Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to the one hundredth episode of
the Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast. I can't believe
we made it this far. I can't either, man, congratulations,
I actually can't believe it's here already. Like it's just
like it's flown by. I know it's two. Season's nearly done,
and now here we are, episode number one hundred. If
you are listening to this, thank you.
Speaker 2: You are the reason why we have made it to
the one hundredth episode.
Speaker 1: The thousands and thousands of people that are tuning in
each week to hear what we have to say blows
my mind every single day. I can't believe it. We
talked about it like on episode number four or something. Hey,
we're really impressed that, you know, seven hundred people have
listen to us, and so it's just amazing that it's
gone this far now and we want to say thank
you fans, thank you so much. You are surely awesome.
That's right.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Shirley Temple. Yeah, I mean, this is fantastic.
I'm having a blast doing this with you. This is
two years now. Yeah, we've gone through tons of really
interesting stories and albums and movies, and today we're doing
something special.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So we always cover movies of the eighties, maybe seventies, nineties,
maybe two thousands, but it's pretty rare. It's like it's
going to be matched up with some other old movie
like we did with Superman and Man of Steel, or
when we were talking about Bill and Ted Face the
Music versus Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey.
That's that's the thing, because we're of the opinion that
those are the best movies that ever were made.
Speaker 2: The eighties and nineties were definitely my sweet spot. Seventies
to you know. Yeah, but yeah, I agree, those movies
hit me hard.
Speaker 1: Okay, reason I'm going to put you on the spot.
What's the best decade for movies? Eighties? Yeah, I'm picking nineties. Okay,
I would say nineties. So that would be an interesting
you know, when we get two hundredth episode, maybe that
should be what we do, is we get idea eighties
versus nineties, which.
Speaker 2: Was your ten versus my ten? Yeah, mono we mono, Yeah, Okay,
I'm up for it. So what we're doing today is
we're talking about movies that are not in the eighties,
or nineties, yor not in the twentieth century at all.
We are talking about our ten favorite twenty first century movies, which, honestly,
when I started this process, I'm like, I want to
be I want to be hard pressed to get ten right.
I'm actually surprised at how many decent movies have come
out in the last twenty years.
Speaker 1: It's more than I thought. Now, I will say the
years don't compare to eighties and nineties, but there has
been a lot of really good movies that have come
out in the last year. That's true.
Speaker 2: That's true in twenty almost twenty two years now. Yeah,
it's kind of a big area to pull from. Sure,
and there are some great movies and movies that I
really enjoyed now. For you and I the early two thousands,
that's when we started having kids. Yeah, and so time
at the movies.
Speaker 1: Was a little bit more rare thing. And when we
did go to the movies, we tended to see some
kids stuffs. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so just the way that our life has developed,
we might see that in our list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jason had his first kid and O two. I
had my first kid and O three, and we both
kept going after that. So there's a significant time period
that we were out of the loop as far as
what popular culture was other than kid culture. I've got
one of those movies on my list, but I did
my best to not fall back on Pixar. Well, I mean, hey,
if you wanted to name ten Pixar movies, that's there.
This is your list. May are some of the best
of the last twenty years for sure. Well, I mean,
I mean, are you ready, Let's get into it. Let's
jump into it now. Who's going to go first? Well,
let's start with our honorable mentions want to end with
my honorable man? What? Okay? All right? That's well, because
if you we're get a crescendo to one, I know, okay,
let's do it before one. Then let's like, let's get
to number two and then okay, before we jump into
our another one spot. How oh we did that? Okay,
that's what they worked. Yeah, okay, Jason, you start ten. Okay,
So we're gonna just jump right in here, number ten,
number ten.
Speaker 2: This movie came out in two thousand and five, and
actually I didn't mean for this to happen, but we
are recording today on November the.
Speaker 1: Fifth, right, is that anything to you. Uh, the number
the fifth, nineteen fifty five. Yeah, this is the anniversary
of the day that my say Fox went back in time. Remember,
remember the fifth of November. Yeah, you're gonna have to
do one for me on that V for Vendetta. Oh okay,
is my number ten movie. Okay. It stars Hugo.
Speaker 2: Weaving, Natalie Portman, John Hurt, the guy from Aliens, the
guy got his.
Speaker 1: Chest ripped up. Yes, and it's sort of this is
he a freedom fighter? Is he a terrorist? He's fighting
back against a overreaching government?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And you know who who's the good guy? Who's the
bad guy? It's fantastic movie.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I've seen part of it. I've seen
like the first half. But as with the case with
a whole lot of movies in my life these days,
I only see a little bit before I get called
away on some other emergency, so I have not been
able to finish it. I've got I got pretty far along, actually,
I think probably three quarters of the way into it
and just never have finished that movie. Man School. Yeah,
I'd love to see it, very very well done.
Speaker 2: It'll make you think, It'll make you think, do you
trust your government? Do you not trust your government. Yeah,
is dynamite the answer?
Speaker 1: Right? You know what I mean? Right? Right? Okay, remember
that that's what I can't all right. So for my
number ten, I've got the movie nineteen seventeen, which was
directed by Sam Mendez. It was sort of based on
stories that his grandfather had told him about being in
the Great War. And it follows two soldiers who have
to carry a message in order to save one of
the soldier's brothers from certain annihilation. And you've heard about
the follow shot where it's just like a continuous shot.
