Top 10 Greatest Movies Of All Time

Jonny Brumit of Art Of Heaven and film maker David Tan join Justin to discuss their top 10 favorite movies of all time.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This production is brought to you by the Recess Bell.
Hey everybody, my name is Justin Greenberg, and you were
listening to the Film Reel right here on the Recess
Bell Network. Now. I also have a radio show, the
Radio Rumble Saturdays twelve to two on ninety point three WHPC,
and my good friend Johnny Brummett is a part of
that radio station, and we've wanted to collaborate for quite

(00:24):
some time, so I had him and his buddy David
ten who's a filmmaker, joined me for an episode of
The Radio Rumble, and I wanted to bring that discussion
to the Film Reel. And it's one of my favorite
shows that I've actually done in quite some time, so
I hope you guys enjoy it. We discuss our top
ten favorite movies of all time. We go back and
discuss our love of renting movies from Blockbuster, all the

(00:46):
nostalgia of seeing movies back in the day. I'm gonna
break this down into two parts because it's a two
hour radio show and we really played no music. It
was just two hours of talking movies, renting movies from Blockbuster,
the attention span of modern audiences. It's a fantastic program
and I think you guys are gonna like it, so
I'm gonna pass it down to pass Justin. Justin from

(01:07):
a few weeks ago, Radio Rumble Take it Away. A
little collaboration between Art of Heaven and the Radio Rumble.
We got the legendary Johnny Brumitt.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Johnny, Yeah, I'm here, I'm in the building, Radio Rumble style.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Let's do this. This is something like I've been saying,
you know, on the air and off the air. We've
been trying to do this collaboration for quite some time.
But Art of Heaven is one of the the you know,
the premiere shows here on WHPC and you got the
Art of Heaven News as well. And you know, I
always link up with Johnny and we talk about production

(01:46):
stuff and we always want to do this. But here
we are and we have another special guest. And Johnny
introduced me to David Tan who is a independent filmmaker,
and we're gonna be just discussing movies and our love
of movie. He's an appreciation of movies, and we're gonna
get into some religious movie talking. This isn't gonna be
a you know, a full on religious show, but Johnny,

(02:08):
you know, has his Art of Heaven show. So we're
gonna get into some you know, religious discussions on.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Faith based Ye can't help, but like this is what
life is about. Yeah, we're all about film today, Yes,
all types of.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Film, film and fun and we're gonna have you know,
our little Art of Heaven spin on it. But let's
talk with David David tan d ten, independent filmmaker. How's
it going. Are you excited to do this?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Man, it's my first time on the radio. Yeah, I
don't know what to expect. Honestly. Let's talk to Johnny
about this, and he's more excited than I am. But
I don't know. I'm excited to talk about movies. Maybe
we'll try not to argue about movies.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
But we'll be arguing the great Yes, there's no, there's no.
I won't be an argum.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Let me start the first argument off religious show. This
is a religious special. Batman is religious? Justin why do
you say? Why do you think Batman is religious? Yeah?
I walked away from watching Batman a change man. Yeah,
I'm telling you it inspired me, well, fight the evil.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
A lot of a lot of actually comic books are
based on religious stories. You know, Superman, I think being
the most famous one has been equated to Moses. And
you know, there's just always been that fine line of
comic books and religion. So I'm sure comic book movies

(03:25):
also take some of those stories that are thousands of
years old in the Bible and they've been equated to
you know, modern age. And we'll certainly discuss Batman. I
love my Batman movies. I saw David had a Batman
movie on his list.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Don't they say that about Star Wars too.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Star Wars, Yeah, even the Matrix definitely has religious themes
around it. But we're gonna be you know, finding out
a little bit about David. So when did you first
find an appreciation for film? Was it at a very
young age?

Speaker 3 (03:58):
You know, my family, we we're a movie going family,
all five of us. We would go out to movies.
You know probably uh, I was probably underage for a
lot of the movies we saw, but that's okay. You know,
we go to Blockbuster, had a Blockbuster membership if people
remember what Blockbuster is. Yeah, basically any movie would go
out to watch, you know, back in the day, like

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Arno Schwarzenegger movies and all those action movies.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
I was just playing the theme from Commando Nice, which is.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
One of my Terminator too. I still remember sneaking in
to see that movie as a really young miner. Wow,
Terminator too, that was the most epic movie that came
out at that time.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, I wish I did get I did get to
see that in theaters a few years ago they re
released it for whatever anniversary they did, But that's definitely
one that I wish I could have seen in theaters
when it was initially released, because that just missed out
actually on my list. So we all have lists of
our favorite movies, and we're gonna get to that as well.

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But David, as far as your you know, your filmmaking,
did you go to school for this?

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Is that something from school Rochester up it's upstate New York.
Good school got a you know, interesting program where we
got mixed with live action people with animation people, so
we got this kind of like uh cross collaboration situation
going over there. But originally I didn't. I didn't wasn't
gonna go to film school. I was gonna do archaeology

(05:19):
for a little bit, and I switched to film, which
is an interesting kind of a switch. But I think
what happened was, you know, I want to make videos.
I wanted to make movies. I wanted to make stuff,
not just fine stuff. And so yeah, I made the switch.
There's a whole story there too, in terms of like

(05:40):
really praying to God, like what do you want me
to do? And we went out to go see Clash
of the Titans when that came out with.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
The Liam Mason one, Yeah, yeah, I released the Kraken
that one.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah. I was like, yo, this is a terrible movie.
But you know, the weird thing was that we walked
out of that theater and we're just still talking about
the movie hours later, still talking about the moon. I
was like, why are we still talking about this was
a bad movie. And so I was this epiphen he
came to my mind, and I wondered if it was, like,
you know, I believe, you know, FRIENDLY believe that, you know,
maybe it was God kind of instilling some some thought

(06:16):
about movies in general, but just thinking about, wow, even
a bad movie, people still talk about it. But what
if it was a great movie and people talked about Jesus,
people talked about God, people talked about life, people talked
about like real things, not just you know, you know,
just the little things and movies that people hate, like

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special effects and CG and all that stuff. But you
know what if they talked about real stuff, like movies
that had topics or themes that that everyone relates to
you and can talk about. Yeah, And so that that
started the journey like really like like going getting getting
really serious into too filmmaking and stuff like that. But
honestly like movies doing up my whole life watching movies

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my whole life, really in to it. Whenever sick days.
My favorite days are six days as a kid going
to Blockbuster, barring movie, spending hours Blockbuster perusing the aisles,
you know how like you're on Netflix or something and
you're having trouble picking movies because you're just scrolling the
all time. Yeah, no, I missed going to Blockbuster, walking
up and down aisles.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
I've said that probably fifty times on this show. There's
too much on these streaming services where you get overwhelmed.
And Blockbuster and Hollywood Video and all these shops they
had a large selection, but when you picked something, you
were stuck with it and you were going to watch
it that week, and regardless Nowadays, people will start a

