The Weekly Planet - The Greatest Action Movies of All Time - Clickbait Bonus Episode

Episode Date: January 6, 2025

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Hi, we're still on break, but here's a bonus thing from BigSandwich.co. It's got a huge back catalogue of stuff. I'm here too. Yeah, Mason's here too. He had to be. He drove all the way from wherever he lives. I said, you got to come in for this 30 second recording. Denmark.

Denmark. And he was happy to do it. That's right. It's where I live now. That's where he lives now. So what is it? It's in the title, but if you head to BigSandwich.co, we do video game let's plays. We do bonus podcasts.

Like we do a click, like we do a click bait or we got this covered covered where we look at terrible click bait articles. We do movie commentaries. What else are we doing on there, Mason? We're doing a video game let's plays. You said that already. Did you? Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm so jet lagged from coming from Denmark. That's okay, man. It's not your problem. It's a long trip, I think. Yeah, it is probably, I think also. Where we look at a pick a year in pop culture and we go, oh, interesting. That's not your problem. It's a long trip, I think. Yeah, it is probably. I think also. Where we look at a pick a year in pop culture and we go, oh, interesting. That's right. Oh, interesting.

And probably another thing. Yeah, sure. Also, our podcast goes up there early and so do all videos, et cetera. Anyways, enjoy. Okay, now I can- This is free, but you can sign up for more. Yeah. That's fine also.

We don't have to go back to Denmark. Yeah. Where the weather is cold. But yeah, but you need to be back tomorrow as well. All right. In case this doesn't work. Okay. Yeah. Okay, bye.

Bye. Red hot comic book movie lies shooting up your butthole. We got this covered. We got we got this covered covered. Folks welcome once again to another episode of We Got This Covered covered a podcast where we took the best and worst of clickbait. We have a nice time, don't we? That's true.

Now, for people who have just joined us, which is everybody. The people who weren't listening to us before we started recording. Before we started recording in our regular lives. James has invented a new character that he's enjoying and it's fun. I genuinely think it's fun. It's Dracula, but he also collects bones. Yeah, he collects bones, but he's a regular Dracula. Okay. So he's not collecting the bones for...

He's not bone Dracula. He just likes having... He's like, oh, how many bones do you think I have? And he has four. If we figure it out. Is it more that you just like doing the voice? Because doing the voice is fun. It's fun to do a fun voice.

Yeah, I mean, yeah. It is built around the voice, yeah. But I like the idea of this Dracula is just like, got a, he's got a little bone collection. Sure. He's doing. Yep. You know?

Yeah. And he's also, he does all the other Dracula things. He's the Dracula thing as well. But this is just like a thing that he has. Does he know regular Dracula? No, he is regular Dracula. Oh, okay. Yeah.

Sure. Is he? Yeah, sure. What do you think? I don't think about it at all. I mean now I can't think of anything else. Normally on this podcast we talk about clickbait. Yeah, yeah, but we're talking about Dracula. He's a regular Dracula, but he also collects bones.

But they don't have to be human bones as we established Mason. Now you've been back from England for some time. Yes. You'd think you'd be over your jet lag. You think a lot of things. Yeah. That's the human mind for you. Isn't it though?

Yeah. Yeah. God. So this week. Yep. like you think a lot of things yeah that's the human mind for you though yeah yeah god so this week yep see you and also what i what i find on this podcast as well when we start it you're always trying to deflect because you don't want to get into it yeah because i read you some clickbait i'll invent an incredible character you'll invent an incredible character that is dead in the water and we'll never hear from again. No. Okay. Go on. Sorry. Put it on the regular podcast.

Yeah, we will. Yeah. But this week, we're taking mercy on you because we're diving into the Rolling Stone magazine. Hell yeah. And they've come up with another fabulous list. The 50 best action movies of all time. Now have we already told people why this list is bullshit? Because Die Hard's not on it.

Die Hard's not on it. Die Hard's not on it. Unless they've done a quick edit of this. God, they better have. This is also not pre-Die Hard, if you're wondering. No, this came out, I thought this was more recent than it is, but this is from 2021. So there might be some missing things. There'll certainly be no John Wick 4 on here. Oh man.

So we can't fault them for that. We can fault them for everything else, and we will. And we will. Um, but not that. Do I need to take any notes because I've got a little document open? You know what, we should take some notes. I'm thinking there's almost certainly going to be some stuff we haven't seen. Sure, okay. Yeah. I'm not sure how far reaching it is, but I think there's going to be some Hong Kong action here. Sure, okay.

