2023 Best Picture Nominees Review - YMS

[@YMS]

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[@JJJackson777]

how long after the oscars will the scoot & gael watchalong be released mane?

[@UnCreativeDeconstructionism]

Tom Hanks: "He's white 😱" Logic: "I'm Biracial. 🤓"

[@MrSlugny]

I'll be checking out OMBs "the Raven's" award show.....

[@danielattrell]

I thought that was how the movie actually looked at first and thought “Wow, these movies have worse cinematography that I thought they would.”

[@max2082]

Did Adam not watch Living or Causeway? They were pretty good movies.

[@DarranKern]

If Bohemian Rhapsody can win for best editing, ANY film can get that award.

[@nicovelardita8619]

To be fair, BR surely had the most editing of them all

[@DarranKern]

@@nicovelardita8619 search on youtube “whiplash every cut bohemian rhapsody.” Made laugh until I cried

[@toaderdaniel6790]

Bohemian Rhapsody's editing was LITERALLY cancer. I'm gonna go and kill myself. Aliens, please if you hear this.. God, I miss Leafy :))

[@vlogily8043]

Suicide Squad dances into frame!

[@curtisbates4381]

I’ve never agreed with a comment more. ANY comment.

[@McCondom]

“It had a personality…I didn’t like the personality” is the perfect Elvis critique

[@wpsiamthatinot]

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

[@jameswatts2310]

Nice Arca pfp

[@myowndrilling2295]

Igualito, mira su pasito que le da igualito

[@Howitgoes799]

Based Arca enjoyer.

[@bryanfountain]

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.

[@raymondpenland4310]

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.

[@MeEncantaMoss]

Veterans? of WWI? so "most of" the extras were over 100 years old? Gonna have to call BS on that one

[@MeEncantaMoss]

surely this is a joke post

[@raymondpenland4310]

@@MeEncantaMoss Read the year I'm talking about

[@brunobeeftip]

@@MeEncantaMoss Do you have brain problems?

[@rhythmfist]

@@MeEncantaMoss All Quiet on the Western Front came out in 1930. About 15 years after WW1.

[@siphillis]

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.

[@brianhueber3683]

Damn, that’s interesting. Never considered this, but it makes a lot of sense.

[@Marvelfan-nu7ve]

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.

[@siphillis]

@@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.

[@MrDannyhak]

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.

[@koichidignitythief7429]

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?

[@YouCantDeleteDenzelL]

I love how Adum keeps using that cursed picture of Neytiri for every Avatar themed video. It gets funnier and funnier every time

[@CATDHD]

Why is it cursed ? Sexual implication?

[@austincarlson9270]

​@@CATDHD yeah I don't get it either

[@unnamechannel]

@@CATDHD i guess when its out of context from her yelling it just looks like shes doing a real weird pog-type expression

[@yemmohater2796]

​@@unnamechannel yeah this was my interpretation

[@overlookers]

Blue Pog

[@obscure.reference]

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.

[@andrewheaney4874]

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.

[@cmbeadle2228]

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]

Bohemian Rhapsody had the most cuts, so it won the best editing award.

[@andrewheaney4874]

@@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.

[@KoiPuff]

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.

[@judahmoar2533]

That is so stupid. I was confused what top gun Maverick could possibly be an adaptation of

[@thatcher6923]

Yeah, especially since "adaptation" implies that they're being adapted into a different medium

[@blackosprey2219]

That's some lawyer bullshit right there.

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

thats. really stupid

[@Billiamwoods]

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?

[@jaycollins2036]

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.

[@za-ir5ni]

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.

[@Keihzaru]

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.

[@thattaht]

​@@za-ir5ni Someone that just replied doesn't like it lol

[@Tetsuo618]

Single Gimmick? Wow what a take.

[@davidtaylor142]

​@@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?

[@cheqers_]

I'm so pumped for the Adum & Pals Oscars edit

[@ankurama42]

Gonna be months from now

[@bunnystick]

​@@ankurama42 and?

[@Stiasteny]

We all wait for our horse and saviour adum

[@doodooswaggy3825]

Any day now...

[@lilmovieperp3599]

We need to get Adum to see Moulin Rouge. It'll break him.

[@jartism]

Its a guilty pleasure movie of mine, I love that over the top theatrical kinda shit

[@davidyurch4446]

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.

[@thegirlleastlikelyto]

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.

