The Flop House Movie Minute #19 - Oscar Bait

[0:00] And now, the Flophouse Movie Minute.

[0:11] So the Oscar nominations came out recently.

[0:14] Boo!

[0:16] And um...

[0:17] Yay!

[0:18] Wait.

[0:19] That's the Academy Awards, right?

[0:20] Sure.

[0:21] Okay.

[0:22] The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

[0:23] Sciences?

[0:24] Fuck those dorks!

[0:25] Well, they don't even pay attention to arts in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and

[0:28] Sciences.

[0:29] It was, I mean, it started as a union-busting organization.

[0:32] Really?

[0:33] Pretty much, yeah.

[0:34] That was, um...

[0:35] Elliot's dropping some history on you.

[0:37] There you go.

[0:38] Let's get into the meat of this meat and potatoes.

[0:39] Well, here's the thing.

[0:40] The potatoes for later.

[0:42] We did a movie minute about our most overrated films of the year.

[0:47] Yeah, we totally did.

[0:48] And it got...

[0:49] What happened to that, Dan?

[0:50] It got eaten by my computer, because basically what happened is, it was an outtake from the

[0:55] Step Up to the Streets show.

[0:57] Okay.

[0:59] And because that show went over long...

[1:00] As hard as it is to believe, it did.

[1:02] It was split into two files, and for some reason, my computer couldn't handle that.

[1:07] But...

[1:08] Your computer wasn't ready for that jelly, is what you're saying.

[1:11] Yeah, exactly.

[1:12] It was just too bootylicious.

[1:13] However...

[1:14] It should have put a ring on it.

[1:16] Two different songs.

[1:17] Thank you for acknowledging current pop music.

[1:20] Oh, always.

[1:21] Yeah.

[1:22] But, um, Stuart, your most overrated of the year was Benjamin Button.

[1:27] Yeah, absolutely.

[1:29] Mine was Frost Nixon.

[1:31] And, uh...

[1:32] Mine was Slumdog Billionaires.

[1:33] Yeah, and, um, lo and behold, those three films were nominated for Best Picture.

[1:38] Oh, wow.

[1:39] Surprise, surprise.

[1:40] What did you fucking do?

[1:41] And they're not...

[1:42] I kind of like Frost Nixon.

[1:43] Let's get one thing straight.

[1:44] I kind of like Slumdog Billionaires.

[1:46] I don't think any of those were shit movies.

[1:49] I just think Benjamin Button is certainly the least of them.

[1:52] I didn't see that one, but I didn't care for Frost Nixon.

[1:54] Benjamin Button is a fairly boring movie that has...

[1:57] It's, like, not terrible, but it feels like a movie...

[1:59] It's like kind of a league of their own.

[2:01] If it's, like, Sunday afternoon and it's on TV, then you might sit and watch it.

[2:05] You're not gonna go out of your way to see it.

[2:06] But only if there's nothing else.

[2:07] Only if there's nothing else on.

[2:08] But, like, Frost Nixon is not a bad movie.

[2:11] It plays fast and loose with history, but it's not bad.

[2:14] Like, Slumdog Billionaires is not a bad movie.

[2:16] It's just overrated.

[2:17] No, it's certainly not.

[2:18] But...

[2:19] I mean, Frost Nixon is very much structured like a Bad News Bear style thing, but that

[2:22] doesn't make it a bad movie.

[2:24] That's an odd place to go.

[2:26] No, that is exactly the right place to go.

[2:30] The only way it would have been more like that is if instead of David Frost, it was

[2:34] Walter Matthau who was doing the interview.

[2:36] But, yeah, like, it's a Bad News Bear's movie where you're way more interested in, like,

[2:41] the evil team.

[2:42] But look at it.

[2:43] Wow.

[2:44] Eating the scenery.

[2:45] Best film of the year.

[2:47] The five nominees are The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

[2:50] No.

[2:51] Frost Nixon.

[2:52] Milk.

[2:53] Maybe.

[2:54] The Reader.

[2:55] No.

[2:56] Slumdog Millionaire.

[2:57] No.

[2:58] I'm baffled that The Reader is on there.

[2:59] Did you see The Reader?

[3:00] Yes, I did.

[3:01] I have to admit, though, I was a little drowsy when I watched it, so it didn't keep my attention.

[3:05] Elliot is a member of the WGA, the Writers Guild of America.

[3:09] Writers Guild of America East.

[3:10] And thus...

[3:11] Which is the little brother of the Writers Guild, which is the tiny brother of Hollywood.

