Speaker 1: School season. You say it like that, yeah you do,
Speaker 1: you have to go school?
Speaker 2: Okay, wells a parent of right now, Yeah, obviously I
Speaker 2: have kids. Everything's got a voice or a cool tone
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 3: This is this is my favorite holiday, my favorite time
Speaker 3: of year. I just I revealed to you guys in
Speaker 3: our during one of our live shows that I grew
Speaker 3: up like as a Halloween like part of a Halloween family.
Speaker 3: And it was it sort of like fell into our lap.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like some of my you know, I I've
Speaker 3: talked about being a young magician or how my brother
Speaker 3: and I used to the amazing writer No no, the
Speaker 3: Strong Brothers, the Strong Brothers.
Speaker 1: Magic but starring less.
Speaker 3: Amazing, non magical writer, just the middle aged average.
Speaker 1: Ri but average rider. Nothing about him.
Speaker 3: No, but but around the same time, like when we
Speaker 3: were about I guess when I was like six or
Speaker 3: seven and my family got really into Halloween, and it
Speaker 3: started with we just threw a Halloween party and the
Speaker 3: idea was like, oh, we'll invite our friends over. And
Speaker 3: then of course, because as listeners who heard the episode
Speaker 3: with my parents know, like everything became like a very
Speaker 3: big production and a big investment. Our small Halloween party
Speaker 3: became let's convert our house and our woods into a
Speaker 3: walk through haunted house, like as as involved as we
Speaker 3: can get. So we got really crafty. We made all
Speaker 3: of our own like masks and body parts, like my
Speaker 3: parents did a bunch of research and figured out how
Speaker 3: to like if you make things with plaster of Paris
Speaker 3: and then you coat them in uh, like rubber, you
Speaker 3: can make your own like rubber things. Whatever. We just
Speaker 3: spent weeks building up this haunted house, and then the
Speaker 3: night of we had all these people come over, all
Speaker 3: our friends and neighbors and everything. And in some ways
Speaker 3: it was like my first real acting job because I
Speaker 3: felt all this pressure because I had to be like
Speaker 3: a monster in this one section. Then I had to
Speaker 3: go like be like the breathing monster, like or the
Speaker 3: sleeping monster in this other sectuary. I just had to
Speaker 3: make it look like this monster was breathing. Then we
Speaker 3: had to like run into the woods, and we had
Speaker 3: we had rigged while people we started in the house,
Speaker 3: we took them all through the house and different rooms
Speaker 3: and different areas, and we walked through a graveyard into
Speaker 3: the woods. And as we walked into the woods, we
Speaker 3: had a dead body fall from the trees and just
Speaker 3: scare the crap out of everybody. So like one of
Speaker 3: us had to run ahead.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, yeah, fake, knowing your parents are like,
Speaker 4: no they actually what they found a corpse?
Speaker 3: No, no, we went and found a corpse.
Speaker 1: And nobody nobody got stabbed in the woods. Method we
Speaker 1: were methed. It was there was actual pestilence. Nice.
Speaker 3: You know what's funny about that? That dead body we
Speaker 3: kept it. It's still at my parents' house. We stuffed
Speaker 3: this this body full of hay and you know, had
Speaker 3: a head on it and whatever, and then we kept
Speaker 3: it and we kept it in the barn where our
Speaker 3: pony lived. And I would have to go feed the
Speaker 3: and the irony is I was part of You had
Speaker 3: a pony?
Speaker 1: Wait what what? When did you have a pony?
Speaker 3: Childhood, Susie, our pony, We had a pony.
Speaker 1: How is this the first any of us is ever
Speaker 1: hearing about your.
Speaker 2: Pon You hated that ponytitudes you had a pony?
Speaker 1: You were that kid. You were pony kid.
Speaker 3: Dude, We had chickens, we had pony. We had guinea.
Speaker 4: Pig, rabbit had God, is it true that pony tastes
Speaker 4: like chicken.
Speaker 1: Is that true?
Speaker 4: I just throw it out there was like and then
Speaker 4: when I was on the horse ranch, like wait what wait?
Speaker 1: Sorry what? And then my my ponies, Susie.
Speaker 3: We kept the we kept the fake dead body in
Speaker 3: the hayloft of the pony's barn, and I would have
Speaker 3: to go feed the pony. That was like one of
Speaker 3: my chores. I would go feed Susie at night, and
Speaker 3: it was It's so funny. I was terrified of the
Speaker 3: fake dead body that we had used. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Probably, can I'm sorry, Can we just very briefly talk
Speaker 4: about how I get so much ish for Connecticut yet
Speaker 4: you were stoking the fires at your school, feeding the
Speaker 4: chickens and the pony.
Speaker 3: I think that's the joke. That's always been the joke,
Speaker 3: the Connecticut thing, not the list, For God's sake, the
Speaker 3: Connecticut thing was on on set. We did that during
Speaker 3: Boy and it did Ben's joke. Ben started this whole
Speaker 3: Connecticut joke, and we we pounced on it and kept
Speaker 3: it going, and now it's become part of Podbat's world.
Speaker 3: But no, it never made any sense. It doesn't actually
Speaker 3: make sense. Connecticut is way more developed than MI. Yes,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you heard my parents built the
Speaker 3: house like we were. We were.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, do you do you have trick or treaters
Speaker 4: now coming to your house?
Speaker 3: No? You mean in LA or my street for whatever
Speaker 3: reason doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: Well, well, we live a few feet from each other,
Speaker 2: and yet we might as well live in different states,
Speaker 2: because I get hundreds of trigger treaders will apparently get.
Speaker 4: Zero zero, and nobody on my street gets anything. It's
Speaker 4: just a certain blocks either.
Speaker 3: I think in La especially, people drive to neighborhoods and
Speaker 3: they sort of like become you know, hot spots where
Speaker 3: everyone goes in a certain area, and then there's other
Speaker 3: streets that just get no love.
Speaker 1: Well, we talked about when I first moved out here.
Speaker 4: Marsden, who was also a big Halloween guy, always went
Speaker 4: to Beverly Hills. He's like Beverly Hills they have the
Speaker 4: best candies that there are people that have ice cream bars,
Speaker 4: like you have a full Sunday bar. People trying, you know,
Speaker 4: neighbors trying to outdo each other. So it's like here,
Speaker 4: you know, take a pony like rider got his.
Speaker 1: Rider got his in Beverly Hills. Yeh, Beverly Hill just
Speaker 1: a giant bag with a pony in it. Here you go, just.
Speaker 3: Take one comes with saddle bags packed up candy.
Speaker 2: As a family are going to be a family of vampires.
Speaker 1: And I got this is.
Speaker 2: The first year I'm actually kind of going all out
Speaker 2: for it. Normally, the kids, I was like, they're too
Speaker 2: young to try to do like face makeup, because I
Speaker 2: can't even imagine trying to explain to them why we
Speaker 2: need to do that or trying to get it off.
Speaker 2: But this year, there's very excited about his vampire costume
Speaker 2: and we're all gonna have white faces with dark eyes.
Speaker 2: And I got fake blood, and I got the teeth
Speaker 2: that just go on the incisor teeth, not the you know,
Speaker 2: to get.
Speaker 4: The retractable ones, the ones that actually with your tongue
Speaker 4: you can make go.
Speaker 2: I did not because I'm a little worried period about
Speaker 2: having just the incisor teeth in Adler and Keaton's mouth.
Speaker 2: I'm like, they're going to choke on these. Luckily, the
Speaker 2: reviews say the adhesive is very strong. I don't think
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put them in Keaton's mouth. I don't trust
Speaker 2: Keaton Adler. I think it is possibly old enough to
Speaker 2: not like I don't know who knows, but I feel like.
Speaker 3: This point, like.
Speaker 1: Katen has a lot of teeth two years and two months,
Speaker 1: it's not.
Speaker 3: Like it's like losing his teeth yet. He hasn't.
Speaker 1: No, Adler hasn't even lost a tooth yet. Oh wow, okay, yeah, so.
Speaker 4: We don't even want to know what the markup is
Speaker 4: nowadays for the Tooth Fairy.
Speaker 3: Oh don't. I don't got to be.
Speaker 1: It's a sixty bucks a tooth. Now what do you
Speaker 1: do inflation?
Speaker 3: And we don't actually do it anymore. Andy doesn't well,
Speaker 3: Andy lost all his baby teeth for the most part.
Speaker 3: So but I think we only I was like, let's
Speaker 3: just give a buck. I think Alex made the mistake
Speaker 3: of giving him five bucks one, but we definitely heard
Speaker 3: of kids getting twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I just knock your teeth out after that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, twenty dollars a tooth, that's no.
Speaker 3: But I was always like this one dollar, like that's
Speaker 3: the going rate. He never really cared that much, like
Speaker 3: he actually wanted to keep his teeth. So then we
Speaker 3: had to do this whole thing of like you get
Speaker 3: you get a note from the Tooth Fairy and the money,
Speaker 3: but you also get to keep your tooth, like, you know,
Speaker 3: because he wanted to keep it.
Speaker 4: Can we talk about how potent the idea of money
Speaker 4: is that it makes children forget that a stranger is
Speaker 4: supposed to come into their room while they're sleeping too,
Speaker 4: reach under their pillow to.
Speaker 1: Take their teeth. No, I think it's like for a dollar,
Speaker 1: come on.
Speaker 4: In, it's to me.
Speaker 3: What you have to realize is that there's full on
Speaker 3: body horror stuff going on. When you lose a tooth,
Speaker 3: it's traumatic, like, so anything you can do to soften
Speaker 3: the trauma of like, oh, this thing that has been
Speaker 3: a part of me is now and then it comes out,
Speaker 3: and then you have a blood like a blood filled mouth.
Speaker 3: It's awful. And so whenever you're like no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: a little fairy's gonna come and make it all Okay,
Speaker 3: this is totally normal. We'll speaking midnight and you're not
Speaker 3: incredibly creeped out by your blood filled mouth and the
Speaker 3: trauma of what just happened today. It's okay, Yes, an
Speaker 3: apple and lost part of you, but it's gonna be fine,
Speaker 3: Like it's worth a dollar.
Speaker 4: Danielle, Is this the first Halloween? Where they're not superheroes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: Well, no, the their first gosh, I don't do an
Speaker 2: Adler was cookie Monster his very first cooking. Then he
Speaker 2: was a dinosaur, remember he was a He had a
Speaker 2: really cool it'd lit up down the back.
Speaker 1: I think it was actually it was very cool.
Speaker 2: And then that was Keaton's first Halloween, and so Keaton
Speaker 2: was also a dinosaur, but his dinosaur costume had him
Speaker 2: coming out of an egg, so he was a just
Speaker 2: hatched dinosaur, which was very cute. And then Jensen and
Speaker 2: I had dinosaur onesies and then yes, spider Man out
Speaker 2: there was spider Man and Keaton.
Speaker 1: Was Hulk last year. So yeah, they've had a few
Speaker 1: different things.
Speaker 2: But and I truthfully, I still don't know what they're
Speaker 2: going to be because we have a lot of costumes
Speaker 2: because year round is costume were a costume house. Uh
Speaker 2: and Outler still when you say like, what are you
Speaker 2: gonna be for Halloween, he goes Batman, But then I
Speaker 2: remind him, but you also have a vampire costume. He's like, right,
Speaker 2: I like that vampire costume too, So I'm.
Speaker 3: Batman vampire kind of you know, you could be he
Speaker 3: could be both just put on a cowl and have
Speaker 3: the teeth. You could be Yeah.
Speaker 1: Great, a great film. Uh, an animated film.
Speaker 4: I think it's I'm gonna get such hell for not
Speaker 4: knowing the name of it. But it was done by
Speaker 4: Bruce tim the same guy who did the original Batman,
Speaker 4: and it's an alternate version and Batman is actually a vampire.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. That is a great idea.
