Summer of 98 Movies Top 10
Bonus · published 2023-09-02 · archive #200

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[0:00:14] Unidentified: Have you seen anything? I think that our neighborhood passed. Summer ends. On Oak Street. We're gonna survive. By David Robert Mitchell. August 14th.
[0:00:43] Andrew: And welcome to the Summer of 98 Movie Ranking. This is slightly different than a draft. I did better than Gavin, didn't I, when he had his thing? Is this a better start? Worse start?
[0:01:07] Gavin: Are you rating your start in the middle of the start? No, I'm just asking where... You haven't finished the intro yet. It would have been better than mine if you didn't stop yours to compare it to mine. That's fair. And give yourself accolades in the same breath. No, I was asking. I wasn't asking if it was better or worse. I wasn't promoting mine. I would have said yes up until that point.
[0:01:25] Andrew: Evaluation. Okay. So I shouldn't do that. Anyway, Summer of 98 Movies. We have a list of all the films that release wide. Eric thinks that 98 was the last good year, so we're making some supplemental content for it. This is gonna be a little bit different than a draft. We're gonna determine what the top 10 is and argue for where these things should be placed. We have to all collectively agree on the rankings and then ultimately deciding what is the definitive movie of Summer of 98. If you are just watching that or listening to this, you'll be able to watch this on our YouTube channel. We'll be having a list streamed from Eric's account where we go through the films.
[0:02:05] Eric: We don't have that. Are we recording the video of this now? I don't know. I assume that. Yes, I am. Yes.
[0:02:10] Andrew: Okay. Wow. Yeah, I really should double check that. That was a wild assumption by me. That was a really wild assumption.
[0:02:18] Geoff: I appreciate the confidence in it, though.
[0:02:21] Andrew: Yeah, that was pretty good. I never even considered it wasn't. If you think you're right, you're right. Yeah, exactly. So we're gonna go through. We're each going to select three films that we think should be in the running. And then from there, we will edit it down to 10. And then once we have 10, we will make our cases for which movie should go where with every rank being important. Like, if you strongly believe that a movie should be seventh, fight for that. Fight for that position. What if you like movies that aren't on the list? Well, these are all the wide releases of The Summer of 98. If you want to add other movies, I guess you could.
[0:02:59] Eric: Yeah, what else do we need to add to this list?
[0:03:02] Geoff: Well, I need to see the full list before I can answer that.
[0:03:05] Eric: Okay. Andrew, do you want to read off everything on the list?
[0:03:08] Andrew: Sure. Okay, so we're going through. It's long. It's like 33 films. In June, we have Dr. Doolittle, The Truman Show, Mulan, The X-Files, Six Days, Seven Nights, Perfect Murder, Out of Sight, Can't Hardly Wait, and Dirty Work. July is Saving Private Ryan, Armageddon, There's Something About Mary, Lethal Weapon 4, The Parent Trap, Ever After a Cinderella Story, Small Soldiers, The Negotiator, Madeline, Mafia, Disturbing Behavior, and Basketball. And then in August, we have Blade, Snake Eyes, Halloween H20, How Stella Got Her Group Back, The Avengers, 54, Dance With Me, Dead Man on Campus, Why You Foolsful in Love, Air Bud, Golan Receiver, Wrongfully Accused, and Return to Paradise. Those are our films. Are we missing anything, Jeff?
[0:03:53] Geoff: Well, yeah, it's not a big deal, but I looked up Buffalo 66 came out in the summer of 98, and I thought that was a phenomenal film, Vince Gallo film.
[0:04:03] Andrew: When did it come out?
[0:04:04] Geoff: No, it came out June 26, 1998.
[0:04:07] Andrew: Also, Hands on a Hard Body came out?
[0:04:09] Geoff: Yeah, The Last Days of Disco, which was a Whit Stillman film that I really liked, came out in June 12th. Then Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, you may have heard of it. That came out 28th of August, 1998. Why is our list missing so many? And then Run, Lola, Run, which was also a pretty big film, came out August 20, 1998. I'm just throwing those out there because I was looking at the list earlier, and I didn't see them on there. We don't need to add. Oh, they've been added. Okay.
[0:04:37] Eric: No, no, no. They're added. Okay. Yeah.
[0:04:41] Andrew: I went off of Box Office Mojo and looked at what released within those months and then selected the films that released to a wide audience. Because I sort of view like the summer of 98 of like the things you go to the theater and see.
[0:04:53] Geoff: You're looking at blockbusters and those weren't necessarily blockbusters.
[0:04:57] Gavin: I didn't realize Block, Stock wasn't big at the time. I thought that was a huge movie.
[0:05:01] Geoff: Well, I think it's like it probably didn't get an initial wide release, but it's become such a part of like it's become so big post. That's why like Run, Lola, Run and Lock, Stock I wanted to add in specifically because they became huge movies, but they didn't start as huge movies. That is true. So we're picking three each from these?
[0:05:19] Andrew: Yes. So each person will take three films and then we'll move it from the base list to a different list. And then from there, we will deliberate on what should be in our top 10. Wow. This is only picking three is tough. Yeah, there's some layers to it of like, are you going to take, maybe there's a movie you think someone will definitely take so you don't take that, but you're risking maybe not making the list at all. Who wants to go first as far as picking the first three films?
[0:05:50] Geoff: I'll go. Okay. Am I going like three across all three months or three per month? Just three across all the movies that are available.
[0:05:58] Eric: How should I be listing this also? Should I just write someone's name and then like their movies and then we make a list?
[0:06:03] Andrew: You don't even need to put the name. We can just, whatever Jeff picks, we'll just make a separate film list and then we'll get rid of the base list once we have our selections.
[0:06:12] Eric: Got it. All right, Jeff, whenever you're ready.
[0:06:14] Geoff: Can I see the list again?
[0:06:15] Eric: You can.
[0:06:19] Geoff: Okay. Do you want Andrew to read it one more time? No, no, no. I just, I can only see what you're showing me. So I sent it to you also. Oh yeah, that's true. Well, now I got to navigate away from the, hold on.
[0:06:30] Eric: I mean, you don't have to navigate away. No, I'm doing it.
[0:06:33] Geoff: No, no, I don't want to put you out. Okay. Hold on. I'm loading up another thing.
[0:06:39] Eric: No, I mean, you don't have to. I can show you the list here.
[0:06:41] Geoff: Oh, let's see. I mean, the list is here. What are the three movies Jeff's going to pick? Well, I'm definitely picking Blade because I have a blade tattoo. Okay. You have a blade tattoo? Really? Where? Yeah. On my neck. Gus and I got them together. What is it? It was like a friendship.
[0:06:57] Eric: You and Gus have blade tattoos? Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. I've never seen that before.
[0:07:04] Geoff: Yeah. It's like the little Renfield thing. I have the Dragonetti clan. Gus has the Kobayashi clan. So I'm definitely picking that. Clearly picking Dirty Work, one of the best movies ever made. Oh, yeah. And then I'm going to zig. Okay. I'm going to zig. And I'm going to pick A Perfect Murder.
[0:07:23] Unidentified: Oh, okay.
[0:07:24] Eric: Wow. Really? It's a great movie.
[0:07:25] Geoff: Great movie. Great movie. Wow.
[0:07:28] Eric: What is A Perfect Murder, Jeff?
[0:07:30] Geoff: What is it? Right. What is the movie? It's like a Gwyneth Paltrow movie with, it's like a remake of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. It's got like, I think, Michael Douglas in it. And Aragorn is in it. Yeah. I don't think of his name. Strider. Viggo Mortensen. Yeah, Viggo Mortensen. And it's, yeah, it's just a, it's like a, it's a murder mystery kind of thing that's based off, I think, Dial M for Murder, the Alfred Hitchcock movie.
[0:08:00] Andrew: It is, yeah. You know, a weird thing about A Perfect Murder is it's written by two people and one of the writers only wrote one other movie and it's a Michael Douglas movie. So I wonder if it's like a fake writer name and if like that's a credit for somebody else under an alias. Like I just, I thought that was so weird that they've only written two and they're back-to-back Douglas movies. Interesting.
[0:08:21] Gavin: You reckon it's Douglas himself?
[0:08:22] Andrew: I kind of wondered if like, to like get a credit, like some additional money.
[0:08:27] Gavin: Should I do mine?
[0:08:28] Andrew: Sure. Gavin, would you like to go next?
[0:08:30] Gavin: I'll be honest. I feel like if, if I could, I'd pick all three from July, but I'm going to pick Truman Show. Okay. Um, there's some good shit in July, but obviously I have to go with basketball and then, uh, and then I'll do Lockstock. Oh, damn.
[0:08:47] Eric: Good pick. Okay.
[0:08:48] Gavin: Great movies.
[0:08:49] Eric: Uh, Andrew, do you want to go next?
[0:08:52] Andrew: Sure. Uh, let me view the, the list from it. Did, uh, do you see the thing I sent you, Gavin, about basketball? Yeah, that's so good. I sent Gavin a clip of Joey Diaz is in basketball and when he was, when he was in it, he was in like his deep coke addict phase and in the movie, the refs have to wear roller skates and so every day after shooting, he would steal a pair of roller skates and sell them and that was just like his day-to-day go-to-money. He'd make 150 a day and then by like the time they got to like one of his scenes near the end of the shoot, they couldn't find roller skates for him because he had sold all of them and nobody knew that he was stealing them.
[0:09:31] Eric: Um, okay.
[0:09:34] Andrew: What am I going to pick? This is, this is tough. So I've seen 99% of these movies. I haven't seen some of the additions Jeff added. Um, fuck, this is, this is tough. I'm going to add, I'm going to add return to paradise. Okay. I am going to add the X files and I'm going to add small soldiers.
[0:10:06] Geoff: Oh, okay.