But there will. And I think as well, like the last Rolling Stone list we covered, which was the Hollywood's 50 Worst Decisions, it'll get more egregious as it goes along. Absolutely. When we get to number 10, we're like, hmm, where's Under Siege 2? Where's Speed 2? Why haven't they covered those ones? Great question. This is outrageous.

It is outrageous. Okay, well, I'm excited. From Bullet Balance. Oh, we're going to do 10. And then we do a regular episode and then another 10. James Fine's upsetting for some reason. So this is going to take, well, if we do one every five weeks, we're going to be on this for the rest of our lives.

The rest of our lives. All right, let's get into it then. Let's get into it. The rest of our lives. Unless this isn't particularly interesting, in which case we'll just... Oh, I've dropped all my box of bones. Oh, it's better in a box. That's more world-building. I appreciate

Like um, was it like an ornate box? No, it was a cardboard box. It's a cardboard box. Yes You know office works or something? I've never been to office work. What do I need with? You could go at night. I could you let's often open up all the time to the open. They close at night I mean, it's daylight savings. Can I go at night even? Probably yeah, I reckon after maybe seven it'll be done. Should I bring a Dracula umbrella? It's a regular umbrella, but it's owned by me Dracula. Oh, I think I think you should bring it. I think I'm losing track of the voice I don't know You're sounding more British, but a Dracula could be British. I could be anyone. Yep, or British

You've just full British now. What are we doing? Let's go. Get out of here Dracula, but you collect bones in a box. I will return with more bones. It is fun to do the voice. I agree. I mean, you did the actual voice.

Yeah. Okay. Let's go. From bullet ballets to sci-fi epics, James. Kung Fu classics to superhero adventures. The greatest big screen adrenaline rushes ever. Blah, blah, blah. Let's go from bullet ballets to sci-fi obiX James kung-fu classics to superhero adventures the greatest big-screen adrenaline rushes And blah blah blah. This is David fear. He should live in fear I've asked if we're gonna get ya if in fact he still worked for Rolling Stone We're gonna dac you we're gonna dac you David fear that should be a number one David fear

We're gonna dac you for your bad your bad calls here. I'm excited for this Yeah, so what do we got a number 50? Are we going to read the preamble? There's a preamble of course. Let's preamble. All you need to make a movie James, a wise Frenchman once said, is a girl and a gun. Doesn't say which Frenchman. Maybe we're supposed to know. Gerard Depardieu, because he's a bad dude. Yeah, it was probably Emmanuel Macron.

President or possibly Prime Minister of France. I don't like that guy. No, neither do I. Is he going to be a good politician? Never. All right then. Sure. Is he going to be a good politician? Never. Alright then. Sure. Unless Jimmy Carter's reborn in another body.

Doesn't he suck for reasons also? I think what if Jimmy Carter took the substance and became a younger, more beautiful, more perfect version of himself? Oh my god. Did you see Transformers 1 by the way? I have seen Transformers 1. You like it? Yeah.

It's good, isn't it? It was cool. We'll talk about it on the regular podcast. We will, yeah. Son of a fucking flippies lit. Yeah. All right, what are we doing? Let's go. All you need is a girl and a gun, James.

It helps, of course, if you throw in a few explosions, several car chases, some knockdown mano a mano fistfights, a smattering of kung fu, and any number of swordfights as well. You know what I'm enjoying about this article? Nothing. No, I am. I'm loving it because this is pre-AI.

Oh, so someone had to write this. A man probably wrote this for real. I can't imagine having to actually write something. My goodness. Yeah. Action's been a part of the movie since the days of keystone cops and mustache-twirling villains tying up heroines on railroad tracks. You could even argue that the Lumiere brothers, short of a train pulling into the station, which allegedly caused audiences to scream and flee the room. Who's arguing that? Nobody, I don't think it was true. That's an action movie. I like to say it. Yeah, it's a gag. It was the world's first example of an action room. Who's arguing that? Nobody, I don't think it was true. That's an action movie. I like to say it as a gag.

