The 2024 Year in Review / Our Top 10 Films and More!

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I am Nathan Schur, andaccompanying me are the extraordinary
movie mavens BriannaButterworth and Sam Cole.
Hello.
Greetings, hello, and welcometo our 99th episode, back to the
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Dude, that's a nice jingle, Sam.

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I'm going to talk to the boardabout implementing that in front
of all of our programming.
Oh, thank you.
I thank you very much.
Royalties?
You're not gonna wantroyalties, I hope, right?
No, no, it's just the.
The honor of my.
My singing having been heardbrings joy to my heart.
I've captured.
I asked for nothing in return.
I've captured a lot of singingof yours, Sam.
So, you know, I could, youknow, cut a whole full album at this

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point.
Yeah, there's some wackinesson file, that's for sure.
Yeah.
Oh, my gosh, this should be areally fun episode.
We've done this now two yearsin a row.
We're going to do our wrap upof the past year.
Hey, Happy New Year, everyone.
It is 2025.
2025.
How do we get here?

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Slipping the calendar.
Slippery slopo.
Life decisions.
Here we are.
Yeah, Time of Sunday, by the way.
Happy fourth anniversary ofthe Capitol riots.
Anyway, continue.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, sorry.
I could not resist.
You know me, wacky comedy.
I apologize.
Well, in this episode, we aregoing to be counting down our top

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10 films of 2024.
And also we're going to have afew, maybe some superlatives and
honorable mentions, some othercategories of awards we'll hand out
for some other films.
But yeah, this should be fun.
And then later on in theepisode, we do have a special announcement
about.
About our 100th episode coming up.

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So stick around for that.
You don't want to miss that.
So let's get into this.
We have a beat.
You were just saying, how manymovies did you watch last year from
2024?
2.
72.
So it's not.
It's not a super strong.
Well, I'm not.
I've done better.
I'm not even saying how many I.
Watched because I could barelycome up with top 10.

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Yeah, pretty close put.
It's the movie leftovers fromlast year, I'm guessing.
I, you know, I was gonna go.
With Super Mario Brothers again.
2023.
I will say I tried really hardto have a comprehensive view, but
I have some pretty seriousblind spots that I wish I didn't

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going into today's episode.
Well, do you.
Do you want to have anycaveats or anything that you missed
this year we can say right nowoff the bat because people might
be asking, why isn't thismovie on?
Totally.
I will say off the bat.
I have.
I've seen several movies thisyear that I've liked, but I have
not seen so many films thatthis is probably going to be like

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my worst top 10 list unintentionally.
I just have a lot more to see.
So I just want to promise theaudience and the people of America
that I will get to these films.
I will watch them.
I've just been busy with stuff.
But my, My apologies to thecountry and.
And I will not let you down,President 2028.
Well, I hear something funnybefore you answer that question.
Be one year, I think it mighthave been like 15 or 2016.

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I was so behind on movies andI've always put out a top 10 list
on social media, but I was soembarrassed of the lack of movies
that I watched.
I put out a top 10 list of theprevious year because I finally caught
up on.
Like the 2016.
Hey, I caught up on my 2015 movies.
This is my top 10 of 2015.

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And I felt good about that.
You had some closure.
Sometimes that's the way to do it.
So one of the things thatimpeded me go.
It was just release dates, youknow, I.
So I'll just say now one of myblind spots that I Feel pretty confident.
Would have been in the top 10is Nickel Boys and it just came out
this past week here inMassachusetts and I haven't been

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able to get to it.
The other two are JanetPlanet, which was not an issue with
release date.
I just was one of those moviesI was like, this is going to be emotionally
is going to wreck me.
And I kept putting it offuntil I just put it off and then
do not expect too much fromthe end of the world.
All three of those.
I'm like, these could havebeen real contenders and I just didn't

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get to it.
I just didn't get to it.
I'm sorry.
Well, all will be forgiven,I'm sure.
Thanks.
We.
I believe me, I understand.
Thanks guys.
There were a few I.
I did not get to.
I really wanted to catch SingSing, but that was not tiny release

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in the summer.
Didn't.
Didn't.
Never got a digital release.
I think it's because it'sgoing to be re.
Released in the theaters maybearound awards season.
That's why.
Okay.
Didn't want to.
I didn't see a real pain.
I think it just got a digital release.
Oh, I just watched that.
Yeah.
I haven't seen it.
I honestly have not seen thesubstance yet.

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I am embarrassed to say.
And I will watch it becauseI've only heard incredible things
about it.
It was really cool.
Yeah.
And there was a couple like.
I know like Nickel Boys justcame out and the Brutalist which
just was not available in the theater.
Yeah.
Around here.
So.
So, you know, a couple caveats.
But you know, hey, we're not.
We're not.
I'm an UN movie critic, you know.

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Exactly.
We're not getting screenercopies like other people.
Other critics do or we getadvanced screeners of this where
we can do that.
So that's not the positionthat we're in.
So go listen somewhere else,folks, if that's what you're looking
for.
Out of 72.
These are my.
And I don't know that I hitthe highs of 2023, but there were
some really creative thingsthat were put out this year that

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interested me a lot.
So it was exciting in that way.
Well, I think it's.
Say anything else or shall weget to this?
Oh God, there's so many films.
I'll discuss it as I go, but Iwill say that on a positive note.
Your list will speak for itself.
On a positive note, I amthrilled to announce that it is the
year of Avatar, Fire and Ash.

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Less than a year ago.
Yes, it is excited for thatbecause of course I would be, but
I am.
There's.
There's actually a ton ofthings coming out in 2025 that has
me really.
Pumped for Jurassic World.
Rebirth.
Looks intriguing to mebecause, I mean.
Look at one of them.
I.
I personally, I never.
I never get tired of dinosaurschasing people.

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That is one, like, algorithm.
I always, always watch.
Yeah.
Yes.
Oh, 65 is my number one.
That's the best.
Like, forget jaws.
You know, like, 65 is whereit's at.
Forget Jaws.
That's funny.
Okay, well, let's begin.
Our.
Our top 10.

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Well, Sam, do you want to begin?
You want me to begin?
B.
How should we start this?
Go for it.
I'll go.
Oh, no, you go.
Okay.
You go, Nathan.
Okay, fine.
I'll.
I'll begin.
I'll.
I'll open this up.
Okay.
So my number 10 is Dune part 2from Villeneuve.

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One of the.
This is.
I think this is.
Of all the big budget actionmovies, epic films that came out
this past year, I think thiswas the perfect mix of spectacle
and scale and great storytelling.
So.
And.
And I just think he just tooka text that was just impossible to

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turn into a film.
As, as you know, I'm not a fanof the David lynch version, but he.
What he did with this turninginto two films, I think was commendable.
I.
I thought this was great.
And this really.
I liked this movie when itcame up, but I really.
As I sat with this, I learnedto really love this movie.
And I saw it again, and it's.

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It's.
It's an amazing work of art.
So I do.
And I can't wait to see DuneMessiah, which I think is scheduled
for a few years.
I have.
I'm not holding my breath.
It's going to meet its releasedate, which I think is December 2026.
I think that's unlikely, butI've heard good things about doom
prophecy.
But I'm all in on this world now.
I think it's really, really great.

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And it's so rich.
And I love this.
This whole world.
And I think that he's nowopened up another franchise that
we're gonna mine a lot ofstories from.
So I'm excited where thiswhole thing's gonna go and.
And thank God that he was ableto tackle this.
This book series.
And I'm excited where it'sgoing to go.
So, yes, Dune Part two is mynumber ten.

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Three cheers to that.
I wholeheartedly occur.
Like courtroom devil Javel.
Bam.
Bam.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yes, yes.
Dune too Good fucking movie.
Like it a lot.
Yeah.
All right.
B, why don't you.
When you take the next one?
Sure.
Your number 10.
My number 10.
I don't know if either of youhave seen this.

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I don't think we've talkedabout it on.
But Dahomey, kind of a late hitter.
Dahomey.
Dahomey.
Hope I'm saying that right.
It is a pretty short.
It's just under 70 minutes.
Pretty short kind of documentary.
There's.
It is a documentary, but it'sabout artifacts that were stolen

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from Dahomey and taken by theFrench and then brought back.
But only a few were broughtback out of the whole collection.
And it's told.
The story is told from theperspective of one of the artifacts,
and it talks about how theartifact, once it's back in his home,
feels.
Still feels displaced.
And then there's sort of asecond part where there's a debate

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about the intention of Francegiving back these artifacts and.
And what it means for thepeople of this town of this state
now.
So it was really creative.
I haven't seen anyone do adocumentary like this.
You know, Nathan, we hadtalked earlier this year.
We both wanted to activelywatch more docs.
I didn't see a ton, but I sawthis one.

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I'm so glad I did because itwas incredibly refreshing.
And just like I said, a.
A take on the form that I'venever seen.
So.
Okay.
And I see this is.
It's on prime video now, butit's playing in some theaters as
well.
Cool.
So you could catch it if it'splaying it locally in.

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In Massachusetts.
Playing at the bridal theater.
Oh, is it really on primevideo too?
So that's awesome.
It might be playing at one ofyour boutique theaters near.
In your neighborhood, listeners.
Or you go check it out.
Oh, interesting.
All right, Good pick.
Sam, what is your number 10?
So my tum.

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My number 10 would be wolfs,directed by John Watts, Brad Pitt
and George Clooney, and alsoEmmy Ryan.
I actually really enjoyed it.
I just watched it randomly one night.
Very taught, fun thriller,very quirky, well shot, interesting
scenario.
I did a lot with, like, closequarter situations I won't give away.

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Like, there's like a lot oftwists and reveals in it, but I just
overall enjoyed it and it wasvery memorable to me as there's a
lot of films that I watch that I.
They'll like, leave my head,but this one stuck with me.
So give Wolf's a viewing.
You will be entertained.
I know why you like this movie.
Sam, it's that same dichotomyas like the ocean's 11 type dialogue.

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Yeah, yeah, exactly.
It had.
It did that for me as well.
I thought this movie went on alittle long.
Maybe not.
Not long.
Yeah.
Kind of the third act Ithought fell apart a little bit.
I liked them.
The Clooney pit.
Yeah.
Dialogue.
Their dynamic I thought was great.
They could just riff off eachother all day long.

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I, I'll buy that ticket.
I did think that the storykind of petered out a little bit,
but.
I totally hear that.
Perfectly serviceable.
I hear that 100%.
Like it wasn't amazing.
It didn't reinvent the wheel,but it did its thing that you just
described it.
Did it?
Well, I was just.
It was like popcorn fun, you know.
Yeah, it is totally.

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Okay.
I think we're back to me.
We are number nine.
So number nine.
This was a movie that was.
We did, you know listeners, wedid a.
Halfway through the year.
We did our mid year top five picks.
This movie was one of my earlyfavorite movies.
It did not leave my top fiveand it is Challengers.

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I almost feel bad thatChallengers is this low on my list
because it was so long in likemy top two or three.
But it started going furtherdown the list and I actually didn't.
I almost wanted to stopwatching movies because I didn't
want it to leave my top ten.
It's so good.
And I guess, oh, it's down to seven.
It's down to eight.
It's down to nine now.
My damn.
I don't want it to leave mytop 10.

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I, I'm worried that this movieis going to get completely snubbed
out of awards season.
I think it will and I thinkit's going to.
Was came out early, came outin April I think and this, this is
basically three hander.
Incredible performances fromZendaya, Josh O'Connor, Mike.
Mike Feist.
Feist.
I love the pace this movie.
It's like not like watching atennis match.

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The banter in this, the.
The back and forth and youalmost feel like the ball being throttled
back and forth between thesecharacters and at times the camera
is literally the ball.
It's so cool and the sound rips.
And I, I have, I've got totell you guys this.
I am so embarrassed to say Ihave not seen Challengers yet.
That is high in my list andI'm on it.

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Honestly, from everything I'veheard about from like both your opinions,
I'm sure it would be on my top 10.
And again, I apologize to the world.
No, it just means you get.
I wish I could watch thatmovie again for the first time because
it was, like, such an experience.
I think.
I think they won a GoldenGlobe for the score.
Oh, good.
Because the Reznor AtticusRoss score is incredible.

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Is so good.
I think I mentioned it mightbe my.
It's a lot of.
I think it's my favorite score.
Might be my favorite score.
There's.
And you're talking Social Network.
We're talking a lot of greatthings this tandem has done.
It's so good.
It's up there.
Yeah.
So Challengers is my number nine.
All right.
So, B, what is your number nine?
Alien Romulus, baby.

