September 30, 2024 • 53 mins
Would you rather attend a film festival curated by Rider Strong OR Will Friedle?? The choice is yours when Will and Rider are forced to choose 5 movies to feature in their very own PMW film festival!
But the films aren’t the only factor to consider. The guys also have to pick snacks to go along with their selections, and the competition gets heated!
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Well, guys, I'm extremely sorry for the much more ugly
screen now that you have to stare at with me now, not.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Only to take the same background though.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
That's what I'm saying is like, it's like you're given
a small moment where you think it could be her,
and then I trade it with this guy.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's also the angle you've chosen to have the computer
at as opposed to how Danielle sits. It makes you
just look like you're a giant sitting in that room.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, I am eight feet tall, as you know. I'm
married to a five foot woman. It's quite a visual
when we walk the streets. That's what most people are
freaking out about. They're not freaking out about seeing Tepanga.
They're freaking out about the height difference.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, it's a big it's a big high difference. Well welcome.
I mean, yes, Danielle is uh is working today. Sometimes
sometimes the schedule just gets gets past us, and she's
doing all this important directing stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yes, and and and because of this evil cancer that
she's beaten like like a giant she is. Yeah, we
missed some tape days for her surgeries, and so this
this kind of circled its way into it and we
have some great shows lined up. But just too, she'll
be missing. But she's gone, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We are too, But I guess we're just stuck with
Jensen today.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, I'm sorry, guys.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Just the guys, just dude, Brod meets world.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I've been waiting for the best women are men.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Let's talk sports. Come on, guys, teach me about sports.
I've never understood hockey.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I don't know what. I don't you get about it?
Don't talk down and then everybody fights with them. They
are allowed to fight like that's okay.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Why is fighting like part of the spider It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't get it either. Frankly, I've never been a
hockey guy myself. No offense to hockey players, but it's tolerated.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's it's not like celebrated, but they like encouraged.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
All I remember is the game Blades of Steel on
the Nintendo.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh yeah, I loved that game.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And you could fight. That was like part of the
game was that you would throw down your gloves and
get into a fistfight.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That was for me, the best part of it. Well, Reginald,
was it original hockey on the original, which is the
one that you just got, you get addicted to and
you can make the guy's head bleed.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh nhlnehl ninety three where you hit him hard enough
and you just see the blood patch on the ice
that make his head.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Jensen, are you going to do the intro? He's in
throwing us.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Guys, this is Pod meets World. I'm Jensen Carp, I'm
right or Strong, and I'm will fredell Well. This week
we are we are minus Danielle, and so we threw
out some ideas and this one was the one that
spoke to us the most. And I think it's because
mostly people on Instagram all the time are asking for
Will and writers film recommendations. It comes up so much
(03:08):
that we eventually wanted to do something where they get
to show off their knowledge there there. Honestly, they're kind
of like influencer esque ability to pick movies that other
people haven't seen. Danielle, on the other hand, has seen
about four films total.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Three of them are Titanic r.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Right to tape one, tape two, Tape one. She watched it.
And so what we want to do is we wanted
to create the pod Meets World Film Festival. The idea
that throughout the country we know about these film festivals
like but Namathon, Beyond Fest, all these incredible events where
people sit down and get to watch handfuls of movies
(03:47):
over twenty four hours. We've made hours just five movies long. Okay,
So we're creating a situation where you, the Pod Meets
World listener, walks into a movie theater. Writer or will
have curated a list of films for the podmeat World listener.
That's the only thing I gave you, guys, is that
this is just to cater to them. These are movies
(04:08):
that they would like. And at the end of it,
through Instagram, you will vote on which film festival you
would rather go to, Will's or Writers.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I don't even know why we're doing the vote. I've
never come in anything but third in all the times
we've done any of the voting things. I don't think
I've even gotten a silver medal in any of these.
So this was just for me. I'm gonna win nothing,
but these were I that you are going to win this?
No it, yes, I let's do a history challenge that
I'll win films. Come on, nobody picks the films that
(04:38):
I pick.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Really, so you think your your picks are going to
be unusual because I don't know you.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
But every time we've done any of these, like we
when we did the Fantasy episodes or he lost lost
all them, I'm like, oh for eight and we've done
four of them. So yeah, I know it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, I'm surprised, to be honest, because Will's movie not
is uh rain Man esque. He knows quotes, he knows
years they came out, directors. I mean, he's very good
at it, don't get me wrong. Writer also a movie buff, huge,
So this is this is going to be a close contest.
I also gave you a small bonus, which is that
(05:16):
you could throw in the idea of maybe snacks that
you give to these Yeah, me.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Too, my friend, me too. And that's what we're really
get a debate about.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
We're going to get into like snow caps versusmales, and
that's gonna.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Is your approach with boy Meets World, Podmet World in
mind with the selections or is it just you're in
the mind of writer and Will? Like, what is your writer?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And Will?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Okay, because I'm wondering what your thesis is well, I'll.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Tell you my thesis because I've named my film festival.
Do you want me to start with that?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Go?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Okay, so welcome to the u f F. This is
the Underrated Film Festival. These are all films that either
underperformed at theaters people don't know about. I liked but
other people didn't, or have low scores like low stars,
that kind of thing. I did one comedy, one drama,
one action, one animated film, and one independent film.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay, wow, writer, did you name your festival and not
I should?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I should? We don't have t shirts made, then, how's
anybody gonna know your festival is happening?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I definitely. I definitely did come in with a plan, though,
and my plan was really, okay, just obscure Scottish film.
See No, I knew that's what everyone was thinking, and
I was like, no, I just wanted crowd pleasers. So
I basically said Joy. I want like because you know,
you guys know.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
The actual film Joy, which is normally name okay, good
old Joy is a great Joy. I was trying to think.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Enjoy. Well, look, I knew we could just pick like big, popular,
amazing movies, right, like we just have Titanic and you know,
all the things like when we did our nineties draft,
if we just picked Jurassic Park, we would.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Win, right like those.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So I wanted to pick movies that maybe people haven't seen,
so it has to be slightly obscure. But then I
you know, you guys know, I'm a huge horror fan.
I also like movies that kind of make me feel
bad or think about things, you know, like like and
so I was like, none of those. No, no horror,
no bad lingering feelings, no hard films or like difficult films.
(07:24):
I just want people to like even I wanted them
to be about something, but I wanted it to be
a fun film festival, so so you walk away with
hope more than anything, you know. So I really leaned
into like, Okay, I'm not gonna pick a movie that's gonna, like,
you know, have something important to say, but drag you
through the mud for an hour and a half and
make you just like, oh I got one of those.
(07:45):
That was my keys, Like, no no bad feelings. I mean,
you know, maybe in the middle you get a little
tense or whatever, but nothing, it's just joy.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So that was like my overall thesis all right.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Well, I think we should get into it, will I
think since you named yours, I am, I think your
preparation might send you first here. What is your first
pick in the uff?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, my first pick is going to be my comedy,
so Rider, I of course picking Ishtar, correct is the
underrated movie of all time. I'd also like a shout
out to Bone Appetite Magazine from the April nineteenth, twenty
twenty two edition, in an article written by Alma Vile.
I hope I'm saying that right. Which are the thirty
four movie night snacks that almost steal the show? So
(08:31):
I picked again obscure underrated movie snacks to go with
underrated films.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
These are handed out.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
These are not snacks that you would ever think to get.
They are weird, They are bizarre, just like some of
the movies. So the comedy, of course is ish Tar.
It is being paired with a beautiful buffalo wing popcorn.
What there's such a thing as buffalo wing popcorn? Go
check the article, my friend that All the recipes, by
the way, are on the article at Bone Appetite Magazine.
(08:59):
Ishtar is for nineteen eighty seven. It was, of course
written and directed by the insanely talented Elaine May is
an absolute genius. If you do not know about Elaine May,
check out her story. I did not realize she was
as old as she was. She's already ninety two years old.
This woman has done everything in the business. She was
born into the business. She is absolutely so talented. The
(09:21):
reason that this movie, one of the reasons that this
movie was such had such this close gentch about it, yes,
was because of the budget, which at the time was
seventy million. There's there's different article saying it's everywhere from
between seventy to almost one hundred million dollars when it
came finally to in the.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Eighties in the eighties, which is like any equivalent of
like one hundred and fifty million.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Now, if not more. Yeah, and it made fourteen point
three million dollars worldwide and two of the biggest movie
stars at the ever at the time it was considered
it is it was until about five, five or six
years ago on the list of worst movies ever made,
until finally somebody went, wait a minute, if we erase
(10:07):
all the stuff and just watch it as a movie,
it's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah, they're playing it so straight and these are very serious,
good actors and they play it. They're not playing it
for comedy. I could that open. The first twenty minutes
of this movie are probably like some of the most
perfect twenty minutes are.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And Charles Groden is so funny in this movie. So
obviously it's Warren Baty, Dustin Hoffman, Charles Groden, and it
was you know, it's about, as writers said, two songwriters
in New York that are just terrible that the only
job they can get. They're offered two jobs. One is
in Ishtar, which is a mythical land in the Middle East,
and the other one is like Nigeria or something where
(10:45):
there's death squads in So they're like, they make seventy
dollars a week to go to Ishtar to sing even
though they're not singers. They're gig and they last chance
they get caught up, obviously in a political intrigue and
become the quote unquote two Messengers of God. It is
so funny.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
There's nothing funnier to me than uh than desperate Hollywood too,
or desperate entertainers, you know what I mean. So, like
that's why I love all the Christopher Guest films where
there's always like the people that are so committed and
have no talent. Like people that are committed and have
no talent is one of my favorite Galaxy Quest is
one of my favorite films, and it's a very similar vibe.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's like finger bow finger, Oh God, bow finger.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Right or strong. I'm titling your film festival A very
strong film festival writer like it. What is your first pick?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
We start with I wanted to begin in childhood.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I wanted to begin. I wanted it to be very
cozy and comforting. So I we begin by serving delicious
warm ramen. Okay, we start with Old Day at it's
a cold day, Yeah, cold day. The festival start probably
starts at noon because I want to go till midnight.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
So we start. We start with lunch of delicious ramen
and we watch Miyazaki is Spirited Away. Oh oh interesting.
I was gonna I thought you're gonna pick goonies.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
No, no, no, I I want like I said, I
wanted to pick somebody that not everybody in our audience
that may have seen and if you haven't seen Spirited Away,
it's probably my favorite film of all time. I just
think it's a masterpiece. Uh, the Great Jason Marsden stars
in it. Uh it is yeah, I mean I love
all of Miyazaki's films.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I just the Boy and the Heron.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
But like the Ramen is also a reference to Ponio,
which is another great one, great movie. These are good
for all ages. This movie is just it's just perfect.
You know, it's like basically the same story as Wizard
of Oz, any of those great fantasy films where you know,
a little kid gets caught up in this giant, weird,
(12:49):
crazy world. And what's what I like about this one
is that it still truly feels strange to me every
time I watch it, like it's surreal, and yet it's
so it's so beautiful and you can't even quite wrap
your head around why you're getting so emotional. But by
the end, I cry every time I watched this movie,
you know, tears of like kind of joy. But it's
(13:09):
also just it's and then I think it also has
a lot to say about consumerism and development. There's an
environmental like undercurrent, so it's not just fluff. It's actually
a very very deep, meaningful film. But you know, kids
can enjoy it. You could be three years old and
still get get something from this movie.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I just booked it from his closet. Oh, he threw
a carpet or like a like a blanket over a
closet door, and he walked in and booked that movie.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Right, And this is like the English version of the right.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I like the that's I've never watched the Japanese version.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I've heard that that's better and that you know, it's great,
but I'm kind of addicted to the English version. That's
what I first saw in the theater, and you know,
when I was twenty one, I was just like, what
is happening? I also just like, you know, one of
the reasons I wanted to serve Ramen is because uh Miyazaki.
