Top 100 Films of All-Time: #10-1

Hey guys, this is Rob Paulson and you're listening

to the GeekCast Radio Network. Hello and welcome

to episode 148 of The Cinema Geeks. I am one

of your Cinema Geeks Optimus Solo and joining

me for today's episode is Hard Candy Mandy. Hey

dudette. Move your bowl, Dan. Hey. How's it going?

Going well. And, friendly sent. Hello Matt. Hi.

We are all here and accounted for and like I

said this is episode 148 and we are going to

put the final touches on something we started

way back. episode 100 so it only took us about

50 episodes I guess we should have waited and

made this be episode 150 but we're not constrained

by the numbers I guess too much so 48 episodes

ago we started our top 100 personal film list

and today we are finally at our number 10 through

one. Not quite 48 episodes ago, but only a few

episodes ago we also placed a wager on our top

30. I'm just going to remind folks on what that

was, in case we didn't beat that to death by

now, but when we started our top 30 we made a

wager on how many films would appear on all four

of the Cinema Geeks list, thinking that we might

have some commonalities amongst us. So far we've

revealed 20 of those 30 picks and we have zero

common picks. The closest we have is a film showing

up so far on at least two lists. So we haven't

even gotten to a film that has made it onto three

lists yet. We have three films that have been

on two people's lists. That'd be Jurassic Park

that was on Amanda and my list. We had Aladdin,

which was on Amanda and Dan's list. And we had

12 Angry Men, which was on Dan and my list. So,

so far 0 for 20 as far as getting one that was

on all four people's list. Let's wait and see.

Maybe we had them all stacked up here towards

the top. We also placed a wager on how many it

would be, and it's looking like whoever had the

lowest vote on that is in the driver's seat.

So before we start revealing our actual top 10,

it's been a long journey to get here. We've already

revealed 90 films. And we might have something

to say about what's left. So Amanda, anything

to preface your top ten films on your personal

list of all time? My list at this point is all

over the place. So I guess that makes me all

over the place because this movie list should

reflect me, my personality via movies. So you

guys be the judge here. You let me know. Alright,

fair enough. Matt, what do you think? What do

you want to say about your top 10 before we start

revealing it? Oh man, well, for the 11 through

90, or 11 through 100, I wish I had a better

memory, because I'm looking at the movies that

didn't quite make the list, because I've got

it all in one big spreadsheet. And it's just

like, oh man, that's a good movie, but do I remember

it enough to put it in? Just over and over again.

Like I think we'd have more in common if I had

a better memory because I like I've definitely

seen 12 angry men And it was definitely really

good So like like yeah, I wish I had a better

memory, but my top ten like will stick with me

for a lot Well, my top nine will stick with me

for a long time like some of these are movies

that I like I'm not a big fan of re -watching

movies because I like to experience new things.

That's life. It's constantly new things changing

and expanding. But these ones, every one of the

top nine I've seen at least three times. Excellent,

excellent. Great. Dan, what about your list?

What do you want to say about it before we start

to get into the actual picks? I think it's a

mixture of films that I think I've loved all

my life that made me fall in love with movies

and also movies that kind of... Adjusted the

way I view films and kind of had an impact that

way. So excellent For me, I'm a little mixed

here. I guess I represent three different decades

here But it was a I think what Dan said a little

bit to his films that I've loved most of my life

So there's gonna be some that are obviously representing

more films that were either out already or came

out during my younger days. Only two films from

the year 2000 onward cracked my top ten, otherwise

I'm kind of split between the 80s and the 90s.

So no classic films for me today. I've already

revealed all those in the prior chunks, so I

don't know what people think. Maybe I'm going

with the obvious choices for some of these, but

like Dan was saying, these are films that either

Fell in love with or that helped change my viewpoint

on on film in general Especially two of them

that will come up Really kind of made me fall

in love with movies. So let's get right to the

actual picks then Matt usually lead things off

So what is your number ten? All right my number

ten Everyone well, I don't know about Amanda,

but I know the other two have seen it because

it was a Quentin Tarantino And that's one of

his more recent ones, Django Unchained. I just

really loved this movie. And as far as just the

two western movies Quentin Tarantino does, I

think it's the superior movie. Like, I really

like it a lot more than The Hateful Eight. But

I just, I love the story. I love that it's just

like three hours long and it just takes you for

just a whole ride. Like, it's so good. Yeah,

and another thing to look out for I guess is

we'll see how many directors make multiple appearances

amongst our 40 picks today, so can't Argue with

Django and Shane obviously Dan and I did a episode

specifically about Django and and kind of where

we thought it ranked for us amongst The Tarantino

films you can go back and check that out, but

a great film I agree Amanda You're up. What's

your first pick today? So don't get too excited

because I think this is Not everyone's favorite

in this series, but this is definitely my favorite

in the series. From 1984, Indiana Jones and the

Temple of Doom. Temple of doom I scared the shit

out of me when I was little when he ripped that

guy's heart out of his chest and was still beating

Scared me and that the snakes and the bugs and

that the little crawl space that they had to

go through Some crazy stuff that they had to

deal with the chilled monkey brains and freaked

me out So this one definitely is the one that

I've seen the most and sticks in my memory No,

I can't remember how you've been doing your list

Is that are you kind of just making a spot for

Indiana Jones in general and highlighting temple

of doom or are you specifically? fan of Temple

of Doom and not maybe the other ones? Um, if

there were picks here from a series, I picked

my favorite one from the series. Mostly is that

what you did here as far as Indiana Jones or

do you only like Temple of Doom? No, I like Indiana

Jones. It's just my favorite one of the series.

Alright. Any thoughts on Temple of Doom from

anybody? You know, I like, I watched the Indiana

Jones movies as an adult. which was a mistake

i know and i watched them all over one or two

days so i couldn't tell you the difference i

know one of them's got an old man cup and then

one of them i think is the one she's talking

about where they're like tied up over a fire

or something and then and then there's like the

like the the the ten commandments but i couldn't

i couldn't tell you like it's like it's ten commandments

in cup the same one different one i don't know

um The only one that sets apart for me is the

crystal skull But because I watched them I was

an adult and I didn't have any like longing or

nostalgia or like waiting for it I don't think

it's nearly as bad as everyone thinks Dan, what

do you think about crystal skulls and temple

of doom? Crystal skulls and temple of doom. I

would I would say I really enjoy the Raiders

films and you know I really enjoy the Indiana

Jones films and I might talk about more of them

later. I already obviously mentioned Indiana

Jones in the last episode of this series. It

came in at my number 13 pick. I highlighted Raiders

of the Lost Ark but still an Indiana Jones pick

so that would be two picks for Indiana Jones

I guess now during the top 30. So another one

joining that club. For my number 10, I'm going

back to 1988 for what a lot of people may consider

one of if not the best action film of all time

and something that I watched at an age that apparently

I was not supposed to according to my parents

but that would be Die Hard from John McTiernan.

I remember specifically it was a film that my

brother who is 10 years older than than I am

and a couple of his friends or maybe some of

the relatives were down in our basement watching

and I remember sneaking all the way down the

stairs behind the couch and watching it from

behind the couch like peeking around the side

to see what the heck they were watching and Thoroughly

enjoyed it. I think they they at some point had

to have known I was there But they're like this

is die -hard so you can watch this we won't tell

the parents But I love the die -hard series when

growing up and going through high school I watched

die -hard and the lethal weapon series both on

repeat and I just think Die Hard is timeless

and it's just so well crafted and I agree with

everybody that puts it obviously as one of the

best action films, hence why it's in my top 10.

