The Academy Awards and Millie & Casey’s Favorite Movies of 2024

This week on Dear Movies, I Love You, Millie and Casey start things off by discussing their most recently watched films in their Film Diary. They then take a look back on the year 2024 and discuss the impending Academy Awards and their favorite movies of the year. Plus, it’s the first annual Millie Awards - movie awards given out by Millie herself.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Kazy O'Brien, Hi Mili to Cheriico. How are you
doing on this beautiful day.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm doing wonderfully, Thanks for asking. What about you?

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Oh just fine. It's like negative ten degrees here in Minneapolis,
so I'm just trying to stay alive, but doing fabulous
because we're doing a very exciting and timely episode today.
We're talking about, you know, Academy Awards stuff. But first
we're gonna go through our film diary, which is our
movies we've most recently watched. We're going to discuss those,

(00:34):
isn't that right? What else are we doing? Very exciting?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
We are also Doug gonna talk about the Oscars. We're
gonna go through a little bit of just like general
Oscar chat, maybe talking a little bit about Oscar betting
pools and things of that nature. But also we're going
to talk about our favorite movie is of twenty twenty four,
which may or may not be reflected in the numb

(00:59):
and would you say mine.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Are certainly not reflective whatsoever? Like I don't think the
Academy sniffed any of my favorite movies this year, so
that'll be fun to point out some new, different ones
that maybe aren't getting attention. Yeah. And then after that
something very exciting, the first annual Milli Awards, which is
where I'm going to throw some categories at Milli and

(01:25):
she is going to award those movies based off those categories.
She does not know the categories yet, but she will
and the awards will be distributed and it'll be very,
very exciting. So I'm really looking forward to that as well.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yes, I hope I pick correctly.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
I'll just say that, well, there's no real anything you
pick is the correct pick, because it's the Milli Awards.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
It's a group of one person, Yeah, deciding the fate
of movies for the rest of history. Yes, yes, absolutely, Well,
stay tuned. It's going to be a blast. All of
this and so much more on this episode of Dear Movies.
I love you, Dear.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
I love you, and I've got to know you love
me too.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Check the box.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Oh man, isn't that Softies song? Good Millie? Don't we
have a great theme song?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I got to listen to it.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I love it. I started singing it to my dog
so I just I just look at her face and go,
Dear Sophie, I love you, and she's just like, leave
me the fuck alone.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I love that. I love that, Millie. I'm so eager. Okay,
so first off, we're gonna get into our film diary
first and foremost movies we've seen most recently. But before
we get into that breaking news not even breaking. This
is old by the time this comes out, but I
think it is important for us to break any Bradley

(03:07):
Cooper related news that's coming out of the system. So
I just wanted to discuss this really quick. Did you
hear about this his new movie? No, it's so, he
has a new movie coming out. It's called Is This
Thing On? It's starring Laura Dern. I think it was
co written with Will Arnett, who is the lead actor
in the feature. And the reason this is important, you know,

(03:30):
anything that Bradley Cooper does I'm fascinated by because he's insane, Yes,
but he is. So he will be set to direct, produce,
and serve as B camera operator for the movie. So,
which is really interesting. B camera operator. You know, there's

(03:55):
like I don't quite know what that means for this movie,
but I feel like B camera is not the main
camera shop. Yeah, right, so he's doing kind of like
he's off kind of doing his own thing. I don't
know because I feel like when I hear b camera
operator because sometimes with big movies, they're filming things simultaneously, right,

(04:17):
you know, like getting b roll of like uh, you know,
like footage of like a city or something or like
not the main actors, and so it's but he's directing
it and he's getting the b roll footage. I'm just
sort of confused by what that means.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, I mean that's the thing like you make movies.
So maybe explain that a little bit, uh, because it
is it b roll in in the sense that there's
like an entire team that's shooting on another location.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
That sat understanding. Like Lord of the Rings I believe,
you know, they had like B and C where they're like,
you know, filming like guys riding horses through a pasture.
Why Vigo Mortensen is acting elsewhere and they're filming that, like,
so they're kind of filming things simultaneously. That's my understanding.
It also could mean that they have more than one

(05:11):
camera rolling at the same time, because like with bigger
budget movies, you'll shoot like two different angles of a
scene at the same time to kind of save time.
So you'll get like a wide shot that will include
all the actors in a scene with one camera, and
then you'll have another camera going at the same time,

(05:32):
and that's just getting the close up on like Brad
Pitt or whatever, right, you know, because you'll cut between
for editing a scene, you'll cut between a wide shot
and a close up, and a lot of times on
like smaller movies or like really most movies, they'll shoot
the wide shot with the camera because they only have
one camera, and then they'll move the camera closer and

(05:53):
shoot the scene again in a close up. But on
bigger movies they'll do them simultaneously. So maybe he's operating
more of the less important camera. I don't know. I
just thought that was it's just so funny that he
is doing that. I don't quite understand why this is
supposed to be a meta comedy commentary on Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Okay, yeah, because I was thinking, if he's the director,
then how is he directing both like the A footage
and the B footage. I don't know. Maybe that's too
I don't know anything about directing like that, so maybe,
but it just seems bizarre to do it that way.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
No, I I more info as this develops. Just wanted
to bring that. Put this on your radar.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yes, I feel like we need to include one of
those like old timey news bulletin beat anytime that we
talked about Bradley Cooper's new movie. So get on that.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Okay, well I'll look into that. But really I must
know what movies have you seen this past week? Oh?

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Okay, film diary, coumin atcha. So the first one that
I saw was the brand new Pedro Maldivar movie The
Room next Door, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Amazing. Pedro Almdovar a storied and amazing Spanish director who
has worked you know, he has a lot of melo
dramas and his movies are very bright, a lot of
primary colors bright, and a lot of them are about
Tell me if you think this is a wrong characterization.

(07:37):
There are women's stories, yes, quote unquote, and include very
hot men.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
See, you nailed exactly every point of why I love
a Moldavar as a director, because that is exactly what
I like, and this is exactly what this movie was.
It's like a very I mean, it's a very intense
story it's essentially about a woman who was dying and

(08:04):
sort of like her end of life wishes right, And
it's kind of this like it's almost kind of like
a moral conundrum of being asked to participate in something
like that and sort of like whether or not you
feel like this is something that you could actually do
and you know, this kind of thing. It's so it's
very intense and you know, just it's it's a it's

(08:28):
a it's a heavy one. But the bottom line is
that it is exactly as you said, amazing women, like
amazing like middle aged women. I have to say, incredible colors.
I mean, let's get serious, Like who doesn't want to
live in an Amaldivar apartment, you know, like all of
the apartments are so incredible, and.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
There's this shade of blue he always uses that I
just can see in my brain, and yes, you just
want to jump into that world, Yes, with a spoon.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
But that yeah. And then of course hot dudes, and
they're not even like a huge part of the story,
except for maybe John Taturo who's one of the other
co stars who and I actually think John Tatrrou is hot,
Like I think he's hot hotter now that he ever
has been. So yes, I do love a Barton Fink
though not not gonna lie, but yeah, So that movie

(09:22):
was fantastic, really affected me afterwards, so I would recommend
it for sure. If people are trying to check that out.
I think it's still in movie theaters. Then I watched
this is an amazing I have been wanting to talk
about this because I really love the person who directed
this film. So there is a film called Ask Anybody Okay,

(09:44):
and it was made by Elizabeth Purchell. Liz Purchell, who
is basically, I would argue, is probably the best most
knowledgeable scholar about gay adult film that we have right now.

