Ranking Every Movie Ever Made - Episode 3 - Meet Your Double Feature | Movie Reviews & Forgotten Films

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Hello and welcome to Meet Your Double Feature.
My name is Thomas, joined as always by my brother Frank.
Frank, how's it going? Man, so so excited.
I haven't been. I haven't been been this excited
since that time I got addicted to caffeine pills.
I'm just gonna roll right over that information.
Welcome back to our site Sing bythe Bell Reference.

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Yeah, it was. Cuz she sings the song okay
singing. The song, Yeah.
Yeah, I thought you anecdote about.
I thought you just had somethingto get off your chest, do you?
Even get addicted? Is that a thing?
I always thought that was weird in the show like.
What does she do? She gets addicted to pain pills
and then she sings that I'm so excited.
Pain. Pills.
No, it's not it's caffeine pills.
She's. Addicted to caffeine pills?

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I'm addicted to pain pills. Yeah, that's right.
That's your addiction. Yeah.
All right, anyway, welcome back to our ongoing series here on
the channel Ranking Every Movie Ever Made.
A show where Frank and I pull movies out of a hat and rank
them on one definitive list of every film ever made, ranked
from best to worst. It is an ongoing series and

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we're going to not stop until we've ranked.
Every movie, Yeah, it should be pretty easy.
Yeah, probably like 6 or 7 episodes will be pretty caught
up. Yeah, I mean, how many movies
could there be? How many, really?
I don't know. I forgot the hat.
By the way, you said pull them out of a hat.
I don't I. Don't know.
Oh, we forgot the hat. Oh gosh, yeah.
Pulling them off a pile on the ground I guess.

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Yeah, I got a wheel. I got a wheel.
We. Can see, yeah, we got a wheel.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the rules of the game, in
case you've never seen an episode, which I will say maybe
start with episode 1. We've ranked twenty movies
already. You're going to be confused.
Do. Whatever you want to listen to
him. The way things work is I've made
a list of virtually every movie that Frank or I has ever seen,

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and I've listed them all out alphabetically.
And then I'm going to have Frankspin me a random number
generator. He'll give me a number and I'll
find the corresponding entry andthen we'll use that as our first
movie to discuss for the day. So given that Frank, I think we
should just launch right in. I'm going to put an hour on the
clock and we'll see how many movies we can rank on our
definitive professional. List professional.

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OK, what makes it professional? Is there like an amateur version
of this? List out there?
Yeah, everybody else is got themdestroyed.
It's like the wasted. All right, so for the first time

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today, right, go ahead and spin your wheel, pick a piece of
paper up off the ground because you don't have a hat.
Oh, yeah. OK.
Are you ready? Are you sure you're ready?
Do you need to like take a breather before I do this?
Deep breaths, deep breaths, let me know that sounds good.
That sounds good in the microphone.

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All right, number one. Well, not number one.
The first number out of the listis 1157. 1157 Let's see what
that is on our alphabetical list.
I've got a good feeling about this one.
I think this is a movie that I like and I've definitely seen it
before. Oh, you got to be kidding me.

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This is this is an insane pull, Frank, I think your I think your
wheels weighted. OK so in the first episode we
pulled and had a lengthy discussion about Star Wars
episode 2 attack of the club andon a list that has like 2000
other movies on it. You've started the day with Star
Wars episode 3 Revenge of the. Sin.

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Oh yes. All right.
So odds of that? I don't know, somebody could do
the math on that and figure out the actual odds, but I'm not
going to never tell me the odds if.
You want? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what Kowtuku says. That's what Kowtuku says.

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Thunderous applause. Kowtuku.
So I'm thinking #1 we're just going to bump that right up to.
So this is if you, yeah, if you,if you look at the list as it
stands right now, Attack of the Clones pretty high up.
And we did 20 minutes, I think in our first remem episode
talking about why we both like it maybe a little too much.

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But I guess, gosh, I mean, whereto even begin?
Because Revenge of the Sith, I guess in the Star Wars prequel
context, do you generally think that it's better than the
previous two? Like episodes one and two man.
As I'm sure I mentioned in some way when we talked about Attack
of the Clones, I am both like one of the best people and one

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of the worst people to ask aboutthe prequels because I could go
on and on about them all day long because I love them.
Now, that being said, which one's the, I guess we're really
asking what's the best of the three?
If we're looking at Phantom Menace, which is hasn't been
pulled yet, but it's part of this conversation, I would say

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Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith.
A lot of people think Revenge ofthe Sith is the best one and.
I get, yeah, I think. I'm going to agree with that.
I I think it is, I think it justthe emotional peak.
I mean, Anakin versus Obi Wan, like the music it, it's just
like it's pure cinema. It's throw up, Marty, because

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that's what it is. Yeah, because I do think that
it's a conversation about how trilogy's work, because people
say this about Lord of the Ringstoo.
They're like, which is the best one?
Is it the first one because it kicks off the story and has the
most, like, inciting momentum? Or is it the one that finally
finishes telling you the story? But with Star Wars, you can't at

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least separate it a little bit more because where a lot of
other trilogies are a little bitmore consistent, the three Star
Wars prequels are all kind of different feeling films.
Like it feels like they were kind of reacting to fan push
back on certain things. I know the later ones just
ditched, like Jar Jar Binks for example, who probably was
supposed to be more involved originally.

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Oh he definitely was. The Star Wars prequel films are
more distinct movie to movie than other trilogies are, so I
think it's a little bit easier to separate them.
Yeah, that's totally fair. I especially comparing it to
Lord of the Rings. Lord of the Rings I always see
as like, that's just like one connected piece of media that's
just one really long story told over three films.

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The Star Wars prequels even havetime jumps in between each one.
So that kind of separates them out even more if you're looking
at it like just narratively speaking too.
But as you said as well, just like, like tonally, like the
vibes of the three are, are all different in their own way.
But yeah, I, I, I, I would say Revenge of the Sith is the best

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one or my favorite of the three.Well, it's a professional list,
so we're going to say we're going to say it's because it's
the best one, even if it is justbecause it's our favorite.
Well, yeah. Well, and again, I'm looking at
the list and I don't know. I mean, I don't know if I, I
don't know what we're ranking this on, but I don't know if I

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can in good conscience put Men in Black above Revenge of the
Sith. I mean, I feel like Revenge of
the Sith is just got to go to the top.
That's, that's just me. My.
Gosh, we this, the whole thing feels like an agenda just to say
that the Star Wars prequels are good because we keep pulling
them and put it in the top of the list.

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This is really quick professional list.
It's a professional list. It will not be contested.
I do want to mention some thoughts because Revenge of the
Sith was in theaters not that long ago per time of recording.
I think we both saw it sometime last year or did.
Were you able to go to the theatrical release?
Oh I, yeah, I for sure. Oh man, I think I might have
mentioned it too. So this is just a quick aside.