[0:10:08] Eric: Okay. Um, Nick, would you like to do yours next? I'll go. Sure.
[0:10:12] Nick: Yeah. I feel like a lot of the ones that I was thinking about have been taken, but I will add this one because one, I saw it when it came out, which is probably too young, but saving private Ryan is one of my favorite war movies and, you know, it eventually led to things like Band of Brothers and the Pacific, which are really good, um, shows that HBO put out. Um, and then I was thinking that, oh, you picked small soldiers already. Look at that. See, I'll tell you what, I'll add this cause it was a horror, one of the first horror movies I saw, uh, Halloween H2O, uh, also has one of the most interesting death scenes in where someone is killed with a, uh, an ice skate to the face. Hmm. And then, uh, and then I'll also add, I think a movie that, that, uh, I don't know if y'all are, a lot of y'all would have seen this, but the six days, seven nights, just because I liked Harrison Ford a lot. And that was, uh, that's another Anne Heche film, right? Yeah.
[0:11:11] Eric: Yeah. And she is, she's dead by the way.
[0:11:14] Geoff: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[0:11:16] Eric: She died. She lived in that movie. And he, she died. Um, okay. So I have my picks last. I don't know how popular they're going to be, but I, I will say that, um, Nick has taken one of mine, which was saving private Ryan. Um, I will pivot and make a different pick because it is not on this list. And I think it should be in, uh, Armageddon to not be on this list. I think it's crazy. Giant movie in the summer of 98, uh, massive, very realistic. Here are my next two picks that I'm going to fight for my life to get them in the top 10. Um, can't hardly wait is a movie that I really, really like, uh, that I don't know if anyone, Andrew, Andrew, I'm sure you've watched it now. Uh, Jeff, have you seen this? I fucking hate that movie. I knew it. I had a feeling that Jeff has either not seen this or does not like this movie at all.
[0:12:16] Geoff: Who's in it? I was just too old for that is the guy for that movie. I get, I get that.
[0:12:21] Eric: I just missed the mark on it, but exactly what I was going to say is that for my age, when this movie came out, awesome.
[0:12:30] Geoff: Yeah.
[0:12:31] Eric: Your age, when this movie came out, this movie fucking sucks. Why would anyone watch it? Um, lastly, one that I really love that, again, I don't know who else here watched it. Uh, Nicholas Cage's snake eyes. Uh, have, are you guys familiar with snake eyes? Have you seen this movie?
[0:12:53] Geoff: Yes. No, I think I've seen it. I don't think so.
[0:12:57] Eric: It is a Brian De Palma. I don't know if he's deep in his like Coke habit here or what. But I don't know a way to explain what this is other than him slumping so hard in his career that I don't know that he ever pulls out of it. I love this movie. It's fucking insane. It is so insane. It looks crazy. It sounds crazy. The timeline is crazy. I love it. Snake eyes is my final pick for this.
[0:13:35] Andrew: A thing about snake eyes is really funny. Is that at the end of the film, there's a character that says a line about how they keep having a nightmare about their, their drowning and it doesn't really make sense contextually. And the reason why it doesn't make sense is because it's in reference to what the scripted ending was that they completely cut because they either ran out of time or money where this, there's a massive storm happening throughout the whole film and it never really pays off in any way. There's supposed to be like a giant tidal wave that hits the casino that they're in. So like, it makes sense that he maybe would have almost drowned, but it just never happens in the film. However, since they don't shoot films linearly, they had to keep it in because it was just, they had already shot that sequence. So it's a really weird throwaway to a moment that never happens in the film. It's very odd.
[0:14:25] Geoff: Because it's like data talking about the octopus and, uh, and, uh, Goonies.
[0:14:29] Eric: Exactly. Oh, I forgot about that.
[0:14:32] Geoff: Yeah.
[0:14:33] Eric: Um, Gavin, you ever seen snake eyes? No. That's a no. I'm going to assume.
[0:14:40] Andrew: Can no one hear me?
[0:14:42] Eric: Gavin, are you here? Gavin? What the fuck happened to Gavin?
[0:14:47] Gavin: Oh, no. Can, can, can no one hear me? No.
[0:14:51] Eric: Oh, I was wondering why you were ignoring me for the last, no one's heard a word you've been saying.
[0:14:57] Gavin: Dude, the last 10 minutes, everything I said, no one gave a shit about.
[0:15:00] Eric: No one was sitting in my conscience. Oh, okay. Haven't heard a word you've been saying. Oh, I know. Thought it was crazy. Thought maybe you were just like mad about the picks and didn't want to talk. Do you want to give us a recap of what we missed? Yeah. Yeah. What have you been saying? Yeah. Anything from, I would say from when you made your pick of lock stock after that, have not heard you say a word.
[0:15:23] Geoff: So, yeah, you've been, you've been real fucking lazy in the content.
[0:15:27] Gavin: I was talking about the roller skates clip when, uh, when Eric said, can't hardly wait. I was like, oh, who's in that? And then he went, anyway, my next pick is.
[0:15:38] Eric: Oh, son of a bitch.
[0:15:45] Andrew: Yeah. Yeah. You cut out as soon as you reacted to me asking if you saw the, the basketball clip. That's where we left you.
[0:15:51] Gavin: Yeah. Yeah. I was talking about how he was. Oh, nevermind. Okay. Uh, interesting. That was awesome.
[0:16:02] Eric: Can't hardly wait is an ensemble cast with, um, Seth Green, Jennifer Love Hewitt, uh, Ethan Embry, and a bunch of other people that, uh, were in movies in the nineties. And then the year 2000 happened and none of them were in movies anymore. Okay.
[0:16:17] Unidentified: Yeah. Yeah.
[0:16:18] Eric: It's very last hurrah. Yeah. Very like teen comedy with like the cast is huge. The cast is like so big, but, um, yeah, I think it was just, it's a movie that I was the right age for when it came out. So anyway, uh, Andrew, do you want to read our list of selects?
[0:16:34] Andrew: Okay. So we have, we're down to our 15. Now we have blade dirty work, a perfect murder, Truman show, basketball, lock stock and two smoking barrels, return to paradise. The X-Files, small soldiers, saving private Ryan, Halloween, H2O six days, seven nights Armageddon can't hardly wait and snake eyes. Do we want to look at the, uh, the remaining list of films that we're about to get rid of?
[0:16:56] Eric: Yeah. I don't care about the remaining list, but we can't. The losers.
[0:16:59] Andrew: Well, yeah, let's go back to, let's look at the losers, but like, is there anything like maybe somebody wanted pick that didn't end up getting picked or that they thought would make it that, that didn't make it 100% thought that you were going to say airbud golden receiver.
[0:17:12] Eric: I absolutely thought if that helps, I absolutely thought you were going to pick that.
[0:17:15] Andrew: So I will say, I would like to give some shine to wrongfully accused, which is a Leslie Nielsen, naked gun style comedy. Uh, I think it is hilarious. It's really high up on my list. Um, and they just don't make movies. Like that anymore. It's true. It's impressive. Like the joke, every scene has at least one joke in it. Yeah. I'd say it's like probably a seven second average. And for me, at least a lot of it landed in wrongfully accused. And I just think Leslie Nielsen is so funny.
[0:17:42] Eric: But I think that that's the beginning of the end. Like Leslie Nielsen, like ushered that era in and also out.
[0:17:49] Geoff: I think it's, that was actually after he started the era. It may have been like a bright spot on an, on an otherwise ending. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
[0:17:56] Eric: Because it's like that, like Dracula dead and loving it. You know what I mean?
[0:18:00] Geoff: Like those, uh, those, nobody saw those old, uh, movies like that, that just that there, where their JPMs are just off the charts or I, we don't make film like that anymore.
[0:18:08] Gavin: I think that's why I like basketball because it's definitely that vibe. It's the same people I think as Naked Gun.
[0:18:14] Geoff: I'm surprised by one film that didn't make it, I'll say. And that's Out of Sight just because that was a huge film when it came out. And it was like, it was like, I just remember everybody losing their shit over it. I saw it. I thought it was okay. I didn't get it. But everybody was in love with George Clooney and, uh, uh, J-Lo being in love.
[0:18:33] Eric: That was the only thing that I know about that movie is that they, is that they, they are in the movie.
[0:18:40] Geoff: There's a scene. I remember this one scene cause it, it always got quoted and played, but it was Jennifer Lopez going, you wanted to tussle. We tussled.
[0:18:50] Eric: It's, it definitely, it definitely was the only marketing in that movie. Hang on. I just searched for it and it's just, no, no, we gonna tussle first. Yeah, there you go. That sucks. Yeah. It sucked. Oh my God. Uh, Gavin, any, anything on here that you're surprised didn't make it?
[0:19:14] Gavin: Anything left over? Uh, yeah. I don't think so.
[0:19:17] Eric: I will say that people have a real fondness for there's something about Mary. I don't necessarily.
[0:19:23] Andrew: Uh, it doesn't hold up in my viewing. I had watched it for the first time as part of this experience. The only scene that stood out to me is still being really funny is when, um, and I'm blanking on his name. He's a standup comedian. He has one scene. He plays a hitchhiker. Harlan Ellison. Yeah. Yeah. Him. He, he pitches. There's like a six minute ab scene. Yeah. I thought that was funny, but outside of that, nothing really helped.
[0:19:46] Geoff: But that, that was like a version, that was like an homage to his old scene in Dumb and Dumber, which was so much funnier where he's the cop who drinks the piss in the beer bottle, you know? Isn't Lee Evans in that?
[0:20:01] Andrew: Mm-hmm. He is. Yeah. He has a, he plays an American, which is odd.
[0:20:06] Gavin: Although he plays like a, an American playing a Brit though, doesn't he for a while?
