Episode #16: Hollywood Royale – Part One

[music] How's it going everybody? Welcome to another episode of Nerdure Enthusiasm, and I'm here with Steve, Nick, and Peyton, once again. How's it going? How you all doing? What do you guys been up to lately? Surviving. Yeah. Surviving. I would say. Surviving DeRona. Yeah. So today, we're actually going to be doing a podcast about Hollywood Royale. We had to take about a week off from the podcast just to -- we had a few pickups last weekend with Schedule League, but we wanted to do it this week. Initially, we had started out with, I think it was 25 films each, and we would hold it down because that was too ridiculous, and we're going to do 10 films each. There's four of us, 40 films, and so Steve, tell them what the rules are about this specific Hollywood Royale. It's kind of similar to what we did with nostalgia, but now we have a few extra things. So go ahead. Right. So the format is not entirely that changed from when we did the game of the Generation Royale and the Best View Game Series Royale. Basically, we're going to split the series into two podcast episodes. The first one which you were hearing now, we're going to -- we each chose 10 personal films. The only condition was that for the film that you chose, it had to be a singular film, so you can't just pick Laura the Rings and expect that to fill one slot. You had to pick one entry in the trilogy. And I wanted to restrict basically how many films you can pick for each director on the same list. So if you wanted to pick four Spielberg films, no good sir, you need to have a good variety so that we can have a diverse list when the time comes to pit them against each other and the tournament bracket. So we limited to two of the same director for each list. So the outside of that, there was no other restrictions. These are our personal picks. The purpose of this episode is to explain why we chose them, why they are important to us on an individual basis or if you want to argue why they are important in the broad sense of the filmmaking medium. So it's up to you how you want to pitch your film and why it deserves to do well in the tournament bracket in the following episode. Perfect. So if anyone else does anyone else want to go first, any takers as to, no, okay, I'll go first then. So, yeah, so yeah, I will go second, Nick, did you want to go third? Yeah, I can take third. Okay, and then Payton will take fourth and then we will just, you know, go around the same way. Yeah, essentially. And just to let you know, these are in no particular order, my tent, my first film about dimension at number 10 does not necessarily mean this is my least favorite of the bunch. It just means I can probably argue at the best or if there's no attachment to the number of, yeah, I don't find it like, it's a shit film. So my first on the list here is a rival. For those of you who've not seen this movie, I'm not sure if have, if any of you have seen this movie, but I know Steve has, but other than that, a rival is at face value an invasion movie, right? These aliens come to earth, but they don't know exactly why they're there or what the purpose of it is. At a deeper level, this film talks about xenophobia. It talks about the struggles of losing a child for some parts of it. It talks about language and not understanding others. For example, it kind of dials back into xenophobia where it's like, you know, this person speaking in different languages than me, can we really trust them and things of that nature, things that you may have seen in multiple other films, but they do it in such a science fiction way. It makes it really cool. And language is a huge part of this versus some of the other films because the aliens in this film, they come into these like ellipse style like spaceships and there's about eight or nine of them around the world. And I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it and there will be spoils more than welcome to be spoils, but I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen this film. So, language and trust and not being xenophobic is a very strong message in this film. And whether it be, you know, the parts where the military kind of goes a wall, some people in the military go a wall and want to destroy the aliens or whatever it may be. It's such a very, it's not a very complex film. It's not like inception or anything like that. I think Jeremy Renner's in it and who's the Isle, no, it's not Isle Fisher. It's the girl who everyone confuses for Isle Fisher. She's the one from Superman, yes, yes, she was the lowest lane in a man of steel. But the longest short of it is great film and very, very deep metaphorical ties to xenophobia and Amy Adams, thank you. Definitely recommend you would go see it and if you're not like completely like, oh my god, that's what that means and it's just mind-blowing movie. That's my piece about that film. That's a very good pick. Cool. All right, my number 10, although I would probably say it is ordered and I did cross-source a bit of words from some online reviews with my own. But here we go. My number 10 is loss and translation. A beautiful sadness slowly but surely permeates Sophia Coppola's sophomore feature. A portrait of two lost souls yearning for purpose and meaningful connection. Bob and Charlotte are at an impasse in their lives where they mutually feel neglected by loved ones and disorientated by the greater outside world. Bob is a fading Hollywood actor in a midlife crisis who is played by Bill Murray. Charlotte is played by Scarlett Johansson, who is a young woman who is apprehensive about her future. Finding an odd solace and familiar in their shared struggle, they unexpectedly encounter a blossoming intimacy that reignites their curiosity of life and sense of belonging. They both recognize something in their connection, achingly pure, that transcends physical consummate nations and verbose the declarations of affection. In the small intimate moments of shared silence and quiet reflection lies something authentic and ceaseless about the human experience. The lingering feeling of displacement and the insatiable burning to belong. Coppola's patient and acute sensitivity to loneliness and isolation draws these habitually veiled emotions to the foreground through her signature atmospheric shoe-gay score and pastel color palette. The audience is not privy to Bob's final whisper in one of the last scenes of the film, where he whispers to Charlotte something that will always exist only between them. Words that frame a transient yet ethereal life altering experience. They will probably never see each other again, but it doesn't matter because they know that they've given each other exactly what the other needed to move forward into the uncertain future. So outside of what I just read, loss and translation is, I have in my personal list of favorite movies ever, I have this trilogy of romantic movies that can't dive deep into the intimacy of romance and the disconnect between two lovers and her is another film that is very similar to this because the both directors actually were in a relationship with each other like over ten years ago and each of their romantic films, loss and translation and her, was a very response to the other director and why and from their perspective, why their relationship crumbled and I found that to be pretty fucking mind blowing in the way and I don't know, this movie just, it says so much with saying so little, it's just so good. I love when movies are that downright simplistic in their verbiage and like just, it's just a little moments that count and I feel like loss and translation is like the apex of that type of mood that you want to invoke in a romantic film, something that's not grand noise or dramatic and I think that's why I love it so much and that's why I picked it. Cool. It actually both those movies I have Scarlett Johansson in it. Exactly. I did. So who's the director of loss and translation? Sophia Coppola as Ford Coppola's daughter. Exactly. Yeah. Alright, so let's see. My number ten pick is a really good movie if you're into sports field of dreams. It stars Kevin Costner. It has Ray Leota in it, James Earl Jones, a pretty eclectic cast of characters. It follows Kevin Costner's character, his name is Ray Cancella and he, how do I explain it? So he's having like a transitional period, like a midlife crisis when it comes to his father that just passed away. And his father, if I remember correctly, was one of the catchers on the 1919 Chicago White Sox or they called him the infamous Black Sox because they cheated during the World Series. And he has this vision where he lives in Iowa, he's a corn farmer. He decides to build this baseball field there in the field that he tends to. And it becomes this like kind of a cultural significance to the, to the game of baseball. And when he starts building it and stuff, coming out of the corn field are the original players from the 1919 Chicago White Sox. So Ray Leota plays Shoeless Joe Jackson and he, he brings all the other players out, James Earl Jones plays a character by the name of Mark Tanner, if I remember correctly, or Terrence Mann. And he was a young boy when the Chicago White Sox were playing during that. It's, it's a very interesting take on the love of the game of baseball. And you also get kind of a sentimental feel for people like myself who grew up playing catch and stuff with your father and stuff like that and you're trying to understand kind of like grief and dealing with that as far as like if you, you know, you lose a love one and that kind of stuff. So that's why I chose it at number 10 plus it's, it's become kind of a cultural phenomenon to with a modern day baseball and stuff like that. Hmm. Interesting. All of our, all of our first, uh, picks here so far have been ones that we kind of relate to. And, you know, you and me see even about communication, the, uh, it's next is understanding. Let's see what suit patents is going to be. You all hear me? Okay. Yes. Wow. And clear. Just another mic check. Um, so my pick for this round was 12 angry men. Um, it came out back in the 50s, um, it, it's really no way for me to explain this without spoiling a bit of it, but it is such an old movie and it's kind of like a, but I don't think it's really going to stow or anybody by me saying it, but essentially, um, it's a, there's a trial where I believe there's a, if I recall correctly, it's been a while for me, but they're the young man who's killed his father, I think. And, um, and so the judge tells him, you know, without a reasonable doubt, you know, you need a, you need to pick it's guilty, not guilty. And, you know, they go into the room and they, they all vote immediately. And there's just one guy who voted not guilty. Everybody else thought it was unanimous. And this frustrates a lot of the jurors in the room. They don't go by their names at all. They, they have like, they call them numbers, like jury three, jury seven, whatever. Anyway, jurors. Sorry. Anyway. So you find out that some of the jury members are like frustrated. They just want to get home. Another one has a baseball game to catch and it's like trivial to them. How much this, this kid who's been allegedly charged with killing his father is, you know, really is to them. Like, you know, his life is really in their hands. And one by one, the guy who said not guilty in the beginning starts to convince other people of this original testimony that we as the audience didn't get to see, but, you know, they start to really come to terms with the fact that they may have been a little bit too hasty in their original vote. And eventually, after long discussion, deliberation, after emotional discussions they had because they, they relate to what's been going on in certain ways, they eventually come to a conclusion themselves that they all agree on at the very end. And the reason why I chose this film was because for me personally, it relates to me the topic of exoneration and the, you know, I'm working forensics. And so I think that as a very, you know, you have a duty as a jury member to be 100% convinced about whatever selection you ever vote in. And as most as important as convictions are in rightful appropriate circumstances, so are exoneration. I mean, you don't want to be falsely accused of anything. And I think that's why I picked that movie. I really enjoyed it. I encourage anybody else to watch it if they ever have time. It was going for me. That's a really good film, I've never seen it. Yeah. Yeah, I like it like I said, it's very old, it's very old, it's from the 50s, I think. So I've seen, I've seen a few movies on on next list that are, that are older as well. Okay, so I started with a rival. Let's go a little bit different with this next pick. Um, was it, I'm not sure if it was last summer, I must have been last year at some point. Uh, I went to one of the previous, one of the, at least one of the last rather, uh, movies I saw in the theater and Nick saw this movie with me was 1917, uh, completely such a, such a great story by itself. And then you add not just the story, but the way it's filmed, which is quote, unquote one shot. Of course, they have, you know, little fadens and outs when you can definitely see that was, you know, a kind of seamless transition. But to the, to the movie go, it's one shot. And they follow these, um, two boys, well, yeah, essentially they are boys, uh, in World War I. And the, the Germans have, or the, I guess they'd be the Germans at this point, I guess not. Uh, yeah, the Germans, let's call them the Germans. The Germans at this point are retreating, um, from the, from the front line because, well, they're retreating. And so there's this one, uh, general, he's a, he's a general, correct, Benedict Cumberbatch in that movie. I think so, yeah. Let's say he's a general, uh, in the British army and he, he's advancing, he's