Bonus: MOVIE MINDSET OSCARS PREVIEW

Chapo sets a high bar for intellectual stimulation. LOL

nwp

oh come on lmao. that movie is fun

nwp

Ngl, I was stoked to check out Will's recommendations that I hadn't seen until he mentioned that he liked Barbarian. Can't take his reccos seriously ever again

Kevin Kromenacker

I have truly tried to get my friends to watch Phil Tippet's Mad God and they will not buy in to it, which is a true shame. I'm glad to see that atleast someone out there also enjoyed seeing this visionary display the suffering and of his artistic process. The guy basically had a massive breakdown trying to achieve his vision, and after viewing it, it's understandable why.

On the topic of fucked up Pinocchio movies, I can't recommend Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio from 2019 enough. It is one of the most horrifying movies I've ever seen and I loved it. What's especially fun is finding reviews from moms who put it on for their kids and usually turned it off around the time Pinocchio gets lynched.

PJ Martinez

Uh same theme song as Movies Vs. Capitalism ??

James Lloyd

Hold on to your potatoes

Dick Van Sexel

wubba lubba dub damn

etienne

Rick and Morty swept it

I am become reply guy

Get Will Sloan of the Important Cinema Club as well as Michael & Us on the show asap. He's got Oscar fever like you wouldn't believe! Fever of 107 degrees!!

Ben Nadeau

Chapo continues having the worst movie opinions of all time.

Adam Whitley

I enjoyed Bones and All but it definitely isn't oscar material. I will say if Michael Stuhlbarg had been given a main role he could have been up as best actor. He stole the scene he was in.

Poppy Chulo

lol

John Mitchell

Really? You think so?

Brendan Costello

The South Korean academy is not a fan of Park for whatever reasons, so he doesn't get any support during awards season, despite his sterling career.

Christopher Price

Bones & All got snubbed on all fronts ☠️

Caitlyn Rae

I give this new series 5 wet mouths 👄👄👄👄👄

Sean Marshall

Stoked for the movie miniseries!

Finn

I may have missed it mentioned on the podcast, but I highly recommend “Decision To Leave” from director Park Chan-wook. Overlooked for best international feature at the very least.

Luke B

Too many haters in the comments, you will be against the wall when the movie heads take control 🔫

Matt Boi

I think the better part of Tar's talent is an emperor's new clothes kind of deal. Her book sucks, and most of what she says in eg the classroom scene is just "neither a borrower nor a lender be" sophist nonsense that sounds smart but doesn't ultimately mean much. Like when she's trying to tell the orchestra how she wants them to play, her wife/kapellmeister has to stand up and actually explain what she's trying to get at. If nothing else, a conductor without an orchestra is just some dickhead waving their arms around

Sam McManus

I don't really buy the "it was all a dream" thing. To me, the reason it feels so unreal toward the end is because she's depersonalizing. Her whole identity is a projection made possible by the work and assent of people "below" her, so when she pushed her privilege too far and that bottom falls out, she loses touch with basically everything and everyone around her. Honestly I'm surprised Marxists haven't taken more ownership of it, it's a pretty withering look at "rugged capitalists" who jerk themselves off over their intelligence and authority while high society applauds like the Victorians watching Alex fuck at the end of A Clockwork Orange but would completely collapse if their workers walked off the job.

Sam McManus

Failing Chapo Trap House.

Michael Warren

It's charming in the first act, gets progressively worse in the second act, and by the third act you'll be exhausted.

Poppy Chulo

I am become reply guy

Glad to here them dunking on Nomadland, a dreary boring film with a ten minute advertisement for Amazon jammed in the middle of it. Would have liked to here some love for The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, The Menu, and Puss in Boots, which all slapped.

Casey Kiesling

Man, some of this was very fun and funny, and some of it was legit the worst movie criticism I've ever heard

Luke Witherell

You forgot to mention Sarah Polley's best film: The Sweet Hereafter

I'm a Sentient Lichen - and so can YOU!!

Inish Erin is Irish for island of Ireland. He's out of his lane here too. The film is fucking awful

Bernard Keenan

i just teared up at the name jenny the donkey damn

danny

I think I’ll watch Tar again and look for that Mulholland Drive take, I thought it was good but I took it more as a movie for people who love their New Yorker tote and want to feel dangerous. Also yeah liberal guilt is ruining the fun but there is just a lot of entertainment in watching people encounter difficulties on their 10,000 vacations.

