\
  The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
BackRefresh Options Favorite

Train Dreams nominated for Best Picture

Isn’t that a poaster’s Film?
shimmering office lettuce
  01/22/26
XO Train Dreams
maize giraffe
  01/22/26
...
Claret Vigorous Mother
  01/24/26
Yes also nominated for cinematography, adapted screenplay, a...
unholy grizzly juggernaut
  01/22/26
I watched and it was great. Shoe-in for best cinematography....
shimmering office lettuce
  01/22/26
...
unholy grizzly juggernaut
  01/22/26
I thought it was great
milky community account
  01/22/26
...
unholy grizzly juggernaut
  01/22/26
18000 looks like he also did the Imitation Game? wow
Mauve Senate Travel Guidebook
  01/22/26
only seen the trailer but it looks like a gorgeous film
mentally impaired stead weed whacker
  01/22/26
It's beautiful
unholy grizzly juggernaut
  01/22/26
Gorgeous film
maize giraffe
  01/22/26
Everyone IRL is saying Train Dreams is the best movie of the...
unholy grizzly juggernaut
  01/22/26
my sister is calling her first child Train Dreams
iridescent menage mediation
  01/22/26
...
Azure Plaza Chad
  01/22/26
...
unholy grizzly juggernaut
  01/22/26
...
Odious soggy therapy
  01/22/26
...
mentally impaired stead weed whacker
  01/23/26
It was an unreserved filmic success in my view. The director...
confused seedy brunch boiling water
  01/22/26
*moves film to the top of backlog*
Mauve Senate Travel Guidebook
  01/22/26
...
frisky center party of the first part
  01/22/26
...
ebony aggressive elastic band
  01/22/26
...
Thriller Thirsty Public Bath Clown
  01/22/26
...
confused seedy brunch boiling water
  01/22/26
...
Mauve Senate Travel Guidebook
  01/22/26
...
boyish trust fund
  01/22/26
...
House-broken exciting abode
  01/23/26
...
unholy grizzly juggernaut
  01/22/26
...
confused seedy brunch boiling water
  01/22/26
...
boyish trust fund
  01/22/26
...
Rough-skinned Pontificating Legal Warrant
  01/23/26
Truly XO Train Dreams
maize giraffe
  01/22/26
...
boyish trust fund
  01/22/26
...
House-broken exciting abode
  01/23/26
...
boyish trust fund
  01/24/26
great thread
boyish trust fund
  01/22/26
...
ebony aggressive elastic band
  01/23/26
...
House-broken exciting abode
  01/23/26
...
confused seedy brunch boiling water
  01/23/26
Congrats to goy orbison! Are you the lawyer who went to p...
costumed pungent station fat ankles
  01/23/26
So I guess that means playboy playmates, governors, vice pre...
Buff irradiated mood
  01/23/26
...
House-broken exciting abode
  01/23/26
who was the governor?
Chocolate Nubile Stag Film Roommate
  01/23/26
Greg Abbot’s Twitter linked an xo thread
mint corner
  01/23/26
Odds are also 90+% that RDS has lurked at a minimum. Was at ...
Disgusting Codepig Personal Credit Line
  01/25/26
Was going to add POTUS but I don't believe Big Mike ever poa...
underhanded lake psychic
  01/23/26
also like 1-2 Y-Combinator adjacent companies
walnut glittery goal in life school cafeteria
  01/23/26
A triumph
Motley Blathering Crackhouse
  01/23/26
Haven't seen it, but from reading the premise it seems like ...
Supple Free-loading Heaven
  01/23/26
It's ersatz Terence Mallick Joel Eddington looks anachron...
histrionic state jap
  01/24/26
Explain the Hollywood processes at play behind adding the GI...
Brilliant Church Alpha
  01/24/26
Please mark spoilers —cowgod
Motley Blathering Crackhouse
  01/24/26
There’s a badass fiery fearless forest service lady wh...
Brilliant Church Alpha
  01/24/26
Is the Chinese ghost friend in the book?
costumed pungent station fat ankles
  01/25/26
Only Jews care about movie awards
Claret Vigorous Mother
  01/24/26
watched the movie very nicely done, but quite a fucking g...
mentally impaired stead weed whacker
  01/25/26
...
Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e
  08/27/26
STOP ASIAN HATE
maize giraffe
  01/25/26


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:22 AM
Author: shimmering office lettuce

Isn’t that a poaster’s Film?