Speaker 2: Maybe he'll wear his full Batman costume, but where the
Speaker 2: cowl of the vampire, like writer said, and I'll do
Speaker 2: vampire makeup and the blood and he's he's Batman. Yeah,
Speaker 2: vampire Batman. That's a really good idea. And then I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to deal with what we do. Then Keaton's
Speaker 2: gonna want to be the exact same. I don't know
Speaker 2: how to separate this writer, I really don't. I don't
Speaker 2: know what to do. Keaton just will only do everything
Speaker 2: out there does, and I keep, I keep desperately trying
Speaker 2: to like give, but we're really we're struggling. I hope
Speaker 2: it's a phase and that it that it passes. But
Speaker 2: we'll see, because I'm probably gonna end up with two
Speaker 2: vampire Batman.
Speaker 1: But that'll be fine.
Speaker 4: Can you do before and after Batman and then Batman Vampire?
Speaker 4: So Batman Vampires from Earth forty three?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, good.
Speaker 3: I think as long as they I mean, obviously he's
Speaker 3: gonna want to do everything his older brother does, so
Speaker 3: I think I think you want to encourage and support that,
Speaker 3: but then also say, but you're a little different, you know,
Speaker 3: like and there's you get this color and you're one
Speaker 3: of you is blue Batman, the other's black Batman, right,
Speaker 3: gray Batman? Or I don't know, Like if there's can
Speaker 3: you do Batman?
Speaker 1: Would they be? Would Batman and Robin work? Can you
Speaker 1: do Batman? Vampire? Batman and Vampire?
Speaker 3: Robin wants to sidekick to their older brother.
Speaker 2: No, who wants to be Luigi. It's it's the whole
Speaker 2: every literally everything I mean, but down to just like
Speaker 2: I drop them off today at school and Adler doesn't
Speaker 2: have to go into Keaton's classroom because they have two
Speaker 2: separate classrooms. Keaton wouldn't walk into his classroom because Adler
Speaker 2: was standing outside, and so Keaton's like, so I'm just
Speaker 2: going to stand outside.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, bro, this is your room. You have
Speaker 1: to go into it.
Speaker 2: Adler does not, And I finally had to go out
Speaker 2: and say, Adler, you don't have to, but it would
Speaker 2: help me a lot, right now if you would just
Speaker 2: come into Keaton's room so I could drop his backpack off,
Speaker 2: and either goes okay, and then he comes in and
Speaker 2: drop Keaton's backpack off. Yeah, yeah, he does really like
Speaker 2: to help, which cool. Yeah, I appreciate it. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: So we have had such great response to the Will
Speaker 2: and Writer pre show chatter fights, I mean, discussions about
Speaker 2: movies and the cursed letterboxed account of one host in particular,
Speaker 2: that we wanted to take it a step further.
Speaker 1: It's cursed, it curse, cherish the cursed and letterbox account.
Speaker 3: Well researched, you know, thought provoking, you know it's it's
Speaker 3: it's incendiary. Sure, but that's not a that's not a
Speaker 3: negative thing. This is what a film discussion is supposed
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 3: Today is gonna be good guy.
Speaker 2: We wanted to take it one step further this episode
Speaker 2: and dive head first into a new draft.
Speaker 3: I'm like, let's do fantasy.
Speaker 4: This is writer sports ball, it really is.
Speaker 2: We discovered something writer feels sports polish.
Speaker 1: Drinking, a cracking, a beer, hanging out.
Speaker 3: Let's go, oh, that's a great idea. Let's pour some whiskey.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 3: This is going to be really tough. It's going first.
Speaker 3: I do not feel good about it.
Speaker 2: You know, well, maybe you don't feel goo about it
Speaker 2: because I haven't even introed the episode yet.
Speaker 1: It's going first. Settled down.
Speaker 2: This time, we are picking our favorite nineties movies. Will
Speaker 2: and writer. I don't need to explain their love of filmmaking.
Speaker 2: Even back on set when we were kids, they were
Speaker 2: always talking about movies and rushing to see every new release.
Speaker 2: And seeing movies for me back in the nineties was
Speaker 2: a family tradition. Every Friday, my parents, my brother, and
Speaker 2: I would go eat Mexican food. Then we would go
Speaker 2: to a movie theater, so much so that for one anniversary,
Speaker 2: I bought my parents' tickets to see Poetic Justice on
Speaker 2: a date, thinking they would love it because I was
Speaker 2: very excited to see Tupac in it.
Speaker 1: They were not as excited.
Speaker 3: I've actually seen that movie. It's good. It's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, Jackson, it's good.
Speaker 2: So although nowadays I am wildly out of touch with
Speaker 2: TV and movies, I have a ton of absolute favorites
Speaker 2: from thirty years ago. Now we will each pick eight movies.
Speaker 2: Go on first in Will's favorite snake draft format. Then
Speaker 2: we will leave it up to the audience as to
Speaker 2: who the winner was. So, for those keeping score at home,
Speaker 2: Writer won the character draft and I won the episode draft,
Speaker 2: so make sense Will is due now.
Speaker 1: First, I just like to point out that you both
Speaker 1: won the draft.
Speaker 4: You got to pick first in just for the records.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just for the record, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: And I was gonna I was gonna write last night
Speaker 4: that I pretty start first.
Speaker 3: I think I was in close second on the episode
Speaker 3: draft and.
Speaker 1: I for both. I don't think that's true.
Speaker 3: Are you sure that's true?
Speaker 1: Is it? I came ins third both times?
Speaker 4: That's true?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm getting word that that's true.
Speaker 3: But I feel like this is this is so much harder. This,
Speaker 3: this is just overwhelming to me. I really don't know
Speaker 3: how to approach this because I don't know. I want
Speaker 3: to hear what you guys are thinking. I guess if
Speaker 3: I want to win, I should be thinking in terms
Speaker 3: of what our listeners will agree are the greatest movies.
Speaker 1: Our listeners have already proven.
Speaker 4: That they're wrong, because I've come in third twice, so
Speaker 4: we already know the listeners are wrong.
Speaker 1: Both times. So I don't care about that anymore.
Speaker 4: I'm picking the movies I want to pick, and that's
Speaker 4: just the way it's going to be.
Speaker 3: Okay, But see if I see them on the next level.
Speaker 3: There are so many movies because the problem for me
Speaker 3: with the nineties, like if we were doing the eighties,
Speaker 3: I would be way more confident that like, well, I
Speaker 3: know that this is just downright a perfect movie, and
Speaker 3: there's like enough distance from that gade. But with the nineties,
Speaker 3: I feel like whatever movies you watched, and maybe this
Speaker 3: is true for TV shows too, and our listeners can
Speaker 3: probably relate, Like when whatever you watch between the ages
Speaker 3: of like twelve and eighteen are just so much more
Speaker 3: important than anything else. It's like so much more personal.
Speaker 3: So there are movies that when I think about the nineties,
Speaker 3: I'm like, well, Pans Down, that's the most important movie
Speaker 3: in my life. But now I can say, like, I
Speaker 3: don't know if it's actually that greatable film.
Speaker 1: Right, See, I like that that divide.
Speaker 3: I'm like, it's really hard for me to make that
Speaker 3: distinction and to understand the difference.
Speaker 4: So will say you're picking you're just your favorite movies,
Speaker 4: You're picking my favorite movies that I think are awesome
Speaker 4: because I know they're awesome.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4: And I'm I'm doubtly gonna be in second or third
Speaker 4: position because I never get to pick first.
Speaker 3: Well, then that's you know. My prediction is that you
Speaker 3: and I are going to really have like two or
Speaker 3: three films that were super contentent, like that one of
Speaker 3: us gets that the other is going to be so
Speaker 3: upset about.
Speaker 2: So happy because none of you, neither of you guys
Speaker 2: are gonna care at all about any of my movies
Speaker 2: except for two. Writer, Writer and I are gonna are
Speaker 2: gonna care very much about one, just one, and Will
Speaker 2: and I are gonna care about one.
Speaker 1: I already know what both of those are too. Okay,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm so curious. So but everything else,
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna be like, yeah, take it.
Speaker 2: Because I'm looking at this as being like a film
Speaker 2: festival weekend. Like if I got to if I got
Speaker 2: to have my own little film festival of nineties movies,
Speaker 2: what would I want to watch back to back.
Speaker 3: To just to represent the nineties or to just be
Speaker 3: the best films, or to say this is what I like, this.
Speaker 2: Is what I like, if I were gonna if I
Speaker 2: was gonna make my film festival weekend where Danielle's gonna go,
Speaker 2: and every movie that's just gonna play back to back
Speaker 2: to back is gonna be Danielle thought of hit after
Speaker 2: hit after hit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, so let me let me give you a
Speaker 3: pretty clear example. And maybe this is unfair because it
Speaker 3: promptively engages this discussion, but like, Okay, if you're going
Speaker 3: to do the best films from the nineteen nineties and
Speaker 3: any sort of like historical, sociopolitical whatever, like pulp fiction
Speaker 3: should be probably on that list, right right. But and
Speaker 3: if I'm like going to represent the nineties and I
Speaker 3: had to do a film festival, I'd have to put
Speaker 3: a Tarantino film on there, right, So personally, don't care. Personally,
Speaker 3: I don't want to on there.
Speaker 1: Right right.
Speaker 3: So that's like, but that's the debate for me, is like,
Speaker 3: but you say that it represents the filmmaking trends of
Speaker 3: the nineties that are still presently to you.
Speaker 2: You have eight it's not like somebody said you've get
Speaker 2: you get fifty movies to say what's quintessential nineties.
Speaker 1: Then it becomes well, I have to have.
Speaker 2: A Quentin Tarantino film on there, and I have to
Speaker 2: have a good comedy. If you don't like those, if
Speaker 2: you like, you don't have to do that. That's how
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it.
Speaker 4: Like me too, I did Desert Island movies. These are
Speaker 4: the movies I want to be with on a desert island.
Speaker 4: These are the eight I want to watch. This is
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 1: I don't agree. I don't.
Speaker 3: I think we're going to cross over three movies and
Speaker 3: then the rest of them movie like what, it's really okay, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just recognizing that if we're all approaching
Speaker 3: it that way, that's good to know, like, and I
Speaker 3: actually feel that that's more freeing.
Speaker 1: You know, because it's more fun.
Speaker 4: There's I mean, again, you've got thousands of movies to
Speaker 4: pick from, the idea that we're going to be arguing
Speaker 4: over certain ones because I know there's some of my
Speaker 4: lists where you you're both gonna be like, I've never
Speaker 4: heard of that.
Speaker 1: I've never seen it. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4: And then there's gonna be somewhere we're gonna be like
Speaker 4: I wanted that one, all right.
Speaker 3: I'm going to make another after this because I started
Speaker 3: to make so many lists I can't even and I
Speaker 3: can't even narrow it down. So I'm gonna probably end
Speaker 3: up making like a personal list, which is just like
Speaker 3: the movies that I watched over and over again that
Speaker 3: I absessed over and or that influenced me in some
Speaker 3: way but that I won't say, or like my Desert
Speaker 3: Island films, if that makes sense.
Speaker 4: The right way, which is writing things down on the
Speaker 4: little scraps of paper that the real estate agents send.
Speaker 1: Around your house. That's the way to do that.
Speaker 3: Super order Letterbox.
Speaker 2: Okay, anybody who wants to check out writers lists after
Speaker 2: this episode airs right or strong on Letterbox.
Speaker 1: You can see his his lists that he's going to
Speaker 1: make writer wrong dot com. Oh, we're gonna argue that
Speaker 1: much because I don't either.
Speaker 3: You're going to.
Speaker 4: And we have.
