Top 100 Films of All-Time: #40-31

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back with another one of our series of episodes

Going back to our top 100 films of all time today

So making another dent in that list as we're

getting closer and closer to revealing our top

10 Today's segment will include our number 40s

through our number 31s. Sounds weird by putting

an s at the end of that. So not too many more

blocks ahead. This is all top 50 territory, so

interested to see what today's segment has in

store for everybody. You know, what decades are

we going to go to? What genres are we going to

have? Some crossover. We had a little of that

I think in the last episode. Amanda, start with

you. What can we expect out of you today? the

same thing you've been getting bro that just

continued on I think I'm gonna have a bunch of

definitely my childhood favorites but also a

little bit more of my adult side coming out too

so childhood and adult side both being represented

by movies that came out in the 90s yeah maybe

one from the 80s I don't know all right Matt

what can we expect from your chunk of the list

today people stealing things Like you could argue

one or two of them almost all of them have like

a stealing element There's definitely like four

heist movies Excellent. So are you a thief at

heart? If I'm in a video game I am I'm too good

-natured in the real life like I like oh man

my car for some reason has been getting vandalized

a lot lately like to the point where the the

paint got damaged and hey guess what guys I'm

still paying it off because it's a new car and

I'm a little upset about it and like I just don't

understand vandalism where it's like yeah I'm

gonna damage someone else's property and I'm

not gonna be there to see how they respond like

I don't understand people that do bad Like I

get it if you're stealing and you're like trying

to profit I could never steal because I'll think

about how that other person is gonna feel for

the rest of my life You're a good guy Charlie

Brown I try Dan any themes from your set of ten

today or anything we can expect? Actually, yeah

I'm gonna be talking about some of the biggest

movies of all time from all across the spectrum

of movie time from the early days to somewhat

recently so Excellent, excellent. For my set

of movies today, it's probably the most current

I think out of any chunk of ten because all the

other ones I seem to have had a couple that have

kind of gone back before. my life started. 40's,

50's, that type of stuff and I don't have anything

like that today so it's going to be the most

modern chunk for the rest of the way and just

kind of how it worked out. Also a bunch of big

name directors will have a film in my set of

10. I'm sure that'll be the same for a couple

of you guys too. I get a couple movies that have

some repeat actors, definitely. So revealing

some love for your favorite actors maybe? A couple,

yeah. Alright. Don't hate. Not Hayden. Congratulations.

I'll wait until I hear what those movies are.

Alright, let's start with number 40 from Mr.

Frisley's set. What do you got today to start

us off? My number 40 is a heist movie, go figure.

It's American Hustle. Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley

Cooper, I think? Yep. Like, I really, really

enjoyed this movie. And if I remember correctly,

I watched it with you guys? Possibly. And Nate

and Amy. I remember some people, it was kind

of tearing, some people were, some people weren't.

But this was when I was on my heist tear, where

I watched like, I don't know, like 30 heist movies

one year. And I just really loved this one. Although,

I mean, you know, the 40 style, not 31 style.

liked it uh... it it i guess it doesn't like

reinvent the genre anything but it's got a lot

of really big actors doing a lot of really good

acting and that that that got me into it so i

i really like american hustle i mean have you

seen american hustle or i think so yeah wait

maybe no is this got what would you say it's

got terence howard in it i think i know it's

got uh... christian bale and Bradley Cooper and...

I'm thinking of Hustle & Flow then. No, did not

see that. Wow. Only on our podcast will we get

those two movies mixed up. Why are you turning

red like you're embarrassed? I don't know. I

wasn't expecting to go there. Yeah, I think I

had American Hustle in my top... Top 15 that

year. I don't remember exactly where it placed

but it was somewhere in the top 10 or top 15

the year It came out. I thought I had a lot of

good parts. I thought Amy Adams was fantastic

and Whose hair was in that was that Christian

Bale's hair? Or who had the hair piece that was

a like a 10 -minute scene. I think it was Christian

Bale. Yeah Dan any thoughts on American Hustle?

Yeah, that was a really strong year for film

and I enjoyed it Great performances. I like David

R. Russell, and I don't love him, but it very

much did feel like reminiscent of a Scorsese

film for sure, and I see the influences there.

All right, Amanda, what are you starting today

with? Oh man, my number 40 from 1993. A little

joint called True Romance. Recently made Kevin

watch this for the first time. I don't think

he loved it as much as I did. Brad Pitt, Gary

Oldman, Kristen Slater, Patricia Arquette, Robert

Duvall, Christopher Walken, how can you go wrong?

You can't! Alright, I loved their love at first

sight story. I love how weird it was and how

they were drawn to each other and how they were

instantly magnetized to each other and this whole

crazy adventure that they find themselves going

on and all this misfortune and and how You know,

I love the ending, too, how it all comes together,

even though there's a ton of, you know, gratuitous

violence, which I dig a lot. Love the gunfire.

Loved Gary Oldman's crazy, outrageous character

here. Like, it was insane. It's probably one

of my favorite roles of his, and it's so brief.

It's so powerful, though. So I loved everything

about this. Sam Jackson? Even fucking talking

about some crazy stuff and getting blown up?

Love it. Spawn its own podcast. So there you

go. True romance any thoughts Dan or Matt on

that one? Never seen it. Good morning. I do.

I actually watched that for the first time a

few years ago. I do like it. I uh It's interesting

seeing like Tarantino's words with a different

director and you can see how much Tony's got

I Wouldn't say change. I don't know. I like Tony's

got a lot of a director but I find interesting

how like you can kind of mesh the style the The

script he has but also you mean and one of the

most intense fights ever with patricia arquette

in in the hotel room. Oh my god and tony soprano

Yes, yeah, that is like brutal. Can you think?

Oh man, it's over and then it just keeps going

and going Bitch took a beating though like a

champ. Oh my god. Yeah Yeah, well there you go

Yeah, I enjoyed it. I think I need to watch it

again or something or a couple more times to

get to the level that everybody else seems to

adore it, but I enjoyed it. So I have no problem

with you bringing it up as your number 40. You

shouldn't because it's my GD list, alright? And

I'm gonna do what I want with it. For my number

40, I'm gonna go into the world of science fiction,

I guess, and also the world of Christopher Nolan

for a 2010 film called Inception. Dig Inception

we recently rewatched this a year ago or two

years ago I think in relation to interstellar

possibly, but Inception's just a it was so Unexpected

at the time it seemed like like I don't I don't

know what the anticipation level was for inception

when it came out But I think it took a lot of

people and just kind of like blew their minds.

So it's a Good one, it works on a rewatch. I

think it still holds up. I don't know if I rated

it as high as I did right when it came out. I

think it's fallen just a little bit, but hey,

it's still number 40. I'm in top 100, so that's

still doing pretty good. So Inception is my number

40. I thought this was on my freaking list, but

apparently it's not, and I don't know why, because

I really like it. Because it came out in 2010.

Yeah, I think that's why I have like a cutoff

here, and it's just not making it. But yeah,

I love this story. getting salified Joseph Gordon

-Levitt as a badass for me and Tom Hardy is just

amazing and super suave and the story was unique

at the time, the visuals were outstanding and

even the end, I'm not even big on ambiguous endings

and I still was okay with ending. Dan, what do

you have your number for you? I talked about

a front that I'll be talking about some of the

biggest movies of all time. I'm getting to that

right now. It's one of the biggest movies in

the 1990s. I'm sure, Amanda, you're a fan of

this film, as many people are. And that is T2

Judgment Day. I love the Terminator franchise.

