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Train Dreams nominated for Best Picture

Isn’t that a poaster’s Film?
razzle-dazzle dilemma nibblets
  01/22/26
XO Train Dreams
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Tenterhooks
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Yes also nominated for cinematography, adapted screenplay, a...
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I watched and it was great. Shoe-in for best cinematography....
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I thought it was great
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18000 looks like he also did the Imitation Game? wow
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only seen the trailer but it looks like a gorgeous film
Salmon school cafeteria half-breed
  01/22/26
It's beautiful
At-the-ready vivacious elastic band center
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Gorgeous film
talented insecure cruise ship
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Everyone IRL is saying Train Dreams is the best movie of the...
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my sister is calling her first child Train Dreams
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Salmon school cafeteria half-breed
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It was an unreserved filmic success in my view. The director...
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*moves film to the top of backlog*
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Truly XO Train Dreams
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great thread
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Congrats to goy orbison! Are you the lawyer who went to p...
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So I guess that means playboy playmates, governors, vice pre...
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Pungent puce tattoo
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who was the governor?
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Greg Abbot’s Twitter linked an xo thread
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Odds are also 90+% that RDS has lurked at a minimum. Was at ...
.....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,;
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Was going to add POTUS but I don't believe Big Mike ever poa...
milky nighttime range
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also like 1-2 Y-Combinator adjacent companies
glittery twinkling uncleanness base
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A triumph
180 Rigor
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Haven't seen it, but from reading the premise it seems like ...
naked old irish cottage pozpig
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It's ersatz Terence Mallick Joel Eddington looks anachron...
cooked unc
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Explain the Hollywood processes at play behind adding the GI...
Noblesse Oblige
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Please mark spoilers —cowgod
cowgod
  01/24/26
There’s a badass fiery fearless forest service lady wh...
Noblesse Oblige
  01/24/26
Is the Chinese ghost friend in the book?
Kevin "Canadian" Bacon
  01/25/26
Only Jews care about movie awards
Tenterhooks
  01/24/26
watched the movie very nicely done, but quite a fucking g...
FUCK LIBS
  01/25/26
STOP ASIAN HATE
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Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:22 AM
Author: razzle-dazzle dilemma nibblets

Isn’t that a poaster’s Film?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49608446)



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 11:48 AM
Author: talented insecure cruise ship

XO Train Dreams

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Date: January 24th, 2026 11:47 AM
Author: Tenterhooks



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 3:13 PM
Author: At-the-ready vivacious elastic band center

Yes also nominated for cinematography, adapted screenplay, and best song! We are celebrating today on xo! Xo train dreams!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49609343)



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 4:47 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle dilemma nibblets

I watched and it was great. Shoe-in for best cinematography.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49609630)



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 5:02 PM
Author: At-the-ready vivacious elastic band center



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 3:16 PM
Author: Racy Indian Lodge

I thought it was great

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Date: January 22nd, 2026 4:36 PM
Author: At-the-ready vivacious elastic band center



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 3:18 PM
Author: Purple lettuce cuckold

18000

looks like he also did the Imitation Game?

wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49609353)



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 3:40 PM
Author: Salmon school cafeteria half-breed

only seen the trailer but it looks like a gorgeous film

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49609415)



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 4:36 PM
Author: At-the-ready vivacious elastic band center

It's beautiful

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Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:07 PM
Author: talented insecure cruise ship

Gorgeous film

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Date: January 22nd, 2026 4:43 PM
Author: At-the-ready vivacious elastic band center

Everyone IRL is saying Train Dreams is the best movie of the century and maybe all time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49609618)



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 8:09 PM
Author: Citrine high-end theater

my sister is calling her first child Train Dreams

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Date: January 22nd, 2026 8:11 PM
Author: appetizing senate



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 8:21 PM
Author: At-the-ready vivacious elastic band center



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:06 PM
Author: Dull clown menage



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 6:24 AM
Author: Salmon school cafeteria half-breed



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 4:47 PM
Author: twisted lake mexican

It was an unreserved filmic success in my view. The director’s courage in being willing to not merely depict penetrative anal sex between these industrial timber scavengers at the liminal threshold of civilization and wilderness but to use slow, lingering, detailed closeup shots to convey the full magnificence of the act was sublime. At an inflection of economic history, along the personal topography of the human heart as it inhabits men at work and in family, in the intimate darkness of flannel and campfire and tobacco—the masculine way—something magical and anal is revealed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49609631)



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 4:50 PM
Author: Purple lettuce cuckold

