The ‘Vice’ Backlash and the Oprah Bounce | The Oscars Show (Ep. 112)

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.2 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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We examine and dissect the backlash against Adam McKay’s ‘Vice,’ starring Christian Bale as Dick Cheney (0:55). Then we touch on ’Black Panther,' ‘Mary Poppins Returns,’ and ‘Cold War’ in Stock Up/Stock Down (32:53), before closing out with a Best Picture race odds breakdown (59:43). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:04.4	After a three-year hiatus, Bill Simmons is back with his NBA Trade Value Rankings
0:08.8	for the 2018 and 2019 season.
0:11.2	You can check that out as well as our year-end review articles wrapping up everything
0:14.7	2018 on the site.
0:16.4	Also, throughout the holidays, we will be sticking to our regular podcast schedule, so make
0:19.8	sure to tune into your favorite shows as usual.
0:22.4	Happy holidays from the Ringer!
0:31.0	I'm Sean Fennesee.
0:33.0	I'm Amanda Abbins.
0:34.0	And this is the big picture, a conversation show about the Oscars, Amanda.
0:38.4	It is Christmas week.
0:40.4	Viewers at home, listeners at home are hopefully bundled up with their families, watching Netflix,
0:45.5	maybe going to the synoplex, maybe illegally streaming, recently released films that
0:49.5	hopefully not.
0:50.6	We of course are here in a podcast studio making a podcast for those listeners and viewers.
0:55.7	And we're here to talk about one movie and one movie only, not really just kidding.
0:58.6	It's called Vice.
0:59.8	Amanda, give me your first impressions of Vice Adam McKay's portrait of Dick Cheney,
1:06.6	former Vice President, Secretary of Defense, Congressman, General Evil Figure in American
1:11.8	history.
1:12.8	Go.
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