Well, let's just say I love the two. Terminator

the first films. I did kind of just choose one

movie per franchise, but there's a good chance

that the very first Terminator can make this

list. I do love how that's like a classic 80s

horror film in a way, but Terminator 2 is just

a kick -ass action movie with some of the greatest

action sequences of all time. This was like the

prime of Schwarzenegger's career. And when him

and James Cameron get together, they make magic,

so. For sure. Love the love. Is this the one

with the liquid metal man? Yeah. Did you re -watch

all the Terminator movies? I have seen them,

okay? But they all bleed together for me. I can't

distinguish which one is which. Wow. Watch the

first one, watch the second one, and then stop.

Probably your best bet. Noah for Christina Loken?

What? She's the one in the third movie. Yeah.

I mean, it does have a cameo from Chris Hardwick,

so there's that going for it, I guess. I don't

know. Is it a cameo before you're famous? Hey,

Heath had singled out. He was still a legend

for many people. But anyways, Terminator 2, it's

great film, obviously. So let's watch my number

40. I agree. Matt, what is your number 39? All

right. My next one of my top 10 heist movies

is The Art of the Steal. I don't know if I would

say the acting is anywhere near as good as American

Hustle, and the tension's definitely not there

like that one. But I love the premise. I love

a good art steal instead of just money. Everyone

goes for just money. The art steal makes it very

interesting. The classic heist double turnaround

at the end was very, very good. It had a lot

of funny moments. Like, just the whole pirate

situation was great. I really like the art of

the steel. I remember. Who was in that one, man?

I think Russell Crowe? Oh, Kurt Russell, yeah.

A different Russell. I don't know if I've seen

this one. Oh, I'm pretty well, I'm pretty sure

I watched it in your house. I don't know that

if you were there It was it came out was a very

small release like it didn't yeah was hit theaters

It was just like you were straight to you know

on demand. Yeah, we actually talked about I think

I put it in my one of the most Anticipated lists,

you know, like in 2014 on this show and it had

a different name And then like like I was like,

I don't even know what like I kept talking about

I was like I don't even know this is gonna come

out I haven't seen it and someone actually posted

on the episode. Hey, it's already on Amazon.

It's like what do you mean? Nice our fan our

listeners coming through and giving you the tip

-off on how to listen or how to watch Yeah, I

like it Amanda. What do you have at your number

39? This is an animated film from 97 love the

songs Love the characters, love the look, and

that's Hercules. Disney's Hercules. Hercules!

She did the hand motion for those of you that

obviously can't see that because it's a podcast.

Proof that Gingers... are awesome okay um i think

that the songs here definitely were amazing like

i love sing along with these i loved his journey

um i loved seeing all these um cool gods and

all his trials that he went through felicities

was boss and i even don't hate megara that much

even though she's got the bitch but i just something

that i can rewatch even now and still can enjoy

um I've been super surprised by the animated

films that have shown up on your list so far.

Why? Because I know what your favorite ones are,

and every time you say it's an animated film,

I'm expecting to hear one of them. This is still

pretty low on the list, if you think about it.

So Hercules, number 39. No love for Hercules,

though? I don't know. I don't even think you've

seen this. Maybe not. I've seen parts of it.

I did like Hercules. The guy who plays... Hades

oh I can't think of it James no I can't think

of it doesn't but it's it'll come to me eventually

but he's great I love his voice and Danny Devito

is fun I think it's a little underrated like

that and a hunchback of Notre Dame I think it

don't get as much credit because I think they

came when the Renaissance of Disney was kind

of you know waning a little bit but they have

their moments at least in Hercules there are

some like weird lecherous moments like in Hunchback.

Hunchback is a good movie. I saw that shit in

theaters. I remember my grandma took me one of

the rare movies from like being little that I

saw in the theater and looking like watching

that movie as an adult was like weirds me out.

But Hercules I can definitely get behind stills

in adult. Maybe I'll have to re -watch or watch

for the first time those two films because I

know nothing about either of them. You've never

seen Hunchback either? I think I've seen them

both but I have no recollection of them. Because

you're old. I am old. Alright, we've established

that. My number 39, let's stick with science

fiction like my number 40. I'm going to go to

a Spike Jonze film from 2013. So another film

from this past decade here. My number 39 will

be Her from 2013. I mean, we've talked about

this film so many times on the podcast that I

probably don't need to go into it anymore. I

think it's a phenomenal film. I think it's easily

the best film of 2013. Well, there's... I think

it's a 1 -2 punch in 2013 because it was such

a good year. So I have two that I absolutely

adore. But her, the only reason that it's not

higher on my list probably is because I actually

haven't re -watched it yet. I've only seen it

the one time in the theater and I really need

to watch it again to kind of... really fully

digested it a little bit more and get into exactly

where it should fall, but because I'm just going

off of that first watch and how well I thought

it was and enjoyed it, that's why it's sticking

at my number 39 now and not any higher. But I'm

not gonna get too far into it. We did a whole

episode a long time ago on it, Dan and I, so

you can go back and listen to our thoughts right

in the moment after we watched it back then in

2013. Dan? So I'm going back to another major

franchise, but this one's even been around even

longer. It might be one of the longest movie

franchises of all time. And going with James

Bond in my favorite James Bond film. And for

me, it's Casino Royale. Like that and Skyfall

are really close to one another in Rush from

Love. But growing up, I wasn't really into James

Bond. Like I really, you know, I watched GoldenEye

here and there, played the game, but... I didn't

care all that much about it, and I never even

saw Casino Royale in theaters because I didn't

really care that much, but when I finally did,

I loved it, and as a fan of the Bourne trilogy

that we'll probably get to eventually with this

list, I loved the style of action. Daniel Craig's

Bond to me was something I didn't expect, not

the character I had in my mind, and it's just

also a really well -named film and has... in

my opinion, the best Bond girl out of any of

the Bond girls. Her relationship with Bond is,

I think, much stronger than any of the other

films put together. So, a lot of love. Go ahead.

Oh, I was just going to say, I'm a lot like you.

I have not seen hardly any of the Bond films.

I didn't grow up a big Bond fan. My exposure

was the video games, basically. And I think I

saw and seen a couple of the Pierce Bros in the

films, but I don't even know if they were in

theater. I think one of them was. I really didn't

get into Bond as a film, not that I would say

I've ever gotten into it, but I didn't really

start following the films until Daniel Craig

started appearing in them, and I think that has

been some of the best ones, but I need to go

back and revisit it. I would love to revisit

the Pierce Brosnan ones, but even more I'd like

to, for a first time watch, go back and see Sean

Connery and some of the other Bonds, because

it's a complete blind spot to me, all the films

prior to Pierce Brosnan. Fun fact about Amanda

my first serious movie crush like I was like

damn this dude sexy was Sean Bean in Goldeneye.

Sean Bean? Mm -hmm. He was the bad guy. Man,

wow. I was gonna thought you'd go Pierre Brosnan,

but you know Sean Bean that works. I guess I

did the bad boys. Was it the scarring? Was it

the scarring that did it? It was, yeah. That's

so bizarre. It was weird. I was like eight, nine

maybe? I don't know. I was like this dude's hot.

When you were eight or nine, did you use the

words you use just now? Damn. I might have. I

was a gangster little kid, right? Running around

in my bowl cut. Dan, any other comments on Bond?

