Hi, this is Pat Fraley, purveyor of duck, doog,
and villain voices, and you're listening to the
Geekcast Radio Network. Hey, it's Mistress Carrie,
and you are listening to Studio 2009. But first,
folks, here inside Studio 2009, before we get
to the medium mayhem, the movie choices of Steve
Megatron, we have a Super Bowl sadness movie
trailer reaction and Star Wars Mandalorian and
Baby Yoda Grogu reaction trailers. We got two
trailer reactions here. I wanted to put this
here because this is the only place we can put
it. I'm, of course, TF2 and Mike. Joining me
once again, as always, is none other than the
Star Wars genius bar himself, David Draper. This
is the way? I was going to say that more confidently,
but then you hyped me, man. Well, yeah, I've
got to hype you. You haven't been here since
Order 66, so, you know, it's always the hype.
But, yes, this is the way. I don't know if this
is the way. A lot of people feel that way. I
feel that way about the movie itself. I'll put
it that way. I... Okay. So... I have not... I
grew up in the South Shore of Massachusetts.
Kingston, Plymouth, Plimpton area, which is basically
an hour south of Boston. So, yes, I can still
park the car in Harvard Yard. We basically removed
the ahs in Massachusetts. And I always say I'm
from Boston. I have that right because it's close
enough. An hour south is close enough in my mind.
And it's the culture, it's the this, it's the
that. Boston sports was, and I'm bringing this
up for a specific reason. Waiting on it. Uh -huh,
waiting on it, waiting on it. I hope I don't
forget it. You know, so we have this certain
thing about, oh, that's why, because of the Super
Bowl. Boston sports is in my blood and everything
else. You follow the teams and you follow them
whether they win or whether they lose. Throughout
my lifetime being born in 1980, from then till
now, I'm now 46 years old. In the last 46 years,
the Red Sox, the Patriots, the Celtics, the Bruins,
they've had winning streaks, they've had losing
streaks. We had... 20 years of Tom Brady. Say
what you will about whatever, whatever, whatever.
You cannot deny the winning streak that the Patriots
had. You just cannot. Sure. Oh, no, no, no. That's
the Red Sox. No. Huh? You're forgetting. I'm
from Illinois. Yes. 1986 Super Bowl. Chicago
Bears versus the Patriots. Yeah. Okay. Yeah,
I'm probably forgetting that because I was six
years old. You probably have blocked that out
from trauma. No, no, no, no, no. The trauma in
1986 was it gets through Buckner's legs. Oh,
my God. The ball went through Buckner's legs.
It's the baseball. It wasn't a good year for
you all around, Spunky. No, no, no, it wasn't
good. Yeah, no, I don't even remember the Bears.
You stomped a mud hole in your ass, and then
we got it. William the Refrigerator Perry got
it. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. But the point is, is
that. And for the record, for the record, you
know, I'm, I'm coming off real cocky. Like we
just blew it this year and we've, we've never
been good since then, but we had that one year.
So. Yep. My whole point in saying all of this
is that I've grown up watching the sports stuff.
I haven't always paid attention to it, but like,
I think where I started paying attention like
full time to the NFL was around Superbowl 31,
which I think without looking at it, I'm pretty
sure it was green Bay versus new England. I think
I, yeah, no. Okay. Green Bay. I know. Absolutely.
I agree. I get, yep. Absolutely. I think it was
the Packers and the Patriots in that one. And
then, you know, Super Bowl 35, Super Bowl 36,
Super Bowl 38, 39, yada, yada, yada, the Patriots
dynasty, everything else. But after a while,
like when it got to the 40s for the Super Bowl,
I just stopped watching. I just didn't care.
I didn't care about the commercials. I didn't
care about anything with the Super Bowl anymore.
And then this year, I was like, okay, the Patriots,
because we had Drake May as the new quarterback,
and we had Mike Vrabel come back because he's
the new head coach, and Mike was part of those
winning seasons with Tom Brady because he's essentially
a player coach, and I love that. I love when
a player can come back and become the coach and
the legacy of the, I love all that anyway. So,
you know, I was like, okay, let's, let's pay
attention. Let's see what they can do and everything
else. And they did what they did this season.
And I paid attention to it. And I was like, okay,
cool. And I paid attention. I'm talking about
like, Watching the Super Bowl this year versus
watching, let's say, Super Bowl 35, 36, or 38,
way different. You know, there was a really neat
Jurassic Park commercial this year, which reminds
me of a line from the movie. There will be Star
Wars discussion in this. Oh, yes. We're going
to get to it. That's a big pile of shrimp. Yep.
Okay. This is 2026. Last I checked. Uh -huh.
I'm going to take you back to 25 years ago. Oh,
dear God. Okay. No, I'm doing this on purpose.
I'm doing this for the commercial. Well, I mean,
2001 was one heck of a year. Yeah, no, no, no.
I know. Who doesn't want to go back then and
remember? No, no, no, but I'm doing this on purpose
for the way of how we watch the Super Bowl, okay?
And how the commercials were presented, and specifically
the fucking trailers. Oh, my God. Okay, can I
just interject real quick? Because I think one
of the biggest changes of the whole thing, because
I did this, I've done this for a couple of years
now, is you can just watch them all. There's
always a compilation of them on YouTube. Sometimes
even the day before. The Jurassic Park commercial
was out a day or two before. That's what I do.
If the Bears had made it, I would have watched
the game. They basically folded. I didn't care.
I didn't watch the game. I didn't watch that
halftime show. I didn't watch the Puppy Bowl.
I just played on my phone and lived my life.
Which actually becomes relevant in a moment.
When we actually get to Star Wars. We're going
to get there. I'm not trying to... We'll get
to the fireworks factory someday. Why are we
getting to the fireworks factory? Simpsons reference.
Okay. The reason why I'm bringing this up is
in 2001 for Super Bowl 35, they showed all of
the commercials on television. This was before
the major part of the internet where it's like,
like this year. Oh, we'll show you a little snippet,
but you can go online and watch the full trailer
of insert, whatever it was. You know what I mean?
Like that's what they did for every trailer this
year, every trailer. They didn't show the trailers
during the super bowl. They just said, here's
a little snippet. Go on YouTube or go on this
or go on that to watch the full trailer. Go on
the NBC or wherever. Yeah, it was NBC because
I watched the Super Bowl on Peacock. So NBC had
the Super Bowl, and NBC was like, go on our YouTube
channel to watch the full trailer or go on this.
In 2001, they actually showed. the actual trailer
as an actual that's my point is that they used
to do the thing and now the thing is here's a
snippet a two second snippet instead of a full
trailer on television go over here to the internet
to find it and like you already said usually
sometimes the trailers and i'm talking about
movie trailers i'm not even talking about a commercial
for Budweiser, Bud, Bud, Bud, Budweiser. I mean,
the trailers follow the commercials in terms
of, like, the Super Bowl commercials. The trailers
are a commercial, basically. Yeah, yeah, no,
absolutely, yeah. But, like, just, like... fitting
in like the budweiser frogs or the what's up
guys or whatever fitting all of those commercials
in plus the trailers used to be a thing now according
to the super bowl this year we're just going
to give the the film trailers two seconds go
to youtube to watch the full thing i kind of
don't like that The cost to air a Super Bowl
commercial is famously huge. Expensive as hell,
yeah. So you spend like a million dollars to
get your little go to YouTube and watch our thing
as opposed to like, I'm just pulling numbers.
I haven't looked it up. A million dollars to
get a full trailer. It's cost effective. I guess.
Alright. I didn't even see the Star Wars one
because I wasn't really watching. I didn't even.
That's the other thing. If I'm watching the Super
Bowl, which very rarely do I actually watch the
game unless my team's in it, which this year
my team was. But very rarely do I actually watch
the game. Like we already said, I go on YouTube
and find the stuff. Yeah. There was a Star Wars
commercial. Oh, yeah. That's what it was. When
I was watching the game, I didn't even see the
snippet for the Star Wars Mandalorian and Grogu.
Here, here's a snippet. Now go watch. I didn't
even see that. I wasn't even looking for it.
Today, right now, as we're recording this, Wednesday,
February 18th, 2026, is the first time I saw
that Super Bowl ad. I don't like that Super Bowl
ad. I love it. Really? Yes. Why? Because it's
cute. It's funny. I love the Tauntauns. Empire
is my favorite movie, and I love the Tauntauns.
So there's a nostalgia factor there. But it's
like, I think people don't understand. That it's
an affectionate joke. It's a Super Bowl ad. It's
the Clydesdales. That's what it is. I think people
aren't getting that. It's like the famous Super
Bowl ad. The famous Super Bowl ad are the Clydesdales.
Right, right. They did a Star Wars version of
that. Everyone wanted the real trailer, I think.
Everyone was butthurt that they didn't get the
real trailer. But I liked it. I thought it was
funny and cute and charming and appropriate.
Because it was, it fit, it was based on the classic
original Super Bowl ad. And it was like, guys,
this is just, like, they didn't kick your dog.
They just did a cute little thing. Calm down.
Everybody was like, ah, it's a waste of money.
And I think the other thing, here's my story
about that. Because I didn't watch the Super
Bowl. I was literally on my bed, playing on my
phone or my tablet. And I get a message from
a friend of mine. And she's like, is this Mandalorian
and Grogu thing real? I mean, she likes Star
Trek. She likes comic books. She likes MCU. And
I didn't know what she was talking about. Because
I wasn't, you know. You weren't paying attention.
I mean, it was out of nowhere. So I'm like, what
do you mean? Because maybe they showed off a
popcorn bucket. So I'm like, what do you mean?
You mean like the movie? She's like, yeah, is
this movie real? She didn't even know there was
a movie coming. And the thing is, I think we
as nerds in the modern era are used to being
plugged in. You know what I mean? I knew they
were making a movie for this. you know, back
when there was still a possibility of a season
four. Right. We've known about this movie before
it started filming. Yeah. Yeah. So we're like,
where's the trailer? Where's the trailer? Whereas,
I mean, she's not even a normie normie. She's
definitely not normie normie, but like, you know,
she was just watching the Superbowl and was like,
Hey, what's this? And I think there are probably,
and you know, Star Wars cannot live. There's
this weird dichotomy in the, in the media sphere
these days. Where I don't think any franchise
can live on its fan base alone. But I think then
they go the wrong way and then they alienate
the fan base. You know what I mean? Yeah. It
needs to be one that the fan base likes. But
Star Wars, when it came out, didn't have a fan
base. I mean, they had gone around to conventions
to get people interested. But it was a mass,
I believe until the prequels, Star Wars was a
mass generational cultural thing. And that's
what they're trying to do. They're trying to
go, hey, you guys watching Super Bowl, we got
a movie coming. You like the TV show when you
watch it before season three. Come watch our
movie. This is cute. And just the nerds were
like, where's my trailer? Where's my shot of
this? Where's my shot of that? Robble, robble,
robble, robble, robble, robble, robble. And I'm
just like, this is cute. Yeah. I like it better
than probably the actual trailers we've seen.
Yeah. I don't even remember the first trailer.
That was the one that I got super pissed off
about because the Razorcrest was the first shot.
That's right. I was like, what is this? Yep.
I've calmed down since then. I found out that
maybe the Razorcrest wasn't as rare as I thought
it was supposed to be. Right, yeah. But I still
think it's still so Disney. Bring back the exact
same ship. This is a conversation I've been having
about another topic because I don't want to get
too distracted. Disney does Disney things. Oh,
yeah. And whereas guys like Lucas innovated.
Disney does nostalgia. And the weird thing is
it's nostalgia for something that's only a couple
years old. Razorcrest. Do you remember the Razorcrest?
He should have – and I'm not saying he should
have had the N1 because it's completely inappropriate
for what he does as a living. We should have
had another big ship, but I think what it was
was, number one, nostalgia, number two, Hasbro
and whoever else could reuse the mold. We've
already got this Razor Crest toy that we've got
a mold for. We could reuse it. Yep, yep, absolutely.
Okay, so... Yeah, I didn't even think about.
Oh, man. Okay. Then now that you didn't even
think about that, it was a stand in for the Clydesdales.
No, I know. Now that you pointed it out, I literally,
as you're talking about it, I literally had it
on mute and I rewatched it just now as we're
talking. And I'm like, oh, okay. Yeah, no, I
like it. I think it's cool. I think it's funny.
