317 – Chappaquiddick (Patreon Selects)

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode comes selected by one of our sponsor tier patrons over at our Patreon! The 2017 festival season brought us Chappaquiddick, director John Curran’s recounting of the titular incident where Senator Ted Kennedy was responsible in the accidental death of party secretary Mary Jo Kopechne. With Jason Clarke as Kennedy and Kate Mara as Kopechne, the film earned solid festival reviews (with even stronger notices for Clarke) but a planned qualifying release before the end of the year never came to be.

This episode, we talk about the short life of Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures and the 2017 qualifying release for the film that was canceled. We also talk about Clarke’s career in grunt roles, the film’s frustrating post-script in relation to Ted Kennedy’s career, and Bill Crystal’s Oscar hosting duties.

Topics also include vague movie titles, TIFF Galas, and Frederica Kimmel’s friend.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Chris, the Vulture Movies Fantasy League, continues to respond to the fluctuating fortunes of the box office.
0:10.3	And our update continues with one of us saying the other person's name.
0:15.3	I do not pay attention to that at all. That's so funny. Listen, I want people to know who I'm talking to.
0:21.0	We got a good Christmas bomb to talk about. We do. And I will say, I ended up being more wrong
0:28.7	about this one. I thought that this was going to make filthy amounts of money because
0:33.5	who among our big populace is going to resist both the rock and Christmas. But turns out...
0:42.3	In an anonymous movie that has been delayed because of several reshoots and has had bad press about Dwayne Johnson pissing into bottles.
0:51.3	Sure, but how far do you think that that trickles down, so to speak?
0:55.9	No pun intended.
0:57.2	Well, I'm sure the people that did show up to see this movie are the people that would not reach it, you know.
1:01.7	That's the thing.
1:02.4	And my thing was, I just figured there would be more such people.
1:04.7	The other thing was, is this thing had been advertised up the wazoo forever.
1:10.2	So, I don't know.
1:12.4	I've luckily escaped a trailer for this, uh, Christmas turd. You gotta be kidding me.
1:16.7	I saw this trailer so many times. That's so funny. I do feel like you and I have different
1:22.6	trailer experiences because sometimes you will be like, oh my God, this trailer won't leave me
1:26.5	alone. And I'll be like, I don't know what you're talking about.
1:28.8	I've only ever seen it maybe once.
1:31.8	Anyway, Red One is none of my business.
1:34.6	But if you drafted it, it is predicted to open somewhere between 30 and 34 million at this point,
1:41.7	given that this movie costs over $200 million to make.
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