MEDIA MAYHEM – The Movie Choices Of David Draper!

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and for the first time ever, it is Media Mayhem!

It's gonna be like the sands of the hourglass.

These are the decades of our lives. Today, I

welcome that good old detective in TV and film.

It's David Draper. Hello, sir. How are you? I'm

doing all right. Can't complain. How are you?

I'm doing alright. This is all his fault, folks.

Sure. Okay, so to give the backstory, I saw a

YouTube video of some 25 -year -old going, you

know, these are my favorite movies from every

year that I've been alive. And I was like, that's

kind of an interesting concept. And I have like

twice as many years worth of content to, you

know. I just randomly made up a list. Not randomly,

but I made up the list. Also, a big chunk of

it was the 80s, which is when the best movies

ever made were made. And shots fired every other

decade. But I think I can back that up, frankly.

And I posted it on Facebook just for people to

talk about. Of course, immediately people were

like, how come you didn't pick my movie? How

come you didn't pick this movie that I like?

And it's like, well, it's not your list. I mean,

it's my list. To me, there were interesting things

about going through the process. Some years were

obvious. 75, 77, 89. But then there were other

years that were like... I've talked about how

1984, Ghostbusters was my fourth choice for 1984.

When I said that the 80s were the best, there

was a year where Ghostbusters was my fourth choice.

Ghostbusters. There were three movies I liked

better than Ghostbusters that year. It's mind

-blowing to me. Also, later on, I started to

hit... There was a point in my life where I really

didn't see a lot of movies. Some of the movies

were like, okay, well, I saw this one. I guess

it's my favorite. I mean, I saw it. Right. I

know we established rules for this whole thing.

I have the rules. Yep, I have the rules. It's

in the script every time. I know you have the

script. Well, so folks, this is our new thing.

This is outside of GCRN Origins, but it kind

of acts like a GCRN Origins, but because this

is a choice thing. This is not an origin. This

is a... These are the films that I... It's media

mayhem! Yeah, it's media mayhem. It's, you know,

it's this, it's that, it's whatever. And the

rules that Dave wrote out are as follows. Rule

101! These lists are inherently subjective. They

are not the quote -unquote best films of each

year, but our quote -unquote favorites. And therefore,

no choice can be quote -unquote wrong. Quiet

eye -rolling is, however, allowed. See, I thought

we were going to be going back and forth. And

as we know, I tend to be a little judgmental.

So I was like, okay, I put that rule in for me

so that I didn't give you a hard time if you

picked a movie. No, if you picked a movie that

I thought was stupid, I didn't want to be mean

to you. Okay. All my movies are good, by definition.

I... Kind of literally just preface that by saying

I was judgmental. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah. I, I don't

know. I, I was thinking of like, like I said,

the way I was thinking of it to expand it, to

allow other people to come in, to make their

lists. That's what, that's how I was thinking

of it. So that's why I was like, Oh, like when

we were just the rules, I just thought this was

like a, literally a two off that we were going

to do. I didn't realize it was going to be part

of GCN history. Initially it was, but then I

was like, hey, this is a really cool, fun idea

that I think will be awesome for Dave and I to

do, but it would also be awesome to see what

other people, how they would approach it and

what their choices would be too. So it's, yeah,

so it kind of expanded. Rule number two. More

a personal thing, but in many cases, Dave defines

quote -unquote favorite as film I'd most like

to watch. Rule number three. Okay, because sometimes

there was like a, you know, as we'll go through

the list, I'll be talking about like, well, there

was this movie that came out that year and this

movie that came out that year. And, you know,

not every movie is going to be Star Wars, you

know? No, thank God. Well, my point being, well,

no, that's terrible. But the point being that

some years you're going to have less passion.

Again, there were years where it's like, oh,

I saw movies that year. So you don't have a lot

of passion for them, the choices that you have.

This will become a bigger thing in the TV version,

I think. So it's like, what movie would I like

to watch? So if you can't really think of what

was the best movie that year, it's like, well,

what movie did I enjoy or what I, what I want

to revisit for tiebreakers, you know? Yeah. See,

and that's the other thing I don't do. I've never

done tiebreakers. I always make a choice. So

when Dave was writing out his, his list on Facebook,

he was writing out notes and he was basically

arguing with himself through text in his Facebook

post. And I was reading this and I'm like, yeah,

I would make the choice. I would just like, okay,

I either want this one or this one. This is why

I like this one. This is why I like this one.

But this reason for this movie or this TV show

is why I like it more than this other one. So

I pick this. I will never have. I've never done.

a tiebreaker thing ever. I just don't. If there

are... Go ahead. Again, with 1984, get there.

I'll talk about the movies. My choice will seem

like a very unconventional choice, given my general

taste in movies. But, you know, Ghostbusters

is a comedy. Gremlins is kind of a horror monster

movie. Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai is a wacky

sci -fi comedy. It's like judging a dog show.

It's like, so which of those movies is my favorite?

Which one would I want to watch? I believe you

didn't run into any difficulties. There's a year

where I literally, I know there's a rule about

no ties, but when we get there, I'll have to

decide. There's a year where there's two movies

that I absolutely love. I don't know which one

would I pick. 1993 broke my heart because I really

wanted to pick Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3

just to troll people. No, because I saw it in

college and I enjoyed it. It's weird because

I remember liking that film and TMNT fans hate

that film. No. Some do. I am not one of those.

Some. I mean, we were, I guess, like, my friends

who were more fans than I was, like, you know.

But, like, so it's kind of a joke. But, I mean,

I really did enjoy that movie. But, like, that's

the year that Jurassic Park came out. So, like.

That's the year that what came out? Jurassic

Park. Oh, yeah. I'm not going to pick Jurassic

Park. Yeah. No. So, rule number three. You have

to have seen the film. You have to have seen

the film, but do not have to have actually seen

it the year it was released. Obviously. Especially

for those first decade of our lives. Because

you weren't watching a movie when you were two

years old. I'm not watching Superman 2 in 1980

or 1981 when I was just born or one year old.

Godfather came out in 1972. I saw it in college

in the 90s. Yeah, exactly. I think that'll become

a bigger issue when we do the TV version because

obviously a TV show can run for years. The rule

was the year that the show debuted. Especially

in the 90s. My thing is, again, I love genre

shows. It was like if I took even the slightest

interest in a show, it would be canceled immediately.

I would literally wait. I would wait three or

four seasons before I'd start watching a show.

And all of you fans of X -Files and Buffy the

Vampire Slayer, you're welcome. I got into those

shows late on purpose. Because I didn't want

to be canceled immediately. You know, the only...

I'm going to save that for the TV version. Because

I'm not getting into that here. Okay, rule number

four. Final rule. You can only pick one film

each year. In 1984, you must pick one film from

every year. 2006. Asterisk, although it won't

apply to us, or I assume. But, like, I mean,

if you didn't see anything. Like, 2006, I saw

two films. Yeah. Like, there are two films that

came out that year that I saw. So, like, if both,

if they were, if they, theoretically, if they

were a year. Or you didn't see anything. That

would be the escape hatch. Yeah, but... And we're

not doing my... I'll have you take me through

this or whatever for my version of the film,

whatever, when we get to it. I don't know when

that's going to be because the studio is pretty

full between now and episode 200. Because this

is episode 167. But yeah, I watch a lot of stuff.

I've always watched a lot of stuff, movies, TV

shows, whatever it is. And in 2006, I picked

that year. I mean, that's my year. Right. Because

it's your year that you probably didn't. But

I'm just saying, like. when i went through so

what i did because like we keep mentioning the

tv version because i might that'll become a bigger

issue with the tv version because right right

right right there came a point in my life where

i really stopped watching tv and started switching

over to youtube stuff right So for me, when I

first saw this, when I first saw your post and

I read through your post, I'm like, oh, that's

cool. He chose that movie. I knew he would choose

that for that because, you know, he likes, you

know, fake sharks and all that and everything

else because that shark looks fake. If you think

it's about the shark, you don't understand Jaws

at all. I know, I know it's not about the shark,

but the shark still looks fake. You know, whatever

else. So I read through the whole post and I'm

like, huh, this is an awesome concept. I wonder

what it would look like in a TV landscape. So

I went down the whole rabbit hole of list of

American television shows of, and then I put

in whatever year it was. And then I just started

at my birth year, which is 1980. And I went from

1980 to 2025. And I created a folder in Google

Chrome. I just named it whatever I was going

to name it. And I then favorited every Wikipedia

page for every year in television from the year

of my birth until 2025. And I scanned every year.

I skimmed over every year of television shows

that debuted in my lifetime. And I'm like, yeah,

I know pretty much. I don't know exactly most

of my choices, but all of the key choices that

have influenced me in my 45 years of living,

I know exactly what my list is going to look

like for TV. I have no idea what my list is going

to look like for movies because I haven't made

it yet. Which is why we're doing it this way.

You go first. Very dangerous. Yes, very dangerous.

You go first. You go first. So, opening moves.

1971. What do you got? Okay, this one was interesting.

It was the year that Willy Wonka came out. It

was the year Diamonds Are Forever, the last Connery

Bond movie, not counting Never Say Ever Again.

But I actually went, I think people who know

me very well would be surprised that I went with

a Western called Big Jake with John Wayne. No

matter who else gets killed, that boy dies. Shotgun

misses him. It don't matter. You already know

about the rifle on him. That won't be as messy

as a shotgun at three feet, but that boy will

be just as dead. You understand me? Say it. I

understand. I saw it a long time ago on cable

as a kid, but I really like it. It was, I think,

really the best Westerns. The most interesting

ones are set at that time when the Western was

actually changing, being wild, being civilized.

And that's kind of a big theme in that movie.