(10:04):
And she has been doing this project for years and
it's basically you know, it's called Ask Anybody b you
d d Why? And it's essentially her life's work. I mean,
it's about like the preservation and the historical contextualization and
the research into the gay adult film world from like

(10:27):
I would say, like the sixties to like maybe the
eighties and maybe early nineties, and it's fascinating stuff. And
I've worked with her many times in the past at
other jobs, and I consider her a friend, and I
mean she the amount of research and archiving and finding
that she's done over the years is fantastic, and so

(10:48):
she created this I would say it's kind of like
an art project. It kind of reminds me a little
bit of some like you know, like Tom Anderson type
of video essay no narration, just like a compilation of
these like scenes from these really I would say, kind
of rare or missing adult gay adult films and again

(11:11):
from like the sixties to like the eighties maybe early nineties,
and it's this compilation and it's it's put together in
such a fascinating way because it's kind of done the
way that she does it is it's done based on location.
Like in the film, so there's like, you know, a
section that's all about bathhouses. There's a section about you know,

(11:33):
the peers in New York. There's a section about you know,
gay theaters. There's you know, so it's kind of like
a way to orient the clips as to like here
are these like traditional gay spaces, and like how the
you know, the adult film industry sort of use these
spaces as part of like this is what gay life is.
This is where gay men congregate, you know, especially like

(11:56):
back in the day when you know, it was pretty
much she'll legal to be gay in most parts of
the world, you know what I mean. And it was amazing.
It played at the Plaza here in Atlanta, which I
thought was fantastic. And I know she does screenings sometimes,
like she's done them at the Metrograph and in LA
and stuff, So I don't know. I thought it was incredible.

(12:17):
It's really like an amazing piece of film.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Cool.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
So check that out if it comes to your city.
I encourage you. Then I saw I saw Nosferatu again
the second time.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
I also saw oh and this is actually the only
movie I saw in the last week. Oh, so this
we should bridge this art. We're bridging our film diaries together.
We're writing on the same page. We're ripping out a notebook,
my notebook handing you. We're collaborating here on the diary.
I don't remember your review. What did you think of No? S?

Speaker 2 (12:55):
So? I loved it, okay, And I felt based on
letterbox of course, and I was like, am I the
only person that likes this? Why are none of my friends?
Why what's going on here?

Speaker 1 (13:11):
It was very polarizing. Yeah, I feel like people really
loved it or hated it, and I feel like I
was a little I liked it too. I thought it
was a vibe, it felt great, just like living in
that world. I liked all the actors in it. I
didn't like how shrouded in darkness. No Speratu was I

(13:33):
kind of and I didn't like. I don't know if
I liked his mustache.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
To be honest, we feel entirely differently about this stuff, Okay.
In my letterbox review, I talk about how I didn't
think I would love not Sparatu with a handlebar mustache,
but by god, I do.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
And I think there's there's sort of wasted hotness potential
because he's played by Bill Scarsgard. You know my letterbox review,
she really is rolling her. My wife's letterbox review was
let Bill Scarsguard be hot, and I guess I kind
of felt similarly, Why are we ugling up this man?

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well, he can't be hot, do you know what?

Speaker 1 (14:15):
I'm sad they made Gary Oldman like sexier. He had
a glow up in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Can't they do
the same.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Because he's supposed to be a monster like he's supposed
to be You're not because if he's hot. Then you're like, well, okay,
then how come Lily Rose dup just don't go off
with him?

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Then you're right, I mean he is a he is
a monster literally right in the movie. But you know
what I'm saying. I did really like it though. I
was like delighted to live in that space. I would
watch it again, especially in the Halloween season, just to
be like, ooh, this is so good and creepy and like,
so I I really did like it and enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Well, okay, and to this point, let's now we got
to talk about this because it's all I'm thinking about
the fact that they didn't let Bill scarsguard Cook.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
I think that it's.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Good because my my one thing. Okay, first of all,
I thought the movie was great. I and part of
like what I was shocked what I was shocked by
by some of my friends. And like, you know, I
got some friends that are like real hardcore centophiles, like
silent movie stands, like really really hardcore in the weeds

(15:26):
with that kind of stuff, and they all hated it.
They were just like, yeah, this isn't this isn't up
to snowf like, oh my god. And I'm just like,
first of all, that movie was made one hundred years ago. Dude, Like,
I don't think you can really compare the two. That's
just me. I feel like that's fair, yes, And I
feel like you're going you're basically saying like, oh, like

(15:47):
this movie, a modern movie that was made with modern
technology and modern everything, isn't as good as a movie
that was made in an error where they were like
putting fucking holes in boxes to watch films. I mean,
come on, we're like in this like a totally radically
different time. So I just don't feel like I love
the original, but I'm not.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
I don't. I'm not comparing the two, right, I just that.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Was just well, I'm just saying I think the people
who I who I was, you know, kind of looking
engaging their reaction to the movie, who I thought would
have liked it, were like hell no, And I'm like,
all right, well then that's a I don't know. That
to me was not as a reason for me to
dislike it, being that it wasn't like the original. The
thing that I liked about it a lot because I

(16:31):
I loved The Lighthouse, Like Robert Egger's one of his
older films, The Lighthouse, and I thought there was a
little bit of lighthouseness to it because it was kind
of funny, like it kind of had funny moments to it,
but also like dark as fuck, which I really appreciated.
But I have to say, all right, I gotta look
this guy up. What's his name, Nicol, what's.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
The guy that played her husband, Nicholas Holt.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
So to the point where we were talking about why
not let Scar guard Cook, I think that Nicholas Holt's
character was He's supposed to be the Knight in shining
Armor type, but he's not. And by the end of
the movie you realize that he's definitely not okay. But

(17:15):
that's what I think. I feel like his character was
kind of like, I don't know, a little snively, a
little like, you know, kind of like a whiny baby type,
which I'm not complaining. I love a whiny baby. But
I feel like if you let Bill Scar's guard be hot,
then we would have hated that motherfucker. We would have

(17:37):
hated her husband and been like, right, oh, God, get
rid of this guy. Go off with Nosferatu, be his
vampire bride. Look at his bod. It's sick.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
So That's what I mean, you know. Okay, Millie, we
gotta move on. That was our film diary. Tutah, Okay,

(18:14):
we are back to talk about the Oscars. Millie. What
you know? You and I I would say we both
like movies. Yes, is that fair to say?