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I I live in in West Hollywood, so the viewers can but but last
year when Revenge of the Sith was in theaters, the El Capitan
theater is like really nearby towhere I live.
And I almost went to a screeningthere.

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Like I think it was like the night of the release, the re
release for Revenge of the Sith.And I was like debating it.
And then it was like kind of late or something.
And I was like, you know what, never mind, it's the weekend.
I'll I'll let go tomorrow or something.
And that screening that I almostwent to Hayden Christensen and
Sam Jackson showed up to that screening at the El Capitan
Theater and like intro the movie.
Yeah. And I was like, Oh my God, yes,

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yes, both of them were there. And like Sam Jackson was like
Mace lives. It's like and I was so but go.
Ahead. Yeah, yeah.
I was so pissed that I didn't goto that screen, but then I went
and saw it that same weekend. I went and saw it at AMC and
like they had that little fun thing beforehand where it was

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like Hayden was like this is where the fun begins.
He did his. Little Yeah, they do, and.
I can quote. That's a trend with a lot of
theatrical re releases lately isthey'll they'll film some sort
of new footage and have someone come on to talk about it.
I went and saw the they put Lordof the Rings back in theaters
not that long ago and they had Peter Jackson film some just
like rambling monologue before each one.
That was pretty funny. Oh.

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That's cool, yeah. What I wanted to mention about
Revenge of the Sith, because obviously we've seen it several
times, we've been watching it since we were kids.
But when I saw it most recently,I was struck about the structure
of that third prequel film, because it's weirdly lopsided
towards the first act, where there's something like 10 or 11

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scenes in a row after the actionsequence at the beginning.
That's just Hayden Christensen going to talk to somebody in a
room and then going to talk to somebody else in a room.
Like they're so stressed for time to to sell the turn to the
dark side angle with him that they've poorly built up and have
just like run out of runway for that.

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He has to go like do all of his character arc in a series of
short, repetitive scenes that honestly don't go very well as a
sequence. Like he'll just go talk to
Palpatine and then go talk to Padme and then go talk to Obi
Wan and then go talk to Mae's Windu.
And nothing happens in between any of these sequences.
But because I've already seen the movie, I like know that it's

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building towards a big action beat at the end as well.
But I can only imagine the firsttime seeing Revenge of the Sith.
Like if I'd been older, maybe when I first watched it, I would
have been like, what is happening?
Is this just like politics, the movie?
Like there's no more action, There's no more variation.
We're just in the city. We're in Coruscant doing
politics for like an hour. Well, I mean, again, this ties

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back into people's initial reactions when the films came
out to how they're perceived now.
There's a whole generation of people that like love them now
as opposed to how people felt about them at the time.
I don't think like there's definitely they're flawed films
in in many ways, but that's almost what is so endearing

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about them and and why I think they've lasted this test of time
and why people so love them so much is because they're uniquely
flawed. There's a lack of just
directing. The performances are not great.
The Yeah, narratively it's kind of a mess, like the whole.

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It's ridiculous. You have 3 movies to tell a
story with a very clear ending of your heroic Jedi figure falls
to the dark side and becomes thelike iconic villain that
everybody already knows. And the movie feels like it
forgot that's what was supposed to happen until the last 40
minutes. And then they're like Oh no, Oh
no, hit the gas, hit the gas. He's killing younglings.

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Speed it up like I have so. Weird.
It is weird. And I've never really fully been
able to make the connection between Hayden Christensen's
Anakin Skywalker and like the Darth Vader from the original
films. I just can't see those two as
the same character. Does that make sense?

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It's just like, that's what we were supposed to be leading to.
But I'm just like, these are twodifferent people, like, And a
lot of that is because of the way the films were made.
Like the original films made first and then way later we came
back and tried to tell this prequel story and it just did.
It didn't really connect in thatway.

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But to some people this might betotal blasphemy.
But I'm not the biggest fan of the original movies.
I appreciate them, but. Cut his mic.
Pull the floor. I mean, I mean, I, I absolutely
like appreciate them. I think they're interesting to
talk about in terms of how they changed a lot of things in terms

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of like Hollywood blockbusters and their actual impact on like
film history is, is really interesting and, and like the
ripple effects of what those original films did.
But I mean, I just grew up, you know, I'm of that age group that
grew up on the prequels. And so it's a lot of nostalgia,
but there's just so much that I like could genuinely argue for

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about them. So.
I do think that, like you said, this could turn into a 2 hour
dissertation about the various strengths and weaknesses of
Revenge of the Sith, but we've got, we've got the rest of a
show to do. So I feel like the list we have
right now, we've only ranked twenty movies so far.
We're pulling them at random. There's nothing on the list yet
that's like high art or, or especially meaningful films or

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things that people would be really mad to see us put below
the Star Wars prequels. So why don't we just drop
Revenge of the Sith off and #1 and just know that it can hang
out there for a time until a real movie shows up to overtake
it? That's it's our list.
OK, if there's only one, it's the only one in existence.
That's a ranking every single movie ever made, and I feel good

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that at one point both Attack ofthe Clones and Revenge of the
Sith were on top. We're both on there.
If we pull Phantom Menace, then you're going to have to argue
that's better than whatever's onthe list at that time, and that
could be a harder sell. But we've managed to get two
different Star Wars prequels to the top, so that really shows
you the the kind of people we are.

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They're great. There's there's a certain
percentage of people listening that are going to 100% agree
with this. Absolutely, absolutely.
OK Revenge of the Sith currently, for the time being,
greatest movie of all time, muchlike the film before it.
So we'll leave that there. You're going to let that hang,
Frank. Why don't you go ahead and spin
the wheel and we'll grab anothermovie.

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I can't believe that was the first one just opening with
Revenge of the Sith. Shut up, sorry.
OK. Next one is 616.
OK 616 no. What is this 2016 hyper

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normalization? I got it.
Look up what this movie even is.Hyper Normalization is the title
of the film. Yeah, I I have a faint memory.
I think this is a documentary I watched in college for a class
AKAI don't remember. I probably wrote a paper about
it. I I have to jog my memory
though. Let's pull that paper up.

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What grade did you get? Do you remember?
Probably an AI was good at papers.
Probably an A this guy. I'm just saying that, listen,
there was one time for a film class where I had to write a
paper about the first Tim BurtonBatman movie.
And I remember I got AC on it. And I was really surprised
because usually my papers did pretty well.