[0:20:10] Andrew: Yes. He starts out as just a Brit and then it's revealed that his name is like Randy or something and he's a pizza delivery guy.
[0:20:16] Gavin: Lee Evans is a huge standup in the UK and he just had a run in the 90s where he was just sitting on so many movies. It's so weird to see him and stuff like Mouse Hunt and Fifth Element and stuff.
[0:20:26] Eric: Mouse Hunt. Mouse Hunt.
[0:20:29] Gavin: Mouse Hunt is a phenomenal movie.
[0:20:31] Geoff: I don't give a shit what you say. I'm right there with you, dude. Right there with you. Mouse Hunt and Rat Race. I'll watch all day long.
[0:20:38] Eric: You're into just like rodent themed films or what?
[0:20:42] Geoff: Yeah, I'm into that, that kind of film. That kind of ensemble, funny, silly film. By the way, I said his name was Harlan Ellison. It's Harlan Williams. Harlan Williams. Yeah. Harlan Ellison's a much older actor.
[0:20:53] Eric: Yes, he is.
[0:20:55] Geoff: Okay. I feel good about the list.
[0:20:57] Eric: Okay. So how do we want...
[0:20:59] Unidentified: Have you seen any dinosaurs? What kind of question is that? I think that our neighborhood has moved from the past. Summer Ants on Oak Street. Run! From producer J.J. Abrams and Hathaway, Ewan McGregor. We're going to survive. The End of Oak Street. Directed by David Robert Mitchell. August 14.
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[0:22:30] Andrew: To sort of approach this. There are many ways this can go. There are films on here that I think, like I don't want to call anyone out, but there's certain films I don't think are great. Cool me out, do it.
[0:22:46] Eric: You pick Small Soldiers.
[0:22:48] Andrew: Go ahead and let us know. Yeah, no, I know. But I was, you gotta, in reference, I was four in 98. I watched Small Soldiers as like a five-year-old and as a kid, it was one of my favorites. I'd watch it all the time. I think there's some great voice work. The ending of that movie is fucking insane. There is a thing that is burnt into my brain about that movie where the toys create this gun that fires AV cables and I want to say it's like Phil Hartman, it's one of the main characters, gets shot in the leg like four times with AV cables and it like pierces his leg like bullets. Like it's crazy. That movie is an insane finale. I understand why maybe it would get cut, but it is something for me. I mean, if we want to talk about things that might get cut, Snake Eyes, I think is a total. What's wrong with Snake Eyes? It is such an average film. Like it is just like the definition of like totally decent cable movie. Like it's a movie that when you're channel surfing,
[0:23:48] Andrew: you'll watch 30 minutes of if it's on, but like you're not, nobody's pumped about Snake Eyes. Okay, I will say that-
[0:23:56] Geoff: Oh, Gary Sinise is in it? Oh, he's good in it. He's really good in it.
[0:24:00] Eric: I will say that I have watched Snake Eyes mostly on cable in 30 minute chunks. Yes. So I will concede that point. However, I don't think that takes it off the top 10. I think that Snake Eyes is a very serviceable like number eight film.
[0:24:23] Geoff: Can I throw one out there that we could get rid of? Sure. We start the lobbying. This is going to seem out of left field. And actually, I'll explain it like this. I, uh, the movie The X-Files Fight the Future came out on my birthday. June 19th, 1998. I was living in New Jersey. My friends and I were very, very, very excited. The X-Files, you guys were a little younger, so it may not have, you may not have experienced it in the time like we, like I did. But The X-Files was kind of a very cultural zeitgeist film. It was, it had a huge, or I'm sorry, television show. It had a huge following, a lot of love, a lot of enthusiasm for it. And, uh, we, every, it was appointment, it was like prime appointment viewing. You would be home to watch, uh, the new episode of X-Files so that they could edge you and you'd be disappointed because they would never, they would never address the larger story. They did this thing where they would have 20 episode seasons or 22 episode seasons. The first two episodes would reference the overall story,
[0:25:24] Geoff: the, you know, the overall plot. The 11th and 12th episode would, like at the mid-season break. And then the 19th and 20th, or the 21st and 22nd episode would. And all the other episodes were filler. And so you had to go through a whole fucking season to get like maybe four episodes where they were advancing the actual storyline. X-Files Fight the Future promised to address that and fill in the gaps and advance the storyline in a way they couldn't on television. And so we were all extremely excited about it. There was a 9 a.m. showing the day it came out, but it was an hour and a half away. So my friends and I all got up at like 6 a.m. and drove an hour and a half deep into New Jersey to go to this special theater that was showing it at 9 a.m. We were the only people in the theater. We were afraid we wouldn't be able to get in. Apparently we were the only people that were that excited about it. And then that movie did not deliver in any way. And it really bummed me out.
[0:26:16] Andrew: So I'm sorry, can I make the case for the X-Files? Like that sucks. Like I'm sorry you had that experience. It's just they didn't answer the questions.
[0:26:24] Geoff: They didn't solve. They said they were going to like prove that aliens existed and then they didn't. Oh, they definitely did. And then they researched it like they did. No, there's like a scene. There's a scene where you think a UFO flies away, but nobody else sees it but Mulder. And then you're like, and you're like, so the world doesn't know, right? So you didn't really do anything other than you confirm that aliens existed. He already fucking knew aliens existed since his sister got kidnapped in the first fucking episode that we've been dealing with for like eight fucking years. It was such a limp dick fucking way to handle that. And then the next season, I'm like, well, I can't wait to see what happens next season. First episode comes up, fucking Scully goes to Mulder and goes, well, what do you want to do now? You already proved that aliens exist. And it's like, you didn't prove aliens exist to anybody but you, asshole. Nobody else in the world knows aliens exist. Where the fuck is that? Like, come on. The rest of the government's still like, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Creepy Mulder. Aliens don't exist. Like, it was bullshit. It was such a fucking bait and switch. Anyway, if you guys like it, that's fine.
[0:27:19] Andrew: Well, no, this is, this is from my perspective, I had never seen the X-Files. Like, it was something that as I was a kid growing up, it was so like cultural. It was just part of the culture. I never watched it because I was too scared of the intro of the show. It would genuinely creep me out. I'd like run out of the room if I ever heard it. So I went into this never seeing anything related to the X-Files. I was so like out of the loop. I thought the characters' names were Muldry and Sully and I thought he was Sully. I was like, not only were the names wrong, they were applied to the wrong people. Like, I was just completely off. And in the movie, it's baffling because I assumed, like going in, I thought that, okay, the show is done and they've now released this big movie at the end of it. And so I'm watching it and they're talking about how like they need to still confirm aliens exist. Or there's this tone of like that aliens being a thing is not commonly accepted amongst the government. And I thought, what was this fucking show?
[0:28:20] Andrew: Like I assumed every episode of the show was them dealing with an alien situation. Like it was baffling to me that that was a thing that had yet to be confirmed. What was even crazier to me was learning that this was not at the end of the series, that the movie is like the bridge between season five and season six, which is insane when you think about the context of what TV viewing was in the 90s. There is no video on demand. Like there is no, if you missed the episode and you didn't happen to record it, there is no way to see it. So you're basically
[0:28:57] Gavin: asking people to remember what happened in those seasons.
[0:29:00] Geoff: But as somebody who was an adult in that time frame, that's just how the world worked and we all understood it and we played by the rules. Exactly. No, like seriously, that's why appointment viewing was appointment viewing. Everybody had to be home to watch Buffy or X-Files or whatever when it came on because if you missed it, you had to hope you could catch it in summer reruns. Yeah. And so people put a lot more weight into like people prioritize TV in a different way back then because it wasn't available like it is now.
[0:29:28] Andrew: I suggested that, well, I talked to you, Jeff, about Chuck Klosterman who's one of my favorite writers. He wrote a book about the 90s.
[0:29:34] Geoff: Yeah, great book. I read that, by the way.
[0:29:36] Andrew: Yeah, I'm going through it right now and that's sort of what they talk about. Like if you missed a show in the 90s and you didn't record it, your essentially only option to see it is to go to an archive in New York or Los Angeles and schedule a personal recording or viewing of it.
[0:29:51] Gavin: I mean, that's why I started praying for the episode of The Mosque
[0:29:54] Geoff: to come back on.
[0:29:55] Eric: Oh, that's right.
[0:29:56] Geoff: Yeah. And by the way, nobody's doing that. What Chuck is describing there is what journalists do when they need to research or something. Most normal human beings just wait for somebody. Yeah, like that.
[0:30:05] Andrew: That was just not part of like if you missed it, who cares? Was sort of the sentiment at the time. So just to me, the notion that they would be willing to like intersect seasons of a show with a movie under the expectation that you saw all the show post and act, like that's just wild. But it was a safe assumption. Sure. Yeah, and it did extremely well, which is why I was so that's why I looked into it because it's like, wow, this is one of the highest grossing movies in the summer of 98. Why didn't they do a sequel? And then realizing, oh, they made like 10 more seasons or like five more seasons of a show post it airing. I just think it's such a cultural like for me, it's a weird factor of like what is a good movie and what is a good summer of 98 movie? Like they're different measurements. So I think my argument for having the X-Files in the top 10 is it is so 98. It is so the summer of 98.
[0:30:58] Geoff: I mean, it was an event. I drove an hour and a half to go see it. So you have to, I just, I just found the movie to be such a fucking letdown and all my friends did too. We were all just like, we just felt like we'd been duped and it was so depressing. Totally fair. No less. I think I turned 23 that year.
[0:31:14] Andrew: Oh no.
[0:31:15] Geoff: That sucks.
