Three Identical Strangers OSP - or Why the Documentary Feature Category Is Full of Twists - Ep 118

A rare documentary. ***This Review of Three Identical Strangers has a Spoiler Section*** What is an OSP? - 1:13 Non-Spoiler Review of Three Identical Strangers: Intro to Director Tim Wardle: A Really Nice Guy - 2:32 Movie Specs: Big Numbers. Bigger than just 3 (as in triplets… get it?) - 4:40 Premise: And those 4 words at the end of it - 5:45 Oscar Lens - What the Predictors Are Saying - 6:25 Expectations / Teaser Review - 8:01 Production Values - 9:16 Performances / How Compelling Are The Subjects - 13:50 Non-Spoiler Review of the Script - 15:48 Final Thoughts/Watch or Not? - 19:37 Spoiler Music - 20:05 Spoiler-Filled Review: The Hyped Up Twist - 21:14 The Highs - 24:25 The Deceit - 25:50 The (Lawrence) Wright Stuff - 28:37 2066 and Interview Objectivity - 31:08 Gut-punches and Questions Both Raised - 32:34 So What’s the Conclusion? - 34:46 The Oscars Field - 36:26 Final Grades - 37:45 The Most Important Info Ever/Words of Wisdom - 40:13 One of our favorite movie watching experiences of the year, we’ve been telling our family and friends about Three Identical Strangers, and now we make our case to you. This film is impactful. On your emotions, on your assumptions of the forces at work in the world or in our own brains, Tim Wardle and company unravel quite the yarn with this story. We hope you’ll enjoy our breakdown half as much as you like the film. Our Oscar Sprint Profile begins with a detailed and thorough presentation on all of the movie specs including the cast & crew, the awards it’s already won at film festivals and those it’s been nominated for during the early stretch of awards season, and we gush over the big numbers Three Identical Strangers has made at the box office and in its critical scores. Then we embark upon quite a journey as we review this film in full non-spoiler and spoiler segments. Let us preview on the movie if you haven’t seen it. Then see this baby, and we’ll have a meaty discussion of the plot with our spoiler section, after a spoiler warning dance musical interlude as we do. Three Identical Strangers is the second major contender for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar that we’ve reviewed thus far in 2018. We also gushed over the Mr. Rogers doc, Won’t You Be My Neighbor in episode 101. Since we’re a year round Oscar pod, we have the freedom to check out and turn the mics on for you with all of the eventual nominees in this category and all the other major ones. We’re well over 20 reviews of 2018 awards season contenders and movie events thus far. Our programming has also enjoyed full series on the Halloween franchise, Marvel Cinematic Universe and the films of Mission Impossible and The Conjuring CU. So whatever kind of movie fan you may be, we’re reviewing everything we like here at MMO. Chat with us on social media. We’re Mike, Mike, and Oscar on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. We’re MMandOscar on Twitter, and mikemikeandoscar.com will finally get a launch date soon. Send us your SixDegreesOfMMO challenge 4 responses for Jaimie Lee Curtis to Mike Myers. We’ll be reading those winners on the pod soon, and when you get the chance, do please leave us a review on iTunes to help us spread the word about our show. When reality sucks, watch movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, and Oscar!