hey hey hey it's chaos queen here and you're
listening to the geek cast radio network this
was difficult i can't believe how difficult i
mean you cheated on the first one so yeah i did
not you were thinking of cheating on the first
one i did not i didn't realize you were 20 years
older than i was funny guy i didn't realize you
were born in 1955 my dad was Okay, you know what?
I would almost accept that as a dodge in the
re -release. This was my favorite movie of the
year. My dad was born. Hey, it's Mistress Carrie,
and you are listening to Studio 2009. It's a
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Radio Network. I'm, of course, T .O. Joe and
Mike. And for the second time ever, it is Media
Mayhem. And it will be like the sands of the
hourglass. These are the decades of our lives.
Today, I welcome back that good old detective
of film and television. It's David Draper. Hello,
sir. How are you? Like I said, I'm not dead yet.
Not dead yet. I'm not getting better, but being
older. We can try to get better. And as I said
last episode, this is all his fault, folks. And
we already went through all the reasons why this
is all his fault in the last episode. But again,
I will remind everybody of the rules. Rule number
one. These lists are inherently subjective. They
are not the quote -unquote best films of each
year. but are favorites, and therefore no choice
can be quote -unquote wrong. Quiet eye -rolling
is, however, allowed. Rule number two! The more
a personal thing, in many cases, we define favorite
as film we'd most like to watch. Rule number
three! You'd have to have seen the movie, but
do not have to have actually seen it the year
it was released. And finally, rule number four!
You can only pick one film each year, 1984. You
must pick one film from every year, 2006, etc.,
etc. So those are the rules. Any questions, anything
you'd like to say before we start? I wish I had
come up with rule number five, which is that
the movie had to actually be released the year
that the... If I had known that you could cheat
like that, Star Wars would be on the list like
five times. It came out on videotape in 1982.
It came on HBO in 1983. The special edition in
1997. So what he's referring to, folks, is Lady
and the Tramp got re -released in 1980. I was
born in 1980. And I asked him, and I said, hey,
are we counting re -releases? I said no. And
that's fine. I didn't pick it. Oh, you didn't?
Okay. So you've actually seen another movie besides
Empire Strikes Back from 1980? Actually, yeah.
I think you thought that I was just pushing for
that movie. And my thing was like, I really didn't
care if you picked Empire. It was just like,
it did not strike me right. Because number one,
you didn't see it in 1980. You saw it later.
And it was released in 1955. It felt like a dodge
to get out of the... And the thing is, 1980 had
a... I counted, like, 20 films, like, that were
not Empire Strikes Back, that were, like, and
not horror films. Because they had, like, they
had a lot of, like, really classic, you know,
horror films, too. I'm not a big horror film
guy. But it's, like, they had The Fog, and they
had Alligator, and they had Terror Train, which
are all well -known horror films. But, like,
they had, like, I mean, I listed them all. I
listed off a couple of them, like Airplane. Airplane,
come on, man. Caddyshack. There was another one,
because I know you like comedies. There was another
one, like Ordinary People, which won the Academy
Award. I mean, obviously, it won the Academy
Award every year, but I'm saying there were a
lot of really good films that year. And I spent,
well, by the time you folks hear this, it'll
probably be a couple of months from now, but
hopefully it'll be shorter than a couple of months
from now. At the time of recording, I spent about
four hours last night and three hours this morning
coming up with my list. So I spent about seven
hours total. And I spent about an hour and a
half on 1980 alone. Because every other one,
every other year, I pretty much knew what I was
picking. Almost up until the. I would say 2021,
2023 kind of gave me a little little bit of a
whatever. Actually, 2017 gave me some trouble,
too. But 1980 gave me the most trouble because
you're right. There are a lot of great movies
in there. I just haven't, I've never seen airplane.
I, I know the clearance Clarence thing because
it's everywhere because that's the biggest joke
out of that entire movie. Like that's the most
famous joke out of that movie is the Shirley
one. Okay. Yeah. Don't call me Shirley. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Don't call me Shirley. Yeah. Fine.
But I'm saying like, what's the clearance Clarence.
That's another one that I know, but I've still
to this day, never seen airplane. I've never
seen. the other ones you mentioned. It was Caddyshack,
and it was something else. I've seen bits and
pieces of the original, the first Caddyshack
film, and as soon as I saw Dangerfield, I was
like, oh, hell. He was better in Ladybugs with
Jonathan Brandis. That's all I'll say. No, but
my favorite Dangerfield is Back to School. That's
a good one. Okay, well, I'll do you one better.
The best part is he hires Kurt Vonnegut to write
his paper on Kurt Vonnegut. And then the teacher's
like, I don't know who you hired to write this
paper, but he knows nothing about Kurt Vonnegut.
I'll tell you one better. Rover Dangerfield.
When you don't actually see Rodney, you just
hear his voice because he's the animated dog.
I'm just not a Dangerfield fan. I respect the
guy. I respect his comedy, but I'm just not a
fan of him in film. I mean, he's one part of
like – I mean, when you mention that, it's like,
oh, yeah, Dangerfield is in that. Like for me,
it's Bill Murray and Chevy Chase. Yeah. I need
to go back. It's not about them either. It's
about the stupid kid who was – About the kid,
yeah. Ended up being like the boyfriend on Roseanne,
I think. Jackie's boyfriend. I think that's the
same guy. I could be wrong. Don't ask me. Johnny
Galecki? No, Johnny Galecki. No, no, no. Roseanne's
sister has like a boyfriend. Yeah, okay. I mean,
it was 20 years later. Agent Bull, the Elephant
Man. Oh, okay. Yeah. I don't know what movies
you watch. Flash Gordon. Flash. Yeah. Popeye.
9 to 5! The gods must be crazy! Okay, now see,
here's the thing. Is that... No, not Xanadu.
I was forced to watch that one year. I was forced
to watch that one year as well. That movie is
horrible. I hate that movie. It exists. Between
Xanadu and The Gods Must Be Crazy, I'll take
The Gods Must Be Crazy any day. Oh, The Gods
Must Be Crazy is a great film. So the funny thing
about The Gods Must Be Crazy is that I believe,
and I could be getting this wrong, and I don't
think it was my high school years. I think it
was my middle school years. I think it was like,
no, it was probably the early high school. It
was either eighth grade or ninth grade. Now,
the way that... Middle school and high school
worked for me was it was 6th, 7th, and 8th was
middle, and then 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th was
high school. So freshman, sophomore, junior,
senior. So because in different areas of our
lovely country here, it sometimes worked differently.
Hell, my cousin Pauly, when he was a kid, for
some odd reason, one of the schools he ended
up going to, they didn't give out A, B, C, D,
all that. They gave out S's and G's, and I still
don't know which one was the good grade and the
bad grade. Anyway, but at one of these schools,
one of the teachers was so eccentric to get the
class to shut up at one point after we learned
some lesson or something. This teacher, I don't
remember what this teacher... was on but they
would and i'm using the term they because i don't
remember if it was a male teacher female teacher
i i don't remember all as i remember is anytime
they wanted us to shut up they would get out
the tv and vcr and put on the gods must be crazy
to make us shut up i don't know why but all right
1980 also i want to bring up that there was like
a A thing about Superman 2, you were like, it
actually premiered, it came to America in 1981.
Yeah. It premiered in 1980. Every list I've seen
with it has it premiering in 1980. It premiered
in Australia or Sweden or whatever in 1980, yes.
It premiered in 1980. It doesn't matter. Because
you wouldn't have seen it in 1981 anyway. You
would have been a year old. Yeah. Keep in mind,
everyone listening at home, this is supposed
to be fun. Yeah, it is fun. I'm having fun going
through my emotional trauma of trying to pick
a movie here. People are into that. People make
good money doing that. Alright, alright, fine.
I'm just gonna... What are we gonna pick? No,
no, hold on, hold on. I'm going to pick it, but
I'm going to also say... Are we going to do this
for every year? You decide on the spot? No, but
no. No, no, no. No gods. Not yet, anyway. I will
say that my list has multiple listings as we
go along, and I have marked in red my actual
picks. So I wish I could give you a hard time
about that. My list had moments like that, too.
So I mentioned the gods must be crazy. So at
least I mentioned it. We mentioned Empire. And
for me, I found Empire so much later. I mean,
I didn't find Empire. I didn't find the trilogy
until like 87. I saw Spaceballs before I saw
Star Wars. Okay. I don't know what that has to
do with anything. You found it when you found
it. I know. I understand that. One of the biggest
Star Wars fans I know was born in 1983. Okay.
Which is my point. You come to it when you come
to it. Right. And again... I don't care that
you don't pick Empire. It's not my list. My only
thing is that it felt like you were using this
really weird non -technicality to get out of
a hard decision. No, no, no. I was trying to
clarify because I had a Lady and the Tramp story
and the only time Lady and the Tramp was listed
in the 80s was the 1980 re -release. I was just
clarifying. This isn't our favorite movies. I
would have had a much different list if you had
to pick your, in my case, 54 favorite movies.
It would be a radically different list than what
I came up with. Right. Part of the thing is you're
stuck with what the years were. You know what
I mean? Right. Again, as we talked about with
1984, half of those movies would be on my list
of 54 favorite movies of all time. And maybe
we'll do that podcast, but that's not what this
thing is. You know what I mean? The thing is,
you're locked into whatever came out that year.
Movies by your age. 54 favorite movies of all
time, of your time. 45 of mine. That's not my
time. No, no, no, but I'm saying... Cousin Kane
was in the 40s? No, no, no. I mean, Casablanca
was in the... Maltese Falcon was... Yeah, anyway.
And those didn't make my list because they weren't...
A year I lived. Yes. I'm just saying, it felt
like, just pick your movie, man. No, it wasn't
a dodge. It was a question. This whole thing
is train wreck right at the very beginning. Of
course. It's the way it always is around here
at the Geek Cast Radio Network. Don't you know
this by now? Alright, 1980. Superman 2. The Lester
cut. The theatrical Lester cut was the cut I
saw as a child. End of story. Period. I don't
remember ever making a big argument for the Donner
cut. No, no, no. I'm not saying this for you.
I'm saying this for the audience. I don't know
what you have against polar bears, but whatever.
Fine. The only thing I remember about the Donner
cut was there was a shot of a polar bear. Okay,
okay, okay. 1981. Yeah, let's, let's, let's.
I'm interested to see what you go here. Yeah,
so really quickly, like I said. I know you are.
I'm glad you are. That's good. Apparently you've
got some kind of weird chip on your shoulder
about the Donner cut, but like. Dude, just no.
Look. You see, my problem is I am too old. All
these weird cuts, to me, they're laser discs.
The LaserDiscs had the weird cut of Star Trek
The Motion Picture and Superman 2 and Aliens.
My brain has never adapted to a post -DVD slash
Blu -ray world where in the early days that stuff
was normal. I'm on board these days with 4K because
I have a 4K television and I'm more than fine
with whatever, but I can't go back. And not reconcile.
Now this is part of my memory. And this is my
reasoning for Superman 2. Now that I finally
made my choice. Of Superman 2. I remember being
on. Being in South Dennis Massachusetts. On Cape
Cod. At my Uncle Richard and Aunt Cheryl's house.
On the Cape in Massachusetts. I remember watching
that movie. Every single time. I would go to
their house. And I remember just. Enjoying the
hell out of that. film all the time every single
time like it was just the thing i did every time
i would go to their house and then fast forward
all these years later finally hey guess what
there's this donner cut they changed all this
stuff they did this they did that and it's so
much different and it's so much better and it
makes it a better story fuck off sorry not sorry
And I'm really not sorry. Because this time,
I won't stop until you're just a greasy smear
on my fist. 1981! Alright, here we go. So folks,
I did not know this, and we are going to find
this out at some point, most likely next year,
considering the schedule that this podcast has
at this point. But this movie has an uncredited
role of a homeless watch salesman. How you doing,
young fella? Okay, I guess. Penny for your thoughts.
Well, it's a long story. But a familiar one,
I bet. Older than the hills. I've been there,
my friend. I've been there and back. You know,
I see the way you're sitting here. I see the
way you got your hand around that little shoe,
and that's all I need. I know your whole story.
You do? Absolutely. It was 1981, and the homeless
watch salesman was played by none other than
Peter Falk in The Great Muppet Caper. Oh, okay.
Yeah. I've watched that scene on YouTube. No,
I watched the whole movie. I watched the whole
movie a couple years ago. No, no, no, but just
recently, because I did a visit to Chicago. and
I likened the place where I stayed to the Happiness
Hotel. Yeah, no, I absolutely love The Great
Muppet Caper. It is one of my favorite Muppet
movies. It's so funny. They can't get out of
their own way. I love the thing that Kermit and
Fozzie are brothers, and there's that picture
of their dad. I love that. That's hilarious.
