The Big Picture - The 1988 Movie Draft

Episode Date: March 26, 2026

We’re drafting again! Sean and Amanda are joined by Chris Ryan and Bill Simmons to draft their favorite movies from the year 1988. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan Producer: Jack Sanders Production Support: Lucas Cavanagh and Jacob Cornett Talk to a State Farm agent today to learn how you can choose to bundle and save with the Personal Price Plan®️. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there®️.Visit us in stores and online https://Warbyparker.com/BIGPICTURE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Simmons. When were you last on this show? I don't know. A year ago? I never asked. Well, you said to me, you never ask about a week and a half ago. And I was thinking about it, and we were talking about 1988 as a movie draft. And I go down the list, and I was like, a lot of Bill Simmons bangers in here.

A lot of your stuff is in this year. A freshman year in college. Hold on. I don't. I don't want to talk about that yet. Because you have a million movie opinions, and some of which you're brave enough to share publicly, some of which you keep to yourself. I share all of them.

I don't keep anything to myself. It all winds up coming out. You don't have anything to debut here? Yeah. Did you prep any modern movie stuff for us? Oh, modern stuff. Yeah. Well, you didn't tell me to.

Well, did you see Project Hail Mary? I didn't see that yet. Okay. It's long. I saw that it's like a commitment for me during, during like, the height of when I'm studying MBA and March Madness. like three and a half hours basically start to finish. Is Hamit still your number one film of 2025?

Wasn't my number one film? It was my number one performance. Okay. I think that's fair. Really appreciated it and liked it. You're talking about the little kid, right? Yeah. You seen it yet?

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Availability, amount of discounts and savings, and eligibility vary by state. As always, the comedies always get swept under the rug at the Oscars, which I know is a big passion point of yours. It is. Were there any big comedies in 25? Happy Gilmore, too? None that I could remember. Okay. Yeah.

Kind of an issue. I thought it was a good movie here, though. So it was, I think, like an A-minus. A lot of big directors, some good arguments, good for content. Yeah, we had a nice time. My favorite movie was probably sinners, but I know that's minority opinion. But it was the one I saw the most times. I think it's only minority in the academy at this point.

I feel like most people are pretty... How high up would F-1 be for you? I've seen it three times. I loved in the theater. I understand why it didn't win the Oscar. I wasn't expecting it. When that movie gets nominated for Best Picture, are you excited? Are you like, hell yeah?

This is what we need in the Academy? I thought we should have done seven. I think seven's the right number. Seven films nominated. For Best film. This year or every year? I think nine's a little fat sear. I do too.

I think that there's a lot of sacred, like, ceremonial sacrifices that just get thrown into this picture. The first one you would have cut this year with sinners. The second one was what? Secret agent. Seventhial value. Just a way to focus on women. and I would have recut Hamnet and just made it about Paul Meskell. Yeah.

Yeah. Sure. He should have been the one performing. There should have been a male tech on F1. It shouldn't have been Carrie Condon. It should have been another guy. No, I think it was a really good movie year. And even some films that weren't even nominated were some of my most beloved. You know one of the reasons it was a good movie here?

Because we didn't have a two-year pandemic and we were actually able to make stuff again. Yes. Yeah. Outside. Because if you look back at the... Like when we were the first couple years of the ringer, like the, they were pretty good movie years. We had a lot of stuff to talk about. I think the best one was the one right before COVID-19 was amazing. But also 2017 was Lady Bird and Get Out and Phenom Thread and, yeah, 2017 and 2019 were amazing years.

Yeah. So I think we're back. We're clawing back for sure. But we have this next generation, these 18 to 22-year-olds who've just been filming stuff with their phones since they were like seven years old. These are going to be our next Scorsese. Are they going to go to cinema or are they going to become influencers and content creators? No, they're going to have their next view of just how to make. People who like movies but also have all those skills, that's going to be our 1970s crew.

What stopped you from being one of those people? It was too time consuming and demanded way too much focus. What about talent? Did you have it? Not really. Not for that. The secret breaks would have been good for you though. Hold on, guys.

You've got to take a break. Five minutes. I'm just going to talk to the DP for a second. I found a way to take cigarette breaks without even becoming a filmmaker. Can I ask you one more? Modern Cinema question. Yeah. The Odyssey, in or out.

Awesome. All the way in. All the way in. Yeah. You're excited about the source material? Chris Nolan. Do you think Damon's going to bring any Boston to Greece there? I'm in.

I've intentionally tried to read nothing, watch any trailer, and I don't know who's in it other than Matt Damon. Okay. Do you know the story of the Odyssey? Of course. Do you think Matt Damon is? just going to hit the Cyclops whether you think you better than me.

It's in play. It's in play. This is probably the last act for him because he's heading into his late 50s and I think it's hard to be in action here after a certain point. You think he might die soon? What do you mean by that?

No, I just think you age into a different level of roles. I think he's well suited to the older man. He's going to embrace it whereas somebody like our guy T.C. has not. Timothy Shalame? No, Tom Cruise.

Oh, right. Okay. Not embraced it. Yeah. No. Well, we'll see this fall. We never talked about the probably bullshit rumor that Tom Cruise was going to be the villain in Joseph Kaczynski's Miami Vice. We didn't. I'd like to actually get your thoughts on

all of this. I told you my thoughts immediately. Did not pass the sniff test. It didn't seem real. No. It was debunked for us by it by a source. I like to sometimes live in like the alternate reality. You want T. You want T.C. back out there? TC is Calderone or whatever. Like TC just being

being like Neal from collateral but in Miami Vice again would be amazing. Do you want him doing like a Puerto Rican accent? No. Would you be comfortable with that? No, we could iterate on his ethnic background. I'm just saying like Miami Vice is rich with characters like that that he couldn't have it. My dream for T.C.

I'm not just saying this because Amanda's here, but like a Nancy Myers thing where he's like a divorced or a widowed older guy falling in love with like a slightly younger woman like an Ann Hathaway. Maybe like mid late 40s. Let's do it. His greatest stunt having a human relationship. You got to get him out of the helicopter, though. I want to say, like, basically, Jerry McGuire 30 years later, coming to grips with some stuff. What's a good Nancy Myers-esque title? Is it like, it's about time?

And, like, it's a double entendre with, like, we finally see Tom Cruise back in the space. You got to hand it to him. Yes. Honestly, very good. And Cruz is like... It's like a bouquet of flowers in one hand and his cell phone and the other. He's got to make a choice. Yeah.

Love or money. And Albert Brooks and... And, you know, Alec Baldwin were like, oh. I guess James was the one with Reese Witherspoon, where she was a softball player. How do you know? How do you know? That was Nancy Myers was like, man, that's a great title. How did you take that in me?

How do you know? How do you know? Question mark. No, no question mark. Are you sure? I'm almost positive there's no question mark at the end of that title. No, you're right. James Brooks getting like 10 years to research softball is one of the great. Well, you do it for free.

Did you see all again? it. No. It's tough. Willem McKay. Is that what it's called? L. O. McKay. My wife and I tried to watch. My wife was out in 15 minutes. I held on for another like six. Right. It was on Hulu. I just couldn't like hanging on the clip.

I'm hanging on. It's James. I just didn't work. Yeah. Cudos to him for continuing to make movies. It's just that one didn't work. Do you work no 1988 movie? No. Because 87 is this is. This is really his era though. This is kind of a nice segue C.R. You're ready to go forward? We can stick

around on contemporary cinema if you want. Let's start with you, because I know Bill has a lot of thoughts about this time, but who were you in 1988? What were you doing? Just banging on doors for Dukakis, you know, making sure. The Duke? Were you the one who put him in that tank? I was like, people love it.

11-year-olds are going to love it. No, I was a VHS kid. So a lot of these movies, I've seen double digits times, I wouldn't say very many. of them I saw in the theater, but this was like the peak of going and renting two, three videos a day and coming home and then getting late charges and forgetting to rewind and all the things that went along with blockbusters and smaller video stores back then. But what a time. Plus we had cable too. So there was two different ways to go see whatever. I was looking at the box office. You know, box office mojo also has like, you know, like the release date and all this

stuff. And in April, there was still stuff from the previous Christmas in theater. Like, like, Good Morning Vietnam is still in theaters in like a thousand theaters in April. And that was also a thing I do think I remember is maybe getting to go see movies much later in their runs if my parents finally broke down and were like, I don't know what to do with you so you can see Good Morning Vietnam. Yeah, just an incredible variety of stuff. And also, I don't even trust the box office figures because there was so much sneaking into the next movie and going for the entire day and seeing three movies.

That's what we did over and over again. I mean, most horror movies, you could probably add like $2 million on just all of kids sneaking into them. There was nobody working in any theater. It would be like a 14 movie theater complex. There's only a couple of these left in bigger cities, and you would just go at 12 and just bang out three. Were you seeing a lot of movies at this time? Oh, yeah. In the theater.

Oh, yeah. We had less to do. Yeah. Yeah. But it was, we knew what was coming out. I think Premiere magazine was already around at this point. There was just starting to be like some sense of the culture of it. And as you can see from the movies we're about to draft,

they were just fucking awesome movies with huge stars. It was like, I remember seeing cocktail with my, we talked about this when we did the rewatchables with my buddy Jim Grady in New York City, where we were going out in New York City that night because we could legally drink there. But we saw cocktail during the day, and it was like, we structured this whole day.

We'll see cocktail at 2.30 show. We'll drive it in the city. But it was like a big deal. Some of these actors, excuse me. Rob Williams. We didn't know who Bruce Willis was yet, but Cruz. Costner. Stallone's in here.

Costner, I cared about at this point. We just had people you wanted to go to the theater for, which has been the problem, really, this entire century. How many people do you want to go see just because it's like Costner and baseball movie? Yeah, that's a really good way of putting it. Yeah. Who were you? What were you doing?

I was three turning four. So I was primarily interested in the Oscar-winning cinema of Julie Andrews at this point on VHS. So this is another draft where you're doing the homework after the fact. And so it's kind of what got handed down to me by my parents in the world's number one Barry Levinson fan, Knox Dobbins, my dad. And then what I sought out on my own and what kind of rises to the pop cultural. This is important. Like you need to check this out even though it's been 10 or 15 years later. So it'll be interesting.

Some of these categories are very full. And some of these categories, a little padding from me. That's okay. I have a question about that, but I want to hear your biographical snapshot of 1980. I was six. I probably just started going to the movies pretty regularly at this time. I was just telling a story to someone the other day that where I grew up, there was about an eight-minute walk from my house. I grew up near the Walt Whitman Mall.

I grew up in Huntington, which is where Walt Whitman was born. Everything was named after Wall Whiteman. The Walt Woman Mall had a single movie theater attached to it. It's one of the very first mall movie theaters in America. I'd open in 1963. And I saw a shit ton of movies there in my life. It's closed now. But I can remember going to that mall with my little sister and going to see all of the new golden age Disney classics.

So like in 89, it was The Little Mermaid. In 90, it was the Beauty and the Beast. In 92, it was Aladdin. In 94, it was the Lion King. So, like, I remember that stuff very vividly. I don't remember watching a ton of these movies. in 88, just because I'm a little bit younger. Except for Who Frame Roger Rabbit, which established his love for Redheads from that moment.

We will get there for sure. Bringing up Who Frame Roger Rabbit, this is an interesting list in that there is one film here that is like emotionally significant to each person at the table that I could think of off the top of my head. I just one. Well, not just one, but there's one where it's like if the person in question doesn't get it, it hurts. Yeah. It scars the mythology a bit. I haven't had a draft like this in a minute. And that's intriguing.

And, you know, and Sean's is who framed Roger Rabbit. I think we all know. Yours has already been name checked. Nobody knows what mine is. You're full of surprises. There are a few big Bill movies on this list. Big Last Temptation of Christ, guy. Good soundtrack.

Well, you guys certainly share one in this year. But I thought this would be a really fun one for the four of us, specifically because, like you say, there's these, like, talismans, these idols. It really matters for us. I mean, the bummer was the sequels were really bad. Bad. So I was curious about this, Sean. Couldn't believe it.

You elected sequels. He texted me this morning being like, is sequels really happening? Was this on purpose? For some reason, I had made my list. I had kind of sort of lightly organized it. And then I was like, did I miss five movies? And I was like, no, I think this is just a challenge. And then also your box office slider very interestingly went to 75.

Well, I'll tell you my thinking. on both. One, I think these these drafts, I mean, we've now done I don't even know how many overall, almost 100 probably. Oh my God. We've done 100 drafts. Like this slow and fast at the same time. We've been saying like 60.

You might be right. We've been doing them since 2020 once a month. So how many months is that? Yeah, like 60, 65. So, yeah, so that's 60. Plus a couple, yeah. Plus five. Yeah, okay. So every time we do it, it should definitely be movies that you love.

Movies that represent what was going on in the space at that time, movies that aged better that people have a warmer feeling for. I think it's nice to get a snapshot of the state of the art. The sequel thing gives you that snapshot to some extent. The box office, here's why I did this this way. We did 1989 last year, and we had the same threshold. And there were 17 movies eligible with $75 million threshold. In 1988, there were only nine.

There also was a $350 million movie in 1989. no movie cracked $200 million in the U.S. in 1988. So what happened? What was that about? Because we think of this as a great year, but the returns don't reveal a great year in moviegoing. I'm trying to remember. I just think, first of all, there were so many movies back then

and maybe it feels like people just grabbed oxygen from other movies. It might have been way more $60 million movies, and that might have been we're not seeing that when we look at the top. There wasn't that one massive giant, thing that was coming out. And there also wasn't like the, really the phenomenon either. Because two years later, I think is pretty women. And Ghost was two or three years later.

But these movies that kind of came out of nowhere and then everybody went. And I didn't, when I was looking at the box office mojo for this, like, there's not, like coming to America was Eddie Murphy. Of course we're going to that. Good Morning Vietnam was, was Robin Williams trying to be funny. And Big had the best buzz of anything. Big was like, we all love Tom Hanks, that whole decade. And it's like this is Penny Marshall.

The studio loves it. They think it's going to be. And everybody went and then everybody loved it. I don't know how to even compare it to now because so much of now is also pocket watching with like, well, it actually costs $250 million. So I'll see it in three months and we'll see if it's in the black. Right. When you look at say that that April of 1988 that I was referring to earlier, you've got one

outlier big earner at the top. And then everything else is like bunched together. but between $10 and $16 million for that month, which is just steady. It's just doubles, you know? And I think that's what they really excelled at. And it's a completely different model where it's just like, no, we want people coming to the weekend

to come into the movies twice a week, five times a month. And so we got to give them a lot of stuff to choose from and to your point about movie stars, I think there was like a wider variety of people. It was like, I don't really know much about, you know, this cast, but I like Neil Simon. I like Matthew Broderick because I'll check it out You know or I saw that in the theater

I didn't even really like him So Biloxi blues in the theater We were like there was nothing else We had seen everything else It's like alright fine Matthew Broderick He was Ferris Bueller two years ago Let's go There's also 1908 8 starts

A lot of franchises or you know It's interesting to have a sequel category here Where there are a lot of firsts There's only one sequel in the top 10 In the box office But you know It's a starting point And maybe even a little bit of a change

Going into the 90s so the first movie doesn't rack up as much money. I think also Rain Man was number one this year at the box office, and the reason why is because it had that long tail that you were describing where it was an awards movie and it was in theaters forever. So it got to play for a long period of time. Like, Hamnett's not in movie theaters anymore. You know, one battle is not in movie theaters anymore.