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 11:48 AM
Author: maize giraffe

XO Train Dreams

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49608634)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 24th, 2026 11:47 AM
Author: Claret Vigorous Mother



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49614320)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 3:13 PM
Author: unholy grizzly juggernaut

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 4:47 PM
Author: shimmering office lettuce

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

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 5:02 PM
Author: unholy grizzly juggernaut



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49609686)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 3:16 PM
Author: milky community account

I thought it was great

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49609347)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 4:36 PM
Author: unholy grizzly juggernaut



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49609591)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 3:18 PM
Author: Mauve Senate Travel Guidebook

18000

looks like he also did the Imitation Game?

wow

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 3:40 PM
Author: mentally impaired stead weed whacker

only seen the trailer but it looks like a gorgeous film

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 4:36 PM
Author: unholy grizzly juggernaut

It's beautiful

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49609592)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:07 PM
Author: maize giraffe

Gorgeous film

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49610597)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 4:43 PM
Author: unholy grizzly juggernaut

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 8:09 PM
Author: iridescent menage mediation

my sister is calling her first child Train Dreams

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49610132)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 8:11 PM
Author: Azure Plaza Chad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49610152)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 8:21 PM
Author: unholy grizzly juggernaut



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49610198)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:06 PM
Author: Odious soggy therapy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49610593)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 6:24 AM
Author: mentally impaired stead weed whacker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49611013)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 4:47 PM
Author: confused seedy brunch boiling water

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 4:50 PM
Author: Mauve Senate Travel Guidebook

*moves film to the top of backlog*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49609636)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 5:00 PM
Author: frisky center party of the first part



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49609679)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 5:00 PM
Author: ebony aggressive elastic band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49609681)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 5:01 PM
Author: Thriller Thirsty Public Bath Clown



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49609682)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 5:01 PM
Author: confused seedy brunch boiling water



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49609683)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 8:07 PM
Author: Mauve Senate Travel Guidebook



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49610124)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:53 PM
Author: boyish trust fund



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49610742)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:56 AM
Author: House-broken exciting abode



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49611117)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 5:02 PM
Author: unholy grizzly juggernaut



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49609685)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: confused seedy brunch boiling water



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49609941)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:54 PM
Author: boyish trust fund



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49610743)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:44 PM
Author: Rough-skinned Pontificating Legal Warrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49611862)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:07 PM
Author: maize giraffe

Truly XO Train Dreams

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49610599)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:53 PM
Author: boyish trust fund



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49610741)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:56 AM
Author: House-broken exciting abode



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49611114)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 24th, 2026 8:04 AM
Author: boyish trust fund



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49613970)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 22nd, 2026 10:54 PM
Author: boyish trust fund

great thread

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:36 AM
Author: ebony aggressive elastic band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49610867)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:57 AM
Author: House-broken exciting abode



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49611118)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:31 PM
Author: confused seedy brunch boiling water



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49611841)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 1:17 AM
Author: costumed pungent station fat ankles

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 6:43 AM
Author: Buff irradiated mood

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:56 AM
Author: House-broken exciting abode



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49611116)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:37 PM
Author: Chocolate Nubile Stag Film Roommate

who was the governor?

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:39 PM
Author: mint corner

Greg Abbot’s Twitter linked an xo thread

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 25th, 2026 2:44 PM
Author: Disgusting Codepig Personal Credit Line

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:41 PM
Author: underhanded lake psychic

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:41 PM
Author: walnut glittery goal in life school cafeteria

also like 1-2 Y-Combinator adjacent companies

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 8:16 AM
Author: Motley Blathering Crackhouse

A triumph

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#49611153)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 23rd, 2026 12:52 PM
Author: Supple Free-loading Heaven

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 24th, 2026 8:07 AM
Author: histrionic state jap

It's ersatz Terence Mallick

Joel Eddington looks anachronistic in it

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 24th, 2026 8:25 AM
Author: Brilliant Church Alpha

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 24th, 2026 9:04 AM
Author: Motley Blathering Crackhouse

Please mark spoilers

—cowgod

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 24th, 2026 11:46 AM
Author: Brilliant Church Alpha

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 25th, 2026 2:54 PM
Author: costumed pungent station fat ankles

Is the Chinese ghost friend in the book?

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 24th, 2026 11:47 AM
Author: Claret Vigorous Mother

Only Jews care about movie awards

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



Reply Favorite

Date: January 25th, 2026 12:26 PM
Author: mentally impaired stead weed whacker

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: August 27th, 2026 9:28 PM
Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (One Year Performance 1978-1979 (Cage Piece) (Awfully coy u are))



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5824991&forum_id=2#50098371)



Reply Favorite

Date: January 25th, 2026 3:44 PM
Author: maize giraffe

STOP ASIAN HATE

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