It is not an Oscars season without the Dan call out to Toni Collete's performance in Hereditary 😂❤

Hahahahahah Tony Collette Hereditary Hotline is the best hotline ever!

The way Dan is continuing the hotline is such a pure act

"No" - Chris Stuckmann

Sad that Mint isn’t continuing their sponsorship, but thanks to keeping the line open and finding even more impressive sponsorship! She’s Toni Collette from Hereditary and she’s listening!

Your response to the Chris Stuckmann question was perfect and one of many reasons why you really are an absolute God. Best movie critic of all time. ❤️🤘

Toni Collette unsponsored sponsorship 😂

I love getting nachos when I go to the movies, except when I went to see A Quiet Place, and had to sit there sucking my nachos rather than chewing them because they're so loud xD

Expand the director pool up to 10, like the best picture one. The talent right now is at an all time high.

Saying it again for the algorithm, but I'm very disappointed in Mint Mobile. Given Dan's general surprise, my takeaway is either that their marketing/PR team is shady or they're cutting the budget unexpectedly. I'd love to know if other channels were doing a hotline and if those relationships are continuing.

Keeping the hotline, supported by us, the viewers! Thanks Dan! I love this feature and hearing people's questions and your responses.

I don't understand. Book writers review each other's books all the time. What could go wrong with that?

Thanks Dan. The hotline was a great initiative. 80% of questions I found interesting. Glad that the Toni Colette in Hereditary version of the hotline will live on!

Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker who is not afraid to share his opinions on movies made by his peers.

There is a difference between a critic and a reviewer. I don't think a filmmaker should be a reviewer, but they must learn how to be a critic, even if they don't share their opinions.

Talking about the question at 30:00, I follow a great travel channel called Bright Sun Travels, and a couple of weeks ago, the host and his partner went to Disney for one day, and totaled the expenses. Not having gone since the late 90s, I was blown away at how different and more expensive going to Disney has become.

You should have at least same amount of subscriptions as Chris Stuckman

On remakes: Some movies can be remade and it comes out better than the original. It entirely depends on how iconic & timeless the original is. Roadhouse was good in it's time, but it can be improved upon with modern standards of action & humor. Something like the Lord of the Rings trilogy being remade? Yeah, not so much.

Hotline idea is SOO GOOD 😊

13:25 Letterboxd has bigger impact in terms of widening the the reach of film criticism, but it is not considered mainstream in the way Rotten Tomatoes are considered.

I highly recommend keeping the hotline going. It's great for engagement! Why scrap that opportunity to engage viewers? Just do it once a month. Edit! My thoughts exactly!

Oh I love a good Rev Lovejoy reference, Dan you’re one in a million

Chris not worried about these people keep rocking

Re: your channel starting at the beginning of covid, as much as I loved SJ (and wish there was still onscreen panel discussions) I pivoted to your channel immediately. This was actually a therapeutic move, as seeing SJU on zoom was a reminder of the pandemic, whereas your new setup was a welcome distraction from it, regardless of the charts news all being about covid... Oh, I did enjoy the final remote Scoops McGee appearance.

Before Chris Stuckmann, in recent years, there was Dan Trachtenberg. He was a movie/tv/video-game critic on The Totally Rad Show, which was an excellent video podcast in the days before KZfaq became super-popular. He also stopped reviewing movies when he moved into directing features (he was directing commercials before) and started taking more meetings with producers and studios. He felt like producers might hold it against him if he gave a negative review to their most recent films or just that it would lead to awkward moments when he was basically on a job interview.

Best. Sponsor. Ever.

C'mon Dan, give us the Dan Direct Hotline. We can't let it stop!

“The Critical Drinker” is also releasing short film which he wrote but didn’t direct.. and he’s using his KZfaq channel to help finance and promote the film.

Honestly Mint, this is the first time I've skipped TO the ads, rather than OVER the ads. Best use of an ad time ever - if I wasn't being salty, I'd go mint for my next phone change. Tony Collette Hotline sounds awesome though

Love the Q&As!!!!!! x

Great episode Dan. Love both Spielberg and Hitchcock, looking forward to your videos on their films. Glad you are keeping the hotline open. Have an awesome week!

Would you ever do a podcast episode with Robert Meyer Burnett? I’m sure your paths have crossed at some point in the movie talk space. His long form podcasts on his KZfaq channel have been enjoyable, and I think you two would make for a great conversation.