It operates way differently now than it used to. But Cruz was the biggest star we had coming out of 88. This is like his MVP season. Yeah. is cocktail has no business being where you finish the ninth biggest movie like that's insane cocktails I love cocktail right yeah

it's unbelievable that it made 78 million dollars but people were just in on cruise that's because you plan to see it at 2.30 before you drove into the city might have been 50 million dollars might have been mine there was also they were using their leverage because they essentially controlled the two ways you could see movies between home video and theaters so they would control those windows where they were like if you don't see it now you have to wait a year

before it hits video shelves. So people were a little bit more motivated to be like, okay, this has been out for four months, but I want to see it because I don't want to have to wait until like next summer to see this. I do remember in the moment

the next summer, like thinking something might be heading the wrong way and even like having, because there were so many sequels and specifically the Indiana Jones movie, which we were excited to seeing we all liked, but it just felt familiar. Yeah, when I was looking at the 88 list,

it's a lot of like original stuff. that just caught people, caught actors in the right time in their career were really good ideas. Are movies that couldn't be a sequel. You couldn't have Big Two unless it was probably like a really dark thriller. Every single... She's still obsessed with them 20 years later. Every single movie in the top seven and 89 either was a sequel or kicked off a franchise. And that is just one year later where almost the opposite is true for these movies, which is really interesting.

You know, two Tom Cruise movies, two Mike Nichols movies in this year, to your point about Bullocks. blues. A lot of heavyweight filmmakers made movies this year. Two Harrison Ford movies. Right, two Harrison Ford movies. I don't usually do this, but Scorsese, Copeland, Tim Burton, Lawrence Cazden, Ron Howard, Woody Allen, Vim vendors, Clint Eastwood, Robert Zemeckis, Jonathan Demi. You can go on down the line. All of the major horror guys had movies West Craven, John Carpenter, George Romero. You know, you had your Gary and Penny Marshall had a movie this year. Frank Oz had a movie this year. Like a lot of the well-known Hollywood professionals were making a lot of movies at this time. It was very active.

and Reitman had a movie this year. So it's interesting that, like, it's a mixed bag. Almost none of them made their best movie this year. Yeah. Yeah. Bruce Willis. Well, yeah. And then there's that too.

And then that's a movie that kind of changed movies forever in a way as well. The star power is incredible. It's name a star from the 80s and 90s. They had a movie this year and it was probably a good movie. Yeah. Some people, like Hanks was in two movies. Michelle Pfeiffer was in three, four. We haven't said Michelle Pfeiffer yet.

The queen. I know. I know, but this is another thing. Julia Roberts has her kind of thrown the fishing line out. Like, I'm here, guys. Just looking at some pizza. But I do always feel like because of my age that I'm a little bit behind some of the 80s stars. Like I missed.

Do Me Moore at the height. Like Kathleen Turner. Michelle Pfeiffer, you know, by the time that we were conscious, Michelle Pfeiffer was doing, what's the movie where she, you know, teaches the dangerous minds. Yeah. You know, it's not... Different from dangerous liaisons from this year. Right, from this year.

But so, but this is, this is Fyfer at the absolute peak of her powers. I don't think I told you this. I saw, I did talk about it on the 89 pot. I saw Fabulous Baker Boys for the first time last year and I was just blown away by it. It's a grand slam. It is. The other thing about, there were some people in here in the 80s we had less to talk about. There were some people you always liked.

It was like, I was like the old, I'm buying stock. and blank joke. There was some people like, I like that guy, or I like that lady, and you're hoping it would happen. Yeah. And it really happened for a bunch of people. Like, even Hanks,

Hank's was not Hanks until big. We knew who he was the whole decade. He had big movies. Splash was a hit. But he was kind of bouncing around. You're like, is this going to happen for this guy? And then he did big. It's too this year.

Willis was on moonlighting. It's like, that guy's a movie star, and then he has die hard. But it was, there's like eight or nine of those in here. Even like De Niro doing comedy was a huge deal. Like, he didn't even know he could do that. It's also an interesting year in the relationship between mainstream and independent cinema because I don't even know if you would say this is the slacker area yet.

No, we're almost there though. Like she's got to have it to come out, do the right things the next year, sex lies and videotape is the next year. Jarmoosh puts a movie out in 89. There are underground filmmakers who are emerging, but there's not that like indie cinema Sundance moment yet. Kenan's was the one I remember from this year. I'm going to get you sucker. I don't think he spent a lot of money on it. And it was like it was like kind of a groundshold movie.

But it felt like that started either in 89 or 90, I think. Yeah, I mean, Spike had a movie. He had school days this year, but then not it wasn't the big massive breakthrough. You're right that it was not, the independent movement had not been like subsumed into Hollywood. Spike was famous in 1980. And this is Premier Max too. So it's like, you know, we're still in a moment where they haven't created like a new like movies for like awards. like there are award movies,

but I don't even know if you would even be able to define what they were at the time. You were referring earlier about certain guys in the government who got well known

for never raising their voices but starting wars. And there are a lot of film directors this year that are kind of similar like 58 year old men who are just very assured hands who are very good at making movies

but they're not a part of like a cool young class. And maybe this is like a... I don't know, I'd say every episode's a transitional moment but feels like it, right? Yeah, the other thing that changed. We're basically done with the 80s team comedies.

And you see we're moved into this license to drive. They're just not as good. 87 was like the last year where you had Camp High Me Love and like really good movies that still hold up. These, the teen movies from this era just. I hadn't seen any of them until. Not great. Preping for this.

Any other stray thoughts before we determine our draft order? Just also like this kind of mass volume Hollywood output also like really mixes up genres so that there's a lot of like you could put it in drama you could put it in action you could put it in a variety We're gonna need to talk about that

so there's seven categories Com you cut out comedy and the dot comedy is one Oh comedy is one yeah yeah I know why that isn't here Sorry guys I just assumed you missed it Yes comedy is in this yes oh okay Well I can totally miss that There's the comedy list is so long

Yes My apologies I did cut it out Seven categories those categories are drama comedy, action horror thriller, Oscar nominee, sequel, Blockbuster, The Threshold is $75 million, and a wild card. And we all have to have an Oscar nominee, and it can only be one of the five movies. Nope. It can be any movie that got an Oscar nomination that year.

Oh, you're right. Any category. So you can get a long list for that Oscar nominee. Cocktail, no nominations? I think it did get a music nomination? I think so. Let me, I was looking at it. Oh, Brian Brown got Best Supporting Actor.

Cockland's Law So the challenge As Chris pointed out is... I'm wrong, it didn't I'm sorry, Bill. I'm not shocked to hear this. So the challenge here is that There are only nine movies eligible for Blockbuster

So there will probably be a run on that category. Yeah. There are a lot of sequels, but I would not describe too many of them as beloved. That's for heads. So you had to go and do your research on that one. I assume you guys did. Yes.

You knew that comedy was coming. You feel good about you don't need to research. was coming. Sequel, I realized I would say today's Wednesday, so Monday afternoon. Okay. That's good. But with enough time. Okay.

So I budgeted some things out. We'll see. The comedy thing actually helps a little bit here. Loosens me up. Okay. Good. I mean, this might be the best lineup of comedies ever in the history of movie drafts, in my opinion. There is, I think it's 20 movies deep.

Movies that have held up. Yeah. I think that's it. Are you ready to determine the order? And you hate Funny Farm, so that's not even one of your 20? Not on my board. Yeah. Not on my board.

You hate Funny Farm? Yeah, he hates Funny Farm. It's one of the weirdest Sean opinions. When did we talk about this? It was on the watch. It was recently. You were like dismissive and pulling the full Sean on it. You were big mad.

That movie's bad. That movie's bad. No, I think it's not funny. I'm sorry. Your beloved George Roy Hill. Wasn't there a guy who's last guy? The Anna DeArvus Chris Evans movie had like a tribute to Funny Farm that was cut out. Remember that story?

Ghosted? Yeah. Dexter Fletcher was like. I had a whole opening that was an homage to funny farm. That's very weird. Did you see ghosted? I can't recommend it. Okay, let's do the draft order.

Jack Sanders. Very briefly, one thing we didn't mention, this year is also infamously known as one of the worst Academy Awards of all time with Rob Lowe and Snow White doing the opening number. Great point. And I was recently reading Michael Schulman's Oscar Wars, and he talks at great length about how both the Academy felt the industry was stale and the award show is stale.

That's why they hired Alan Carr. That's why they took a big swing. They fell on their face and it was embarrassing. But I feel like it definitely was a turning point. Yeah, they did such a great job the next year by giving the best Oscar to driving Miss Daisy. Does anybody want the first pick? Yes.

Oh, okay. No, we got to do it. Wow, manifesting it. CR. Oh, okay. The month goes on. Okay. This will be your final appearance on this show in CR month.

drafting second Bill Simmons Okay Guess first I guess Feeling good Such Such kindness From Jack Sanders

Third will be Sean You're fine Amanda Dobbins I hope so You'll be fine You're gonna get what you need I think so If everyone

You know Did you come with love in your heart Or did you come to be a spreadsheet man How many In the history of your career as a podcast How many times have you come

to an episode with love in your heart. I thought once or twice. I think so a marriage story episode. Yeah, good episode. And I think, I don't know, what's the other one where we started crying? Children of Men, that was a surprise. That wasn't love though. You were just like, what if something bad happens to me?

Well, not to me, to children. But that's too, to answer your question. And I did give you one battle after another in a movie auction once. In a movie auction once. That was good. So that's three times. That was nice. There we go.

I was excited for CR to just get weird with this entire draft and just do Last Temptation, Mississippi burning. I know. I'm listening. It can still happen. Now I'm a little bit like I'm like I wish I was third. Why? Because I feel a pressure to take the thing that's probably the best for the board versus the thing that's closest to my heart. I'm so fascinated to hear you say that.

Really? I haven't we learned also that you should always take the thing closest to your heart? That's what I've learned. But, you know, this, you could also do, what did he pick in New York, diehard D.H. With a V. D.H with a V. D.H. With a V. Ironman 3. Live your truth, buddy. So you said there was one movie you think all of us really want? There is a movie that I associate with each of you. Each person has a movie that she associates with us.

Is it accidental tourist? I can't wait to talk to you about accidental tourist. It's out of my board. Baffling movie. The second time Big Bill Hurts come up today. Not on my board. I would like to talk about Bill Hurd. Sure.

Who I... It's the end of the run right here. Yeah, I've never gotten it. I just, I don't... Not even in broadcast news. I mean, he's playing... He's well-suited for that character who you're supposed to kind of get

despite everything in front of him. You know why you don't get it? Tell me. So it was easier back then. Nobody had to crush your existence than us. I thought that would throw off the C-R now. But... I'm doing a big chill over here.

That's what Zach said. He's tall. Well, we were talking about body heat, which obviously is still really good. But even there, I'm kind of like, you're kind of just like a sack of a man who doesn't know what to do with all this sweat. And I, and Zach said, because you've never been a ball player person. Anyway, I won't be choosing accidental tourists is not my passion pick. Not a great one. Bill Hurd.

Weird Oscar. Bill hurt. I mean, he seemed like a complicated guy and had some, you know, some ugly. stuff about him. He's a great actor. Love Bill Hart. End of violence. That's a great. Remember that scene at the end? He's blinded that one, right? No, he's the brother. Sir, make a pick. Until the end of the world, he's blind.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to take Die Hard and Blockbuster. Okay, thank you. Okay. Jeez, Louise. Had me worried for a second. Really, for a long time. I thought John McLean was the coolest person that had ever been born. The funniest guy, the guy who could bring down a ring of Germanic terrorists. And now you think it's Chris Long. As they steal her bearerbond. Barabonds apparently, Bill, I don't know, you're doing research,

but I've been told reliably that Barabonds are way overrepresented in heist movies and that they're actually not a very popular way of transferring wealth. I did that on the mailbag. Did you? Well, I did a different version of what you just said. I got a DM about it. Maybe this guy was just hitting us from all angles. It's anti-Barabonds.

I'm taking die-hard. I did see this in movie theaters, and this was like my identity for the same. the year, 1988, aside from being a passionate Dukakis booster.

Well, one of those didn't really work out very well. The other worked out great. Do you feel... Would you...

If you could had a Michael Dukakis presidency, would you trade it for diehard ever of having existed? I was six. So what does that mean?

I'm not really sure ultimately, like, what did we gain or lose during HW? You want to weigh in? Bill could be flying back to the Michael Dukakis

Airport in Boston right now. That's a good point. Oh, it's like that guy H-dubs? The Duke, right? Yeah. Oh, the Duke, yeah. From Massachusetts.

He was the Massachusetts guy, yeah, no. H-W, you know. And he ran the CIA. Mondrault. And that was his VP? Who was? Was it Mondale? Mondale, yeah.

Yeah. No, Mondale Ferraro was 84, right? It was, oh, Stockdale. Yeah, Admiral Stockdale? Yeah. You guys weren't a voting age, right? Was it Stockdale who, who ran with Duke Hockus? Yeah.

Yeah. And he was a stiff. Yeah. Was 88 your first presidential election that you voted in? I could have voted. I don't think I didn't. Wait, you didn't vote for the Massachusetts guy? I don't think I made it.

I think I was probably seeing one of these movies. Jesus. Yeah. Might have voted. I don't remember. That's okay. 92. I was all in on my guy Bubba.

Okay. All right. Well, sure. Yeah. It was all in. Of course. Identified him early in 91. I'm like, this guy.

I think if I, if I'm not even going to admit that. People being really honest, I think I forgot to vote for Kerry. And I realized it, like, I was just like, everybody was like, did you vote? And I was like, yeah. Totally. And was that in Florida you were living at the time? I know, you're in New York. Okay, cool.

A lot of stuff going on. Okay, Die Hard. The strokes were out. You were busy. You think the strokes voted for Carrie? They definitely did not. Yeah, they don't. So you took Die Hard and Blockbuster.

I did. John McLean. What about him? Kind of annoying. I would be annoyed if you were my husband. That was what I thought of my rewatch. He's trying to save you the whole time. It does save me, but it's just like, you know, you got to support my career and my career mobility.

Also, it's Christmas Eve. Where is their child? Why is no one's spending Christmas? She's with the maid, right? Yeah, that's fine. It's not a Christmas movie. It's a divorce movie. And I think that Bonnie Medelia had some points.