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And I was so offended that I didn't even read the feedback.
I just, like, walked out of class and threw it away.
So I was like, you're AC, I'm AB, I'm Batman.
All right. Well, that's, that's great.
Thank you. That's that's funny.
OK. Oh my gosh, this blurb on

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Wikipedia about hyper normalization is making me
tired. OK, hyper normalization, and
this is a direct quote from Wikipedia as a 2016 BBC
documentary by British filmmakerAdam Curtis.
It argues that following the global economic crises of the
70s, governments, financiers andtechnological utopians gave up

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on trying to shape the real world and instead established A
simpler, fake world for the benefit of multinational
corporations. Which is just a true sentence.
I don't know how it's a movie. Well, you said it's a
documentary though, right? So they're exposing these truths

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to people. Yes, says it contains 9 chapters
and is composed primarily of montage with voice over.
Again, that's just describing what a documentary is.
Oh my God this is no this is just current geopolitics as a
documentary. Is there like a separate list?

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Can we make it this like not even a number?
No. So let's see, do we think
current modern geopolitics or it's.
Got to be better than Geostorm if we look down at the bottom of
the current list. Is it better than 40?
Because I was, I was, I was looking at in between Cinderella

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Story and Sailor Moon. But you went a little lower.
So you, you, you put it where itfeels right.
You're the one that saw this. I did see this.
You wrote a paper about it. You probably got an A or you got
pissed and threw it in the trash.
One of the two. I like that my like evidence for
why I was good at writing papersis I wrote a bad 1 and I refused
to take feedback. Yeah.

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That's how the best do it. That's how they do.
It's how winning is done. I'm a maverick, OK?
It's a documentary. I like documentaries.
There are many that I would put much higher on the list.
Hyper Normalization sounds like a boring, tired documentary, but
it's about an important issue, and I'm sure that I agreed with

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a lot of the stuff it presented,which makes it better.
But personally, I think movies are both a tool to inform and
challenge people's opinions, butalso they're here for
entertainment, and a really dry BBC documentary does only one of

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those two things. So I'm going to put it I think
you're exactly right. Maybe, maybe even below 48
hours. OK, I have no objection and I
don't know what this is, so I have no objection to wherever
you want to put it. Look, my apologies to the hard
working journalists at the BBC, but your movie's boring to me

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and I'm not going to rank it anyhigher.
Was that the opening paragraph of your essay?
In this essay, I will instead discuss 1982's 48 Hours.
This is not a knock on documentary filmmaking as a
whole. I just found that movie really
slow. No, I'm hey, you don't.

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I hear you. I hear you, brother.
You don't need to justify it to me.
Just a regular guy. I want to come home after work
and crack a beer and watch Revenge of the Sith.
OK? I don't need to be taught about
neoliberalism, all right? I get enough of that.
I don't need to learn about it. I'm in it.
I'm in it right now anyway. Spin the, spin the wheel, move

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on. Spinning the wheel.
Next up is 762. 762 is OK, this one's more fun. 2019's loop in
the third, the first. Oh yeah, I think we watched this
one together. I think we did.
We had a loop in the third. For those who don't know.

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Is it originally like a manga anime series of Japan about a
charming thief? Right, that's the simplest
explanation. Yeah, yeah.
And this was a 3D animated moviethat was like a newer entry in

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the loop in the third Canon, butwas supposed to be like a
prequel story about when he was a younger man, right?
I. Didn't remember that last part
about it being a prequel story. You're probably right though.
I. Think that's why it's called the
first. That makes sense that.
Was a very Mike Myers, Yeah. Thank you.

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That's that's what I was going for, yeah.
It's a bit of a Doctor Evil move.
Yeah. Yeah.
So yeah, a little bit of the third is a fun one.
That's one where I think a lot of people are big fans of the
original anime series. It's very suave.
It's stylish and has good music.This movie was maybe seen by
fewer people, but I recall it being quite good.

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Oh yeah. I mean, Loop in the third is
great. It's inspired other arguably
more popular series. Like I know that Cowboy Bebop
was like heavily inspired by theoriginal Loop in the 3rd.
And after I watched like after we watched this movie, I went
and watched one of the Loop in the third anime series and I

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loved it. I was like, this is great.
So this was a great entryway to to just loop in the 3rd and
there was, oh actually there wasalso the Miyazaki like Studio
Ghibli loop in the third film. The 70s one, yeah, there's a,
there's another Lupin movie thatis in like traditional anime

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style. That one's even better if we
pull that one. I I would put that pretty
highly. I believe it was produced by
Studio Ghibli. It was not made by or no, Hayao
Miyazaki had some role in it. I believe he did, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, so if we pull that one,
that's that that one's worth expanding on more, I think
because it's a that's like it's just a fantastic stand alone
film in the series. This one, the 2019 film just

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kind of like a solid animated movie, kind of like a family
movie in terms of tone. It's not it's not serious or
anything, just fun, exciting animation.
I would I'd rank it pretty high.Oh.
How high would you rank it? It's almost like that's why
we're here. Lupin the third, the first

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probably moves up to we actuallyhave like a little block of
animated movies towards the middle of the list so far.
Our current number 11 is Porco Rosso, which is like a
traditional Ghibli movie. And then right below it is 1997
Hercules from Disney. Where would you?
I feel like it's going to land somewhere around these two.

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I would. Definitely put it below both of
those movies though. I would as well.
I think it's fun. If we pulled that 70s Lupin
movie, it would maybe be more incontention.
This is just like solid. I would put this.
Yeah, I would put the 70s one above those two you just
mentioned and this one like solidly below it.
OK, I think maybe for ranking then Lupin the third, the first

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versus 1998 crime thriller Out of Sight.
Who wins? Gosh.
Oh, we oh, that, that was the Clooney one, right Was.
That. That's the Cloon?
Yep. Honestly similar vibes like both
kind of like Thief movies heistsin a way.

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Like if Lupin the character was in the upcoming sequel to the
Ocean's 11 movies, I'd be like, yeah, of course.
That'd be great, but if it was like Looney Tunes style though,
where it's like all the other actors are live action
performers and he's just the oneanimated one on the team.
It's just a cartoon. Yeah.
And they're like, we need someone who could squeeze into
this door. And he's like, I got it.

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Then he does like a Daffy Duck routine.
It just goes like 2D, yeah. I would say Nope, You go, you
tell me. We were going to What were you
going to the same time? Same time you just say above or
below, out of sight. We just say the.
Word above or below OK 32 one below below OK OK on my end it

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sounded like it sounded like youjust waited to hear what I was
going to say in the same the same thing.
It's like that that SNL bit where they're trying to like
sing but they don't know the thelyrics and they're trying to
like just guess what the next word is going to.
Be oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The front office in bed, right?
Yeah. Just trying to like, follow the

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other's lead. OK, well, they're in agreement
then. Lupin the third, the first is
almost as good, but just below 1998 out of sight, which is
would currently make it #14 on our list So far, not bad.
Respectable position. Yeah, I, I definitely think that
a factor in how we rank these because it's so off the cuff is

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like the impression that they leave.
Like I'd say we watched that movie like four or five years
ago. I don't really remember very
well. I remember I liked it, but not
much in specific. And I think that does kind of
knock it down a little bit. That's a good point.
I I think if there's one thing that's a determining factor and
where things land on the list, it's just general imprint.

