From the Dungeons of Morningstar, I'm Stretch,
and I'm Clint, and this is Prevailing Strange.
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Hit us up. What did we check out this week, buddy?
Mate, we have checked out last week. This week
for me. I checked out last week F1 starring Brad
Pitt and I want to say his name is, it's not.
Damson. No, no, no. I'm talking about the director.
Joseph Kaczynski, is it? It wasn't. Kosinski.
Kosinski. Yeah, it wasn't Krasinski. Krasinski.
Krasinski's the guy off the office. Yeah. Yeah.
So, yeah, we watched F1. We did. And we're going
to talk about it. We are. So F1 came out last
year. It is nominated for Best Picture, which
will be announced on Monday. It's also nominated
for Best Visual Effects, Best Editing. And yeah,
stars Brad Pitt, Kerry Condon, Damson Idris and
Javier Bordem. Is it just me or is Javier Bordem
just so sexy? He's charismatic, yes. So sexy.
There was a movie I watched with him which was
absolutely abhorrent. I'll never watch that again
and I'll never talk about it. Fair. But F1, dude.
Great movie. I loved it. I thought it was fantastic.
Well shot. Holy Christ, it was beautiful. Thoroughly
enjoyed. So the synopsis. A Formula One driver
comes out of retirement to mentor and team up
with a younger driver. Yes. Brad Pitt plays Sonny
Hayes. He was a once promising Formula One driver
from the 90s but disappeared after a very bad
crash. And decades later he gets pulled back
into a racing team and the racing world to help
save a struggling team and mentor the rookie
driver. Dude, I thought the young bloke, you
hated him enough but you liked him enough as
well. There's enough contention between these
characters. Exactly. But not too much that it
was irreparable in the end. I thought it was
really well done. So Joseph Kaczynski directed
Top Gun Maverick. You can tell. You can tell.
They're the same movie. So I'd never heard of
this guy before, like didn't know him by name.
But as soon as I looked at what he had directed
in the past, I knew his style and his movies.
So he did Tron Legacy. Oblivion with Tom Cruise.
Oh, I love that movie, dude. Only the Brave with...
I haven't seen it. Thanos. It's worth a watch.
You'll only watch it once, though. Really? It's
fucking heartbreaking. Please hold. Sorry for
the swear. Only the Brave. Oh, that's the fire
one, yeah? Yeah. Oh, dude. He did Top Gun Maverick
and Twisters. I love Twisters. I haven't watched
it yet. Steph liked it, yeah. I enjoyed it, man.
Really enjoyable film. This guy is making enjoyable
movies. Yeah. It's a classic sports movie set
up, old veteran, young hotshot, big comeback
story. You've probably seen the bones of this
story before a million times, but the movie sells
it with the spectacle. Driven, have you ever
watched Driven with Sylvester Stallone? It was
like a 2008 movie. No. Basically a carbon copy
of this. Right. down to the whole bit at the
end where things go quiet and he focuses really
well and he becomes unstoppable. So if a slain
does the same thing but he hums, it's weird.
The whole cast is sensational in this, but let's
just talk about the sound engineering of this.
It's something that I always am drawn to in movies,
right? That immersion. Yeah. I didn't read the
opening credits. I didn't see, but as soon as
that opening thrum started, I'm like. That's
Mr. Zimmer himself. Hans Zimmer done the score
for this movie, dude. So you know it's the shit.
They even built custom miniature cameras that
fit inside the cars and stuff because this was
actually filmed during race weekends. So the
cast, the crew and all that was actually working
in the pits for these big F1 meets. So, yeah,
they were in there. The pits and stuff like that.
Yeah. But a lot of the cars were a lower grade
of car. Yeah. So you see in it one of the actual,
in the credits, one of the first things I seen
was Lewis Hamilton is a producer on this. He
actually plays a bit of a part in the final race,
which is fantastic because it is all actual races
and drivers and teams and stuff. Yeah, actual
tracks. Yeah, actual tracks. So Brad Pitt also
done so much of his own driving in this, which
was sort of okay, fair enough. Yeah, all right.
But, yeah, they were all modified Formula 2 cars,
so they were a bit less powerful and all that
sort of stuff. At the end of the day, it's not
trying to reinvent the sports movie. I think
they did a really great job, and it's more about
the spectacle. And you sort of, you really get
that in the final race in Dubai. Dubai is one
of the most beautiful tracks in the world. It's
very much like a speed racer. Like there's lights,
there's LEDs everywhere. It's very bright. It's
very, very cool. And just seeing the sparks flying
out the back of these cars and they hit a bump
and that, it's just, it is incredible to watch.