I didn't mean to cut you off. No, yeah, like

I said, I love it. Skyfall is not that far behind

this. I love Rodney Deacon's cinematography in

Skyfall, and there's a lot of great action sequences.

But for me, this is more complete film and I

think it diverges from the Bond tropes a little

bit better and it has a really great kind of

action sequence along with some of the just great

dramatic tense poker sequences so I love it.

I think it's an interesting franchise because

there's been so many films and I think you asked

somebody what their favorite Bond film and I

think you're so many times going to get it. Different

answers depending on the individual you're asking

Because I think I'm slightly leaning towards

that skyfall camp But like I said, I need to

rewatch all of the bond films at some point and

and kind of see where they all line up but I've

heard a lot of people say good things about Basically

the entire Daniel Craig grouping except for those

that are thrown off with how closely the sequel

happens after the first one I think some people

use that to kind of as against kind of against

it in some way even though I don't know if that's

fair or not But because Matt you had the other

one on your list, right? Yeah, I believe so.

Yeah, like I think quantum of solace is my favorite

of the Bond movies And I think that Casino Royale

is my least favorite. But I also feel like I

might have been a kid when I saw Casino Royale

the first time. So I should rewatch that. And

I haven't seen the newest one, Spectre. Have

you seen Skyfall? I have. OK. I liked it. It

was good. I really like the song. I think Skyfall

might have been perfect if they could have got

Shoot the what was this? Yeah, thank you to play

the old man Because you know that was written

for like that had to have been written for it

was Sean Connery all over it But you know, he's

advanced in years and their issues and stuff,

right? All right, so that leads us right into

your number 38 Matt. What do you have? my number

38 is uh Hey, mine's a animated movie. It's the

Incredibles. I just You know, I love comedy.

I love superheroes and when I can see them, I

usually love a Disney movie and So the I mean,

I don't think I need to wax out about the Incredibles.

It's great. It's hilarious It's someday gonna

get a sequel maybe and hopefully that's not terrible

because It's starting to really get on in years.

I just, I love the characters. I love the idea

of a superhero family. And in my superhero content,

I usually like to have the real life stuff too.

That's why I kind of like the Teen Titans comic

books usually. So like this family dynamic being

a part of the superheroing is just superb. Like

it's great. I love it. The Incredibles. I don't

know if I've ever heard anybody say a negative

thing about Incredibles. Because there's nothing

negative about The Incredibles. It's all amazing.

Alright, Amanda, in agreement with you on that

one, Amanda, what do you have at number 38? I

have another kind of animated movie. Somewhat

of this is animated. It's from 96, and that's

James and the Giant Peach. I got to read the

book in school. We got to watch the movie afterwards,

of course. Ever since then, I've loved it. I

used to sit in my grandma's living room and she

would... Feed me peaches and let me watch this

all Sunday afternoon. I loved it. I think the

look of it's amazing how they did the animation

and like the use of color and light and texture

was incredible and I loved all of the characters

and the story in itself is just wonderful and

amazing and you have to like it. Anyone seen

James and the Giant Peach? I have, yeah, I watched

it growing up as a kid too. Like I think it,

we were reading it in my fourth or fifth grade

class when around the time the movie came out

or was out or what have you. And I did like it.

It was like one of the first stop in motion animation

movies I saw. And it was around the time of,

I think, Nightmare Before Christmas. And I do

like it a lot. It changes a lot from the book,

but I still enjoyed it. It's a weird, it's a

strange movie for sure. big departure for what

you normally get with with Disney but I actually

didn't even realize it was a Disney film until

recently I'm like I thought that was someone

else because it doesn't really have their type

of style their flavor but it's an enjoyable film

I have never seen the movie nor read the book

oh man it's Roald Dahl so you know it's a good

book like he doesn't write bad books no definitely

not Alright another blind spot for me. I guess

for my number 38 I think I mentioned this way

long time ago early on in a countdown that I

Would have a baseball film come up at some point

During my countdown and it's coming up right

here at number 38. It's my personal favorite

baseball film and I have about Ten baseball films

at least on the DVD shelf over there blu -ray

whatever and this is from 1989 and this would

be field of dreams. I adore this film for so

many different reasons. James Earl Jones is amazing.

Kevin Costner is in his element doing a baseball

film like he... did every other year back then

and there was just something about the mystique

of or the you know the kind of the mysterious

aspects of it and just being someone that loves

baseball it was right up my alley especially

when it came out because I was about eight or

nine years old at that point and you know having

on into Little League and stuff like that and

I just I just loved everything about this film

I've probably seen it at least a half dozen times

if not a dozen times and every time I watch it

I get the same type of emotional pull that it

does to me so I love everything father -son thing

a lot of love and feel the dream so that's my

number 38 is this if you build it they will come

correct all right a man or not a man dan you're

up next what do you have at number 38 uh from

my number 38 i'm actually going to go to a very

kind of Staying in the kind of crime realm, but

going to a very different type of style and film.

Going to 1967, a French film by Jean -Pierre

Melville, Le Samurai. Le Samurai kind of combines

everything I love about crime with what I love

about samurai films as well. It has that kind

of a slow, methodical pacing of Miyazaki, not

Miyazaki, geez. of the classic Samurai films

of the day. But it also has the most ultimate,

coolest character, I think, on film with Jessica

Castillo, the main character. If you just see

the criterion cover image for it, it's just like

him holding his hat. And I can't really describe

it really well, but it just oozes coolness. And

if you'd like something like drive or... You

there's a lot of influences from that from this

he's very mysterious type of character. He doesn't

say much It's a lot through his actions, but

I remember watching this and that not really

know much about it But it really just stuck with

me and I think it really helped me get into films

that were minimalistic in their use of dialogue

and really depended upon more of atmosphere and

direction so It's a really good movie. I've only

watched it like once once one of the halftime.

They really want to go back and seek it out again

because I'd be curious to see what it's like

on multiple rewatches. So it could be potentially

up on this list if that does occur. What year

did that come out? 1967. Okay, I'll write that

down. Another blind spot for me. Matt, have you

seen that one? No, I haven't even heard of it.

Alright, so homework for all of us. Matt, that

means it's back to you at number 37. What do

you have? One of Like, I think when I was doing

my heist phase, and I was asking everyone, hey,

what's your favorite heist movie? I just asked

everyone I knew, what's your favorite heist movie?

I think this is the one that usually was up there.

And I think it might be the heist one on my list.

And that's the usual suspects. This is one of

the ones that like, just like if you build it.

uh they will come like this is the one like this

is one of those ones that's just permeated pop

culture with like the big reveal the dropping

the cup all of that if you if you haven't seen

it i don't want to talk about it because it's

it's way too dense and easy to spoil um if you

haven't seen it you know why it's great yeah

this is one of those films that was on seemed

like it was on on repeat during college um between

myself and the different roommates um there was

quite a few of them that that we watched good

deal and this was one of them and it was always

fun showing this to someone that hadn't seen

it and there's just I don't know it's just like

a not just a cult favorite it's just a favorite

of I think a lot of cinephiles in the genre and

I agree I think it's a I think it's an amazing

film Amanda did you watch this for the first

time here last year last year did you like it

Yes, it's got Benicio del Toro in it, so I'm

about it. I think I had seen some of it on TV,

but I hadn't seen enough of it to, you know,

have it spoiled for me. So when I saw, like,

the ending and, like, the reveal situation happen,

I was like, what? Pretty blown away by it, but

it was super cool, and I would definitely go

back and re -watch it knowing, you know, the

twist to see if I could see it. Alright, so I

think it's unanimous love for the usual suspects.