Speaker 2 (18:25):
I think so.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
But you know, what is your relationship to the Academy
Awards and how has it changed over time? The Academy
Awards are coming up very soon. They're coming up on
March second, twenty twenty five. It's just around the corner.
So what is your relationship with the Oscars and how

(18:46):
has it changed over the years.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Well, okay, I'm a what you would call a classic
flip flopper when it comes to my feelings on the Oscars.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Because classic John carry over.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
So uh shout out John Kerry wherever you were. My
So my thing is and I think if you know
me and you know what I like, and you know
what I write about, know what I talk about, You're like, Okay,
lots of times the Oscars are not really fucking with

(19:21):
the stuff that I fuck with, do you know what
I'm saying? Like, most years there's nothing, I got no
skin in the game, do you know what I'm saying,
I hear you, and to that effect, I start being like, well,
what the fuck is this? Why do fucking did anybody
care about this thing? You know, because like I don't know,

(19:41):
you know whatever, like this is all bullshit, you know,
blah blah blah blah. Then when I was working at TCM,
you know, obviously we did a lot of stuff with
the Oscars. We did this stunt every year called thirty
one Days of Oscar, and it was kind of this
like big event for us, and then started kind of
it kind of felt like the Oscars because everybody around

(20:03):
me at work was so jacked up for them. And
we also did this huge Oscar pool thing more about
that later, where we would all like, you know, try
to win money for the best, you know, whoever accurately
gets the winners in that kind of stuff. And so
from that point it kind of became almost kind of
like a fantasy football type of feeling where I was like, oh,

(20:24):
this is like a game, sure, and you know, then
I'll try to watch the movies because I'm trying to
win this game, because I want to win like forty
five dollars or something like that. Huh. But then I
don't know. In the most recent years, I feel like
there has been a couple things that I've been like, okay, now,
you know, getting me back in. Like when you know,

(20:45):
Moonlight or Parasite or something you know gets nominated, I'm
just like, oh, okay, well, I don't know, maybe this
is a thing again. But then typically that'll happen for
one year, and then the next year I'm like, I
don't care more, do.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (21:03):
I just can't. I'm just not consistently into it. I
think it is a year by year scenario. I don't
know how about you.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Well, you know, when you're getting into movies as a
you know, a teen or whatever, you pay attention to
the Oscars because that's the awards show for the best
movies of the year. And I think I sincerely still
care about what is nominated because that is the most

(21:35):
visible representation of what is considered a good movie by
the masses. Yeah, you know, and so so I still
have such excitement about the Oscars. I love watching the Oscars.
It does not always reflect my taste, and sometimes I'm
just like, why did you pick that movie? And some days,

(21:58):
you know, I think it's a Hollywood reporter will do
these like anonymous Oscar voter articles. Have you ever read those? No,
Where it's like an anonymous Oscar voter will like give
their two cents. And I remember they were like, oh,
I would never vote for Adam Sandler for Best No
one's gonna vote for Adam Sandler to be nominated for

(22:18):
Best Actor because he's made so many bad movies before,
and like, I think that's kind of craz like. So
they do show the sort of political side of things.
Or I remember there was an anonymous Oscar voter article
where they were like, I only saw one movie this
year and it was Warhorse, so I'm voting for that
for Best Picture in all the other categories. And I'm like,
this sucks. This isn't like a real representation of these

(22:42):
weird old fogies aren't watching any movies, but are still
had their vote counts. Yeah you know, yeah anyways.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, I hear.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
I go back and forth too, But I still I
really care. I still really care. And I remember when
The Shape of Water one, which wasn't like my favorite movie,
but when they wanted I was, I screamed. I was
like yay, yeah, you know, because it was like, I
was like, this is cool that a Gielmo del Toro

(23:13):
movie is winning Best Picture.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah. See, listen, that's what I like about you. You're
like a little bit more of a traditionalist than I
am when it comes to like, you know, the stuff
like holidays and you know, events and like galas. Perhaps
I just feel like I'm such a hater, hater spicy tater.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
That I'm like, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
I'm like, I'm too based for the Oscars man, like
you know, that's just the way it's going to be.
But then because I don't know, because fucking like Bruce
le Bruce doesn't get nominated or something like that. But
it's like you know what I'm saying, Like I'm like, yeah,
some years I get back into it, and it usually
takes like some dark horse movie like in the Parasite Moonlight,

(23:58):
you know, Godzilla type of thing, or you're just sort
of like cool, like there's an actual cool movie made
by cool people that's in it, and how did it happen?
I don't know. But I'm in for this year, so.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Everything everywhere all at once. I would sort of throw
in there too. I know some people have maybe different
opinions about that movie, but I that was like kind
of an outsider movie to win Best Picture.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Listen, like, anytime we can get some Asian representation up
in the Oscars, if anytime you get subtitles in a
Best Picture, I'm like, good, Like, let's yeah go, you
know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (24:32):
So totally so, are there any standout films? Now, both
you and I have not seen every single movie nominated
because it's just impossible, But are there any standout movies
to you that are nominated this year that give you

(24:55):
that little you know you're can slow lightly duck your
head out of the hater cave to just look hopefully
at the nominations this year? Is there anyone that makes
you kind of happy?

Speaker 2 (25:10):
I mean I think I think obviously, and I think
maybe me and you might align on this, But you know, Anora,
I mean that definitely feels like a one of these
like movies that we're talking about in terms of totally
being something. I mean, Sean Baker got nominated for Best Director.
That is fantastic for me.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, I mean, it was just a couple of years
ago that he was making a movie on an iPhone
about trans sex worker a comedy about trans sex workers
and now and this movie isn't like the commercial, It's
not necessarily he didn't like sell out and make a
different type of movie. He made a Sean Baker type

(25:51):
movie about you know, a stripper and sex worker, and
it got nominated for Best Picture and he's nominated for
Best Director. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
One of the supporting actors, the guy I think his name.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
As You're a Borisov. He got nominated for a Supporting Actor,
and Mikey Madison was nominated for Actress in a Leading Role,
which I think is fabulous. You know. So, Uh, I
think something that something that's kind of bummed me out.
I think recently a recent trend with the oscars, And
in some ways it's always been like this, but it

(26:25):
seems like the Academy really only gives out leading oscars,
leading actor oscars to roles that are of real people
like that. We have a pandemic of that. You know,
it's like Oppenheimer. It's uh, Timothy playing Bob Dylan, Timothy