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movie on Netflix and if they don't like it within
ten minutes, they stop it, and then they don't even
give it the time of the day. And sometimes a
lot of these movies take time to build. I would
have turned off half of the movies that I ended
up loving if I had something like Netflix. So I'm
so blessed to have grown up where you only had
a few movies that were playing on TV at one point,
or when you went to Blockbuster, you rented it, you

(07:59):
were watch it and you're probably gonna watch it two
or three times before you you know, returned it.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Oh yeah. And then just the fact that you had
like two or three days to watch it. Yeah, it's
basically on a time crunch to watch it.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, there's an incentive, like you have to watch this
because it's going away. Yeah, mom and dad are bringing
this home.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
I'm the type of person that I have to finish
what I start.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Even today, even with a streaming thing.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
In my mind it there is a very, very like
small category of films that I watch that I that
I've turned off and said, nah, I can't go on anymore. Yeah,
but ninety percent of films like even if it sucks.
I said, I'm started this, I'm gonna take away something
and I'm gonna enjoy it and move on.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
I'm with you for the most but I just think
majority of the people, if you pulled one hundred people,
especially younger generations, I would say that they end up
watching something because you know, they're on TikTok, They're on
all these services that have, you know, micro seconds to
get your attention, and if you don't like a video,
you're gonna flip it and you know, scroll up and
not watch it or not look at it.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
So you got like three seconds of people's attentions exactly.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
So I kind of borrowed a little of that strategy
into watching movies these days, especially for streaming, because my
rule is if you don't got me in the first
ten minutes, I'm gone in the first ten minutes. Like this.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
In the music industry, they say the first two tracks
is the only thing that the record labels listen to.
You gotta you gotta sell them in the first two
songs on the album.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Even just listening to a single. If I if I'm
just listening to a song, I will know within thirty
seconds if I like it. You know, by the time
it gets to the chorus, if it doesn't catch my attention,
I'm moving on to the next trip.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
He drops. You're done.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, Now, David, as far as your you know, career goes,
is religious movies something you really want to focus on?
Would you deviate from that? Would you would you do
something that isn't religious? Or is that your main point
right now?

Speaker 3 (09:52):
So in terms of religious movies, you know, I'm not
a huge, huge fan, Like there are some that are okay.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
As far as making them, goes now, for making the
is that something you really want to do or do
you just want to make a movie regardless?

Speaker 3 (10:03):
So I just want to make a movie because I
think there are a lot of universal themes that can
carry over between those kinds of those kinds of films.
Because I think you could look at I mean, Johnny
brought it up Batman is a religious character religious movie. Right,
It's like that kind of thing where you can talk
about any movie in like a religious framework. It's like, yeah,

(10:25):
you know, so I think for me, it's just making
a good movie, I think, and at the end of
the day, make a good movie, tell a good story.
You know, it's gonna it's gonna it's gonna cross over
wherever it's gonna cross over, You're gonna have conversations where
you're gonna have conversations. So I think it it really
doesn't matter. I think it's an end of day. Tell
a good story and then make a good movie.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Speaking of good movies, David, you're rocking the Back to
the Future two T shirt right now. And I'll be
honest with you, I've talked about this before. I think
the first movie is perfection. I think the second one
does have a lot of flaws. I do love Back
to the Future too, but I just don't think it
nearly holds up as well as the original movie. But
speaking of also great movies, today is the fortieth anniversary

(11:05):
of Goonies, which is one of my favorite eighties films
of all time. I did see it in theaters just
a few months ago. They re released it, you know,
for the anniversary. But is there a decade that you
love more than any other decade? For me, it's the eighties.
I think a lot of film critics and you know,
snotty people, snooty people tend to like the seventies. That

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you know, when your Coppolas and your scorseses and you know,
Spielberg's all got their start for the most part. Is
there a decade that stands out to you, David?

Speaker 3 (11:36):
The nineties, the nineties into the two thousands? What about Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:40):
What about it? Is? Is it you know, the Tarantino
types of films? Is it special effects? What is it
about the nineties?

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Like, there was something about the nineties where everything was
just booming. Everything wanted to be entertainment, everything needed to
be like it didn't need to be anything more like
than just entertainment. It was just fine. It was good storytelling,
good scripts, like unique kind of fun ideas that were
coming out. And this is like, I mean, I would say,

(12:07):
like the nineties obviously came from the eighties, but it
was just kind of like this weird time where a
lot of movies were being made.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah. Yeah, And unfortunately, if you look at movies today
that are released in theaters, ninety percent of them that
are successful or based on existing properties. There's zero originality.
If you look at any top ten list of highest
grossing movies every year, it's based on a book, it's
based on a movie, it's a prequel, it's a sequel,
it's based on a theme park attraction or a video game.

(12:36):
It's very rare that you have an original story. You know,
Oppenheimer came out a few years ago in theory. That's
not even an original story. It's based on a real story,
you know, a real guy. Yeah, so it's very rare
that it's like something original created. Cracks the top twenty
for highest grossing movies of all time, Johnny, is there
a decade that stands out for you? Like this was

(12:57):
my decade of watching movies?

Speaker 2 (12:59):
You know, I think that late nineties into two thousands.
There was some special films in that season, but I
like movies that came recent movies. I like this last
I mean, we've we've set the bar like really high.
Its so this is the thing. Nineties are hit or
miss with me. I think, like, you can watch the
nineties movie that I grew up on that I loved

(13:21):
and swore it was the most epic movie ever, and
I go back and revisit it with you know, my daughter,
and she's like, Yo, this movie's kind of whack, you
know what I mean, Like think about it. Yeah. Yeah,
So it's something about that to it with the nineties
but then there are a few select nineties movies I've

(13:42):
seen on some of our lists here ye that are
phenomenal movies despite the technology or CGI or any of that.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, that is a very good point. You go back
and look at something that you thought as a kid
was the most epic thing in the world, and then
you realize why you're I hated it because now you're
older and you're like, yeah, this is pretty bad. And
if I wasn't seven or eight years old while watching this,
probably would have hated it as well. So, uh, yeah,
I try and go to the movies as often as possible.