They do the entire movie as a continuous shot following
the characters involved, and you don't ever break away. It's
an interesting experiment in being able to do that, something
like rope that Alfred Hitchcock did. But I just remember
after that movie, I called JEP and I said, this
is a movie you need to go check out. Guess
what you haven't checked I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I did check it out from the
library and just didn't get a chance to watch it yet.
Speaker 1: It is now officially back in my cube, all right, Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Nine Number nine for me is the twenty eleven David
Fincher film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Speaker 1: That is ironic. I've got a David Fincher film as
my number nine as well. Wow, okay, fantastic.
Speaker 2: So this movie, it has Daniel Craig is investigating this family.
He's kind of in trouble and he gets called in
to kind of look into this family's history and he
starts to realize that there's a woman who's been missing
for a long time, and maybe there's a serial killer
who's acting and he has to look at these pictures
and try to figure out the clues. It works as
a mystery thriller, like a serial killer.
Speaker 1: Type of thing. It is dark and scary and awesome.
I've read the book. I absolutely loved the book. I
read it in anticipation of seeing the movie and I
still haven't seen it. Oh my gosh. I just know.
I mean it's not gonna you know there, I know
there are parts it's in the movie that it's not
going to be okay if a kid walks in, And
that's very true. Some man rate going on. He got yes.
By the way, spoiler alert for you know people out there,
we may talk about some movies you haven't seen and
forgive us for spoiling. I'm going to try not to
spoil any movies right that Jason hasn't seen, And if
he tries to spoil a movie for me, I might
have to punch him. Really anti spoiler guy.
Speaker 2: Rooney Mehra's performance as Elizabeth Slander is fantastic. She's angry,
she's better, she's mean, but she's super smart and just
really good at her job.
Speaker 1: You've got to check out the book. You just have to.
It's to get behind the eyes of that character. Is
an amazing experience. So you read the book, I'll watch
the movie. We'll talk, okay. Number nine. Number nine to
me is the Social Network. Ah yeah, okay, So this
is a David Fincher directed movie written by Aaron Sorkin,
who brought us all kinds of brilliance, including a few
good men. But it's the story of Facebook, I know, right.
And have you seen it? Yes? Okay, one of my favorites.
Like I tell people all the time, have you seen
this movie? Go check it out. It is truly brilliant.
And the way that they work the movie is it's
all takes place through the storytelling that goes on in
depositions because everybody is suing.
Speaker 2: You think Mark Zuckerberg, think, yeah, if I could get
a piece of Facebook, would I fight hard to get
a piece of Facebook?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think so. Well, and he genuinely screwed me.
He was sticking it to those guys. Man. But I mean,
you know, you can call them the losers in the process,
but all of those guys are multimillionaire at that point. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was a fascinating movie. And David Fincher makes great movies.
Speaker 1: Man performances are spot on. You got Andrew Garfield, Jesse Eisenberg,
and possibly his best performance like he sounds like, he
looks like he carries the personality of Mark Zuckerberg to
a t.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Okay, eight, my number eight movie, The Hangover. Okay, all right.
Speaker 2: Hangover Bradley Cooper, Zach galfanikis, Ed Helms, Heather Graham, directed
by Todd Phillips. Listen, this movie is hilarious.
Speaker 1: It's one of the funniest movies, if not the funniest
movie of the last twenty years. And it's my number
seven movies. Okay, Well, well let's you roll you roll
with it?
Speaker 2: Well, I was just gonna say it not only works
brilliantly as a comedy, yes, but it works as a mystery.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. You were presented with the question at the
hook moment in every film, you know, thirty minutes in
they've lost a man, a man they waved gosta man.
They've lost a night, and it's the most important man
because it's the groom of the wedding that happens that day.
The stakes are up top. It is fantastic. They have
to take the clues, yeah, and piece together what happened
that night so they can find their buddy Doug. This
movie was my introduction, as imagined, It was for a
lot of folks introduction to Zach Galafanakis. Yes, brilliant is
comedic timing his ability to improv into moments and delivery.
I mean, the man is a genius. I'm a bit
of a prude when it comes to like raunchy comedies. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I could not resist this one start to finish. I
was laughing my butt off, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: And Ethergram eather Gram. Okay, So my number eight, Yeah,
my number eight movie is Thor Ragnarok. Such a good one,
such a good one. I was trying to be careful
about superhero movies, but as it turned out, there weren't
as many as I thought that there would be on
this list. Thor Ragnarok is, in my opinion, the best
Marvel movie, and Marvel movies are some of the top
movies that have come out. They're fantastic, but it's the
best of them all because it brings home the comedy.
It gives us a throwback to the eighties. I mean,
all of the graphics that they use are very eighties inspired.
And then when we did our Flash Gordon episode, we realized, hey,
this is actually borrowing a whole lot from that very movie,
which ironically, the director Tai Kowatiki, is going to be
doing the Flash Gordon movie. I can't wait.
Speaker 2: I can't wait, and I'm with you. Thor Ragnarrock just
outside of my top ten. Brilliant and hilarious movie, and.
Speaker 1: Taka Tiki is a superstar. Just got to throw this out.
