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This year we decided to let the dust settle a little and then look back at our Best Picture Nominees. 
So, that's what we did. We watched all of them in one week.
Now, here is what we thought.
 
Also, Jim screwed up and didn't actually release this two weeks ago, like he thought.

For decades, Dune has kind of been the white whale of science fiction filmmaking. Yeah, the 1984 version was interesting... Children of Dune is.... best not mentioned...
Let's take a trip back to Arrakis and see just how well they can pull this off.

Christopher Nolan writing and directing an epic historical biopic about the controversial father of the atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer. 
Just saying it lets you know, we are through the looking glass here, people. So, what do we get when one of the most visually interesting, narrative challenging filmmakers, who delivers with a rare level of consistency with one of the most controversial, fascinating, and consequential people who ever lived?
 
 You get a movie with a ton of well earned praise.

I can't think of a film series that we have had a more interesting experience with than the Creed movies.
From dismissive, to excited, to completely won over... these three movies did the unimaginable. They made Rocky relevant again.
Three movies...
Creed was perfect.
Creed 2 was amazing.
Now, lets see how we fell about the first Rocky movie, without Rocky.

We end our look at the world of wrestling with an actual documentary, made by an actual documentary filmmaker.
"Beyond The Mat," well produced, well financed documentary that not only had unprecedented access to the WWF (still a Federation at the time), but had an actual theatrical release (yes, Jim actually saw this in the theater).
So, lets close out this chapter in style.

As a filmmaker, what do you do when you are making a rather run of the mill, straight forward vanity profile of a well known figure and, in the middle of making this profile, one of the most epic, insane, and legendary events in the history of that person's field occurs?
Do you:
A- Switch the focus of your documentary to this insane event and become the first person to fully report on it, thus giving you orignial control of the broader narrative and create a document that would be referenced in everything ever made about this defining moment.
B- Use it as a build up to a second documentary that then becomes the original version of the story.
C- Just kinda treat it like a thing that happened, kinda tack it on at the end, and then just roll credits.
 
If you answered "A" or "B," you are not the makers of this movie.
Join us as we discuss the most absurd waste of material ever published.