I think it's awesome. The trailer we recently
got in the last couple of days or so. It was
yesterday, yeah. Yeah. Wait, what is he fighting
with in that trailer? He fights with a lot of
things. Okay, what sword is he using? A sword?
I don't remember him having a sword. He had like
a pike or something. Okay. I don't think he has
the darksaber. They played that arc out. Okay.
That's what I wanted to know. I wasn't even looking
for it. I think he had like a... I really think
it was more like a force pike. Not forces in
the force, but like a... Yeah. Don't press the
buttons. Okay, so the first shot, again, talking
about Disney, it's like, do you like the Star
Wars? X -Wings, the classic theme. Come on, fanboys,
get hard for me. And then it immediately goes,
no, we're 2026. And they do a joke. Don't touch
the buttons. He didn't touch the buttons. He
touched the knob. He touched the little ball.
No, no, no. I'm not trying to be gross. I'm just
saying there was a little silver ball. Remember,
that was the only thing that survived the first
one getting blown up. And at the end, he had
it. He didn't care about the buttons. Well, he
did mess with the buttons, didn't he? I don't
know. He messed with switches. But still, don't
press the buttons is an easier wording to have
a joke there. I hate that they constantly take
his helmet off. Stop taking his fucking helmet
off. As a rule, I don't disagree. But I feel
like that's a plot thing. He got captured by
the two huts from Book of Boba Fett. I don't
care. And they did it to humiliate him. I understand
that, but I don't care. It's a bad thing. It's
not like a... He has his helmet off in half this
trailer. Because they take it off. They probably
take it away from him. They don't give it back.
I understand that they do it so that Pedro Pascal
can be on the screen. That I don't care about.
I don't care that I see him. I'm with you. I
would prefer him to be the helmet. But it's part
of the narrative. It's not like a... When you
have a reason to do it, I'm fine with that. I
get why someone would be annoyed by it, but it
doesn't annoy me. It's part of the story. And
then they add the line, once we're done with
you, we'll do him. They're threatening the baby.
Yeah, they're threatening the baby. Forged for
IMAX, because we have to be forged for IMAX forever.
Well, Forge because the lady with the horns on
her helmet. You know, every time I see Sigourney
Weaver in this franchise, I'm like, what in the
hell is Dana from Ghostbusters doing in Star
Wars? I'm like, oh, it's Ellen Ripley in Star
Wars. Uh -huh. Yeah. She had the best part of
the teaser where she pulls the things away from
Grogu. She had the bit in this one that she's
like, It's not about revenge. It's about starting
a war. And I'm like, oh, well, good job with
that, honey. Yeah. I'm sure your efforts will
keep the Hosni system from being vaporized in
30 years. Yeah. Yeah. Overall, these teasers,
these trailers, they're okay. They're okay. I
think. I think I'm done watching. Go ahead. Sorry.
Well, I'm sorry. Yeah. I think the biggest problem
is that Disney has fumbled the ball so badly.
Especially that line about preventing a war.
I'm like, who cares? Another war comes along
and wipes you out. Yeah. Literally nothing that
happens in this movie matters because they all
get wiped out by the First Order. Yeah. We need
something. So, wait a minute. Mando is in between
Jedi and Force Awakens? Oh, yes. He's not after.
He's after Jedi. He's five years after Return
of the Jedi. Right, right, right. So, we can't
advance him to be after Rise of Skywalker? Why
can't we time him? Why can't we time jump him
to be after Rise of Skywalker? There's no reason
you can't, but they don't. They have to make
Pedro look old. Okay. And based on Book of Boba
Fett, eat him about 20 pounds of extra food.
I say that as a very fat person. It's the one
thing I can shame. It's fat people, because I
am a fat person. Yes, we're all fat people around
here. between the two of us 458 over here but
uh yeah fat and that ain't with a ph kid but
it's one of those things where it's like this
character this world that favro created is stuck
between jedi and awakens and it's like you can't
do like uh It's not that you can't, it's that
you shouldn't, if that makes sense. Yeah. Look,
it doesn't matter if he's doing... I always go
back to the Western lone wolf and cub bounty
hunting stuff. It doesn't matter when you put
that. If you do stuff about the Empire and the
New Republic, then it matters that it's before
Force Awakens because then... Ironically, it
doesn't matter because the New Republic gets
wiped out. Weirdly, I know this is a phrase that
gets used a lot, but I'm trying to use it in
a different context. Don't use politics in this
because it makes any story that you do set in
this time period inconsequential. All the Thrawn
stuff with Ahsoka is inconsequential because
we know he fails. Because the New Republic is
still around 30 years later. Or at that point,
maybe 20 years later. And it doesn't matter because
the New Republic gets wiped out by somebody else.
Yeah. It doesn't matter. That's what the whole
thing is like. And then there was a bit about
the cards. Like, I'll get everyone your deck
of cards. I'm like, oh, hey, Desert Storm. All
that. Yeah. The only way that we are going to
get Mando stories. Past... What the hell is the
name of that damn movie? Rise of Skywalker. Yeah,
yeah. Wow, that sounded like the Emperor. What'd
you do? The only way we're going to get... The
lack of vision. No, I don't. They do. I don't.
Yeah, yeah. The lack of vision. The only way
they're going to get Din Djarin stories past
Rise of Skywalker is if they create an animated
series for him and just have Pedro do the voiceover.
Because that would be cool. They did the Bad
Batch. They did this. They did that. What's another
animated... Resistance? Not Resistance. Clone
Wars. Clone Wars Rebels Bad Batch. There was
Tales of the Jedi. Yeah, Tales of the Jedi, Tales
of the Empire. What's the other one? Oh, God.
I don't know what other one. The new one. Jesus,
what is it? It's... Damn it. One with Nub Nub?
No, not the one with Nub Nub. The other one.
Sims is a cute little blue Ewok. Uh -huh, him's
a cute little Ewok Disney series. Uh, no, that's
not what I want. I don't want... Okay, fine,
Muppets, where's Star Wars? There we go. Okay,
original. Not Young Jedi, not Visions, not Andor.
Ugh, not rebuild. What is it? It's the thing,
not the holiday special. What is it? It was,
thank God, the Acolytes canceled. Is it? I hope
to get back every five minutes. What is this?
No. Oh, what the hell was the name of that? Oh,
my God. What the hell is it about? Oh, God. I
don't know. Why are you even talking about it?
Because it was a name. Who cares about a name?
Well, it was something that was coming that I
was like, oh, look, Dave. And you were like,
this is my worst Emperor impression. Oh, the
Maul thing. No, not Maul. Oh, my God. It wasn't
Maul. I don't think there is anything else. It
was a kiddie one. It was a... Oh, God. What was
the name of the stupid thing? I don't know, dude.
I don't remember what it was. Okay, Star Wars
animation. Here we go. I don't remember. I don't
remember. Not Young Jedi. Not All -Stars. They
must have gotten rid of it because I don't see
it here. Either that or I'm imagining it. There
was some Star Wars series that was like all kiddified.
It was these kids running around with a button.
It was like a youngling series that was supposed
to be coming. And it came out. That was Young
Jedi. Was it Young Jedi? That's the one with
the cute little blue Ewok. Was it really? All
their toys are at Ollie's. Yeah, I thought it
was called something else. And Yoda's in it?
I guess. I don't know. Anyway. Okay, what was
your point about all this? Point? Lightsabers
don't have points. They have rounded edges. So
we wasted all this time for nothing. Yes, pretty
much. Mandalorian and Grogu. From the teaser
and the trailers, the two trailers I've seen,
I'm interested. But at the same time, there's
no way in hell I would go to the... I don't go
to theaters. I just don't. There's not a single
movie that could get me to go to a theater. Every
franchise that I love, Transformers is number
one. The He -Mans. the back to the future is
even though there's no back to the future stuff,
but like all, all the stuff we love star Wars,
Marvel, DC, whatever. There is not the only movie,
the only movie that I would ever go to a theater
right now in 2026, if they ever made it would
be a full on Batman beyond movie with Michael
Keaton as old Bruce Wayne. I don't know who they
would get to play Terry McGinnis, the Batman
Beyond, the guy that would be Batman. I know
you know, but I'm just saying. I don't know who
they would get to play Terry McGinnis, but as
long as Michael Keaton was old Bruce Wayne, that's
the only movie that could get me to go to a theater
right now. That's what got me to see The Flash.
No, I'm not saying you should have. I'm not saying
anybody should have. It's what got me to go.
Yeah. Um, but, but yeah, no, I, I will wait for
Mandalorian Grogu to hit Disney plus. So I, I
don't even know what the plot is supposed to
be for it. I haven't even looked it up. Well,
I mean, he's hunting. It's stuff like, no, he's
not hunting stuff. He's hunting. Apparently he's
hunting huts that are working with the remnants
of the empire is, is what you can put together
from that trailer. Right, yeah. There's a very
sort of post -World War II Nazi hunter kind of
feel to it. Like Magneto in First Class. Okay,
gotcha. It's like that. And the New Republic
is hiring him. I think they actually set this
up in the show. Someone was like, he talks to
Carson Trevor? The next -wing pilot guy? Okay.
I think there's a line about, oh, there's a lot
of Imperial bad guys still running around. We
need somebody to hunt them down. But I think
it's a Hutt that's working with them, because
obviously the Hutts play a big part, particularly
in this trailer. Right, right, yeah. I guess
it's the two cousins, Jabba's cousins, because
they seem to be the principal antagonists that
we see on screen. And then, of course, Key. Imagine
my surprise, a Dave Filoni OC shows up and beats
our hero. Yawn. Oh, stop. It's not. He's got
a samurai hat. Japanese culture is cool. It's
okay. It's, oh, God. Yawn. Look, man. Will Ahsoka
show up and be Ahsoka and better than everyone?
Ahsoka is awesome. You shut your mouth. Shut
your mouth. Ahsoka is awesome. No, she's not.
Filoni's played out, so thank God he's in charge
of the franchise. I'm sure we'll see Cad Bane
again and all the other wonderful characters
from Clone Wars and Rebels that nobody remembers.
Look here, man. You can either have Dave Filoni
being awesome or... You could have what we've
had so far with Kathleen Kennedy. She's out.
He's in. You should be happy. Wait, I can have
more Ander season two under Kathleen Kennedy?
Oh, God. Or I can have Ahsoka, Cad Bane, the
little dude in the big armor guy. Ooh, samurai
hat guy beating our hero because he's a Dave
Filoni OC, so he's better than everybody. Oh,
boy. On that note, folks, we are going to get
to our episode proper here. And you are going
to hear the movie choices of Steve Megatron here
on Studio 2009 with Media Mayhem coming up next.
I have broken Rita's evil spell. And now I step
into the white light. This is getting quite amusing.
Hello and welcome into our studio. You are now
listening to Studio 2009, only on the Geekcast
Radio Network. I'm, of course, Tio Tio and Mike.
And for our next episode of Media Mayhem, it
is like Sands of the Hourglass. These are the
decades of our lives. Today, I welcome none other
than Steve Megatron. Hello, sir. How are you?
Good. How are you? Pretty good. Pretty good.
So what do you think of this new little format
we have here? It's Thufferin Thuckerdash. Thufferin
Thuckerdash. All right, folks. For those that
don't remember from episode 168 to 167 to now,
here are the rules. These are the rules. These
lists are inherently subjective. They are not
the best films of each year. our favorites, therefore
no choice can be quote -unquote wrong. Quiet
eye -rolling is, however, allowed. Rule number
two! More, a more personal thing, but in many
cases, Dave, because since Dave came up with
these rules, Dave defines favorite as film I'd
most like to watch. You have to have seen the
film, but do not have to have actually seen it
the year it was released. That's rule number
three. And rule number four, you can only pick
one film each year in 1984, and you must pick
one film from every year, 2006. Those are the
years that he used as examples. And how I did
my list was I came up with, like, for me, it's
like making choices for me is easy. There are
certain years where it's like, well, I liked
more than one film that year, yada, yada, yada.
Here's my choice, but let me pick a bunch of
runners up and see if any of the runners up make
me kind of blah, blah, blah. But then there's
my choice. So I'm good and I can talk about the
runners up afterwards. So that's the key here.
when you say the year or when I tell you that
which year we're talking about, you pick your
choice and you discuss why that's your choice.