He's got a couple of other movies that I had
on my list that I had to take off just
because I was trying not to duplicate. But he's got
Hunt for the Wilder People, which is brilliant, takes place
in New Zealand, has the guy from Jurassic Park in it,
and like Sam Neil, Yeah, Sam Neil Yes, Okay yeah,
utterly hilarious and wonderful and an inspiring news story. And
the other movie that's come out pretty recently is called
Jojo Rabbit, which is about a little kid who has
an imaginary friend who is Hitler. He's a Hitler youth
and his imaginary friend is actually Hitler, who is played
by Taikawatiki, and it's hysterical. What, yeah, how are you
going to make a movie? You know, the producers made
a Hitler movie to make the worst play of all time.
But he took a Hitler movie and made it really
funny and really brought it home. Also has Scarlett Johansson
in it. It's great, great, fantastic. Well, I will tell
you this. Takawai is trying his hand in the Star
Wars universe. Oh yeah, I don't know. Exacdalorian, Yeah is dicted.
He's directed some of the Mandalorians. Okay, yeah, well, I
say give him his own movie. Let's go. Oh dude,
he's yeah, and I'm ready for the Flash Gordon. He
is one of those directors that if you know, if
somebody's gonna do a remake. I trust him to do
the remake. Fantastic. Okay, So I've already hit my number seven,
so we're gonna jump on your number seven. Go h okay,
Well let's talk about your number seven. Well, my number
seven was the Hangover, so we've already discussed that.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a part in the Hangover I was going
to talk about. Okay, Yeah, the Mike Tyson punch, Zach
Guelph and iks. I have never burst out laughing so
violently so quickly.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, well when that happened, I died laughing.
I think a key ingredient of any good movie is
that there are lines that you will continually quote after
you've seen the movie. And I haven't. I maybe have
seen it twice. I don't even know. I may have
only seen it once. It's not that many times. But still,
like within the last week, my wife has said to me,
you ever see a baby do this.
Speaker 2: Carlos, Oh my god, when they wake up in that
hotel room and there's a tiger in the room with them.
Speaker 1: That's brilliant. That is brilliant, brilliant filmmaking right there.
Speaker 2: Okay, if you haven't seen Hangover. This is not one
for the kids, not No.
Speaker 1: Seven. All right, so my number seven movie. Yeah. I
don't know if this if you've seen this one or not,
but I love this movie. It's Moneyball with Brad play Yeah,
I love it. It was in the running. It was
in the running. It's not on my list, but it
was definitely in the running. I love Moneyball, Okay, I'm
a big baseball fan. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And this is the story of the two thousand and
one Oakland A's and how they had to use analytics
to figure out how they were going to compete with
the likes of the New York.
Speaker 1: Yankees with a super small salary coup. They had no
money and they had to play ball.
Speaker 2: And it may not sound interesting, but it is gripping
and very entertaining. Jonah Hill plays the He's kind of
an amalgamation of a few different guys. But how they
had to take this team He calls him like an
island of misfit toys to go compete.
Speaker 1: I've read at least the first part of the Moneyball book,
and the character Brad Pitt's character, the guy that he's busting, Yeah,
is a fantastically interesting guy. I loved just learning the
history that you don't get in the movie when you
read the book. But yeah, the movie is brilliant and
an early performance by Chris Pratt. That's right.
Speaker 2: He plays Scott Haddiberg. Yeah, the guy that they're going
to turn into a first basement. And he's like, see,
it's not that hard. Tell him Washington, He's like, it's
incredibly hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And in case you can't tell. At this point,
Jason has no idea what my list. We don't know.
I have no idea what his list is. We are
going into this blind, just to make it as fun
and it's conversational as possible.
Speaker 2: When you were asking me how to pronounce French words
before we started, I got really nervous.
Speaker 1: Okay, So to be fair, I haven't included any documentaries
in this, which I might, but with the way the
type of movies that we covered, I didn't think that
was the right thing to talk about. There's some great
documentaries exit through the gift shop, go check it out.
He wrote Dreams of Sushi, go check it out. I'm
gonna throw that out there. I also didn't do any
foreign language movies. There are a couple of them out
there that are brilliant, the Untouchables. I've heard parasites really good.
I still haven't seen him seen yet, but I didn't
do any for language movies either. Have you seen Free Solo? No, no,
I haven't. I know what it is, but I haven't
seen it. I get the guy's name is Alex Harnhold.
I think, yeah. And you know, climbs without ropes, without
ropes at all, and climbs like like ten thousands of
feet like straight up, like not even not even vertical,
but like at an incline where he's going backwards. It's crazy.
He's got to see it. Yeah, you got to see
it's crazy. Okay, all right, we're on whenever I think
we're selling number six, Yeah, six, I'll go my number six.
All right, here we go, get my number six. Snatch
Snatch Snatched by Guy Ritchie. It has has the guys
from Lockstock two smoking barrels in it. Brad Pittson it right.
Brad pitt plays a pikey, which is kind of like
the English Irish version of a gypsy, and he is
a boxer. And Guy Ritchie's movies are all fantastic. The
Sherlock Holmes movies could have easily in this spot, but
Snatch is just a little bit better than those movies
to me. But he does some amazing things with boxing
in a lot of those movies, and the way that
he tells the story, his use of slow motion, and
the twist at the end of this movie where you
see that the people that you thought were stupid the
whole time ended up being the brilliant playmakers. It's fantastic.
