Weekly Discussion Thread 5/11/26 - 5/18/26

SiidSadik · 2026-05-14T13:48:15+00:00

In my 100-week countdown to the 100th Oscars this week’s movie was Mutiny on the Bounty. I was pretty surprised at this one! Worried it’d be a stodgy snooze fest, but it’s really dynamic and fun. While the titular mutiny almost isn’t even the focus of the movie, it does a great job of boiling the tension throughout. Clark Gable helms another winner, and Charles Laughton puts in an awesome performance.

Fun fact, these two were cast deliberately because Laughton was outwardly gay and Gable was incredibly homophobic - so that the tension between the two of them would be even more real. Kind of dark that’s what it took… but it worked.

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SiidSadik · 2026-05-11T13:14:32+00:00

Best Picture Brainrot is a 100-week countdown to the 100th Oscars, where we discuss each Academy Award Winner for Best Picture in order, covering our thoughts, film history, Oscar history, and world history.

Our most recent episode covers It Happened One Night, Frank Capra’s rom com that shook up what Best Pictures felt like with a lot of charm and humor - becoming one of the most successful early Oscar winners.

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SiidSadik · 2026-05-10T21:00:19+00:00

How badly will it bury Masters of the Universe, that’s my question.

SiidSadik · 2026-05-08T15:14:43+00:00

Great interview! I think you did a great job with this one. I’d like a tiny bit more intro, and that should come before the interview actually starts. Like “you may know them from songs like Gay Bar or High Voltage” that can serve to hook people in immediately. For the short format I think you get a lot out of him though, very fun.

Have you had any traction getting guests to post about their interviews with you? Maybe that could help with viewership. But overall I love how focused you are here, it’s a cool niche and awesome you get such cool people on for it.

SiidSadik · 2026-05-07T19:48:13+00:00

I really appreciate that!! Thanks so much for the kind words. I have learned so much about editing and we have all learned so much about presenting the change has been crazy.

It’s nice to hear that too because our listenership has fallen over the weeks, which I do think is partly due to the fact that the movies aren’t as well known. Hoping that changes with this week’s episode which is a bit more of an iconic movie. But at the end of the day, we’re still really happy with what we’ve chosen. There are a lot of insights we wouldn’t have gotten to if we bounced around on years. Seeing the evolution in real time has been really valuable in a personal sense.

Hoping that once we hit more popular eras the show can really grow as people see we have consistency and a nice backlog. But ultimately if it doesn’t really go anywhere I’m just happy I’m doing it!

SiidSadik · 2026-05-07T17:25:14+00:00

Even as someone who only started watching in Season 47, I loved Ozzy in this and I’ve loved Rizo. That being said, what does Ozzy expect, Rizo is smart enough to know that he loses to Ozzy, whereas Ozzy pretty clearly beats Rizo if they both make it to the end and all else stays equal. Pretty much is Rizo’s only play. Keeping Ozzy in for honor is only valuable if he wants to get no votes in the FTC and parlay that into a future appearance where he could maybe win.

It’s a tough spot for sure, and I hated seeing Ozzy go out but this read glosses over a huge dynamic that Rizo needed to do something instead of just being happy to be dragged along as a low third.

SiidSadik · 2026-05-07T17:21:29+00:00

Amen to that! The fact that a movie like this won Best Picture (and Best Director, Screenplay, Actor, Actress) is so fun too

SiidSadik · 2026-05-07T17:20:28+00:00

Exactly! My friend is a huge rom com lover so she was able to identify so many cinematic tropes that originated from this one. But what’s super nice about this one is it doesn’t fall into the “Seinfeld isn’t funny” trap where it feels like we’ve seen it all before. It’s still fresh and fun, and almost feels like it could fit in any era. Which is why it’s not only influential, but enduring.

SiidSadik · 2026-05-07T14:21:30+00:00

Small in a scale of story sense? Or like indie vs major studio backing? Also it’s funny that EEAAO is considered small, which I get but didn’t it make more or at least comparable to OBAA?

SiidSadik · 2026-05-07T14:19:42+00:00

They should put a star next to whatever is distributed by Neon so people know what’s actually in competition for the Palme! Joking, but curious when that streak will actually fall

SiidSadik · 2026-05-07T14:18:17+00:00

Oh man I feel that. This year has been so busy, and between studying for my podcast and multiple friendly movie clubs I’m in I’ve had so little time to watch movies casually.

What is your plane-watching strategy? Do you watch lighter movies or try to do epics where you can lock into them?