And then we can then talk about the runners up
and you can talk about your process and, and
all this and all that. I kind of almost like
doing this with younger people at this point,
folks, at least younger than me. Cause that way
less work for me on the, on the backend. Cause
there's less films. Yeah, well, I mean, I'm pushing
40, so. Yeah. At this point, I've got 40. Well,
at this point, I've got to pick 40. Yeah, I know,
right? Had we done this like 10 years ago. I
know, right? Well, we didn't even have the thought
of Studio 2009 10 years ago. No, we're still
doing MWire in 2018. I know, right? Yeah, exactly.
See, time flies. Oh, boy. All right. So these
films for Steve's choices are going to run from
the year of his birth, the great year of 1986,
all the way through 2025. That's the other thing,
folks. We are only going up to the last year
of whatever full year of films that got released.
We are. recording and releasing this in January
or February of 2026. 2026 just started. We know
what films are coming out this year. We ain't
seen them yet. We don't know how good or bad
they're going to be. I know they're going to
be good, so I'm going to say them anyway, but
no. Funny guy. Oh, I am funny. I'm awesome. Oh,
God. Oh, God. Hey, I get to start in a fun year.
Yeah, you do. Exactly. Absolutely. 1986, the
year of your birth. What do you got? So do you
want me to tell you my process before I hit this?
I mean, it's up to you. So I just want, so you
can tell me your process. Yeah. You can tell
me the process, but the choice has to be the
first reveal. And then the, okay. Okay. Okay.
Good. Good. Yeah. So my, my choice for all of
these films, all, all of them is I, I literally
went through and I utilized, you utilize some
AI help. Cause I'm like, I'm too lazy to go digging
for. all of the releases. I mean, I, I fact checked
them, but I had it give me just a master list
of, of movies for each year of my birth. And,
you know, uh, and so when I had it do that, then
I was like, okay, now I need to narrow them down,
which sucked because I created, I created a list
of the ones that I, I wanted for each year. And
some of them, they were like, at minimum there
was one at most there was seven yep and so then
i was going through and i'm like um because one
i tried to list movies i've seen but then i also
listed ones where it's like can i stomach watching
them more than once and that was my my um my
gauge here was to is it a movie I can watch more
than one time or that I enjoy on subsequent watchings?
If it is, it made, it made my, my total list.
And then it was like, which one will I watch
ad nauseum or just put on for background sound
or, you know, whatever. That was my number one.
Yep. So that's how I broke down my whole list.
See, that's the one thing I forgot this time
around, because your episode actually wasn't
supposed to happen until episode 186 of the podcast.
But I actually do have all of the Wikipedia links
for all of the years for all of the movie articles
that actually goes through all of the. All of
the releases for every year, at least the 80s,
90s and 2000s. Whoops. Sorry. Oh, well, no, it's
fine. I preferred using the AI just to help me
get a jumpstart on pulling the list. And then
I was like, I'll whittle it down from there.
I was pretty much if it's sci -fi, if it's, you
know, if it's comedy, if it's. superhero if it's
robots if it's you know something along those
lines i'm like leave it action movie if it's
got this actor in it leave it you know and then
i'll decipher it from there so 1986 there were
three movies that i liked from that year the
one that i watched the most is star trek for
the voyage home wow simple logic will suffice
the nuclear vessels so this well you told me
i couldn't have a tie so yeah i know so i chose
this because one i love star trek uh i love the
original series star trek predominantly uh i
also like that this is the movie they introduced
the enterprise a which is my favorite ship it's
literally on my desktop background right now
because i just found it Five minutes before getting
on the call. And then it's got comedy. It's funny.
It's in San Francisco. I've been to California
now, so it's funny. I just genuinely really love
this movie. It's really well done. It's a lot
of fun. It goes all over the place. And the worst
stake that they pretty much have is time. Yep.
And time travel. And then getting some whales
back, you know, 300 years in the future. Yes.
So that is pretty much why I love this movie.
Plus, there's a lot of just you get the background
information on Captain Kirk. Like, oh, I'm from
Iowa. It was never fleshed out before that. Yeah.
So it's just overall like it's one of my favorite
films. I'll watch that one. Everybody's like,
oh, The Wrath of Khan. And I'm like, yeah, I
mean, it's good. But for me, like for the original
series films, there's only two films for me that
really are, you know, hammer at home. And it's
this one and one that will come later. So my
runners up for this particular year are Transformers
the movie and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. So that
was really the only right answer here. Yeah.
Transformers, the movie like I rewatched that
one at least once a year. I rewatched Star Trek
for the voyage home probably twice a year. So
that's why it got the leg up Ferris Bueller's
like every other year. Yep. So it's, it's very
much like those are, those are my predominantly
favorite 86 films. Very cool. Very cool. All
right. 1987. What do you got? Beverly Hills cop
too. Yeah, buddy. It's been out of my fucking
mind to keep letting you talk me into this shit,
but I can't pull out till I get some kind of
bust or my career is finished. But I promise
you, I won't go down alone. I'm going to give
you three days. If I don't see some results by
then, I'm going to cover my own ass. How do you
like that arrangement? If I only have three days
to do this, I have to go deep undercover. I'm
undercover deep now. This is deep. I'm going
deeper. I don't want no more money or nothing,
but I'm going deep, deep, deep. Deep undercover.
So you sign that for me, and I'm going so deep,
sir, you not even know where people are going
to try to page me. Excellent. No answer, because
I'm going to be deep undercover. I'm tired of
your bullshit, Foley. You got three days. If
I don't see some results by then, I'm going to
grind your ass into dog meat. You got that? Deal.
I'll have a dog meat ass. Love the theme of Beverly
Hills Cop. Yeah, so I mean, and I love, you know,
Taggart and, you know, Light and the whole crew
there, man. Like, Axl's awesome. I love Beverly
Hills Cop just on a whole. It's, for me, it's
that, then Die Hard, then Lethal Weapon. In that
order. Like, that's how I would, you know, kind
of pick them if I was picking out of the three.
franchises there because i just i have more fun
with beverly hills cop you know as a saga yeah
oh absolutely so that's why that's why this one's
here for me and then my runners up are space
balls in gi joe the movie now funny enough had
you asked me this when i was 10 years old gi
joe the movie would have been number one in space
balls number two and i would have been like what's
beverly hills cop three or two two yeah yeah
so i wore out my gi joe the movie tape Yeah.
Like I was in a GI Joe before transformers. And
so it was just funny because I, I, I knew all
of it. Like I watched the crap out of it. And
the, the tape was like, the tracking on it was
so bad. I was glad when I got a VHS, a VCR that,
that had auto tracking that would fix it for
me. Cause I was like, I'm never going to get
to watch this again. So yeah, those are my films
for 87. Nice. Remember folks, Duke and daddy's
just in a coma. Yes, folks. And if you're old
enough or if you've been around the Geekcast
Radio Network long enough, you'll know that there's
some weird tracking on an old supplemental episode
for Beverly Hills Cop 2. I know. I make a joke
about that in an interview I did that hasn't
come out yet. Oh, man. When's that coming out?
I can't wait to hear that. I don't know. Okay.
But, yeah, I'll keep you posted. Yep, yep, yep.
Yeah, I made a joke about it because it was a
thing about, not to go too off tangent here,
it was a thing about, like, you know, what's
the most... I think the question was along the
lines of, like, what's something that almost
made you throw in the towel and say, screw it?
Or, like, the most MacGyver thing. I don't know.
There was something about that. And I was like,
yeah, there was an episode where, you know, we
didn't know what we were doing. And one voice
was like, blah, blah, blah, blah. And the other
one's like, blah, blah, blah. And then Birdman
is the only voice that sounds good. So, yeah.
So it was just hilarious. 1988. Die Hard. It's
not a Christmas movie without... It's not a Christmas
movie! It's a movie that takes place at Christmas!
Without Hans Gruber falling off the Nagatomi
tower. It's the best Die Hard film. Hands down.
On that, I'll agree with it. It is the best Die
Hard film, hands down. Yes. Although With a Vengeance
is a close second. Yes. Wait, Naked Gun came
out in 88? Yeah. Really? Yeah. God, I forgot
that movie was that old. I mean, Leslie Nielsen
looks just like how Steve Martin does nowadays.
I mean, they both had white hair for the longest
time. That's true. It's very true. They've always
looked old. It's just, you know, it's fitting.
It's funny. It's very, very fitting. Very funny.
Good. Yep. All right. 1989. What do you get?
This one was tough. I have four franchises represented
here, but I could only choose one, obviously.
So I have Back to the Future Part 2. Oh, yeah.
Very familiar about all this. And I'm sure I
forgot Back to the Future Part 1. When I was
going through my list. Well, Back to the Future
Part 1 came out before you were born in 1985.
That's why. I was like, there's something wrong
with this list. Yeah, so that explains it. You
can't choose movies that came out before you
were born. What a ripoff. So yeah, I chose this
because I love time travel. I love the future
aspect, the floating DeLorean. Mr. Fusion, I
have this DeLorean collectible car in my cabinet
now, thanks to my child during Christmas. Awesome.
I don't love future timeline with Biff and Lorraine
and stuff, but I love the rest of it, like the
whole chase through town with Marty and... It's
just all the other futuristic stuff like from
later, you know. Yeah, yeah. Not the weird timeline.
And then I just love the fact that there's so
many different timelines going on in this movie.
Yeah. It's just a lot of fun. Yeah, nobody likes
1985B. Nobody wants that. No, no. Yeah, nobody
wants that. But yeah, so I love that movie as
my number one. My runners up are Batman 1989
because I like Keaton as kind of my number one
live action Batman. uh bill and ted's excellent
adventure and star trek 5 the final frontier
and i say the final frontier just because again
it's another star trek film it's not that it's
particularly a good one but i have to list it
as like a star trek purist yeah so but bill and
ted i love i love bill and ted and then like
batman i gotta i gotta list that because i i
gotta represent at least the keaton era with
one good movie hey Well, yeah, that's very true.
I said one good movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No,
no, no. I was like, wait a minute. You can't
beat that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. Absolutely,
absolutely. I forgot the Keaton era didn't continue
with more good movies after that. Well, he would
have stayed on. I know. Had Tim Burton stayed.
But because Joel Schumacher came and he's like,
I don't like what he's going to do to it. So
I'm not coming back. Yeah, no, and that's perfectly
fine. And I'm like, that's fair. Yep. All right.
1990, what do you got? Back to the Future Part
3. I love the Western, man. I love the Western.
So much fun. Yo. am here and it does make sense.
Look, I came back to 1955 again with you, the
you from 1985, because we had to get a book from
Biff. So once I got a book back, you, that is
the you from 1985, we're in the DeLorean and
I got struck by lightning and he got sent back
to 1885. 1885! It's a very interesting story,
future boy, but there's just one little thing
that doesn't make sense. If the me of the future
is now in the past, how could you possibly know
about it? You sent me a letter. Dear Marty, if
my calculations are correct, you will receive
this letter immediately after you saw the DeLorean
struck by lightning. I never wanted to be in
the Old West so much as watching that, even though
it was like, yeah, I could die. Over a matter
of $80. Yeah. Died over a matter of $80. I should
have just paid him. Yeah. And then my runners
up are the first TMNT film, Home Alone, Die Hard
2, and Kindergarten Cop. Ah, yes. Such good movies.
Obviously, I like them all for different reasons.
Kindergarten Cop is cool. Yeah. Who is your daddy
and what does he do? Home Alone is great because
it's Macaulay Culkin. The first two films are
great at that. Die Hard 2 is kind of... It's
okay. It's better than I originally remembered
because we re -watched it. We re -watched it
last summer, yeah. And then TMNT just because
you got live -action turtles. And to me, that's
like... It's the best live -action turtles we've
gotten so far. Yep. Oh, absolutely. Oh, a fellow
chucker, eh? practicing. Yeah, TMNT, but Back
to the Future 3, man. So good. We've had plans.
Actually, it was funny because wasn't there last
year or one of these past years that we never
got a chance to get around to doing it. I forget
which year it was. There was a year here recently.
2025 was the 35th 35th anniversary of Kindergarten
Cop was the 35th anniversary of all these movies.
So last year was the 35th anniversary of all
of them. And I was going to have us do Kindergarten
Cop last year. And I just had too many... We're
doing it at some point this year. So just to
do it because we've... I don't remember if we've
ever done it or whatever. I don't know. I love
that movie. It's not a Tuma. It's not a Tuma.
It's not a Tuma. We need to do an Arnold spotlight.
Yeah. We need to do a good Arnold spotlight.
