REVIEW: 'The Post'

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

It’s Oscars season and we’re reviewing the Academy’s big category picks. ‘The Post’ (starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep) is directed by Steven Spielberg and has nominations for Best Picture and Best Actress (Streep.).

Synopsis:

"Katharine Graham is the first female publisher of a major American newspaper -- The Washington Post. With help from editor Ben Bradlee, Graham races to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spans three decades and four U.S. presidents. Together, they must overcome their differences as they risk their careers -- and very freedom -- to help bring long-buried truths to light.”

We put the movie through our critically acclaimed rating system, which grades based on four categories:

1. Did we like it?

2. How did everyone look?

3. Will we steal stuff from it?

4. Is it problematic?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Did we like it?
0:04.4	And how did everyone look?
0:09.0	Always stealing stuff from it is a problem that it gets brunch.
0:13.5	Movie reviews.
0:16.3	We don't like liars on this podcast.
0:18.7	We don't like being lied to.
0:19.8	We don't like being made fools of.
0:23.3	Definitely not. Yeah. The Post is the movie we're reviewing right now. And I don't like liars. They told me that this was going to be a Stephen Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Merrill Street movie. That sounds fucking awesome. Sure does. So they told me that we were going to get that movie, and they fucking lied to me. They gave us the post instead, which is the most boring fucking telling of a pretty interesting story. Such, I hate that movie so much. I really, I fell asleep in that movie, to be honest with you. Well, it's a little skewed because I was tired going in, but I should not fall asleep.
0:58.1	But whatever you don't know is the fault of the movie. It put you to sleep. It drove you into
1:02.4	another man's sleep. Yes. So, uh, all right. Um, I guess we'll just jump into it. Uh, did we like it
1:09.9	out of four? Out of four, one point six.
1:13.3	One point zero. Okay. I, uh, it didn't have, so like the angriest, uh, I have ever been in a movie,
1:22.6	uh, was The Secret Life of Pets. And it was when I realized very early on like oh wait this movie
1:27.8	fucking sucks I didn't even experience that with the post it was just like a lot of like
1:33.0	like kind of like squinting at the screen like is this is this going to get good yeah
1:39.2	oh wait wait Zach Woods is in a serious role. That's kind of cool.
1:46.1	But they're not doing anything cool?
1:50.6	I likened it to a peanut butter and jelly sandwich because... Gita bread and jelly sandwiches are fucking awesome.
1:52.2	I agree.
1:53.1	I'm not trying to say that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are mediocre.
1:55.4	Don't you by any means?
1:56.4	By any means.
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