Speaker 2: The draft order was set by a random randomizer, which
Speaker 2: makes Will furious.
Speaker 3: Random Danielle Fisher and Ja what would be the most
Speaker 3: dramatically exactly once.
Speaker 2: I really wish that were the case, but we're not.
Speaker 2: The draft order is Danielle, Yeah, writer Will. So Will
Speaker 2: is the first person to get two choices back to back,
Speaker 2: and you're stuck in the middle.
Speaker 3: Which is what Will thinks is the worst pecies.
Speaker 1: The good news the worst position. I have great news
Speaker 1: for Will.
Speaker 2: I'm not taking Defending Your Life as my first pick
Speaker 2: on Oh okay, Well, that's the only movie I think
Speaker 2: you and I are going to argue.
Speaker 1: I think so too, But I'm not either. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I'm not taking it as my first pick.
Speaker 3: I'm going to if I'm smart, I should just snap
Speaker 3: it in the middle here, because you know, you just
Speaker 3: admitted your whole strategy.
Speaker 1: Why is that our strategy.
Speaker 2: I love that movie and it would be definitely on
Speaker 2: my list, but I'm not taking it first.
Speaker 4: I agree, and I know what she's taking first, But
Speaker 4: I should take a popular film first, right, because you know.
Speaker 1: I think I know exactly what you're taking. What am
Speaker 1: I taking? You want me to do?
Speaker 4: You want me to say what I think you're going
Speaker 4: to take. I think you're going to take Good Fellas
Speaker 4: or Casino really.
Speaker 2: Really smart, But I'm not. I'm taking Jurassic Park. Oh,
Speaker 2: one another one, So Jurassic Park, and that's the one
Speaker 2: I think the only one writer and I would ever
Speaker 2: even have a little bit of crossover on Park. I've
Speaker 2: done a Jurassic Park for me is I mean we,
Speaker 2: like I said, growing up, we went to a movie
Speaker 2: almost every Friday night, if not every Friday night. I
Speaker 2: was way too old to be as scared by Jurassic
Speaker 2: Park as I was, but we sat kind of close
Speaker 2: in the theater, and it is the first movie I
Speaker 2: truly remember multiple moments of sitting in the movie theater
Speaker 2: thinking this is changing my life. It's just the sound,
Speaker 2: the visuals, every single thing about it impact like that.
Speaker 2: That night, that Friday night, watching Jurassic Park changed me
Speaker 2: as a moviegoer.
Speaker 4: Big movie cinema, yes, And I just use everything about it,
Speaker 4: the music I've ever written for seeing it was all
Speaker 4: of it was amazing. It had something for everybody. If
Speaker 4: you were a kid, you thought you were, you could
Speaker 4: be one of the kids in the park.
Speaker 3: And it was still perfect. Still watch it now. That's
Speaker 3: that's the real testament to it is like more than
Speaker 3: almost any other big cinema hit, you actually still find
Speaker 3: it as entertaining now, even with the effects at where
Speaker 3: they were, like it doesn't matter. It blew Indie's mind.
Speaker 3: He's he went through his whole Jurassic Park like phase
Speaker 3: and none of the Jurassic World movies can hold a
Speaker 3: candle to it. They're still perfect. The original is still perfect.
Speaker 4: Even though they have all the bigger dinosaurs, the bigger storylines,
Speaker 4: there's multiple and there's a I have to give a
Speaker 4: lot of credit to the Dassic World for.
Speaker 3: Their ambition, but they never they never were able to
Speaker 3: get the heart and the focus that Jurassic Park the
Speaker 3: original day. It's just so good.
Speaker 1: First pick, and it's on all of our lists.
Speaker 2: There you go, So that's that's my first pick. I
Speaker 2: just yeah, love it. I feel good about that pick. Writer,
Speaker 2: you get to go next.
Speaker 3: I gotta pick Good Phillis. It's right there. I know
Speaker 3: it's I know it's just competitive, but it's still I
Speaker 3: still think. I mean, it's one of the greatest movies
Speaker 3: ever made. I think. I don't know. I guess if
Speaker 3: I only had to pick one Scorsese film, Oh, that's
Speaker 3: too tard, that's too hard. I don't know if I
Speaker 3: could pick one. Oh yeah, it's you know. It's also
Speaker 3: the first I saw it when I was pretty young.
Speaker 3: I guess it was on VHS, which is so depressing
Speaker 3: to think that I saw you know, Good Fellas cut off,
Speaker 3: you know, not widescreen on VHS. But it affected me
Speaker 3: so much emotionally, Like I remember being devastated by Spider
Speaker 3: getting killed and just like as so I was probably
Speaker 3: only eleven or twelve and just thinking like, there are
Speaker 3: people this bad in the world, and then why do
Speaker 3: I care so much about them? Why am I still
Speaker 3: kind of on their side and intrigued by them? And
Speaker 3: then you have to keep going back and like revisiting,
Speaker 3: like do I like these people? Am I charmed by
Speaker 3: these people? I hate these people? But you know people
Speaker 3: these people, And yet it was it's just it creates
Speaker 3: a whole world. But then just also beat for beat filmmaking,
Speaker 3: the camera.
Speaker 1: Amazing, the acting. De Niro is so good in this movie.
Speaker 1: It's unreal.
Speaker 3: And I think that, like Casino is the other choice
Speaker 3: that was in some ways more personal because I saw
Speaker 3: that in the theater maybe five or six times. I
Speaker 3: was obsessed. So it's affected me more. But I think
Speaker 3: it's a little too. It's messier, right. Goodfellas is still
Speaker 3: just a tight, perfect movie, and I think it capsulates
Speaker 3: a lot of what became the nineties, like gangster traditions and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean with your good Fellas, there's no sopranos yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh there's no pulp picture. Yes, yeah, so yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 3: I had to take it.
Speaker 1: Okay, A great choice. It's a great choice. Well you
Speaker 1: got too, I get two. So I am.
Speaker 4: I am taking Casino, Okay, going to be that's going
Speaker 4: to be my first take because of all the things
Speaker 4: we just said. I'm I wanted good Fellas first, obviously,
Speaker 4: but Casino is a very close second for me.
Speaker 1: It is pretty great. Yeah, it's my next pick.
Speaker 4: That's interesting, okay, because there's a lot of ways to
Speaker 4: go with this, and there's a lot I have on
Speaker 4: my list, and I was jocking back and forth with
Speaker 4: what I wanted to be my next pick. What, and
Speaker 4: I just kept coming back to this one film over
Speaker 4: and over and over again. I still watch it two
Speaker 4: three times a year. It is perfect all the way around.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I think you're gonna take one of mine.
Speaker 1: I'm taking Fargo.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, Well I was a close one for me,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I'm taking Fargo. Fargo is such a good movie.
Speaker 1: The acting is incredible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the I don't know if this if you've listened
Speaker 4: to the soundtrack of Fargo, which is the most subtle,
Speaker 4: perfect soundtrack that is just.
Speaker 1: This almost delicate angelic.
Speaker 4: Noise that plays underneath this white story taking place in
Speaker 4: front of you in this snowy land.
Speaker 1: It still holds up. The characters are incredible. I love
Speaker 1: never seen Fargo. Oh it's so good, Danielle, so good.
Speaker 3: Will did you watch the TV show?
Speaker 1: I haven't. I'm great.
Speaker 3: Season to season, it varies a lot, but I would
Speaker 3: say the first two seasons are basically the tone and
Speaker 3: the feeling of the movie into a universe that I
Speaker 3: really loved. The first two seasons I really loved.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I ultimately didn't put Fargo even on my list, and
Speaker 3: I'm not sure why other than it's really it's it's
Speaker 3: cynical and dark in a way that that doesn't make
Speaker 3: me want to like rewatch it too many times. Like
Speaker 3: watching it, I do her performance. Yeah, well, she's the heart, right,
Speaker 3: she's basically the only likable character. Thing. Oh she's so.
Speaker 1: And her husband her husband.
Speaker 4: But I mean, we quote, we quote this stuff all
Speaker 4: the time. So that's the other thing that matters to
Speaker 4: me is how it's still in the.
Speaker 1: Zeit and yeah, yeah, yeah, so Sue will like get.
Speaker 4: Up and have an early meeting or you know, an
Speaker 4: early client or something, and I still say, you gotta
Speaker 4: eat a breakfast, Margie, you gotta eat a breakfast, margin
Speaker 4: like we still do. So I was like, Okay, I've
Speaker 4: gotta I've got to. That's that's my my my pick.
Speaker 4: I'm taking Fargo, which of course was was what nineteen
Speaker 4: ninety six Coen Brothers ninety six.
Speaker 1: So that's I've got Cassen on Good Choices, Good choices.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great list.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: I have to take this one off because I'm scared,
Speaker 3: especially I'm scared Will's gonna take it. This is just
Speaker 3: I you know, I don't have a lot of comedies
Speaker 3: on my list, but.
Speaker 4: I need it.
Speaker 2: You feel like to round out your film fest weekend?
Speaker 1: Yes, I need you this.
Speaker 3: I wonder if you're gonna go. I think it's the
Speaker 3: most perfect script ever written. You can watch it over
Speaker 3: and over and over again. It is. I'm taking Groundhog
Speaker 3: Groundhog Day.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I knew that. I knew that ground I was
Speaker 1: on my list too.
Speaker 3: Yep. I have to get it now because I was
Speaker 3: terrified when you started saying that you watch it every year.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh God, is he going to decorate?
Speaker 1: And I will want to.
Speaker 3: Get it off the table. I just think this is
Speaker 3: endlessly entertaining perfect performances all around. You know, it's just
Speaker 3: like one of those feel good comedies you can watch
Speaker 3: over and over. It's timeless, it's a classic. It's a
Speaker 3: classic film. I mean, it's essentially like a like a holiday,
Speaker 3: you know, in the irony that it's set on Groundhog Day.
Speaker 3: It's basically like a Christmas movie where it's like this
Speaker 3: redemption story of this hero or this bad guy becoming
Speaker 3: a good guy through this journey. And like the first
Speaker 3: time you see it, you're ready to quote it a
Speaker 3: million times.
Speaker 1: It's like vacation.
Speaker 4: It's up there with one of those kind of you know,
Speaker 4: one of these movies that is the quintessential comedy and
Speaker 4: it's just so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great movie, great movie.
Speaker 3: Harold Ram has directed it. I'm blanking on the screenwriter's name,
Speaker 3: but he actually has a book that you can read
Speaker 3: called All about Writing Groundhog Day, which is amazing, yeah,
Speaker 3: because he just talks about how he had the idea,
Speaker 3: busted it out, and then rewrote it for like three years,
Speaker 3: and all the different variations and you know, for instance,
Speaker 3: there was a version because he was getting so many notes.
Speaker 3: It basically becomes about how to deal with studio notes
Speaker 3: and how to rewrite a script without losing its heart
Speaker 3: and finding new wiz. So, like one of the things
Speaker 3: that he talks about is like at one point he
Speaker 3: was going to be cursed by a gypsy to to
Speaker 3: live the day, like they were going to explain why
Speaker 3: mean to the old lady and therefore she curses him
Speaker 3: him and that's how he ends up. And it was
Speaker 3: one of those things like he actually puts it in
Speaker 3: his book. He puts the scene in the book, he
Speaker 3: describes it, and you get to read it and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that was that would have been awful, Yeah, because sometimes
Speaker 3: you don't need to explain the magic.
Speaker 4: Sometimes your story is just compelling enough that you don't
Speaker 4: have to. Like but it's one of those classic studio notes,
Speaker 4: like we have to explain everything the audience, it's not
Speaker 4: going to be on board, and it's like, no, the
Speaker 4: whole point is that we're with him.