No, I agree with you. Not like all of the bad
Terminator films. It starts at 84 and goes to
91 and stops. Like, that's it. Like, no. Give
me the Turbo Man, Don. Jamie, give me your Turbo
Man. That's one of the bad... It's not terrible.
Yeah. Speaking of Terminator 2, 1991. What do
you got? This is probably one of my all -time
favorite films. Okay. It is Star Trek VI, The
Undiscovered Country. Ah, Mr. Scott. I understand
you're having difficulty with the warp drive.
How much time do you require for repair? There's
nothing wrong with the bloody thing. Mr. Scott,
if we return to space, Doc, the assassins will
surely find a way to dispose of their incriminating
footwear. And we will never see the captain or
Dr. McCoy alive again. Could take weeks, sir.
Thank you, Mr. Scott. I literally, as a kid,
watched this all the time. We had the entire,
like, six -film VHS set. I watched this literally
all the time. And you got, like, your Sherlock
Holmes type of... mystery in it you got a little
bit of political stuff you got you know assassinations
you got name it it's it's i don't know by far
my favorite star trek film and so much happens
so many different plots and places that they
went but i i think i used to be able to quote
that movie front and back yeah and i i think
i wore that tape out too uh to the point when
i got the dvd i was like yes so yeah then uh
Then, of course, my runner up is TMNT 2, The
Secret of the Ooze. And that was another one
that I just I loved. I actually like this one
better than the first TMNT film. But just because
I liked the ooze, the super shredder, the go
ninja, go ninja, go. And like a whole film was
just entertaining to me. And so I loved I loved
that film. But Star Trek six was by far my favorite.
Yeah, very cool, very cool. Yeah, TMNT 2, man.
Oh, so good. Combat cold cuts! Yeah! Oh, God.
Ah, Mikey. What's so funny about Mikey is that
he is voiced by Robbie Rist. Robbie Rist was
Cousin Oliver in the Brady Bunch. The one character,
basically... For those that don't know who are
too young, Cousin Oliver is essentially the Poochie
to the 60s kind of thing. Cousin Oliver walked
so Poochie could run, basically. 1992, what do
you got? 1992, I had as my number one film, Aladdin.
I loved that because Robin Williams was the genie.
And that, to me, was the entire film. Yo, Rockman,
haven't seen you in a few millennia. Give me
some Tassel. Yeah, yo, yo. Did not care about
the rest of it. The genie was it. Like, that
was my thing. Like, I... Honestly, it's one of
the few figures I don't have from my childhood
that I wanted. I think I still want kind of not
really. I don't need it. It's just one of those
things that I'm like, oh, you know, I saw it
cheap enough or, you know, yard sale. I'd pick
it up because my friends had it. And I used to
play the Aladdin video games on the SNES. And
I always loved the genie. It was my favorite
part. But I love Robin Williams and pretty much
everything he's in, especially voice acting.
And this is no different. Still love this movie
to this day. And it's one of the few Disney films
I actually still will actually watch. As far
as animation. Yeah. Yeah. Very cool. But it's
because Robin Williams. And then my runner up
is The Mighty Ducks. But it's because I saw it
much later. I think I saw it when I was a teenager.
The Mighty Ducks. Like I didn't see it when it
came out. But the Aladdin I remember seeing in
the 90s at like a friend's house. Very cool,
very cool. I... I had a chance to see it in theaters
and then apparently I screwed up and did something
wrong as a 12 -year -old and didn't get to go
see it as a punishment for Aladdin. And then
the Mighty Ducks I remember seeing in theaters
months and months and months later or whenever
they came out, whatever. But it's so funny because
recently... Well, as of this recording, my hometown
team in one of their most recent hockey games,
the Boston Bruins, actually pulled off the Flying
V. Oh, that's funny. I saw that highlight and
I'm like, oh my God, that's hilarious. 1993,
what do you got? 1993. I liked all of these movies
for different reasons, but this one was like
one I saw when I was like... Probably closer
to 10. Okay. Robin Hood, Men in Tights. Mel Brooks.
That was my first introduction to Mel Brooks
outside of Spaceballs. But I saw Spaceballs later.
I saw this first. And you had Dave Chappelle
on it. You had a bunch of people that are famous
for different things. Patrick Stewart's in it.
And I saw him. I was like, oh, it's Captain Picard.
And then the mole that jumps around and moves
around. The musical aspect of it. Yeah, it's
hilarious. Al Brooks is in every one of his films.
I don't know. I found the film to be very, pretty
fun. Oh, yeah. Love Robin Hood, Men in Tights.
Hey, Rob. Rob. Excuse me. Oh, excuse me. Hey,
look, man, you don't have to do this. Look, this
ain't exactly the Mississippi. I'm on one side.
I'm on the other side. I'm on the east bank.
I'm on the west bank. It is not that critical.
Not the point. The principle of the thing. Even
to this day. So... Is that it for 93? No, my
runners -up are Jurassic Park. Mrs. Doubtfire
and Last Action Hero. So again, Arnold and Robin
Williams show up here. Nice. So those are again
some of my favorites. Doubtfire because he just
does a bunch of different voices and he plays
different people in it. Mrs. Doubtfire especially.
Last Action Hero because you get the movie theater
thing with the magic ticket and Arnold comes
out of the movie. Yep. And then Jurassic Park,
it's dinosaurs. What kid doesn't like dinosaurs?
So, yeah. Very cool. Very cool. Yeah. Mrs. Doubtfire.
Oh, man. I see clips here and there all over
Instagram, like old clips of Robin. And somebody
asked him one time about why isn't there going
to be a sequel to it other than money or other
than the studio or whatever? He goes, well, how
do you put the genie back? No pun intended. How
do you put the genie back in the bottle? We basically,
you know. revealed who mrs doubtfire is it's
me it's it's it's daniel what's his name whatever
you know and what would that sequel look like
we we don't know and again i've said for years
there are plenty of films that are perfectly
fine just being a beginning middle and end of
of film like that's the story that's all you
really need as much as we would like to see further
adventures of It's okay that we don't. It's perfectly
fine. All you gotta do is, you wanna see the
story again? Rewind the damn thing. 94, 1994,
what do you got? Well, this one starts with a
movie that scarred me as a child. Star Trek Generations.
Oh, so you mean your grandfather was rolling
around the galaxy in diapers? Yeah, so my favorite
character was Captain Kirk. Still one of my favorite
characters to this day. This was also the movie
where I got the Enterprise D with the battle
damage and saucer separation, and I got various
Kirks. I got the Kirk from the movie, which I
still have the figure, although my dog at the
time ate part of the face. Nice. I still have
it, but I got another one at a convention years
later. I saw one at a convention in Michigan
and it was like five bucks and I'm like, I'm
buying this. I don't even care. Yep. And so I
got that and like the spacesuit Kirk and Scotty
and stuff like that. I made my own custom of
the, the vest, uh, generations Kirk from the
Nexus, uh, although I'm coming out with one at
the end of this year and I'm super excited about
it cause it looks exactly like what I was hoping.
Uh, So I'm super geeked. It's like, oh, I had
to wait 32 years for this figure to come out.
But, you know, whatever. Yeah, that film scarred
me because not only did they fake out Kill Kirk
once, they actually did kill Kirk by the end
of the movie. So and I remember this film and
I was like, hey, you know, this was like my Optimus
Prime. This was like. This was my Transformers
the movie. And I was like, what? Why? I didn't
cry, but I was just heartbroken about it. Yeah.
Yeah. So this one deeply resonated because they
had Kirk go out. I mean, he went out how he would
go out, saving everyone both times. And to me,
it was just like, I put the dude on a pedestal.
I was like, this is the epitome of a leader.
I mean, but Prime does the same thing. It's just
Kirk one -ups him. It's like if you took the
gall and the stones that Hot Rod had to go get
it, and then you hit the leadership of Prime,
you got Kirk. Yep. And so I was like... let's
do it like i love this film uh still like the
movie's not particularly great like there's a
lot of sections with the next generation crew
and i'm like i'm like give me kirk but yeah it's
it's still one of my favorites not as good as
star trek 6 but i i still like it um then my
runners up are loaded with some other stuff i've
got the mask Ace Ventura Pet Detective, The Lion
King, and Beverly Hills Cop 3. Nice. Gotta love
BHC3. Yep, yep, yep. And I like Ace Ventura.
Yeah, this particular one's a little bit more
gross than The Nature Calls in some regards.
No, it's not. Nature Calls is worse. There's
only like one scene. Yeah, nobody... No, the
bat guano, man. The bat guano was way worse.
Well, I take that back. Then he screws the tribeswoman.
Ah, stop! Yeah, so I guess the other one's worse.
But some of the jokes are better in the second
one. This one plays more in nostalgia. But I
like the mask, too, for different reasons. Yeah,
absolutely. But yeah, so these are all pretty
solid contenders for me. absolutely absolutely
1995 31 years ago what do you get well power
rangers the movie yep i was into power rangers
pretty heavily then and uh yeah i it's got my
favorite crew of rangers there and yeah although
ivan ooze is kind of weird and some of lord zed's
crew are weird for the designs. I did like the
film on a whole. And I loved the Megazord. The
CGI was terrible, but it was a fun movie. That
Megazord design was horrible. I liked it better
in the television series. Yeah, absolutely. The
CGI was terrible. Yeah. Then my runners up are
Toy Story and Die Hard with a Vengeance. Very,
very different film choices for 1995, folks.
Oh, yeah. I'm all over the place. Yep, yep, yep.
You got action comedy. Then you just got, you
know, children's movie. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
And then you got action. Yep. So. All right.
1996, 30 years ago, folks, which. get ready because
once i get uh all of the backlog from last year
uh published uh the 30th anniversary stuff for
this year oh boy what a list we have but anyway
1996 what do you got star trek first contact
oh yeah that wasn't that wait was that 96 or
97 nope 96 Oh, that's right. It was 96. Yeah,
they came out with another one in 98. Yeah, that's
right. And it was terrible. Yeah, it was. It's
so bad it's not on my list. Yeah, good. Like
even the runner up. Good. You won't see a Star
Trek film again for a while. Yeah, good. Yeah.
2009. I enjoyed. I enjoyed this film. We got
the enterprise. We got a lot of, we got the Borg,
which were freakier in this one. Yep. Uh, we
got data getting human flesh, you know, in it.
We got Picard having to deal with his demons
and, uh, you get to see the invention of warp
drive and yeah, it was just, it was a nice like
history piece for Star Trek. Yeah, absolutely.
And it, I think it also fell on the 30th anniversary
of Star Trek at this point, which is why they
also use that from Cochran for six to 96. Yeah.
Yep. And I think they use that as like kind of
the history piece for the invention of warp drive
and using him as part of the story. Yeah. Very
cool. Um, and then my runner up is jingle all
the way. Boy, Jesus, this movie. I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed it as a kid. I like the Arnold quotes
now. Sinbad drives me nuts. And Phil Hartman.
But I like Arnold. And that's, to me, the selling
point. Yeah, see, I couldn't get over the Sinbad
stuff. That's why I like when Arnold just pummels
him. You know, that's why it's fun. Because you
watch Sinbad get punched in the face. That's
right. Yeah. 1997. What do you got? Nothing.
No, I'm just playing. I got Hercules. Well, I
liked the film. No, no, no, no. The music was
fun. I'm saying, oh, my God, because all I can
hear in my head is a movie from the previous
year. Hercules, Hercules, Hercules. But, yeah,
I really enjoyed this movie. Yep. You had a lot
of you had Danny DeVito. You had a lot of good
actors playing various parts in this. You got
Greek mythology. I was taking Latin sometime
after that, like in middle school or something.
And so we watched the movie like every year.
So we had to take three years of a language or
two years of a language. And I took Latin. for
whatever reason. And I think it was cause I was
already in it and I'm like, I don't want anything
new. I like, I like familiarity. So I didn't,
I didn't move. So I just kept staying in there.
Uh, I'm still that way. Like I'm a creature of
habit. I'm like, Nope, I don't want anything.
Thank you. Yep. Um, so yeah, I, I really enjoyed
the film for what it was and it's still entertaining
to go back and watch. It's just, I haven't watched
it in years. I think I've watched Aladdin more
recently just because Robin Williams. Yeah. It's
Aladdin. Yep. Yeah. It's, it's different. It's,
and then you get, you know, Iago and yeah, it's
just, it's just more fun. Uh, my runner up is
a new hope special edition theatrical re -release,
which is cop out of a 1977 film. Star Wars. Yeah.