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That's why Revenge of the Sith is number one right now.
It just. Yeah, it's a very strong
guidepost for our entire life. Yeah, and a dear friend.
Do you think that when we decidethat Revenge of the Sith should
go on top of the list, I should just source the audio of her
saying so? This is how Liberty dies.

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Oh, you absolutely should. Yes, yes, I don't.
I don't see any reason why you shouldn't.
The thunderous, thunderous CountDooku.
Thunderous Count. Dooku, which is how we've been
quoting it for our entire lives.That's.
What I mean, it's too deep. It's too deep in the psyche.
We've been talking about these movies for 20 years.
We have like layers of references that are just between

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the two of us about them. How could it go anywhere but #1?
Yeah, I remember. Was it, There was 1 Christmas a
couple of years ago where it waslike all we talked about like
this is like Christmas Day or Christmas Eve maybe, and we just
spent the entire time talking about the prequels.
Yeah. And yeah, this is what's
important. Listen, they're bad movies kind

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of, but the the way to fix them and make them like flawless
would not involve drastic changes.
And that's the thing that gets me.
A lot of people are like, what if the prequels were good and
they just make a new movie and call it a Star Wars prequel And
I'm like, they had a lot. They had a lot that should still
be there. If anything, they didn't go hard
enough on certain ideas cough cough Sith Jar Jar Binks.

(27:10):
Sure, Yeah, yeah. And well, and they've spawned
some. We're back to Star Wars now,
but. Real quick, they've.
Just they've spawned so much related media that fills in
those blanks in a way or just expands on those ideas.
So there was clearly a lot therethat people really latched onto

(27:33):
that's. What I mean the Star Wars
prequels added backfilled in lore that has allowed Star Wars
to be an IP that still gets new stuff today.
Like there was other things thatadded to that too.
I mean, there's novels and gamesthat added to like the ancient
history of Star Wars, but the prequels gave so much that other

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authors and creators have been able to latch onto to make
interesting stuff. There's a Darth Maul animated
series that's brand new. There's 6000 episodes of that
Clone Wars TV show, and some people think that's over
saturation. I just think it's given the
people what they want. Well, I mean, I was talking to a
friend of mine recently who you know about.

(28:16):
You're a way to phrase that, Youknow, I don't know Obama.
It was. It was me and Barack, we're
talking about the Star Wars prequels and the Old Republic
games. But though, but even that stuff
like 'cause you mentioned the stuff that goes into even the
older history of Star Wars, likethe Old Republic series of

(28:38):
games, which I also really love those.
But those came out around the same time as the prequels and
even those have that DNA in it as well, especially with like
the visuals and everything. So I really think a lot of what
people like about Star Wars doescome from those movies, and the
one of the many problems with the new ones is that they just
didn't introduce any new ideas. No, like if you want a movie

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that tries to nostalgia Bate purely from what's on paper in
the original Star Wars trilogy, that's how you get solo like.
The solo? I haven't even seen that one.
They have nothing to pull on. They literally have to invent
like a nonsensical wrap around conversation so that the guy
could declare that his name is Solo.

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He's like, you're travelling alone, I'm going to write your
name on your passport. And it's like, why isn't that
just his name? This is awful.
Yeah, that's stupid. And then Darth Mole's in it too,
from what I've heard. Spoilers, I guess for anyone who
hasn't seen someone, but I I fell asleep during it.
That says enough about. It anyway, that's that's our 2nd

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loop back to Revenge of the Sith.
But as we move on, I think we just finished talking about loop
in the third. So let's let's spin the wheel.
What else we got? This next one, it's going to be
Phantom Menace. Just you watch.
Just you wait. Oh, I don't know, 12221222?
1222 #1222 on the alphabetical list.

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You guessed it, Another sad documentary I watched in
college, The Act of Killing. OK, so let's just, should we
just put it right next to the other one and move on?
Let me look it up. Hold on the film follows
individuals from 2012. The film follows individuals who
participated in the Indonesian mass killings of the 1960s,

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where wherein alleged communistsand people opposed to the New
Order regime were tortured and killed, and many of the people
involved are still in power at the time the movie was made.
Oh, so it's like a lighthearted.Family film it's.
Like a situation. Yep.
Mm hmm great. I I will say I believe this is a

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pretty highly acclaimed documentary when it was
released. For what it revealed, I'm.
Trying to remember because I don't want to even attempt to
like give a full picture becauseI'll end up just leaving stuff
out. Like this would require more of
a formal presentation. I would say maybe go read about
the film yourself if you're interested.
But if this is the thing I'm thinking of, it was an

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interesting case where the documentary film makers had,
like, access to the people in charge who had been involved in
these crimes against humanity. And like, the people were happy
to, like, give interviews and bereally involved in the project.
So it's really like, chilling tokind of have these people gladly
participating in a recounting ofsomething they did that most
people would be horrified by. I think they even did this

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really bizarre exercise where they brought the real people
involved along to film like a reenactment as footage for the
movie. That's kind of insane, actually.
Well, and as I recall, like partof the end of the story is that
by forcing them to film these like reenactments of the things

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they did to these people that were killed, it like caused for
them, some of them to be really like emotionally impacted by it
and kind of remorseful. Like the act of recreating the
crime from the side of the people who actually had done it.
Like, like really shocked them and LED to these kind of
interesting, you know, like conversations afterwards by

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these people who actually for the first time seemed a little
remorseful about it. Wow.
That's, I mean, honestly, I'm glad we didn't just blow past
that one because that's really interesting.
That's like a psychological exploration of these things.
Yeah, I'm trying to read the endof the, like, plot synopsis to
like, jog my memory. It does say that like one of the

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people being interviewed, like had like a panic attack like in
reaction to finally being made to feel empathy for what they
had done to other people. It's really crazy that people
are able to turn that off in the1st place because it sounds like
they're really not able to turn it off, but they're able to

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suppress it enough that they're able to go out and do these
things. And then later those feelings
resurface because they bro is there that that's just really an
interesting look into, I don't know, I guess what people are
capable of. Yeah, it's a heavy documentary.