(14:12):
I have a regal unlimited movie pass h so you know,
you pay a set fee every single month and you
get to see unlimited movies. So I just see everything.
I see the worst of the worst. I see movies
I wouldn't fathom of paying for, you know, years ago,
but I'm not paying for it.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
In my mind, I was gonna ask, like, how do
you feel about that, like watching movies that are bad,
like like watching it through you know, is that a
waste of time or do you.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Feel like no, I think I could get enjoyment out
of anything. And I will laugh at how bad some
of these movies are. You know, I watched Megalopolis last year,
which was a movie by Francis Ford Coppola, which I
think cost two hundred million dollars and he was trying
to make it for years and I think he funded
majority of it himself. And it was one of the
worst things I've ever seen in my life. But I

(14:57):
was captivated by, you know, just the choices that or made.
And you know, in my mind, I'm thinking while watching
the movie, how did the producers think that this was
a good idea? Why would they do this? And in
my mind, I can watch it unless it's boring. If
something's boring, that's the ultimate sin in my opinion when
it comes to a movie. Megalopolis was terrible, but I

(15:19):
was still, you know, enthralled with what was going on,
and I didn't find myself looking at my watch and
you know, waiting for the movie to end.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
I got an example for you. I just watched Unhinged.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Unhinged, that's Russell Crowe movie.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Okay, who Russell Crowe, by far is on the top
of my list.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
There's one of the best.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
I mean, every movie that man touches, he puts his
heart and soul into and and you know, acts well
but unhinged man, he he brought it. I mean, it
looks like this dude gained wait for the movie. He
was kind of like this this character, you know, coming
out of a divorce, kind of this disheveled and and
he put everything into it. But the movie, it was

(15:58):
a good movie. I mean, people would have turned it
off at the beginning, you know, and I enjoyed it.
I sat through it.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
You know, well, if you go on Rotten Tomatoes, especially
if you look at movies from the nineties and eighties,
you'll see that the critics hated a lot of movies that,
in my mind were classics. You look at you know,
all of Adam Sandler's movies, and a lot of them
are bad. But you know, like you're happy Gilmore's never
got good reviews. Tommy Boy movies like this were you know,

(16:24):
panned by critics. So you know, I think a lot
of critics today are more accepting of certain things. And
I like to judge things by myself, though I look
at what the Rotten Tomatoes score is, but I try
and go into each movie with an open mind and
just you know, view it for what it is.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
But justin, you're like the smartest one in the room.
I don't know, but I always try to be. I
don't want to be the smartest guy in the room.
But justin, what do you think about that that Rotten
Tomatoes you know rating system?

Speaker 1 (16:55):
I personally, I think there's there's a problem with it,
because say you like a movie, but you don't love it,
and you give it a passing grade, it gets a
C plus right in theory on ron Tomatoes, that would
mean it's a successful movie and the critics would give
it a positive review. It doesn't rate it on a
scale of like some of these other websites where they'll

(17:16):
take the average score and they'll rank it out of ten. No,
they'll just they literally just say if the critics said
it was fine, that makes it positive. So I think
there's things that can be improved with Ron Tomatoes. And
I also think that having that score out there has
actually ruined a lot of people's viewing habits. I think

(17:39):
it has made people not want to go see certain
movies and not judge it themselves. There's nothing worse than
hearing somebody say I don't like that movie and you go,
did you watch it. No you don't like it, but
you never even saw it. You're just basing it off
of what Ron Tomato said. Or you know, back in
the day, you had a few critics that I would
listen to, you know, you're Cisk Birch with the big ones,

(18:01):
and if they liked something nine times out of ten,
I would like it. Now there's too many voices out there,
and not everybody has a good opinion.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Honestly, there's a thing now, it's called review bombing. You
ever heard of that, Yeah, that's happening.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, that happened to Amy Schumer's comedy special. Basically, if
you don't like somebody, you just go online and uh.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Group of people will just write bad reviews and so yeah,
it just gets shoots to the bottom of algorithm.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
And you also, I don't trust any of these studios.
They'll pay these these people. You know, Oh, you want
to get access to our stars for interviews, or you
want to do this, you want to do that. You
got to review this movie, and it's better be good
or you're not going to get any access behind the scenes.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
There's got to be some investigations started into Rotten Tomatoes
and this whole thing I think. I think there's yeah,
is there Paola going on there?

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Definitely is. I don't think it's ever going to go away.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Unfortunately, Face the guy who's like in jail or whatever
for for like like assault charges and stuff.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Harvey Wine.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah, he used to pay out people to go on
the street and like do reviews for the movies or
go pay them to go watch the movies.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
What's wild is majority of the movies that he produced
are actually really good movies, you know, all those Weinstein
movies and Mirramax was the company that he started, tended
to be like Oscar quality type of movies. So the
fact that even somebody that had something that was good
still didn't have faith that you know, the critics would
review it properly and he would pay.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
It was I mean, I mean it's a business still
for a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
You know, it's a skive business that has done horrible things.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Though.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Hollywood is like just you know, filled with all these
horror stories from you know, back in the silent era.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
They talk about draining the swamp in DC. They need
to drain the swamp in Hollywood, right. Oh yeah, Just
to wrap this thing up about rotten tomatoes and reviews. Though, yeah,
honestly I trust them. I trust him. My cousin's actually
the first person to put me on man like. He
was like, yo, before we watch the movie, got to
look at the reviews. This was like maybe twenty years ago, fifteen,

(20:03):
twenty years ago. So I started doing that. And when
I when I'm considering a film, I'll go and I'll
look at the reviews and all and if it has
a high high, if it has a low rating, I'm
not gonna watch it. Typically, but then the high ones
I watch, and maybe it's just me. I love film.
I love a majority of movies.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Check it out, check it out.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
They're accurate in my opinion.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
This is the way I kind of do it. Like
I realized if I if I were to make a
list of all the movies, right, there's not enough time
in one lifetime to watch all the movies. So I
don't look at the reviews. I go watch the movies
i'm interested in because I have no time, you know,
and time's precious.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
So I love this topic.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, what I look at is the critics and the audience.
If they are both good. If a snooty film critic
likes it and then your average you know, American likes
it as well. That's something that I tend to like.
If we have an eighty percent critics and an eighty
percent audience, nine times out of ten, that's gonna be
a good movie or at least something that I enjoy.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
My other litmus test is my mom's whenever you watch
a movie, if she's not falling asleep, it's a good movie.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Sometimes I'll see if people that I think have terrible opinions,
if they like the movie, I'm like, all right, this
movie is definitely terrible. Like if that guy likes it,
if the guy in my bowlingly likes it, that it's
gonna be a good movie.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
I'm that guy, dude.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, if Johnny recommends me a movie, I'm not why.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
I love like a lot of movies, man, Like, it
has to really really suck for me to not take
something away from it in a positive light.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
And here's the thing. There's movies out there that you
would think no one likes, and that's somebody's favorite movie. Yeah, Like,
there's so many people out there that have their own
opinions and then does something I'll always stand by if
you like something that's your opinion. I would never want
to change anybody's opinion. I could disagree with it. But

(21:53):
if you like a song, if you like an artist,
if you like a political party, if you like whatever,
that's your thing. Like I'm not here to change your mind,
but I'm here to tell you why I think I'm
right and you're wrong. But at the end of the day,
I don't want to change what you like, like that
would just be selfish and in my mind.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Look, one person's junk is another person's treasure exactly.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
So you know we're gonna get into some more movie discussions.
How about when we come back, we're gonna play some
music right now, play a little bit of the Beatles.
We're gonna come back, and we're gonna go over So
we all have our top ten lists of movies that
we like. Yes, so how about we go over ten
through seven on our lists. So we're gonna get to that.