[0:31:16] Andrew: Like I,
[0:31:17] Geoff: I get it. It was four months. It was three months before I moved back to Austin. Who knows? That may, that movie may have been so bad that it may have colored my opinion of New Jersey. It may have been part of why I left New Jersey to come back to Texas in that response. If that's true, then we should put it on the list because it gave me a career out of Russia. What about instead of like
[0:31:35] Andrew: picking apart what we, we think should be cut, are there movies that we feel definitely will be on the list? Like I feel Truman Show definitely on the list. I think,
[0:31:44] Eric: I think Truman Show is on the list.
[0:31:46] Andrew: Saving Private Ryan I think is definitely on the list. Yeah. I think, I think Lockstock has got to be on the list. Really? I feel like, I feel like Lockstock is like a lesser snatch. Like I feel like Lockstock is fun for what it is.
[0:31:57] Geoff: But it made so many people though.
[0:31:59] Andrew: Yeah.
[0:31:59] Geoff: Yeah. And there wouldn't have been a snatch if it wasn't for Lockstock.
[0:32:01] Andrew: Lockstock was a huge deal
[0:32:03] Geoff: when it came out.
[0:32:03] Andrew: It's a great movie. I just think like it's when compared to like his work that follows not as good.
[0:32:08] Geoff: But that hasn't happened yet because we're in the summer of 98. How can you compare it against things that haven't been in? Well,
[0:32:15] Andrew: I'm evaluating based on my perspective now because I was four in the summer of 98. I can't. You weren't a big Vinny Jones fan when you were four? I wasn't. No, that was later. Mean Machine? Great Vinny Jones fan.
[0:32:29] Gavin: I remember being, I remember finding it so weird that a footballer was in a film. That was just unreal to me at the time.
[0:32:36] Eric: Wait, what do you mean? What do you mean? Is Vinny, is that? Yeah. Was he a footballer? Yeah.
[0:32:40] Gavin: He was a Premier League footballer.
[0:32:42] Eric: What? I didn't know that. Yeah. That's crazy. Are you serious?
[0:32:46] Gavin: Yeah. And then when he was in X-Men, I was like, what is happening? Wait, wait,
[0:32:51] Nick: what is happening?
[0:32:53] Eric: I had no idea about that. I didn't know. What? That's fucking crazy. That's how we got to start.
[0:32:57] Gavin: My dad used to know him actually. He was like involved in his pre-Premier League football club.
[0:33:03] Eric: He was, Jones played professionally as a defensive midfielder from 1984 to 1999.
[0:33:09] Gavin: Yeah. Yep. That's where I knew him from.
[0:33:12] Eric: Dude, I know him from Snatch and Lockstock and Mean Machine and Gone in 60 Seconds.
[0:33:19] Geoff: Here's what I'll say. I'll say one last thing just in my, I guess, promoting Lockstock onto the list. The last thing I'll say about it is it ushered in a new era of film. That's a great point. Gritty, like funny crime, hard-boiled crime movies again. It was the thing, like it literally launched that whole genre that was pretty healthy for about 15 years.
[0:33:41] Andrew: Yeah. What about like Reservoir Dogs? Like I feel like the knock, like the thing people say about Guy Ritchie is he's just knocking off Quentin Tarantino. Like that style of movie. I don't see that at all. You don't feel that way? Okay.
[0:33:51] Gavin: No. The guy I used to work with too also did the slow-mo on Lockstock. There's like a Photosonics film slow-mo shot at the beginning. Like one of the reasons we got put on like Sherlock Holmes and stuff was because he did that.
[0:34:05] Unidentified: Oh.
[0:34:06] Eric: That's cool. I think, I think of what we have here, I think we could probably, I think it could be one that we consider to be on the list. I think it's on, if Andrew's not totally sold on it, I think it's on the bubble, but are there any other ones? Like I think Armageddon should definitely be on the list.
[0:34:22] Geoff: Armageddon should definitely be on the list. Yeah. Right?
[0:34:24] Eric: Okay. Yeah. Party work is on the list. I think Blade is on the list. Yes, Blade. I think Blade is on the list as well. I also think Basketball is on the list. I agree.
[0:34:39] Gavin: Oh, thank God.
[0:34:42] Geoff: Blade had the best fucking, Blade had the best action star line ever. Ever. I've ever seen in a film. After, after Wesley Snipes kills, what is it? Steven Dorff, I believe is who the bad guy is. After he kills him and he kicks his ass or whatever, he goes, some motherfuckers always trying to ice skate uphill. That is the coolest fucking, he improv that dude. That is the coolest fucking thing to say.
[0:35:10] Eric: Yep. I think it's like, it's just such a cool, it's such a cool line in such a cool movie from such a cool character that like, it makes it. It totally, you're able to walk away and go like, I remember that one fucking part. Like, that's the coolest shit in the world. Also, it helps it a lot.
[0:35:31] Geoff: There was another thing where Donal Logue is in that movie and before it came out, he was, he had kind of become famous for an independent film that came out called The Dow of Steve. Oh, yeah. Where he was like a really, he was like a school teacher, I want to say. and it's an independent film and, but he's a really like soft, likable, sweet guy and he, everybody kind of fell in love with him as that character and then Blade starts and he's got a fucking knife in his hand and he's like, I stuck him, I stuck him with my pig sticker and you're like, what the fuck? This is a totally different dude. He's wearing like leather and shit and that was like, it was an awesome reveal.
[0:36:09] Andrew: Yep. I think his intro to that movie is him in a blood rave getting a double blow job in like a shower stall. One of the best intros to any movie, I would say. Like, I think about the Blade intro all the time.
[0:36:23] Geoff: This is one of those things that'd be hard for us to do, but we should do a best movie intro ever draft because I've got strong opinions.
[0:36:31] Eric: Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna say that's a cool idea and we should finish this one first. Yes. Yeah,
[0:36:37] Geoff: let's do that. You don't want to stop, you don't want to put pause on this and then immediately go re-person and film that?
[0:36:42] Eric: No, I think I'm also,
[0:36:44] Gavin: I'm gonna leave this video in Discord for us to watch later. It's just a compilation of Vinnie Jones fouling people in the premiere.
[0:36:51] Andrew: That's awesome. Can I share my embarrassing Vinnie Jones fandom? Yeah. When I was like 12 or 13, I'm gonna post it in the chat right now, a poster for this movie. I thought this was the coolest action movie of all time and looking back on it, it is so embarrassing. It is so cringy. The film is called Blast. It is an Eddie Griffin led action comedy with Breckenmire as his like co-star and Vinnie Jones plays the villain in it. It is so bad. But at the time, as a kid, I thought it was the coolest fucking movie. When did this come, when did Blast come out? It was like, I would say, mid-thousands, mid-2000s. I mean, if Breckenmire,
[0:37:33] Gavin: isn't it?
[0:37:33] Andrew: And it was 2004. It was made by a studio and a company that specifically would make DVD fodder for Blockbuster. Like, that was entirely their business. It is an obscure film that I love that is so cringy now because it's just knowing how cool I thought it was when it is so bad. It's so cheesy.
[0:37:53] Gavin: I think I only ever saw Eddie Griffin in Undercover Brother. Oh, yeah.
[0:37:59] Andrew: There's a scene in this movie where Eddie Griffin soccer kicks a grenade like he does the back jump, soccer kicks a grenade and then stands up and says, we're playing soccer in the hood now and then like posing. It is so bad.
[0:38:14] Geoff: Can we schedule a viewing and watch that? Because I've never heard of it. I want to watch that so bad. It seems like a perfect, it seems like the perfect next movie for us to watch together. Oh, that's great.
[0:38:22] Eric: Gracie, can you make a note for that please so that we remember to watch for some reason watch Blast? Thank you. Okay, we have that noted. So right now we have six movies that we know are going to make it. Blade, Dirty Work, Truman Show, Basketball, Saving Private Ryan, and Armageddon. Are there any others on here that we feel like will definitely make it? It sounds like you guys really want lock stock so I'm fine with that. Well, let's hold off.
[0:38:47] Geoff: What if we put bubble in a different color? Sure.
[0:38:50] Eric: Yeah, I'll do like a blue.
[0:38:53] Geoff: Okay. I'll make the case for Halloween H20. Ooh. Because that was another one that was kind of a big deal. We hadn't had a Halloween movie in a while. It was a return of Laurie Strug and it was another movie that my friends and I eventized. We got so excited about it we went and we took pictures with all the ushers at the movie theater and then made a scrapbook out of it later.
[0:39:18] Eric: I will say I'm fine with it being on the bubble. I don't particularly like it. I don't think it's a good film. I don't think that it's even in terms of like Halloween. I don't think that it's like one that I would ever go back to. However, in the summer of 98 the lead up to that the marketing for that it was in inescapable. The amount of stuff that I saw for fucking Halloween H20 that that is a that's like a touchdown like a zeitgeist thing for me where it was I just couldn't get away from it. So I don't I don't love it. I will I think on the bubble is fine but it's definitely a 1998 thing.
[0:40:06] Geoff: It had such a fucking cast. First off it was I think 20 years since it had been a Halloween movie right so like the return but it had obviously had Jamie Lee Curtis and that Adam Arkin in it it had Michelle Williams it had a Janet Lee Ella Cool J was in it Janet Lee was in it Joseph Gordon Leavitt was in it it was a pretty wild cast.
[0:40:23] Nick: He died by ice I think
[0:40:24] Geoff: Ella Cool J is the best part of the movie. Was that Joseph Gordon
[0:40:27] Eric: Leavitt? Yeah I think so. Wow. Josh Hartnett's in it too. What?
[0:40:32] Andrew: Yeah Josh
[0:40:32] Eric: Josh Hartnett's
[0:40:33] Andrew: He's like the main guy. He's like her son in the movie.
[0:40:36] Eric: He's like the guy in it.
[0:40:38] Andrew: The guy from Oppenheimer?
[0:40:39] Eric: The guy from Oppenheimer is Halloween Hot Scientist is in Halloween H2O. Wow.
