BE ADVISED. IT’S A SPOILER FULL EPISODE!!
Year in Review - 03:17
Award Season Recap - 07:07
The Full Monty - 16:00
L.A. Confidential - 36:09
Good Will Hunting - 1:02:11 … (Insert Re: Harvey Weinstein at 1:05:29)
TITANIC - 1:22:11
As Good As It Gets - 1:46:55
Perfecting Perfection - 2:00:00
Again, unlike last week, ALL FILMS IN THIS EPISODE ARE DISCUSSED WITH SPOILERS. (FYI… most of our podcasts will be free of spoilers, but in an effort to really dig into some of these reviews, we plan to release a Spoiler Full pod from time to time.)
This episode brings you our first Oscar Retrospective, focusing on the 1997 Best Picture race. We open with a Year in Review and Award Season Recap, flow into the bulk of the episode with 5 reviews of each of the nominated films, and conclude by re-ranking the category itself and discussing our top films of the year. We have the audacity to call this final segment, Perfecting Perfection.
Each film review starts with a Production Profile, full of all the essential and weird detail one can unearth. We then build each review segment to a best scene/worst scene discussion and save the overall grades for our ranking segments at the end, for posterity.
Included in our reviews this week, we discuss the soulful art of Irish nicknaming and Tom Wilkinson’s dance moves in our chat about The Full Monty. With LA Confidential, we try to pronounce Kim Basinger, and we should’ve known who the villain was all along. We compare Good Will Hunting to classic rock, and we hate on Harvard guys at bars who like apples. Then with our centerpiece, we discuss Titanic as it’s celebrating a 20th anniversary as perhaps the most successful film of all recorded time, and our debate rightly comes to blows over the merits of Billy Zane’s hairpiece. We conclude the review section with dueling rants on the awful final scenes in As Good As It Gets, and Mike puts the suffix -gasm- on words where the suffix -gasm- shouldn’t go.
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