Dan? Nice, yeah, it was 31 for me so I obviously

love it as well. For my number 10, my number

10 is my most recent film in my top 10 by far

and actually one of the most recent films I've

talked about in this countdown and that's Spike

Jonze's Her, which I believe was on Yeah kevin

your top 100 someplace like one of the first

episodes if i'm not mistaken Yeah, I i've seen

this movie. I think if I look at the most current

films since like 2010 This is by far the movie

i've watched the most and i've loved it every

It's like I meant I mentioned it as my favorite

movie the decade so far and I really don't see

that changing or it being very highly unlikely.

I love the story, I love the world. There's so

much about it that what it gets into, the performances,

the relationship between Walking in Phoenix and

Scholar Johansson, I don't know, I just think

it's a perfect film. All the way down to an amazing

movie poster. So it's my number 10. Yeah, interesting

that my number 10 was in your 30s and your number

10 was in my 30s because I had this at number

39 and I think the only thing that was keeping

me from raising it higher is I have not had a

chance to rewatch it since 2013. I don't know

why but I have not rewatched it so I was basing

it all on that first time watching it and the

memories and how highly I held it in the steam

that year but I would really like to revisit

it to see where I would like maybe how far it

would move up on my list. All right, that brings

us back to Matt for your number nine pick. All

right, my number nine pick, I watched back when

this show was two names ago. And I remember just

fawning over it then. And it deserves the ninth

spot. If you haven't seen it, you need to see

it. That's the 2014 Hercules movie with Dwayne

The Rock Johnson. I think it's one of the best

fantasy action movies you'll ever find. It's

miles better than the Arnold Conan, which is

a great standard of fantasy in the story. But

it's just so much better. The intricacies, the

depth, is there magic? Isn't there magic? Is

he the son of Zeus? Is he not? Just the things

they do in this movie, I just love it. And I

try to show it to everyone. I practically carry

the Blu -ray around with me to show everyone,

because it's just that good. Yeah, I thought

that one deserved a little bit more love than

it got when it came out because I think, I agree,

I really like some of the angles that they went

with that and kind of the whole play on what

other ways he was, kind of tactics he had to

do some of the things that he was doing and kind

of the camaraderie with the group as well. I

thought there was a good performance from the

entire ensemble. Amanda, you liked that film

too. Yeah, it was pretty good. Any other thoughts?

I don't remember, I've only seen it one time,

and I mean, I remember what the dealio was, but

not to rave too much about it, I guess. Alright,

then go ahead with something you can rave about

in your number 9 pick. Okay, I am gonna rave

about this one. Actually, not much to say. 1988's

Beetlejuice. Don't say it two more times. Beetlejuice.

Don't do it. I almost said it once. Gina Davis!

Young -ass skinny Alec Baldwin, Michael Keaton

in one of his most infamous roles I'm gonna say

I just dig this world that they built here and

all the crazy disgusting stuff that happens.

It's great. I don't think this is the first time

this has come up in This series I believe somebody

else mentioned it maybe myself but yeah, I think

Beetlejuice is definitely a classic film classic

Tim Burton and A very iconic character so I can

definitely see why that would make your list

anybody else thoughts on Beetlejuice I've never

seen it and I apologize for that I don't think

it deserves to be number 9 out of 100, but you

definitely deserves to be watched. What? How

dare you say that? I'm attacking everyone. Put

it down. I actually almost made Tim Burton my

choice for the director's retrospective because

I realized I haven't seen Beetlejuice in some

of his other, like his first filmography. Oh,

nice. That'd be a good idea maybe for one of

those future ones. I like that. Or maybe a Halloween

episode. Let's see if we can work in some type

of Beetlejuice review at some point to force

Dan to watch this one. For my number nine I am

going into the 90s, 1992. I just think the the

script for this obviously is based on a actual

play but I think it was just translated super

well to a movie which doesn't always happen from

that medium and I'm going with A Few Good Men

from 1992 because I just love the dialogue in

this film. I love the scenes that we get in the

courtroom especially with Tom Cruise and Jack

Nicholson. I watched this on repeat I think for

quite a few years and I'm like mad I don't watch

a lot of movies. I don't do a lot of multi -watching

as far as watching it a second time third time

because I'm always trying to watch a new movie

but a few good men I can watch endlessly and

get just as much enjoyment out of it. I don't

know why I love it so much but it just works

for me on Great level. If you have TNT, you're

bound to watch this a few times. So a few good

men is my number nine, Dan. I don't think I could

handle that choice, to be honest with you, but...

I'm sorry. I got him, Dan. I got the joke. I

don't think it was an issue of getting in. I

think it was an issue of it not being very funny.

My number nine, he talked about... Temple of

Doom in my number nine and maybe the more obvious

choice, but it is Raiders of the Lost Ark I love

it's The ultimate for me the ultimate action

adventure film it. I mean, I think The whole

franchise is pretty good. I like like Matt. I

don't necessarily hate Crystal Skull as much

as a lot of people do I think there's some issues

with it, but Raiders to me is just it's Just

the epitome of fun in a movie It's a style Harrison

Ford. He's just a great character to Indiana

Jones I know we're doing top 100 villains, but

if we're doing greatest heroes, I think he would

be in like my top five There's something about

him like his everything from his love of snakes

And I think what's great about it too is like

our introduction to this character. He does all

this heroic stuff He's running away from boulders,

but ultimately he ends up failing and he does

that more often than not in the movie but I just

I love Raiders. It is one I've probably seen

a lot and though I see I think like the first

time I actually watched it through was much later

in life but so it's a great film. Yeah, and obviously

I talked about it a little bit a second ago and

before I go back and forth between Raiders and

The Last Crusade But yeah, I think this is one

of definitely one of the franchises that made

me fall in love with the magic of movies in general

As far as on like a live -action standpoint,

so that's the first film that's been on three

people's list So there we go first in that club

Matt, what do you have at your number eight?

My number eight This is another director that

could have totally been a spotlight. And my number

eight is the movie Unbreakable. I keep wanting

to intro it, but I don't want to spoil it, even

if it is a decade old. I really love this movie.

Bruce Willis is great. Sam Jackson is great.

It's a good movie. Go see it. If you're gonna

ask me about another movie that this guy did,

yeah, I have heard. Amanda, what do you think

of Unbreakable? I like it. It's a commitment

though, like it's a long watch and it's kind

of slow. It's like a slow moving film. I don't

know if that's just me because of how long it

is or things are a little drawn out, but it's

a super cool concept. Alright, and what do you

have at number 8? Oh, bring on the heckling.

1992's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Little did I

know, this is written by Joss Whedon. Listen

to this cast here, it's big. Christy Swanson,

Donald Sutherland, Paul Rubins, okay, do you

guys know who that is? Yes. Kiwi Herman. David

Arquette, Luke Perry, Hilary Swank. An uncredited

Ben Affleck is in this. I think this might be

one of his first appearances. That's the best

kind of Ben Affleck is the uncredited Ben Affleck.

He's got one line. Alexis Arquette, Seth Green,

and Richie Friggin Lake. I love this movie so

much. It was just enough comedy for me not to

be terrified of the vampire aspect, and it really

got me into loving vampires when I was younger.

I don't know. I loved everything about this.

I wanted to be Buffy so bad. She's this swank

chick, but then she whooped ass. It was amazing.

I love when you read cast lists because most

times people are like listen to this and it's

like Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Harrison

Ford. You're like Pee Wee Herman, Ricky Lake.

I've never seen Buffy so I can't comment. Oh

my god, Kevin. I have not either. Oh my god!

Matt? I have! Yes! I haven't seen Unbreakable

either, so that was that. Oh man, look at Dan.