That movie is he's kind of an old -school cowboy

who's become rich, and he's kind of left his

family. They're more civilized, and he's kind

of still the old -school cowboy. But his grandson,

again, I saw this a long, long time ago. Oh,

my God, people are blowing up my phone. But his

grandson gets kidnapped, and in the end, he's

the only one who can get him back, and his buddies.

Like, there's this whole sequence of this posse,

and they're all in cars, and they've all got,

you know, modern weapons, and they're very, you

know, oh, it's all modern, modern, modern, and

they all get slaughtered. And it's up to Big

Jake to get his grandson back. So I like that

film. I mean, I like Willy Wonka, and, well,

Diamonds is not my favorite Bond film. No. Diamonds

should not be anyone's favorite Bond film. No.

My favorite's You Only Live Twice. GoldenEye.

Yeah, I never saw GoldenEye. I've never seen

any of the Brosnan films. What? No. I'm not the

biggest James Bond guy. Okay, okay. That's a

whole podcast for a whole... Yep, that's fine.

My era is the Roger Moore era, which is probably

why I'm not a huge James Bond guy. The Man with

the Golden Gun, hands down. I saw that a million

times on cable. Yeah, exactly, but The Man with

the Golden Gun, hands down, is easily the best

Moore movie. For your eyes only, sir. Eh, okay,

we can debate that later. Yeah. 1972, this is

a change from the original list. I originally

had The Godfather, which I was never happy about

because, I mean, it's The Godfather, I get it,

it's a classic, but do I love it? Eh. But it's

1972, so you're like, what else was there? So

I went back and I dug, and actually, my choice

for 1972 is Man of La Mancha. Peter O'Toole.

The Dream the Impossible Dream. The story of

Don Quixote. Say that title again slowly. Man

of La Mancha. Okay. To dream the impossible dream.

To fight the unbeatable foe. To bear with unbearable

foe. The impossible dream comes true. to run

where the brave dare not go. Man of La Mancha.

Starring Peter O'Toole as Don Quixote de la Mancha!

I mean, I named one of my damn dogs Dulcinea.

So, she was a good girl. Very cool, very cool.

The movie itself is more of a meta -narrative

because it's about Cervantes being brought up

before the Inquisition for writing Don Quixote.

But in the process of defending himself, he performs

Don Quixote. Oh, interesting. Yeah. It's a good

film. And the music is... Dulcinea is a great

song. Beautiful song. So, yes. Mano La Mancha.

1973. The first Michael Crichton movie on the

list. Westworld. MGM presents Westworld. Your

attention, please. We will soon be landing at

Westworld. The ultimate... resort we have you

on grid five over it consists of three worlds

of the past locking in now worlds where you can

live out your every fantasy there's roman world

the lusty decadent delights of imperial pompeii

notify ground crews medieval world chivalry and

combat in 13th century europe and west world

Lawless violence on the American frontier of

the 1880s. Each resort is maintained by reliable

computer technology and peopled by lifelike robot

men and women. Let's stand by for resort activation.

Ready on six, on five, on four, on three, on

two, activate now. People forget that before

dinosaurs, he was warning us about robots. And

again, the pickings are a little slim, I say,

before 74 comes up and there's a big train wreck.

Yeah. Westworld's another one I saw on cable

when I was a kid. I liked it. I thought it was

cool. I believe the HBO series is on my TV list.

I got to double check. And that's mainly for

the first season. Again, the TV one is going

to be weird because there's going to be all kinds

of weird caveats. I like this one season, but

that season wasn't the season to premiere. It's

a mess. This is what you get for calling an audible.

It's okay. It doesn't matter to me. 1974 was

interesting because there were not one but two

Mel Brooks classics. There was Blazing Saddles

and Young Frankenstein. I really had to wrestle

with this one because I think overall Blazing

Saddles is the funnier movie. And it also has

more, whatever you want to say, commentary, has

more to say about the world. But it's also sloppier.

Like, the ending just, like, literally, like,

just a vomit of chaos. You know, and it's supposed

to be funny. They explode out onto the sets,

you know. Like, everything falls apart and everything

goes crazy. I don't like that. I never liked

that. Yeah. And I also kind of love the attention

to detail that Young Frankenstein brings. The

classic, you know, universe of monster movies.

So I went with Young Frankenstein. Frankenstein.

Also, the Frau Blucher joke is the funniest damn

thing in the world. The horses scream every time

they mention her name. I am Frau Blucher. Inga,

may I present Frau Blucher. After you, Frau Blucher.

Blucher! Wait, wait, wait. Oh, 1976 is a weird

one. Wait, wait, wait. Okay, 1974. 1975, that's

why I skipped 1975. Because it's Jaws. It's a

little film you may have heard of. It's not about

a shark. Well, I mean, it is about a shark, but

the movie's not about the shark. You're missing

the point. The movie's about three men. It's

about a town that has done... It's about the

corruption of a town being punished for being

corrupt. It sets the prototype for every slasher

movie that came later on, except it was good.

For a minute there, I thought you were going

to say it was about three men and a baby. No,

it was three men and a boat. And, you know, it's

fascinating because it's the 50th anniversary,

and there's a lot of stories about, like, I've

seen a lot of stories about how Richard Dreyfuss

and, oh, God, the actor who played Quint, I can't

remember his name, Shaw, Robert Shaw, really

didn't like each other. The tension on the screen

was reflecting the tension in real life. Shaw

was an alcoholic, and how he kind of blew the

first reading of the famous Indianapolis speech,

which he came up with. And he apologized to Spielberg,

and they got a second take, and then it's a classic

iconic moment of the film. I think that I am

familiar with the fact that you are going to

ignore this particular problem until it swims

up and bites you on the ass. That's the shark.

In 1975, the robot shark looks fake. That's why

it's almost never in the film. And Spielberg

said, cutting around the shark, it made the movie

more suspenseful. That's what made the movie

amazing. Cut around the shark. You see it from

the shark's perspective. And it's the music,

and it's the mood, it's tension. We're supposed

to do an episode on that later on. Yes, we will.

Ironically, I have tickets for it in 3D, even

though it is not Jaws 3D, which I did see in

the movie theaters in 3D. So this will be the

second Jaws movie I see in 3D. There you go.

Anyway! Should I keep yammering for each movie?

I'm going to have to clean this next one. This

next one is called Allegro Non Tropo. This is

another one I saw on cable a lot in 1976. I saw

it on cable a lot as a kid. It is sort of a spoof

of Fantasia. Okay. Obviously it was Italian.

The animated bits were fascinating and weird.

The two that I remember the most is there was

one that was set to Bolero. And it started off

as this astronaut lands on a planet and drops

a bottle of Coke. And the whole thing is the

Coke begins, well, the Coke that's left in the

bottle evolves. Oh, no. And becomes life. Oh,

no. And then the life forms become dinosaurs.

The dinosaurs are marching and marching to the

tune of Bolero. And at some point, there's an

ape. And then the ape gets fire. And the ape

kind of wanders off. And in the end, the ape

kills everything else. and becomes master of

the world. Oh, my God. Oh, well, there's a great

moment where the dinosaurs are marching, and

the music's, like, surging, and you see, like,

Christ on the cross, and they all, the dinosaurs

stop and look at him for, like, a second, and

then move on. I love it. And then there's another

one that's about, it's another weird, like, there's

a lot of astronauts in this one, but there's,

like, an astronaut who lands on a planet. It's

a very primitive planet, and he's got, like,

a remote control that does, like, magical things.

It's almost like Life of Brian, where, like,

He does these things and people think he's like,

he's like Jesus. Okay. They start chasing him

and he's freaking out. And like at the very end,

he gets crucified. Uh, and the, the, the remote

breaks until the whole planet shrinks down. So

it's just like a little tiny ball of rock with

him on the cross. Um, but anyway, it's, it's

an interesting movie. I remember like a long

time ago, you had like the top animated movie

list. Yeah. And I was going to put it on there

too, just to like, well, I think, I think it

is interesting. I think it's, it's, that's what

we said. Allegro non troppo. 1977. A little -known

movie called Annie Hall with Woody Allen and

Diane Keaton. It won the Academy Award. Everybody

loves Woody Allen. He's a very popular, very

beloved figure in Hollywood. I'm kidding. Obviously,

it's Smoking the Bandit. It's obviously Smoking

the Bandit. Who are you and what the fuck have

you done with David Draper? Wait, wait, wait.

The joke's funny if we don't say it. You're doing

the thing that Jason always does, which is over

-explain a joke. It's Star Wars, okay? Joke ruined.

1978. No, I said no. All I was going to say was,

you know, you're clear, kid. Now punch this thing

and let's go home. That's all I was going to

say. 1978. I am not a big fan of horror movies

in general, but for a while... Until the 2000s,

2010s, I was a big fan of zombie movies. Okay.

Then they kind of ran that genre into the ground,

and I got a little sick of it. Yeah, they did.

But I do still have a lot of love for the original

George Romero, Dawn of the Dead. Now, George

Romero brings us the most intensely shocking

motion picture experience of all times. It gets

up and kills. The people it kills get up and

kill. This situation must be controlled before

it's too late. They are multiplying too rapidly.

Dawn of the Dead. Meet me on the roof at 9 o

'clock. Get out. I don't believe it. What? We're

going to get out in a chopper. We've got to survive.

Somebody's got to survive. Oh, okay. That is

my one horror movie on this list. I don't really

count stuff like Jaws and Gremlins and Jurassic

Park as horror movies. But yeah, so Dawn of the

Dead, 1978. Alright, Dawn of the Dead. 1979,

I got yelled at. Speaking of not being a big

fan of... A friend. Which friend? Not you. You

don't know him. You know Pete Vandergrift? No.