Speaker 3: Not knowing why he's living the stable there.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, and then did is that the book that
Speaker 4: talks about how long he's in the town for?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they added or somebody added up online it's like
Speaker 3: a thousand years. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, No, the writer finally said, he's there for a
Speaker 1: thousand years.
Speaker 4: So watching that again knowing that he's stuck there for
Speaker 4: a thousand years is insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nuts, great, good, pick good, pick Danielle. You're on
Speaker 1: the clock.
Speaker 2: I'm on the clock now, so again going with my
Speaker 2: this is for Danielle. Also, this is for This is
Speaker 2: for little Danielle.
Speaker 1: This is for Little Danielle, Little Danielle.
Speaker 2: Litt D is for Little d as I was nicknamed
Speaker 2: in the nineties. I have to go with Titanic. I
Speaker 2: saw Titanic.
Speaker 1: I know it's so good in the.
Speaker 2: Theater so many times I saw Titanic in the movie theater.
Speaker 1: Let's say at least six times.
Speaker 2: No, it's where I decided I was marrying Leonardo DiCaprio.
Speaker 2: I was then from that moment on just on a
Speaker 2: Leo hunt. I saw every single movie Leonardo DiCaprio did.
Speaker 2: I became completely obsessed. And so to have it on
Speaker 2: my team, I have to take Titanic. And I'm not
Speaker 2: surprised that Will doesn't care. And I'm actually kind of
Speaker 2: surprised that writer, even on.
Speaker 3: A Groundhog Gay, I was going to have to take
Speaker 3: because I knew that those were the two between you
Speaker 3: two that was going to get stolen and sure enough,
Speaker 3: I mean, no Titanic is I saw it as many
Speaker 3: times as I could in the theater. Well, I think
Speaker 3: if you're talking about bigs in them, yeah, it's perfect,
Speaker 3: great filmmaking.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: The problem the problem with the movie is the dialogue,
Speaker 3: Like you know, it's just not like but that's always
Speaker 3: James Cameron thing. James Cameron just is the greatest storyteller
Speaker 3: and cinematic storyteller, you know. But but as far as
Speaker 3: like humans talking and acting like humans, George Lucas is
Speaker 3: the way. This doesn't matter and it's still such a
Speaker 3: perfect spectacle. And it's on my mind right now because
Speaker 3: Indy is obsessed with Titanic, really not the movie because
Speaker 3: he hasn't seen any because we're kind of unsure whether
Speaker 3: whether it's okay, but the ship, the idea of the tragedy,
Speaker 3: he's just he's he's going to be Titanic for Halloween,
Speaker 3: him a whole Titanic outfit. Is the thing still here
Speaker 3: in la Iceberg, and I'm going to love that is.
Speaker 4: The thing is the is the experience that Sue and
Speaker 4: I went to still here in Los Angeles, he's going
Speaker 4: this weekend.
Speaker 1: It's we had so much fun. It's great.
Speaker 4: You get a ticket when you go in there and
Speaker 4: you see if you made the if you actually survived
Speaker 4: the trip or not.
Speaker 1: Then what do you thing?
Speaker 3: Should I show him in the movie?
Speaker 1: Like yes, yeah, why not?
Speaker 3: Because it's sad, it's devastating.
Speaker 4: You know, but people also it's he that's one of
Speaker 4: the things he seems to be attracted to, isn't So that, Yes,
Speaker 4: it behumanizes the whole thing because a lot of it,
Speaker 4: like the old the old couple holding themselves and that
Speaker 4: that that's all stuff that was based on an actual fact.
Speaker 4: She she could have gotten on the off the boat,
Speaker 4: but decided to stay with her husband of sixty five
Speaker 4: seven years. So these are all, you know, they're real stories.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think I think he definitely should.
Speaker 3: He knows that Jack dies, he knows like he knows basically,
Speaker 3: and he's seen he's seen the making of So yeah,
Speaker 3: he's I basically, But you know, I also don't want to, like,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't know. It's been on my mind
Speaker 3: a lot. I still think it's a it's a wonderful
Speaker 3: the real bummer about that movie. Is the c G
Speaker 3: I or the ship and the people walking? Look really
Speaker 3: these days.
Speaker 1: Back in the day that.
Speaker 3: Doesn't have that problem, right, there's something too like you know,
Speaker 3: but whatever. Still great film, Yep, good pick.
Speaker 2: This next one's very hard for me because again I want,
Speaker 2: I want to take Defending your Life because they're just
Speaker 2: freaking love it, and I feel like the other one
Speaker 2: I'm torn between is safe from you guys. So I'm
Speaker 2: going to take Defending Your Life for anybody who doesn't know.
Speaker 2: It's from nineteen ninety one. Written and directed by Albert Brooks.
Speaker 2: It stars Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep. They have both died.
Speaker 2: They are now in Judgment City and they are watching
Speaker 2: key moments of their life so that it can be
Speaker 2: decided whether they move on or whether they go back
Speaker 2: to Earth and try to conquer their fears. And in
Speaker 2: Judgment City you can eat whatever you want, you can
Speaker 2: visit the Past Lives Pavilion. It is hilarious. It is
Speaker 2: heartwarming and heartfelt and fels to me like a movie
Speaker 2: that has helped others with their thoughts on death. And
Speaker 2: regardless of whether any of us are right, how could
Speaker 2: we ever be right about what the heck happens after death.
Speaker 1: But like I just because we don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like, if you can find something that really
Speaker 2: makes you feel good about it, then run with that.
Speaker 4: And I just think that entire film is beginning and
Speaker 4: I could do it like a play.
Speaker 1: It is a tremendous movie play.
Speaker 3: Actually, I'm surprised nobody has done an adaptation of Maybe
Speaker 3: they have.
Speaker 2: I'm snatching it. I'm snatching defending your life and right
Speaker 2: or you're up next.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm going to take this one off the
Speaker 3: table because I'm a little scared of will might. Will
Speaker 3: might take it. Uh, it's it's it's dark, it's uh
Speaker 3: all the way, jingle all the way. No, it's just
Speaker 3: but it's you know, I think it's This movie was
Speaker 3: the first of this director's work that I saw, and
Speaker 3: of course he's become one of our greatest directors ever,
Speaker 3: and it just chilled me to the bone. I've seen
Speaker 3: it multiple times. I know it's the screenplay because it's perfect.
Speaker 3: I'm taking seven.
Speaker 4: Oh, okay, that wasn't even on my list. Ye, No,
Speaker 4: that's great, great movie. No, it wasn't even on my list. Okay, good,
Speaker 4: all right, I.
Speaker 1: Thought you were going another way with it.
Speaker 3: No. I mean so you know, for me, it was
Speaker 3: like the two. You know, there's like a couple of
Speaker 3: these sort of noir like La La Confidential seven or
Speaker 3: Silence of the Lambs obviously, like you don't make seven
Speaker 3: unless Silence of the Lambs is made, right, these are
Speaker 3: all like some great dark serial killer or you know
Speaker 3: noir films. And but I think seven is for me
Speaker 3: just hands down, like when I realized that a movie
Speaker 3: could could disturb you this much and intrigue you and
Speaker 3: just be so well shot. I mean it is like
Speaker 3: every time you look at one frame of this movie
Speaker 3: and you feel the way the movie wants you to.
Speaker 4: It's like a comic book. It's like a comics it's
Speaker 4: like a graphic novel. Yeah, it's so pretty, and it's
Speaker 4: the way it's disturbing.
Speaker 3: And like always raining every exterior. Yep, they never named
Speaker 3: the city, so they always feel that sort of like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it has a it has an archetypal quality to it,
Speaker 3: and yet it's still very lived in specific and realistic
Speaker 3: that like combo like, because when things get too comic
Speaker 3: bookie for me, like you know, Sin City for instance,
Speaker 3: literally I lose it, like I need it to have
Speaker 3: that grit, and Seven just walks that line perfectly, and
Speaker 3: it fintures, you know, Like I've gone back and forth
Speaker 3: about him like in some of his movies, but overall,
Speaker 3: like we just we need great directors like him, people
Speaker 3: that approach filmmaking that seriously and yeah, and and invest
Speaker 3: that much time and energy and creating the world that
Speaker 3: they do.
Speaker 1: It's well they even talk about that in the film.
Speaker 4: They talk about where he Morgan Freeman says to Brad Pitt,
Speaker 4: if we get there and it's the devil himself, then
Speaker 4: you know, we'll we'll understand, but it's not gonna be
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a guy, and it's never gonna make
Speaker 4: sense to you how It just it was that line
Speaker 4: of realism against Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful, great movie, great, and Brad Pitt was great.
Speaker 1: It was kind of that kind of broke Brad Pitt
Speaker 1: too a little bit.
Speaker 4: I Mean he had a couple before where he was
Speaker 4: kind of the good looking guy or he had, you know,
Speaker 4: certain parts that he was very funny.
Speaker 1: But Seven was the one where people were like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's he's good. So yeah, that was that's a good pick,
Speaker 1: good pick, good picks, right, Okay, mine with his back
Speaker 1: to back.
Speaker 4: I got back to back, and I don't know if
Speaker 4: either one of you were going to pick either one
Speaker 4: of these, frankly, but these are important to me, and
Speaker 4: I think the first one is actually important to filmmaking
Speaker 4: and was huge in the zeitgeist of the at the time.
Speaker 1: People still quoted to this day.
Speaker 4: And I remember sitting there in the movie theater as
Speaker 4: a kid, going, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: I remember there actually being a buzz about it before
Speaker 4: it came out, and this is pre internet buzz, so
Speaker 4: this is just people talking about it.
Speaker 1: So my next pick is going to be Terminator too.
Speaker 6: Oh w, which was so good and just names Cameron Man,
Speaker 6: James Cameron, a guy what people want to watch in
Speaker 6: the big.
Speaker 1: Ships, big trucks, robots, robots.
Speaker 4: And the first time you saw the the the new
Speaker 4: T one thousand melt and like drip through the ceiling.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's I've never seen before. It was just so.
Speaker 3: Cool at the time, and what a way to build
Speaker 3: on Terminator, you know, because Terminator if you watch it
Speaker 3: after Terminator two, Like, personally, I don't think there's any
Speaker 3: comparison Terminator two just blows it out of the water.
Speaker 3: It's awesome.
Speaker 1: Terminator one was great because it was more character driven.
Speaker 3: Well, it's more conceptual too, like the idea of this
Speaker 3: other world with you know, the.
Speaker 1: French and once you set that up, yeah.
Speaker 3: How do you how do you build on that? And
Speaker 3: Terminator too totally does it. It's so good.
Speaker 1: Well that's what Cameron did so well.
Speaker 4: He did the same thing with Alien and then when
Speaker 4: Aliens came out, he took the took the world where
Speaker 4: it's like, wow, alien horror movie, that's gonna be cool.
Speaker 1: How do you beat that?
Speaker 4: And he put his twist on it for Aliens and
Speaker 4: it's like, oh he beat that.
Speaker 1: It's it's awesome. Yeah. Terminator two, that's my pick, was
Speaker 1: a great All.
Speaker 2: Through the nineties, I was told I looked like a
Speaker 2: young Linda Hamilton and it was the greatest compliment, and I.
Speaker 1: Can see it.
Speaker 4: She was. Especially during the eighties and the nineties, nobody
Speaker 4: did badass woman like James Cameron. James Cameron's films again
Speaker 4: Aliens with Sigourney Weaver and some of the other women
Speaker 4: that were in it, and then Terminator two with Linda
Speaker 4: Hamilton and Terminator with Linda Hamilton.
Speaker 1: Just he made women just.
Speaker 4: Badass, which is all so very happy with. Now my
Speaker 4: next pick, I went back and forth several.
Speaker 1: Times on what I was going to was what I
Speaker 1: was going to pick.