(26:50):
Shallo May playing Bob Dylan, or like Daniel day Lewis
playing Lincoln or Gary Oldman playing Winston Churchill.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Oh, you can't forget the uh, Freddie Mercury with what's.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
This Freddie Murray? Yeah, Ronnie Mallich, it's only biopicks. It's
kind of like people's creativity has gone out the window
and they can only they'll be like, oh, yeah, this
person did is like that other person cool, Like, I
don't know, that's just such a stupid I think acting
is so much more than doing an impression. And I'm
not saying these people are doing impressions, but I think

(27:29):
creating a character is a really huge part about being
an actor, and like embodying this character and fleshing it out,
and to have it to have people only be awarded
for either playing a real person or playing joker, yeah,
I mean, like it seems like those are the only

(27:50):
ways to win an oscar these days.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
So yeah, you're totally right.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
It's a bummer.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah, yeah. I mean, Dara is saying that Hollywood is
getting lesson as creative as as time goes on, So
it doesn't surprise me that that is sort of an
unintended consequence of the awards. But I mean, my I
don't know. My whole thing too, is that there's also
that notion of the the nomination going to some traditionally

(28:22):
beautiful woman who was playing gross and ugly.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
This will this may come up in the Million Awards.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Oh boy, oh boy?

Speaker 1 (28:35):
But yes, that like someone's beenlified. Yes, to play a
real person, you know, or.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Even a fake person, because like, listen, another movie that
is kind of over the top that got nominated this
year is The Substance.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yes, and Demi.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Moore getting the the nomination for uh Best Actress, right
is that not?

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (29:00):
So Demi Moore getting the nomination for Best Actress in
the Substance And I'm sitting here going like this is
giving shades of Charlies and Monster even though you know,
obviously she was playing a real person. But the vibe
of it is like, God, isn't it amazing that this
beautiful Hollywood actress is like, you know, got like puke

(29:26):
and blood and shit all over her, isn't it? She's
so daring, you know what.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
I'm like, Yeah, Okay, Like I think it's okay to
give awards to Demi Moore for just being good at
being an actress, not just that, you know, like now
she's like she's so bold for going gross.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
I'm like, well, yeah, you know, yeah, now that's I mean,
you're totally right. That's that's like another way to hack
to hack the Oscar, hack the Oscars. So yeah, yeah, well, Millie,
did we get into some of our favorite movies of
the year. Have we upon the Oscars enough? I think
we've touched.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Upon them in the the best way that you and
I could touch upon them.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
If you know what I'm saying, Let's do our top
three movies of the year. Does that okay?

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Jesus?

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Is that too many or too long?

Speaker 2 (30:14):
No, that's actually fine. That's actually totally fine. So okay,
my top three favorite movies of what twenty twenty four?
I suppose leading into twenty five. So my my third
most favorite movie of last year was D d Interest.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
I didn't see DD but people loved.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Absolutely loved it. And it's not because I'm half Asian,
but it is also because I'm half Asian. I to me,
it was this perfect like representation of a Asian kid
growing up, you know, like first generation y type of

(30:58):
thing in America who is sort of struggling with being
Asian in like a like kind of more traditional white
teenage experience, right, so like he becomes obsessed with like
it's like so sorry, about this like I don't know,
I'd say, like middle school age kid, Asian American boy

(31:21):
who's played by Isaac Wang. Such an adorable, tender story
about him kind of I don't know, just sort of
like wanting to be included and wanting to be liked
by people in his class and in his community, and
he like loves skateboarding and you know, making videos. And

(31:42):
then it was also this like perfect time where it
was kind of like early days of the Internet type
of thing where I think people were still maybe on
like aol instant messenger and shit. And and then but
you know, to me, my and I wrote about this
movie on my sub stack, by the way, so if

(32:02):
you like really want to drill down into my thoughts
about it, you can do that. But there's this whole
story about him and his mom that really affected me.
And it's because I, you know, obviously have an Asian
mother who moved to America, like immigrated from the Philippines,
and like also, I mean I grew up in the
Deep South, so I was this like you know, this

(32:26):
feeling like very different at times having like not just
one but two immigrant parents. But you know, obviously my
mom being Asian and you know, having an accent and
sort of you know, learning. She was like I saw
her learn about American life like in real time as
a kid, you know. Yeah, and the struggle of being
a good uh like in that middle school era and

(32:49):
wanting to be independent, wanting so badly to be American
and sort of like having because of the nature of that,
having to push away my mom in weird ways. And
I and that's hard to talk about because of course
I look at that now and thank god, that's so

(33:10):
shameful or you know, I can't believe that, you know,
I would treat my mother like that or whatever. But
I think it was like that was what the movie
really really did for me, was being like just seeing
another kid in my sort of similar position doing that
and yeah, and realizing that it's just a part of

(33:31):
growing up and it's complicated when you're you know again,
like you've got foreign born parents, or you've got like,
you know, a mom who's maybe like not doing what
you think is the most American white person thing or whatever.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
I just absolutely loved it. I thought it was such
a special movie, and I'm surprised it didn't get nominated Okay, like,
let's get serious.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
I think it came out way earlier in the year.
I feel like it's one of those movies that like
came out at the wrong time to come out, like
in the months leading up, it would have had more
bo See.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
This is why I don't let knows oscars. God.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah, anyway, I'm gonna do my third one. Okay, Okay,
mine are like not Traditionally these would never get nominated,
So okay, I'm gonna go in that way. I really
liked this movie from this year. It's a horror movie
called In a Violent Nature. Did you see this movie? Oh?
I did not, so My letterbox review was this is

(34:30):
as if Kelly Reichart directed a Jason movie. It's very
slow and meditative, and it follows this killer like this
Mike Myers type killer as he just kind of like
walks slowly through the woods and you just see him
like approach teens and kill them. But it's scary. It's

(34:52):
all from the killer's point of view. And but it's
like really slow. I see this really fascinating.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
It looks like a meat hook a chain.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah, damn, it's good. It's good, and it's like scary
and effective but slow, and there's like no music. You know,
it's very like realistic and uh, highly recommend it. Wow,
that's Bookie.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
That looks intense. Yeah, that sounds great.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
I'm in directed by Chris Nash. Uh yeah, highly highly
recommend it.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Amazing.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
What's your number two? MILLI my number two?