The story's familiar. The characters hit some
really predictable beats, but the racing scenes
are absolutely insane. The sound design, the
speed, the camera angles, like it genuinely feels
like you're sitting inside a Formula One car
doing 300 Ks in some of these scenes. So if you're
a hardcore film critic, you might roll your eyes
at a bit of these cliches and that, but if you
want a big cinematic ride with amazing visuals,
movie star charisma. And the occasional emotional
pit stop and this is accidentally. It's a good
movie. I enjoyed it a lot. Yeah. It's funny.
I didn't realize it was two and a half hours
until it had finished. Right. And I looked at
the time stamp. I'm like, well, that didn't,
you know. It just goes. It didn't drag on. Yeah,
no. It just goes. It was quite gripping. It was
edgy seat fun. It's one of those movies that
makes you want to Yahoo when they. I did multiple
times. Yeah. Because Rach isn't into this sort
of, loves Top Gun, loves Days of Thunder. Wasn't
really into this. But even like she was on a
phone for a lot of it, but every once in a while
she'd pop up and go, this looks great. Like it
looks fantastic. But you're right. It just went
like that. I think if it was an hour and 45 minute
movie, it wouldn't have worked. No, no. It definitely
needed to tick a few boxes along the way to hit
all the stops. Yeah, I think it worked for two
and a half hours. I mean, I think a lot of movies
these days seem to go a lot quicker even though
they're longer than when we were younger. So
this had a budget of somewhere roughly, roughly,
roughly 200 and 300 million. Holy Jesus Christ.
Yes. It grossed 633 million worldwide. Well done.
Dude. Understandable. It's 82 % from 366 critics
on Rotten Tomatoes. You've got to stop doing
that. I'm going to keep doing it. 7 .6 out of
10 on IMDB and 3 .7 out of 5 on Letterboxd. Can
we move to 10? No. Next season, can we be 10
stars? Five stars is too hard. The thing I have,
the overlay I have is only five stars. Double
it up. No. Simple. No. Just put them side by
side. Then it's five plus five equals ten. Something
about it wants to make my computer crash as it
is. Better stars, mate. Jesus. I want to blow
this movie a bit more than I do. I can't. It's
just such a – it was such an entertaining film.
And that's the thing. It's an entertaining film.
It's not deep. Yeah. It's very – You know, it's
sharp looking. It looks sensational. It sounds
sensational. It's like going to a sports event.
You're not going to remember every bit of it
later on, but in the moment, very enjoyable.
Yeah. Gets your pulse racing a little bit. Makes
you want to cheer for the right person. Yeah,
it's good fun. I really like the de -aging that
they did back in the 90s, and I love that they
brought in Ant and Santa Man. There was a video
that... There's footage of Anton Senna in his
car and that, and you get a bit emotional. And,
like, he's talking about racing alongside Senna
and racing along, like, Andretti and all that
sort of stuff, like some of the biggest names
in Formula One. Yeah. And, yeah, it just hits,
and I really, really enjoyed it more than I thought
I would. Very. Predictable ending. Absolutely.
Predictable as F. I would have liked him to stay.
I mean, yes and no. He could have quite easily
died at the end. I thought he was going to stay
on. He could have stayed on, yeah. Spoilers.
Oh, yeah, shit. Sorry. I mean, it definitely
takes a predictable route whether you actually
pick that right route. Yeah. Yeah. I did like
the ending, though, where he was doing the bar.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So obviously spoilers. I thought
the kid was going to win. I did think the kid
was going to win and he was going to bow out
right at the last second. But he ended up winning
the final race. I did like that it wasn't as
soon as he got in there, it was like, oh, yeah,
we're going to win everything. No, they lost
everything. With some pretty funny dirty tricks.
Yeah. That was quite enjoyable. I think if it
was just a standard kind of, I think that was
the part that made the movie, his little kind
of. and chaos that he put into it. That was kind
of cool. Yeah, just the little sneaky tricks
and, like, the whole, you know, whoops, sorry
about that. Oh, no, I ran into your wheel again.
Get ready. Oh, he's going to do it again. He's
going to do it again. Yeah. Yeah. It was good,
man. I'm giving this. I want to hear what stars
you give it first. I'm going to give it three.
Wow, I'm giving it a four. Okay. I'd give it
a seven if we're any out of ten. Yeah, no, three.
It was fun to watch. Yeah. It was, yeah, I don't
know. I'd watch it again. I would watch it again.