[3:15] You've seen all five of these, am I correct?

[3:17] Yes.

[3:18] This is one of the first years in a while I've seen every Best Picture nominee.

[3:21] Which is the best of them all?

[3:23] In my opinion, Milk is by far... and Milk has problems.

[3:28] It's not a perfect movie, but the way it's put together, the intensity of it, most of

[3:32] the... there are two stellar performances in it, which is more than I can say for any

[3:37] of these other films.

[3:38] Frost Nixon comes closest to having that number of good performances.

[3:42] Of the three of the five that I've seen, Milk is my favorite by far.

[3:49] But also, there's something about the fact that Milk is... almost also feels like the

[3:52] movie of the moment, not just because of Prop 8, but because it's about the importance

[3:57] of persistence in politics, local and grassroots efforts in politics, working through the system

[4:03] to make change.

[4:05] It feels like the movie of the moment.

[4:07] And it's a really well-made movie, and Sean Penn and Josh Bolin are fantastic in it, both

[4:11] of them.

[4:12] It has its issues.

[4:13] It's too repetitive.

[4:14] Should we really start it with this category for the first thing we should talk about?

[4:16] Best Picture?

[4:17] Yeah.

[4:18] Well, we can talk about other ones, too.

[4:19] I mean, what were we going to talk about last?

[4:20] Like, sound editing?

[4:21] I don't think we're going to talk about that.

[4:22] I don't think we're going to go down the whole list, Jared.

[4:23] But let's say...

[4:24] I want to talk about the... isn't Wanted nominated for...

[4:25] We'll save it for our...

[4:26] That movie's a fucking turd.

[4:27] We'll save it for our awards floptacular.

[4:33] What's Bangkok Dangerous nominated for?

[4:35] Hair?

[4:36] Hair and makeup?

[4:37] Hair and makeup.

[4:38] Okay, so, were there...

[4:39] And what's this shit?

[4:40] Off Jastrecha on the line, nominated for Best Live Action Short Film?

[4:45] What?

[4:46] Everyone knows it's going to go to Spitzuglund.

[4:48] Now, were there any nominations that you were actually surprised about in a positive way?

[4:53] Or were there any nominations that you were surprised about in a positive way?

[4:55] Yes.

[4:56] Yes, one.

[4:57] Well, you go first, Dan.

[4:58] Well, no, I think that...

[4:59] Oh, two.

[5:00] I think that in general, the acting nominations, not bad.

[5:04] I was glad to see that Richard Jenkins got a nomination for Best Actor.

[5:09] Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder is a pretty good supporting actor nomination because comedic

[5:14] performances don't usually get nominated.

[5:17] I actually haven't seen this movie at all, so I can't actually say whether it's good

[5:21] or bad.

[5:22] What, Tropic Thunder?

[5:23] No, I was going to say that the fact that Melissa Leo got a nomination for Frozen River

[5:28] just shows that they actually paid attention to movies that people had not seen.

[5:33] Vaguely.

[5:34] Vaguely.

[5:35] Synecdoche, New York should be dominating this list, and nobody saw it, and they didn't

[5:39] say...

[5:40] At the very least, that was the thing that really surprised me the most.

[5:43] Aside from the Best Picture nominees, which it was like, if John McCain had won the 2004

[5:47] election...

[5:48] Sorry, the 2008 election.

[5:49] He didn't even run in 2004.

[5:51] If John McCain...

[5:52] But when Bush won the 2004 election is a bigger version of how I felt when I saw these nominees,

[5:58] where it's like, the months leading up to it, I was like, I know Bush is going to win,

[6:01] and I'm so mad, and I'm going to be so disappointed, and I just hope there's a surprise, and there

[6:05] wasn't.

[6:06] And it was this heart drop of like, oh, there's no changing the system.

[6:09] And that's how I felt with these Best Picture nominees.

[6:12] Without the fact that Synecdoche, New York isn't even nominated for Best Original Screenplay,

[6:17] which you'd think they'd give it to Charlie Kaufman, a nomination just on his past work,

[6:21] even if they hadn't seen this movie, which is brilliantly written.

[6:23] But you know...

[6:24] Well, I just think that it's strange.

[6:26] We all know that the Best Picture nominees are given the...

[6:30] Which are the best middle-brow films of the year.

[6:33] We're not going to nominate anything too disreputable, and we're not going to nominate anything too

[6:37] arty.

[6:38] Well, it's Billy Wilder...

[6:39] I think I've quoted him before on this podcast.

[6:40] Maybe I haven't.