chasing these people, these Germans, um, the German army just so that way he can, you know, finish them off and, and win the war, uh, what he doesn't realize is that he's chasing them back. So like, it's, it's a tactical retreat in the Germans part. They're backing off. So that way they can have their artillery just completely smash his regiment. And, and really damage the, the American, uh, the American, the British, uh, forces. And, um, so these two boys have to be sent out across enemy lines where most of which, uh, you know, there's been definite, uh, you know, clearing out, but they're going so much later after the forces have gone through that the Germans have kind of swept in again to some degree. I don't think we see too many German forces. There's a few times in the movie with a sniper and I think the, um, there's a, there's a plane scene in that movie where you see the Germans and I think there's also a burning town, but that's when they're really close to that where the, uh, the boys have to get, um, the long of the short of it is it's a great war movie, uh, not many films have such a personal story attached to World War One, uh, of course, you know, if there's movies such as, you know, um, save it probably Ryan for World War Two, where the squad has to go and essentially save, uh, private Ryan, but, um, 1917, other than just the story has some of the most amazing visuals, the flares scene when the Germans are popping flares and one of the boys is essentially having to hide from the Germans and stay out of the eyes of the flares. And it's just the way the light goes over this ruined city. He has to kind of creep through, reminds me of, uh, it doesn't, there's nothing it really reminds me of, but it's just so like crazy. I kind of compared it to, um, either journey or abzu for a film, I'm not sure if either you play those games or very interesting, but I could see the journey, yeah, aspect where the like the light, like there's very distinct parts of the film that have color palettes and, and art pieces attributed to them, even where it's like, you know, the green of the initial area where the, where the plane is or, you know, even the music at the end where he, you know, just fell into the river and one of the boys gets out of the river and he hears this, this one kid singing about, I think it's a, he's going home to see his father and it's, it's essentially the one that's in the trailer and it's beautiful when he just kind of walks up and sits down and he's just like, I miss the people I was looking for. And then of course, he's sitting around all the people he was looking for, but then he has to run and, uh, go find the general to tell him to stop the attack because the Germans are going to destroy them. Uh, I could go on further at this point, but I think if you haven't seen 1917, definitely a great watch and that's why I picked it. Yeah, my number, okay, no, just really good film, yeah, all right. For my number nine spot, on an overall scale, the matrix is the biggest leap in the science fix in genre since Stanley Kubrick's 2000 on the Space Odyssey. However, more importantly, it brought the world, Keanu Reeves. So I rest my case. That's it. Okay. Simple. That's super simple on that one. Are you sure that's his first film, Stephen? No, it's not, but it brought him into the public spotlight and yeah, what about Bill and Ted? I'm just saying, okay, yeah, just in general, like as far as I think of a point break, point break is way before that. Yeah, it was before matrix, okay, sure, but I think it's made him into that icon. Sure, that everyone loves him for, so that's it. Cool. So kind of following Steve's there with Kubrick, my number nine is a full metal jacket. And that was Kubrick's last film or, yeah, I think it was his last film that he directed. And it follows, it primarily follows two recruits at Paris Island who are going into the Marine Corps in the 1960s during the Vietnam War. It follows two, kind of follows two Marines Joker and pile. And it really shows a, it shows a look into the process of going through basic training through, you know, all of that stuff to become a Marine and then they go to Vietnam. It has Matthew Modine plays Joker. It's got Arlie Ermi who's passed away, but he plays the gunnery sergeant. He was a gunnery sergeant in real life. And it, it shows a, it shows an interesting version of Vietnam when they get to that part where they go over to Vietnam during the Ted offensive and stuff like that. And for any and all that haven't seen that I'm not going to spoil too much of it. But it's a very good war film and it has a lot of different film techniques and shots that you could even look back to 1917 and some of Kubrick's earlier films and stuff of that nature. So overall, overall a very well rounded war movie. So that's why I picked it at number nine. Great. I love that movie. I love that movie. Really good one. Crazy how it, like chip skiers, you know, that's sort of awesome. I've only seen it up to the point where the guy says full metal jacket. It's almost like a whole nother movie after that. Yeah. It's really like a two-parter. Like yeah, how they break, how they break it up. Crazy. Um, I thought who up with that one over and on was the breakfast club. The breakfast club. Not a whole bunch to to say about this movie. But what are the reasons I really liked it was was because I guess to go into a little bit of the plot here, there's these high schoolers. And for whatever reason, they all get the tension at the same time and not really hardly any of them, even really know each other because they have so many differences. Like one may be a jock, one of them's a nerd. Another one's like kind of like a, like an introverted person so they don't really know anybody. Anyway. And while they're in detention, like, you know, of course, some of them harass each other and other couple of them will talk and find out more about each other. And eventually, as time goes on, and they share stories are in their struggles as being a high schooler is, you know, they find out that they actually have a lot more common than they thought in the beginning. And it's my interpretation at the end of it that, you know, a lot of them remain friends. But before they even went to detention, they had like no idea about each other or even resent to each other. And it's like, it's got a lot of good comedy to, but I think the cool thing of it was that, you know, these high schoolers realized they had a lot more common than they ever thought they did in the beginning. I enjoyed the movie. I think it's, it's like a really casual going movie. Nothing to like, nothing to, I guess, sophisticated, you know, it's a very easy going theme of, you know, stories they share together and experience and all of a sudden become more friends with each other than they were before. Yeah, that's one that definitely is going to be on my list to watch because it's, I've heard somebody. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, it's definitely one to check out. All right. Would you say, it's just briefly, it's kind of comparable to the dead poet's society kind of, or am I? Yeah. I wouldn't go random gone. Okay. Yeah. I put it down the lane of kind of Ferris Bueller's Day off, but different. Okay. Yeah. Or like, um, it's, it's closest really not even close, but it's closest related to that, like 16 candles. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've seen 16 candles. Okay. Yeah. Gotcha. So this film was shot in 20, well, it came out in 2015. It's an actor through in film directed by Dennis Villain, new view. Yeah. I don't know how to fucking out. What's this? How do you press that? Villain. Villain. Villain. Villain. No. No. No. No. No. We're all fucking it up. Let's see. Yeah. I don't know how to press it. But long story short, it's a French director. Uh, he's making the new Dune film. And this movie has three powerhouse actors at it, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, and Benicio de dodo, uh, Sekario is my next pick. And, um, if you haven't seen this film, you really should because it's just A, it's just a great action flick if you don't like it for anything else. Uh, but essentially the film follows Emily Blunt's character who works for the FBI. And she's enlisted in this, uh, government task force to essentially bring down a big drug cartel, uh, and the first, the first scene kind of reminds me of the first scene of Hurt Locker, uh, to some degree, which I didn't put on this list because I think Sekario has a, a bit more story to it, um, but Sekario is, is, is kind of like a, it is like a war film versus just like a FBI, espionage or FBI kind of, you know, action film. It's a lot like a war film because it's essentially every scenario they're in is like a little war, um, whether it's the border scene where they're coming back from Mexico and they notice that there's some, some members of the drug cartel two cars away from them and it's just very tense. And this whole thing is, they're like, get out of the car and it also has, um, the guy from Burnnotice in it. What's his name? Uh, I can't remember. He, he's pretty good in it as well. I've never seen the second one, but the first one, fantastic film, uh, and the end scene is just so, so brutal, whether, when it, when it's essentially starts with a cop stop, cop stopping some, some person in a car and ends with a silencer at a dinner table. Uh, it's all I'm gonna say if you've never seen the movie, that scene is just like, he just, it doesn't even pan away from Medusa del Toro during that scene. It's just like, okay, well, you made your decision dead. They're all dead. Um, yeah. Other than that, Josh Berlin's really great in the film. He plays the, uh, the handler. He's kind of like the CIA guy in this scenario. Um, what's the guy from, uh, black ops, the first black ops, the CIA guy with the shades. Nick, uh, kind of runs your Hudson, but, but more, more character has more characteristics to him. And then obviously, obviously the, the, the reason you come there at Benicio del Toro and Emily Blunt, uh, Emily Blunt's more of the, um, you know, the, the, the good, the, the honorable good person and the, and the Sicario, which stands for Hitman, um, is Benicio. And he's kind of like the chaotic, the chaotic good, I would, I would say. Um, and he also, there's a revenge tale in this that you don't really understand until you get to the end of the film. That's very, very prevalent. That's all I say. Uh, who hasn't seen this film? Looks like we all seen it. Okay. Enough said. Go ahead, Steve. All right. This is what my number eight pick. Correct. Okay. My number eight pick is taxi drive. Uh, I find it strange that this movie is popular, but for the wrong reasons, maybe some people are quoting it and they always have this next to good fellows and the sopranos in their collection of movies. I think a lot of people like it for the wrong reasons. They like the violence and the guns and Robert De Niro. But for me, this is the quintessential art house film ambiguous in its meaning, a meandering story with no plot inside a protagonist that has more psychological disorders than Edward Norton in fight club. Oh, but I'm not giving these folk enough credit because they feel just as lonely as Travis Bickle. And this movie offers some sort of escape into a fantasy world where they can take their frustrations out in the simple, but exceptionally challenging mission that taxi driver accomplishes is making Travis Bickle a fully formed that unique poor polarizing and altogether fascinating character. Characters like Travis Bickle aren't written very often. And when they do pop up, for example, Christian Bill in American Cycle, Jake Killinghall in Nightcrawler, the film that surrounds them is usually less interesting than the character. With taxi driver, the movie itself is an amiguation of Travis. They are fully intertwined and they illuminate each other in ways that only great films can do. All in all, I think this is Scorsese's best film in his entire filmography. And it was a clear inspiration for the recent Joker film that just came out last year. It's definitely a film that tackles mental illness, but it does so in the lens of this sort of like displacement of the ego. That's why I love it so much. Let's see. My number, what are we at? Number eight. My number eight pick is it's what a lot of veterans, it's another war film. A lot of veterans have said it is the closest thing that a civilian will ever come to witnessing what real combat is like. And that is Steven Spielberg's directed saving private Ryan. The reason I picked it number one, my grandfather was in the D Day invasion. So being able to see and witness a adaptation of what he witnessed firsthand gave me a better understanding and grounding to what his experiences were. And not only to me, but a lot of other people that have seen the film, they could understand what their dad or their grandparents or their father, you know, they what they went through. Overall, the way it shot firsthand, most of it with running cams, some on running tracks, it follows a group of a Ranger company that is set out on this kind of a somewhat top secret mission at the time to go rescue a private in the 101st Airborne named private Ryan, who his two brothers were killed in combat in other various theaters during World War II. And that kind of goes into a stop loss policy that the military has where they now no longer have siblings served together, they break them up because they didn't want entire families to be wiped out, meaning like a mother and father have to deal with, you know, all four sons, four of your sons have been killed, which happened a couple of times in World War II. So yeah, overall it's a it's an extremely gritty interpretation of war and has some of the best combat scenes I think out of any type of war movie that's been ever