So funny. The Great Muppet Caper is pure Muppet
comedy gold. I can't wait to revisit it when
we eventually do the Muppet Spotlight at some
point here on the podcast. Hopefully before I'm
dead and gone. 1982! I would not have seen this
movie until 2010. But the pick for 82 is Tron.
And the story behind that is that, like I said,
I did not see that until 2010 when its sequel
came out. And it was like Tron Fever in 2010.
And I will talk more about that when we get to
2010. But for the time, wow. What a movie. 1983.
I think we should stop and acknowledge all the
movie bros that are going to come at us for neither
of us picking Blade Runner. I've never seen it.
I have. It's fine. It's not my thing, bro. Calm
down. I'm just like, I know someone's going to
be like, they didn't pick Blade Runner. Look,
not every geek can be the same. Not every geek
should be the same. I'm just saying. I know you
know, but I'm not. I'm acknowledging that Blade
Runner exists. Now, calm down. It's fine. Android's
dream of electric sheep. He's going to die anyway.
But who doesn't? Android's dream of electric
sheep? What's the name of the book that it was
based on? Do Android's dream of electric sheep?
I'm sitting there thinking of, like, I guess
that's what... Maybe you should just move on
to your movie choice. I was trying to remember
the dog's name. Please, just move on to the movie
choice. 1983, folks. I will give an honorable
mention to the best ending to a saga ever in
Return of the Jedi, but my choice is Trading
Places. Because, damn, Trading Places. Oh, my
God. Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in that movie.
Hilarious. It has a... I don't know if it's uncredited.
He better be credited. I'm not looking at Wikipedia
or IMDb, but it is Paul Gleeson in that before
he was Mr. Vernon in The Breakfast Club two years
later. But he ends up in the... in the gorilla
suit at the end. But it's got Edward and Mortimer
Duke, and it's got the Duke brothers, and one
of those guys ends up playing one of the grandparents
on National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. By
the way, the original Vacation came out this
year, or that year, 83. Yes, it did. Yep. And
to this day, I think there are only two Vacation
movies I've ever seen. Christmas vacation and
Vegas vacation, and I'm perfectly fine. I've
seen the original, I've seen European, and I've
seen Christmas. European was fun because when
I actually went to Europe, we were quoting that
stupid, look, it's Big Ben Parliament. Our handlers
were very sick of us by the time we were done.
But Trading Places is so fun because it's...
It's two guys who are kind of lost in their lives.
One needs to find a way to do something. It's
just a fun, fun movie. It's a fun comedy. It's
Eddie Murphy and it's Dan Aykroyd. They just
do so many weird, awesome things in it. It's
really cool. So fun. 1984. Oh boy, 1984. I didn't
find it to be such a bloodbath as you did. It
is a bloodbath. I agree. There are a lot in 1984.
But then there's Helen Slater. Because, damn,
Supergirl. That's the choice. And I'm sticking
with it. That movie. Oh, my God. I remember I
would have watched it later because I was four
years old in 1984. I would have watched it probably
close to 87 when Superman 4 came around. I would
have Supergirl on repeat. You've had your fun,
Selina. The game is finished. On VHS. Most likely.
In 87 as a 7 -year -old. Did you grow up on a
farm? No. I grew up in a city. That's a Red Letter
Media reference to their Supergirl episode. Yes.
No, I did not grow up on a farm. I grew up on
a farm and the only tapes they had were Supergirl
and something else. So you watched Supergirl
a lot. Ghostbusters? I'm genuinely like, really?
Yeah, no. Here's the thing about Ghostbusters.
You're going to redeem my choice on that one.
No, here's the thing about Ghostbusters is that
Ghostbusters is a comedy horror movie. Oh, for
fuck's sake. No, no, no. I'm not judging. I love
Ghostbusters. I do. But here's the thing, and
this is the thing with me. In my movie watching
as a child, as I found movies... You just saw
Tron in 2010. I often... Right. You didn't have
any emotional connection with it. I often found
sequels before I found originals. So I saw Ghostbusters
2 before I ever saw Ghostbusters. So I saw. No,
it is. Absolutely. 100%. I love Ghostbusters
2. My point is, is that I saw Ghostbusters 2
before I saw Ghostbusters. I saw Beverly Hills
Cop 2 before I saw Beverly Hills Cop. I love
both films equally. I have loved both films equally
now, but if we're talking about Little Mikey
in the 80s, Little Mikey in the 80s didn't see
Ghostbusters at all. I never saw it until probably
1996 or 7. I was 16 or 17 years old when I first
saw Ghostbusters, probably. Probably the best
age to do it, because you... I saw it when I
was 13. Like, you don't necessarily get all the
jokes when you're 13. I mean, I kind of knew
what was happening with the ghost and Dan Aykroyd
in the, quote, dream sequence, which was originally
supposed to be, like, a thing that actually happened.
But, I mean, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Yep.
I feel bad that I went highbrow in 84. No, hey,
your list is your list. I personally feel bad
that I, but I... I do, in fact, love that movie.
I also want to acknowledge Footloose, because
that was a favorite of someone who was very close
to me. That was one of those films that every
time it was on TV, I was like, okay, oh gosh,
Footloose again. That and Harris Bueller. I think
I broke my thumb. Anyway. Which reminds me, I
need to make a little note here to talk about
this in that year when it comes up, because damn.
1985. There's only one movie in 85 that I constantly
begged my mom. Like, if we didn't return this
VHS to the video store at the time, which was
Adventure and Video in Kingston, Massachusetts.
we would have had a million dollar late fees
instead of late fees because I would have kept
this over. We just constantly kept re -renting
it because I watched it over and over and over
again. And that was He -Man and She -Ra, The
Secret of the Sword. Let's move, Kat. I could
not. Like, this was huge. As a He -Man fan, as
a kid who grew up on He -Man, as someone who
had practically all of the toys, I've said this
before on other podcasts, I had Castle Grayskull,
I had Snake Mountain, I had everything from that
toy line. I grew up watching that cartoon when
that movie, when that animated film came out.
I didn't get to see it in theaters, but once
that VHS came out, oh man, just... Absolutely
watched it over and over and over again. And
it was just, just amazing. Absolutely amazing.
And again, it's no shade to back to the future
and, and any like breakfast club and any of the
other 85 movies that are, that are in 1985. But
for me, for my memories, for my childhood, that
like, I don't remember like how I saw back to
the future was I saw it as a marathon because
I saw all of them in like late 1990, early 1991
when they were all out on VHS. So, but in 85,
86, when he managed to the secret of the sword
finally came to. vhs at the time i was renting
that thing every other day as long as my mom
let me absolutely love that this is such a good
that is you're gonna kill me for this but it's
true because and and the producers of it actually
even said that's essentially the fantasy the
the you know how they say science fiction and
fantasy like oh here's your star wars and here's
your lord of the rings That technically is your
first ever Lord of the Rings, quote unquote,
type version of Star Wars. Because you have...
Star Wars is a fantasy film. Yeah, well, it's
also... No, it is a fantasy film with science
fiction trappings, but it's a fantasy film. And
they actually did Lord of the Rings in the 70s.
And that same year that you're picking also had
Legend. Legend? Legend? Huh? Tom Cruise? Tim
Curry? Yeah. Really? Tim Curry's in that? Tim
Curry's the devil. I don't remember. I have...
I mean, this is the thing that I say quite a
bit. I have the action figure. Okay. I believe
you. Alright. 1986. Oh, man. Can anybody guess?
Blue Velvet. There's only really two options
here. Platoon. Huh? Platoon. There's only really
two options here. You're either going to get
a day off or you're going to be transforming
yourself. Oh, boy. Transformers the movie. Megatron
must be stopped, no matter the cost. I thought
about going with Ferris Bueller's Day Off because,
you know, it's Ferris, but it has to come to
Transformers because without Knight Rider, without
Transformers, without He -Man and the Masters
of the Universe, without Thundercats and without
Mask, without those five things. in the 80s i
probably and later well 86 this will translate
to when we do the tv version of this without
alph i would probably not be the person that
i am today if those things never happened but
transformers the movie need i say more we have
so many various different versions of commentaries
and discussions here at the geek castrated network
of transformers the movie i can link several
of them in the show notes folks it's transformers
the movie You want to know something? Uh -oh.
I'm scared. I have waited like this whole episode.
Now I get to say it. I get to say it. My turn.
I've never seen that movie. Okay. 1987. 1987
had a lot. But again, it goes to the sequel I
saw before the first one and the sequel that
I think is the best 80s sequel when it comes
to action movies beverly hills cop 2 are you
driving with your eyes open are you like using
the force at least when it comes to 80s action
sequels beverly hills cop 2 nail like the first
one is great the first one is amazing it does
everything that it's supposed to do but the second
one just axle get out of the goddamn pool Like,
you know, just everything. Absolutely love that.
And the Harold Foltermeyer score from the first
film to the second film, just, oh, man. I love
that movie. 100 % love that movie. 1988. 1988.
At first, I only had one listed. And then as
we were talking, I was like, hey, wait a minute.
I have to throw something else on here. Not because
I'm going to pick it, but because I want to talk
about it. the shack is back everybody loves the
goddamn gopher i don't care what anybody says
everybody loves the gopher that's what i say
i know but everybody does i say it too if you
don't love the gopher there's something wrong
with you i try to remember is like was the gopher
frank welker i think it was frank welker but
i could be wrong If I'm wrong, I'll correct myself
in another episode down the line. Anyway, the
reason, other than the gopher, the reason why
I, the two reasons, one is a very stupid reason,
but the two reasons why I love Caddyshack 2.
You got Kenny Loggins back with a different song,
with a new song, which is Nobody's Fool, which
I love that song. Absolutely love it. And that
opening scene where Jonathan Silverman is running
across because little Miss Priss there wants
a diet root beer. And the root beer company that
they got to do it was Hires Root Beer, which
is a New England company. And that's the stupid
reason why I love this movie is because it's
from where I'm originally from kind of thing.
So, but I just absolutely love Caddyshack 2.
But no, the one, my actual pick for 1988 is Ryan
Brown. And a little lone guy who is, you know,
just came off being a fighter pilot in 1986.
Just came off assignment at Top Gun. 1988's Cocktail.
I don't drink, but I love this fucking movie.
This movie, Cocktail, has the best 80s live action,
one of the best, I'm not going to say the best,
one of the best soundtracks ever in the 80s.
And it's just about... a regular guy who's getting
home from the army and he's trying to figure
out his life and what he wants to do and how
he wants to go about doing it and he falls into
bartending and how that can make him a doesn't
make him a billion but his big thing in the movie
is he wants to make a million bucks and he wants
the wants the american dream and this that the
other thing and To tie it back into Back to the
Future, Elizabeth Shue ends up being his girlfriend
in this movie. So you got, because she will eventually
replace, oh, what's her name? Was it Elizabeth
Shue? Claudia Wells. Huh? Was it Elizabeth Shue
who was Jennifer in the two and three? In two
and three, yes. It was Claudia Wells in the first
movie. But yeah, so yeah, Cocktail. I absolutely
love Cocktail. Cocktail introduced me to Brian
Brown, who would then go on... You're right,
you're right, you're right. Never mind, never
mind. I'm getting my brain mixed up with Leah
Thompson, who was... The mother. The mother,
yes. Yeah. My bad, my bad. It's okay, it's okay.
But Cocktail introduced me to Brian Brown, who
I would eventually then go on to see on television,
because the movie was on, you know, hey... This
week's movie is blah, blah, blah. I would then
go on to see him on FX and FX2. Yeah, FX is really
good. I was going to ask you to see that. I love
those movies. I need to get them on Blu -ray,
4K, whatever. I can't wait. But yeah, Cocktail
for 1988 would be my 1988 choice. 1989, this
is rough. Because I scrolled through 1989 fairly
fast. And I really only put one thing on here.
I didn't like every other year. I pretty much
looked through because the way I did it was on
Wikipedia list of American films of insert year.
And I am not picking Batman. Because my Batman
story. No, no, no. I understand. I don't know
if I said this in your episode, but my Batman
story is I saw it like one or two years later
in a JCPenney. I mean, you picked Tron. Yeah,
well... Which is on 2010. Uh -huh. Yeah, yeah.
But what... 89. Oh, God. I swear, was that movie
in here? Here, let's just do it this way. So
anyway, 89, one of my choices was going to be...
Yeah. It's not a tie, but the choices I am wrestling
with are... The first thing I wrote down and
the only thing I wrote down was Last Crusade.
And then the choice that I just thought of was
Uncle Buck with John Candy, Macaulay Culkin.