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Yeah. Another movie that didn't get nominated, It's Challengers boo yeah,
directed by Luca Guadanioeah, I mean it was the it
was the jam of the summer though, you.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Remember, I can't believe it didn't get now. I feel
like it was on the tip of everyone's tongue. Everyone
was talking about it, and uh didn't get didn't get
an ounce of respect from the Academy.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
I mean for shame, because that shit was all the
way live for me. I want twice. I was like,
I'm loving it, I mean honestly, like stylistically so like
I like love the whole kind of like upper crusty
tennis white Swimbledon vibe. But then it was like you

(36:17):
know this like like almost kind of like a polyamorous,
bisexual romp.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yes, And it was all about.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Like female power, which I of course love, and the
music was fantastic. It was like Trent Reznor from Nine Nails.
I mean, honestly, like, what's not to love about challengers?
I don't know, So what about your second?

Speaker 1 (36:40):
My second? So I think technically this was released in
twenty twenty two, but it was still in theaters and
it made its kind of big push this last year.
It is The People's Joker by filmmaker Vera Drew. How
are you familiar with this?

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Oh, I haven't seen it, but it is on my
watch list.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
It is incredible. It is very Drew is this comedian
and she's an editor, she's a trans filmmaker, and it
is kind of the story of the Joker. But it's
like very funny, and it's like it seems like it
was filmed in her garage with all green screens and stuff,

(37:17):
and so you're like, is this gonna look like shit?
And in some ways it's like really low five, but
it's really funny and it's really tight, and I highly
recommend it. It's like no other film I've ever seen.
And I just think it was very inspiring in terms
of you have the tools to make a feature film, yea,
and to make a good one, and I think you

(37:40):
might have to buy this on physical media because I
think there are some lawsuits regarding parody law. It's like
a parody of the Joker that WB I don't think loves.
But she's a really interesting filmmaker and this was her
first film and it's really a fun movie. I really

(38:00):
recommend it, you know. And I was like, I'm not
really a superhero comic book person, and I know it's
like a parody of that. So I was like, I
don't know if I'm gonna like love this like Joker stuff,
but it was great.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Yeah, well awesome, Well okay, well my number one, number one,
my number one. I. I loved this movie so much.
And it is the Last show Girl.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Oh my god?

Speaker 2 (38:28):
What directed by al Gea Coppola, who I think is
the Is it Sophia's niece?

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Is I don't know how, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
I think, yeah, I think that she's Francis's granddaughter and
is let me miss it. Yeah, Sophia's Sophia and Roman's niece. Right, Okay,
But I gotta tell you those Copolas, they don't really

(39:03):
know how to make a movie look fantastic, because that
was part of what I loved about the film. Besides
the obvious, which is this is the return of Pamela Anderson, who,
of course, as you know, like huge star from you know,
her work on Baywatch and her work and dating rock

(39:27):
and rollers, multiple rock and rollers. But and also what's
that show she's just not a syndicated show where she
played like a librarian.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
I forgot the name was it. There was something that
was like VIP or like.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
I think it was called Stacked. I think it's Stacked.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Missed that one.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Or she was like a maybe not a librarian, but
she like owned a bookstore or something. I was like, oh,
that's funny. Let me tell you right now. She has
been my inspiration this year because some pam Anderson and
I don't know if you saw her the documentary about
her that came out actually not that long ago. I
thought it was great. She is basically like, you know,

(40:13):
I am living my most authentic true life. I'm not
wearing makeup anymore. I'm doing anything that I want to do.
I'm leaning into self knowledge and you know, self care.
And you know she's in the garden, she's reading. She's
just being like, I mean effectively sort of like her

(40:35):
non past self, like in the ways that in which
our culture saw her, you know what I mean, because
it was like she was just like this fucking blonde, bombshell,
like dreamy, like Hollywood lady for so long that now
she's just.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Like she was almost a cartoon character.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, and that is like obviously there's a lot to
unpas and the ways in which you know, we uh
sort of like put women like that into a very
specific hole and don't let them come out of it, right,
And so my whole thing with her in this performance,
and you know, the movie is effectively about, you know,

(41:17):
Pam Madison plays this older lady that's still a part
of this like very old old school traditional Las Vegas
show that's kind of like on the way out right,
and her just sort of like coming to terms with
the fact that it's like she's her career is probably
ending and that she's being phased out of this career
that she's had in Las Vegas and sort of like

(41:39):
the faded glamour of those old school Vegas Sea type
shows with like the feather hair thing and you know,
like the costumes and everything, and she's got this, you know,
a strange daughter that she's trying to like make amends
with and it's just very tender. She you know, obviously
gives a very emotional performance. But then there's also like

(42:00):
Jamie Lee Curtis who plays her kind of Vegas strip friend.
She is fantastic in this movie. Jamie Lee was there. Oh, yes,
they have. I mean it is to be to honestly,
to go back to Sean Baker. It kind of feels
like a Sean Baker movie. Interesting and maybe that's why

(42:20):
I like it. And I'm not saying that like Giacoppola
had him in mind at all when she made this movie,
but like the feeling of like that world, it's like
the underworld that kind of gets like some exposure and
you're and you're and these are like authentic people who
are kind of just living their everyday lives but they're trying,
you know, they're kind of in like weird dire straits.

(42:43):
Maybe sometimes and not, but it was Honestly, it looked fantastic.
I want to see a movie with Jamie Lee Curtis
and Pam Anderson more times. They should make like five
sequels to this movie and just have it be about
them hanging out in Vegas together. Like I loved it.
It was it was my favorite of this past year,

(43:04):
so very good.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yeah, thank you mill. My Number one is a movie
called I Saw the TV Glowe. Yeah. I loved this movie.
It's by director Jane Shane Brunn. I was an easy
mark this movie because it's all about being obsessed with
this main character is obsessed with a TV show that

(43:29):
had been canceled and it's like a TV show from
the nineties that's kind of like are You Afraid of
the Dark slash Buffy the Vampire Slayer slash ghost Writer
And the name of the show in the movie is
the pink O Peak And yeah. The main character is
played by Justin Justice Smith and he and his good friend,

(43:54):
his friend Maddie who's played by Jack Haven, they are
obsessed with this TV show and it gets very surreal
because it's sort of of like Maddie thinks that they
have entered the TV show and like the real world
and this TV show sort of get confused. I would

(44:14):
say it is a surreal film. It's a very nostalgic film,
and it's a very good vibe film because it's got
an incredible soundtrack with you know, artists like Phoebe Bridgers,
who's actually in the movie too, but I really loved it,
had a very emotional experience watching it. Jane shanebren is

(44:37):
an amazing filmmaker. They also made this film We're All
Going to the World's Fair a few years ago. I
don't know, they're just a very fast I don't even.
I can't even It's hard for me to even describe
their movies. But they're an incredible filmmaker and I'm like
so excited to see what they do next. And I
also think I wanted to highlight two trans filmmakers because

(44:57):
this is such a horrible time for trans people in
this yeah, yeah, there, you know. And both of these,
both I saw The TV Glow and People's Joker deal
with trans issues and are inspired by trans people, and
uh yeah, so I just really was affected by this
movie emotionally. As a person who watched TV endlessly as