This was a great video, Dan. Even if Mint Mobile doesn’t continue sponsorship, please continue in any way that can continue this type of discourse. Cheers.

Thanks Dan for having a nicer explanation of the Chris Stuckmann nontroversy. Think it’s been at least 2-3 years since he stopped reviewing bad movies. Also, I remember Dan Trachtenberg kinda in a similar situation when he had the podcast. He put himself away from reviewing films as well when he started to work on movies.

Love the new sponsor on the hotline

I would love a video ranking every movie about a theme. Hope to see the Spielber proyect done some day.

Dan I would so be interested into the Spielberg videos because he is the person who's created so much pop culture and it's fascinating to see the variety of movie that he has made. Jurassic Park is my personal favorite Spielberg film and I know Jaws is yours but a ranking to see where JP places on the ranking would be so interesting.

Aye got my comment read! Only thing more fun is a Dan Cameo!

Great video Dan, spot on. As film lovers and filmmakers I think we need to start seeing films as they are, and be as objective as possible with them. A filmmaker is not necessarily defined by one of their films, so a film shouldn't be judged with the filmmaker in mind (in my opinion)

When the trailer question came up I immediately thought of Baby Driver! It was the first time I had seen a trailer edited that way, and the editing in the movie itself actually lived up to the trailer. I still think about the editing in that movie to this day.

We have had grilled cheese Oscars jammie jams. During the Oscars, a few of us make different types of grilled cheese sandwiches and vote on the best, whilst wearing our pyjamas. Thanks for the video, Dan!

You’re the best Dan!!! Love your show, keep up the great work

In the literary world, they say that authors should not actively seek out critique and rely on reviews alone. Same with movies. It’s done, grieve if required and move on.

You are just some guy on my screen talking about movie stuff and I will probably never meet you in person but I dunno ... you just make my world better, Dan. 🥺

Looking forward to the Seaquest DSV Hotline, Dan!

Great point, Dan, about studios losing sight of the big picture to chase short-term gains. Yep. And by the way, that's the story of humanity. We live relatively short lives, and we want to capitalize on our opportunities for the brief time that we can. But in the process, we often end up screwing things up in the long term. It's not easy to subordinate our own urgent needs and desires for the sake of a time we may never see.

I enjoy these q&as. Hope you continue them with or without the specific sponsor (could continue as just a piece of the streaming charts videos).

I can't help wishing that someone close to Toni Collette would show her Dan’s channel.

More Oscar Group activities: -Drinking Games: everytime the music kicks someone out, or everytime someone mentions political issue, etc. -will win / should win style of oscar predictions instead of just the poll. -The best and worst dressed discussions. Who has the most clothing changes. -Predict who will mention Merryl Streep first?

I Think you did a great job getting started, I found your why I love JAWS video to get me started.

The french nouvelle vage: critics became filmmakers. Truffaut or chabrol started as critics before they become directors

I don't like eating at the cinema, but I prefer something that doesn't make noise while I'm eating.

16:00 you gotta tuxedos! That's my favorite snack in theaters.

Love the new hotline. It is almost as perfect as Toni Collette in Hereditary

Another question: Thoughts on March Madness this year? Who do you think is winning the national title: UConn, Purdue, Houston, or the field?

Sad to see the hotline go away. It's been a great part of the show.

Part of me wants to see a separate category for international animated features.

I've seen a few movies based on glowing praise from traditional critics but that praise is only valuable because I know that they are evaluating all movies and the good and bad within them. This doesn't mean someone like Stuckmann or even the channel cinema wins aren't valuable (some times there is great value in hearing someone just gush about how good something is). But just like all film criticism or conversation around film, they are just part of the conversation and I know that so I can make choices effectively for me.

Great idea Dan 😂

I'm a bit behind on your videos. Did like this one!

One of the 'weird' experimental videos of your early days I remeber is your chartss with Dan episode from 1999. I Spend a solid 5 minutes of the video wondering if it was a real video from 1999, or just made yesterday. I wouldn't mind seeing somthing like that again.

This dudes always has the best takes. That’s why I had to keep up w him after screen junkies 💪 woo

I've been going through every film by my favorite directors as well. I've done Lynch, Villenuve and now I'm on to Ridley Scott

I know someone in the industry that cuts trailers and they HATE DOING THAT HEAVY PERCUSSION bit.