Amanda, what do you have at 37? My 37 is another

childhood fave. Not really sure if I should have

seen this at the age I did. That's a theme also

that's come up in your list. Yeah, my mom just

kind of liked movies too and let me watch some

stuff. I don't know. This is from 91 and it's

Drop Dead Fred. Super gross, super funny, super

weird, just like me, you know what I mean? So

I really liked it. I think Rick was his last

name. Male? Male? I don't know what his last

name is. Phoebe Cates had such a great dynamic.

It was just funny, but it also was, you know,

heartfelt when it needed to be, and I always

wanted a freakin' troublemaking imaginary friend

too, so... There you go. I find it bizarre that

in this 40 through 31, I think there's been more

movies mentioned so far than any other segment

of the countdown that I haven't seen. I was thinking

the higher we would go would be like all movies

I knew and all that kind of stuff. You haven't

seen this? No, never seen it. You haven't seen

like any of my movies except for one on here?

No, we got our work cut out for ourselves after

we finally conclude this list. For my number

37, I'm gonna go to the world of Quentin Tarantino

and uh... also a 90s film here, 1992's Reservoir

Dogs. Dan and I obviously just did an episode

during the Tarantino retrospective so you can

go there to find our... in depth thoughts about

how many plugs are you going to throw in this

episode? I'm just going to say I'm not going

to repeat everything we've said but there's a

whole episode about it and obviously if it's

coming up at number 37 if you remember the rankings

we did of the Tarantino films you should know

that there's still going to be more Tarantino

on my list moving forward but reservoir dogs

top 40 ended up at number 37 for me. Dan, what

do you got next? Very nice very nice Next I'm

gonna go to a favorite director of mine kind

of switching things up here. I guess I'm getting

Older and older and this is probably one of the

oldest films I talk about on my listing and it's

a Buster Keaton film. It's Sherlock jr It's actually,

you know, it may not even count because it's

you know, it's only it's short film It's not

completely but you know, it's back in the day

it was hard to make long movies, so it counts

for me, but Sherlock Jr. is this really wonderfully

directed, insane movie that really, when you

go back and watch it, you realize when people

say like, oh, how did they do that? That's been

kind of lost today because of the CGI. But back

then, seeing some of the things he was able to

do is insane. There's a specific sequence where

he kind of walks into the movie and basically

from scene to scene, it's like flipping channels

and he goes through all these different sequences

and you realize what was probably Four to five

minutes on screen took probably days to shoot.

Weeks, months perhaps, because it was very methodical.

He would be in one spot, in one location, and

then go to another. completely different movie,

but still be in the same location body -wise.

So it took a lot of great direction. And Buster

Keaton is just obviously a community genius.

He's one of the biggest, if not one of the most

iconic people in film ever. So this was streaming

for a very long time on Netflix. I don't know

if it currently is, but it's a good entry point

for me, I think, for Buster Keaton's films. They

hold up. you know over nearly a hundred years

old a lot of obviously slapstick humor being

silent being a silent film but it's well done

and just insane that the things he would do like

you'd clearly put his life online in terms of

stunts and it's made made a movie that's you

know still phenomenal decades decades later how

you said short film how what's the length of

it it's only 49 minutes Oh, that's very manageable.

I'll have to check to see if that's still streaming.

All right, Matt, number 36. All right, so my

list is not the best movies. My list is not the

award -winning movies. My list is the movies

that I enjoy and that I find fun. So don't hate

on me when my number 36 is Machete. Like I love

Danny Trejo and everything and this movie is

just so buck wild. I love it from beginning to

end. It's it's hilarious. Like I don't know like

every time I think about it just makes me happy.

I haven't seen the sequel sequels but I mean

I don't need to because the machete was kind

of a complete story but I do kind of want to.

It's just hilarious. It's over the top. It's

ridiculous. Danny Trejo, guys. Danny Trejo fan

club being headed up by Matt, I believe. Dan,

have you seen Machete? I have. Yeah, I do. I

like Robert Rodriguez. I think he directed that,

or at least he produced it. I think he was part

of it at least. I've not seen Machete Kills.

Is that their sequel? Yeah. I did enjoy it. It's

fun. I'm happy for Danny Trejo. He's a very scary

man, so I'm afraid to say anything bad about

his movies. Not that I would. It's a fun movie.

It's a movie that knows what it is and it's not

afraid to be just crazy. When you're legitimately

bungee jumping with the intestines of a guy you

just stabbed, literally you know what you're

doing. Alright, Amanda, what do you have next

on your list? This is another Gary Oldman movie

on my list here, and that's from 92, and that's

Bram Stoker's Dracula. I think a lot of people

point to that as one of his best roles as well.

Yeah, I didn't even freaking know that that was

him until, um, much older, uh, beat me being

much older, and watching it again, and it's...

so much of this film is... is things that I love.

It's dark, it's gory, it has this huge crazy

love triangle, it's got vampires, and also like

a werewolf kind of thing. So this movie freaked

me the hell out, but also definitely just wasn't

trancing, and I'll definitely re -watch this

over and over again, and I've even tried to read

the classic. I haven't gone all the way through

it yet, because it's... It's a little bit harder

to read than it is to watch the movie. Dan and

Matt, have you seen this one? No. What, Keanu

Reeves? I just, I don't get down on a horror

movie, and usually a Dracula's a horror. It's

also got Anthony frickin' Hopkins in it as Van

Helsing. I missed, like, I missed, like, the,

uh, vampire movies of the 90s. That's an interview

with a vampire. Oh, yes. I have not seen either

of those. I have not seen it either. What? We're

knowing a writer, it's also got Carrie - It doesn't

matter how many people you name that are in this

movie, it's not gonna change the fact that I

have not seen it. Wait. It might change your

- Can you let me gush about all the people that

I love it? It's not about trying to make you

be like, oh yeah, I guess I have seen it now

that you've named 6 ,000 of the freaking actors

in it. What is the Carrie guy from Princess Bride?

Els. Carrie Els. He's in it. Okay, there's a

ton of awesome like actors. There's a ton of

awesome scenes They're just mind -boggling and

disturbing and beautiful all at the same time

all right add it to the list Watch this I will

I'll watch it as soon as you watch breakfast

club Alright, so that's never happening for my

number 36. I'm gonna go to the 80s speaking of

Breakfast Club Let's go to something kind of

in that same vein I'm going to go to John Hughes

film Ferris Bueller's day off for my number 36

It's just I don't know they don't make films

like this it seems like it seems like a Type

of film that's just gone by the wayside, or maybe

I'm just missing which films would kind of Fill

the same space but like the the john hughes films

that we got kind of just watched edge of 17.

