September 11, 2025 • 5 mins
"Is Will Ferrell’s greatest performance really in Anchorman—or did Step Brothers deserve the crown?"In this laugh-out-loud segment of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive headfirst into The Ringer’s list of the 101 Best Movie Acting Performances of the 21st Century, and things get hilariously heated. From Christian Bale’s haunting turn in American Psycho to Russell Crowe’s iconic “Are you not entertained?” moment in Gladiator, the crew debates, misguesses, and roasts each other with the kind of chemistry that only this foursome can deliver.The segment is a cinematic rollercoaster packed with nostalgia, hot takes, and gut-busting laughter. Whether you’re a movie buff or just here for the banter, this episode delivers pure entertainment.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The Stint, the Giant.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Ringer put out this thing.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
It's the one hundred and one best movie acting performances
of the twenty first century. And we've kind of been
working through it this week. Maybe we'll finish this thing
off tomorrow. Number fifty four is where we pick it
up today. Christian Bale, Oh gotta guesses. Oh, I think
American Psycho was in the nineties?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Is it the Batman? The middle One?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It was not the Batman?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I know what it is, or maybe that was in
the nineties.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Two.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I was gonna say the Machinist machine is not the Machinist.
Why I say Macanists. I think most of those are
in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Though, American Psycho, you're two thousand? Oh, okay? Snuck in
Patrick Bateman, Number fifty one, Will Ferrell.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It's gotta be step Brothers.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Is it gonna be the the where.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
He's drunk and it's a real movie, Everything Must Go?
Didn't we all three see that together at Arizona?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Seven.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
No, me and me and Ben, Me and Ben went
and saw that movie.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
We didn't know was in the comedy.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Yeah we it might have been free though, Yeah, yeah,
that sucked when you were expect the comedy. Oh my god,
he's an alcoholic and he wants to kill himself.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So I have one Step Brothers guess uh, I.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Mean yeah, of the of all of those comedies, I
think Step Brothers is the best one. Old School, Yeah,
but what about his specific acting performance?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Old School is a good guess which I would say?
It's not this, It's not is it?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Mine would be wedding.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Crashers on the d L.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It's not exactly street legal. The answer is anchor man.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I got zero issue with that.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I'm okay, Yeah, lots of iconic catchphrases. Right, It's like
he's the leading man. Now, where's the Old School? He's
kind of off to the side.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I also think that's Kelly Bundy's greatest role.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yep, and we our thoughts for her. She gets to
her battles. Yes, and in fact, let's throw it to
a clip. Oh we're not doing that, yep. Number fifty
Russell Crowe.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Is this gonna be the one where he has road rage?
The movie road Rage?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
No, he's got some movie where he's got road rage
and he's he's pretty scary, and.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I never saw it. I think it's going to be
the Is it called The Insider?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's called Beef?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Oh yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The Michael Man movie, The Insider. I think that's what
that's called.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Nope, Gladiator, Yeah, all right, how about that two thousand
hell of a movie? Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Are you not entertained?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Are you not entertained?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Forty eight? Just kidding Simmons, Oh, cra crat. What's it
called the drum movie?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Crash? But I agree, it's definitely that drum roll. Whiplash
class is just getting to it.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, whiplashy twenty fourteen, great movie.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, I'm going.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
To bounce up to forty four here, Charlie's they're on,
Oh Monster, this Monster before.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That might have been nineties. Maybe the Mad Max This
is twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yep, there we go, Mad Max, Fury Road, Fury Road
forty one.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Bradley Pitt, hmmm, keep in mind that.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I think his greatest role was nineteen ninety nine in
that is Fight Club.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So this will not count?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Inglorious Bastards?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh good one, Yes, he's great in the Nazis.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Anyone else know?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I know one guy is gonna lose his mind over
this but it's Moneyball.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Okay, he's he's good in that movie.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You know, if you could just take your sports fandom
out of it and enjoy it for what it is.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
My nephew who makes movies, Efan, loves that movie movie.