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Hyper normalization is talking about politics and so it's
easier, but it's not like in thespecific.
So it's a little bit easier for me to dismiss it.
It's just like somebody's essay about the subject.
Where is Act of Killing was actually a pretty ambitious
documentary project that used that type of filmmaking to to
affect someone in a way that no other version could.
I think even a fictionalized adaptation of the story if like

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if you filmed a narrative film about that event and showed it
to the people, I don't think that would have nearly the same
impact as what they were made todo instead.
Yeah, that's why documentary film making is interesting
because, you know, I, I obviously I know other other
people that work in production. And a friend of mine worked on
like documentary projects for a while.
And I remember she was working on one that was something about

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the school system that she was like travelling to different
States and going to all these different schools.
And I was like, well, what's thedocumentary like about though?
And she was like, yeah, we don'treally know yet.
Because it was like they had almost like an idea of what they
wanted to explore and then go out and film it and then kind of

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find the story in the edit sometimes almost.
And so it's like you documentaryfilmmaking can be kind of
experimental in that way. It is.
And I think that the results of what was done for the act of
killing, I mean, it's totally a case.
Like if they hadn't gotten what they were looking for out of it,
it might have just not even become a movie.
Like sometimes you go out to capture a subject and you're
like, we don't have a feature. Like we don't have a story that

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we captured well enough to make into something.
But this one definitely did. I am completely at a loss for
where to put it on our silly little ranking list.
I mean, it's pretty good. It's a good documentary.
It's controversial. There's like a ton of citations,
even if you just like, look at the IMDb or the wiki about

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whether or not it was a like accurate retelling of the
history of the crimes committed in that country or the political
history. Like it's a very charged
subject. And there's a lot where you
could say from that documentary ethics perspective is like, is
what they did right? Is it even maybe disingenuous to
ask the audience to care about someone who did horrible things

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feeling bad about it 40 years later and suffering no
consequences for it? Sure.
And that's the other thing aboutdocumentaries.
Yeah, yeah, totally. And that's the other thing I was
I would say about documentaries too, is, is that's what they do.
It's like they present a narrative, but it's presented as
fact. And so it really does.

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I think a lot of people would watch a documentary and kind of
take everything they're given asinformation at face value where
because that's how it's being presented to them.
It's like, oh, this is documentary, this is real things
that happened. But you can't always completely
trust everything that you're hearing because they're still

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trying to tell a story and and structure it in a certain way
and has an agenda of sorts, evenif they might not even know what
it is. Yeah.
So yeah, like you said, documentary ethics and and that
type of filmmaking. It's it's hardest for me to rank
documentaries in this list because of the narrative films
cover 90% of genres and so you can more like easily compare

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documentaries. So hard for me to say like I'd
say in the documentary field, good movie.
Is it below the Hot Fuzz line? I don't know.
Oh. Hot Fuzz, I was looking more at
the big short line that. Those are hard, too, yeah.
Yeah. I would say active killing is
above the Big Short Valley. But.

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But but below the Hot Fuzz torch, yeah, I'm going to say
I'm going to vibe it out. Below Hercules.
OK, sure. Yeah, I'm not going to argue too
strongly one way or the other for this one, especially because
I haven't. Seen it again.
Like if we mentioned recently, it's a lot of this is going to

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be based on the impression it left and this one seems like it
left a strong impression it was at least unique in that way.
I was able to remember stuff about the format of a
documentary and this is again it's something I watched 10
years ago and probably wrote a paper about and probably had not
slept much before seeing in the 1st place.
So I was up all night finishing the Batman paper and then I had

(37:41):
to go to class. Right.
I I was going to say we're goingto college ragers, but it was it
was Batman. It was it was stuff like Batman.
Definitely Batman. It's just me alone being like
you, tell him Mr. Mr. J. Mr. J OK that's for Act of
killing #13 on our list so far out of 25.
Kind of right towards the middle.

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I'd say the things above it are like peak for their genre and
this one is like semi peak for the documentary genre.
Semi peak OK, should we do a silly one?
Let's do a silly one. I would love a silly one.
Could you maybe pull Star Wars again?
Let's do a silly one. It's 1576.
This one's so silly. Can't wait to tell you how silly

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it is 1570 What a 5050 what a 5050?
It's an animated movie, but it'sreally sad.
We're talking about 1978's Watership Down.
Oh my goodness, I got to say, there are way we've built so

(38:43):
many animated movies. I really wasn't expecting there
to be so many so. Quickly, yeah, because it's not
like it's a majority of the alphabetized list.
But through sheer coincidence, we keep pulling animated stuff
from different categories. Like we haven't pulled just
another 90s Disney movie yet. We're we're jumping around
between like countries because Watership Down.

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Is that a British film? No.
This is another one I haven't seen.
This is, this is. Oh, you haven't?
No. Yeah.
I'll try to move quicker on thisone.
Watership Down is an adaptation of a book that I mean for a
point of reference if you need it.
It's almost like akin to something.
It's not a fantasy story, it's more in the style where it's a

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story about animals, but like itpersonifies the animals with
like voices and characters, but they still move around like
regular animal creatures. How odd.
I'm trying to picture that but it's difficult.
The animation is really pretty. It has almost like a.
The image in my head is almost like a watercolor esque palette.

(39:46):
It's a very nice looking movie. It's a very well made story, but
it's also really upsetting. Picture Like the Red Wall books
if there was no fantasy, yeah picture Red Wall but none of the
fantasy or fun and just the sad killing parts.
Man, Redwell's so good. Should we just talk about that
instead? That's a book, but.

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Watership Down there was a show.There was a PBS show.
There was a PBS show. That's true, that's true.
But we're a movie show. Watership Down is a weird one.
Like it again, quite good, quitesolid.
It's a it's a famous novel adapted into a famous story that
I think is still like for children, but just has some
like, upsetting imagery in it. Like when the animals attack

(40:30):
each other, they like draw bloodand people die.
It's kind of trying to like, kind of trying to make feeder
out of the ways in which animalsactually like prey and hunt on
each other in the wild. But there's a story like it's
presented like a nature documentary or.
No, not at all. It's it's like a narrative story
with like characters I try to remember.

(40:52):
Let me just look at the basic plot so I don't sound silly.
This is supposed to be a silly one.
It's supposed to be silly. If you Google Watership Down
movie, one of the first things that pops up is a YouTube video
essay and the thumbnail just says childhood trauma.
Good. Also, I'm spot on, it was a

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British film. How did I remember that?
That's just, you know, there's not a lot of room in your head
for important things, but stuff like this, it's right in there.
OK, rabbits. The main characters are rabbits.

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Apparently one of them is named Fiber, which is just funny.
Fiber, the rabbit. That's fun.
Yeah. I don't know.
I don't think I could do justiceto this one in a short form
conversation because there's a lot in it.
It's a very, like, rich story for children about, like, the
horrors of the world. And there's a lot of things like
that. It's like how people talk about

(41:54):
like, Return to Oz, like that odd Wizard of Oz sequel, how
it's like, really oddly scary even to watch as an adult.
And you're like, why were kids being exposed to this?
Oh, I'm not familiar with that return to Oz.
Is that a live action film? It was, yeah.
It was like a much later sequel about, I think some other novel
in that same world that just hasa lot of, like, frightening

(42:16):
imagery in it that scared a lot of kids when they saw it.
That's. Interesting, I'm going to have
to look into that. So yeah, I don't know.
This is this is 1. Like it has theatrical qualities
to it. The animals all are like, you
know, they live in like a human esque society with like
different roles and families andstuff, but they're just trying

(42:36):
to navigate a world that I thinkwhen you zoom out is like the
human world, you know what I mean?
It's like they'll be trying to like cross the grasslands, but
then you'll zoom out and you'll see that it's like, oh, there's
like a farm in the background. Like there's people living here
too. OK, I'm sure I have an.
I have a rough idea of what thisis.
Where, Where do you think it's going to?
Where's it going to live on thislist?