[@lilmovieperp3599]

@@thegirlleastlikelyto oh I love the movie. I gotta feeling Adum won’t.

[@StevenRichter]

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.

[@ezgames6925]

Adum watched Marcel the Shell and his heart grew three sizes that day.

[@matiasflores9043]

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.

[@fuckingloser2817]

Oscars ain't worth the anger. It's like clockwork at this point

[@danieltrevinoc]

Tbh it was surprising even to see Paul Mescal nominated, glad he was

[@ExactSnow2]

....Like Clockwork is the best rock album of the last decade

[@reecejennings9637]

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)

[@thecinematicmind]

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.

[@hunsler1006]

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

[@zanpakutoman4225]

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.

[@daims8041]

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.

[@hunsler1006]

@@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".

[@jadedzealot7150]

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

[@shutupholden]

Adum saying he’d be fine with Top Gun: Maverick winning Best Picture was certainly not what I expected from this video

[@emhu2594]

words i never ever want to hear again.

[@spikedmo]

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.

[@idontcheckmynotifications]

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

[@ziggle5000]

​​@@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.

[@justemrys]

​@@ziggle5000 is there any need for this?

[@DeepEye1994]

@@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?

[@DoYouLiekMudkipz_]

@@ziggle5000 Obvious bait.

[@dogtheories]

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

[@carterburkhart4336]

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

[@GregorBarclay]

Yeah, I really loved the score

[@ad-sd-vids5332]

Babylon’s is still better

[@colmocuinneagain3580]

It sounds like an emotionless industrial monster, it was perfect

[@godspellflowerfr5991]

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.

[@yakovolivarria]

Still shit and inappropriate lol

[@prometheusjackson8787]

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

[@chriscorben-green2640]

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!

[@amberdent651]

Having read _All Quiet On the Western Front,_ and having seen both movies, I can definitively say that I loathe the newer remake. One of the reasons the book is such a classic, particularly of anti-war literature, is that it's fucking bleak. Never over-the-top, either, but basically a semi-autobiographical self-insert account of Remarque's time in the German trenches. Whereas other anti-war books like _Johnny Got His Gun_ or _Slaughterhouse-Five_ spend a lot of time in their character's perception of reality which has been irrevocably altered by war - whether by physical injury or mental - _All Quiet_ is always in grim reality. The first scene of the book is of Paul and his squadmates bickering over who will get Mueller's boots while he's slowly dying in a medical tent, with the acknowledgement that, while bleak, someone else could do better with his boots that won't help a dead man. (This, incidentally, is why the new movie started with a war scene; it wanted to structure itself more like the book. The problem is that it fundamentally misunderstands the book and what made it so harrowing - the opener of the book isn't combat, it's between combat, and the 1934 movie felt that the easiest way to convey that bleakness in the shorter timespan of a movie is to go chronologically instead, which I agree was the better choice.) The sound design, the music, the entire bullshit bit about the political negotiations surrounding detente (which was so unnecessary and added to the runtime for no reason) kind of made me want to tear my hair out. To me, it felt like an AMV edit of itself, like a Slyfer video. Completely misunderstands its source material, and it completely misunderstands the movie the preceded it. (And while aesthetically the shots looked good, it's antithetical to war movies, imho, to be shot like that. Particularly this type of war movie. It made it entirely disassociated from its subject matter in a way that reminds me of _1917_ in its pretentious annoyance.) By the way, the 1934 war scenes kicked so much ass because most of the extras were WW1 vets. They were basically recreating what they were intimately familiar with.

[@lovettuduebor1902]

Hey everyone, he finished the movies. You see, he finished them. He did it. He’s a real reviewer now.

[@garcialna95]

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)

[@DrSupaSnail]

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!

[@BTwiseman]

GDT’s Pinocchio really should’ve been nom’ed for Best Picture too

[@thecinematicmind]

I agree.

[@ClarifyEht]

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 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@anthonymartensen3164]

I personally don't think so. But it is a beautifully made film.

[@5Amigos32]

I couldn't make it through that movie. I hated that puppet so much. It looked neat but was unbearable to watch

[@12Tecpatl]

@@ClarifyEht Ciao Papa should have totally been nominated for best song

[@tomnieuwenhuis9797]

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.

[@PauLtus_B]

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.

[@rosienroller]

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.

[@Leroy0ne]

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.

[@zoeunknown]

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.

[@Majestic7274]

Animation line up is stellar. How ever, if pixar wins, I will riot

[@thecinematicmind]

I would be *much* more annoyed if The Sea Beast wins.