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Oh, cool.
Yeah.
I like this movie so much.
So out of this, you know,collection of a few dozen movies
that I watched this year,there's only a handful that I've
already watched twice, andthis is one of them.
It just has that rewatchablefactor for me.
I can see myself coming backto it as a comfort movie, and I thought

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it would.
I thought it would go down onthe second watch, honestly, just
because it does have thatvideo game nature.
And I was worried that itwould feel more formulaic, but I
just found more things to likeabout the set design and the performances
that it kind of just stayedwhere it was for me.
I had so much fun watching it.
And it's the kind of moviethat I think when you show to people

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who are just getting intomovies, can get really into movies,
you know, it's.
It's the kind of thing.
And I think the Alienfranchise is great at that, at being,
like, a gateway to greatcinema through something really accessible
and also great, you know?
Yeah.
Good pick.
I.
I really like this movie, too.
So I have nothing bad to sayabout it.

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I.
I think it's.
I.
I think we agree it's probablythe best Alien movie probably since
Aliens maybe, you know, so,yeah, I liked a lot.
Yeah.
All right, Sam, what is yournumber nine?
So, not to be repetitive, butmy number nine is also Alien Romulus.
I have to say, I.
I enjoy that.

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I.
I give it such a high rating.
I give it a huge high ratingfor, like, the first half of it.
I thought the beginning,everything, the setup, I enjoy it.
To rip off a friend's phrase.
I do think it does feel likeAlien, the Force Awakens a little
bit, where it's like, it callsback every single thing it can.

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There's a lot.
And.
But aside from the callbackswhen it did its own original Thing
like when it had all the facehuggers running around in the hallway.
That whole sequence wascompletely innovative and fresh to
that film because we hadn'tseen that before.
Yeah.
And so when it did that anddidn't like do callbacks or like
remind you of tropes from theother films, I loved it.

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I had issues with the sceneswhere it did the tropes, but it was
still entertaining and Ithought it was visually spectacular.
So like, it definitely madethe list.
I had issues with Ian Holm,but that hallway scene with the shooting
and the gravity, I was like,I'm in.
Yeah, that was awesome.
Yeah.
The, the, the cgi.
Ian Holm was like irritating.
Yeah.
Yeah.

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All right, we're gonna move onto our, our eight.
Eight.
And my number eight is theWild robot.
Wild robot.
Biggest surprises of the year.
I never would have imaginedthis movie was gonna make my top
10 when I actually heard aboutit, but this movie just won me over

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at the core.
It's got such a big heart.
And I let.
I've read a lot of comparisonsto like the Iron Giant, even Wally,
but I, I actually think Iprefer this movie more than those.
I like that it's grounded innature and it's almost on an intimate
scale.
You know, there aren't worldending stakes in this movie and it's,

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it's, it's about growththrough adapt adaptation and parent
child dynamics.
And as this robot Roz isbefriending this like Gosling.
And it just has this reallyunique meditative quality to it as
well that just reallyresonated with me.
So one of my biggestcomplaints is, you know, we have

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like all these movies fromlike Disney and Pixar, Dreamworks
Animation, Illumination andmany of these films, you know, I
really dig them.
A lot of them, in fact, youknow, you might.
More of these might end uplater in my list as well.
But I feel like these studios,I feel like are the best metaphor
I can make is that you've.
They all have like a box ofcrayons of 32 colors and they all

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be limited by these, these 32 colors.
And I'm getting so tired oflike Pixar movies always looks like
Pixar movies and DreamWorksAnimation always has their color
palette.
And it was such so refreshingto see another studio like Leica
does the same thing as well.

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Have a movie like this come out.
And this movie has such thispainterly quality to it.
It's like, what a breath offresh air to see this, this big scope
animated movie.
You know, that, that Justburst into the scene that just.
I felt like it was massagingmy eyeballs seeing something that
just wasn't like everythingelse I see, you know?
And I would even say, like Miyazaki.

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Even though I like Miyazakimovies, a lot of his movies have
the same meanness as well.
So I studied Jubilee.
What is.
What I should.
Was just so wonderful just to.
For my isis.
Rest on it.
I loved how everything justkind of like felt like it was just
slowly just moving and thispainterly feel to it.
It just was so gorgeous tolook at.

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Yeah.
That was my number 11.
That's awesome.
I think it was from theproducers of how to train your Dragon.
I think I.
I think I saw that in the poster.
Oh, maybe.
I don't know.
Yeah, I loved that movie.
I was weeping by the end of it.
Yeah.
Beautiful movie.
I haven't seen it.
I look forward to seeing it.

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I am not looking forward to.
Is the live action how totrain a Dragon.
Because it looks like justanother live action remake.
I'm just like, I am so checkedout of that.
I know.
Me too.
Yeah, I.
I thought.
I'll be honest.
I thought the trailer was.
Or that like teaser trailer was.
Was it.
It didn't look great becauseit was one of those, like very CGI
oriented.
And you thought, well, why notjust like it started an animated

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film.
Like they're just duplicatingthe look.
I thought they were going totake the story and do something visually
different.
And I saw that trailer.
I'm like, there.
It's like, looks like a shotfor shot.
It does remake.
Why?
Yeah, yeah.
Boo dumb.
We'll find out, I guess.
Your number eight.
I saw the TV glow.
Jane.

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Sean Brun.
I know about this.
Yeah, I really did.
I.
This is one of those moviesthat throughout the year, the imagery
has just stuck with me.
I watched it pretty early on,but Jane's movies for me are just
sticky like that.
They just sort of stay in mybrain and they're hard to shake.
And I think they're.
They tap into a very specificperiod in time that happened to be

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the time that I grew up.
And it's the closest I feel toa nostalgia movie without being a
movie that I grew up on.
And I saw this particular filmcenters around a fake TV show that
feels so real, it's so.
It's so on the nose of a moviefrom that era or a TV show from that

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era.
And that sense of identitywhen you're kind of a weird kid that
so associates and sublimatesinto the media that you consume and
what that means and how yougrow out of it and you identify yourself
with it and it just, it'sreally beautiful.

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That's a good pick.
Me, I, I think we, we talkedabout on the, on the podcast that
I saw this.
I wanted to love this.
Yeah.
So much in the average.
Because this movie I should.
Because I was also grew up inthis area as well with the Buffy
and Buffy nostalgia.
Like, why is this notconnecting with me?
And I don't know why.

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Maybe I wasn't a weird enough kid.
I don't know.
I, yeah.
And I, I do think we're allgoing to the World's Fair, which
it just, yeah, that's a littlehigher for me than I saw the TV glow.
I, that just hit me in adifferent way.
But I still love this film andI, I can't wait to rewatch it.

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Hasn't made my rewatch listyet, but I feel like I still know
it shot for shot.
You know, you're making merethink something later on in the
show, so.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
Sam, you're number eight.
So because I have a real softspot for high octane action films
and yeah, 90s like I, I, Ihighly enjoyed Bad Boys Ride or Die.

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I'm a fan of the.
I still think Bad Boys 2 hasthe craziest, like most gonzo off
the wall.
Like that's Michael Bay'sBayest film.
But I, I enjoyed it.
And I also like that in thisage where like a lot of these huge
blockbusters carry price tagsof like 250 million or like Indiana
Jones and the dial of destiny.
350 million.

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This was made for 90 million,which is still a lot, obviously,
but just to be able to deliverbig popcorn action like that on a
slightly more fiscallyconservative budget, I say gives
hope for the cinematic futureof that genre.
So number eight, wasn't it great?
Hey, I still need to catch upon the one, the third one, which

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I haven't, I, I, no, yeah, Ihaven't, I haven't yet.
So I need to marathon all fourof these someday.
I didn't catch up on that one,but I did catch up on the new Beverly
Hills cup, which I feel likeis sort of.
Don't, don't, don't tell usyour number seven yet.
Oh my God.

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Wait.
And because I'm psychic andI'm so good at being psychic.
B.
Let me guess.
I know what your number one is.
Hold on, I'm gonna say it.
Juror number two, am I right?
Totally.
Everyone knows that I, I ridehard for juror number two and Clint
Eastwood generally.
Honestly.
All right, we're up to ournumber seven and my so, okay, so

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each year I vow, we justtalked about this.
I vow to watch moredocumentaries and a goal I fail miserably
at every year.
And I, I, the one I, I triedto watch, I did watch Skywalker's
A Love Story, did not like that.
So that was to my top 10.
And I watched a movie Ithought would make my top 10 because

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everybody loves it and that'sthat Superman, the Christopher Reeve
movie.
Oh yeah, make my top 20.
It was good, but didn't,didn't make my top 20.
But on Christmas Day, myfamily and I were sitting at home
and we decided to watch elfactually from 2003.
Will Ferrell movie.
I actually had seen it in like20 years and I kind of want.
I remember that film.

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Oh, I love Elf.
And during that it reminded methat I've been meaning for months
to check out this documentaryWill Ferrell that he was involved
in, titled Will and Harperthat I was hearing some good things
about.
And I loved this movie.
It's so good.
First of all, I'm a sucker forany movie that takes me on a cross

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country road trip.
But then add in this premisewhere you know Will's friend who
was born Andrew Steele, whomHe's known for 27 years or so, and
they go way back to his earlydays on SNL and he, they later collaborated
on films.
And so this movie is aboutAndrew who decided to come out as
a trans woman.
I think, I don't want to getthis wrong because I know this is,

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there's a lot of, I don't wantto get in trouble for that, but I
think that's how it is.
He comes out as a trans womannamed Harper.
And it's about coming out toher friends and how they would take
this news.
But it's more than that.
It's more about Harperbecoming comfortable in her own skin.
So Will proposes this crosscountry road trip from New York to

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la, stopping all these placesthat Harper used to frequent when
she was a dentist.
She done a identify as a maleand it's fascinating and a beautiful
story about friendship.
And there are these severaltimes at this movie gets so raw and
open about the difficultiesHarper is going through that it's
almost too hard to watch atsome points.
And I, and I can't recommendthis film enough, you know, especially

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nowadays with the transcommunity in their Legal rights being
threatened.
It's, it's really, really animportant movie right now that I
think everybody should watch.
It was, it's funny.
It's, it.
I was bawling at times in this movie.
It's really great.
And so, yes, Will and Harperis skyrocketed to the number seven,

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which I never thought this wasgonna be something like until I saw
it, but is a fantastic documentary.
Yeah, it's a beautiful movie.
Mm.
All right.
Be your number seven.
Not nearly as touching asthat, but a late, a late entry that
I knew was gonna make it.

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Nosferatu.
Okay.
Yeah.
Can't wait to see it.
I have not seen it.
One thing about Nosferatu,that dude be horny.
It's crazy.
That's a Turn this game thrown around.
It's a horny movie.
It's a horny movie.
I still don't think it's anyhornier than the Keanu Reeves one.
He's creepy bald guy with a mustache.

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I don't find anything hornyabout him.
But, well, and like, the wholemovie culminates in him doing dictionary.
Okay.
But no, I, I, I'm a big Eggers fan.
I don't know that this, forme, the lighthouse is like the lighthouse,
you know, but this was justanother awesome entry and another

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example of just this could bea movie that turns people into cinephiles
like that.
I know that word can feel kindof icky, but there's so much respect
for the source material inthis remake.
The, the lighting, the Germanexpressionism here, the shot for
shot stuff with the original Nosferatu.
I'm so grateful that I got tosee the original so recently, so

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it was fresh in my mind.
But it's, it's clear thatEggers has really studied this.
And I, I think the movietranscends just the technical prowess.
I, I also think he affordsmuch more character and agency to
the women in the film than hasever been put on display.
Yeah, I, I think he does muchmore character exploration and motivation

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exploration than is done.
So I think it's great.
I think it's a great entryinto the Dracula Nosferatu canon.
Excellent.
Yeah, I, I, I agree.
It missed my top 10 by alittle bit, but.
Yeah, good, Good pick.
Sam, what is your number seven?

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So my number seven would bethe movie September 5th, directed
by Tim Feldbomb.
It's all about the 1972Olympics and, like, the day that
the massacre happened.
And I loved it because it's,the whole film is shot in a very
Docu drama style and the toneand everything of it is so authentic.

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It really feels actually like1972, as opposed to films that sort
of try to do, like, a periodpiece, but you can see they kind
of put a modern spin on it.
This feels very voyeuristic inthe best possible way that you're
there, like, front and centerin the situation unfolding.
And I loved it, and I lookforward to seeing it again.
But just like, the tonality,the experience, two thumbs up.

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That's definitely my number.
7th strong recommend.
90% on rotten tomatoes.
I saw trailers for it.
It looked awesome.
It's great.
Like, I.
I was surprised.
I.
I had no expectations.
I didn't really know about it,and I liked it a lot.
Now, you got to see this at afestival, right?
Because this hasn't beenreleased worldwide yet, right?

(31:41):
You.
I think it has.
I think it.
I don't know if it'sworldwide, but I think it came out
theatrically.
But I went to, like, the,like, a premiere of it, the screening
of it at Paramount, like, aweek before it came out, but I think
it's out now, maybe somewhere,I think, in the U.S.
oh, good.
Or.
No, no, wait, wait.
You might be right.
It actually may get atheatrical release in January.
I'm not sure.
So I think.