Yeah, that's what I thought. But he's a huge

fan of Alien. Oh, okay. He's a friend from high

school. Okay. And ironically, he's the guy in

1986 got me into my choice for that year because

I was underage. But, um... But he loves the Alien

movies. He's got the original Kenner one still

in the box. No, he does. But I was thinking about

it. I was considering it. But I went with the

Muppet movie because I do love the original Muppet

movie. Yes. The Muppet show was a big part of

my childhood. Yes. So I went with the Muppet

movie. That's right. That's the only correct

answer for 1979. Alien is, I think, depending

on your point of view, depending on your taste,

you can go Alien or Muppet Movie. I think those

are the two. 1980. 1980, I'm not going to do

it again. It's Empire Strikes Back. For me, the

funny thing was you and I approach this differently.

You go on Wikipedia and I go on IMDb. And so

every year I would go on the IMDb and I would

scroll through the list. They do 50 movies and

then you can get 50 more. I usually didn't have

to go past the first 50. Sometimes I would. There

were a few years I had to go to the next 50,

like the third 50, 150. It was funny, because

when I got to 1980, I was in a rhythm. I got

to 1980, and I started scrolling, and it's like,

oh, oh yeah. Oh yeah, one of my top all -time

favorite movies of all time. How did I forget

that? How did I forget that? Exactly. So Empire

Strikes Back. Again, this is what I call, I took

to calling this stretch Murderer's Row. after

the old 1920s Yankees. They're just like one

monster after another. Star Wars, Empire, 1981,

Raiders of the Lost Ark. Just a classic, classic

Spielberg movie. Is that your choice for 81?

Oh yeah, absolutely. I'm writing these down as

we go, so I just want to make sure that that's

your choice. Hey, if you're copying my homework,

just make sure you don't make it too obvious.

Years ago, I've seen it in the theaters several

times, like fairly recently. But a couple years

back, I saw it. It wasn't real IMAX. It was like

fake IMAX. We didn't have IMAX back then. Yeah.

I remember it was a different experience. I was

watching. I don't know how to put it. I was watching

the directing. Because I'd seen the movie a million

times on TV, on video. But the whole sequence

with the flying wing, it was like watching someone

playing with dominoes, watching every piece be

put into place. It's such a great movie. It's

such a well -directed movie. And it's Harrison

Ford at his peak. It's John Williams' theme.

It's a great film. It is. 1982 is actually currently

my favorite movie of all time. I am now literally

looking at the movie poster. Star Trek II, The

Wrath of Kong. I read a lot. I think it's the

best Star Trek film, which is both good and bad,

because I think they keep trying to repeat the

formula since then, especially with newer films.

I think all three of the Abrams movies were Star

Trek Ravikon, which is unfortunate. The original

is the best. Not all three of them were, but

the second one was. The second one was literally.

Yeah, no, no, I know. Into Darkness, but what's

so funny about that is, as of this recording,

I'm in the middle of editing a previous episode

that people would have already heard. And my

buddy, Steve Megatron, he inaudibly and audibly

hates that movie. And we were going through...

As he should. Yeah, I know. We were going through

2013 because we were discussing... Oh, we were

wrapping up Christmas in July this year because

we went through and reviewed all five Die Hard

films because Die Hard is... A movie that takes

place at Christmas. It is not a Christmas movie.

So anyway, we were... As much static as I give

you, you are a wise man in that regard, 100%.

So we were reviewing the fifth film. I had never

seen A Good Day to Die Hard. And we were talking

about the year that that movie came out, which

was 2013. And I was scrolling really fast through

the list of... american films that released in

2013 and i i was like oh yeah by the way steve

one of your favorite franchises released a movie

that year star trek into darkness i actively

left the silence in because i knew what was going

on in his i heard the gears in his brain trying

to work and i'm like see folks this is what makes

steve megatron shut up you mentioned a film he

inaudibly cannot stand and then Ten and a half

seconds later, you just hear this audible vomit,

and I'm just like, yep, we can move on now. What

makes that movie stupid is that with the original

Wrath of Khan, the movie itself makes the effort

to set up who Khan is, and that he has history

with Kirk. Whereas with Into Darkness, there's

literally a moment where Benedict Cumberbatch

goes, my name is Khan. Khan. And Kirk has zero

reasons to have a reaction to that. Yeah. I think

in the film he's like, what does that mean? You

know, it's supposed to be, it's for the audience

who knows who Khan is. And it's like, it's just

so badly written. It's so dumb. I'm not even

getting to the triples and how they completely

undermine just everything about Star Trek. So

Star Trek 2, Wrath of Khan, I... I don't know.

Oh, I love it. It's a movie that has spoken to

me on different levels every year. Every time

I revisit it, every decade or so. When I was

a kid, obviously it was Space Battles. It's like

Star Wars. It's got Space Battles. Then you're

a little older and it's about the French. It's

about the original trio. You get their friendship

and their camaraderie. And that really speaks

to you because you're making the friends that

you're going to make for life. And then you get

a little bit older and the themes about the choices

you made, right? He has a line about a man I

haven't seen in 20 years trying to kill me. And

you show me a son who would be happy to join

him. Because you get older and suddenly you've

made choices. You make dumb choices. You regret

the choices you make. And that's the main theme

of the movie are the decisions you make and the

consequences that bite you in the ass down the

road. Yeah. You get a little older and people

die. Yep. Everyone remembers the part where Shatner

screams, calm! Yeah, that's what everybody remembers.

Very few people remember when Spock actually

dies. Shatner's reaction, speaking of someone

who was there when someone very important to

him died, is the truest. I mean, there were different

situations, but the idea of going through hell

and, like, you still lose. You still die anyway.

And he just goes, no. And it's... Because his

voice is broken, but he still says no. Like,

you know, it's... So, you know, I love that film.

Like I said, that film has spoken to me. Every

decade or so, there's a new thing to find in

it, which I think is a sign of a great movie.

Also, Kirstie Alley is really hot. I will say,

I don't want to cast shade on Robin Curtis. I'm

sure she's a fine actress. But Kirstie Alley

was really hot. Yes, yes she was. Oh, 1983. Again,

this is Murderer's Row. This is Yub Nub, Return

of the Jedi. The trilogy wraps up. Really? Okay.

For 1983? Man. What? What came out in 1983? No,

no, no. Okay, so when I look... Okay, so again,

I have not made my list, but when I look at the

80s, 82, and I'm not saying this is what my list

is going to be, but it might. I don't know. I'll

hold you to it. Everyone take notes. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. 82 would be Tron. But I saw it way later.

I saw it when... Again, that doesn't matter.

I know it doesn't matter, but I'm just saying,

when I look at the year 1982, just look at the

four numbers, 1, 9, 8, 2. The first thing I think

of is Tron. When I look at 1983, yeah, I had

Jedi in the back of my mind, but the first thing

that pops up... is trading places with eddie

murphy and dan akroyd and and uh you're gonna

notice there aren't a lot of comedies on my list

no i i and that's fine not saying there has to

be like genre to meet like when when you're making

your list when i'm making my list whoever i get

in the future to do this i don't care about the

film genre i don't care what genre it is i i

have no whatever What I'm saying is I'm not picking

by genre, but I do think that people have internal

biases, that they like what they like. And in

terms of movies, I'm not necessarily the biggest

fan of movie. Like when we do the TV list, I

have a lot of sitcoms. It seems like I like comedy

better on TV than I do in movies. Than you do

in film, yeah. It's not that I'm like, oh, I'm

not going to pick Trading Places because that's

a comedy. Oh, no, no, no. It was the fucking

third Star Wars film. I know, and I understand.

Right. Absolutely. Yub nub. I got it. But just

when I look at the number 1983, yes, in the back

of my mind. Sir, what is rule number one? Sir,

what is rule number one? She's his sister. That's

what rule number one is. Sir, what is rule number

one? First of all, I'm from the South, so that's

not a big deal. Secondly, what is rule number

one? Remind me. Yes, I know. I know. Right. I

know. I know. When I get 84. Oh, I know. That's

fine. But all I'm saying is when I see that number.

Yeah. I don't even think of trading spaces. I

didn't realize that it was. Yeah. I'm a big fan

of the TV show, too. Anyway. Yeah, exactly. Me,

too. Alright, 84, what do you got? So 84 was

brutal. 84 is a bloodbath. 84 is a bloodbath,

because like I was saying, it was like Murderous

Row. It was like all these movies that I, you

know, Star Wars, Empire, Rathacon, Raiders, Jedi.

84, finally like the big dogs are gone. They're

all in one year. Oh no, the big dogs are gone.

And it's like every other dog. It's like all

the other classic dogs. Yeah. Gremlins, Ghostbusters,

Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, The Terminator.

Yeah. I mean, Temple of Doom. Temple of Doom,

Beverly Hills Cop. Oh, yeah, Beverly. Well, okay,

again, comedies. But it's still an action movie,

too. I'm just saying it's not my favorite movie.

I understand, and that's fine, but I'm just saying.

My choice for 1984, and this hurts. This is one

of my other all -time favorite movies, Amadeus.

What? The story of Mozart. Yeah. Academy Award

winner for that year. Yeah. Boys love that movie.

I think it's a brilliant movie. I see myself

a little bit in Mozart, and I see myself a lot

in Salieri. The idea of you're sitting there

and you're watching people who have so much more

talent than you. That's just unfair, and you

declare war on God. I'm not saying I did that,

but... I haven't driven anyone to death yet.

Moving on. 1985. This one was pretty easy. Next

Saturday night. Back to the Future. Yeah. Next

Saturday night, we are sending you. That's what

I figured. It's a film I enjoy. My mother was

a little older when she had me, so she kind of

grew up in the 50s. It was kind of fun to watch

it with her. It's one of those rare films that

we both enjoyed. Also, I always love the irony

that the DeLorean was such a flop of a car. And

because of that movie, I think Gen Xers all think

it's the coolest car ever made. It's ironic because

anyone older than us thinks it's garbage. And

we're like, but it's the Back to the Future car.

