"zero chemistry" in Elemental. Adam was holding that for months.

@Antichthon

3 ай бұрын

He cooked so hard

@AbrasiousProductions

3 ай бұрын

the wokeness and generic plot was why I didn't watch it, sick of this race shit, all films like these do is serve to further divide us, you wanna stop racism? STOP TALKING ABOUT IT!

@Cyburim

3 ай бұрын

He is right tho I wish romance films would honestly stop with one parter putting their 1,000% of care and attention while the other half gives absolutely 0% back it'd a really toxic mental health toll giving to someone that doesn't return that energy.... Wade was better off without ember they didn't even like each other for most of the film!!! And no the dam collapsing did not make them realize in a midst of panic that they're suddenly googoo-in love because wade committed a sacrifice even though he sacrificed nothing while ember sacrificed everything for the white coded water drops 😂🎉

@zombieeightpack1381

3 ай бұрын

@@Cyburim Honestly, I was completely cool with their romance and thought they worked decently off each other until that fucking misunderstanding trope happened. Like jesus-buttfucking-christ, *STOP. DOING. THIS.*

@TeamSprocket

3 ай бұрын

@@zombieeightpack1381 People thought AI would destroy movies with garbage, regurgitated writing, but humans have been writing garbage, regurgitated writing without the help of AI for a long time now.

I can't wait for adum to not laugh at Jimmy Kimmel

@FoxJupi

3 ай бұрын

Aren't we all?

@thedrewdog

3 ай бұрын

Jiminy Kramble

@itstyler6567

3 ай бұрын

It's Kimmel AGAIN?

@Icedsobaka

3 ай бұрын

Best thing he did for the channel was bring his buddies in, Those commentary Oscar videos are hilarious

@SIDEKICKDUSTY

3 ай бұрын

I don't get why they keep bringing him back, I find it so hard to even pay attention when he tries to tell a joke. I liked Chris Rock as host, and the slap got a lot of attention, hopefully they give hosting duty to him again sometime. By the way, neither here nor there but I really liked Chris Rock's movie Top Five, and think its a bit of a hidden gem if you haven't seen it... sorry for the editing, kept noticing mistakes

yms you should delete this video and remake it but only with 2011 gmod machinimas

@iandeboeser9993

3 ай бұрын

"maestro made me feel so sick I needed someone to tell me 'PILLS HERE'."

@SmellerTheFirst

3 ай бұрын

Aw hell yeah 😊😊😊😊

@Thenameless1

3 ай бұрын

He should, that goes without saying.

@jacobrobinson9952

3 ай бұрын

Be the change you want to see in the world

@tomatkinson4880

3 ай бұрын

This got a chuckle out of me lol

Maestro was so bad he gave a different movie a 10

@lukas4112

3 ай бұрын

You can say it, it’s TÁR

@ricardoediza2690

3 ай бұрын

@@lukas4112 Don’t spoil it for the comment readers

@aidanlastname0187

3 ай бұрын

@@lukas4112TÁR was terrible

@lukas4112

3 ай бұрын

@@aidanlastname0187 me when I have no taste 😍

@aidanlastname0187

3 ай бұрын

@@lukas4112You say that as if you even know me or my taste

I am a black university professor and maybe that's why I resonated so much with American Fiction. I understand your critique, but you didn't mention race at all in the film and how that's the central topic. SPOILERS!: I'm very similar to the central character. I'm black in the humanities and I don't research or discuss black topics. Coming up, there was always a big assumption that every black university professor, doctor, lawyer, etc. over came some crazy inner city hell to claw their way to success. And if you go through the university system as a black person, higher up advisors and so on will 10000% encourage and sometimes force you to highlight your blackness to get grants, recongization and so on. If you are black in the humanities you are expected to ONLY research black topics, and if you don't it's extremely hard to get a job. This family was a privilged black family who did not focus on their race being the narrative of their lives. And the central character not wanting to focus on race in his work and being annoyed at other black people who play it up, VERY common and I've personally never seen this angle potrayed well in films. The story also has MANY layers. Yes, some of the things you pointed out were on the nose, very fair point. But there are other very complex ideas that were said in just a few words. I could go on forever but, again, I totally understand that you didn't like the film. I just wanted to share a different perspective.

@deusexmachina9776

3 ай бұрын

race is most likely why it even got nominated. what does the message in the film really mean when current hollywood and campagning for awards push this agenda

@Dmanjb

3 ай бұрын

this was really enlightening, thank you for sharing

@superclaw28

3 ай бұрын

Love to hear these opinions shared. Adam has his own preferences and tastes so it's nice to hear from people who see something differently and are able to talk about it eloquently as well.

@MatthewPherigo

3 ай бұрын

This comment rules, thank you for speaking up.

@Echo-Head

3 ай бұрын

Oh shit, didn't expect to see Andre in this comment section, love your guitar reviews man! Appreciate your perspective on this movie and topic, I think perhaps Adam being Canadian as opposed to American might have something to do with him not picking up on this aspect of the story as much.

I will defend The Holdovers until my dying breath. I fucking loved that movie and it’s not even the type of movie that I normally enjoy. Being predictable doesn’t mean it’s a bad movie. Not every movie needs to have some grand theme or amazing plot. I think of this movie like a warm blanket on a cold, winter night. Pure comfort and absolutely moving performances by the main cast.

@Missjunebugfreak

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I surprisingly loved The Holdovers even though I went in expecting to not be wowed by it. Such a beautiful, well written film that I feel is gonna become one of my Christmas go-to films in the next few years.

@mapleleaf65

3 ай бұрын

I expected to dislike the holdovers based off of reviews I'd seen, and while I think it had a weird start with a lot of clunky dialogue, I liked the second half so much. Maybe it could have been stronger with another draft, but overall it got a couple chuckles out of me

@ssun9074

3 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

@sandinogallese8221

2 ай бұрын

I completely agree! I loved The Holdovers so much! Such a lovely, comfort movie that was funny, heartwarming, and poignant. I'm surprised Adam didn't like it that much.

@MacGolfball

2 ай бұрын

I second that. I had a blast with the holdovers and I wasn't expecting to

the final scene of Killers of the Flower Moon does not take place in the 1920s 😭

@nms7872

3 ай бұрын

Not sure how he got that. The scene legit talks about the characters dying which happens way after the movie's events

@motherplayer

3 ай бұрын

@@nms7872 The commodification of true crime tragedy even back then. Just turn that Lucky Strike into RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS!

@mrbrex95

3 ай бұрын

He is an idiot tbh​@@KrishanChoudhury-ww5fb

@azetatoto4

3 ай бұрын

did you saw the way he was mockikg Lilly Gladstone on stream with his friends? he has become horrible as a critic and as a person ​@@KrishanChoudhury-ww5fb

@joep7586

3 ай бұрын

@@nms7872He's a pedant first and foremost.

Ryan Reynolds here. Big wireless has once again raised their prices.