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Yeah, I think you might be right.
I didn't know this wastechnically going to be a 2025 release
now, but anyways, you got achance to see it early, and that's
awesome.
So, yeah, great.
I'm really looking forward to this.
This might end up being on mytop 10 next year if I have.
Yeah.
And I think you're right.
It does come out, and I thinkin January, but, yeah, definitely
worth it.
Well, that's awesome.
That's great.

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All right, so we're up to oursix picks, and this.
This is the movie thatactually slipped in at the last minute.
I think.
I saw this two days ago over.
So over this past weekend, Ichecked out Ghost Light, and this
is from directors KellyO'Sullivan and Alex Thompson.
So this is actually kind ofhard to talk about because this movie,
again, wrecked me, and I havea tendency of watching movies that

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really destroy me sometimes.
The parallels of what takesplace in this movie kind of took
place during a tumultuous time in.
In my life a few years back,which is kind of uncanny.
Which it's.
It's kind of weird.
But basic premise, withoutgiving away too much, this is character.
Dan is a father who's aconstruction worker, and he's Got

(33:10):
some rage issues, but he hasthis 16 year old daughter also that
acts out in these kind ofterrible ways as well.
But we learned that this allstems from this family tragedy.
I'm not going to talk aboutwhat that is yet because that's important
plot point here, but.
So Dan stumbles upon thisopportunity at kind of in a.

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In a weird way to join acommunity theater group's production
of Romeo and Juliet, whichboth magnify his grief that he's
going through, but also kindof help him work through it.
So this was a very difficultwatch for me because without getting
into too much personal stuff,I really identified with the main

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character, Dan in many waysbecause I don't want to talk about
the podcast, but it's, it's.
There's a lot that paralleledwith his journey of during a time
of grief, found solace joininga community theater and working things
out with that.
I went through a similar thingfive, six years ago, which was so

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weird watching this movie.
And this is a really lovely movie.
It's quietly showing us aportrayal of grief that I haven't
seen in a film before.
So.
But in this movie, I wasblowing my eyes out again.
So this, this really struck achord to me.
This movie is not foreverybody, but it was great performances,

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really well done.
So it's called Ghost Light.
Yeah, I haven't even heard of it.
Yeah, it was a small release.
It's on amc.
Oh, cool.
Plus is that what it is?
Yeah.
Right now?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's really well done.
Awesome.
All right.
So be your number six.

(34:58):
Number six is a movie that Ithink is important to the American
canon.
Going with the Piano Lesson,the latest adaptation of August Wilson
plays the Washington familyback in action.
Denzel producing, Malcolmdirecting, and John David starring
in it.
Of course, you have to mentionDanielle Deadweiler too.
Her performance is incredible.

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I just think this wholeproject of adapting these plays is
critical and I think it'swonderful that they're getting to
be seen by a modern audiencewith such a wide reach on Netflix.
And not only that, it wassuper well done.
It's a compelling story and Ilove the way it was told.
I think the story of wantingto hold close to your family's heritage,

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I think is something everyonecan relate to to or understand.
And the sibling dynamic, orany family dynamic about how you
honor your past, but grow andmove on and honor the wishes that
your ancestors probably hadfor you, obviously is.
Is something that I think alot of people can touch on but is

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so important in the Context ofslavery in the story and needs to
be told, needs to be shared.
And it was done super well.
I love the ending and I wascrying like a baby, so.
Yeah, really well done.
Yeah.
And Daniel did.
While I was a big fan of herin this.
Oh, my God.
I still don't know about JohnDavid Washington's performance in

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this.
I.
I was kind of mix on it, but.
But, yeah, it was good.
I.
I like Samuel Jackson in thisa lot.
It was well done.
It was really well done.
Missed my top 10, but it wasdefinitely an honorable mention.
Yeah.
Very cool.
All right, good pick.
Sam, you're number six.
So my number six washilarious, over the top, raunchy,

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crazy, and had the thinnestplot I have ever seen for.
But I did not care.
I am, of course, referring toDeadpool and Wolverine.
Highly, highly enjoyed.
It's like, it was complete,like, the freedom in which it indulged
itself.
It was just like a awesome,over the top, bloated, crazy, wild

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ride.
And literally, like, for 30minutes straight in this film, like,
Deadpool and Wolverine justbeat the.
Out of each other, and it'sjust ridiculous.
I just, like, it was.
I had so much fun.
Like, it's.
It's not a.
Like, a great film in thehistory of cinema, but, like, I was
wildly entertained by thisfilm, so it made the list because,

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like, I just.
I just laughed, like, thehardest I've laughed all year, probably.
I hear that.
I agree.
I had a great time with this.
So.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I wonder, though, how much ofan actual movie it was more than
just like, oh, it's barely a movie.

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I even love how they, like,purposely rip off the, like, Mad
Max vibe.
They're like, hey, it lookskind of mad maxi out here in the
desert scenes.
I was like, that's funny.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good time.
That was.
I had so much fun watching that.
Yeah.
Sublimely ridiculous.
All right, we.
We're halfway through.

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Yeah, we are the back.
We're in the back nine now.
Or the back five, I should say.
Okay, so my number five.
So a few picks ago, I praisedthe Wild Robot for its original animation
style, and it kind ofridiculed other big studios for always
dipping their paintbrush inthe same bucket.
So here's where you can callout my.

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Because I can't deny the factthat I thought Inside out two was
still one of the year's best movies.
And I know.
I want to see that.
I love the first one.
See how, like, I am so, like,man, I.
Yeah, Sam, get off your booty.
Go see some movies.
I might be in the minoritybecause again, we all bring our own
baggage to movies that we see.
And inside, again, I have a feeling.

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I would like it.
The addition of newcharacters, especially anxiety, just
struck a chord with both meand my family as we sat in the theater
watching this last summer.
The Pixar folks, I don't knowhow they do it, but I think they
go created an incrediblesequel to one of their truly classic
films.
Not exactly as good as thefirst, but close.

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And I think the progression,the maturation of the main characters
of like Joy, Sadness and.
And Riley especially I thinkis exquisite.
The introduction of anxietyand how this character manifests
itself in both the inner worldof Riley's brain, but also how Riley
interacts in the world, Ifound to be extremely relatable and

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authentic.
And having a teenage daughterthe same age as Riley, you know,
from this movie and I can'thelp draw so many lines of comparisons.
So like I said, this filmreally hit home for me and I love
that.
It's not just recycling theplot of the first film, it's bringing
in new ideas and characters innew environments and it's what a

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sequel should be.
Unlike a more recent Disneyanimated sequel which will remain
nameless that I.
That's entire part du we'llcall it which I thought was just,
just incred.
So boring and just a tired retread.

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So anyways, inside that too fantastic.
That was a very, very good sequel.
I agree.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Okay, number five for me.
Yes.
Bird.
Bird.
Bird.
Bird.
I was on my list of things to see.
Oh, dude.
Really?

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Honestly, it was either thator I watched Ghost Light and I was
like one of these two movies?
Yeah.
So I'm a big Andrea Arnold fanand I've been anticipating this movie
for a while now and I'm soglad I got to see it before we did
this because this is one ofthose late ones that skyrocketed

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way up my list.
The first, I say the firstthird of the movie was a little tough
for me to connect with.
We have a newcomer here, NikiaAdams, who plays 12 year old Bailey
doing incredibly deep work here.
Looks amazing, is doing awonderful job.
So you can see everyexpression on their face, every thought,

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they, they wear it right ontheir sleeves and they're doing so
great.
The story, I don't want togive too much away but really I interpreted
it as about guardian angelsand just when you're a kid and you
need a guardian angel and howyou learn to become that person for
yourself.
And Barry Keogh gives a greatperformance in it, but really, I

(41:53):
think.
I think Nike is the star.
And it's a.
It's a great return.
I don't know that people willlove it as much as they loved American
Honey or Fish Tank, but it's agreat return.
Awesome.
Awesome.
It's.
I'm gonna check it out as soonas I can.
Yeah.
Okay.
Sam, what is your number five?

(42:14):
So my number five.
This is a controversial pickbecause this movie is so bonkers.
And I don't know whether Ilike it or think it's nuts or.
I don't still know to what tomake of it, but I found it highly
entertaining.
I am referring to Megalopolis.
I liked it a lot.
I enjoyed this.
I ride for it, baby.

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I'm so glad Megalopolis madesomebody's list.
It might be on someone else's,but that's so cool.
I highly enjoyed it.
And even though it's like.
I don't know how to describethis film at all, I.
Without giving it away, Ifound the closing, like the last
scene with the kid on thestage and like the freezing of time.

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That's all I'll say.
But like, I found that movingand poignant somehow because it put
this epic coda on this wild tale.
Like that movie has so muchthematic, insane ambition.
So good, so good at wildlyover the top performances.
I will still say the mostunintentionally hilarious moment

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in that film, or perhapsintentional, is when she is literally
talking to Adam Driver andwhen she's like, dad, he's a really
good guy.
Look, do you see any evil in him?
And it cuts to this intenseface of Adam Driver and he's doing
like a Kylo Ren stare.
The whole entire audienceburst out laughing in unison in that

(43:37):
moment.
It was brilliant.
For the listeners.
For the listeners, Nathan andSam were subjected to like a 10 minute
voice note from me afterseeing Megalopolis about how I'm
pretty sure it falls in likethe great Italian American canon.
I think it's an awesome choice.
I.
Yes, I ride for Megalopolis.

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I'm so glad I've made it ontoa list.
Yes, definitely.
Very memorable.
Everybody else is an idiot.
I'm so sorry.
You're wrong.
This movie rules.
We know.
We.
We know.
We know what films are good.
That's.
That's what we do.
That's.
You're welcome.
That's what we achieve it.
Back to the frame rate.
Well, I will say it did notmake my top 10.

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I thought about it, nor my top 20.
But it does make a superlative category.
Later on, I'll just tease that it.
Definitely makes my top 15 anda superlative.
Okay, so number four.
We're in the number four.
Okay.
My number four is conclave.
Good movie.

(44:40):
This is another film I had noidea I was gonna love as much as
I.
I would.
The premise, when I heardabout it, served absolutely no interest
to me at all.
I really thought this wasgonna be this.
Like, a Sam Brown film withChristian politics and such.
I'm not Christian.
I'm like, I don't care aboutthis at all.
But this was really astraightforward mystery thriller.

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And I.
I can't think of another filmthis year in which every scene, every
line of dialogue, I was on theedge of my seat.
Most iconic vape hit of alltime in a movie.
Pope's vaping cardinal is so cool.
And these are just a bunch ofcardinals in a room talking for two
hours.
Yeah.
That's all this movie is justa locked door mystery.

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And the fact that this moviegenerates so much tension is a credit
to the writing.
Edward Berger's directing.
Who you know, and it's a shameif Berger doesn't get best director
nomination, because who knows?
I know it's a tight field allthe time for best Director, but without
a doubt, one of the frontrunners for best actors is Ralph

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Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence.
In this, he's put in charge ofoverseeing the conclave.
I even know what conclavemeant before this.
That's how much I know.
And which.
So.
Which apparently is what theydo when a new pope is elected, which
all new to me.
Hats off to Stanley Tucci as well.
Always consistent, and I loveseeing him.
I love to see him get asupporting nomination.

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He's not going to, I'mguessing, but great film.
My biggest takeaway from thisis that I can't wait to see what
Edward Berger does next,because this and the last film he
did, he.
He did all squat in theWestern front a couple years ago,
which was really, really great.
Epic war storytelling.
I think he's great.
I.
And I can't wait to see whathe does next.

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So awesome film.
My biggest takeaway.
Ray finds hot no matter what.
Maybe.
Yeah.
You know, absolutely.
You know what movie I neversaw of his from a couple years ago?
I never saw the Menu.
Oh, good movie.
Yeah, I need to check that out.
Because I heard that I didn'tlove it, but it was good.
Yeah, I like Conclave better.

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Or number four.
Gonna go with Anora.
Anora.
You And I are both big fans ofthis director and he comes out swinging
with another great one.
I thought this was really fun.
I didn't expect it to be and Idon't know why, but I didn't expect
it to be so funny.
And I found myself rolling onthe floor for a really good amount

(47:13):
of this movie.
It just had my partner and Iin stitches for a lot of it.
And then it would be, youknow, a hairpin turn and it would
be making us like break down.
But as usual, this.
There's something so real,something so tangible about these
characters.
They're.
This.

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This is a far cry from Pretty Woman.
You know, this is not thatstory, but it's.
I.
This is a silly thing to sayfor a movie that I put so high, but
I really loved the blocking inthis movie and it just was just that
attention to detail in everyscene and about every character and

(47:55):
to.
To use it to tell such awonderful story.
I thought it was.
It was great.
Great pick.
Great pick.
All right, Sam, your number four.
So my number four, whichsurprised me as I feel like I was
one of the like the fivepeople that saw this, but Horizon
and American Saga Chapter 1,the Kevin Costner film.