[0:40:47] Andrew: The main takeaway I watched that movie maybe like four or five months ago for the first time and what I remember is that LL Cool J wrote romantic novels on the side and that was just like my favorite part of that whole movie is like his side story with his wife writing romance novels at work.
[0:41:03] Geoff: That was also at the height of LL Cool J the movie actor which I love that era of his career.
[0:41:08] Andrew: Oh some great movies. Deep Blue Sea
[0:41:10] Eric: Deep Blue Sea is the one that's the one that's the movie. Charlie's Angels. Okay any other gear that you feel like are bubble movies that you're so so on? I feel like X-Files is a bubble movie.
[0:41:25] Nick: Yeah.
[0:41:26] Eric: Because I can go either way on it. I get it
[0:41:28] Geoff: but also it does it really does. It's okay to add it. It's fine. It's it. I'm not. Yeah if everybody else is on board I mean it was a big deal to me. It was just I just I'm I'm dealing with the personal disappointment of the film. But that shouldn't affect how successful it was in the theater.
[0:41:45] Eric: So we're at one two three four five six seven eight nine including our bubble movies here.
[0:41:54] Andrew: I would be willing to give up Return to Paradise. It's just it's a movie I watched recently. It's a movie I'd never heard of and I think the moral hook of that story is really fascinating. And I found it to be an intense watch. But I don't I don't think anyone else outside of Jeff has seen it so I'm not necessarily going to fight for it to be in the top 10. I just wanted to give it some attention as a movie because I thought it was
[0:42:18] Eric: walking Phoenix one right.
[0:42:19] Andrew: Yeah it's walking Phoenix Vince Vaughn the and hash
[0:42:23] Eric: all I remember is walking Phoenix with long hair.
[0:42:27] Andrew: So the premise of the movie is it's like Vince Vaughn and walking Phoenix and this other guy are in Malaysia to just like get fucked up essentially and party all summer and so they become friends and they do that and then Vince Vaughn and the other guy leave and walking Phoenix is going to leave a little bit later and then two years pass and they don't keep in touch at all you know it's like you have those friendships that that work that way and then a lawyer gets in Vince Vaughn's car and tells Vince Vaughn that the day they left the police came because they rented a bike that they didn't return and the guy wanted it back and they found like over a hundred grams of hash in the place they were living at and that what the Joaquin Phoenix character has been in prison for the past two years and that unless some of them are willing to come back he will be hung in eight days and so they have to decide if the two guys that left if one of them comes back they will have to serve six years in a Malaysian prison if they both come back it'll be three years each but if they don't then he will die and it's them like experiencing
[0:43:27] Andrew: like kind of the floor falling out of your life like having no idea any of this happened and then having a week to decide what you're going to do in this scenario. And if you're comfortable like just it's it brings up so many interesting questions and I think it's so intense at times like deliberating what the choice will be and I had never heard of it so I just I wanted to give it some attention because I thought it was a really well made movie.
[0:43:50] Geoff: It's a fantastic movie. I feel like six days and seven nights and return to paradise you got to pick one or the other we can't have both. I think six days seven nights is just a bad movie personally.
[0:44:01] Nick: Yeah you can go
[0:44:02] Geoff: return to paradise is definitely better.
[0:44:04] Nick: Take it out back. Take it out back.
[0:44:09] Andrew: Put two between its eyes. Wild about six days seven nights is Danny Trejo is in it but he has no dialogue and what's the name of that actor he's in training day he's played like every ethnicity he's a great actor.
[0:44:23] Gavin: I know you talk about
[0:44:24] Andrew: what's his name I think he's a New Zealand actor he's been in so many things he's in sunshine he's in training day. Is it Cliff Curtis? Cliff Curtis yeah he is also in six days seven nights with zero dialogue it was like before he was famous they play like pirates that attack the main characters on the island and they have one scene in the whole movie so it's just it's wild when you watch it seeing these actors that are notable later that have like zero presence in that film.
[0:44:52] Eric: I think that Can't Hardly Wait is better than six days seven nights small soldiers return to paradise and a perfect murder. I think Can't Hardly Wait should make it. We are looking at a nine and Can't Hardly Wait if it's not going to make number eight I think it could solidly make number ten.
[0:45:10] Geoff: I'm happy to eliminate a perfect murder. I don't know that anybody else has seen it and it definitely wasn't like a huge deal when it came out.
[0:45:17] Andrew: I think a perfect
[0:45:18] Geoff: murder is a better
[0:45:19] Andrew: version of Snake Ice. Like I think they're both like fun popcorn cable movies. I will say the wildest thing about Snake Ice is so many scenes take place in the first person. It's crazy. Yes. Like it's such an insane creative choice that doesn't. But I think overall perfect murder is a better movie.
[0:45:39] Eric: But do you think that but I think Can't Hardly Wait I'd rather put on the list than Snake Eyes and I would put Can't Hardly Wait above pretty much everything else that hasn't made the list yet like six days seven nights small soldiers.
[0:45:51] Geoff: I do think Can't Hardly Wait was a big deal and definitely was like it was probably the biggest teen summer movie that year. I agree. And like it is it's one of those like it's my to Eric's generation I guess it's there it's my it's their breakfast club. And so I think it deserves to be on the list.
[0:46:10] Eric: OK. OK. So small soldiers not making the list. Wait a second. Wait a second. You think soldiers
[0:46:17] Andrew: belongs on. I think small soldiers is better than Halloween H2O. I would take. Wow. I would I would take small soldiers over Halloween H2O. I would take snake eyes over Halloween H2O. I would take a perfect murder over Halloween H2O. I would take almost all these movies over Halloween H2O. Now we're talking. Now we're talking. See I only I'm just
[0:46:39] Eric: acquiescing on Halloween H2O just because it was such a touchstone like in like there's like I just remember so much of it but I don't like that movie at all.
[0:46:47] Andrew: I don't I don't know if this should factor into it but a thing with Halloween H2O was that like Jamie Lee Curtis only agreed to make it I want to say this is going off of memory so I might be slightly wrong in this but she would only do it if she got to kill Michael Myers but then the guy that like own the character forced to change and it caused like this whole drama on set because it they swap out so like the Michael Myers character he doesn't they think they kill him but they don't kill him like he switches outfits with somebody at the end so like their compromise is that the Jamie Lee Curtis character think she's killing Michael Myers but they wanted to continue to make those movies so they set it up so he actually survives and moves on so I feel like lessens it quite a bit for me.
[0:47:30] Geoff: I might just be biased because I am a huge fan of the Halloween franchise and they're great in that role and have watched them all a million times but it was also I mean if we're just going off like big summer blockbusters it was a pretty big one. Oh for sure.
[0:47:44] Gavin: I always like it when the lead actor wants to drastically have a huge effect on this plot line like when Sigourney Weaver was like yeah I want to have sex with the alien though.
[0:47:56] Eric: What?
[0:47:58] Gavin: Yeah apparently in Aliens she wanted to like die and bang the alien and James Cameron was like here's why we shouldn't do that and then it just happens in like the next movie.
[0:48:12] Eric: So are we putting small soldiers on the bubble? Gavin do you have any strong feelings about small soldiers?
[0:48:17] Gavin: I never saw it but I remember I remember being a kid and seeing the ads for it left and right I'm pretty sure there was some happy meals for it. I feel like it was huge.
[0:48:26] Eric: I felt too old for small soldiers in 1998 and I was 12.
[0:48:35] Gavin: Yeah I was 10.
[0:48:36] Eric: Yeah it is not a movie that like I have like no love for it whatsoever like none really truly it does nothing for me I don't find it to be funny I don't find it to be good I don't find it to be interesting it's ugly to look at I don't like the way anyone moves I don't like the way anyone looks I don't enjoy the movie whatsoever but I am not the only one here so I can't make the call but that's one that I would like not put on this list. I was 10 so I loved it.
[0:49:07] Geoff: I feel all Phil Hartman movies inherently have value but I'm not gonna simp for fucking small soldiers so
[0:49:14] Andrew: no it was oh no for me for me like I had the game I had the toys is also part of at that time period I feel like kids movies that were great with their merchandising like between that and Turbo Man there's those were just like jingle all the way like such great like I have such fondness of playing with those toys as a kid and thinking it was so cool that this movie I liked I could have the physical toy from the thing. Did you know the
[0:49:41] Eric: Turbo Man? I hate the way this looks like genuinely despise yeah the way this looks. You mean you're talking about the color scheme? The color combination? Like like look at look at these like I just dropped a picture in the chat like our text channel I hate this.
[0:50:02] Gavin: That one on the left looks like the guy from Galaxy Quest.
[0:50:05] Eric: It's just like this is this to me is a movie where people said bro you saw Toy Story what if the toys were like fucking twisted and that's the movie and it sucks I don't like it.
[0:50:30] Andrew: Yeah like I can't that's fair I just have such a fondness from it from my childhood. Yeah the Gorgonics are just misunderstood. They are yeah and they're supposed to be like He-Man guys like oh god. Oh okay well I see it. Take it off. Can we get rid of six days seven nights from our list? I'm fine with that. I think we're all on board with that.
[0:50:52] Eric: Yeah. I'm fine with losing Snake Eyes if we can lose Small Soldiers. Why are you taking me down with you? If we can lose if we lose Small Soldiers I'm fine with losing Snake Eyes.
[0:51:05] Andrew: One well let's see how many spaces do we have we have four five six seven I think at this point Lockstock makes it it feels like you guys are pretty into it. We have ten with our bubble movies. Okay. I think Halloween H20 should be cut personally before Snake Eyes or Small Soldiers. Okay.
[0:51:25] Eric: But I'm with that.
[0:51:27] Nick: Okay.