Have you not seen it? Never seen it? Okay? So
I'll tell a story that goes along with this. My
brother in law was telling my mother in law how
awesome this movie was and that she needed to see it.
And like when he first said something, she slapped him
because Snatch has a different you know, meanings right right.
And then she went to Hastings back when Hastings was
still a thing and says, I'm looking for the movie Crotch.
That's good, that's good. Okay. Number six three, number six
for me, Okay, we're moving into the heavy hitters.
Speaker 3: Yeah you ready?
Speaker 1: Okay. Number six is the two thousand than six.
Speaker 2: Movie Casino Royale, directed by Martin Campbell.
Speaker 1: First movie Alligate with Daniel Craig.
Speaker 2: You have Eva Green, who I fall in love with
every single time I watched this.
Speaker 1: You get the introduction of Made Michelson. You got Judy
Dench's m It is brilliant. I've got it higher ranked
than you have it. Okay, we'll talk about it more
when we get a little further onto the podcast. Okay. Five,
all right, So my number five Step Brothers start too,
directed by Adam McKay, who brought us Talladega Knights and
then reunites Will Ferrell and John c Riley for some
of the greatest humor of all time. We used like
a quote from one of their movies in one of
our very first episodes when we were talking about Van Halen,
did you use my drums? It's weird because it looks
like somebody has been using my drums.
Speaker 2: Nope, that movie is awesome. It is outside of my
top ten. It is definitely not for the kids. Yeah,
but if you want to see something even funnier than
Step Brothers, the twenty minute outtakes on YouTube will leave
you in stitches.
Speaker 1: Oh I gotta watch that. Oh my gosh. So those
two guys together are brilliant. They're absolutely freaking brilliant, except whenever.
Apparently they make Holmes and Watson. Apparently that was a
shite show to be seen. Yep. Okay, so we're midway through. Yes,
we've got our five, our first five, right, so it
was first six. I got to say this. There are
a few movies that I haven't seen that I just
want to mention. They might make the list had I
seen them. But I haven't seen The Master by Paul
Thomas Anderson, who is one of my favorite directors of
all times. When you look at other top ten lists
of movies of the twenty first century, usually there will
be blood Is on there by Paul Thomas Anderson absolutely
hated that movie. Really, But I love Boogie Knights, I
love Love Magnolia, and I think I probably would like
The Master, but I just haven't seen it yet seen
it either. I haven't seen get Out by Jordan Peel,
which I heard is fantastic. I haven't seen Moonlight by
Barry Jenkins, and I still haven't seen Anchorman, which I've
heard is even funnier than Stepbrothers. I would disagree with
that statement. I have seen Anchorman, but of those four
or five that you mentioned, yeah, I've only seen Ankerman okay,
so Anchorman. We started watching it as a family and
after about three and a half second and so we
were like, oh nope, this isn't get appropriate. We've got
to turn this off right now. You were braved even
a tenth down PG. Thirteen. It's not an horror movie.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, tits speagee.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll we on number five for you. Yeah,
all right. Number five is a movie that we have
podcasted on. Oh wow.
Speaker 2: It is the two thousand Ridley Scott epic movie Gladiator.
I figured to be in Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius,
father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife,
and he will.
Speaker 1: Have his benches star of a horrible movie. You are
smoking drugs. I know, I know I'm in the minority
of guys who don't like Gladiator, but I just don't
like it. I don't like it. You are crazy. It's
definitely on a whole lot of these lists, but.
Speaker 2: It's a whole lot of style. The plot is very straightforward.
It's straight on revenge picture but man stylistically, and you
got walking fiend Nixon and Connie Nielsen is his sister love.
Speaker 1: It all right, ready for number four? Yes, four, all right,
number four for me? Yes, Ratitude have yeah.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: So we talked at the beginning, and Pixar movies are
top notch for this entire century, right, yes, And so
I had to pick one of them because I didn't
want to do all of them. Right. But as it
turns out, there was really only a couple that were
even in the running. Okay, Finding Nemo was in the running. Okay.
But Ratitude speaks to me on a personal level because
I love food. I love food, I love cooking, and
my family will routinely I'm like, hey, want watch Gratitude.
You are Ratitude, but you've got Brad Bird do Brilliant,
who is yeah, who has proven himself not only in
the animation world, but also in Mission impos Action, Mission Impossible,
Ghost Protocol, one of the best Mission Impossibles of all time.
That's true. And that's another great series that I didn't
I didn't include any from I didn't include any Lord
of the Rings, I didn't include any Harry Potters. I've
seen them all. They're good, they're watchable, but they're not
on my top ten. Brad Bird did Iron, Giant Iron, Giant. Yes,
that's where I was going with that. Yeah, Iron Giant,
which is fantastic. That one may have flown under your radar. Yeah,
it was kind of his first one out of the gate. Yeah,
it's brilliant. Yeah, I love it. Old school animation, not
not pixarts, that's true. Yeah, okay, what's your norm for it?