*moves film to the top of backlog*

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Date: January 22nd, 2026 5:00 PM
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Date: January 22nd, 2026 5:00 PM
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Date: January 22nd, 2026 5:01 PM
Author: swashbuckling spot skinny woman



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 5:01 PM
Author: twisted lake mexican



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 8:07 PM
Author: Purple lettuce cuckold



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:53 PM
Author: coral know-it-all theatre quadroon



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:56 AM
Author: Pungent puce tattoo



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 5:02 PM
Author: At-the-ready vivacious elastic band center



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: twisted lake mexican



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:54 PM
Author: coral know-it-all theatre quadroon



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:44 PM
Author: Red drunken hell place of business



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:07 PM
Author: talented insecure cruise ship

Truly XO Train Dreams

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Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:53 PM
Author: coral know-it-all theatre quadroon



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:56 AM
Author: Pungent puce tattoo



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Date: January 24th, 2026 8:04 AM
Author: ;,;.,.,;,;,.,;,;,;,.,



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Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:54 PM
Author: coral know-it-all theatre quadroon

great thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49610744)



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:36 AM
Author: violent bossy area



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:57 AM
Author: Pungent puce tattoo



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:31 PM
Author: twisted lake mexican



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 1:17 AM
Author: razzmatazz deranged bawdyhouse dingle berry

Congrats to goy orbison!

Are you the lawyer who went to penn state?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49610888)



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 6:43 AM
Author: Sepia house

So I guess that means playboy playmates, governors, vice presidents of the united states of america, and now presumptive oscar winners poast here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49611019)



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:56 AM
Author: Pungent puce tattoo



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:37 PM
Author: harsh foreskin kitchen

who was the governor?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49611849)



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:39 PM
Author: brilliant comical tanning salon

Greg Abbot’s Twitter linked an xo thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49611855)



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Date: January 25th, 2026 2:44 PM
Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,;


Odds are also 90+% that RDS has lurked at a minimum. Was at HLS during the XO peak, ran a test prep company after law school and made cringey YouTube videos because he was a weird autist and also ran an edgey right wing meme page. It’s a 100% certainty that he was aware of XO 15-20 years ago though it’s possible a superstriver like him stayed clear after the lolsuit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49617651)



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:41 PM
Author: milky nighttime range

Was going to add POTUS but I don't believe Big Mike ever poasted

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49611857)



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:41 PM
Author: glittery twinkling uncleanness base

also like 1-2 Y-Combinator adjacent companies

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49611858)



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Date: January 23rd, 2026 8:16 AM
Author: 180 Rigor

A triumph

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Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:52 PM
Author: naked old irish cottage pozpig

Haven't seen it, but from reading the premise it seems like a legitimate triumph from another era. Hope it wins.

And as with anything that shows life in the past, it makes it clear that life before screens was much more of an adventure. We have to go back.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49611876)



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Date: January 24th, 2026 8:07 AM
Author: cooked unc

It's ersatz Terence Mallick

Joel Eddington looks anachronistic in it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49613975)



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Date: January 24th, 2026 8:25 AM
Author: Noblesse Oblige

Explain the Hollywood processes at play behind adding the GIRRRLPOWER forest service lady and removing Kelowna Bob. Also why didn’t that one dying hobo get to tell his tale of how he molested his niece and then her dad murdered her when she got pregnant? Thank you saar.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49613987)



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Date: January 24th, 2026 9:04 AM
Author: cowgod

Please mark spoilers

—cowgod

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49614032)



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Date: January 24th, 2026 11:46 AM
Author: Noblesse Oblige

There’s a badass fiery fearless forest service lady who’s not in the book at all who shows up to save the forest from fires like the one that killed the main guy’s wife and (maybe) dotter and her character SPOILS the movie. Also there’s a chill Indian (feather) bro who helps the main guy and then one day some ne’er do wells in town give him his first beer and he passes out on some train tracks and gets run over by like 25 trains. I won’t give away whether he dies but I will say that he’s also not in the movie and that also SPOILS the viewing experience.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49614316)



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Date: January 25th, 2026 2:54 PM
Author: Kevin "Canadian" Bacon

Is the Chinese ghost friend in the book?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49617685)



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Date: January 24th, 2026 11:47 AM
Author: Tenterhooks

Only Jews care about movie awards

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49614324)



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Date: January 25th, 2026 12:26 PM
Author: FUCK LIBS (TDNW)

watched the movie

very nicely done, but quite a fucking gut punch tbh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49617307)



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Date: January 25th, 2026 3:44 PM
Author: My real dad left at 11, brother.

STOP ASIAN HATE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2,#49617834)