One of the coolest things that he does is he
always has food figure really prominently in his cartoons, which
(14:05):
is a bizarre choice when you think about it, Like
you never see Disney characters eating in Disney.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Movies, right, yes, by the way, like gluttonously.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah. Always, it's always, it's always. It's part of it's
a major part of the story. It's usually like the
midpoint or like the right before, like right before the
break into three, that the characters have an emotional moment
around food. And it's so interesting to watch cartoon characters
enjoy food because it makes them more human, it makes
them seem more real and alive, and you start to believe.
(14:34):
So I, you know, definitely wanted to start with Ramen
and watch Spirited Away like in this in this movie,
when she realizes she's not her parents have been turned
into pigs, and she has this connection with Jason Marson's
like the character Haku, and he gives her food and
like you know, and they she sits and cries eating
these little like I don't even know what they are,
but these little like sandwiches, and it's just so emotional
(14:56):
and beautiful. I love this movie.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Hey will so really quick because you threw that out
that you're in house moving castle. Do you do you
work with Miyazaki like what happened?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
No, I was brought into I was. I think it
was on the Disney where I did it, and I
went to the their theater room, so like a full
size movie theater screen, right with just a microphone twenty
five feet away from a full sized movie theater screen.
And were you consciously doing the guard from Braveheart?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Because you know what I'm talking about you have you're
seeing one of your scenes. I think you did multiple voices,
but you're like one of the guards. You're like, hello, lovely,
are you doing an English accent?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I think because you're all supposed to be British, So yeah,
you were.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I swear what I saw it. I was like, that's
Will and he is doing the creepy guard from Braveheart
who's always like you look, remind me of my daughter
in the back?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Mind, I might do it? Might?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I think you're canusciously doing it. I was like, I
know his reference points, that's what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But yeah, there's someone in there's someone in America doing
his job, basically directing you. Is that what?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah? Yeah, and you and you're sitting there and you're
doing and again it's I literally just have a scene
with Christian Bale. Never met him, never been in the
same room, no idea what it is. But it's just
Christian Bale and I together for the first part, and
then I think I'm the prince at the end.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It's good for your Kevin Bacon game, it is, right, Yeah,
I love it. Warm ramen and spirited away. Will your
second pick for uff.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
For the Underrated Film Festival second pick. I'm going right
to drama and this is one that people. The audience
gave it kind of a rough score. Critics did not
like this movie. I really enjoyed this movie. I suggest
people watch it again. It is nineteen ninety seven. I
(16:38):
believe it's ninteen ninet seven. It's either seven or nine.
I can't think it's pretty much nineteen ninety seven. By
the way, I will be coupling this film with a
chocolate date carmel cup, which seems just absolutely wonderful, a
little bit assault on top. And the film itself was
based on a book called The Positronic Man by Isaac
Asimov and Robert Silverberg. It is a film Robin Williams
(17:01):
called bi Centennial Man. Really, yes, it is is. This
is this movie and I underrated. I watched this exactly.
Please go watch it again.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Oliver Platt is great in this movie. It's long, it is.
It is a slog, but it is a kind of
an interesting take on humanity. It's an interesting take on freedom.
It's an age that pretty meaningful nowadays. Right, So this
is it's it's what is. The whole story is basically
(17:34):
is death worth being human and it's a very interesting
way around it. Robin Williams is Robin Williams who is
just absolutely wonderful in the film, and Beth Davids is
underrated as his his love interest. This also did not
do particularly well. It made me some point four million
dollars against one hundred million dollar budget, so by all
(17:56):
you know, all counts, it was a fail. And it
was written by Nicholas Kazan and it was directed by
Chris Columbus. Oh from home, Yeah, this was a underrated movie.
You made again. It's the uff people. So as you're
sitting there enjoying your chocolate day caramel cup, watch bi
centennial man. That is my drama. Pick I remember watching
(18:21):
this and being like I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
And but you know, that was when it came out
and was seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Robert Williams took all the strays for this. This was
like a joke on him, Like when it didn't do well,
it was like, it's not good. It was like his
worst whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Supposedly Yeah right, I mean it wasn't flubber good, but
it was good.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Nothing can be no, that is toys good. I've never
seen toys.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
It's a weird film.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
It's a weird film, but I think there's a lot
of cool parts to it. But I remember feeling disjointed
and like, you know, yeah, get a couple against screeners.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
We got VHS screeners back in the day.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
M hmm.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
This was bi centennial. In the first time I saw
it was on a VHS screen.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So that means they were going for awards.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh yeah, and I think it was nominated for It
was nominated for one Academy Award, probably like Sound or something,
but it was I believe an underrated drama.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Okay, that's why I've claimed it a Robin Williams Forgotten
gem at number two writer the Very Strong Film Festival.
What is your second pick?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Second pick? We hand out the Hot to Molly's and
popcorn mandatory in everybody. Yeah, well yeah, I would get
up on stage and say, now's the time to dump
your hot into Yeah man, you got it. You gotta
have popcorn, like a fistful of popcorn and one Hot
to Molly in your mouth at the same time.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Okay, just delight.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
What is the film?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Okay, so this is this is the this is this
is That's my one that is very predictable in that
it's exactly what will it would make fun of me for.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
So why I never watching stand.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
No, we are not We should have been watching stand
by Me because we're not watching stand by Me, because
I figure everyone's already seen that. Everyone knows that movie,
so I chose stand by Me adjacent. We are moving
out of childhood. We started with childhood and spirited away.
We now move into adolescence with a Swedish film called
We Are the Best. It came out in twenty thirteen.
(20:32):
This is one of my favorite directors. His name is
Lucas Moodyson. He is a brilliant filmmaker. His first movie
is called Well. It's originally called a Mall, but it's
been renamed Show Me Love. And I almost pick that
because that's actually, in some ways a better film. It's
a queer coming of age film, but it's a little darker,
(20:52):
it's a little it's not shot as well. So I
went with twenty thirteen's We Are the Best. Please watch
this movie.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It is so good.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It's about three thirteen year old girls and two of
them they're growing up in Stockholm and they decide that
in order to make it in their town. They're going
to become punk rock musicians. Only problem they can't play
musical instruments. So they find a girl, like a sort
of nerdy like on the other end of the social
(21:21):
spectrum who she's like very like Christian and like conservative,
and but she can play music, so they like to,
you know, wrap her up in their band and try
and form this band. And it's just this very simple,
beautiful coming of age slice of life film, you know,
and it's like stand By Me and that it's just
a you know, it's bittersweet.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
It's about that that moment.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It's set in the eighties too, in Stockholm, so it's
just that the power of friendship in your adolescens. No no, no, no,
watch it with subtitles, okay, but you know, it's just
that moment of where you're trying to figure out who
you are before high school. And I just love movies
about that. I love that time period about what really
the power of friendship, right like, because that's what stand
By Me is about too, is like how your friends
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at that age end up parenting you. And I feel
like that's what this movie does too, is like, you know,
we need to break away from our parents at that age,
so we turn to our friends to help us to
find who we are, and even if we don't end
up being that person, like in this case, they're horrible musicians.
They just are going through this punk rock phase. But
you get to see them come together fall apart, and
(22:26):
the acting is so good. It's just like, you know,
kid actors in other countries are so much less self
conscious than American kid actors and they're just brilliant.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
And I love this movie.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
So yeah, I needed to pick a good coming of
age film because they're still my favorite types of movies.
So this is one of the best coming of.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Age ways seen or the record. The Ramones could not
play their instruments either when they.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Form, so that's kind of the point of punk, right.
But punk is about emotionality overtaking the musicality, Like we
care so much that we're gonna just like put our
feelings out there. And that's what's so great about this
is like and that there's nothing more adolescent than that, right,
So it becomes a perfect and I guess this is
based on a graphic novel that his wife made.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
It's just it's an amazing, wonderful little film.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
But I would also recommend, as an entry point to
his other work, check out Show Me Love Too, because
it's a beautiful, beautiful film.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I have never heard of this movie, neither or the director.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
That's okay, good, So that's this is my one really
obscure pick that I wanted to slip in there and
highly recommend.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, we are the Best. Not a movie with DJ Khaled.
It is a Swedish film. You said, right, yes, all right?
That is the second pick, will uff back at it.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Third pick, My independent film is called Star Wars. No,
I'm kidding, technically was that crazy? Now, before we go
any farther, I think this is a good time to
take a little intermission. Speaking of Star Wars, I'd like
to ask if either of you can name the top
ten highest grossing films of all time.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh we know, Star Wars.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
No, No, of all time. Now it's pushed out Avatar,
Avatar to Inside Out to Super Mario, supermart No Riders
got three of them?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
All right, I've got three?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Okay, So Avatars and Titanic, Titanic Titanic, Avengers Game and
Avengers End Game.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
That's five. Oh gosh, what is it's?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
It's there's gonna be another Pixar.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You believe super Mario is not in there?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It's not. Oh oh, one of the Despicable Mes probably,
Oh really?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Oh, spider animated?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, one of the Spider Man's maybe.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Which one?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
It's not the Tobin mcguires one. It's gonna be I'm
just gonna say, Spider across the Spider Verse.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah, really, Spider Man. No way home.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I was gonna say a second. I knew it was
not the first Homecoming, but I couldn't remember the name.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Of the one.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Number seven, number seven.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Okay, so we're still missing like three four?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Is it one of the World's Corean World is number eight?
Just just Jurassic World. Just Jurassic World is number eight? Wow?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Is that the worst movie on the Lissa far I
think so.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It would depend on what you mean by worst, because
it was bad. But I've never seen the number ten movie,
and I heard it's not great, but maybe it is.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Is that? I mean, this is kind of I mean,
is another Avengers on there?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah? Age of Oltron Nope, I mean all I know
is Age of Ultron end game in the Red Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
The Infinity War. Infinity War? Correct? That is number six?
So you're missing number five and number ten. No Star
Wars movies. It's a Stars movie. But which one?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
No, it's the JJ one.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Well there's it's Star Wars episode seven, the Force Awakens.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, that's that's what I was.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
OK.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
So what's number ten? Number ten is twenty nineteen's The
Lion King?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
WHOA Yeah I would have got that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
There's your there's your your top ten higher good game?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And what does that have to do with your pick?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Just just just little movies like a high grossing film.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
No, just inter a movie tribute. This is from Speaking
Thinking Forbes. By the way, it was a Forbes article
September fourth, twenty twenty four. No, my, I'm going now
to action to what I think is an absolutely phenomenal
action movie from nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
This is going to be paired with the salty sweet
party mix. Oh I love that, which is just marvelous.
It is directed by John Frankenheimer. It was written by
John David Zeke and David Mammotto. It stars Genre Know
and Robert de Niro. Is a film called Ronan Wow.
I never seen it absolutely marvelous. It goes old school
(26:53):
when it comes to the car chases. I'm talking to
Live and Die in La French connection kind of car chases.
It is an absolutely phenomenal action film. Again, it only
got three and a half stars. It made it did okay.
