialogue in the film is something that people with depression, like myself, need to hear every day. I started recommending the movie to my friends because I genuinely felt like they all had to hear what the movie had to say. It of course isn't for everyone and I'm not fully disagreeing with what Adam said, but I still recommend it.
I like the old All Quiet because it keeps it real, focused solely on the soldier's experience, which is the whole point of the story. No broader politics, just pure grinding hell.
18:23 Jesus the scene is so unintentionally hilarious
Adam mocking the voices at 1:28:15 is so great
My biggest complaint about All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) was that they hired Daniel Brühl to play Mathias Erzberger, the guy with glasses who leads the armistice conversation. His Swabian accent was god-awful and I'm from that area.
Why not hire a Swabian guy ? I'm convinced they wanted some kind of actor who is known in the US to play a "major role" in this movie.
I know the international viewers don't care about our dialects, but if you're going to do the dialect, do it right and not some kind of pseudo-Austrian.
I saw all quiet on the Western Front in Theaters in Germany. And oh boy, the score worked there. It was one of the most intensive Cinema experiences I ever experienced. Felt like being on the battlefield myself. I believe this movie isn't designed for a first watch netflix experience.
About Anderson Cooper in „Black Panther 2“:
Most people forget that this used to be very common in the first few MCU-movies. They put all kinds of famous, real-life people into the first two Iron-Man movies.
I never liked that, for the same reason Adam gives here. But it is actually consistent.
Weird super expressive faces are there because of the old school of silent cinema acting. Actors were most likely trained by silent era teachers
and theatre acting.
Not surprised at all that Adam's favorite movie was call My Year of Dicks.
The ostrich short was actually quite cute! I know we're all tired of meta stuff, but I think this one was well made.
The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse is actually a children’s book. I sold it at my old job in a bookstore, so it makes sense
I remember when I was watching Elvis my dad told me it was the same director as Moulin Rouge and I told him "Oh, that explains why I'm having a seizure right now."
The short about the boy and the animals is actually a book adaptation! It IS for young children much like the old Dr.Seuss shorts were.
Damn this one is a thorough one. Excited to hear extended thoughts on all of these
OMG, thank you so much for the emetophobia warning for _The Triangle of Sadness_ !🙏🏽I would've gone in blind about that!
It was for Triangle of Sadness
I like how Adam keeps saying Ana de Armas has a Chilean acceny when she's from Cuba
I feel like Woman Talking was well structured because it’s these woman slowly adjusting to and evaluating how they’re gonna live. It is sort of interesting that the main thing highlighted early on is that these women are voting for the first time. It’s women who haven’t had a chance to use their voices finally taking steps to use them and addressing the fears that come with the society that’s built around them. Idk, I thought it was one of the best movies of the year
Always look forward to these videos.
57:15 Thank you for reminding me of the onion clip. Gave me a good chuckle
1:00:45 re:dubbing I've been watching a lot of older Hong Kong Jackie Chan movies, and this happens in a lot of those too, where the Cantonese and Mandarin tracks are both obviously dubbed (and in a lot of cases, Jackie Chan is dubbed over by someone else)
Tom Hanks as an old man in makeup (13:05) looks like Fat Bastard from the Austin Powers movies.
14:28 Nobody's ever forced you into watching Romeo + Juliet? That's an achievement Adam
The score for all quiet on the western front sounded exactly like the score from annihilation, which fit for that film, a sci Fi lovecraftian horror, but not for the 20s war movie
EEAAO is my winner of the year. I loved Banshees too but EEAAO just touched my brain so deeply and really helped me reframe how I looked at things I was unhappy with in my own life. I cry every single time I watch it, and I usually hate rewatching films.
Both times I've watched it, I've cried the entire last 30 minutes of the movie... can't remember a movie that affected me that much.
Tbf Baz Luhrmann has always done the weird time period clashes, like there's an infamous scene in The Great Gatsby where they're all getting drunk in a hotel while dubstep plays and it's not as artistically impressive as it would like to be
If Elvis wins for costumes that's just gonna make me even angrier over the snub that was Rocketman
The Elvis film had genuinely great costuming though. We shouldn’t discredit the hard work of the costume designers because of the academy’s actions
I'd really like to see Adam on Chapo Trap House or their adjacent movie podcast "Movie Mindset" to hear them discuss their different opinions from their vastly different perspectives.
I have ADHD and I hated the editing in Elvis. Really obnoxious and all over the place. You hit the nail on the head when you said the whole movie is edited like a trailer.
Sounds like a bohemian rhapsody situation
Baz Luhrmann films are like music videos that are way too long.
I love he makes a list of stuff that was better in the first All Quiet and then the score he gives is just a point higher
That unofficial letterbocxd guy is gonna be busy tonight.
I knew as soon as I watched Tar that it would be your favorite film of the year. It was mine too. That's why I love this channel. I can count on you to get behind challenging movies made with great care.
"Sure, why not." - adum reviews 2023 oscars.
also the Eagles couldn't take Frodo because they might have also been corrupted by the Ring and probably just thrown the hobbits overboard and picked the rings from their corpses. Frodo specifically must carry the ring because he is a hobbit of privilege who wants for nothing. He has friends, family, food, and until the ring comes into his life: safety.
The thing about Im Westen nichts Neues (All quiet on the Western Front) is that this is by far the best thing the german film scene produced in quite some time, only barely now dethroned by Sonne und Beton
Yeah it's a bit janky, yeah the sound and music are a bit off, but if given the choice between this and yet another Schweiger flick, this wins 238% of the time
31:14 really man, just went through to see Maverick and literally go to the bathroom? What the hell do you drink?
Yay, Maverick is still the best rendition sequel than the first one.
This was nominated for bushiest eyebrows. I mean they were kinda bushy but nothing that special - I dunno why you'd give bushiest eyebrows to this movie honestly. It was also nominated for deepest pockets. Some characters did have large pockets on their clothes but the pockets in at least three other films I've seen this year were definitely more cavernous. Now here we have a nomination for most capricious secondary characters. I think this was a solid shout because in a lot of instances did some characters seem to flip opinions without warning so I'm okay with this one. I think The Quiet Girl will win the oscar for best sound design but I don't think it's deserved as at one point you could clearly hear an extra farting into the mic during a pivotal scene - it was kind of embarrassing.
I think Argentina 1985 only really works for argentinians like me because we grew up knowing the horror of what happened around 1976 and 1983, it was a horrifying time to be alive for many people in the country, countless argentinians were forcibly taken from their homes and executed without no one noticing, to this day there are mothers and grandmas that have not seen their children and grandchildren ever again, and it definitely adds to the viewing experience, being able to see the horrible people involved in these acts get their well deserved punishment. It's a period of time that has heavily impacted the country and it's people, and i think the way you expressed your disinterest for the whole ordeal was somewhat heartless? But then again, you aren't argentinian, so i guess you just couldn't see how impactful of an event it was.
It also of course doesn't help that you didn't even finish the movie, but oh well, can't get you to rewatch it if you really didn't enjoy it, still, i really enjoyed your other critiques, and it was because of you that i found out about everything everywhere all at once, and puss in boots being so good before they came out in argentina, so thanks for that becuase those are my top 2 movies of 2022 now.
1:09:01 let’s face it, The Last Wish is the best Puss in Boots film in a good spinoff from the Shrek series so I’m planning to see on my birthday bash on Peacock so yay, it’s a clever DreamWorks comeback movie. Suck on that Boss Baby!