So cool. No, it's so cool. Come on, it's so cool.

It's okay. You put, and Walmart did this a while,

a couple of years ago, Walmart, when they did

their Walmart, like Walmart plus ad a couple

of years ago, they had back to the future. They

had ghostbusters. They had kit from night. They

had all these eighties cars show up for Walmart

plus like pickup and whatever. Oh God, just so

good. And there was a thing, I forget where it

was. Was it for the 35th anniversary, maybe,

or the 30th anniversary? I'll probably throw

the audio in here somewhere because I think I

have it, but there was an ad for something where

it was Christopher Lloyd. This is years ago now.

Great start. If my calculations are correct,

it is now precisely October 21st, 2015. The future

has finally arrived. Yes, it is different than

we all thought. But don't worry. It just means

your future hasn't been written yet. No one's

has. Your future is whatever you make it. So

make it a good one. But it was him getting in

and out of the DeLorean and doing his famous

line, you know, the future hasn't been written

yet. No one's has. So whatever your future, you

know, the line. I don't remember the whole line.

That's from part three. Yeah, okay. okay but

the point is like i don't care what part it was

from it's from back to the future they all run

together they're a whole i'm rolling my eyes

at you i know and this year is the 40th anniversary

of back to the future and we are later in this

podcast going to cover dave and i are going to

cover all three huh what what what Later on in

this podcast, not one day, later on this year,

before the end of the year, Dave and I are going

to review all three films. Yes, here on the Geekcast

Radio Network, we have reviewed all three films

in the past. Hell, that is how the very first

movie podcast on the Geekcast Radio Network,

Movie Weekend Review, started. We reviewed the

entire trilogy on Movie Weekend Review back in

the day, in 2009. But since it's been 17 damn

years, and everybody else who has already talked

about it in the past has talked about it in the

past, we're going to talk about it in the future.

But yeah, Back to the Future, simply amazing.

All right, 1986, what do you got? 1986 was a

rough one. Well, it was, because there were two

films that I really loved. As I was saying earlier

with 84, how there were all these big guns before

that. This was one of the big guns years. Really?

Yes. So the film I didn't choose was Big Trouble

in Little China, which I absolutely adore. I've

got the poster right here. John Carpenter, weird,

crazy kung fu movie. Oh, God, what's his name?

Kurt. Kurt Russell. I started this list of 19

to everyone, remember? There was an onion tied

to my belt, as was the fashion at the time. Kurt

Russell is like a sidekick in his own movie.

It's amazing. For someone who doesn't like comedies,

It is a funny damn movie. But I had to go, like,

again, another top five movie for me came out

that year. And as I was saying earlier, I have

a friend who's obsessed with Alien. And in 1986,

he took us to the movie theater in the mall and

got us in past the tickets. He was a little older

than we were. And Aliens. Cheers, Cameron. Tony

Weaver. I love that movie. That is one of my

top five movies in general. I keep talking about

movie posters. That one's downstairs with the

collection. Cool. I think the thing is, I like

stuff. It's like Back to the Future and Big Trouble

in Little China are comedies. They're funny movies.

There's sci -fi. There's fantasy. There's action.

They're not just comedies. They're mixed in with

it. And Aliens is absolutely... It's got horror

elements. It's got monster elements, but it's

an action movie. I think I do like action -adventure

movies. I love everything about the Colonial

Marines. I love the outfits. I love the gear.

I love the dropship. I love the... I can't remember

the name of the vehicle now. The ATV. It is one

of my... I love the Queen. One of the things

I don't like about the way the franchise has

gone is Ridley Scott does not like that movie.

And if you notice, they've kind of moved away

from the queen. They don't really mention her

anymore. She's not really like, it's all about

the black goo. I'm aware of the scene from the

original Alien that was cut from the film. You

find out that the alien created its own eggs.

It wasn't killing people, it was capturing people

to turn them into eggs. Which is neat, but I

like monsters, I like monster designs. Aliens,

1986. Again, if I were doing a top five movies

of all time, Aliens and Wrath of Khan would both

be up there. 1987. This one was hard for another

reason, because it was just like, I mean, I saw

movies, but... So I kind of went with Robocop.

I like Robocop. I think it's a good movie. Which

is hard for me. But yeah, Robocop. Not much else

to say. It was Robocop. 1988. We were just talking

about this series. A little film called Die Hard.

Great film. And it is not either It nor Gremlins

are goddamn Christmas movies. They're movies

that take place at Christmas. They're not movies

about Christmas. no i think i think that's the

thing where nerds just want like recognition

and acknowledgement and like this movie i like

it's a christmas movie it's like no no it's not

so the interesting yes so the interesting thing

what i found out because up until this past july

even though we're still recording this in july

July 2025, when Steve Megatron and I recorded

episode 141 to 145 of this podcast, when we went

through all five films, the first three films,

Die Hard, Harder, and Vengeance. Yep. All three

of those take place within a year of each other.

So Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Die Harder is a year

later. And then With a Vengeance is a year later

from Die Hard 2. And I think I said in the With

a Vengeance episode, I'm like, holy crap, this

is John Wick before John Wick. Now, the reason

why I said that was because, and I said that

in the episode, was because I believe, if I'm

not mistaken, the John Wick movies take place

within like X number of hours or days of each

other kind of thing. The first three kind of

do, yeah. Right, right. The first three. That's

what I'm saying. The first, you know, yeah. I

know two and three, like, the time between them

is immediate. It's like, boom. Yes, it's immediate.

But, like, the first one to the second one. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. It's been a little while since I've

seen those. Yeah, so, yeah, absolutely. Die Hard,

excellent movie that takes place at Christmas

from 1988. 1989 was another one that I didn't

even check the list for. Yeah, it's easy. Na

-na -na -na -na -na -na -na -na -na -na -na -na

-na. I'm Batman. That's the TV show. I know it's

the TV show, but I don't know how to hum the

Danny Elfman theme. I saw that opening night

in a theater. That was one of those movies that

got me really addicted to seeing movies in the

theater. There was 300 Batman fans just going

crazy. It was amazing. I loved it. I had just

gotten into comics the year before. I wasn't

really into comics before that, but I just got

into it with Dark Knight Returns and Year One

and Killing Joe. That movie hit like a... I was

kind of in the same boat that Tim Burton was.

I didn't realize Batman wasn't supposed to be

shooting people. It didn't bother me. It didn't

bother me that the Batmobile had Gatling guns.

Later on, I was like, oh wait, that's wrong.

At the time, I was like, cool! I love... I love...

I think Batman, the first one is the best, my

favorite in my opinion, because I think Burton

was a little more reigned in. So you got like

a cool Burton flavor to everything, but it wasn't

full Burton. Yeah. I think Returns was a little

full Burton. Yeah, it was. Which I think kind

of harmed, definitely harmed the Penguin. Weirdly,

I am not a big fan of the Catwoman outfit with

the stitches. I'm not. Oh, wow. In 1990, it was

another one I changed. Technically, the first

half of 1990 was in college. My freshman year

was 89 to 90. And it's weird to think that these

two movies came out in 90. Because I always remember

them being early in my college situation. But

two weeks in a row, we went to the theater. The

first week, we saw Goodfellas. Yep. And then

the second week, we saw My Blue Heaven, which

is my choice. Okay. 1990. My Blue Heaven was

apparently, like, the script was written by a

woman who was living with a guy who wrote the

script for Goodfellas. Oh, wow. And it plays

like a sequel to Goodfellas. To Goodfellas, yeah.

It is absolutely, like, Henry Hill ends up in

the little suburban community, except he's Steve

Martin, and he just, like, just destroys, like,

and he finds out the whole place is, like, with

former mob guys. And it's funny. It's charming.

Rick Moranis is great in that film. Everybody's

great in that film. It's a fun film. Yeah. Former

gangster Vincent Vinnie Antonelli I'm a new man.

is being placed under federal protection. Not

the old me. Hidden in suburbia. This is the new

me. assigned his own personal FBI agent. Now,

this is a real nice house. It's one of the nicest

we've ever moved anyone like you into. Wow. Oh,

my blue heaven, 1990. 1991, another... Part of

it is I have a story for almost every film on

this list. Because otherwise, why would it be

on the list? Exactly, that's the point. That's

the point. When I was in high school, I had a

buddy telling me about these books he was reading.

Specifically, I think at the time it was Red

Dragon. And he was telling me about, you know...

you know, Hannibal Lecter, and this crazy serial

killer who was, you know, blah, blah, blah. If

you know the story of Red Dragon. And they made

it into a movie, which was called Mindhunter.

I believe it was called Mindhunter. Which starred

the guy who ended up going on to, um, Isai, I

think? And I remember watching that movie and,

uh, what's his name? Brian Cox, I believe, was

Lecter in that one. I remember seeing it, and

I was like, oh, I remember seeing it on TV, and

I was like, oh, that's neat. So anyway, Flash

forward to 1991 and my friends in college and

I are going to go see a movie. They're dragging

me to go see a movie. The poster has Jodi, what's

her name, with a butterfly over her mouth. I'm

literally sitting there in the theater watching

it play. At one point they go, Hannibal Lecter.

And I'm like, Hannibal the Cannibal? Because

I literally never heard the second book. I didn't

know that this was a sequel to Red Dragon. I

didn't know anything about that. But just literally

in the middle of this theater in New York, I

was like, Hannibal the Cannibal? And then she's

like, Hannibal the Cannibal? Everyone's looking

at me like, what? So yeah, Silence of the Lambs.