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I mean, we're going straight to animated Junction because I feel
like a lot of these are just fairly good animated films.
Watership Down to me is above the one we just talked about.
I put it above active killing. I would put it maybe even right

(43:19):
below Dune, like at the top of the animated heap.
Sure, Yeah. I mean if you like it more than
like Hercules and Porco Rosso. I think it's one where it's
upsetting to watch, but Baby hasa little bit more oomph, like
messaging wise. Like again, Poca, Rosa and
Hercules are really fantastic animated films, but they all

(43:39):
they both suffer from like the strengths of their peers.
There's better 90s Disney movies, there's better Ghibli
movies. Watership Down kind of stands on
its own. It has an interesting quality to
it and it's a good story and it left an impression.
I saw that movie when I was like15 and it's been a long time but
I do still remember the vibes pretty strongly.
Oh wow, when did you? I didn't know when did you watch

(44:01):
this? What?
What? What motivated this?
No idea, couldn't tell you. I don't have like a sense memory
of like what I was doing or whatwas going on with it.
I just know I've seen the film at some point.
OK, Watership Down. Watership.
Down. We are having trouble today,
folks. We got an early lead with Star
Wars and now it's just like a memory test for me.

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Once again, it's all movies you've seen.
Well, I know there was. We both saw Lupin, but yeah.
You know what? Why don't we spin the wheel
again and see if we can find something a little more meaty
that we can both talk about? Spin that meaty wheel.
Don't say that. Don't say that.
Don't say that. 1374. 1374 OK have you even seen this?

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The 2016 remake of The Magnificent 7.
Wait, the remake of The Magnificent 7, which is itself
is like an adaptation of Seven Samurai?
Is that right? That's right, The Magnificent 7
was the original 1. I think it was made in like the
60s and follows the same basic plot outline as Seven Samurai

(45:10):
and like 100 other films where it's like the small town is
being taken advantage of by Raiders and so they go grab like
a small but elite team to like teach the town how to defend
itself and then and then there'sa big fight at the end.
It's the same plot as Ninja Turtles 3 as well.
Well, of course, that's where I was going to go next.

(45:30):
Was Ninja Turtles 3 next Ninja Turtles 3 because we're a adult
program and we talk about serious film and.
Bug's life. It's also Bug's life.
Too. It's also Bug's Life, that's
true. So yeah, that's the original
Magnificent 7. I haven't seen that one, I don't
think, but I guess in the 20 tens they did a remake and I
think Ethan Hawke was in it. That's what I remember.

(45:51):
Yeah. So to answer your question, no,
I don't think I've seen any of those films.
I I have a a strong vibe about this one that it's going to go
right below Doctor Strange. Two.
OK, sure. I got nothing on this one.
It's a dull remake of a much better movie that in its own

(46:12):
right is OK. It's now like, it's like a
poorly constructed film, but kind of falls into that camp of
like, why did we do this again? That story has been adapted so
many times aside from the ones we just mentioned it it pops up
in. I feel like there's been several
TV shows. I think there's been like
episode of Star Trek I've seen where they do it and it was

(46:32):
definitely an episode of the Star Wars Clone Wars show.
Just to bring it back to the corporals one more time.
And the Mandalorian show did A7 samurai episode.
Yep. It was like 2 samurai.
It's, yeah, that's what they called it.
It's just it's a really easy story to adapt, I guess.
Yeah, and it's been done better in virtually every other example

(46:53):
that we have named. There is no value in this 2010's
Magnificent 7. Great love that.
Moving on next. We keep getting I'm going to
hit, I'm going to hit the wheel,I'm going to hit it a few times
just to mix, you know, just to wake it up.
There are no, there's no rules. There's no rules against how

(47:15):
often you hit the button. That's fine.
She's. Going to land on a number I like
#6 number six. Oh gosh, you, you've got to be
kidding me. Number six is 2013's because
it's obviously it's going to start with a number on the
alphabetized list. 2013's 12 Years a Slave.

(47:37):
Damn damn, we got some bummers this episode.
This is the biggest Rayman bummer I've ever experienced,
and we've done it three times. So 12 Years a Slave was an Oscar
film to me very much like it wasmade, with a very, like heavy
emphasis on the lead performers getting a chance to earn, you
know, best actor nominations. And I think it did.

(47:59):
I think so too. I definitely think it did.
I don't recall if it has source material, like if it's an
adapted from like a book or someone's biography, but it is a
very harrowing story about a manin the American South during the
time of slavery who I think was maybe a free man and then got
like captured and made into a slave anyway.

(48:22):
You know, like just talking to some horrible injustice to start
the movie. And then he spends 12 years as a
slave and then maybe by the veryend of the story is free.
But it was, if I'm if I'm remembering correctly, the lead
was Chiwetel Ejiofor. Is that right?
Yeah, I think so. This was a huge movie at the
time. It was like you said it was.

(48:42):
It was a big Oscar movie that year.
Yes, Chiwetel Ejiofor was the lead.
Michael Fassbender was the big racist guy, I think.
I guess Brad Pitt was in it too.Oh, what?
OK. Actually, yeah, this is a pretty
stacked cast. There's more people in this than
I remember. Benedict Cumberbatch was in the
movie, just a who's who of popular actors.
This might have been because oneof the other people in it is

(49:05):
Lupita Nyong'o, and I think thismight have been like a breakout
role for her. Yeah, she's done a lot of stuff
since this movie, but at the time it might have been like a
breakout performance. Yeah.
So I mean, really, how much you enjoy this film is kind of just
like how much interest do you have in heavy historical dramas

(49:29):
about really messed up times in history, which there's a lot of
those. So of them, this is a pretty
good one. I will say I don't watch movies
like this a lot. Sure, sure.
There's a lot of artistic value and historical value in this
type of film and this type of story, but it's really

(49:50):
depressing and if that's not what you go to the movies for,
then probably not going to like this one.
But I cannot deny it was a very well made film.
Let me see who directed it. Directed by Steve McQueen, who
also did 2011's Shame, It looks like this is Maybe This might be
Steve Mcqueen's biggest film, but he has also made a number of
other popular dramas. That's the guy from Cars, right?

(50:15):
That's the guy from Cars. OK, 12 Years a Slave, It's going
towards the top for sure. I mean, it's a very solid movie
with a lot of acclaim for good reason, I would say.
I mean, it's in the top ten probably, right?