made. So that's why I put it in number eight there. Man, that is a fantastic choice too. That I really like how you referenced how veterans have come out and said, like, you know, watching the very first part of that movie was very traumatic for them, like how how much it really related to them. I love that movie. My my number eight is John Carpenter's Halloween, the 1978 movie, not the one that came out in with 2018 I believe, but the original, the very first Halloween. I'd pick that for multiple reasons. I definitely love the Halloween series, but I think one of the key things that are really cool about the series is how much it was a pioneer to a lot of supernatural or horrific slasher films, like, you know, you have the not going to claim that it was the inspiration, but you definitely saw the uptick of Friday 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, et cetera. And one of the cool things about this movie, the first Halloween, is that this is one of the this is one of the greatest movies of that time where you had a strong female lead and a hero. And, you know, before this movie, you had a lot of helpless woman victims and Laurie Stroud is a that's her name, right? I think it is. Yes, I think you're right. Yeah, I think it's Laurie Stroud. Yeah, she, but the, right, Jamie Lee Curtis is the actress. Anyway, her character, you know, rises above her fear and like confronts it. And while she does have help from Dr. Loomis, you know, she, she's obviously a badass. Also, another cool thing about this movie is you find out over time, Michael is no longer simply a man. He's a concept. He's essentially the concept of evil itself and battled with battling with the evil itself is the real, the real war in this movie. And as, as well as its sequels too, I really like love the culture impact, though, of how much it's like put so much cultural impact on Halloween, the time of the year itself and also kind of like the slasher film genre. So that's why I picked that one. Very nice. Very good pick. Yeah, it's so it's all pick. I have a question for you, gentlemen. Would you ever want to see Wolverine go against Batman? Because my next pick gives us just that except for not really. This next film that has three parts, the pledge, the turn. And of course, the prestige. The prestige is a great, great film. If it's not just about magic, which has it, it's, they take magic to another level on this. They actually, it's not really just magic. It's actual like they take science. They don't explain how the science is done. But there's, you know, a lot of parts where I will, I mean, I don't want to spoil it for this one in particular. But there's a certain trick that Hugh Jackman's character does. That involves him disappearing and reappearing in a different place. Okay. He gets the idea from when he goes to meet David Bowie's character in the film, which is Nikola Tesla. And he, Tesla has been working on, of course, the Tesla. It's the, it's his machine essentially that generates electricity. And he, he's able to make things disappear, but he doesn't know where they ever reappear. And it kind of goes into the moral, it takes, it takes that and then goes into the morality of how far is too far to get to become successful. Because on the opposite sign of that coin is Christian Bale's character. They are, they start out actually as partner magicians and then have a falling out and then they become head-to-head bull like Ford versus Ferrari, which actually Christian Bale's in that movie as well. You know, essentially, at complete odds, they hate each other. They want the other person to lose and they want to be the best magician. And Christian Bale's character is more of the, you know, mindset of I want to be, I want to be the best magician, whatever cost. And same thing for Hugh Jackman, but Hugh, Hugh's character, he, he takes the, he doesn't take the moral high ground. He, he has a lot of, you know, undercutting of, of Christian Bale's character. And then of course, you have Michael Cain. And again, this is another film with Andy Circus is in the film completely forgot about that. David Bowie is previously mentioned and also Scarlett Johansson, another Scarlett, Scarlett Johansson film. She plays the assistant of the great Danton, which is Hugh Jackman's character, correct? Yeah, that's correct. Yeah. But other than that, and of course, the director is Christopher Nolan, famous for, you know, inception and a wide variety of the Batman, you know, Batman. That's why I brought it up. Yeah. And the new tenant film, you know, if you haven't seen any of his films, what are you doing? Secondly, go watch this film. Because it's, it's a revenge tale. And the, the twist at the end is like, oh, okay, they didn't just make him disappear. There's a little bit of a serious matter of a moral truth behind the truth. Yeah. It reminds me of some shit from Mortal Kombat, if you know what I'm talking about. But yeah, go see this film. That's why I picked it. All right. That's a good pick. I think that would be like in my top three Nolan film stuff, definitely. All right. For my pick, when you're an asshole, you lose your girlfriend. When you lose your girlfriend, you get drunk at Harvard. When you get drunk at Harvard, you rant on the internet. When you're rants on the internet, you make facemash.com. When you make facemash.com, you crash the system. When the system crashes, twins that row crew ask for your help. You hate crew. When you hate crew, you steal their idea. When you steal their idea, it becomes big. When it becomes big, you become more of an asshole. When you become more of an asshole, you lose your friends. When you lose your friends, you get sued. When you get sued, you lose millions of dollars. When you lose millions of dollars, you try funding that ex-girlfriend on Facebook. Don't be an asshole or else you might unintentionally create a society that goes against the mission statement of your multi-billion dollar corporation. But maybe that's the point to be an asshole and that's the social network. He didn't even say anything about aliens. We're sentient beings or, you know, exact. But outside of that, the social network is, I think, finchers. I mean, I'm not too well-versed in David Fincher's list of films that he's crafted and directed, but honestly, the one thing that just stands out to me about this film is Trent Rezner's soundtrack. Why far are the best musical score of like the past 10 years? It is insane how far he goes to permeate the anxiety while we have all these fucking assholes trying to be ambitious and, you know, dictate how society is going to ultimately be managed by their systems. But yeah, the social network man, such a film. I think at one point that movie kind of just makes you want to be as ambitious as Mark Zuckerberg and make your own app or company and become more of an asshole yourself, I guess. Don't listen to him, ladies and gentlemen, he only picked this movie to plug Nine-inch Nails. You fucking got me, you motherfucker. Good choice. I like that movie. Excellent pick, you know, nothing like getting zucked on a weekend. Yeah. So yeah, my number seven pick is actually perfect for right now because we're coming up on Halloween and it's the original from 1980 John Carpenters, the fog. They made a really harsh remake of this movie. I think it was like in 2004, 2005 and it wasn't that good. But the original is as far as for a movie to watch on Halloween night, it is probably up there with like the in the top three for me. Yeah, obviously, but I'll stop the fog. I saw the trailer today. It gave me vibes of like night of the walking dead and the thing. Yes. Yeah. And here's here's the beauty about this film. You don't have like, I've seen it a couple of times fully through. It has Jamie Lee Curtis in it because John Carpenter really liked her as an actress. Had her had her in a couple of his movies, including Halloween, which we had just talked about. But it's really the opening sequence of that movie. It's about a 10 minute long little monologue. The actor is John Houseman. He's playing Mr. Mocken who is a old fisherman and the town of Antonio Bay, California, the fictitious town of Antonio Bay is getting ready to celebrate their centennial. And he's telling this ghost story to a group of boy scouts. And it's it's late at night and just the way that it was shot, the sound, his voice, you could literally black out your living room, put this thing on, crank up the volume. And that first 10 minutes, you will be like the hair will be standing on the back of your neck by the end of it. It is probably one of my favorite suspenseful/scary scenes out of a movie. Ultimately, this fog rolls into this town and people start dying. It's like a paranormal type of thing. There's like, these zombie-esque kind of leopard people that have leprosy that were supposedly shipwrecked there 100 years ago. And it's one of those kind of campy horror movies for the 80s. But that first scene is what really does it. And that's why I put it at number seven. Man, I'm definitely going to watch that then on Halloween. That sounds fun. I do it every year. That sounds fun. Heck yeah. Another John Carpenter on the list. Oh yes. All right. So my next one is Black Swan, which is an Aaron Arnobsky's project or production. David. And Aaron Arnobsky, sorry. And of course, he's not the most mainstream producer or director. So many people may or may not have seen a lot of his films. I think these Steve have watched a few of them together. Yeah. Black Swan has definitely got some drugs were harmed in the making of this project. Drugs were harmed. Drugs were harmed. I really liked one critic who said, quote, "a nightmare-ish quality." Where is it? I mean, just read it directly. A nightmare-ish quality of a dancer consumed by her desire to dance. And I think that really kind of puts the whole movie into one easy summarization where our main character, who's very passionate about being this ballet dancer on this really big project, this really big show. And she lives with an overprotective mother. And so she's kind of got a lot of naivety to her. And so she's kind of going to the big, the big shows, you know, like, she's trying to make it to the big, the big times. And so with her having a lot of naivety and she starts branching out and experiencing a lot of things that she didn't ever get exposed to, you get to see it's a little bit quick for her. And she's a little bit unsuspecting of, like, of other motives of other characters. There's this one character in the movie called Lily. I don't want to really go into too much depth on it because this movie is pretty, it's got a lot of cues. It's got a lot of cues. It's got a lot of underlying symbolism going on. But essentially, she eventually becomes very, very competitive with wanting to be, like, the main role on this show. And stuff starts getting pretty weird, pretty quick. And in the end, you get a very symbolic finish. And it's obviously the show that she's participating on. It gets geared towards the title, the Swan. So things get really weird, really competitive. And by the end, you're kind of, you're kind of, like, sitting there going, whoa, did that really just happen? What the heck did I just watch? And you may even, like, I did watch it a second time just to catch all the stuff that you may have missed out on the first. It's one of those movies that you think about, for sure. And that's why I picked it. I like it. Okay. That's such a good movie. Yeah, that is that I've never seen that movie very symbolic, metaphor heavy. I mean, what other films has David, David Ernowski done? The fountain. Okay, of a dream on pie, which was his first venture, and Noah, and mother. Noah's right. Noah the movie with what's who? Russell Crowe, Russell Crowe. Speaking of Russell Crowe. I'm seeking gladiator the whole time. I was too. I was thinking he's the gladiator guy. Ultimately, we are all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how, but we can decide how we meet that end in order that we were remembered as men. What we do in life echoes in eternity. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance in this knife life or the next. So my pick for my next film is gladiator. Simply the quotes can be gone through. Are you not detained? The movie has so many quotes that are amazing. That's just the tip of the iceberg. The director is Ridley Scott from Alien, and we also have the man himself. Russell Crowe. And so the movie, if you haven't seen it, set Roman times. And the story is about Marcus Aralius, and it's also about the gladiator, which is what's his Maximus, Maximus, Maximus, and he's essentially the general for Marcus Aralius, who's the emperor of Rome at the time. And essentially the emperor's son gets all pissy because he knows that he's not going to, he loves the general more than he loves him. And he essentially kills Marcus Aralius, takes the seat of the emperor, and essentially puts the gladiator into slavery, and thinks nothing of it. He's gone. He won't come back. And it's that last quote that I mentioned. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance in this life of the next, because it is one of the best revenge tales, along with some of the other films we talked about, that I've ever seen. I think it won best picture at the Oscars in 2000. No. In 2000, right? Pretty straight. So don't quote me. I mean, it's people really liked it. People really liked it. Yeah, it has, Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix plays the Emperor's son. So, yeah, music is composed by Hans Zimmer, just like I believe prestige also at Hans Zimmer, correct? That's correct. Yeah. Yes. And essentially, it starts off as this, you know, revenge. It's the movie. It's a betrayal. Joaquin Phoenix's character, communist, kills off his son and his wife. And he, uh, gladiator has to escape from this slavery and try to find them, and they're dead already, and then he gets taken. And it's a revenge tale that I won't obviously spoil the ending, but it meets its end eventually where he may or may not get his revenge as he wanted. And it has one of the best fight scenes, I think, with the Tiger Pit and the chariots. I think that's probably one of the most badass fight scenes in that whole film. If you haven't seen it, go see it. There's no excuse. It's 2020. It's been out for 20 years. Come on. That's all I got to say about that. It has one of the most accurate depictions of Roman tactics in the first opening scene. That as well. And I guess what would be considered what actually happened in the Roman Coliseum, like, because that's a, that's a big portion of the movie, like a lot of the fighting and scenes take place in the Roman Coliseum, as well as on the field, the battle in the very first scene. And then, yeah, just great, great, great, great film with some amazing music to go with it. Very nice. Solid parents. For my next pick, "Children of Men." The Enferron is a jaded bureaucrat, a cog in the authoritarian machine that holds pretend together by force during the slow motion the apocalypse brought about by worldwide infertility that has lasted 18 years. He is a former activist who has had the idealism beaten out of him by personal tragedy and the unrelenting slide of humanity into red clothed self-destruction and is now content to drink himself into oblivion and watch the world fall apart. A former lover played by Julianne Moore, who never lost her commitment to the cause, comes back into his life with a favor to ask and begins drawing DO out. First, his emotions are reawaken, enjoyable and painful fashion. Later, those emotions spread outside of DO's control, reaching outside of DO, beyond the immediate circle of his loved ones out to touch all of humanity. This newfound humanism pushes DO to risk his life for something bigger than himself. "Children of Men" is a fairly standard character arc for DO. Senegal bastard Leans learns to believe again. Call it the Casablanca. What makes its use in children of men uniquely powerful is that it isn't simply the story of the cynical bastard. The cynical bastard is the audience member. The horrors of the fictional dystopia are the horrors of the world around us and the moral choice that DO makes is the same one that the director insists that we all confront to accept the shared humanity of all the people of the world or continue residing in a closed, hopeless existence. The film's climax is a jaw-dropping sequence in a refugee camp filmed in a single, continuous shot as DO and his companions attempt to escape a heroine battle between refugees and soldiers. They are frail and vulnerable, caught between the hammer and tongues of state violence and desperate fascism. The extended single take has a dual effect. On a purely cinematic level, it gives the scene a sense of panoramic realism and unrelenting tension, like a hand slowly closing around the viewers' throat. With no cuts, no montage, there's no time to breathe. The matically, the shot serves to compress the viewers' identification with DO to the point of a singularity. After watching the whole scene from a purge just over deal shoulder, there's no way for the viewer to separate from the character. And so, by cinematic identification, the viewer's awakening becomes the viewer's awakening. The viewer's dilemma becomes the viewer's dilemma, and his choice becomes the viewer's choice. The reason I chose no country for all men for my list, and my list has a theme of dystopians, because that's by far one of my favorite sub-genres in all fiction. Yeah, "Children of Men" is because I think out of all the films that I have listed or will list, it's the most realistic in terms of what's going on in the world and how it has been so scary, accurate, and eerie with just the sort of like, the sort of like, it was such a cautionary tale back in the mid-2000s when it came out. It came out in 2006, and much of the inspiration of it has already started to manifest, but Alfonso Guadón, who was the director, kind of dialed to 11, but giving it that grounded realism that makes it seem much more eerie when you rewatch it, like a second time. It's just crazy how this role also, some of the action scenes, and a lot of like, the way we humans treat each other, and it's just crazy, man. Like, I only thought it like twice, but it has always stuck with me because of how relevant it has sort of become. That has a, what's his name? Clive O1? Clive O1, correct, yeah. That one's really interesting. Yeah, it's basically kind of like Brexit the movie in a way, but, you know, it looks pretty interesting. Yeah, I definitely recommend it. It's not that long either. It's like less than two hours, I think. It's definitely a good movie to go watch. Nice. Nice. For my number six spot, I chose, if you're a fan of sci-fi, this one, like a true sci-fi, too. Like, we're going back to like, kind of like what we were talking about Kubrick, 2001, a space Odyssey. This comes from the mind of Philip K. Dick, the author who wrote, do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep. It was a short story that Ridley Scott then took and turned in and directed Blade Runner. And it is probably one of the, I wouldn't say it's the, well, it's one of the best as far as when it comes to hardcore sci-fi. And it, the way that it shot the idea of the story, it's set in the not too distant future of 2019, which we've already surpassed. And the earth has crippled itself. You know, you're seeing a lot of, you know, followings here of what's going on in current times. We've crippled the earth. There's not that much food left. There's overpopulation. And we are also in the business now of there's not too many humans left, but we're creating these things called replicants, which are Androidic type, humanoid, you know, they're half human, half machine. And we use them for work to go off world to the distant colonies of different planets and stuff. We use them for soldiers security. When they go bad or they start having mental synapses or they start killing humans, they set out a group of former cops, swat specialists, and stuff they call them blade runners. And their job is to hunt down rogue replicants and give them what they call their final dispatch, which is to basically execute them. And so this story follows Harrison Ford, his character by the name of Rick Deckert, who is a former blade runner. He has pulled out of retirement to hunt down a rogue group of replicants. There's three of them. And the leader of this group, his character's name is Roy Batty, played by the late Rudker Hauer. If you haven't seen this movie, I'm not going to go into too much detail. It's a big cast. Darryl Hanna is in it. Oh, I can't think of the other actress's name that plays Steven. I'm pretty sure Steven can help me up here with that. I actually don't. I'm sorry. It's okay. I can't think of her name, but she plays the love interest to Harrison Ford's character. This movie, as far as the pop culture references to it, the final monologue in the ending scene with Rudker Howard, which has been titled Tears in the Rain, is probably one of the boat, the best monologues, as far as depicting death when you know that it's inevitable. And the overall setting of it, it's made with miniatures and props and stuff. It gives a dystopian look to Sean Young. That's right. Yeah, Sean Young. And just the whole entire world and persona that it created after the movie came out. It was kind of a cult classic when it first came out. Now it's got more traction, of course, because they have made a sequel to it. And that's why I put it at my number six spot. Makes it a little bit of a trivia, but Harrison Ford, I think, hate hit filming for that movie. He did. So funny. All right. All right. So my next one is the Shawshank Redemption. This one is a little bit of a lengthy movie, if I recall correctly, but it's really, it's really fun to watch. It actually almost attracted Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Costner, apparently, to the main role except Tim Robbins was eventually the one to take it. But his the other actor on the on the car Morgan Freeman is in this movie. And honestly, one of the best things about this movie is their acting skills. They completely acted out their roles perfectly in my opinion. But the movie is essentially about a guy who was convicted of killing his wife and her lover, I believe. And they do. Right. Yeah. And you do frame. And he eventually goes on to befriend another character named Red, which is Morgan Freeman's character. And essentially, Andy devises his own way to go up the hierarchy and the administrative part of the prison, such as becoming first a library assistant. And then eventually the warden's like financial assistant, because Andy's a trained in accounting. And then eventually you get to see him bit by bit slowly plot his way out of the prison. And then on the side part of that, you also see how Red adapts to getting out of prison. While he was just he eventually was let off on parole. But it being imprisoned for over 50 years, you can tell that he just could not acclimate to it. It's very sad to watch this man who has been in prison for that long struggle to get used to being on the outside. I think what I really loved about it was the storytelling, the plot in a lot of Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins role in the movie. It's got a pretty good score too. It's not like entirely impressive, but it is a pretty good one. But I don't want to spoil too much of what goes down in the movie other than what I've said, which may be a lot of revealing as it is already. But one other interesting thing about this movie was that it didn't take off early on when it went to the release because it was being out competed by movies like Pulp Fiction. So one of the real ways this movie took off was through people telling each other, "Hey, have you seen this movie?" That's one of my interesting trivia facts about it. Wow, cool. Interesting. Now I'm sure some of these movies on our lists, we can watch these movies over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, whether it be once a year, twice a year maybe. This movie, I think I could watch it over and over again and never really get all of it and it has so many quotable lines, has a 97% on fresh, on rotten tomatoes. It came out in the 80s, one of the greatest eras for films and simply has one of the most remembered lines in the whole film, inconceivable. No, I'm just kidding. Hello, my name is Eniglo Montoya, you killed my father, prepared to die, which should pretty much state any movie that wants to go up against this film. But Princess Bride is what I'm talking about. It's directed by Rob Reiner. I'm not very familiar with a lot of his films, but this is probably one of my favorite films. I think I watched this when I was like six or seven and I was like kind of like the kid in the very beginning. I don't want to watch a movie about, you know, love and romance. I want action, something like that. This has your action. This has more swashbuckling and sword fighting, almost comparable. Well, I would say more higher class swashbuckling and sword fighting than pirates of the Caribbean. Some of the more quotable lines that pretty much sounds like that they may have, you know, took inspiration to have for Captain Jack Sparrow for Wesley in the movie. And it's essentially a fairy tale adventure where it is about love and, you know, taking back the one you love most because Wesley and the main character, who some of you may not know, but unless you've seen House of Cards, she is, she's the first lady in House of Cards. And it, but bouncing back to this film, it's essentially just, he Wesley goes on a track to come and go and save her, but she gets taken captive by three people, one of which is the Nigel Montoya. And then we have Andre, the giant's character. No, is he, yeah, phesic. And then the scene he's done by Wallace Sean. And then Carrie Ellis plays Wesley. Carrie's been in a lot of films. He was actually in Saw as well. And then you have some of the characters like Chris Serendin and Maddie Patagon plays in Nigel Montoya. He was in Criminal Minds. If you've seen that, he's in Home. God, what's the Nick? I know you know that TV show. What what's on Homeland? Oh, well, the Homeland. Yeah, he's in Homeland. Mandy Patagon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's just like these characters weren't like super like these these actors weren't super huge at this time. But their performances make this movie watchable over and over again. I would say you can, unless you're going to watch every single day, you won't get sick of it. And for, for such a very basic premise of, you know, going after the one you love, they make it so in throwing every scene. And, you know, the, the, there's so many quotable lines for this film from the, hello, my name is in Nigel Montoya line. You have, um, Iokane powder. I've built up an immunity to it over time, inconceivable. Um, there's, there's so many just memorable parts of this film that makes it so great. And I think that's, that's why I had to put on our list. That's a solid pick. That one, that one's part of the childhood for sure. Yeah. All right. For the number five slots, no country for old men. I love this film for everything it doesn't do. It doesn't give us the initial shootout. It doesn't give us the final shootout. It doesn't give us unsourced music. It doesn't give us easy answers. And heck, we can't even connect the dots without some deep dot. A few beers and a couple of views. In total, it doesn't do all the things that a lesser movie would feel it has to do. But bonus points for what it does do. It gives us, it gives us a haunting movie with fantastic characters. And one of the all-time best