[0:51:28] Eric: But I mean I have but here's the thing here's the thing Small Soldiers does not belong on this list. No it's better than Snake Eyes. It is better than Snake Eyes.
[0:51:37] Geoff: Listen I'm a Nicolas Cage fan. I'm a huge Nicolas Cage fan and I think Snake Eyes is not a very good movie.
[0:51:42] Eric: Now here's the thing I'm not I'm not a Nicolas Cage fan at all and I think Snake Eyes is fucking gonzo and it should make this cut.
[0:51:53] Nick: Have you ever watched it in one full sitting without ads? Absolutely. Yes I have. I have.
[0:51:59] Andrew: Realistically like we're going back and forth between Snake Eyes and Small Soldiers like I think we're both going to accept the fact that that's probably like ten or nine. Oh yeah.
[0:52:08] Eric: And if that's the case they're like either one of those are ten or nine then I feel like Halloween H20 could be ten because if you left Small Soldiers and Snake Eyes off this list I like ten is such like a negligible spot that I have a real
[0:52:24] Andrew: soft spot in my heart for Small Soldiers but I don't think I necessarily feel as strongly about Small Soldiers as you do about Snake Eyes. So I'm okay with I'm sorry to hold up on defending the line Nick but I am okay if you want to.
[0:52:39] Geoff: Small Soldiers is a better film than
[0:52:42] Gavin: Snake Eyes.
[0:52:42] Nick: There you go. It's in.
[0:52:44] Gavin: Are we too worried that in the US Lock Stock came out in March 1999?
[0:52:50] Eric: Well yeah that's what we brought up originally.
[0:52:53] Gavin: Oh.
[0:52:54] Eric: I didn't know.
[0:52:55] Gavin: Wow it made 3.7 million dollars.
[0:52:59] Eric: That's why Andrew did wide releases of the summer of 98 and then this got added last minute. Well let's just take it off. Let's just.
[0:53:06] Geoff: All right let's just take it off then. The release date on IMDB or on Wikipedia I guess was the UK release date. Although yeah 28th of August 98 it would make 18.9 million dollars.
[0:53:16] Gavin: Lock stock is out.
[0:53:17] Eric: So let's just take it off. Wow. Which means I think can't hardly wait makes it in. Yeah I agree.
[0:53:22] Nick: Oh shit.
[0:53:24] Eric: And that means 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. We have nine not kept was that 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Yeah. Nine including Halloween H2O. What? And the two that we're fighting for are small soldiers. It's me. I'm just sitting back
[0:53:47] Gavin: for this.
[0:53:49] Nick: Okay. David Cross and Jay Moore and small soldiers.
[0:53:55] Eric: Yeah. That does nothing. What? Get real. Who cares? It has a video game
[0:54:02] Andrew: that was fun. There's there's chips that's what's the guy that did gremlins. It's one of his works.
[0:54:09] Nick: Did snake eyes had toys? I don't think so. No it had Carla Gugino
[0:54:13] Eric: and Gary Sinise. Oh we got Frank Langella. We got Frank Langella over here. It had Brian De Palma doing one scene over and over and over again from different perspectives like his own Rashomon but but none of it came together to really fulfill any kind of obligation or storytelling. It was fantastic. However Nick Cage wearing this suit unreal. what the fuck why? That's awesome. That's great. Yeah.
[0:54:47] Andrew: It's a pretty good suit. It's a pretty good suit. He's really good in it too. Like it is a great Nick Cage performance. Can we get that suit? What if and I don't I hate to do this Nick because we're we're linked in small soldiers. What if we got rid of Halloween H20 and then just added snake eyes and small soldiers?
[0:55:07] Geoff: What about that? How the fuck is snake eyes making it on the list when only one person wants it on the list?
[0:55:12] Eric: That's a good question. No no. That's a great point. It's me and Gavin. Me and Gavin both want snake eyes.
[0:55:18] Gavin: I never said a single word about snake eyes.
[0:55:20] Eric: Gavin's over here. Gavin's over here. He wants snake eyes. You can tell by watching what he's doing that he wants snake eyes. Okay let's take a vote. Let's take a vote. Who wants small soldiers on the list?
[0:55:33] Geoff: I do. I do.
[0:55:35] Eric: Okay and now who wants snake eyes on the list? Me me apparently. Gracie it's tied.
[0:55:50] Geoff: Well it sounds like we're going to be here all night. Well this is like picking up hope. Well it's tough because
[0:55:55] Eric: hey Gracie would you rather see small soldiers or snake eyes on this list?
[0:56:01] Nick: I feel like I have to vote snake eyes because you are my boss.
[0:56:11] Eric: Yes! Okay so we are Gavin and Gavin which one would you rather see on this list?
[0:56:17] Gavin: Small soldiers.
[0:56:18] Eric: Son of a bitch!
[0:56:21] Andrew: Democracy works!
[0:56:23] Gavin: Yep.
[0:56:23] Andrew: This sucks. Now I just won the vote but I do want to say I don't feel like I feel like passion should also be measured in this. Like it shouldn't always just be a majority decision dictating. But yeah I agree. I'm putting snake eyes
[0:56:35] Eric: in green because it's money.
[0:56:37] Geoff: How about this? How about this Eric? How about how about snake eyes is our alternate 11th pick if any of the other 10 can't perform their duties snake eyes gets to fill in.
[0:56:48] Eric: If we find out the Truman show came out in January of 99.
[0:56:52] Geoff: I mean we already got rid of lock stock so you never know that could be scarred off the bench. Okay. It's snake guys.
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[0:58:00] Eric: Hour 10 right now. In no particular order this is just what they're listed. Blade Dirty Work Truman Show Basketball X-Files Small Soldiers Boo Saving Private Ryan Halloween H2O Armageddon and Can't Hardly Wait. I think that's a strong list. There's some great movies on that list. Okay. Does anyone have any strong feelings about number one?
[0:58:22] Andrew: Yeah. Yeah. Maybe it would be easier to go ten. Yeah. I think that's instead of fighting for one immediately. I think Halloween H2O has to be ten. Yeah you got it.
[0:58:31] Eric: Small Soldiers in at number ten. Well yeah.
[0:58:35] Geoff: I think X-Files but if you guys want to make Small Soldiers
[0:58:40] Andrew: I just think the cultural relevance of X-Files makes it higher. I feel like X-Files is way higher on the list. Yeah it's a better movie I think.
[0:58:47] Geoff: If you're talking cultural relevance then you gotta stop shitting on Halloween because it had just as much cultural relevance in that time. You think it was just as big? Yeah. That movie though or just the franchise? Both. Okay.
[0:59:04] Eric: Yeah I'm not going to fight
[0:59:06] Andrew: it's on the list like wherever you want to put it guys it's fine. Okay.
[0:59:11] Eric: We fought hard for ten. Great. Okay. Number nine. Anyone feel anything particular there for nine?
[0:59:20] Geoff: X-Files.
[0:59:21] Eric: I think X-Files should be top five.
[0:59:24] Geoff: Whoa. Top five? Wow. I think I think
[0:59:27] Andrew: like five.
[0:59:28] Geoff: Then how about for number nine how about Can't Hardly Wait that movie sucks. I do. Okay. I don't think
[0:59:34] Eric: it sucks but I do think that it is a solid eight nine or ten pick to have Can't Hardly Wait there. I'm not against that. I'm fine with Can't Hardly Wait at nine. Yeah.
[0:59:45] Geoff: Here's my problem. I think there's one clear winner and then I really don't give a fuck between two through ten. What do you think
[0:59:51] Eric: the clear winner is?
[0:59:53] Geoff: I think it's pretty obvious the best movie from the summer of 1998 that's the clear champion is Dirty One.
[0:59:58] Andrew: No.
[1:00:00] Geoff: Absolutely. It's in the top three. I don't think
[1:00:04] Andrew: I would I would if it's in the top three it's number one.
[1:00:06] Eric: I think if it's
[1:00:08] Andrew: in the top I don't know about that. I'm gonna I'm gonna make an argument and this is maybe like a both a positive and in my opinion a negative for this movie. I think it kind of weighs it down. I think Saving Private Ryan is an incredible movie but it's not a 98 movie to me like I feel like you could release Saving Private Ryan now and it would be one of the best movies of this year like it's not to me a real reference of that time period. I think you could say the same thing about Dirty Work.
[1:00:36] Eric: Yeah I don't I don't know why you think a movie being so good you could release it now would be detrimental to its selection on this because I can
[1:00:44] Gavin: point that because this is the summer of 98. This is the summer of
[1:00:47] Eric: 98 and like yeah Saving Private Ryan is like a like a tantamount thing like it's huge in the summer of 98.
[1:00:56] Andrew: Sure it released then but I'm saying like when I think of 90s things I think of the X-Files. I don't think of Saving Private Ryan then Can't Hardly
[1:01:04] Eric: Wait should be like number two.
[1:01:06] Andrew: Yeah I agree. It's about as that I would have it's like the movie Go. No but I'm saying I personally would have it higher. I'm agreeing with you like I would have Can't Hardly Wait probably like six.
[1:01:15] Geoff: No offense to you but that's just like your opinion man. Definitely. A lot of people associate the summer 98 with Saving Private Ryan. I think Saving Private
[1:01:26] Eric: Ryan for me Saving Private Ryan is number one on this list.
[1:01:28] Geoff: I mean I understand Dirty Work is not going to get number one. It's my number one but I assumed Saving Private Ryan would be number one.
[1:01:34] Andrew: That's what I really I did I think there's a different movie that is number one personally. Basically I mean
[1:01:41] Eric: you think you think
[1:01:42] Andrew: Blade is number one Andrew. No no I don't. I don't think Blade I think Blade stopped five. That's what I thought he was thinking.
[1:01:48] Geoff: I think Blade is a top five film. It sounds like we've got about nine movies that we all want to put in the top five.