Should we have had it in divorce month? I think she was really trolling him with by changing to Gennaro on the, Let's not change fucked-up family to Divorce Month. It wasn't Divorce Month. It was fucked up family month. Yeah. Yeah, well, I just, you know. Good point.

I disagree. I've seen it hard to, so I know how it turns out. First of all, yes. They reunite. I understand. Second of all, that was wonderful child care that the McLean family had. It is Christmas Eve. Also, who was thrown an office party or whatever?

The Nakatomi Corporation, you know? It's really, it's really good, and I do this drive all the time to go see movies. I'm going to take Rain Man in the Oscar nominee category. Oh, fascinating. All right. The reason is I don't love the Oscar nominee category. Okay. This checks a lot of boxes.

This was an awesome movie. I think it was incredibly impactful. Maybe the first movie I think of when I think of in 1988. Our guy Dusty, he got a trophy. He did. Barry Levinson, always liked his work. This is probably the most successful. thing he did. Is that fair?

I think without a question, his biggest movie. But it was really for Cruz. This was the Tom Cruise is now here in my life for the next 30 years movie. Right. Top Gun, it's like, all right, cocky guy. Like, this is good. Like, what else do you got for us, Tom Cruise? And then the Charlie Babba character becomes Tom Cruise for the next eight years.

Basically, he's just playing this over and over again. It's a really good, it's a good date movie. it's a good watch with the family movie when he tilts his head and they touch heads in the end if you don't get choked up on that you don't have a heart even Sean gets choked up

I like rain man the music's great and the Vegas scene is an all-timer and became one of those cultural things that when you went to Vegas and you saw the escalators you thought of it it's become running

there's a bunch of jokes that came out of this Wapner we got we got cultural stuff out of this and just it's a home run movie I think it's a legitimately great cruise performance. We talked about it when we did it on the pod, but he holds the movie together.

He's the one. It's the harder part. Yeah, much harder part. What's his job in Marine Man? He's like a car sale in cars. He sells high-end cars, right? Like really nice sports cars. It's also a good, like, for about 20 minutes becomes an awesome LA movie. Yeah. He's living in some, I mean, somewhere in the hills somewhere. But yeah, I love this movie. Is it an Italian lady? I can't remember her name. It's Valerie Galino? Yeah. Valer Galino. Yeah. Who, one of the any Benicio del Toro girlfriends. Oh, good for him.

Legend legendary stick, man. That guy. Benicio. All right. So that's my Oscar pick. So that's off the board. I don't have to worry about that category now. You don't.

That also is the highest grossing movie of the year. So that takes, so that we've lost two of the nine box office grocers. Sheesh. Yeah. It's part of my plan. I think it's a good plan. I'm gonna

I'm not gonna stick it to you but I am gonna make a strategic move oh boy don't do it don't do it no I'm not gonna I'm not gonna you know what actually if you're gonna do it if you're gonna do it I'm not gonna do it with your whole heart I'm not you don't both balls and like stand up in the cabin you have no idea what I'm gonna do it

be a personal attack if you did this it's a personal attack first of all I don't work that way I don't live that way I'm not that kind of man don't do it But you advocate, you like seeing it. You like seeing it in the wild when it happens. Yeah, I like to get my rocks off by watching other people. When Rob Mahoney comes in this house, he takes something from Amanda, I like it. I enjoy it.

I give it a heart. I fave it. I send it up to the cloud. Yeah. I say, thank you. Add it to your story. That's not what I do. So what are you going to be picking?

I'm going to take big and I'm going to take it in Blockbuster. Okay. Everybody's, well, now. We're all friends. That's fine. That's good. I mean, I was actually going to do that with one of my two kids. I assume it would be on the turn.

So, there you go. Who doesn't like Big? Big. It's great. It's a great film. Really sincere. What do you mean? You guys just like,

I love Big. Filmed Luis did. And you're like right at the second. That's why people tune in. I think Big is like, it's a shocking that Big works. On paper, Big is sounds terrible. And it's totally Tom Hanks, who carries the movie on his shoulders the entire time and makes you truly believe that he is a 10-year-old boy.

And it was probably a movie, probably one of the first grown-up movies that I ever saw because it was on cable nonstop one year after it came out. Almost certainly the first time I saw Hanks and an easy movie for a then seven or eight-year-old to get really into and learn about the world of being an adult. And Jeff Chow is just showing us that his family is in New York today and that they were at FAA Schwartz dancing on the keys, you know? And it's like that is something in the culture that still exists. and your boy, Robert Lodia, is in that scene. I just watched him with the scene where Josh is like, well, this, this robot doesn't do anything. It just turns into a building.

He's like, no, say more, Josh. What do you got for me? All these suits. He hates John Hurd so much in that movie. It's incredible. I think this is a beautiful movie and very funny and very sincere. And also quite weird. It's like he transforms into an adult because of a Zoltar.

That's just very strange, but I love it. So that's my pick for Blockbuster. It's a classic. It's a timeless movie. And it's a movie that as soon as... How old are your oldest kid? Four. So I can... I start to see a little bit of it now. It could be like about... No, but maybe like, maybe age six, you can actually watch that movie with your kids and feel good about it.

Yeah, but I just meant imagining him being lost in an adult world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was like, poor Knox. Like, what do I do now? But you can really... Mom, what do I do with Elizabeth McGone? I would say it's... Elizabeth Perkins.

Different wrong 80s. I would say it's in the running for Best Parent Kid movie. Like for parents to watch with kids. Oh, nice. It's way up there. Okay. Up there with exercise. And I think it's really timeless and there's an incredible amount of comedy in it that's

developed over the years. It's very funny. With, uh, she's like, call me, call me in five years, whatever she said. Like it gets like super creepy there for a second. It's really funny on the rewatches. Um, great movie. And she, I don't think she ever dated again.

That woman. Yeah. I don't think you bounce back. You know. Years and years of therapy, you still don't really come back from that one. But do you think she was that like the love of her life? Like she held a candle for 35 year old Josh? I think that part of that.

And then I think it's, am I a bad person? Yeah. What did that say about me? And then it's all of her friends being like, so wait, what happened? And I just think it's virus. She's like taking into the Zoltar machine. Like, no, no, you try it. It's crazy.

She shows up at his high school graduation after escort her out. I think it goes really bad. It's a Laterno May December situation, right? Yeah. Maybe she's a tough one. I think it goes dark. Okay. That's unfortunate.

Good luck to her. All right. Well, we know what Amanda's going to take. Yes. I have two picks. The first, in comedy, I will take my passion pick, working girl, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sogernie Weaver, Joan Cusack. Bill and I got to do a whole rewatchfuls about this, which was one of the great days in my professional life.

Yep. This is probably top five rom-coms for me. All time. I think so. Okay. You know, the list changes. It's a living document, much like myself. And it's also not a traditional romantic comedy in the sense that it's as much about her professional pursuits as it is about Harrison Ford.

And it does the nice thing where it's number one, the hottest Harrison Ford has ever been. And number two, he just shows up to be like a charming hunk of meat. And I really like it when people as famous as Harrison Ford men specifically just show up to, you know, be shirtless in the one scene changing their shirt in the office. Just an amazing movie. And I'm not going to sing the Carly Simon song, but, you know, one of the great credits sequences and great Oscar wins. Really, really important stuff. So I have another one. And this is where another pick.

I was going to do big in box office. I probably should strategically do box office because that is getting thin. And okay, so I will do Coming to America in box office, which is also eligible in comedy. And I think maybe an Oscar nominee below the line. Best costumes. So I needed to get it off the board. Yeah. So I think that I didn't see Coming to America.

in theaters in 1988. I was too small. But I think I just saw all the Eddie Murphy movies, like in a month stretch when I was maybe 10 or 11 or something. I just sat down one weekend or one month and was like, oh, this is Eddie Murphy. This is what I, you know, have been hearing about. Or, you know, like seeing and like not commercials,

but just kind of pop culture. Like he was a figure, but I'd never seen any of the stuff. he's very funny I mean this movie is very funny I think you're not going to agree with this but I think his best movie end to end

for me obviously it's a take his corners back movie yeah after Golden Child which was kind of a mess I still like it because it was Eddie Murphy but he kind of needed this one and it was like this is going to be a big movie nobody knew who Arsenio was

he had an accent there were a lot of red flags and then it ended up being what it was. It's got like five or six. It was just cry out loud for five things. It's like, you know. And I think that movie still has legs and exists. It holds up.

It does. I rewatched it before coming to America too, which was not as funny. Yeah. We don't acknowledge coming in America three. It is still really funny. And I had the experience prepping for this, some other comedies that I rewatch

and I remember like weeping laughing. And I just, I didn't laugh once. And so not all comedy ages, as we've learned, not in the like, you know, politically correct sense, but just in the doesn't make you laugh. Coming to America still makes you laugh. And like a gentle, just happy hang.

Yes. There's something about the innocence of the prince and everything in Zamunda is so funny. So specific. Yeah. It's like kind of a miraculous movie. Like for you,

I know 48 hours is one of your faves in Beverly Hills cop. Like where does this one sit? I think cops is best, probably his best performance in a movie because he just cares. Trading places, I still feel like is his best movie.

It's the funniest. And coming to America is probably the one that's going to last the longest. Because it just keeps going and going. And then 48 hours is like the punk rock debut where you're like, I can't believe this is happening.

Watch this. Fuck yes, CR. And then another 48 hours is maybe like they're like, hey, he can still play guitar. Well,

the other thing, John Amos being in this movie was a big deal in 1988. Like there's stuff that hasn't held up. Because he was the dad from good times. I was a huge, huge show. And it was like, hey, it's John. Like, it just, they felt like they stacked the deck a little bit with how they did it.

And it was completely satisfying. I was worried that they might F it up if they did not. I think we watched in my, like, neighborhood, we would just get the tape and watch the barbershop scene over and over and over again. That's the other thing. That was the first time he really did that in a movie. Yeah. The multiple characters. Yeah.

We didn't, it's not like we had like a ton of info about these movies. It was like, isn't that? Wasn't Eddie and that's like in every... Yeah. Like we just, you didn't know in the same way. He talked about it in the Netflix doc that he did where he was like, he would just show up on set and just trick people. Like they just didn't even know. Yeah.

When's Eddie arriving? And he was like, I don't know where he is. Right. Okay. Big pick for you. Yeah. I mean, look, obviously I really want to take who frame Roger Rabbit, but I don't really feel like you guys give a shit about it. So it doesn't really make a ton of sense.

But that's the thing is that like, I will absolutely spite pick it if you don't take it. Would you really? Well, now he's tricked you into doing it. Why would you do that? Don't think he'll take my next two. Fucking kill me here. That's not very nice. I invite you here.

I invite you in my house. No, I'm not going to take it next. There's two huge, huge movies for me this year. Yeah. And I haven't taken them either one of them yet. And I will just take who frame Roger Rabbit and I'll risk it. Okay. Because it feels like the most emotionally correct thing for me to do.

Good. That's beautiful We just Good, I'm happy for you Yeah Good, I'm happy for you Yeah And if you don't make it any further

That's okay That's okay too I heard that Someone texted me He was like Do not listen to the mail bagger They were rewatchables And I was like why

And they were like Well I was some notes for you in there Oh it was all out of love Yeah sure I'm sure it was It was great Who frame Roger Rabbit Saw it 1988

It cooked my noodle Just changed my absolute brain For what I thought a movie could be And what it should be I didn't know any of the reference points to 40s detective movies. I didn't really understand the idea of blending these two worlds. I knew everything about all the cartoon characters in the movies.

Certainly you've never seen Bob Hoskins before. I think Bill's point about Jessica Rabbit is probably true that she imprinted on me. A cartoon babe with red hair. That's how I felt about all of Charlie's Angels and the Bionic Woman. That stuff is real. And Linda Carter and one of the women. Except those were actual human beings and not a drawing. I think to figure out who, I guess mine was Patrick Swayzee and Dirty Dancing.

and ghost. And I was just like, oh, something interesting is here. Same for me. Yeah. And you know, who frame Rod driver?

Like an insane technical achievement nominated for six Academy Awards. It won a bunch of Oscars. It was a huge hit. It would have been the biggest hit of the year if Rain Man didn't win Best Picture. It's Zemeckis in the absolute center of his greatness, like right after Back to the Future movies.

And like, it is a little bit of a simple. finical thing where it was like, what if we put Donald Duck and Daffy Duck in a movie together? But the movie doesn't feel that way. It feels like pretty sharp and smart. It's kind of like a soft Chinatown remake. We talked about LA Confidential on the rewatchables coming up next week. There's a lot in common with it there.

When you go back to the actual like serious adult movies I like, there's a lot of Who Frame Roger Rabbit stuff that probably was seeded originally there. What category, Sean? Let's do it in Oscar nominee. Hmm. Interesting. Okay. Well, CR thought he might get one of these two movies coming down the pike, and I have two words for you. Shut the fuck up. Because I'm taking Midnight Run. Okay. Yeah. As a comedy. That was taken off the board. That was a direct. It had to be on my team. Sure. I mean, I, this is what I was worried about. I was going to have to take it first or I wasn't going to get it. Yeah. I'm surprised it lasted this long. Given the company. Excited and delighted.

It's probably going to cost me at least two other movies I really like. But this is my favorite dinner movie and performance ever. This movie was an absolute delight in the theater. It crushed. It's like among the hardest. I've seen people laugh in a theater. It holds up. Iconic rodent.

All time grott. More lines than I think any adult comedy ever. Just every scene has lines. It still holds. hilarious. A couple emotional scenes. He goes to see the wife. Brings the Duke back to his car.

Make sure he doesn't close the door on his coat. The money belt. It's just the soundtrack's great. There's stuff I pulled out of it for my own life. It's like, I've come too far. I've come too fucking far. Who did he said to Skipper? Yeah.

Too far. I just love this movie. One of the great Joey pants rolls. All these that guys, I better go get a guy. some donuts, that guy. And I think it's weird because die hard

is like starts this whole genre right that people just ripped off. And I think Midnight Run is probably the movie people have tried to make and fail version of the most. And they fail every time. I don't think anyone's ever really pulled up. That's what we were talking about nice guys

of how hard it is to do something like this. Yeah. The nice guys is probably one of the ones they got the closest. But like how do we just have like smart, funny, good structure, great lines back and forth, like genuinely funny stuff. and everybody fucks it up. Two lovable characters

who just motherfuck each other for an hour and 58 minutes and then like look at each other in the eye and like I love you at the end it is just like a perfect recipe. De Niro's so good in this movie. Yeah. When he's sitting in the bus

and he's like why do you he's killing him on the smoking and he's just killing him and De Niro's like I just like you can't like you see the life leaving his body why are you popular in the Chicago to police department

and he's just like fucking killing him It's great. I realized I'm old because when I rewatched part of it for this, I was like, oh, De Niro looks really good in this. It does. And that's because now I'm in the same age bracket. And I'm just like, wow, De Niro still got it. It's honestly like watching a basketball player play football or something.