[6:41] I don't know.

[6:43] Billy Wilder once said that they don't nominate the best films, they nominate the films that

[6:46] make Hollywood look best.

[6:48] This is Hollywood's advertisement to the rest of the country to say, like, see, we make

[6:52] the kind of stuff you guys can respect.

[6:54] But even so, if they're going to nominate a movie that no one saw, why nominate the

[6:58] reader and not say Rachel Getting Married, for instance?

[7:02] I still haven't seen that yet.

[7:05] For every time you've told me you loved it, I've met a person who said they hated it.

[7:10] But Ellie, you trust me more than most people, don't you?

[7:12] Yeah, usually.

[7:13] But for, like, Frost-Nixon, why wasn't, say, WALL-E nominated instead?

[7:19] I know why it wasn't.

[7:20] It wasn't nominated because they put it in the fucking animated category, which is a

[7:25] category that they invented so that no animated film would ever win Best Picture.

[7:29] But also, frankly, like, as much for its flaws and the fact that it's a Batman movie, like,

[7:35] The Dark Knight was a fantastic movie.

[7:37] And I would say better than The Reader and better than Benjamin Button, you know?

[7:41] Well, here's where I felt like Dark Knight was robbed.

[7:43] In the directing category.

[7:44] Yes, I agree there, too.

[7:46] Historically, the directing category has been a place where, you know, they can be like,

[7:51] well, this movie was too awesome for us to put in the Best Picture, but we'll toss the

[7:57] director a bone.

[7:58] But Christopher Nolan did not get nominated.

[8:01] But Ron Howard gets a nod, uh, weird, because he's not that good at directing movies.

[8:06] Ron Howard is the most baseline competent director in Hollywood.

[8:10] He is not great, and he's not terrible, but he is competent.

[8:14] Like, he brings nothing to a movie, but he doesn't-

[8:17] And he takes nothing away.

[8:18] And he takes nothing away.

[8:19] It's like Smokey the Bear.

[8:20] He takes only pictures, leaves only footprints.

[8:21] He's like Keanu Reeves in movies.

[8:22] Um, and-

[8:23] Well, no, Keanu Reeves detracts greatly from movies.

[8:25] Chain Reaction would have been a masterpiece if it was anyone else.

[8:28] But, like, Ron Howard is your journeyman, competent director, but he's been elevated

[8:33] to this, like, this high status for-

[8:36] The saddest thing-

[8:37] Because everybody likes him because he's a very nice guy.

[8:38] The saddest thing is that David Fincher gets a nod for directing Curious Case of Benjamin

[8:42] Button after last year, where he got literally no recognition for directing Zodiac, which

[8:47] was amazing.

[8:48] Which is-

[8:49] And Zodiac should have been Best Picture last year, and it wasn't nominated, it got nominated.

[8:52] Or at least Best Adapted Screenplay, like, that was a brilliant movie on every level.

[8:55] And I'm just concerned that this will make David Fincher somehow believe, like, maybe

[8:58] I'll just make a bunch of shitty movies now.

[9:00] Maybe I should be heartwarming.

[9:02] That's why I feel like the Coen brothers last year were not enthusiastic on stage about

[9:07] their awards, also because they don't seem like the most effusive guys at all.

[9:10] But it almost feels like they've been making movies that are very personal to them for

[9:13] years, and they finally made a movie that they seem to have put nothing of themselves

[9:18] into and they won the highest award that Hollywood gives, and they were like, alright, so, this

[9:23] is what you want to see from us, is mechanical filmmaking.

[9:26] Huh.

[9:27] Well, we understand why you didn't understand The Big Lebowski.

[9:31] But then again, you also didn't honor Fargo, so I guess this is what you like.

[9:37] Okay, fine.

[9:38] Fargo, a movie that we put parts of our growing up into, or even the man who wasn't there,

[9:43] which I love, you can tell they put their soul into that movie, and people don't even

[9:48] talk about it.

[9:49] And then they make a movie like Burn After Reading this year, where everybody's like,

[9:53] oh, what the hell's this?

[9:55] What happened to the No Country for Old Men?

[9:56] And at least Burn After Reading feels like a movie they enjoyed making.

[9:59] Yeah, it felt like a Coen brothers movie.

[10:00] I love that.

[10:01] The thing is, I sort of don't understand why people are so down.

[10:06] I guess I understand why people are so down on Burn After Reading, because, alright, fine.

[10:10] Yes, everyone in that movie is reprehensible.

[10:13] Is an idiot.