It made seventy point seven million dollars on a fifty
five million dollar budget, But it was as far as
action movies go. De Niro plays this so real and
(27:17):
I don't know if you've seen is it not Mission
to Mars, the one where he's stuck on Mars by himself,
the marsh the Martian. So the scene where he's cutting
the antenna out of himself is actually taken from a
way better scene where de Niro is essentially taking the
bullet out of himself after he's been shot. Awesome, awesome movie.
(27:39):
Checkout Ronan. You're gonna love it.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
It's it's like a cop and a criminal, like what's.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
No, No, they're there. It's a team of thieves that
de Niro is part of, that is put together in France.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
To it's It is a phenomenal heighst film.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
You don't know what they're stealing, you don't know who's
on what team.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I love that stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I love bad the Double. It is so cool. You
are going to love this movie. Check out run it.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So we're gonna have to watch each other's movies, right,
We're gonna have to like each do the film Festival.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, and then come back and give her up. Have
you not seen ronin either Jensen?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I've never seen. Oh wow, I know it exists. I know,
I know it's a It was a big DVD like
in the early days of DVD.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Are going to love it?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Great movie writer. The Very Strong Film Festival has a
third pick.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Third pick is we're getting We're getting older now. Now
we're into jobs. Now, we're into career, the agent period,
We're into the Hawk movie.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
No, this is this is the Boyhood Film Festival.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
I've talked about this movie, I think before, but this
is nineteen eighty seven's broadcast news.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
James L.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Brooks perfect directed, wrote, and directed Holly Hunter. It's her
first big role. She was cast two days before they
started this movie. William Hurt Albert Brooks. Some of the
performances ever, it's perfect, It's funny. It is a basic
romantic comedies in a lot of ways, but it has
such broader themes, and it is so ahead of its time.
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I loved this movie. I saw it in the nineties
and I loved it. I went and watched a retrospective
screening that James L. Brooks was at maybe in twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen, and it just went right to my heart.
I was like, this is this is actually way more
brilliant of a film than I even realized, because it's
so far ahead of its time. Because it's really, even
though it's just a love triangle, like a really basic
(29:34):
workplace love triangle, you know, it's about responsibility and journalism
and about balancing entertainment and information, and how every time
that we as a culture decide that we're going to
go more towards entertainment, we lose something, we lose a
value in journalism. And they're able to distill this thematics
into a love triangle with three great characters who are
(29:56):
all fully realized, incredibly performed.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Horribly flawed, all of them, horrible, all of them.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
That's the thing. Everybody, nobody's absolutely right, everybody you know,
you know.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
And then it's also to choose between brain and brawn too.
It was like there's so much going on and.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Holly Hunter's character. You know, it's also ahead of its time,
and that it's a film about women entering the workplace,
which was a big deal in the eighties. There's a
lot of movies about that anxiety about that, and this
decided to make her the central character.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
And really, you know, James L.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Brooks did a lot of research and he based it
on several different women that he knew, including the great
producer poly Platt, who produced this movie and had it
was instrumental in making this movie happen. And it's just like,
you know, you watch it now and it's so dated,
but it's also not in that it's like it's these conversations.
Even though the technology is better, the conversations are still
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so relevant today to like how news is made and
how what do you know? What do we put in
out there? And like it's so fun.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
One of the greatest lines of dialogue ever too ever,
in any movie, where he just looks at her and
he just says, it must be so wonderful to be
right all the time, and she honestly goes, no, it's awful, awful.
It's like, oh god, it's good.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
A subgenre film I love journalistic procedure, me too, you
know broadcast Network, Spotlight to Nightcrawler even, I mean, there's yeah,
these are so many good ones. Broadcast News an incredible one. Writer.
I don't mean to put the focus on the food,
but did you have a food for broadcast news?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
We would have wine tasting before because we're getting we're
getting more mature, so we would do like a nice
in the lobby some everybody get a nice glass of wine.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
All right, So now that we're wasted, will the uff?
What are you think?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
The uff? So I'm going Rider talked before about keeping
things light and joyful. I am going exactly the opposite
of that with this film. Talk about a dragging through
the mud. This is a very difficult film to watch,
but a very important film. This is my independent film,
and and the reason I'm pairing it with Mazzarella Sticks
is because you only get two or three at the beginning,
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then you're done. Then you can just watch the movie
because you really need to concentrate on this one. This
is a movie from nineteen ninety four. It is my
independent pick. It is called Once Were Warriors. It is
an absolutely marvelous film. It won Best Film at the
Durham International Film Festival, the Montreal World Film Festival, the
New Zealand Film Festival and Television Awards, the Rotterdam Film Festival,
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and it became considered. In twenty fourteen, it was voted
the New Zealand Best Film of all time. It was
the highest grossing film when it was released in New Zealand.
It outstripped Jurassic Park. It made six point seven million
dollars on an independent budget. It is directed by Lee
Tanna Horre Hope. I'm saying that right, written by Rwella Brown.
(32:46):
It stars Rena Owen, Timura Morrison and Cliff Curtis. It
is all about domestic violence and alcoholism. It is an
incredibly difficult watch. It is about what it's like to have,
what it's like to be Amali in modern day New Zealand,
modern day being nineteen ninety four. Again, really difficult film,
(33:07):
but talk about a master acting class. It is some
of the best acting you will ever see in your life.
You cannot take your eyes away from the screen. It
is genius. So I highly recommend again it is not
a fun night at the movies, but I highly recommend
Once We're Warriors.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
It is absolutely I don't mean to mention it again,
but I know the name lead Tamahor because he directed
The Edge.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yeah, oh, went from this to the Edge.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
He has a pretty good run of American movies because
again I'm obsessed with the Edge. He also did Along
Came a Spider, okay, which is not bad.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Which is pretty good is that Morgan Freeman. Was he
in that one? Yes? Yeah, okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
And then he did Die Another Day, which is not
bad either.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Trigger warning before you get there. Lots of domestic violence,
sexual assault. It is very, very brutal.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
But man a film, all right, very I mean this
one another one I have not seen, but obviously a
tamahorre fan. There you go check it out. It's rough,
but it's worth it, right or strong fourth pick, Very
Strong Film Festival. We are aging up.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Yeah, we are aging up now we aren we are
in midlife crisis mode. This is this is technically still
a coming of age film, but since we're in midlife,
it is.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
A redemption film.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I would be serving New York pizza by the slice
in the lobby before the movie begins, and then we
will enter the very bizarre but still kind of fun,
dark world of The Fisher King in nineteen ninety one.
Terry Gilliam I talked about this movie in our nineties
DRACTAYI writer favorite.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
I just love this movie.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Gilliam was like one of the first people that really,
you know, when I watched his movies as a kid,
I saw this in the theater when I was eleven,
that I just suddenly knew what movies could do. You know,
that that they were visual, that you could enter the
minds of characters and represent how they saw the world.
The production design is insane. The Time Bandits, he did
Time Bandits yea, yeah, so, I mean the day he
(35:11):
was one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Yeah, he started with the he was one of the
Monty Python.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
But he just always has a very All of his
films have such a unique visual style and and and
often to me they get a little too derailed.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
This one he didn't write the script, the original script,
so it.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Has a much tighter very. I mean, one of the
best screenplays ever. And it's a just a like I said,
it's it's a redemption film, So it's uh. Jeff Bridges
plays a shock jock who says some things on on
the radio that are like he just throws out he's
very cynical, very like Howard stern esh and then it
(35:47):
leads to a shooting and he loses his job, loses
his career, and we meet him years later and he
ends up befriending Robin Williams, who.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Is a almost william the way.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Yes, I know, and this is Robin Williams, I think,
his greatest performance ever. And he is in classic, like manic,
funny Robin Williams mode, but it's played for such drama ultimately,
even though it's entertaining, because he has had a mental
breakdown because his wife died in the shooting that Jeff
Bridges character had inspired. So Jeff Bridges then takes it
(36:19):
upon himself to help Robin Williams get his life back
on his feet, which you know, becomes more and more
involved as he sort of enters the delusions of Robin
Williams in order to help him. So the two of
them are insanely great. But I really want to highlight
the performances of Mercedes Rule and the late great Michael Jeter,
(36:40):
who are both side characters in this movie that they
steal every scene they're in.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
It is so good, and you.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Know, there's a lot of whimsy, there's a lot of comedy,
but it's ultimately again a very important film about the
responsibility of media and like, you know, how we think about,
you know, when we put stuff out into the world
as artists or is news people or whatever, how it affects,
you know. And I feel like in an age of
social media, we all live with this, right, Like what
you put out into the world actually affects people, and
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we have to be reminded of that because we just
start taking each other for granted. So I think this
is a beautiful film, very emotional, but also like I said,
very funny and entertaining. In Along the Way, one of
my favorite films of all time.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah, Gilliam is insane.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yes, he's been. He's been trying to make don Quixote.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
A documentary.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yes, so I even saw in the theater they made
a documentary about his attempt to make don Quixote with
Johnny Denny.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
There have been multiple books written about his movies being disasters.
Baron Maunchausen, there's a movie where there's a book called
Losing the Light that's all monkeys. I mean, there's a
documentary about the disaster of making Twelve Monkeys called the
Hamster Wheel.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
I think you can find chill.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
No, no no, And I don't think his film. I
think it's diminishing returns in his career, but I think
he for me. He peaked with Fisher King and Twelve Monkeys.
I think those both are great films.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Will your last final pick the movie people watch before
they go home in the usf what are you leaving
them with? What's number five?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Thank you? But before we get to that, we have
another quick intermission, if that's okay? And according to mashed
in an article by Crawford Smith on January twenty fourth,
twenty twenty three, if you could, guys could give me
the top ten movie snacks rated of all time according
to several polls, that would be great. I appreciate me.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
And does does popcorn a snack?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Popcorn is number one, always popcorn number one. Junior Mints
Junior Mints are not on Wow the list.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
I think Sour Patch Kids are going to be up.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
There, So our Patch kids are number three?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Yeah, okay, yeap, and then Eminem's Peanut Eminem's number five?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Okay. Red vines?
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Red vines are not on What is Happening?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
What is happening here? None? Are they just attacking me?
It could be it could be.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Your wife has a strange addiction to one of them
on the list. Liquors?
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Oh, oreos?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Oh what something else?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Is it meth? No, my wife has a strange addiction
to meth.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
A lot of and shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Oh, skittles.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Skittles. Skittles are number four?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
People, Okay, that's weird. I don't know if I've ever
seen I mean, my kids like.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
What about just like gummy bears or gummy bears up there?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (39:28):
No, I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
I'm playing out now here's the thing. We're thinking candies.
But is there something else that's not?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
There's something there are what did you say?
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Pretzels?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Pretzel? So pretzel bites are number eight?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
That's fine, I get that.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Okay, pretzel bites are number eight.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Now I have a question about a hot dog? Is that? Okay?
That's an Entreeeah, not in the list.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Not only nachos. They do, they do and they're great. Yeah,
so you're missing two, six, seven, nine, and ten.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yeah, lot, Yeah, I have not to Molly's are not there,
but their cousins and Ike is number ten. Mike and
Ike is number ten.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
No, anyone in my life is not picking Mike and
Ike over No.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
I would take Mike and Ex over hot tomallw yeah,
all day long.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Okay, I don't mean to step on Will's toes here,
but snow caps.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
No, but I'm going to give it to you because
number seven is junior mints.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Oh, I said, junior mins.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
I'm sorry. I thought you said snow like the first thing.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
I said.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Then, yes, snow caps the junior minster seven, Yes, junior seven.
