Nightmare Alley

really.

You went to that Nightmare Alley movie.

One of them gets killed by the other one.

Nightmare Alley, yes.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

... and kinda has carte blanche.

Um, the way that, uh, Guillermo del Toro won a bunch of awards for The Shape of Water and was able to make Nightmare Alley.

Mm.

So, uh, he pitches it as a shot-for-shot remake, [laughs] and they're like, "That's a really strange idea, but sure.

Let's talk about the Academy Awards, Matt, because as you said, a lot of nominations.

Best Picture, Belfast was nominated along with West Side Story, Power of the Dog, Nightmare Alley, Licorice Pizza, King Richard, Dune, Drive My Car, Don't Look Up, and the winner, which was Coda.

And CODA, as we'll get into probably in January, we'll do an episode on that because that's when Sundance happens.

It was the first movie to ever win the grand jury prize at Sundance and the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Right.

And the black and white-izing of everything, which is an odd trend that folks are doing, that Nightmare Alley got re-released in-

Right

... black and white, and that Spider Noir.

Don't want this to get back to anybody.

But Guillermo del Toro and Bradley Cooper, because it just made me think about Gerard Butler taking over this production, supposedly they fought endlessly on the set of Nightmare Alley.

Nightmare Alley.

And that...

Someone said they saw Guillermo del Toro do something that he never did before, which is angrily jump out of his chair and yell at the main actor.

but yeah bradley cooper that was right when he was getting like way too big for his britches he's like i need to spend five years preparing to play leonard bernstein shut up yeah exactly shut up I'm surprised like it took this long

because everyone I know like worked on that movie yeah so but I guess it didn't just yeah

well I mean Nightmare Alley good movie we talked about it it's not perfect but I mean I thought it was alright I mean you gotta

But he's also...

in Nightmare Alley and Shape of Water.

Oh, wow.

In Shape of Water, he's the like, you know, fumbling lab tech guy with the like flat top haircut who deals with Sally Hawkins the most.

If y'all saw my DMs, I post some of them sometimes, but it is...

It is Nightmare Alley out there, I'm going to say.

It's

crazy.

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The original Nightmare Alley is a great movie.

I believe Nightmare Alley is about John Melendez.

Interesting.

Have you seen the movie? I have not.