Special edition, because I refuse to write out
that long ass, dumb ass title. Oh, yeah. I agree
with you. I mean, I've seen both versions. I
mean, George Lucas loved to resell the same thing.
That's fine. He can resell it all he wants, but
that's a dumbass title. Yeah. Yeah. Is that the
only honorable mention for 97? Yes. All right.
Moving into 98. Um, well, I have The Truman Show.
Ah, yes, a Carrie movie. Yes. I... Before, I
liked Jim Carrey. Yep, yep. So, yeah. I... I
intentionally chose this, you know, because it's
Jim Carrey. And it was different, too. Yeah,
oh, absolutely. It was original in the sense
that we got him playing a serious role, but it
was also being orchestrated. It was kind of behind
-the -scenes devious, and you're like, ooh, what
is going to happen here? And then it... it gave
us like a different depth and like he had to
figure out like the fact that they were screwing
with his life yeah and to me that was just like
okay i i can get behind this like i think this
is neat um and so i i really find it entertaining
from a different stance just because i mean he
this was around the time that he did like liar
liar and things like that. Um, he showed he could
do serious really well. And, and then you kind
of could see the, the kind of manic thing that,
you know, his character had to deal with being
constantly watched or, you know, product placement
being all over the place. And he's like, who
are you talking to? Yeah. So, yeah, it was, it
was a good film. And then my runner up is the
iron giant. Uh, yes, the Iron Giant. Before Vin
Diesel went and got Fast and Furious. Is true.
Mm -hmm. All right, 1999. Galaxy Quest. How did
I come to this? Not again. I played Richard III.
Five curtain calls. There were five curtain calls.
I was an actor once. Damn it, now look at me.
Look at me! I can't go out there and I won't
say that stupid line one more time. I can't.
I won't. Well, Alex, at least you had a part.
Okay? You had a character people loved. I mean,
my TV guide interview was six paragraphs about
my boobs and how they fit into my suit. No one
even bothered to ask me what I do on the show.
You had the... Wait, wait, I'll think of it.
I repeated the computer, Fred. Your commander
is on deck. Wow, that smog is thick today, huh?
Am I too late for Alexander's panic attack? Apparently
not. You know, you should get that looked at.
This next to the Orville is quite possibly the
best Star Trek parody we've ever gotten. Yup.
Yeah, it was so good. Yeah. Then and now. Yep.
Agreed. Yep, yep, yep. My runners -up are Episode
1, The Phantom Menace, Star Wars, The Mummy,
and Inspector Gadget. Ah, interesting. Yeah.
So I've got a nice little rounded grouping here,
as it were. To make sure I... I actually told
Gadget because I'm like, ooh, I could just abbreviate
it to IG, and I'm like, why would I put the initials
for Instagram in a podcast post? Not in a post,
but... Yeah, next time, Gadget. Yeah, oh man,
Tim Allen in Galaxy Quest. Tim Allen, may the
man rest in peace, Alan Rickman. Sigourney Weaver.
You got the alien chick. You got a hounds Gruber
and you got Tim, the tool man, Taylor playing
these washed up TV show. Star Trek wannabes.
Like how can, how can you not like a movie that
has that? Like, Oh God, it was even for me who
I'm not the, like. Star Trek for me started when
I was seven years old with The Next Generation.
And even I liked this. It's just fun. Yeah, no,
exactly. It's just fun. Absolutely. So much fun.
And the clock, she shall strike midnight. January
1st, the year was 2000. What do you got? X -Men.
Although they gave them those stupid leather
jackets and uniforms, and they made the, what
do you expect, spandex? And I was like, that's
so stupid. It's funny, but it's stupid. You actually
go outside in these things? What would you prefer?
Blue and yellow spandex? And then they did the
Converse joke in X -Men 97. X -Men 97, which
I'm going to throw in here somewhere because
I love that. You actually go outside in these
things? What would you prefer? Yellow spandex?
Almost forgot. Am I going to war or a circus?
What'd you expect? Black leather? Yeah, so it
was funny. Yeah, no, absolutely. And then my
runners -up are Gladiator and How the Grinch
Stole Christmas, another Jim Carrey movie. So,
yeah. They should have never made a sequel to
Gladiator. I was going to say, I don't even think
I saw the first one. I think I did barely. I
saw like 20 minutes of it. The first one was
so good. But, yeah. Now they've got to stop making...
sequels to certain things. Just stop. No, don't
stop. But that for a movie, man, just, oh, like,
cause you gotta see, you gotta figure out where
we're coming from. X -Men, the animated series
had just ended in 97, no pun intended. And you
had Cal Dodd as the voice of Wolverine for five
seasons. How? Who could translate that? What
actor could bring that to live action? Cause
you're not going to have him do live action,
obviously, you know, but it's like, Hmm, I wonder.
And then all of a sudden here comes Hugh Jackman
who basically just steals the frigging show.
And, uh, just. The whole scene when they go through
the metal detectors, you're a dick. And he just
flips him off with the one claw. Oh, God. When
he destroys the metal detector. Oh, God. Oh,
that movie. It's so good. And once again, range
of Stewart. Range of Patrick Stewart. Perfect
casting. Charles Xavier ripped off the comic
book pages, ripped off the animated screen. Him
as Professor X, just wow. Just so good. And I
know I'm not going to go through all of it, but
yeah. X -Men 2000, awesome. 2001, what do you
got? I only have one film for this year. What?
Okay. Yeah. Okay. Ocean's Eleven. Okay. Okay,
what crap are you going to throw at me now? Let's
see. There was Shrek. There was A Knight's Tale.
There was a whole bunch of other stuff you could
have picked. But sure, Ocean's Eleven. It was
the only one that I actually enjoyed out of that
year. I mean, I saw Shrek, but A Knight's Tale,
I didn't see it until years later. And then they're
okay. Nothing I would really care for, per se.
Very cool. I love the fact that they're breaking
into different places. And then Oceans 12 wasn't
particularly great. Oceans 13 was great. And
then they're going to have an Oceans 14. Supposedly.
No, they are. You tend to not pay attention to
these things. No, I pay attention. I know. You're
more of the pessimist when it comes to that stuff.
actively pay attention to all of that i pay attention
to all of it i tend not to believe it until i
see a trailer until you until i see a trailer
with an actual release date when i can actually
believe in it that's when i will get excited
all these news reports of all this or all that
or all this or all that because all that stuff
leading up to when they actually release a trailer
it could change you never know Oh, I know that.
Yeah. So. 2002. I think I know what the first
one's going to be. Spider -Man. Yep. Go, Webb!
Fly! Up, up, and away, Webb! Shazam! Go! Go!
Go, Webb, go! I saw this one in theater like
twice. I saw a movie in theater twice. I love
this film. Yep. By far my favorite Spider -Man
actor, too. Like, I am beyond excited that he's
coming back for Doomsday and Secret Wars. Yep,
yep. And I love that they brought him back in
No Way Home. Yeah, that was cool. I was like,
oh, I was super excited. Yeah, I, I like the
Tobey Maguire universe of Spider -Man. Like that
was my Spider -Man. Like I didn't have any issue
with, you know, Andrew Garfield. He did fine.
Yeah. Probably made a better wisecrack, you know,
as far as Spider -Man in some degree. And Peter
was better as like Tobey. And Tom Holland, he's
good for what he is, but I don't particularly
care for his rendition compared to the other
two. He's too reliant on Stark. Which that's
what they're basically doing a hot reboot with
him with the fourth one. Because he doesn't know
anybody and nobody knows him, the Stark tech
is dead. Yeah. So that ended with the third film.
And so I'm like, okay, so they're going to give
him a fresh start now. Well, let's hope. Yeah.
Although they say Hulk will still remember him.
And yeah. So anyways, yeah, that's my number
one film. And then number two is episode two,
Attack of the Clones. There is a trend with my
list. Yes. You'll see it. Spider -Man, Star Wars,
Spider -Man, Star Wars, Spider -Man, Star Trek,
Spider -Man, Star Trek. Uh -huh. 2003, what do
you got? I have Bruce Almighty. Ah, yes. Yes,
Jim Carrey. Yep, yep, yep. Yo, brethren! What
up with thee? Blessings on your alley. Looking
for another can of whoop -ass? You didn't get
enough, Mr. Eberl? He wants some more. Surely
I say unto you dudes, I do not wish to fight.
So as soon as you apologize and make a full reckoning
of your transgressions, I shall absolve you and
continue along the path of righteousness. What
are you talking about, man? You're kind of funny,
you know what I mean? I don't know if you lost
it all up in here or what, but check this out.
You want me and the homies to apologize, right?
All right, cool, cool. I'll tell you what. We'll
apologize. The day a monkey comes out my butt,
then you get your sorry. How about that? What
a coincidence. Because that's today. I love this
film. I like him in anything he's in, but I especially
like when he's in comedies. And to me, this is
very much up his alley. Plus, I love Morgan Freeman.
Yep. Dude is... spectacular in everything he's
in. Absolutely. You can't beat it. Nope, nope,
nope. When I first met Andy Dufresne. Yeah, that's
all I can think of. I can do the dude's voice
when I'm sick. Yeah. My runners -up are X2 and
Pirates of the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black
Pearl, which, once upon a time, I did a spotlight
on Pirates of the Caribbean. Yep. On MWire. Yeah,
they should have just left it as Bruce Almighty
and not tried to do the other film that shall
not be named. 2004, what do you got? Spider -Man
2. Yep. And then they had callbacks to that one
in the No Way Home. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Well,
because Doc Ock shows up in... in no way home.
So, and I love how they mirrored. Yeah. With,
with Peter, you know, Peter, my boy, how are
you? And he's like, trying to do better. Like,
you know, but you could genuinely see the happiness
between the two of them, despite the fact they'd
fought each other. Oh yeah. Yeah. And so I, I
was like, okay, this is, this is nice. And then,
and then of course we got, uh, for my runners
up, the Incredibles. National Treasure, Dodgeball,
and The Day After Tomorrow. If you can dodge
a wrench, you can dodge a ball. What? Yeah, I
think I've seen them all except for The Day After
Tomorrow. That one's pretty good. I think it's...
I'm trying to think. I think it's a Nick Cage
movie. I haven't seen it in a long time. Yeah,
very cool, very cool. Yeah, 2004, stacked year.
Mm -hmm. It's also the year I graduated high
school, so I'm pretty partial to that. Absolutely.
2005. What do you got? Batman Begins is my number
one. We can't bring Gotham back. What about Escalation?
Escalation. We start carrying semi -automatics,
they buy automatics. We start wearing Kevlar.
They buy armor -piercing rounds. And you're wearing
a mask. Jumping off rooftops. Now take this guy.
Armed robbery, double homicide. Had a taste for
the theatrical, like you. Leaves a calling card.
I'll look into it. I had, now mind you, had you
asked me this like six months ago, I probably
would have had a different tune. I rewatched
the trilogy recently, so I'm like, it's not that
bad. Wait, wait. It's not that bad. Yeah, so
it's one of the better Bat films in recent years.
I've liked different aspects of different Batman.
I like the Ben Affleck Batman where he... I like
his suit. More than anything else. I like the
outfit better. Christian Bale did a pretty good
job. Ben Affleck also looked like the animated
series Batman as Bruce. I give him points for
that too. Christian Bale played Batman pretty
well for both Bruce and Batman. Let's not talk
about the one that shall not be named. What,
the Bat film? Yeah. I'm not talking about the
2022 movie, or whatever that one is. Yeah, no.
I'm not talking about that one at all. No. Then
my runners -up are Episode 3, Revenge of the
Sith, Fantastic Four, Madagascar, and Sky High.
Nice. So, pretty stacked list. I can only get
into the Penguins. I could never get into the
rest of the cast. That's pretty much why it's
on there. It's the Penguins. The Penguins was
everything to me. I was like, I don't care about
the rest of you. The Penguins. I will watch this
for the Penguins. Yes, for the Penguins. Yeah,
Revenge of the Sith was great. Oh, God, they
just... Yeah, it's so good. And Sky High is great
for a superhero movie that is a superhero comedy
movie. Just so fun. Absolutely love that. And
the fact of who they get for that movie. Like,
the principal is literally Wonder Woman, and
she actually makes a joke of that. What do you
want me to do? I'm not Wonder Woman, you know.