It's a great film. I remember Oscars night the

next year. We were cheering for it and making

a big ruckus in my allegedly quiet dorm. All

the people who usually kept us up all night were

mad that we were screaming and cheering and acting

crazy. 1992. Another tough one. This almost was

my second Western, Unforgiven. Unforgiven's a

great film, but I gotta go with my heart. It's

another one that I saw with my buddies in college.

Queen's World. Even though, by the time I graduated,

I was ready to strangle anyone who went, that's

what she said. They ran that crap into the ground.

But yeah, it was fun. Again, it was a fun one,

even though Dana Carvey looks like my age, but

he was playing a teenager. It was a little creepy

and weird. I would say Steve Carell has run that

into the ground more than Wayne's World ever

did. I never really watched The Office. Yeah,

I understand that, but... You can't be on the

internet and not run into that somewhere, somehow,

some way. Okay, but this was 1992. I understand

that. I'm saying now, though. We didn't even

have the internet. I understand that. I'm talking

about now, though. Now it's different. Yeah,

I know. I don't have to deal with those people.

This guy was my best friend. I wanted to murder

him. That's what she said. That's what she said.

That's right. 1998? 1998? Wait, wait. 98? All

right. My bad. My bad. My bad. 93. I'm looking!

Well, okay, first of all, we've already discussed

93, and if you don't know, again, I'm literally

looking at a shrine that I built on the back

of a piece of furniture for a little movie called

Jurassic Park. Yes. I can't remember if I said

this in the recording or not, but I wanted to

go with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 just to

troll people. But Jurassic Park, like, literally...

I mean, I don't know how dark we want to get

on this podcast, but my senior year was rough,

emotionally. And one of the things that got me

through it was the promise of seeing Jurassic

Park. And to this day, when I see the brachiosaur

and the music swells, I get misty -eyed. It was

like... Because it was... I've always been a

huge dinosaur nut. I was like Alan Grant. I'm

like, It's a dinosaur. Jurassic Park was always

going to win. I don't care how... The only way

it could have lost was if it was up against a

classic Star Wars, which it was not. Yeah, exactly.

I remember blowing up finals the year the book

came out. I blew up my studying for finals to

read the book. I remember reading an article

in Entertainment Weekly that this book had been

up for... It wasn't even published yet, but...

Everyone was bidding for the rights to make the

movie, and Steven Spielberg won. And I was like,

it's a book about dinosaurs. Well, then they

came out right before finals, which was bad for

me. I did not do well in college. Oh, stop. No,

I barely graduated. Oh, man. But you graduated.

It's better than I did in college. At Nick Lee?

No. uh i think it's episode 68 of this podcast

of studio 2009 where we discussed jurassic park

so if you all want to hear dave's full gushing

of jurassic park and my somewhat positive thoughts

on the movie i don't believe the kids use the

word glazing these days but yes glazing exactly

glazed over because by 93 i was 13 and i was

Out of my dinosaur phase and into my Power Rangers

phase. Also, you don't like scary movies, which

is fair. Yeah, I don't do. Mr. I don't do genres.

You don't like scary movies. Not really. It's

not a criticism. I'm not making fun of you. That's

just a thing I've learned about you. When a guy

with giant metal nails and a face that looks

like, you know. Worse than a trash can scares

you in 1985. Oh God, it's the 40th anniversary

of Nightmare on Elm Street. Jesus Christ. 1994,

what do you got? 1994 is another favorite of

mine. It's The Usual Suspects. It's a great crime

drama. It's a great Kevin Spacey performance.

I know we don't like him anymore, but he was

brilliant as Verbal Kint. And the main reason

I love that movie is it reminded me a lot, this

is going to sound strange, of like the, you know,

we played like D &D and D &D type games in college

a lot. And, you know, now it's a big thing and

people like watch role plays on YouTube. But

there's a moment in that movie where like they're

kind of put in a corner by this lawyer, Kobayashi.

And then Kent says to the guy that's interviewing

him, we decided to kill the lawyer. It's just

like, like that is a player move. That is a like.

oh, this lawyer was telling us that if we didn't

do what he wanted us to do, we would be killed.

We decided to kill the lawyer. It's great. The

last shot of that movie is brilliant. It's a

good film. 1996. 95, man. I told you I didn't

do well in college. I told you I didn't do well

in college. Yeah, yeah. When we get to my choices,

95 is going to be a bloodbath for me because

just off the top of my head, I can think of Money

Train, Drop Zone. There's a whole slew of stuff

in 90. Judge, God, there's a whole slew. The

Stallone? Okay. Yeah, Stallone. I know, rule

number two. 1995, Toy Story. Yeah. Just a great

film. It really... I don't think it was the first...

I always get mixed up with Bugs Lightyear, but

it was the first Pixar, right? Yes, it was the

first Pixar. Yes, it was. I thought it was a

great film. I enjoyed it. I will talk more about

it in a minute. Okay. 1996. Birdcage. When I

was a kid... I was, well, pre -teen, whatever.

They used to show La Cage Aux Folles, which is

the French original version of this movie on

HBO or whatever. But yeah, Robin Williams, Nathan

Lane. It's a great film. It's very funny and

touching and human. Gene Hackman's in it. He's

really good. I really like that movie. I haven't

seen it in a long time, so I don't have a lot

more to say. Yeah, yeah. Which brings us to 97,

which is we had Jurassic Park, so we've got to

have the lost world, Jurassic Park. As I believe,

you'll give the episode number in a minute, but

I believe as I said on that episode, as a movie,

I almost like it more than Jurassic Park. Jurassic

Park has a very big emotional connection to me,

but as a movie, I think it has issues. And Lost

World does too, but I don't know. It's when Spielberg

got meaner, and I kind of like mean Spielberg.

War of the Worlds is kind of a fun movie because

he's just sadistic as hell, and it's great. But

yeah, I really like The Lost World. It's a very

fun movie. So, we did them kind of, sort of,

combination? Because we did them as movies that

I had not had seen. Yeah, because you don't like

scary movies. Yeah, and I'm sorry. Giant boulders

scare me. Giant boulders scare me. Episode 84

of Studio 2009, Raiders of the Lost World. Episode

84 of Studio 2009. TFU and Mike and David Draper

as they bring you a double feature film selection

for the first time ever on the podcast. We present

to you Raiders of the Lost World. This double

feature is all about Raiders of the Lost Ark

and the Lost World Jurassic Park. I just love

saying that. 1998 is another Spielberg movie.

Saving Private Ryan. Which I don't really have

a lot to say about it. I just like it, and it

was really well done. Yep. Private Ryan, and

I assume 99 is Toy Story 2, which is where you'll

have more to say about... Oh, yes. Toy Story

2 is another one of those top five movies. I

love... There's a moment when Big Al is looking

at Woody at the yard sale. Yep. And he has a

line, if only you had your hand -stitched polyvinyl.

Yeah. Every toy collector on Earth knows that

moment. Yeah. Oh, look, the rare accessory. He's

got it. Like, the way that Wayne Knight does

his voice is brilliant. And just everything about

that movie, like the bit with Zurg and the fact

that Stinky Pete is the villain and he's gone

insane because he's been left mitten box. It's

just... I'm a toy collector. I'm a toy nerd.

It is so full of little things that toy nerds

click with. And this is 1999. So this is... Okay,

so this is before... This is before Oh My Stars

and Garters. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So this

is after... This is Frasier after Cheers. And

I'm just like... Oh, it's Frasier as a villain.

Damn. I think depending on the episode, Frasier

was the villain. Okay, but all right. To be fair,

but I'm saying like, again, coming from the way

that I grew up and watching the character, because

again, I will say in every episode. For me as

a kid, and I'm sure for you as well, but I'm

not going to speak for you, but I'm going to

say for me, it was about the fiction. It was

about the fictional characters. It was not about

the real people. It was not about when the people

took the face. It wasn't about when Tom Cruise

pulled off the face mask. It was about the stuff

on the screen. So having... Tim Voice. Stinky

Pete. Oh, man. Toy Story 2. And, yeah, you're

right. Wayne Knight. Holy crap. The Toy Collector

was one of the villains. Yep. Best movie ever.

Crazy. Absolutely. Definitely a beloved movie.

Maybe forever. Woody, you're not a collector's

item. You're a child's plaything. You are a toy.

Absolutely. Another movie that I actually, like,

I kind of have a lot in my heart for, but it

doesn't really come up a lot, is Best in Show.

Oh, interesting. It was one of those... Oh, I

can't remember. Christopher Guest, I want to

say? He did a series of mock documentaries. This

is Spinal Tap. It wasn't really his movie, but

it's the most famous variation of that, and he

was in it. But yeah, it's the one about dog shows.

There was a woman in my life around that time,

and we quoted that movie all the time. And to

think, some of these beautiful dogs will be eaten.

He played Harlan Pepper. Christopher Guest did.

Eugene Levy starred... Eugene Levy was the star,

yeah, because he had two left feet. Literally.

He literally had... Both his feet were left feet.

Is that real? Oh my god. Not in real life, in

the movie. No, no, no, no. I'm not saying oh

my god at that. I'm saying oh my god at oh my

god. It's Kate McAllister. You get Catherine

O 'Hara as Cookie Fleck. Yeah, she was in a lot

of those. Yeah, no, no, absolutely. Michael McKeon's

in it. Yeah, I remember his role. Parker Posey's

in it. That was Christopher Guest. I was right.

And most of that is Fred Willard. was the freaking

gem of that. He was one of the commentating guys.

The joke was that the other guy was really kind

of well -versed in dog breeding and dog handling.