Speaker 4: Okay, and I decided to go light hearted, more lighthearted film. Okay,
Speaker 4: and I really loved and had a ton of fun
Speaker 4: with and I think still holds up what it is,
Speaker 4: what what I am taking Dazed.
Speaker 1: And Confused interesting as my next film.
Speaker 3: Wow Will, I don't think I knew that you liked
Speaker 3: Dayston Confused.
Speaker 1: I love Dayson CONFU. Really, it's a great movie.
Speaker 4: I loved the vignette aspect of sure, I loved the
Speaker 4: natural dialogue to it. I thought it was genuinely funny.
Speaker 3: I don't think I knew this about you. I yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't think we've ever talked about that movie. Honestly,
Speaker 3: I've only seen it like once or twice. I'm I'm
Speaker 3: a huge link Later fan.
Speaker 4: Me too.
Speaker 3: Weirdly, I don't really love Dayston Confuse. I've only seen
Speaker 3: it like once. And but yeah, that's so cool. I
Speaker 3: didn't know that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so a big, big link link Later fan as well.
Speaker 4: But I loved Daiston confused. I thought it was great.
Speaker 4: That's that slice of Americana you'd never I'd never seen before.
Speaker 1: I mean, Texas in the seventies. How would I ever
Speaker 1: know what that's like?
Speaker 4: So, uh, yeah, I'm pretty pretty psyched with uh with
Speaker 4: my fourth pick Ooh.
Speaker 1: Nice one, thank you. And we learned something new about
Speaker 1: Will today. Hey you go, this is a softer side
Speaker 1: of Seers. There always is. It's all I gotta say.
Speaker 1: There is right, or you're up next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just gonna take this one off the table.
Speaker 3: I actually don't think either one of you were going
Speaker 3: to take it, but I got a little word with
Speaker 3: some of the things Will was saying, So I'm going
Speaker 3: to take this one off the table. I saw this
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety six and I just remember being like, oh, movies,
Speaker 3: movies can still blow my mind with how innovative, like
Speaker 3: how innovatively they're shot, and spent the rest of the
Speaker 3: decade quoting it. I watched it again like five or
Speaker 3: six years ago, and I had thought of it as
Speaker 3: sort of a trendy nineties film, and then I rewatched
Speaker 3: it and realized it is still just a wonderful, amazing film.
Speaker 3: I'm going with Boogie Nights.
Speaker 1: Oh good, Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's just great, you know in retrospect, Like, here's the thing,
Speaker 3: Like the biggest leap that that movie makes is that
Speaker 3: it takes what is essential a joke, right, Like, what
Speaker 3: if we made a whole movie about porn stars and
Speaker 3: let's like kind of mock their life in some capacity,
Speaker 3: or not mock their life, but like show what it's
Speaker 3: really like, or you know, it's such a potentially exploitative plot,
Speaker 3: and instead you get this insanely sensitive, empathetic set of characters,
Speaker 3: all of whom you feel sorry for, you understand, you empathize,
Speaker 3: and you look and that radical empathy that pet Anderson,
Speaker 3: at the age of twenty six, was able to bring
Speaker 3: to his characters. And he did it with a short
Speaker 3: apparently first, Like you know, his career started by doing
Speaker 3: a short version of BOOKI Knights, and you can see
Speaker 3: in that short he was already doing it. He was
Speaker 3: already investing the characters with such value and taking them seriously.
Speaker 3: And that that, like, is that central leap holds up
Speaker 3: so well. I mean, you know, today we would call
Speaker 3: it a film about sex workers, right, and a film
Speaker 3: about sex workers and Hollywood In the intersection these two things.
Speaker 3: I think it is so brilliant on that level. But
Speaker 3: then also it's so funny and it's fun it's like
Speaker 3: entertaining the music. Good everybody. It's like, you know, and
Speaker 3: when you think about basically for the next up until now,
Speaker 3: we are still basically rehashing that cast in every movie
Speaker 3: because it's like when when when good directors can cast, well,
Speaker 3: they define the next like generation of actors, you know,
Speaker 3: and he did like Philip Seymour Hoffman, John c Riley,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: Everybody, like we basically didn't know who these people were.
Speaker 4: And Reynolds coming back, Burt Reynolds coming back and killing it.
Speaker 4: And you know that was originally offered to Leo and yeah,
Speaker 4: between the two and he's the one who said, you know,
Speaker 4: I just did this movie with Mark Wahlberg. I think
Speaker 4: he's a great actor. I think you should look to him.
Speaker 4: But I mean, yeah, it's that's a great pick. It's
Speaker 4: an awesome movie. Awesome movie.
Speaker 1: All right, Boogie Knights. I have to write it down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hold on, can we just do a round up
Speaker 3: of where we're all at?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do a round up?
Speaker 2: Sure, all right, I'll start with me because I went first,
Speaker 2: I have Jurassic Park, Titanic, Defending Your Life, Writer Has Goodfellas,
Speaker 2: Groundhog Day seven and Boogie Nights, Will Has Casino Fargo
Speaker 2: Terminator two and Dazed and Confused.
Speaker 1: These are these are these are great? These I'll be
Speaker 1: I'll be proud to once again come in third.
Speaker 2: It's all so subjective because they're all I mean, they're
Speaker 2: so good. It is.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, my my, I get to go next. I have
Speaker 2: two back to back here, and I am going to
Speaker 2: take for my.
Speaker 1: First pick a movie that I didn't think would be
Speaker 1: on either of your lists.
Speaker 2: I believe it is one of the most impactful comedies
Speaker 2: ever made Jim Carrey into the comedy Spotlight unlike anyone ever.
Speaker 1: Before or after it was Was it on your list?
Speaker 2: I am taking a detective.
Speaker 4: Wow, guys, I'm not on board with this call. Oh
Speaker 4: I have you watched it recently?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not hold up.
Speaker 1: But he it propelled people quoted that movie. It is
Speaker 1: so for like years.
Speaker 4: Yes, but yeah, no, but watch it again. I'm so
Speaker 4: curious you guys, watch again. I tried to watch it
Speaker 4: potentially as a film that I could watch with the Indian.
Speaker 4: I was like, no, no, no, no, But it's also
Speaker 4: just not good.
Speaker 3: It's not good. I'm sorry, it is.
Speaker 1: It's based on the it's it's these are these are films.
Speaker 1: What what he.
Speaker 4: Did was he brought back the giant Jerry Lewis acting
Speaker 4: of the fifties.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what it was.
Speaker 4: Was he was the He became the modern day huge
Speaker 4: ridiculous action where some of it now you look back
Speaker 4: at it is actually really cringey, right, or super offensive
Speaker 4: or super offensive, But it was that kind of big
Speaker 4: Jerry Lewis big act.
Speaker 1: Really do it like it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not necessarily taking it for what the movie
Speaker 2: itself is as much as I'm taking it for what
Speaker 2: it represented the shift that happened after that for comedy
Speaker 2: and and the launch of a career like Jim Carrey.
Speaker 2: It kind of like it was another when I think
Speaker 2: of the nineties, like game changing watching a movie experience
Speaker 2: where you're like, oh my gosh, who is this person?
Speaker 4: And then everybody was doing every quote from that movie.
Speaker 3: See like if we're going to be quoting like and
Speaker 3: then I wonder about like Wayne's world, So I rearrid
Speaker 3: an axe murderer. Yeah, I mean in the same year
Speaker 3: what's the spy movie? Oh, my god, movie, what's this?
Speaker 3: I can't believe that. My brain is just completely blocking up.
Speaker 1: Uh, who's in it? What's it about?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, he's frozen and then he waits as power,
Speaker 3: Austin Powers. Thank you, it's not it's Austin Austin Powers.
Speaker 3: You know, like talk about like infecting the culture with quotes? Yeah,
Speaker 3: and another one.
Speaker 2: I mean in nineteen ninety four, Jim Carrey released Ace Ventura,
Speaker 2: The Mask and Dumb and Dumber.
Speaker 1: Only in one year. Yeah, crazy, that's crazy. Crazy. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I was on my list.
Speaker 4: It was low on my list, but it was I
Speaker 4: definitely like, I agree that Jim Carrey changed the game
Speaker 4: as far as like performance and comedy.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's Ventura.
Speaker 1: I wasn't worried it was on your list. I was.
Speaker 1: I wasn't worried I.
Speaker 3: Was on your list. Terminator two, Fargo and what else?
Speaker 4: Casino Fargo, Terminator two and Dazed and Confused.
Speaker 2: All right, my next My next pick is is hard
Speaker 2: for me. I have three that I'm really torn between,
Speaker 2: and I only have one.
Speaker 1: I only have.
Speaker 2: Four more total, So I think I'm going to take
Speaker 2: here because I actually am worried writer might this one.
Speaker 2: I don't know where on it where it might be,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to take Scream. Ah.
Speaker 1: That was what was on my list too.
Speaker 2: It's another like genre defining movie. Probably qurrorback totally and
Speaker 2: made it like pointed out that there was a formula,
Speaker 2: it was meta. I just it's it's still watched, the
Speaker 2: franchise is still thriving. That opening scene with Drew Barrymore
Speaker 2: is just incredible. Oh, totally iconic. So I'm taking I'm
Speaker 2: taking Scream there.
Speaker 3: I mean the way that it's it's genuinely scary. Yes,
Speaker 3: there are moments of like and disturbing, like when at
Speaker 3: the end when they're like sitting there stabbing each other,
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god. But then it also
Speaker 3: has this like playfulness and sort of youth youthful quality
Speaker 3: to it, that is, it's sexy in a way. It's like,
Speaker 3: it's such a great film. I yeah.
Speaker 2: It also inspired a very fabulous famous episode of Boy
Speaker 2: Meets World.
Speaker 4: It did which we just call the Scream episode episode
Speaker 4: I audition did you audition for Scream?
Speaker 1: I auditioned for what's his name?
Speaker 4: The main bad guys part.
Speaker 1: And I went in and I'll never forget.
Speaker 4: I thought I did very, very well, and the casting
Speaker 4: director called my agent and said, we love him so much.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately we're going to be looking for an older version
Speaker 4: of him, which is exactly what they said. I just
Speaker 4: wasn't old enough at the time, but I went and out.
Speaker 4: It was one of the few auditions I left going like, I.
Speaker 1: Think I did pretty well.
Speaker 2: Like that was I mean, okay, that's a perfect description
Speaker 2: of Skeet Ulrich.
Speaker 1: At that time, it was like we've won an older
Speaker 1: version of you. It's like, oh okay, wow, it was
Speaker 1: that was. That was a fun audition though.
Speaker 4: But that's a great pick because you're right, it's re
Speaker 4: launched an entire genre because then everything was that's when
Speaker 4: I was with dating love and then that she did
Speaker 4: I Know What You did last summer, and like everything
Speaker 4: else came out after that because it started the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's so solid. Pick solid, right, writer, E're up next?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I need a big one because I you know,
Speaker 3: Danielle has been eating up all the big blockbuster films
Speaker 3: between Jurassic Park and Titanic, those were definitely both on
Speaker 3: my list. I do want to think big and take
Speaker 3: something off the table. That just changed my life forever.
Speaker 3: And that's the Matrix.
Speaker 1: Great nice, great good voice.
Speaker 2: It's I mean, I've never seen it, but I know
Speaker 2: I've never seen it.
Speaker 1: Now it's it that's up there.
Speaker 4: A terminator too for like a game changer when it
Speaker 4: comes to the visual effects, where it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: look at all the stuff they're doing, but.
Speaker 3: Also just script wise, I mean, like I remember that
Speaker 3: when you when you first heard about that movie and
Speaker 3: the trailers were just like what is the Matrix? And
Speaker 3: I remember going to the movie theater opening weekend and
Speaker 3: immediately being like, I need, I need to see that
Speaker 3: movie again. I need, you know. I feel like it
Speaker 3: was basically like what what Star Wars was for the
Speaker 3: previous generation, this movie was for me. And then my
Speaker 3: brain just kind of cracked open and I'll never forget it.