Yeah, it's a gag. It was the world's first example of an action movie. The Holy Trinity of cinema, i.e. thrills, chills, and spills, has been a main attraction of the medium for decades. Okay. And once the age of the blockbuster really kicks in a gear in the early 1980s, you couldn't throw a rock at a multiplex without hitting something that hyped up the motion

in motion pictures. Mmm. So we're shouting out the 50 best action movies of all time. This is all time. Yeah, these are, yeah. So number 50. Yep. You haven't read it yet.

I've only read the first one. Okay, well, I was hoping for a shock reaction. This shouldn't be on here. Number 50 is 2015's The Man From Uncalled. Unbelievable. Bad start. Directed by Guy Ritchie. It's not even bad.

No, but I mean, think about this. What was the big action set piece at the end? Boat. There was a boat and then was it was there two boats and they were gonna... There was a toilet fight. What's that? They have a brawl in the toilet. The two main guys?

Yeah. So it's Armie Hammer and Henry Cavill. And they're taking the roles made famous by Robert Vaughan and David McCallum in Series in the 60s Alicia Vikander is in it. She is in it. That's true But like there isn't the end the twist there's gonna be there's two boats and they're gonna blow each other up Oh, that's right time shift or something. That's right. And then they show it happening. Yeah Well, actually I did this and then they show it happening. It's like yeah, you just explained it. That's right. And then they show it happening. They're like, well, actually, I did this. And then they show it happening. It's like, yeah, you just explained it.

It's hardly, it's hardly Tom Cruise coming through the roof, you know, hanging, hanging on the, on the thing and hacking the computer. He's not even in this movie. He's not even, he's barely in it. Yeah. In the sense that he's not in it. Yeah. I've just written no.

That's my note. This should not be on the list. There's no way this should be on the list. Again, this is like, this is how many action movies would have come out in the last 50 years. If he put Snatch on here, I would go, okay, like not really an action movie, but like, no, come on. Yeah. No.

Just no, Mason. Okay, well, bad start. People like that movie though. I don't hate it. I don't hate it either. But it's not. It's not great. No, and it's... I'd maybe turn it on to...

I like the look of it. I like the idea of it, but I just don't like it that much. Yeah. I felt that way about Operation Rue's Degrir. I couldn't finish that. Yeah, it's just like... Oh, this is in Gloria's Bastards, but like not as good. Oh, are you talking about... Wait, wait, which is that one? You you're thinking of these are all Guy Ritchie movies, but you're thinking of.

The Henry Cavill one and yeah, Henry Cavill, Jack Reacher, Little Glasses, Jack Reacher, Little Glasses, that operation ruse de grue. No, but that is also a, a operation ruse de guire is the one that's got Jason Statham and Aubrey Plaza and Josh Hartnett. Okay. They're trying to trick Josh Hartnett. Oh, okay. They're trying to trick Josh Hartnett, who's a movie superstar, into doing something. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly. Yeah, I quite like that one.

Rues de Guerre. I don't know. Operation Fortune, I couldn't finish it. I don't know Rues de Guerre. I could maybe 10 minutes in. Okay. It's a new era. And this, this-

Have you got Hugh Grant? He's like, eww. He does have Hugh Grant in it. Yeah. And he's like, eww. He's more like, eww, eww, eww., oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh He takes blood. He doesn't take bones. It's just a mystery as to why this is his pillow I mean, I guess you know who can explain I have too many watches, you know Yeah, you can explain what you like and you keep them in a cardboard box. Yeah, and I guess he likes bones So who can blame him? It's wonderful joke. We should get him bones on DVD. Oh

You boys You boys you got me, but I only like real bones. What do you got to me? Alright, number 41. I think- 41? 49. Yeah. Sorry. I skipped 10 because I hate them. Did I die?

Yeah, you died. Okay, I think we're in better territory here. Okay. Number 49, 1981's Escape from New York. Yeah, all right. I'll tell you. John Carpenter. We recently talked about The Thing for Caravan of Garbage. Yep. We're big fans of John Carpenter over here. Absolutely.

Uh. I, yeah, look, I haven't seen it in a while, but it's good. Yeah. Is the sequel good? I don't think it is. Not as much. I don't think it is. It's not as good.

It's got surfing at the end of it. Yeah. And during it. And they high five and surfing or whatever it is. Is that during? I can't remember. It's just a gritty, mean world with a mean man. Yeah, and greatly inspirational because of course Snake Plissken is by Hideo Kojima to make Solid Snake. That's right.

