Hola, Sneakers! We’re a little late today, but that’s okay because it’s a really good show you had to wait way too long to listen to!
This week, Ian and Dave start backwards; sing novel summaries; need a Sparks theme song; go to New York City; hear Dave’s opinions; have a long walk spoiled; hear more of Dave’s opinions; discover who’s the bass; hear maybe too much of Dave’s opinions; find out they’re fired; let it go; normalize the bad; listen to lying liars; overthink and overfocus; diss Malcolm Gladwell; pit talent against hard work; receive a nice phone call; listen to Mr. Rogers; ask who is fast, good or easy to work with; do an unsponsored ad for Shake Shack; taste some food from the past; do an unsponsored ad for Nathan’s Hot Dogs; learn all about the New Yorker offices; see some New Yorker cartoonists; have an uncertain creative life; slog through their art; give the Oscars some tips; and, finally, investigate, venerate, and excoriate Liam’s Top Ten Movies list:
1. North by Northwest
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
3. The Birds
4. His Girl Friday
5. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
6. Finding Dory
7. Horse Feathers
8. Inglorious Basterds
9. Mother!
10. The Florida Project
Thanks for listening.
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Since you recorded this week’s podcast, the Academy has announced they are not going to have the Most Popular Film category for the 2019 Oscars but will institute it in the future. My guess is they will eventually quietly drop it due to the backlash. I sort of like how the Golden Globes as separate categories for Drama and Comedy/Musical even though the lines often get blurred. That still leaves action movies out in the cold though. Ironically for low-key Canada, the Canadian Screen Awards (our equivalent of the Oscars and Emmys) does give out a “Golden Screen Award” for the top box office movie and top-rated TV show. I guess we are so surprised when something turns a profit here, we have to celebrate it!
BTW, I’m okay with animated films having in their own Oscar category. If they were to put them back into the Best Picture category, I don’t think as many of the smaller-budget art house animated films would get the extra attention that an Oscar nom brings. I always thought it was weird when one of my favourite animated films, Beauty and the Beast, was up for Best Picture against The Silence of the Lambs, one of my favourite horror thrillers. Actually now that I think about it, Clarice and Lecter do have a twisted sort of beauty and the beast relationship. I guess I have a type when it comes to movie themes.