Boom. There you go Yeah, it's not like ferris

wheelers day off though. I'm talking about just

like total just fun carefree like not necessarily

caring too much about taking itself serious or

having drama or anything like that. It's just

kids being kids and there's so much to love about

Ferris Bueller's Day Off that I had to rank it

this high. I was surprised I wouldn't think I

would have thought I would have been more towards

the other side of 50 for me but as I was kind

of compiling things and putting it up against

other films it kind of kept knocking other stuff

off so it's all the way up at number 36 for me

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Dan? They do have those

sounds but they're like project X that just make

us feel old so we ignore that they exist That's

what I'm thinking about like put up blinders

to it or something Yeah, it's like I like that

just makes me feel old then I feel like I just

call the cops and whatnot I want not to be next

to that party. So yeah So that's also not nearly

as good, but that's besides the point. For my

next one, my number 36, I'm going to one of my

favorite movies about movies, and that is Cinema

Paradiso, which I watched for the first time

I think about seven years ago. And for those

that don't know the premise of it, basically

it's this kid who grows up. in the theater, basically

in a small town, but the movies are heavily edited

by the church. They kind of take out anything

objectable and kind of anything that could be

seen as obscene. And it goes through that, that

impact and how movies can influence us and change

us. And I think it's an Italian film that it's

a good introductory, I think into kind of the

foreign cinema for a lot of people. It was for

me. And it's still just, I don't know. I remember

when La La Land came out this past year, people

would say, La La Land exemplifies why I love

movies. To me, that is also similar to Cinema

in Paradise, because it gets to that, but it

gets to a lot more. I think that also was streaming,

if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, I need to watch this

one because I've heard it come up so many times

and I know you've talked about it before in a

very favorable light and no reason why I haven't

watched this except for time and there's so many

movies that I want to catch up on like that you

guys are all highlighting in this whole countdown

that I'm gonna have like a whole year's worth

of homework to try to do to catch up on some

of this stuff. Alright, that's the first five

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off? Alright, thanks for sticking with us. We're

back to give you our number 35 through 31 pick

as we creep our way closer and closer to our

top 10 Matt You're back in the hot seat. What

do you have in number 35? I think this has already

come up in the in the countdown back could be

wrong I don't have the best memories Jet Li joint

my number 35 is hero It just has one of the most

beautiful art styles where a story gets retold

and every time it gets retold it's just a little

bit different and the art style reflects the

telling and it's just, it's got just amazing

action sequences and amazing non -action sequences

and it balances it really well and I love the

non -linear storytelling elements in it. It's

just an amazing movie. super cool kung fu movie

but also a little bit different too I feel like

it's got a little bit different feel and I really

like Jet Li and this was one movie that I think

was really made for him like I feel like he did

so well in this don't think I've seen it oh now

see that's criminal like it's kind of long isn't

it Matt? I didn't that doesn't feel like it it

might be but uh like you don't feel i don't know

i don't feel like drained at the end of it like

i do for a lot of movies all right my list keeps

growing amanda what do you have next I love this

movie so much. Are you looking at my list? No,

but I hope you love all the movies this much

that are in your top 40 of all time. This is

a movie that I've seen so many times and I kind

of don't know why it's not higher really. That's

my band. But my number 35 is from 1993. Robin

Williams, Sally Field, Mrs. Doubtfire. I don't

break the 90s. I get close as 99 and that's it.

So why so much love for Mrs. Doubtfire? Oh my

gosh, there's just so much heart in this film

so much like just reckless abandonment and comedy

and just I don't know something that I was always

drawn to as a kid love going back to it even

as an adult and I found some of it really heartbreaking,

especially some of the moments with his kids.

And I fucking hated Sally Field and a bunch of

this. Also, Pierce Brosnan coming up again on

the list here. Total doucher. That's why you

gotta lie him to the back of the head. But, I

mean, you can't top flaming fake boobies and

that voice. You know what I mean? It's amazing.

Robin Williams and his element. I guess what,

I have seen this one. What? Yes, so I don't have

to add this one to the list. Dan or Matt, any

thoughts on Mrs. Doubtfire? It's hilarious. Yeesh.

Yeah, alright. I don't remember loving it as

much when I saw it the first time, but I've only

seen it maybe one and a half times. Are you serious?

I like Robert Williams, but I don't remember

liking the movie that much. My gosh, he's got

little dinosaurs. No meat big feet. I eat what?

Alright, let me go in a completely different

Direction for my number 35 And I'm gonna it was

funny because we I was talking about her and

I said, you know It's the best film that year

and then I was looking at my spreadsheet in front

of me and I'm like Well, I can't really say that

since I have another film from that year four

spots higher. So I think it depends on what day

asked me with these two films on which one I

put higher so for number 35 I'm gonna go with

Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave. I think that

and her were just so far above everything else

that came out that year and almost everything

else from that decade so it just depends on kind

of your personal preference I think as far as

which one you like better but 12 Years a Slave

is a masterpiece in my opinion so there was no

way it wasn't gonna be in my top 50 and I ended

up at number 35. What Amanda that is a terrible

look you're giving me you've never seen it. Nope.

All right, so don't give me a bad look That's

why I was giving you that look sir Fuck off.

We will watch that. I'll get you to watch that

before I get you to watch breakfast club Most

definitely. All right. I don't know. I don't

understand the aversion to breakfast club, but

I don't want to watch it. All right Dan what

do you have a number 35? My my biggest movie

is of all time heart continues as my number 35

I have Lawrence of Arabia notable for you know

being a huge landmark in film and I watched it

for the first time two years ago at least in

the sense of straight through since I was an

adult I watched it you know here and there when

I was a kid but never sat down and well I didn't

watch it all at once because it's like four hours

so I did chunk it up because you know I'm old

and I have a short attention span but it is,

I still want to be able to see this someday in

the big screen because it is gorgeous to look

at on the right rent. You know, it's an epic

in every sense of the word. You know, there's

a lot of films like Ben Hurt and Commandments,

but Lords of Arabia is just on another level.

It's still, it's a feat. Like we legitimately

couldn't make a movie like this today. It probably

took the economy of a small country to make this

movie and it still holds up. iconic performances,

just incredible sequences from start to finish.

But it's, I think, I love classic Hollywood movies,

as I've talked about a lot of them, and this

is, to me, just hands down one of the best. Just

from a filmmaking standpoint, from a scale standpoint,

an acting standpoint, script standpoint, it's

got a lot going for it, and I think it deserves

the praise that it gets. I think the only thing

that has kept me from watching this one is the

runtime so far because I think this was like

the next one that my mom and I were going to

watch as we were going through the AFI list of

top 100 films and we just that's kind of when

we ended up stopped doing it for whatever reason

life got in the way but I've been wanting to

watch this one because it seems like something

I would enjoy but every time I've ever thought

about it it's like well I don't have four hours

right now so same with Gone with the Wind it's

just a couple films that you really got to kind

of Decide that you're gonna put the effort in

to watch them So I will do that at some point

because I really need to watch this one and erase

that from my list of shame Matt number 34. All

right, I've I've talked about my love of the

Gundam anime series a lot on this podcast over

the years and I wanted to put something from

there on here but the movies generally are pretty

bad like or They're just not they don't compare

because there's usually like a lot of political

elements and all that and so I've put the last

one I think the last one Wow, asterisks, because

I have 91. In the main storyline, this is the

end of the feud between Amuro Ray and Char Aznable,

and that's Char's counter -attack. This movie

essentially culminated almost 10 years of anime,

where these two characters started off as a 16

and 17 -year -old fighting in space, and then

this is the end of both of their lives at like...

mid -30s, where technology has just gone crazy.

Char has gone from being a villain to a hero

to an anti -hero to just being a villain again,

with even more turn towards the end of maybe

this more complicated than it looks. It's pretty

old, I think, late 80s, early 90s, and so the

animation doesn't necessarily hold up as much

as some of the later movies, but just a great

end. or a good end to a great storyline from

Shar's Counterattack. Dan, have you seen any

of the Gundam stuff? Stuff here and there. I

think I watched some stuff as a kid, but I don't

remember which ones I watched, so I know there's

a lot of different ones, so I never watched them.