Sam Schick

Lost respect for Hesse for liking so many things in the terrible Triangle of Sadness

Casey

Imagine counting the dildo fight as a strike against a movie.

Son of El Topo

Why is Will's Elvis impersonation exactly the same as his Stallone impression?

Son of El Topo

Everybody else?

Poppy Chulo

i hate movies

foxy

Such a good episode. It helps so much that I love to listen to Will and Hesse talk. Both have such a clean clear style that is so pleasing.

Jim McKenna

I agree. This trope has to die a hard death. I will buy and ship the hammer to you.

Jim McKenna

I HATE this guest, horrible takes, what a strawberry

Maxkrause817

It’s the ghost of the suicide girl

J.P. McD.

Amazing episode 0. I cannot wait for the rest of the episodes (and I cannot wait for you two to tear into Babylon it was so awful)

Sam

Nomadland I saw for the first time a few months ago and it was just so boring. It’s the most plain the friends we made along the way movie. I pray she settled down with David Strathairn at the end cuz she was gonna off someone or drive the RV off a cliff

Jordan Brewer

Stoked!!

Brett Anders

What do people think about the scene in Tar where she’s alone trying to compose and you briefly see a young woman in standing her apartment in the background of a shot? Always confused me

Aidan Gray

It’s insane Aftersun didn’t get more nominations tbh.

SH

Great, now I'm going to have "i lobe my monshtairs" rent free in my head until the day i die, thanks Will

Patrick Taffe

Hell yeah Will thanks

John LaConte

The Spielberg closet isn't the male closet but the young closet, allegedly. As Matt says, Temple of Doom is Spielberg's most autobiographical movie.

T

Guessing you saw about 3 movies last year and 8 total horror movies released in the last decade?

J.P. McD.

I took my kids to see a lot of movies aimed at their age group this year. Puss in boots was a pleasant surprise, and worth a watch . They loved jaws in imax; my daughter is still mad quint dies.lol

Dick Van Sexel

No, it sucked

Peter T.

Naruto

calvin kilby

The reaction to ToS by some cultural creators is cause the movie points directly to them and says you are also the problem no matter how dark and ridiculous you think the rich are. Also Spielberg’s movies are sexless cause he’s deeply closeted. I’m not sure which closet but he has big weird closet vibes. Deeply square.

John Leavitt

Fuck you for not liking Triangle of Sadness, Will

Movie Donkey

I saw Tár in a completely empty theater ripped out of my mind best movie experience of my life

Cleo

Triangle of Sadness benefits from an intermission between the second and third acts, but it's not a bad movie. I didn't think it was laugh out loud funny, but it doesn't suck either. The action in Östlund's movies also tends to be driven more by plot and theme than by characters, which is what it is.

J P 3

Not really, she/he didn't add anything to the podcast. Menaker and Christman would be a better combo.

Poppy Chulo

which anime is The Whale based off of

Andrew M

Countries nominate Best Foreign Film. Not the academy.

Dany

If I have to do one correction with Tár, which I thought was phenomenal, you DO actually see a student at the top of the auditorium during the single take shot.

Robert Calcagno

Parasite is better

Anthony Hoffman

It’s such an unfunny, cringey little shit. He doubled down during his Jimmy Fallon appearance saying he was trying to make the show “fun” and we should all shut up because we’re “geriatric.”

Anthony Hoffman

Excellent episode! Mad God respek! Looking forward to the new series. Following up Beer George with some movies.

James Browning

All I can say is we're only a few years into the 'multiverse' trend and I already wish I could kill it with a hammer. I pray EEAAO doesn't win just so we can be done with that idea before they use it as a pretext to do the most obnoxious franchise crossover movies of all time

Kyle Smyth

Like the NYTimes converting itself from a newspaper into specialized, topical newsletters... Chapo is making a similar brand-leveraging move with Hell on Earth and Movie Mindset.

Of course

Haven’t seen The Fableman’s yet but It’s worth noting that Don Simpson often told a story of when he fell in love with the movies and decided to become a filmmaker. He watched The Greatest Show on Earth as a kid in small town Alaska and his mission on Earth became clear. Funny to think that legendary maniac Don Simpson and legendary family centric filmmaker Steven Spielberg were both inspired by the same movie…probably at the exact same time.

Pod Ween Satan

I liked All Quiet. It had a good soundtrack and the german actors were good. It was a nice update. Not best picture though.

MG

I love when darron aronofsky makes a movie that's like "what if a guy was *insanely* cringe"

etienne

This was a very pleasant listen.