(22:39):
We are back on the radio, Rumble the Voice of
Nasau Community College twinty point three WHPC. My name is Justin.
Joining me from Heart of Heaven is Johnny and we
got the one and only David ten d ten. If
you will independent filmmaker, and we are talking movies and
our love of movies. Before we get to that, Johnny,

(23:01):
can you just do a little you know, synopsis of
what your shows are about, so you know, our listeners
know what Art of Heaven is all about.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
The Art of Heaven plug you know, I didn't even
mean to get into this. Yeah, let's do it, though
you're putting me on the spot. Listen Art to Heven
Wednesdays ten to midnight. Every Wednesday, I do a show
and uplifting, faith based show, playing primarily Christian hip hop.
That's that's my thing, you know, but all genres of
that that, you know, faith based music. We got hip hop,

(23:32):
R and B rock, reggae, gospel intertwined with some worship music.
Sometimes people don't understand what worship music is is basically,
I play music that are by artists who are actually
like pointing people to God, so to say.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
And then your Friday show has a news spin on it, right.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, So I got a second show started called Art
of Heaven News Talk, and that one's really cool. It's
out of my element. You know. A wise person once
told me that, like, you know, take advantage of every
opportunity and get out your comfort zone and try new things.
So I threw myself into this project called Already Heavy
News Talk, where we deliver global, national, and local news
through the lens of faith. And it's we oftentimes compare

(24:17):
stories to scripture and kind of like has this end
of Time End Times Book of Revelation, kind of a
conversation always occurring. And it's a fun one man, because
when you look around the world, it's kind of chaotic.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Oh is it I haven't noticed? Yeah, So that's Friday's
at three.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Thirty right, Yeah, Friday's three thirty to four.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Awesome. All right, let's talk some movies. We have our
list of our top ten favorite movies, and I have
some honorable mentions before I get to my list, so
I'm just gonna blurt some out that just missed the
top ten. I got some iconic action movies die Hard, Terminator,
Two Aliens, Predator, all missing out on my honorable mentions,

(25:02):
just missed out on the top ten. I got some
comedies Billy Madison, wedding singer, There's Something about Mary. I
also have some family sort of movies, The Goonies, which
we just talked about celebrating its fortieth anniversary today, Goofy Movie,
which is an animated movie, Hercules as well, and The
Lion King all animated movies. Also, I have written down

(25:25):
Empire Strikes Back, which just I mean that probably is
number eleven if I'm really thinking about it, rain Man
Missing the List, and Lethal Weapon as far as another
action movie goes, which is another one of those must
watch during the holiday season. Johnny, you got some honorable
mentions for you.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
I love how you started that. Let me let me
share with you that a list of movies that did
make my top list, my top ten as well, that
were very impactful, like I walked Away, like changed.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Like actually, there's only room for ten. All right, that's
the trouble we got, all right.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
One movie I actually really liked was stand by Me.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Oh my god, so good.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, can't. That's one of those they don't need CGI
and technology. That movie is phenomenal, just storytelling exactly right.
I really enjoyed the Town. Yeah right, but yeah, that
movie's just I can watch. That's the type of movie
when I when I just want to get my mind
off things and do nothing. I watched that movie and
I'll enjoy it every time.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
FLEX made a lot of good movies. I know he
gets a lot of crap for some of his bad
movies like g Lee and whatnot, but he's made some
He's made some really good ones, especially in the last
fifteen years or so.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yeah, Rocky four, Oh you know what I mean, Like
that one, That one's just a feel good like you.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
So much fun And that's actually gonna be re released
in theaters for its fortieth anniversary. I want to say,
in November. It's getting a re release. That is one
of my favorites, not my favorite Rocky, but one of
my favorites.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Can I keep going?

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah, God, okay, et et now we're talking.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
You know what I mean. That's my childhood right there.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
That wasiler Alert that might be showing up on someone's list.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
And oh boy, this one, this one was the first
DVD I actually owned, like the first DVD eyebought. And
you know what's a crazy story. I didn't even plan this.
The move The movie is called Menace to Society. All right, Yeah,
first DVD. It was young Johnny, you know what I mean.
You know what I mean. You know, I'm out there

(27:23):
on the black like let me, let me, let me
cop this DVD. But you know what it is. That
was my first DVD. I got my first DVD player. Yeah,
and I went home and I watched that movie on repeat,
over and over and over.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Okay, come to find out true story. I'm watching one
of those talk shows, you know, early two thousands, whatever
it was. I don't even remember what the talk show was,
but there was a kid interviewed on the talk show
that was locked up for like life in prison or something,
for walking into a store and shooting the store owner.

(28:00):
And you know, he said made him do it that
movie He watched Menace the Society over and over and over.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Well, you know what, what, in my mind, I'm lucky
to be here. You know, that's something we could eventually
talk about, if we do have time. Is a lot
of people will say, oh, music made me do this,
you know, Oh Marilyn Manson made me commit this crime,
or Mortal Kombat made me do that. In my opinion,

(28:26):
I think that's just bad parenting and an excuse because
we watched all these movies growing up. And you know,
I never want to rip someone's spine out after playing
Mortal Kombat. I think if you have a parent, explain
what this is. You know, I watched wrestling last night
with my niece and nephew, and I was explaining what
it is. And you know, they're not trying to tombstone
pile drive one another. They just, you know, if you

(28:47):
have the right system around you. I think it's a
I think it's a lame excuse to blame video games and.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Movies, but I think they have an influence at all
on you.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, definitely, I'm not gonna say no one was influenced.
There's definitely somebody that watched a movie or read a
book that has done something horrific. I mean, all those
people that read Catcher in the Rye. There's like three
or four examples of people reading that book and then
trying to assassinate or assassinating someone. I mean, the guy
who killed John Lennon was was reading that book and
I believe left it at the site where he murdered him. So, yes,

(29:21):
but you know, people were doing awful things years ago.
It's not like, you know, Ganghis Khan was, you know,
playing Grand Theft Auto. I left watching that, dude, I
wanted to be Batman. Yeah, sometimes movies inspire in a
good way. Also, So let's get to David, did you
have any honorable mentions or oh?