I'm glad you gave Maestro the love it deserves

@redlightmax

3 ай бұрын

20:42 Yikes, he sure did.

I'm still upset Sterling K. Brown didn't get a nomination for "Waves." Imo "Waves" deserved a bunch of noms, it was my favorite movie from 2019 but easily, I think far and away the most subbed person from that movie was him. I honestly think he should've won the Oscar. His performance was so incredibly impactful for me. I'm glad he got a nom this year

@notefish328

3 ай бұрын

Whenever I see Sterling K. Brown, I always think, “There’s that incredible actor from Waves.”

@mackielunkey2205

3 ай бұрын

Sterling K. Brown is such a treasure; I know him as the “This Is Us” and “Invincible” guy myself.

@SonOfAGunYYH

3 ай бұрын

Waves was a phenomenal film, I got it from the library on a lark and it blew me away!

@k00_ma

3 ай бұрын

i watched it pretty recently and i wish that it was praised more. it deserves so much more praise and deserves to be regarded one of a24’s best movies

@RenegadeVile

3 ай бұрын

Don't be, the Oscars are a sham and worthless. Getting a nomination is about as meaningful as getting praise from a total stranger.

TMNT: Mutant Mayhem should had taken Elemental’s place for the best animated film category.

@shawklan27

3 ай бұрын

Totally but I guess it's because the art style is deemed too ugly compared to how safe elemental is

@jestrel

3 ай бұрын

@@shawklan27dude thats so insulting for a gorgeous movie like that (I dont mean you btw I meant the nominees for going such a safe option compared to actual artistic stylization)

@d.j.m1xer

3 ай бұрын

@@jestrel I agree, Mutant Mayhem isn’t ugly at all. It’s just going against tradition, which is why I loved it so much. I hate perfect/beautiful cookie cutter bullshit.

@jestrel

3 ай бұрын

@@d.j.m1xer Not to say elemental isnt stylistic artistically either but you said perfectly of what I mean its more cookie cutter you can say like kinda wish they went crazier with it like how mutant ninja turtles did. Also the story is better then elemental definitely dont know why its not up there

@shawklan27

3 ай бұрын

@d.j.m1xer yeah the artstyle is very unique to how everything is trying to be as clean and prestige as possible yet the film looks great regardless

For Killers of the Flower Moon, the microphones weren't from the time of the movie, it is from the 60s or 70s, from the information it gives you.

@SonOfAGunYYH

3 ай бұрын

and you can even say it's sort of a metaphysical space because the whole set-up is there to just inform you what happened after the fact, because in the book the film is based on the author explains the background things and how they researched the book, who they talked to, and the reaction of the descendants. if you haven't read the book yet, it's a big recommendation from me!!

The real winner here is Tar going from a 9/10 to a 10/10, that movie was awesome peak acting.

@aidanlastname0187

3 ай бұрын

Terrible movie

@Missjunebugfreak

3 ай бұрын

Agree. That film is superb.

@Trisideon

3 ай бұрын

boring as sin

@MacGolfball

2 ай бұрын

Agreed! Though I'm not ready for a rewatch yet cuz that movie is very chunky in its runtime

The scene at the end of killers of the flower moon is not in the 1920s and the mic criticism is pretty lame in the first place.

@Obscure128

3 ай бұрын

some of Adam’s biggest criticisms remind me of the “magic xylophone” gag from the simpsons

@ashleepower9764

3 ай бұрын

also looney tunes did not exist in the 1920s but he uses it as an example of what the mic quality should be like.

@marianeal7352

3 ай бұрын

@@ashleepower9764yeah that confused me lol

15:50 Just a note for Adum. There is a subtle time jump in that scene, it’s placed somewhere in the late 50’s/early 60’s. You can tell by the “lucky strike” cigarette advertisement. The radio show-esc nature was very popular in that era, and there were hints it was not taking place in the same era as the rest of the film.

@DefinitelyAPotato

3 ай бұрын

Especially considering they talk about the fate of some of the characters, one of whom died in 1962.

@hectorf.peralta9913

3 ай бұрын

Plus the movie is showing and you are hearing the people speaking into a mic not what the mic is outputting

@maxmustermann6612

3 ай бұрын

Audio quality still wouldn't have been that great

@mlbp2567

3 ай бұрын

Ironic how he complains about the movie’s lack of detail (?) when he completely missed the obvious detail that the scene takes place decades after 1920s

@jazzy4830

3 ай бұрын

You could argue that the film failed to properly convey the time jump, but I generally agree. Adam gets stuff wrong confidently quite a lot and rarely walks back his opinions even when corrected.

When Bradley Cooper gets older in Maestro, it’s literally just the Rocket Raccoon voice but he’s got a stuffy nose.

@motherplayer

3 ай бұрын

Is it weird I got more emotional over the Talking Raccoon in the silly space opera as opposed to a real person he was trying to play?

@lucasdillin2045

3 ай бұрын

@@motherplayer Guardians 3 is a masterpiece it's not weird.

I genuinely cannot fathom being so thin-skinned that Triet having political opinions meant Anatomy wasn't nom'd for best international. Insane move from the French govt.

@rottenfiggy

3 ай бұрын

Sadly a really common move for the French government tbh

@NateGH36O

3 ай бұрын

It does make it all the better the fact that it has several nominations in other categories. definitely a nice 🖕to the French govt

@k-leb4671

3 ай бұрын

Ah well, French leadership has always sucked and the French are always revolting against it only for it to be replaced with more suck.

@jazzy4830

3 ай бұрын

Pettiness and grudge-holding are great French pastimes.

I watched a short interview with a documentary maker who's part of the academy. To summarize what he said: "I can't possibly watch over 200 documentaries. If it started with a drone shot over nature then I immediately shut it off. And i dont know anything about the other categories and there are so many people in the academy, you're vote countsbut its a drop in the ocean, so i just voted for a friend in that category. I just voted for a friend. *shrug*"

@thecinematicmind

3 ай бұрын

Now as someone who has been frustrated by the unavailability of documentary short films that is frustrating to hear.

Man i wished the whole "Barbie was snubbed" controversy was directed towards Past Lives because Celine Song and Greta Lee killed it. But i guess Some people only watch 2 movies per year and they all watched Barbie, Oppenheimer and nothing else. Hell, Anatomy of a Fall was directed by a woman but they don't seem to be aware of that? Either they think Justine Triet is a man or they just don't care about anything outside Tik Tok memes.

@apollofell3925

3 ай бұрын

The contraversy is just "well the guy got nominated and the girls didn't" which is just having blinders on about the whole thing. The real Barbie Movie nomination snub is "Best Adapted Screenplay."

@Iffy350

3 ай бұрын

I haven’t followed the award shows since star wars got snubbed for gay cowboy movie. Hollywood is a joke. They will fail to recognize Akira Toriyama because he is from Japan and they are evil!