Number nine is weird because it's it is a food technically,
but it's a liquid. Oh coke, No.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
There's slushies. Yes, I've been known. I've been known.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
I never never had a slush in movie theater.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I had a slush in a movie theater and I
had so much caffeine in it that had a panic
attack halfway through, and so you had to drive me home.
Wow did you have finished movie?
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Remember?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Well? I just asked her that too. It was girl
with the dragon tattoo.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Oh yeah, that could give you a panic and that
opening critch sequence could give you a panic attack alone.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
God looked at her halfway through. It was like, there's
too much caffeine. I'm having a full panic attack still.
So number two is milk duds, right, number six is Raisinettes,
and number that was it and the number ten is
Mike and Ikes.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
So there we go, good lyrical.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Thank you, thank you, and now my fifth and final
film for the Evening. As writer liked to point out,
I am a big fan of animation, so I'm ending
with an animated film that is going to be coupled
with popcorn toffee crunch bars, which sound kind of wonderful.
This is an animated film from two thousand and seven.
It was actually the first film of the DC Animated
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Original Movies. It is I also believe the first PG
thirteen animated film they ever did. Now R rated and
thirteen are are They're everywhere, but this, at the time
was kind of a new thing. It was directed by
my friend Bruce Tim and Lauren Montgomery and Brandon Vietti.
It was written by the great Dwayne Peas and Bruce Tim.
It stars Alan Adam Baldwin and Hash and Johnny DiMaggio,
(42:07):
who Roders both know he is amazing and it is
I guess, as I said, two thousand and seven's Superman
Doomsday is the movie. It is based on Death of Superman.
It actually did very well for an animated movie on
a three point five million dollar budget. It made ten
million dollars, which is pretty dark.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Yeah, Now, what's the other one? Mask of the Phantasm
is the Mask.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Of the Phantasm? I didn't put that. Mask of the
Phantasm is arguably the greatest animated movie of all time
up there, Respirited Away and everything else. Mask of the
Phantasm is. Batman is Batman. It's Kevin. It's the great
Kevin Conroy. It is arguably the best animated film of
all time. But but you chose this one because it's
slightly more obscure. I chose this one because it's underrated.
(42:49):
It's more definitely more obscure. It was also the first
time you get to see things like Superman get his
ass kicked, he's puking blood up everywhere.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
I mean, it was like, I'm putting this on the
list for me and Andy to watch very rough.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
It's great, You're going to like it. That is my final.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Pick out of everything that will that you could bring
to my life. I do feel like the animated Superhero
film is maybe top of the list. You know all
of them, and I don't know any of them. I've
previous a couple of the Batman's just because you told
me about them. I'm gonna I'm gonna dive, especially once
Adler's of age.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Yeah, oh they're They're so good. And as you know,
I gave Adler and Keaton a couple of the young
because I did you do different versions of Batman, and
we did some g rated ones that I thought they
would like. And as the great Bruce tim As I said,
uh mentioned, directed this, wrote this and is kind of
the godfather of a lot of this stuff, has said
there always needs to be a Batman for everybody. So
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if there's the movies get really dark, the animation gets
really light. If the animation gets really dark, the movies
get really light. So you know, there's always a superhero
movie for someone of it out there. But you love it.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
So that wraps up uff. So let's get to our
fifth and final movie in the very strong film, I
have to assume this is about dead beat his fifth pick.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
Fifth pick is about dead people. Well, first we leave
the Fisher King. We go out into the lobby and
the lobby has been redesigned to look like an English
pub and a serving We are serving beer and the
ice cream cornetto's because we're Edgar Wright Shan of the
(44:24):
Dead two thousand and four. This was a way for
me to have horror but still be fun. It's not
really horror, but it's horror tinged and it's a great
midnight movie. So this is how we end the festival
with a fantastic h I love this movie. It's perf Indy,
Indie loves this movie. Everybody loves It's just a perfect film.
And you know it's it's I'm kind of sick of zombies,
(44:45):
but like Edgar Ray had already done it, you know,
twenty years ago he did. He explored everything you can
get from a zombie film in a fun way. It's
you know, the thing about Edgar Wright as a director
is he's one of the few visual comedians. His jokes
are not just a line. It's a line paired with
a camera move, paired with an edit, with a sound design.
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So he's using cinema to make jokes and sometimes you
don't even know why you're laughing, you're just and he's
one of the last people doing this, like you know,
nowadays it's like you know, and I love good comedies
where it's just great dialogue or witty characters. But when
somebody can really make a movie visually funny or engaging,
and he's just the only person doing it really, and
(45:27):
I just love him.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
So I I would say, there's one other director that
can can hit those visual that visual comedy that's working today,
and that's Tak.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
Yeah, very similar tool, I think.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
I think that's same, that same kind of visual direction.
But Seanaan Dead is perfect it really, I mean every it.
It hits so many genres in one movie. It's a
love story, it's a horror film, it's it's com it's
a buddy comedy. It's it is so unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Yeah, and Edgar Writ's next The Running Man.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Really, but he's doing it more based on the Bachman.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Book, right, I don't know, I just know I think
Glenn Powell.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Right, I'm pretty yeah, I'm pretty sure. So if you've
read the original Running Man, the Richard Bachman book, which
is you know, Stephen King, Stephen King, it is so
it's not even close to what the film was. So
I think he's going it's at if the memory serves
the book is you have to get from one side
of the country to the other side of the country
while staying live.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Oh, it's not just like a No, it's not like.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
A loser, a game or any They made all the
game show stuff up for the movie.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
I'm sure making The Running Man in twenty twenty four
because of squid Game is wildly easy. But not that
Edgar Right has any problem making a movie, and he
has it with Glenn Powell. The biggest movie start of
the world right now. But still it's at this sound
this has all the ingredients to be huge.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
I can't Yeah, I can't wait. The first Running Man
is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Guys, let's go over the film festivals. Then I will
tell you what I came up with. Not that you
can quote on it, but at least just something to hear.
The uff from our friend wil Fredell starts with Ishtar,
the underrated comedy starting with some Buffalo wing popcorn, and
then we get into bi Centennial Man, the Robin Williams
flop that he swears is better than a writer and
(47:25):
I remember it chocolate date Carmel cups that's from his
list as well. Then we go into an action movie
that sounds absolutely brilliant. It's ronan and salty sweet party
mix is served with that film. Once We're Warriors, a
Australia New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand film. Mozzarelli Stix
comes with that, and then we have the animated Superman
(47:47):
movie Doomsday, and that comes with popcorn toffee bars. Over
at Writer's Slowly Aging Film Festival, a very strong film festival.
We start with Spirited Away, the Miyazaki movie with warm ramin,
which I'm honestly could do right now. Yeah, we are
the best. A second film I've not heard of but
sounds great. Hot Tomali's in your popcorn. He will tell
(48:08):
you when to place it in. There's Broadcast News, a
brilliant film. For third, that's with some wine to get
your palette up for a little more adult fourth, The
Fisher King with Robin Williams is second of the film festivals.
New York pizza slices served during that and then last
the Edgar Wright zombie comedy Sean of the Dead, served
(48:28):
with beer and ice cream from Cornetto's, which is a
connection to the trilogy of movies he made with Hot
Fuzz and End of the World the World. Yeah, okay, great,
Before we tell you how you can vote World's End, sorry,
before we can tell you how you could vote on Instagram,
let's go into what I just wrote mine, just so
you know, my strategy was a Boy meets World experience
(48:51):
in the theater. Okay, this is for people who have
been listening to Pop meets World. They want similar media,
and so I've put to other five films that give
you different aspects of Boy meets World and in turn
Pod meets World. We start with a movie that's been
just I've beaten to death on this podcast. Albert Brooks
is Defending Your Life.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
Yes, the greatest movie of all time. I thought Will
might have picked it, but no, because I talked about
it too much. So yeah, it's perfect.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
Though I think that it's like comedy and drama and
high level thoughts like it's it just does it perfect.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
It's also super clever. I mean, the idea of this,
the whole premise of the film is so amazing smart.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
Second, I took a movie that I think represents the
time and the friendships that you guys all had, which
is Swingers. There's no another movie We've beaten to death.
Incredible friends making a movie. Also, Yeah, Third, I wanted
to represent Feenie a bit. And there's a movie that
like isn't talking about isn't talked about it now? And Deliver? Yes,
(49:54):
that is my pick and it really is. We Danielle
has been working on Lopez Versus Lopez for like five
weeks straight, and George Lopez was nice enough to invite
us to a Santana concert and we all went and
crazily got to hang out with Santana, which was nuts.
But we were walking backstage and we ran into Edward
James almost, who was also there and obviously friends with George.
(50:14):
And I turned to George's daughter Mayan and I said,
you know what, he's kind of the Mexican Feenie.
Speaker 3 (50:20):
Yeah, well I could see that.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
He's kind of like because of Standard Deliver, you kind
of see like he's the greatest teacher, you know, right,
Like he's just anyway, great movie about the hard job
of being a teacher.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
Did you just miss him? Did you see him? It
was like you were there, but it was like you
caught him. Edward James almost good new Wow, Thank you
good one, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Fourth, I wanted to represent high school and sort of
the you know, chaos of growing up. And I can't
hardly wait underrated movie.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
An I haven't either.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
Super fun movie we'd love. Yeah, great movie and also
like having a bit of a resurgence. It was just
released on on HD four K and people are like
this book I remember. And then lastly, I would be
cheap to say Scream for our last movie, to let
everyone wave to the kind of midnight movie. So I
picked Monster House film, a great animated movie that kind
(51:11):
of represents a little bit of that. And then there
were sean it's a little bit winky at times.
Speaker 3 (51:14):
Yeah, I would say the only of those animated films
by what's his name?
Speaker 2 (51:19):
Uh, why am I blank?
Speaker 1 (51:22):
And wrote it.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
Za Meccas was in that kick of like the motion
capture animation and it always their eyes are dead right,
But in Monster House it works because it's supposed to
be kind of creepy, and I think expression, why am
I so scared?
Speaker 1 (51:37):
The Oller Express is accidentally a horror movie. Yes, I don't.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
Trust this at all.
Speaker 3 (51:41):
Yeah, and like, yeah, Santa's like a fascist who's like,
you don't believe in me, and you're like Jeesus, my.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
Gosh, it's like an unhoused man on top of the
trays screaming at the boys.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
It's super weird.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Well, those are our film festivals. You can go to
Instagram at pod Mets World Show and you can vote.
We will put up a little kind of mechanism, a
little graphic for you to pick. We'll give it a
couple days, then we'll pick our winner again, will ishtar Bi,
Centennial Man Ronan Once, We're Warriors and Superman, Doomsday Writer,
Spirited Away, we are the best broadcast News, The Fisher
King and Sean of the Dead. You can go now.
(52:15):
We will pick our winners.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
So wait. In a couple days, I'll find out I
came in third.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
Righty, when there's only two you can.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
Vote exactly, I know, but I'll still come in third.
Everyone's gonna be like I kind of like Jensen's list
better than I rock. I will come in third again.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
You can follow us on that Instagram at Podmeets World Show.
You can also DM us or email us at Podmeats
World Show at gmail dot com, and.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
We have merch you got read on you March.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
You can go to Pod Metsworldshow dot com right now,
will let's have you send us out?