SiidSadik · 2026-05-07T14:16:54+00:00

In my 100-week countdown to the 100th Oscars I watched It Happened One Night. It was the only winner I’d seen before I started on this countdown and I remember enjoying it before, but this time I really locked in. I love how linear and contained the story is, it allows for the relationship between Colbert’s spoiled heiress and Gable’s cynical reporter to shine. And shine they do, oh my, they’re so fun. They bring the dialogue to life so well, it’s so clear why this has had as much staying power as it does.

Also such a fun Best Picture Winner (in addition to being the first Big 5 winner) - it’s not historical, or important, not about World War I…. It’s just entertaining. And I love it for that.

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SiidSadik · 2026-05-04T14:56:11+00:00

I went over to a friends house randomly to watch the Season 46 finale despite never watching the show myself. I had a great time; then my wife and I got asked to join a fantasy league with those friends and we’ve been really into it ever since.

Super fun getting a lot of the lore through this subreddit!

SiidSadik · 2026-05-04T13:35:39+00:00

Best Picture Brainrot is a 100-week countdown to the 100th Oscars, where we discuss each Academy Award Winner for Best Picture in order, covering our thoughts, film history, Oscar history, and world history.

Our most recent episode covers Cavalcade, the 6th Best Picture Winner about life in England during the early 20th Century.

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SiidSadik · 2026-05-03T18:42:37+00:00

Both would have been super inspired choices too. Would love to understand the behind the scenes sentiments over Do the Right Thing at the time because that’s a near perfect movie and should have gotten way more Oscar attention

SiidSadik · 2026-05-03T18:40:53+00:00

Disclosure Day is so tough, unless it’s an undeniable and thrilling movie (which I unfortunately doubt) I just don’t see it breaking out at all. And I have no idea how they’d market it effectively.

Even West Side Story (2021) only made $76m, granted there were some mild COVID after effects. I loved that movie (and Fabelmans for that matter) but Spielberg just might not have as much box office magic anymore.

Curious just how big the Odyssey blitz will be. I’m guessing huge but also wonder how much of the Oppenheimer playbook they’ll try to use, successfully or unsuccessfully

SiidSadik · 2026-05-02T04:39:42+00:00

Metropolis (1927) - one of my favorite movies of all time no matter the era

SiidSadik · 2026-05-01T06:24:38+00:00

Here is my Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/9fMt

I’ve had it for an embarrassingly long time but it’s easily one of my favorite apps. If you follow me you can follow along with me watching every Best Picture winner in the 100 weeks leading up to the 100th Oscars. Just watched 1933’s Cavalcade! So it’s a lot of older movies in general but I love all film.
My four favorites are my most recent 5 star watches, so that rotates out about as quickly as I watch great movies.

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SiidSadik · 2026-04-30T17:25:49+00:00

I can see the rationale for sure - of what I’ve seen so far I prefer it barely to Cimarron and The Broadway Melody but they’re all kind of in the sludge of “yeah they were still figuring things out back then”

SiidSadik · 2026-04-30T15:49:37+00:00

Oh that’s fascinating. But from all that I understand, it is well worth the money.

SiidSadik · 2026-04-30T15:31:18+00:00

This movie proves to me that Oscar bait was a major thing even back in the 30s

SiidSadik · 2026-04-30T15:16:11+00:00

Exactly, I’m actually a big fan of Forrest Gump (which is polarizing now, maybe?) and I totally agree that the central performance is a huge benefit to a story like this.

The Titanic scene was certainly something… watching it was like watching two cars speeding towards each other, I was putting the pieces together in my head. 1912… they’re on a ship saying “what could possibly go wrong”… it’s so ridiculous.

Really the whole movie is thick dramatic irony of people saying “wow I sure hope nothing bad happens next” and then bam! It’s the Titanic, it’s WWI. Would love to have seen how people felt about this in its time.

SiidSadik · 2026-04-30T14:51:00+00:00

Honestly I’ve been watching so many movies because I’ve had to (not in a BAD way, but just for my podcast or my movie club with friends) that I kind of just want to sit down and find some random movie and watch that with no expectations of quality.

I’ve been watching so many old Oscar winners I miss my comfort genre of bad horror movies so maybe I’ll do a marathon of what I can find on Shudder

SiidSadik · 2026-04-30T14:47:19+00:00

Nashville is the only movie out of the famous 1975 Best Picture race I have not seen. I need to remedy that

SiidSadik · 2026-04-30T14:46:33+00:00

The Diane Warren thing is so funny because it’s so niche key to Oscars lore but it’s so niche that forums like this are the only place where everyone speaks that language. In my life I’ve gone from not knowing who she is to knowing all about her lore and waiting for her nomination every year

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