He's seen so many. I thought we were done with

them. We're getting revenge for all the films

that you mentioned earlier, Dan, that we haven't

seen. Alright, so Matt, what were your thoughts

on Buffy? Oh man, so... I'm just trying to pick

a fight between you two, by the way. No, here's

the thing. She said there's enough comedy to...

to, uh, to offset the vampirism. Like, I watched

it at probably too young of an age. I don't remember

exactly, but I, like, definitely don't remember

it very well. And then I had a friend who was

really into horror movies, like, we should watch

this, like, years later, and I was like, I don't

know, man, you like scary things that's got vampires.

And he's like, I know you've seen it. I was like,

yeah, but I don't remember it, so I don't want

to get nightmares again. Um, so I haven't rewatched

it since I was real, real little, like, eight?

Yeah, I don't think it is especially based on

just the TV show Which is a different actress

yeah, and she doesn't rip off half of her prom

dress and put on a leather jacket and go kick

vampires in the face All right for my number

eight I'm gonna venture into the 2000s with actually

a film from the year 2000 Ridley Scott joint

called gladiator because I think it was easily

one of the best films of the decade that it came

out and one of the best films of the year 2000

and I Again, I think there's a lot done well

in this film. I think Russell Crowe. It's one

of his best roles obviously walking yeah, walking

Phoenix is Creepy as hell and I just think there's

good writing good action good a lot of things.

So gladiator is my number eight Anybody thoughts

on gladiator brutal brutal film brutal. All right,

Dan. What's your number eight? Anytime you have

a dude fighting a tiger. It's a good call. Yes

My number eight is from a director that's already

been mentioned already, and that's Quentin Tarantino,

and it's Pulp Fiction. When we did the retrospective,

I said that I thought Inglourious Basterds was

his best film, but Pulp Fiction is my favorite

film of his. I feel like it's had, again, a huge

impact on me regarding the way I view films and

the fact that it was like... one of the few times

I actually even recognized the impact of a director

in a way or saw a film that was made the way

it was categorically and with non -linear storytelling

and just the variety of different characters

and how there's no real main antagonist or protagonist.

It's just kind of a story being told and so I

love it. I just think it's again a great soundtrack.

I know a lot of people I feel like I see it a

lot on like people's overrated list or what have

you which is fine but for me it's a movie I've

always loved so yeah I'm obviously in agreement

I had it at my number 20 so not too too far off

with my thoughts on that so that's another film

that's been on at least two people's list joins

that club Amanda thought? this movie disturbs

me like real bad yeah yeah I mean it's a good

movie I'm not gonna deny that but it Maybe I

saw it too young and it messed me up. What disturbs

you? Huh? What disturbs you about it? Uh, I don't

really want to talk about, like, some of the

most disturbing things. Alright. Like, I'm not

talking about, you know, accidentally shooting

that guy in the head in the backseat, like...

Spoiler alert. Not. If you haven't seen it by

now, I don't know if you're doing it with your

life. But, uh, I'm not talking about that, no.

Okay. Fair enough. That means it's back to Matt.

We're flying right along here. What's your number

seven pick? Oh, right. My number seven. We just

talked about it. That's Howl's Moving Castle.

I think it's probably my favorite. Well, it's

one of the best adventure movies ever made. It's

amazing. I love it. It's also right up there

in that fantasy, which is what I love. Like,

you know, I've got a whole episode where I talked

about you can go get that if you forgot. Yeah,

obviously we all thought pretty highly of Howl's

Moving Castle and gave it a pretty good review

back when we did that episode. So I think we

would all be in agreement of that. That is episode

131 for anybody that wants to go back and get

our full thoughts on that. Amanda, what is your

number seven? Okay, I don't know if you guys

have even heard of this. We'll see. Little gem

from 1989. You know, I'm gonna read the synopsis,

see if you can figure out the synopsis. The what?

I'm gonna read the synopsis. It is, it sounds

a lot more sinister than what it really is. A

dog returns from the dead, looking for revenge

on his killer, using an orphan girl who can talk

to animals. Any guesses? Balto. No. Airbud. All

dogs go to heaven. Yes! It is. Oh man, is that

what it is? Yes, Burt Reynolds, Don Ruiz. This

movie is so fucking... Don Ruiz? Yeah. What did

I say? It's alright. Keep going. I didn't write

down his full name here. Super love this movie,

so sad. I always wanted to own this movie but

for whatever reason my parents never got it for

me and now I feel like as an adult I need to

buy this movie. Super sad but super cool. I loved

all the characters. Charlie was great even though

he was you know kind of looking out for himself

but he did care about the little girl. Definitely

did not. I wouldn't have got that off of that

synopsis. I think I've only seen this one time

actually. when I was little. I don't think I've

ever re -watched it. That's friggin' sad. That's

way more murderous than I thought it would be.

Dude, puppies be dying, man. That's not cool.

Puppies be dying? Is that the quote on the DVD

cover? It is. Is it? That would be awesome. It's

not a dog's purpose. Jeez. Oh man. So back -to

-back animation picks. Well, anime animation,

Howl's Movie Castle, and All Dogs Go To Heaven.

I do not have anything like that for my number

seven. I'm going to go back to a director that's

already been mentioned multiple times just today.

Let's go to Quentin Tarantino and let's pick

a third film out of his filmography that we haven't

talked about yet and I'll go with Inglourious

Basterds as my number seven pick, also my most

recent pick coming from 2009. So we've talked

about Django Unchained, Pulp Fiction, and Inglourious

Basterds. Obviously we're all fans of Mr. Tarantino

and you can go back to our episode about Inglourious

Basterds to get more of my thoughts on that.

It's both the movie I think is the best in his

filmography and it happens to be my favorite

film in his filmography. Dan? Alrighty, I'm also

gonna go to a director that was already mentioned,

I think only once though, by Kevin with Gladiator,

and I think to a franchise that's been mentioned

a couple times already, and I know some people,

I think when it was, I think it was more of Aliens,

if I'm not mistaken, but for my number seven

is Alien. I've gone back and forth which one

I enjoy more, Alien or Aliens, and to me they're

just honestly catch me on a different day, and

I might think differently, but I think Alien...

It's a slight nod for me mainly because of just

feel like it's so tightly paced and it's The

way it builds the character we're really I think

is pretty genius And the xenomorph itself is

I would think one of the greatest movie creatures

of all time And for movie that came out in 1979

still holds up tremendously today well, so much

so they've been trying to kind of redo it ever

since then but I know it's I know it's a Great

horror film great science fiction film and Kind

of the best of both worlds there. So it's my

number seven Yeah, we're only ten picks off with

that because I had the alien franchise at my

number 17 I think I highlighted aliens as you

said, but I agree with you 100 % it kind of depends

on what your mood is and Where you are with with

those two films because they're both so much

on equal footing and equal playing ground But

yeah, definitely agree with alien franchise being

represented Amanda any thoughts on alien aliens?

Um, I've said my piece. Okay, fair enough. Matt,

I believe that means it is your turn for number

six. Well, since we're repeating directors of

everyone else and stuff, I'm gonna repeat my

last guy and go with my neighbor Totoro, which

I believe I said was my favorite of the Miyazaki's.

I gave it a 10, I believe. It deserves every

one of those. It's amazing, and if you don't

feel something, then you're heartless. Yeah,

I agree because I had that also at the top of

my list for the Miyazaki spotlight So there's

no way I'm arguing that point with you and if

I if we had done the spotlight prior to making

this list There's a chance that I might have

cracked my top 100 as well somewhere. I don't

know where but somewhere Amanda cat bus bus number

six my number six I don't have a whole lot to

say about this one. That's a little film from

1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Yes. Love

it. I was Raphael three times for Halloween when

I was little. I love the Ninja Turtles. I love

the cartoon when I was little. Well, the one

in the 90s that I watched. And all the live -action

films up until Michael Bay got a hold of them

were amazing. I love that they're not CG. I love

that they were real rubber suits. It made them

look real to me. I love all their personalities.

