{"id":1179,"date":"2024-09-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2024-09-09T05:46:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T05:46:05","slug":"308-the-monuments-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2024\/09\/09\/308-the-monuments-men\/","title":{"rendered":"308 &#8211; The Monuments Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/monumentsmen-thob-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/monumentsmen-thob-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/monumentsmen-thob-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/monumentsmen-thob-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/monumentsmen-thob-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/monumentsmen-thob.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With another George Clooney film on the horizon with&nbsp;<em>Wolfs<\/em>, it&#8217;s time to revisit the diminishing returns of his directorial career. In the 2013 season, his WWII quasi-comedy true story ensemble film&nbsp;<em>The Monuments Men<\/em>&nbsp;was an on-paper awards magnet. With a cast that included Clooney, Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, and Bill Murray as a team attempting to rescue centuries worth of art from destruction by the Nazis, the film released two underwhelming trailers before being punted into the next year. Released in February 2014, the film made much more money than you probably remember, but failed as an awards vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This episode, we rehash Clooney&#8217;s directorial career and discuss the film&#8217;s struggle in the editing room. We also talk about the film&#8217;s mismatching of its stars into pairs, Jean Dujardin&#8217;s Oscar run with&nbsp;<em>The Artist<\/em>, and Clooney&#8217;s reaction to Tarantino saying he&#8217;s not a movie star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics also include&nbsp;<em>Drunk History<\/em>, Tim Walz&#8217;s summer playlist, and Alexandre Desplat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow Us on Twitter!<br><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Had_Oscar_Buzz\">@Had_Oscar_Buzz<\/a><br>Joe: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joereid\">@joereid<\/a><br>Chris: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisvfeil\">@chrisvfeil<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_517\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1179-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_308_The_Monuments_Men.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_308_The_Monuments_Men.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_308_The_Monuments_Men.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_308_The_Monuments_Men.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=1179-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_308_The_Monuments_Men.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_308_The_Monuments_Men.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With another George Clooney film on the horizon with&nbsp;Wolfs, it&#8217;s time to revisit the diminishing returns of his directorial career. In the 2013 season, his WWII quasi-comedy true story ensemble film&nbsp;The Monuments Men&nbsp;was an on-paper awards magnet. With a cast that included Clooney, Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, and Bill Murray as a team &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2024\/09\/09\/308-the-monuments-men\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;308 &#8211; The Monuments Men&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,457,79,1684,208,217,975,1683,1109,214,3,6],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academy-awards","tag-alexandre-desplat","tag-bill-murray","tag-bob-balaban","tag-cate-blanchett","tag-george-clooney","tag-hugh-bonneville","tag-jean-dujardin","tag-john-goodman","tag-matt-damon","tag-movies","tag-oscars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}