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Man, when you asked the ten for top ten, I
was like, I got a hundred, but like, I don't know,
I got Demolition Man. You ever seen that movie?

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Still trying to figure out the three Yeah?

Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yeah, the three Seashells. I don't know us three sea shells?
All right. Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Never could get into them. I know, I know they're
well made movies. Yeah, but I just I don't know.
I think I got bored with them. I do want
to sit down and actually watch Can we.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Pause about that? Because you know I'm not into them either.
What is it about Lord of the Rings?

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Well, the lore is great, the story is great. There's
the allegory of like you know, it's got some religious
like allegory to it. The magic, the action, the acting
performances is awesome. The CG at the time, this is
like two thousand and one or something like that. Yeah,
it was amazing. And then you had all like heavy
hitters in that movie. Yeah, I know, and just the

(30:30):
story is getting music's great.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
I need to go on a long vacation and watch
them all.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, you know, you know, watch a clip, Just watch
a clip, from Two Towers for the second movie, Oh yeah,
I just watch a clip.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
If you just watch the fight scenes, they are amazing.
They are well made movies. I did see the second
and third one in theaters and then I like them,
but they were never you know, Star Wars for me,
they never reached that level of you know, this is
the trilogy to watch.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
So so if you grew up on Star Wars Lord
of the Rings with Star Wars for me interesting, you see,
it's like interesting like that too, because that's like my child.
And I remember my brother took me out on the
school night, Monday night. Sorry, mom, go watch Lord of
the Rings the first one, and this is like the
second time watching it too, So that's like six hours
of my life.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
But now they have director's cuts, they're like four hours long.
So Johnny, you might need a few weeks in that
retreat to watch these movies because then they have the
Hobbit movies as well.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
See, it was X Men for me.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
I love the X Men too, like.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Wolver Raines and all the backstories.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Wow, the X Men cartoon was fantastic as well. They
brought that back last year. X Men ninety seven really
really good. In fact, it's better than the animated show
from the nineties. It's a continuation of that series and
it's it's amazing. David, you got any other honorable mentions?

Speaker 4 (31:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Ford v Ferrari. You ever seen that?

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (31:46):
I like that last year or two years ago.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
M M Hook, I got hook.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Oh, I love Hook.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
I like Hook. I've gone back and watched Hook. I
don't think it's aged well. But John Williams music in
that is some of his best work, and the sets
are phenomenal. There's a rumor that Michael Jackson wanted to
play Peter Pan and Steven Spielberg was like, no, we're
not going in that direction, and allegedly Michael Jackson put

(32:11):
a voodoo curse on Steven Spielberg and a few other people.
Throughout the years, there's articles all about it.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
It's justin is a world of information, you know, you know,
it's so many facts.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
But that's so specific too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah, oh man, you got anything else on your list
honorable mentions?

Speaker 3 (32:29):
I got Top Gun, Maverick, I got Master and Commander.
I got Rush Hour on here, Saving Private Ryan, Shanghai Noon, Spotlight.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Just let's start with Shanghai Noon. That's one that. I
think this is a hot take right here, superior to
Rush Hour in my opinion. If I was to watch
a Jackie Chan buddy film, and I love Rush Hour,
and I'm not saying it's bad. I just really love
the dynamic of Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan and I
think the sequels even good too. The Shanghai Knights.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
In fact, my boy, my boys in the soundtrack for
rush Hour too. Oh wow, oh wow, Yo, shout out
to ft. You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Let's go wow.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Rush Hour too. I remember seeing that in theaters, laughing
my butt off. That was a good one, David. Anything
else before we move on to our actual top ten.
Nacho Libre interesting, never watched it, even though I'm a
diehard wrestling I like Napoleon Dynamite and you know that
same director.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Yeah, rush Hour, not your Libra man. That's a great movie,
all right.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
So let's move on to our actual top ten. So
we're hearing right now The Dark Knight, which is, uh,
you know, the great score by Hans Zimmer, one of
the best composers of all time. David, you have this
at your number ten if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Yeah, you know, It was hard to place this. Honestly,
it was hard to place it because it was just like,
there's just so many movies, and it's just like, this
is a great movie.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
The hype for this movie was unreal. I think with
the passing of Heath Ledger and added this aura of like, oh,
this is his last work, we got to see this,
and obviously, being Joker, Batman's main nemesis, was already gonna
put butts in seats. And I really do enjoy Batman
begins so at that the last scene and Batman begins
where you see the card of you know, the Joker.

(34:23):
It got everyone in that theater hyped up for what's
to come next. I really do love The Dark Knight.
I think it has its flaws, but I really really
love that movie.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Do you know that Heath Ledger he did his own
makeup that.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
I've seen some of the behind the scenes, you know,
images of him doing.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
He gave it all.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Yeah, that role that pretty much killed him unctually.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
I don't even know if I've ever seen a role
played so well.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Well.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
He did win the Oscar, and I'm wondering if he
would have won that if he didn't die, you know,
it might have been one of those sympathy sort of
you know sometimes the costumeous.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
I think I think he changed the game for the
Joker character.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
I feel like redefine it after Jack Nicholson. Yeah, yeah,
and I do.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
My hot take is I love Batman from nineteen eighty nine.
That's my favorite Batman. Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton won. I
actually think the best one is the most recent one
with Robert Pattinson. Really, I love that. That's like art.
To me, it's like controversial. It is controversial, but I
think it's if you just visually look at that movie,
it's one of the most beautiful movies of all time.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Wait, I'm lost controversial.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Oh, I think most people would say The Dark Knight
is probably the best one.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Well, everyone loves Christian Bell. Everyone's thinking like like when
they're watching this new Batman, They're like, this is a
really slow movie.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
I much slow. Here's the thing. I think Christian Bell
is a fantastic Bruce Wayne. I don't think he's a
good Batman. I don't think Robert Pattinson was actually a
good Bruce Wayne. But I think he's the best Batman.
His version of the Batman character and the action and
the way he looked I thought was lights out. But
he got the Dark Knight in at number ten on
your list? Ye, where do you have here? Number ten?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
My number ten? Nine ten? All right, right, here we go.
There's a movie that a film that came out recently
called Nefarious.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
All right, Nefarious, Not familiar with it?