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Yep.
Very uneven.
Like I.
But there was just some like.
I thought some of his.
Some of the scenes in thisfilm had absolutely terrifying suspense.
I like the atmosphere for it.
I'm kind of a sucker for westerns.
Like it does have lots of characters.
It is a bit all over the place.
But I just enjoyed theexperience of watching it so much

(48:38):
that I kind of of likesurprise myself and like I will.
I will definitely be watchingthat film again.
And I don't know if the secondone has come out yet or if it's not
coming out, but I'll be thereif it does.
Probably I'm streaming, I'm guessing.
Yeah, but I enjoyed it.
This is the one reason why Inever watched Horizon.
Because I'm scared.
It's.
I heard it has kind of a cliffhanger.

(48:58):
It does.
Yeah.
And like I'm worried it's net.
We're never gonna see any ofthese follow up films.
They never see the light of day.
Am I.
Am I gonna waste my time withthree hours of a movie that's never
gon me a conclusion?
This worries me.
I want to know that there's arelease date for at least a second
film before I invest threehours that.

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Part two was shot and they in like.
It just didn't do well.
And the first one.
And I think it might Be comingout to streaming.
But the second one has, as faras I know, unless somebody I read
something different has norelease date yet for anything, any
streaming date.
Right.
It's not going to go to thetheater, clearly.
Oh, for sure.
I just, I just mean like production.
Like I think, I think hefilmed like a two part like you know.

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Well he did because they weresupposed to come out in June and
then like August back to back.
Which was.
Yeah, yeah.
Because like.
Because no one's gonna see thefirst before the second one comes
out.
And like why, what's the dealwith that?
I don't know.
Yeah, odd.
Too close together.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I did, I mean not perfectbut I really like the scenes have
been sticking with me for awhile and I like, I highly enjoy

(50:03):
it.
I'm surprised because I knowit's like it's not.
Not highly rated.
It just struck with me for a reason.
Yeah, I haven't seen it yet.
Did you watch Yellowstone Sam?
I haven't, no.
Okay.
Yeah, I've only seen a littlebit of it.
This is really weird but mycat loves it.
I'm serious.
You can put it on in thebackground and the cat's like glued

(50:25):
to Yellowstone.
I don't know.
Yeah, that's amazing.
I wonder why that is interesting.
I don't know.
Maybe he likes horses.
Dreams are running around.
I don't know.
I will check it out somedaybecause this is the movie that he
threw Yellowstone away to do.
Exactly.
He walked away from this.
This was his passion project.
Yeah.
So yeah, I mean and I wasaware of him leaving Yellowstone.

(50:47):
I hadn't seen it but I.
Yeah, I.
It was interesting.
Surprised he left but yeah.
Okay, so we're on to ournumber three.
And so when we did our topfive at mid year, this was my number
one movie and it fell downonly a couple spots.
So this movie is Love Lies Bleeding.

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This movie is my jam.
Up and down, left and right.
Kristen Stewart, Katie O'Briendeliver standout performances.
They breathe life into thesecharacters that feel simultaneously
like relatable and larger in life.
The film belongs to one of myfavorite genres like stories about
third rate petty criminals.

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But there's also somethingreally so compelling about these
characters who inhabit likemargins of society.
Especially when set againstgritty backdrops of the 1980s.
These are people who dream bigbut live small, ordinary lives.
But so.
But undermining themselveswith poor decisions.
I just love people that justlive in this rut, you know.

(51:52):
So anyways, Rose glassesdirection just elevates this story
and it's just truly something extraordinary.
I think that everything hasthis dreamlike quality to this.
Every frame is drenched invivid, saturated colors.
So this movie's lingered withme all year.
I love it so much.
I've talked about this a lotin this podcast.

(52:13):
I don't need to say anythingmore about it.
And the funny thing is, thisis number three.
This movie, my second andfirst movie.
Either one of these could bemy favorite movie this year.
It's the hardest thing to dois figuring out which of these three
is my favorite.
If you were to ask me nextweek, Love Lies Bleeding could be
my number one and, you know.
Or number two.
All these top three movies areall tied for first for me, honestly.

(52:35):
That's what I'm gonna say.
It's so hard to pick.
Nathan.
Yeah.
My number three is Love Lies Bleeding.
You put it much morespectacularly than I could have.
You are, as per usual, muchmore eloquent than I would have been.

(52:56):
But, yes, there's somethingincredibly compelling about these
characters that are just doingtheir best.
You know, if you supportwomen's rights, you got to support
women's wrongs.
And this is that movie.
Rose Glass.
I'm so thrilled to see herback after Saint Maud.
You know, she's making great work.
I can't wait to see what sheputs out next.

(53:17):
I'm a sucker for a touch ofthe surreal.
And this, as you mentioned, isa very grounded story that.
But it is elevated not just bythe color palette and the direction,
but that sort of almostsupernatural quality.
That hair, too.
Yeah.
And it.
Harris's hair.
That's real brutal.

(53:38):
This is one of those moviesthat I have come back to when I could
have been watching another new movie.
I chose to watch this oneagain a couple of times because it's.
It's darn good.
It's just darn good.
It is.
Okay, Sam, what is your number three?
So even though this was not asgood as its predecessor, I am still

(54:02):
such a huge fan of the saga,the world, and the.
The atmosphere.
I am, of course, talking aboutSonic 3.
No, just kidding.
Furiosa.
A Mad Max saga.
Sorry, I believe it'spronounced Furiosa, not Furiosa.
Furiosa.
I just.
I.

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It is uneven in parts, and.
But I.
That set piece in the middle,where they're, like, on the rig and
just.
That was spectacular.
Is.
I thought it was aninteresting film.
Not quite as successful aformula as, obviously, Fury Road,
but enjoyable nonetheless.
Like a worthy addition andsort of an oddly self Contained story.

(54:44):
But.
But the opening scene of thatfilm, like the opening up to like
the mother's death, I thoughtwas just like amazing.
Yeah.
I can't wait to watch thiswith a little more space because
I.
I do have it so Married toFury Road and it's really hard for
me to divorce them.
Yeah.

(55:05):
But I do think.
Yeah, they're totallydifferent things and I.
I do think it's an incrediblemovie, but I need.
I've seen it.
I had that opinion of it andnow I need to.
To watch it again and sort oflet it stand on its own merit.
Cool performances in it.
Yeah.
Selfishly, I really wish ithad done better at the box office

(55:25):
because I know that in Waitingin the Wings there was another one
he was going to work on.
And now because of that film,I don't know if it'll go into production
but never stay.
He usually finds a way.
I did.
I did re.
Watch Furiosa about two weeksago because I.
As you just said, B.
I.
I need.
I think when we watched.
Reviewed it earlier in theyear, we watched all the Mad Max

(55:47):
movies back to back to back.
Yeah, we were.
Yeah, all five of them.
And I feel like I got so muchmore out of it seeing it kind of
standing alone.
I enjoyed it so much more.
I enjoyed Chris Hemsworth somuch more the second time because
I thought it was kind of anodd performance, but like, I thought
he was a great villain.

(56:09):
See, the second time I got a lot.
I got a lot more of this.
The.
The big awesome spectacle ofit this time around.
And.
And yeah, I'd say if I were.
I probably gave it like athree and a half last time.
It easily is a four for menow, if not better than that.
It didn't make my top 10, butit's in my top 20 now where what

(56:31):
wouldn't have been if I hadn't re.
Watched it.
It.
But yeah, I think it's a great film.
I think it's great film andit's a tra.
I think it's a tragedy that.
That it didn't do better thanit did.
It should.
It should have.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Definitely hear that.
I.
All right, so we're on to our.

(56:51):
Our second picks.
Our number two.
So my number two was yournumber four.
B.
It is Anora.
Hell yeah.
So I.
I think I mentioned this amonth or so ago.
Sean Baker is four for fourgreat making movies that nobody else
is doing.
Straight bangers.
It's probably two and not onebecause he.

(57:12):
It's not my favorite SeanBaker movie.
Still the Florida Project for me.
Yeah, that's my favorite too.
Yeah.
But he seems interesting nichetelling stories about people once
again in the.
Inhabiting the margins ofsociety, which I love in this case.
You know, it revolves around,you know, sex workers.
And nor is this woman whoworks out of this gentleman's club.

(57:33):
Mikey Madison is so good inthis and like, it starts off as a
Cinderella story, but once weget past that, my favorite part of
this movie is the middle thirdof this where I've read some.
Some discord online wherepeople don't like the section of
the movie where it's like thismidnight madness, like, run through.

(57:54):
Oh, it's so fun.
Brooklyn.
And like, it's my favoritepart of this mov.
Because this is where it gets hysterical.
So funny.
And my favorite.
And I think one of my favoritecharacters in this is the guy that
plays Tauros, who is like thisfixer for like, the Russian oligarch,
the family, who is justsweating out, trying to salvage.

(58:16):
He's like, this is just a job, man.
I just got to figure this out.
I like that the goons werejust so apathetic.
So I.
I wish he would get like abest supporting nomination in it
would.
He won't.
But go to Igor.
Yeah, there was a lot.
There's so much to love aboutthis movie.
But yeah, you said alreadyeverything that needs to be said

(58:37):
about this.
But no, I was gonna say.
I don't know if you agree withthis, B, but I'm trying to think,
you know, who does Sean Bakerremind me of from like, maybe another
classic director?
Do you think that he has,like, any common sensibilities of
maybe like a John Cassavetesworking in an independent scene,
intimate character studies,emotionally raw performances.

(58:57):
I'm just trying to like,figure out, like, who is he, like
the modern Cassavetes, Possibly.
I don't know.
Yeah, I kind of like that.
I have to think about it ifthere's any apt comparisons that
are not cast of it.
But yeah, I kind of like that.
Women on the Verge or.
Or, yeah, Faces.
I.

(59:17):
I could see him making kind of a.
Faces.
There's a similar spirit totheir work.
Possibly.
I'm.
I thought about it.
I almost.
I almost think kind of alittle early Jar Mushi too, you know?
Yeah.
All right, so that's my number two.
What is your number two be?
Oh, my number two.

(59:38):
And like you said, my topthree could move around and I'd be
totally fine with it.
But this one, I've Talkedabout on the pot a lot.
I loved it.
It comes in my favorite genre.
And what a standout it becameright away.
Something salvaged Q1 thisyear, and it was the first Dolman.
Nice.

(59:59):
Oh, my God.
It's so freaking good.
There's a scene in this movie.
I don't know if either of youseen it, but I have no idea how she
got that past the sensors andto be shown in major movie houses.
It's incredible and graphicand, you know, I think I said in
an earlier review of it, it's.

(01:00:22):
It uses the Omen series toscaffold this very strong story around,
but it is not beholden to it.
It elevates it and stands onits own two feet.
Wonderfully done.
Yeah, I could go on.
It's.
It's super.

(01:00:43):
Okay.
If you see one.
And there was a lot of scarymovies this year, but if you see
one horror movie, this shouldbe the horror movie you see.
All right.
I.
I need to check it out.
I do.
It's so good.
It's so good.
Just more Catholicism for you.
Just take it.
All right, Sam, what is yournumber two?

(01:01:04):
My number two is Dune Part two.
I thought it was brilliant.
I thought Denis Vil new did agreat job.
What you were saying about it,Nathan, like 100% agree.
The movie definitely grew onme as well with a few viewings.
And I just.
I think it's an epic.
Spectacularly well Dune and I.
Well done.
Well, Dune.

(01:01:24):
Well done.
And I cannot wait to see Dune Messiah.
So many of you in Part two.
But if you haven't, make sureto see the first one, watch the second
one.
The two films together.
You should all go see it together.
Masterful.
Epic.
Fantastic.
All right.
All right.
It is time for our number one.

(01:01:44):
So we can do.
I have no sound effect for it.
Maybe I'll do put in later.
All right.
So my number one from 2024 isthe substance.
Rock and roll.
Yep.
This.
So like I said, this past yearselected my number one film.
It's usually.
It's usually not a difficult thing.

(01:02:05):
I usually know every yeareasily what my number one film is.
But this year I tormentedbecause, like I said, between a Nora
Love Wise, bleeding in substance.
Every single day it was adifferent film in my number one.
So any one of these could bein my number one.
So I love all three of these films.
But I will say though, ofthese three films.

(01:02:26):
Something stands out for you.
Well, no, what I want to sayis of all these three films, I feel
like.
No, forget it.
I don't know.
Let me say, I, I, I.
I think I'll talk about theyear in general later on.
So I thought this was the mostballs to the wall, absolutely gung
ho zero given film of the year.
This is why maybe it's restingat number one.