Yeah. A lot of the movies we've watched in the
last few months, I probably wouldn't. However,
this is a rewatchable film, man. I really enjoyed
it. Like you said, there's some funny bits. There's
some laugh out loud bits. There's some yell at
your screen bits. So, yeah, I think it just hits
everything. And Brad Pitt is starting to be one
of my favourite actors, dude. Yeah, I enjoy his
stuff. Dude, Bullet Train. I haven't watched
it. Tune in next week when we watch Bullet Train.
Yeah, that's right. But yeah. I want to get your
opinions on Oscars. So the Oscars are on Sunday
in America, but Monday in America, Sunday here?
The 16th, I don't know, before this episode comes
out. I will put the nominations online somewhere
where you can see it so we can see who wins.
So actor in a leading role. We have Timothee
Chalamet in Mighty Supreme, Leonardo DiCaprio,
One Battle After Another, Ethan Hawke in Blue
Moon, which I don't think either of us have seen.
I have not seen. Michael B. Jordan in Sinners,
and Wagner Murat in The Secret Agent. I don't
know. It's a foreign film, I think, Secret Agent.
Out of what you've seen, who do you think? You
see out of the four that I know. I'm going to
have to give it to Jordan, man. I'm going to
go say Jordan too because he's playing two parts.
Two characters. And they're different. They are.
They're different. I've seen a lot of people
whinging about the end of that film, how one's
good and one's bad. Why did that happen? But
they're not. They're both good until one carked
it and became a bad guy. But then he wasn't that
bad in the end. He's not even a bad vampire at
the end because he still sees a young bloke at
the end. He's like, hey, man, how you doing?
I like that ending. I'm going to pick Michael
B. Jordan. Yeah, same. Actors in a supporting
role. If Chalamet gets it, that's bullshit, dude.
He'd done well, but that movie was shit. Well,
I think Tarn kind of nailed it on the head, where
if you look at, you realise partway through that
he's never going to be a good guy. Maybe it might
have been more enjoyable. I didn't enjoy the
movie at all, but he did a really good job. I
thought he was sensational in that movie, but
I think Michael B. Jordan's just going to take
it. I think he will too. But then again, then
again, Hollywood foreign press is extremely racist.
Actor in a supporting role. You didn't know where
I was going there, did you? No. We've got Benetia
del Toro in One Battle After Another. We've got
Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein. It's a monster.
Delroy Lindo in Sinners. We've got Sean Penn
in One Battle After Another as well and Stellan
Skarsgård in Sentimental Value, which we haven't
seen. Dude, Sean Gunn. Sean Gunn. Sean Penn.
He was. Sean Penn's going to take that. If he
don't take that in a landslide, I don't know
who is. Yeah. I mean. He was probably the best
part in that movie, dude. And I don't like him.
No, not at all. He was. Him or the character.
Yeah, him or the character. I didn't like either
of them, but he killed it. Yep. So actresses
in a leading role, we've got Jessie Buckley from
Hemnet, which is supposed to be really good.
And a lot of people. Have her great things up.
A lot of people are, you know, putting her as
the forward runner. We've got Rose Bryan in If
I Had Legs I'd Burn. Sorry. If I Had Legs I'd
Kick You, which we haven't seen. Kate Hudson
in Song Blue. I haven't seen that. Renee Rinesvie
in Sentimental Value or Emma Stone in Begonia.
Oh, I think Emma Stone's going to take that.
Man. She was phenomenal in that movie. She was
good. I haven't seen Hemnet. I'm going to go
with Jessie Buckley because that's where all
the buzz is around. Yeah, right. Well, I haven't
seen Hemnet either. That was on our watch list
though, wasn't it? We were going to watch it,
but then I had a big week last week and sorry.
Sorry. I'm just doing a duke. I mean, it's my
pick. Maybe we just watch it and then. You want
to watch Hamnet? Yeah, we'll watch Hamnet. Okay,
sweet. Actress in a supporting role. We have
Ella Fanning in Sentimental Value. God, that's
getting some razz in it. Yeah, they reckon it's
pretty good. Igna, Ibstadotta in Sentimental
Value. I'm sorry. I'm fucking bad at names. We've
got Amy Magnan in Weapons, The Witch. Oh, yeah,
she was creepy as. Wanmi Mizuka in Sinners. The
big guy in Sinners. Played the blue character's
missus that lost the baby. There's a blue character?
One of them wears blue, one wears red most of
the time. Oh. Smoke and I wouldn't say Bone.
It's not Bone. What's the other fella's name?
I've got no idea. Yeah, it's been a while since
I watched it. She was good in it. He came back
and she was running that little kind of store
with all the kind of herbs and stuff like that.