Marcus Wrightus

The whale is just the wrestler again but worse. But brendan was good at least

what_an_answer

Every dollar I’ve spent on this podcast has been worth it for the development of the Menaker Movie Mindset™️™️ philosophy

Daniel

I am here for Movie Mindset, looks like I will be keeping my subscription after Hell on Earth

J Vladcliff

Looking forward to more Movie Mindset. Hesse is a great cohost.

Yeah but in my defense

Re Tar. Was the film trying to convey that she was a dogshit composer? I got that impression from those quiet moments in her studio. And when she plays for that cellist she wants to bang and the cellist is condescendingly like “oh yeah this is so good.” Reminded me of Griffin Mill and the How to Write a Screenplay in 21 Days book he keeps in his desk.

Null_null

The Hasan Minaj Celeb Jeopardy episode is so satisfying if you wanna see an unfunny loser eat shit in a competition designed to be easier than Kids Jeopardy. And I’m not suggesting that winning that competition is any indicator of high intelligence, but losing in the way in which he did is truly telling.

Null_null

Love hearing from Hesse, hope we get more of her on Movie Mindset

Walking Bones

Never heard of those last couple mentioned. RRR and Mad God seems absolutely amazing.

Post Void

Chapo media empire expansion pack slays 💚

Shartk

Decided to pay this month's sub just to tell you you're wrong and you're a loser.

PrincessNukem64x

Everything everywhere all at once became exhausting by the third act. It's overrated, like on the same level as Parasite.

Poppy Chulo

Hesse is a vapid, giggling, uninteresting mess who adds next to nothing in terms of insight despite talking half of the time. Holy shit.

James Murray

Lexg go on Movie Mindset podcast

Arthur G. Pym

Omg, Birdman is one of the worst movies that I've ever seen; very recent-filmschool-grad.

Dan

Hesse rules

Dyyyyylan

Thank you for Chris for shouting out Three Thousand Years (and Northman, of course). It’s a sweet romance twinged with tragedy and plenty of weirdness; it’s also a very aesthetically pleasing movie. Basically no one saw it in theaters, so it’s nice to hear it receive some recognition

Bob Johnson

Folks, unfortunately, this sucks

DP

“Details inside” where?

Caesaro

Please tell me what other movies you hated, I need recommendations for what's good

Isaac Jones

Being an effette condescending fuckstick is not a substitute for a personality.

Poppy Chulo

Smiling at all the people who didn't think Tar was amazing. There's so much to chew on in that movie. It deserves Best Picture just for that scene where she's jogging in the park and hears screaming, but can't find the source. It's a dry comedy and a horror film. You're missing out and you may never know why. It's kind of sad...

Gordon Schmidt

you seem like someone who knows a thing or two about personality

Percle

barbarian was the best picture of the year prove me wrong

Kamran Husain

Y'all are way off. Triangle of Sadness was fantastic, hilarious satire. I reveled in watching all those wealthy people shitting and vomiting all over themselves. Loved the role reversal on the island. Also, Tar was boring as shit and Will is projecting way more meaning than is warranted. And Elvis was awful.

Jake Bolton

Yeah movies that require object permanence are for soyboys, they should just give best picture to a laser pointer.

Percle

Saw all the BP noms that year and it was by far my worst

J.P. McD.

Tar is a film for people who find watching flies fuck too action packed.

Poppy Chulo

this is so good

zach

Can’t believe chapos just copying the E1 episode she was on only real smh

Benjamin O Levine

Doing yourselves a disservice not watching Puss in Boots. It's highly entertaining

James Wallace

No Will the important part about the third act in Triangle of Sadness is that that luxury hotel is already on the island

Karlo

True Willheads taking the dub. Matt and Felixcels left seething. Let's fucking go.

Crosley Querin

Honestly so stoked for this series

Alex Payne

She was incredible in The Menu. Her delivery of “Tortillas Deliciosas” was pure gold

Luis Zamarripa

Hong Chau’s 4ish minutes in her POKER FACE episode are much more worthwhile than anything in or concerning THE WHALE. She’s also arguably the best part of Alexander Payne’s underrated DOWNSIZING.

Rohmer Simpson

Animation is the worst, most corrupt category at the Oscars. Disney wins every time.

T

Super looking forward to what you guys do in October. A chapo-curated horror marathon sounds amazing

Damen Irving

Erm... that's Billy Crystal and I'm calling the ADL.