Oh wait, I gotta tell you that the thing that
you're like, you're looking up French words so gratitudey that
they make. Yes, everybody's like, that's not ratitude. So it's
a style of ratitudey called called fi BLD and it's
a different way of making it. It's sliced, thin and
baked instead of stewed like a normal ratitude would be.
But I just thought I would share that little bit
of French with you today.
Speaker 2: Wow, thank you, you're blowing my mind. So my number
four movie is a movie from two thousand and six
called Limitless.
Speaker 1: All right, that is a great movie. Thank you. That
Actually that bypassed everything. I don't know how I didn't
come up on my radar when I was looking cracking
things down, but that's that's a top notch film. When
I watched that for the first time. Yeah, I got
to the end. This has happened a couple of times
in my life a few times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hit stop, you know on the DVD, right,
and just started over.
Speaker 1: I just immediately started over.
Speaker 2: It's a works as a fantasy film, like what could
I be if I had this magical miracle drug called
I think it's called MZTZT and it opens up the
part of your brain that allows you to become all
your potential. Right, And so Radley Cooper, he's smarter than
everybody in the room. He knows everything, He's got everything
organized in his head to do exactly what he needs
to do. He does make some really stupid decisions, but
you got to have some peril in the movie, you.
Speaker 1: Know, right, it's kind of Flowers for Algernon meets Mission
Impossible meets Train Spotting. I mean it's you got all
kinds of fantastic stuff going on. It's fantastic. Great movie. Yeah,
that is a rewatchable movie. That's it. I mean, that's it.
We're talking about best movies and we didn't really establish
any criteria. But I had to think to myself, what
are these movies? Would I rewatch a lot of them?
I would rewatch, but that doesn't that's not necessarily the
only criteria some movies. Schindler's List, amazing movie. I don't
have a desire to go back and rewatch it over
and over.
Speaker 2: Right, right, my list are this is the top ten
movies that entertained me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, so we're at number three. We're
number three, already number three, already three, So back to
Casino Royale. That was my number three movie. I can
remember when I heard about this coming out, there was
a lot of talk because, hey, this is not the
Origin story. Because they finally got the rights to Casino Royale.
You know, we discussed it in our Bond Versus Bond episode,
the the Origin stories, and somebody bought the rights to
Casino Royale before Kobe Brockley and Eon Productions ever started
doing those things, and so they never had the rights
to Casino Royale. It ended up getting made as first
as a TV movie and then as like a spoof movie, right,
kind of the precursor to Austin Powers, right, But it
never had been made as a serious Eon Production's Bond movie.
And then we had because it was the Origin story,
we had a new James Bond and he was blonde.
I know, right, people were freaking out about that. I
can remember watching this for the first two scenes in
this movie, the black and white scene where he gets
his second kill for his double low yep, and being like,
this is kicking my butt. And then they moved to
the chase scene where the bomb maker is doing parkour
through the construction site and he's following right along and
they're battling on top of a freaking crane and I'm like,
holy poop, this is freaking brilliant. Yeah, it's awesomest chase
scene in the history of all chase scenes ever. Top
square bag with that. Best James Bond movie without question,
in my opinion. I just saw the most recent one.
It was good. It was good. It was really good.
No Time to Die And we talked a little bit
about that. How there's a line from the George Lazenbie Yes,
thank you George Lazmbie on Our Majesty's Secret Service yep.
Speaker 2: For those of you who are familiar with the older
movies movies, yeah, when he says to his bride bride, yeah,
we have all the time in the world. That's a
throwback to on our Majesty's secret service.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They throw in that line in this movie early on,
and I was like, oh, Cras, suddenly he's about to die,
because that's what happens in the George Lassopie thing. But
that's not what happened in this movie. And then they
bring it back with a button later on and say,
did the solo job job? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And like the Bond people who were freaking out because
you had a blond Bond Yeah, okay, yeah, we're going
to my number three movie where people were freaking out
as well. Okay Heath Ledger as the Joker.
Speaker 1: Okay, before you say anymore, yes, save it, Okay, save it.
That's my number three. That's your number three. I get it.
I get it. Save your number three. All right, we'll
come back, okay, all right. Two okay my number two. Yes,
that's cool.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay.
Speaker 1: So Deadpool has got such it's such an incredible movie,
and it's got such a good story behind it because
they've been trying to make it for twelve years. When
I when I was a little kid, I read comic books,
and then I didn't read comic books for a long time,
and then when I was about twenty twenty one. I
started reading comic books again the mid nineties, and this
brand new comic book came out called Deadpool, and I
got issue number one and two and three. Ooh awesome.
I loved it. So I've got this real connection with
this character. Fast forward twenty years, twenty years, and they've
done Wolverine origins and there's a Deadpool character in this movie.
It doesn't seem the same, though, but I'm happy that, Hey,
there's this guy. So there's all this motion going on.
But basically Fox didn't want to have a rated R movie, right.
They didn't want that, and they weren't going to fund it.
And basically they put together this demo clip right and
Fox saw it and they didn't think it was that great,
and so they didn't green light the movie. And then
somehow the demo clip leaked. And when the demo clip leaked,
everybody went nuts. They were like, this movie has to happen.