(01:02:49):
Debbie Moore.
I think it just gives a career.
Resurrecting beforeperformance won the Golden Globe.
Yeah, last night.
Yeah.
I didn't watch it, by the way.
I watched Kunk on Life insteadbecause that was more fun.
It was so fun, wasn't it?
I loved Kong On Life, so I.
Just love that, like, thismovie goes to some insane places.
And I think what I love isjust when you think this movie is

(01:03:10):
kind of, like, plateaued, itgoes to even more extreme measures.
And it's got some weird, crazybody horror going on.
And it's saying a lot aboutthe entertainment industry and how
it treats and objectifies women.
Dennis Quaid, where's he beenthe last couple years?
He's been playing, like, allthese, like, spiritual, like, movies

(01:03:32):
and, like, family films.
Good to have you back, Danny.
And now he's playing this TVproducer of one of the most grotesque
and appalling representationsof a male character I've seen in
so long.
But he's.
He's like this amalgamationof, like, toxic masculinity, misogyny,
and sexual gatekeeping thatgoes on in the industry.
And it's.
It's just this incredible filmthat I'd say is the closest thing

(01:03:56):
also to a David Cronenbergfilm that we've had in a long time
as well.
So.
I love this movie.
That's the funky.
Yeah.
Yes.
I'm pumped.
I'm gonna watch it again tonight.
Hell, yeah.
Yeah.
Hell, yeah.
All right.
Your number one B.
Well, Nathan, you mentionedballs to the wall.
Okay.
Challengers.
Okay.

(01:04:17):
It reigns supreme for me.
I can't get it or thesoundtrack out of my head.
I think it rockets these threeto superstardom.
You can.
Zendaya.
Already there, but I thinkthis gave her a chance to really
chew on scenery and perform ina way I haven't seen her perform

(01:04:37):
before.
Everybody, forgive the pun, isknocking it out of the park in this.
We talked about the cinematography.
I don't have a ton more to sayabout it other than I was so excited.
Luca, Not a director I'malways on the same page with.
But this one just struck me atthe right time, and, God, did I love
it.

(01:04:57):
It's so fresh and new andexciting, and it's got fresh faces
in it, and it's doing New things.
And I, I saw things in thismovie that I had never seen done
on film.
And that is great.
I'll take that away from it.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Love it, love it, love it.
All right, Sam, you get thelast pick.

(01:05:21):
Number one.
So this is technically a, A, Acheat, but I, It's.
I had to put it at number one.
I just had to.
Because either Beekeeper.
There was.
There was.
There was no other number onefor me.
Zemeckis is here.
It's cheating, but it's.
Because it's technically not amovie, but it was incredibly cinematic.

(01:05:42):
I'm referring to Rings of power.
Season two is my number onemedia of 2024 that blew me away more
than anything I have seen sofar this year.
We're going with a TV show.
Yeah.
I can't help it just becauseit just flanks the other ones on

(01:06:03):
the left on the list for me.
I thought it was amazing.
Incredible.
Lots of trolling on like, youknow, online and stuff.
But I.
I could not recommend thisincredible show more Visually spectacular,
well acted and just amazing.
So that, that has to be mynumber one.
Even though it's.
It's technically not a film,but it's as cinematic as it gets

(01:06:25):
for me this year.
Well, it's too bad because,you know, we were going to rename
the podcast to technically amovie and.
That'S awesome.
It's.
I'm so glad with season twomore than I was with season one.
I really feel like Iunderstand where they're going.
It made me more excited forseason three.
I'd like you to meet my Lego Legolas.

(01:06:47):
I made sense.
Oh, nice.
Awesome.
I just.
And honestly, visual effects,like, the most spectacular.
Like, I just.
It just.
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, I actually just.
I've been behind and I juststarted season two actually of Rings
of Power, so I watched episodeone, so I was highly impressed with

(01:07:09):
the first episode.
You will definitely enjoy it.
It's far more focused thanseason one.
It just was like, taught in Spencer.
So you'll like it.
Yeah, yeah, there was a couple episodes.
At least one episode in seasonone was like where I felt we were
stuck in with the.
Where were we at?
I don't know.
There was an episode that feltkind of like meandered or one or
two of them.
But I'm excited.

(01:07:29):
Season one was uneven for me too.
Yeah.
I think we were with thedwarves a little too long maybe,
is what it was.
I don't know.
Anyways.
Okay, well, that is it.
Let's.
Let's.
Let's round this out here.
So my, my list.
Mine.
From 10 to 1, I had Dune Part2, Challengers, the Wild Robot, Will
and Harper, Ghost Light,Inside out to Conclave, Love Lies

(01:07:53):
Bleeding, Anora and the Substance.
Do you guys have yours writtendown or can I show everyone?
I do.
I got it.
Dahomey, Alien, Romulus, I Sawthe TV Glow, Nosferatu, the Piano
Lesson, Bird, Anora, Love Lies Bleeding.
The First Omen.

(01:08:14):
And challengers.
Yes.
And we're going from ten to one.
Everyone listening?
Yep.
And Sam, what is yours from so.
Ten was Wolves, Alien,Romulus, Bad Boys, Ride or Die.
September 5th.
The film and not the day.
Yeah.
And 6.
Deadpool and Wolverine.

(01:08:34):
5.
Megalopolis, 4.
Horizon, Part 1 in AmericanSaga 3.
Furiosa 2, Dune Part 2 OneRings of Power, Season 2.
Nice.
Okay, can I get some honorable mentions?
Do we want to do that?
Yeah, sure.
Let's do a few honorablementions in there.

(01:08:54):
What do you got?
Sure.
So I've got three or four herethat I think they didn't quite crack
the top 10 for me, but they'resuper interesting and I think listeners
should check them out.
Out.
The first is Problemista.
This was a really fun film by,I think it's Julio Torres.
And it was just interestingand fresh and smart.

(01:09:15):
Really just smart filmmakingwith kooky fun performances and more
stuff that I hadn't reallyseen done on screen before.
It's daring and exciting and Ilook forward to whatever Julio does
next because I've enjoyed itall up until now.
And another thing was keepingwith that sort of somewhat surrealist

(01:09:36):
theme is the Beast with LeahSeydoux that had made some ripples
and I, I look, I want to watchit again.
I want to let it soak in.
It is a very long movie, butit was a cool concept.
A little eternal sunshiny, butI liked it.
All right, great.

(01:09:58):
Sam, do you have any honorable mentions?
Honorable mention was.
Well, it's like in thefestival circuit, technically it
doesn't get a release until 2025.
So it's the old guy, directedby Simon West, Kristoff Waltz and
oh my God, I'm blanking onPhilip Seymour Hoffman's son's name.

(01:10:18):
He's a co star and excellent.
Cooper Hoffman, I think hisname is just like really?
He showed chops in this film.
I enjoyed it and well done.
It came out in 2024, but Ithink it gets a theatrical release
or a streaming releasesometime this spring.
Okay, awesome.
I'll check it out.
We'll mention just a couple I,I mentioned it last episode so I'm

(01:10:41):
not gonna dwell on it now.
I loved the outrun withSaoirse Ronan.
I, I praised that last episodeso I'm not gonna go on in that.
But a movie that just missedmy top 10 that I really am sad that
didn't make it was Late Nightwith the Devil, which I loved.
I praised that movie also.
I think that was in my topfive at the mid year point as well.

(01:11:03):
That is, it's like this fauxlate night show.
I still didn't see it.
But that's another earlyhorror movie from this year, right?
Dust Malchian.
Yeah, it's kind of, it's a, yeah.
David.
Dust Malchian is this latenight talk show host and he bring
and there's like this, it'skind of like invaded by the, with

(01:11:23):
this spirit that he, that is going.
It's all done in real time.
It's like this lost episodethat is uncovered.
It's a really, reallyinteresting movie.
I've never seen anything likeit before.
I highly recommend it.
I think it might be my 11 or12 if we did a top.
If so I really liked it.
Sad that didn't make it.
You might laugh.
I loved it.

(01:11:44):
Twisters was probably my top.
Hey, if you feel it, I know.
Yeah.
I really had a great time with Twisters.
And until it's probably thelast month and a half of this year
where I started watching someof the prestige pictures, it might
have made my top 10.
I had that much fun with it.
It went way up on a re watchfor me.

(01:12:06):
Super fun.
Yeah.
And I think the last thingI'll mention is came out really early
in this year and at the time Iwas kind of mixed on.
I liked it, didn't love it.
But in light of where we arein the world right now, I think Civil
War is a pretty good film.
I had, I, I want to watch itagain and I'm kind of maybe hesitant

(01:12:28):
to.
But there's so much about thatmovie that I think is really good
in that film.
And I'm curious now in lightof where we are post election, how
that film will land with me now.
I, I, I like Alex Garland alot and I think that maybe I wasn't
real.
It wasn't the movie we thoughtwe were getting right.

(01:12:50):
So I, I, I think it, I thinkit is worthy, worth another shot
and it probably would make mytime top 20.
Now if you want a journalistmovie, you could also watch Lee the
Cave Wins the Passion Projectwhich was, which was Good.
I liked it.
I like Alex Garland as a director.
I was.
I personally was really civil.
I mean, really disappointed inCivil War.

(01:13:12):
But I will say the scene inthe middle of the film with Jesse
Plemons, like, shout out tohis terrifying performance, like
that scene, had that momentbeen extended, extended into like
a.
A more major part of the film,I would have loved it.
But like that.
That scene, I absolutely loved.
I liked it.

(01:13:33):
I like Kaylee Spany.
Hey, great year for Kaylee Spany.
So, yeah, it had.
It had nothing to say.
It was just like shock value.
But like, I.
I did like that middle scene.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay, let's take a quick breakand we'll come back with a couple
of our other superlatives.
If you open the beaches on the4th of July, it's like ringing the.

(01:13:55):
Dinner bell, for Christ's sake.
Mr.
Vaughn.
Mr.
Vaughn.
I pulled a tooth the size of.
A shot glass out of the rectal.
Of a boat out there.
And it was the tooth of agreat white.
It was Ben Gardner's boat.
It was all chewed up.
I helped tow it in.
You.
You should have seen him.
Where.
Where is that tooth?
Did you see it, bro?
No, I didn't see it.
He dropped the bl.
I had an accident.
And what did you say the nameof the shuck is?

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And Carcarius.
It's a great white.
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(01:15:00):
You know the first thing Iwant to do.
You guys remember thebeginning of this year?
We barely.
I know.
A long time ago.
It was about a year ago.
Been a long year.
We did our 2024 movie likepredictions, anticipations of what
our favorite move, what.

(01:15:20):
What we were looking forwardto this year pretty much.
We made a top 10 list.
See anybody jogging anyone's memory?
Maybe.
Maybe.
Well, I have this here and Iwant to read it to you and find out
if any of these movies landedon your top 10 all right.

(01:15:41):
Okay.
All right.
This should be.
This should be kind of fun here.
All right, Sam, your top 10movies that you.
Your most anticipated films of2024 were Furiosa, which did make
your top 10.
Dune Part 2.

(01:16:01):
Deadpool.
Well, it was called Deadpool 3back then.
Civil War, Inside Out 2, whichyou didn't get to A Quiet Place Day
1.
Haven't seen it.
Yeah.
Twisters.
Alien, Alien, Romulus,Beetlejuice 2.

(01:16:24):
Well, became Beetlejuice,Beetlejuice and Gladiator 2.
So how do you feel?
But you actually hit on a lotof these here.
They.
A lot of.
Several of these ended up inyour top 10.
I hit on a few of them, yeah.
It was not bad.
You know, like some, you know, it's.
When those movies are marketedat the beginning of the year, sometimes
some of them appear biggerthan they are, but you never know
what you're gonna get.

(01:16:45):
It's.
It's so hard because we onlyknow about like the big tent pole
releases right at thebeginning of the year.
Yeah, exactly.
And to, to your earlier point.
Right, like we're not criticsor anything that would know necessarily.
A lot of the stuff that's.
Yeah.
Gonna come out.
And I, I don't get to followas closely to movie news as I would

(01:17:05):
like to.
Sometimes I feel like I liveunder a rock.
I mean, I watch them, butother than that, not a lot I can
do.
I hear that.
B.
Are you ready for your 10 mostanticipated films?
Yeah.
All right, here it is.
Beetlejuice 2.
Good movie.
Bob Marley, the one I would love.
Not the one I had blacked thatmovie out.

(01:17:30):
Lashana, Lynch Goddess, though.
Amazing.
The Book of Clarence.
Didn'T get to it.
All right.
Drive Away Dolls.
Bad movie.
Gladiator 2.
Fine.
The Bike Riders.
We'll talk about it.
Dune Part 2.
Good movie.
Great movie.
Mickey 17, which got delayed.