[@TheMedicatedArtist]

Praying Pinocchio wins because it’s a huge middle finger to Disney since their 2022 version isn’t nominated for anything.

[@abbieananas]

@@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.

[@IAMA1]

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

[@ivan_ivankovich]

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.

[@thegoose8663]

I absolutely loved Puss In Boots 2, really hope it will win the nomination. The only movie I cared about this year.

[@ColeJJJTurner]

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]

That's such a dismissive take. He genuinely did a fantastic job

[@iciajay6891]

​​@@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.

[@athenajaxon2397]

​@@iciajay6891 he actually did gain a lot of weight! He talked about it in an interview

[@ColeJJJTurner]

@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.

[@anthonymartensen3164]

Austin Butler seems like an awesome person. Have some respect.

[@nikolastiscareno4963]

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

[@matthicksxx]

Adam uploads an hour and half long video Me: “Sure! Great! Why not?”

[@jonathanneil5901]

“Best picture of the year. . No, thank you” I love the abrupt politeness 😂

[@blending_in]

Ikr

[@yourmomslawnflamingo]

I hate how bohemian rhapsody and Elvis are getting all of these nominations when rocketman- the superior biopic musical - got snubbed and was only nominated for ONE category

[@karinmaria6455]

It's been four years and I'm still angry that Rocketman got absolutely nothing in comparison to Bohemian Rhapsody even though it was so much better. At least it actually won the one nomination it got

[@daims8041]

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.

[@supereero9]

​@@daims8041 Baz' style is obnoxious

[@SomeGuy-tr2hi]

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

[@pamdemonia]

Mad God should have won it.

[@doctorrodman3872]

Idk about others but the score in the fanny pack fighting scene for Everything Everywhere is really memorable for me

[@SonicHaXD]

You and your friends reactions are the only reason I support the Oscars XD

[@xRhychux]

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

[@koichidignitythief7429]

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.

[@FlyinJMan]

RRR definitely should get the music award. But that’s just my personal bias towards that movie, and Bahubali. I fucking love them both.

[@samb8744]

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

[@kieranleehamilton]

Tom Hanks’ old man makeup at the start of Elvis looks like Mike Myers as Goldfinger in the 3rd Austin Powers movie

[@emhu2594]

Tom Hanks has no talent for accents. Why is he allowed to keep doing them

[@tyrontheconqueror6625]

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

[@ad-sd-vids5332]

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

[@garcialna95]

I will be SO PISSED if the Elvis dude gets best actor. I was already so sad that Taron Egerton didn't get it for Rocketman but FUCKING RAMI MALEEEEEEK got it for Bohemian Rhapsody??? Rocketman was the best film out of the three in every way and I can't get over how much it was snobbed. Elvis was... Nothing. Narratively. It sucked balls. If you want to watch a recent biopic go watch Rocketman everyone.

[@thecinematicmind]

Plus the lack of a nomination for Paul Dano as Brian Wilson.

[@koichidignitythief7429]

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.

[@AndrewAnstrom]

Couldn't have said it better myself... I'll be very disappointed if it doesn't win

[@koichidignitythief7429]

@@AndrewAnstrom And it won! This has honestly been one of the best Oscars in a long ass time imo.

[@jameswinter482]

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!

[@jdunnatl]

Just curious, but what films did you love? It seemed a pretty dead year, to me.

[@gchudasamadarshit9111]

​@@jdunnatl same brooo

[@blending_in]

​@@jdunnatl istg 😭

[@anamelessyoutuber1462]

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.

[@thecinematicmind]

The only nomination I would throw out for Top Gun Maverick is Best Original Song.

[@athenajaxon2397]

If that were true they would've nominated Spiderman no way home

[@anthonymartensen3164]

Many people would consider it to be one of the best movies of the year also.

[@yahhah3027]

@@anthonymartensen3164no but it’s too popular for me to like it

[@davidtaylor142]

​@@anthonymartensen3164those are people that probably haven't seen too many movies

[@kingxerocole4616]

Banshees of Inisherin was definitely my favorite film of the year.

[@NASkeywest]

Haven’t seen it. I should have known it’s good because the actors are both phenomenal

[@blending_in]

Same. It's in my top 5 of all time now.

[@rudeboyspodcast]

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.

[@shawklan27]

Sounds like a bohemian rhapsody situation

[@thecinematicmind]

Baz Luhrmann films are like music videos that are way too long.