@AbrasiousProductions

3 ай бұрын

that film shouldn't even exist.

@Choekaas

3 ай бұрын

@@Iffy350 Brokeback Mountain is leagues better than Star Wars Episode III, stop messing around. And why would the Oscars recognize manga and anime writer Toriyama? He doesn't work in film. They literally nominated Hayao Miyazaki this year for "Boy and the Heron".

@DonnieBrook69

3 ай бұрын

"They only read headlines" Nail on the head.

I feel like the odd one out with how much I enjoyed Killers of the Flower Moon, where the runtime didn't bug me at all because the pacing outweighed it for me and the whole thing just flew by for my viewing. But to each their own, I really liked it.

@motherplayer

3 ай бұрын

Felt the same way. Found it surprisingly zoomed by. But that's what happens when you're more invested in the material.

@kristinalfc5846

3 ай бұрын

I actually felt Oppenheimer was much slower, I couldn't even finish it in one go, and while I do still think KOTFM is too long and flawed, it was a breeze by comparison cause the pacing was very good

“I love this director, the academy is stinky” is the highest praise a filmmaker can hope for.

"The songs should be helping to move the story forward." My God Disney, NEVER hire pop song writers for a MUSICAL ever again. That's why each song just kind of feel...odd to say the least. With lyrics that don't really make sense.

@rhiannejones3815

3 ай бұрын

Elton John and The Lion King disagree

@TheRibottoStudios

3 ай бұрын

​@rhiannejones3815 it's not like it's Elton John himself doing the lyrical work alone. He gets a lot of credit but Tim Rice was the one who brought him in, and worked alongside him. Working on the lyrical soundtrack was a downright nightmare for multiple parties involved; Elton's boss, Roy E Disney, wasn't exactly a fan. Tim Rice had to have the patience of a Saint in dealing with the writers who weren't really on board with the demos John would bring in because they couldn't picture the characters singing the songs. Then they did end up changing "can you feel the love tonight" to have Timon and Pumbaa sing the intro and outro with someone else singing the main song. Elton John did write the lyrics for lion king and yes he was a pop star songwriter. The difference between him and the writers/songwriters for wish is that everyone on the set of the lion king had something to prove. So they gave it their all. Because no one had any faith in it.

@brandonmclendon5368

3 ай бұрын

@@rhiannejones3815Well Elton John worked well with The Lion King. And it’s not just because he’s a better songwriter than Benjamin Rice and Julia Michaels, but it’s because Elton has always had a musical theatresque style with his music (a reason why Rocketman was great). Plus he worked with Tim Rice who worked on many musical projects.

@MothsAreTheBest

3 ай бұрын

the lin manuel mirandafication of disney movies

@TheRibottoStudios

3 ай бұрын

@@brandonmclendon5368 This. All of this. At his core, Elton John was a showman. It's why his musical style is so easily recognizable.

I thought I will never forgive YMS for KOTFM but I turned around when he, deservingly, roasted Maestro bcs holy that one sucked

@SidV101

3 ай бұрын

I wanted to stop watching so bad, finishing Maestro was SUCH a chore

@mackielunkey2205

3 ай бұрын

@@SidV101It was honestly pretty boring; the technical stuff looked marvellous, but I only got fully invested in the last third of the movie.

@SidV101

3 ай бұрын

@@mackielunkey2205 yeah Maestro looked good I disagree with Adum on that part. Cinematography is the only thing it deserved though. Greta Lee should have gotten in over Carey Mulligan

@k00_ma

3 ай бұрын

@@SidV101 i dont get the complaints with the cinematography either. i think the movie looks amazing on a technical basis but bradley cooper i think just got way too lost in the sauce and forgot to include a compelling story

@anonymoushumanhi

3 ай бұрын

@@SidV101 I think Greta Lee should’ve been nominated over America Ferrera. Carey Mulligan was excellent. America Ferrera acted out TikTok talking points (not to say I disagree, but it was practically stolen from the mouths of many self-advocating young women I follow) and that was disappointing.

Takes a lengthy digression to discuss KotFM's ending, but uses that digression not to engage with Scorsese's all-but-explicit condemnation of our culture's tendency to ignore historical injustices unless they are spoon-fed to us as slick, unchallenging, corporate-sponsored spectacle (a critique that extends to his own film, which his cameo appearance suggests is very intentional), but instead to bitch about the diegetic microphone audio!?!?!?!?🤯🤯🤯 What a maroon!

To be fair, Clod at least did what Morbius couldn’t: cringe its way to financial success

Maestro is the kind of movie where reading the person’s biography on Wikipedia does better than watching the movie.

The Iron Claw being snubbed by the Oscars infuriates me. That movie, the director and the actors deserve an award

@thisiskitta

3 ай бұрын

I feel like the iron claw has a chance for next year at least. I think Iron Claw and Poor Things should've been on next year's Oscards, their release was so damn late.

@Wired4Life2

3 ай бұрын

@@thisiskitta Why include _Poor Things?_ It won Venice’s Golden Lion pretty fair and square.

@thisiskitta

3 ай бұрын

@@Wired4Life2 because it’s still difficult to view, it released super late in the year. I am saying they both shouldn’t be in this year not because they aren’t worth it but they were released so late, it doesn’t feel right.

@BROJANGSTER

3 ай бұрын

@@thisiskittaif a film releases before january 1st of any given year, even if it’s in limited release, it’s eligible for that year. they have 3 months to release the film in wide release and/or vod before the oscars, and you have 3 months to watch the film(s) before the oscars

@anotherchia8340

3 ай бұрын

A24 didn't campaign for it enough.

Bradley Cooper did not look like he knew how to conduct the orchestra in Maestro.

@pigslam

3 ай бұрын

thats because theres a difference between learning how to conduct and knowing how to conduct. he took a couple classes perhaps, he maybe has a basic understanding, but zero control.

@randomness928

3 ай бұрын

He's like suuper over performing it

@luiginastro8831

3 ай бұрын

That's because he's a conceited actor

@15Candles

3 ай бұрын

@@randomness928 The real Leonard Bernstein was kinda over the top when he was conducting too

@anonymoushumanhi

3 ай бұрын

He wasn’t great at conducting, an actual conductor said he was flat-out wrong at times, but he completely matched Bernstein’s energy and he performed very well as Leonard Bernstein. Even as a nit-picky musician and avid movie-watcher, I thought it was a pretty excellent film and tribute to a flawed man while still showing a great deal of humanity and care. Not to mention he made Felicia so central to the film, giving her the importance and recognition that she deserved for her strength and individualism. Carey Mulligan was also PHENOMENAL. It was just a well-composed film, pun intended, but, yes, somewhat unremarkable in the seas of films.

I didn’t catch onto Maestro’s narcissism before I heard Cooper’s theater-major performance, Jesus Christ

@GodzillaExpert

3 ай бұрын

I know what narcissism means, after all, Maestro is a great example of it.