It doesn't make sense that he's this good at comedy. He's doing stuff again and meet the parents. It totally changed his career. It totally opened up a whole new lane of movie that he could be in. And he spent more time making those movies in the last 25 years. He did making the movies he got known for. So that was part of the fun was going to the theater and be like DeNero's in This seems like it's like a comedy.

The Niro's in it. And then he was great. This movie's great. Do you own the 4K? Of course. Oh, boy. I do. It's great.

Now, what's happening to me with the 4Ks is, as you've predicted, it's getting out of control. You've gone nuts. Well, it's like, groups having a 50% off sale. I'm like, criteria flash sale. I don't even know if I'll ever watch this, but I can't believe that's only $13.99. What's the storage and display strategy right now? It's one giant tower that I'm about to. to have to get a second one.

Okay. Just for cruising, though. I have 100 copies of cruising. It's good. Unopen, though. Unopened. I just like to collect that. You get one that's really open.

I'm trying to short the market on cruising so nobody else can have it. And then they'll all be worth more. Has I haven't tried that yet? How's your collection going? Well, I have that bringing on 4K that you gave me. Yeah. Give her a 4K. Doesn't have a 4K player.

Listen, I just, I'm, no, you're right. I don't. I just have a Blu-ray. Here's where it really, not to just cater to Sean here. Okay. With the 70s and 80s movies, it really does make a difference. It does. No, I totally believe it.

I'm actually surprised. Like, I think with more modern movies, maybe not as much. But when you're going back, like, when we did to live and die in L.A., like what it did to that movie where I could, was able to see William Peterson's genitalia. Yeah. That was just like I just was never able to really see it before. That's why film preservation matters. That's right.

Yeah. For dong shots. for hang a dog This is the angle For two decades VHS obscured this man You might want to look into it Because those 70s, 80s movies

A lot of times they're filmed dark I mean you could only watch To live and die in L.A. And Pan and Scan on TV for years There was no other way to see it It's such an important point So yeah, I'm glad you've Sears's come around

You've got two picks here bud It's really, I know what I'm going to pick It's just about categories Have you taken a mortal wound By losing Midnight Run? It's more of a heart shot You know? Okay.

But you will live. But I'm going to live. You'll be like dark man. I thought you were going to take it first. That was the one that you lived. And that was in my head. I thought that was his passion project. You're still a mystery.

We don't know what yours is. I was thinking diehard all the way. You've always been a diehard boy to me. This is the first pick problem. And I also am not enamored with our blockbusters, particularly. So in comedy, I'm going to take Bull Durham. Okay. Okay.

Yeah. which is one of my most viewed movies most rewatched movies probably in my life happy opening day week to everybody who observes the church of baseball is open

can we just do just win total predictions for our teams right now for Amanda well Amanda also an avid baseball fan although a bit of a turncoat and a t-ball mom yeah

teaball gets dark Phil's how many wins 89 Okay Now are you predicting Braves or Dodgers I have renounced the Braves I have said this on the Big Picture podcast many times You said you're a guardians fan

I renounce the Braves Okay tigers I live with a Phillies fan I work with a Mets fan It's not worth it to me Okay I was there in the 90s I experienced the glory And now I and they left Fulton County

And so did I So I say goodbye As always fuck the Braves Fuck them Yeah Tom Hog Chap So you're in bad. Would you say you're a Dodgers fan, kind of?

I do like, I would like to go to Dodgers Stadium this year. It's fun. I'd like to take my son. I like watching games, but I have, like, I've closed it up to the Phillies. Thank you. Yeah. Sox. 89 for the Red Sox.

89 for the Red Sox. It's a tough division for you. I'm going 91 for the Mets this year. I'm feeling pretty good. Jack, is that too high? I think their line is 89 and a half, so that seems about right. Is it really? I think we've swapped places, though.

Wow. It went over. Just right down the middle. Went over. Yeah. 8.9. I didn't say my prediction is 89 and a half. Do you think that it will be an emotionally stable season for you?

They never is. Yeah. Where are we right now? Like just on the, on the like green to red. He's full of hope and dreams right now. We're crushing right now. One battle best picture. No, I didn't mean your emotional state.

I just meant the Mets. Well, we got through spring training with almost no injuries, give or take a mic, talk. We're doing great. All right. Am I wrong? We've swapped places. I'm protecting myself.

Do you still have a pitcher last name Dobbins on the Red Sox? He was traded. He was traded? Yeah, sorry. Where did they trade? My first game at Fenway, I got a Dobbins game. He picked him went somewhere in the American League.

Who did you guys trade for in the offseason? St. Louis Cardinal C now places. Oh, they got, was a great off season. You guys got one of our guys. You got Ranger. Yeah, we got Ranger Suarez and Contreras. It's not, not telling my grandkids. about the officees.

Roman? Yeah, it was more like guys coming. Young guys. Didn't Roman get struck out to lose the WBC? He did. Yeah, he did. That wasn't ideal. I blame Aaron, Judge.

And our guy gave up the winning run. No, we hit a huge home run. In the final. You were talking a big game about how we did nothing. Well, he had done nothing up until that point. But he had, as I've said, many times, the scariest person in Major League Baseball is is Bryce Harper. And in the biggest spot imaginable, hit a fucking tank.

to tie the game. Also, him, like, the whole Dumbrowski says he's not elite. Now he's like, I will fucking destroy you is like the best motivation. I don't want to know who he voted for, but otherwise, it's great. I think he voted for Rawman.

He voted for Dukakis. He's like, Dukakis is still running, right? Wait, bold their arm thought? An absolutely note perfect movie that still plays. It's almost like the second half of it or like the last third of it,

I say, is a drama with crash wandering around. North Carolina bar rooms, but it's so fucking funny when nuke is on the team and they're on the bus and they're doing all the stuff with the rain delays and talking about the show and really like a very like formative like relationship movie where I watched and I was like is that what adult relationships are like do you eat Wheaties in a woman's commodo? Can I look forward to that? How did it shake out? Never happened. But I always thought it would be hot if I could do that. It's not too late.

Important costume movie, too, where, like, what I said earlier about some people cementing that I'm here now. And I feel like, even though he had other hits, this was the one. That speech, even. This is the one where it's like, this guy's now one of the biggest stars in his boxers. Yeah. This is a ballplay, I accept, by the way. Is he a movie in 89 before dances and fools?

Revenge was around there somewhere? Maybe that was eight. But then No Way Out was 87. Untouchables. Fielding Dreams is 89. That's what it is. Baseball, baseball. That's what it is. In Oscar.

That's an insane run. Nominations. Nominees. I'll take marriage to the mob. Damn it. So Dean Stockwell nominated for Best Supporting role. He's a blow. He's Tony, right?

God damn it, Michelle Pfeiffer is fucking throwing 101 in this movie. You mean in 20206? In the Madison? That's great. How's that going? You've been watching the Madison? What is the Madison? What are you talking about?

Of course I'm watching. I saw this on a review. All Fifer content. Is the Madison like a boutique hotel? Is it a ranch? Like, what is it? No, she moves to Montana. Idaho?

Montana? Idaho, I think. Idaho. Oh, Madison County? She's in the, has a ranch. There's a family tragedy. It has that. It has that vibe.

Amanda, you would love it. She just has, she just is sad and drinking like, like the biggest glasses of wine. I do like that. With her mean daughters. I'm mixed. Even my wife was like, that poor is really large. Did you create the show? Yeah.

Well, you know me in the American West. Like, when I went to Montana, I was a little freaked out by the landscape. She is too. She is too. I don't know where to hide. But then she goes back to New York and she's like, this isn't my home anymore. It's a home run. Okay. It's okay.

You don't have to totally watch it as you're watching. It's one of those. You can do emails. That's how you know it's a home run. You can write emails. Well, you can turn your brain off. I got to finish that story. I'm behind.

And then you're not missing much, though. No, I mean, I know what happens. I was there for that. So I don't love this movie, so make the case for it. I think it's just got that incredible screwball, like almost classic screwball sensibility that still is updated for like a modern times. What don't you like about it?

Either way, I just haven't seen it in a while. Do you feel like it's kind of like My Blue Heaven where it's like people pretending to be gangsters, but you like watching real gangster movies? Because that sometimes is a feeling people have about, you know, if it's not like a real, like, Goodfellas like Mafia movie. It's not that funny. It's fine. I always support my lady Michelle. It gets to a lot of things before Goodfellas. There are a lot of aspects of this movie that it kind of precedes in a pretty

specific way. One of the great Long Island movies. Really one of the best representations. First 45 minutes, I'll take place in Long Island and just like the kind of suburban paradise. Baldwin is unbelievable. So, so funny and very charming and handsome at that stage of his career. But like just there's there was always one family who you're like, what does that guy's dad do for a living? He's construction, huh? Yeah. And he's really slick and he's wearing a suit. Why is he wearing a black suit on a Wednesday and he doesn't go to an office?

And the movie's just bang on about that. And it's really funny when she moves into the city too. And she goes to chicken licking and chicken licking, by the way, brought back in battle after another. I think it's a great, great movie. I'll revisit. He does the run where he basically like does something wild this and then Siamondon. is such a great. And also, really,

three wonderful female performances. In silence is the role we need to talk about. She's hilarious in there. The three. Yeah. It's an absolute cut up. She's a big fat person. Yeah.

It's only a comedy to you guys. Will you do your next pick? Miggs wasn't the funniest character of 1990. He's up there. He's up there. I'm up now? Yeah. I mean, I can't believe it came back to me in cocktail.

This is Food America. Huge. Blockbuster. Do you think you convinced a generation of mostly men to love this film? Like a generation below you? Did the rewatchables with me? Because you love it too. That's my point.

Yeah. I got into the movie because of you. To me, this is the most, this is a top five bill movie. Yeah. Thank you. I would not have. Do you want to know the other four? Yeah, let's hear.

The other one limitless, number 16, but also number two. Classic. Um, Devil Wars Prada now, you and me. And then what else do I... That's everyone's movie, though. Yeah, no, it's true. You don't have enough bad action in this list. Bad action?

Yeah, like, you gotta go in the dip into the Segal Stallone area for me. You might be able to do that on this pot. You don't have a heist either. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I'm trying to think, no, because it's also... This year has the one good Segal movie, in my opinion. So one of my favorite things in any movie is when somebody treats the movie,

like this is the most important movie of their life, but it's a movie like cocktail. Cruz is all in. We talked about this when we did the rewatch shows about it. He's completely committed. He's treating this like he's doing Eyes Wide Show with Kubrick in London for three years. He learns how to flip bottles. He learns out of shoot baskets.

Every scene, he's just full tilt. He's crying. He's just doing pratfalls. He's trying to be sexy crews. He's playing all the hits. It's like watch. I said when we did the pot, I think. it's like watching an NBA player

an NBA star and a bad team just carry them to like 48 wins just literally by himself this movie should not have worked it's a great hang it's on still on the streamers all the time I feel like it hasn't died at all it's got a great Elizabeth shoe Brian Brown with the Coggins Law

Kelly Lynch is in it Kelly Lynch string bikini you get to go to Jamaica just randomly halfway through the movie for 20 minutes that's really fun the showdown at the beginning in the big bar with the overhead shots where they're doing the competition

and it's like this is a sports movie this is like we're watching Hoosiers right now is crazy stuff. Do you think anybody I think we talked about this on rewatchables but now that we're back from COVID do acrobatic bartending or is it all like I've put one leaf of basil it's more mustache guys yeah yeah

this is another movie that they've tried to kind of steal and make again like coyote ugly like movies like that where they're like let's make campy And you can't do it. You can't pull it off. Yeah, you're a coyote ugly gal. But I mean, there's been bartending.

There's been fun movies. Like they, even like the Roadhouse remake with Jillen Hall, they try to put like a giant star in a dumb movie basically. It's really hard. Well, Cruz. And this is the first movie of his, I think, where it feels like he's taking laughing gas before every take. You know, where I'm like, is he okay? It's an insane performance. It's such a weird performance.

And it's almost like he's just trying to keep his energy. up all the time. But it's very entertaining. I really like it. By the way, the concept of the MVP for years, like this is Cruz's MVP season. And I have both Cruise movies. Cruz was the 1988 MVP. It's huge for you.

Two huge blockbuster movies. Rain Man, Secret Force behind an Oscar movie. Cocktail carries it by himself. It's a huge star by the end of 88. I think it's either him or Willis, right? For MVP? Yeah. I mean, Willis is like kind of come out of nowhere with this.

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I can't fucking believe this. Everything's coming up, me. I almost did it instead of coming to America. Beetlejuice, much like coming to America, too. We don't acknowledge Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice, we just say the original Beetlejuice is a creative masterpiece, another movie that probably switched me on to horror.

And I don't know if I would have been as a new it if I didn't see this on cable all the fucking time on HBO, just like my previous pick. Comedy. Definitely in comedy. And Tim Burton cooking, man. It's been a rough 25 years for the Tim Burton heads. But from 1985 through 2000, I don't know if there was a director I was more obsessed with, who I was more interested in whatever he was going to do next.

They weren't all hits. They didn't all work. But distinct style. Someone asked me the other day, and I didn't answer this question properly. I probably should have. But they were like, when's the first time you were watching a movie, you realized what a director was and what they did? If you look at a Tim Burton movie You're like, well, only one person could have made this.

Only one person has this sensibility. I think the movie is really funny. Keaton absolutely ripping that character going so crazy. And like finding a part like that for him after he had had this period in the 80s and he has another movie this year. It's a two Michael Keaton year as well. Clean and sober.

The exact opposite of Beetlejuice. It's not bad. It's okay. It's okay. But Beetlejuice is like a match maiden heaven. The two of them are great together. Burton and Keaton. Great supporting cast.

And the late Catherine O'Hara is hilarious and went on a rider and Baldwin again. Gina Davis, two Gina Davis movies this year. All the musical stuff, all the creature stuff. I fucking love Beetlejuice. Huge Keaton movie. Another one, like Hank's with Big, where it was like a lot of people had Keaton stock and he'd never been in like a monster hit other than Mr. Mom, maybe. Yeah.

I don't know. Nightship wasn't a big kid. He just got that. He did okay. Yeah, but he hadn't been like the centerpiece of a huge hit. And then this leads to Batman. Like, he's getting Batman because of this movie. Yes.

Pivotal movie, movie I love. And you're taking a comedy? In comedy, yes. I forgot to tell you we did a nightmare before Christmas. Oh, the other family loved it. Locked in. Really? Yeah, which was fascinating.

Not too scary at all. No, because he woke up and was like, I need some spookies in the middle of March. Anyway. Burton will change a young movie door. I was going to do that. And because you took that, then I got a, it's going to affect a little bit my next two picks here. Could see Christ going right here. Yeah.