[@thecinematicmind]

My Year of Dicks is a genuine achievement in short film history of animation and adaptation of a memoir.

[@getmario64]

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.

[@tonig.1546]

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.

[@Liquid_Mike]

Foley work has gotten *WAY* too corny as time goes on, it's like video game sound effects slapped onto movies nowadays

[@getmario64]

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!

[@ColeJJJTurner]

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.

[@Wraiven22]

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.

[@spencerstoehr835]

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

[@lukess.s]

Your dad was a gay man who ate himself to death when his boyfriend died?

[@spencerstoehr835]

@@lukess.s nah, he was straight and just drank himself to death. Roughly the same feelings tho

[@DJGamingSmash]

That unofficial letterbocxd guy is gonna be busy tonight.

[@BooperDooper-u8p]

God. Tom Hanks sounded like he was making a Adam Sandler impression in Elvis.

[@TheGodOfGravy]

On Elvis “Best Editing? Please no. One of the worst edited films I’ve seen” Adam. Bohemian Rhapsody won Best Editing. It will happen again.

[@aaronpescasio]

banshees winning nothing is insane

[@emceha]

Weird super expressive faces are there because of the old school of silent cinema acting. Actors were most likely trained by silent era teachers

[@thecinematicmind]

and theatre acting.

[@dieu7905]

18:23 Jesus the scene is so unintentionally hilarious

[@Kyleology]

Not surprised at all that Adam's favorite movie was call My Year of Dicks.

[@prometheusjackson8787]

I like how Adam keeps saying Ana de Armas has a Chilean acceny when she's from Cuba

[@bozotheclown1142]

Adam mocking the voices at 1:28:15 is so great

[@ShadowRubberDuck]

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!

[@Szokynyovics]

I hate myself for always laughing at these... XD

[@ShadowRubberDuck]

@@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

[@danbackslide2957]

Watching Elvis in theaters was a surreal experience

[@nikolasstout69]

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 😅

[@kodiejc4202]

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.

[@kodiejc4202]

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.

[@bronaghbolger6962]

Adam it’s Gaeilge (Irish) not Gaelic (it’s Scottish relative) 😩😩😩. But thank you for supporting The Quiet Girl 🙌🙌

[@HistoryandHeadlines]

To everyone in the comments, how would you rank these nominees?

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

"felt like it was a videogame" is a very good description of 75% of all action movies nowadays especially war movies

[@aidangreen7006]

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)

[@daims8041]

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.

[@Opi_812]

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.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

How could you not mention 9/11 when discussing turning red for the Oscars?

[@Sunzu49]

OMG, thank you so much for the emetophobia warning for _The Triangle of Sadness_ !🙏🏽I would've gone in blind about that!

[@YMS]

It was for Triangle of Sadness

[@Lihiro]

Tom Hanks as an old man in makeup (13:05) looks like Fat Bastard from the Austin Powers movies.

[@AllyGatorAnimator]

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.

[@rizzen7]

I cant believe that was your first Baz Luhrmann film. I would die to see a Adam and Pals of Baz movies. His movies are a buffet of cringe, and everything he does is terrible. Would be a great laugh. He is basically Uwe Boll with a higher budget.

[@snuppy]

19:19 Justifying the music choices in Elvis: It's about a white guy in the 1950's listening to black music. Music that was considered evil by conservative (racists), that supposedly invokes violence and sexual behavior. That sentiment is lost on us, because the music from the 1950s sounds innocent and conservative to us. So they put in contemporary black music, that *now* would evoke a similar sentiment as the music Elvis liked *then*. Same goes for Eminimem in the end credits. He even mentions it in the song how he is similar to Elvis in that way; influenced by black music, and criticized for it.

[@5Detective]

Wow, that's actually really interesting. I haven't seen the film, and don't really plan to, but I had seen the complaints about the score. This perspective makes the soundtrack a lot more interesting than the criticisms I've seen make it out to be.

[@eightbitpixieesthetics]

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.

[@Hopper_Arts]

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.

[@dieu7905]

"Definitely watch the old movie version it's awesome (7/10), but this new movie just isn't my cup of tea (6/10). I still have the feeling that Adam hates old movies

[@docvince1491]

I think he’s just uninformed about cinema in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

[@dieu7905]

@@docvince1491 And 60's and 70's

[@sniperflashgaming3868]

The editors in Elvis were on as much coke as Elvis was...