(45:20):
a child and was very seduced by television in the nineties,
this really stuck with me.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
So that's an amazing pick. I saw it on an
airplane actually really Oh yeah, yeah, it was on one
of my one of my flights recently. And yeah, that's
the thing too, is like all this talk about the
oscars right. This is an example I feel like of
just like pure creativity and like what I feel like
the Oscars need to be celebrating ultimately is just like this,

(45:51):
and like, I you know, I don't think it. I
gotta be honest, I have kind of a negative view
about whether or not the Oscars will ever rise to
that occasion in a way because I just feel like,
I don't know, there's just so much like people pleasing
that happens in awards that they're just like not ready
to be that bold and it sucks. But it's also like,

(46:12):
I don't know, it does put in perspective like when
you see like purely like interesting original concepts like this,
you're just like, oh, yeah, that happens and it's awesome
and you know whatever, Like I'm glad that that exists
for me if I'm not like interested in that sort
of like Oppenheimer, you know, like big, big budget, you know,

(46:35):
Hollywood stuff.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Right, Yeah, absolutely, I'm glad we went through our tops.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
I think we have good.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Lists, so I think so too. Well, now it's important
to get into the real awards. Oh, the Million Awards,
which I know everyone's very excited about to hear what

(47:03):
the Awards. So I have come up with a series
of categories. Here the first annual Milli Awards. Hopefully this
is a tradition. We got to collapse one hundred years.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
Yeah, we got to come up with a like a
theme song involving French War.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Yes, yes, yes, I would love that. Maybe we can
put some you know, non copyrighted music underneath this, just
a music bed, yes, yes, so I'm going to start MILLI.
These are just some categories that you know, and they
can change every year. These are not Maybe they'll stay
the same if they're relevant, but you know, it's kind

(47:38):
of a we they're interchangeable. We'll see how when we
revisit the Millia Awards next year, a movable feast will yes,
a movable feast. And you do not have to pick
movies that were nominated for an Academy Award. This is
all movies of this year, this year, twenty four, twenty
twenty four. Okay, okay, okay, of last year, I guess

(47:59):
you okay, Best movie to take your dad too my dad?

Speaker 2 (48:06):
Oh Jesus Christ, Well, I did take my dad to
this movie and he loved it. I took him to
see a complete unknown.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
Congratulations a Complete Unknown for winning the award for Best
Movie to Go Take Your Dad Too? Did your dad
like it?

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Yeah, I mean this is sound I think the right winner.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
It absolutely is like, Okay, a Bob Dylan biopic featuring
Pete Seeger like prominently. I mean, come on, that's like
the daddiest of dad movies, right, Yes, my dad is
so fucking funny anytime we see anything. He loves biopics.
He loves historical documentaries, He loves everything. He and I

(48:50):
watched the entire Ken Burns National Parks documentary, like there's
like twelve parts or something, and I mean he's like
eating it up. He loves that shit. But like we
came out of a complete un note of my dad
and this he does this every time we go and
see something together. He just starts giving me like a history,
like a whole hiss, like a brief history of everything.

(49:11):
Like he'd be like, well, you know, started with the
Civil War, and when the Civil War happens, it's like
and then he moves on to like World War One,
and then he moves on to like the Flappers, and
then he moves on to like, you know, the Depression,
and also and he just goes through this entire history
and he'll weave his own like personal history into him.
He's like, it's when I joined the Navy back in

(49:32):
the early seventies. And I'm like, and the whole car
ride home becomes this. He just gets into his like
history nerd shit, and it cracks me up, and I'm
just like, that's the movie that triggered it. This time
was a complete unown. So there you go.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
That's my one. So funny, Okay, Congratulations is a complete unknown.
Best movie to go to after a breakup?

Speaker 2 (49:54):
I think my choice is probably going to be Furioso
the Mad.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Maximums Congratulations Fury for winning best movie to go to
after a break up. I think that's a great choice.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Yeah, I truly believe that you need to see the
goddess Firiosa just wipe out a bunch of people with
her arm gun or whatever. Yeah, that's that's what my
choice is, so fabulous.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
Best movie to go to to impress your cinophile crush.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Oh Jesus, my cinophile crush. Huh. I should have prepared
better for this, You should have.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
How could you have prepared it better?

Speaker 2 (50:37):
I don't know, but I just I'm feeling stumped. Oh
I would think maybe, uh this was a movie that
was was on my best of lists, but I didn't
include it in this episode. But Love Lies Bleading perfect.
I feel like that movie was probably something It's like,

(50:59):
you know, basically like a gay love story, really stylistic,
like kind of fantastical. So you know, like if my
if my boy my sin up a boyfriend can't hang
with that shit, then we gotta break up. I'm gonna
go see Furiosa after we break up.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Okay, congratulations Love Lies Bleeding Okay, these are gonna get
a little bit simpler. I suppose best horror Movie, Best
horror Movie.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Well, I gotta be honest with you, like there's the
horror stuff that ever that came out. And I know
you have probably a lot of opinions on this, because
you know you're a big horror guy. But I have
to tell you, like my favorite horror themed movie, if
you will, if I'm allowed to expand, was And this

(51:51):
is my personal favorites. Like I'm not saying that this
is like the Million Awards. These are my awards. They're
my awards. Is I loved Lisa Frankenstein?

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Oh, I love Lisa Frankenstein.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
That's cute, cute, right, Like I thought it was so
cute and sweet. Loved Cole Sprouse is that his name? Who?

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (52:15):
I mean I used to I watch the first like
one or two seasons of Riverdale, Riverdale, of course, and
I was like totally in love with drug hand. I
was like, I love this drug head he is. He
is my type. I would have had a big crush
on him in high school. And that was the thing
is that he kind of played he is that guy.
He played. His character Lisa Frankenstein was his total like

(52:39):
like new romantic, new wavy eighties goth boyfriend crush, and
he was a zombie, so you know, obviously like that fits,
you know, but I was like, oh, yeah, this is
my shit right here. Love it.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
He was my shitty little vampire, if you know what
I mean. If you listened to I saw what you did.
H Cole Sprouse at Lisa and Lisa Frankenstein was my
shitty little vampire.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
So very good. Thank you. Okay, I don't know if
you're even gonna be able to name this one, but
I'll just throw it out here at best sequel of
the Year.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Best sequel. I mean, honestly, it's got to be done
too right.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Do you like done too well?