I did not watch them a lot. I just caught them

here and there when they would be on Cartoon

Network or... I think they were on TNT at one

point maybe? I forget, but yeah, I played a few

games. I played a few of the games for Dreamcast.

I had a really good Dreamcast gun game, but nothing

really beyond that. I've, like, casually seen

some of the show on Toonami back in, like, sixth

grade or whatever, but that's the extent of what

I've seen. I've never seen any of the movies,

though. Alright, Amanda, then what do you have

next? Oh, man, here's one of my 1999 picks. My

number 34 is Muppets from Space! Muppets from

Space. I see you're building the Okama Build

a jacuzzi with Okama, baby. It's got Pepe the

Shrimp, one of my favorite fucking Muppets. And

this is like Gonzo's story. Like, it's such a

fun story. You feel so bad for Gonzo. You see...

where he comes from, which is super cool, because

nobody knows what the hell Gonzo is until you

watch this movie. And the music is great, their

camaraderie is there, there's none of this, you

know, dissension. They're all living in a house

together and doing their thing and trying to

support Gonzo. And there's also some, you know,

really awesome, you know, people too, which it's

funny because, you know, there's... You guys

see Hellboy? Who's like the agent? That was always

trying to keep help away in line the bald guy

He's also like a the same kind of thing here

like an agent trying to find aliens and stuff.

So there's some cool elements to this and super

fun and I just love it and I've seen it a billion

times and So at risk of spoiling your list, will

there be any other Muppet films, or is this,

in your opinion, the tops of the franchise? This

is just my favorite Muppet movie. There is no

other Muppet movie on my list. Alright, so Muppets

from Space. All right for my number 34 not gonna

get into it too far because Matt already talked

about it today and My number 34 is from 1995

and that would be usual Suspect so I kind of

said my piece on it when Matt brought it up.

So obviously Matt I agree. It's a great film

It's so good. All right, Dan. What do you have

your number 34? My number 34 muscle going from

with the crime film from the 90s, but a little

bit different with it It's more of a classic

style noir with L .A. Confidential. This was

just a fantastic movie. Great cast from Kevin

Spacey to Russell Crowe before he was really

a huge, huge star, Guy Pearce. I love the classic

noir style and it really takes that and modernizes

it a little bit, but it's really in that mold.

Danny DeVito's amazing as this sleazy headline

reporter. It's got a lot of interlocking parts,

different plots going on that all kind of fit

together. great classic crime novel so if you

are at all a noir fan I think it's probably you

know one of the last great ones that was made

during that time got robbed at the Oscars surely

should have won a best picture unfortunately

it did not but still I love it probably the best

thing can be yours ever done yeah it's a great

if you're a crime film fan it's a must -see absolutely

LA Confidential. I think that fits with a couple

of different films that we've kind of talked

about in the mid -90s with that same genre, but

I agree it's one of the top ones like that. And

if anybody likes those types of films or likes

more modern types of films, that's one to go

back and check out for sure. All right, Matt,

number 33 we're at. Oh, right. I talked about

it a bit on the... Most recently I guess in the

March Madness we did my number 33 is Batman 66

or Batman from the 1960s the first time I saw

this I don't think I knew what camp was and so

I was just like Floored by this like why is Batman

silly? Like what does this see for Catwoman?

That doesn't even make sense but like when I

got to the end of it I uh I ordered it off the

internet because I think I was borrowing it from

a friend and like I've watched this movie so

many times since then like I just I love it I

love all of it like Frank Gorshin, Cesar Romero,

Burgess Meredith obviously um oh shoot I forgot

Batman's name the famous one Adam West. Adam

West, Burt Ward. Like, it's so good. Like, it's

so silly and fun. And like, at one point, the

Riddler's like, do us up, and the Joker's like,

what are you, crazy? Like, you're gonna give

us away! And it's like, dang, dude, you're crazier

than the Joker? What does that even mean? Why

does he have a mustache? Like, I get so excited

for Batman 66. It's so just silly. I think it's

impossible not to have fun when you watch that

film. I think we watched that one over here at

one point with the group and it was just a lot

of fun and I think you gotta appreciate what

they were going for, I guess, and how they pulled

it off. Not pulling any punches, they knew what

they were doing and they did it in a very memorable

way. Dan, what do you think about the 66 film?

Yeah, it's a lot of fun and enjoyable. I did

watch the show growing up as a kid and it's a

good extension of that. Absolutely. Alright,

Amanda. Number 33. What 90 -year are you going

with on this one? We're about to get serious

here, alright? I'm ready. This is 95. My 33 is

Judge Dredd. Judge Dredd. Slice the line. I freaking

love this movie! My grandma used to let me watch

this all the time. It was constantly on TNT.

She owned it, so we got to watch it whenever

the hell we wanted to. And it was just a really

cool, like, future movie. And I love Sylvester

Stallone, especially in this film. And I even

watched, like, the reboot, and I was like, what

the fuck is this? This is not even cool. Like,

it was so limited. I didn't like it at all. It

was just a big like super cool 90s movie and

it's everything that I love Alright, I agree

that the 90s film is much better than the remake

But you don't necessarily like Really? Just shock

the shit out of Dan What's the other one that

they'd try to do that with? Total Recall Dread?

Call of Urban? Yeah Are you thinking of the right

movie? Maybe I'm not One location and they're

going up the tree the fucking building the whole

time. Yeah saying that the 90s version was better

Okay, wow Oh by far What's wrong with you? What's

wrong with you? It's great nutrients the nutrient

is Like a very good movie carbons great the actions

phenomenal. Yeah, I had turned that a great deal

Maybe I haven't seen these two in long enough

to remember what I'm talking about. We just watched,

oh no, we watched Demolition Man the other day,

didn't we? I didn't watch any of them. You think

you get a Total Recall? That's what was coming

to my mind. I don't remember if I'm lumping those

all together or not. I know the Total Recall

remake was garbage compared to Total Recall.

Am I right? Am I right? Yeah. Yeah, you're right

on that. Okay, I'll have to revisit Dread because

maybe I haven't even seen those movies. I don't

know. I feel like I have, but maybe I haven't.

It's got that guy from The Animal. What's his

name in it? The animal? Yeah, the hot chick.

You're just naming words that... Rob Schneider?

Rob Schneider, he's in it, yeah. That's not good.

That's not a vote in its favor. It is. I don't

think the animal is Rob Schneider's seminal piece

either. He was the main guy in it. Like, I thought

we were going back to Muppets. I was like, animal?

Like, what? Like, I don't know what we're talking

about right now. Oh man, alright. You just threw

me all kinds off with your Judge Dredd pick.

Alright so much hate for my pick here guys. Well

it's funny because I was just gonna bring up

that this is gonna be my second film in a row

from 1995 and then I was looking and I have like

five films from 1995 in the top 50 and then you

said like oh we're gonna get serious and you

said a film from 95 I'm like oh it's gonna be

one of the ones that I'm talking about. Not at

all. Alright, for my number 33, I'm gonna go

to a 1995 film from Mr. Mel Gibson, and we're

gonna go Braveheart at number 33. I feel like

this one's been kind of lost along the way here

in the last decade or two, and it seems like

it's not talked about that much, but - Because

Mel Gibson is a pariah! The film is still fantastic.

I don't disagree with that. So yeah Braveheart

I I was I remember growing up like I actually

like I told myself that Patriot was a better

movie Because I was just much more into US history

I think at the time but Braveheart is is easily

the superior Film from a filmmaking standpoint

and everything else like that. So yeah, I love

Braveheart. What's not to love about Braveheart?