(01:17:53):
It's coming out.
I'm looking forward to.
I Can't wait and two more.
Furiosa, of course, and Lordof the Rings, War of the Rohirrim.
Watch.
Yeah.
And I'm so bummed that Ihaven't watched it.
It feels almost like, like 14year old me would really punch me
in the face for that momentmove, you know?

(01:18:14):
All right.
And my 10 movies were civilWar, which I told you didn't meet
my expectations.
Driveway Dolls, which we'regonna get to that.
We just had Rod Lives instead.
Yeah.
Alien, Romulus, which I didn't.
I did, like a lot.
Furiosa.
Dune part two did make my top 10.
The bike riders we'll get to that.

(01:18:35):
Deadpool 3.
I had a great time with that.
Mickey 17 delayed anothermovie here.
Alto Knights got delayed as well.
I think that's coming out in amonth or two as well.
And Samuel appreciates HorizonPart 1 and 2, because I thought they
were both coming out this past summer.

(01:18:57):
So I didn't.
I didn't watch, obviously, Horizon.
Little did we know what wasgoing to happen in the summer of
2024.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So those.
That was our moviepredictions, our anticipated films
of 2024.
So, yeah, we did a good job.
We did pretty goodanticipating what might make our
list here.
But I feel like my list thisyear was better than my two 2023

(01:19:19):
list.
I just.
I feel like it was more.
I like your point.
I like your list.
You had a lot of movies that Iwas like, yeah, that's a good one.
Didn't quite make them for me,for all of them, but I like them.
Hear that.
So, B or Sam, Were there any.
Was there a surprise this year?
Any.
What would be your biggestsurprise if you had one?

(01:19:40):
It could be something that wasalready mentioned as well, but.
Oh, man.
I've got one.
Yeah.
Amelia Perez.
Okay.
Have any of you seen it?
No, I.
I know about.
I just haven't had a chance.
Sense.
Yeah.
I didn't really know what toexpect going in, and I'm kind of

(01:20:03):
all over the map with this movie.
One day, I think it's.
You know, I'm thinking aboutit with a very high opinion.
Another day, really not.
I think some of theperformances salvaged what was otherwise
not always a great story, butit was genuinely a surprise not knowing
what it was going into it.
Everything about that movie,stylistically, the plot, everything

(01:20:26):
was a surprise for me.
And it was fun and engaging to watch.
So, yeah, I appreciate a big swing.
Whether or not it alwaysknocks it out of the park.
I like a big swing.
I think people should watch it.
Did that just win some globes?
I think it won.
I think it did for some of the performances.
I know Zoe Saldana 1.
Greg.
I gotta check that one.

(01:20:47):
And she.
She was great in the movie.
I was gonna say, even thoughit's not about a film, it's the film
itself.
But I was really surprised bythe box office of Furiosa.
Like, I didn't think it wasgoing to be the biggest hit, but
I did not see it just, like,choking in dirt like that and just
not doing well.
Like, that was.
I was not.

(01:21:08):
I thought it was going to be a huge.
The big sequel to, you know,like, I was like, I had no idea.
And maybe I'm in a bubble, butI really saw it.
Mad Max had more of afollowing, especially after Fury
Road.
Yeah, me too.
So I was really surprised thatpeople, that public opinion was able

(01:21:28):
to control the narrative soquickly on that one.
I think it got panned reallyfast and then just went nowhere.
And people, it just felt likepeople didn't even give it a shot.
And we, you know, I can'texactly say I helped with a ton,
but at least be curious about it.
Go see it for yourself.
Keep.
Exactly.
Fury Road was not the giantbox office mega that people think

(01:21:51):
it was.
I mean, did it, did it winBest Picture or am I thinking something
else?
Or was it.
It was nominated, I think.
Yeah, it didn't win, but I don't.
Think it won Revenant or it,it was up there.
It was up there.
I'm blanking.
But it, it, it, it isn't that big.
People think it like it's abillion dollar movie.
It's not even close to that.
No, but it gained such a cultfollowing since its release.

(01:22:14):
It did, but the.
But it's not even remotely.
It's a completely differentmovie than Fury Road.
It is, it is.
Road is the most simple plot.
You know, go to A, to B, backto A.
Most Mad Max movies.
It is.
And Furiosa is really ananomaly in the franchise.

(01:22:35):
It is the biggest epic of allthe movies.
And I think that's what maybewhat kind of.
I was funny.
It's not like people went tosee it and then like you saw like
a 70 drop the next week.
People just completely shunnedit from day one.
And maybe it's because like,oh, I don't want to see Crimson Chris
Hemsworth in this whole thing.

(01:22:55):
Or they're like, we don't.
We people from day one.
Like, we don't want to see the story.
We want to see Mad Max.
And maybe that's what it was.
It's from the very moment,from the marketing.
I don't know if it was likethe, the womanly.
Because people love AnyaTaylor, Joy.
So I was surprised that thesort of superstardom didn't, didn't

(01:23:16):
sort of help it limp through.
She's not that big as.
I mean she's, she's wellknown, but I don't know.
She's not opening movies, youknow, so I don't know.
And it, I not surprised.
It didn't do fantastic.
I just shocked how much it,it, it tanked.
Yeah.
Some People said that if likeit, you know, and I'm glad that it.
I'm glad they went the routethey did, but that if it had Charlie

(01:23:38):
Ston and Tom Hardy in it thatit might have had more of a box office
draw, you know, but I'm surewould they.
I think people I think wouldhave suffered though.
Oh sure.
Oh yeah.
I think I'm just talk.
Yeah, I.
I like how it was, but yeah.
Yeah.
Sorry, what were you saying, Nathan?
I didn't mean to cut you off.
No, no, no.
There's nothing else.
I think people.
I think.
I think the discord was.

(01:23:59):
Or what the fanboys wanted wasFree Road 2.
You know, that would have beenwhat people think they wanted it
pro would not have been asgood as a movie.
But that's what, you know,people always want more of the same
thing.
That's what the majority people.
People probably would havesaid like, oh, it's just the same
thing again.
Yeah, right, right, right.
My.
I'll just say my biggestsurprise was hundreds of beavers

(01:24:22):
actually.
I'll say I want to.
I want some.
I want that to come upsomewhere in this podcast.
Podcast that this wassomething that was done for almost
no money at all.
Not no money at all, but justdone on independent film.
It is a Looney Tunes cartooncome to life.
So much fun.

(01:24:43):
It is not a perfect movie.
It did not make my top 20.
But I just want to justmention it here because I think I,
I want, you know, independentcreators to do more things like this.
Just have the guts to createsomething as insane as this and you
never know when it's going tostick in this movie.
Somehow on.

(01:25:04):
On a very small budget made itinto the mainstream, you know, to
some degree.
It did, it did.
It's on big streaming platforms.
It had a theatrical release.
It is the dream, it is thesuccess of filmmakers like myself,
like you, Sam, that to createsomething on such a small budget
and then have it explode like this.
This movie's made millions andmillions of dollars on I think a

(01:25:25):
hundred thousand dollar budget.
It is incredible story and itis so funny and it's so creative
and, and witty and well done.
So absolutely, I'm in all thisand it came out of nowhere.
So yes, biggest surprise forme was this movie so fun.
Yeah, this will be a fun one.
B.
What is your biggest disappointment?

(01:25:45):
I feel like I have a three waytie for this.
I have a three way tie too.
Obviously it's bike riders for me.
I was so jazzed for this movieand so bummed about the result of
it.
I.
I did not find a whole lotredeeming in this film.
And it's not that it's not aserviceable movie.
I think if I went back andwatched it I'd probably be like,

(01:26:07):
yeah, it's fine.
It's a good movie.
But I think I was so excitedfor it that it fits into that disappointment
category because I.
I just.
My expectations andanticipation was running really high.
The other two that are bigdisappointments for me I actually
didn't have the sameanticipation for.
But I like probably less thanI like Bike Riders is here and Night.

(01:26:30):
I did not like her.
I was.
I was gonna check out Night atsome point, but now I know it wasn't
for me.
Okay.
All right.
Seems divisive.
But my.
I have a three way tie.
But I think above all that issaid it before Driveway Dolls which

(01:26:50):
Because you know we have got.
Not a good movie.
I think it's.
Is it Jewel or Ethico?
And I'm getting the mix up now.
Which one did this?
I don't remember.
But you know it's.
I think it's.
I want to find out becauseit's Ethan Cohen.
Joel Cohen did like Tragedy,Macbeth and he.

(01:27:11):
Which I loved.
Really well done.
This is the first thing thatEthan Cohen has done since he's.
He went solo.
So I had high expectations for this.
I thought this was going to bekind of that in the.
In the world of like RaisingArizona or something like that.
I thought we were going to getthat kind of humor that kind of like.
Like, you know, much like wehad with what's the movie.

(01:27:33):
I love Love Life's Bleeding.
Love Life bleeding.
I.
I thought we were gonna get.
You know.
But we didn't.
And this.
Yeah.
It just didn't.
It didn't work for me.
Just a flaccid dildo and.
And Matt Damon in this.
I don't know what he is doingin this movie.
It's.
It's just the storytellingjust didn't work for me.
I don't know what can I say so.
But the three way tie is alsoBike Riders was on this.

(01:27:57):
I think Bike Riders might.
I might give another shotsometime because I think Bike Rides
is a well done movie.
It just didn't reach the.
My expectations for it.
But it's.
It's so like it's.
It's a little bit of Goodfellas.
It's a little bit of somethingelse and like it's derivative of
Felt like Other Things and itjust didn't feel like, it all.

(01:28:19):
Coco co was cohesive enoughfor me, but I don't think it's a
bad movie.
I just wanted something alittle more that.
More from it.
So I don't know.
The other movie is.
And it really is not.
I don't know if it probablyshould be a disappointment, because
I had a feeling that I wasn'tgonna like the movie, but I love
Yorgos Lanthimos, but Iwatched Kinds of Kindness, and I

(01:28:44):
was just like, what?
What the.
Is this.
Also what happened when Iwatch Kinds of Kindness?
Yeah, well.
And I like.
And I have not walked out ofone of his movies with, like.
Like, feeling that way ever.
And it was the first time Ican say I did not enjoy this movie.

(01:29:04):
So, yeah, you and I are sickoLanthimos completionists.
And it's a rocky road.
If you want to watch every oneof his movies.
It's a bumpy, bumpy ride.
Yeah.
You know, so.
Yeah.
Okay.
So.
But I'd say Driveway Dallas is my.
Is.
Is the top of that heat.
Yeah.

(01:29:25):
Okay.
Sam.
Samuel.
I'd say, for me, I didn't hatethe movie.
Like, I.
I think I'd give it, like, twoor two and a half.
But for me, I had differentexpectations with Civil War, and.
Yeah, I remember that washeavily marketed in the spring, and
I was really looking forwardto it.
I didn't dislike it.
It was just a differentexperience that I was kind of expecting

(01:29:48):
with some really good moments.
But that was a surprise for me.
Slight disappointment, eventhough I would revisit it for sure,
just not right away.
But I will definitely,definitely watch it again.
And who knows?
Maybe my opinion will change.
That's the thing about a disappointment.
Right?
Doesn't mean it's, like, yourleast favorite.
It's just the one that didn'tmatch our expectations.
Yeah.
Well, let's pivot right away.

(01:30:08):
Sam, if there was somethingthis year that you would give a chance
and watch again, what would it be?
Because that's our next category.
I would.
Maybe you didn't love it.
Maybe I love it.
Love Twisters.
I thought it was pretty good.
And I would watch that again.
Absolutely.
Because I feel like I wouldhave more fun with it.
It's also, again, expectations.

(01:30:30):
Movies with no expectations.
And I Love Twister, the 1996 film.
Like, love, love, love.
Such fond memories.
But I like Twisters.
Remember giving it arelatively positive review, But I
would definitely see it again.
It's been a while.
I saw it the one time in the theater.
Like, I'm due for anotherviewing it's fun.
Feel it.
You know, if you're feeling it.

(01:30:51):
Yeah.
Go chase it.
Chase it.
Why not be.
Do you have anything that you are.
Maybe it wasn't your jam, but you.
Were like, like, okay, likethe deserves a second watch.
Yeah.
Another shot.
Yeah.
This movie actually was myjam, but I think it's only going
to continue to go up on re watches.
Was a monkey man so fun?

(01:31:14):
That's my pick too.
Yeah, it was so fun.
You know, this.
Didn't feel it.
It did.
It obviously comes from JohnWick and a lot of Kung Fu movie,
and it's just, it's from thatschool of thought, but it didn't
feel derivative.
It just felt studied and smartand interesting and fresh and I want

(01:31:35):
to see more of it.
I liked it a lot and it's beenkind of on my brain and feeling I'm
ready to give it another watch.
Yeah, I, I watched this, cameout over the summer, I think.
June, July, I remember watch this.
And I think I was just soexhausted seeing this and like, I
just.
This movie pounded me into submission.

