Showing posts with label American Beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Beauty. Show all posts

Monday, July 1, 2019

XLV: Mid-Year Report, American Beauty

On this episode, Terry Plucknett, Todd Plucknett, and Zach Saltz review the first half of 2019 in movies as well as deep dive the 1999 winner of Best Picture 20 years later and discuss how it holds up.  Here are the highlights.

  • What are you drinking and fan poll results (6:30)
  • 2019 Mid-Year Top 5's and Bottom 1's (12:00)
  • Deep Dive: American Beauty (1999)
    • Trivia (29:00)
    • Recasting the 1999 Oscars (45:10)
    • Highest WAR Performances (57:30)
    • Worst Performance (1:06:30)
    • Biggest Douchebag / LVP / Minor Characters (1:13:40)
    • What has aged the worst? (1:24:10)
    • Biggest Flaws and Conspiracies (1:37:20)
    • Stickman / Who would Nicolas Cage play? (1:50:10)
    • MVP / Quote of the Day (1:54:00)

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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Episode VIII: Dark Comedies, Good Will Hunting


On this episode, three films are reviewed (The Florida Project, Thank You For Your Service, Thor: Ragnarok).  Our power rankings bring together all four AlmostSideways personalities as Adam Daly stops by to talk about dark comedies.  We recast the 1997 film Good Will Hunting.  Zach gives his report on Catch Me If You Can as Todd and Zach face off in an Oscar showdown on the 1939 Oscar films.

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