Yes, you are. 2006. What do you got? 2006. I
have Night at the Museum. Ah, yes. Actually,
I never did any of those things. Teddy Roosevelt
did. I was made in a mannequin factory in Poughkeepsie.
I never shot a wild beast. I'm not even brave
enough to tell that beautiful woman I love her.
But you, you got to finish the job this time.
You can't quit. You made of wax, Larry. What
are you made of? And I have that on there because
I've recently rewatched the first two films with
my family. And I really enjoyed it. Ben Stiller
was great. And then you have Dick Van Dyke in
the first and the third. Yep. among other people
and various various other ones and then you get
owen wilson and all three yep him and ben stiller
were pretty much two peas in a pod in a lot of
their films for a while so i i don't know i love
that that movie it's very fun it's very entertaining
very shut your brain off and again it's got robin
williams and all three just a lesser degree in
the second one but still yeah he's there Yep,
and then my runners -up are Pirates of the Caribbean,
Dead Man's Chest, and X -Men, The Last Stand.
Very cool, very cool. All right, and 2007, what
would those choices be, sir? It's pretty stacked
here. Yeah, it is. This is probably one of my
biggest lists. Number one was Transformers. Really?
Yeah. It was a difficult decision because I like
all of them about on equal footing. Yeah. I would
have chose Spider -Man 3, but I don't like some
of the stuff with like Evo Toby. Yeah. So if
it weren't for that, I would have probably chose
Spider -Man 3 because I was literally teetering
on the fence with those. Okay. But Transformers
is my number one here, more so because it revitalized
the franchise again. Yep. which beast wars was
the last one to do it like 11 years prior. So
it needed some fresh infusion and this, this
did it, even though they were, all the films
were ultimately kind of crap. I mean, we did
find things we liked about him upon rewatching,
but it's, I got, I actually went to the, uh,
like I had preview shots of like the GMC top
kick. Nice. That Ironhide was because my dad
worked in the General Motors shop that it was
being produced. Oh, wow. And they had it on display
in there and he took pictures of it and sent
it to me. And I put it on Predacon Empire at
the time. And so I had that as like my claim
to fame on Transformers sites for a little bit.
Plus, I went to the Sector 7 trailer that they
had at the movie theater. Very cool. And I was
with Mary at the time. And so we, you know. We
went, we went, saw the movie and went to the
sector seven trailer. And I was like, ah, I'm
geeking out. Like, you know, and they hand, hand
you like, uh, they're all dressed in the sector
seven gear and, you know, acting like they're
secret service type stuff. And they give you
a poster of the movie and, uh, some other swag.
And then I was like, ah, this is so awesome.
And, uh, so yeah, that, that's why it's on there
also is because of that. Um, and I got to talk
about it in TF wire. My runners up are Spider
-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean at World's End,
National Treasure Book of Secrets, Live Free
or Die Hard, Fantastic Four, Rise of the Silver
Surfer, and Elven and the Chipmunks. Hmm. So
pretty diverse. Smattering there. Mm -hmm. Yeah,
it's a damn shame that we never got to find out
about page 47. Damn it. Oh, I know. I'm still
mad that we didn't get a third one. Don't wait.
Crappy TV show. I refuse to watch that. I will
not. It was garbage. It was total garbage. I
will not watch it. They had Harvey Keitel in
the first season, and then they killed him off,
and then they brought in Riley for one episode,
and then they talked to Ben Gates on the phone,
and you don't even hear his voice. Riley's talking
to a nobody person. That's ridiculous. That's
so ridiculous. My, how the franchises they built
have fallen. As Sebulba would say in the pod
races, Yeah, exactly. The year was 2008. What
do you got? Iron Man. Yep. Just rewatched all
these again. So Iron Man is definitely my number
one. I love that film. Downey Jr.'s great. I
love the movie. I love the character. Yep. I
liked him before, but I really liked him after.
It is one thing. to question the official story
and another thing entirely to make wild accusations
or insinuate that I'm a superhero. I never said
you were a superhero. Didn't? Well, good, because
that would be outlandish and fantastic. I'm just
not the hero type, clearly. So, yeah. And then
my runners -up are The Dark Knight, WALL -E,
Kung Fu Panda, and Get Smart. Get Smart? Really?
I liked it because it was just entertaining.
It wasn't that it was great. It was just entertaining.
Okay, well, the TV show was better. The original
TV show. I know what you're talking about. I'm
just saying, like, as far as movies. If we're
talking TV shows, I'm sure I'd have a totally
different list. Well, you will later at some
point. The year was 2009. What do you got? This
is the one that I had a hard time. Okay. Because
I like all three of these movies on different
playing fields. Yep. This was another one of
those years that I was like, man, I don't even
know how I would break a tie here. Because 2021
is the other year that I had an issue. Okay.
Kind of neck and neck, because I like them for
different reasons. Star Trek 2009, they rebooted
J .J. Abrams' universe, which I don't love the
J .J. Abrams' verse, but I liked that they brought
Spock, and then they had the callback, and then
they kind of brought a new film into the theater,
and this was the first Trek movie I'd seen in
IMAX. And I saw it for my bachelor party. Like,
you know how dudes are like, oh, I want to go
to the strip club. I'm like, I want to see Star
Trek and IMAX. I want to see Star Trek and IMAX.
Yep. Yeah, that was my thing. And so I went with
my buddies and we went and saw it. And that was
my, I was like, cha -ching. And then we went
to Taco Bell. There you go. Permission to speak
freely, sir. I welcome it. Do you? Okay, then.
Are you out of your Vulcan mind? So yeah, that
was, that one's one of my favorite movies. And
then night at the museum battle of the Smithsonian.
I don't think this would have been on mine, like
up there neck and neck with it. If it weren't
for the fact that I just rewatched it again last
night and I really enjoy that movie. Yeah. Probably
my favorite of the night at the museum films.
Just cause it's at the Smithsonian and there's
all the different stuff and you know, you get,
I can't remember his name, voice actor. He plays
Moe and Apu. Oh, Hank Azaria. Yes, he plays Kamun
Ra. Okay. Which is the brother of Akman Ra from
the first one. Gotcha. He tries to get the tablet
and then summons bird people from the underworld.
I'll give you the tablet and the combination
when you release my friends and give him back
to me. I shall release what I want to release
the moment I want to release it. Great. And I'll
release what I want to release at the exact moment
that I want to release it, okay? Tell me the
combination and give me that tablet right now
or I shall kill all of your friends, starting
with the little shaggy -headed little cowman
here. Ain't shaggy -headed. Giganto, let me take
this guy. Don't worry. I got this handled. You
don't want to give me my friends, then you're
not going to get your combination and your tablet.
All right. I'll tell you what. All right. They
didn't call me Common Ra the trustworthy for
nothing. Here you go. They didn't call me Common
Ra the trustworthy. They called me Common Ra
the bloodthirsty who kills whoever doesn't give
Common Ra exactly what he wants in the moment
that he wants it, which is right now, when I
had also better get the combination and the tablet.
That's what they called you. It was shorter and
Egyptian. Great. Well, I'll give you the combination
after you give him that. If you touch that again,
I shall kill you right now. Do not touch this.
This is a no -touching, though. Good. Well, then...
Oh, my God! I can't believe you reached across
like that again. I can't even believe it. Oh,
God, I want to kill you right... If you didn't
know this combination, you'd be so dead right
now. It would be unbelievable. Great, but I do
know the combination. Don't cross this line!
Oh, my God. Abraham Lincoln statue. He says,
stupid feathered people, stupid feathered men
and smacks them. And then Kamun Ra goes, you
know, oh, he goes, attack him. And then they're
just looking at him. He goes, ah, and then they
start throwing spears at him. And Lincoln just
whacks him because he's the Washington, you know,
the Lincoln Memorial. So he whacks the birds.
And then the first group of them is like, oh.
And he's he's telling them to attack and they
just look at him and look at Lincoln, who's standing
there looking at him. And then they just they
run back in the portal and then shut the door.
And he says, well, this is awkward. And I don't
know. It's just it's it's so much fun. I love
the movie. And then and then I have Sherlock
Holmes. Oh, Sherlock. The one with Robert Downey
Jr. Yep. Well, I didn't think it was going to
be the one with anybody else because this is
2009 after all. Yeah, not with Benedict Cumberbatch.
Wait, they replaced Robert Downey Jr.? No, no,
no. He was in a TV show version. Yeah, no. Yeah,
no, I know. No, but they did reboot the Sherlock
Holmes. They're not going to do a third one with
Downey Jr., which I'm sad. They're morons. Yes,
they are. Just like not doing another. National
treasure. Exactly. What's wrong with you, Hollywood?
Idiots. Anyways, that's all I got for 2009. Okay.
And what do we got in the year of 2010? 2010,
I have Iron Man 2. Couldn't help it. I just love
that movie. Again, it's Iron Man. And then he
has to cure himself and palladium and all that.
So and then kind of quasi joins the Avengers.
You get Nick Fury's introduction here and Black
Widow and you see Coulson again. And, you know,
oh, I got to go deal with something in the in
the desert. Thor's hammer. Honestly, I'm a bit
hungover. I'm not sure if you're real or if I
am very real. I'm the realest person you're ever
going to meet. Just my luck. Where's the staff
here? That's not looking so good. Of course.
We've secured the perimeter, but I don't think
we should hold it for too much longer. Huh. You're
fired. That's not up to you. Tony. I want you
to meet Agent Romanoff. Hi. I'm a S .H .I .E
.L .D. shadow. Once we knew you were ill, I was
tasked to you by Dr. Fury. I suggest you apologize.
You've been very busy. You made your girl your
CEO. You're giving away all your stuff. You let
your friend fly away with your suit. Now, if
I didn't know better... You don't know better.
I didn't give it to him. He took it. Whoa, whoa,
whoa. What? No. He took it? You're Iron Man and
he just took it? The little brother walked in
there, kicked your ass, and took your suit. Is
that possible? Well, according to Mr. Stark's
database security guidelines, there are redundancies
to prevent unauthorized usage. What do you want
from me? What do we want from you? No, uh -uh.
What do you want from me? You have become a problem,
a problem I have to deal with. Contrary to your
belief, you are not the center of my universe.
I have bigger problems than you in the Southwest
region to deal with. Hit him. Oh, God, you're
going to steal my kidney and sell it? Would you
please not do anything awful for five seconds?
What did you just do to me? What did we just
do for you? That's lithium dioxide. It's going
to take the edge off. We're trying to get you
back. Oh, yeah. I like this movie, too. And then,
of course, my runners up are Toy Story 3, Tron
Legacy, The A -Team, and How to Train Your Dragon.
Other than training dragons. You're speaking
my language. Because I like all of those, too.
That A -Team movie gets no respect. It doesn't.
It's really good, actually. I love that movie.
Love that movie. General Zuko, you're currently
engaged in unauthorized warfare on United States
military personnel. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You engage me. Repeat. You're engaged in unauthorized
warfare on United States military personnel.
over united states airspace what alpha fight
in other words adios all right in 2011 what do
you got 2011, Sherlock Holmes, A Game of Shadows.
Are you familiar with the study of graphology?
I've never given it any serious thought, no.
The psychological analysis of handwriting. The
upward strokes on the P, the J, and the M indicate
a genius -level intellect, while the flourishes
on the lower zone denote a highly creative yet
meticulous nature. But if one observes the overall
slant and the pressure of the writing, there's
a suggestion of acute narcissism, a complete
lack of empathy, and a pronounced inclination
toward moral insanity. In answer to your previous
request regarding Dr. Watson not being involved,
the answer is no. This is my favorite out of
the two, which is why it's number one. Okay.
Because you get more reality. Like, yeah, you
can't you can't do much better. Yeah, no. So
can't do much better than that. So I'm this is
this is by far my favorite of them. And yeah,
I. I. I love the back and forth. I love the,
you know, the verbal wordplay. I like the the
mystery of it. And then I like how they're deducing
what each other is going to do throughout the
film. Yeah, that is very cool. Yes, that was
good. He's like, what can I do that he won't,
you know, won't assume. Yes. Yeah. That was very
good. But yeah, so there's that. And then I have
my runners up are Captain America, the first
Avenger. Transformers Dark of the Moon, and X
-Men First Class. Hmm. Is... No, that's not what
I thought it was. Alrighty then. And in 2012,
what did we got? The Avengers. Can't help it.