villains to ever hit the big screen. And that was that, as they say, a coin flip. That's essentially the net net of the last time we did this tout a while. And the last time we did a game of the year, because it was fucking a coin flip that killed everything good in my life. All right. Oh my god. But yeah, no country cruel men of fucking perfect Neil Western that has no heroes. It's just pure anti-hero. It's got to be one of the best parts about that movie is that the the good guy doesn't really win at all. Yeah, exactly. Not even that, not even that, but the bad guy, like, is just a dark ending. Yeah, it's just that the villain is a force of nature. And I really do feel like Nolan took inspiration from that for the Joker in a way. And I just love how they portray that one end scene where he's in that car accident. And you just see his protruding shoulder just completely ripped out his arm. And it's like, this force of nature is fucking fallible. It's not like, it's not like nihilism is going to win the days like it does have its moments of like, yeah, fuck you too, you know? So that's Josh Brolin film on our list. So what is his name, Javier? Javier Bardot. Javier Bardot. And 1% on nerfed me in that film, and it was amazing. Like that dude had a stunning performance. That part where they're in the gas station, you know? Coinflip. What's the most you've ever lost to the coin dust? Yeah, that's my number five spot. Do you want me to paint it? Like, oh my god, this guy's made that. All right, my number five pick is one that you gentlemen probably haven't have never seen or even heard of. It is from 1962. It is Howard Hahtari. It stars John Wayne, Red Buttons, and a huge cast of other great actors and actresses from the 60s and early 70s. It's based off of a book called The Animal Catchers, and it's all shot on location in Africa, and it follows a group of game catchers. So they catch wild animals for the zoos of the world, which at the time zoos were very popular and big at that time. And yeah, so it's all shot on location, there's like pure live stunts, there's trucks and jeeps chasing after elephants, giraffes, rhinos at top speeds, them trying to lasso them to stop them so they can get them into paddicking trucks. And there's comedic relief for the 60s and stuff, some of the music of the time. There's also some kind of campy stuff with baby elephants that come into play with one of the main characters. Her character becomes like the mother of elephants. And there's also, I don't want to spoil too much it if you guys want to see it or anybody else out there that wants to see it, but there is a great scene that involves a rocket and a bunch of monkeys. And that is the party. And that is my number five pick. You just described last week on when I played just cause. Rocket a bunch of monkeys. Interesting. All right, Peyton. My turn. Yep. My next point. Oh, my next choice. Oh, we're getting to the nitty-gritty here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. So my next choice is Old Boy 2003. It was a South Korean film that was based off of the Japanese manga with the same name. I found a better summary than what I had planned to say. So I'll just read that. It's the story of a man who is in prison for 15 years and then released with no explanation as to why he's confined and released. Now he has been given five days to learn his capture's true identity and find out why he was imprisoned or his new love and just will be killed. On the contrary, if he does find this capture's true identity, the true the the capture will kill himself instead. So this is one of those movies I don't really want to spoil it because it has an insane twist at the end. I mean, it's not it's not exactly insane, but the way the actors like sold it, the actors in this movie really really are great and the story too. But it has an insane twist at the end of it. I really think it's a great movie everybody should see. They did a remake of this. I think it was an American adaptation, I believe, but I always loved the original. Right. I always loved the original. Nothing against remake, but I think the OG one was 100% better and it has some phenomenal action scenes in that. It's a great twist of action with a sophisticated, not really sophisticated, but like a like a bigger, bigger behind the scenes mode of going on. It's fantastic. I really I really encourage any of you to watch if you hadn't. I don't miss say too much about it because that twist at the end is really gnarly, but it's 100% worth of watch. Great action. Great story. What's really cool about is, you know, you as the audience member know what's going on. Like, you're like, why is he being treated way? And I will say so. One important thing about the movie is that before he was in prison, he had a daughter and he's also looking for his daughter when he's out of bill or well, whatever he gets out of his prison, for example. It's not like a general everyday. It's a an apartment room and they feed they bring feed food to his door through like a little like a little trapdoor hatch and he's basically kind of trapped in there with with whatever they allow. He has a TV, for example, and there's only certain things to watch over and over and over again. So at some points, like, he's actually memorized certain, you know, television programs that come on over the 15 years he's been in prison. And he learns to shadow box in there. Man, it's badass. You'll have to watch it. You have to check that out. Yeah. Whoa. Okay, shut your mic off. Please God. Fucking hell. It was starting to start to turn a little bit bad for his connection. They were full robo cop on us. Full silent. Sorry for your ears, everybody. Having technical difficulties. But Oh, it's okay. That's fine. You know what? Because we don't use Craig anymore. Yes, we can hear ourselves. Okay, you're gonna have to. Yeah, yeah, just because I'm at I really encourage y'all to watch it. It's fantastic. Great. Right on. So I think, yeah, it's me. Okay. So I've never seen old boy, but I think I might have to check it out. So the next film for me, this film, some people said was a bit long. I say it's one hell of a watch. I initially had a casino on my list. Fantastic film. Everyone should see that gangster film. I decided to trade it out for the Irishman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pasci, Harvey Kytel, Ray Romano, Bobby Cateville. So many great actors in this film that and I think it was the Netflix. It was made by Netflix and it was directed by again Martin Scorsese. Do we have another Scorsese film on here? Taxi driver. Taxi driver. That's right. Second, Robert De Niro, a film on here. And in itself, it how long is the run time? Was it like four hours? No, no, it's a little over three hours. A little over 29 minutes. That's what I have here. Yeah. It's on Netflix. I would definitely recommend checking it out. I think they do they break it into parts. I don't think they do. I might be wrong. Maybe they break it up like in chapter selection. Yeah, first chapter selection. The first part is like 40 minutes, second part, another 40 minutes. But the whole purpose of it is, it talks about the Irishman who's the Robert De Niro's character. One moment. And so it follows his name's Frank Sharon and he's essentially working for he's by himself. He's kind of working his security initially. And then he hasn't really gotten to the mob life. And then it dies into, he's trying to get his life back on track. And he does join part of the mob with the Buffalo Lino crime family, who is kind of enticed with a lot of different folks. One of which is Jimmy Hoffa, who is played by Oh, my God. What? No, no, no, I was going to say Al Pacino's character is played out. He plays Jimmy Hoffa. I wasn't forgetting. I was looking at something else at the same time. Oh, no. And then of course we have Russell Buffalo Lino, who's played by Joe Pesci, who kind of gets Robert Frank's character, Robert's character Frank into the mob. And there's so many really crazy parts of this because it's based off true events that happen. If you haven't heard about Jimmy Hoffa and a connection to the mob, what the hell? Did they confirm that it was speculated upon that Frank Sheeran killed Jimmy Hoffa? Is that correct? They never confirmed it ever. They took some artistic parts and applied it to this film, correct? I know that the movie was based on the book, How to Paint Houses. I believe it's what it was called. But we're talking about the Irishman, right? Correct. Right. Okay, because you said Casino earlier and that got me really connected. No, I traded out Casino for the Irishman. Got you. Okay. Yeah, that was initially on my list, but now we've traded it for this. But the long and the short of it is it's a great film. I won't spoil the ending. Let's just say a lot of crazy shit happens and also to mention like Robert De Niro and Joe Pesh's character are very much, you know, business partners to some degree in what they do. And they're close friends. But then Robert De Niro becomes the personal bodyguard essentially for Al Pacinos, Jimmy Hoffa. And they become very close. And there's some hard decisions to be made from both ends. And it also tells about the story about, you know, his Robert De Niro's interactions with his family in the film. And, you know, he has a daughter and his daughter just started getting older. And it goes from essentially, you know, when he first meets Russell Boofolino, paid by Joe Pesh and goes out throughout his entire life. Yeah, it's the pick thing like three different time periods, I believe. And I think it's one of the best mob films. Because A, it's really going into actual kind of things that did happen. And then also, you know, kind of giving us a little bit of an idea like what actually happened to Jimmy Hoffa. Because the whole purpose was he was, he was a union guy that was kind of going against the grain of what the mob wanted. And he was budding heads against a few people in the mob and doing things that he really shouldn't be doing. And he pays for it in some manner or another great film. He haven't seen it. Give it a watch. I would break it in two parts if you don't want to sit down for that long. But still, if you watch it, begin again, Jess is enjoyable. Yeah. So like, uh, I've been really intimidated by how long it is. Do you have a recommendation of when an audience person like myself, like, you know, when you can have an intermission? Is there a partner movie? It's been a while since I've watched it myself. I remember. I think a solid point is right. Shit. One's a good point. Probably there's like a scene where you can go, okay, I can put this down for a second. Yeah. De Niro meets his character, meets Hoffa. Right. I think. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's also a portion where they split it up to where it ends. Yeah. So I'm pretty sure there's a there's a version of it where they have to split up in chapter chapters. So you can follow with that if you want to consume it in bite-sized pieces. Yeah. Let's see. I'm just reading and do it right now. Yeah, go ahead about your next. My number four pick is Roma. Mexico 1971, the old tumultuous times captured every day is buried through the lens of the director and his naked mirror of reality. Task after task of hard work, our main character Cleo still stands strong in despite of her unblinking sorrows and personal tragedies. How she is isolated when all she needs is a man to love. Then what she thought was love had betrayed her and the little one inside her. How life can strike as ferocious as sea waves clashing against the sand. Lyrics can be found within the frames. Lyrics can be found in her actions. One long take, one woman who takes on the roaring currents for a soul-crushing experience, a selfless decision because she loves her children. Serenity comes after the storm and just like that, another day begins with complete modesty. Are you finally at peace? So Roma tells the tale of this Mexican. She basically is the caretaker for a richer family and she is fully acclimated into their life as it is in Mexican culture, especially back in the 70s and even till now. And the film really doesn't dive, it's very much the anti-parasite of in terms of like having these different lifestyles clasher against one another. And the director sort of paints this picture all in black and white like I mentioned and it just goes through the life of this housekeeper pretty much and how for all intents and purposes she is taking advantage of, she is not appreciated in that regard but not in the sense of like oh they ignore her, like they recognize her existence, they recognize her status as the housekeeper and in many ways they consider her as family. But despite all that, despite her acclimation to this lifestyle that ultimately we all decide to pursue, even if it's against our will at times. Clio goes through this journey of just painful regret finding that one individual solace outside of her work and the director just takes us basically through different like set pieces of Mexican culture. There's an earthquake scene, there's a bunch of like different social unrest, there's a riot scene. It's just a slice of life of Mexico back in 1971 and on the personal note, this one definitely hit me the hardest in terms of just how intimate it all conveyed that lifestyle and how much of that culture and tradition still reverberates today even for us Mexicans who migrated to America and there is in the entire film Clio is always seeing descending, there's always going down. There's never a moment where she ascends in any way as she traverses the city landscape and the tile buildings and everything. But at the end when she comes after this painful and traumatic event and a truth that she feels like she then wants to confront but has to for the sake of her you know the family that she takes care of and the