030 – Brothers
This Had Oscar Buzz - A podcast by Joe and Chris - Mondays
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Our episode this week is on a film that once dominated the earliest Oscar predictions for 2009: Jim Sheridan’s American remake of Brothers. Led by Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman, the film repurposed Susanne Bier’s film as another in a line of film’s to take on the war in Afghanistan – and like many of its predecessors, it failed with Oscar. Except this one stood in stark contrast to that year’s major Oscar story, The Hurt Locker. Sadly, Brothers fell flat despite its promising pedigree. This week, we discuss the film’s three stars (a bug-eyed Maguire, Gyllenhaal in hottie transition, and Portman in limbo between Star Wars and Black Swan) and Sheridan’s successful Oscar history, and the HFPA’s 2000s love story with U2. And naturally, we get sidetracked on talk of kitchen and Batman soundtracks. Follow Us on Twitter! @Had_Oscar_Buzz Joe: @joereid Chris: @chrisvfeil