How is this movie not happened yet? This is the
superhero movie that we have all been waiting for. I
don't know if it was Tim Miller, the director that
leaked it. I don't know if it was Ryan Reynolds
who leaked it right. But I am confident that there
was a tactical move to get the public bought in
on this, and then they delivered fantastic, hilarious, makes fun
of itself, makes fun of the fact that the studio
won't give it any budget. It's like, it's kind of
weird when I come to this house. There's only two
mutants here. It's almost as though the studio didn't have
the budget for anymore. Hey, Ryan Reynolds had been in
a filled superhero movie Blade, he was in Green Lantern. Oh,
Green Lantern too. Yeah, that was I mean, that was
another reason. And Wolverine, the Origins Wolverine that was pretty bad.
It was not good, and Green Lantern maybe even worse.
And those were big budget movies. People hated Green Lantern.
I actually thought it was good. You're talking about two million,
one hundred and fifty million for those two movies. Deadpool
they made on a budget of fifty eight million that
had gotten cut down like it was sixty something. They
cut it down on day one to fifty eight million. Yeah,
and they still made top notch movie. Love It. Yeah,
it's funny, it's super funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, number two, my.
Speaker 2: Number two My number two and I know you wanted
to rip me for having Dark Knight at number three. Okay,
Dark Knight, hear me, people, Yeah, is not the best
movie of two thousand and eight, the best movie of two.
Speaker 1: Thousand and eight. And I had to take a long,
hard look in the mirror.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, because this movie entertained me more than the
Dark Knight did.
Speaker 1: Okay. The original Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man is my
number two movie. This gave birth to the Marvel Universe.
It did. And Robert Downey Jr.
Speaker 2: As Tony Stark is as much fun and as interesting
as Irony, and that is a rare.
Speaker 1: This movie is appropriate to be on your list because
it was the reason that we have the Marvel Universe. Yes,
there is no question it is the reason. It's the
reason you. Jon Favreau knocked it out of the park,
John Bugate John Favreau as a producer, director, writer, He's brilliant.
We've seen from Mandalorian, He's brilliant. We've seen from his
other movies. He's brilliant. Chef by the way, another food movie.
I love that movie also great. Yes, and then you
combine him with Robert Downey Junior who brings his own
personality in the character of Tony Stark. It's it's absolutely appropriate.
It's not on my list, but I can totally see
why it's on it. Thank you. You know who was
originally supposed to be Iron Man before Robert Downey Jr.
Like ten years prior Tom Cruise as Tony Stark. Now, listen,
we've talked about our alternate universe before. Yeah, Robert Downey Jr.
Is Tony Stark. He is.
Speaker 2: I absolutely imber sent think he is a perfect fit.
But I still want to see that Tom Cruise movie
with him.
Speaker 1: Started Tony Stark.
Speaker 2: Sure, okay, all right, So let's talk about our honorable
mentions before we get to our.
Speaker 1: Number one movie. Okay, hit me with your honorable mentions. Okay,
well I'll do one, You do one, and then we
go go there. All right, Okay, sure, how many do
you have? I have two? How about you do your
two and I'll do the rest of mine.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, all right, I don't know what you're gonna
slam me with here. Yeah, all right, okay, So my
two honorable mentions. The first one honorable mentioned Number one
is the Doug Lyman Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise
from twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a great one. Yeah, I really enjoyed that
movie Edge of Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And you may have seen the poster that says live Diary.
I think that would have been a cooler name.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But it's about this guy and he kind of gets
in this time loop and it's like the end of
hog Day. It's like Groundhog every day he has to
die and he starts back, but he has a little
bit more knowledge. Yeah, and you get a little bit
further yep, and he has to save the world. And
every day I run to a dead end. Boom, I'm dead.
Speaker 1: It's groundhog Day with soldiers and aliens. So good, I mean,
what more could you ask? And Emily Blunt is sexy
and smart and she's awesome. She's a bad a and yeah,
and honestly, what should have This will be an honorable
mention for me that I didn't actually have on my list,
but a quiet place it should be on the list.
I've never seen that. You've never seen a quiet I
have never seen that. I was like, for a second,
oh yeah, it's still good. It's still good. I didn't
have any horror ones on my list, that one and
it if you get even throw in some horror movies,
the Chapter one. Those are both brilliant, not my style,
but brilliant movies that I thoroughly enjoyed, despite the fact
that I'm a big horror guy. All right, here are
my honorable mentions. You ready, I have a one one? Oh?
All right? Do you want me no be trading bagon forth? No?
You go ahead? Okay, Yeah, honor mention number two, number
two for me. Yeah. Two thousand and three, Kevin Costner
directed Open Range. I haven't seen it. Oh hear. It's great,
but I have not seen I love it, man, I
love it. It's thrilling. It's the whole you know.
Speaker 2: You run into a cattle baron and he hates free grazers,
and by god, I'm gonna take charge of this town.
And Kevin Costner and Robert Duval take on the cattle
barons in this one town and it's it's the same
bloot as every Western you've ever seen in your life,
but the scope and the sprawling scenery and the shootout
at the end is better than anything. It's kind of
like when you watch Star Wars and you think, man,
this is great, and then you watch Mandaloria and you're like, whoa,
this is fantastic. They've upped the thrill and the action
and the shootout at the end. I love open Range.