@YoY187

3 ай бұрын

I like Bradley Cooper in comedies and I won't claim to fully understand the definition of narcissism. Or irony for that matter. All I know is Maestro just reeked of self indulgent, cinematic masturbation on the part of its star. And that's before I knew he directed as well. Adum nailed my thoughts in his review here

@GodzillaExpert

3 ай бұрын

@@KrishanChoudhury-ww5fb Sorry for the late reply but yeah, Adam pretty much summed up why the label is accurate. The movie doesn't feel like a biopic, it feels like Bradley playing an alternate version of himself where he is a beloved Gary Stu conductor respected by all. Also there was a cringey interview with Bradley online in which he "broke down" in tears, lamenting how he misses the real life figure he plays, as if they actually knew eachother. They never met, he's just leeching off his legacy. Oh yeah, and his acting in Maestro is embarrassing, but he's so self absorbed he's making a mockery of himself without realizing. "I'M REIGNING IT IN!". Dear god, no concept of introspection. Just a vile movie divised by an obnoxious narcissist.

@GodzillaExpert

3 ай бұрын

@@KrishanChoudhury-ww5fb Very fair points. I really only brought up the interview to emphasize Cooper's real life examples of attention seeking, and it did come off to me as using Bernstein as a pedestal. I also meant vile as in its a really poor, chore of a movie to get through, not necessarily that's its some immoral project with dangerous messaging or something. So maybe incompetent was the word I should of used, my bad. All in all we can't know what's going in Cooper's mind to confirm how vain Maestro is, it's just really suspicious and completely in the realm of possibility. At least he's not Jonestown-ing it up like Leto.

I’m glad someone else thought of the shark boy and lava girl scene

For elemental it feels like there was SUPPOSED to be a villain subplot somewhere that would explain why there was still water in the fire district and why these leaks/floods were there as well that was dropped at some point in favour of the generational trauma/romance element. Apparently some of the writers gave an interview where they said wade's mother was supposed to be an antagonist basically doing the whole 'Buy out the protagonists family farm to build an overpass' trope but this was changed mid production because they didn't want the movie to have a villain.

@TheSLATEcleaner

3 ай бұрын

I think Elemental is a stronger film because it doesn't have a traditional villain. It actually does have a strong central conflict - majority culture racial apathy, how those attitudes can become systematized, how those systemic and cultural pressures can become internalized for minority cultures, and the agency younger generations have in bettering the conditions that arise from those issues - that feels much more authentic than trying to pin the problems of a societal underclass on a single person. I don't think the film is significantly better than Adam thinks [the dialogue is kinda iffy, animation is a mixed bag, the romance is hit or miss, the comedy is pretty specific], but he *really* missed the point of the film. There isn't water in the pipes because of a missed shutoff valve, there's structural damage to an overflow channel that hasn't been adequately cared-for - an analogy for the themes of the film. The fire people immigrated into a city that wasn't built with them in mind and, despite minor changes [like shutting off the water into fire town] made for their benefit, the rest of society never adjusted to accommodate them. Adam also entirely misses that "taking over the shop instead of following her dreams of becoming an artist" is not just a literal action but also a clear metaphor for taking on the traditions and attitudes of her father, which center around a self-imposed segregation in direct reaction to the racial trauma he felt and feels as an immigrant. Her relationship with Wade isn't in conflict with running her father's business, but it *is* in direct conflict with the attitudes taking over the business represents. That massive internal conflict the film spends half its runtime setting up was going to have to be resolved inevitably, so when he says the Act III fallout "comes from nowhere" he's so off-base it's kinda hilarious. There's plenty to criticize about the movie, but there's much more going on under the hood than Adam wants to give credit for. Elemental is a text about being the descendant of immigrants - they spend more time on that than the romance that was treated as the primary marketing point. It's kind of jarring he didn't pick up on it or comment on it besides saying Ember's father sounds like he was Google translated to Chinese then back [maybe because it's from the allegorical perspective of Chinese immigrants, looking at the statements of the director and one of the co-writers of the screenplay?], they're pretty in-your-face about it.

@buragi5441

3 ай бұрын

"I think Elemental is a stronger film because it doesn't have a traditional villain." It's a stronger movie because of a currently overused cliche by Disney??@@TheSLATEcleaner

@antoniusweezel876

3 ай бұрын

Elementals issue wasn't that it lacked a villain, it's that it wasn't a very good or creative movie. I think it speaks to the lack of a clear vision that core plot driving elements that were obviously intended to foreshadow a villain were left in. If the goal was to present a story without a villain then there needed to be changes to more heavily lean on the interfamily or inter-cultural drama as driver and obstacle - as it stands the climax feels like a non sequitur

@diodora2381

3 ай бұрын

@@TheSLATEcleaner That's great and all for the movie, but the execution is so lackluster. Lots of terrible movies tackle lofty and noble themes, but you still need to execute on your idea, and it is clear that Elemental did not. Not sure if I would give it a 1/10, but I can't say I was enthralled by the movie.

I had previously criticized Scorsese for casting Leo as Burkhart as I really don't think Leo looks like a man in his 20s anymore. Then I saw an actual photo of Burkhart at the time, and he actually looked much older than his 25 years. I guess the war aged him. De Niro on the other hand is clearly way older than Bill Hale was.

@iciajay6891

3 ай бұрын

People ageed much faster than. No sunscreen and access to modern medicine. Ppl all looked much older.

@deathbyslipknot

3 ай бұрын

You shouldn't really think too hard about age in Scorsese films. Joe Pesci did not look his character's age in Goodfellas.

I went into Nimona expecting to hate it, the out of context clips did the movie no justice and i actually ended up quite enjoying the movie

More like Midstro, gottem 🔥

@ULTRAOutdoorsman

3 ай бұрын

Why-stro

Calling it now, someone who wins will try to advocate for Gaza and immediately get mic cut off and chaos will ensue from there.

@anthonymartensen3164

3 ай бұрын

No

@HE13272326

3 ай бұрын

I just want to see Will Smith standing on the stage and slapping each and every oscar winner on their way to the podium. Like: "One at a time please"

@juicybrucey_5352

3 ай бұрын

@@HE13272326Will smith is to the Oscar’s like batman is to the mob

@mackielunkey2205

3 ай бұрын

Well, Jonathan Glazer did it, and now his speech isn’t posted by the official channel on KZread lol

@verybored1261

3 ай бұрын

Bro called Jonathan Glazer's speech, nicely done

Adapted screenplay just means, on an existing property, it doesn't matter which one it is. People aren't property, at least they stopped being so a while ago.