(01:31:57):
Yeah, I remember.
And I, I just.
This movie deserves another watch.
For me, the other movie Imight put on, this is a movie that
I know you love, and Iprobably don't know why I don't love
it.
And that is, you know, I sawthe TV glow.
I, I.
Because this has been on somany people's top 10 lists, I'm like,
I.
I probably should give itanother shot.
It's okay.

(01:32:17):
You know, I want to.
Okay.
Another category I want to seehere is.
What can you not wait to repeat?
Yeah.
What can you not wait to repeat?
Yeah, that's another category.
Yeah.
Anything you.
You can't wait to watch again, Sam.

(01:32:37):
Rings of Power, season two,like, hands down.
I'll watch it again.
I appreciate it.
I will.
I will watch it again.
Probably right.
Right before season threecomes out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's the plan.
Okay.
It's good.
It's good.
Terrifier three.

(01:32:59):
No.
Really?
Yeah.
I'm down to clown.
What can I say?
I had a great time with the franchise.
I'm.
I love a spooky movie.
I love a gore fest.
Big fan of those.
So, yeah, give me.
I have a feeling I will enjoy those.
I have not seen a single one,but I saw a trailer and I was hooked.
So I have a lot of movies.
I feel like you'll like thesecond one the best, but, you know,

(01:33:21):
interesting.
Now I have to see it because Iwant to know what you mean by that.
I'm looking forward to it.
You know, I don't really havea good answer for this, but is it
also terrifier 3?
No, cuz that's a great answer.
Just no bias.
Oh, I know it's got to be if.
Right?

(01:33:42):
Actually, I, I might want tosee Dune Part two again because I,
I feel like I, I need to.
I really loved that movie andmight actually move up higher my
list once I see it again, so.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm so glad to hear that.
I remember you had secondthoughts when you first saw it.
Like, I'm happy it improved.

(01:34:04):
Like, you know, it has, it has.
Totally.
I hear that.
All right, next category.
Okay, what is everyone's leastfavorite movie?
Not the movie you hated themost, but what is your least favorite?
Because we're a positivepodcast here.
Movie of 2024.
God, I don't, I really don'tknow on.
That's a conundrum for me because.

(01:34:26):
Oh, go ahead, Sam.
No, I was just gonna say Ihave ones that I like, dislike, but
they're not like leastfavorite is too.
I don't know.
You go ahead.
I gotta think the movie youloved the least or the movie.
Yeah, that was a nice way to.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You don't want to offend anyof these people.
Like I said earlier, this yeardidn't hit the highs that last year
hit for me, but I had like alot of lows this year and I actually

(01:34:51):
had a lot of movies competingfor this particular super and.
But I, I landed on StrangeDarling, which I think is a little
bit controversial, but Ididn't get it.
I, I don't think it was a good movie.
I, you know, talking about Artthe Clown and Gore Fest, I like that.
I liked Love Lies Bleeding.

(01:35:11):
It's.
It's not a genre issue for me.
I didn't like the style of it.
I didn't like the stilted acting.
I know that can be a stylethat some directors employ.
I don't think it worked here.
Thought the twist waspredictable and barely a twist.
I just, I went into it kind ofexpecting like a mid level horror

(01:35:32):
film and I walked away from itjust, Just pretty unimpressed.
Didn't.
Didn't like it at all.
And there, there are a lot ofmovies that I thought were on that
same low level for me where Ijust was not engaged with it.
But Strange Darling was theone that I thought took the least

(01:35:52):
big sweet made.
Made it the least interestingto not like.
If that makes sense.
Okay.
That was on Several people'stop 10 list.
I know, I know.
I think there's just somethingI'm missing.
Yeah.
But my, I actually had a threehander here as well.
But I think the one that Ihave to go with, the honorable mentions

(01:36:13):
for this, I'll say, by theway, are Godzilla, X Kong, the New
Empire, which is just stupidanyway, so that doesn't deserve.
I forgot to put that on mywatch list.
Yeah, I just see that it doesn't.
Even deserve to be mentioned.
Tarot, which I saw, which isjust bad all the way around.
A movie that really deservesthis, this trophy because it is,

(01:36:36):
I think, earnestly trying tobe a good movie, but it's just terrible.
Is Argyle.
I totally forgot about thatfilm's existence until you.
It's just so bad.
And I think it's, I think thismovie thinks it's supposed to be
a genuinely good movie andit's supposed to tie into the Kingsman

(01:36:57):
universe as well.
So it's trying to also setitself up for a franchise.
And it's got, it's ambitious,but it just falls flat in every way
possible.
So.
Absolutely.
Argyle, I, I, I, I say is myleast favorite film of 2024.
Congratulations.
You.

(01:37:17):
That's so funny.
I remember the trailer forthat, like way back, and I was like,
the CGI cat.
The CGI cat.
Yep.
Yeah.
And now Sam Rockwell is inthat, isn't he?
I remember that.
I do think he does a good jobin it.
Interesting.
Okay.
Sam, did you have something or.

(01:37:39):
Honestly, I just, I didn't.
I don't think I've like, seenenough movies to be disappointed.
Someone, I gotta just, justdrop it.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Can't believe none of us havechosen Joker.
Because I actually, I haven'tseen it.
Joker is a pretty punk rock movie.
Yeah, I don't love, I don'tlove it, but I, I kind of dig.

(01:38:00):
What.
I kind of dig the middlefinger that he's given.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Okay.
Two more categories here Ithink we can knock out here.
What is the we didn't get itmovie of 2024?
A film that's heavily praised, just.
That just didn't resonate with us.
Juror number two, I have to say.
Civil War.

(01:38:20):
Sorry.
I really don't hate that movie either.
It just, it just, it's irksome.
B.
You said juror number two.
Yeah, if that fits.
I mean, it kind of does it,but it's been kind of divisive as
well.
Your, your opinion on it isnot, Is.
You know, I've heard a lot ofpeople will either love it or hate
it.

(01:38:41):
I would also say have.
I would say wicked then ifthat is more of a highly praised.
You can see anything you want.
Yeah.
All right.
What do you want to say?
I don't know.
Tombstone.
So I mean that's true.
Juror number two.
Okay.
Just throw Clint Eastwood on it.
That's fine.

(01:39:03):
What's yours?
I don't know because I think Iforgot to.
To make a.
Bird.
I think I forgot to fill thisone out.
Film that.
Well, I'll have to.
I'm gonna have to just wing it here.

(01:39:23):
Keep this in.
Keep this in.
Yeah.
It's good.
I guess I have to go back to.
I saw the TV glow.
It's on so many.
Yeah.
Best of lists.
And.
And I.
It just like it should have.
I feel like it's.
It's catnip for me.
And it just did not.
Hey.
Sometimes that happens.
Yeah.

(01:39:44):
Another movie that I don'tknow if this qualifies as a 2024
release.
It is.
I'm seeing it on some.
Even though it didn't get a USTheatrical the US release until this
year.
But it came out last year.
What was the Wender's film?
Perfect Days.
Perfect Days.
See that came out.
I like that a lot.
That only in the US this year.
And that's a movie I need tore watch my top 20 point because

(01:40:08):
I've actually seen it on sometop 10 lists of this year because
it didn't get come to theUnited States I don't think until
this year.
And that's a movie that I sh.
That should be in my top 10.
I loved it.
Yeah.
But I.
I guess I will stick with.
I saw the TV film.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I think.
Is this our last.

(01:40:29):
This might be our last category.
Oh we'll see.
They didn't get it award.
So this is a movie from asheavily panned that we loved Megalopolis.
We're all Megalopolis on this one.
I bet.
Megalopolis.
Meg.
I'll put Megan here.
Not the Meg but.

(01:40:50):
The Meg Part 2.
This is probably in like would be.
Be one of my picks buthonestly I don't begrudge people
for not liking Megalopolis.
There's.
There's plenty of reasons whypeople don't like it and I get it.
Yeah.
They're virgins.
It's a good movie.

(01:41:11):
It's a good movie.
So I actually want to.
I'm going a differentdirection for this.
The fall guy.
I think.
Yeah.
It's a good movie.
I saw the fall guy about a.
Did not deserve the hate.
No, it did.
It did not.
Fall Guy did not make my top 20.
But I like this movie so much.
It is.
It's.
It's a movie about making movies.

(01:41:32):
It is so funny.
It's a rom com.
It's got some of the bestaction I saw all year.
I think Ryan Gosling is so funny.
Is Emily Blunt is so funny in this.
How this movie did not open upsee like the big movie season making
a big splash is beyond me.
This movie bombed, was dead onarrival, which is beyond me.

(01:41:55):
Much like furiosity.
Much like a lot of movies this year.
May 2024 was like really boxoffice odd.
Like it a lot of.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
Q2 was just not what wethought it would be.
This.
But also got good reviews.
People that saw this movieliked this movie.
I want to see it.
I haven't seen it.
I will watch it.

(01:42:15):
You would love it, Sam.
I know I would.
Yeah.
I think industry.
It is so good.
It's so funny and it's really.
Well, it is so good.
But I.
I do think of a lot of thesemovies that we've talked about.
Tonight.
Fall Guy is going to be theone that like has the staying power.
I think in like 10, 15 yearswhen people just want to throw on
a movie.

(01:42:35):
Yeah.
I can see Fall Guy beingsomething that people watch kind
of over and over.
Interesting.
Yeah, it is really good.
I.
I'm shocked.
Like, why the.
How this did not do better?
I.
I don't.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Anyway, so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, I think that's good.

(01:42:56):
I think it's good for ourcategories here.
Any.
Any, any.
Any last other films you wantto just mention or you feel good
about anything we talked about here.
A real pain.
Go see it.
Evil does not exist.
Check it out.
Exist.
That was.
Was that lingered in my top 20.
Yeah, it.
It doesn't.
Wasn't as good as theprevious, but.

(01:43:18):
Yeah.
Check it out.
I.
Is that the same guy that didDrive Drive My car or am I.
Thinking which I love.
That's my Drive my Car posterin the back.
One of my favorite movies ofall time.
Good.
Just more slow.
Cinema is good.
I can't wait to see Chime.
I can't wait to see Nickel Boys.
I can't wait to see Janet Planet.
There's just.
There's more good stuff comingour way.
But shout out to Lisa Frankenstein.

(01:43:41):
I love this.
I just want to say that IHitman Surprised how good that was.
I'll say Glenn Powell.
Hell of a year.
Yeah.
And last thing, I'll say oneother one, and then I'm gonna shut
up about movies for the year.
I can't think of it now.
I will say briefly, I likedLand of Bad with Liam Tendsworth

(01:44:03):
and Russell Crowe.
I enjoyed that.
What came out way early in theyear, but that was a fun, like, action
movie.
Russell Crowe's performancewas great.
I high.
I went into that with zeroexpectations, and that certainly
helped, but it was very, like,old school.
Like, felt like 80s pacing.
I enjoyed it.
There's been a few of thosethis year.
Yeah, yeah.

(01:44:24):
You're like, yeah, I like it.
Exactly.
I think that's about.
About it.
Okay, cool.
I'm good.
I'm good.
Go watch movies.
Just 20, 25.
Keep watching movies.
Watching movies.
That's right.
Go to the theater.
Support your theater.
Support your local one.
All right, let's take one morequick little break, and we'll come
back with our specialannouncement and we'll wrap up the

(01:44:47):
show.
You just listen to the oldPork Chop Express here now and take
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When the lightning's crashingand the thunder's rolling and the
rain's coming down and.
Sheets thick as lead.
Just remember what old JackBurton does When the earthquakes
and the poison arrows.
Fall from the sky and thepillars of heaven shake.

(01:45:07):
Yeah.
Jack Burton just looks thatbig old storm right square in the
eye and he says, give me yourbest shot, pal.
I can take it.
You know, if.
If I ever were to have changedthe outro of our podcast, instead
of that would have been theout outro quote.

(01:45:29):
That's a great trouble.
Jack Burton.
Jack Burton is no SnakePlissken, but it's pretty.
He's, you know, he's got somany great characters.
So there.
There was a Jack Burton, like,hang on, guys, I'm here.
It's all set.
A Jack Burton for President2024 t shirt that was circulating
around at one point, and I waslike, you know what?

(01:45:49):
I'm down.
That's pretty good.
All right, so it is time.
I.
It's.
We just need to make anannouncement that's very important
about the podcast.
Back to the frame rate.
So here we are, our 99th episode.
So this is, you know, hard totalk about, but we have made the

(01:46:13):
decision that we are going tomove on from this podcast, and the
hundredth episode is going tobe our final show.
Our final episode.
Yeah.
I mean, there's severalreasons for doing this.
We have a lot going on in our lives.
And the podcast is a lot of work.
I, I probably put at least 18hours a week into every episode,

(01:46:38):
so, you know, whammy.
Nobody cares about that.
I know, but, you know, it's alot of, you know, over the last two
years, this has been anincredible journey.
I've had so much fun doing this.
It has been my dream for 15years to host a movie review podcast.