Their interactions with their characters. Casey

friggin' Jones. Splinter. The Funniest Rat. Alive.

That film doesn't get enough credit for the writing

because I actually do like the writing in the

dialogue They put in there for what they were

going for and then being a kid's movie and an

adaptation of this cartoon to the comic book

to live -action I don't know if I could say that

the third one that I would rate very highly.

Is that when they go back in time? Yeah, but

I really do enjoy the first two especially the

first one though. So I love Teenage Mutant Ninja

Turtles I did not know this was a as high up

on your list. We should watch this more often

Alright, any other thoughts on Teenage Mutant

Ninja Turtles cracking the top ten? Go Ninja,

go! I mean, I... That's all that needs to be

said. Alright, for my number six, I'm going back

to 1985 for one of the possible choices that

we had put up for the poll for our director retrospective,

even if it didn't win. If it would have, we would

have got a chance to revisit my number six pick,

which is from Robert Zemeckis, and that would

be back to the future. or Back to the Future

2. I'll put Back to the Future 1 slightly above

it, but I enjoy both of them incredibly much.

I think this one... I already enjoyed movies

thanks to Indiana Jones and another franchise

that was out there, but this just once again

showed me what else was possible from an imagination

standpoint and kind of all the little things

that they throw in there and the attention to

detail. It really was a film that made me appreciate

all the little details of items being placed

here and lines here and there. just everything

about the actual um stuff is going on on screen

that you can kind of pick out so i love back

to the future i could watch these films yearly

at least so back to the future is my number six

yeah very cool yeah and i i had that on my list

as well so Great minds think alike. So this is

kind of odd. I didn't realize going in, but as

I was going back and looking at my list, I'm

like, wow, I can't believe that my next four

picks all came out in the same year. So which

is. I didn't all watch them that year. I watched

them, most of them actually, I think only two

of them, I actually watched them the year they

came out, but I guess it was a good year for

me, oddly enough. Starting with my number six

pick, and if I were to look at the movie that

was probably my favorite film for the longest

period of my life, it would probably be this,

but as an adult, it still makes my top 10 just

not quite up at the top, and that's The Sandlot.

Probably the movie I've watched more so than

any other film it you know I loved it growing

up as a kid it reminded me very much of my childhood

and just like going out and playing games with

friends and I just it kind of I realized I set

the stage for the movies I tend to enjoy which

are those that aren't necessarily all about plot

because the Sandlot's plot really doesn't kick

in till its final act but just about characters

in the relationship and kind of like just enjoying

you know, the environment that it's creating.

And as I look through a lot of the movies I've

enjoyed, that tends to be the style. Like I think

there's honestly a lot in common with like a

Sandlot film that's like the way Richard Linklater

movie is done in that sense. Obviously very different

styles, but I think there are some similarities

there. Plus there's a lot of great lines and

it's, I don't know. It's to me the ultimate baseball

movie. So my number six. Alright, yeah, I love

Sandlot. I have not seen that film in a long...

Well, actually, I take that back. I think I saw

most of it a couple years ago, because I caught

it on TV. It wasn't the whole film, but I caught

wherever it was and watched the rest of it. But

I love baseball films and Sandlot, I think, like

you said, is near the top. I think for me, I

slightly prefer Field of Dreams, but they're

completely different films in what they're going

for, so I don't think they necessarily have to

be compared to each other outside of the baseball

aspect. So I enjoy Sandlot. It's interesting

that you said you had a bunch of films from the

same year, because I'm looking at my list, and

I do have... films from the same year but not

quite as many as yours so I'm definitely intrigued

on what else you have from that year. So those

are our ten through six picks. We're gonna take

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Like I said, it's time for the culmination of

this whole project our top five films I don't

know about you guys, but the top five for me

was almost impossible to order So I'll be interested

to see what's on your guys's list as well. Let's

start Matt with you. What is your number five

pick? All right. Um, this direct has come up

a bunch, but I don't think this movie's come

up yet in the top ten Not a Quentin Tarantino

number five reservoir dogs Love the heist genre

And I love that this one turns it entirely on

its head because it's all like the aftermath

rather than the planning and the doing I just

I love this movie. I love the characters. I love

I just you know Quentin Tarantino is probably

my top three. Maybe my number one favorite director

of all time But I'm a little sad. I wasn't there

for your guys retrospective, but like I just

I love this movie Yeah, I'm definitely in agreement.

It was my number 37, so definitely one of my

preferred films in his filmography as well. Dan,

any thoughts on Reservoir Dogs? Yeah, also I'll

usually very much love it as well, and it's my

number 75. I've had a movie poster of it. It

was like one of the first movie posters I bought

in college because that's what you do. Oh, it's

Scarface. So yeah, great movie Amanda did you

have this on your top 100? I thought we might

have had at least one that was in all of our

top 100s there, which we probably have had I

have been tracking that I was gonna say actually

I think the one that's on three of your top 30s

is in my in my 50s. Okay, excellent Amanda it's

not excellent Yeah, whoever had the lowest votes

winning So it's fine for you. What's your number

five number five? 1991 another sad pick my girl

You guys seen this? Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd,

Jamie Lee Curtis. Oh yeah, I know my girl. Wait,

Macaulay Culkin that's not Home Alone? Yeah.

Yeah. Before and before crazy hit set in. Yeah

and I was like, oh it's a freaking Home Alone

kid and some sad shit happens and I was not ready

for it. I think I saw this too soon but I'm glad

I never had like a childhood friend pass away

as I was still a child. Spoiler alert. Nobody's

saying who dies, Kevin. Will you get off my shit?

I'll stab you with my jelly roll pants. Yeah,

but I think it helped me understand, like, coping

with death, and it was freaky and sad, and I

learned a lot from it. I think if I had to make,

like, a tap... 10 or 20 list of like films that

had an emotional impact on me I would definitely

put this on there because I remember being like

crushed when I watched this film and just like

It is beyond sad. So I I enjoy my girl But I

don't tend to seek out a rewatch of that one

for those types reasons as well Dan Matt. Have

you seen my girl? I did when I was a kid when

and I like you remember the I think actually

I wasn't around allowed to watch the ending if

I'm not mistaken, so I missed the best part,

I guess. Well, your parents were a lot better

parents than mine then. They're like, have at

it. Oh, man. Matt, have you seen it? I didn't

hear you. Oh, no, I haven't even heard of it.

Like, I wasn't kidding when I said Macaulay Culkin,

not in Homeland. Yeah, I think he had like a

two -movie stretch before he was no longer a...

functioning. And this was the second one of those.

If you don't count the Home Alone, I guess all

is one. There is a My Girl 2, but some character

does not make it to the second Home Alone. For

some reason. Because he or she was busy with

other films, yes. Alright, so for my number five,

like I said, I could soul interchange these depending

on what day or what... year you asked me to rank

these but I tried to come up with a somewhat

of a reason for why I ranked them. My number

five I'm going back to 1987 for probably my favorite

comedy of all time and that is The Princess Bride.

For a long time this was probably my number one

film as far as my favorite films but I think

for some reasons that you'll hear coming up I

put a few films ahead of it but I This is one

of two films that I could watch probably at least

yearly and never get tired of them. And you'll

hear the other one coming up here in a couple

picks, but I love Princess Bride like no other.