And as much as I love Last Crusade, and as much
as I love Indy, I gotta give it to Buck. Because
damn, if that's not one of his best comedies
he ever did. Just, it's so good. Again, you have
a character who, it seems, he seems to be this
guy who, knows everybody this guy who seems to
be this hard worker but at the same time he seems
to be a slacker everybody thinks he's he's this
lazy good for nothing even though he's not it's
john candy and it's just so funny here's a quarter
why don't you take this and go down to wherever
and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face
when he's talking to the principal Like, just,
oh man. And this is essentially a year before,
yeah, because Home Alone came out in 90, right?
Yeah. Huh? Yes, it did come out in 90. Yeah,
I saw this backwards. I saw Buck after I saw
Home Alone, so I was kind of shocked in like
late 90, early 91. I was like, hey, there's Kevin
McAllister with Buck Russell. And I'm like, hey,
that's cool, younger. Oh, cool. But no, I absolutely
love it. It's so funny. It's so good. So, so
absolutely good. 1990, again, wrestling between
two things here. Dick Tracy was one choice. And
then the only choice I can go with is Lean Mean
Green. And on the screen. Hey, dudes, this ain't
no cartoon. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I know.
They did it. They did it. It's... I mean, I think
the... For a lot of people, I think they were
disappointed because it was more like the comic
book than the cartoon. But I think it's a good
film. Yeah, it was... So they kept bits and pieces
of each. They added a little bit more seriousness.
I think that's why the sequel. Yeah, it was a
lot more serious. The second one was goofy, but
the first one was pretty serious. Yeah, the first
one was pretty serious. There are a lot of good
funny moments. What's the Donnie and Casey? Dome
head. Elf lips. Gak face. When they're fixing
the thing up in the farm. When they're fixing
the truck. between Donnie and Casey, they go
back and forth. There are funny moments that,
you know, I'm not saying, no, I'm not saying
it's like, you know, but like, you know, but
it's, but it's not, it doesn't have the ninja
rap. Yeah. So going from 1987 with the cartoon,
the cartoon being what it was versus what the
comic book was in 84. And I had never read the
comic. I started with the cartoon in 87. So for
me, seeing how serious it was as a 10 year old.
Like I saw it in theaters as a 10 year old. Yeah.
Yes, folks. We are, we are old men. He's an older,
I mean, I also was first introduced to it with
the cartoon and the video game and the toys.
And when I got to college, someone had like all
the collections of the comics of the comics.
Yeah. Yeah. And. I'm only doing this because
we're recording this in the moment, folks. We're
recording this. What the hell is today's date?
It's six, I believe. Yep. Okay. We're recording
this July 26, 2025. And recently Hulk Hogan has
passed away. One of the choices I wrote down,
even though it is not my choice, but one of my
choices I wrote down was 1991 Suburban Commando.
Because that was the only movie I ever saw Hulk
Hogan in. And it was just a funny... You never
saw Rocky III? Okay. You never saw Gremlins 2?
Depending on the cut? Wait, I don't remember
him in Gremlins 2. The film breaks. And he starts
yelling at the, he's in the audience and he starts
yelling at the gremlins. You want to face me,
brother? That's right. That's yeah. I just saw
that. Okay. That's right. I just saw that clip
too. Oh my God. How did I forget that? Okay.
Yes, I did see, but like Rocky three to me is,
is yeah, he's not the star. I mean, I will concede
he's not the star of the movie, but he's in it.
Oh yeah. Like I'm like 90 % sure that's the first
time I ever saw Hulk Hogan. Oh, I'm sure. And
for me, and I think I said this last time, I
could be wrong, but for me, I actually got to
see him. I think it was May 3rd, 1986. Yeah,
May 3rd, 1986. I think it's the Providence Civic
Center in Providence, Rhode Island. It was him
and Junkyard Dog, who has been gone now for a
long time. They were teaming up against the Funk
Brothers. Terry Funk and Dory Funk. And I, my
dad took me and all man, like, I don't remember,
like, I remember us being there. I don't remember
what the hell we saw, but I just remember the,
the just being there and seeing Hulk Hogan and
junkyard dog team up against somebody was so
cool. So suburban commando was an honorable mention
kind of thing, but 1991. It was an all -out bloodbath
between Bangarang or you ooze, you lose. So Bangarang,
we all know, is Hook because it's Robin and it's
Dustin and it's Peter versus Captain James Hook.
And it's... God. Every movie Robin was ever in.
Every comedy, every everything. Jesus Christ.
Holy crap. But yeah, no. Turtles 2 wins because,
again, I was at the theater. I saw the movie.
And that opening pizza scene. Oh, my God. The
opening pizza scene. I still quote, I think it's
Mikey that does it. He turns, at the end of the
movie, he turns the knobs. He's like, full volume.
And then they blow the speakers out at the end.
It did end Back to the Future. Yes, I know they
did that in Bags of the Future. Like six years
earlier. Yes, everything copies everything else.
That's a pretty specific joke. Yeah, true. But
TMNT 2, just absolutely. It's just... That was
the first time. Now, remember this. You've already
called me out several times about, oh, you didn't
see Tron until 2010. Because that's your excuse
for some other things. It's like, well, I didn't
see it until later. And then you picked a movie
that you didn't see until later. Well, yeah.
It's a reason. It seems very convenient. Well,
no, it's not convenient. It's because I want
to, specifically to the Tron pic, The reason
why I didn't talk too much about it is because
I'm going to talk about it, exploring it and
finding it together with, because I picked Tron
Legacy for 2010. So I'm going to talk about them
together. I don't want to have to, the story
goes together. So for TMNT 2, the reason why
I say about the Tron thing, this was the first
time I had ever seen Because this is a year before
Batman the Animated Series. First time I'd ever
seen David Warner. David Warner would go on to
Batman the Animated Series voicing Ra's al Ghul.
So, yeah. 1992, Home Alone 2. Lost in New York.
And it's for one thing, and I always wanted one.
Thank God I never got one, because it is what
it is. But I wanted that damn Talkboy recorder
so much. As a 12 -year -old in 1992. Like, give
me that damn thing. Let me just pull it through
the TV. But other than that, I thought it was
a nice way to do a sequel to the original film.
Did the original film need a sequel? No. But
since they did have such a hit on their hands
with the first movie, I like what they did with
the second movie. I like that. I like all the
antics Kevin does in the second movie. I like
the fact that they tie in his uncle. I think
it's his Uncle Rob's townhouse. I think it's
what he says. And I have an Uncle Robert, so
that kind of fits. Uncle Robert doesn't have
a townhouse, but at least I don't think he does.
I don't know. But, you know, I like that. I like
Harry and Marv. Actually, it's funny because
a good portion of my Funko Pop collection, I
have to be Home Alone complete. I have almost
every Home Alone Funko Pop they have released,
and they just announced, again, as of July, Home
Alone 2 Funko Pops coming, and one of them is
with Harry with the blowtorch hair. So, yeah,
Home Alone 2 for 1992. 1993... 1993 was kind
of... There was a lot of stuff. I'm trying to
think if there was... Obviously, the one I would
probably go for would be TMNT 3, but... Nah.
I found this about a year or so later, and I
didn't know what it was, but it slowly became
one of my favorite films, and I own two copies
of it. I wish I had a high def copy of it, but
I literally own two versions, two of the same
copies of it on DVD. Because at one point I thought
I lost it, so I just bought it again. It's a
little film called Airborne. You are not my cousin.
Oh, come on, I give up. Popeye, now there was
a great man. Do you know why? Never joined the
hair club for men? Wrong. Because his motto was,
I am what I am. Do you think Popeye ever worried
about what he wore to so he could get olive oil
in the sack? I should say not, dude. And do you
know why? He was gay. Because he is what he is.
It's a film starring Shane McDermott, Chris Conrad,
Jack Black. I believe this is one of Jack Black's
earliest movies. It also stars Seth Green. I
believe this is one of his earliest movies as
well. And it's basically about this. California
surfer dude whose parents... Oh, it has Edie
McClurg in it. Edie McClurg, the secretary. She
was in a lot of stuff. Yep. She was the secretary
in Ferris Bueller. He's a righteous dude. She
was the airline lady in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
Well then, I guess you're fucked. It was in Star
Trek. She got turned into a styrofoam cube and
crushed. He was a red shirt. Oh, boy. Oh, no.
That's never good. Yeah, but this movie is basically
California surfer boy, his parents. have this
week that there's zoologists or something and
they have to go to australia and he's like sweet
we're going to australia and they're like yeah
you can't miss three months of school you're
going to cincinnati to live with your aunt and
uncle cincinnati huh so he has to evolve but
because he's a california surfer dude he also
skateboards and rollerblades and whatever so
he figures it out and does this whole rollerblading
thing and they It was one of the only movies
I think the, um, Oh, cause Chris Conrad's in
it. Chris Conrad was part of the, was it team,
not team extreme, but, um, it was a rollerblading
team, really famous rollerblading team. I just
absolutely love the movie cause it's a very like
down home, very early nineties. Not, I wouldn't
classify it as a romantic comedy, but it was
kind of like a, I don't know how you'd classify
it, and I'm not looking at the Wikipedia article,
but yeah, Airborne. 1994, there are a lot in
94. The 94 for me was also another bloodbath,
but I don't know how often anyone talks about
this movie. I've covered it a couple of times
on various podcasts here at the Geekcast Radio
Network. I think Steve and I just did an episode
on it recently, maybe last year for its 30th
anniversary. I think we did. I don't remember.
Now, again, 94 has a lot, but the one I chose
because I remember when it came out, I was like,
damn, if only that would work, but that would
never work. Disney's Blank Check. Blank Check.
I remember that movie. I got dragged to it. I
was literally babysitting my cousins. And they
talked me into going to the mall, which was a
mistake. And then I ended up taking them to Blank
Check. Oh, man. That's a freaking movie. So this
stars Brian Bonzell, Karen Duffy, Miguel Ferrer,
who passed away recently, I think, didn't he?
Not recently, but he has passed away. Because
he didn't make the Twin Peaks reunion, which
sucked. Yeah, it sucked. It has Michael Lerner
in it. It has Tone Loke in it. I can't remember
the guy's name, but the main antagonist was the
guy who was in Private Parts, and he was in a
lot of stuff. I can't remember his name. He's
in a poster with the blue dye on his face. Huh?
Are we talking about the same blank check? Like
a jerk? No, no, no. You're thinking of something
from 2002. I will get to that. You're thinking
of... I don't think I am. Blue dye on his face?
You're thinking of Big Fat Liar. You're thinking
of... No, blank check. No. Okay, maybe I'm mixing
up those movies, but I thought... Yeah, you're
thinking of Paul... The boy who inherits a blank
check and uses it to buy a house under an alter
ego. Yep. But is soon searched by several members
of the bank. Wait. Maybe I'm thinking of Big
Fat Liar. Yeah, you are thinking of Big Fat Liar.
Because that's Paul Giamatti. That's Paul Giamatti
is who I'm thinking of. Yeah, that's not this
movie. Because Miguel Ferrer is the villain,
Carl Quigley, a .k .a. Mr. McIntosh. Wait, does
Big Fat Liar also involve a blank check? No.
I will get to that. That's the 2002 era. Okay.
Okay, well, I believe I established in the previous
episode that I'm very old. It's okay. And easily
confused by things. I know it's a blank check
because I know it revolved around a blank check.
Yes, yes. But just in my brain, I am absolutely
Mandela affecting Paul Giamatti being in that
movie. No, he's not. He's not. So Miguel Ferrer
plays the bad guy, Mr. McIntosh. Is he like a
criminal? Yes, he's a criminal. He breaks out
of prison. And he wants the embezzled money that
the bank manager has, has been keeping for him.
But because Preston, AKA Mr. McIntosh kid, the
kid, his grandmother sent him a check for like
a hundred dollars or something for his birthday.
And he goes onto his computer and he makes it,
or no, he goes into the bank to, It doesn't get
hit by... He hits him with a car and he just
hands him a blank check. Yes, that's what it
is. Yep, yep, yep. And then he goes home and
he puts in $1 million, goes to the bank the next
day, and that money then comes from the Quigley,
aka the Miguel Ferrer character. He basically
takes the embezzled money. That's where Preston
gets the, that's where Brian, the Brian Bonzell,
the kid character gets the money. So that sends
Miguel Ferrer's evil character and Tone Loke,
who is his henchman after the kid. And then they
have to chase him everywhere. And he has to buy
all this stuff. And he meets this guy, this chauffeur
named Henry that he has, and they do all this
stuff and they buy this house and they do all
this stuff. That's not Big Fat Liar. We'll get
to the Big Fat Liar. 1995, 30 years ago this
year. There are a lot in this, but there is only
one. Honorable mention would go to Money Train,
because I love Wesley and Woody in that movie,
and that movie is awesome. That movie also stars,
I think, one of, if not Jennifer Lopez's debuts
in film? It's either her debut or it's one of
her earliest movies, because I know she was on
In Living Color right before that. However, even
though there is a lot of films in 1995 like Die
Hard with a Vengeance and a bunch of other things,
1995 for me goes to my Bond era, which is the
Brosnan era, because Brosnan brought it back
with Goldeneye. Beg your pardon? Forgot to knock.