Please release that Speilberg series if you ever finish it it sounds like a fantastic idea!

YES 100% i don't know who started the trend that directors cant say bad about other films. Okay in a way don't be a jerk like some angry youtubers (you know who they are) but when I was in film school the learning curve for all of us was to be honest if our films were good or not. But oh well if hollywood already exists with firing people who say about their films...nothing I can do i guess.

I’d watch Recovery as an Australian teenager, and have always been pleased that their film critic went on to success as a director. I’m not the target audience for Leigh Whannell’s films, but that’s beside the point. It shouldn’t be a controversial move, and - as long as there’s disclosure of interest - shouldn’t be a bar to doing both jobs.

I am definitely more interested now that it's a Toni Collette hotline lol

Weren’t the Cahiers Du Cinema alum writers like Godard and Truffaut both filmmakers and film critics at the same time?

Kind of a bummer the Mint Mobile caller segment is coming to an end. I liked listening to it and I'm sure the sponsorship dough was nice for Dan, too.

LOL'd at X rated popcorn bucket!😆

i hear you saying that you think a good critique should get the listener/reader to engage with the critic's ideas and think about how they agree or disagree. I've also seen people who *sound* like critics on KZfaq especially who are very interested in telling people what to think about the subject of their criticism. I guess by your terms I should think of those people as partisans only, and fundamentally *not* as critics

I know of at least one more youtube critic who has stated that his tendency for positive reviews is due his desire to break into the film industry, specifically writing. Fittingly the biggest part of his reviews is about writing.

GREAT news that the hotline lives on!!

Can't believe this journey started almost 4 years ago!

29:53 You mean.. Inception BWAAAAASSSZ...😂

Spot on about the movie nachos 🤣

What you said about Disney and simply arranging everything around stock prices is kinda what I see with Zaslav over at WB. Feels like everything he's doing is cutting down cost and trimming everything just to make it 1) make the stock portfolio look better and 2) if the stock is looking better, it may be a tempting asset to sell to someone who might be looking to acquire it. But, it feels like that comes at the price of turning off creators they've screwed, turns off fans who want to see creative or ambitious projects that they are turning away from for fear of them being money losers, etc. It feels shortsighted. It's a bit of a different case, but we've seen governments cut budgets to the bone to supposedly make things 'better' only for everyone to suffer for a little bit of debt/deficit relief that has no real long term benefits.

Finally, a themed hotline for my favorite movie! Toni Collette latent Oscar win is my side bet for the night

The Hotline is in good hands with Toni Collette in Hereditary - she is such a doting mother.

Everyone's a critic...end of conversation.

movie nachos are a wonderful source of "comfort trash food" it's like 2 dollar frozen pizza. You know it's gonna be crap, but it's so comfy.

The moment you talked About LetterBox... Ben Bateman came to my mind😅

Sure. Bogdanovich, Truffaut. Actually, all the French new wave directors started out writing about film. Tarantino's latest book is pretty good. At some point Sight and Sound had a critics poll and a directors poll in their every ten years great films poll and I tended to prefer the directors' lists.

Hope that Spielberg project eventually comes out, sounds like something I'd really enjoy :)

The one who said "everyone likes popcorn" - no, I hate popcorn.

Wow, Schmoedown spies for Letterbox 😳

Are there any movies that you’ve thought were very good and didn’t see any major flaws, but some people absolutely despise?

Critic and artist require different (but not incompatible) skills, so the people capable of being both will be a subset of the people capable of being either one. Being both at once requires additional skills that will narrow the field still further - so someone being successfully both an active filmmaker and an active film critic at the same time is going to be vanishingly rare. My guess would be that the most likely way to succeed would be to specialise in both fields so you're not criticising anything in direct competition with anything you've worked on. On the other hand, doing analysis rather than critique is entirely compatible - a good artist should be analysing their peers' work and doing so publicly isn't a big step (and less inherently adversarial than being expected to point out the flaws in a work).

A great analogy for Disney is the NFL. Going to a football game (NFL is worse but let's not pretend college football is what it used to be) isn't *REMOTELY* a casual thing anymore for the "average fan" or "average family." I haven't been in nearly a decade for that reason. The average price of an NFL ticket has gone up 50% in less than a decade and has doubled since Goodell took over. Probably very profitable in the short term but give it a generation or less and the negativity will mean it's no longer something that most people are interested in.