For the Metal Gear games. I saw an interview with Kurt Russell where he talked about that. I think he just went, I don't know. Yeah. Was his answer like, his answer didn't make sense, like he didn't understand the question or something? I think the question wasn't posed sort of to, I think the question was posed to him about Hideo Kojima and adapting his character into a different thing. I think Kurt Russell thought he was asking about adapting

like an Escape from New York or the thing into into a video game and then sort of it was kind of a confusing answer but Yeah, Kurt Russell is snake plissken. Um, one of the greats Yeah, I know I I think it's a you know, a great weird New York sort of in the style of the Warriors Yeah, running man or something like that low budget but looks makes use of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't remember any action sequences off the top of my head. Just violence I guess. Oh, we didn't even talk about the score when we talked about...

The Thing. The Thing. Oh yeah. Any Amarakon. Well, we'll talk about it next... Maybe that's the thing Ben can put in. Next week. Yeah, next week.

That's right. Yeah, and it's sort of this kind of, it is, this is kind of like, it is kind of like one of those director video kind of action movies that sort of cut into the mainstream. There's a whole bunch of them. It's just this one kind of, you know, has the star power and it's just a, just a tips it over the edge a little bit. Absolutely. Yeah.

So this, this is, this is worthy. The sequel is like the same, right? But worse in a lot of ways. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It felt, to me personally, it felt kind of like the same again. Shitty kind of imitation. Exactly. Yeah. Okay, now number 48. Whoa. We're not going to know this one. All right. Maybe you know it. This is 1999's Dead or Alive. So this is a Japanese movie. Oh, I do not know this. This is by Takashi Mike. It's a Yakuza flick. A cop is determined to take down a mobster

by any means necessary. No one can say that the prolific Japanese filmmaker doesn't present this old chestnut-less story with a maximum amount of panache and a 200 beats per minute pace. I can say that. Well... I'm comfortable in saying that he doesn't do that.

Okay. It's a gonzo go for broke version of a typical two sides of the coin movie. And as for the ending, let's say it's one of the greatest cinematic exit strategies ever. Well. And one which takes the entire action film genre to its logical end game. Which I think is that these two guys kiss. Oh, that'd be awesome.

I think it's probably that, right? What is how? It's like I've got a gun and we're going to kiss. Kiss the gun. Well, even if you didn't have a gun, I'd still kiss. You know? You don't need to have a gun, all right? No, no, no, you're doing it wrong, aren't you?

Because we've been shooting at each other all day. Yeah. And just, you know. Ready for kissing. I, you know, I just, let's put these guns aside. For kissing. And do a big kiss. Yeah.

Okay. And back to the guns. That's right. But they're more kissing. But that's interesting, that's a, you know. It's called Dead or Alive. Dead or Alive. They remake that.

No. No, it's a video game dead or alive. It's you think of the video game series with with bouncy bouncy physics. Which became a movie movie with the Uwe Boll. No, but it did have Eric Roberts in it. I listened to Eric Roberts. Audio book, his autobiography. Yeah, it's good.

It's really good. OK, he's got it. You're right. By Corey Ewan movie. I've saw it looks like a new movie. It's good. It's really good. Okay. He's got a- No, you're right. It's by Corey Ewan. It looks like a Nouveau bold movie. It does, doesn't it? Yeah. So I go on. It's good. It's good. It really does feel like he's just there having a chat with you. You know, a lot of autobiographies read by the author. It really feels like they're like,

oh, I forgot I have to do this. Yeah. I don't really want to be here. I listened to Stanley Tucci's one as well. And I'm like, it doesn't really seem like he's just kind of phoning it in. Get, get to the point Stanley Tucci also. Exactly. Skip the bad stuff.

Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Just go off where we talked about. I would highly recommend Robert's autobiography. Did you talk about Julia Roberts? Yes. Cool. Yeah.

What did he say about her? How she's cool. He said she's cool? No, he didn't say that. No. Did he talk about Doctor Who? Ah, I don't think so, no. Because he played the master bit.