Speaker 2 (52:46):
We love you all, pod This missed. Pod Meets World
is iHeart podcast produce and hosted by Danielle Fischel, Wilfredell
and Ryder Strong executive producers, Jensen Karp and Amy Sugarman
Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo, producer and editor,
Tara Sudbaksh producer, Maddy Moore, engineer and Boy Meets World
superfan Easton Allen. Our theme song is by Kyle Morton
(53:07):
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Podmets World Show or email us at Podmetsworldshow at gmail
dot com
Well, guys, I'm extremely sorry for the much more ugly
screen now that you have to stare at with me now, not.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Only to take the same background though.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
That's what I'm saying is like, it's like you're given
a small moment where you think it could be her,
and then I trade it with this guy.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's also the angle you've chosen to have the computer
at as opposed to how Danielle sits. It makes you
just look like you're a giant sitting in that room.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, I am eight feet tall, as you know. I'm
married to a five foot woman. It's quite a visual
when we walk the streets. That's what most people are
freaking out about. They're not freaking out about seeing Tepanga.
They're freaking out about the height difference.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, it's a big it's a big high difference. Well welcome.
I mean, yes, Danielle is uh is working today. Sometimes
sometimes the schedule just gets gets past us, and she's
doing all this important directing stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yes, and and and because of this evil cancer that
she's beaten like like a giant she is. Yeah, we
missed some tape days for her surgeries, and so this
this kind of circled its way into it and we
have some great shows lined up. But just too, she'll
be missing. But she's gone, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We are too, But I guess we're just stuck with
Jensen today.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, I'm sorry, guys.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Just the guys, just dude, Brod meets world.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I've been waiting for the best women are men.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Let's talk sports. Come on, guys, teach me about sports.
I've never understood hockey.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I don't know what. I don't you get about it?
Don't talk down and then everybody fights with them. They
are allowed to fight like that's okay.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Why is fighting like part of the spider It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't get it either. Frankly, I've never been a
hockey guy myself. No offense to hockey players, but it's tolerated.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's it's not like celebrated, but they like encouraged.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
All I remember is the game Blades of Steel on
the Nintendo.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh yeah, I loved that game.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And you could fight. That was like part of the
game was that you would throw down your gloves and
get into a fistfight.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That was for me, the best part of it. Well, Reginald,
was it original hockey on the original, which is the
one that you just got, you get addicted to and
you can make the guy's head bleed.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh nhlnehl ninety three where you hit him hard enough
and you just see the blood patch on the ice
that make his head.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Jensen, are you going to do the intro? He's in
throwing us.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Guys, this is Pod meets World. I'm Jensen Carp, I'm
right or Strong, and I'm will fredell Well. This week
we are we are minus Danielle, and so we threw
out some ideas and this one was the one that
spoke to us the most. And I think it's because
mostly people on Instagram all the time are asking for
Will and writers film recommendations. It comes up so much
(03:08):
that we eventually wanted to do something where they get
to show off their knowledge there there. Honestly, they're kind
of like influencer esque ability to pick movies that other
people haven't seen. Danielle, on the other hand, has seen
about four films total.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Three of them are Titanic r.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Right to tape one, tape two, Tape one. She watched it.
And so what we want to do is we wanted
to create the pod Meets World Film Festival. The idea
that throughout the country we know about these film festivals
like but Namathon, Beyond Fest, all these incredible events where
people sit down and get to watch handfuls of movies
(03:47):
over twenty four hours. We've made hours just five movies long. Okay,
So we're creating a situation where you, the Pod Meets
World listener, walks into a movie theater. Writer or will
have curated a list of films for the podmeat World listener.
That's the only thing I gave you, guys, is that
this is just to cater to them. These are movies
(04:08):
that they would like. And at the end of it,
through Instagram, you will vote on which film festival you
would rather go to, Will's or Writers.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I don't even know why we're doing the vote. I've
never come in anything but third in all the times
we've done any of the voting things. I don't think
I've even gotten a silver medal in any of these.
So this was just for me. I'm gonna win nothing,
but these were I that you are going to win this?
No it, yes, I let's do a history challenge that
I'll win films. Come on, nobody picks the films that
(04:38):
I pick.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Really, so you think your your picks are going to
be unusual because I don't know you.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
But every time we've done any of these, like we
when we did the Fantasy episodes or he lost lost
all them, I'm like, oh for eight and we've done
four of them. So yeah, I know it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, I'm surprised, to be honest, because Will's movie not
is uh rain Man esque. He knows quotes, he knows
years they came out, directors. I mean, he's very good
at it, don't get me wrong. Writer also a movie buff, huge,
So this is this is going to be a close contest.
I also gave you a small bonus, which is that
(05:16):
you could throw in the idea of maybe snacks that
you give to these Yeah, me.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Too, my friend, me too. And that's what we're really
get a debate about.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
We're going to get into like snow caps versusmales, and
that's gonna.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Is your approach with boy Meets World, Podmet World in
mind with the selections or is it just you're in
the mind of writer and Will? Like, what is your writer?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And Will?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Okay, because I'm wondering what your thesis is well, I'll.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Tell you my thesis because I've named my film festival.
Do you want me to start with that?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Go?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Okay, so welcome to the u f F. This is
the Underrated Film Festival. These are all films that either
underperformed at theaters people don't know about. I liked but
other people didn't, or have low scores like low stars,
that kind of thing. I did one comedy, one drama,
one action, one animated film, and one independent film.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay, wow, writer, did you name your festival and not
I should?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I should? We don't have t shirts made, then, how's
anybody gonna know your festival is happening?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I definitely. I definitely did come in with a plan, though,
and my plan was really, okay, just obscure Scottish film.
See No, I knew that's what everyone was thinking, and
I was like, no, I just wanted crowd pleasers. So
I basically said Joy. I want like because you know,
you guys know.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
The actual film Joy, which is normally name okay, good
old Joy is a great Joy. I was trying to think.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Enjoy. Well, look, I knew we could just pick like big, popular,
amazing movies, right, like we just have Titanic and you know,
all the things like when we did our nineties draft,
if we just picked Jurassic Park, we would.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Win, right like those.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So I wanted to pick movies that maybe people haven't seen,
so it has to be slightly obscure. But then I
you know, you guys know, I'm a huge horror fan.
I also like movies that kind of make me feel
bad or think about things, you know, like like and
so I was like, none of those. No, no horror,
no bad lingering feelings, no hard films or like difficult films.
(07:24):
I just want people to like even I wanted them
to be about something, but I wanted it to be
a fun film festival, so so you walk away with
hope more than anything, you know. So I really leaned
into like, Okay, I'm not gonna pick a movie that's gonna, like,
you know, have something important to say, but drag you
through the mud for an hour and a half and
make you just like, oh I got one of those.
(07:45):
That was my keys, Like, no no bad feelings. I mean,
you know, maybe in the middle you get a little
tense or whatever, but nothing, it's just joy.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So that was like my overall thesis all right.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Well, I think we should get into it, will I
think since you named yours, I am, I think your
preparation might send you first here. What is your first
pick in the uff?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, my first pick is going to be my comedy,
so Rider, I of course picking Ishtar, correct is the
underrated movie of all time. I'd also like a shout
out to Bone Appetite Magazine from the April nineteenth, twenty
twenty two edition, in an article written by Alma Vile.
I hope I'm saying that right. Which are the thirty
four movie night snacks that almost steal the show? So
(08:31):
I picked again obscure underrated movie snacks to go with
underrated films.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
These are handed out.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
These are not snacks that you would ever think to get.
They are weird, They are bizarre, just like some of
the movies. So the comedy, of course is ish Tar.
It is being paired with a beautiful buffalo wing popcorn.
What there's such a thing as buffalo wing popcorn? Go
check the article, my friend that All the recipes, by
the way, are on the article at Bone Appetite Magazine.
(08:59):
Ishtar is for nineteen eighty seven. It was, of course
written and directed by the insanely talented Elaine May is
an absolute genius. If you do not know about Elaine May,
check out her story. I did not realize she was
as old as she was. She's already ninety two years old.
This woman has done everything in the business. She was
born into the business. She is absolutely so talented. The
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reason that this movie, one of the reasons that this
movie was such had such this close gentch about it, yes,
was because of the budget, which at the time was
seventy million. There's there's different article saying it's everywhere from
between seventy to almost one hundred million dollars when it
came finally to in the.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Eighties in the eighties, which is like any equivalent of
like one hundred and fifty million.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Now, if not more. Yeah, and it made fourteen point
three million dollars worldwide and two of the biggest movie
stars at the ever at the time it was considered
it is it was until about five, five or six
years ago on the list of worst movies ever made,
until finally somebody went, wait a minute, if we erase
(10:07):
all the stuff and just watch it as a movie,
it's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah, they're playing it so straight and these are very serious,
good actors and they play it. They're not playing it
for comedy. I could that open. The first twenty minutes
of this movie are probably like some of the most
perfect twenty minutes are.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And Charles Groden is so funny in this movie. So
obviously it's Warren Baty, Dustin Hoffman, Charles Groden, and it
was you know, it's about, as writers said, two songwriters
in New York that are just terrible that the only
job they can get. They're offered two jobs. One is
in Ishtar, which is a mythical land in the Middle East,
and the other one is like Nigeria or something where
(10:45):
there's death squads in So they're like, they make seventy
dollars a week to go to Ishtar to sing even
though they're not singers. They're gig and they last chance
they get caught up, obviously in a political intrigue and
become the quote unquote two Messengers of God. It is
so funny.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
There's nothing funnier to me than uh than desperate Hollywood too,
or desperate entertainers, you know what I mean. So, like
that's why I love all the Christopher Guest films where
there's always like the people that are so committed and
have no talent. Like people that are committed and have
no talent is one of my favorite Galaxy Quest is
one of my favorite films, and it's a very similar vibe.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's like finger bow finger, Oh God, bow finger.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Right or strong. I'm titling your film festival A very
strong film festival writer like it. What is your first pick?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
We start with I wanted to begin in childhood.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I wanted to begin. I wanted it to be very
cozy and comforting. So I we begin by serving delicious
warm ramen. Okay, we start with Old Day at it's
a cold day, Yeah, cold day. The festival start probably
starts at noon because I want to go till midnight.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
So we start. We start with lunch of delicious ramen
and we watch Miyazaki is Spirited Away. Oh oh interesting.
I was gonna I thought you're gonna pick goonies.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
No, no, no, I I want like I said, I
wanted to pick somebody that not everybody in our audience
that may have seen and if you haven't seen Spirited Away,
it's probably my favorite film of all time. I just
think it's a masterpiece. Uh, the Great Jason Marsden stars
in it. Uh it is yeah, I mean I love
all of Miyazaki's films.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I just the Boy and the Heron.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
But like the Ramen is also a reference to Ponio,
which is another great one, great movie. These are good
for all ages. This movie is just it's just perfect.
You know, it's like basically the same story as Wizard
of Oz, any of those great fantasy films where you know,
a little kid gets caught up in this giant, weird,
(12:49):
crazy world. And what's what I like about this one
is that it still truly feels strange to me every
time I watch it, like it's surreal, and yet it's
so it's so beautiful and you can't even quite wrap
your head around why you're getting so emotional. But by
the end, I cry every time I watched this movie,
you know, tears of like kind of joy. But it's
(13:09):
also just it's and then I think it also has
a lot to say about consumerism and development. There's an
environmental like undercurrent, so it's not just fluff. It's actually
a very very deep, meaningful film. But you know, kids
can enjoy it. You could be three years old and
still get get something from this movie.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I just booked it from his closet. Oh, he threw
a carpet or like a like a blanket over a
closet door, and he walked in and booked that movie.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Right, And this is like the English version of the right.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I like the that's I've never watched the Japanese version.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I've heard that that's better and that you know, it's great,
but I'm kind of addicted to the English version. That's
what I first saw in the theater, and you know,
when I was twenty one, I was just like, what
is happening? I also just like, you know, one of
the reasons I wanted to serve Ramen is because uh Miyazaki.