And then, you know, he was like, why didn't they
save the baby or whatever? Right. Remember at
the end where he sees her and the baby? when
he's dying and then he becomes the vampire? Is
it? Or was it the other way around? I've got
no idea. I can't remember that movie. It fell
off me. It was only like three months I watched
it. Anyway, she's in it. And Tania Taylor from
One Battle After Another. That was Leo's girlfriend.
She was only in that for a very short period
of time too. I wanted to know what happened with
her because after she ratted on everybody, she
just disappeared. She was good in that part.
She was great. She was in a movie that I watched
rather recently too. I think she's going to take
that one. You reckon? She was good in it. What
else? What animated features, but I don't think,
oh, hang on. Okay. Arco, which I showed you the
preview for that. You did. I haven't watched
it. Elio, haven't watched it. K -pop Demon Hunters.
Little Amelia or the character of Rain. Never
heard of it. Zootopia 2. Oh. It's got to be K
-pop, Demon Hunters. It's pretty massive, surely.
Yeah, but dude. We've seen how much Zootopia
2 has made. Yeah. Jesus, dude. What do you reckon?
No, I'm going to go. You're going to have to
go with K -pop, man. Yeah. Cinematography. We've
got Frankenstein, Marty Supreme, One Battle After
Another, Sinners, or Train Dreams. Oh. Go again?
Frankenstein. That one. Mighty Spring. Cinematography,
dude, you can't beat. The other movies are great,
but the way that that Frankenstein is framed,
the sets that are made, that are made, you can't
go wrong. Then again, it is really bright, though.
I'm going to say Train Dreams. That was beautiful,
dude. Yeah. Okay, let's go Train Dreams. I'm
with you on that. Costume design, we have Avatar,
Fire and Ash. Frankenstein. Hamnet, Marty Supreme
or Sinners. If Marty Supreme gets on there, I'm
going to be pissed off because all that is is
just clothing. You're not designing nothing.
Let's be real. But it was probably the most faithful
thing about that movie to that era. I'm thinking
I hope that Avatar gets it. It's either Avatar
or Frankenstein. The thing with Frankenstein,
though, again, it's stuff that's. It's stuff
that's here. It's stuff that was designed by
other people back then. The clothing that's designed
in Avatar, they designed it from scratch. I don't
know. Like some of the stuff that... And they
had restrictions. Like they had to design clothing
that had no metal in it because you weren't allowed
to harvest metal on Pandora. Anything that is
taken from the ground, you can't use. It has
to be stuff that's fallen from a tree or it's
something that's... Died on the ground of natural.
You can't use. That's one of the laws from Pandora.
Yeah. So for the fact that they've designed a
whole heap of clothing. You're going to go Fire
and Ash? I'm going to go Frankenstein only because
of that whole gothic aesthetic. It is gorgeous.
It is gorgeous. Directing. So Chloe Zhao did
Hamnet, which we haven't seen. We've got Joff
Safdie with Mighty Supreme. Paul Thomas Anderson,
One Battle After Another, Sentimental Value,
which we haven't watched, or Ryan Coogler for
Sinners. I think Coogler's going to take that
one. I think Safdie. No. No. No. I think he will.
I don't know. I hated that movie, dude. Yeah,
I wasn't the biggest fan. I don't want to win
anything. Do you know why? This isn't about what
you want. I'm talking about what I think the
way it's going to go. Film editing. F1, which
we just watched. Mighty Supreme. One battle after
another. Just hang on. Hang on. Back on. Don't
get cranky. I'm just asking you what you think.
No, I'm sick of this Marty Supreme movie, dude.
When are people going to understand that... It
was a well -put -together movie, dude. It wasn't!
It was. I didn't like it. The character, that
was my biggest pet peeve about it, was the character.
The rest of it was good. Okay. Same thing about
uncut gems. I'm going to write you a story of
a completely unlikable douchebag. that steals
off everybody he comes into contact with, lies
to absolutely everybody, has sex with his grandmother,
essentially. She's old enough to be his grandmother.
Come on. Oh, I'm like, who? Cate Blanchett. Gwyneth
Paltrow. Who's Cate Blanchett in this movie?
Yeah, no, you're right. Wrong name. Dude, this
movie was trash. Oh, we're going to allude to
a guy that invented an orange ball because it
shows up on a white t - No. It was never mentioned
again. Okay, cool. Just fucking yay or nay. You
made me swear. The movie is trash. Okay. No.
Opinion noted. Thank you. This is all getting
cut out by the way. Maybe. We'll see. Film editing.
F1, Mighty Supreme, One Battle After Another,
Sentimental Value, or Sinners? It's got to be
F1 or Sinners for me. I'm more looking at the
difficulty in which they would have had to have
done the editing. Marty Supreme, doesn't matter.
It's all frantic. It doesn't matter if it's forwards,
back, front. It doesn't matter. It's pointless.