[1:01:54] Andrew: And yet it's my opinion that's all I have. I'm not saying I'm right. I'm just stating like that's that was my perspective. Okay. Do we have one that we think should be eight. What's what's number number so
[1:02:11] Geoff: number 10 is
[1:02:12] Eric: about how about number how about
[1:02:13] Geoff: Halloween. Nobody like put Halloween number eight.
[1:02:16] Eric: Yeah.
[1:02:17] Nick: I'm fine with that. Yeah.
[1:02:18] Gavin: Yeah. Pull the stuff that barely made this list into the yeah.
[1:02:22] Nick: Armageddon is seven. Are you serious? Armageddon is like number two. Armageddon is probably
[1:02:30] Gavin: three under Truman show.
[1:02:32] Andrew: I think I'm fine with Armageddon at seven. I'm not an Armageddon
[1:02:36] Gavin: fan. I'm not a huge Armageddon fan but that movie summer of 98 written all over it. That's massive explosive fire font. That's true.
[1:02:47] Nick: I didn't see it 10 years later. Yeah.
[1:02:49] Andrew: I saw it much later as well. So like I think that's a very valid point. I just I think I would personally rank it like at seven but I can see where you're coming from.
[1:03:00] Gavin: You always train drillers to be astronauts and not astronauts to be drillers.
[1:03:03] Geoff: Here's here's my question. I have a question. Are we picking the best movie of 1998 or the movie that was like the best movie I guess emblematic of 98 because I feel like we're going we have two scales here.
[1:03:18] Andrew: I think yeah I think that's what makes it tough is I think both scales to me at least have relevance.
[1:03:23] Geoff: Yeah because I think Armageddon is not a very good film and I wouldn't want to watch it again but it's hard to argue that it wasn't like totally one of the biggest things in at least America in the summer of 98.
[1:03:34] Gavin: Oh internationally huge as well.
[1:03:35] Geoff: Yeah that's what I'm
[1:03:36] Eric: saying it's like it's like number one number two material.
[1:03:39] Geoff: When was Deep Impact out wasn't that around the same time but a little bit before came out like right before it same year. Okay.
[1:03:46] Eric: If I'm doing one two three if I'm picking one two three saving private Ryan Armageddon Truman show. That's my one two three I'm letting you know right now that's how I feel about what we have on this list.
[1:03:58] Geoff: Mine would be dirty work basketball Truman show. Wow.
[1:04:02] Gavin: If Jeff's thinking basketball could be in top three I'm absolutely fighting for basketball to be. It's without Eddie already my favorite film.
[1:04:10] Andrew: Yeah. Mine would be Truman show dirty work blade my top three.
[1:04:18] Nick: Oh blade's so good. Mine's up there to be saving private Ryan Truman show blade. Wow.
[1:04:25] Eric: I will say that I think we all pick Truman show to be a top three. I think Truman show is one personally. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. If we all say it's top three and it's the only one we agree on it might be number one. All right. Let's put it let's
[1:04:39] Geoff: slide it in a number one right now just to get it out of the way. Yeah. That's a good idea. We're working with
[1:04:43] Eric: I it really Gavin it's it's a great it's a great pick and it really is to me it's a number one.
[1:04:50] Gavin: I feel like it's one of those films where I just want to know more about the universe like I want to know more about the behind the scenes. It's like I probably why I like Westworld and stuff where it's just like they don't over explain anything that's happening it's just like you get little glimpses like oh I guess people are coming in through the the elevators.
[1:05:07] Andrew: Oh and I think what you were saying Jeff I think it is the perfect balance of both those scales like to me it is a very 90s idea and how it's portrayed and it's also just a fucking great movie like it hits both things for me is why I would have it at one. Okay.
[1:05:24] Eric: I think X-Files is a number five number six on this list. I'm fine with that.
[1:05:31] Gavin: Yeah. It could be anywhere in five six or seven. Put it at six right there.
[1:05:35] Andrew: Okay. I think that's fair like you have a real genuine like and deserved hatred of it. I think that you just put Halloween ignoring what you say.
[1:05:43] Geoff: I was a little bit older than y'all so that's funny I was I was 23 in the summer of 98 so I still remember all this pretty well.
[1:05:52] Eric: I would put basketball at a number four or number five personally.
[1:05:57] Gavin: Oh I would love to see it at four. Let's put it at four right now.
[1:06:00] Nick: Yeah let's do it
[1:06:01] Gavin: for that was the first film I watched that had you know the one joke every five seconds sort of thing that was also just a filthy movie and I just loved both aspects of that.
[1:06:12] Eric: I think Dirty Work is a number five because I really do think two and three are Armageddon and Saving Private Ryan.
[1:06:21] Andrew: I think Saving Private Ryan I'd put it at I'd put it at five.
[1:06:29] Gavin: Did you appreciate Saving Private Ryan in the 90s there Eric?
[1:06:33] Eric: Yeah.
[1:06:34] Gavin: Were you old enough?
[1:06:35] Eric: Yeah. Watching that movie the scene where he's like where it's like the knife fight with the Nazi and he's like pushing it into him is like in my fucking brain for the until the day I die it's in my brain. That movie was like it changed shit and is so big and so it was just such it was such a film. It was huge. Huge.
[1:07:03] Geoff: All right. My problem with that film is that it came out the year I got out of the military and it was probably the most realistic depiction of battle I've ever seen and I cried buckets through the entire film and I have never sat through the movie since anytime I I tried to watch it at Bernie's house a couple years ago and I just started bursting in tears and I couldn't handle it and I had to leave which is like that movie affects me in a way I just I'll say I don't like it because of how upsetting
[1:07:31] Eric: I understand the
[1:07:32] Gavin: shot the shots of the ramps coming down off the boats is one of the most disturbing scenes in any film a hundred percent just thing like holy
[1:07:39] Eric: shit it's so crazy and Vin Diesel's in
[1:07:44] Nick: it not for long
[1:07:46] Andrew: though not for long I so I submitted he's in it I ranked every one of these and then I sent my list to TPG and TPG I'd love to include it at the end of this he did like a reaction to every one of my picks and he gave this fun this great fun fact about saving private Ryan I guess when they were doing like the combat training for it Vin Diesel was notoriously shit at throwing fake grenades he was awful at it and I don't know if they like had to change things because of it but just everyone made fun of how bad he was at throwing the grenades terrible that tracks it
[1:08:21] Eric: does you would you wouldn't put saving private Ryan at number
[1:08:23] Andrew: two I think you guys have made some really great points for it like I'm not if it's there I'm totally fine with that I think I'd personally have it a bit lower but I think it's well-deserved it's like an amazing I mean if
[1:08:33] Gavin: if Schindler's list was in this list would it be a number one yes yeah yeah yeah all right put it at number two
[1:08:40] Eric: okay number three it how how is it not Armageddon
[1:08:45] Geoff: because dirty work exists and basketball
[1:08:50] Eric: exists that's nearly a
[1:08:52] Gavin: reason blade exists I feel like obviously Armageddon huge 98 movie everywhere all over the advertising but there's no way that holds up as anything worth watching now I watched
[1:09:04] Eric: it in probably June still liked it fun as hell when they go to the strip club and they start telling the strippers that they're extra it's so fucking funny there are so many good moments it's it's a lot of fun even when
[1:09:21] Gavin: Steve Buscemi just starts going ape shit
[1:09:23] Eric: yeah it's look when it looks so 90s the budget is way too high but that's just what 90s movies were they were just exorbitant like they were ugly um but like man it's really good it's it's still like a really fun
[1:09:38] Gavin: movie oh it's also got the Aerosmith song though oh that is just so so 98 I I think
[1:09:46] Andrew: I'd be okay with Armageddon at three if Dirty Work was four I would know you're bumping basketball huh
[1:09:53] Eric: I can see I can see that too yeah I could
[1:09:55] Geoff: live okay yeah I think we do have to live with that okay yeah here's what's gonna happen and this is why this when it's all said and done we're gonna have a good list I don't think any of us is gonna be happy with the list at the end of it yeah and that's how you know like that's how you know you truly compromised if nobody got their way then we got a good list yep
[1:10:14] Gavin: yeah I mean I'm looking at this list and I would skip a few and just go straight to baseball if I had to watch any of these movies now like some of these movies are heavy movies that puts
[1:10:24] Geoff: blade at seven I don't like blade at seven I don't like blade at seven blade but switch blade and x-files yeah yeah I
[1:10:31] Eric: could yeah I would switch blade next files that's yep I can live
[1:10:34] Andrew: with that I know I don't want to continue to push it is blade above basketball oh my god I don't know it might be it's so 90s and it's so good I can't skate uphill so great it's so good the little fucking the big sticker the hand gesture he does like that weird fist bump thing in the leather suit it's so good it's so dumb he is so fucking cool but what
[1:11:06] Gavin: about when Koop and Rima make out under the malakalaka board what
[1:11:12] Andrew: about one fucking lem from the shield thinks he's going to a party and is having a great time and then fucking blood pours from the ceiling from all the sprinkler heads and they go crazy and he's terrified it is such a memorable intro oh it's so good blade one is so good
[1:11:32] Geoff: head that dude was awesome he was oh he's
[1:11:35] Andrew: great he's great in everything he's in he was great in that show too man so good in the shield
[1:11:40] Geoff: fuck yeah let's go alphabetical basketball blade yeah that makes
[1:11:45] Eric: sense I think basketball is above blade I do too and I
[1:11:51] Gavin: have a blade tattoo that
[1:11:53] Eric: says a lot you know what
[1:11:55] Gavin: I'm gonna get a lazy boy tattoo
[1:11:56] Eric: do Matt Stone and Trey Parker like basketball I
[1:12:05] Gavin: don't think so I assume that okay I think they don't think they like each other they were making it just for shits and giggles it between South Park episodes right they were like barely awake the whole movie because it's
[1:12:18] Eric: not like they didn't write it or anything right and
[1:12:21] Geoff: they did everything I think they did everything I've read is that they hated all the movies that they made and they hated the process of making films yeah and it almost directed it almost destroyed their relationship
[1:12:30] Eric: I think directed by David Zucker writers David Zucker Robert Locash and Lewis Friedman oh wow written by them it's not I assume they wrote and