One of the coolest things that he does is he
always has food figure really prominently in his cartoons, which
(14:05):
is a bizarre choice when you think about it, Like
you never see Disney characters eating in Disney.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Movies, right, yes, by the way, like gluttonously.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah. Always, it's always, it's always. It's part of it's
a major part of the story. It's usually like the
midpoint or like the right before, like right before the
break into three, that the characters have an emotional moment
around food. And it's so interesting to watch cartoon characters
enjoy food because it makes them more human, it makes
them seem more real and alive, and you start to believe.
(14:34):
So I, you know, definitely wanted to start with Ramen
and watch Spirited Away like in this in this movie,
when she realizes she's not her parents have been turned
into pigs, and she has this connection with Jason Marson's
like the character Haku, and he gives her food and
like you know, and they she sits and cries eating
these little like I don't even know what they are,
but these little like sandwiches, and it's just so emotional
(14:56):
and beautiful. I love this movie.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Hey will so really quick because you threw that out
that you're in house moving castle. Do you do you
work with Miyazaki like what happened?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
No, I was brought into I was. I think it
was on the Disney where I did it, and I
went to the their theater room, so like a full
size movie theater screen, right with just a microphone twenty
five feet away from a full sized movie theater screen.
And were you consciously doing the guard from Braveheart?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Because you know what I'm talking about you have you're
seeing one of your scenes. I think you did multiple voices,
but you're like one of the guards. You're like, hello, lovely,
are you doing an English accent?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I think because you're all supposed to be British, So yeah,
you were.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I swear what I saw it. I was like, that's
Will and he is doing the creepy guard from Braveheart
who's always like you look, remind me of my daughter
in the back?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Mind, I might do it? Might?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I think you're canusciously doing it. I was like, I
know his reference points, that's what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But yeah, there's someone in there's someone in America doing
his job, basically directing you. Is that what?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah? Yeah, and you and you're sitting there and you're
doing and again it's I literally just have a scene
with Christian Bale. Never met him, never been in the
same room, no idea what it is. But it's just
Christian Bale and I together for the first part, and
then I think I'm the prince at the end.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It's good for your Kevin Bacon game, it is, right, Yeah,
I love it. Warm ramen and spirited away. Will your
second pick for uff.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
For the Underrated Film Festival second pick. I'm going right
to drama and this is one that people. The audience
gave it kind of a rough score. Critics did not
like this movie. I really enjoyed this movie. I suggest
people watch it again. It is nineteen ninety seven. I
(16:38):
believe it's ninteen ninet seven. It's either seven or nine.
I can't think it's pretty much nineteen ninety seven. By
the way, I will be coupling this film with a
chocolate date carmel cup, which seems just absolutely wonderful, a
little bit assault on top. And the film itself was
based on a book called The Positronic Man by Isaac
Asimov and Robert Silverberg. It is a film Robin Williams
(17:01):
called bi Centennial Man. Really, yes, it is is. This
is this movie and I underrated. I watched this exactly.
Please go watch it again.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Oliver Platt is great in this movie. It's long, it is.
It is a slog, but it is a kind of
an interesting take on humanity. It's an interesting take on freedom.
It's an age that pretty meaningful nowadays. Right, So this
is it's it's what is. The whole story is basically
(17:34):
is death worth being human and it's a very interesting
way around it. Robin Williams is Robin Williams who is
just absolutely wonderful in the film, and Beth Davids is
underrated as his his love interest. This also did not
do particularly well. It made me some point four million
dollars against one hundred million dollar budget, so by all
(17:56):
you know, all counts, it was a fail. And it
was written by Nicholas Kazan and it was directed by
Chris Columbus. Oh from home, Yeah, this was a underrated movie.
You made again. It's the uff people. So as you're
sitting there enjoying your chocolate day caramel cup, watch bi
centennial man. That is my drama. Pick I remember watching
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this and being like I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
And but you know, that was when it came out
and was seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Robert Williams took all the strays for this. This was
like a joke on him, Like when it didn't do well,
it was like, it's not good. It was like his
worst whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Supposedly Yeah right, I mean it wasn't flubber good, but
it was good.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Nothing can be no, that is toys good. I've never
seen toys.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
It's a weird film.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
It's a weird film, but I think there's a lot
of cool parts to it. But I remember feeling disjointed
and like, you know, yeah, get a couple against screeners.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
We got VHS screeners back in the day.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
M hmm.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
This was bi centennial. In the first time I saw
it was on a VHS screen.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So that means they were going for awards.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh yeah, and I think it was nominated for It
was nominated for one Academy Award, probably like Sound or something,
but it was I believe an underrated drama.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Okay, that's why I've claimed it a Robin Williams Forgotten
gem at number two writer the Very Strong Film Festival.
What is your second pick?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Second pick? We hand out the Hot to Molly's and
popcorn mandatory in everybody. Yeah, well yeah, I would get
up on stage and say, now's the time to dump
your hot into Yeah man, you got it. You gotta
have popcorn, like a fistful of popcorn and one Hot
to Molly in your mouth at the same time.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Okay, just delight.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
What is the film?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Okay, so this is this is the this is this
is That's my one that is very predictable in that
it's exactly what will it would make fun of me for.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
So why I never watching stand.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
No, we are not We should have been watching stand
by Me because we're not watching stand by Me, because
I figure everyone's already seen that. Everyone knows that movie,
so I chose stand by Me adjacent. We are moving
out of childhood. We started with childhood and spirited away.
We now move into adolescence with a Swedish film called
We Are the Best. It came out in twenty thirteen.
(20:32):
This is one of my favorite directors. His name is
Lucas Moodyson. He is a brilliant filmmaker. His first movie
is called Well. It's originally called a Mall, but it's
been renamed Show Me Love. And I almost pick that
because that's actually, in some ways a better film. It's
a queer coming of age film, but it's a little darker,
(20:52):
it's a little it's not shot as well. So I
went with twenty thirteen's We Are the Best. Please watch
this movie.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It is so good.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It's about three thirteen year old girls and two of
them they're growing up in Stockholm and they decide that
in order to make it in their town. They're going
to become punk rock musicians. Only problem they can't play
musical instruments. So they find a girl, like a sort
of nerdy like on the other end of the social
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spectrum who she's like very like Christian and like conservative,
and but she can play music, so they like to,
you know, wrap her up in their band and try
and form this band. And it's just this very simple,
beautiful coming of age slice of life film, you know,
and it's like stand By Me and that it's just
a you know, it's bittersweet.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
It's about that that moment.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It's set in the eighties too, in Stockholm, so it's
just that the power of friendship in your adolescens. No no, no, no,
watch it with subtitles, okay, but you know, it's just
that moment of where you're trying to figure out who
you are before high school. And I just love movies
about that. I love that time period about what really
the power of friendship, right like, because that's what stand
By Me is about too, is like how your friends
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at that age end up parenting you. And I feel
like that's what this movie does too, is like, you know,
we need to break away from our parents at that age,
so we turn to our friends to help us to
find who we are, and even if we don't end
up being that person, like in this case, they're horrible musicians.
They just are going through this punk rock phase. But
you get to see them come together fall apart, and
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the acting is so good. It's just like, you know,
kid actors in other countries are so much less self
conscious than American kid actors and they're just brilliant.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
And I love this movie.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
So yeah, I needed to pick a good coming of
age film because they're still my favorite types of movies.
So this is one of the best coming of.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Age ways seen or the record. The Ramones could not
play their instruments either when they.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Form, so that's kind of the point of punk, right.
But punk is about emotionality overtaking the musicality, Like we
care so much that we're gonna just like put our
feelings out there. And that's what's so great about this
is like and that there's nothing more adolescent than that, right,
So it becomes a perfect and I guess this is
based on a graphic novel that his wife made.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
It's just it's an amazing, wonderful little film.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
But I would also recommend, as an entry point to
his other work, check out Show Me Love Too, because
it's a beautiful, beautiful film.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I have never heard of this movie, neither or the director.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
That's okay, good, So that's this is my one really
obscure pick that I wanted to slip in there and
highly recommend.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, we are the Best. Not a movie with DJ Khaled.
It is a Swedish film. You said, right, yes, all right?
That is the second pick, will uff back at it.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Third pick, My independent film is called Star Wars. No,
I'm kidding, technically was that crazy? Now, before we go
any farther, I think this is a good time to
take a little intermission. Speaking of Star Wars, I'd like
to ask if either of you can name the top
ten highest grossing films of all time.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh we know, Star Wars.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
No, No, of all time. Now it's pushed out Avatar,
Avatar to Inside Out to Super Mario, supermart No Riders
got three of them?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
All right, I've got three?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Okay, So Avatars and Titanic, Titanic Titanic, Avengers Game and
Avengers End Game.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
That's five. Oh gosh, what is it's?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
It's there's gonna be another Pixar.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You believe super Mario is not in there?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It's not. Oh oh, one of the Despicable Mes probably,
Oh really?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Oh, spider animated?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, one of the Spider Man's maybe.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Which one?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
It's not the Tobin mcguires one. It's gonna be I'm
just gonna say, Spider across the Spider Verse.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah, really, Spider Man. No way home.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I was gonna say a second. I knew it was
not the first Homecoming, but I couldn't remember the name.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Of the one.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Number seven, number seven.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Okay, so we're still missing like three four?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Is it one of the World's Corean World is number eight?
Just just Jurassic World. Just Jurassic World is number eight? Wow?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Is that the worst movie on the Lissa far I
think so.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It would depend on what you mean by worst, because
it was bad. But I've never seen the number ten movie,
and I heard it's not great, but maybe it is.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Is that? I mean, this is kind of I mean,
is another Avengers on there?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah? Age of Oltron Nope, I mean all I know
is Age of Ultron end game in the Red Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
The Infinity War. Infinity War? Correct? That is number six?
So you're missing number five and number ten. No Star
Wars movies. It's a Stars movie. But which one?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
No, it's the JJ one.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Well there's it's Star Wars episode seven, the Force Awakens.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, that's that's what I was.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
OK.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
So what's number ten? Number ten is twenty nineteen's The
Lion King?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
WHOA Yeah I would have got that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
There's your there's your your top ten higher good game?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And what does that have to do with your pick?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Just just just little movies like a high grossing film.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
No, just inter a movie tribute. This is from Speaking
Thinking Forbes. By the way, it was a Forbes article
September fourth, twenty twenty four. No, my, I'm going now
to action to what I think is an absolutely phenomenal
action movie from nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
This is going to be paired with the salty sweet
party mix. Oh I love that, which is just marvelous.
It is directed by John Frankenheimer. It was written by
John David Zeke and David Mammotto. It stars Genre Know
and Robert de Niro. Is a film called Ronan Wow.
I never seen it absolutely marvelous. It goes old school
(26:53):
when it comes to the car chases. I'm talking to
Live and Die in La French connection kind of car chases.
It is an absolutely phenomenal action film. Again, it only
got three and a half stars. It made it did okay.
It made seventy point seven million dollars on a fifty
five million dollar budget, But it was as far as
action movies go. De Niro plays this so real and
(27:17):
I don't know if you've seen is it not Mission
to Mars, the one where he's stuck on Mars by himself,
the marsh the Martian. So the scene where he's cutting
the antenna out of himself is actually taken from a
way better scene where de Niro is essentially taking the
bullet out of himself after he's been shot. Awesome, awesome movie.