@fork3810

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I really don’t get his issue there He knows there are dozens of Barbie movies, shows, and, like he said, books, right? The film is inherently based on those by being a continuation and commentary on the same property

@bjd4

3 ай бұрын

so 12 years a slave would've been a best adapted screenplay no matter how it was written

@randomness928

3 ай бұрын

Doesn't make it any less stupid

@obscure.reference

3 ай бұрын

@@fork3810 saying this movie is ‘inherently’ based on other random, unrelated barbie media is nonsensical. is john carpenter’s the thing an adaptation of the thing from another world? no. they both come from the book, like all barbie media comes from the doll.

@fork3810

3 ай бұрын

​@@obscure.reference But it is related to the other Barbie media though. It’s about the brand of Barbie and those pieces of media are part of the brand; the same characters in the same base setting and the same affiliations. I'm not sure what you're trying to say with the thing comparison. The whole point of this discussion is that the original Barbie product is not a story but rather a toy. I'm pointing out that tons of other things have adapted the characters into stories previously, and therefor saying that this 2023 film, which uses the same characters, base setting, and ideas as those media would surely classify it as an adaptation of sorts; even if it's not telling the same story. It's very different from just an adaptation which is from a story which was adapted before.

You misunderstood the point of the Johnny Walker analogy. It wasn't there to explain books or audiences, it was there to illustrate that it is perfectly viable to have both low and high quality products in your line-up. It was meant to unburden the main protag from the pressure he was always putting himself under.

To be fair on Elemental's second act breakup, they don't argue because she thinks she can't date him and run the shop. She gets upset with him because he once again tries to tell her she shouldn't do what her father expects of her and instead go do what she wants to do with her life (art). He had done this a couple times before in the movie, along with his family kind of pushing her in that direction too. Not wanting to disappoint her father, she responds angrily to this and pushes him away. Not saying it's the height of excellent writing or anything, but while it's a stereotypical second act breakup, one thing it doesn't do, is come out of nowhere.

“Jonathan glazer could glaze my zone of interest any day” is maybe the funniest thing Adam has ever said 😭😭

@Missjunebugfreak

3 ай бұрын

It is. Also Jonathan Glazer is attractive so I definitely related to Adam on that comment.

that international nomination process is crazy. kind of hilarious.

"Is this some kind of finale? Are you done?" Oh my god, that would have been an amazing plot twist. Bravo, alternate universe Disney.

44:11 That “act of god, or an act of Clod” line gave me terminal aids

@Arawn505

3 ай бұрын

😏😏😏😏

I've had no interest in seeing Maestro, but I found it interesting when you pointed out how Bradley sounds nothing like the actual guy. Where as the first time I saw Capote I had no clue who the actual man was, and was later blown away by how perfectly Philip Seymour Hoffman nailed his voice/mannerisms. Just a total contrast.

@miz4535

3 ай бұрын

To be fair I don't think Murphy particularly tried to sound like Oppenheimer. He was more trying to channel the essence of the person than an exact impersonation. So, it's not necessary. But I didn't watch Maestro.

@motherplayer

3 ай бұрын

@@miz4535 Agreed. It's akin to how Michael Fassbender handled Steve Jobs in the film too. Doesn't look or sound like him much, but he was channeling an essence too.

@anonymoushumanhi

3 ай бұрын

He sounds a tad like him. He did have a somewhat stuffy voice in his older years. But he had a higher timbre and Cooper definitely exaggerated him lol. To me, he sounds like Chris Pratt in Parks and Rec impersonating Sylvester Stallone.

I was listening to the Maestro part and was like “Oh c’mon Adum, surely it can’t be that bad. I’ve always liked Cooper in things I’ve seen him in, it’s probably just a script you didn’t connect with” then you played clips of Cooper’s performance and I lost the tiniest respect I had left for the Oscar’s knowing that that got nominated for best actor

@fork3810

3 ай бұрын

@@KrishanChoudhury-ww5fb Good thing nobody did that then

The Cheetos movie is nominated because the music branch of the academy LOVES Diane Warren. Every year there is at least one movie you've never heard of nominated for Best Original song and 9 times out of 10, it's written by Diane Warren. This trebs will probably continue until she wins one.

@thecinematicmind

3 ай бұрын

The last time I remember any Diane song was that one she did with Lady Gaga in that documentary about sex abuse in colleges.

@heymistercarter.

28 күн бұрын

Yea, that's exactly it, the token Diane Warren nomination. Yet it's so funny, if the Music Branch loves her so much, why hasn't she won yet?

Bradley Cooper in maestro sounds like he's doing a Barry B. Benson imitation.

I wish Adam would get behind advocating for streaming the Oscars on KZread the way he advocates for movie trailers to be uploaded in 4K. Maybe there’s something I’m not thinking about but I think it would probably up their viewership.

@obscure.reference

3 ай бұрын

it’s the only reason anybody deliberately turns the channel to abc

"Now he just seems like a huge asshole. Based on this movie" Lmfao.

Hyped for the Adum and Pals

@jeyd8194

3 ай бұрын

Literally the only good thing to come from the Oscars anymore

@livewiiiiire

3 ай бұрын

I look forward to it every year!

"I actually love Elemental” (Cut to the person getting roasted on top of the bonfire)

@motherplayer

3 ай бұрын

It's all cool. Truth be told, I think a good chunk of these were overly harsh. I'm not even a big fan of Elemental, but even I don't think it's "1/10" material. Suppose it's decent to laugh at, at least.

Adum calling the charscters from Elemental sharkboy and lavagirl made me laugh harder than it should

42:40 um Adam, the director is from Korean and he translate into a Korean speaking into a firish language. He wanted to inspired his movie like his hometown related that he was from Korea.

While I get that The Boy and The Heron won’t be for everybody, it really resonated with me because of the story and characters; trying to reconnect with the world after great tragedy, acknowledging your own malice. Actually loved it more than Spider-Verse imo.

@hosenosejack6640

3 ай бұрын

same, I like it significantly more than spiderverse

@mackielunkey2205

3 ай бұрын

@@hosenosejack6640 It would be lovely to see the Academy give the Oscar to Miyazaki again, but I totally understand if Spider-Verse gets it, it's paced amazingly, and it's one of the best Spider-Man stories. But with Boy and the Heron, you could tell how much time Miyazaki put into it and it's meant more to be like an experience than a conventional story.

Maestro is this year’s Bohemian Rhapsody.

@k00_ma

3 ай бұрын

tru but at least bohemian rhapsody had something spectacular in it which was rami malak

@Wired4Life2

3 ай бұрын

@@k00_ma Also, at least mass audiences LIKED _Bohemian Rhapsody_ and at least the professional film editing community committed to propping up its editor John Gilbert as an “F.U.” to director Bryan Singer.

@Snovicus

3 ай бұрын

@@k00_ma Rami Malek is a terrific actor, but his performance in Bohemian Rhapsody honestly felt like it belonged on SNL.

@luiginastro8831

3 ай бұрын

Well, as far as I know, Maestro doesn't have a p3d0 at the helm.

@bk83082

3 ай бұрын

I sat through the entirety of Bohemian Rhapsody, I think I got 20 or 30 minutes into Maestro before giving up.