Speaker 2 (36:12):
You have to go watch this movie, all right. It
is about a character on death row and they send
in the psychologist to confirm if the person's insane or
not and can go through with being executed. Right he's
on death row. Yeah, So the interaction between these two

(36:33):
characters is just a phenomenally written film.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
I always find it so sad when you hear these
true stories of people that are put to you know,
sentence to jail for sixty seventy years, and then they
get released when they're eighty and they're like, oh, he's
actually innocent. Sorry, here's a million dollars, but sorry, who
wasted your life in prison? I watched the documentary about
the West Memphis Three. I've talked about that a few
weeks ago. These three kids that were wrongfully accused of

(37:01):
murder and spent twenty plus years in prison and they'll
never get those years back. And obviously the worst things
happened to them in prison. You know, I'm not going
to get into details what happened to them. If you
watch the documentary on HBO Max, you know you'll you'll
find out. But it's always so sad. But uh, yeah,
I wonder if that movie is streaming anywhere. I'll have
to give it the world.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
You know what's funny. You can actually watch it on
YouTube for free, like the original of the official film.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
That's cool. Yeah, a lot of things are put out
there just for free.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Which is yeah. But otherwise it's on Amazon Prime all right. Yeah,
nice nefarious, great movie. The guy I won't even you know,
give it all away. But the guy is claims that
he is demon possessed and that you know what I mean,
that that was the reason that he committed these.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Interesting and how do you you scale?

Speaker 2 (37:51):
And it's funny, it's funny. I'll just leave it like
this because you got you're gonna see it. In the film,
the guy on death row says to the psychology, He's like,
before you leave here today, you're gonna commit three murders
and they gut last one. He's like yeah, right, and
I'll just leave you with that. The film is sick.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
The film is awesome, Johnny with the ultimate teas. Oh
now we're all gonna have to watch it. My number ten,
I believe if you turn around your water bottle, can
you give me the three sixty?

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (38:18):
I see the symbol, the no ghost symbol I got
at number ten. The og from nineteen eighty four Ghostbusters,
a movie I've had the pleasure of seeing in theaters
probably four or five times for various re releases. I
love the chemistry of that cast and the sequels Unfortunately
never captured that magic. Ghostbusters two, although I like it,

(38:38):
not a very good movie, Bill Murray sort of just
phoning it in. But that original movie with dan Aykroyd
and Harold Ramis and you know, the great Rick morani
Is playing Lewis Tully, the beautiful Sigourney Weaver, and then
Peter Venkman played by Bill Murray. That chemistry was so great,
and the improvisational skills that those people had being able

(38:58):
to create these characters that have stood the test of
time for over forty years. Mix that with the science
fiction aspect with the paranormal aspect. I mean this is
multiple genres. You got your romance, you got your comedy,
you got your action, you got your sci fi, you
got cool special effects, you got the Ultimate Card, the
ecdo one, you got all the props. I mean, I
just love looking at the the you know, the the

(39:19):
proton packs and the ghost traps and the you know,
the meters that they're reading to find the ghosts. I
just love every aspect about that movie. Unfortunately, the sequels
never captured that magic, but that og for eighty four.
You know, Luckily they got the Long Island Ghostbusters and
actually my buddy Angelo is part of them, and he

(39:42):
used to host a show here that would follow my show.
And they do a lot of great charity work. So
Long Island Ghostbusters, if you just search them over on Instagram,
you can find them at a lot of local conventions
doing their thing, and all all the merchandise they sell,
I know, goes directly to charity. So oh yeah, yeah, However,

(40:03):
that house does exist.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Pasley, talk about Long Island.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
You know, there's a lot of you know, great movies
that are filmed here on Long Island, and also you
know a lot of movies set on Long Island and
TV shows as well, So let's give a shout out
to Long Island. Let's move on to number nine. We
got a number nine favorite movie of all time. I'll
start with mine, actually, and then you guys we'll follow suit.

(40:26):
Number nine is a comedy and they are making a
sequel which looks terrible, and it's coming out on Netflix
in just a few weeks. The name of the movie
is Happy Gilmore, and I love Happy Gilmore. Unfortunately, Happy
Gilmore too does something and I haven't seen the movie,
so I'm gonna judge it when I see it. But

(40:47):
based on the trailer, it tries to recapture all the
same jokes that the original did, and to me, that's
so lazy. You're just regurgitating the same thing. Oh, Chubbs
has a son whose hand is also oh damage. Oh
this guy has another you know, fight with an elder
man like he did with Bob Barker. You're doing the

(41:07):
same jokes. You're bringing back the same punchlines. Oh, I
ate pieces of blank for you for breakfast. They literally
are copying the same lines from that movie and a
lot and I'd hate to bring it up, but a
lot of the audiences don't even realize what they're seeing,
and they're just sort of sheeps and they're like, I
remember that.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
Yay.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
It's the whole member Barris thing that South Park pokes
fun at. And that's pretty much what I got from
that trailer for Happy Gilmore Too is pretty much the
ultimate Member Barris, just you know, regurgitating, but that original
Happy Gilmore. Can still remember seeing it with my dad
and brother in theaters. I watched it a few weeks
ago they re released it to set up, you know,
this new one coming out, and I was laughing, my

(41:47):
I'm not even gonna curse in front of you guys,
my buttocks off while watching Happy Gilmore Too. I see
I'm taking steps. I would have dropped that if you
guys weren't here. But I love Happy Gilmore, the characters,
the chemistry, the story. I love a good sports story.
I love a good underdog story. And Happy Gilmore has
me laughing unlike any other movie, So I love it.

(42:07):
I love Sandler back.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
In the day, you know, true story, true story. I
had a Happy Gilmore poster in my room. Wow, that
was bought for me because I love that movie so much,
so good.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
I think it influenced a lot of people to even
start golfing. I know me and my friends would go
to the driving range and we try to do the
happy Gilmore shot quickly though Johnny. Speaking of posters, Johnny
gave me a Ninja Turtles poster, maybe like a year
ago or something about that. It's unbelievable. I have it
hung up on my wall. It's an iconic image of
them from around nineteen ninety. It's all artwork, and it's

(42:42):
one of the many great things that Johnny has done
for me. So shout out that Ninja Turtles poster and
shout out Happy Gilmore. Coming in at number nine, let's
go to you, David. What do you got is your
number nine favorite movie of all time?

Speaker 3 (42:53):
I got The Holdovers?

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Why don't we actually play a little sample of the Holdovers?

Speaker 2 (42:58):
We got?

Speaker 1 (43:00):
We played the trailer for The Holdovers real quick right here.
I'm because this is one of my favorite movies. So
why don't we give a listen to the Holdovers trailer?