He did play the master bit. But he was a worm. He was a worm guy or something. Yeah, he was a worm guy. Because he'd used up all his regenerations to be a worm guy. Is that what's going to happen to Doctor Who?. who when he no I can't because he's infinite infinite now whatever isn't it's true who cares yeah next next okay the thing about this though is next I don't know if I would choose to see this based on

that picture based on this picture what if they were kissing yeah maybe hmm you know when there is, you know, Hong Kong action movies I haven't seen yet, for example. Exactly. Good point. Anyway, number 47 from the year 1996. Jet Li's The One. No. It's Michael Bay's The Rock. Alright. Okay. Yep. Just, you're not feeling it? I agree. No, it's a good movie. I would say it's probably his best movie. Well, David who should fear us. Yeah said the best Michael Bay movie by a huge margin And gains pretty good I've never seen pain and gain and Transformers the last night is exquisite. That's a good movie. It's a good movie. What do you like about it?

I like can which one I like Stanley Tucci in it. Yeah, he's not phoning it in. I'm liking his autobiography. Merlin. That's exactly right. Yeah. I liked, what about Cogman? I liked Cogman. He's a headmaster. Yeah, I know. I know he is. How would you know that? Because I read the supplementary. You know that from the movie. Yeah, I liked it. I liked the part where, I liked the part where, you know, incredible actor, Sir Anthony Hopkins shared the silver screen with, you know, what's his face, Wahlberg. And he's like, you'd like to know, wouldn't you, dude? Yeah. It's good stuff.

It's a great movie. It is a good movie. Yeah. The Rock, though, I agree. I think it's also the heart in it works as well. The action works. I think the pairing of Connery and Nicholas Cage. Nicholas Cage works really well.

The villain is really compelling because he's right. He doesn't really want to do a big terrorism. Michael Beans in it. Yeah, that's true. Fucking it's a good movie, man. Yeah. Yeah. I remember enjoying the heck out of it.

Yeah, it's a good movie. It also led to- My note just says good movie. Good movie, yeah. It also led to some sort of situation where the real US Defense Department were like, look these terrorists have nerve gas and they showed just the weird thing of green bulbs. The actual department did that. And it's the thing from the rock. Because no one would make a weapon like that really.

Nobody would make a container of nerve gas that was in... Strung up on like... Like Christmas lights. Yeah, basically a cobweb holding them all together. And the other thing is that it's also sort of a James Bond movie. That's true. Because Sean Connery's character in it was captured in the 60s and it's never explicitly said, but he is James Bond. Because you can't say he's James Bond.

That's right. Yeah. James Bond. Yeah. They had to call him Dracula, but he likes to collect bones. That's my character. Well, is it? Well, I guess they did it first. They did it first, you know?

Welcome to the rock. Look at my bones. Collection of bones. I bought them with me. Sean, put down the bones. Is that Nichols cage. I bought them with me. Sean! Put down the bones! Is that Nichols Cage? No, it's me. I'm there. Great stuff.

What else Mason? Okay, you're going to love this one James. This is number 46. You're going to love it and agree with it. 2008s, can you take a guess? Wild Swing? 2008, Wanted. No. Watchmen. No. Batman? The Dark Knight? No. Iron Man? No. But those are all excellent choices from 2008, but they're not as good as 2008's Taken. Yeah, alright. I'll pay that. The first Taken's pretty good. He says the movie that officially kicks off the era of Liam Neeson

Era of Liam Neeson? Oh this era of Liam Neeson. The era of Liam Neeson, but I guess this is the era of him Just yeah the geezer tease of Liam Neeson. I guess I guess it kicked that off. I think like that's you know The entire genre. I would even say it's responsible for John Wick. Yeah, okay I would go as far as to say that. Well I I mean, that was gonna be, as we know, that was gonna be a director streaming thing called Storm. I think it's a good movie. I mean, it is very much like, you should have listened to your dad, the movie.

It is, yeah, that's true. And that's how they, you're an idiot. Isn't that the genius though of it? Yeah, but most dads aren't capable. Sure, but they think they are. Like, they don't know. Yeah.

I'm running into them all the time. They're like, your daughter's been kidnapped and only a man with your skill of collecting books about World War II could save her. We need a big stack of books to get over the fence. That's right. We can't rely on you going over the fence and it's like 15 different camera angles, that one scene.

You know? Leave it, he's too big, he's lumbering around. He's getting his dong stuck on the fence. Like a horse. He's getting his dong stuck on the fence like that high jump at that time. The Olympics. So your horse that needs to be put down, stumbling around this giant body. I mean, I think we wouldn't get like, we wouldn't get the equalizer movies.