How'd you know? No, I'm going to, I definitely know my first pick, which is in drama and it's running on empty. The Sydney Lumet film starring River Phoenix. Back in the news. Jed Hirsch and Christine Lottie. Sure, back in the news from after one battle, which was a PTA, I think, stated as a major inspiration. I hadn't seen it since I'd seen one battle. And the parallels are certainly there.

But I mean, this movie just knocked me out when I watched it last night again. And I think Belda, the first time I saw it was when we did the Vietnam series with Brian Raftery. Yeah. I know that you were part of the genesis of that idea. But this is a movie about two former basically Weather Underground, a couple who were in the Weather Underground. or a similar underground army and they're on the run and they're trying to raise their sons. And amazing River Phoenix performance. So good.

Arthur Plimpton's his girlfriend in this. Yeah. And it's an amazing double feature with one battle after another, but it is so paired down compared to one battle after another. Everyone is, as they should be in a PTA movie, like going to 11 and it's archetypal and ridiculous and very funny. and this is, you know, as much about piano lessons and what the little kid, what kind of sandwich you're going to have for lunch. And really all the small moments are so observed. Anyway, amazing movie. I think one of the best movies ever about baby boomers and the, like, fire and them sing, is it fire and rain in the birthday party in their house?

And when they know that they need to move locations and really sad, but like very simple, such a awesome, awesome movie. Great pick. And then, so action horror thriller, I would say that the one side, that everything is gone but one. So, you know, Bill has two Tom Cruise's and I'm going to have two Harrison Ford's. Oh. And I will take frantic. Fuck yes. Polansky on the board.

Polansky on the board. And I don't really have anything to say about that besides that this was directed by Roman Polanski. And that's filmed in Paris because that's where he is allowed to film movies. Um, this is Exactly right. At this point, was that the case? Or is he just like, let's shoot this in Paris? I don't know.

I'm not. I believe so. I believe he had fully reloaded. He was like, guys, we got to do this here. Yeah. It's Betty Buck. Oh, no. It's Polanski's, I don't know if they were married yet.

They were. They married. It's a Manuel Sinier. Yeah. This movie is awesome. This movie is so good and messed up. And like, Harrison Ford being like a little grimyer than he needs to be in the role of man who's just trying to find his wife.

Emmanuel Senet is just dressed in the smallest dresses I've ever seen in my entire life throughout and she looks awesome. And I wish that they had picked a different hotel. It is a very like 88 hotel. It just looks like an airport lobby. But otherwise, you're just going through some very weird. parts of Paris. I feel like he practiced get off my plane with like,

I'm looking for my wife. He has a couple of those line readings where he's just very angrily looking for something. The hair is an interesting length. He doesn't go back to that. It's sort of left over from, it's longer in Mosquito Coast too, right? But it's flopping in the front and I prefer

it shorter anyway. Premise that's been ripped off a lot. Oh yeah. Yeah. Even with our beloved breakdown. Sure. Just what I've taken to. really sure. This is vanishing, basically. Yeah. This is what happened to the person I care about. Yeah. And even the scene

where she disappears while he's in the shower is filmed from behind him in the shower and the sound is that. I mean, it's really good. It's messed up and really good. You'd go to Paris. Yeah. It's good one. Good pick. Thank you. You have another pick, right? No, that was it. Because I did

running on empty. Oh, running on empty. That's right. Oh, shoot. Okay. Damn. Christ still here I might fuck around and take the last time if you don't I fuck I will don't worry about that I thought you like scores easy I do like Scorsese do I want to take it yet

perhaps not in thriller action horror I'll be taking they live which is John Carpenter's portrait of a society that is enslaved by aliens who are being

sent subliminal messages on a daily basis about obeyance in the face of their power, but also is a movie about Rowdy, Rowdy Piper beating the shit out of people. Having one of the longest fights in an alley that's ever been recorded in cinema. Some of the coolest Keith David shit

you'll ever see in your life. Piper clutching a shotgun, blowing guys away. Similarly, a movie that saw it at the right time of my life was very into Piper, as you might imagine, as a professional wrestler. We did this as a live rewatchable,

pretty much. At the New Beverly. After a screening of this movie at the new Beverly and I would say that for 100 constipated guys. There were a couple of guys there who were a little too keyed into the personal politics of this film. Yes. I had no idea who we

were. Yeah. A lot of their stuff was in a white plastic bag. Yeah. And they were like, uh, and what makes you an expert up here? You've only done that idea once. It's a pretty hard movie.

You know? Its themes are like you're a slave. it, you know, like deal with it. Amazing poster, the sunglasses. The shocking thing for me when we did this list was how many I know I remember seeing in the theater. I was trying to think like how many times did I actually go to the movies? It was at least twice a week.

You said 75, didn't you? What's that? I've seen 75 of these movies and I can like recall it. Even in college, like we would just go on like a Monday night. The same movie theater every time? Yeah, the one in Worcester. But we just, you just do it. Now I don't I bet people go like I think people want to see Project Hail Mary like my daughter saw it last night

But I don't know if people just like yeah, it's not a weekly event No this is also like a weird time for like to remember these movies because I think this is when my dad is like being like you can just come with me and we would be seeing this stuff at like random weird times But I a lot of these I remember from video Did you guys? What did you see together killer clowns from outer space? I remember it peaking with him getting to cut the line at the Batman premiere and I was like, my dad is God for one day. That's pretty cool. That is pretty cool. Yeah.

Okay. That's my pick. Now it goes back to BS. I have to be strategic here, unfortunately. It's the only time I'm going to do this because... Is it to block me or is it because you need to get categories? There's only one sequel I like out of all the sequels. It won't be surprising which one it is.

But it's Halloween for... Or return. Sorry. Return Michael Lange. Sorry, return Michael on. Had the poster. And when we finished the studio, it was the poster that was between us for a while. Ten years after the original, one of my favorite movies of all time. Started seeing the ads.

It was the second month I was in college. And my buddy Jeff, who we loved Halloween, we're like on the phone. Like, when you go in, we should try to time it the same day so we can talk about it after. It was a little disappointing. I can't lie. And then I've probably seen it 20. time since, maybe more. We did it rewatchables about this movie.

We did rewatchables. I think it holds up in a lot of ways. It was a fun rewatchables for sure. It has the incredible, incredible scene with, oh, that's Halloween too. Yeah, when the kid gets hit with the car. Halloween four has some good ones. That's incredible scene.

Yeah, yeah. But it's probably the last solid Halloween until the Halloween H2O, which is 10 years after that. And it's the only sequel I liked, so I had to take it. Sorry. Probably was the only one who was going to take it No apologies necessary. I don't share the same enthusiasm for this one. I have

I have the sequel one is fun just because I don't there's not like any like particularly masterful sequel so it's like which ones do you like? There's a couple really cool ones but I don't know if there's like a crowd pleaser. Mine's quite bad but it's for me

so that's fine. You got one more bill. No. Oh no. You got two. All right. So I have I have Blockbuster. I have Oscar nom. I'm still thinking about you sitting at home not voting for Duke Caucus. I need action.

I think I might have. I just don't remember. It's possible I did. It wasn't like an exciting. You were like taking selfies at the ballot box. Yeah, yeah. Well, because we knew who's going to lose at that point. The, though, one of the debates just killed them.

Yeah, I remember. I remember. I'm not doing to this guy. I'm losing to this guy? It was over when that happened. In drama, I'm going to take last imitation of Christ. entirely for Harvey Kytel's Judas No, this is an incredible snapshot of movie history

just in terms of the controversy surrounding this film and when you actually see the movie for what it is it's quite breathtaking. The music in it is incredible. The vision or take, which I think really comes together in the epilogue or the coda of the film where Christ is imagining his life as a normal man

and then realizes he's been he's been scammed is just unbelievable Defoe is fantastic in this there's just some really weird like Bowie is Bowie's in this right a lot of weird people are yes

Barbara Hershey as Mary Magdalene so there's just an amazing thing but like Scorsese was like essentially like on the most wanted list around the making of this film and try to get it made for years and couldn't get it off the ground. It kind of sidetracked

his career to some degree. He was going to make it in 82. He's going to make it in 84 and then he made color of money so he could get this made. Yes. Yeah. Incredible soundtrack, which I used to listen to Peter Gabriel all the time. It was like I put it on in the background if I'm trying to do work just really good instrumental.

Peter Gabriel had a good point in his career. Yeah. This movie's good. I don't I'm not buying this. I do like it. You like this movie. I like this movie. Yeah. This would be a really interesting rewatchables. Zainloo weighing in on Last Cemptation. It obviously would be good. Okay, so I have that in drama.

It's weird because, like, when you watch the movie and you think about it being the most controversial film of the 1980s, it seems a little silly, you know, or it's like, it's an alternative reading of the life of a person who, like, is a holy person, but it's like, it's a movie. You know, why would this offend these sensibilities so much? But it speaks to kind of what the culture was like at that time, that it was so controversial.

Way more religious back then. Yeah. And then for comedy, I'm going to take naked gun. Okay. I don't have a comedy, right? You don't have a comedy, you have to take it for Wild Card. Oh, I have a comedy, or I... Because I have Bulldera.

You have Bullderum as a comedy. Oh, okay. I'm going to take Naked Gun and throw that in Wild Card because I saw it so many times. You're also... You're just missing Action Horror Thriller. That's your empty category. Yeah. Holy shit.

So, there was no way really to... to this this is a movie that I think you watch over and over again and then the jokes become funnier and funnier and funnier because you're seeing something that's happening in the background because you're seeing the reaction of somebody to Leslie Nielsen

um I would I, did you guys do this for watchables? I don't think I was on it. Yeah, you I don't think you were no but I'm KB, it was Kyle. Oh, it's Kyle right? I think it yeah I think it was Kyle. It was a Kyle yeah in any case like just a hysterical hysterical for Rico Palazza. Yeah, I was saying in the theater, I think it's the hardest I've ever seen the theater laugh at any

comedy I can remember going to. The baseball highlights scene. Yeah. Just a couple, like, people just like keeled over laughing. And this was like a, this is a cool point because I think it was like, my parents had introduced me to Blazing Saddles and we'd watch some comedies, but this is one that felt like it was my, my sensibility, but they thought it was funny. Because like Roger Rabbit, I think it's referencing a lot of stuff that I was like, I don't really get some of these 70s TV cop jokes. Yeah. But this is,

it's still cracking me up so much. Yeah. I came a few years after airplane, so people were used to like these kind of jokes. The naked gun thing was very culty in the 80s for like, not a lot of people saw the TV series, but people pretended they did. And then the jokes were just the cornyest, funniest jokes.

Nice beaver. Thank you. I just had it stuffed. It's like a million things like that. I don't feel like people do that. This movie doesn't get made anymore. When they make it, they fuck it up. Well, they did make it.

the naked gun last year. I was going to ask you about that with regard to 2025 comedies you weren't into it. Yeah. You liked it though? I was pretty mixed on it. Oh, okay. Did you like it? I think it was more well liked than we felt about it. Yeah, it was, I mean, I chuckled, but it was interesting being even at the screening,

there were people laughing louder in that screening than in any comedy screening that I've been in, you know, in the last 10 years. Yeah. It did like, solidly not, it was not the major hit that they wanted it to be, but I was thinking about this the other day because there's so many crazy great comedies of this year

and we talk about comedies on the rewatchables all the time but one of the things that I think happened is for me as a kid watching movies like this to Chris's point they kind of like taught me about adult things and made me feel older whereas now I feel like what we have is a lot of adult references in kids movies that parents acknowledge and there's been this like shift where instead of young kids

trying to go to older adult comedies you have older people going to kids and they're like oh there's jokes for me inside of this animated film Utopia 2, there's a silence of the lambs joke and you're like, well, this is not for any 5-year-old on earth. I think I was asleep during that part. It's okay, mama. Anyway, it's a big shift because we do still get comedies. They're just for little kids.

Okay. B.S. You got two more? I really played this perfectly. Sure. Really excited about it. Absolutely. I love this movie. I don't know if you guys realize I love this movie and it might have screwed up your boards.

But I do love this movie. And I remember seeing it in the theater. Oh, no. And I've seen it a bunch of times since. Oh, no. And I watched it recently, and I fucking love it. And it's on the rewatchables list at some point. It's an absolute banger, dangerous liaisons.

Oh. Which I'm taking for drama. Academy Award nominated. The ending, the last 10 minutes of this movie and going close and everything she does and her getting hissed at at the opera or wherever they are. And then she comes home and she's just taking the makeup off. And he finally got her. the end. He had to, of course, die,

Malcovich. Malcovich is thrown on 135 miles an hour. It's like one of, did he get nominated? He actually might have, actually. Glenn Close did. No, Michelle Pfeiffer did. My queen, Michelle Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer close and picture, I believe.

But Malkovich didn't get nominated. Like, that's fucking unbelievable. He's so good in this movie. You have Keanu Reeves as like a goofy, I guess French guy. I don't even know what language he's supposed. to be mastering in this. And UMA too, right?

Uma just out of nowhere. So the real ones, they weren't from Johnny Be Good. She came in that one, throwing 99 with Anthony Michael Hall. I really signed on for season tickets with Jennifer 8. That was later. That was after this. I'm saying that's when I joined. But Johnny Be Good on the map and then dangerous liaisons.

We're all in love with her. And, you know, this movie got ripped off by cruel intentions. Well, my brand, right opinion, this cruel intentions did it better. It's not ripped off. It's homage. It's team tribute. Well, that's fine. They did.

Do you like this movie? I love Cruel Intentions. I rewatched it for this and I was like, yeah, no, cruel intentions is better. I've seen Cruel intentions three thousand times. Crueltenches is the popcorn. You're kind of a Stephen Frears fan too, aren't you? I am. And, you know, again, another movie filmed in Paris in old buildings with costumes and makeup and whatever.

And I just, it's way better when it's Ryan Philippe driving to Bitter'sweet Symphony. I'm sorry. Fair enough. You know? I support both. You know what? There's room in my house for each movie. It's a little close to the other one.

I'm the Marcia fucking lady of the Upper East Side. Come on. This movie was a big deal when it came out. And I felt like people went to see it and cared about it and talked about it. And it was just cool. And it had a lot of people that either were at a good point in their career would eventually be. It's also like it's pretty, you know, Bridgeton obviously is probably among the two or three most popular things on whatever we call TV now. And it's like this is sort of people humping while we're in big costume.

students is a very viable structure, you know? Yeah. Eileen just buzzed through every season of Bridgeton in about 14 days. She'll like it? She'll caught up. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. She's pretty in. Honestly, you could say dangerous liaisons

created that world, too. That whole Bridgeton, like, people dressed up in the past being horny. Yeah. Yeah. It's up there for sure. I'm trying to think what is the first example of that. You know, Barry Lyndon, there's a little bit of that in there. Yeah. Tom Jones, yeah. I do love Croix and Tom Jones. This was, to me, I don't

I feel like you have to pick. I'm sorry. Yeah. You don't. You don't. There's grown up. Do you like one of your kids more than the other? No.

