Oscars 2022: BELFAST review
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4.8 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
PRE-OSCARS REVIEW: As part of our 2022 Oscars prep we review BELFAST.
Synopsis: A semi-autobiographical film which chronicles the life of a working class family and their young son's childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a brunch pre-oscers mini podcast that contains spoilers, but we can't imagine you care if you haven't seen the movie and you're afraid of spoilers. There's no way you would logically seek out a podcast about the movie. Let us begin. Belfast. Belfast. This is a speedy movie. This movie has some zip on it. Belfast. It's a fast movie. It's fast, yes. Belfast. Yeah, they don't call it Bell Slow. |
| 0:01.5 | That's right. |
| 0:02.2 | This one hums. |
| 0:03.7 | You, you get. on it. Belfast. It's a fast movie. It's fast, yes. Belfast. Yeah, they don't call it Bell slow. |
| 0:21.8 | That's right. |
| 0:22.5 | This one hums. You get into this movie. It starts cooking real quick. The shortest of all the best picture nominees. Is that correct? That sounds right. I assume so. It's an hour and a half. It's like 98 minutes, right? So just like... |
| 0:17.6 | There's no way that that's... |
| 0:19.0 | I think every other one is like at least two hours. |
| 0:22.2 | I... |
| 0:22.4 | Let's see. It's like 98 minutes, right? So just like... There's no way that that's... I think every other one is like at least two hours. |
| 0:40.4 | I... |
| 0:40.7 | Let's see. |
| 0:41.5 | Drive my car is like four hours. |
| 0:43.6 | Dune is 10 hours. |
| 0:46.0 | Took me 10 weeks to watch. |
| 0:49.2 | Liquorish pizza is probably... |
| 0:51.1 | Lickrish pizza is probably like 2 plus. |
| 0:53.3 | Two and a half, I think. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.7 | So, anyway, the Belfast episode will just be us guessing the lengths of every best picture nominee. |
| 1:02.6 | This was one that I had to go back and watch for a second time because I had COVID the first time I watched it, wasn't in the mood, dropped that fresh 20 bucks on it, didn't have that great of a time, was like, yo, this movie's pretty good, everybody can chill out, went back, watched again this week, and I will say, it finally did it, it got its hooks in me, it took. I don't know if I'm quite what a picture, but I love this movie. |
| 1:30.4 | Wow. I'm landing. I watched it today for the first time. I'm landing in the camp that you were |
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