 What's going on everyone, got a brand new movie review for you guys today and today I'm discussing Grainbook. Very excited going into Grainbook, a lot of the reasons being you got Viggo Mortensen, you got Marsha Ali, you got Peter Farley directed, yes the guy who made Dumb and Dumber and it's been getting a lot of award buzz through all the festivals, it's been winning Best Picture at a lot of them as well. So I had my high picks set really high up for this film. I went in to Grainbook and man it exceeded my expectations. This is one of the best films of this year and definitely one of my favorites of the year as well. Sometimes when you watch a film, especially for me where I'll be like okay I just saw the best actor performance this year, one that's Remy Malick with Bohemian Rhapsody or I'll say oh my god I just saw the best actress performance of this year within Glenn Close and The Wife or Lady Gaga within Star is Born. Last year when I saw Shape of Water I said that's going to be our Best Picture winner this year, hands down and it was. Grainbook not only gets the award for the most heartwarming movie of 2018, taking it away from Paddington too, but it also gets the award and I really do think it will win Best Picture at 2019's Oscar. It still won't have you laughing, it'll have you crying, it'll have you smiling from ear to ear, it'll have you cringing and being scared for our characters but in a sense it'll leave a very heartwarming and heart fuzzy feeling inside your tummy after the end of the films. Grainbook is about a working class Italian-American played by Vigo Mortensen who becomes a driver of an African-American class called Pianist who is going on a tour of venues throughout the 1960's American South and of course that Pianist is played by Marcia Ali, Marcia Ali is one of the best actors working today, same with Vigo Mortensen and you also got Linda Carlini playing Vigo Mortensen's wife within this movie who they have a great dynamic with one another. This film takes place in the 1960's when racism is a running a bus and when the South was not one of the best places and that's why Vigo Mortensen has picked as one of the drivers to take Marcia Ali down and keep him safe because it is through the South. That's not one of the best places to go but he wants to make a statement and I think Grainbook not only tackles that racist element so well that was shown in the 60's but it tackles it on such a limelight and something that feels realistic, something that's still an issue of today and I love the way that Peter Farley directed this film and the way that he told the story because again the guy is known for dumb and dumber movies. He's known for those time of movies which are never getting Oscar buzzed but it's the way that this film was written and directed because a lot of the jokes in here could have came off insanely racist or they could have came off insanely harassing and just not coming off right but the way that the film was directed, acted and wrote and that's why it worked so well. Our two main actors in here Vigo Mortensen and Marcia Ali are the big stars of the whole entire film and they absolutely give some of the best performances of the year. I don't think they're winning anything, I do think they could get nominated because Vigo Mortensen really transforms in this character. I didn't see Vigo Mortensen, I saw the man who was playing Tony Lip, this Italian working class Ameriano you know that's a bad accent but I love what Vigo Mortensen did with this character and you just believe every single thing that this working class guy is doing and the way that him and Marcia Ali are really much the same people and the character arcs and the character dynamics that they do go through throughout this movie it's a very wide range of emotions that they go through and there's some moments in here where I was just laughing my ass off with them but also in tears with them because you're understanding what they're both going through really are alike in a lot of different ways that they don't even know until later on in the film. Even though we're saying that this film could come off in a very cliche way but it doesn't and Marcia Ali is one of the big reasons that it doesn't he plays this upper-class African-American in the 1960s which again is not one of the best things in the 1960s. African-Americans there's still a lot of racism going on like I was saying but it's how he plays it off with Vigo Mortensen and charismatic values that they hold within one another are just outstanding a moment in here in the rain where they're just both arguing with each other and screaming at each other and you just after that moment you can tell that there was a difference between them where they're totally understanding each other and I just love what they did that that and there's one other funny moment there's so many moments in here where I was just laughing and having such a blast of this film but also crying and trying not to cry and being tears and one of the best moments in here that really is on a happier note is when Vigo Mortensen and them dry through Kentucky. I'm not gonna say what but Vigo Mortensen is really obsessed with food and there's a certain brand of food that everyone really likes that's from Kentucky and it's a fast-food restaurant you can kind of go from there but that scene was great him and Marcia Ali and everything they go through I love this film I don't want to go into more details I want you to go into the film not knowing any of the big moments not knowing any of the little details for for cons I do have one small nitpick and it is the fact that there is a subplot that they introduce earlier in the film with kind of these mobsters I guess and there it never really goes anywhere they introduced it a couple more times and it just felt like a really big afterthought and there are a couple scenes where it goes and you think it's gonna go somewhere and then it like cuts the next thing and it doesn't feel abrupt at all it feels very seamless but I don't know if it was how it was written or if there really were moments missing from this because it is a two hour and ten minute movie so it is a little bit long but it doesn't it doesn't even feel like that it just flows by but I did have those small little things with it where I was kind of wondering okay why was that even introduced could another rewrite just gotten out of it and some of those do add up to some of the best moments in the film but I feel like there could have been it easily another 20 30 minutes in this film and I would have had no problem with it I wanted more with these characters I wanted another road trip with these characters it's easily one of the best road trip movies of all time I loved Green Book it's a film that I definitely recommend to you if you get family get your friends go see this film just sit in the theater laugh crying leave the theater with a very heartwarming sense to you so as I said I'm gonna give Green Book an A it was easily one of my favorite films of this year so far tell me guys what are your guys thoughts on Green Book are you guys gonna be seeing it this month are you not let's talk about it down below in the comments I'm so curious to hear your guys thoughts on this what are your guys thoughts on Vigo Mortensen and Marsha Ali let's talk about it have a lively discussion down below if you guys are new here hit that like and subscribe button then go hit up sandwich on films also down below cuz right down there you guys and get into advanced movie screens even check out some movie news and even some movie reviews but guys of course until next time stay classy