{"id":40,"date":"2018-07-03T01:06:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T01:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=40"},"modified":"2018-07-03T01:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T01:06:44","slug":"003-pay-it-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2018\/07\/03\/003-pay-it-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"003 &#8211; Pay It Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/payitforward-ep3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"745\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/payitforward-ep3.jpg 745w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/payitforward-ep3-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week we&#8217;re calling all angels as we discuss 2000&#8217;s major critical disaster and thwarted Oscar grab, <em>Pay It Forward<\/em>. That&#8217;s right, the one where a post-<em>Sixth Sense<\/em> Haley Joel Osment teaches the world to pass on one favor to three strangers. A film notorious in This Had Oscar Buzz lore, <em>Pay It Forward<\/em>&#8216;s awards hopes were spoiled by epic failures of miscasting and egregious emotional manipulation, not to mention the ever-changing landscape of Kevin Spacey&#8217;s burn makeup.<\/p>\n<p>On this episode, we look back at the beloved Entertainment Weekly Fall Movie Preview issues, Jon Bon Jovi&#8217;s emerging acting career, and composer Thomas Newman copying himself in the span of a single Oscar season. Just one of several failed awards players from the major studios in 2000 (as well as one of several Helen Hunt movies), <em>Pay It Forward<\/em> is perhaps the most infamous.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7508\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-40-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_003_Pay_It_Forward.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_003_Pay_It_Forward.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_003_Pay_It_Forward.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_003_Pay_It_Forward.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=40-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_003_Pay_It_Forward.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_003_Pay_It_Forward.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>This week we&#8217;re calling all angels as we discuss 2000&#8217;s major critical disaster and thwarted Oscar grab, Pay It Forward. That&#8217;s right, the one where a post-Sixth Sense Haley Joel Osment teaches the world to pass on one favor to three strangers. A film notorious in This Had Oscar Buzz lore, Pay It Forward&#8216;s awards &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2018\/07\/03\/003-pay-it-forward\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;003 &#8211; Pay It Forward&#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":[2],"tags":[5,4,34,12,35,37,36,32,31,38,29,33,3,6,28,30],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-had-oscar-buzz","tag-academy-awards","tag-awards","tag-best-actor","tag-best-actress","tag-best-supporting-actor","tag-blockbuster-entertainment-awards","tag-ew-fall-movie-preview","tag-haley-joel-osment","tag-helen-hunt","tag-jon-bon-jovi","tag-kevin-spacey","tag-mimi-leder","tag-movies","tag-oscars","tag-pay-it-forward","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}