children. She ultimately makes this fairly awful choice and I won't spoil it but again it's pretty it's definitely the type of moral dilemma that any other director could have really fucked it up but Alfonso Guadón just nails it so perfectly especially within the perspective of a mother and at the end of the movie we finally see a shot where she everything goes back to normal she she goes back to her duty being the housekeeper but for the first time in the entire film she finally is seeing walking up the stairs of this nearby alley as she's doing the laundry picking up she's finally ascending instead of descending and the final shot is just an airplane in the distance just flying by with the sort of like wind trails right and though there's a scene in Mad Men's season 7 I believe Nick if you can correct me the episode is called "Lost Horizon" or it's the one before that where Don Draper is like a boardroom with all these you know you know admin right that pretty much is just a copy a copy of him and he feels so out of place because he's no longer that special anymore and he looks out the window and he looks at the airplane and he just like he comes to that realization that this is no longer his place and I just find it so fucking fascinating and beautiful how you can take the very concept of that one airplane and how it can mean something different into different pieces of medium both in Roma and in Mad Men in Mad Men's case it's Don Draper just trying to find his way and he feels lost in Roma it shows how Cleo has finally ascended to a greater purpose and how she is just a small cog in the bigger machine that is you know the housekeeping underground world of Mexico and honestly Roma it's just so fucking good it's definitely I think he was also one of the first Netflix films to be nominated for Best Picture yeah I think I won it I might be wrong on that but I have to uh I have no big check I think it went great yeah I may have missed it but why is the title Roma is there any significant sir I guess it's just it's just it's just I don't specifically know I haven't really read too much into the interviews or anything like that but I think it just builds into the idea of like Roma wasn't built in a day and the idea of like the the the lower cast of of people who built Rome like yeah that's what Roma is about right and I feel like it's a proper name for that yeah it says to I just looked it up to it says that the uh the movie titles comes from the 1970s neighborhood to colonial Roma where the family lives too okay see okay go that makes more sense yeah I like your little analogy too who yeah no it it talks about that actually in there there you there it is it was really well a really well shot film yeah um all right my number four pick uh which I know most of you here in this in this crew are fans of the marvel universe and this number four pick is what kind of kick started the pathway to what we got with Avengers Endgame and that's with uh John Favreaux 2008 Ironman um Robert Downey juniors first time of dawning actual Ironman armor and taking the the comic book character um Tony Stark who's you know coined as the you know playboy billionaire um arms dealer in this movie uh part of Stark industries and stuff and how he turns from the war hawk scenario of selling weapons and stuff when he is um kidnapped during a weapons demonstration and I rack by um by by a terror terrorist organization and he sees that his weapons are getting and so he while he's in captivity to escape from captivity him and uh another captive who I believe his name was Gianni or Yusuf um they build this prototype armor to bust out of this like cave system that they're in and that's the Ironman suit and so when he gets back from captivity back to the states and stuff he changes his whole mo we're not gonna make weapons anymore we're gonna become like this I'm gonna become this deterrent um and also kind of like philanthropy work with saving people instead of trying to harm people and it kicks off the Marvel universe it kicks off the grounding that Kevin Feige and Favreau as a director and some of those actors and actresses principles that were that would be seen in over what 20 movies um so that's that's why I put it in at my number four spot very nice that movie too what's it going um okay so my next pick there's a lot to unpack here uh name was Robert Paulson fight club um so have you all all seen fight club yes yes okay okay so uh I think that my co uh my colleagues here co host what have you called my my friends here can agree with me as if anybody in the audience who's also seen the movie there is so much that can be said about this movie um one of the reasons I picked it was because of so many uh so many metaphors that go on throughout the film um it's essentially a character battling with insomnia and he meets another character who you begin to unravel uh I don't want to spoil that much about it but you get to unravel the the details behind this other character the name Tyler Durden and the the main theme that happens in the show is this conflicting passive expectation of of society so uh as you may have may be able to guess from the title of film they create these things called fight clubs where they don't talk about it man do what we don't talk about that shit oh yeah yeah that's rule number one number two guys club yeah uh but but for the most part these fights aren't really about significance of whose better at martial combat more as it is to not feel numb anymore not to feel cocooned or stagnant in society and uh I think that one of the things that is really uh crazy about the film is that it wasn't it's it's a cult film so it wasn't really that it became popular just from its release it was one another one of those movies similar to Shalshank Redemption where it was it gained a lot of traction through word of mouth in fact the movies uh based off of the book called Pulp Fiction I mean it's a fight club that came out a couple years prior to uh the film release um I mean guys if y'all have any comments to add in on how crazy that movie is feel free uh it's an easy pick for me because of how many paradigms are in it um and the twist that you get the uh near the end to it's not at the end you know but it's sort of near it and you're like oh okay so that explains stuff I just I love how that movie uh spawned when it came out it spawned like tons of people getting their like big groups of friends together and actually equal fight clubs in their houses and stuff yeah that was one of the biggest culture impacts it had like it actually had people respond to it in their in their own lives and certain little clicks and you just went through the whole description of the film without even saying who's in it well I mean Edward Norton is the uh is the main protract uh protagonist and then Brad Pitt is Tyler Durden's character um which I mean if that should be enough reason to watch in itself you have those two on the on the at cast mm-hmm come on you have Jared Leto too in there but I mean just uh utter face in that one I'm telling about him Carter isn't that too I think yeah that's right yeah all right it's an iconic movie yeah yeah so I need Japanese steel those of you lucky enough to have your lives take them with you however leave the limbs you've lost they belong to me now I don't know if I'm pretty sure everyone here has seen it if you have not seen kill Bill volume one what are you doing with your lives it's one of the best Quentin Tarantino films of all time cast uh Michael Madsen Darryl Hanna uh we got Lucy Liu for the win uh Vivica A Fox uma Thurman as the bride yes you heard me Nick uh tossing a little inside joke there uh it is one of the best action films that I mean and of course I could say this all day one of the best action films of all time but it's it's another revenge story about I think in this film she lost her she lost her memory if I'm not mistaken and she gets put into a a coma but essentially she woke up after four year coma and she's a former assassin and she's trying to piece some shit together about what's going on and in the first scene um remind me or not is the wedding scene the very first scene in the film or is that the second movie that has the that has the um wedding scene I believe it's the second movie the second movie has the wedding scene okay but essentially that she in the very the first film that she had been getting married and then these four assassins come to killer and they were led by this guy named Bill uh I don't think he does any of the shooting but these four other four people are all assassins they they just gunned out everyone at this wedding and so it becomes a uh a very good Quentin Tarantino revenge story um um Uma Thurman's the lead she plays the bride we don't know her name uh other than you know she's referred to as kiddo by Bill and uh Lucy Lou plays one of the people she has to hunt down along with Vivica Fox who plays um Vernuda Greene I think her oh she she's Black Mamba right isn't that her or is that Daryl Hanna which one's Black Mamba I think it's Vivica Fox's character wow thanks for the thanks for the help guys um and there's some such volume one yeah Daryl Daryl Hanna um is is a no they they all have snake names so Vivica Fox's Black Mamba Daryl Hanna is another snake and they're they're all and Michael Madson's character who's essentially like parallel to his character and um oh fuck the other Quentin Tarantino film oh Christ I want to say good fellas but I know that's not the right name because that's not even fucking uh what's the one where he dances and cuts someone's ear off reservoir dogs he's in reservoir dogs and he's essentially a bastard in this film and that one and you actually see the uh they all have these samurai swords that's what makes this movie super really great um except for of course Michael Madson's character who hawks his Hitori Hanzo's Japanese steel sword and you see it in pulp fiction um with uh Bruce Willis that's where that sword kind of crosses over into that film so uh the long and short of it if you haven't seen kill bill there is some serious kick ass fight scenes that with simply for the fight scenes alone if you're gonna watch this film it's amazing but yeah that is why I put it on my my list yeah that's your recommendation I think I think we talked like late last year or something but you recommended I watched those films and I did and I just went through like a binge of Tarantino films fucking amazing I definitely messed out and Bill's not actually oh who plays oh and the music stem by Raza in the film as well who do who plays Bill I could completely blank down that uh that is a David Caridine David Caridine he's no longer with us um he does the voice of Landon Ricketts and Red Dead Redemption am I mistaken on that I'm not no I am totally wrong that's Ross Higgin forget what I just said um but yeah uh he David Caridine's been in a lot of different films and things of that nature I'm not sure if he's in this first one but essentially Lucy Liu plays Oren EG the cotton mouth code name cotton mouth that's her specific name in this and she she's the main antagonist in this because she's the one who knows where Bill is and she's one of the other ones she's across off the list oh fuck me uma thermon's black mamba Jesus Christ how did I forget that then who wait copperhead Vivica A foxes copperhead and sidewinder is Michael Madsen I should have looked at the Wikipedia earlier and then we what if kicked you out the door by now who Robert Ebert yeah I know I didn't hear it didn't come through at the first part sorry and then Darrell Hannah's California mountain snake what a stupid name um yeah the ones are like really cool and she's just like she's actually Darrell Hannah's character is the most deadly in the whole film um that's what she said I should have been black mamba because she's apparently most deadly I'll end it there it's a very good film who hasn't seen it none of us I think we've all seen it good or I don't know about has everybody seen yes all right so Steve all right for my number three pick there is a house on a hill and there are people in it and they're nice but not really there is a garden and there they get a lot of sunlight and it is nice and they get to sleep there sometimes there is a house on the ground and there are people in it and they're the first to tell you that they're not very nice they're con men grifters foragers and imposter they sit amongst think bugs and they've been there for so long that maybe they've convinced themselves that they just belong there there is a rock and it is a gift but it is also a burden and maybe it's a metaphor but it's also just a rock solid and heavy hard to lug around and dangerous in the wrong hands some people will tell you that it's supposed to bring wealth but again it's also just a rock there is a line and it cannot be crossed there is a smell and it comes from the underground and the people who live in the house on the hill can smell it and the people who live underground try to imagine the life in the sun a future where they aren't just garbage to be washed away in the rain but there is a smell that sticks to them and they know that they can never really belong there is a world and it is nice but not really there are houses on hills and houses underground there's plenty of sun but it isn't for everybody there are people grateful to be slaves and people unhappy to be served there are systems that we are born into and they create these lines that cannot be crossed and we are a dream of something better but we've been with these lines for so long that we've convinced ourselves that there really isn't anything to be done there is a knife and it doesn't do much in the long run but they're always be some satisfaction in crossing those lines my third spot is Parasite which is the first foreign film to win the best Oscar I think