Or maybe this is a bad day to ask. This is where it goes wrong for Glenn Close and Oscars, right? Because she should have. This is the one. So who'd she lose to? Gina, no. Jody Foster. Oh, Jody Foster.

In the case. Jules. Yeah. But it's like this is probably the best shot. Was she nominated for Fatal Attraction, Glenn Close? I don't think she was Oh, that's also a mistake, but Well, best

supporting actor She was. She was. So 87, she misses out and then she misses out again for a dangerous liaisons. Dangerous liaisons is also her fifth nomination. Yeah. But Malchavit's not getting

Best Supporting Actor. It's a fucking outrage. Really, I'm looking at it now, just getting mad. Does he have any Oscar notes? Martin Landau and Tucker, the man in his dream. Get the fuck out of here. Honestly, good movie. Come on. Well, Alec Guinness for Little Dorrit's pretty. Little Dorrit. You have a little door on 4K yet, Sean?

You know, I've never seen it. Particulous. Why are you, when you get mad about things like this, why are you mad at me? Like, what do you think I represent? No, I get mad at the Oscars and how stupid it was in the 80s and 90s. I just think they did so many dumb things. I do like that Dean Stockwell nomination, though. Yeah, that was a pretty cool one.

And River Phoenix getting nominated was, it was great. He's amazing. That was good. Yeah. Weird Oscars. Melkovich got nominated for places in the heart and in the line of fire. Didn't win. I actually thought

What's the movie The Killing Fields? I thought he was awesome in that movie confronts What's the same waterston in the bathroom I just saw the movie It's been a long time I did watch

What's the Spalding Gray movie Where he talks about his experience Making the Killing Fields Is Swimming to Cambodia The Jonathan Demi movie Which he probably made Right before he made Married to the Mob

What was the other one that I just rewatched that I wanted to tell you about? It was so good. In that era? Yeah. Oh, Empire of the Sun. Malcovic is so good in Empire of the Sun. Oh, shit. He's awesome in that. And I just rewatched him.

Him and Stiller, the American Soldiers. Yeah. It's a good topic of, like, was his career, like, should he just have been a more famous actor, basically? But he also had, like a... But his reputation is gold. But that's what I mean. He's like an icon, even though he was never a box office star.

Because he's one of the original Steppenwolf people, right? And then he has being John Malkovich, like, you know, about him. It's coming back this year, though, because the new Martin Macdonough movie, he's the star with Sam Rockwell. And I feel like for the first time in a long time, he's going to be the star of a mainstream American movie. He won an Oscar that's a long-standing-o. He was also quite good in Pete Berg's Mile 22. Is that a fact? Yeah.

Who gave a better for him? It's him or Rhonda Rousey in that film. I'd have to check the tape. I like that movie. I like that movie. Solid movie. One of the more incoherent films of that year. Is it me?

Yeah. Okay, I got drama, sequel, and Wild Card left. And in drama, I'm staying baseball. I'm going eight men out. John Sales is wonderfully embittered portrait of the Black Sox scandal that I just revisited this week. I'm really glad I did. starring our guy David Strait Theran as Ed Seacott

and D.B. Sweeney as Shulis Joe Jackson, John Cusack. What's Cusack's character's name? Eddie, no, not Eddie. Buck Weaver. Buck Weaver. Oh, Buck Weaver, yeah. Right there. He's always talking to, he's like, hey, tell him Buck said you to the game, you know?

Yeah, Buck's such an interesting, he's the most interesting character in the movie, and he was like the biggest star at the time, and he's the one who didn't cheat, but who didn't squeal. And so he suffered the same fate. And I was reading about him after seeing the movie, and he, you know, Weaver's family for years tried to get his name cleared in the scandal. And I don't think I totally realized this. But in 2021, his name was finally cleared by baseball. And he was restored to good standing in the history of baseball. And his family was like, not good enough.

This was too late. And they were just mad about it, which I found to be so interesting. But yeah, Sales' movie is so good. All of his movies are about labor and power and who controls people. And this is an example of, like, the ballplayers. It's kind of the first player empowerment movie. and doesn't turn out so well for the people who try to get power in that case

but pretty good representation of baseball at that time I feel like most of the guys the actors are pretty good Michael Rooker you know like they're all pretty believable as 1910s ballplayers but that's only like a small part of the movie a lot of the movie is courtroom drama and character drama but really really great film what a crazy cast I'm seething inside I was saving it because I thought

I would be able to get it. I didn't think anyone would have that one. This is a weird drama here. I almost took it in a dangerously. It's on spot. I took this in another draft. I can't remember what. This movie's awesome.

What it would have been? Chicago draft, I think. Chicago draft. The ending's great. Fucking D.B. Sweeney playing in some minor league in Jersey and Buckweaver's sitting in the stands. Can't play baseball.

Just sitting. He's like, that's the best center fielder I ever saw. Yeah. He was that old thing. That's not him. Unbelievable ending. I love that ending. I like the hats and the outfits.

Oh, yeah. This has been on the rewatchables list for like two years. I love this movie. Who plays Comiskey? Clifton James, what's his name? I don't remember the actor's name.

I love the scene when they introduced Kennesaw Mountain Landis. Clifton James. And they'd like make him the commissioner of baseball. And they're like, he's like,

two year contract. And he's like, lifetime contract. One of the things about, right. One of the things about this movie is, uh, this was one of the great sports books ever.

And in the 80s, it was considered like one of, basically one of the 10 best. and when they made the movie about it, it was a big deal. It was like, oh, they're going to try to do this. It kind of had the problem of coming out in the shadow of Bull Durham, where it was like, well, Bull Durham's a lot more fun. It's not a fun.

It's not a fun movie. 19, and it's about a scandal. But QSack being in, it was a big deal. I didn't know who anyone else was. Straight Theron was like, I didn't know who that was. He is unbelievable. He was really great in this movie. Yeah, to me, that's a real, like, not nominated for an Oscar, not even acknowledge.

I think he might have gotten, he's been nominated for, like, five independent spirit awards, all for John. John Sales movies. He might have won for this, or maybe it was the movie before this, but... Did you say who the center fielder was? Who was the center fielder?

Chas Sheen. Oh, that's right. Oh, that's right. Really believable. Like, all the actors, they made a big deal about, like, we only have actors who are good baseball players,

and you can kind of feel it in the baseball scenes. The actors are, they all seem like they're extra... They're very farin. They only has to throw like 41 miles per hour.

Right, right. He's throwing nine games in a row. Yeah. Well, that's kind of the point, too, is he, like, he's throwed like, 82 innings. It's a really good movie.

Okay, so Amanda has her last two. No, I have three left. Oh, three left. I have Oscar nominee, sequel, and Wildcard. The trick of the seven. We don't always do seven. Yeah. So I know what I'm going to do here.

In Oscar nominee, I'm going to take my first pick, women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, which is the Almodo Var film. And I think it was many people's first, Almodeo Bar film, and certainly mine, but not in 1988. And I was trying to remember, I think I might have been shown this, like, in a classroom,

but I can't remember having a teacher cool enough to be like, here, sit down and watch this. It was the U.S. breakthrough for him, for sure. Yeah, but anyway, this to me was like a real, in a who framed Jessica Rabbit sort of, like, oh, movies can look like this, obviously the color. And even the actors are all so beautiful, but they have interesting non-Hollywood faces

and they're framed in a certain way and the sense of humor. But I guess, you know, film as like actual museum art piece in addition to being really funny. So it's always stuck with me also. The clothes are just out of sight. They're very new Chanel actually. But it won, right?

It won international? No, I don't think so. No, it didn't win. What won international? Was it Peli the Conqueror? Yes. Sheesh. Kind of a loaded international feature year this year.

Salam Bombay. Mir Nair, one of her first films. Her son is now the... Max got nominated, right? For Pelot to Conquer. Didn't get nominated as the good Nazi in victory, though? He was the good Nazi. He did not.

He did not. He stood up for Palis. What are we going to do the seventh seal on the rewatchables? Do you think we'll do that? Oh, C.R. Seventh seal in Jacob's Ladder, double feach? Yeah. Jacob's Ladder freaks me out.

Yeah, I actually, that's not a rewatchable for me. It makes me uncomfortable and unhappy. Very effective. Adrian Line. Seventh seal is Demi and he... That's this movie, this year, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Is it Satan? The movie did not do that well. Did she give you first to? Right. Yeah. It's too good. Hang in there, Mama. Hey, listen, you got to love your kids.

Okay, I'm going to go to Wild Card. Okay. Just in case someone who gets to do Wildcard before me takes this. film, which is Crossing to Lancy. Yeah. The Joan Micklin Silver movie. It's just, it's really a romantic comedy set in New York in the late 1980s. And it's about a professional-ish woman.

She works in books. It's, you know, it's one of these movies that I, that illustrated what I thought New York was going to be like when I moved there, which is that I, you know, I would work in books and have, you know, affairs with the evil doctor from. the fugitive. Yes. Did you imagine putting your sneakers on and putting your heels in your bag? Well, I mean, that's also working girls.

Sure. Yeah. This is the more, you know, she's less ambitious in Crossing Delancey than Tess is and working girl, but it's the same two girls trying to make it work and find love with enterprising businessmen, in this case, ultimately a pickle guy. Yeah. Peter Rieger. A really, really very understanding pickle man.

He's kind of the inverse of John McLean, you know. He was about 25, 27 years early on pickles. Sure. But they came back. I mean, like, I like them, but they're not a part of my personality. He knows it in this movie. You have to excuse my friend Richard Kimball is very sick. Jerome Krauss.

He's very sick. He's like a dashing author who like pops in and out of her life. Richard. He's popping pervasive. I love that guy. You switch the samples. For Provasic. Can we just do a table reading in the fugitive?

It's like 20 people. All right. We switched the samples very close to... You move the headstones, but you didn't move the bodies. My other favorite line reading from that time. You move the headstones, but you didn't move the bodies. Craigty Nelson from Altergeist. Do you know that all your line meetings were you just yelling?

It's just my dad yelling at me, but I'm watching a movie. That's why we love they knew was Ruffalo. That's true. I love a yell actor. That's why I love C.R.'s impressions. They're the great yellers. Sean, don't fuck me on this. I don't know what I'm doing.

So what do you have left? Action? No, I already did that. I'm good. Oh, you did they live? So you have sequel and Wildcard left. Sequel and Wildcard. Is it better to do Wildcard before sequel?

It might be. I'll tell you what I'm going to do. In Wildcard, I'm doing a fish call Wanda. Which I don't think has the legacy that it did when I was a kid. It does not. It's going to be honest. I rewatched it because I remembered absolutely losing my mind with laughter. Thinking it was funny.

And then I just sat there on the couch. And you didn't think it was funny. I turned it off. I was like, I'd give up. Well, and that's disrespectful. Big Monty Python guy, obviously. So I like the idea of them, like some of those figures doing something that wasn't in that world specifically with a little bit more seriousness.

Kevin Klein won the Oscar this year, which is a very weird win, one of the only comedy wins in the history of the Academy Awards. Not nominated for Dave. Not nominated for Dave. I always really like this movie. It's a pre- Oscar for Dave. Directed by Charles Crichton, who was like in his 70s, who had made all those ealing comedies in the 40s and 50s. And I don't know.

John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, smoking hot. She looks amazing. I think that the recent Jamie Lee Curtis, like Renaissance. Like, or the 8th Assents. They won't take 80s Jamie Lee Curtis from me. You couldn't take her from like cold dead hands. She's over exposed to me. Well, now she'll be.

ended with the bear that first time. She's just going viral now where she's just like every time she opens her mouth, she says something that breaks news. Like she announced that the bear was ending. Yeah. She's like Jason Blum's a cheap skate. You know, like she's really, she's really speaking her truth.

She is. Amanda, are you going to tell these kids that they're going to lose a homeless shelter? Because we want to make people feel better about their cars. We've been talking a lot about power loaders on, on the big picture recently. I think because of Avatar. Yeah. Edie Falco is in a power loader for a lot of

Avatar Fire and Ash. God, no. Anyway, I just, I only think about him, Dave. You know, I once got a fish this big, which is immediately what I would do. That's a good one, yeah. I was thinking that the most amazing

Dave remake of all time would be if they got Shane Gillis to replace Trump as Dave. But you can't do a real person. Yeah, I do think you're on to something very funny. Can you imagine that movie, though? Just, it'll never happen, but just in your head, imagine it's a Shane Gillis movie.

Right. He's a day, he's, and then he comes in. Well, then who's the Grod-in? I don't know. Yeah. If Shane Gillis just started doing Trump's press conferences, would you be surprised? Would you be like, I have this tracks for the way things are going? Yeah, I guess that's where the movie falls apart.

I watched Dave last week, actually. Pretty good. You've made three references to it so we can tell. Listen. It's just a phenomenal movie. I agree. great. Every actor's great. Sigourney Weaver's great.

That was the three of us. Everybody's great. It's just great. It's held up 100%. If anything, given, you know, how things are going lately. What's happening? What do you mean? It's just a very optimistic mid-90s.

Like, I believe in stuff movie. Yeah. I just really enjoyed it. And it always gets me Bing Rames at the end. Incredible Langella performance in it. Dave? I would have taken a bullet for you. That's Ving, yeah.

But Langella when he's like, I can kill him. He's not. He's barely a person. It's not his office. It's my office. I mean, the movie's amazing. The Bratworth's on saving the shelter. It's beautiful.

It's in the mix again. It's been on the channels and on the stream. I feel like it's having a moment right now. You're out on Dave. I like Dave. Yeah. I have a different view of the executive branch these days.

You think you could run? For president? I don't know. I don't see our month. A lot of momentum right now. Yeah, it's true. You should have announced. Get 11,000 votes.

But not delcus. How would you do? I think you would do well in this environment. If you were on one of those stages with 15 other nominees in a debate. You're cracking one-liners and just trying to rise above them. Yeah, you're just picking your spots.

But would you be like Little Marco? Like, oh, little CR all the way on the overside? No, he would do the poor rhetorical thing that he would do on the debates is somebody would say something and Bill go, you're missing a crucial point. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's true.

I would be hard on the... Are you better off than you were four years ago? Look at the mayor, are you? Yeah. Are you? That usually works. Yeah. It's always good.

The answer is always no and not. You're up. I didn't really like fish called Wanda. Just was never a fan. Saw it once in the theater. Didn't really do much for me and I've never seen it since. But other people I know really like it. Just never did it for me.

It's very weird because I remember thinking it was the funniest. And I love Monty Python, too. I have, I did not rewatch it for this. It was, it's a movie that I remember my dad laughing at very hard. That's a very, because he didn't, he wasn't a huge comedy fan and him loving that movie I always thought was interesting. But so, maybe I should rewatch it and it sucks and it ruins my draft. We'll see. I saved some action movies, hoping one would be available for this stage of the draft.