(50:35):
Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'd say it's even. I'd put it above Hot Fuzz.
Yeah, I got no problem putting it above above Hot Fuzz.
I don't know how much else to put it above because I will say,
does anybody talk about the movie now?
It's definitely one of those film titles where if you
mentioned it, people would be like, Oh yeah, I, I know that

(50:56):
movie. So it has staying power.
It, it, it, it left a cultural impact.
So I think it gets a lot of points for that.
Maybe hear me out, We we put it above my little block of 80s
movies that I like that are currently towards the top.
We could put 12 years in at #5. Yeah.

(51:20):
Let's do that. We got a new top five movie.
Let's do that this. This is part of the just the
challenge of the dichotomy of films of comparing like a silly
movie that you really like. Because right above that right
now is Attack of the Clones. Mention that we didn't put it
above Attack of the Clones. Yeah, I'm doing it.
I'm. I'm going to be honest, I'm

(51:40):
going to shoot straight with theaudience here.
We did not put it above Attack of the Clones, but that's just
like that. That's the world of film.
There's so it's such a broad spectrum of what you can do.
It's same with like those documentaries.
The documentary could be so manydifferent things.
The film could be so many different things.
Are you trying to tell me that it is not effective, efficient

(52:01):
or sensical to try to rank everymovie ever made on one list?
Let's do the next one. Let's.
Do the next one let's try to get.
I think if we get two more in then we'll have 30 movies total.
That sounds good. That's a good start.
How many could there be? How many could there be?
We're probably like halfway done.
I'm tired 971. Me too.

(52:23):
Me too, bud. OK, this is more middle ground,
Frank. We saw this movie in the
theater. I don't think either of us liked
it. 2015 Project Almanac. What?
No, you remember Project Almanac.
It's a tell. Me.
More words than that. No, it's a found footage time

(52:48):
travel movie about these kids, teenagers who discover that they
have a machine that lets them goback in time they find.
It. Somebody's attic.
And then they initially have allthese like rules about how they
only go back as a whole group and how they try not to change
too many things. But then the main character ends
up trying to change too many things about the past in order

(53:11):
to essentially get with this girl that he likes, and
eventually it unravels and starts to ruin the lives of
everyone involved and it's the whole thing.
That might be worse than Kingsman, honestly.
It was bad. It's a bad film.
Neither of us liked it. I don't know why we saw it.
Yeah, I feel like I've been, like, repressing that movie.

(53:33):
Like you told me the title, and I was like, I have no memory of
this place. And then you start to describe
it, and it was like these dark emotions started coming up and I
was like, oh. Yeah.
That movie was awful. I was there 3000 years ago.
Yeah, yeah. Destroy it, throw it in the.
Fire the. Magic Dominic stinks.

(53:56):
It's it's not good. The found footage aspect of it
is like a horrible gimmick that the movie struggles to work
around because everything that you're being shown was
supposedly captured on like one guy's camcorder.
And so they they just always have to find a place to put the
camcorder, even though they're moving and going places and it
just does not work. It's stupid.

(54:17):
Let's do the next one. It's the bottom, the bottom of
the list. Project home now.
Terrible film. One more terrible.
One unamas. All right, this is OK #40 #30 is
going to be #40. #30 is number 40.
That sounds like a Riddle. OK #40 a little bit more of a

(54:38):
crowd pleaser. Although it's a horror film,
2018's A Quiet Place. Oh, I haven't seen that.
You haven't seen a fireplace? Oh my gosh, do you even like
movies? Not really.
Why did I see this and you didn't?
I don't even. Watch horror movies.
That's a big that's a big movie.That's a big.

(55:01):
Movie. It had multiple.
Opinions about that? Yeah.
People liked it enough. It's a story about a apocalypse
scenario of sorts, where these aliens arrived on Earth that
cannot see but are extremely sensitive to sound.
And so the only way that some humans have survived a couple of
years in is by making absolutelyno noise.

(55:23):
And so your whole film is this family of four, including Jim
from The Office. What's his name?
John Krasinski. John Krasinski and Emily Blunt,
who I think are married IRL. They're the couple in the film
and they're trying to live in safety with their two children
while evading the evil murder monsters.

(55:46):
I think he had a a large part inthe making of that movie.
I think he was possibly the writer, director, producer,
question mark. He, he, he, he was more than
just the lead in in. That it was his project.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a Kaczynski project.
And again, like you said, had pop culture impact.
People were riffing on it. There was SNL skits about it.
There's been two sequels, if not3.

(56:07):
Frankly, I don't get it. I thought it is.
It's OK. I think it just had a unique
premise and a lot of horror movies will get by on that.
That's true. That's true.
It's just a gimmick for you to understand the nature of the
danger. And I guess given how much

(56:29):
horror is about people screaming, the idea that you
can't make noise, it's kind of different.
Yeah, people really, there's just something base and like
instinctual people really respond to horror movies.
And I think from a marketing perspective, if you have a
horror movie with a simple, easyto understand gimmick, wasn't

(56:51):
there was another one that got kind of made fun of and memed on
a bit? Is that Sandra Bullock movie
like, oh, Bird Box? Bird Box.
Yeah, Yeah. Where she's like wearing the
blindfold. I haven't seen that one either,
but is it like? They're not allowed to see stuff
I don't. Know they're not allowed to.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it makes sense to me why

(57:11):
Quiet Place took off, especially, again, people love
the office. It's it's gross how much people
love the office. And I think John Kaczynski,
like, really? Like the Star Wars prequels?
Like the Star Wars prequels you had Dum Dums.
My favorite part of his of A Quiet Place is when John

(57:33):
Kaczynski looks at his wife and goes You still thinking we still
going to die? And then Darth Drunk kills him.
I guess, OK, so you haven't seenit.
Quiet Place is a very competently made film, like one
of those ones that really tries to stick to the beats that are
in the script. The very beginning of the story,

(57:56):
they hit you with the tragedy upfront because the couple has
three children. And in the opening sequence, I
think they're going to like, raid an old store, like a gas
station shop or something. And there's this very quiet
scene where one of the younger kids, like the really little
ones, finds this little robot toy that, like, lights up and

(58:17):
makes noise and accidentally sets it off.
And like, the instant it happens, they're dead.
Like they just get swiped from off screen by one of these
monsters after a very long buildup.
Yes, I actually saw just that exact scene recently somewhere,
and I immediately had a lot of questions.
And I'm sure other people have brought this up with this movie
too. But like, even in that scene,

(58:39):
like John Krasinski is like running towards his son to try
and save him. And it's like, why are the
monsters not attacking him? He's clearly making a lot of
noise. He's running over there.
It does have what? Are the rules.
Yeah, The whole movie has logistical issues where, like,
for example, nobody can speak above a very low whisper.