this was what last year yeah 2019 it's basically a very masterful work that blends different sub genres of black comedy of I guess not horror per se but more of a thriller class consciousness it deals with the perils of our current economic situation both now and in the US but everywhere else between the halves and the have-nots but it doesn't paint a good and a bad side it's more of a critique or an understanding of with a system that we currently have in place we need to be cognizant with our behaviors attached to that system and why certain trends towards social unrest resentment toward the rich resentment toward the poor those who don't look like us and even those who do look like us um Parasite is just it's not a cautionary tale because it's depicting exactly what we need to hear and it's going to be in my opinion a timely classic that will stand on the on the shoulders of giants like Kubrick and all the rest and that's why it's my number three pick very nice nice classic movie really good movie I've actually never seen it I need to see it and one best picture last year right so yeah get on it yeah all right my number three uh if you were a if you're a fan of 80s just hardcore full throttle action and also some sci-fi alien throwing there for good measure and just a pure ton of testosterone laden muscle uh predator it is the movie for you um an ecliptic cast Arnold Schwarzenegger Carl Weathers, Shane Black, Bill Duke, Sonny Landham just it all and Jesse Ventura of course um there uh it it follows like this special force team that sent into the jungle to take out this like communist like military camp that attacked a other special force group and stuff and it turns out that the CIA is actually hunting down this alien from another planet that has come here and has caused this other special force team to be killed and uh the predator hunts them in the jungles of Columbia and it's just like I said it's just a pure action movie it's it's got suspense it's got gore it's got a lot of just a lot of quotes a lot of muscle and a lot of bullets flying and uh um it it it's the first one that kind of spawned a rather what's what's the word that I say a rather eclectic group of movies some good some really bad um but yeah that first one and what it did as far as for like uh costume design and and makeup design for like that for the predator and stuff and what they used to for the time it was pretty um revolutionary and um yeah I grew up watching it and stuff it was like that thing where it's like if you wanted to think about going into the middle watch that and you're like yeah that's the badass that I want to be um you know so if you haven't seen it I go I would definitely say go watch that one at least the other ones I can't say too much for but um yeah that's my number three pick it's not very nice well there's this buzzing noise to your voice uh crap one more reset technical difficulties ladies and gentlemen it happens to us all we're back yes it's a little bit right yeah you're good hello Clarice a wine that was actually never stated in the movie yet we all seem to resonate behind my next pick is silence of the lambs and boy oh boy what a movie I think the best thing about this movie are the two lead actors uh Jody Foster and Sir Anthony Hopkins who fucking kill it especially especially Anthony Hopkins playing as Hannibal lector um this movie is about another strong female hero who is a detective for the FBI essentially um she's been she's been recommended as the uh the one to communicate with uh Dr. lector on trying to figure out how to perform a psychological profile on the killer that is now rampaging through the states known as Buffalo Bill um Buffalo Bill has obviously been killing a lot of females um and they don't exactly have a motive for it and so they think that they can get a lot more conducive information out of Dr. lector but as you uh learn throughout the film if you're not familiar with the sounds of the lambs or red dragon or uh or Hannibal itself uh Dr. lector is a mastermind he's a master in clinical psychology as well as psych uh as well as um cannibalism do what yeah well yeah that's another thing uh he's also a cannibal cannibal a Hannibal a cannibal anyway uh he's very very very very good at manipulating uh people it's because of his intelligence um and he's also just a really really creepy character um underlying creepy but i think one of the things that is really fascinating about this film is the way that they were able to really get us as an audience petrified by Hannibal's uh dialogue is diction but also the mysticism behind him like because at the same time you're also trying to figure him out and as over time as uh as i forget the main character's name jody jody fastest character oh yeah jody fastest character yeah yeah yeah yeah i forgot the sheepstop screaming while uh Clarissa is trying to figure out the profile for buffalo bill i think secretly as an audience we're trying to figure out Hannibal as uh as a character too and uh just exactly what his motivations are and and all that but i really love the film i think that i think that the other movies in the trilogy are worth watching too if you want to get the full scope but the strong contender out of all three of them has got to be silence of the lambs it's a solid pic for sure yeah i love that movie um so i had a coin toss about what what i was going to put next doesn't really matter the order of this wait what oh okay i had a coin toss about what i was going to pick next for my film um not a coin toss between this film and another film but between the last two films i have oh there's not gonna switch any of these films out of my list okay yeah i'll be against the roles i fucking butcher all right go go ahead they need you right now but when they don't they'll cast you out like a leper you'll see they're morals they're code it's just a bad joke dropped at the first sign of trouble they're only as good as the world allows them to be i'll show you when the chips are down these civilized people that'll eat each other see i'm not a monster just ahead of the curve ordered by mr heath ledger in my next pick i'm a dog chasing cars i wouldn't know what to do with i wouldn't know what to do if i caught it you know i just do things if only there was somewhere you could hide um it's not from that movie but uh heath ledger in the dark night uh simply makes this a must-have for my list um anyone here can attest to the fact that this movie is probably one of the best it is the best DC movie in my opinion i wouldn't even classify it as that i classify it it it's definitely a batman film but i think heath ledger steals the show he makes it he he makes it the reason to watch this film because he's such a good bad guy that you must not take your eyes away from the screen of course you know you have a few other characters in this movie like two-faced which is um what is that actor's name we got uh Aaron Eckhart plays Harvey Dent in this movie who actually it's more of a it's a really good tragedy story for him because he's you know this lawyer and he's he's trying to do the right thing and he he always tries to be the white knight and he gets taken down because he loses the one he loves and everything that's true to or that he holds true is is dashed against the rocks and he gets taken down the dark path by joker and the crime world he's trying to take out uh mackie jillin halls in this movie she plays richel and of course gary oldman as Gordon Lucius Foxx with uh Morgan Freeman Michael Cain as Alfred and Christian Bale as batman per swan uh i think this has got to be one of those again kind of like one of those films you can kind of watch and never really never not want to watch it again you know um we also have killed me if i pronounced it incorrectly but killian murphy or sillian murphy uh scarcro he was more in the first film but still just just a list of actors that are just amazing um and and like the story just you don't really know like we have the joker and he's he's essentially manipulating the mob and everyone to his whim because he's he's doing everything the as a as a plan even though he says he doesn't have a plan it's clear that that's not necessarily the case or maybe it isn't maybe he's just going about it whim by whim from the interrogation scene to the first bank high scene which is essentially the quintessential reason why you know by myself steven and and and paton uh what would do bank heists and and grand theft out of four um and it's it's just i think me and nick you and i saw this movie together for the first time no no no dark night runs all dark night rises when we saw together right yeah yeah yeah um but we saw all the three of the dark night films this being my opinion the best one um it's just an overall masterpiece other things about the film that i want to mention and i'll just keep it actually you know let's keep it short i'll make any arguments i need to make if someone goes against it but that's all safe for now well depending on the time she could be in one place or several then he tells her the opposite direction he knew he would go such a good film is it the best nolan film though uh that's i have a debated term i would say it has the best nolan characters of all of his films with with the joker that's arguable point i mean it does have really really fucking awesome cast yeah all right it does all right i met a traveler from an antique land who said two vast and trunkless legs of stones stand in the desert near them on the sand half sunk a shattered visaged lies whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command though that it sculptor well those passions red which yet survived stamped on these lifeless things the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed and on the pedestal these words appear my name is azy mandius king of kings look on my works you mighty and despair nothing beside remains round the decay of that colossal wreck boundless and bare the lone and level sand stretch far away this poem is attributed to breaking bad and heisenberg but for the purpose of this selection i believe it also suits there will be blood a tale of an old of a soon to be oil oio baron from california who basically takes the mantle of daniel plain plain to you i believe that's his name um and he is daniel they lose in this film is just on fucking believable he gives the performance of a lifetime and you can argue that every film he does he gives the performance of a lifetime but there will be blood is just this remarkable look into not necessarily a villain and not necessarily an anti hero but of a person who's sort of selfish urge to lead and manipulate encores and just break his way through to success and creating a legacy that will ultimately disown him and forget about him when when all is said and done um starring writer song alongside him paudano who also follows a similar path in regards to being this sort of like a pastor and he basically sees plain view as the evil man that he is or that he claims to be and they have this back and forth tug of war of moral alignments and how he one side uses religion the other side uses commerce and business and it's just so fucking fascinating how it's all interplayed then interweaved with both the technical craft of the editing uh the runtime um and basically each of the locations that that were shot um to portray that oil bearing lifestyle being a minor uh during the that economic boom to bring about the economic prosperity that we now have it's it's really just one of the most powerful films I've ever seen and I think it's just it's just going to stand the test of time no matter from what perspective you decide to tackle it from and one of the final scenes in the film ultimately nails it for me the iconic I would drink from your milkshake uh battle between him and paudano's character and it's just it's just remarkable to be honest I can't be I could keep going on and on but because of time that's my second pick it's a good solid pick right there yeah definitely recommend it okay um my number two pick is the uh my second of the same director choice um so Ridley Scott again and this is uh alien um it another sci-fi but also horror-esque uh movie um it follows a group of I guess like engineer/miners that are out in the distant galaxies um going to these different colony planets and stuff and on their way back heading towards earth they get a distress call from a beacon that's like a distress from from one of the colonies so they go to check it out and there's this giant alien vessel they go down to the planet and they start looking around and they find these giant eggs and one of the eggs opens up latches on to one of the characters uh faces and that kind of starts the fun of the movie um so gourney weaver is the main um is the main character she plays Ripley um it's the way that it is shot and kind of gives you a claustrophobic feel to it because once the alien that has been kind of been pregnated inside of the John Hertz character king um he he has a really bad time at dinner time I won't I won't spoil it for anybody that hasn't seen the movie outside of this group because I'm pretty sure we all have seen it um and this little alien goes off into the the bowels of their giant ship that they are on and this small group of humans have to try to outsmart it and try to fight it um which ultimately is kind of like they're just you know lambs to the slaughter um and so and this was the first movie that kind of sparked um a group of really good sequels um it also had intercrossings with predator down the road and a couple of other um if I remember correctly a couple of other sci-fi monsters too great use of the way that it is shot um like I said some of the shots are very dark tight corridors of the ship and stuff and you have this giant seven foot alien that's literally ripping people to pieces and it makes