So that is my number five. Dan? Very nice. As

I continue my list of my favorite films of 1994,

and all time surprisingly enough, my number...

My next stories, I am a huge fan of sports documentaries.

There's 30 for 30, and I pretty much enjoy most

of those, but I think it's another level with

my next stories, which is Hoop Dreams. It's Steve

James' epic documentary that I think kind of

changed the game when it came to documentaries

in a lot of ways. It was supposed to be this

small film that ended up being this epic about

all these kids growing up in inner Chicago and

going through all these different like falling

in their lives for a few years it was kind of

crazy the amount of footage and stories that

was were being told and it's one of the films

that I know Ebert and Roper back when they had

And the movie's really brought into the limelight.

And I think Steve James, the big reason like

Steve James was directed or was a part of the

Roger Ebert documentary. But if you go back to

it, you can see why it's just. a really powerful

story that I think still holds up today and you

do see its influences in most of the sports documentaries

you see for ESPN. They take a lot of what was

done with this and try to replicate it, but I

think if you're at all a fan of those, I would

highly advise seeing Hoop Dreams. Yeah, I agree

with everything you said there. I don't think

I could say it any better than you did, so I

definitely agree. If you're a fan of that type

of stuff, you should definitely check out Hoop

Dreams if it's something you have not seen yet.

Alright, Matt, four picks left. What do you got

at number four? Alright, this one comes from

the director I suggested, because this is all

retrospective in the Top Ten, right? My number

four is Chasing Amy. This one came out of left

field, because I was just watching all the Kevin

Smith movies that I could get my hands on a couple

years ago, and for all of this comedy, this one,

which is definitely more of a serious drama,

just... hit me out of nowhere. I love this movie.

I can't wait to do a whole episode on it. Honestly,

when I watched this movie, this is what made

me know that Ben Affleck wasn't going to be a

bad Batman because the way he plays in this movie

is so amazing. I don't usually gravitate towards

his films, but somehow in this one, I really

enjoyed his performance and I knew he was going

to be able to do a serious Batman that was going

to be good and entertaining. I just really, really

enjoy this. Um, yeah, yeah, I have not seen this

one So if you want to hear my thoughts on it

just travel into the future when we do our episode

on this one Amanda yeah, I have it's been quite

some time. Actually. No, I thought I can a few

years ago, but I do agree I think it's one of

how I think it's probably Kevin Smith's best

-made film for what I can remember But I'd be

interested in that till the case as we go back

and you visit all his movies yeah absolutely

so looking forward to doing that amanda you depressed

us with your number five pick what are you going

to do with your number four pick i am not going

to disappoint with my number four pick uh myself

anyways 1990 predator two man silence It's my

favorite predator. I think the stakes are higher

because he's in the city now There's a lot more

people to kill and it's not just a couple dudes

on some remote tropical island or whatever in

the jungle Covered mud. This is an entire frickin

city. That's already upended from it's in the

midst of a gang war and crazy crazy shit ensues

and this has got to be one of my favorite movie

creatures of all time and this is my favorite

portraying of it. Alright, so the Predator franchise

getting representation at your number four. Matt

or Dan, any thoughts on the Predator franchise?

I love the first film. When I was a kid I really

liked the second one too because I felt like

just the concept of the Predator being in the

city was cool and you know it was just like this

crazy city where everyone had guns and it was

just I don't know it And plus, you know, Danny

Glover kills a predator. Spoiler alert, which

is always, you know, but it's been such a long,

long time since I've seen the second Predator

film. I'm just I'm just waiting for Predator

to become senator, because like you had you had

Jesse become a mayor. You had Arnold become a

governor. And so like the Predators, the only

one left to become an elected official. So Senator

Predator, you know, 2020. I'll vote. I like it.

That really needs to be, yeah, I want to see

that. You could definitely clean up some things

that are wrong with the country. All right, for

my number four, I'm going to go from Princess

Bride to the other end of the spectrum, I guess.

I'm also gonna go to 1990. I think that's where

you just were, Amanda, a couple times in your

top ten. I'm going to go to a film by Mr. Martin

Scorsese. I think it's the best of its genre,

and that would be Goodfellas. I just, I think

he nailed everything that you needed to nail

there. You would think it would be not possible,

like you already have the Godfather that exists,

and to come along and do another, you know, gangster

mobster movie, and to somehow, at least in my

mind, I would do it. For the most part, I think

it's crazy talk, but Scorsese did it, and I think

there's some absolute classic performances, iconic

moments. I love Goodfellas, so that is my number

four pick. I still want to be a gangster. I want

to be Ray Liotta, but only when he was young.

I know. He didn't age well. I'm not doing so

well. Dan, what do you have of your number four?

My number four, another 1994 film. And it's,

this was like, as I go to films that have kind

of impacted me. This one, I've probably seen

the fewest amount of times in my top 10, but

really when I watched it, it made me like view

movies a different way. And that's from the three

colors trilogy, blue. It's the first of the three

of Krzysztof Kozlowski's. Three colors trilogy

that he did in the 90s with with blue white and

red each color representing a color of the French

flag and each kind of being a different type

of film Blue was the first and I think are the

best I think a lot of people don't like white

which is more of a comedic film which I do and

right kind of as good as well, but I think what

really blew me away with glue is it's one of

the most beautiful films looking -wise that I've

ever seen. There are just scenes in it that are

just gorgeous to view. Before that, I never really,

when I heard people say cinematography, it was

like, whatever, I don't really care. But it really

made me kind of appreciate the impact that I

could have on a movie and its style and how shooting

a film could really get you into the mind of

a character. So I think that that's really why

it's here because it really I think ensured my

taste in movies which I think it says a lot for

for film and again, it got me into more even

more foreign films, which I Tended to shy away

from for different reasons. So but yeah, it's

my number four Yeah, that is us that trilogy

is still on my list of shame So I have to watch

that one. I still need to watch that one in the

before trilogy Hopefully sooner rather than later

I have only heard good things from the three

color trilogy at least there seems to be at least

one of the films that everybody raves about Depending

on which one it is. So all right That means it

is time for our top three films on our personal

list top three all -time films Matt. What do

you have a number three? All right This one might

come out of left field. I think it's mine my

most recent one and that's Mad Max Fury Road

This movie is is indescribably good I saw it

in the theaters and then I think I went back

to the theaters a day or two later. I saw it

two or three times. I kept going until no one

wanted to go with me anymore. Then I bought it

day one and when it came out on DVD and I've

watched it a handful of times since then, it's

so good. It's all out there if you need to hear

why it's so good. I'm not good at that, but just

know it's so good. I think my favorite thing

about Mad Max Fury Road is how it illustrates

that you shouldn't just necessarily write something

off because it's quote unquote not original or

it's connected to another franchise or a series

or it's a sequel or it's a reboot because that

in and of itself does not determine if a movie

is going to be good or bad and med max fury road

was phenomenal and i think it caught a lot of

people off guard with how good it was because

i think people weren't expecting that so um i

agree that's a great film. I think a lot of people

would agree and sing its praise as well. Amanda

or Dan, any thoughts on Mad Max? Yeah, I would

say you could argue it's one of the best action

films in the last five, six years. It's, you

know, it made you realize, oh yeah, George Miller

is an amazing director. I don't know how they

got away with so much of the stuff that they

actually did. You don't see a movie like that

get nominated for Best Picture, but it did, so

I think that's to its credit. It's a great film.

Yeah, absolutely. Amanda, what do you got? Number

three? Yes, ma 'am. I didn't say anything earlier.

This has already come up, 1987's Princess Bride.