(59:02):
And then there's a scene early on in the first, actor John
Krasinski takes his son to this little spot he found that's next
to a waterfall. And he says, like, we can talk
here. The noise of the water is louder
than us. They wouldn't be able to trace.
Like they won't hear it. So we can talk normally, albeit
with this loud noise behind us. And I was like, why don't you
live next to the waterfall? Why did.

(59:23):
Yeah. If.
They're never going to go just yeah, have like a white noise
machine on in your apartment andyou'll be fine.
I think that a lot of the questions people had was just
like, how did these things beat the military?
Because I think the weakness of the monsters by the end of the
first movie is just that they'rereally vulnerable to a specific
frequency of sound that like makes them just die.

(59:45):
And it's like the military couldn't figure this out in what
would probably have been a decent amount of time.
I get that they're like supposedsupposed to be borderline
indestructible aside from that weakness, but seems fishy.
There's there's a lot of logicalgaps that you need to just
ignore to appreciate a movie like that.

(01:00:07):
And another thing, how did Michael Myers survive all those
times he got killed? Doesn't make sense.
Really doesn't make sense. Think about it.
Yeah, that's what I mean though.It's it's when you're watching a
horror movie, you're not really.I guess they're to ask those
kinds of questions. But.
When you have kind of a concept like that, it's also kind of

(01:00:30):
hard not to. So I'm sure we're not the first
people to bring up these kind ofcomplaints with that movie.
But like you said, they keep making sequels, so clearly it's
not enough of an issue. Yeah, it's a.
Real Cinemasins type movie. Like actually that doesn't even
make sense. And it's like, well, it's really
a story about family. But oh, actually, you know what

(01:00:50):
the scariest part of the whole movie is, is they do this whole
setup about they have a basementwith these like Crick, like
rickety wooden stairs down to the basement.
And at one point, like a really big like nail gets uprooted and
it's just sticking straight up. And they spend like 10 minutes
teasing that Emily Blunt is going to just like step foot
first in her bare feet on a big sharp nail.

(01:01:11):
And it's the most upsetting thing in the whole movie.
Wait, so she's like slowly trying to go down the stairs
without making noise? And you see this big upright
like rusty nail and they're like, oh, she goes scream if she
steps on that nail. And then I think she does and.
Then she has to not scream. And then yeah, I think that's
the beat is her. She has to like be in a ton of
pain, but like not make a bunch of noise.

(01:01:32):
So anyway, it's fine. You might have noticed Frank on
our list. I was typing while we were
talking. Quiet Place found its way right
below loop in the third. Yeah, yeah, I'm OK with that.
Just above the Big Short line, which is to say perfectly good
movies. Go above that line and A Quiet
Place is perfectly good. I, I don't know, I just didn't
do anything much for me beyond the initial premise.

(01:01:52):
Sure. Yeah, I can.
I'm. I'm surprised you even watched
it, but me too. I.
Thought I watched it by myself, I don't even know why.
Because if there was anyone elsethere, you would have made too
much noise. That's quiet, and then the movie
would have got me. The movie would have got you
jumped right out of the screen. Boo scary.
Anyway, that makes for I think we ranked ten movies today and

(01:02:13):
we're over our hour. So we need to to start our wrap
up, Frank, we've done it again, our third episode, our ongoing
journey of ranking every movie ever made.
How do you think we're doing? Well, we got a, we got a new
number one and a new number, thebottom this time, so.
Number the bottom. That's right.
That's pretty good. I think that's progress.

(01:02:34):
I feel like the wheel that controls our faith threw us a
bone at the beginning by giving us Revenge of the Sith and then
stomped on us for the rest of the episode.
Just random obscure stuff. Documentaries like old animated
movies. Playoffs.
Talk about playoffs. I'd.
Rather, talk about playoffs. So yeah, I mean, again, this is

(01:02:56):
the premise. We had fun.
The first episode was gibberish.The second episode we had a ton
of crowd favorites. This one, this is where the real
work began. We really have to start sifting.
Yeah, yeah. And that's, that's, that's what
we're here for. We're here to put in the work.
Because. People need to know to rank
every movie ever made. And when the list is done and

(01:03:17):
the Smithsonian pays us for it, will it'll it'll really be have
been worth it. Is that who's going to pay us?
The Smithsonian. The Smithsonian Museum.
Is that what do they what do they do there normally?
By list are they? Just waiting?
Do they just have like an empty room that's waiting for this
list to go into it? I think so.
It'll be a modern art piece. I do think I forgot to mention

(01:03:41):
this in our previous two, but for the listeners at home,
you're free to help us make the list.
I would say that if you're listening to this right now on
YouTube or Spotify or Apple Music, leave a comment.
Tell us any movie that you watched this week, whether it
was good or bad, and where it should fit on the list as it
stands right now. And I'll be honest, I might just
blindly accept people's rationale and just put it there.

(01:04:03):
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm, I'm starting to
think this might take a while. So if people want to help us
speed it up. Got to get this thing moving.
Yeah, again, let us know. Let us know your thoughts on the
episode. Let us know if we were wrong
about anything this time around.Should Revenge of the Sith be
even higher than #1? Perhaps.
I was considering it. I was considering making like a

(01:04:26):
0 but. You know, upper echelon S plus
rank. Yeah, exactly.
But yeah, let us know just a movie you saw where it should go
on the list and we will include some of those when we record
next time. Frank, thank you so much again
for joining me. Anything specific to plug or are
we out? I'm just going to throw it back
to the movie Nate Morion Venice,now available for streaming on

(01:04:49):
both Amazon Prime Video and Toby.
And Toby free with ads on Toby no barrier to entry there again.
That is the frank the frank thatis the film that Frank Co
produced and shot along with ourgood friend Austin Bulky
independent drama available now.We promise we'll stop plugging
it constantly, but it did just come out.
So this is kind of our. Review I never made that promise

(01:05:11):
so. Frank has not made that promise.
It's the only reason he's here. He's here to talk about a quiet
place and chew bubble gum, and he's never seen a quiet place.
Yeah, and I don't like bubble gum, but it's gonna be Yeah,
then that movie's going to be onthe list, too.
But we'll, I'm sure at one pointwe'll pull Nate and Ryan Venice

(01:05:33):
and it'll land on there. It'll go up there pretty high up
there, as we keep saying. But yeah, that'll do it for this
episode. Let us know if you want to see
more from this series. Let us know movies you've seen
recently and where they should go.
And until next time this has been Meet Your Double feature.
Yes, well. Yeah, that's the show that we

(01:05:53):
do. Oh, oh, oh.
Yeah, you've been recording, right?
You've been recording your microphone.
I think so. I well, I got you here.
I got a question. So if you took like a football
team, right, and like a like a Pro Football team and like a pro
baseball team, right, and then you made them play like

(01:06:14):
basketball against each other, who do you think would win that?
Good night everybody.

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