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Checkout Ronan. You're gonna love it.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
It's it's like a cop and a criminal, like what's.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
No, No, they're there. It's a team of thieves that
de Niro is part of, that is put together in France.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
To it's It is a phenomenal heighst film.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
You don't know what they're stealing, you don't know who's
on what team.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I love that stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I love bad the Double. It is so cool. You
are going to love this movie. Check out run it.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So we're gonna have to watch each other's movies, right,
We're gonna have to like each do the film Festival.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, and then come back and give her up. Have
you not seen ronin either Jensen?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I've never seen. Oh wow, I know it exists. I know,
I know it's a It was a big DVD like
in the early days of DVD.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Are going to love it?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Great movie writer. The Very Strong Film Festival has a
third pick.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Third pick is we're getting We're getting older now. Now
we're into jobs. Now, we're into career, the agent period,
We're into the Hawk movie.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
No, this is this is the Boyhood Film Festival.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
I've talked about this movie, I think before, but this
is nineteen eighty seven's broadcast news.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
James L.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Brooks perfect directed, wrote, and directed Holly Hunter. It's her
first big role. She was cast two days before they
started this movie. William Hurt Albert Brooks. Some of the
performances ever, it's perfect, It's funny. It is a basic
romantic comedies in a lot of ways, but it has
such broader themes, and it is so ahead of its time.
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I loved this movie. I saw it in the nineties
and I loved it. I went and watched a retrospective
screening that James L. Brooks was at maybe in twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen, and it just went right to my heart.
I was like, this is this is actually way more
brilliant of a film than I even realized, because it's
so far ahead of its time. Because it's really, even
though it's just a love triangle, like a really basic
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workplace love triangle, you know, it's about responsibility and journalism
and about balancing entertainment and information, and how every time
that we as a culture decide that we're going to
go more towards entertainment, we lose something, we lose a
value in journalism. And they're able to distill this thematics
into a love triangle with three great characters who are
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all fully realized, incredibly performed.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Horribly flawed, all of them, horrible, all of them.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
That's the thing. Everybody, nobody's absolutely right, everybody you know,
you know.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
And then it's also to choose between brain and brawn too.
It was like there's so much going on and.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Holly Hunter's character. You know, it's also ahead of its time,
and that it's a film about women entering the workplace,
which was a big deal in the eighties. There's a
lot of movies about that anxiety about that, and this
decided to make her the central character.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
And really, you know, James L.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Brooks did a lot of research and he based it
on several different women that he knew, including the great
producer poly Platt, who produced this movie and had it
was instrumental in making this movie happen. And it's just like,
you know, you watch it now and it's so dated,
but it's also not in that it's like it's these conversations.
Even though the technology is better, the conversations are still
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so relevant today to like how news is made and
how what do you know? What do we put in
out there? And like it's so fun.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
One of the greatest lines of dialogue ever too ever,
in any movie, where he just looks at her and
he just says, it must be so wonderful to be
right all the time, and she honestly goes, no, it's awful, awful.
It's like, oh god, it's good.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
A subgenre film I love journalistic procedure, me too, you
know broadcast Network, Spotlight to Nightcrawler even, I mean, there's yeah,
these are so many good ones. Broadcast News an incredible one. Writer.
I don't mean to put the focus on the food,
but did you have a food for broadcast news?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
We would have wine tasting before because we're getting we're
getting more mature, so we would do like a nice
in the lobby some everybody get a nice glass of wine.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
All right, So now that we're wasted, will the uff?
What are you think?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
The uff? So I'm going Rider talked before about keeping
things light and joyful. I am going exactly the opposite
of that with this film. Talk about a dragging through
the mud. This is a very difficult film to watch,
but a very important film. This is my independent film,
and and the reason I'm pairing it with Mazzarella Sticks
is because you only get two or three at the beginning,
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then you're done. Then you can just watch the movie
because you really need to concentrate on this one. This
is a movie from nineteen ninety four. It is my
independent pick. It is called Once Were Warriors. It is
an absolutely marvelous film. It won Best Film at the
Durham International Film Festival, the Montreal World Film Festival, the
New Zealand Film Festival and Television Awards, the Rotterdam Film Festival,
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and it became considered. In twenty fourteen, it was voted
the New Zealand Best Film of all time. It was
the highest grossing film when it was released in New Zealand.
It outstripped Jurassic Park. It made six point seven million
dollars on an independent budget. It is directed by Lee
Tanna Horre Hope. I'm saying that right, written by Rwella Brown.
(32:46):
It stars Rena Owen, Timura Morrison and Cliff Curtis. It
is all about domestic violence and alcoholism. It is an
incredibly difficult watch. It is about what it's like to have,
what it's like to be Amali in modern day New Zealand,
modern day being nineteen ninety four. Again, really difficult film,
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but talk about a master acting class. It is some
of the best acting you will ever see in your life.
You cannot take your eyes away from the screen. It
is genius. So I highly recommend again it is not
a fun night at the movies, but I highly recommend
Once We're Warriors.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
It is absolutely I don't mean to mention it again,
but I know the name lead Tamahor because he directed
The Edge.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yeah, oh, went from this to the Edge.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
He has a pretty good run of American movies because
again I'm obsessed with the Edge. He also did Along
Came a Spider, okay, which is not bad.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Which is pretty good is that Morgan Freeman. Was he
in that one? Yes? Yeah, okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
And then he did Die Another Day, which is not
bad either.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Trigger warning before you get there. Lots of domestic violence,
sexual assault. It is very, very brutal.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
But man a film, all right, very I mean this
one another one I have not seen, but obviously a
tamahorre fan. There you go check it out. It's rough,
but it's worth it, right or strong fourth pick, Very
Strong Film Festival. We are aging up.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Yeah, we are aging up now we aren we are
in midlife crisis mode. This is this is technically still
a coming of age film, but since we're in midlife,
it is.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
A redemption film.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I would be serving New York pizza by the slice
in the lobby before the movie begins, and then we
will enter the very bizarre but still kind of fun,
dark world of The Fisher King in nineteen ninety one.
Terry Gilliam I talked about this movie in our nineties
DRACTAYI writer favorite.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
I just love this movie.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Gilliam was like one of the first people that really,
you know, when I watched his movies as a kid,
I saw this in the theater when I was eleven,
that I just suddenly knew what movies could do. You know,
that that they were visual, that you could enter the
minds of characters and represent how they saw the world.
The production design is insane. The Time Bandits, he did
Time Bandits yea, yeah, so, I mean the day he
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was one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Yeah, he started with the he was one of the
Monty Python.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
But he just always has a very All of his
films have such a unique visual style and and and
often to me they get a little too derailed.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
This one he didn't write the script, the original script,
so it.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Has a much tighter very. I mean, one of the
best screenplays ever. And it's a just a like I said,
it's it's a redemption film, So it's uh. Jeff Bridges
plays a shock jock who says some things on on
the radio that are like he just throws out he's
very cynical, very like Howard stern esh and then it
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leads to a shooting and he loses his job, loses
his career, and we meet him years later and he
ends up befriending Robin Williams, who.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Is a almost william the way.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Yes, I know, and this is Robin Williams, I think,
his greatest performance ever. And he is in classic, like manic,
funny Robin Williams mode, but it's played for such drama ultimately,
even though it's entertaining, because he has had a mental
breakdown because his wife died in the shooting that Jeff
Bridges character had inspired. So Jeff Bridges then takes it
(36:19):
upon himself to help Robin Williams get his life back
on his feet, which you know, becomes more and more
involved as he sort of enters the delusions of Robin
Williams in order to help him. So the two of
them are insanely great. But I really want to highlight
the performances of Mercedes Rule and the late great Michael Jeter,
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who are both side characters in this movie that they
steal every scene they're in.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
It is so good, and you.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Know, there's a lot of whimsy, there's a lot of comedy,
but it's ultimately again a very important film about the
responsibility of media and like, you know, how we think about,
you know, when we put stuff out into the world
as artists or is news people or whatever, how it affects,
you know. And I feel like in an age of
social media, we all live with this, right, Like what
you put out into the world actually affects people, and
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we have to be reminded of that because we just
start taking each other for granted. So I think this
is a beautiful film, very emotional, but also like I said,
very funny and entertaining. In Along the Way, one of
my favorite films of all time.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah, Gilliam is insane.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yes, he's been. He's been trying to make don Quixote.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
A documentary.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yes, so I even saw in the theater they made
a documentary about his attempt to make don Quixote with
Johnny Denny.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
There have been multiple books written about his movies being disasters.
Baron Maunchausen, there's a movie where there's a book called
Losing the Light that's all monkeys. I mean, there's a
documentary about the disaster of making Twelve Monkeys called the
Hamster Wheel.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
I think you can find chill.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
No, no no, And I don't think his film. I
think it's diminishing returns in his career, but I think
he for me. He peaked with Fisher King and Twelve Monkeys.
I think those both are great films.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Will your last final pick the movie people watch before
they go home in the usf what are you leaving
them with? What's number five?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Thank you? But before we get to that, we have
another quick intermission, if that's okay? And according to mashed
in an article by Crawford Smith on January twenty fourth,
twenty twenty three, if you could, guys could give me
the top ten movie snacks rated of all time according
to several polls, that would be great. I appreciate me.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
And does does popcorn a snack?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Popcorn is number one, always popcorn number one. Junior Mints
Junior Mints are not on Wow the list.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
I think Sour Patch Kids are going to be up.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
There, So our Patch kids are number three?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Yeah, okay, yeap, and then Eminem's Peanut Eminem's number five?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Okay. Red vines?
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Red vines are not on What is Happening?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
What is happening here? None? Are they just attacking me?
It could be it could be.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Your wife has a strange addiction to one of them
on the list. Liquors?
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Oh, oreos?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Oh what something else?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Is it meth? No, my wife has a strange addiction
to meth.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
A lot of and shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Oh, skittles.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Skittles. Skittles are number four?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
People, Okay, that's weird. I don't know if I've ever
seen I mean, my kids like.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
What about just like gummy bears or gummy bears up there?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (39:28):
No, I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
I'm playing out now here's the thing. We're thinking candies.
But is there something else that's not?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
There's something there are what did you say?
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Pretzels?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Pretzel? So pretzel bites are number eight?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
That's fine, I get that.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Okay, pretzel bites are number eight.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Now I have a question about a hot dog? Is that? Okay?
That's an Entreeeah, not in the list.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Not only nachos. They do, they do and they're great. Yeah,
so you're missing two, six, seven, nine, and ten.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yeah, lot, Yeah, I have not to Molly's are not there,
but their cousins and Ike is number ten. Mike and
Ike is number ten.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
No, anyone in my life is not picking Mike and
Ike over No.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
I would take Mike and Ex over hot tomallw yeah,
all day long.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Okay, I don't mean to step on Will's toes here,
but snow caps.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
No, but I'm going to give it to you because
number seven is junior mints.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Oh, I said, junior mins.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
I'm sorry. I thought you said snow like the first thing.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
I said.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Then, yes, snow caps the junior minster seven, Yes, junior seven.
Number nine is weird because it's it is a food technically,
but it's a liquid. Oh coke, No.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
There's slushies. Yes, I've been known. I've been known.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
I never never had a slush in movie theater.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I had a slush in a movie theater and I
had so much caffeine in it that had a panic
attack halfway through, and so you had to drive me home.