F1, it has to, in a race, if you've got damage
to a car, it has to be there at the end. You
can't just have it go and jump and fall. So I'm
thinking editing. for Sinners and Formula 1 would
have been a far greater challenge. I'm going
to go Sinners. I'm going one battle after another.
Why? Particularly that. That's not editing though.
It is. It's the way it's edited together. The
whole car chase at the end, I don't know, I just
thought it was sensational. Editing is the way
the film's put together at the end. The car chase.
At the end of that movie is what sold to you.
How many car chasers are in F1? None. They're
racers. They're all chasing the front person,
aren't they? They're chasing the front person.
Yeah, but it's not done differently like it was
in that movie. How dare you? I think makeup and
hairstyling. We've got Frankenstein. Yeah, well.
Cuco. Sinners. The Smashing Machine or the Ugly
Stepsister. I'm going to go Sinners. No, Frankenstein.
Yeah, Frankenstein. Frankenstein. They made me
a goth look hot. She's hot. Such great makeup.
Music, original score, we've got Begonia, Frankenstein,
Hamnet, One Battle After Another or Sinners.
Definitely not One Battle After The Other. I'm
going to go Frankenstein again for that. I'm
not even going to have to think. Like even just
sound engineering, I'm going Frankenstein. What
was the Academy Award category for? Original
score. No, I'm going to have to go Frankenstein.
I'm going Begonia. That did put you on edge a
lot. That was another character in that, I think,
was the music. Original song. Oh, it's K -pop.
I don't even need to read the list. Yeah, golden
from K -pop. I think it's going to win for sure.
Yeah, hands down. Yeah. The big one, best pitcher,
Begonia, F1, Frankenstein. Hamnet, Mighty Supreme,
One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental
Value, Sinners, or Train Dreams. I think that's
going to come down to Sinners and Mighty Supreme
and could come down to F1 as well. I'm going
to have to go Sinners. Sadly, I didn't want to,
but out of that list, I'm going to have to go
Sinners. Well, I think it's down to one battle
after another or sinners. And I feel like one
battle after another will get best picture. Yeah,
you reckon? That'd be cool. That'd be cool. Production
design, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme,
one battle after another or sinners. Can I ask
how Marty Supreme keeps getting put up for these?
for these awards when there's so many other movies
that do it better? I don't know, dude. I'm just
asking you the question. It's so annoying, though,
because I don't know why it's there. I'm going
Sinners. What's it for? Production design. No,
no, no, Frankenstein. Frankenstein, dude. It
was tossing up between those two, but I'm going
Sinners. Sound is F1, Frankenstein, one battle
after another, Sinners. Or Serat. Again. I want
an F1. Yeah. This one might be hard for you.
Visual effects. Got Avatar. F1. Jurassic World
Rebirth. The Lost Bus. Or Sinners. How can you
look past Avatar? How can you look past Avatar?
The whole thing is visual effects. I think that's
where it's going to go. He invented. for that
movie. And then he invented everything to film
the movie. If you get past him, I'm going to
write. Adapted screenplay. Begonia, Frankenstein,
Hamnet, one battle after another, or Train Dreams?
I want to watch Hamnet because I think that's
going to be really good. I think it's going to
be between Hamnet and Frankenstein in that. I'm
going Train Dreams. Only because I've read the
book. Dude, I loved it. I really loved that movie,
man. It was so beautiful. And original screenplay,
Blue Moon we haven't seen. It was an accident
we haven't seen. Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value
or Sinners. Sinners. Yeah, I'm going to go with
Sinners. I think I'm going to have to watch that
Sentimental Value. Yeah, I think so too. I think
I'll give that a go. Did you say it's got Stellan
Skarsgård in it? Yep, and Ella Fanning. Sam Skarsgård's
incredible. He's a great actor. And Ella Fenning's
incredible too. Which, dude, we've still got
to watch Predator. Holy Jesus. Well, look, I'm
going to win that. We will see. Because on Monday
I'll do the thing for. Oh, right. Here we go.
Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Nice.
And we'll tally it up at the end. Dude, look,
if Marnie Supreme wins anything. It's a joke.
It'll win stuff. It's got to be a joke. It will
win. It has to be a joke. It has to be a joke.
It has to be. But then again. Thanks for joining
us again, guys. You're so good. Please, guys,
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And if any of you say, what's that stupid movie?
We're never going to mention it again. Marty
Supreme. Then we're going to block you all. This
will come out after the awards have been announced.
Shit. Well, maybe I can put that in the end of
the reel. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. We like
interacting and hearing from stuff. We do. I'll
see you next time. Bye.