Yes! I love the characters, I love the story,

I love the world that they build here and it's

just one of my like childhood go -tos. This is

something that directly connects me back to memories

of my childhood and it's a feel -good movie and

it's great. So quotable and memorable and yeah,

classic. Who knew that Hunter the Giant had so

much potential? Alright, so another film that

has made at least two people's list. I guess

it can join that club because I think that's

about the only club we're having. For my number

three... this like Princess Bride and I guess

it makes sense and she just talked about it too

I said there's two films that I can just literally

watch every year and I don't think I will ever

get tired of them no matter how many years I

live it's Princess Bride at my number five and

it's Tombstone which is my number three from

1993 which is a film that I have or a year I

have two films from but I enjoy Tombstone so

much it's ridiculous it's so entertaining Val

Kilmer is Out of this world good, and he's not

the only one there's great performances here

There are a couple little cheesy moments and

stuff like that, but I think the rest of the

film just so far it's so great that you can just

kind of bypass those couple of cheesy moments

and Honestly, this film is actually even useful

from a historical standpoint if you want to kind

of take little bits and pieces from it or even

kind of look into some of the Special features

or research that you can do about What life was

like at this time? I mean, obviously it is a

Hollywood film and you're not gonna want to watch

it an entirety for its realism or anything like

that but it does represent a Time in our history

that a lot of people don't understand or don't

know anything about so but it's more because

of how entertaining it is and that's why I could

watch it basically year by year by year. So Tombstone

is my number three and my favorite Western. Dan?

Very nice, very nice. My number three, finishing

off my random list of movies from 1994, is probably

the film that made me fall in love with movies

and I feel like I... That's very common with

people of my generation. And that's Jurassic

Park. And I think it was already mentioned today

and already had Spielberg on my top 10. But you

talk about movies I can rewatch over and over

again. Looking at scenes I can watch over and

over again. And that's, of course, the T -Rex

escape scene. Like that moment, it's like, oh,

this is what movies can do. And it may not be

the quality film of Jaws, but I think it had

much more of an impact on me. I loved everything

about it. It hit me right at the... at the right

age, I was 10 and kind of in that zone of loving

dinosaurs and it just, I don't know, it still

sticks with me today. I had the opportunity to

even go see it in 3D a few years ago and it somehow

even worked with that and people talk about how

a lot of the special effects still hold up and

it's very true. All the animatronics are pretty

amazing, so yeah. This movie not only made a

lot of people fall in love with cinema, it actually

made my cousin a professor of paleontology, which

he is to this day. This is the movie I think

that helped make him fall in love with dinosaurs

in general. But obviously a lot of agreement

this would be one of the few films that's been

on at least three of the four lists because Amanda

had it at number 22 and I had it at number 19.

I knew when you said 1994 that Jurassic Park

was one of them. I was just waiting to see where

it fell amongst the 1994 picks. I think that

one definitely deserves the praise that you just

gave it. Matt, what do you got to say about your

number two? My number two already come up, Pulp

Fiction. I probably watched this at two young

of an age. My parents rented it and I grabbed

that, watched it. I watched it with my best friend

at the time and then immediately we went to another

friend's house and watched it again twice in

the same night. I love Quentin Tarantino. I love

this movie. I think it's probably what made,

like everyone's been saying, this is what made

me realize that cinematography or that movies

could be great or whatever. Like this is the

first time I ever realized that a movie was more

than, you know, like just like an action movie

for entertainment purposes. Like this one told

a story and it made you think and things like

that and I love Pulp Fiction. Yeah, obviously

we've all sung its praises as well and we just

recently talked about it, so that would be the

third film that has been on at least three people's

lists. So we have Pulp Fiction, Jurassic Park,

and the Indiana Jones franchise appearing on

at least three of the four people's lists. So

we're getting more and more as we get here closer

to the top. Amanda, what do you have at your

number two? This is a movie that is super close

to my heart. 2001's... Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's

Stone. And I don't know, I love the books. The

books were a huge part of my adolescence. They

started coming out. at the exact same age I was

as Harry so you know we got to grow up together

and when these films started coming out it really

opened the door to this magical world for real

so it's a huge huge thing this movie coming out

and it's it's never lost its luster and just

my wonder in seeing this first film it can't

can't be matched Yeah, I obviously knew you were

gonna have Harry Potter represented at some point

as a franchise on your list. I just wasn't sure

where it was gonna be. Was it gonna be number

one? Was it gonna be in your top ten? Um, so...

I would say that I have some films in this series

that I like to watch a little bit more, but this

film was the milestone film. Absolutely and for

those that are have been listening to us for

a while hopefully They can now predict your number

one film as well because I believe I can write

that one down already We'll have to wait and

see on that one for my number two film Maybe

we'll shock some people that it's not at my number

one But this is the spot where I will go ahead

and include the entire franchise of Star Wars

because this is the franchise that definitely

Made me fall in love with movies. I know I've

said that a multiple times, but it was basically

this one in Indiana Jones Star Wars just had

a little bit bigger of an effect on me I think

just because of the lore and the history and

all the stuff that's connected to it but I guess

if I have to go with a film specifically I'll

go with 1980s Empire Strikes Back but I could

put like three of them towards the top real easily

so no surprise I love Star Wars so number two

pick for me would be Star Wars. Dan? My number

two I don't know if this This director came up

yet today, surprisingly. Martin Scorsese, I don't

think we've talked about him. Just for Goodfellas

for my number four. Oh. And for my number two,

I will also be talking about Goodfellas, which

is... It's so close to being my favorite film

of all time. Mostly because as long as I can

remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster.

But no, you know a movie's great when the first

time I saw this was in like the worst conditions

possible. Like I saw Jurassic Park in a theater

and that helped me, like it had a huge impact

on me. The first time I saw Jurassic Goodfellas

was on the way home from going to a football

game and like driving on a bus. I'm full of like

old drunken men that are loud and obnoxious yet

I was still able to focus on this movie just

because I got through so into it and I remember

like it and like we got like it for some reason

I don't think we finished the movie or for what

have you and went out the next day and bought

it because I had to see it and I watched it like

a few few times and I loved it ever since and

You know, it's, a lot of people love Goodfellas,

so you don't really need to say anything more

than that. And, you know, it's one of the things

where once I saw Goodfellas, I'm like, okay,

what other Scorsese films can I go watch? And

I've had some on this list, including Taxi Driver,

but I don't know. Goodfellas is, it is like,

you know, it is what it is. Like there's no,

I think, you know, people talk about like the

best movies of the 90s. It's up there. It's arguably

maybe Scorsese's best film. But I don't know,

if you've not seen good fellows do that because

you're committing a crime against yourself. Agreed

a hundred percent obviously since I am with you

with it being in my top five as well So everybody

can take a pause now for a second and see if

they can predict what all of our number ones

are going to be Based on all the stuff you know

about us as film lovers. I think I have all three

of you down I would have to review Dan's list

to make sure this isn't a dumb guess that's already

been said But I believe I have all three of your

films down. I want to see if I'm right So let's

get to our number one picks Matt. What do you

have sir? I mean, mine's gotta be the most obvious

of everyone's. I'm on picks. Because I never

stop talking about Star Wars. Which one's your

favorite one, Kevin? I listed Empire Strikes

Back, but it could be Return of the Jedi, it

could be Force Awakens is climbing up the ranks,

and I actually do like Revenge of the Sith. And

which one's your least favorite one? Phantom

Menace. Phantom Menace. It's always interesting

to me. I think Phantom Menace is probably the

most reviled and then Attack of the Clones is

the second most reviled. I don't think Attack

of the Clones deserves it. I think it's objectively

the worst film of all of them, but I think it's

also the greatest concept in movie history. The

idea of two space cops are investigating an attack

on a senator, and then they split up, and then

one of them's like this. he's falling in love

but he shouldn't be falling in love story while

the other one's like this guy's like a detective

going through like this underground to find corruption

and all this stuff and then it ends in a giant

like arena dome gladiator fight like it's one

of the craziest greatest concepts of a movie

of all time and in the what's on film is terrible

You know interest in you know, I'll do respect

like George Lucas. He's a visionary But he really

needed more input on on the prequel trilogy.

