Summary
It’s Oscars season and we’re reviewing the Academy’s big category picks. ‘Vice’ (starring Christian Bale) is directed by Adam McKay and has nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (Bale), Best Supporting Actor (Sam Rockwell), Best Supporting Actress (Amy Adams), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and more.
The synopsis:
Governor George W. Bush of Texas picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co, to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and defence secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.
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?
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| 0:00.0 | Did we like it? |
| 0:04.7 | And how did everyone look? |
| 0:08.7 | Always stealing stuff from it is a problem that it gets brunch. |
| 0:13.5 | Movie reviews. |
| 0:16.4 | Vice is a movie about the vice president in the United States, about which one? |
| 0:25.0 | Satan, if you ask Christian Bale. |
| 0:27.8 | Christian Bale. |
| 0:29.2 | The Christian, this is a movie about Christian Bale looking a lot different than Christian |
| 0:35.7 | bail usually looks, and everyone wants to give him every |
| 0:37.9 | award for that. And I say, if that's what the bar is |
| 0:41.0 | for the Oscars, then Aaron Eckhart |
| 0:44.3 | should have won a bunch of Oscars for making himself look |
| 0:47.2 | gross in bleed for this. Yeah, but we are coming off a year in which |
| 0:51.3 | Gary Oldman took home the award for costume design. Oh, right. |
| 0:52.0 | So, yes. That sucked. Don't remind me. That is the most nonsense. Yeah. And I mean, let's, I mean, we'll get to it eventually. We're, we're doing the review right now, but. Let's get to it now. Fuck Gary Oldman. No, I feel much better about it. if Christian Bale took home the award than I did last year |
| 0:53.0 | when Gary Oldman did it. |
| 0:54.2 | Oh yeah, |
| 0:54.6 | I mean, Gary Oldman should not have won last year. Arguably this year, Christian Bale should. We discussed this is a down year for Best Actor. It alternates every year. Either best actor or best actress is stacked. |
| 1:28.1 | This year, best actor, not stacked. |
| 1:31.1 | Shouts out to the ladies. |
| 1:32.5 | Okay. |
| 1:33.1 | Vice, did we like it out of four? |
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