I do have to ask: How did American Fiction not hit at all for you? I get that the movie is overly _didactic_ - something that I would usually also find somewhat insufferable - but I feel like it works in its favor in this case for a rather obvious meta reason: At the end of the day the movie still wants to be understood by _white liberals_ - something the movie is obviously highly self-aware of as it reflects the very core theme of the movie: The engagement of white liberals with black culture; their paternalistic gaze, their shallow instrumentality, their distorted sense of authenticity. It makes sense then that the movie so often has the characters spell out its message: E.g. in that one phone call where the protagonist's agent replies: "White people don't want to do anything about black issues. They just want to feel absolved." - Heavyhanded as it may be, anything less blunt and direct might not even get the gears turning for many white viewers. The movie brings this meta narrative to its pinnacle by [spoiler!] breaking the fourth wall in the end and revealing itself as a movie inside of a movie, an autobiopic written by the protagonist himself, portraying the exact kinds of black drama porn endings a white audience is used to seeing. In contrast, the side plot of the movie regarding the protagonist's family and social life might not exactly appear like the most exciting story (to a white viewer at least if I may add) but that is also part of the program, isn't it? The whole point is to show a counter-narrative which in comparison is almost radical in its normalcy: Just a simple story of an upper-middle class black academic dealing with his sister's death, his mother's Alzheimer's, his social avoidance, etc. Nothing too out of the ordinary but still real and heartfelt. Ofc that may not speak to your lack of visceral enjoyment of those scenes, but nonetheless one may still resonate with what they try to communicate, no? Also about the scene with the John Walker bottles: The price of those bottles was obviously meant as a metaphor for the difference in _artistic value_ between the books in question, not their actual prices. Also about the radio show scene in Killers of the Flower Moon: The reason that audio is so clean is bc it is meant to be the direct sound from the characters, not the signal from the mics in front of them. Like duh. How did those things go over your head?

@Roseforever84

2 ай бұрын

Have you read the book American Fiction is based on? I thought it was pretty great. I need to watch the movie and see how it compares to the book, then we can have a discussion if you want

People defended using Chriss Pratt for Mario because the original voice actor would "get annoying". Meanwhile Robot Dreams doesn't have dialogue at all and got nominated over the Mario Movie.

Your first mistake was going on twitter at all, Adam

@AbrasiousProductions

3 ай бұрын

he's a liberal, they can't help it.

@ULTRAOutdoorsman

3 ай бұрын

you are first mistake

@kiwipie9415

3 ай бұрын

@@ULTRAOutdoorsman Turns out I was the real mistake. The apostrophe and everything🤦

This is gong to be SUPER unpopular, but I don't think Adum is the target demographic for American Fiction. I know nobody here will agree, but that doesn't mean it is not true.

"cry himself back into existence" wow poetry

Flaming Hot has the potential to hit every one of Adum's channels! YMS: Oscar Nominees (this video) YMS Highlights: Talks about it YMS Watchalong: Watch along Adum Eats: Self explanatory Adum Plays: ... Oh dang, so close!

I loved Past Lives, and glad it is getting some notice. Zone of Interest was haunting too.

5:22 true, it will be fine if Barbie was originally screenplay instead of adapted because it was based on Matel toys and wanted to have a Barbie movie into a doll idea and blend into a satire of Barbie parody. Maybe because it’s part of the screenplay, I don’t know so it’s hard to understand that Greta and Noah just made their own script and just put into a brand of Barbie’s idea.

I really love the editing at 33:33 where the awards synch up with examples of the category in the film. The amount of effort put into the presentation of such a long video is commendable, and it really adds to the experience!

One small problem with your complaint about the scene in Killers of the Flower Moon when they are speaking into the microphones. Remember you are watching them live on stage, you aren’t listening through a radio, so it wouldn’t make sense for it to sound old-like. Not a big deal, I just thought I would point it out.

@Tripfromfacade

3 ай бұрын

gotta love adam skipping over all the important theming and political aspects of the film to spend 1+ minutes on an invalid nitpick💀

Adum, I think you might not understand the distinction between motivated and unmotivated camera movement. Motivated camera movement is when the camera moves to follow the action, like when a character walks to the right and the camera tracks right. Unmotivated camera movement is just any other type of camera move. Unmotivated camera movement is not necessarily bad or wrong. In the video, when you praise Nimona for having "motivated camera movement" at 56:55, the shot you show actually features an unmotivated camera move: a dramatic push in on a character. I think maybe what you mean is just that the camera movement in the film feels more purposeful?

On the fashion part of Poor Things, one thing I love is how Emma Stone’s character would wear certain items of clothing several times. The white ruffled top, her yellow shawl, and the blue puff-sleeved jacket can be seen in different scenes. Somehow for an over-the-top film, Yorgos thought of the realistic aspect of traveling.

I won't accept that slander: the cinematography in Nebraska is absolutely gorgeous.

I think you're very harsh on The Holdovers. Being predictable doesn't mean it's bad.

@Jon-yv4iu

3 ай бұрын

I think it's a thing that is more an issue for critics of films than the average film watcher. When you watch 10 films a year being formulaic is less of an issue than if you watch 100. When you've watched a dozen films do the same thing you will start to criticize things that dont do anything new with a concept.

@thecinematicmind

3 ай бұрын

We almost got an Armond White with his opinion here.

@LieutenantP1ckle

3 ай бұрын

It was corny as hell, predictable means we have seen it many times before, and that does not lend to a positive experience. It was so trite and played out

@miz4535

3 ай бұрын

@@Jon-yv4iu Except most critics liked it when they presumably also watch more than 10 a year. This argument holds no water.

@deusexmachina9776

3 ай бұрын

yes it has its audience, predictable stuff. at the end of the day oscars should be awarding the best of the best and there are far better films. predictable films arent at the top

I legit forgot the Oscars were happening until I saw this video in my feed

@apollofell3925

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I thought the Oscars were LAST year

@nms7872

3 ай бұрын

​@@apollofell3925well yeah. They happen every year

@apollofell3925

3 ай бұрын

@@nms7872 that was the joke, yes.

My expectations for Past Lives were super low after I saw that Celine Song was a writer on Wheel of Time season 1, but I really enjoyed the film. Guess she hadn't had enough creative input in WoT...

@paperbackwriter1111

3 ай бұрын

Maybe she does well with movies about relationships between people and not that good at adapting fantasy epics into tv shows.

you're telling me a raccoon directed maestro? a rocket fried this rice?

@thecinematicmind

3 ай бұрын

A Raccoon abandoned Snoopy.

@getmario64

3 ай бұрын

To be fair, the big balloon Snoopy on the window sill was the best part than Bradley talking argument to Carey.

Jesus, I didn't know that they got the director of the CDI Zelda games for Elemental. Actually, I shouldn't joke about that, the director of CDI Zelda deserves better.