Before this, I had watched several of the Roger
Moore era movies. Man with the Golden Gun is
my top Roger Moore movie. After that, I had seen
License to Kill, but I had not seen The Living
Daylights as a kid. Timothy Dalton's okay as
Bond, but... Yeah. Pierce Brosnan, man, Goldeneye,
I saw this movie so many times that year, and
I just love watching this movie, and this movie
will be covered later this year on this podcast
for its 30th anniversary. So yeah, Goldeneye
for 95. 96 had a lot. This is where I started
getting into tough choices. You had Mission Impossible,
you had Phenomenon, you had Space Jam, you had
F .L .E .D., and you had my first ever theatrical
adventure into the five -year mission. First
time I ever saw a Star Trek movie in theaters.
First contact. Unfortunately... The choice has
to go to Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible because
that was just too damn good. I can recite lines
from that, like Emilio Estevez as Jack. You know,
when he's explaining the gum, red light, green
light. Hasta lasagna, don't get any on ya. Like,
you know, just... Oh, God. Just absolutely love
the first Mission Impossible movie from 1996.
It was so cool. It was so fun. I remember being
in the theater seeing it. It was just... Man.
That franchise. I can't believe, and I had only
ever seen as a kid, I'd only ever seen like a
handful of episodes of the TV show. So I knew
what the TV show was, but I hadn't seen like
every episode or anything like that. So I was
16 at the time when that movie came out. 1997,
we have two choices here. We have The Fifth Element.
With Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman, because Gary
Oldman played the villain in that. Yeah, Zorg.
Zorg, I think it is. I love The Fifth Element.
I wanted to go see it in theaters again when
it came out for something for a re -release that
Fathom Events was doing a couple years ago. I
didn't get to go, but it is what it is. But I
love The Fifth Element. However... 1997 also
has the homegrown movie for me, which is Good
Will Hunting. It's a movie about a boy genius
in Southie in Massachusetts. Now, I lived south
of Boston, Kingston, Plymouth, Plimpton area.
A lot of people aren't going to, unless you look
at a map, you're not going to know. But basically,
that's an hour and a half, hour, hour and a half
south of Boston. That whole area is basically
in between Boston and Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
And when that movie came out with Ben Affleck
and Matt Damon and Mimi Driver and Robin Williams,
I was not going to forget. I was trying to pause
and let my breath catch before I said his name
again. Son of a bitch, he stole my line. Just,
oh, God. It's so, so good. I absolutely love
that. I think that is the first movie I had ever
seen Stellan Skarsgård in as Professor Lambeau,
who is Sean's sort of rival professor, friend,
whatever you want to call him. Because then Stellan
would go on to play certain Marvel characters
and other things and whatever. So, yeah. But
Good Will Hunting, that's another one I will
watch over and over again when I have the time
to do so when I'm not preparing for podcasts
and other things. 1998. There are plenty of choices
here, but I only wrote one down because it was
the first thing that popped into my head. What
if Batman was a snowman? That's why the last
person you see before you go to sleep every night
is Wayne Gretzky on your wall, right? Tell you
what. We're here. Let's work on the J -shot.
No, I don't think so. Oh, I see. It's like that.
Okay. Okay, looks like I'm working out by myself.
Even though I haven't played hockey in a year.
If I can find a rock, I can use it as a puck.
See how I'm playing all alone. All right, all
right. I'll skate. Just stop bellyaching. We're
going to get our nice bounce. We're going to
get set up. Man, this was a lot easier when I
had legs. Okay. We're going to stay nice and
relaxed. Real loose. Then we come through. We
snap our wrists. Now, just before we do that,
I make this little move here. Oh, yeah. Well,
that goalie could sue me for whiplash. Jack Frost.
Michael Keaton. Kelly Preston. May she rest in
peace because she's been gone for a while now.
Yeah. It's when Michael Keaton. got turned into
a snowman for a movie because in the movie, the
kid's dad dies and he turns into a snowman and
comes back and helps the kid. I just love, I
love what I love about Jack Frost is that. The
kid gets to have a relationship with his dad
that he didn't have before because his dad is
a musician in the movie and his dad is always
on the road and always doing gigs and always
doing this, that, and the other thing and everything
else. And I get that because his dad is trying
to provide for the family in that way of being
a musician. And on top of that, you get to hear
Michael Keaton's amazing pipes singing Christmas
music. You ain't heard nothing until you hear
Batman singing Frosty the Snowman. Absolutely
love it. 1999, there was two choices here. The
Thomas Crown Affair with Pierce Brosnan and Rene
Russo. I forget who else is in that off the top
of my head because, again, I'm not looking at
Wikipedia. And then the actual choice, which
is, it's going to start a trend because this
was his U .S. film debut. But in 1999, 10 Things
I Hate About You was the film debut of Heath
Ledger. In the United States of America. Before
that, he did stuff in Australia where he's originally
from, things like that. And I have since seen,
because it just hit its 25th anniversary recently
last year, I think it was. Yeah, last year. I've
seen the director on Instagram. I've seen clips
of the director talking about Heath and the audition
process and things like that. And basically.
The director said, you know, we don't know this
guy. It's a favor for this agent or that agent
or whatever. Heath comes in, he reads the lines,
he does good. And then the director's like, hey,
I kind of want to see if you can do some improv,
yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. And he goes, okay,
thank you so much. And we'll be in touch with
you. We'll let you know if you got the part,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Heath leaves.
The director tells the story, he says, there
are five casting ladies in this room with him.
He goes, ladies, I don't care what you have to
do, but that's the guy for Patrick Verona in
10 Things I Hate About You. Hire him now. We
don't need to see anybody else. So I love hearing
those stories from the director. And that movie
is just, it's... Are you a Shakespeare fan at
all? I mean, I've taken classes on Shakespeare.
I've read Shakespeare. Okay, but are you... In
terms of movies, it depends on the movie. I'm
familiar with the... I remember that that was
based on something. It's based on Taming of the
Shrew. Taming of the Shrew, okay. I'm not particularly
familiar with. Okay, so basically, you have...
I mean, I know the story that the guy wants to
marry the... sister, but she's got this older
sister who's a nightmare. And so they hook her
up with this other guy who... And then it's like,
kiss me, Kate. Yeah, pretty much, yeah. They
didn't have any sort of moonlighting on that.
Yeah, so basically they did kind of the same
thing here, where Joseph Gordon -Levitt plays
Cameron in this. Yes. plays Cameron in this,
and Larissa Olenek plays Bianca, who is the younger
sister, and he's pining over her, but the only
way he can get a date with her is because they're
the Stratford sisters, so it's Bianca and Kat
Stratford, and their dad, who is played by Larry
Miller. I love the dad. Larry Miller's a good
actor. Funny guy. I love him. Love Larry. He's
so funny in this movie, absolutely. But yeah,
10 Things I Hate About You, 1999. That's my choice
for 1999. Don't say shit like that to me. People
can hear you. You suck. You suck. 2000. 2000
is... There's a lot in 2000, but it only came
down to two, and I know, I know, I know, I know
which one I'm going with, and I know I repeated
that multiple times just now, but... It does
and it doesn't hurt to pick between the two.
The honorable mention goes to Gone in 60 Seconds.
I love that movie. I had never, I have seen it
now, but at that time in 2000, I didn't even
know Gone in 60 Seconds was a remake at the time.
So I had never seen the 1974, I think it's 74,
version. And up until 2016, when I went out to
California for the Great California Misadventure
that I had had at the time, I was perfectly fine
watching the Nicolas Cage version, because that's
the version I love. And it's just such a sleek...
and it's got Delroy Lindo in it, and that's when
I fell in love with that guy as an actor. It's
got Angelina Jolie, and it was my first introduction
to Trevor Rabin as a composer of music. I absolutely
love his music score in the movie. All this,
all that. So the California Misadventure, when
I go out to see somebody else, I also stay with
my buddy Doug and his wife. He shows me the 74
version, and I'm like, Thank God they remade
it and did it better. Cause you 74 version was
just kind of there for me, but my choice and
the only choice that could be made for me is
a Don Bluth film. It is. What if the world blew
up? What if, what if, You had to think about
life after Earth. Titan A .E. Yeah, well, having
your planet blown up can have that effect on
a species. But maybe I've been wrong all these
years and it took your inspiring speech to make
me see it. You've really changed me. It's beautiful.
I think we got a hug. Oh, man. They've really
ground you down. Hey, get this straight. I don't
even know you. I don't want any part of your
mission and I don't need your help with these
oversized morons. Okay. Oh my God. I was in a
video store and I saw like, I didn't even, I
don't even remember seeing this in theaters.
I probably did, but I don't, I, what I remember
is all I remember about this movie. is seeing
whatever video package videos, whatever package
of the video store got to advertise it on their,
their screens. I remember hearing Matt Damon
and Drew Barrymore as the characters. And I remember
hearing creeds higher as the promotional song.
And I'm just like, okay, you got me. And we've
done the lane is in that too. Yeah. Yeah, he's
in it. He has the line, an intelligent guard.
Who would have known? Who would have known? Yep.
He plays Pryd. John Leguizamo plays Goon. Janine
Grilofalo, or whatever her name is, she plays
Stan. Yeah, you're pretty close. Yeah. But yeah,
no, Bill Pullman plays Joseph Corso. I love this
movie because it's... What if it is, what would
happen? What would, it's a future, like it's
a future we will never see. Meaning that this
is the 30th or 31st century or whatever you are.
Like it's 3028. It's all of this stuff. Like
it's, it's all like, it's the year 3000 types.
Like we're never going to see it. We, you and
I are never going to see that. Like, okay, fine.
Great. Cool. But, like, it's that, and it's also
reminding us of what we had at the forefront
of where we are now at the same time. And the
music, oh, the music. I am so tied to music when
it comes to certain movies and things, as people
can clearly tell. Yeah, Titan AE for 2000. That's
the choice. 2001, it's easy. And it goes back
to Heath. A Knight's Tale. Hands down. There
was no other choice. I didn't even have to look.
I was like, 2001, A Knight's Tale. And it's basically
knights jousting horseback, etc. I believe he's
lowborn, but he wants to become a knight. And
the gimmick is that they do modern songs. Yes.
It's like a musical that breaks into modern songs.
Like at the Jazz Concert they do We Will Rock
You. And Paul Bettany is Chaucer. Jeffrey Chaucer.
Yes, he is. One of his early roles. If not his
first. Yeah, absolutely. I missed my introduction!
Please, I pray you, hear it now. For I would
lay rest the grace in my tongue and speak plain.
Days like these are far too rare to cheapen with
heavy -handed words. And so, I'm afraid, without
any ado whatsoever, excuse me, my lord, here
he is! One of your own! Born a stone's throw
from this very stadium and here before you now,
the son of John Thatcher. So it's funny because
when it was either Infinity War or Endgame, I
forget which one, when one of those films came
out, it was either, yeah, I think they had Vision
on top and then Chaucer on the bottom. This is
how you know Paul Bettany. This is how I know
Paul Bettany kind of thing. Yeah, I've seen that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen that meme. Oh, God,
I love. I love A Knight's Tale. And I love it
for that exact reason, that it feels like the
olden days, but it also feels like modern times
because of the modern. music that was used kind
of thing they've got david bowie songs in there
and and oh man so good so so i just oh man i
absolutely love that movie it just hit i think
it just hit or it's about to hit 4k release i
have to have it i cannot wait to see it in 4k
oh man i was at the theater when like i was at
the theater opening night opening day to see
that movie. And again, for me, once I see a trailer,
if I like it after seeing the trailer, I will
do my best to see it in the theater. At least
back then, I would do my best to see it in the
theater. Now I'm just like, okay, I can wait
because I don't like going to theaters anymore.
2002 has several choices, but there is only one
choice for 2002 because it was the movie I saw
five times in one day. Literally, five times
in one day. But 2002 has A Walk to Remember,
Life or Something Like It, and Big Fat Liar.
There is the actual choice that I will mention
later, but those are the other ones I wanted
to list really quickly. A Walk to Remember is
the Mandy Moore, Shane West, I think? is who's
in that with her so there's that that was based
off of nicholas spark's book life or something
like it is it's got monk in it it's got tony
shalhoub it's got angelina jolie it's got a bunch
it's it was all right it was a nice little romantic
comedy but as we mentioned earlier big fat liar
paul giamatti i remember the line from uh from
the from the tow truck guy They told me to pick
up a little blue car. They didn't say anything
about a little blue man. Because the reason why
Paul Giamatti is blue is because Frankie Muniz,
Malcolm in the Middle, and Amanda Bynes put blue
dye in his pool as a prank. Because Paul Giamatti
plays Marty Wolf from Marty Wolf Pictures. And
Big Fat Liar is Frankie Muniz's character. jason
something i forget what his last name is for
the character name but it's him and he's always
lying and he's always telling stories and he's
always doing this and doing that to get out of
whatever and he writes this story and marty finds
it and because he hits him with his car like
you said And he takes the story and he turns
it into this multi -million dollar movie deal.