It's number 33 Yeah, I do like I do like Braveheart

too. It's It is a brutal, brutal movie though.

Yes. For my number 33, so I talked about a few

films throughout this countdown, how I really

love movies about news, about journalism, and

that'll be conditionally coming up, and it's

coming up again with my number 33, and it's directed

by George Clooney, and it's Good Night and Good

Luck. The movie that covers the battle between

Edward R. Murrow and James McCarthy, I just,

you know, Daniel Straethorn, he is the performance

of Murrow and he's just amazing in this. The

performance that he gives as he kind of recreates

a lot of his infamous speeches is just so spot

on. He's able to capture what Murrow did in real

life without just doing an interpretation. Love

the use of black and white. It was a really smart

move along with the idea of using McCarthy's

actual footage rather than getting an actor because

I think that was a good way of capturing that

time and making it feel along those lines. So

it's almost noir -esque as well the way it shot.

I mean a lot of great atmosphere using like cigarette

smoke to really kind of bring you to that time.

It gets me excited any time Clooney comes out

with a movie even if he's disappointed in me

with things like Eyes of March and Monument's

Men. I just think back to this and thinking about

how great of a film we put together. I hope one

day he can get back to it, but for me, and maybe

I love it more because it's a topic that I tend

to enjoy, but still it's a... a great film, even

if you just pick out some of the clips from the

film, from the speeches that he does, I think

it's worth watching because it's gonna get you

excited to watch the entire film. Yeah, I love

this film. I remember when it came out, us both

being pretty high on it. I don't know how I missed

my top 100, but it was definitely one of the

ones that I had circulating amongst the list

as I was trying to break it down and it just

kind of got left off somehow. But I really enjoy

this film as well. It's right up my alley. So

I think anybody that likes that the topic or

the genre should definitely check that one out.

It's a high recommend for me as well. Matt, number

32. Oh man, my number 32 should come as no surprise

at Conan the Barbarian, man. Like it's a solid

fantasy movie. It's one of my favorite genres,

if not my favorite genre of all time. And it,

I don't know, more or less invented the category

as far as movies are concerned. Like it's just,

it's Arnold Schwarzenegger at his peak, like

at his peak physically, right? Like he's just

Mr. He is Mr. Universe here. And then it's got,

you know, like Dungeons & Dragons like you got

a barbarian and a thief and uh like I don't know

like more of a ranger character and they're getting

together and they're they're doing quests they're

like I think they pull off like a heist situation

actually towards the then like the end of the

second act like it's it's real good it may not

be the best things have come along since then

but it is real good and it's it's real fun to

watch Even if it's got one of the worst like

character backstories ever where it's just like

hey look at this guy He's he's in a battle arena,

and now he's an adult He's really good, and then

like he just gets released for no reason now.

Let's start the actual movie I think that the

whole like fantasy Like genre is super cool in

general and when you can get like a super solid

fantasy film like this and the sequel wasn't

as wasn't that bad either Was it like I remember

destroyers salad. Yeah. Yeah, I remember liking

both of them made me want ferrets and I think

that it definitely is him in his element and

This is something that you can rewatch to it.

It definitely holds up over time Dan. Have you

seen the Conan films? Not since I was a kid,

but I will say the remake was better. Not really.

Fighting words. It's not very good at all. It

was just Carl Drago's... I know that's not his

real name, but it was just his warm up before

he became Aquaman, basically. Yeah, for sure.

Stay away from that, go back into the vault and

watch one of the original ones and see how you

like it. I think that definitely represents a

certain time. Arnold, like you guys said, at

his peak. Alright, Amanda. Number 32. My 32.

It's my only 80s movie in this section. Taking

it to 80 -fo. Not a lot to say about this that

we haven't already said, and that's Ghostbusters.

What are you gonna call? Okay? That's all I'm

gonna say. Ghostbusters? Yeah. Basically. Alright.

Do I need to say anything about it? I mean, do

we need to gush more about this? I don't think

so. I think we've set our piece on Ghostbusters.

We have all keep the praises on it. You can go

listen to our episode on the new Ghostbusters

review. You can do that because then we're gonna

talk about it there, right? No plug, Kevin. Go

for it. Alright, for my number 32, my third 1995

film in a row and fifth, like I said, in the

last 20. So I had seven. We had Heat. We had

Usual Suspects and Braveheart, but I guess...

the best film for me from 95 and man I don't

know I think it depends on again when you watch

all these and what kind of day of the week it

is and what you're aiming for I don't think people

are as high on this one as maybe I am but for

my number 32 I'm going to go to Martin Scorsese

and Casino I've watched this one so many times.

I'm not a big person on rewatching films, but

this was another one during college that we probably

watched at least a dozen times, and I showed

it to you, Amanda, for the first time last year.

Yeah, last year. I don't remember if you liked

it or not. Yeah, it was solid. So, I think it's

De Niro and his element, obviously, and I just

think there's a lot to love. It is a little bit

long, and I think some people have issues with

the back half of it, or the back third, maybe

the final act, but I enjoy the whole thing, so

Casino is my number 32. Damn. Very nice. I actually

watched that for the first time. I remember we

did our list of shame that was on my list of

shame and I actually finally crossed it off not

too long ago. Do you think it's pretty inferior

compared to some of the other ones in that genre

or do you think it kind of is in the same conversation?

For Scorsese or for just the crime genre? Just

the mob crimes, you know, kind of like with Goodfellas

and... I don't know if Godfather is a little

bit up there, but those types of films. I would

say it's more of a second tier compared to the

top echelon for me. It's not the best of the

best, but I think it's so good. Quality -wise,

I would probably put it along the same lines

of something like an L .A. Confidential or something

like that. All right. My next film is... I hope

I get that I can pronounce this right. I don't

think you guys may have heard of it. It's one

of those little, little smaller films that I'm

hoping one day it will get an audience. Maybe

like if we talked about it more, you know, people

will seek it out and watch it. It's this empire

strikes back is my next. Sorry, that was a lame

joke, I apologize. But it's just because there's

not much more we can talk about when it comes

to Empire Strikes Back. But as a kid, it was

my go -to Star Wars film, Battle of Hoth, basically.

I loved that sequence. I loved playing the...

I think I did that level over and over again

just because of how much I loved it. It's by

far for me my favorite Star Wars film. Maybe

it's too low for Star Wars for a lot of people.

I do like Star Wars. Maybe I don't love it as

much as... as compared to other people, but like

I said, it's Empire Strikes Back. Not much more

to say about it than that. I agree. All right,

Matt, last film for today, our number 31 picks,

what do you have? Oh, I'm not gonna talk about

Star Wars for so long, guys. My last one for

today, like... Don't know if you guys will remember

this one time I took a week off work and watched

like seven Kevin Smith movies and So I had to

put a couple of them on here and my first one

that y 'all ran into I think is Clerks like it

his original is starting this starting point

in film Like clerks is such a good movie and

it spawned so many more fun and great movies

like I love his universe and I love these characters

and I'm real upset about all the things that

are happening with his filming career right now

where it's like deals are getting made and broken

and this is coming, no it's not. This is gonna

be a TV show and it's not happening. I just want

more and more and more and Clerks is what started

it all, it's great. Definitely worth a watch.