Speaker 2 (43:09):
You just earned yourself in attention, sir.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
You was already one big son of.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Sir.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
I don't understand.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
That's glaringly apparent.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
I can't fail this class.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Oh don't sell yourself short, mister coach, I truly believe
that you can.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
Every year at Barton Academy, students, faculty, and staff depart
the campus for a two week winter break, but there
are always an unfortunate few who have nowhere to go
for the holidays. They're known as the holdovers.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Mister hand, Hello, Mary, I had you got stuck with
babysitting duty this year?

Speaker 2 (43:48):
How'd you manage?

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Dead?

Speaker 1 (43:49):
You know it used to be a student, right, That's
why he knows how to inflict maximum pain on us.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
And I thought all the not he's were hiding in Argentina.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
I live tully.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
All right. There's just a little sample of the Holdovers
trailer from that movie starring Paul Giamatti, And I just
saw that the kid in that movie was cast something
I forget.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
He's somebody now you see me.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Now you don't know he's gonna he is in that movie,
but he's gonna be playing somebody like a famous figure.
I'm gonna look that up. But explain the Holdovers, because
you mentioned that this is a movie that you recommend,
especially watching during the holiday season. I loved it. It
was one of my favorites. So what do you like
about it, David, Well, the.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Movie's about It takes place at a private school and
a professor who's kind of like the low tier, Like
nobody really likes him. He's like angry guy. He's just
a sad guy. Nobody likes him. He gets stuck watching
like the holdovers, who are the students who can't go
home for the holidays and they're just stuck at school.

(44:55):
The movie mostly takes place where it's just the professor
and one student who doesn't get to go home. And also,
I guess the the.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
Cook the cook, Yeah right, yeah, yeah, there's one of
there's a woman that plays an integral part in this
movie as well.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
I love this movie is a Christmas movie because it's
about three people who are instantly who are essentially like
rejected or they're going through something like broken people who
together form a family. Yeah it's a beautiful film. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Does it beat Christmas Vacation?

Speaker 3 (45:29):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (45:31):
Different types of movies.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
I haven't seen this movie.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
I looked it up. So the kid's name is Dominic SSSA.
He's gonna be playing Anthony Bourdain in a biopic about
Anthony Bourdain.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Yeah that's the way he passed away.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Yeah, yeah, Unfortunately he took his life a few years ago.
But that's gonna be one that I think is gonna
be a must watch. I think it's about a trip
he took in the seventies. That's what the movie is
gonna be about. But yeah, Holdovers was funny, it feel good,
definitely emotional, and you know there's there's twists and turns,
and you know, you learn more about the family. And
I love the movie trope where there's a curmudgeon sort

(46:09):
of older guy and you think he's choclus and then
you realize, oh, he has like a heart of gold
underneath all that, you know, layers of not being a
nice guy. Yeah, and they do that in a lot
of movies, and I thought this this was definitely one
of the better examples. And it shot really well. You know,
it takes place in the early seventies, and it has
that filter over it where it looks like it was

(46:30):
a movie that could have been filmed in the seventies,
And I wish more movies actually took that route and
made it look like older type of movies.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
Is that a technique?

Speaker 3 (46:38):
Well, I think movies are going back that way. You know,
a lot of people are shooting film again. Yes, Like
this recent movie like Sinners came out, it was shot
on Imax film. The whole thing, The new Jurassic World
movie shot on film thankfully. Yeah, No, like to recapture
that old Spielbird original. Yeah, that feeling that that film

(46:59):
gives you. Yeah, there's something about film where it's like
the physical material and the grain and everything like there's
it gives off a different feeling, the way it focuses,
the way that the colors come out, the way that
a person feels when you watch the movie. Like compare
it to like digital where everything's super sharp and it's interesting.

(47:19):
There's a whole conversation about film versus digital. People are
always talking about like like like what do you do
with digital? A lot of people are still throwing like
film grain on digital to recapture that.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
That just seems lazy. It is like a snapchat filter
you put.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
It's cheaper. It's cheaper that I mean, it comes down
to money, right, It's cheaper, and.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
I guess it's quicker to edit. You know, you could
see right away without having to you know, develop the
film and look at it. So yeah, that's definitely something
I really appreciated though about The Holdovers, Johnny, your number
nine favorite movie of all time?

Speaker 2 (47:50):
All right, man, I look at I tend to gravitate
towards true stories documentaries like I like true stories. I
like to actually watch something that actually happened.

Speaker 4 (47:59):
Man.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
So number nine on my list, I went with Hotel Rwanda.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Never seen it?

Speaker 2 (48:06):
What you gotta see? None of the can Can we
make a pact here today? I'm gonna We're gonna watch
each other's movies that I'm gonna watch The Holdover.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Yes, I will watch Hotel Rwanda, okay?

Speaker 2 (48:19):
And Nefarious Yes, okay. Hotel Rwanda. It it really like
is a story about the genocide that occurred in Rwanda
in Africa, and they, you know this this whole clan
just went around and slaughtering like one hundred thousand people

(48:39):
like it was a lot and with machetes all over,
and they you know, there was two sides. There was
a political war. So there was this guy with the
hotel and he was supposedly, you know, on on the
one side that was doing the slaughtering, but he was
secretly housing in sane like a massive amount.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
So it's like a Shindler's List sort of story.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
Exactly interesting, exactly.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
That's definitely something I would like. Yeah, I'm gonna check
it out. And I love don Cheatle, so I'm gonna
check that out. Let's go over our number eight movies.
This is one that again I'm so lucky to have
seen these. I wish I got to see the original run.
But I'm looking at this list and there's only three
of these that I haven't seen in theaters, and there's

(49:28):
only one two. There's two of them that I've seen
during their original runs. The rest of them, you know,
were before my time, but they grew to be favorites.
Number eight I did watch last year for its thirty
fifth anniversary, and it is a sports movie in a sense.
It is a mystery, it's a comedy, and it is

(49:51):
an emotional roller coaster. And that is the Kevin Costner
James Earl Jones classic Field of Dreams, which is d
yes and it got the spiritual sense to it as well,
and you know, it talks about loss and you know,
maybe you were in a relationship with a loved one
and you fell out of favor with them, and for

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somebody that lost his dad at a young age, this
is definitely an emotional movie for me. At the end
of the movie when they have a catch, you know,
in Kevin Costner's character asks his dad to have a catch.
It's just one of those really emotional scenes. In the music,
James Horner's score. Music is so important. As we're hearing
the Hans Zimmer track from The Dark Knight in the background,
which Johnny thought it might have been a little bit

(50:35):
too loud, I'm breaking the fourth Well, I don't care.
I think music is so important to movies. If you
have an emotional scene but they don't have the right music,
you're not getting it. And then also a really bad
movie could be elevated because of the music and what
James Horner's music did for that movie. It elevated what