[10:15] But that's the movie.

[10:16] If you look at it just in terms of writing, on a sheer writing level, the brilliance of

[10:21] each character, each character feels totally realized while being totally crazy.

[10:27] Well, I don't know if I'd go that far.

[10:30] But it's a genuinely funny movie all the way through, which is very hard to do.

[10:34] And I'm really glad that...

[10:35] But it's like if they were like, Michael Apted, your 7 Up documentaries are illuminating,

[10:41] but we'd rather reward you for your shitty Bond movie work.

[10:47] And the thing about the Academy Awards this year is that I'm really glad that they felt

[10:51] the need to basically just pee on Bruce Springsteen by nominating the shitty song by Peter Gabriel

[11:00] from WALL-E.

[11:01] That's the one thing wrong with WALL-E, is that terrible song.

[11:04] Two fucking songs from Slumdog Millionaire and nothing else.

[11:07] Like, we could have found a space for a fourth person.

[11:13] You know...

[11:14] We didn't want Bruce showing up to the Oscars this year.

[11:16] You know who no one likes?

[11:18] Bruce Springsteen.

[11:19] You know who wouldn't get people to watch the Oscars?

[11:22] A performance by Bruce Springsteen on the...

[11:24] Oh, our ratings are so bad every year.

[11:27] Maybe we should get one of the most popular performers in American history.

[11:30] No, I don't think so.

[11:31] We'll get Peter Gabriel.

[11:32] Yeah, well, like, what the fuck?

[11:33] Are you kidding me?

[11:34] He's gonna shock the monkey.

[11:35] For America.

[11:36] Maybe people will remember they kind of like Sledgehammer.

[11:37] Say what you want about the wrestler and Bruce Springsteen songs and whatnot, but I don't

[11:38] think you can come up with a better marriage of artist and subject matter than him singing

[11:39] a song about a beaten down old New Jersey wrestler.

[11:40] I haven't even seen the movie, but when I hear the song in the ads, I'm like, that's

[11:41] pretty good.

[11:52] That's a pretty good movie, well, that was when I was a little disappointed, but what

[12:05] are you going to do?

[12:06] But still better than the reader.

[12:07] But I was going to say, I was also very happy to see Richard Jenkins nominated because he's

[12:12] a really great, very solid actor who kind of doesn't get a lot of attention.

[12:17] And he made what could have been a very cliched, bland character into a very believable character.

[12:22] Yeah, and he had a bunch of good performances this year.

[12:26] He's funny in Burn After Reading, too.

[12:27] He's funny in Burn After Reading.

[12:29] You know what?

[12:30] Stepbrother's not a great movie, but Richard Jenkins is actually very funny in that film.

[12:34] Richard Drinkins, his alcoholic alter ego, and he has a little too many after one night.

[12:40] Yeah, sure, he goes out to the bar, he's like, just call me Richard Drinkins tonight.

[12:43] Does he hang out with Andy Kapp?

[12:47] Oh, Flo kicked you out of the house again, Andy.

[12:49] Yeah, congratulations, congratulations on your Academy nomination.

[12:54] The worst English accent ever.

[12:55] I like to imagine that Andy Kapp actually never gets hit by that rolling pin, he just

[13:00] perpetually has a rolling pin floating behind his head.

[13:03] I like to not think about Andy Kapp, unless I'm eating cheese fries.

[13:08] I would like to endorse cheese fries for the Oscar nomination this year.

[13:12] I'm really glad that both Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were nominated.

[13:17] I think that's really great.

[13:18] And I'm glad that Meryl Streep got nominated for being the most overactiveness actress

[13:22] in the world.

[13:23] I gotta say, she was very good in Doubt, though.

[13:25] Okay, overacting or no?

[13:26] No, I thought she did a very good job in Doubt.

[13:29] I haven't seen it.

[13:30] I heard that she was a little broad.

[13:31] I usually find her to be a little too much, but in Doubt, I thought she was very good.

[13:35] And Marissa Tomei got a nod for showing her boobs, pierced nipples.

[13:41] She was overlooked for showing her boobs in The Devil Knows You're Dead, or before The

[13:45] Devil Knows You're Dead.

[13:46] I would like to pimp Rachel Getting Married and say that I wish that Rosemary DeWitt got

[13:51] a nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

[13:53] I was glad that Viola Davis was nominated for Doubt.

[13:56] She only has really one scene in the movie, but it is the best scene in the film.

[14:01] As for Taraji P. Henson for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, you know, not that good.

[14:07] Who is that?

