September 10, 2025 • 5 mins
"Is it School of Rock, High Fidelity, or Jumanji? What truly defines Jack Black’s most iconic performance?"Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive headfirst into The Ringer’s list of the 101 Best Movie Performances of the 21st Century, picking up at #73 and working their way through a cinematic rollercoaster of debate, nostalgia, and hilarious hot takes.From Jack Black’s soulful scream in School of Rock to Val Kilmer’s noir turn in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, the crew passionately (and sometimes chaotically) breaks down each actor’s most memorable role. Expect fiery disagreements, unexpected praise, and side-splitting commentary. Whether it’s Tom Hanks surviving solo in Cast Away or Robert Pattinson’s gritty performance in Good Time, this episode is a masterclass in movie nerdery—served with a heavy dose of comedy and chemistry that only this crew can deliver.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The State, the Giant, Jiggle the field. We started a
series yesterday from a list that The Ringer put out
called the one hundred and one best movie Performances of
the twenty first century. And they you can only if
you're an actor, you gonna be on there once, right, So, uh,
(00:23):
you might have multiple roles. So what role is it?
Number seventy three is where we pick it up. It's
Jack Black. What is the role Jamonji?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
When was School of Rock? When did that come out
with thousand and three and then be School of Rock?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
That's gotta be School of Rock, either school the other one,
I would say. And I'm not sure what your high
fidelity came out, but he's amazing in high fidelity.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
That might be two thousand and one, that might be
ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I mean the best part of the movie is when
he gets up there and starts singing a soul song.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Two thousand.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It's School of Rock three.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, okay, I can't argue with that. One of my
favorite movies. It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah yeah, it might be a top ten or for me.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Beautiful movie.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Val Kilmer comes in at seventy two. Val Kilmer, What
Val Kilmer rule? Could there be what's.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
That one you always watch Ben You said, Jackal or something.
Then you get sucked into.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That movie all the time. I'll watch it anytime I
stumbled across it. I've always liked Val Kilmer. Thank he's good.
That's interesting, though, what is his best? Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Heat, that's ninety seven, I think, Oh, two thousand and
five is the year. Oh, the movie is called Kiss Kiss,
Bang Bang. I've seen it and it's apparently uh, I've
seen it a cop. It's a neo noir.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It's it's basically like trying to do a noir thing,
and there's murder mystery thing and it's it's okay, I
don't remember watching it going with my god, Val Kilmer's
killing it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Number seventy one. Tomas Hanks.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Oh, uh, they're gonna say, like Road to Perdition or
what castaway?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Cast away? Correct? Oh, two thousands, okay, two thousand. I
mean really, it takes a special actor to spend about
an hour and fifteen minutes of a movie with no
talking right, and he does it, pulls it off, and
he kind of never get bored with it either.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I don't like the lady and that Helen Hunt, and
I'm not a huge fan of hers.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
We'll say she makes the list, hope not number seventy.
Robert Pattinson makes the list for a movie called good
Time from twenty seventeen. I never saw, but I do that.
Robert Pattinson's a great actor. He's a vampire. Right, He's
got to wear the thing that he was in Twilight.
He's got to wear that. But he's a great actor.
He's a great in that Batman thing.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I don't know what that. I loved d the Batman, The Batman.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Think seventeen is? I love that movie?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I like that movie.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I like that movie.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
James Franco It's sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh, it's got to be the one.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
What's called the Room? What?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
This guy? He's so good?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
What about one twenty seven where he cuts his eye?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I think he won the Academy Award for that. I
think he did too. It's not that one though, Oh
not either of those. I mean for me, it's it's
him and this is the End or Pineapple Express right? Uh?
Spring Breakers? Oh, it's incredible. He plays riff raff. He's great.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
He's good in that sixty eight Ethan Hawk Boyhood.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
No, what is Training Training Day? When did that come
out in nineties?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I think Training Day might be in the two thousand, yeah,
early two thousands. And you know what, I bet Ethan
Hawk and Denzel could both be on there for Training Day.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Ethan Hawk gets in there for First Reformed, very very
maybe a priest type movie. There's a lot of those.
Michael B. Jordan at number sixty seven. There's so many roles.
I mean, Sinners was just the most recent one. He
was smoking stack amazing, that is what they went with.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Centers.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, I know Creed or Fruitvale Station for me give
Me the Wire, but this is movie performances.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Man, you were so gutted when I'm not spoiling anything
on the wire, but when that kid died, you were
just gutted.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Trying to get my wife to watch that. Timothy showing
not looking Number sixty six Bob Dylan, No, he was
in a movie called Call Me by Your Name in
twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Then I think that's where he plays a gay coming
of age gay kid.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Is that what that is? That is what he was.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
He's a man, he's an adult. You realize his girlfriend
is about twice the size of him.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Really, he a little bitty guy.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Kylie Jenner looks like she would swallow him up.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
He's pretty great though. I love him on SNL.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I like him too. He was incredible in the Bob
Dylan movie. I'd like to apologize doll my fans out there.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That's right, they're not listening.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
John c Riley number sixty two, God Step Brothers, No, Umm,
Boogie Knights, Calladega Knights Books nineties.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, it's ninety Knights. Wasn't he in like Chicago Too's musical? Yeah,
but they're going with walkrd the Dewey Cocke never saw
me neither.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I need to see that.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Pretty great. I don't know that I would choose that
over Step Brothers. Yeah, it's up there, pretty good. Let's
pick it up tomorrow in the sixties.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, we'll look forward to that coming up in just
over three minutes. Let's go around the sports. By the way,
don't forget Travis Fredderck joins us today at five thirty.