(50:55):
was already a fantastic scene. It's an emotional story about
a guy coming to grips with his father leaving him
at a very young age and getting into a fight
with his dad. And you know, also and you know,
you have the story of baseball and building a field,
and you know there's there's supernatural element to it, and
it's sort of this great journey that you get to
go on. I love this movie. I get emotional every

(51:17):
time I see it. It's definitely a high recommendation. Feel
the Dreams comes in at number eight.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Love that movie. I'm going home and watching it.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
It's so good. Yeah, it's so good. And I love
showing it to people that have never seen it or saying,
watch this movie. Then they'll text me with tears in
their eyes, being like, oh my god, it was so emotional,
Like yep. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
In the music part too, man. I mean, I'm an
audio engineer and I've done post production audio sound for picture.
We control the tone like we control we set the mood.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
You know.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
We can make people cry. Yeah, that's what I always say.
I make people cry for a living.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
I could listen to that without even seeing the movie
and just cry. James Horner's music is actually really emotional.
He did the score for A Lamb Before Time, which
is one that always gets to me. And I don't
even have to watch the scene of the mom dying.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
In a little dramatic movie that's very tragic. It's like
for a cartoon, it's like, oh my god.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
A lot of these cartoons so would teach kids life
lessons that they're gonna have to learn, all right. So
number eight let's go to you, David, what do you
got your number eight? Greatest movie of all time? By
the way, this is the radio Rumble. We got filmmaker
David tan we got Johnny Brumman of Art of Heaven,
and we're talking our favorite movies of all time. I
just did my number eight, David, what do you got
at number eight?

Speaker 3 (52:26):
Speaking of James Horner, I got Titanic on here. I'm
pretty sure, right, that's that's James Horner.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Right, that is James Horner.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
Ce Dion, Oh yeah, Celine Dion.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
That was great movie.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
You know a lot of people like I don't know
if it's like a machiesemo thing, but a lot of
guys like you look Titanic. How do you like Titanic?

Speaker 2 (52:42):
That's yo, justin. I don't know how how old you
were then, but man, in the late nineties, when Titanic
came out, that's exactly the stereotype of hat yep, Like
every girl loved that.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
They had the folders with Leo on it.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
Yeah, exactly, gosh. But you know what, you go back
and watch that movie and it's an amazing.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
It's an epic and I hate to use that term
because I think it's way overused. That is the definition
of an epic film, you know, and it has many
a different genres to it because it has the romance,
but it's got the action. Like if you don't like
the first hour and a half, the last hour and
a half is a disaster film.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
It's one of those from the nineties though that was
official and can rock on for eternity.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Well, it used miniatures and it also used CGI and
James Cameron, the director, is the master of that. I mean,
the guys made like eight or nine movies and all
of them are hits.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
He did Terminator too, He Determinator.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
He did the Avatar, he did total recall like this. No,
he did not do totally true true Lies the Arnold movie.
He always makes fun movies, and this one is very
emotional and the music is is definitely very emotional. That
Celine dionsong, though I could go without hearing ever again.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Apparently apparent legend is that she didn't one take.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
Really she heard it.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
She did like a quick practice and then they did
the one take and that's the song. Yeah, you had
the recording.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Imagine if the engineer didn't hit record.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Yeah, now I remember when this movie was coming out.
It was supposed to come out in the summer of
ninety seven, but there was a lot of issues with
the production of this movie, and James Cameron actually had
to put his own money into this movie to actually
get it released. But I remember vividly seeing a popcorn

(54:26):
bucket when I went to go see Jurassic Park the
Lost World. I remember seeing it saying nineteen ninety seven summer,
and you know, I obviously got pushed back to a
December release. So definitely one of my favorite movies, one
that everybody should watch. Their grandma will enjoy it, their
you know, your granddaughter will enjoy it. I think it's

(54:46):
It's definitely one that has stood the test of time
as well.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
It's like three VHS tapes long. Yeah, you know I I.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Saw it a few years ago for a re release
and it was, you know, selling out theater after theaters.
It's still doing numbers twenty five plus years later. Johnny,
before we head to the old break Ski, I know
you were looking at your watch. I'm assuming you sent
me a text as well. Right we're breaking down the
fourth Well it wasn't me, Bro, No, I thought Johnny
was like it's almost one o'clock.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
It's interesting. I'm on the other side of those.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Yeah, you know, we could go to break at like
one oh five here, as long as we get there
within you know, ten minutes or so.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Yeah, I'll just throw my eight out there here. Look it,
mister art heaven in the building. I can't go through
my list of top ten without mentioning this. Some people
might judge me, be like, top ten, this should be
number one. The Passion of the Cross, Okay, all right,
that movie is is epic in so many epic one
all right, Like it's not even done in English, it's

(55:45):
none in the traditional language, right, and the brutality that
they displayed, it's a tough one, you know what I
mean to watch. I mean there was a woman that
actually had a heart attack and died while watching that movie. Yeah,
when it came out.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
And that movie made a ton of money. Yeah, I mean,
I want to say over five hundred million dollars are
close to it. And uh, you know controversial. The director
Mel Gibson obviously doing a lot of interesting things, to
say the least over the last twenty five years, but
there's no denying that his filmmaking skills for the most part,

(56:18):
are fantastic. And now I've heard he's been trying to
make a sequel to that for years. Yeah, and I
want to say production is going to be getting underway,
and at last I heard it it is going to
come out in the next two or three years, which
should be interesting because apparently the next story is like insane,
Like it's just like wild what his script is, you know,

(56:39):
and obviously it's based on the Bible. But yeah, that's
definitely one that was was an iconic movie and talked about,
you know for the last twenty years. Passion of the Christ.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
Yet greatfilm based on your story. He was real documentation
is there?

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Yeah, say what you will. The man, the Jesus Christ.
I mean, there's no denying was a real person. It
seems like every even people that don't believe, will at
least at the very least admit.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
That there's like five hundred thousand there's like five thousand
times amount of documentation than Alexander the Great, But nobody,
nobody actually like you know questions.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Yeah, interesting the Great as a character. Yeah, that's interesting.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
All right.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
How about we let James Horner's score finish off from Titanic,
and then we're gonna come back our number two. We'll
go over the rest of our movies on this edition
of Film Reel. That's right, what a smooth transition. And no,
we're not gonna let that James Horner score finish out
because we don't want to get copywritten here on the
Recess Bell Network. So I hope you guys enjoyed part one.

(57:43):
Part two, we're gonna go through the rest of our
list of our top ten favorite movies of all time.
We'll be back with that in just a couple of days.
Thank you all for listening to the Film Reel right
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