I love Star Wars I'm counting down the minutes

to Force Friday as soon as this recording is

done I'm gonna be getting ready to get in my

car and go to Toys R Us for the midnight release

like it is my life Like it's my favorite thing

like like besides people, like Star Wars is my

favorite thing. I'll read a Star Wars novel every

other week, maybe shorter than that, depending

on the reading level of them. I've seen all of

the movies a bunch of times. I saw... Oh, shoot.

The Force Awakens five times in theaters. I work

70 -hour weeks during December, so that's a feat

in and of itself. I haven't missed an opening

release since I've been an adult. I always go

opening night because I can't get spoilers. Star

Wars is my jam. I could talk about it for hours

and hours, and I do. I get into long, long arguments

at work about it. I love it, and it's my favorite

thing. What would be the film that you would

put at your top of the list? Empire. Like, and

I'm hoping, hoping against hope that The Last

Jedi pulls an empire, talk ring theory or whatever

you want. I want it to end on a very dour note,

like even more so than... the force awakens like

i want i want it to be sad i want it to like

be like oh no we're not gonna get a resolution

of this for two years like like i mean like ray

lost her arm and luke's dead and like like are

we gonna see poe ever again like i want that

like i want phasma to to murder a main character

or something you know no he's just like saying

different things that could happen yeah yeah

these are all things that could happen um you

know i've got like I've got so many theories

about what's going to happen and who's who's

related to who and what's what um like and I

want it just to end just like Empire where it's

like oh no like are our heroes ever going to

succeed again because then then that makes the

third one that much better all right we'll have

to wait and see what happens there obviously

we'll have some special episodes uh based around

the last jedi when that occurs Amanda I got maps

right what do you got at number one Do you need

me to say it or do you want to say it? No, I'll

let you do the honors. 1989's The Little Mermaid.

Two for two. I've said this before, but this

movie is kind of what instilled my love of movies.

My family would go to the video store every weekend

to rent videos and every week I would get The

Little Mermaid. Watch it and I don't know why

these cheat motherfuckers just didn't buy me

this They're just like kids movies rent free

go for it Just made me wait all week to watch

it again, but I love it. It was such a great

story It was freeing I connected with it. It's

gorgeous. I love all the underwater stuff wannabe

mermaid Just want to be part of their world.

Yeah, and the songs are great, too. So, I don't

know, love it. Love it a lot. Alright, Little

Mermaid number one. No surprise there. Dan? Oh

wait, it's my turn first. Alright, I'll go with

mine number one. I was on a streak. I wanted

to keep going with it. Mine number one, yeah,

I mean, I guess, like I said, it depends on how

you're gonna grade these things and what you're

gonna do with this, but I'm gonna go to a movie

that most people probably don't ever want to

see or at least don't ever want to see again,

but I think it is... Not just a masterpiece of

a film. I think it's also super important for

people to see and super important to Maintain

like if you were to ask me what's like the most

important film to keep if all other films were

getting destroyed I think it's this because I

think it has to live on so people know about

the events and know what human beings are capable

of and know what they have to do to stop it.

So I'm going with Steven Spielberg's 1993 film

Schindler's List at my number one. It broke me

down but I think it's just so important of a

film that it elevated it just a little bit above

some of these other ones that I probably would

enjoy watching obviously better. I would rather

watch Princess Bride or Tombstone or Star Wars

but Schindler's List to me is just... one of

the most important films ever made. So that's

my number one. Dan? Interesting. I would not

have guessed that go in, to be honest with you.

I don't know if you'll get my number one, but

I talked a lot about different, one thing I love

in movies about the news for some reason, internalism.

I love broadcast news. I know I talked about...

talk radio, for some reason those really strike

a chord with me, also love films that have really

great like monologues, kind of like good night

and good luck, and also powered by really strong

performances, and have something to say, often

have some sort of meaning or like have some sort

of... important to say about what's going on

in the world. In certain instances, I do enjoy

entertainment as well, and I feel like that's

why Network is actually my all -time favorite

film from 1976. Not only do I think that a lot

of people would rank it as their favorite film,

which I get, but it has all those components

to me. It's this story about This TV network

Howard Beal it's this guy who basically gets

comes on TV and said he's going to kill himself

and Just everything unravels from there and if

you watch that it's a very telling of where the

world goes and the form of entertainment and

news it kind of explain what happens when news

for profit tends to dominate the world and the

impacts that could have. And it's interesting

just seeing how prolific it is, but also just

has a lot of great characters and tons of amazing

performances. It was like nominated, like every

actor that was basically in that movie was nominated

for an Academy Award that year. And like if you've

ever heard the term, I'm mad as hell and I'm

not gonna take it anymore, which is probably

a term terminology is more famous than the film

itself. that's where it comes from um and uh

again it's like it's when i first it's not a

movie when i first saw it i'm like oh this is

my favorite film of all time but as i've ranked

my films and i've watched it over and over again

and i've grown up it's it sadly has made it to

my eight to my number one amanda can you do me

a favor can you read what i have written down

right there network wow i would just like to

point out to you guys that i listen to you But

yeah, I had all three of you guys I'd like that

but I think one thing before we kind of rattled

down all the ten Films that we have and I haven't

the reason I'm not commenting Dan is because

I haven't seen that work yet It's a big one on

my list of shame and I don't know why because

I do it like you like all a lot of the news films

That we've gotten over the years, but I think

one reason why we did this list was for Ourselves

number one so we could kind of rank all these

films if we hadn't already and kind of have fun

talking about films that we really enjoy, but

also to let the listeners in on what kind of

movies we like and our film tastes and kind of

going forward even to let them know us even more.

So I'm curious, Matt, did you learn anything

about Amanda, myself, Dan, or just yourself in

doing this project? Oh, man. I was trying to

put you on the spot with some type of question

you'd get in school or something. Yeah, I mean,

we had months to prepare for this, geez. Honestly,

I didn't realize how well -versed Dan was. I

always knew he knew more about movies than me.

That came up anytime we played a movie game.

I tended to do well, but Dan tended to soar above.

So I always knew that he watched more movies

and retained more. I didn't realize the depth

of his knowledge, the amount of... continents

of movies he's watched like like when he talked

about the the red white and blue trilogy movies

like i'm just sitting here stunned like i have

no like i couldn't even follow that let alone

the the movies um like he's uh he's definitely

well and beyond what i expected um i don't know

i've i've watched a lot of movies with you and

amanda so like i would say i was surprised by

your number one i expected something a little

more more fun or or funny um And I now see why

Amanda hated Ponyo so much. That's funny. Amanda,

anything that you picked up about yourself or

just anything, the insight that you got during

this process on the people that you're podcasting

with on the Cinema Geeks? Oh, man. Did you know

everything about me already? I feel like I already

had a pretty good understanding of your tastes.

Matt I knew going into this what you were about

about that life and I don't judge you for it

you go you go and Dan I feel like I've had a

pretty good grasp of his tastes as well but there

were some in there that I didn't expect to be

on his list either some of the more obscure because

obscure to us is not obscure to everybody else.

What about yourself? Did you find out anything

about yourself when you're going to rank all

these films? I'm a hot mess. Really all I know.