But next three minutes away and around the sports is
Mark cup It mad at Nico. We've got audio to examine,
and we'll do that next
The State, the Giant, Jiggle the field. We started a
series yesterday from a list that The Ringer put out
called the one hundred and one best movie Performances of
the twenty first century. And they you can only if
you're an actor, you gonna be on there once, right, So, uh,
(00:23):
you might have multiple roles. So what role is it?
Number seventy three is where we pick it up. It's
Jack Black. What is the role Jamonji?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
When was School of Rock? When did that come out
with thousand and three and then be School of Rock?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
That's gotta be School of Rock, either school the other one,
I would say. And I'm not sure what your high
fidelity came out, but he's amazing in high fidelity.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
That might be two thousand and one, that might be
ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I mean the best part of the movie is when
he gets up there and starts singing a soul song.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Two thousand.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It's School of Rock three.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, okay, I can't argue with that. One of my
favorite movies. It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah yeah, it might be a top ten or for me.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Beautiful movie.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Val Kilmer comes in at seventy two. Val Kilmer, What
Val Kilmer rule? Could there be what's.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
That one you always watch Ben You said, Jackal or something.
Then you get sucked into.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That movie all the time. I'll watch it anytime I
stumbled across it. I've always liked Val Kilmer. Thank he's good.
That's interesting, though, what is his best? Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Heat, that's ninety seven, I think, Oh, two thousand and
five is the year. Oh, the movie is called Kiss Kiss,
Bang Bang. I've seen it and it's apparently uh, I've
seen it a cop. It's a neo noir.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It's it's basically like trying to do a noir thing,
and there's murder mystery thing and it's it's okay, I
don't remember watching it going with my god, Val Kilmer's
killing it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Number seventy one. Tomas Hanks.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Oh, uh, they're gonna say, like Road to Perdition or
what castaway?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Cast away? Correct? Oh, two thousands, okay, two thousand. I
mean really, it takes a special actor to spend about
an hour and fifteen minutes of a movie with no
talking right, and he does it, pulls it off, and
he kind of never get bored with it either.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I don't like the lady and that Helen Hunt, and
I'm not a huge fan of hers.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
We'll say she makes the list, hope not number seventy.
Robert Pattinson makes the list for a movie called good
Time from twenty seventeen. I never saw, but I do that.
Robert Pattinson's a great actor. He's a vampire. Right, He's
got to wear the thing that he was in Twilight.
He's got to wear that. But he's a great actor.
He's a great in that Batman thing.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I don't know what that. I loved d the Batman, The Batman.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Think seventeen is? I love that movie?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I like that movie.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I like that movie.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
James Franco It's sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh, it's got to be the one.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
What's called the Room? What?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
This guy? He's so good?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
What about one twenty seven where he cuts his eye?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I think he won the Academy Award for that. I
think he did too. It's not that one though, Oh
not either of those. I mean for me, it's it's
him and this is the End or Pineapple Express right? Uh?
Spring Breakers? Oh, it's incredible. He plays riff raff. He's great.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
He's good in that sixty eight Ethan Hawk Boyhood.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
No, what is Training Training Day? When did that come
out in nineties?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I think Training Day might be in the two thousand, yeah,
early two thousands. And you know what, I bet Ethan
Hawk and Denzel could both be on there for Training Day.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Ethan Hawk gets in there for First Reformed, very very
maybe a priest type movie. There's a lot of those.
Michael B. Jordan at number sixty seven. There's so many roles.
I mean, Sinners was just the most recent one. He
was smoking stack amazing, that is what they went with.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Centers.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, I know Creed or Fruitvale Station for me give
Me the Wire, but this is movie performances.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Man, you were so gutted when I'm not spoiling anything
on the wire, but when that kid died, you were
just gutted.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Trying to get my wife to watch that. Timothy showing
not looking Number sixty six Bob Dylan, No, he was
in a movie called Call Me by Your Name in
twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Then I think that's where he plays a gay coming
of age gay kid.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Is that what that is? That is what he was.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
He's a man, he's an adult. You realize his girlfriend
is about twice the size of him.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Really, he a little bitty guy.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Kylie Jenner looks like she would swallow him up.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
He's pretty great though. I love him on SNL.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I like him too. He was incredible in the Bob
Dylan movie. I'd like to apologize doll my fans out there.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That's right, they're not listening.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
John c Riley number sixty two, God Step Brothers, No, Umm,
Boogie Knights, Calladega Knights Books nineties.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, it's ninety Knights. Wasn't he in like Chicago Too's musical? Yeah,
but they're going with walkrd the Dewey Cocke never saw
me neither.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I need to see that.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Pretty great. I don't know that I would choose that
over Step Brothers. Yeah, it's up there, pretty good. Let's
pick it up tomorrow in the sixties.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, we'll look forward to that coming up in just
over three minutes. Let's go around the sports. By the way,
don't forget Travis Fredderck joins us today at five thirty.
But next three minutes away and around the sports is
Mark cup It mad at Nico. We've got audio to examine,
and we'll do that next
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