Speaker 2 (53:20):
I mean it feels like, listen, I'm gonna throw this
out there. I have seen the original Dune fairly recently.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
And I was like, David Lynch's due the okay.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
David, which most people think is garbage. I don't know
if you think that.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
I don't think it's garbage. I mean I can see
the David Lynch stuff in there, and I like that stuff,
like stylistically, it's fun, but I don't think it's garbage.
I would never say such a.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Thing about it well made, right, I mean, I actually,
coming in at it with fresh eyes, was like, this
is fun as shit. Like I'm like, and it's because
I think I like David Lynch and so I like
the people that he puts in his movies. And you know,
I was like, this is awesome. So it made me
want to watch the New Dunes, the dennis Ville Miuve Dunes, right,

(54:12):
But I honestly think the reason why, and I'm gonna
I'm gonna say this right now. I've not even seen
Done two and I'm given an award. I'm one of
those people. But the reason why is because I feel
like it's like the hole Zendaya Timothy Challomey connection. I
think people loved it, and I actually I was watching
a lot of their press when they were doing the

(54:34):
doone two press and they're so charming together. I was like,
this is they're like besties. Do you know what I'm saying?
Like note, you know, sexual besties.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
It'd be very easy to dislike Timothy. Yeah, but he
seems like a fun, charming guys. He's got me. I
like him.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
I'm gonna say this right now because, as you know,
on my former podcast, I Saw What You Did, Danelle
and I off spoke fairly unfavorably about Timothy Challomey and
not even really about I don't know, maybe at least
for me, it was more about like who he represented
in the culture, where I was like, oh, I don't

(55:12):
like these new guys, Like I'm where is Martin Balsom?
I don't want I don't fuck with Timos tell me,
you know, like I'm like where is you know whatever?
Like old Jimmy Stewart. But sure I'm between Doune two
and a complete unknown watching Timothy Challomey do his press
tours for both of these things. I was like, he

(55:34):
has won me over against all odds. This motherfucker is funny,
and he's doesn't take himself too seriously. He loves basketball,
which is like a straightway into my heart, and like,
did you watch the Nard War interview with him?

Speaker 1 (55:49):
Like he's so weird. I mean it's great. He doesn't
take himself too seriously. You know, it's like, I think
the fact that he's hosted SNL a few times, you
know he'll be a big goofis on there. He seems cool.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
I want to hang with him anyway, So I'm I'm
picking too too.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
Very good, very good. Okay, best hot person made ugly.
This was referenced earlier Best hot person made Ugly.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
I would say probably.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
I have.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
I mean, I have a contentious answer, but I also,
let's hear it. I was gonna say, Michael Keaton and beetlechoice.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Wow an upset pick.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Didn't see that one coming, did you No?

Speaker 1 (56:49):
I didn't see that one coming. Wow. Stunned. The audience
is stunned.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
I mean that is a dark the darkest of dark horses.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Okay, yeah, the favorite Demi Moore was upset. Upset. Yeah,
she's walking out of the MILLI Awards. Okay, very good.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
You're like, I have to stop recording with this woman.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
Now, Okay, moving on. I have a lot of category okay,
so I only have two more. Two more, okay, Best
Career Reclamation Movie. Now this is for the actor who
you kind of maybe forgot about or haven't seen in
a while and their triumphant return. The Mean Moore is

(57:36):
also nominated for this in this category.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Well, I mean, I mean, obviously, so is uh My
I just mentioned my queen, my Baywatch Queen Pam Anderson.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
Yes, but she is too, Josh Hart Knitt and Trap.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
God, Yeah, he is nominated. I'm gonna I'm gonna say this.
I think it's actually this is kind of a roundabout answer.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
But Robbie Williams whoa Robbie Williams as the animal animated
monkey of himself in A Better Man.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
Love It.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
I mean, listen, I I don't know if you fucked
with Robbie Williams back in the day. Like, I was
not into his boy band era. I didn't actually know
his boy band very well except for like one song
the former the band, the boy band he was in
was called take that they were around in like the
early to mid nineties. They're kind of like the pre
one direction if you well. But they had a song

(58:35):
that song whatever I said, whatever I did, I didn't
mean it.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
I just want watch You.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
That's the only song I know.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
By them, all right, that's been on TikTok.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
But I in that rock DJ area in like the
Millennium era, like that kind of like solo era. I
was super into britpop, so I was like, he was
all over the place. And I remember he was on
an episode of MTV Cribb where.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
He famous episode where he humps the bed, he thrusts
and and he goes like what when he does it?
I remember, right, And I.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
Was like, Yo, this guy is funny as shit. Like
I love Robbie will I still love Robbie Williams, but
you know, it was like twenty years ago, so I
was like, you know, obviously like moved on. He's probably
moved on or whatever. And then all of a sudden,
it's like I go and sit to the theater to
watch A Better Man, which you know I talked about
on our episode with Karen and Georgia, and I was like,

(59:33):
now I'm listening to this motherfucker again. I'm like, yo,
I'm putting Millennium back on. I'm putting on rock DJ
like all of his old jams. And I was like,
he's great. I forgot how great he was so.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
Very good, very good. Okay, last question, last category, I
should say best Glenn Powell movie of twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
I barely know Glenn Powell. I barely know him.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
I know that he The only thing I know about
is that he, like, like, was on an.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Airboat in Louisiana or something. I don't know, Like, I'm barely.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Like we can cut that question. I want to answer it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
It would be funny to answer it. What movie was
in besides Twisters?

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
He was in Richard Linkletter's Hit Man.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Oh sure, sure, sure, I mean he was what's that like?
Oh god to me? Okay, is it fair to say
that he feels like I don't know, he feels kind
of like a guy that only makes movies for like
I don't know guys who are like airboat drivers.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
Yes, I mean he's very light. He's very light.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
He kind of does the same thing in every movie.
I can't say I'm like totally taken by him or
charmed by him, but you know, he had a he
had a good year.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Yeah. I mean, I'm not I'm not seen. I've not
seen this movie again. So I'm just I'm just feeling
out the public's opinion on what the best Glenn Paalell
movie was of twenty twenty four. I'm gonna say it's Twisters.
I feel like people saw that. I actually have a
lot of friends that saw it in that what's that
weird ass technology they have at some like is it

(01:01:39):
a regal? Yes, We're like the seats move and stuff,
and like I had a couple of friends that were like, Yo,
let's go see Twisters and forty X. And I was like,
is that kind of like hurt my neck? Like I
don't understand like people were telling me, Oh, it is
like rough to the point where my friend's wife, who
is also my friend, she was pregnant and she couldn't

(01:02:02):
go to the movie because everyone.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
Was like, don't go to that movie. God Jesus was like,
get you get spun around in a damn twister if
you are if you go to the movie. Here in
the forty X experience, I was incredible. I don't want
her to lose her baby. Because she went to Twisters
and forty X. Jesus Christ, Oh, we don't want to
have a yeah, well, we don't want to God, we

(01:02:25):
don't want to water to break on a Twister's forty X.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
Share God, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Like, Oh, I was uh born a month and a
half early because my mom once saw twisters and forty
X and I just popped out.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Oh my god. Anyway, Well that was the Milli Awards,
the first annual. How thrilling. Congratulations to all the winners
in the nominees U and uh wow, thank you and
thank you most of all Timillion for the Milli Award.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
You're so welcome.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
All right, Well we're moving on to the end here
and it's the end of our show, so we're going
to start doing you know, we've we've talked about this
on previous episodes. We want to give people advice.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Yes, this is it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
Send in your advice right into our email to your
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We have a question from someone who works at exactly
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(01:03:48):
you read Lily's question?

