300 – Collateral Beauty

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

We’ve hit another year of the podcast, arriving at our milestone 300th episode! No better way to celebrate that by finally revisiting one of the past decades most notorious bombs, 2016’s Collateral Beauty. Starring Will Smith as a grieving father, this all-star cast includes Edward Norton, Michael Peña, and Kate Winslet as his three friend who devise a plan to… oust Smith from their advertising firm by… hiring three struggling actors (Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, and Jacob Latimore) to… portray the concepts of Death, Love, and Time that he has been writing letters to, and make him appear mentally unstable. Yeah, this one goes some places!

This episode, we talk about how the film’s imbalance with magical realism makes it more deranged. We also talk about Smith’s Oscar-chasing dramatic roles pre-slap, Ann Dowd as a felony committing private investigator, and the previous talent attached to this buzzy but ill-begotten project.

Topics also include Winslet joining our 6 Timers Club, Rogue One, and our Best Of ballots for the last year of the show!

Follow Us on Twitter!@Had_Oscar_BuzzJoe: @joereidChris: @chrisvfeil

Transcript

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0:00.0	The right house.
0:03.0	I didn't get that. We were to talk to Mill and Hack. Mill and Hack and
0:17.0	print. I'm from Canada water.
0:25.0	I'm from Canada water. Dick Poohopoeop. creative, charismatic guy used to love life. Right now he hates it.
0:45.0	I try to talk to him. I try to reach him and he's not there. I miss him.
0:51.0	He writes letters.
0:52.0	Who are they too?
0:53.0	How it doesn't write letters to people. He writes to things.
0:56.0	Time. Love, death.
0:58.0	Kids write letters to Santa Claus.
1:00.0	It doesn't mean they're crazy.
1:01.0	No, this is therapeutic.
1:07.7	Who did you write the letter to?
1:09.8	I wrote the letter to death.
1:11.3	Nice to meet you. They're charmed, I'm sure.
1:14.0	Nope.
1:15.0	Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast that sleeps in a pot of
1:19.9	goo because it's the only way our back will feel good in the morning.
1:23.0	Every week on this had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time
1:26.6	had lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another it all went wrong.
1:31.2	The Oscar hopes died and we are here to perform the autopsy. I'm your
1:34.7	host Joe Reed. I'm here as always with my secret fourth abstraction. Chris file, hello Chris.
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