He knew what he was talking about. And Fred Willard

was like a hockey player or something. He was

a sports guy. Brought in. And he was the guy

who was like, and to think, in some places these

beautiful animals are eaten. It's just an idiot.

It's a very funny movie. Very cute. Speaking

of Murder's Row, the next three years are dominated

by Lord of the Rings. Fellowship, Two Towers,

and Return of the King. I will say that Fellowship

was particularly special to me because 1999,

you may have noticed I picked Toy Story 2 and

not Phantom Menace. Like many Star Wars fans

who had grown up. I think there were kids that

liked the prequels, but I was very disappointed

by The Phantom Menace. And part of me felt a

little burnt out by the time we get to 2001.

And there's a moment in Fellowship that I really

sort of rediscovered my love of movies. And got

excited by a movie again. When they're racing

through Moria and the Howard Shore soundtrack

is blaring, I was like, this is what I remember

from when I was a kid watching Star Wars. It's

not the same movie, but just that excitement,

that being caught up in the moment. So I do have

a lot of love for those movies. And I think it

helps that they were really well done. And we

will never speak of the Hobbit movies because

they are garbage. Speaking of well done, 2004.

Spider -Man 2. Yes. Still the best superhero

movie ever made. Come at me, bro. I will agree.

Yes. And I will say, though, that... David likes

being right. I will say, though, that the best

culmination to... Oh, we'll get there. We'll

get there. If you're jumping ahead, we'll get

there. I'm pretty sure that's on the list. I'm

pretty sure that's on the list, but just as a

pure superhero movie. Okay, as a pure superhero

movie, yes, fine. I want to go on a little tirade

here about this, though, because when this was

released on physical media, they released the

two -point, because they do this all the time.

They released the 2 .1 version, extended cut,

extra scenes, whatever, whatever, whatever. Currently

in 2025, they are releasing this, or they're

about to release this, or they have released

this, or they're going to, in theaters. Yeah,

we just saw the trailer for that before Fantastic

Four. Right, right, exactly. Yes, yes, yes. Okay,

so they're going to release it or something,

and by the time this episode airs... And Spider

-Man 2 .1. Yeah. Yeah, as Spider -Man 2 .1. That's

my point. So we're talking about Spider -Man

2 .1, the extended cut of Spider -Man 2. So that's

what we're talking about here. By the time this

episode airs, it will have probably already been

released and it'll be in the past and whatever.

So fine, it's already been released. That's fine.

But as of the sound of my voice, as of this recording,

on July 25th, 2025, it has not been released

yet. I see all these people who are younger than

us on Instagram specifically. Oh, my God. They're

releasing a new cut of Spider -Man 2. Oh, my

God. We've never seen this before. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And I understand all

these people are younger than us. And I understand

they may not have been alive in 2004. But Jesus,

people, do some research. Spider -Man 2 .1. They're

talking about this like they've had it. Children

are stupid by definition. That's why school exists.

Yeah, but the only problem is they're not learning

anything in school anymore. I didn't want to

make this political. As a general rule, children

are stupid. I'm not making it political at all.

I'm just stating a fact. They've removed certain

programs and certain classes in school. Children

aren't learning anything in school anymore. They're

learning to look at their screens. That's all

they're learning. It was the beginning of the

Nolan trilogy, although we didn't know that yet.

Batman begins and I have an asterisk because

I am not... This was about a year where there

was weak competition. As much as I love Batman,

I'm weird. I think the Nolan films are good.

I mean, the first two are good. And the third

one is watchable. And Bane is amazing. I don't

love them. I think that's why there's an asterisk

there, because I couldn't find anything else

for that year. Yeah. I love The Dark Knight as

a singular film. Yes, I understand the end of

Batman Begins leads into The Dark Knight. That's

great. I know what you're saying. I wouldn't

challenge you on that. My problem with the Nolan

films is that Nolan really wanted to make James

Bond films. Yeah, and he should have. It would

take very little to change the Nolan Batman films

into James Bond films. Oh, absolutely. Very little.

Honestly, I don't know what in the hell Mr. G.

Wilson and Ms. Broccoli, I don't know what in

the hell they're doing. But I don't know why

they haven't gone to him and asked him. He's

making the Odyssey. Which, weirdly, I want to

see. Okay, fine. Whatever. Look, man, I haven't...

It's the greatest tale in the history of telling

tales! You are a plebeian. No, I'm not a plebeian.

Look, look. Again, for me... I've made my decision

for 2006. Okay, wait. Hold on. I've cast the

dice, sir. Hold on here. Idiocracy. This is my...

What? Why? Idiocracy, sir. The world we live

in now, apparently. Is that the movie, or is

that you just saying idiocracy? No, that's the

movie. My choice was between Idiocracy or Cars,

which were literally the two films I saw in 2006.

They came out in 2006. I'm sure I saw their movies,

but... Yeah. And I think I had to dig deep for

Idiocracy. Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, and again,

that's like I was saying with Batman Begins,

ironically. I don't love either one, but like,

I only saw those two movies. I gotta pick. I'll

pick Idiocracy, because we're living in it. Now

who's making it political? Me. Yeah, see? 2007.

Actually, I think this is a really good film.

I like this film. You're one of those people.

Jesus Christ. It has so much... As someone who

did... On our channel, we did toy reviews and

stuff. It has something to say about criticism.

It has something to say about art and creativity.

You're one of those people. Jeez. It's... Rats

cooking food, which is a health... Don't they

make a point about them cleaning their paws or

some shit? It's been a while since I've seen

the film. I'm pretty sure they've bent over back.

First of all, Remy didn't actually cook. He just

yanked on the guy's hair and made him cook. He

didn't actually put stuff in the... Okay. 2008.

This was a hard one. The Dark Knight? No. It

was either Iron Man or WALL -E. Oh, really? I

went with WALL -E, I think. What? It's a great

film. Okay. The 2000s were the Pixar years, man.

Until the inappropriately named Good Dinosaur.

The dinosaur was a dick. Someday we'll do a podcast

where I do my rant about the Good Dinosaur, which

is the most inappropriately named movie of all

time. But yeah, but WALL -E, I think that was

a great film. It was hard not to pick Iron Man.

I have a lot of emotional attachment to Iron

Man. I went to my first Comic -Con because of

Iron Man. Truth is... I am Iron Man. I mentioned

earlier that there were very few movies I was

able to share with my mother. Right, Iron Man

was one of them. Because she loved Robert Downey

Jr. Right. And this is also the year before she

died. I literally remember walking into the room

one day, and she was watching the Iron Man cartoon

from the 90s. Nice. With Robert Hayes. Yes, nice.

And she is utterly at sea. Because they had the

Mandarin as a green dude, and she has no idea

what's going on. But it's Iron Man, and she loved

it. Like, I love that move. I have a lot of emotional

attachment to that movie, but I went with Wally.

Tell me about it. My apologies, Murdoch. Your

sacrifice will long be remembered. In the meantime,

do try to stay alive. There's so much still to

be done. Pray I'm never in a position to do it

to you. Slowly. And now. Yeah. I do think it's

a better film. Than Iron Man? They're different.

We had this conversation at the beginning of

the thing that they're different movies. They

have different standards. It may also be that

I've seen Iron Man a million times. I don't know.

I picked what I picked. 2009. Up. Up. This movie

came out right after my mom died. Right. And

I remember my best friend at the time, I'd seen

it before I did because I was a little wrapped

up in things. Yeah. I won't go into the whole

story, but I was like, I want to really see that

movie up. And he's like, I don't know if you

should. Because if you remember, the whole beginning

of the movie is they become a couple and then

she dies. But for me, it was very therapeutic.

Okay. And the themes of seeking adventure. Obviously,

being an old, rotting corpse of a man, I love

the story about this old guy who finally has

the adventure he always dreamed of. And Doug

is love. I love Doug so much. I was hiding under

the porch because I love you. Squirrel. I love

Doug. It's such a great movie. The guys at Pixar

were hitting on all thrusters. Back in those

days. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's heartbreaking

what's happened to them. Yeah. Up is a great,

and then Michael Giancano score. Yeah. 2010 is

another one where I was not super like, like

the rule is I got to pick something. Yeah. It's

a good film though. I picked the original how

to turn your dragon. I like it. It's fun. The

music's great. I have the soundtrack. I play

it in the car a lot. Just again, I, I, I don't

remember what else came out that year, because

it was a fairly thin year. I mean, there was

that stellar movie, Iron Man 2. Iron Man 2 wasn't

very good. Iron Man 2 was not very good. But

it had the Centurion armor! Come on! I love that

it had the Silver Sphinx armor. I mean, what's

her name? Scarlett Johansson was never hotter

as Black Widow as she was in that film. But yeah,

it was not a good film. 2011, now we get into

the Marvel years. Pixar has had its run. 2011,

this is a personal favorite. Again, it's subjective.

Captain America, The First Avenger. I adore that

movie. I adore Chris Evans as Captain America.

I think he was fantastic. It's probably my favorite

origin movie. Doing Time is a capsicle. I love

that they actually had him punching Hitler. I

mean, just the moment that it's in the play,

but the fact that they had him punching Hitler,

he does it like a million times. He's like, I

punched Hitler 30 times. It's such a good film.

Tommy Lee Jones is really good in it. You forget

that he was in the Marvel universe. Because everybody

died, you forget that they were all in this movie.

Well, because they died because 40 years passed.

But it's a great film. I really love it. And

that leads into 2012. Avengers. Big surprise

on this one. The Avengers. I really love the

original Avengers. I think it's a fun movie.

It's the best Hulk movie they've ever done. Yes.

And the Hulk is my favorite character. My favorite

Marvel character. I am a god, you dull creature.

And I will not be bullied by you. Puny God. I

really don't know. I remember we saw the... You

couldn't do this these days because you'd die.

It did the Road to Avengers marathon. And then

Avengers premiered at midnight. And I remember

we were trying to get out of that theater at

like 2 a .m. And we were like, no, no, there's

a post -credits scene. Don't go! And it's them

eating fucking shawarma. Yep, it's the shawarma

scene. Yeah, I do love the event. And I remember,

to go back to 2008, I remember the second time

I saw Iron Man, my mom dragged my aunt to go

see it with us. And she got so mad at me the

first time for making her wait for the Nick Fury

credit. And we waited again for the Nick Fury

post -credit. And my aunt was like, what's the

deal with this? And I'm like, oh, well, you know,

this is setting up the Avengers. And she's like,

oh, I've heard of that, that TV show. And I'm

like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Different Avengers.

Different Avengers. Oh, no. I got to pick one.

This was the hardest choice of the whole list.

2013 is the hardest choice of the whole list.

Actually, well, maybe aside from 98. Yeah, 98.

What the hell am I talking about? Aside from

84. There's like a dyslexia for numbers. I kind

of have that. So my choices are Iron Man 3, which

apparently I'm the only person who likes that

film. No, you're not. I love that film. I love

Iron Man 3. I've gotten into so many arguments

because it's like, who doesn't wear the suit?

That's the point. Yeah, exactly. Iron Man 3,

okay. I don't believe in the HT, and the HT is

basically hot take because opinions are opinions,

and opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got

one. So I don't believe in hot takes. Iron Man

3 is essentially Lethal Weapon 5 without Mel

and without Danny. Oh, okay. And it adds in,

you know, superhero, supervillain, whatever.

But because it's Shane Black, man. Okay. He's

allowed to direct other movies than Lethal Weapon

5. I understand. I understand that, but like...

I got so many Lethal Weapon vibes and Riggs vibes

when Tony was sneaking around the compound. Anyway,

so Iron Man 3, what's the other choice? Pacific

Rim. Oh, fuck. Pacific Rim was so... You know

how I said that Avengers is the best Hulk movie?

Pacific Rim is the best G .I. Joe movie. It's

mech suits versus kaiju. It's got a cool theme.

I don't know. I'm going back. I've got to pick

one. I want to pick Pacific Rim just to be petty

and natural. The thing about Iron Man 3 is there's

a line in Spider -Man Homecoming where Tony says,

if you need the suit, you don't deserve it. And

Iron Man 3 is the proof of that. Yes, exactly.

I'm going to go with Iron Man 3. Iron Man 3.

Yep. Talked myself into it. 2014. It's Marvel,

but it's the other Marvel. X -Men Days of Future

Past. Oh, yes. I forgot that. This is a good

film. I really like this film. I like how they

combine the two casts. They also undid all the

damage of X -Men 3 at the end. Yeah. The thing

is, the X -Men films have focused on my favorite

characters. My favorite characters are Magneto

and Wolverine. And X -Men 3, or Days of Future

Past, really focuses on both of those characters.

And we get McKellen, and we get a younger guy,

too. I can't remember his name. David. Fassbender.

Yeah, like, it's just... And somehow, Trask became

a little person. I don't know. I don't know how

that happened. Anyway, I really liked that film.

I wish they had stopped making X -Men movies

after that becauseocalypse was garbage and I

didn't even see the... They keep doing Phoenix.

I don't know why. 2015, Mad Max Fury Road. I'm

a little sad that I didn't get to do the original

Road Warrior on this list. I don't know what

year it was, but it lost out. Fury Road is cool.

That was probably another thin year. I don't

have a lot of... I think it was a good film.

I liked Furiosa. I thought it was a good film,

too. My big issue with Fury Road is that it's

not that Mad Max wasn't the main character, because

he kind of rarely really is, but it was the first

one with... Ah. Bane. Venom. I'm old. The list

started in 71. Oh, Jesus. What's his name? You

know the actor I'm talking about? Hardy. Tom

Hardy. Tom Hardy. My problem was that this was

the first Tom Hardy Mad Max, and I think they

should have focused on him to get the audience

to be Mad Max instead of really putting the focus

on another character. That's my biggest criticism

of the film. But the stunts are spectacular.

Okay. Anyway, 2016. Yes. Rogue One. The fourth

Star Wars movie. Thank God. The fourth Star Wars

movie and the last one that we ever need to speak

of again. Also the sequel to Andor, which is

my favorite, which will come up when we do the

TV series, I assure you. I assure you, sir. We've

already did a whole episode on Rogue One. Number

2017. Number 2017. I went with Wonder Woman.

I'm going to get yelled at by the woman in my

life because she loves the character Wonder Woman.

She hates the DCEU version of Wonder Woman. And

she does not like this movie. But you know what?

I saw this movie before I met her and I like

this movie. Except for the ending. The ending

is the standard DC giant CGI monster bullshit.

Yes. But I thought Gal Gadot was good in the

role. Apparently I'm really isolated on this

opinion. I know she was bad in Snow White, but

I mean, whatever. The No Man's Land sequence

was amazing. And again, I think it speaks to

like it probably was a weaker year. A lot of

Phase 2... God, what year was Guardians? Because

that's not on the list. Guardians. Hey, Google,

what year was the Galaxy release? It's 2014.

Really? Oh, well, I do really love X -Men Days

of Future Past. I do really love... Well, I'm

like, how did Mad Max or Wonder Woman... Future

Past, yeah, I can see that. Because I was a Hulk

guy, I was an X -Men guy. Those were my things

in Marvel when I was into comics. 2018, 2019,

huge surprise here. Infinity War and Endgame.

I already wrote them down. These two movies are

just... Oh, God. They're just amazing. There's

literally a moment in Endgame, and everybody

knows it. At the end... Okay, so there's a moment

before the moment. which is my favorite part,

which is one of my favorite movie moments of

all time. Everybody's down, and Thanos has had

enough of everybody's shit, so he calls in everybody,

he calls in all his army, and Steve is the only

one left. And he gets up, and he tightens his

shield, and he stumbles forward by himself against

this massive army of darkness. I fucking love

that shot. Because that is Steve Rogers. It doesn't

matter if nobody else is with him. stand to the

end. The shield is ripped in half. And then he

gets the call from Sam. And then Cap, can you

hear me? On your left. He's going to call back

to Winter Soldier. And when everybody gathers

and then the two armies charge into each other,

my best friend Jason and I were grabbing each

other's shirts and just shaking. Children. Glee.

I don't think people understand this moment.

Like, like the Avengers itself, the original

Avengers 2012 was largely unthinkable just a

few years before. Oh, exactly. Yeah. And now

we've got every character. Every character. Yep,

exactly. And then, you know, we have the, it's

the hammer, right? Oh, Mjolnir. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. No, you take the little one. No, no, no.

No, no, no. That's a line. Thor has Stormbringer.

And he picks up Stormbringer and then he goes,

no, no, no. You have the little one. By the way,

fucking Love and Thunder screws that up. Oh,

fuck Love and Thunder. That's why I don't like

Love and Thunder. Because the whole thing is

Stormbringer is the one that Thor made for himself.

There's a piece of Groot in it. Yeah, exactly.

So what I'm talking about is that end scene.

When they do assemble... I know, when he finally

says... Because they dicked around with it in

Ultron. Remember, he goes, Avengers? And it cuts

to credits. So now he finally goes, Avengers...

Yeah, that's the whole sequence. Yeah, but that's

what I'm saying. Again, it pays off in the fact

that nobody could pick up the thing in Age of

Ultron, but Steve could move it a little bitty

bit. And there's this great look on Thor's face

where he's like, oh, shit. And then he can't

do it, and he's like, whew. Yeah. Everything

about that sequence is brilliant. Absolutely.

People forget there's other good stuff in that

movie, too. Oh, no, I don't. I love those two

movies. I love timey -wimey nonsense, but I love

when they've screwed up the New York mission.

They have to go back to the base in New Jersey.

Oh, I love it. And the whole bit with Tony and

his dad. Yes, absolutely, finally. I cried. I

have a lot of issues with my dad. And it was

like Tony seeing his dad in a completely new

light. Because now he's a dad. Yeah, exactly.

That movie was like, what the hell happened?

It was surprising talking about Pixar and talking

about these Marvel movies. Oh, no, absolutely.

Now we live in the now. What happened? Yeah,

what happened? What happened? Well, the line

he says to Cap, he goes, you know, I'm glad we're

trying to go back to get back what we lost, but

I don't want to lose what I found. No, no, I

can't lose what I have. Yeah, exactly. These

movies are usually fairly predictable, and I

love... Morgan was such a monkey wrench in the

story. Because you're like, wait, is Tony going

to stop them? Is Tony going to be an enemy? Because

you can't just undo what you did. Because now

there's Morgan. It's such a complication. And

Morgan's adorable. I love you 3000. It's so good.

It's so good. They did so well. Which is why

I was like, I've had this opinion since 2019.

How are they going to move forward? I have not

cared. Other than what if? Other than the animated

one? No, no. What if is good? What if is good?

What if is its own thing? It's good. But... Every

other live -action thing Marvel has done since

Endgame, I'm like, it doesn't matter. Well, no,

it was almost good. Okay. But it was its own

thing. It was kind of its own isolated thing,

which I think is why it was good. And same thing

with DP and W. I agree with that. But, like,

you called your final movie in 2019 Avengers

Endgame. The last chess move. They should have

let it sit. They should have just said, okay,

it's gone. A little bit. It literally ended with

everybody signing it. Yeah. With the signature.

You should have walked away. Because at that

point, I think, did they own Fox at that point?

I don't remember. I don't know. But you should

have just walked away, left it alone, started

with the X -Men. Still not doing a goddamn X

-Men movie drives me insane. Well, they are eventually

in 2032. But they're not doing it yet. They've

got to do Doomsday first, apparently. Point being,

they should have left it alone for a while. But

you can't do that because it makes money. So

instead they're going to do Doomsday and reboot

everything and it's a thing. So how did we watch

stuff when the world shut down? What is your

choice for 2020, sir? My choice is Bill and Ted

face the music. It was cute. I mentioned that

the woman in my life will be angry about Wonder

Woman. She disagreed with me on this one because

she's more of a... She believed that Bill and

Ted were more like metal guys and the music in

this one was more kind of sweet pop. Okay. But

I liked it. It was about niceness. It was positive.

And I think that was, for 2020, that was a hell

of a message that we needed. To be positive and

to be, you know. And again, I like the timey

-wimey stuff. So Bill and Ted facing music. And

again, there was not a heavy competition in 2020.

Yeah, no. To be fair. And the only reason why

I'm half smiling and half laughing because you

said kindness and niceness and all I can think

of is kindness is the new punk rock. Okay. It's

a today thing. I know. I've seen Superman. I

liked Superman, but I get it. I feel bad. I don't

know when Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey was. Because

that would have been a heavy contender for that.

Because I remember loving that film. Absolutely

adoring that film when it came out. So I'm glad

Bill and Ted made the list somewhere. Hey, Google.

Wait, wait, wait. Hang on. Hey, Google. When

did Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey release? 91.

91. Silence of the Lambs. Yep. It would have

been a contender. You know what? If I had known

then what I know now, it might have beat out

Silence of the Lambs. It would have been a contender.

I really like... It's a dumb thing. It's a little

idiosyncrasy thing. Let me speak good. When they

go to heaven and they ask for the best engineers,

they're not human. They're from another planet.

You never see the concept of alien life and science

fiction stuff like that mixed with religious

concepts like heaven. I don't know. It was cool.

I really like that movie. Very cool. Alright,

2021. It's too late now. We're already in 2021.

Ted's Bogus Journey is a good movie. We already

mentioned this. Spider -Man No Way Home. Go,

Webb! Fly! Up, up, and away, Webb! Shazam! Go!

Go! Go, Webb, go! Probably the best movie since

Endgame. I love... I know people are tired of

the multiverse stuff, but I think it worked really

well for this movie. Yes, it did. I love that

Peter wanted to save everybody. That's a big

thing with Superman now. He wants to save people.

Not only did Peter want to save people, he wanted

to save his worst enemies. Then we get the other

two Spider -Men. When we were at the theater,

there's a moment at the end where Mary Jane falls

off the thing and Andrew Garfield catches her.

And this dude sitting next to us suddenly shouted

out, Redemption! And everybody laughed. It was

great. It's a good film. It's an amazing film,

absolutely. The MCU Spider -Man films are all

really good. Yes, they are. Absolutely. Okay,

2022, we've done an episode on this. RRR. Weird

little indie movie that's super freaking awesome.

Mm -hmm. We already did an episode on it, so

we'll leave it at the point. 2023, this one is

like the deepest, deepest dive of the whole list.

I factored Allegro in on Torpro. I think it was

Apple TV. Tetris. The story of Tetris. You know,

I still haven't seen that. I need to. It is so

good. I know I want to, I'm not, I mean, there's

a, there's a moment at the end when they're racing

around Moscow and the KGB is chasing them and

they're trying to, and I'm like, this is that

game I played in college. This is, I have a little,

I have a little Tetris, like they have these

little mock arcade cabinet games that, you know,

you, you, you can buy and just play, you know,

handheld. I have one by my bed. I used to play

it every night. The story of that is just fascinating.

Number one, it was fascinating. Number two, it

was fun. It was a good, exciting, interesting

movie about the battle for Tetris. And then 2024,

again, we've mentioned this, Deadpool and Wolverine.

Let's fucking go. And I... You know, that movie

won my heart at the very beginning. There was

all this, like... was leading up to it, that

Kevin Feige hadn't wanted to do it. First of

all, I have a lot of complicated feelings about

Logan movie. Okay. The whole stuff with Professor

Xavier was a little too much like what I was

dealing with my mom the year she died. There

was a surgery that went wrong. Dealing with someone

you love who had been a mentor figure who is

now kind of mentally a child. It was too rough

for me. It's a good movie. I never want to watch

it again. But Kevin Feige was like, we don't

want to disrespect the memory of Logan. We don't

want to disrespect the ending that we gave Wolverine.

And literally the fucking movie starts with Deadpool

digging up Wolverine's corpse. You could literally

see the heart emoji form over my head. And the

rest of the movie was fun too. I love Hugh Jackman

in that role. And they, they, they, they, I love

the whole, the whole sequence. Cause again, X

-Men is one of my comics. Yep. The whole sequence

where he's visiting all the variant X -Men. And

it's like, I know that cover. I know that outfit.

I know what they're talking about. Like, I know

all these references. I love it so much. And

then I think is Logan had a good art and I was

not the, the, the TVA stuff was kind of meh,

but I do think, I think Sandra Nova was a good

villain. I think she was set up very well. The

stuff with Chris Evans. Oh, it's Captain America!

And then you're like, oh shit, it's Johnny Storm!

And then it's like, oh shit, Johnny Storm! Oh

no! And then the moment when Blade's like, the

only one, the only one that'll ever be. I can't

remember the actor. Who's the actor who plays

Blade? Help me. Wesley Snipes. Wesley Snipes

has that line about how he's the only, he is,

he is, he is, wasn't, and will only be, he's

the only blade that will ever be. Like, it was

cool that they all got, like, all these characters

that, like, kind of were abandoned, literally

and figuratively got their redemptions, except

for Gambit, who I hate. Yeah, but I end in 2025.

Year's not over yet. Yeah, the year's not over

yet. And frankly, the competition is very thin.

This would be another one I'd be like, I guess.

Superman. Fantastic Four was pretty good, I thought.

Superman was pretty good. And there's another

dinosaur movie coming out next month. I'm keeping

my powder dry. Oh, boy. Primal War. Be the dark

horse. So are we leaving 2025 blank? It's not

over yet. Okay. The only reason I'm going to

pick it for the TV one is there's literally zero

chance in hell that any show is better than Andor.

Well, yeah, obviously. I don't know. I haven't

seen Primal War yet. I don't know. There's a

stupid Avatar movie coming out that I'm going

to get dragged to go see. I don't want to. Avatar?

Yuck. One of the successful movies that nobody

seems to like very much. Yeah, no. No Avatar.

All right, folks, that's Dave's list for movies

from every year. 53 long years. Yeah. I feel

it. Yep, absolutely. Well, 54 long years. Well,

I mean, we're not doing 25, remember? Well, 71

to 24. Yeah, the math doesn't work. Anyway, I'm

not mathing right. Anyway. We are going to go

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here in episode 167 inside studio 2009 only on

the geekcast radio network That's David Draper's

list of films from the year he was born, 1971,

all the way up to last year, 2024, because 2025

isn't finished yet. Let's go, Primal War. There

you go, folks. I don't even know what else is

coming out this year. Primal War. I have no idea.

Dinosaurs in Vietnam. Okay. We need to know.

Cool. Anything you want to say? Anything you

want to get off your chest? Anything you want

to promote? Anything? No. The only thing is,

it's an interesting experience to do something

like this. There's a lot of, I don't know how

to put it, introspection. It's an interesting,

I don't want to say therapy per se, but I do

feel that you get a little perspective on yourself.

We had this kind of back and forth about genres.

how there were certain genres, certain things

I liked. It's one of those things that you may

not think about it. The things that you like

say something about you. Oh, absolutely. If you

look into it, you might learn a little something

about yourself. Absolutely. Which is why I was

like, oh, this is a cool Facebook post. I don't

want this to get lost, which means, guess what,

folks? I turned it into a new podcast series.

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list of movies from the year I was born up until

2024 because I have not seen Superman and I have

not seen Fantastic Four yet. I am waiting for

a media release, so that's just the way that

I roll. Captain America New World Order? Lilo

and Stitch remake? I haven't seen those either

yet. Lilo and Stitch just hit digital buy, and

I haven't had a chance to buy it yet. For me,

it would be an instant buy because I've seen

every single clip. Like, I know the movie. I

know the changes that they made in the movie,

and I'm okay with the changes that they made

in the movie because I understand, unlike some

other regular people, that they had to make certain

story changes to make it fit in. Okay. No, no,

I think it's great. Ohana means abandon your

family so you can go live your own dreams. It's

a very millennial message. Is it a millennial

message, though, or is it a Gen Z message? Come

on now. It's a Generation Isn't Mine message.

That's all I know. Therefore, contemptible. Yes,

very contemptible. I need to get Disney Plus

back to see Cap. I haven't had Disney Plus in

a couple of months. No, you don't. Because you

haven't seen the film, you didn't realize that

was a joke. Yeah, yeah. As was Captain America,

Winter Soldier, or not Captain America, New World

Order. New World Order, yeah. That was a weird

Freudian slip. It's okay. Winter Soldier's awesome,

absolutely. That really is America's ass. That's

the Avengers. Oh, is it? That's Endgame. Yeah,

that's when he's... Oh, no, that's... Civil War.

Civil War is when Ant -Man says that's America's

ass. And then it is Endgame when he's fighting

himself. When he's fighting himself. Yeah, that's

Endgame. Yeah, that's Endgame. It just goes to

show you folks, Endgame is amazing. So yeah,

next episode I'm going to go through my list

of films from the year I was born up until 2024.

Quietly judging him. Well, like you don't do

that already. So for now, I am TF2 and Mike with...

David Draper. You'll hear us back in the studio

soon. Blue shirt, fifth row, wake up! Ah, light

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