Andrew Klavan

So it's kind of lost all credibility from that point on.

It's really good.

Although I will say there are a couple of movies that were nominated that it's not all bad.

Like I actually do.

I'm not as down on modern filmmaking as maybe some of the rest of you guys here, because I do think they're interesting movies and even really good movies that come out every year.

I thought I actually Begonia, I think, was nominated as a best picture.

Right.

And and I saw that and I thought I would hate it.

Because I figured, because I knew it was this story about this conspiracy, you know, it was implied to kind of like right-wing basement-dwelling conspiracy theorist who kidnaps this female CEO and like holds her hostage in the basement.

No, it's because they don't know what they think, Ben.

The beginning of Frankenstein is so beautiful that I thought, oh, I love this movie.

And so I thought it would just be this kind of broadside against right-wing conspiracy theories.

I thought I was going to love it.

The same thing was true of Nosferatu.

God, it was gorgeous.

I saw Nosferatu in the theater and it was unbelievably gorgeous, but they don't know what they believe because they're not allowed.

And it wasn't quite that, or at least I think it was a little bit more complicated than that, the point they were making.

The guy who makes Nosferatu, the director's name is obviously looking for God, but he can't quite find him or

And I thought it was an interesting movie, so...

That was one as well.