And you have all these stars in there. You got
Jaleel White doing a cameo. You got Lee Majors
doing a cameo. You got all this stuff. And it's
just a nice little funny comedy. It was the first
time I had ever seen a Sean Levy movie. So that
was directed by Sean Levy. I think it was also
written by him, but I could be wrong. and sean
levy will came up obvious last episode on on
your list because he's not coming up on mine
we can mention him again but uh he's not coming
up on my list past this this film here but the
choice the movie i saw five times in 2002 first
time and i remember this so clearly i actually
wrote up a blog post about this last year a couple
years ago i forget when I remember in 2001 when
they did the promotional. Next summer, you're
going to go for the ultimate spin. At the time,
my girlfriend and I got into a huge fight about
something. I don't know what the hell it was.
Don't freaking remember. And it wasn't about
whether we were going to go see it or not. or
whatever. It had nothing to do with that. It
was about something completely different. But
it was May 3rd, 2000. It was May 2nd, May 1st,
May 2nd, whatever, when we had the argument.
And I was like, okay, fine, whatever. And May
3rd, I was like, I'm going to see this movie.
If you want to come see it with me, great. Not
whatever. I think I went to a morning show. And
then I went to four other shows after, and all
I did, luckily back then, you could still do
this and kind of sort of get away with it. Paid
for one show, hopped to the other four shows.
Spider -Man, don't you know? Because, damn. Go,
Webb, go! Coming from someone who was 14 years
old in 1994 and growing up with Spider -Man the
Animated Series and fast -forwarding to 2002
and seeing, okay, yeah, say what you want about
the Green Goblin costume. Fine, whatever. Say
what you want about the mask. It's fine. It's
not that big a friggin' deal. It works. It's
whatever. Other than that, the web swinging was
great. His costume looked great. For 2002, it
was amazing. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. No, no, no.
I'm, I'm on your side. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
it may, it may, it's aged a little bit, but I
mean, you know, we're so spoiled at this point.
Yeah. Like, yeah, it was, it was, it was pretty
mind blowing at the time. It was, it was so mind
blowing at the time. I sat there, jaw dropped
every time, every jump I did after every, every,
every time it stopped and I went to the next
theater. that i could find to to get it to whatever
in the the next showroom whatever but yeah spider
-man with toby mcguire man what oh and and kirsten
dunst is mary jane oh man and oh we can't i can't
not move on i if i move on without even mentioning
this okay you got go back to 94 you got ed asner
as the voice of J. Jonah Jameson in Spider -Man
the Animated Series. I'm going to investigate
this myself, just like that good old days. Jigsaw
Jameson is back. He's going to get to the bottom
of this puzzle. Jigsaw Jameson? J .J., something
tells me I better keep an eye on you. Perfect
casting, voice casting for that. Absolutely works.
Fast forward to 2002. Who are they going to get
in live action? They're going to get... Oh my
God. The doctor from Law and Order, J .K. Simmons.
That's the only thing I knew him from before
this. I knew him from Oz. Huh? I knew him as
Schillinger from Oz. Okay. The Nazi. Ah, okay.
But yes, like that was, that wasn't casting.
That was, no, no, that was summoning. Yeah, I
know, I know. He is J, I mean. For God's sake,
they brought him into the MCU. That's how iconic.
I know. He doesn't want to be famous, and I'll
make him infamous. And I am sorry, he doesn't
work as Commissioner Gordon. He doesn't. He didn't
get a fair shot at it. Okay, well, that's fine.
You know, there wasn't much to the role in Justice
League. I would have preferred to see a full
-on Batman film with him as Gordon. Okay, I'll
give you that. All right, 2003. God damn it.
All right, so all of the honorable mentions are
movies. One of them is a date movie that I saw
with a girl I really, really liked at the time.
The other two are just movies I absolutely love.
The date movie was The Italian Job with Wahlberg
and Theron and the late, great Donald Sutherland
was in it. I love The Italian Job. I know it
is a remake or I forget. Anyway, but I loved
it. I thought it was great. I love that movie.
I watch that movie every now and then. You got
SWAT with Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell
that came out that year. And then you have Uma
Thurman, the future Harvey Dent in What's His
Nuts? What's his nuts? Eckhart. Eric Eckhart.
Think of the future. And Ben Affleck. And you
also have Paul Giamatti in this movie. Paycheck.
I love Paycheck. So those are the three honorable
mentions for 2003, The Choice. And it's only
because I felt so damn guilty. I was like, no,
it's the night before your wedding. I can't do
this. And blah, blah, blah. My cousin Rachel,
who is... who is pretty much my number one cousin
for pretty much all of our young lives and everything
else, she looks at me and says, we're either
going or I'm going to kick your ass. I'm like,
okay, fine. So we go out to dinner the night
before she and her husband Joe get married, and
we go to the Kingston Independence Mall in Kingston,
Massachusetts, and we go see Daredevil. This
is before the director's cut. This is before
they did any whatever. This is the theatrical
cut. And this is two years after Nickelback released
Silverside up in 2001. So it's been two years
since I've had Nickelback music. And I, at that
time, and I still to this day, am a huge Nickelback
fan. Always have been, always will be. Don't
care what anyone says. Whatever. I'm a fan. End
of story. So we're watching the movie, watching
the movie. It starts. It starts. And we get to
the bar scene after the courtroom scene. And
I hear the music. And I'm like, wait a minute.
Wait a minute. And I just kept playing it through
my head the whole rest of the movie. And I'm
like, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Okay. Eventually,
I started paying attention to the movie again,
which I was paying attention the whole time anyway.
But anyway, so we went and saw that. But immediately
before we left the mall, I said, you guys, I've
got to go over to Record Town and see if I can
check out the soundtrack to this movie because
I need to see something. I go over to the Record
Town store over there in the mall and I get the
Daredevil soundtrack. Lo and behold. nickelback
learn the hard way i'm like what like literally
the didn't have a heart attack but literally
my lungs closed up opened up went sideways flipped
upside down i don't know literally my breath
i'm like new nickelback we haven't had new nickelback
in like two years holy crap and then later that
year they would release their new album the long
road but uh but daredevil ben affleck jennifer
gardner colin farrell joey pants joey pantaloni
is in this as ben yorick absolutely love i loved
it i thought it was great i thought they did
a great job i don't get why everyone hates on
this movie it's it's weird because like when
it first came out everyone was like saying how
great it was and then it was like they turned
on a dime And it was very bizarre. It was like,
this is the best movie ever. And then it was
like, this movie's garbage. What happened? Yeah,
and I don't know who you could have gotten. I'm
thinking 2003. What white person you could have
gotten that was the size of the comic book kingpin
to fit into that role on film. At the time, Vincent
D 'Onofrio was busy on Law & Order, and he was
nowhere near the size he needed to be. for kingpin
so i don't i never care most of the time i don't
care about casting a different way if you're
going to like change from white character to
a black character to this character to that character
if you're going to change from male to female
i don't care But Michael Clark Duncan, again,
another great actor. Before this, the last thing
I had seen him in was Armageddon. He was Bear
in Armageddon. I know he did other stuff, probably.
I don't remember when Green Mile was, but he
was J .C. Coffey in Green Mile. J .C. Coffey
in Green Mile, yep. But man, he filled out and
did... kingpin justice i believe i i fully stand
by michael clark duncan's performance as as kingpin
in daredevil and absolutely love that movie all
right 2004 2004 has oh god 2004 2005 have more
honorable mentions i think than any of the other
honorable mentions on the entire list so i'm
gonna try to go through these fast Really quick,
fast rewind to 1995. Somewhere in 1998 or so,
or maybe later, there was a film in 1995 that
came out called Before Sunrise. It was with Ethan
Hawke and Julie Delpy. It was a Richard Linklater
film. And it's about them going around, I think
it's Austria, I think. I forget. Anyway. And
it's this romantic comedy type thing. It's not
a comedy, but it's a single camera. It's a thing.
So anyway, I saw this on TV at some point, somewhere,
some way. So in 2004, they released a sequel
called Before Sunset. So when I noticed that,
I was like, oh, cool, I want to see that. So
that's an honorable mention. Did not choose that.
Taxi with Jimmy Fallon and Queen Latifah. That
was hilarious. Absolutely love that movie, but
that's not the choice. Paparazzi with... Oh,
who's in that? Is it Colin Farrell? No, it's
Cole Hauser. That's who's in that. Yeah, it's
Cole Hauser. So Cole Hauser, I didn't mention
this in the Good Will Hunting bit. He was in
there. So that's where I first saw him. But Paparazzi,
iRobot with Will Smith, absolutely love that
movie. And then there's Nicolas Cage and the
beginning of a two -film set, because the third
film has not been made yet. They tried to make
a crappy Disney Plus show, but no thank you,
have not watched that. But 2004 was the start
of National Treasure. I do love that, but...
My pick is Tork. I don't think anybody except
one other person I know even knows what the hell
Tork is. Tork is basically Fast and the Furious,
but motorcycles. Sort of, kind of, not really.
It's about this guy who is trying to get from
one place to the other and... They actively make
fun of the race car people, the Fast and the
Furious people. Ice Cube is in it. It's a nice
little change of pace, and I don't see a lot
of motorcycle movies. I know there are probably
plenty of them if I actually did research on
motorcycle movies. But it's a movie that I just
really dug and I still dig to this day. I pull
it out every now and then to watch it. So, yeah.
2005. Did you watch that video I sent you about
the Dark Knight? No. I was going to visit this
morning. Okay. Well, Batman Begins is on the
honorable mentions. Fantastic Four. Fantastic
Four and Rise of the Silver Surfer, I think,
get raw deals. I think people don't really like
them because of whatever, but Evans and, uh,
chickless as Johnny and, and Ben best casting
at that time for those roles. Chris Evans is
Johnny storm is hilarious. And Michael chickless
as the thing, like it's clobbering. Oh God. Just,
he has the voice, right. And he, knows what he's
doing. He likes what he's doing. It's absolutely
hilarious and fantastic. Samuel Jackson, Ice
Cube in the XXX sequel with State of the Union.
Absolutely enjoyed that. William Defoe's in that.
Or Willem Defoe's in that. But the choice goes
back to the Boston roots and it has to be Fever
Pitch. Because the year before, after 86 years,
the Boston Red Sox Finally did it. They beat
the curse. And we won. Yeah. From 2004 to 1918
or whatever it was. It's been that long since
the Sox beat the curse. Yeah. I remember it was
a big story. And the irony was that that movie
had a completely different ending. They had to
change it because they won. Yeah, I remember
all the features from the DVD at the time. They
had to constantly change the filming because
they were constantly there at the games because
they weren't sure if the Sox were going to win
or not. So they had to constantly change the
ending of the film. But thankfully they did win.
And I just, I could do without the scene where
Jimmy is brushing her dog's teeth, but I understand
why it's there. Other than that. I really dig
fever and I can do without the scene with him
and his buddies giving him a shower because whatever,
but it is what it is. Other than that, I like
overall, it didn't really truly bother me, but
like if I was going to nitpick about it, but
I mean, it's a, that movie shows people how anal
retentive we Bostonians are about. the things
we love whether it's the red socks whether it's
music whether it's whatever like literally it's
religion for us it doesn't matter what it is
dude i remember in lost the tv show lost yeah
then uses the fact that the red socks won as
a mind -breaking technique i remember the character's
name but like the main character the doctor guy
um from party Matthew Fox's character. Yeah,
because he's a Bostonian. And his dad always
said, oh, you know, like dad always say when
the Red Sox will win, it's like a it'll never
happen thing. And Ben shows him footage of the
Red Sox winning and it breaks him. That's cool.
It's like psychological torture because they've
been on the island for like a year. All right.
2006. I don't know how many actual films there
are about Little Red Riding Hood, but the animated
Hoodwinked film from 2006 was just hilarious
because you have Christopher Warburton as the
wolf. I thought that was hilarious. I absolutely
love that. Cars. I will also mention Leroy and
Stitch because I love the Lilo and Stitch franchise.
Leroy and Stitch was the last, the finale of
the animated films for that series. But the choice
has to go to, and I can't believe I'm actually
picking this, but Mission Impossible 3 and the
Exploding Heads. Hi, JJ. You went from Star Trek
to Exploding Heads. No, you started with Exploding
Heads, and then you'll go to Star Trek. That's
later. Star Trek is 2009. Yes, yes, yes, I know.