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Sure, will him? Milli and Casey. I'm test to get
your email address to make sure it works. Also, I
have a mail back question for you, one that's topical
and see oscars are coming up. Do you like to
participate in oscar pools? If so, what's your betting strategy?
Do you have an answer for this?

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
Well, I mean it's a bad answer, but you know
it's you really have to kind of look at you
cannot you You cannot think about what movies you like.
You have to think about. You have to kind of,
you know, keep your ear to the ground and like
be looking at you do have to do some research
just to kind of see where things are moving. You know,

(01:04:33):
what have people been talking about? Where does it seem
like people are leaning? And you have to just you
cannot think about what movies you actually like. You have
to think about politically what movies are most likely to win.
So you have to be impassionate about it. That's my advice, absolutely,

(01:04:54):
one hundred percent. I'm gonna go you one further. Hopefully
this won't offend anyone in my life. I'm really hoping
this doesn't. Sometimes you have to consult your most boring
movie friends. You have to consult your dumb dumbest friends

(01:05:19):
to get to the meat of what the people are thinking.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
You know, you gotta find the people that barely go
to the movies, just like barely go and then like
just just just like float it. Don't like, don't tell
them you're doing research.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
Just be like, no, so have you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
Seen anything lately?

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
Like what are you like? And you and maybe you
can do kind of a tester because you can like
ask them like, oh, do you know do you know
who the actress Florence Pew. That's just an example, you know,
and it's like or sure sharone. Yeah, And because those
are more like artsy actors that maybe have not reached

(01:06:05):
the level of Zindiet, you know that sort of thing.
So like you can kind of do a litmus litmus
test that way as well. That's our that's our film advice. Yes,
So if you'd like advice, please write in dear movies
at exactly right media not co okay, film wrecks, our
employees picks, Okay, employees picks.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
I'm gonna say you go and watch a short film.
Oh yeah, I want y'all to watch the short film
called Incident that was directed by uh uh, a filmmaker

(01:06:48):
and artist named Bill Morrison. It was nominated uh basically
the nominees are Bill Morrison and Jamie Calvin. Uh that's
who was nominated tech for the Documentary Short Film category.
But you gotta watch it. It's basically a sort of
like reconstruction of a police shooting and very interesting, very impactful.

(01:07:15):
And Bill Morson is a great filmmaker. He made He
made a documentary called Dawson City Frozen Time in twenty
sixteen that was pretty well loved by uh, I guess
centophiles if you will. That's an incredible, incredible doc I
mean I he made Decasia, which is like a he
made that in like the early two thousands, which is

(01:07:38):
kind of another one of these is kind of like
ask any buddy. It's like a collage film type of thing.
He works a lot with like archival footage, so that's
kind of I think as part of like, you know,
his influence with all of his films is sort of
archived footage and you know, just sort of like gathered materials.

(01:07:59):
So well, yeah, like watch Incident, that's my wreck.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
Fabulous, Yeah, thank you, my okay follow me on this journey. Sure.
So when I used to be obsessed with the Academy
Awards in high school and I still am, but I
really started in high schools when I was like really
following that. And I remember seeing a movie that I
thought was so bad and everybody loved and I was like,

(01:08:25):
what is I was like, they must be wrong? And
then it won the Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
And that movie is called Crash. And that was the
first time where I was like, why don't I like
this thing that the Academy Awards like that they chose
to be the best thing. I was like, I thought
this was bad when I saw it, and then it

(01:08:47):
won the Best Picture. I was so confused. It was
really an eye opening moment for me in terms of
like discovery of different films. And so that's why I'm
recommending David Cronenberg's Craft. I was gonna say because, which
is one of my favorite movies of all time from
nineteen ninety six. It's about a group of people who

(01:09:08):
are turned on by car crashes. Yes, and David Cronenberg
was very I think it's David Cronenberg's best movie, and
I love David Cronenberg. He's like one of my favorite directors.
He's directed The Fly, He's directed A History of Violence,
he Dead Ringers Video Drome. But Crash came out in

(01:09:30):
nineteen ninety six and then The Bad Crash came out
in two thousand and four, and David Cronenberg was very
upset that they named a movie Crash about car crashes
named the movie it's the same name. Yeah, and then
it won Best Picture and it's sort of covered up
David Cronenberg's Crash.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
Total.

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
So that's why I am picking that movie, even though
it's like a roundabout weird way of picking it. I
uh just want to shed some light on that wonderful film.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
It's really disturbing and unsettling and incredible. And if you
have time, look up the Canned Film Festival screening pictures
of Crash, because I feel like something happened on this
movie where they were all bonded together. They look like
this like punk band. They are all standing very close

(01:10:23):
to each other. They look like a punk band. They're
all like toget It's like they share some dark secret
after making this movie. And uh, all the actors in
the movie have like like kind of bond together in
all these pictures and they just look so cool and.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
Yeah, so yeah, what's his name is it? He looks
like Ian Mackay from Fugazi photo. Yeah, that's what makes
me think they look like they're in a band. It's
so great. And Rosanna Arquette looks so cool. Yeah, what
a great photo.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
I think they all and there's like a they're they're
they're getting questioned about the movie on this panel and
they're all like wearing sunglasses and smoking and they just
look so cool. And anyways, yeah, the Canfilm Festival press
conference is really funny and they're like really snarky and mean.
They just feel like this like punk band. So anyways,

(01:11:19):
check that movie out. Yes, great movie, great pick for
this week, great week for this week, great week for
this week, great episode. Thank you so much Millie for
awarding all these films with the Milli Awards, a prestigious
honor for so many But that's our show, you know.

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Speaker 1 (01:12:39):
Fabulous. Well, thank you, Millie. What a what a treat
to get to talk about the Academy Awards. And I
hope you have a good time yes, watching the Academy Awards,
and I hope you do well in your pool and
you win lots of money and respect from your friends,
even your dumb friends.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
Yeah, that's right. I I'm I will be very happy
if I win seventy four dollars this year in my
oscar pool. But anyway, thanks everybody for listening, See you
next time.

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
Bye bye bye me.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
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Speaker 1 (01:13:21):
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Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
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