@kennynelson3189

3 ай бұрын

Great! I’ll grab my stuff!

How come he didn’t talk about Godzilla?

@cinemarxist_

Ай бұрын

I don't think he saw it

I feel like there's more to love out of some of these films than Adam is giving them credit for.

@pechi6801

3 ай бұрын

especially elemental. I usually find myself agreeing with his opinions, but he really went in on this film and I don't think it deserved it.

@cloverbun2574

2 ай бұрын

It deserved it for the way it looks and sounds alone. I don't expect a grating audiovisual experience from Pixar

The thing I really didn't get about Elemental story was the plot point about Ember's talent of making glass thing. Like first off, from the intro you can see the buildings in Element city are made in glass so I don't know why fire people would be the discriminated ones? Second, if you can make glass out of sand, why not melt the metal to hold the dam more tightly? If she can melt sand, surely she can melt metals, which considering buildings are usually made in concrete and metal? Seriously, despite enjoying the movie the plot about her finding her talent in glass making was so out of place.

@zaimatcat145

3 ай бұрын

I would assume Fire people should already be treated as upper class citizens for leading civilization because almost everything required fire to make, not just glass.

@sori_osori_

3 ай бұрын

@@zaimatcat145 True! Also in terms of strength fire can destroy water and wood easily so the choice to make fire as oppressed class was really jarring to me. I get it, it's probably that Asians get easily angry=fire thing(I'm Asian BTW and I can relate to that) but I feel like elements and allegory for immigration/class didn't really worked as much as zootopia imo

@zaimatcat145

3 ай бұрын

​@@sori_osori_ they just wanted the "element can't mix" gimmick so that's why they picked fire and water, I doubt it has anything to do with asian stereotype. You can pretty much remove/replace the earth & air people into water and the story wouldn't have change much at all. they are basically irrelevant outside of that bubble scene which is just silly (Amber should have just make herself a glass orb but with limited oxygen so they still have a time limit) No idea why such flowers would make her risk her life just to see it, maybe because it grows in her father's homeland? (because it's a flower that can survive any harsh environment), and she wanted to get some for her father and plant it themselves? But that's just the my headcanon because the director sure does a poor job making the flower significant. I'm a chinese from Malaysia and I had watched some romance K drama with my mom sometimes, this movie really just gave me that vibe and it instantly clicked why this is popular in Korea, but this is so badly written you might as well watch actual kdrama that spend time to build up relationship

@sori_osori_

3 ай бұрын

@@zaimatcat145 Glad to see fellow Asian YMS fan! I'm actually from South Korea and Elemental is really popular in South Korea. Personally although Adum complained that he can't understand dating with Wade and doing the shop work at same time thing, I actually understood that because in South Korea dating is kinda seemed more as detering the work progress. Also, Ember's feeling about the pressure of continuing her father's work really connected with me because I also had issue about parental pressures when I was young and I think that part clicked with South Korean audiences. South Koreans love this movie so much that South Korean twitter page is making up news that Elemental did well than Spider man across the universe or something (I really don't get twitter mindset of my favorite movie must make more money than this movie thing)

@Liliputian07

3 ай бұрын

no... all fire people can do that. the water people are surprised because theyre like insulated urban liberals. you'll see that ember is never like "wooahh look what i can do" because she and her family do it like... for fun. the point of this plot point was like to show how even outwardly kind people can be ignorant, PLUS the extraction of art from minorities

Napoleon is so good that he forgot to review it

@rollingcameraproductions7103

3 ай бұрын

He probably didn’t see it. Adum has expressed that he doesn’t really care for Ridley Scott

@miz4535

3 ай бұрын

@@rollingcameraproductions7103Why not see that but see the Cheetos movie?

@DMHR100

3 ай бұрын

He also forgot The Eternal Memory documentary.

@BrokeBoyInFilm

3 ай бұрын

No it was so bad that he didn't review it

Don't know if Adum hears it enough but I always appreciate the music choice in his videos.

about the "closer to an 8 than a 6" style ratings, why not just use .5 scores? Just a personal preference?

The description timestamps looping over and over made me think I was going insane

Bradley Cooper's performance seemed very weird. Especially next to Carey Mulligan who's very solid and down to earth and he seemed like a cartoon. I did actually like seeing the conducting. Could've probably just done that with an actual concert, but still. I think conducting is pretty effectively cinematic.

@thecinematicmind

3 ай бұрын

Not helped by the makeup.

@PauLtus_B

3 ай бұрын

@@thecinematicmind I thought the old age make up was overall pretty good. When he was younger it was just: nose. I don't know WHY they did the nose.

I feel the Boy and the Heron opens up more when you get to know Ghibli's and Miyazaki's past and his internal struggles. But nevertheless it is quite hard to get into. A very paradoxical film that is difficult to love.

@miz4535

3 ай бұрын

I have read that but in my opinion that's still a fault of the film because why should I do background research into the creator to get so much more about out of the film? That being said I still enjoyed it quite a bit.

@brycebitetti1402

3 ай бұрын

​@@miz4535 I don't know, but is it wrong for an artist to create art about themselves? Boy and the Heron really grabbed me because of how personal it felt for Miyazaki, like he was processing his life through his art even whilst acknowledging the fault in that. While you may not be interested in a film like that, and that's fine, Miyazaki doesn't owe you a less strange and cryptic tableau of his feelings about himself and his life (especially since that kind of already exists with The Wind Rises).

@anthonymartensen3164

3 ай бұрын

I don't think it's difficult to love. In fact, it's a very successful and well-received.

@k00_ma

3 ай бұрын

i feel like the title of the movie leaves u with totally different expectations. the original title “how do you live” is much more reflective of the movie and feels like your going into something a lot more introspective than it presented itself. i feel like i need to rewatch it again just because it felt like something i wasn’t initially prepared for, considering it looks like another whimsical movie similar to princess mononoke or spirited away

@victorshopov4913

3 ай бұрын

@@anthonymartensen3164 I also loved the movie even though I am not familiar with Miyazaki himself. It delved into a lot of abstract and weirdly interesting concepts. And it was visually beautiful.

A high 6 for Nimona and a low 6 for The Boy and the Heron?? Maybe Nimona got a boost for being watched after movies you hated, but gosh, the plot for that movie felt like it was written by a child, then adapted by a very talented team to make it look like it was smarter than it was.

"Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach make a good team" They're literally married.

@jaketaz2848

3 ай бұрын

That's no guarantee of a good team

@AbrasiousProductions

3 ай бұрын

baumbach is definitely a eunuch then, if he isn't then gerwig's a hypocrite because barbie is one of the most hateful films against men I've ever seen, it's entire message is "men are evil, women aren't" if someone made a film about women the way barbie did about men, everyone (including me since I'm fair) would've found it disgusting but we live in a world of hypocritical classes, in wokeness, fairness and morality are relegated to mere obsolete notions.