I see it here. Yeah, Mission Impossible 3. This
was the introduction of Owen Davian, and... What
a character Owen Davian is. Holy crap. What an
evil villain he was. And yeah, that movie is
just crazy. Just absolutely crazy. I absolutely
love it. You've been listening to the Geekcast
Radio Network. You have a wife or... girlfriend
because i'm gonna find her and i'm gonna hurt
her then i'm gonna kill you right in front of
her but before that i'm gonna make you listen
to the geekcast radio network uh 2007 2007 has
i was trying to find this photo i'll have to
find it for you after i was trying to find it
before so you i could have you comment on it
but we were my mom and i were going to see national
treasure book of secrets the sequel And they
had a Simpsons couch out, I think. There was
something in 2007 right before or right as, or
maybe we were actually going to see The Simpsons.
Oh, it was probably when we were going to see
the movie. They had the Simpsons couch thing
where you could sit on it and take a picture
thing. I have a picture of myself on the Simpsons
couch somewhere on Facebook or wherever. I was
trying to find that before the show. So, Book
of Secrets from National Treasure, Die Hard 4.
The Simpsons movie are the honorable mentions,
but the winner goes to... Drumroll, please. Transformers.
The only reason why it's going to the first Transformers
live action movie is because it's the first Transformers
live action movie. And I never thought I would
ever see, none of us Transformers fans ever thought
we were going to see a first ever Transformers
live action movie in theaters or anywhere ever
at all. This first movie, it just, the only thing
that annoyed me out of this movie as far as I
remember, and we have other podcasts on geekcastradio
.com. You can go back into our archives and check
them out. The only thing to this day that annoys
the hell out of me about this first movie is
Shia LaBeouf and Sam Witwicky, his character.
Oh, my God. Oh, that kid. That's the only real
thing that annoys me. Everything else in that
movie, what they did with that movie, I absolutely
really, really enjoyed. And getting Peter...
I remember interviews with Michael Bay. If we
can't get Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime, then
it's not going to work, and blah, blah, blah.
Hearing Peter Cullen's voice come out of a 50
-foot robot, even though I know technically it's
just a tennis ball in the background, but seeing
the visual effects, seeing them transform, like,
oh, it's so good. Any thoughts before I move
on, sir? Nope. Okay. 2008. 2008 was the DC versus
Marvel conundrum. And then there was the card
game. But the card game was never going to win.
I just threw that in there because I think it's
an awesome movie and I think everyone should
watch it. The card game movie is called 21. Have
you ever seen 21? No. It's got Laurence Fishburne
in it. It's got a bunch of other people in it.
It's based off of a true story about card cheating.
It's very, very cool. It's a fun little film.
It's about these college students who try to
cheat at Blackjack to make their tuition. I think
I remember hearing about that. Yeah, it's very
fun. It's a very cool movie. 2008 was DC vs.
Marvel with The Dark Knight vs. The Iron Man.
The superhero -ness and the glitz and glamour
of Iron Man versus the dark realism of Chicago
as Gotham City in the dark. I'm like, oh my god.
Is it better to be feared or respected? And I
say, is it too much to ask for both? With that
in mind, I humbly present the crown jewel of
Stark Industries' Freedom Line. It's the first
missile system to incorporate our proprietary
repulsor technology. They say the best weapon
is one you never have to fire. I respectfully
disagree. I prefer the weapon you only have to
fire once. That's how Dad did it. That's how
America does it. And it's worked out pretty well
so far. Why so serious? But... I gotta go with
Tony. I love the Dark Knight. I do. I absolutely
do. I just pre -ordered the 4K triple feature
collection of all three films. That's coming
out later. I think it's, I don't know, later
this year or whenever it is. But as much as I
love The Dark Knight, as much as I love Heath
Ledger as the Joker, Heath Ledger as the Joker,
it's like... If that was a young Mark Hamill.
Yeah, but we already got that. He was on The
Flash as the trickster. Yeah, okay, fine. I'm
just saying we got it. I mean, I'm not saying
that in a negative way. I'm saying you can't
go, oh, if only it was Mark Hamill. Mark Hamill
did it. I mean, where do you think the Joker
came from? I know. The great thing is then when
they did the new Flash, they brought it back
as this. Both as the same character? Yeah, I
know. I remember. No, but I'm saying that's where
I think that they... And I could be wrong. I
might have to watch some more producer clips
or something. There's a graphic novel that they...
Right. I know. That's where they got Heath Ledger's
character from. Right, but I'm saying there's
some... I don't know. There is some dark moments.
What was it, Tom Waits? His voice was supposed
to be Tom Waits, I think. Ooh. He had a Chicago
accent. Ooh. Jeez. Anyway. I might be getting
the singer wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was
Tom Waits. I think that's what it is, probably,
yeah. He's Australian, so he doesn't really sound
like he's from Chicago. Yeah, exactly. Okay,
I will. I've been very quiet. Dark Knight is
a good film. Yes. I just, I don't like Bale's
Batman. And I think Ledger is great. He's not...
I guess I'll put it this way. He's not my Joker.
He's not how I envision Joker. He's a great character.
There's a character from the comics called Anarchy.
I'm sure you know who he is. If he was Anarchy,
I would like that film more. He's more that than
the Joker. Me. And then I also, like, it's hard
for me to love a Batman film where it ends with
Batman being chased by dogs. I'm not into it,
man. So it's one of those films, like, yeah,
I get it. It's a good film. I don't love it like
everybody else does. I have a lot of nitpicks.
Yeah, but Iron Man is the pick. Oh, yeah, and
Iron Man is the pick. Yeah. We were talking about...
J .K. Simmons as J. Jemma Jansen, not really
being cast, but just being the role. Yes. And
the weird thing is, if you actually read the
comics, Roderick Downey Jr. became Tony Stark.
Oh, absolutely. I don't think you could ever
look at the character the same way again, because
he wasn't quite like that in the comics. But
now he is. That casting is so iconic. And they're
making all this noise that after Secret War,
they're going to reboot everything. And God help
the poor soul who tries to follow up Robert Downey
Jr. as Tony Stark. Honestly, both of them. Because
Fahey has said they are recasting both Iron Man
and Cap. So anyone that follows up Evans as Steve...
Yeah, well, that's another one. That's one I
feel like... I don't know how everyone else feels
about it. I love Evans as Captain America. Me
too. I was never a fan of the comics, but I adore
one of my favorite movie lines of all time. I'm
going to be a little personal here. I am personally
an atheist. I am not religious. I am not spiritual.
I haven't been since I was a little child. Long
story short, things turned me off of religion,
and I never got in. In the first Avengers, Black
Widow says, you should stay out of this cap.
They're basically gods. And he says, there's
only one god, ma 'am, and I'm pretty sure he
doesn't dress that way. And just my heart went
boom. And it's so corny and old -fashioned, but
like the movie says, we need old -fashioned.
I love that he believes. I love that he is this
simple old -fashioned guy from the night. The
early Marvel movies are so perfectly cast. It's
mind -blowing. The Thor movies are kind of mediocre,
but Thor and Loki are so brilliantly cast. All
the casting in all of the early Marvel movies
is brilliant. Yep, absolutely. Alright, 2009.
2009 was rough because it brings back memories
because I believe... technical difficulties.
Let's move on, shall we? Alright, folks, 2009
is next up, and 2009's gonna be a little rough
because it would be two years later that we would
have lost this friend, but 2009, my buddy Optimus
Scourge, a .k .a. Gary Clark, along with Proto
Man, a .k .a. Daniel, would have done the Transformers
Revenge of the Fallen. episode of toy cast we
did a kind of a running theatrical recap that
we all went and saw the movie separately because
we all live in different areas of the country
and whatever actually i think part of man lives
up in canada but uh we all went and saw the movie
we all came back and all sat down recorded a
podcast i think it's episode four of toy cast
that we did that episode Unfortunately, Optimus
Scourge would lose his life two years later in
September of 2011, so it's been a number of years
since he's been gone. Missed that guy so much,
he would have just been geeking out, even if
the Transformers live -action movies have been
bad ever since. He just would have been geeking
out every time there would be a new Transformers
live -action movie. But Revenge of the Fallen
is not my choice, but I had to bring it up here
because I wanted to mention him and honor him
because that conversation we had in that episode,
I will try my best to remember to link it in
the show notes for you folks so you can go back
and listen to it. It was such a good conversation.
And then 2009 also had Fast and the Furious.
However, my choice is that five -year mission.
Gotta go with JJ. Gotta go with Star Trek. Because
damn, that movie. That lens flare was so good.
Are you out of your Vulcan mind? I really dug
it. I thought that they were on their way to
having a whole new cool universe of modern like
When I say modern, I mean modern looking. Like,
not, you know, the old style of the way the...
Because modern filmmaking... Yeah, the original
show is a product of its time. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, like, you know, I thought it was casted well
for the most part. Well, I believe as we said
in our Star Wars things, like, J .J. Abrams...
I mean, his real genius is casting. Every movie
I've seen of his has been very well cast. And
I will say, as a fan of the original series and
Next Generation and blah blah blah, this movie
should not have worked. It should have been a
disaster. It should have been an embarrassment.
And it wasn't. It worked. It was fun and it worked.
It was just a rehash of Wrath of Khan, but it
was the first rehash of Wrath of Khan, so you
kind of forgave it. Wait, no, this one wasn't.
Angry dude after character, after revenge. Nero
was after Spock. It was Wrath of Khan with Nero
as Khan and Spock as Kirk. Yeah, okay. I'm like,
wait a minute. The badness doesn't happen until
we go into darkness. Oh, no, the second one is
literally Khan. Yeah. The third one is, I can't
remember the actor's name, but he was. Again,
it was basically calm. All three of the Star
Trek movies are basically wrath of calm. Angry
dude out for revenge. It's like there's more
to Star Trek than angry dudes out for revenge.
Oh, come on, JJ. Better than the one with the
whales. It was a good one. Yeah, but Star Trek
2009, absolutely love it. 2010. 2010 was stacked,
and I had, out of the five films I have listed,
I... I switched between three of them before
I made my final choice, which my final choice
is Tron Legacy, which we will talk about Tron
and Tron Legacy here in a moment. But the other
options were Toy Story 3, The A -Team, Iron Man
2, and Despicable Me. So the only one I really
want to highlight, I'll say this about Toy Story
3. Toy Story 3 should have been the finale. There
should not have been a Toy Story 4. Agreed. Toy
Story 3 was perfect. It sent it off well. I don't
know what the hell they're going to do with Toy
Story 5. I will watch the trailer whenever it
drops, but I did not really care for Toy Story
4 that much. I tried watching it. I did watch
it all the way through, but it wasn't my favorite.
Toy Story 2 is way better than Toy Story 4. Toy
Story 2 is one of the best films. If we were
doing a favorite film of all time list, it would
be top five for me. Oh yeah, easily. The A -Team,
I know a lot of people hate this movie. I liked
it just because... I didn't hate it, but I mean...
It's... It's the show minus a lot of the... special
character bits, like special finesse of the show,
but it's a modern, sleek, cut -down, two -hour
version of the show kind of thing, where instead
of having five days of an hour -long show, you
have just two hours of whatever. I still go back
and watch this once in a while. Iron Man 2 is
Iron Man 2. It was okay. I don't know. I don't
have as much attachment to Iron Man 2 as I do
Iron Man 3, so there's that. Despicable Me, I
love that movie. It's so fun. So, Tron and Tron
Legacy. So, I wanted to obviously see the first
movie before I saw the sequel. So, I'm like,
this is 2010, and I'm like, okay, there's no
Disney +, and I didn't say that then, but I'm
like, now. uh there's no this there's no that
where can i find tron where can i find this probably
found it through some nefarious source or whatever
and i watched tron i'm like oh okay this is what
everyone's been talking about since 1982 this
is really cool this is Very retro, because again,
2010 compared to 82 when I was two years old,
and I really dug the first Tron movie. I thought
it was really fun. I thought it was really cool
and really great. I thought it was very interesting.
This whole idea of, again, being able to escape
into another world. That's what we've been trying
to do our whole lives. That's what we do with
podcasting. That's what we do with watching entertainment,
is we escape into another world outside of real
life. Cool. Awesome. Absolutely loved it. Love
the light cycles. Light cycles are awesome. The
disc battles could have been a little bit better.
In Tron, I think, little, just like half a smidge
better. But yeah, no, I absolutely loved it.
I thought it was a great film, the original Tron.
Tron Legacy? Oh, I loved it. I... It just hit
on all cylinders. They did everything so well.
I wish we were getting more of this. I wish they
hadn't waited so goddamn long. Because this is
2010, we're now in 2025. I wish Bruce was still
involved, but he's not, unfortunately. But this
was, Tron Legacy was so cool, and it was so fun.
Just absolutely love it. You have anything to
say about 2010? I have two things to say. Number
one, very quickly, one of the best soundtracks
ever. Absolutely. I'm a little brokenhearted
that Daft Punk broke up, because I would love
for them to do the sequel, whatever it is, Ares.