Dan, thoughts on Clerks? Yeah, I mean that was

also my introductory to to Kevin Smith and I

do love clerks a lot. It changed the game in

a lot of ways when it came to comedy and how

it something we take for granted today where

we're just people talking and getting really

deep and already into different things like Star

Wars. You know now we have podcast but at that

time that was that was a pretty different thing

a big reason why Smith was Kevin Smith has been

around still today. So yeah, I mean Uh, it made

Kevin Smith an empire. So, gotta give it credit.

Alright, Amanda, thoughts on Clerks? Uh, I like

Dogma. No thoughts on Clerks? Uh, I haven't,

I don't remember seeing the original Clerks.

Maybe, I think I've seen it, but I don't, I don't

know if it really stuck with me. Is that, that's,

man, okay, I saw Clerks 2, I know that, because

didn't their, like, video store thing burn down?

Their convenience store thing? Yeah. We can't

spoil our first bit of the movie. Yeah, call

now. But I've seen Dogma, Jane, Silent Bob, Strike

Back, Clerks 2. I haven't seen Chasing Amy or

all of the first Clerks. So I mean, I can't really

see much, but I do like Kevin Smith's stuff and

I like his characters. All right. Well, what's

your last pick for today? Don't know if I can

I'm not supposed to talk about it. That's 1999's

Fight Club This is such a trippy movie really

if you think about it and it's like a total it's

a total mind game here this entire movie and

it's intense beyond belief and Brutal, but it

really asks some you know serious questions about

you know What we hold dear and like what what

what it says about society is is pretty cool

Yeah, it's one of the few films that I actually

had to write in pretty long paper on in college

I think it was like a 10 page paper that we had

to write on Fight Club. Why on Fight Club? That's

what the professor picked. It was some type of

Rhetoric course and she showed us Fight Club

and we had to write about it Yikes. So I should

dig that out and see if any of the things that

I wrote down makes any sense. But I agree, Fight

Club is a great movie and definitely an iconic

90s film. Alright, for my number 31, Amanda you

might as well just go on mute so you don't have

to roll your eyes and guffaw and chastise my

pick because I love it and I don't care and it's

my list. So for my number 31 I'm going to go

to 2012. I'm going to go to I've said it a billion

times on the podcast and everybody always rolls

their eyes, but lame is from 2012 with Russell

Crowe and Hugh Jackman I love this film and I

I Enjoyed it quite a bit on the first watch and

every year that's passed. I've grown to love

it more I I think it's one of the best musicals

ever made as far as the songs go and as far as

just everything basically about the story and

how rich it is with its different plot elements

and themes and kind of what it has to say about

a whole bunch of different things. It's so layered

and I think you could really spend a lot of time

dissecting this and still have more to dissect.

I did dissect this in school but I watched the

Liam Neeson version which is way better, okay?

I disagree. Did you see the Liam Neeson one?

No, you didn't. So you can't disagree. Have you

seen this one? Yeah, I saw five minutes of it

and I shuddered the fuck off. You didn't see

the whole thing. No. I think this was one of

those films that we went to the theater. I went

to the theater to watch it and people were getting

up and leaving and walking out five minutes,

ten minutes into it and I was just so confused.

Did you guys not understand what you were coming

to see? It's a musical. That's what it is. So

I don't know. I love it. I can't believe that

you didn't watch more than five minutes of it.

We're gonna have to rectify that. I can't believe

you haven't seen a lot of these movies on my

list. And you don't have to be a jerk about it.

Alright, number 31 on my list, Les Mis from 2012.

Dan, what's your last pick for today? My last

pick I think is a movie that I'm pretty sure

everyone's seen and everyone listening to this

podcast has seen. One of the greatest action

films of the 1980s and that is Die Hard. The

first Die Hard with Bruce Willis. As a kid, I

was not a huge fan of like the 80s genre of action,

like the over -the -top ridiculousness of something

like a commando. I just kind of got bored with

it, but I love Die Hard. And oddly, the first...

Like an experience I had with Die Hard was not

with Die Hard. It was an episode of Bobby's World

that re -creates Die Hard. And I'm like, that

looks like that's a great idea. Why didn't they

make a movie of that as I'm like eight years

old and not knowing it's an actual film? So watching

Die Hard, things kind of went off in my head.

Like, oh, this is where they got that from. Oh,

they're smart. But it's Die Hard. It's... It

reinvented the reel when it came to movies. Unfortunately,

it keeps going, even though it shouldn't. We

now have things that all die hard. We die hard

in a White House. I die hard on a bus. I had

speed the beginning of this countdown way back

in the late 90s of my list. It's a great movie

that I think takes its time to get to the action,

but when it does, it's amazing. I think when

I talked about action films a couple years ago

I think it's it's one of those a lot of people

have at the top of the list as far as one of

the best action films of all time and Dan you're

bringing out a bunch of heavy hitters today for

sure man there is a Quite a few movies on your

list that I have I had to stay somewhat mum on

because they're much higher on my list, but Definitely

what you said in the preface was was accurate.

You had some some big movies both old classics

both 80s, you know Action blockbusters Star Wars

on there. So very impressed and I can't wait

to see what you're filling your top of your list

off And you're gonna make us all probably look

look and feel stupid with the the great pics

that you have at the top of your list Why don't

you have nice things to say about my list Kevin

because I haven't seen anything and you know

what? I saw Ghostbusters. You could at least

say something nice One movie. I will watch those

and then I will report back to you. I will tell

you on the spot how great they are. Then don't

be shitty up front when I make my picks. I will

say a lot of movies you guys actually have talked

about, I have much higher so it's kind of funny.

It'll be interesting to see how it kind of flip

-flops for some of them. Definitely a lot of

films that are going to be criss -crossing our

way as we make our way through our final 30.

Matt, what do you think so far of the list and

what should we expect from you the rest of the

way? I forgot to put Die Hard on my list. Like,

I'm looking at the ones that didn't even, oh

wait, oh, nope. Okay, nevermind, I had a space

in it. And so, like, I did a search in my document

without a space. I tried to put it on my list,

okay, I feel better. Oh, dude, my list is gonna

get worse before it gets better, for sure. The

next one's just gonna be all superhero movies,

heads up. Alright, so I'll just see how they

rank and which ones you put above other ones

because we've heard some recent superhero talk

obviously when we did our March Madness and we

know how you feel about some of those films so

it'll be interesting to see which ones made your

list. Alright, so everybody that's listening

make sure you let us know which films were crazy

for having so much love for, which ones you're

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to You want to show your son? Maybe you can talk

a couple seconds about that in case people are

interested to check out and read some of those

Oh, yeah, sure. So like I wanted to do movie

review blog, but I'm not seeing a lot of really

current stuff and I feel like This is something

a little bit different. So basically I'm going

through in one of the movies I actually would

talk down here will be included and basically

movies I want to show my son. So the idea behind

it is like my personal attachment to that film

lessons I feel you can learn movie -wise or life

-wise, and then concerns I kind of have thinking,

you know what, this might not work as much as

I would love it to do. And as we're speaking

right now, I think the ones that are out are,

I have one on the Sandlot, one on Bicycle Thieves,

and out shortly by the time this is released,

most people will. Most recent one would be Back

to the Future, so enjoy that. Yeah, so definitely

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So that's it for this episode. We'll be back

with another episode in our video game series

Spotlight as well as our Miyazaki spotlight we

have episodes from both of those spotlights coming

forward to you guys So hopefully you'll enjoy

those as well And then we'll be back in a little

while to count down our number 30 through 21

picks next time we go back to the top 100. So

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