Dolemite Is My Name 2019 OSP - AlsoMike Is The Man Who Laughs - Ep 251

Dolemite Is My Name gets the full Oscar Sprint Profile movie review treatment here with a non-spoiler section first as we discuss it through our Oscar Lens & debate it’s chances before we warn you of spoilers and jump into the plot. What is an Oscar Sprint Profile? - 1:09 NONSPOILER SECTION: Production Profile (Cast/Crew/Specs) - 1:49 Plot Premise/Expectations - 5:27 Production Values: Sound - 6:55 Sight - 9:14 Performances - 12:41 (Eddie Murphy Best Actor Oscar Lens - 14:23) Script Thoughts/Issues - 18:05 (Mike1 Reveals an AlsoMike Factoid - 18:55) Oscars Lens - 22:38 Watch or Not? - 27:00 SPOILER WARNING DANCE PARTY - 29:10 SPOILER-FILLED REVIEW: Carryovers - 30:18 Running Through the Movie Acts - 32:34 Bests/Highlights - 35:52 (Choosing Your Proper Lens - 40:00) (Introducing Some Worsts - 40:59) Worsts/Lowlights - 42:26 Finale Analysis - 47:57 FINAL GRADES - 49:18 Your Homework/PLEASE LEAVE US 5*’S - 50:33 What’s Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 51:42 There’s been some good buzz for Dolemite Is My Name throughout the fall film festivals. The critics also love it, and everybody is raving about how much fun it is (and it was!). Where do we rank it’s Oscar chances? Well, you’ll have to click play on this non-spoiler review to hear as much. We do talk about how we and other great pundits rank the costumes, make-up & hairstyling, production design, and music in our review of the production values. Then we have a blast talking about it’s performances, especially those of Eddie Murphy, DaVine Joy Randolph, and Wesley Snipes before weighing in on the script and our predictions for its Oscar chances at large. Then you get some spoiler warning dance music to tip you off that we’re gonna spoil the plot for the latter half of our review. Here, we discuss the original Dolemite film from afar to open the section before diving into the major plotlines and all the bests & worsts. As an added bonus, there are some ripple effects from our schism over Parasite, our last OSP, and we have fun digging our trenches on that movie as well. This is our 19th episode in the ongoing Oscar Sprint Profile movie review series. Make sure you click playlists in our Soundcloud feed to find these, and do enjoy our shows on Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, The Farewell, Parasite, Hustlers, Ad Astra, Rocketman, Joker, Toy Story 4, Avengers: Endgame, Us, Luce, etc… Of course, we’re in the middle of seeing all the upcoming contenders, and we’ll have many more coming like Jojo Rabbit, The Lighthouse, Harriet, Ford V Ferrari, Frozen II, etc. If you enjoy this episode, make sure to check out our weekly news & variety shows like MMOW, and Oscar Race Checkpoint, where we keep you up to date on awards season and further debate who’s winning & losing all these races. And if you enjoy our show in general, please take a few moments to leave us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. Just click on our show icon, scroll down a few seconds, and click that fifth star. Thank you so very much for your support. Let us know what you think of Dolemite Is My Name. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you listen to podcasts. When reality sucks, keep watching movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar!