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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
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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,
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Join us next time when we will be getting my
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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