I know what I learned I knew you were a 90s fan

and I knew you were a horror fan and A Disney

fan, but I did not know the extremes of your

90s love like I thought I thought maybe it was

more of like I like these films as guilty pleasures

But there's passion and dedication to your love

of the 90s So it's interesting anybody that ever

is doing like a series on the 90s needs to have

you as a guest That is for sure I did learn a

few of your other interests Matt. I knew like

you liked fantasy I knew you liked bad movies

As far as like the bad movie night type stuff

and I knew a couple of like franchises that you

enjoyed But I kind of opened my eyes to a few

other things that you enjoy as well I feel like

Dan and I have been doing this the longest so

I might have had the the best Knowledge of kind

of what films he enjoyed and not to say I knew

what it was gonna be on his list But I think

it was an interesting Process and I think the

thing I learned the most about myself is how

many movies I still need to watch So there's

way too many movies on the the queue or the bucket

list or the list of shame for me So that's something

that I got to correct Dan. What about you anything

you learned through this process? I I was interesting

just this hearing like Matt's perspective and

the way he views films because I think like His

I know he's a writer and just this how he breaks

down story was always interesting to me And I

think he made me appreciate a lot of movies in

a different way compared to like before, which

was kind of like what he said, even about Attack

of the Clones, like a movie that I just like,

I'm like, yeah, that is a really insane concept.

So I know it was interesting. I was just always

anticipating whatever Amanda was gonna say next,

because I never knew. There are so many movies

I had learned about, because I did not know many

of them. and have a lot of holes to fill. But

also, I think I had the most movies in the 90s

in my top 10 than anyone, which I think is crazy

to me. Seven of my top 10 are from the 90s. So

I think I beat Amanda, if I'm not mistaken. I

only had four. Amanda, how many in your top 10

were from the 90s? She's counting it up as we

speak. Cuz I was surprised to she had some that

were not in the 90s and in her top ten only four

everything else was 80s and one two thousand

See, but it was like it was late 80s like 89

87 I know I I didn't know what talking what I

didn't realize I talked about network as much

as I did so I Didn't expect I don't think you

talk about it I don't think you talk about it

a lot I just remember at one point hearing that

it was one of your favorite films of all time

or like an earlier version that it was on your

list and I was pretty sure it hadn't come up

yet and I wouldn't have been able to say that

it was your number one film before this list

but I knew it was somewhere in your top 100 so

if it hadn't been said yet it had to be the one

that was left. Nice nice, so I knew you'd love

Schindler's List I didn't know like that's always

a tough movie to put on your favorite list though

because it's such it's like No one's like, you

know, what do you want to do tonight? Let's go

watch Schindler's List. It's kind of like you

gotta you gotta find the right time I think the

other thing that kind of helped me elevate that

because I had my ten in chunks like each time

but I kind of as we're getting closer to the

actual record date sometimes I would shuffle

the order of that ten and I was going back and

forth and I think just man just seeing some of

the absolute craziness that still exists in the

world and and the way people will act and the

things that they will support or the symbols

that they'll use I mean I know that's all modern

-day stuff and whatnot but it reminded me of

something that I learned about I took a whole

class on the Holocaust and how many people in

the world believe that it is something like you

know the conspiracy theorists that say like oh

you know there's no such thing as the moon landing

or you know Elvis isn't dead or those types of

things like there's just as many people out there

that say the Holocaust never happened and for

me that's just so appalling that a film like

this needs to exist to show like this is what

This is because it in turn shows both the the

worst of human nature and the best and I think

that's what kind of elevated it for me But I

agree. It's not something that you're gonna be

like, hey, let's go watch Schindler's List It's

I don't know if I can watch it again after actually

going to Auschwitz because like you when you're

there and you're seeing What's left because a

lot of it is still left. The only thing that's

not left is The gas chambers and even then it's

rubble still in the same spot And, like, you

feel the souls that pass through that place.

Like, there's no going there and denying what

happened there. Right. Dan, I didn't mean to

cut you off, though, so you can finish that thought.

And I was also curious, because I think you're

the one that has the most experience as far as

having a list of your favorite films, you know,

top 100 versions throughout the years that you've

done. And so I'm also curious as to how much

this one... differed from the other ones or what

were any like major changes in the way that you

kind of viewed the list when you went to do it

this time? Yeah, so the first time I ever did

like a top 100 was like back in like 2009 ish

and I've been kind of track I would do it like

every year for a few years and I this was the

first time I did one again and after quite some

time what changed a lot a lot of older films

I was able to see for the first time or you know

Stuff like I mentioned, like some of the silent

films and things like that. There were some films

I think I still love, but didn't necessarily

want as high on that I was when I first created

the list. But it was interesting just seeing

like how my taste is doing it, like how my taste

changed throughout and like how I would, my typical

first one was very straightforward. It was just

kind of movies that, you know, many of the movies

that was, you know, Matrix and Dresh. Like it

was all, some of these movies were in the top

10, but it was very general, I would say. But

I think I was able to expand it as years gone

on and kind of like, now I have anime films in

there that I didn't have before. Honestly though,

if I were to do this again, since this is when

we created this, it was a year ago, it would

probably be different. But... But also a lot

more documentaries have made my top 100 as the

years have gone on too. So yeah, absolutely So

let's just do a quick rundown of our top ten

before we kind of get into our closing thoughts

Just to reiterate and refresh the memories of

four people that we're trying to keep track as

we went through Matt What's your ten through

one? All right My 10 through 1, Django Unchained,

Hercules 2014, Unbreakable, Howl's Moving Castle,

My Neighbor Totoro, Reservoir Dogs, Chasing Amy,

Mad Max Fury Road, Pulp Fiction, and the Star

Wars franchise. Amanda, what about you? Uh, 10

through 1, I've got Indiana Jones and the Temple

of Doom. Beetlejuice, Buffy the Vampire Slayer,

All Dogs Go to Heaven, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,

My Girl, Predator 2, Princess Bride, Harry Potter

and the Sorcerer's Stone, and number one is The

Little Mermaid. Alright, for me it was Die Hard,

A Few Good Men, Gladiator, Inglorious Bastards,

Back to the Future, The Princess Bride, Goodfellas,

Tombstone, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back

specifically, and Schindler's List. Dan? Number

10 for me was Her, then 9 was Raiders of the

Lost Ark, Pulp Fiction, Alien, The Sandlot, Hoop

Dreams, number 4 was Blue, and Jurassic Park,

Goodfellas, and last but actually most best,

I guess, I don't know how to say that. Number

1 for me was Network. So for those of you keeping

score at home, that was zero films that appeared

on all four lists in the top 30, so all of us

got that wrong. The multiple picks were Pulp

Fiction, Star Wars, Princess Bride, Goodfellas,

Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, Aladdin, Twelve

Angry Men, Indiana Jones and Alien. I think I

hit them all. So those are the ones that at least

appeared on two people's list. So that does it

for our top 100 films of all time. Obviously

a long time going. Like we said, we started back

in episode 100. 48 episodes later we finished

it. Obviously if you have been listening to Cinema

Geeks, we also just recently finished the Hayao

Miyazaki spotlight. So that's two things that

we are closing the book on. We already mentioned

that we will be beginning our Kevin Smith retrospective

to replace the Miyazaki spotlight, so that's

something you can look forward to. We still have

a few films left to cover in our video game series,

and we may have some other series that we dabble

in here in the future. We're not going to say

what that might be because we are still deciding

that behind the scenes, but you can keep an eye

out for maybe some other things that have a string

of something in common that may be coming your

way in the not too distant future. Alright, if

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