It's gotta be the Avengers. Yeah. You might have
missed a couple things. Doing time is a capsicle.
You think you can hold them off? Captain? It
would be my genuine pleasure. For obvious reasons.
Yep. So. So, yeah, we got the Avengers, and then
we got, for my runners -up, The Dark Knight Rises,
The Amazing Spider -Man, Wreck -It Ralph, and
Men in Black 3. Oh, The Amazing... Wait, which
Amazing Spider -Man? The first one. Oh, okay.
And then Wreck -It Ralph. I was just watching
clips for that the other day. I forgot MIB3 came
out that year. Honestly, it was my favorite one.
It explained why Agent J was, you know, so integral
to Men in Black. Yep. Absolutely. Yeah, the Avengers.
Oh boy, the Avengers. That was so good. Actually,
all of the Avengers movies have been really good.
Yeah, all of them have been really good. Even
Ultron. Ultron was a little whatever, but it
was still really good. All right. 2013. What
do we got? Shortlist. Okay. Iron Man 3. Is that
it? Say Jarvis, is it that time? The house party
protocol, sir. Correct. No, I like that one because
you get the house party protocol, which was a
lot of fun. You could tell it was directed by
the lethal weapon guy. Oh yeah, Shane Black.
You could tell. It was fun. Got the little buddy
cop thing going on. Where's my suit armor? Sorry,
these are only coded to me. You'll have to get
your own. And then, of course, Man of Steel.
Which, again, on rewatch. So, yeah, that's what
I need to rewatch because the only thing I remember
about it is I like the way it represented or
not represented. I like the way it presented
the origin story, kind of like the flashbacks
of it instead of presenting the origin story.
Like here is a green planet known as Krypton.
Here is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Like it didn't do the traditional. the origin
at the beginning. It did it in flashback. I don't
know. Whatever. I'll have to rewatch it at some
point. Is it the only honorable mention? Yeah.
Okay. Yeah, Iron Man 3 is amazing. It's amazing
for all the comedy bits it has, but it's also
amazing for showing the entirety of Tony Stark's
psychological profile. Mm -hmm. That's what's
so cool about that. And then Brian Tyler does
the score. So that's amazing music in there.
Absolutely love Iron Man 3. 2014, what do you
got? Yeah, this one has a number one, and then
it has six runners up. Okay. Okay. Although,
well, actually, no, it doesn't. It has five,
but still. So we have Captain America, the Winter
Soldier. Attention all S .H .I .E .L .D. agents.
This is Steve Rogers. You've heard a lot about
me over the last few days. Some of you were even
ordered to hunt me down. But I think it's time
you know the truth. The shield is not what we
thought it was. It's been taken over by Hydra.
Alexander Pierce is their leader. The strike
and insight crew are Hydra as well. I don't know
how many more. But I know they're in the building.
They could be standing right next to you. They
almost have what they want. Absolute control.
They shot Nick Fury. And it won't end there.
If you launch those helicarriers today, Hydra
will be able to kill anyone that stands in their
way. Unless we stop them. I know I'm asking a
lot. The price of freedom is high. It always
has been. And it's a price I'm willing to pay.
And if I'm the only one, then so be it. But I'm
willing to bet I'm not. Did you write that down
first? Or was it off the top of your head? That's
my number one. Gotcha. Then, of course, Then,
of course, we get I Enjoyed Guardians of the
Galaxy from my runner -up. Transformers Age of
Extinction. I just listed it because it's Transformers.
Amazing Spider -Man 2 because it seemed like
it was going to go somewhere and then it fizzled
out too. X -Men Days of Future Past, which honestly
is one of my favorite out of that runner -up
group just because you get Wolverine in the future
and in the past. You get the first movie with
all of the actors, really. And then Night at
the Museum, Secret of the Tomb. Very cool, very
cool. Which I need to go back and re -watch,
but I'll be re -watching that with my kids again
soon. But I've only seen the movie once or twice,
so I don't remember it. Very cool, very cool.
So what was it about Winter Soldier? I like the
political intrigue, the fact that Hydra has been
embedded in S .H .I .E .L .D. for ages. You know,
they fake out Kill Fury, and then you get Black
Widow and Cap working together, which they both
work, like Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans
work together really well in everything they're
in, because they've been in other things together.
Yes, yes, they have. So, yeah. Yeah, it's so
good. I absolutely love Winter Soldier. It's
not my favorite Cap film overall, but it is a
very good one. Yeah, it's very good. All right,
2015. Age of Ultron. Uh -huh. That is my number
one. There are no strings on me. Very cool, very
cool. A lot of funny moments. I like James Spader.
I like the different robots. I like that they
created Vision. Yep. Whosoever be he worthy shall
haveeth the power. Whatever, man, it's a trick.
Please be my guest. Come on. Really? Yeah. Oh,
this is gonna be beautiful. And you've had a
tough week. We won't hold it against you if you
can't get it up. You know I've seen this before,
right? You still don't know how you do it. Smell
the silent judgment, please. Stark, by all means.
Okay. Uh -oh. Mm -hmm. Never one to shrink from
an honest challenge. It's physics. Physics. Right,
so if I lift it, I then rule Asgard? Yes, of
course. I will be reinstituting Prima Nocta.
Be right back. Are you even pulling? Are you
on my team? Just represent, pull. Alright, let's
go. Go, Steve, no pressure. Come on, Cap. And?
Widow? Oh, no, no, that's not a question I need
answered. All deference to the man who wouldn't
be king, but it's rigged. You bet your ass. Steve,
you said a bad language word. Do you tell everyone
about that? The head was imprinted, right? Like
a security code. Whosoever is carrying Thor's
fingerprints is, I think, the literal translation.
Yes, well, that's a very, very interesting theory.
I have a simpler one. You're all not worthy.
And then my runners -up are Ant -Man and The
Force Awakens, of all things. Nice. Very cool,
very cool. You won't see another Star Wars film
on this list. Just saying. They're not exactly...
Yeah, that last trilogy. Needed some work. Oh,
boy. But it did. Yes. But Age of Ultron. The
best thing that movie gave us is... There's a
video out there. I think I've linked it before.
I'll have to link it again. I'll have to send
it to you after. There's... And he did this.
It's not somebody doing a cover. It's not somebody
trying to do an AI cover. Spader did this somewhere,
somehow in a recording studio. Strings? Strings?
There are no more strings. Oh, my God. It was
after I saw the movie, I'm like, oh, my God.
This is so cool. I'll send it to you. It's so
funny. But the movie itself, no, it was perfect
casting. Getting him as Ultron was so good. So
good. So good. And the movie itself is really.
really well done. Absolutely love it. I'm not
a fan of the Ant -Man. Like, I don't... I'm not
a fan of Ant -Man in general, but I think that
it was good for what it was. I don't know if
it's Paul Rudd that I don't like, or if it's
the fact that I don't like his portrayal of the
character, or if it's the fact that I have never
really been exposed to the character. Every time
Ant -Man's on screen, the only time I'm actively
interested is when he's miniaturized and somebody
flicks him halfway across the screen to get something
done. I'm only interested in when he's actually
useful, not when he's trying to make jokes. I
don't give two craps about his comedy. I can
see that. And that's why I've never... I haven't
even seen Ant -Man and the Wasp. Which is funny,
because later this year... I talked about this
in an episode last year. At some point, we are
going to do the entirety... From the beginning,
in story order, the entire MCU. All of the films.
Okay. Not, not the TV shows, not the mini series,
not, not what if, cause I've got other people
that I did what if with and all that, but we've
never, I went back last year, a couple of years
ago. Actually, no, actually, you know what it
was? Six years, six years. I can see giant white
text. Appearing before my eyes in front of my
monitor. What's the third movie? Civil War. Six
years ago. Yeah. I can see giant white text in
front of me right now. In 2019, when Endgame
released. Right before we. had the idea and we
debuted this podcast in 2020 i had like just
after endgame came out a couple months after
we debuted the podcast i'm like oh what is the
actual story order of the films so you the story
order is you start with first avenger because
that's where cap's story begins So that's where
we would begin, and then we would go into whatever
the story order is to whatever. And I've got
a whole list somewhere and whatever else. So
that's going to happen sometime later this year.
I don't know when, which means I need to get
off my ass and do every other piece of work for
this show soon. All right. 2016, what do you
got? Captain America Civil War. oh this movie
but go ahead gotta have it yep i could do this
all day uh then then uh yeah i i like this because
you get spider -man you get like the whole squad
although it's sad that they're fighting each
other but well this also came from the comics
i do know that yes i know yeah so i mean it was
nice seeing it on the big screen that that airport
scene man just wow But, yeah. Just, well. So
there's that. And then my runners -up are Deadpool,
Doctor Strange, Batman v. Superman, and Star
Trek Beyond. All for different reasons. I didn't
think I would like Deadpool or Doctor Strange.
I thought I would enjoy Batman v. Superman, but
there was a lot of aspects I didn't enjoy about
it. And Star Trek Beyond I really did enjoy,
but Civil War one -upped it. Yep. So it wasn't
enough for me to even remotely do a tie because
I look at all Star Trek films and I'm like, okay,
they rehashed this, they rehashed this, they
rehashed this. They essentially redid Into Darkness
like The Wrath of Khan and this redid The Search
for Spock. Did it really? Well, they blew up
the Enterprise pretty much the same way. So I
was like, okay, I know where this is going. Oy
vey. Yeah. So anyways, I didn't have a problem
with it per se, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah,
that's, that's what I got for this year. Yeah.
Captain America, Civil War. Yep. On the roads.
Oh God. Just one way to get J Jonah Jameson into
the Marvel cinematic universe is. Bring the spider.
2017. What do you get? Thor Ragnarok. That was
probably the only Thor film I've ever enjoyed
from start to finish. Yep. Absolutely. So, yeah.
I'll stop you, moron. I'll stop just for once
in your life. Don't smash. I haven't seen Thor
4, and I have no interest in seeing Thor 4. It's
not very good. Even Hemsworth didn't like it.
That's saying a lot if the star doesn't like
his own movie. But, yeah, Thor 3. What else you
got from this year? Spider -Man Homecoming is
a runner -up. Wonder Woman, Logan, and The Last
Knight of Transformers. Oh, interesting. So,
yeah. Very cool, very cool. Alright, 2018. Avengers
Infinity War. The Avengers broke up. We're toast.
Broke up? Like a band? Like the Beatles? What
a cliffhanger. Yeah. I like it. Uh -huh. But
yeah, I didn't love where it left off. I kind
of did. I mean, it was one of those things where
it's like, oh, you're going to make us wait a
whole damn year to get the end of the story.
You bastards, you inglorious bastards that you're
going to make us wait a whole mother year to.
But like the Marvel zombies, we are. We waited.
I mean, we waited for something that was amazing.
So, but still, yeah, absolutely. Oh, Avengers
Infinity War. What a story. What else you got?
Spider -Man Into the Spider -Verse. I can't believe
it was that long ago. Oh, I agree. But, yeah,
I mean, it was good. I kind of lost interest
after that. Okay. I really did, because I was
just kind of like, eh, I don't care anymore.
Like, it just kind of lost its luster for me.
Like, I just was like, eh, whatever. Okay. But,
yeah. Is that it for 2019? Yeah, that's all I
got. Okay. 2019, what do you get? Avengers Endgame.
Culmination of everything, plus time travel,
plus superheroes, and then Iron Man, despite
the fact they killed him. Yeah. I'm not happy,
but whatever. I am inevitable. Use a multiverse
thing for the next film that he's in. Yep. And
then, yeah, then we get Spider -Man Far From
Home is my runner up and Pokemon Detective Pikachu.
Interesting. Ryan Reynolds is Pikachu. Yeah,
I know. I remember. Yeah. So that's why I like
it. That's funny. Yeah. Endgame was just wow.
Just a masterpiece. Absolute masterpiece. The
year was 2020, folks, and there were no movies
because movie theaters were not open. Everyone
was at home because there was, you know, the
thing. So there are no movies in this year. But
2020, what was your choice? Sonic the Hedgehog.
That did come out that year, didn't it? And that
proved that a Sonic movie. Once they fixed his
face. And then it had Jim Carrey. Well, yes,
obviously. Which progressively in each film becomes
more and more Robotnik -like. Yep, yep. So, yeah.
Is that all you've got? No, but thank you for
asking. I swear I almost wrote Sonic the Drive
-In. Sonic the Drive -In. Oh, good. That's funny.