It's a thing I have two copies of, because I
have one in the car. The other thing is, as we
are recording this, Comic -Con is currently taking
place. Yes. And back in 2010, I was with a website,
and we were covering Comic -Con. And they wanted
to walk all over the city, and I didn't want
to walk all over. But they kept dragging me all
these places. And one of the places they dragged
me to was there was a hidden pop -up. Apparently
that's the thing they do in San Diego during
Comic -Con. It's a hidden pop -up store or facility
or thing. They had one for Tron. The front of
it is Flynn's Arcade. There's a little passageway
and you see a little device that digitizes you.
In the back was the bar from Tron Legacy. They
had this huge screen and they were playing the
trailer. It hadn't come out yet. They were playing
the trailer over and over again. And it had the
Daft Punk music. And there were all these LED
lights throughout the entire bar, and they were
set to go with the music. So the music would
hit a beat, and the lights would change. I mean,
for being a grumpy old sourpuss and not wanting
to go, it was really cool. And I still have one
of the things you got, because the arcade was
an actual arcade. There were actual video games.
You had one of those little 80s rubber coin purses,
you know, that Milhouse had one in Simpsons.
Yep. Filled with Flynn's Arcade tokens. Oh, wow.
That is so cool. And I have all of them but one
because the girl I was with at the time, her
son really loved Tron, so I gave him one of the
tokens. Oh, very cool. Very cool, very cool.
Yeah, I wish Daft Punk didn't break up either
because, damn, that would be so cool. I love
their music. Their music is so good in this and
the original and all that stuff. I absolutely
love it. 2011 has three honorable mentions. Cars
2. I don't care what anyone says. It's an honorable
mention. Even then. I'm not so quietly rolling
my eyes. I apologize. I like Cars 2. I like Cars
2 because it has... Oh, what's his name? Michael
Caine. Yes, Michael Caine. Thank you. Finn McMissile.
Yeah. There's a couple of jokes in there that
I really like in that movie. Mission Impossible
Ghost Protocol, which is basically MI4, because,
I mean, you get to see him run up the wall and
then lay on top of the wall. That's just wow.
And then the third honorable mention is Phineas
and Ferb across the second dimension. But the
choice has to go to Fast Five because this is
where they changed the franchise from just being
race cars to being heist films. And Fast Five
is just man. Oh, boy. It's just so good. That
movie just lifted the franchise. Fast Five, Six,
and Seven as a trilogy within that franchise.
Just perfect trilogy within that franchise. Any
other thoughts before I move on to 2012? No?
Is that a no, I guess? I saw the first three
minutes of Fast and the Furious 2, I think. It
was very colorful. Yes, it was. Too Fast, Too
Furious was very, very colorful. They were in
Miami, after all. I think that was a Japan one.
Oh, then you saw Tokyo Drift. That's the third
movie from 2006. I don't know. The cars were
all... Every car, and then the girls with the
cars were color -coordinated. It was like a comic
book. Oh, well, that was probably too fast, too
furious. They were not in Japan. It was endlessly
fascinating, and then I found something else
to do. All right, 2012. The year is 2012, and
the only two choices are I'm going to wreck it,
and then we've got to assemble. So you've got
to wreck it with Wreck -It Ralph, and then Avengers
assemble. And the choice is Avengers. I love
Wreck -It Ralph. I love Ralph Breaks the Internet.
I love both those movies. But Avengers, man,
that phase leading up to that movie. And that
movie just, we talked about it in your choices.
Yeah. That movie just hit every cylinder. It
really did. Puny God. Again, best Hulk movie
ever made. 2013, Two Guns with Denzel and Wahlberg,
Washington and Wahlberg. We had that. I recently
just saw. Actually, I've known about that movie
since 2013, and I've always wanted to see it.
I just bought it on 4K last year, and I finally
saw it, and I was like, huh. This is really freaking
cool. I kind of love this. They made a comic
book follow -up. I haven't read it yet, but a
very, very awesome movie. But the choice is Iron
Man 3. Like I mentioned in your choices last
episode, it just, it's like Lethal Weapon with
superheroes. It really, really is. And it's because
of Shane Black being there with the writing.
Because half the time, Tony isn't in the suit.
And the other thing is, Tony is going through
psychological shit. He went through PTSD from
the Avengers. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I know. I love
seeing, like, I don't want to always see Tony
go through this, but because of that fallout
from Avengers, I love that we're not just seeing
Tony just. Oh, I'm going to go to work. I love
seeing the Fallout and the this and the that
and the whatever. I think that's awesome. Yeah,
I do too. 2014. The runners -up are John Wick,
because I didn't see it until way later, but
I absolutely love that movie. You mean like how
you saw Tron when it came out opening day? Yes,
yes, yes. Funny, funny, funny guy. But I didn't
know about it until literally I didn't really
find out. So, okay. Context. 2013, 2014, up until
2015, my mom was going through a bunch of health
stuff. I get that completely. So, kinda wasn't
really... I understand. I know you understand,
but I'm just saying, just because I'm listing
John Wick, And I will list John Wick Chapter
2 in 2017. Just because I list them doesn't mean
that I saw them. And that's one of the rules.
Just because they came out in those years doesn't
mean... Yeah, I did see John Wick when it came
out. Yeah. I didn't even know... John Wick 2
on video. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So I didn't find
out about it until, like, I think... I forget
when my buddy Mike Powers introduced me to it,
but... Yeah, no, but John Wick, absolutely love
that. And then Winter Soldier is an honorable
mention. But for me, I don't know what it would
have looked like. I don't know if this is what
it would have... I don't know if what it ended
up being is what I thought it was going to be,
but I have been a fan of the Need for Speed video
game franchise since the 90s. And in 2014...
With Aaron Paul, they released a Need for Speed
film, and it is my go -to, another film that
I can watch anytime, anywhere, just will watch
it at all hours, whenever. I just absolutely
love it. It's a simple, just absolutely amazing,
it's a, okay. It's a simple story, and that's
why it's amazing. It's guy gets out of jail,
guy gets this offer to do this thing to clear
his name or do whatever or blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah. Guy gets in trouble, has to do that.
It's a movie that has a plot that doesn't make
my brain cells feel like a fried egg. You know,
like, I don't have to I don't have to feel like
I'm being exceptionalized here. Like, I don't
have to feel like I need to understand 70 million
different aspects of it. And the music in it
is so great. Nathan First was the composer behind
the score of it. And just, yeah, I love Need
for Speed. Just absolutely have loved that movie
ever since 2014. So that's the pick. And then,
I believe, let me make sure I have this right.
We've got two honorable mentions. We've got Avengers
2 Age of Ultron and Mission Impossible 5. So
Avengers 2, I liked it. I thought it was good.
I think the funniest thing about Age of Ultron
that I think is really cool is I think the greatest
thing that came out of that movie was all these
strings. James Spader doing the string song thing.
That was just separate from the movie. I liked
Age of Ultron. It was good, but it wasn't like,
oh my god, I had to pick it. The other thing
I will say is that Mission Impossible Rogue Nation
came out that year. I actually got to interview
the composer Joe Kramer for that movie. And I
absolutely love Rogue Nation because that sets
up Rogue Nation into Fallout. And then obviously
we have Dead Reckoning and then the final Reckoning
coming up in media release. But in April of that
year, Furious 7 was released. And Wiz Khalifa
and Charlie Puth put out... See you again. And
at that time, my mom was in the hospital. She
was not doing well. May 18th of that year, mom
would pass. So when that song came out and that
movie came out, that was the last movie that
Paul Walker was actually in. And they actually
had to digitize around him with his brothers
in some of the scenes in Furious 7. Because he
had already passed. Just the way Furious 7 ends,
I was like, okay, this is a good ending to Brian
O 'Connor's story in the Furious franchise. We're
good, we don't need another one, whatever. And
then the See You Again song comes out and it
just hits you. And ever since then, I'm just
like, oh, my God. It's like my mom dies. This
guy dies. I don't even know. But I've loved a
lot of his work that he's done in the past. I've
loved his character in these movies. And, yeah,
so Furious 7 is the 2015 pick. This time it ain't
just about being fast. Can somebody just walk
me through what we're supposed to be doing? Yo,
Roman, you need some fresh air? All right, 2016.
2016 was rough. Like, I was trying to find something
other than what I ended up picking. Because I
was trying not to be just, hey, I'm going to
pick this because, you know, this is all we have
to pick. Because this is all we have now. And
I couldn't find anything. And it's not that I
don't like this film. It's not that I actually
don't love this film. It's not that I don't actually...
It's not that I didn't actually love everybody
going forward and making their choices of, well,
whose side are you going to choose? Whose side
are you going to choose? What team are you going
to be on? But I was really... Literally, I looked
through the 2016 film list three times. To see
if there were any other films in 2016 that I
could pick other than Civil War. But at the end
of the day, I had to pick Civil War because damn
if Civil War isn't just... The funny thing is,
I stopped and I re -watched like four clips on
YouTube from Civil War. And I'm like, yeah, that's
the pick. Because you got everybody doing their
thing. I don't even care about the debut of Spider
-Man. I mean, that's fine. That's great. That's
awesome. Yo, Underoos! Whatever. Fine. Great.
That's cool. But in this, again, we've mentioned
already about Tony's healing and his trauma and
everything else. You've got him going back. Like,
you know. I think one of the big themes of the
film is that both Tony and Cap, they're both
in a period where their women are gone. Tony
and Pepper have broken up, and Cap and Peggy.
So they're both in this weird single thing, and
it devolves into this huge pissing contest between
them. Not only Spider -Man, but you also get
the premiere of a Black Panther. Yeah, that's
true. It is weird. It's amazing because it's
both an Avengers film, but it is still a Captain
America film. Yes, it's very much a Captain America
film. It's very well done. Believe me, if Rogue
One hadn't come out that year, it would have
been an easy win for Civil War. Yeah. Like, Star
Wars is my thing. I get that. I know. I know.
I appreciate that. And, you know, when we get
to the TV side of this thing, maybe... Anyway.
2017. There are two choices. John Wick Chapter
2 and Fate of the Furious. Like I just said a
couple moments ago, I think they could have just
ended at 7, but I know that Vin has this thing
where, oh, I want it to go to 10, or I want it
to go to 11, or we have this whole big plan,
and blah, blah, whatever. I picked John Wick
Chapter 2 because John Wick Chapter 2 basically
picks right up after John Wick Chapter 1. and
it just ramps everything up. And it has one of
my most, like literally if I, I don't have it
as a ringtone, but if I did put it as a ringtone,
people like, not that anybody calls me cause
nobody calls anybody anymore, but there's a theme
in here. There's a music tone in this. I think
it's in one of the club scenes, but it's called
John Wick mode. And I play that tune when I need
to, get up and face the day or what it just for
inspiration. And it's like, Oh man, I just, I
absolutely love that movie. I love the character
that Keanu Reeves is playing with this. And I,
I miss, um, what's his name? Oh, the, his, yes.
Yeah. Um, No, not Winston. He just passed away.
God damn it. What's the character's name? The
black guy. I'm so sorry. Lance Riddick. Thank
you, Lance Riddick. This character worked at
the Continental. Yeah, he was the concierge.
Yeah. That's what it is. I absolutely love his
character and just... Yeah, no. And John Wick
Chapter 2 just... It ramped it up. And... Just...
From the Rome scene to the New York City subway
to... Just all of it. Just all of it. Those movies
are just so... so fun. So yeah, John Wick Chapter
2. 2018, there's only one option. MI6, Fallout.
Again, it's Tom Cruise, it's Ethan Hunt, Mission
Impossible because it's his impossible mission
force. It's the IMF. And it's the second half
of the Solomon Lane story with the villain of
that. So that is very, very cool, the conclusion
part of that. I absolutely love that. 2019 is
kind of where it gets, well, a little hairy.
Not so many selections, but I did want to kind
of misquote something here. And it's a superhero
sci -fi fantasy space battle crossover. Avengers
Endgame. So this is how the universe ends with
deafening silence. I did not choose Avengers
Endgame. I chose a Michael Bay film. A Netflix
exclusive! Because it was the first film in a
long time of Ryan Reynolds that I was like, ooh,
I must pay attention to this in 2019. six underground
not a lot of people know about six underground
have you ever seen six underground i haven't
seen like half the films on your list dude didn't
think so welcome to act five six underground
is netflix original film ryan reynolds a bunch
of other people that i don't even know off the
top of my head without looking at the article
on wikipedia He plays this billionaire spook
kind of guy who puts this team together, who
does this spy stuff kind of thing. And they all
go by numbers. So it's not personal. It's supposed
to just be, you know, spooky and whatever. And
they're all ghosts and everything else. They're
all off the grid because they're all quote unquote
dead. And they just. do this mission to save
this guy and to put him in power because his
brother is corrupt. It's a movie that I saw a
trailer for and I liked the music in the trailer
and then I read the synopsis of it and I'm like,
oh, cool. And then I watched the trailer again
and I was like, oh, cool. And I've seen it like
a billion times since then. It's just, I don't
know what it is about the movie. I just really
dig it. 2020. Um, 2020, holy crap. So a buddy
of mine from high school, Quentin Lester, writes
for this website called Bite Size Breakdown.