[14:09] She plays Benjamin Button's mom, right?

[14:11] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[14:12] Okay.

[14:13] She's not that great.

[14:14] I think the most obvious choice of the year, it's Kung Fu Panda for Best Animated Film.

[14:19] Sorry, Wally.

[14:20] Now Benjamin Button is some sort of stuffed bear, correct?

[14:24] Yes.

[14:25] He's like Corduroy.

[14:26] Okay.

[14:27] He was born in Paddington Station.

[14:31] What's too bad is that there are a couple great performances in the Supporting Actor

[14:34] category.

[14:35] I mean, Heath Ledger should get it, but I wish that Josh Brolin could also win because

[14:40] his performance in Milk is great.

[14:42] Well, he got a Golden Globe.

[14:43] That's just as good, right?

[14:44] Sure.

[14:45] The Hollywood Foreign Press.

[14:48] I mean, all of Hollywood or the Hollywood Foreign Press, but Heath Ledger was astounding

[14:53] in The Dark Knight.

[14:55] And Robert Downey Jr. is very funny in Tropic Thunder, although the joke kind of gets very

[14:59] old.

[15:00] Yeah, but he's so charismatic.

[15:01] But he sells it.

[15:02] Yeah.

[15:03] You can't watch anyone in the scenes that he's in.

[15:05] And it's a joke that you couldn't imagine anyone pulling off.

[15:08] Yeah, that's true.

[15:09] And he does it in a way that, say, even like someone who's more of a comedian would do.

[15:12] Maybe if Tom Cruise had played his character.

[15:15] I'm so glad Tom Cruise was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

[15:17] Yeah, you erased our conversation about the most overrated performance of the year.

[15:21] I didn't erase it.

[15:22] You erased it.

[15:23] You were worried the Scientologists would come down on you like a bag of bricks, and

[15:27] you erased our discussion of how Tom Cruise sucks in Tropic Thunder.

[15:32] And everyone said he was great, but he's terrible.

[15:34] Terrible.

[15:35] He just put on a fursuit and a bald cap.

[15:38] You were afraid they'd kill you like they killed Jack Parsons.

[15:40] Hey, I noticed that Colin Farrell's performance from In Bruges is conspicuously absent.

[15:47] I still haven't seen In Bruges, but I want to.

[15:49] I think In Bruges is very good.

[15:51] I was actually glad that it got a nomination for Best Screenplay.

[15:55] And I was glad, but WALL-E should get Best Original Screenplay.

[15:59] So sorry, In Bruges.

[16:01] Was that original or adapted?

[16:02] Burn on you guys.

[16:03] Whatever.

[16:04] WALL-E is not just a great animated film.

[16:06] It's a really fantastically written film.

[16:09] The structure of that movie is so phenomenal in a way that none of the others are.

[16:13] Certainly not Milk, which is super repetitive.

[16:16] That's a movie that succeeds despite its script.

[16:20] As opposed to something like...

[16:22] Frost Nixon, which had, I think, a better script than a director.

[16:25] Yeah, you could say that.

[16:26] Although there's parts of Frost Nixon that I don't like.

[16:28] Or something like...

[16:29] But I think the Peter Morgan elements are what makes that movie.

[16:32] Yes.

[16:33] I think we can all agree, though, that for the best achievement in sound mixing, WANTED

[16:38] take it away.

[16:39] It's amazing.

[16:40] I mean, they curve bullets.

[16:41] How do you make that sound effect?

[16:43] You've got to imagine that sound first, and that's the hard part.

[16:46] I imagine it's sort of like a...

[16:50] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[16:53] That's just one of those racers from Phantom Menace.

[16:57] And I hope that Presto wins for Best Animated Short Film, because I think it's the best

[17:00] short Pixar has ever done, maybe.

[17:02] I agree with that.

[17:04] And it's a great concept that I'm surprised we haven't seen more often.

[17:07] It's a magic hat!

[17:08] With a rabbit in it.

[17:09] An adorable rabbit.

[17:10] A few hijinks.

[17:11] Best Makeup?

[17:12] Hellboy 2, The Golden Army, I kind of want to win, because it's a really cool looking

[17:16] movie.

[17:17] I hope Curious Case of Benjamin Button doesn't win, because the makeup in it is not that

[17:21] great.

[17:22] Benjamin Button?

[17:23] I don't want it to win.

[17:24] Like, if it wins screenplay, I'm going to be so mad, because it is a terrible script.

[17:27] If he wins Best Actor, I think it'll spawn an entire generation of actors who just look

[17:32] kind of bored the entire movie.