Have you seen Yellingstone. I've seen one or two episodes.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've heard it's fantastick an Eye. I've seen maybe
one or two episodes. I haven't really got to sit
down and watch it, but I've heard it's brilliant. But
Kevin Costner and a cowboy hat and a horse probably
going to be good.
Speaker 2: We talked about how it's cowboys and baseballs for him.
Speaker 1: Cowboys and baseballs, right yep?
Speaker 2: Dances with wolves and open range, Wyatt or flashback to
our Tombstone episode we talked about last week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kim customer, cowboy hat. Okay, you're ready for my
honorable questions? Yeah? I have just a couple more than
you did. Dude, this was a hard This is really hot.
I had like Thirtying the Rules, thirty five movies on
my list, so I'm just gonna run through them all right,
you ready? The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Whiplash,
The Prestige that departed Ocean's eleven No Country for Old Men.
The heat hilarious and you can watch it with your wife,
not your kids, but with your wife. Catch me if
you can rewatchable over and over and over again, love
it and inglorious bastards. I'm surprised that wasn't on your list.
Yeah I was. I was hard pressed to. Any of
those movies could easily jump into my top ten at anybody.
I saw that on the first time last week and
we were talking about it. Yeah, and it was awesome.
Have you seen Jango and Chained? I have not seen
Django and Chain. It's also brilliant. See I like Once
upon a Time in Hollywood? And you did not? I
did not. No, I did not. I was gripped from
the word go. Yeah, I was gripped and then I
was let go and left hanging there for like another
two hours. Got good for the last fifteen minutes. I
need to watch Jango? Yeah you do. All right, we're
right at number one.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna say my number one is because you've
already brought it up. My number one has to be
The Dark Knight. Okay, Okay, So let me just say
Christopher Nolan is the director of this century, right, Yeah,
he had a small budget movie that he made before
he made Memento, but Memento came out in two thousand.
I watched it last night. It was on my list.
Inception was on my life. I just took him out
and I just said, I'm going to mention them when
I talk about The Dark Knight, because they're both brilliant.
But Dark Knight has to be the number one movie,
because number one, you're taking the greatest director of the
last twenty years and you're throwing in as you mentioned,
Heath Ledger in the performance of his Life. It's brilliant, man,
it is so good. And I've studied the way that
Christopher Nolan does stuff, and he's so mathematical in the
way that he puts the movie together, like as he
designs the movie, the way he puts it together, very
mathematical about how things are arranged. There's a musical trick, okay,
and you can maybe we throw this in here. It's
called Shepherd tone. And basically what it is is that
you have three tones that are all rising at the
same time but are not the same tone, and then
the highest of those tones will drop an octave while
the other two continue to rise, and then the next
highest will drop, and they continue, and it creates this
illusion of continually escalating and pitched even though it's not.
It's really kind of crazy to play us on clicker.
He does that with his movies. He takes three different
storylines and he says, Okay, I'm gonna up the ante
on this story, then the ante on the next story,
then up the ante on the third story, and then
when you have a break on story number one, you're
already at the climax of story number three. It's all
just so so brilliantly handled, and he minimal cgi despite
the fact that he's doing big, giant, complex stuff like
Inception Interstellar. The man is a genius. He knows how
to put his story together. This is what his theory is.
I put the camera in such a place as you
feel like you're in the movie with whoever the actors are,
and what we have is the creation of the greatest
movies of the last twenty years. Top of that list,
pinnacle of that list has to be The Dark Knight.
Speaker 2: I can't argue with you. I mean, I bleue my
friggin doors off. It is amazing and I'm a big
fan of Batman eighty nine. Maybe we got a tussle
about these two next season.
Speaker 1: Are you teasing this up already? I am yeah, all right,
so we are already preparing for season number three. I'm
gonna throw this out there. So first, very first part
of season number three, we are going to be discussing
Batman eighty nine versus The Dark Knight, and we will
do it in such a way that we will also
be discussing the new Batman movie called The Batman. I pray,
I pray that it holds up. Pray that holds up.
Speaker 2: I know right, it's gonna be awesome. That is a
epic episode that I can't wait to get into.
Speaker 1: They have done a really good job with the teasers
and the trailers, so I'm hopeful that they deliver. Yeah,
it looks good. Yeah, okay, I'm on the edge of
my seat. I'm excited to hear what you have as your.
Speaker 2: My number one movie of the twenty first century. Yes,
we have not mentioned.
Speaker 1: It, Okay, okay, you ready? Yeah? Are you nervous for me?
I am yeah. I'm worried. I'm not gonna like it.
Speaker 2: I'll be shocked if you don't like it. I'll be
shocked if you don't love it. It is the best
superhero movie of the twenty first century. It is two
thousand and fours The Incredibles, Brad Bird at his absolute best.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You have Craig T.
Speaker 2: Nelson as Mister and Crable. You have Holly Hunter as
Alasta Girl, you have Samuel L.
Speaker 1: Jackson as Frozone, you have Brad Bird as Edna, and
you have Jason Lee as Syndrome. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It is funny. It works as a superhero movie. It
works as a family movie. It works as a spy movie.
It has that sort of old sixties James Bond.
Speaker 1: Type of feel.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely entertaining. It's one hundred percent great for the kids.
It's great for you. It is the best movie of
the twenty first century.
Speaker 1: I can't argue with it. I can't argue with that.