T

EVERYONE PLEASE WATCH RRR OR AT LEAST GOOGLE RRR DANCE SCENE. Thanks

Garrett Robinson

Describing Babylon as the most “bozo mode” movie is incredibly apt, I haven’t been able to put my finger on it until now.

Cory Gipson

Hesse here to take over and purge the patreon 🙌

My Name

Western front is the only one I saw, and it was great. And Weimar haircuts rock.

Jake Zydek

Hey Guys! Iiiit's Movie Time!

ToddUmptious

I like this series!

No1BASICCHANNELFAN

Two many hosts, not enough personality. I'll take cushvlog over this.

ADIFT

Sorry I’m really high so that comment was redundant

Max Cool

Will, thank you for mentioning Crimes of the future, it’s mention at the end was much appreciated

Max Cool

The idea Spielberg made a movie that says movies are made by perverts for perverts is incredible

Damen Irving

Mad God was phenomenal. Absolute snub for best animated feature

Ozzie

Please do an episode on Babylon!

Chris Villalobos

I was just about to comment that!!! Will has become Jacques-pilled

Taylor Borie

he almost called her Tesla lol

Ben Carter

I’m instantly in for anything with Hesse

fasd asdfa

The Shape of Water is a great movie

Ole Edvard Evenstuen

Who is the ghoul on the episode art

Philip Wilson

ive got the oscar fever 😌😌

Hayley

Pumped to watch along and listen to the series!

Tristan Clark

so happy about this series! great ep

Kirstwb

Osc osc osc Oscar fever!

Ozzie

I hope there is some Tàr talk

pepto_azymuth

Will and Hesse need an even bigger movie nerd on their podcast. They could have tied Sarah Polley’s previous film “Take this Waltz” where Michelle Williams cheats on Seth Rogen to The Fabelmans, where Michelle Williams cheats with Seth Rogen.

Eclectic Beast

LETS FUCKING GO

Elai Kehler

As I understand it, with the best international feature, each country decides what the one movie they’ll send to represent them is, not the studios or the academy. So India apparently didn’t want to submit RRR

Brian Betz

when’s the babylon ep

Daniela

Oh hell yeah, menaker mindset edibles need to hit the market asap. Cannabis industry get on it.

HamDrawn

Oh, thanks for reviewing these films, I found some of them quite interesting, I might check them out

UNDRESS_ME

Thank GOD for Hesse, because I was intrigued by Expedition Content when it came up on a previous episode (when chapo was dragging AO Scott). I remember feeling disappointed that it was flatly judged as being drivel. Vindicated by today's episode!

Tyler Barton

Loving some of these recommendations, really enjoyed the menu and smile

Robert Cullimore

love this shit can’t wait for more 🫡

Matthew

Of course, I was also moved by the last episode of Black Adder.

MTH

Was excited to hear what you all thought of All Quiet, I was surprisingly moved by it, and I usually don’t about war movies. Disappointed neither saw it. My fave of the year measured by emotional response

MTH

I HAVE MOVIE MINDSETTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THEKILLERWHALE

Check YouTube, will did a noaul schrader episode on another movie podcast and it was pretty good. Just type "will menaker discusses Paul Schrader"

Poppy Chulo

I go the Oscar fever, hope you got it too

BAAAAAARNES

Love this

Cameron

He was fantastic in Hoosiers.

THEKILLERWHALE

Hesse :)

Cool Bird Facts

Baz Luhrmann movies are the cinematic equivalent of those baby color shapes videos

nomorepls

paul schrader ep pls thank you ❤️

JC

Matt got his history pod, Will his Movie pod, now its finally time for Felix's podcast about the 2016 East Coast Online Media Landscape

Jack

Lol Chris finally talked will into making this. Now we just need a new Felix series

J Lit

I needed this shit. Thanks guys

SlowTrickle

I m looking forward to Movie Mindset but I would also love more Time for my stories or This is SUS. Specifically something focusing on political shows like the Good Fight or Scandal.

Sir Kev The Perv

Hesse rocks so much, so excited for this

Oatmeal

This is what it's all about. Let's fucking go!!

Gurjot

this mini-series is going to be amazing... loved this ep, thank you Will & Hesse!

Marissa Page

Another Oscars pity award: Dennis Hopper for Hoosiers the year after Blue Velvet

Sinkpiss

Are you brain damaged

VAN Fan

This was a political analysis podcast at one point, I remember because that's why I subscribed.

