Top Movies of the 21st Century: 40-31

Is “Bridesmaids” really better than “Superbad” and “Anchorman”?
That’s the hotly debated question on this laugh-packed episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into the New York Times’ Top 100 Movies of the 21st Century—and things get hilariously off the rails.From mispronounced foreign films to deep-cut trivia about Jack Nicholson’s improv genius, the crew brings their signature blend of movie nerdery, pop culture tangents, and side-splitting banter. 

• #39: Lady Bird sparks a Dave Matthews Band singalong and a debate over the “female gaze.”
• #32: Bridesmaids gets scrutinized—funny, yes, but top 40 of the century?
• #31: The Departed leads to a wild Jack Nicholson story that’ll blow your mind.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The stickiest, the giant, typical, the woods. They don't all
have sticky floors. I'll have you know New York Times
Top one hundred movies in the twenty first century. We
continue and we're doing a lot of this today because
we got a little behind yesterday and tomorrow they dropped
the top twenty on our laps. Number forty is a

(00:24):
movie called Yeah, yee Yep, yee yee y I why
I Edward Yang is your director. We've probably never heard
of it, so we'll move on.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I've never heard of it.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Number thirty nine Lady Bird Greta Gerwick. It's good. I
haven't seen it. It's good, it's it's funny.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Do you know what a song that's a major through
line of that to a movie?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'd have to I've only seen it once and it's
not ringing a bell.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
The legendary and classic hard rock song Crash into Me
by the Dave Matthews Band.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh, I don't remember a very important.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Song in that movie. Number thirty eight twenty nineteen brought
us a movie called Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
And I think this is where a lady's dress just
caught on fire and the aftermath of that.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, that sounds git. Maybe it's a little.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
More serious than that thirty seven Call Me by Your
Name twenty seventeen movie. Molly Ringwald had this on her bracket.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Just so you know.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Armie Hammers in this. Timothy shallow May as a little boy.
This is his breakout role? Or is Lord Michael's what's
called him? He's coastally famous Middle America. I really know
Timothy shallow May is. This is I think a gay
love story. If I remember correct, oh, you would know, yep.
Shallo Man thirty six, A serious man. This is Coen
Brothers is two thousand and nine.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Never saw it, never saw it.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Richard Kind was in this movie. Apparently this is kind
of funny. Most of their movies are yeah, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
So yeah, I ah, Patton Oswalt was u this is
on his bracket or his ballot?

Speaker 3 (02:05):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Thirty five is a twenty ten movie called a Prophet.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Never saw it.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I don't think there's like three movies on this list
so far that I've seen it, and I'm tracking on these.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
How many of these I've seen? And I've seen twelve
so far.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Let me ask you, do you have a tally oh,
you don't know what the final I'm curious drop it tomorrow.
I'm curious which filmmakers are represented the most. It's gonna
be Cohen Brothers or P. T. Anderson.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Thirty four is the movie Wally. Oh yeah, that's great.
That's a great movie. Love that movie.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
It had didn't have that guy that you play Fortnite.
He didn't he do the voice over on it? Mickswagon
did the vo work on that. Thirty three is a
movie called a Separation. And yes, it is a hilarious comedy.
It's Noah Bombbacker right, No, no, asgarfar Hatti.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Well, I don't know who that is.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, that's a damning it's a damning look at the
Iranian legal system. Oh oh so maybe we should all
watch it? Yeah yeah, Number thirty two Bridesmaids.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yes, okay, it's good, really good.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Okay, so let's ask the question, is it better than
super Bad an Anchorman?

Speaker 1 (03:12):
No?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
No, And I like that's a great point a lot.
It's not. Why would it be so high on this list?

Speaker 2 (03:18):
You know what I think it is? I think probably
sometimes when you have like, okay, like it's a standard
style comedy. It's very much like the hangover whatever. But
it's an all female cast, the female gaze.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
No, that's different, isn't it. This is directed by the
guy that helped start think.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, he's great. All right, that's a good movie. I've
definitely seen it. I'll add that and thirty one that departed.
Great movies.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Great movie.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
Okay, So what's his what's his name of the guy
is in Goodwill Hunting Matt Damon. Yeah, Matt Damon. I've
seen Matt Damon talk about some of his scenes with
Jack Nicholson and have you seen this, Yeah, where he's like,
you know, Jack's it's like, you know, I'm a writer. Yeah,
and I wouldn't have made it in this business if
I wasn't a writer. What if we took this scene
the way it is and just did this instead, and

(04:09):
then we could also do this, and we could do this,
and what if we did this and they just would
shoot all of it? Whatever his ideas were, and dude,
he was just creating on the spot. It sounds incredible.
It's awesome.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
He did get his start as a rider, do you
know what?

Speaker 3 (04:22):
I think?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
The first movie he wrote was the Monkeys movie Head
in nineteen sixty eight.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
I think before he was acting. All right, there you
have it. There's movie news.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
We will get back to this list though, at five
point thirty