No runners -up for this year? No, sadly not.
No, sadly not. I've got to go back and look at
my list, because I don't remember if I did new
runners -up for 2020. I don't know if I did or
not. 2021? 2021, I had... This is the other year
I had almost borderline tie. Yep. Because there
were only two good movies that came out that
year. Spider -Man No Way Home, because we got
all of the Spider -Men. And the villains. And
then we got Free Guy. Yep. So what's the choice?
I ain't choosing. You have to make a choice.
Them's the rules. You gotta make a choice. I
don't have to make a choice. You gotta make a
choice. I like them both equally. Spider -Man's
great because I got Tobey Maguire's Spider -Man
back and all of his villains. Be careful what
you wish for, Parker. Hello, Peter. And then
Free Guy's great because it's a video game world.
Yep. Shit. Spider -Man's probably my favorite
out of the two, though. Like, just because Tobey
Maguire's Spider -Man. Plus, it gave me the opportunity
to get a Marvel Legends Spider -Man. There you
go. Of his character that I wanted as a kid,
but they always looked like crap. There you go.
And I didn't have money. I have him now. There
you go. And it's funny because my Avengers in
my cabinet has Iron Man in the back. It has Wolverine
from Deadpool and Wolverine. Yeah. Tobey Maguire's
Spider -Man, which both Wolverine and Spider
-Man are going to make it through to Secret Wars.
And then I have Captain America and Black Widow.
So my own squad of Avengers. Nice. Only one I
might still add to it is Thor, but I think he'll
make it past. I think he'll be... I think there'll
be two actors that make it past Secret Wars.
I think it'll be Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. And
I think he'll play old man Logan in that universe.
And I think they'll cast a new younger Wolverine.
And then I think they'll also have Thor carry
over as like guardian of old. Hmm. Interesting.
I think they'll do that. I think, I think those
two actors will make it through and everybody
else will get a rebooted. actor. Could be. You
never know. We'll have to wait and find out.
2022, what do you got? Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
This is how I roll. So, obviously, you know,
and then you get the Mushroom Land and, you know,
Jim Carrey's sick of mushroom stuff and reconnaissance
with Agent Stone and he gets the giant robot,
you get the Chaos Emeralds, you get Knuckles.
details it's just i i love this this franchise
is so fun yeah it is i'm also i also grew up
on the sonic games and i had a lot of them and
i played them and i was huge into sonic as a
kid so this this just hits all the feels there
so yep and i get classic jim carrey without like
gross jokes like i get them like being yeah in
sonic and so it's just that much more elevated
plus i'm like oh i can show my kids something
that's like Jim Carrey's not weird, but they
get to see the crazy in him. Mm -hmm. Yep. So,
yeah. And then my runners -up are Doctor Strange
and the Multiverse of Madness. Although it's
a little bit borderline horror, I do like when
they jump over to the other universe and you
see, you know, Professor X and Mr. Fantastic
and those guys over there. And then Top Gun Maverick.
Hmm. Which we watched recently. Yep, yep, yep.
Very cool, very cool. Yeah, Sonic... The Sonic
movies, like, surprised me in a good way because
I was... Even though I know they fixed his face,
video game movies really just... I'm not even
cautiously optimistic or pessimistic about them.
I'm just cautious about them because... I don't
know. Because we've had so, like, you see or
hear about a video game movie, and everyone's
like, oh, my God, is this going to be 1993 all
over again? Is this going to be the Super Mario
Brothers movie? And I don't blame that movie.
I don't blame the producers of that movie at
that time. It was 1993. Get over it. They worked
with what they had at the time. Could they have
made it a little bit better? Probably, but. whatever
it is what it is but like some of the other ones
have not been done well at all kind of thing
so i was waiting to see and then i watched some
of the trailers for the first sonic movie and
the thing with me is It wasn't really why we
waited, but Sonic 3 had just hit theaters. And
I'm like, oh, dude, we can do a triple feature
once the third movie hits media. Because, yeah.
And I was like, oh, cool. I can buy the three
-pack on Fandango once it hits media. Well, because,
like, you know, why not? Whatever, because if
we're going to do a triple feature, why not just
buy the three pack of movies on Fandango? But
yeah, Sonic 1 and 2, very awesome, very awesome.
Doctor Strange, I can't... That one's going to
be hard for me to get through in the Marvel rewatch,
because I don't do horror. I can stomach some
horror stuff, but... And then Top Gun 2 was good.
Oh, I agree with you. Yep, yep, yep. 2023, what
do you got? I would say I enjoyed some of these
movies for different reasons, but I think I enjoyed
the Dungeons & Dragons movie. What? That's your
choice? Yeah. Really? Yeah, I liked Chris Pine
in it. I liked the whole dynamic. I'm not a big
D &D fan. I know nothing about the universe to
be honest. And, but the film was really well
done to the point. Like it made me interested
in it. Okay. Uh, and there was a lot of humor
and they, I feel like they just, they were having
fun and I like Chris Pine and stuff. So just
because he played Kirk. And so I've now I've
watched his other stuff and I'm like, okay, he's
pretty good and everything he's in. And just,
yeah, there's a little bit of horror stuff in
it, which is a little bit freaky, but like the,
Because it's like the fantasy world type stuff.
Yeah. But I genuinely liked all the characters.
Plus they had them have to learn and evolve and
grow as the story went on. And more or less fit
into their roles that they were given. And that's
very much like an RPG. And so it's just kind
of entertaining. So I put it on there. But my
close second would be like the Super Mario Brothers
movie. That's what I thought you were going to
pick. I was on the fence about it, but there's
enough of that that I just don't care. I like
it, but there's enough aspects that I'm kind
of like, I don't know if I would re -watch it.
And then I have the Flash movie, which the only
part of that that's re -watchable is the Michael
Keaton stuff. Literally everything else is like,
I could throw the rest of the movie away and
keep the Michael Keaton stuff, except for the
fact that he dies. I like his Batman being in
it. And then, of course, I have Rise of the Beasts
and Across the Spider -Verse. So, yeah. Yep.
Interesting. Yeah, I swear, I thought you were
going to pick Super Mario Bros. the movie. Oh,
believe me, I thought I was too. Yeah, I saw
the original at the time, back in 2000 at the
time, one of the first live... I think it is
or was the first live -action Dungeons & Dragons
movie. I saw it in theaters with... Oh, who's
that with? Is it with Justin or somebody or other?
I forget off the top of my head. Anyway... I
saw that and I was like, because like I said,
I saw it in this little rinky -dink dollar theater
at the time. I was like, yeah, no, okay. Because
I've never been into D &D. I'm like, okay, well,
that just reaffirms that I'm not a D &D person.
So, okay. But yeah, no. Because literally, as
we were getting ready to record this tonight,
I'm like, ooh. Super Mario Galaxy trailers came
out. And I know it's just the one trailer for
the most part, but I saw Nintendo's YouTube channel
release a bunch of separate clips or a bunch
of clipped up clips from the trailer. And I'm
like, seriously, really? And I think I looked
at it again. They're just clipping up the trailer.
And I'm like, really? Do we really need separate
videos for all of this? Why don't we just have
the one trailer and that's it? Whatever, anyway.
But Super Mario Galaxy is coming in April. So,
yay. All right. 2024. I think I know what that
answer is going to be. This year is difficult.
How? Why? What do you mean? There's one movie.
Yeah. There's three. Three? Yeah. Okay. Go ahead.
So, obviously, there's Deadpool and Wolverine
is my number one. Exactly. That's what I thought
it was going to be. Yeah, I said it was tough
because there's three movies that came out that
year that I enjoyed. And technically, I would
make them a tie. But Deadpool and Wolverine's
my favorite. Not because of the swearing, but
because I got Hugh Jackman as Wolverine back.
And he wore the costume, which meant I got the
toy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got the toy. And then
my close second is Beverly Hills Cop, Axl F,
and then Transformers 1. ah yes okay so that's
my three but the deadpool wolverine meant i got
wolverine back and i'm like childhood revived
just like we got no no way home with toby mcguire
spider -man i'm like there is a chance yes there
is a there is a chance no so yeah no and i i
remember bhc4 and tf1 coming out but like Literally
the first, like I already had it written down.
I didn't even like, I already had DP and W written
down. I wasn't even like, that's the first and
only thing I thought of. I wasn't even thinking
about Beverly Hills at all at the time. Huh?
Interesting. Yeah. Cause it is Deadpool Wolverine.
I get time travel. Yep. You like time travel.
So. Uh, but yeah, and then it's just entertaining
and funny and you get Chris Evans coming back
as human torch and you get towed back and you
get saber tooth back and get the flame guy back.
I forget which, um, Oh no, it is. I forget. Uh,
I don't know if you saw this in the behind the
scenes for Deadpool and Wolverine, but I saw
this recently somewhere. It might be an old clip.
But Ryan Reynolds was talking about the car scene
with him and Hugh Jackman. And it's literally
a shot for shot. Del and Griffith. Del Griffith
and, oh, what's John's character's name in Planes,
Trains? It's basically Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
When Deadpool and Wolverine are fighting in the
car. It's the car scene from Planes, Trains,
and Automobiles. He literally did that on purpose.
I could see that. Yeah, because Ryan loves Planes,
Trains, and Automobiles, which, hey, awesome,
great. But yeah, 2024, Deadpool, Wolverine, very
awesome, very awesome. And last year, this is
the first time we get somebody able to actually
do a 2025 entry. 2025, what do you got? Sonic
the Hedgehog 3. That came out? Really? I forgot
that came out last. Well, you got Jim Carrey
playing two characters for the same price. Yep.
He played Robotnik and Grandpa Robotnik. Yep.
But really, where that film shines is Shadow.
Keanu is Shadow. I don't know. There's a dance
scene with Grandpa Robotnik and Robotnik going
through a laser room. And it's hilarious because
he essentially had to dance through the room
by himself once. By himself once and then do
it again. With one costume and then do it again.
And I'm like, this is hilarious. And then they
sing it to music and it was really well done.
Yeah, no, it was really, really well done. But
man, just... I love that movie, though. And then
the robo hands and all the different things that
they did, you know, where they transformed into
different stuff and the big spaceship and he
took out grandpa and then you get, you get metal
Sonic at the end. Yep. You get metal Sonic at
the end and Amy Rose. So yeah. So any honorable
mentions for 2025 Superman. I did watch it. It
wasn't as bad as everybody was saying. Everybody
was like, oh, it's so bad. Give me the Snyderverse.
And I'm like, just shut up. It's never coming
back. Just deal. I enjoyed it because it brought
a brighter DC universe. And we haven't had that
other than the CW. And so I was all in favor
for it. I liked the Lex Luthor better than the
Snyder verse. I liked the Superman costume. I'm
looking forward to, and I'm cautiously optimistic
for the new bat suit. Yep. I think they're going
to do the blue and gray. Oh, very cool. Very
cool. And if they do, I am all for it. I would,
I would like to see them do something. something
other than black yeah i know so tired of that
like motif that they've given batman since the
80s like they've not moved from that other than
bbs and they did do it for a little bit like
with the the gray and black yeah but i would
love to see a brighter more detective focused
and you know more btas batman yeah less of the
brooding like jerk that we get and everything.
Yeah. I just wish Ben actually got his own separate
individual. Like I think Ben got a raw deal.
He did. He got like, it just sucks, dude. Just
sucks. All right, folks, that's going to do it
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I'm working on some stuff for MWire. I've just
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settings. Oh, no. Well, I mean, I cloned what
I could from my system. I don't know if those
settings, which isn't a big deal because I rarely
ever used OBS, but now I've got to actually configure
it. And so that's going to be a chore. Mm hmm.
Yeah. Yep, yep, yep. Absolutely. Absolutely.
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three. So David Draper and I, a year ago, 2025
was rough folks. Sorry. But a year ago, we recorded
season three of Columbo. That will be episodes
171 to 178 of the podcast, where we go in -depth
on each of those episodes of the Columbo television
series. And then in episode 179, I think it's
My Television Choices, I think. I think that's
the debut of The Television Choices. side of
this whole media mayhem thing. So I think that's
the debut of that, so we'll get that. For now,
I am TF2 and Mike with Steve Megatron. Thank
you for listening. You'll hear us back in the
studio soon. Jarvis. Hey. All wrapped up here,
sir. Will there be anything else? You know what
to do. The clean slate protocol, sir? Thank you.