I don't think he's ever watched a baseball game before,
but man, he loves Moneyball. Natalie Portman the Swan movie
sw Yeah, twenty ten. It's also me Lacunis is the
greatest role.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Nicholas Cage. By the way, I know you guys haven't
watched it yet.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
He answers its face off? Uh? Is it really face off?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Now?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's nice? Pig Pig Pig Pig is awesome, He's not pig.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
It's great. By the way.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Oh is it the movie where he plays himself and
he's an agent? What were you gonna say?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
National Treasure?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Wait till you see you guys have already have known this.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
How prominently Nick Cage factors into the Charlie Sheen story. Oh,
because I watched the Charlie Part one of the Charlie
Sheen doc last night. Nick Cage is a big part
of this that I did not realize.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Adaptation doesn't two.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
He's great that because he plays us Brothers, plays Twin Brothers.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Maybe we'll pick it up tomorrow and find out about
Gene Hackman and our friend Adam Sandler.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Okay, all right, fantastic, all right.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Coming up next, we got the food news why did
this gas station buy a sandwich shop? And then we
get into the Little Rangers baseball All that's coming your
way next on the Eagle
The Stint, the Giant.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Ringer put out this thing.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
It's the one hundred and one best movie acting performances
of the twenty first century. And we've kind of been
working through it this week. Maybe we'll finish this thing
off tomorrow. Number fifty four is where we pick it
up today. Christian Bale, Oh gotta guesses. Oh, I think
American Psycho was in the nineties?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Is it the Batman? The middle One?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It was not the Batman?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I know what it is, or maybe that was in
the nineties.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Two.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I was gonna say the Machinist machine is not the Machinist.
Why I say Macanists. I think most of those are
in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Though, American Psycho, you're two thousand? Oh, okay? Snuck in
Patrick Bateman, Number fifty one, Will Ferrell.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It's gotta be step Brothers.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Is it gonna be the the where.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
He's drunk and it's a real movie, Everything Must Go?
Didn't we all three see that together at Arizona?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Seven.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
No, me and me and Ben, Me and Ben went
and saw that movie.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
We didn't know was in the comedy.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Yeah we it might have been free though, Yeah, yeah,
that sucked when you were expect the comedy. Oh my god,
he's an alcoholic and he wants to kill himself.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So I have one Step Brothers guess uh, I.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Mean yeah, of the of all of those comedies, I
think Step Brothers is the best one. Old School, Yeah,
but what about his specific acting performance?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Old School is a good guess which I would say?
It's not this, It's not is it?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Mine would be wedding.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Crashers on the d L.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It's not exactly street legal. The answer is anchor man.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I got zero issue with that.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I'm okay, Yeah, lots of iconic catchphrases. Right, It's like
he's the leading man. Now, where's the Old School? He's
kind of off to the side.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I also think that's Kelly Bundy's greatest role.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yep, and we our thoughts for her. She gets to
her battles. Yes, and in fact, let's throw it to
a clip. Oh we're not doing that, yep. Number fifty
Russell Crowe.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Is this gonna be the one where he has road rage?
The movie road Rage?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
No, he's got some movie where he's got road rage
and he's he's pretty scary, and.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I never saw it. I think it's going to be
the Is it called The Insider?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's called Beef?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Oh yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The Michael Man movie, The Insider. I think that's what
that's called.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Nope, Gladiator, Yeah, all right, how about that two thousand
hell of a movie? Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Are you not entertained?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Are you not entertained?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Forty eight? Just kidding Simmons, Oh, cra crat. What's it
called the drum movie?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Crash? But I agree, it's definitely that drum roll. Whiplash
class is just getting to it.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, whiplashy twenty fourteen, great movie.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, I'm going.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
To bounce up to forty four here, Charlie's they're on,
Oh Monster, this Monster before.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That might have been nineties. Maybe the Mad Max This
is twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yep, there we go, Mad Max, Fury Road, Fury Road
forty one.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Bradley Pitt, hmmm, keep in mind that.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I think his greatest role was nineteen ninety nine in
that is Fight Club.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So this will not count?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Inglorious Bastards?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh good one, Yes, he's great in the Nazis.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Anyone else know?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I know one guy is gonna lose his mind over
this but it's Moneyball.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Okay, he's he's good in that movie.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You know, if you could just take your sports fandom
out of it and enjoy it for what it is.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
My nephew who makes movies, Efan, loves that movie movie.
I don't think he's ever watched a baseball game before,
but man, he loves Moneyball. Natalie Portman the Swan movie
sw Yeah, twenty ten. It's also me Lacunis is the
greatest role.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Nicholas Cage. By the way, I know you guys haven't
watched it yet.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
He answers its face off? Uh? Is it really face off?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Now?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's nice? Pig Pig Pig Pig is awesome, He's not pig.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
It's great. By the way.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Oh is it the movie where he plays himself and
he's an agent? What were you gonna say?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
National Treasure?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Wait till you see you guys have already have known this.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
How prominently Nick Cage factors into the Charlie Sheen story. Oh,
because I watched the Charlie Part one of the Charlie
Sheen doc last night. Nick Cage is a big part
of this that I did not realize.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Adaptation doesn't two.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
He's great that because he plays us Brothers, plays Twin Brothers.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Maybe we'll pick it up tomorrow and find out about
Gene Hackman and our friend Adam Sandler.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Okay, all right, fantastic, all right.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Coming up next, we got the food news why did
this gas station buy a sandwich shop? And then we
get into the Little Rangers baseball All that's coming your
way next on the Eagle
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