Speaker 3: And then I think, you know, now it's sort of
Speaker 3: par for the course that you have, like a virtual world,
Speaker 3: that you're living within a virtual world, or that you
Speaker 3: can sort of jump out of your body into another body,
Speaker 3: like all those things have become sort of basic, but
Speaker 3: this was the first one to do it. I still
Speaker 3: think it did it incredibly well. It's still like is
Speaker 3: just a perfectly plotted script. The performances are great, it's
Speaker 3: it's it's insanely well shot, and it holds up. So Matrix, I.
Speaker 1: Agree, that's a great that's a great call. It's a
Speaker 1: great call. So I have two, you have two back
Speaker 1: to back. This is tough.
Speaker 4: Now I'm gonna save my last one for last because
Speaker 4: neither of you are going to pick this movie.
Speaker 1: So then, yeah, ishtar No is from the eighties.
Speaker 4: It would have been my first tack all the way around.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't have even looked bad. Biodome, damn it, you took
Speaker 1: it yours.
Speaker 4: You're not taking that, are you? No, it's actually Jerry
Speaker 4: Duty No. So I think for my next pick, I'm
Speaker 4: going to because I think this director needs to be
Speaker 4: on the list. But it's not the one that you
Speaker 4: think that.
Speaker 1: Most people would pick.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's still my favorite of his films, always will
Speaker 4: be my favorite of his films. I think his other
Speaker 4: films are okay, but this one was my favorite. So
Speaker 4: I'm taking Reservoir Dogs, which launched Tarantino. I think the
Speaker 4: it was the first time we'd heard dialogue like that.
Speaker 4: It was the first time we'd seen the kind of
Speaker 4: the Chiron's coming up, mister Black, mister White then showing
Speaker 4: their style. It was just a whole new style of
Speaker 4: filmmaking that came out of nowhere.
Speaker 3: And can you like it better than pulp fiction?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 1: I do? Yeah, I do.
Speaker 4: I think Reservoir Dogs is better than pop I like
Speaker 4: pulp fiction, but I think there was pulp fiction was
Speaker 4: almost too cool for me a little bit, where I
Speaker 4: thought Reservoir Dogs was just what it was, this gritty,
Speaker 4: badass film that you'd never really seen the likes of before.
Speaker 4: And just the opening you open in a car with
Speaker 4: this guy covered in blood, screaming and shrieking.
Speaker 1: It was just grabbed you right from the beginning.
Speaker 3: Now it's it's it's so hard to like. I mean,
Speaker 3: Tarantino just casts such a long shadow, you know, it's
Speaker 3: like basically there's before him and after him in so
Speaker 3: many ways. Like I remember being in film classes in
Speaker 3: the early aughts and just like rolling my eyes because
Speaker 3: the amount of people that were basically studying film because
Speaker 3: of Tarantino. You know, but you can't devalue that though, right,
Speaker 3: you can't deny it. You know, it's a brilliant filmmaker.
Speaker 3: You know. My thing is always kind of like what
Speaker 3: stories do you want to tell? You know, Like lately
Speaker 3: I just don't. I just don't like, you know, but
Speaker 3: like for quality of film making, quality of writing, like
Speaker 3: he's one of the greats.
Speaker 2: Do you guys think Tarantino has ever seen an episode
Speaker 2: of Boy Meets World?
Speaker 1: You know what, I will bet I will bet you
Speaker 1: he will.
Speaker 4: He's so into TV and film, so into pop culture
Speaker 4: that I'll bet you at some point he did watch
Speaker 4: some TGIF or something.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know, I mean, I've met him and
Speaker 3: he took He knew me from Cabin Fever because he's
Speaker 3: he's best friends with Eli Roth. They became friends because
Speaker 3: he came to a Cabin Fever screening. So Tarantino showed
Speaker 3: up at like one of our LA premiers or screening
Speaker 3: that we were doing, and then the two of them,
Speaker 3: like during the Q and A started like geeking out
Speaker 3: about Italian cinema in front of everybody, and it was like,
Speaker 3: oh God, these guys. And then the next day Eli
Speaker 3: was supposed to come over to a barbecue in my
Speaker 3: brother's house and he's like writer. Tarantino invited me to
Speaker 3: a screening at his house. I have to go. I
Speaker 3: was like, cool, I never saw Eli again.
Speaker 1: Wow, Yeah, No, we had I met him.
Speaker 4: So he was on he we were doing boy and
Speaker 4: they did were doing All American Girl, the Margaret Choe
Speaker 4: Show right across from us, and Jason and I both
Speaker 4: heard that they were friends and that he was going
Speaker 4: to be guest starring on the show.
Speaker 1: So we went over. Jay came over.
Speaker 4: We both went off and bought Reservoir Dog scripts and
Speaker 4: we went over and snuck onto the stage and walked
Speaker 4: right up to him and talked to him ten minutes somewhere. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and he just signed it dick dick dick dick Dick
Speaker 4: dick dick, which is what he talks about in the
Speaker 4: beginning of Reservoir Dogs.
Speaker 1: They're talking about.
Speaker 3: Machine wrote on the script.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the madonna's like a virgin.
Speaker 4: He's like, she's this is a girl who just wants
Speaker 4: to get dick dick dick dick. So that's a two
Speaker 4: will dick dick dick dick dick dick dick. But yeah,
Speaker 4: it was the only time that I got to got
Speaker 4: to meet him, but it was that was cool.
Speaker 2: I met him when I was a teenager and he
Speaker 2: was at the bar at Islands and uh god.
Speaker 1: How good are the burgers at islands in the French Fries?
Speaker 1: So so good?
Speaker 4: Ugh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they cast a long shadow. It's hard to devalue them.
Speaker 1: It's hard to devalue them.
Speaker 3: The cultural influence of the islands pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what's your next pick? My next pick?
Speaker 4: Okay, So my next pick is a personal pick. It's
Speaker 4: a completely impersonal pick. It is a film I watch
Speaker 4: every time it's on. I love everything about it. It
Speaker 4: is one of my favorite films of all time. I
Speaker 4: am taking from nineteen ninety four Quiz Show.
Speaker 1: Oh I knew it.
Speaker 3: Oh, that was on my short list, but I have
Speaker 3: a really strong feeling that you were going to pick it.
Speaker 1: Wow, it was on my shortlist too.
Speaker 2: But I also knew that one of you two was
Speaker 2: going to take it, and I was like, I'm just
Speaker 2: going to take that off.
Speaker 1: Now they're going to I'm gonna let them have it.
Speaker 4: I love it so much. It is one of my favorites.
Speaker 4: Produced by uh Jeff Mcca, mccracke, Jacobs. Yep, it is
Speaker 4: a wonderful show. It a wonderful movie. I I don't
Speaker 4: I can't say too much about how much I love
Speaker 4: quiz show.
Speaker 1: It is one of my favorites.
Speaker 4: So I'm putting that, taking that off the board and
Speaker 4: putting it firmly.
Speaker 1: On your list.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, based on a true story quiz show. Yeah,
Speaker 2: h writer, do you know where you're going next?
Speaker 3: Wow? This is getting tough now.
Speaker 1: Writer only, Writer has three picks left?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, yeah, three picks? All right? I know.
Speaker 3: I think I know what my last two are going
Speaker 3: to be because I'm not worried about you guys taking them,
Speaker 3: even though they're what I consider it.
Speaker 1: Like, Actually, wait a minute, you only have two picks?
Speaker 1: Oh no, you have three? What am I talking about? Never mind,
Speaker 1: forget pretend I don't exist.
Speaker 3: To go on, I don't think either one of you
Speaker 3: are going to take this, and I'm I'm and.
Speaker 1: You're not even sure you're gonna take it. It sounds well,
Speaker 1: it's been a while.
Speaker 3: Since I've seen it, Okay, so I'm curious, like like
Speaker 3: it's been maybe like fifteen years, so I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I haven't seen any of these movies I'm mentioning
Speaker 2: since the nineties, by the way, so don't.
Speaker 3: Worry about it.
Speaker 1: I kind of think I might know what Writer's.
Speaker 3: Thinking, really, we talked about it and wait, hang.
Speaker 1: On, hang on, I'm writing something down, okay, so he
Speaker 1: can lift it up and show us after week.
Speaker 3: We're never going to be able to read about it.
Speaker 3: And I was like, wow, that is actually a perfect movie.
Speaker 3: And we both sort of had that conversation, and so
Speaker 3: when we were doing this draft, I realized like, oh,
Speaker 3: I think I think I need to put it on there.
Speaker 3: I'm adding Shakespeare in Love.
Speaker 4: Oh no, Shakespeare Love wrote it down.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. Look at that unbelievable. What did you think
Speaker 1: it was?
Speaker 4: I thought it was, well, I'm not going to say
Speaker 4: because somebody else wants to take it.
Speaker 1: That's a great movie, Shakespeare in Love. I told you.
Speaker 4: I walked out of the theater and it made me
Speaker 4: want to write. Yeah, that's how good it was. It
Speaker 4: just made me want to write.
Speaker 3: So it's so fun, it's so breezy and yet very smart.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, I just like I am. But like I said,
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it for a long time, but it
Speaker 3: affected me a lot, and like you said, inspired me
Speaker 3: to want to write I love. I mean clearly, like
Speaker 3: I like things about the entertainment industry, and I got
Speaker 3: boogie Nights and that on here, like I like stories
Speaker 3: where people are talking about the creation of story and
Speaker 3: so yeah Shakespeare.
Speaker 2: All right, So I'm up next, I've got I've got
Speaker 2: two and I'm going to take something that I'm going
Speaker 2: to take an action movie. I'm going to take what
Speaker 2: I think is a perfect action movie.
Speaker 1: Oh no, what are you taking? What are you taking?
Speaker 1: Danielle somewhat of a.
Speaker 2: True crime film before that became like a phenomenon, stars
Speaker 2: Harrison Ford.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Fugitive. Yes, nice, God, I.
Speaker 2: Absolutely loved that movie, directly by Andrew Davis, starring Harrison
Speaker 2: Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. Doctor Richard Kimball, unjustly accused
Speaker 2: of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while
Speaker 2: being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a
Speaker 2: seasoned US Marshall and another like cultural footprint movie. Yep,
Speaker 2: that just is so great and I found some interesting trivia.
Speaker 2: Harrison Ford damaged some of the ligaments in his leg
Speaker 2: during the filming of those scenes in the woods.
Speaker 3: He refused because he is the second Indiana Jones. He
Speaker 3: was like had has broke his back the entire time.
Speaker 2: Well, he refused to have surgery until the end of
Speaker 2: filming because he wanted his character to have the limp.
Speaker 2: So the limp that can be seen in any subsequent
Speaker 2: scene where Richard Kimball is running is his real limp
Speaker 2: from the ligaments.
Speaker 4: He broke his leg during Star Wars Too the New
Speaker 4: Star the door closed on him or something.
Speaker 1: He's just and then he yeah, it's this, he's accident prone.
Speaker 2: I want to say to him the same thing I
Speaker 2: when I started training for a marathon once, Uh, I
Speaker 2: got really bad chin's puns and I went to the
Speaker 2: doctor and he said to me, Danielle, I.
Speaker 1: Want you to understand something.
Speaker 2: Your mind likes running more than your body likes running,
Speaker 2: and I don't think you should do it anymore. And
Speaker 2: I want to tell Harrison Ford, you're a mind likes
Speaker 2: action movies.
Speaker 3: Kind of funny because isn't that part of his vibe?
Speaker 3: Like he always has this sort of slightly put upon
Speaker 3: quality like, yeah, I don't want to have to be
Speaker 3: here doing this, like and that's what's so great about
Speaker 3: Like Indiana Jones is the dude, he's just.
Speaker 2: Tired and he's lifting and he's looked in here.
Speaker 3: You need that, right because somebody's too like good looking
Speaker 3: and sparkly eyed and ready to go. You're like, all right,
Speaker 3: you don't do it? You know you need that level
Speaker 3: of like.
Speaker 1: World lead alone.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 1: Can we talk a little bit about Tommy Lee Jones
Speaker 1: in The Fugitive? How good Jones?
Speaker 2: Oh, He's incredible. I'm really excited about that pick for it.
Speaker 1: That's a good that's a great pick. And my next
Speaker 1: pick I'm taking. Uh. You know, I feel really good
Speaker 1: about this.
Speaker 2: I loved it when I saw it, still love it today.
Speaker 2: It is one of the very very few movies I
Speaker 2: would say if it is on and I am flipping channels,
Speaker 2: I will stop and just leave it on, as opposed
Speaker 2: to being like I don't watch movies and then change
Speaker 2: the channel.
Speaker 1: And that movie is Pretty Woman, Oh I?
Speaker 2: Directed by Gary Marshall, written by J. F. Lawton, starring
Speaker 2: Richard Gear and Julia Roberts. It's the little bit, you know,
Speaker 2: retelling of a Cinderella story. I love a good romance
Speaker 2: love story.
Speaker 1: I just prostitute movies too. I love prostitute. Why don't
Speaker 1: we see more?
Speaker 2: I mean, but there's there's also It's one of those
Speaker 2: movies where I think of it every time I'm in
Speaker 2: any sort of pitch meeting for something, and you talk
Speaker 2: about wish fulfillment and you think of like, you know,
Speaker 2: especially working in kids Tevie, and wish fulfillment's very big,
Speaker 2: like oh you get you what does a kid daydream about?
Speaker 2: And can you put it on screen for them? Her
Speaker 2: being handed the credit card and going shopping in Beverly
Speaker 2: Hills after she's been made to feel less then and
Speaker 2: she gets to go and have this day of just
Speaker 2: feeling like a princess. And by the way, it's a
Speaker 2: Disney movie.
Speaker 1: I just to me it is.
Speaker 2: It's I just love it. I would if it's on,
Speaker 2: I have to watch it. I'm taking Pretty Woman.
Speaker 4: So do you remember when so the woman who played
Speaker 4: her best friend was played by Laura san Giincomo. Yes,
Speaker 4: And do you remember we were sitting there backstage one
Speaker 4: day and we were about to go on and we
Speaker 4: were about to do our scream and another hand comes
Speaker 4: in and we look up and it's Laurasangiincomo. She had
Speaker 4: walked down to the wrong set. She was shooting something
Speaker 4: next door, walked down to the wrong set. She had
Speaker 4: walked over and like joined our scream for one scream
Speaker 4: and then.
Speaker 1: What fun is that? No, I did not remember that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had such a crush on her.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, who doesn't have a crush on her? Are
Speaker 2: kidding me? I still have a crush on her.
Speaker 1: She was she was in our scream.
Speaker 3: Wow, I actually don't remember that, even though I had
Speaker 3: such a mad crush on her.
Speaker 1: I know when what year was that? In the nineties
Speaker 1: on a show where we're in somewhere between ninety nine
Speaker 1: when we were shooting. My guess is it was.
Speaker 4: Later, even because I think you're working on one of
Speaker 4: those six she was like more did the morning like
Speaker 4: the yeah.
Speaker 1: She's almokay, all right, right, or you're up next.
Speaker 3: You've got so many of like the big nineties hits.
Speaker 3: You've got like you're like a blockbuster list. Yes, this
Speaker 3: is going to be tough to be You're also like,
Speaker 3: what what what people like on cable?
Speaker 4: Like what if it like comes on on HBO? Everybody's happy, everybody.
Speaker 2: You've just did a perfect summation of the only films
Speaker 2: I'll see, right.
Speaker 4: I was just saying something like, that's what I think
Speaker 4: a lot of our audience got it wrong twice.
Speaker 1: Now are going to why they're going to get it
Speaker 1: wrong again. Well we'll show we'll see.
Speaker 3: Oh you hear that, audience, I.
Speaker 1: Became.
Speaker 4: I came in third place both times, which just shows
Speaker 4: me that oursteners are amazing and loyal and completely wrong.
Speaker 3: No, I think that what's what's what's what's going to
Speaker 3: be interesting is like that our listeners obviously are boy
Speaker 3: meets World fans, right, and so that is a self
Speaker 3: selecting group. I do think that like Danielle's list, is
Speaker 3: gonna be way more up their alley. For instance, Cory
Speaker 3: and Topanga shipper is probably also a pretty woman fan.
Speaker 1: Like Titanic or Titanic or a Titanic.
Speaker 3: Fan I should have. I can't believe I let Titanic
Speaker 3: and Jurassic Park. I should have if I had.
Speaker 1: Got Jasic Park, all right, Danielle, would that have been
Speaker 1: your first pick writer, Jurassic Park?
Speaker 3: If I had at first pick, it would have been
Speaker 3: either Draft Park or Titanic. It would have been a
Speaker 3: tough call between those two.
Speaker 1: Because why didn't you pick Titanic second? When you took
Speaker 1: good Fellas, You're right, You're right, I didn't. You just
Speaker 1: took what I want.
Speaker 3: I got scared of you taking good Fellas.
Speaker 2: Fellas was was a high high up on my list
Speaker 2: as well, so I.
Speaker 3: Should have taken it on the way back from but
Speaker 3: then I got scared of Yeah whatever, Okay, this is
Speaker 3: the way draft works.
Speaker 1: Man regrets ticking for myself. Ok for me my next
Speaker 1: two picks.
Speaker 3: I'm just picking what I think are the greatest films
Speaker 3: from the nineties, which I'm less worried about. Uh, you
Speaker 3: guys taking uh. I think the best film made in
Speaker 3: the entire decade is a film called The Talented Mister Ripley.
Speaker 3: Oh great, Yeah, directed by a huge fan Magela. Uh.
Speaker 3: I highly recommend it.
Speaker 1: It's so beautiful, it is gorgeous.
Speaker 3: It's a movie you want to curl up in and
Speaker 3: live in terms of setting, but then it's a movie
Speaker 3: that you are repulsed by the main character because he's
Speaker 3: so complicated and enigmatic. It is. I mean, Matt Damon
Speaker 3: is just an amazing actor, and this is probably his
Speaker 3: like great, great early performance. I mean, there's art Matt Damon.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Kate Blanchett is it's the best she's ever been. Gwyneth Paltrow,
Speaker 3: who is a actually think of a very underrated actor,
Speaker 3: is very good in this. And Shakespeare Off and this
Speaker 3: is second Philip seymore hoppin pick for me so performance, oh,
Speaker 3: and then Jude law I just think, you know, this
Speaker 3: was such a revelation. But the complexity of this movie,
Speaker 3: the amount of times I've seen it, and every time
Speaker 3: I see something new to it, I highly recommend watching it.
Speaker 3: And then if you like it, watch the commentary. Anthony
Speaker 3: Mingela unfortunately died tragically, like pretty young, you only got
Speaker 3: to make a few films. But his director's commentary, it's
Speaker 3: like probably the best film school you could have just
Speaker 3: watching talented mister Ripley. And they'll never make a movie
Speaker 3: like this again, with this kind of budget and this
Speaker 3: kind of ambition in terms of its scope. And yet
Speaker 3: it's a movie about a psychopath, you know, and so
Speaker 3: I don't think they you would never see this type
Speaker 3: of movie made nowadays. So it's the ultimate nineties film
Speaker 3: for me. I freaking love it.
Speaker 2: What this draft has revealed to me is that Gwyneth
Speaker 2: Paltrow is Writer's number one favorite actress.
Speaker 4: Yeah we said you got you also got the Yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 3: Right, that's right. Three films so seven set experience. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: basically I'm just in like a mirror. Max rut and
Speaker 3: she was.
Speaker 1: Like, by goop, yes, the goopiest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my nineties are totally like I mean, this says
Speaker 3: the thing. It's like, I'm going more in the indy.
Speaker 3: But I mean, I don't know Shakespeare. Love isn't that indie?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: No, no no, And yeah it was great. Okay, Okay, Well.
Speaker 4: My next pick is completely and totally personal. I doubt
Speaker 4: you might not have even heard of this film. It
Speaker 4: is important, uh, in an entire genre, and it changed
Speaker 4: the ballgame for superhero movies and animation and god rest
Speaker 4: Kevin Conroy.
Speaker 1: But I am taking Batman Mask of the Phantasm, which.
Speaker 4: Is one of the best animated films seen in your
Speaker 4: it did.
Speaker 3: Okay, So you've been telling me to watch this. I
Speaker 3: haven't seen it, and you've been telling me this for years.
Speaker 3: But I assumed it was an early aughts film. I
Speaker 3: didn't realize it was that early.
Speaker 4: In the nineties.
Speaker 1: This is because it was this was before Batman Beyond.
Speaker 4: So this was Batman based on the Batman original animated series.
Speaker 1: It's noir, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 4: It is would you go so far as to say
Speaker 4: it's the best Batman iation?
Speaker 1: Oh, meaning animated? Probably. It's also up there.
Speaker 3: It's what about films, like is it the best Batman film?
Speaker 4: Like if it certainly would be in the conversation, Wow,
Speaker 4: it certainly would be in the conversation.
Speaker 1: But the ones I do, I do, like the.
Speaker 4: Christopher Nolan wants, especially the first one I thought I
Speaker 4: thought it was again.
Speaker 1: I am a big fan.
Speaker 4: Anytime the actor playing Batman realizes that Batman and Bruce
Speaker 4: Wayne are two completely different characters.
Speaker 1: M M. That doesn't always happen in the film.
Speaker 3: He's a split person, so he is, he's two.
Speaker 4: Characters and the mask that Batman wears is Bruce Wayne.
Speaker 4: So when so when you are you know when the
Speaker 4: character when an actor can portray that.
Speaker 1: But it's also ith. It just changed animation Batman.
Speaker 4: The animated series, they were printing on black paper instead
Speaker 4: of white paper, so.
Speaker 3: It was dark.
Speaker 4: They started to record it like a like a radio
Speaker 4: play from the thirties.
Speaker 1: Nothing was as Andrea Romano would say, puky.
Speaker 4: It was like if there was a she would always say,
Speaker 4: don't do a puki, which means like, if there is
Speaker 4: a you're doing an animated series and there is a newscaster,
Speaker 4: it's not this just in Tomara and you do it
Speaker 4: like a newscaster's.
Speaker 1: It was all real.
Speaker 4: She called it, don't do a puki, so it was Yeah,
Speaker 4: it changed the ballgame if you are animated, it did.
Speaker 4: It did for Western animation what Akira did for Eastern animation.
Speaker 1: It was a beautiful movie. So that was That's my
Speaker 1: my seventh pick.
Speaker 4: With my last pick this one. It's very difficult because
Speaker 4: I'm between three films.
Speaker 1: Okay, and since it's my last.
Speaker 4: Pick, I'm going to tell you the three films because
Speaker 4: none of them can be stolen. I'm between.
Speaker 1: And it's funny.
Speaker 4: Two of them are DeNiro Ronan, which was a great
Speaker 4: action movie.
Speaker 3: Never seen it.
Speaker 1: Neither great action.
Speaker 4: Movie, phenomenal old school like to Live and Die in
Speaker 4: La Car Chase scenes just so well shot, so well acted,
Speaker 4: shawsh Ank Redemption.
Speaker 3: I haven't surprised neither of you got that.
Speaker 1: I found.
Speaker 3: Sure, it's not on my list at all, but I
Speaker 3: do love it. But it's not on my list.
Speaker 1: But I know I love that movie too, but it's
Speaker 1: also not on my list.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have to do.
Speaker 4: But I think no, I think because I'm I'm I
Speaker 4: for me, which is amazing. I don't have a lot
Speaker 4: of comedies. What I think I am gonna end up
Speaker 4: picking is Wag the Dog.
Speaker 3: Great movie, such a great movie, which just recently rewatched
Speaker 3: it like a year ago, so good, ahead of its time,
Speaker 3: way ahead of its time, funny, scary in a way
Speaker 3: because it's like the stuff that could actually happen.
Speaker 4: So that's going to round out my list.
Speaker 1: I'm going to finish with Wag the Dog right now.
Speaker 3: I would assume that that movie was a little too
Speaker 3: like messy for you or you know, And actually that's
Speaker 3: the same thing I would have thought about dayson and confused.
Speaker 3: I thought that you, I guess my assumption was that
Speaker 3: you liked tighter, sort of like cleaner films in a way.
Speaker 1: Almost formulaic in a way.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but what I'm saying, I'm not saying that
Speaker 4: as a negative, just saying, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Thought that you liked a slightly more polished, like enclosed story,
Speaker 3: you know, like films that go in yeah, weird directions.
Speaker 1: And I don't disagree.
Speaker 4: And I think one of the reasons I've been reading
Speaker 4: a lot more about some of the roots of anxiety
Speaker 4: and what people that are very very anxious tend to
Speaker 4: do to calm down.
Speaker 1: And one of the things is they watch the same
Speaker 1: shows over and over again, like mash.
Speaker 4: They like movies where they kind of know where they're
Speaker 4: going to go. It's something it's very comforting to do that.
Speaker 4: So there are a few that to kind of take
Speaker 4: me out of that, and those.
Speaker 1: Are the Dating and Confused than Wag the Dog were
Speaker 1: a couple of those. So I wanted them to make
Speaker 1: the listen.
Speaker 3: So I had this weird night the other night Alex
Speaker 3: and I went. We were catching up with our old
Speaker 3: friends who are also actors filmmakers, and we were talking
Speaker 3: about how we remember films differently, like how we each
Speaker 3: remember films differently, and we kind of got into it
Speaker 3: and we were like, hey, let's play a game. I'm
Speaker 3: going to leave the room and Alex is going to
Speaker 3: pitch you shash Ank Redemption start to finish, and then
Speaker 3: I'm going to come in and I'm going to pitch
Speaker 3: you shash Ank Redemption start to finish. And then we
Speaker 3: did the exact same thing with training day, and we
Speaker 3: did and it ended up being such a fun evening.
Speaker 3: So they then took training Day. But it was so
Speaker 3: interesting to see how we came in with different versions
Speaker 3: of the movie, so like, for instance, Alex apparently I
Speaker 3: wasn't there, but Alex apparently pitched them the feeling of Shawshank,
Speaker 3: the look, the like qualities. I came in and went like,
Speaker 3: and you deframe didn't kill his wife, didn't you know?
Speaker 3: And I like told the story, I went plot points right.
Speaker 3: But anyway, it's just interesting, like how so many people
Speaker 3: can love movies but have different experiences of them. But
Speaker 3: is one of those, like it's just a perfect movie
Speaker 3: for pretty much everybody.
Speaker 4: It is, and none of us have picked it, none
Speaker 4: of us, and she probably should, but it was. It's
Speaker 4: like it's it was an afterthought for all of us,
Speaker 4: but that none of us easily could have been a
Speaker 4: number one pick.
Speaker 3: For me, it's just not personally one of my favorite.
Speaker 3: But if like, I also probably take it for granted.
Speaker 1: You know what I want to think.
Speaker 3: I think I think it's one of those like because
Speaker 3: also you've got like Forrest Gump, none of us we
Speaker 3: never like fiction.
Speaker 4: Gump was on my my short list, and then some
Speaker 4: animated movies Little Mermaid, Lion King, things like this, which
Speaker 4: helped you really the genre for or nobody picked any
Speaker 4: of that stuff too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think, I think we probably took
Speaker 3: some stuff for granted and want to get any personal
Speaker 3: taste in there a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: That's why I said, if I if I'm going to
Speaker 2: pick something, I have to pick the things that, like,
Speaker 2: I know, for me, I want to sit and watch
Speaker 2: through the weekend. And the reason I want to sit
Speaker 2: and watch some of these are not because they are
Speaker 2: the absolute best movies, but they're part of the way
Speaker 2: they make me feel or they're part of what I
Speaker 2: was going through when I watch them.
Speaker 1: And so it is.
Speaker 4: It's nobody picks Saving Private Ryan before Sunrise. I mean,
Speaker 4: there's some movies out there that were pretty phenomenally great.
Speaker 3: Before Sunrise was definitely on my personal list as far.
Speaker 1: As me too.
Speaker 4: Silence of the Lambs, I mean, there's been there's a
Speaker 4: ton of these movies that have that just yeah, incredible.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I'm done for your last pick. That's
Speaker 2: will's that's what when we're done here, I'll go through
Speaker 2: what everybody ordered, what everybody or everybody pick I had
Speaker 2: chicken katsu, all right, right, or what's your last pick?
Speaker 3: My last pick is entirely like a personal favorite, favorite
Speaker 3: favorite movie. It just blew my mind. I saw when
Speaker 3: I was a in the theater and just became obsessed
Speaker 3: and became obsessed with this director. They have since they
Speaker 3: have fallen off of my list of like top directors.
Speaker 3: But back in the nineties there was nobody more sort
Speaker 3: of like visually innovative and like changing the way I
Speaker 3: thought movies could be made. And this one was his
Speaker 3: only studio film with the script that he did not write,
Speaker 3: and I think that was a good thing. And it
Speaker 3: has some of the best performances ever. It's complicated, but
Speaker 3: it's it's it's such a good film. The Fisher King Oh,
Speaker 3: one of my favorites of all time. I you know,
Speaker 3: there's some issues with this film when it comes like
Speaker 3: to questions of mental health, and there's there's some ways
Speaker 3: in which it's like, you guys know the Manic Pixie
Speaker 3: dream girl thing. Yes, this is sort of like Manic
Speaker 3: Pixie homeless friend. But it's still so good. It's still beautiful.
Speaker 3: Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams and then Mercedes Rule gives like
Speaker 3: one of the greatest performances of all time. The scenes
Speaker 3: with her and Jeff Bridges are so good. Obviously Robin
Speaker 3: Williams is Robin Williams brilliant, but also this is a
Speaker 3: dramatic role for him and then just visually innovative, and
Speaker 3: I just think it's one of the greatest redemption stories
Speaker 3: of all time, you know, or coming of age stories.
Speaker 3: Even though he's a h Jeff Bridges is a fully
Speaker 3: grown man. It's so beautiful, uh and so highly highly
Speaker 3: recommend if nobody seen The Fisher King and you want
Speaker 3: to have like a a real night like it's a
Speaker 3: great one.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, right, good pick?
Speaker 3: Oh director by Terry gilliam. I forgot to mention that
Speaker 3: from Monty Python Days and you know, ye, but this
Speaker 3: was like him.
Speaker 4: Twelve Monkeys. Yeah, he was just so innovative.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's he apparently he's kind of a nightmare
Speaker 3: as far as you know, uh, you know, his ambition
Speaker 3: and perfectionism, but it also works sometimes.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, my last pick, this is tough for me.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you the ones that I'm ones that are
Speaker 2: in close, uh in close runner up territory for me
Speaker 2: for this last pick, The Hudsucker Proxys.
Speaker 1: I just love.
Speaker 2: That movie and that that's a big one for me.
Speaker 1: Conn Air boy, did I love conn Air.
Speaker 4: Con Air Drop, The Bunny Cable Guy.
Speaker 3: Wow is a great film.
Speaker 1: It's a really good film.
Speaker 3: Is dark, always has this pitch of darkness to his
Speaker 3: films that I really appreciate. Yeah, Carrie, I Carry You
Speaker 3: are a liar, liar.
Speaker 4: I was. No one of us, none of us have
Speaker 4: talked about at all, has never even entered the conversation.
Speaker 1: The Big Lebowski. I've never seen that. Good.
Speaker 3: Oh you've never seen it? So good? God, it's a
Speaker 3: It's a great one.
Speaker 2: Legends of the Fall because put there I wanted shirt
Speaker 2: Brad Pitt with no shirt.
Speaker 1: Christian Kindergarten Kindergarten, was it really?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: It is on my list.
Speaker 3: I rewatched it not that long ago.
Speaker 1: That great. Yes, it does.
Speaker 4: It's great, Dug.
Speaker 1: The one that won for my final pick is Clueless.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Clueless, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: I was like that was when Will was like the
Speaker 3: one that we haven't mentioned. I was like, I can't
Speaker 3: believe nobody's picked Clueless.
Speaker 1: Clueless.
Speaker 3: Great movie, yes, great, perfect, perfect movie. Do you know
Speaker 3: I hated that movie when I first saw it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I didn't get it, did not understand irony, Like I
Speaker 3: was like, right, what did you think that this girl's cool?
Speaker 3: Why we used to think that being richest, you know,
Speaker 3: And of course it's complete just satire. It's just dripping
Speaker 3: with satire. And I missed it.
Speaker 1: Right, you didn't see it. You were taking it too
Speaker 1: serio to earnest.
Speaker 4: Series story were for listening to Counting Crows, going like,
Speaker 4: I thought.
Speaker 1: The Love Story was a little creepy, but yeah it
Speaker 1: was she literally your stepbrother or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but written and directed by Amy Heckerling, just an
Speaker 2: absolutely fantastic movie.
Speaker 1: That is my final pick.
Speaker 4: So I think Danielle might win, and I'm going to
Speaker 4: come in third again.
Speaker 3: I think daniel is gonna win because, yeah, she picked
Speaker 3: so many popular films. Yeah that people, I just know
Speaker 3: that a lot of.
Speaker 4: Peopu Titanic and Clueless right there alone.
Speaker 1: Like, alright, let's round it up real quick.
Speaker 2: I have Jurassic Park, I have Titanic, I have Defending
Speaker 2: Your Life, Ace Venture, A Pet Detective, Scream, Clueless, Pretty
Speaker 2: Woman and the Fugitive. Yeah, great writer has Good Fellas,
Speaker 2: Groundhog Day, Seven Boogie Nights, The Matrix, Shakespeare in Love,
Speaker 2: The Talented Mister Ripley, and The Fisher King Will Has Casino, Fargo,
Speaker 2: Terminator Two, Dazed and Confused, Reservoir Dogs, Quiz Show, Batman,
Speaker 2: Mask of the Phantasm, and Wag the Dog.
Speaker 3: I love this decade. Like everyone in every one you mentioned,
Speaker 3: I'm like, yes, yes, yes, there three good So hold on,
Speaker 3: no one picked Toy Story Story two Hates Hates the
Speaker 3: other ones that we're on. My Misery is a fantastic, crazy, great,
Speaker 3: perfectly tight film. Yeah, if we were going to go
Speaker 3: comedy one that was like it was either Groundhog Day
Speaker 3: was right up there with Galaxy Quest for me.
Speaker 4: Option.
Speaker 3: Galaxy Quest is a perfect your.
Speaker 2: So oh my gosh election, I know, wow.
Speaker 4: A lot of the lot of the animation.
Speaker 1: It's too hard.
Speaker 2: But dear listeners, please go to Instagram vote on who
Speaker 2: you think won the nineties. I came in third, and
Speaker 2: then also explain why you're wrong about Will coming in
Speaker 2: third third place.
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