(01:46:58):
And it's been everything andmore doing this.
But is, you know, it's time toturn the page and do some other things.
As you know, we've talkedabout on here, you and me, Sam, we're,
we.
We work in the industry andI've sacrificed my career for this

(01:47:19):
podcast and I have that itchagain, you know, to get back into
the saddle of writing and producing.
And I've got someopportunities coming up this year
that there's be no way I wouldbe able to immerse myself wholeheartedly
into it and balance a podcastwith it.

(01:47:41):
It's.
It's the reason why I shutdown my last podcast, My ABC is a
Rock, so that I could get backinto it.
But, you know, and you know,I'll never.
I hate to say it's the end.
You know, I say never say never.
You know, you know what, younever know what happens a year from
now.
And you know, I've always.
I keep the feeds active allthe time, but right now we are going

(01:48:02):
to, you know, say goodbye.
This is not the last episode.
Next episode when we're is ourlive show, galaxy 100th episode.
You know, and I can't wait for that.
It's gonna be a lot of fun,but I think it's appropriate that
we, you know, share that.
This is going to be what it isright now.
So, yeah, 100 episodes.

(01:48:25):
Very impressive.
A good run, a quality show.
Yeah, most podcasts only lastbetween seven to ten episodes if
you.
Which is because pod fade sets in.
Podcasting to maintain apodcast is a lot of work.
It's hard and I don't thinkwhen people start a show, they realize

(01:48:47):
how much work it is and howhard it is.
I have now produced 170 plusepisodes of, of.
Of podcasts and it's.
Or something like that.
It's.
It's.
So, yeah, I'm pretty seasonedat this now, so it's.
I.
And I might do another one atsome point down the road.
Definitely don't unsubscribeto this feed because there could

(01:49:10):
always be updates about thestatus of other events or other shows.
That any of us might beinvolved in.
So.
Yeah, and all this.
The great thing about what wedo here is all these shows that we've
done in the last year and ahalf are.
It's films that are availableon VOD and streaming.

(01:49:30):
And you can go back and listento these, and they're a lot of fun.
And I had a great timechatting movies with you guys.
Yeah, no, I was gonna say wehad so many episodes too, because
we had to survive.
We were in a nuclear fallout.
Whereas other shows may have altered.
We had no choice because wehad to keep morale up while we were
locked up in that bunker.
You know, now they're.

(01:49:51):
Now there's a single, like,bird flying around outside and we
think the air is less toxic,so we're gonna risk going out into
the wasteland.
But, yeah, we're crossing the threshold.
I'm so sorry I cut you off mid sentence.
I did not mean to do that.
My apologies.
No, it's okay.
I like what you had to say better.
Yeah, no, I just.
I don't work in the industry,so I appreciated this time getting
to talk to you both about movies.

(01:50:13):
I love them.
I don't know much about howthey're made, but I.
Thanks for letting me rant andramble about them.
It has been a absolute pleasure.
Yeah.
Do you guys have any specificmemories or episodes or moments that.
Dude.
I will say I did.
I really liked the 20.
I liked the lead up betterthan the film.

(01:50:34):
I didn't dislike the film, butI did very much like the 2024 twisters
theme we had going with the.
If you feel it, chase it.
That was our 2024.
Like, it was an anthem firsthalf of the year.
Yeah.
And this is also.
And we all went to go see ittogether, which is great because
for listeners at home, wedon't all live in the same area.

(01:50:56):
So that was super fun.
I loved the Mad Max seriesdoing that.
And for me, it's IndianaJones, as you all know, my first
time watching them and I gotto chat about them with you guys,
which was.
Is wonderful.
A shout out to my favoritememory of the Anthony Ambrosino.
The battle over the quality ofTemple of Doom.

(01:51:18):
That was one of my favoriteepisodes because Anthony Ambrosino
sometimes says things that I think.
But his.
Like, we have slightlydifferent personalities.
So to hear him voice, it waslike my brother from.
My brother from another motheron that episode.
So, Anthony, shout out.
You liked it because it was cgi.
No, didn't like it.
Didn't like It I wanted,there's like two or three episodes.

(01:51:42):
I just want to point out, Ilook back, I've actually listened,
I think in the past year toepisode one.
And I know B, you weren't partof the show then.
But I have to say though, if Idon't encourage people to listen
to it.
But I have to say that I wasso nervous because I had no idea
what we were doing.
The audio is terrible and forsome reason I couldn't figure out

(01:52:05):
that there was this autoleveling feature turned on so all
of our voices in the roomnoise were being equaled out and
it's so bad and gotta go back.
And listen to that.
Like I actually listen to thispodcast when I'm, when I'm doing
like long drives.
I will go back and listen toour previous episodes.

(01:52:25):
It's highly entertaining.
Our discussions.
I can listen to Ellie talkabout the Notebook all day.
So shout out to Ellie.
You were right.
I loved your romance suggestions.
More of it.
Ellie, you will always be mymale Nova Sento Noventa Iocho.
Ellie, listen to this.
I know about the Notebook is Ihad so much talking about this bad

(01:52:46):
movie which, which I was thelone voice of reason for that show
and, and you and Ellieinsisted on this being some great
movie.
I, I, I don't know.
The other thing I would say isepisode two.
I'm not going to go throughevery single episode, obviously,
but this was our firstofficial review and if you remember
the movie, Sam, it was too Leslie.

(01:53:06):
This was back before I tooknotes on movies.
At first I thought I couldjust watch a movie and head into
the podcast and just riff andjust talk about it.
This episode is probably ourbiggest disaster of all time.
I got to hear one and two inthe car.
Yeah.
Completely unprepared.
I no idea what to say becauseI had nothing prepared.

(01:53:30):
Sam, is this, is this laterwhen you later confessed that you
didn't finish the movie?
It was at this movie, was it.
That I can't remember if itwas that film or another film.
There was one that I did.
This would make sense becauseEllie, this is the one where Ellie
didn't understand the assignment.
Didn't watch them.
No, you know, it wasn't that one.

(01:53:51):
You know what it was.
And now that it's like, nowthat it's the end, I will admit this
because I have sinned.
I have since seen the film andI enjoyed it, but I only saw the
first half of and I it's beena while, but I only saw the first
half of The Woman King.
Was that the name of it?
Oh, that's what.
That's what it was.
And.
And it was not on purpose as atime thing.
And you noticed.

(01:54:12):
You're like, Sam, you.
I noticed you're really quietduring the second half.
Oh, well, you know, I don't know.
But, like, I fell into silencebecause I was like, I do not know
what they're talking about.
I don't know what to do.
I'm trying to, like, hide thefact that I.
That I now.
Now I gotta listen to that episode.
And then you made us all watch Ernest.
I did.
I did.
That was.
It was my joy to make us watchErnest, and it was my.

(01:54:35):
My joy to push Galaxy Questrelentlessly for our 100th podcast.
And yeah, you still have yetto give you guys Blu Ray presence,
but expect certain.
Certain thematic conversationscome in the mail to you, you know,
might have been.
Yeah, it's Gonna be Gremlins2, isn't it?

(01:54:56):
It's a possibility.
It's a possibility.
I would say one of the.
The episode 23.
This is where a lot of things change.
Where we.
We did our first director'sretrospective, and we did always.
And I just remember Elliehated this movie so much, and this

(01:55:18):
is where we started adopting,like, monthly retrospectives.
Sort of like we dipped our toein it.
But I just thought it was sohysterical because this.
She was just so offended bythis film.
And.
No.
And I think she mentioned shefell asleep during a part of it.
And to quote Nathan, I vividlyremember you being like this.
And I apologize for my, like,terrible, not quality Nathan sewer

(01:55:41):
impression.
But you were like, okay, well,okay, well, Sam and I will discuss
the film then.
Okay.
Thank you for participating, Ellie.
And so, Sam, what did you think?
Probably is what I said.
Yeah.
Because there's like, there'snowhere to go on the COVID She's
like, I didn't like it.
I fell asleep.
And you're like, well, okay,okay, well, thank you.

(01:56:03):
I also remember Exorcist 2.
That was brilliant.
How could I forget that?
What's great is that we allhated of this movie, but it was so
much fun to talk about a badmovie, which is something that we
didn't get to do very often onthe show.
Like, yeah.
You know, like just anoutright terrible film where we just,
like, dig into, like, why this.

(01:56:25):
What the happened.
Yes.
Which is kind of too bad thatwe didn't have that.
Like, we watched so many great films.
Oh, God, yes.
Yeah, we did.
Yeah.
I loved our.
Our first noir retrospective.
I Had so much fun with that.
Oh, my God, that was great.
I love.
Yeah.
2023 and November both years.

(01:56:46):
Big, big fan of that.
Fond memories, especially of2023, because I was, like, on the
road in British Columbiawatching many of those films for
the first time.
And so I really enjoyed, like,that discussion.
Yeah.
Being in a different environment.
That combination provided forgood memories.
I still don't forgive you twofor making my first episode, Amistad.

(01:57:09):
Do you guys have a favoritemovie that we reviewed on this podcast?
Oh, that's hard.
But maybe that you've neverseen before.
That would be the.
The more of the caveat.
Something you hadn't seen thatyou were forced, that you never would
have watched.
But we watched because of this podcast.
I.
I have one.
I have one.
I have a few outside ofRaiders of the Lost Ark, because

(01:57:33):
that was just such a funseries for me.
New for all of us, because itwas a new movie.
The Holdovers has stuck with me.
Okay.
Holdovers is great.
I'm literally just looking atthe list right now that I hadn't
seen.
Ooh.
Oh, I know.
Definitely.
You know what?
For me, it was when we weredoing our Chris Nolan.
I was thinking that for you,following it was 100.
Following that movie.

(01:57:53):
Yeah.
His first movie.
Yep.
Yeah.
You like that movie?
I like that movie a lot.
And it like, like, shaped likemy whole.
It shaped a whole new idea oflike, ooh, low budget filmmaking.
Interesting.
Like, never seen it done quitelike that.
I thought it was brilliant.
Micro budget.
Yeah.
I'd say for me, the.
The movie that I never.

(01:58:14):
I've always wanted to see it,but if probably.
If it wasn't for this podcast,I probably wouldn't have gotten around
to it as.
As early as I did.
And that was Portrait of aLady on Fire.
Yeah.
Which I adored that film.
I.
So good.
Yeah.
And yeah.
Yeah.
That I really.
So thankful that I got aroundto seeing that.
Yeah, I know.

(01:58:35):
For me too.
Memento is up there, which iscrazy because it's such a classic
movie, but I know.
I know what the best quote,though, is of all the movies we've
seen in the entire podcast.
Best quote of all them.
You're about as interesting tome as a block toilet is to a plumber.
Al Pacino, Insomnia.
I'm sorry.
I actually think the Insomniaquote is they found her in a garbage.

(01:59:01):
Garbage bags.
Her body was in a garbage bag.
This guy crossed the line.
He didn't even blink.
You're making me not want toend this.
All right, stop.
Good times, good times.
Come see our 100th episodewhere we riff on Galaxy.
Well, by the time this comesout, that'll be passed.

(01:59:22):
Thank you for coming to ourhundredth episode.
It was incredible.
Oh, man.
Incredible rainstorm that night.
It was amazing.
100th episode.
Magical.
I think all those people thatcame out and.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Please don't let it end.
People tell me it was the mostsold out crowd ever.

(01:59:43):
Way more than Barack Obama's inauguration.
Way more.
It was big, Leaf.
It was big.
It was huge.
Huge.
Bigger than Coachella.
Bigger than Coachella.
By the way, should I do onelast Mark Wahlberg?
Guys, we gotta think.
We got.
We gotta worry about the bees.

(02:00:04):
What are they doing?
There's something in the wind.
The beekeeper 2024.
Go see it.
Flight risk is coming.
You all need a pilot.
All right, well, we've stillgot one more episode.
We're doing the live show,Galaxy Quest, which I am really excited

(02:00:26):
about.
And we will have.
We'll have a good time then.
As Harry Chapin said.
So long, folks.
All right, so, yeah, let's.
Let's.
Let's wrap this up.
All right, well, you know what?
I.
I have.

(02:00:47):
I have one more bumper queuedup here.
I don't know why I have three bumpers.
Should I just play it?
Because it's.
Yeah, I just want to throw inreally quick one.
My last comedic line for thisseries, Jim Carrey from oh, my God.
My brain is.
Is not.
Liar, liar.
The one.
The God one.
What's it called?
Bruce Almighty.
He's like, this is Bruce.
Bruce Spanglin, whatever,signing off from Channel 7.

(02:01:07):
See you later.
That's the way the cookiecrumbles right there.
No more bumpers.
All right, that is the showfor this week.
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