[17:35] It is maybe his worst performance.

[17:37] Not maybe.

[17:38] Of late.

[17:39] Of late.

[17:40] He's done, especially in a year when he was in Burn After Reading, which he's fantastic

[17:43] in.

[17:44] Which he shouldn't get any recognition for being good, he should get recognition for

[17:48] being bland.

[17:49] Yes, exactly.

[17:50] But on screen a lot.

[17:51] But that's the Academy Awards.

[17:52] The Academy Awards recognizes blandness and easy to digestness and mediocrity.

[17:58] What I'm saying about Burn After Reading, perhaps I was remiss in calling these characters

[18:03] well-rounded, because they're all cartoon, funhouse characters.

[18:07] However, the Coen brothers are amazing in terms of just writing unique characters, none

[18:13] of whom sound like each other, and each are indelible, and you understand who they are

[18:20] within moments of them coming on screen.

[18:22] I mean, they're two of the best writers in film, basically.

[18:25] And there's a dildo chair in that movie.

[18:28] There's a Sibian chair, which is, or Sibian, I don't know how it's pronounced, which is

[18:31] hilarious.

[18:32] I've only heard about those on websites.

[18:33] I saw it in a Gentleman's Magazine, and I realized, we've been quoting this at work

[18:37] constantly lately.

[18:38] A Gentleman's Magazine.

[18:39] A Gentleman's Magazine.

[18:40] It's mostly just speed rail.

[18:41] It cost me $100 to put together, not including labor costs, and I had to buy the dildo.

[18:47] I'm not set up to mold plastic, or mold latex, whatever he says.

[18:52] Such a funny scene.

[18:53] There's that moment, oh well, it involves a spoiler, I won't say it.

[18:56] There's a moment of just George Clooney's posture in one part of that movie that blew

[19:00] me away.

[19:01] Just, that involves him killing someone he's not supposed to kill.

[19:05] And then just this moment, you just see him, and his shoulders are so slumped down, and

[19:09] he looks so sad in his posture, and it's just this defeated, pathetic moment from George

[19:13] Clooney that you rarely see that was just really great.

[19:16] Well, this is gonna be the longest Movie Minute ever.

[19:18] Yeah, this is a 20 minute Movie Minute.

[19:20] It's like, what, three minutes?

[19:21] Well, you can edit it down, right?

[19:22] I didn't say anything uninteresting.

[19:23] I can edit it down to a tight three minutes, Elliot.

[19:27] That's the kind of guy I am.

[19:28] Just cut out everything except the best picture talk.

[19:30] Yeah, fuckin' Oscars, huh?

[19:32] Mm-hmm.

[19:33] What are you gonna do?

[19:34] How come Australia didn't get nominated for too much?

[19:36] Just costume design.

[19:37] Not even songs?

[19:39] Not even songs.

[19:40] Baz Luhrmann loves songs.

[19:41] That Peter Gabriel song in WALL-E is so bad.

[19:43] It's so crappy, right?

[19:44] And it's that, like, the movie ends on such a perfect note, and you're like, oh, just

[19:48] let me savor this.

[19:49] And then Peter Gabriel's terrible song comes in, and ruins it.

[19:53] You know what, I don't even want it to win Best Animated Picture anymore, because of

[19:56] that song.

[19:57] Dude, like, is, like, did Randy Newman die or something?

[19:59] Like, why didn't they just call that dude?

[20:01] No, Randy, I assume he and Peter Gabriel switch off.

[20:04] Okay, they tack out.

[20:06] Yeah.

[20:07] That's too bad.

[20:08] Peter!

[20:09] Take care of this one!

[20:10] Slap hands.

[20:11] So, the Oscars.

[20:12] And then, don't worry, when it happens for real, it'll be a super disappointing thing.

[20:15] And then afterwards, we'll talk about it all sad style.

[20:17] And my boss is not hosting it, so I'm not doing anything for it this year.

[20:20] Ooh.

[20:21] My boss was recently accosted by a relative of mine because he was mad about a clip I

[20:24] used in The Gay Cowboy Thing, which is three years old at this point.

[20:27] But he was talking about it as if it just happened.

[20:30] And I was like, really?

[20:31] Like, I kind of forgot I did that.

[20:33] Like, why would, you know.

[20:34] But anyway.

[20:35] So, the Oscars lives on in people's hearts.

[20:37] It's a night for Hollywood magic.

The Flop House Movie Minute #19 - Oscar Bait

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