@SpawnRevenge92

3 ай бұрын

Do you think every married couple would make for a good creative team?

@spicysatan3452

3 ай бұрын

pffttttt heterosexual marriage isnt real

@SuperSecretSunshine

3 ай бұрын

Fair point. Regardless, I thought it was funny.@@SpawnRevenge92

Yeah, an “at least 5” rule for the nominees wouldn’t kill them. It wouldn’t force them to nominate a 6th one if there wasn’t a “deserving” 6th nomination either.

@whyisthisafeature

3 ай бұрын

If there weren’t a limited number of nominees people would probably get more upset if something still gets snubbed

Oh dear, Bamboozled is NOT a better example of this. Not only does nobody in that movie talk like a normal person, but nobody even has anything resembling a human motivation. Literally, audiences start gravitating to black men in blackface doing racist and otherwise boring things. That is how Spike Lee saw In Living Color, which is fine, but that is not why people liked In Living Color.

@bk83082

3 ай бұрын

Bamboozled is one of Spike's best.

@motherplayer

3 ай бұрын

I think that was a case of Spike's self-seriousness taking away from what is supposed to be satirical too, and satire has to also have some genuine affection for what one is mocking. Otherwise, it's just mean for it's sake.

@plasmasnake4774

3 ай бұрын

Bamboozled does admittedly take place in a kind of heightened reality, it is a satire after all. But I also think what Spike is getting at with the minstrel show becoming popular is the inherent racism many people hold within them waiting to be let out when something racist is presented as “acceptable,” with no regard to what the implications of it is.

I feel like your review of American fiction kind of lacks the cultural competencies or awareness that it takes to really appreciate this film and that’s fine at the end of the day some films are going to just function like that but the acknowledgment of this reality would’ve been a better step at the very least. But beyond that, it’s crazy you think AF didn’t deserve a nomination for the score, because the score was just impeccable . My family and I being black Americans, and specifically African-American all walked out of the theater with that movie hitting home on a multitude of levels, some so cathartic and deep it’s difficult to explain because it’s literally hitting at culture and identity and that almost tribal feeling of being a part of the group. The film really showed its intelligence of through the script by knowing exactly who it is speaking to which is to be expected because the book is like that in even better writing as it’s a novel and not originally a screenplay. Easily saw why this was nominated for best picture and even though it’s definitely not gonna win best picture, I for sure believe it has a good chance of winning best adapted screenplay (Edit: look at that it won). I can’t say that your opinion is wrong because at the end of the day movies are subjective and it’s just your opinion, but in my opinion, I do believe I can stand on the fact that there’s some cultural gaps that I can see why from your perspective, it would be silly, but from my perspective, it isn’t at all and they are even deeper layers of the script that really touched on being a part of that cultural and social group specifically ( and obviously) of Black people in America and our experiences. It’s crazy that you can have such wildly different opinions on music and I hope Adam doesn’t default to his kind of snobbish thing of thinking he knows more about music and using that as a justification to show how his opinion is more valid like he did with his frozen review. In my opinion, as someone that is a musician also, the music was some of the best parts of the film and was a particular highlight. Again, it’s completely fine of others don’t like it. It’s just interesting how to people can have wildly different interpretations. On top of the fact that beyond multiple people noting the amazing soundtrack, when you just listen to it on its own, it’s incredible imo. An masterclass in Jazz scoring. I could also really go in to that cultural aspect when he starts talking about the respectful books and how he thought that was a silly scene but as a black person it hit in a different way than it would him because he’s just not black so it’s just a cultural lack in a film like this. I’m not surprised he thought this was made for a “white liberal woman”, because it really ignores the complete aspect of the fact it was written for Black people by Black people. It just really drives home and hits the nail on the head of why Adam lacks those cultural competencies to where he immediately thought. This was written for white people, as if they are the only people that matter. Or that Black people wouldn’t enjoy film like this. Adam is literally like the person that get out was criticizing and what AF was criticizing. So of course he wouldn’t like it.

@FortalezaBoxing

3 ай бұрын

There’s a filipino movie that Adam saw at TIFF and didn’t like. I feel very similarly to you in this case

@nikibronson133

3 ай бұрын

@@FortalezaBoxingyeah like I like Adam but I really hate to say it like this he definitely has kind of like a white man lack of awareness for a lot of cultural films and I’ve noticed this pattern over the past few years like sometimes things aren’t made for you…you know. It’s one thing to say that this film wasn’t for me or maybe I don’t have the background of what’s needed to truly appreciate some of the aspects of this film but then it’s another thing to just say that it’s trash objectively because he does treat his opinion like it’s objective because he lacks what’s needed to truly appreciate the film

I’m pretty sure the scene at the end of Killers of the Flower Moon with the microphones is meant to be behind the scenes of a radio broadcast, hence the people doing foley periodically. The audio is clear because the viewer is in the room where the broadcast is coming from, it’s not the same as audio coming through the microphones being projected out to an audience.

Godzilla Minus One should have been nominated for Best Score and I WILL die on this hill.

@itsmesnacks

3 ай бұрын

def should've been nominated instead of the indiana jones score

@cinemarxist_

Ай бұрын

One of the best scores to come out of a franchise filled to the brim with incredible music

hell yes. been refreshing your page every few hours for the last few weeks

Watching this immediately before Bradley Cooper takes this down. This is amazing Adam LMAO

@thecinematicmind

3 ай бұрын

That makeup made Cooper look like a melting waxwork.

I made and then deleted a comment about how they should expand Best Director to 10 noms to match Best Picture when I realized: What that essentially advocates is a 1:1 relationship; Best Director = Best Picture. I guess it could be a way to split the vote between 2 Best Pictures. But really, maybe this conversation reveals that most of us don't know what the distinction is between the two awards. Like, if a director wins but the picture doesn't, then what exactly is the director winning for?

Ryan Gosling’s best actor nomination is reparations for the erasure of Kenworld

@trotterr

3 ай бұрын

Kendom excuse me

Its really annoying that May December was only nominated in one category, and The Iron Claw got nothing. Two of my favourite movies of the year.

1:09:58 The eligibility dates are based on the country of origin, and Godland didn’t get an Icelandic release until last year

Oh shit I’ve just realised why I didn’t hate Elemental anywhere near as much as you did… I watched it in danish with English subtitles. The voice acting was a thousand times better

Finally soon we'll get Adam's thoughts on Napoleon

this is the closest we'll ever get to a Best of 2023 within our lifetimes

I'm so happy adum thinks nimona is a 6/10 and it was close to a 7! A toast to nimona and a roast to Disney!

One of the most annoying attributes I noticed is going through all of first film nominations, there are multiple awards for many different categories but when we get to the animated films, there is a single award. Small notions like this really show how insignificant the Oscars really are. I appreciate how competently Adum views over most of these films.

Oppenheimer's editing in the first half was really tiring and I was just waiting and waiting for an actual scene to start happening.