Wow did you have finished movie?
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Remember?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Well? I just asked her that too. It was girl
with the dragon tattoo.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Oh yeah, that could give you a panic and that
opening critch sequence could give you a panic attack alone.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
God looked at her halfway through. It was like, there's
too much caffeine. I'm having a full panic attack still.
So number two is milk duds, right, number six is Raisinettes,
and number that was it and the number ten is
Mike and Ikes.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
So there we go, good lyrical.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Thank you, thank you, and now my fifth and final
film for the Evening. As writer liked to point out,
I am a big fan of animation, so I'm ending
with an animated film that is going to be coupled
with popcorn toffee crunch bars, which sound kind of wonderful.
This is an animated film from two thousand and seven.
It was actually the first film of the DC Animated
(41:44):
Original Movies. It is I also believe the first PG
thirteen animated film they ever did. Now R rated and
thirteen are are They're everywhere, but this, at the time
was kind of a new thing. It was directed by
my friend Bruce Tim and Lauren Montgomery and Brandon Vietti.
It was written by the great Dwayne Peas and Bruce Tim.
It stars Alan Adam Baldwin and Hash and Johnny DiMaggio,
(42:07):
who Roders both know he is amazing and it is
I guess, as I said, two thousand and seven's Superman
Doomsday is the movie. It is based on Death of Superman.
It actually did very well for an animated movie on
a three point five million dollar budget. It made ten
million dollars, which is pretty dark.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Yeah, Now, what's the other one? Mask of the Phantasm
is the Mask.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Of the Phantasm? I didn't put that. Mask of the
Phantasm is arguably the greatest animated movie of all time
up there, Respirited Away and everything else. Mask of the
Phantasm is. Batman is Batman. It's Kevin. It's the great
Kevin Conroy. It is arguably the best animated film of
all time. But but you chose this one because it's
slightly more obscure. I chose this one because it's underrated.
(42:49):
It's more definitely more obscure. It was also the first
time you get to see things like Superman get his
ass kicked, he's puking blood up everywhere.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
I mean, it was like, I'm putting this on the
list for me and Andy to watch very rough.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
It's great, You're going to like it. That is my final.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Pick out of everything that will that you could bring
to my life. I do feel like the animated Superhero
film is maybe top of the list. You know all
of them, and I don't know any of them. I've
previous a couple of the Batman's just because you told
me about them. I'm gonna I'm gonna dive, especially once
Adler's of age.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Yeah, oh they're They're so good. And as you know,
I gave Adler and Keaton a couple of the young
because I did you do different versions of Batman, and
we did some g rated ones that I thought they
would like. And as the great Bruce tim As I said,
uh mentioned, directed this, wrote this and is kind of
the godfather of a lot of this stuff, has said
there always needs to be a Batman for everybody. So
(43:44):
if there's the movies get really dark, the animation gets
really light. If the animation gets really dark, the movies
get really light. So you know, there's always a superhero
movie for someone of it out there. But you love it.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
So that wraps up uff. So let's get to our
fifth and final movie in the very strong film, I
have to assume this is about dead beat his fifth pick.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
Fifth pick is about dead people. Well, first we leave
the Fisher King. We go out into the lobby and
the lobby has been redesigned to look like an English
pub and a serving We are serving beer and the
ice cream cornetto's because we're Edgar Wright Shan of the
(44:24):
Dead two thousand and four. This was a way for
me to have horror but still be fun. It's not
really horror, but it's horror tinged and it's a great
midnight movie. So this is how we end the festival
with a fantastic h I love this movie. It's perf Indy,
Indie loves this movie. Everybody loves It's just a perfect film.
And you know it's it's I'm kind of sick of zombies,
(44:45):
but like Edgar Ray had already done it, you know,
twenty years ago he did. He explored everything you can
get from a zombie film in a fun way. It's
you know, the thing about Edgar Wright as a director
is he's one of the few visual comedians. His jokes
are not just a line. It's a line paired with
a camera move, paired with an edit, with a sound design.
(45:07):
So he's using cinema to make jokes and sometimes you
don't even know why you're laughing, you're just and he's
one of the last people doing this, like you know,
nowadays it's like you know, and I love good comedies
where it's just great dialogue or witty characters. But when
somebody can really make a movie visually funny or engaging,
and he's just the only person doing it really, and
(45:27):
I just love him.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
So I I would say, there's one other director that
can can hit those visual that visual comedy that's working today,
and that's Tak.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
Yeah, very similar tool, I think.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
I think that's same, that same kind of visual direction.
But Seanaan Dead is perfect it really, I mean every it.
It hits so many genres in one movie. It's a
love story, it's a horror film, it's it's com it's
a buddy comedy. It's it is so unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Yeah, and Edgar Writ's next The Running Man.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Really, but he's doing it more based on the Bachman.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Book, right, I don't know, I just know I think
Glenn Powell.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Right, I'm pretty yeah, I'm pretty sure. So if you've
read the original Running Man, the Richard Bachman book, which
is you know, Stephen King, Stephen King, it is so
it's not even close to what the film was. So
I think he's going it's at if the memory serves
the book is you have to get from one side
of the country to the other side of the country
while staying live.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Oh, it's not just like a No, it's not like.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
A loser, a game or any They made all the
game show stuff up for the movie.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
I'm sure making The Running Man in twenty twenty four
because of squid Game is wildly easy. But not that
Edgar Right has any problem making a movie, and he
has it with Glenn Powell. The biggest movie start of
the world right now. But still it's at this sound
this has all the ingredients to be huge.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
I can't Yeah, I can't wait. The first Running Man
is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Guys, let's go over the film festivals. Then I will
tell you what I came up with. Not that you
can quote on it, but at least just something to hear.
The uff from our friend wil Fredell starts with Ishtar,
the underrated comedy starting with some Buffalo wing popcorn, and
then we get into bi Centennial Man, the Robin Williams
flop that he swears is better than a writer and
(47:25):
I remember it chocolate date Carmel cups that's from his
list as well. Then we go into an action movie
that sounds absolutely brilliant. It's ronan and salty sweet party
mix is served with that film. Once We're Warriors, a
Australia New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand film. Mozzarelli Stix
comes with that, and then we have the animated Superman
(47:47):
movie Doomsday, and that comes with popcorn toffee bars. Over
at Writer's Slowly Aging Film Festival, a very strong film festival.
We start with Spirited Away, the Miyazaki movie with warm ramin,
which I'm honestly could do right now. Yeah, we are
the best. A second film I've not heard of but
sounds great. Hot Tomali's in your popcorn. He will tell
(48:08):
you when to place it in. There's Broadcast News, a
brilliant film. For third, that's with some wine to get
your palette up for a little more adult fourth, The
Fisher King with Robin Williams is second of the film festivals.
New York pizza slices served during that and then last
the Edgar Wright zombie comedy Sean of the Dead, served
(48:28):
with beer and ice cream from Cornetto's, which is a
connection to the trilogy of movies he made with Hot
Fuzz and End of the World the World. Yeah, okay, great,
Before we tell you how you can vote World's End, sorry,
before we can tell you how you could vote on Instagram,
let's go into what I just wrote mine, just so
you know, my strategy was a Boy meets World experience
(48:51):
in the theater. Okay, this is for people who have
been listening to Pop meets World. They want similar media,
and so I've put to other five films that give
you different aspects of Boy meets World and in turn
Pod meets World. We start with a movie that's been
just I've beaten to death on this podcast. Albert Brooks
is Defending Your Life.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
Yes, the greatest movie of all time. I thought Will
might have picked it, but no, because I talked about
it too much. So yeah, it's perfect.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
Though I think that it's like comedy and drama and
high level thoughts like it's it just does it perfect.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
It's also super clever. I mean, the idea of this,
the whole premise of the film is so amazing smart.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
Second, I took a movie that I think represents the
time and the friendships that you guys all had, which
is Swingers. There's no another movie We've beaten to death.
Incredible friends making a movie. Also, Yeah, Third, I wanted
to represent Feenie a bit. And there's a movie that
like isn't talking about isn't talked about it now? And Deliver? Yes,
(49:54):
that is my pick and it really is. We Danielle
has been working on Lopez Versus Lopez for like five
weeks straight, and George Lopez was nice enough to invite
us to a Santana concert and we all went and
crazily got to hang out with Santana, which was nuts.
But we were walking backstage and we ran into Edward
James almost, who was also there and obviously friends with George.
(50:14):
And I turned to George's daughter Mayan and I said,
you know what, he's kind of the Mexican Feenie.
Speaker 3 (50:20):
Yeah, well I could see that.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
He's kind of like because of Standard Deliver, you kind
of see like he's the greatest teacher, you know, right,
Like he's just anyway, great movie about the hard job
of being a teacher.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
Did you just miss him? Did you see him? It
was like you were there, but it was like you
caught him. Edward James almost good new Wow, Thank you
good one, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Fourth, I wanted to represent high school and sort of
the you know, chaos of growing up. And I can't
hardly wait underrated movie.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
An I haven't either.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
Super fun movie we'd love. Yeah, great movie and also
like having a bit of a resurgence. It was just
released on on HD four K and people are like
this book I remember. And then lastly, I would be
cheap to say Scream for our last movie, to let
everyone wave to the kind of midnight movie. So I
picked Monster House film, a great animated movie that kind
(51:11):
of represents a little bit of that. And then there
were sean it's a little bit winky at times.
Speaker 3 (51:14):
Yeah, I would say the only of those animated films
by what's his name?
Speaker 2 (51:19):
Uh, why am I blank?
Speaker 1 (51:22):
And wrote it.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
Za Meccas was in that kick of like the motion
capture animation and it always their eyes are dead right,
But in Monster House it works because it's supposed to
be kind of creepy, and I think expression, why am
I so scared?
Speaker 1 (51:37):
The Oller Express is accidentally a horror movie. Yes, I don't.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
Trust this at all.
Speaker 3 (51:41):
Yeah, and like, yeah, Santa's like a fascist who's like,
you don't believe in me, and you're like Jeesus, my.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
Gosh, it's like an unhoused man on top of the
trays screaming at the boys.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
It's super weird.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Well, those are our film festivals. You can go to
Instagram at pod Mets World Show and you can vote.
We will put up a little kind of mechanism, a
little graphic for you to pick. We'll give it a
couple days, then we'll pick our winner again, will ishtar Bi,
Centennial Man Ronan Once, We're Warriors and Superman, Doomsday Writer,
Spirited Away, we are the best broadcast News, The Fisher
King and Sean of the Dead. You can go now.
(52:15):
We will pick our winners.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
So wait. In a couple days, I'll find out I
came in third.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
Righty, when there's only two you can.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
Vote exactly, I know, but I'll still come in third.
Everyone's gonna be like I kind of like Jensen's list
better than I rock. I will come in third again.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
You can follow us on that Instagram at Podmeets World Show.
You can also DM us or email us at Podmeats
World Show at gmail dot com, and.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
We have merch you got read on you March.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
You can go to Pod Metsworldshow dot com right now,
will let's have you send us out?
Speaker 2 (52:46):
We love you all, pod This missed. Pod Meets World
is iHeart podcast produce and hosted by Danielle Fischel, Wilfredell
and Ryder Strong executive producers, Jensen Karp and Amy Sugarman
Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo, producer and editor,
Tara Sudbaksh producer, Maddy Moore, engineer and Boy Meets World
superfan Easton Allen. Our theme song is by Kyle Morton
(53:07):
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