Poppy Chulo

Of course horror is ignored around Oscar season, so it was nice to hear Barbarian come up. I also quite liked Australia's Sissy, and think you might as well.

Kenny Hedges

This isnt about the guest, its about making Will more conversational.

Bass Fishing '87

Move over Siskel n Ebert 👏

Isaac

Loved it. Looking forward to future episodes.

James Blackmon

I’m gay no wait this is cha

Stanlej

Like everybody else, sad to see you guys snub Decision to Leave, been really disappointed in how little love that movie has gotten

Isaac Jones

Babylon Forever!!!

Bernadette Faure

You watch a movie at night instead of scrolling Twitter or playing 2 hours of video games or watching garbage prestige TV

J.P. McD.

Thanks for this episode. Since I'm not in a very good mood today, you cheered me up a little during these 2 hours.

YourMagnet_adult_version

"What a podcast!" -Al Pacino

T

I love how much Will loves movies lmao

Ashe

i couldn’t be happier about this

nadia

Wish Grogg Turkington "the oscer doctor" could have made it.

Trew Dhiel

I know next to nothing of Indian/Pakistani politics outside of realizing that Modi/BJP/RSS are bad and I could tell from the very first minutes that the movie would have an intense reactionary and nationalist vibe. Seeing both RRR and Top Gun receive immense praise in the same year makes me feel like I’m living the “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” scene from Cabaret

Luis Zamarripa

“indudated”

Peter Gorman

Good episode.

calvin kilby

I literally have to listen to this entire ep again bc I didn't write down anything and I really want to see some of these. FAk

Thomas Carroll

So hype to become aligned with the movie mindset.

brodie

Can I say something? I really enjoyed this episode

Thomas Carroll

You guys talked about like 40 movies and I can't remember any of them. How do you find time to watch all these movies???

Thomas Carroll

Every Indian and Pakistani person I bring up RRR to say it’s pretty fascist. I mean I enjoyed watching it but I think will doesn’t get what’s going on with the politics of the film

Joe Bowden

L take

Tom Danner

To be fair, there's virtually no distinguishing differences between those two, Dr Strange 2, or the upcoming Flash movie.

MTG'S magical roast beef pussy for president 2028!

Everything everywhere all at once is pretty terrible

Carl Thomas

Thank you for the queer representation

MTG'S magical roast beef pussy for president 2028!

hesse is cool

stop watcherman

Hesse 🌹❤️

james petitious

Hesse asmr when

tabbyswipe

I just started listening to Seeking Derangements again. Awesome.

EaZy E

There's a character named SPRITE

cmbalaclava

Let's all go to the movies

Don Tickles

do drugs the way they were meant to be done: as a crime

Bloberis SH

I personally loved Everything Everywhere, but I get that it's not everyone's cup of tea. I do, however, take issue with it being compared to Rick and Morty.

Saga

Claire Penis

Sam Thomas

I love how we have two people who don’t watch movies or really follow the Oscar race tell us about the Oscar’s 😂 I love Chapo but y’all are so wrong for god topic.

Drew McGill

Happy to hear from Hesse herself after hearing about her in Hell on Earth

Josh O'Shields

I think I'm turning Japanese

J. A.

JD Nonce

Gotta be One of the worst years in movies in a long time

Dennis

Hesse and Will movie ep! I cannot wait.

Warbs

HESSE YES

tabbyswipe

Just hook it to my veins!!

Maddy

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in

Seymour Butz

A deadly team, hyped for this

alex clements

Inbreeding vs. Child Eating Hollywood pedophiles, that's a tough call

Christian Johnson

lets fucking go

danny

Hell yes

Mike Loudin

✊️

Christian Johnson

Finally! Bringing that movie magic to the masses. Get out of here with those cousin lovers during the 30 Years War. I want some glitz and glamor with my content slop.

Boxcar Neil

HESSE!!!

caroline

Movie Mindset 🙏

Large Joseph

Movie Mindset going from a wild frontier faith to a formally codified doctrine via a series - a natural continuation from Hell on Earth.

Bryan Jennings

Hey Fap, Hell on Earth eps drop at 6:00 AM Chicago time on Wednesdays, be awake & alert so you can 🥇, I'll relinquish the 👑

Christian Johnson

lex g pls

g$

2 hours of Movie Mindset? What a perfect way to recover from a post International Women's Day hangover!

Isaac Jones

Definitely not first!

Unai Lopez

Feed me slop 🤤

Christian Johnson

Bonus slop!

Laurel

first

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Meatwad Cosby