And of course, my favorite one was for action horror thriller. Bloodsport. Yeah. Mm-hmm. with the guy named Jean-Claude Van Dam. This was his breakthrough. You just dropped a perfect pronunciation. I know.

I've been working on it. That was incredible. This is... I feel like that was like Jimmy just went electric. You just nailed the pronunciation of Jean-Claude Van Damien. But you get... I'm working on Floyd Van Dam. I can't believe that just happened.

I know. I nailed it. One of the great ideas ever for an action movie. Yep. The Kumete. Chong Lee. one of the best villains who've ever had in a movie.

It is good. This movie has been on for 38 straight years. I was in St. Bart's once in 2000 and watched in another language in France. You watched it? What language? In like 2000. It was on in like French.

And I watched like two thirds of it. Was your wife like, what are you doing? You're in the Caribbean? My wife was literally like, what are you doing? I'm like, hold on. Le Cumaire. He's about to fight Chung Lee. And then the ending, the best acting of Van Dam's career.

With Donald Gibb, aka Oger. Yep. Now, anytime, any place. Some of the more upsetting, like, bone-crunching fights in movie history, where you're like, did Chongley actually just kill that guy? Yeah, he might have. He might have. It's like the fight version of Donald Sutherland and Julie Crue. Is this a real blood sport?

I'll give you $100 cash if you can name who directed this movie. Do you have it on you? I thought you stopped carrying cash. Get it out. $100 cash. I really don't know this. I don't know this either. I don't know it.

My first reaction is Ted Kachaf, but I know it's not. That's a really good guess. It does feel like a Ted Kachaf movie. No? No. His name is Newt Arnold. He is a legendary assistant director. who was the assistant director on many Lumet films on The Godfather Part 2.

He did not direct many films himself. Do you think he's in the Kuma Tate? Do you think he's like, man, this is even better than... Amanda, Forst Whitaker's in this. Is the future Oscar Winfors? Seriously, if we show Knox this movie, it will change his fucking life. Aren't they remaking it? Oh, yeah.

Are they doing... Michaela Cole is remaking. Do you see this? Michaela Cole is remaking it. I'm against this. Nobody should touch blood support. I just spent that whole time. I'm trying to remember the St. Bart's story reminded me of a time that I watched a movie starring Claire Daines and Hugh Dancy in Portuguese in Brazil on the hotel because it was like all that was on and I couldn't remember the name of it.

It's called Evening. Anyone? Patrick Wilson, Mamie Gummer. Anyway, that and then I watched that thing you do like 12 times on a cruise because they can't have the songs. Well, no, this was in English, but on the cruise, it was like 96. They had a movie on a loop. So I watched that thing you do like 45 times. This goes back to my like, we have way too many options for people now. Like once upon the time you had to, the reason why most of the movies I drafted I draft is because I just saw them in my living room like 48 times. Yes. Yeah.

You're not a blood sport, Gassierre? I am really surprised to hear this. I like blood support. I do not revisit blood support that many times and I think it might have been a mild like age difference thing. At 11, J-CV-D might have been, like, just a little outside of my interest rate. Incredible and intentional comedy in this movie, too. This movie is just perfect. It was on basic cable.

It would be on local cable. It could really do anything you wanted to do. I saw Cyborg in theater. I saw, you know, is a Cyborg or Universal Soldier? Which one's J-Hip he had? He's in Full. Universal Soldier. That's what's all right.

And then I saw the John Wu movie. Hard to kill. Hard to kill. So, yeah. Hard Target? Hard Target. Hard target. Hard to kill Sagan.

At some point. He did. He was in the big, it was, I'm going to say the Super Bowl episode. And someone is dating him? Or no, he just shows up. Yeah, somebody was working. It was a big deal that he was on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I still like that J-CVD movie. Did you ever see that? Yeah. Yeah, the better one. I think his two best are Bloodsport and Sudden Death. So, but this. Suddeneth the hockey one. That one's good.

Peter Heim's a good movie. That's with Powers Booth. I like that one. Powers. All right, C.R. Okay, so for these next two, so I have action and sequel left, or action horror thriller and sequel left.

I'm going to pick movies that meant a lot to me in 1988. When you're young, when you're 11, you don't know any better. So to me, Young Guns was the best Western ever made. And it is probably the Western. I may have seen the most in my life because of the amount of numbers

I put up in the first two years. Frankly, young guns and young guns, too. I rewatched it yesterday for the first time in probably more than 30 years. How is it? It was not good. But I'd like to hear you talk about it. I was wondering about Young Guns, too.

There is a surprise death in Young Guns that shocked me to my core as an 11-year-old. It also was like a rock and moral Western, you know? But Bon Jovi becomes more involved, obviously, in Young Guns, too. But this felt kind of like a brat pack western. It's Emilio Estavis and Kiefer Sutherland. Charlie Sheen and Lou Diamond Phillips. Who's our guys?

Yeah. And I was like, I was aware of these people. Dermin Moroni. Yeah. Dermott, Casey Shemasco. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Terrence Stamp is in this.

Jack Palance. Yeah. Pretty city slickers. Lou Diamond was hot. He's coming off La Bamba here. It was a big deal that he was in the movie. Yeah. And I believe he plays a half Mexican, half Apache in this film.

He does. I actually think he's kind of really good in Young Guns. He's awesome. I thought, I think he kind of wins the movie. It has a really crazy. scene where they all do ayahuasca. Do you remember this part? Yeah.

And they change the vocal intonations of all the characters and he wears the white makeup in that scene. It's really weird. It's like 12 or 18 minutes. It goes on for a long time. And then Shane reenacted that for the next 30 years of his life. True. I mean, that might have been where he discovered. This movie also inverts the usual English guys bad, Irish guy's good thing where

Terence Stamp is English and is being persecuted by the Catholic Irish cattle, like, mob. I wish it was better I really wanted to like young guns but I think it's probably you saw it at the perfect time to see it and I'll tell you something else I was I'm trying to decide what to do with the sequel I'm trying to decide between two

but I'll tell you the one that I saw more and that Can I tell you what we just say one last thing about young guns you may not remember this but there's one scene where Brian Keith shows up as an old man who's come to get the heads of the young guys and he just rolls up in a wagon he's like Brian Keith's like 65 years old in the movie and he's

having a showdown with six 23-year-old gunslingers and he's just like talking to them and talking to them and then he goes, let's dance. He just starts firing at everybody and then gets behind a shit. Doesn't he have like a big code on and they're like, all right, old timer? Yeah, anyway, sorry to interrupt you.

So one of the other things that's really funny is how like you'll see something and think that thing is really great until you see the thing it's been based on. And so that is why I'm picking what may be the lowest rated movie I've ever selected in a movie draft in terms of rotten tomatoes hanging out at about

4% Caddyshack 2. Oh wow. Okay. So this is, I know that Bill hates this movie, but I also watched it a lot. Because this is one of the first times I saw Chevy Chase, and I was like, that's the funniest person I've ever seen. For Caddyshack? Yes. Okay.

This movie's reprehensible. This is why I took Halloween four or two rounds ago. I didn't want to end up with Caddyshap 2. It was either going to be this or Friday the 13th part 7. It was new blood. I didn't even know what New Blood was. New Blood I don't like. Yeah.

There's a couple of low-key cool picks in the series. I'm sure you're right. But like in any case, I did my research. I'm being honest about being 11 and really like watching Jackie Mason act a lot. You know,

in this film as... This is definitely my introduction to his comedy. Does he play Jackie Hartoonian? I think that's right. Yeah. He's just basically is filling in the danger field role. I think you having last temptation of Christ and Katashak too The world might end.

That's elite. I respect it. Good job. The roof shaking. This is another banger from Jonathan Silverman who really had a lot going on at this era. Sure. In the 80s? Yeah, we had a weekend at Bernie's in this, right?

I think he had a lot going on in the sense that my friends and I were like, what's up with this guy? What does he keep showing up in movies? But the reason I picked this is because Chevy Chase reprises his role as Ty Webb. And to me, I was like, this guy's the funniest thing I've ever seen. and then found out about Fletch and found out about first Caddyshack. Does he do the looking at my watch thing

with no watch on in this movie? He also just like sits on a guy's lap randomly. Like it's just... He's having fun. Yeah. Dying Cannon's in this film. A fan of her work. Yeah. So that's it.

Wow. I don't understand why this is still on the board. In Wildcard. Yeah, for me. I have my wild card left. I had a podcast. plan for this. I really feel bad.

I want to call Carl Weathers and apologize for not taking Action Jackson. I thought that's what I was going to end up. Yeah. Your guy. But this is just the value here, late round. I feel it's a little Brock Purdy-ish. Good morning of Vietnam this late as a wild card. Like, add me, I just won me the draft.

Thanks, guys. Is this a movie that people love? Well, Action Jackson? No, good morning, Vietnam. Good morning Vietnam's 87. Yeah. Good morning Vietnam's 87. Oh, did I write that down wrong?

Yeah, it's December 25th, 1987. Oh, I looked at the wrong thing. Well, maybe I didn't win the draft. I think you might even looking at the box office because it came out late in 87. I thought I didn't do that. Yeah. God damn it. Okay.

I don't have to apologize to Carl Weathers anymore. I do have to apologize to Julie Roberts and Annabel Gish and Lily Taylor because I love Mystic pizza. And Matt Damon. What about Annabeth Gish? Who's at the... Inabethish. Yeah. And I want to apologize.

So I said an Abelgish. He put it, he put all of it on JCPT and he can't do it in a bag. Bloodsport is a knockout. No, this is great. I'm so happy this worked out. Action Jackson. There should have been three of these, maybe even four. Carl Weathers.

It was the one time we gave him the car case. He delivered. Sharon Stone is in this movie throwing a hundred. I don't even know. They couldn't measure it. The radar gun broke. Like the glass on the radar gun, it just shattered. King Solomon's minds

and I was like, I love her. I don't even know how to express it how much I love her. For me, it was casino. I honestly, I've talked to Van about this, obviously. It's inexplicable that this wasn't a franchise. I don't know what happened.

I think this movie even did like pretty well. Let's find out the box office right now. This movie is insanely violent and has a ton of nudity, right? And who's the villain? 1888, baby. Who is the villain in this? I made about $11 million roll. well maybe that's one of the reasons

not ideal Craig T. Nielsen Oh that's right was the evil guy and then our guy Bill Dukes in it too but also forgot to mention my apologies to her as well

vanity that's right this movie has Sharon Stone and vanity and I was 18 when it came out and Apollo Creed's in it trying to shed his rockiness it's a great movie

man it's always so funny to check from like 85 to 2000 the people who are the cinematographers of movies like this and it's always like Matthew F. Leonetti

it's like some guy shot like places in the heart and then five years later he's like all right vanity step out of the shower the work is the work yeah

okay well you didn't take one away from me there so that's good I wasn't not eyeing action Jackson I got one more pick and sequel yeah and you did your homework I did my homework

yeah well the decline of Western Civilization Part 2, The Metal Years, which is one of the best music documentaries of all time. Should you ever see this one? A good one. It's a really funny movie. I don't know if I really call this in the spirit of a sequel. It's got part two right here.

Sure. Was there part one, though? There sure was. It's about punk rock. Couts. Solid. Okay. Good pick.

I mean, come on. No, stop your cap. Come on. Show it to me. On opening day, show me the respect. This movie ended up getting her Wainsworld. It certainly did. Yeah.

The stuff with, is it the lead singer of Warrant in the pool where he's incredibly drunk and drinking vodka straight out of the bottle? And his mom is living with him is some of the funniest and saddest shit I've ever seen in my life. Ozzie is incredible in this. Gene Simmons is incredible in this. All of the style and the testimonials is really, really great. This is one of the most watchable docs of all time. It's just an ingenious idea of like very non-jointed.

judgmentally just showing these guys in their element and talking about what their lives are like at that period. And then not knowing, basically having no idea was going to be filmed and consumed by other people. Yes. Yes. Which is, this movie could never happen anymore. Nobody would people would be, yeah, they would be suspicious. No, it's like, it's like anthropology. It's such a great movie. If people haven't seen it, they should check it out. First is smarting over that, because he didn't think to pick that one. Well, no, I guess I didn't think about documentaries as franchises, yeah. Yeah. But hey, Congratulations.

There was a part three as well. Wow. So it is a true franchise. Well, I haven't seen that one. Okay. So are you done or you have a more? No, I have sequel, which is sort of, it's not the most exciting finale. Is this what you wanted for yourself to be picking sequel last?

Well, again, I understand, you know, it's not the kicker that we want, but I didn't want someone else to take Crossing the Lancy. So I did that in the last round. And you would have taken Caddyshack too, but you had to make a decision. And I know that the Rambo that is dedicated to the Pee's, people of Afghanistan is still on the board, but I'm not going to be doing that one. Great, great call. It is. I, um, I'm going with a movie that none of you have even seen, which is an appointment with

death, which is the last time that Peter Usenov played Erculpourou. Great, good. Good job, Amanda. Well, it's not that good. It's, and I would say it's like not that good is an Agatha Christie mystery because it uses a lot of clock shenanigans that she's used a million times before. But I'm going to read you the cast. and then I want you guys to tell me who you think did it.

Okay. Because that's... Great game. These adaptations are just a bunch of famous people and then... I love it. I've never seen this one. So, Peter Usenov is Eric Kuparo for the last time. He didn't do it.

Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gilgood, Piper Lorry, at Haley Mills. And some other people, but... It's pretty good. Jenny Seagrove and David Sol. Haley Mills. Haley Mills is in it. David Soul. Yeah.

Hutch. What's this one called? Appointment with death. Appointment. with death. I'll guess Carrie Fisher. Okay. Christopher Bacall. Bill? Bacall. It's Bacall. Yeah. Of course it's Bacall. Yeah. Also the second

Poirot that she did because remember she's also on the Oregon Express. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But she didn't do it on that one. They all, well, spoiler alert for murder on the Oran Express, but they all did. Though I think that she, is she the mom? So, yeah, they all do it. Anyway, that's my pick. That's a great movie with death. Thanks so much. There are a lot of sequels from this year.

Okay. None of them are good, really. The only other cool one I thought about was Police Story 2, the Jackie Chan movie, which is a really cool Jackie Chan movie that he directed. The Nightmare and Elm Street movie is four, the Dream Master. Three, I would have taken. Four, no point of all. The horror sequels were bad except for Halloween 4.

Hellraiser 2 is okay. Yeah. It's okay. I never was a Hellraiser guy. One of the biggest movies of this year, shockingly big, is Crocodile Dundee, too. Mm-hmm. which never got it me neither

just didn't get it didn't understand why people saw the first one and then they made a sequel and it's like what what's going on they're making another one and then people saw that too it's the sixth highest grossing movie of the year it made $109 million makes no sense

this is a real like you can pay three bucks to go see this guy go that's not enough like I guess I guess that's what we wanted back then can you do the like the update to 2026 for $109 million how much is that adjusted for inflation?