Dan, if I'm not mistaken, the only catégories separating males and females are best actor/actress and best supporting male/female role, right? Why wouldn't be a category for directors? What do you think about the added inclusive rules making a movie eligible for best picture (like say... Jaws couldn't compete now) Why wouldn't you critique Stuckmann's movie? Just because you know him? Because he thinks of himself as a "director"? As I responded to a comment, he said more about Madame Web by not speaking too much about it than by critiquing about honestly. Plus he likes Spider-Man 3 which was where Raimi encountered the more studio interference. It makes no sense... (BTW, in general, I'm fed up with the Kubrick support group, almost every critic I know will talk about him as THE ultimate filmmaker (Spielberg bias^^), some like Nolan or Villeneuve desperately try to be the new K, despite the fact that most of his movies flopped... or are just flat out boring, when they're not simply a product of their time (think Orange Clickwork. So 70's). A genius is a visionnary, he was not.) And I'm pretty sure you would happily critique Space Cop... Because it know what it is and supposed to be in their own RLM "best of the worst" show? ^^ Finally, as a french musician, I'll say : The french Nouvelle Vague in the 60's was entirely made by movie critics from the magazine "Les cahiers du cinéma", they also launched the Auteur's theory (there's a great Lindsay Ellis video about it), claiming that a the director was the author of a movie, which (for once^^] moved to the US and helped create the New Hollywood of the 70's. They went from critics to movie-maker, and, as you kind of said, Martin Scorcese (or Steven Spielberg) would make critics because they know their craft, including studio execs interference etc, and could probably pick a shot in a movie saying "Damn, I wish I would have thought of that, it's awesome!", because they're greats, and they don't have anything to prove, and they won't be impressed by a premiere. I've been a musician for 43 years, I have insight. I know my tastes and biases, I can tell you if something is good or not objectively, I can tell you if I like it or not subjectively, I can suggest you try it depending on both. Even though I'm a nobody, I can relate to those great directors. Does Stuckmann knows his craft? Nope, he's a beginner. Did I learn anything watching his boring videos? Nope. RLM for instance are much more interesting. So there you are : great filmmakers would be amazing critics. Aspiring filmmakers, not so much. I love your Charts show, there's no bias in them. I wish you were a bit more neutral in your other shows. No doubt in my mind that it's because you're a good person, but I'd be a bigger fan if I didn't catch your biases so often 😉 Love your work anyways

What’s Dan’s letterboxd??

Splitting the "Best Director" category into genders also doesn't work because MULTIPLE co-directors can make a film (The Matrix, etc.). And what if those directors aren't all the same gender? What if the "Daniels" from EEAAO happened to be "Daniel & Danielle?" Would the film be nominated twice just based on 1 being female? Dan's right that manufacturing a new category to highlight more women doesn't solve the underlying issue. The Top 5 of the year is just that. And the era when 3+ women directors get nominated because they happen to have made 3+ of the year's best films, should be organic and representative of industry hiring progress. The only thing I disagree with Dan is the gendered acting categories. If anything they could merge into 10 nominees, 1 winner each for Leading, and same for Supporting. I don't think incorporating the gender of a character warrants a completely separate award, any more than the age (child, elderly, etc.) or genre (comedic, action, etc). I'm not sure Marriage Story's Adam Driver character is SO different from ScarJo's character to warrant a separate category, yet sharing the same space as Phoenix's Joker is just fine lol

what category would you put Hunter Schafer if he got nominated in the future ?

I give you a like just for making KZfaq a better place.

I work in the film industry. There is absolutely NO shortage of female directors. Almost every tv show is directed predominantly by women

It annoyed me when the Oscars were moved from late March to several weeks earlier. Previously, it kept me from forgetting my Son's birthday. I remember watching the Oscars as my Wife was in labor the night my Son was born. This year, though, they happen to be on my Daughtyer's birthday, so all is forgiven.

The beats hits trailer ... I think back in 2016... yeah now its a long time ago, Suicide Squad trailer did great with this trope

Francois Truffaut and Peter Bogdanovich were both film critics at one time and were both great filmmakers.

When’s the next movie fights