[1:12:38] Geoff: directed no no I was yeah it was the Zuckers they did or they did Orgasmo and Cannibal
[1:12:44] Eric: Musical it says on IMDB that they agreed to do the movie because with the assumption that by the time filming began South Park would be canceled
[1:12:57] Gavin: wow budget budget 25 million 7 million oh there
[1:13:07] Geoff: you go well maybe we'll go block out box office what a blade make did I make more
[1:13:11] Eric: than 7 million okay so here's our top 10 list as uh picked by us number 10 small soldiers number nine can't hardly wait number eight Halloween H20 number seven the X-files number six blade number five basketball number four dirty work whoo number three Armageddon number two saving private Ryan and our number one pick for the summer of 98 Truman Show I think that's a good list yeah I'm not happy with it uh so yeah yeah so so I think that means it's a good list yeah what would you change what would I change you're asking what would I change yeah what would you both flip what would make you happier it was saving private Ryan would be number one yeah Armageddon would be number two Truman Show would be number three uh blade X the rest of it's
[1:14:11] Eric: probably fine small soldiers would not be on the list snake eyes would be on the list uh well snake eyes is first off the bench it's true right if number 11 snake eyes if can't
[1:14:21] Geoff: hardly wait can't uh fulfill their obligations then snake eyes is in
[1:14:25] Eric: that's true that's true uh what about you thoughts yeah I
[1:14:32] Gavin: think it's uh I can't argue any further with this list yeah I would I would probably I think one and two could easily swap for anyone but I'm very happy with Truman Show number one I think
[1:14:44] Eric: it's fair I think it's a fair choice to have Truman Show at number one I it's not what I would put there but I think by virtue of us all putting it top three it deserves to be there and making this
[1:14:56] Gavin: list if you don't know it's coming when he crashes the boat into the wall it's such a shocking such an amazing moment it also is
[1:15:04] Andrew: interesting to watch now like I watched it for the first time maybe like two or three years ago and just the living in a world where like vlogging wasn't a thing like the way that they talk about it is so interesting now to like watch it within a modern context of like the the amount of of work they do to essentially create a vlog is fascinating mm-hmm that is pretty much what it is huh yeah it's like this entire like they could not predict that people would willingly just do this and
[1:15:36] Gavin: such a good point do it voluntarily
[1:15:39] Andrew: yeah like it's so much effort and money for a thing that people would do but then it creates a question of like how influential was the Truman Show and vlogging as an idea like did that have an impact in the culture going forward I think it must have I think
[1:15:53] Eric: it would do so yeah um yeah there's
[1:15:57] Gavin: people in the bath watching people live
[1:15:58] Eric: I live there
[1:16:00] Geoff: that's my summer home yeah their name is Andrew
[1:16:04] Eric: all right well this has been uh this has been a lot longer this took longer than I thought it was uh but none of it I think is bad I think all know very like
[1:16:13] Andrew: this is strong yeah I was worried that this would go by too quickly but this was a great recording and thank you guys so much for thanks for being willing to do
[1:16:21] Geoff: this together Andrew yeah this is a really great idea Andrew what a year
[1:16:25] Eric: what a summer what a great summer this was the last good year 1998
[1:16:29] Gavin: don't tell that to 2013 yeah I do I do think there is an argument for 2013 as being that really good year
[1:16:36] Eric: that's okay so for context of people who are listening to this and I don't think we talked about it in this episode but right before um Jess and Erica on our sales team have been uh having a debate sort of outside of our summer of 98 stuff where they think that 2013 is the year that they're very like like oh that's what I missed and all like these things around 2013
[1:16:59] Gavin: because here's why I'm I'm floating down the river I've got a beer in my hand and uh get lucky by Daft Punk is playing out of someone's speaker and it's just like that's pretty good well you know this is this is good everything's fine
[1:17:11] Eric: uh take me back blurred lines was everywhere it was inescapable
[1:17:16] Geoff: never mind
[1:17:17] Eric: absolutely inescapable
[1:17:20] Geoff: just threw it in my mouth a little bit
[1:17:21] Eric: yeah uh 2013 had a couple of songs or had like some like music and everything but if you go to like the movies of 2013 and then you look at just summer of 98 insane the difference because 2013 doesn't hold a candle to this
[1:17:39] Gavin: blurred lines went diamond
[1:17:41] Eric: yeah dude massive what is diamond
[1:17:44] Gavin: 10 platinums yep
[1:17:46] Eric: wow it was huge i mean i don't think people understand how big it was massive and then sued uh for the rights anyway andrew you should take us out from this do a little a nice little outro
[1:17:58] Andrew: i will take us out i will before i do the outro i just you know how they have those like dvds where it's like four films in one like those budget dvds imagining our top four is a four pack is a wild ride that's a good one though saving private ryan armageddon to dirty work detection there's a lot of range in that four pack you're getting a real experience well this has been the summer 98 movie list thank you so much you guys for for going through this process with me we're all unhappy but i think that makes us happy as a collective which is great uh if you watch this please let us know what your top 10 would be would you have snake eyes i bet you won't what enjoy the next piece coming up which will be the music of 98 which i have no idea how that will go poorly bye that was terrible that was i i really like my intro to it better than gavin's outro i would say as bad if not worse at least the closing part i didn't know how to end
[1:18:56] Gavin: as bad as mine i think so it was pretty bad i think i don't think it was was i think it was great up until
[1:19:03] Eric: the end i really think it was really good until you yeah you tease the last piece of content you shouldn't have done that yeah i think you got in
[1:19:10] Geoff: your head a little bit yeah i did i was
[1:19:12] Eric: nervous bye
[1:19:13] Unidentified: it's your boy tpg it's wednesday july 19th someone's lawn mowing outside i got a craving for a quesadilla and the legend andrew pantin just sent me the list of the 1998 movies which we'll be looking at right now let's go ahead we're opening it up and we're off all right number one in the ranking i see is the truman show classic goaded what else do it needs to be said the fact that this movie impacted a generation peter weir underrated director obviously jim carrey you know jim carrey actually has a very strange autobiography like sci-fi head trip of a book that i would recommend definitely check that out dirty work number two massive face energy saw this in the theaters great call blade number
[1:20:14] Unidentified: three best superhero opening ever made introduced me and my whole family to techno iconic one-liners sick fighting probably david goyer's best writing just a dope movie private ryan dope movie fun fact i saw this uh screen at the arrow in los angeles on film and they were talking about the legendary boot camp that people went to and adam goldberg was there and he told this story how our boy vin toretto himself could not throw a grenade like he didn't have the throwing ability in his body and it was very stressful so sorry to put that out there dom wrong flick cues i don't know what that is i should watch it massive cred gap out of sight soderberg great flick i saw this at a sleepover i don't really understand what's going on can't hardly wait love hewitt great flick haven't seen it since
[1:21:15] Unidentified: also at a sleepover small soldiers in the eighth spot just watched this movie with my entire family weak not weak but just like average opening it's just an insane finale i don't think i'll ever get the image of the little corn the comp sticks getting shot into some kid's leg by a psycho commando you know and obviously this movie is just so nuts the end incredible armageddon what else needs to be said outside of the fact that you guys gotta track down the audio of michael bay talking about the spacesuits a lot of people talk about the ben affleck making fun of the movie and the astronauts that's cool and i have my own thoughts on affleck but the bay talking about spacesuits is iconic basketball first glimpse i think of trey and matt's brilliance uh and then we're moving into a couple other ones x files movie my
[1:22:15] Unidentified: parents took me to see this it was awesome really kind of blew my mind shout out to like the black goo or the black tar which also would come back again in prometheus so i think they're canon mulan never saw this one why do fools fall in love never saw that one ever after i think i didn't go on a date to see that madeline i'll read the books parent trap saw this one recently pretty fun that really creates like a weird wish fulfillment i would say of young girls hoping that they have another set of parents and a long-lost sister who is extremely rich mood and negotiator samuel l heater movie dude like this one a lot i think this was f gary gray who has put together a really interesting career for himself for sure snake eyes to palma i didn't understand the artistic clout that was in this movie but i did enjoy like it as kind of a weird spiritual sequel that teaches all the fans of the nick k trinity the rock bad boys and con air
[1:23:18] Unidentified: about art perfect murder don't remember this one airbud 2 not a big dog guy something about mary low-key overrated halloween h2o never saw it wasn't into scary movies then lethal weapon 4 introduced the entire country to jet lee dope movie dr dolittle no thanks 54 i think this is a gourmet movie about a disco not for me six days seven nights shout out to anne h shout out to harrison ford of course dance with me don't know what that is disturbing behavior this has been on my list for a minute mafia love jay moore you know loved him in air dead man on campus heard of it never saw it how still i got her groove back never seen it avengers saw this in the theaters very confusing and i would say like we're missing the faculty which is crazy now what's going on for the you know we went
[1:24:19] Unidentified: and our heads did won't get out of the technology are somewhat KNOW it and i'm hoping to get out of the car and some of the commercials i can see with you but w i'm a little larger than the movie but it's not so cool so i want to make it be an overview of this of the technology that i want to and you know i said like i'm having a little more more timeOOOO i want to be an overview of that you can see in the environment and we can see where we can see that there's anything that I mean you can see it love it's very different and we find that you can see it the