Because, like, it's a fucking Marvel movie for Crocodile Dundee, too. Yeah. I never got it. You've been to Australia? The girl is attractive. It's Australia, right? Linda Kowalski, whatever her name is?

Yeah, she was great. That was his wife in real life. I apologize to a couple movies that of the pig. It's honorably mentioned some. Right legs, Big City. I'm sorry. Yeah. Kiefer's good in that.

She couldn't totally get there with it. Watched it for the first time last week didn't like it. Yeah. It just didn't make it. I wanted it to be good. James Bridges, too. I love James Bridges movies.

Tequila Sunrise was another one. As much as I wanted to love it, it's just not a good movie. I wanted to ask you about a movie that I have a lot of affection for, and I was wondering if you liked it. Boghian? No. Okay. I never liked Beogosian.

As a fellow Mike guy, you know, like just. It's a great film. Colors was a backup drama for me in case there was a run on dramas and they didn't get it, but I don't love that movie. You empathize of those cops? Well, I just don't. I like that. Duval and Sean Penn are in a cop movie together, but that movie's problematic.

Above the law, Seagal's first movie. It's probably the weakest Seagall, which is why I stayed away. It's the best Segal movie. Is that the Ross Sifarian? No, Out for Justice is. Oh, no, is out The Out for Justice the one. Above the law is that, they didn't really figure out Seagal yet. What's the Andrew Davis one? That's above the law. That's later. That's above the law. No, above the law is an Andrew Davis. I think above the law is it directed by Inter Davis. Yeah, it is. It is. Yeah. Really? Yeah. That's the best one. That's the one I'm thinking of martial arts expert and former CIA agent Nico Tuscany is working as a Chicago cop on a relatively routine drug trafficking investigation needs to an international. That one is legit good. The first four

cigals are great. Um, Maniac cop I thought somebody might take. Yeah. I watched it this week. I watched Maniac cop and I really liked it. It would have been in my horror pics. Nicholas Winning Reef and then my favorite one, um, that I just think's a banger. It's a tuby banger, Amanda. Okay. Masquerade with Rob Lowe. I don't know this one. It's an erotic thriller. Okay. It's set in somewhere oceany and nice to hang out with. It's a who done it.

It's pretty raunchy. Meg Tilly's in it. Kim Katrow basically testing out her sex in the city character. It's the Hamptons. The Hamptons. And Roblo's great in it. And the movie's just good. It's like somebody good directed it.

Does it say who directed that? Oh, yeah. Sorry, but I was just reading the locations. Swam, written by Dick Wolf. Bob Swam, written by Dick Wolf. Bob Swam, we did, he crossed past of the rewatchables recently was something he did.

But yeah, the only other one I had for a wildcard was U2 Rattel and Hum. Tried to acquire it on DVD on Blu-ray this week to get another look at it, running about 75 bucks on eBay, not what you want. Masquerade is? No, U-2 Rattelan Hum. Oh, yeah. Phil's your nose.

What's your, what's your price limit right now? You know, unless there's For a movie I'm going to watch one time for prep for a pot. I would never spend $75. I would never want to advocate for this, but if there is a clip of, it doesn't make the actual final film, is of them playing with or without you in Tempe from this movie.

It looks better than 98% of movies made today. And it's the best version of whether without you. It would be an awesome 4K. Isn't it Jeff Croninworth? Yes. David Fincher's cinematographer shot this movie, I think. That's my favorite. Jacko and I used to do the scene all through college.

where the edge is playing BB King, this thing they did. And he's like, do you like the lyrics, BB? And he was like, some good lyrics. It's just like the most hilarious exchange. He's fucking freaking rock and roll

stops the traffic. We like that movie. Was there any, what are your big regrets here? I mean, I'll say for my ones, I mean, I like Dead Ringers a lot.

We didn't put in Willow. Nobody took Willow. Yeah, I had Willow on my list. So nobody took twins. Nobody took twins. Yeah. School days. It's not a great movie.

This is a sentimental pick because it was just like a 1988 VHS classic was satisfaction with Justin Baitman. Oh yeah. Liam Mason's on that. Yeah. And Serpent and the Rainbow, which is Craven. Craven. And school days. Honestly, I'm a little upset Amanda didn't take Mystic Pizza.

I thought I knew her better. Kind of surprised. Yeah. That was on my list. kept waiting for it. It was in the wild card spot, but I really, I do like crossing Delancey. I feel like I've taken Mystic Pizza before in maybe not a draft. but like in a Julia Roberts Hall of Fame situation.

So it wasn't there. The other honorable mention that I wanted to do was just a movie I had not seen until now, which is a handful of dust. There's an Evelyn Waugh adaptation starring Chris and Scott Thomas. And it's kind of one of her main breakthroughs. Alec Ennis also shows up and, you know, other people.

Bigger for out, possible 88 MVP. Yeah. A little door it. Yeah. A handful of dust. Judy Dench is, you know, James Willby. But it's, you know, a costume-ish drama that you would think I would know about. And I didn't.

And I did not. Pretty good. Okay. I got a lot more. Yeah. There's a lot of stuff. I mean, we didn't. We never talked about Mississippi burning.

We didn't talk about Mr. It was a huge movie that year. Big Oscar movie. That was a scene in the theater movie. Yeah. Plus Gene Hackman coming off Hoosiers now trying to solve racism in the deep south. First time I ever saw Francis McDormand was in that movie. And she was nominated for that movie. And she's got that heat with Hackman, but she's the wife of the racist.

Legend. Yeah. She's great. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels? Yeah. Never really clicked with me. Oh, interesting. Big movie from the time.

Scrooge, also a huge movie at the time. Not my favorite. I'm not a huge fan of it either. Some smaller ones I really like. Miracle Mile. Anthony Edwards. The Mayor Winningham. The Johnny's on Wilshire.

Yes, the old diner. Yeah. Which is about like a, LA like undergoing the big one. I like that one. I saw something for the first time. I don't know if any of you guys have seen it. This is one that I bought to watch because I really wanted to watch it. I know you guys like Harold Becker.

I'd never seen this movie before. The Boost with James Woods. Do you know about this movie? Oh, is that where he's doing drugs? Yes. Yeah. So he's playing a salesman and he's having a hard time in his career. He's married to Sean Young, who looks fabulous in this movie.

And he's having a really hard time catching on and making any money, living in New York. And he goes in for a job interview and he bombs the job interview. but one of the guys who's interviewing him and the interview sees something in him and he's like, I'm about to leave this company and start my own business

and we're going to go out to L.A. and I want you to come with me and be my salesman. It's like what I saw in CR. Same, same shit. James Woods goes out and he takes off like wildfire selling real estate in L.A.

And he gets rich really fast. Then the government changes the tax laws. Like the loophole that he was using? Yes. And all of a sudden, he's addicted to, to cocaine and he is massively in debt. And it's a real

like yuppie nightmare spiral movie. I thought it was really good. Watch now on MGM, 2B or Fubo. Wow. Oh, sick. I recently subscribed to MGM again. I like MGM. Let it laugh. That's all right that you wanted to get into. A movie for this. I can't remember now. But, you know, there had been a few of them.

I think MGM's strong. Yeah. I mean, I subscribe to everything because I mean, me too. I just have to. Yeah. You use the cable package. Stars. No, I do all the apps. Oh yeah I guess you had something through the cable

you were like you watched all that you had a movie channels but I really like the MGM I think they have good movies yeah uh Patty Hurst

Patty Hurst Patty Hurst uh Paul Schrader's docudrama about the no not a fan okay I like it Vim Vendors of Wings of Desire probably the best movie

not drafted here uh we didn't do punchline or the accused which are just two big movies for uh big Tom Hanks

Jody Foster people we like talking about Jody Foster 1 for that I watched the ACUs a couple years ago and uh it was really dated. She's really good in it, but it's very, like,

feels very 80s. Do you like everybody's all-American? Not really, I don't. I've never seen that. It's like Kurt Russell and Robin Williams? Isn't Dennis Quaid? That's best of times what you're talking about, right? But Dennis Quaid's in everybody that's all-American. With Kurt Russell. Right. They go back to LSU, right?

Something like that. Stand and deliver? Yeah, almost. Speaking of Lou Diamond Phillips's... Was that my wild card list? You know? He's playing. like a cholo gangster and who is also really good at calculus.

Yeah. Great movie idea. Edward James almost. Gorillas in the Mist. Sigourney Weaver. Yeah. I don't love that movie. I mean, I never got it either.

Yeah. Okay. Respect to Sigourney Weaver, though. She was nominated both for that and Working Girl. I vote Working Girl, obviously. We mentioned Tucker. The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

DDL. Early D.D.L. Yeah. That's a movie. We didn't say beaches. Beaches? That was a thing. It sure was.

We were talking yesterday about the wind beneath my wings. Are you a Beaches fan? I didn't draft it. I guess not. I think wind beneath my wings, like I had to sing in elementary school at some point, you know, so that's kind of the long tail of the beaches effect for me.

I mean, honestly, licensed to drive, I guess was the best of all the 80s team movies, and I don't think that should have been drafted. And the Deadpool was probably the most disappointing because that was like Clint, Dirty Harry's back and just sucked.

Well, Clint was putting all his energy into Bird, the movie he directed that year about Charlie Parker with Forrest Whitaker. I thought you were going to say he was putting his energy into taking down babes. That's wrong in Carmel. Well, I don't think he was mayor at that time. Not yet. I think it was in the early 90s, right? Post Unforgiven.

I thought the sequels were incredibly disappointing. It's a tough year. Like really like bad versions of movies that had peaked like three months. movies earlier. Basically, there's a bunch of those. No, I know,

but it's just like, I was surprised there wasn't, like, oh, that kind of don't mind that Friday the 13th. There was like none of those for me.

Didn't we have like a plethora of them in 89? I feel like we had a bunch to choose from. Yeah, because the top 10 was all either, um, was Batman and or I think it's Ghostbusters 2 that year.

Yeah, Ghostbusters. Yeah, last crusade. Yeah, last crusade. Satisfi was Arthur 2. On the rocks. They were like,

is there anything left here? No. What did you think of the Arthur remake with Russell Brand? Did that happen? Isn't Greta Gerwig in that? She is. She's a female lead. Yeah.

Did you like it? Oh, I forgot about that. Wow, I forgot that happened. Greta Gerwig's in that? She was like, she did that, and then she was going to make the How I Met Your Mother sequel and didn't, but then wind up becoming a Grito tour. Any closing thoughts? No.

I mean, I'm trying to see if we missed anything. I think we talked about everything for the most part. Should we recap teams? Yes, we recap our teams. Okay, so CRR. The First pick, so you go first, Chris. In drama, I had the last temptation of Christ in comedy. I had Bull Durham.

In Action Horror Thriller, I took Young Guns. In Oscar nominee, married to the mob, in sequel, Caddyshack 2, 4%. In Blockbuster, Die Hard, and in Wildcard, naked gun. Okay, BS. So, Caddyshack 2 really heard you. Yeah. Dangerous liaisance for drama.

Blood support, action. Rain Man Oscar nominee Midnight Run for comedy Halloween 4 for sequel cocktail for Blockbuster and Action Jackson for Wildcard

I'm feeling good about that thing That's a good class man Solid Feels very 19888-ish Feels like me You know what? It does That has a little scent of me

In that list Well how would you describe that scent? It smells like the garden Yeah Yeah just like It smells like popcorn and happiness Yeah A worn in second baseman's glove.

Speaking of, for my picks, drama, I had eight men out, comedy, I had Beetlejuice, action horror thriller, I have They Live, Oscar nominee, I have Who Frame Roger Rabbit, sequel, The Decline of Western Civilization, Part Two, the Metal Years. That's a cheat. Blockbuster.

You were with him in the moment, but now you're turning. No, it's just, Sean cheated, but it's his pod. On your own pod, you can cheat. You did not cheat. He constructed the rules to be able to cheat as well. Do we even post these for votes? We do. We do. Yeah, we post them on CR heads. Blockbuster I got big and wildcard. I got a fish called Wanda.

Okay. Interesting. I don't know who won this one. In drama. Everybody's got some weird spots. In drama, have running on empty in comedy, working girl, in action horror thriller, frantic. In Oscar nominee, women on the verge of a nervous breakdown. In sequel, appointment with death in Blockbuster coming to America and in Wildcard, Crossing Delancey. It's between these two. I think we picked for our hearts. I picked with my heart And we did

You know You did Not a movie on here I don't like We're fringy You know And you know like the kumete It's just like sometimes You have to go

Yeah Sometimes you need to get your Chess and blown out by Chonle To speak BS Bloodsport And Action Jackson Come on guys What are we doing?

Will you vote in this vote? Yeah I'll vote for myself You wouldn't vote for Michael Dukakis But you would vote for yourself But it's like You wanted to But it's like

It was harder back then I might have voted I really might have voted for Carrie. I just can't remember. I didn't remember doing Blood Diamond rewatchables with CR, which was six years ago. I remember listening to that. I know exactly where I was when we started doing those accents. Chris, in a meeting right before this pod, was just openly referring to Danny Archer,

as though he were like a very famous movie character that we all know and love, Danny Archer from Blood Diamond. Sure, yeah. Danny Atcha. CIA. Okay. Well, thanks very much to our producer, Jack Sanders for his work on this episode.

Thanks to Lucas Kavanaugh and Jacob Cornett for production support. Next week, we'll talk about the best movies of the year so far at the end of the first three months and ten movies that we missed during Oscar season. Movies came out this year. A lot of movies, actually. Have you been catching up? Yes. Do you feel ready? Well, I've learned a lot about peekie blinders

and I can't wait to share it with you. I haven't watched that yet. Yes. I know who he is. You know who he is. Tommy Shelby? Yeah. Never got in. When is this running on Friday? Nope. Tomorrow morning. That's what I thought.

Thursday morning. When is Crime 101 going to be on a streamer? It's not on Amazon or not? We should be on Amazon pretty soon. It's on Amazon now. I do need your thoughts. I've been waiting because I really was... The other day...

One of my favorite occurrences is Van calls me and I'm like, oh, no, no, what happened? And he's just a Crime 101. It could have been better. He's like, I won't take much of your time, but Crime 101 could have been better. And I'm like, thank you. I agree, but I didn't have a bad thing.

I like... I need to know. You're the tie breaker. I really need to know because you were a little colder on it than I expected to be and we didn't get a chance to talk about it. It's like pretty good.

It's not great. We did the pod together, man. Oh, that's great. You were like, yeah, but you insulted a little bit. It's, I mean... I liked it. Is it better than Hamnet?

In my opinion, yes. The first hour of Crime 101 blows the first hour of Hamlet out of the water. Do you feel that way? I don't think... The first hour of Hamlet, I hated. Did the tree? The second hour of Hamlet is phenomenal. But it's just Hamlet.

Well, yeah, that part is proof of that part. All right, Bill Simmons, thank you so much for doing this. CR, thank you. We'll see you soon.