I mean, that's I don't agree necessarily, but I'm not
faulting you because that is a fantastic movie. Fantastic movie. Yeah, Brilliance,
thank you, thank you. Every time that comes on, I'm like,
I'm busy for the next.
Speaker 2: Hour, all right, d I reached out to our good
buddy James Buckley he's been with us pretty much since
day one, and he's just been a great encourager and
a great fan of ours. I asked him for his
top ten of the twenty first century and here's what
he came up with.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 4: Everyone, this is James b Uley and Louisiana. Jason asked
me to chime in with my top ten movies of
the twenty first century and why I don't get to
see near as many movies as I like these days.
There have been quite a few films over the past
few decades have really stuck with me. Coming in at
number ten, we have Sean of the Dead. In this movie,
I think Edgar Wright produced the perfect horror comedy. It
simultaneously embraced all the standard zombie movie tropes and also
made fun of them. And what can I say about
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, They are a comedy dream team. Next,
we have The Raid Redemption, which was a twenty eleven
Indonesian film produced by a Welshman, Gareth Evans, and it
really showed how far you could take the genre. If
you've ever seen the Carl Urban Judge dread movie, you've
basically seen a watered down version of this movie, but
I highly recommend the original, even though Judge Dread is
the Law. Coming in at number eight, we have High Fidelity,
which was in early two thousand's John Cusack romantic comedy.
This is not my favorite genre, but I take an
exception of this movie. It's based on one of my
favorite books by Nick Hornsby, and I spent a lot
of time in record stores in the nineties and I
met so many people who were just like Jack Black's
obnoxious clerk that this one really resonated with me. Coming
in at number seven, we have Casino Royle, which I
think is the most fully realized James Bond movie we
have yet to see. Daniel Craig really could have stepped
off the pages of Ian Fleming's novels. That's not to
cast dispersions at Sean Connery or Roger Moore any of
the other James Bonds, but Craig really seemed to embody
Fleming's original concept of the character well. The subsequent movie
has left me neither shaken north starred. This is a
fantastic film. Number six, we have Unbreakable, which was m
Night Shyamalan's follow up to the sixth sense. It was
such an understated approach to the superhero genre that at
first I wasn't sure what I was watching, But as
Shyamalan stripped away the various layers, you realize that, hey,
Bruce Willis is a superhero, and he's also a balding superhero,
which gave me hope as my hairline steadily retreated. After this,
Shimalan seemed to wonder in the cinematic wilderness for a
few years, trying to find his direction, and I think
he rebounded quite admirably just a few years ago when
he Really Split, which is the Mber five movie in
my list. James mclvoy had a fantastic turn in this movie,
playing so many roles from Patricia down and of course,
in true Shaman fashion, there was a twist which I
never saw coming. I'm not gonna give away any spoilers,
but let's just say it relates back to my previous
pick number four. We have Guardians of the Galaxy, which
is you know, Marvel has released a lot of movies
over the past decade or so, and this is one
of my favorites. It was such a fun film. You
could tell Chris Pratt was having an absolute Ball as
Starterward and I was glad to see this was such
a breakout role for him. And how can we forget
Vin Diesel turning in his best dramatic performance as the
Talking tree grout number three, we have another Marvel movie.
This one really kicked off the whole MCU universe. It
was Iron Man, and you could not have cast Tony
Stark any better than he did. They did with Robert
Downey Junior. The parallels between the characters' lives and Robert's
lives are amazing, but man, you could tell down he
was also having an absolute blast in this role, and
I was glad to see him also making such a
major comeback. At number two, we have John Wick, which
just as easily have been number one. This really revitalized
the extra genre. Keanu Reeves turned in a killer performance
snow pun intended amazing fight scenes and as a dog
Loverina who couldn't really sympathize with John. Finally coming in
at number one, we have the Return of the King,
the conclusion of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This
most epic conclusion to the most epic of epic storylines
was truly deserving of all the praise It got fantastic performances,
outstanding set pieces, and it really wrapped up all the
stories plot threads in a very rousing, satisfying way. I'm
sure JR. Tolkien was smiling down somewhere. Al Right, guys,
that's it. This list obviously is subject to change, and
there were quite a few runners up that could just
as easily have made the top ten.
Speaker 1: But I hope this helps. Thanks. Have a great day,
all right.
Speaker 5: James providing some new nuggets that I got to go
test out. That Indonesian thing, the Redemption things sounded good.
I'm going to go look at that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never heard of that one.
Speaker 5: He had some similar ones to us. He had Casino Royal,
James Royal. I thought they spoke French in Louisiana Royale
with cheese, and then he had Jurors had an iron
Man on there.
Speaker 3: I know if they number two, Yeah, I was happy
about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. He had no Dark Knight, No, no Dark Knight.
Speaker 5: But I can't fault him for Unbreakable either. That's a
really good one, and Guardians of the Galaxy is definitely
one of the best, I'd say number two Marvel movie
of all of them.
Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome, thanks a bunch, James.
Speaker 5: We really appreciate you man.
Speaker 1: Yep, James, thank you as always, we appreciate you. We'll
see you down the line. Well, we want to hear
from you, guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these are our ten best. There's tons that we missed,
there's tons that we may have overlooked. Let's hear from you.
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