[@lachlank.8270]

14:28 Nobody's ever forced you into watching Romeo + Juliet? That's an achievement Adam

[@AustinSansChateaux]

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.

[@getmario64]

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!

[@EnormSpade]

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

[@StoneySkull]

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.

[@WeAreTheInsurgents]

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

[@TheRealDanji]

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.

[@allyli1718]

15:05 Funny you say that bc I have ADHD and even then this movie felt SO BORING to me and my dad. It literally pained me to keep watching the same events happen over and over. WE GET IT Elvis got manipulated by his manager guy. MOVE ON! This was clear from the first god damned scene of the film. The boredom halfway through got so overstimulating that we literally left like halfway through to go sit in the parking lot. My mom and brother got pissed about how I was being a stick in the mud about Elvis Presley, but if this is his movie, then I’m a fucking stick!

[@notatrueroute]

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)

[@Slop_Dogg]

IVE GOT THE OSCAR FEVER, HOPE YOU GOT IT TOO!

[@nabetse1999]

Damn this one is a thorough one. Excited to hear extended thoughts on all of these

[@JasonParmenter]

"Women Talking" is unfortunately a deeply offensive work that undermines actual victims of the real life events and distorts various historical facts that happened for ideological reasons. For example, young boys were also targeted but never spoke out about it, and when the men found out about the attacks they had to be stopped from lynching the perpetrators. Far from the aloof and uncaring nature of some wider male societal ignorance and psychopathy to assault, they actually were almost enraged _too much,_ as they had to be stopped from taking justice into their own hands. Why they were furious despite the inane preaching of this movie that they never would is not some grand mystery. The women, girls and boys who were assaulted were their own wives, sons and daughters. Repeatedly throughout history lynching have happened based on either real or mere accusations of assault, it's not something that is either new or surprising. Yet the film ignores victims who don't fit the chromosomes of the victims they only wish to represent and the reaction of men to the attacks whose energy and opposition don't fit their narrative. It thus ignores real life trauma and misrepresents active allies as willing supporters of the heinous acts that brutalized their families. This is so wrong on so many levels. Imagine you go through something like this, only for a crappy book written by some loser wanting to spin ideology out of a traumatic real life event from it portrays you as a silent accomplice to what has traumatized you for the rest of your life? How would that make you feel? I know I would be furious all over again. None of these "unfortunate" facts made it into this fictional inspiration, they even cut a humanizing scene with a male character, 1 guess as to why they did. And all this is fine if it's a completely fictional work, but it isn't. It only claims to loosely represent this story to some extent, but when these events _actually happened_ it didn't fit the narrative they wanted it to fit so they changed it. The primary change? In real life the men were too humanized. They were emotional, outraged, and also targeted. And by changing that, they serve to downplay real life events and many victims of it. The movie fails in it's goal which is to uncover and expose a societal ill, by misrepresenting it when it actually happened. This _hurts_ real victims of this story, no matter how many disclaimers the creators put up about it being "inspired", when it obviously is presented as what actually happened and is consumed that way by a whole array of people. Either make up a fictional story where you can't distort real life victims, or represent the victims and their stories accurately. How anyone can claim to care about victims of assault if they actively ignore many of them because they don't fit a narrative is beyond me.

[@Billiamwoods]

Cope

[@FadeAwayGab]

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

[@MacaldaReye]

I hadn’t heard of the movie women talking before, and when it first came up for the review I was thinking those look like Hutterite women, and then you mentioned mennonites, so now I’m gonna have to see this movie because I’m a Mennonite, but I do not live like that lol I’m only Mennonite cause of my heritage but we call those ppl here Hutterites. But I’ve never seen Mennonite come up in a film before

[@dogtheories]

i hope the segment for the boy the mole the fox and the horse being longer than the other animated shorts nominees means adam hated it as much as i did edit: i stay winning because those were the exact same criticisms i had

[@thecinematicmind]

I like it but even I admit it gets hammy at times.

[@dogtheories]

@@thecinematicmind yeah the animation is stellar but it just feels like theyre all quoting live laugh love mug slogans at each other with no prompting and it's wayyyy too long. i can definitely see why its an oscar nominee lol but it feels really inauthentic and the other nominees make way better use of the medium than the glorified "i read winnie the pooh once" picture book style of that one. i'd like it if it was about 10 minutes long instead i think

[@rome8180]

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.