you really feel like if if you were in that situation it makes you feel hopeless and um yeah that's my uh number two pick love that movie so really good one now they even have a real game of alien too yeah an alien isolation yep yeah that's that's a fun one right there guys yep um my next pick I will have this with a quote the better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him my pick is a clockwork orange um this is uh this is probably another kind of cult classic film in my opinion it's not really widely widely known um but essentially it involves a man who has like basically a gang of of other delinquents uh they they go about raping committing theft and they coined what they've what their actions to be as ultraviolence and uh one of the uh one of the most kind of quirky things about him is that he's obsessed with classical music especially Beethoven he constantly references his his love for the night symphony by Beethoven and uh this this goes back to being I think I was in the 70s but at the time it was kind of like the setting was a futuristic uh Britain and um eventually he goes on to another one of his little sprees and he gets caught and the government decides because of his past like criminal records and stuff that he would be a great candidate for this psychological rehabilitation technique that they've been working on where they basically brainwash and doctorate him and condition him to be a verse a verse to uh violence and rape and anything that's bad essentially to the point where like he will physically recoil or even vomit and um one of the main themes that I think the movies trying to drive home to us is they forced him to be good to where he no longer had a choice of being bad and so is it the question is is it like the like the quote I actually posed to us earlier is that is that necessarily a good thing to do to somebody to emit them of all choice of of anything wrong and uh it's basically dystopian kind of vibe um eventually he does try to commit and uh commit another act of violence because he thinks he he's gotten he's freed himself and and it was very disturbing to see how how it tortured him uh to even try to think about doing it it's it's a really weird film I think it's very much much worth a watch because of uh the timeline that it was made back in the 70s and they're already like you know it this kind it was around the time of 1984 and uh yeah and I have new world so there's a lot of dystopian literature and uh adaptations coming out and if you want to really get a sense of uh really good depiction of it I think a clockwork orange is an excellent take on it it just like I said though it is kind of disturbing uh there's certain parts where you'll kind of go uh what's going on here but overall I think it's worth a while it's an entertainment yeah yeah it was pretty powerful for me though and that's why it picks it that's great film nice that's a really good one in the rain so how much do you guys like Star Wars because uh my next pick is I did I did make a change a last minute change um so for my list I picked nothing to Star Wars related at all um my pick is load of the rings to turn to the king uh and I know that someone has some Star Wars on here but we'll talk about that when it's their turn I forgot to put it up to be honest uh but the the long and the short of it is return of the king is the capstone to the Lord of the Rings trilogy Peter Jackson's baby and it encompasses the all the epic parts of gladiator and all the other films we talked about today take it to the eleventh level and it's it I think when it comes to book adaptations versus their films most people say that oh the books are are better I would have it take to say all of the Lord of the Rings films are better than the books and whether it's Figo Mortensen's role in this film or I think I think Elijah Wood and like you know Frodo his whole uh storyline is is very powerful as well but I think this film is where we get some serious Vigo uh Vigo parts because when he's playing Aragorn I think he's probably one of my favorite characters if not my favorite character in the entire series most people can relate to that of course Gandalf gets top prize but second is probably Aragorn and they also came out with extended editions of these films um I'm not sure was it the one of the first was it one of the first movies to do extended films I can't recall I don't recall any other films really doing extended versions of these of films just because they had so much more to offer but I'm gonna list up a few things that are going to spoil some parts of this movie you should have already seen if you came to this podcast uh the long and the short of it is stuff in this movie starman's death if you haven't seen the extended edition it's pretty badass um he gets impaled on his own like war tools and then we get the whole witch king which who it's character introduced in the fifth film I mean technically this character version of this character is introducing this film but you also get it's the it's the it's the backstory of this is the ring wreath that's stabbed Frodo on top of um that camp they had in the first film bringing it all the way around to the and he's the most powerful of the ring wreaths and they call him the witch king because he can't be killed essentially by men and there's a whole scene about that with him on he he's dragging it's killed and it's a huge battle there in the middle of the biggest battle of battle must hearth which is the whole thing of the whole movie is leading towards so it's just all these crazy parts then there's the whole underground with the ghosts and it's arrogant gimli and legolas trying to convince these damned beings to fulfill their debt that they that betrayed the uh the the gondor the kingdom of gondor for and for them to actually uphold their oath then we have a you know Gandalf and Denathor that whole back and forth uh Denathor being the crazy madman um oh that actor was just in the boys as well the new the last one of the last episodes he plays uh um Billy butcher's dad which I think it's funny because of course Billy butcher is the same guy who's uh the head of the legion in um the rohan so it's like not not not the king of rohan but the uh the god what's his name in the fucking movie? Thade and it's not Thade it's the other act the other character you guys know I'm talking about yeah then we have the huge battle at Minnes Tirith whether it's the freaking elephants or it's the ridiculous counting of kills that they bring back from Helm's deep with legolas and gimli saying what you know how many people they've killed that only that's still only counts as one when he kills the elephant I mean there's comedy there's action there's horror when the spider nests with she-lob which is probably one of the most creepiest-ass spiders I think have ever seen in the film uh and then of course one of my favorite parts um is the suicide run with uh Faramir and his his whole battalion trying to take back uh oscilius and they get absolutely murdered except for Faramir does not die uh he is merely knocked out by some sort of poison or just being bitch trauma um and the song that uh oh pippin does is it chills every time I hear it simply amazing there's so much I could say about this movie I'm gonna shut up and then there's the black gate scene where it's just for Frodo when they charge and it's fucking great I could say so much it speaks for itself I'll I'll leave it there okay all right for my number top pick there is no sun natural light died along with the people's memory of it now the lights have lives of their own they've learned to live in such soothing voices to feel and to love more than a human ever could this guy itself is a myth there's only tall buildings and taller buildings protruding out from the pervasive fog like the tale of a slumbering monster is that why everyone speaks in whispers to not awaken it to live under constant fear and paranoia welcome to los angeles outside the city limits tandering does suspending midair as if a world engulfed in flames mountains that upon closer inspection are just huge apocalyptic piles of trash forgotten machines erased memories we had the welllings of giants in secario here in the land of non-living where the air smells of nothing but rust banshee screamed directly at our faces the intervals are filled with something even more nerve-wracking absolute fucking silence even at the presence of Elvis Presley think about it it really is the end of the world blade runner 2049 is in my opinion and it's in my opinion i think the greatest sequel ever made it it single handedly improves the first film in a way that i don't think a previous sequel has and it speaks so much volumes to the care and attention that the director the deni made when he decided to embark on this sort of like sci-fi journey of just taking that mantle of saving science fiction at least in terms of Hollywood and just like its predecessor blade run 2049 bombed in the box office to no one surprised and Harrison Ford comes back as decker to provide one of the last best performances of his career and when i came out of the movie theater i i really this movie struck my core in the way that very very few films have and it's a very deep reflective contemplative film about what it means to it's not even what it means to be human it's about what we do with that humanity is what counts and at the end of the day the story is about a nobody doing something special for somebody and that's why i chose blade run in 2049 as my top as my top pick or my final pick in the list so this second movie from Danny Villeneuve that we have on uh on yep yep deni deni all right uh mine's gonna be real quick and simple here for my top number one pick and it ultimately has to do with one phrase and one phrase only a long time ago and a galaxy far far away 1977 the original star wars that that's it mic drop i don't really have to go any further well to follow that up i knew oh oh my god well well then did we just give you the trophy now well to follow that up the finale pick for this hollywood reow is stalwarts the empire strikes back we all know that iconic quote um i do have a fun fact for you i don't know if you already knew this but apparently uh in the script uh George Lucas had kept it secret that line and was originally replaced with Obi-Wan killed Luke's father and uh whenever the line was dropped on on uh production everybody was equally surprised so you can only imagine how much that would spend crazy i actually recently got to watch this in theaters on Wednesday and i can only imagine the hype that they must have felt back then in the 80s to watch this uh why do i get it quickly yeah it's all right it's just that the the i think you should be good now or not just slight technical issues um i think it's like we have completely fucked up okay wait hello is it working yes oh there we go all right do i need to repeat that whole segment again no no no to just continue uh i think empire strikes back really hit home for me um i think it's my favorite out of all the stalwarts films because of how much surprise i think i was i was hit by by uh what happened in it and i think that also that probably stirred a lot of a lot of uh ways films were film in general had plot twists that were to succeed it um but also you know we as the audience have been so so polarized with light versus dark then to just get hit with the emotional trauma that our light hero is actually going to have to come to grips to combat and and ultimately bring down his his father who's fallen to the dark side is uh it was just emotionally you know powerful um but i mean like like nick i don't think there's many much more to be said empire speaks for itself the movie said mic drop of course so that's our list um it is the list of 20 movies we think that should be well enough equipped to describe some of the best films of all time of course everyone 40 movies for did i not say 40 what did i say 20 yeah it's that 20 but it would come down to 20 as we get closer to the tournament bracket right um those gonna be times where you might be like it's it could be some of our own against their own could be gladiator versus return of the king could be there will be blood versus blade runner 2049 it could be there will be blood against the dark night um yeah lots of different different ways to this could go but yeah in the next episode we'll be doing the tournament bracket and uh we'll finish it out i believe in that next episode if i'm not mistaken but keep in mind for next time uh we're gonna be doing this probably next week and we'll release the episode right after it's gonna be a fight uh it's gonna be a fight better bring your your mouth cards because there's gonna be some blood lots of blood this is where the fun begins any last comments ladies and jellin looking forward to the grudge match or your fucking movie suck okay last Jedi is better than empire oh uh i just want to make the last Jedi's on the list i just want to make a quick reference you stole my number one pick um i had to i had to uh princess not good princess bride for the win uh okay so good luck jellin i know this whole next week we're gonna use where to come up with the mudsling tactics about how to bring down each other's mphilms and movies good luck um but in the end of it it might be some of our own movies going against our own movies that's where it becomes crazy and of course as previously mentioned in one of the past films that we were discussing it could come down to a coin flip so thank you so much for listening breath of the wilds gonna take it oh you know and you're fucking know and that's a bad breath while it takes it they're referencing the last time we did this shit um well thanks so much everybody anything else you guys want to say i'll take it as a no all right have a great rest of your evening bye bye