They used to just do this on Facebook and Instagram
and other places, but they actually have their
own website now. And I'll link that in the show
notes. And they do these little, literally little
bite -sized micro reviews, written reviews, and
they do them up as images and they give their
little ratings and whatever kind of thing. And
they do movies, TV shows, all kinds of stuff.
And one of the things they did back in 2020,
or maybe it was 2019, I forget, was for a film
called Guns Akimbo. Have you ever heard of this
movie? I've heard of it, yeah. Okay. It stars
Mr. Potter! First film I've ever seen Daniel
Radcliffe in. Ever. Because I'm not a Harry Potter
person. So yeah, that's the runner -up for this.
But yeah, I wanted to mention that because Guns
Akimbo is basically... What if you had guns for
hands and you had to run around shooting people?
It's kind of like a video game. It was a fun
film. I really dug it. I love the soundtrack
to it. It was, it was really fun, but the winner
for 2020. And honestly, because it was 2020,
obviously, and we were all at home and everything
was closed. Like I know there's choices, but
this film luckily was released January 17th,
2020 before everything shut down. I did get to
see it in theaters, but. Bad Boys for Life. Will
Smith, Martin Lawrence, all that stuff. The fourth
Bad Boys movie. Joey Pantoliano. Just absolutely
so fun, so good. Absolutely love it. 2021 was
a toss -up between F9, which is the Fast Saga.
Or another Netflix movie which I had never heard
of. I don't even know how. I think it's because
I'm subscribed to Netflix on YouTube and I see
when they release trailers and stuff from whatever's
coming up on their service. There's a movie called
Gunpowder Milkshake. And yeah, Gunpowder Milkshake
was starring... It's an action thriller film
that... is basically about it's about these assassins
that have to it's an assassin for hire film and
the one assassin is trying to get her life back
and that kind of stuff it stars Karen Gillian
it stars Lena Headey it stars Carla Gugino? Sorry
if I mispronounced that. Yeah, but I know who
you're talking about. She was in Hot Shots, I
believe. Oh, was she? Cool. Stars Michelle Yeoh,
Angela Bassett, Paul Giamatti is in it as Nathan,
who is the head of the HR department for the
firm. But it's a nice little, I don't know, again,
it was something where it was 2021, we were all
still pretty much at home. I saw the trailer
and I was like, ooh, Gunpowder Milkshake, that's
a cool title. Hmm, I wonder what that is. 2022
is another Sean Levy project with The Atom Project.
This is a Ryan Reynolds vehicle. This is Ryan
Reynolds and Jennifer Garner. This is actually
it's it's basically Deadpool meets the Hulk.
Actually, it's the Hulk is Deadpool's dad. Oh,
the Adam Project is Ryan Reynolds as Adam. Mark
Ruffalo plays his dad and he. Is this pilot who
has to go back and forth in time and it's a time
travel thing? I think you would like it. I really
do think you would like it. And it's this whole
thing of him trying to make sure that the partner
of his dad's doesn't get away with doing bad
stuff for the company that they own kind of thing.
And yeah, it also has Zoe Saldana in there. So
very, very awesome, fun family film. And then
2023, It's -A -Me, Mario! It's the only choice.
We've been waiting almost 40 years for an animated
Mario movie. We had the animated Mario cartoons
back in the 80s and 90s, but... We've been waiting
almost 40 years for a Mario movie. And as much
as I wish it was Charles Martinet as the voice,
Chris Pratt did okay as the voice of Mario. The
only time I'm not a fan of Chris Pratt is the
Star -Lord character, because I just think that
character is too overblown. I get that's the
point of the character, but Super Mario Bros.
the movie, Perfect. I just absolutely loved it.
It was so fun. And then 2024. Honorable mentions
to Deadpool and Wolverine. Honorable mention
to Sonic 3 because hello, Shadow. And again,
John Wick. Keanu Reeves as Shadow. Hilarious.
Absolutely love it. Not hilarious, but very awesome.
But the choice for 2024 can only go to, Achwell,
you're back! Can only go to Axel Foley, Beverly
Hills Cop 4. Because nobody ever, like, you don't
understand. Steve and I have been thinking, predicting,
every time they come up with a rumor, we've been
denying it. For 16 and a half years that the
Geekcast Radio Network has been online, every
time they come up with a Beverly Hills Cop 4
rumor, we have been shooting it down saying it'll
never happen. Because we knew that Eddie Murphy
was never going to do it. Because every time
that stuff would come up for Beverly Hills Cop
4, it was either the story isn't right or this
isn't right or Eddie doesn't want to do it or
this or that or whatever. They finally did it.
It was an awesome movie. It was a damn good story.
It was emotional. It had action. The music done
by Lorne Balfe was amazing in it for the score.
And it worked. And I know they're thinking of
doing a fifth one. I hope they don't because
I don't think they need to. But in case they
do end up doing a fifth movie, okay, sure, fine.
But yeah, those are my choices. Okay, I was going
to say, I think I put them to sleep, folks. No,
I was following you. I was kind of following
along and keeping track. And I think we had two
films in common. And out of 24 films, I've only
seen, I think, out of 44 films. Oh, how old are
you? 45. Okay, so 44, because you're not doing
this year. Yeah, we can't do this year yet. I
mean, you could, you know, be morally wrong.
Yes. I have seen 19 of the films that you mentioned.
That's not bad. About half. Less than half. Not
bad, though. That's not bad at all. So, any other,
anything you want to say before I take us to
a quick ad break? No, I mean, I tried to be a
good boy. There were a couple of choices that
I may have had issues with, but you know. Okay,
what are your issues? At the end of the day,
it's your, no, but at the end of the day, it's
your list. Right, but I'm curious. Yeah. You
didn't pick Cars 2, but just mentioning it on
any list of favorite anything. I was like, wow.
I'm not a big fan of the Fast and the Furious
movies. I was like, is he going to pick the one
where they drive a car in space? No, because
I haven't seen it yet. Okay. Anything with Michael
Bay, there was one you said that Michael Bay
did on Netflix. I'm like, oh, you lost me at
Michael Bay. Six Underground. The first live
-action Transformers is watchable. But I don't
like the designs. Yeah, they got Peter Cullen
back so that our beloved childhood Optimus Prime
could rip people's faces off in the second movie.
I'm not even a Transformers guy, and that was
offensive to me. It's like, freedom is the right
of all sentient beings. Now obey me or I'll fucking
murder you. That was the fourth one, but in the
second one he was ripping people's faces off.
It's just like, eh. Like I said, you know, you're...
Your choices are your choices. That's the whole
point. It is. It's the whole point. I'm sure
there were some of my choices that you hadn't
heard of or didn't agree with. You were offended
that I didn't pick Trading Places. I wasn't offended.
You were like, I can't believe you didn't pick.
I can't believe you didn't pick this one comedy
instead of the third Star Wars movie. It's like,
dude, do you know me at all? Oh, I knew you were
going to pick Revenge of the Jedi. Return of
the Jedi. Revenge of the Jedi. Jedi don't seek
revenge. Yes, they do. That's what makes my poster
valuable. That's what makes my poster valuable
is they changed it. Shut up. My G .I. Joe poster
with the wrong date on it. Supergirl, I was like...
That movie is a hidden gem. If you say so. I
didn't really push on that one because I've never
seen it. Well, you should watch it sometime.
I've never heard anything good about it. Except
from you. Okay, so... And there's a reason they
didn't do Supergirl 2. Well, but again, it didn't
really need it. Again, that's from an era where
you don't always need a sequel. They had four
Christopher Reeve Supermans. Do you really think
if that movie had made money, they wouldn't have
made a sequel? I don't know. But I don't know.
I just think Hollywood has changed over the years,
especially with the internet. They were doing
franchises back in the 30s with the monster movies.
Yeah, I know. Everyone pretends like, oh, all
these remakes and all these blah, blah, blah,
and all these sequels. It's a new thing. It's
terrible. No, I know it's not a new thing. Yeah.
I know it's not a new thing. I'm just saying
that there were some, even when they did make
more than like when they actually made money,
not just make their budget back when they were
actually successful, that they didn't. they still
didn't make a sequel. Like the, they're just
rare. Plenty of movies that did. Yeah. But like,
I don't know. It's just one of those things.
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get to working on that, sir. It's already done.
God. Okay. Well, all right. Well, we'll work
on that. All righty then. Uh, any, anything you'd
like to say, uh, before I run through the closing?
Oh, I just think it's an interesting little exercise.
Um, absolutely. It's fun. Yeah. Um, part of me
kind of feels like some of my choices were like,
like I, in retrospect, I feel like something
like it's, it's weird. Like what's interesting
for me is like a lot of my choices, particularly
later down, down the list were very like, uh,
popular ones, you know what I mean? But is that
because I was following trends? It's weird that
as a guy who grew up in the 70s and 80s, who
was into nerd stuff, it was both interesting
and gratifying that that stuff kind of overtook
the culture. That we did have an Avengers movie.
That kind of thing. The nerd stuff, that we did
have a really well done Lord of the Rings trilogy,
which was... I mean, I haven't really seen any
of the Dune films, but it's weird that that got
made. Because all these films were considered
unfilmable, but nerd culture is such a thing
now that we get these things that we know. And
then the technology is also there. Because as
we were talking about with Spider -Man, it's
really good for its time. It's really amazing
for its time. It's a little... Yeah, it's just
interesting to watch how movies changed. I also
feel a little... Part of me is like, oh, it's
so great that they're making all these movies
that, you know, they're making like Superman
and Jurassic Park and Fantastic Four. At the
same time, like, you know, I've mentioned my
mother a couple times. I'm always like, there
really isn't much out there these days for her,
even though she passed away. But like, you know,
I do feel a little bad that we've kind of like
taken over the cineplex. Although now the way
that the industry is. I think nerd stuff, big
budget blockbuster stuff is the only thing that's
going to be viable in movie theaters. But they
now have Netflix stuff, and they have Netflix
and all the streaming stuff for the smaller movies
about people talking and doing stuff and not
fighting dinosaurs, whatever that garbage is.
Well, that's why I mentioned stuff like Before
Sunrise and Before Sunset. That's why I mentioned
stuff like... Okay, Gunpowder Milkshake probably
isn't something your mom would watch because
it's a spy action. But my point is... I don't
think... Of this list, I think maybe... That's
what made Iron Man so special. That's what made
the first X -Men so special. The rare movies
that she wanted to watch, too. Right. No, absolutely.
The rare movies that I liked. Like I said, she
loved stuff like... Ferris Bueller and Footloose.
I think she probably would have liked Tetris.
I was going to say, Tetris is a neat little below
-the -radar thing about this dumb little game
that I play all the time. And it's fascinating
stuff. It's interesting to watch the way the
movie... And because I'm so fucking old, I can
start in the 70s with... And even though I didn't
necessarily pick them, stuff like French Connection
and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, very grown
-up movies. And then we get to Jaws and Star
Wars and it becomes the summer blockbusters.
And then it builds on the 90s movies, builds
on the 80s movies. And then now we're in, again,
Avengers. Now we're in Endgame and Doomsday and
Epic Madness. It's interesting to watch the way
it snowballed. Yeah, and for my list, it's like...
The 80s was pretty much Trading Places is a single
film. Supergirl, single film. He -Man and She
-Ra, Secret of the Sword, single film. Transformers,
the movie, technically. That is a single film
because it was animated and it didn't have a
sequel to that specific film. Yes, the... cartoon
series did have a third season and they continued
on with the story, but technically it is a single
film, a beginning, middle and end story, you
know, but you go down past the eighties, you
get to the nineties, you get a couple of other
single films, but it kind of inches into franchise
stuff where it's like mission impossible started
in the nineties. And then, you know, in the two
thousands, you get Spider -Man, you get, you
know you get transformers you get and then you
get the marvel stuff like you mentioned and yeah
between marvel john wick and mission impossible
those are the main franchises that i have outside
of fast and i and i was trying actively like
i didn't put the first fast because the knight's
tale was the only one a night i have more connect
like i have a connection to the fast and the
furious the first film from 2001 not because
i like that movie but a knight's tale hits more
with me and has more to my story and like i said
it also goes to my enjoyment of heath ledger's
acting and whatever else but like yeah no it's
just hollywood has gone more franchise as as
the decades have have gone on so yeah that's
that's the way the The film reel runs out. All
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