We wouldn't get nobody. We wouldn't get all the, like you said, all the geezer teases streaming stuff of like kind of slightly over the hill. You know, slightly over the hill movie stars going, I could be in this for 10 minutes. I'm Sean Penn, I'm doing one or whatever. Did he? Yeah. Wow. I mean, for good or for real, but I think maybe the good outweighs the bad here. That being said, the taken movies are bad. I mean, it's also diminishing returns. I think the first one is the best. I mean, it's iconic. It's got like iconic lines in it and whatever.

Particular set of skills. Yeah, someone and so forth. Yeah someone and so forth. It's a good movie. I'm Liam Neeson. I'm an old Liam Neeson. Tripped over my dong. He did all the bad guys did. They all did. In a big pile up. Yeah yeah yeah. Absolutely yeah. Yeah. Wow. You like Taken? Yeah I do. It's the best of the Taken movies. And probably the series as well. Yeah, does he ought to get kidnapped every week? Yeah, he's got like 15 kids or whatever. I would say it's the Tim Allen too many daughters. Exactly. Okay. I got too many daughters and I'm a man. Doesn't work for me. That's right. Here I am. Yeah. What's that number? I just wrote okay. Is that a good note for you? That's a good note and that is okay. It is okay. I think that's right. Here I am. Yeah. What's that number? I just wrote, okay. Got a good note for you. That's a good note. And that is okay. It's okay. I think that's beautiful. Yeah. Number 90. Number

45. This guy's losing his mind. Yeah, I know. Saying 90. Yeah. What do we got? Number 90. From the year 1993. Let me guess. Okay. Last Action Hero. No, True Lies. No, no. Speed. No, wrong. Time Cop Time Cop, is it a Van Damme? No. Then I give up. The Fugitive. Yeah.

Is it an action movie? Yeah. It is. I mean, it is. It obviously is. It's more of a thriller. But when you're like, when the preamble is like, we're got guns and shooting and kung fu adventures and what have you.

He jumps out of the way of a train. He jumps out of a drain. He's jumping out of trains. He's jumping out of drains. That dude's got one arm. Yeah. Or one of where the bones are. Of his arm that he was removed.

I'm not interested in that, but if only there was an iconic character who was interested in where those phones were. I haven't seen it in a long time. No, we have. We did. The fugitive? Yes. When?

We did an audio commentary on it. I'm pretty sure. You're thinking of Air Force One. No, I reckon we did a fugitive. We absolutely have not done an audio commentary. You know what we did? We did a regular episode of the podcast and I think I watched the Fugitive 4. Because we talked about old Harrison Ford movies. Or we were going to or something.

Yeah and then we talked about that and then we talked about Harrison Ford's Armaged That Time. Yeah I watched Witness. Yeah and so forth. So I guess maybe I watched a new episode. I haven't watched it, no. But I will watch. There is also a sequel that's called US Marshals.

That's right. It's got Wesley Snipes. And Robert Downey jr. That's right And there's also a TV series and there's original TV series as well. That's right. Yeah, God Um, what do you reckon the fugitive? Uh, what do you think? What are we doing as a note? No notes. See, I'm you know what put put the note there and say we'll see because I want to see with the rest of this Guys, you know, you know, they don't include diehard, but they're including the fusion. I don't think that, no, I don't think I know what I actually want to do.

I like where your head's at. Does this have comments by the way, this article? Oh, I don't know. We'd have to get to that. I'm going to scroll to the bottom without looking. Okay, all right. Okay, the next one, it's obviously, it's supposed to be here.

Like it, there's no reason it wouldn't be on the list. But the placement of this, I think, this is the first one that is designed to get people upset. Oh, I like this. I think- The Die Hard Five? No. But I think that does not deserve to be on the list, Jan.

This deserves to be on the list. I'll give you some clues. Deserves to be on the list. What year? 1994. And it's at 44. And the fact that it's- is realize if the fact that it's the 44 is inside realize our speed it's paid Ah speeds great right speeds top 10 the fort I mean is it's not action movie fuck no, right? It's better one than whatever the next movie is and again. This was I mean this is diehard on a bus

Yeah, it's but it's But it's also it's also It's also it kicked off. Cairns! Exactly. It's just Cairns! It's just Cairns! Keep driving the bus! It's diehard on a bus! But this this this reinvigorated. Yodarilla. Yeah, exactly. Is that going? I'll call you back Gary. Whatever we go. Let's go. Yeah, this reinvvigorated the genre, I think. Because at this point, people were like, oh, it's another Die Hard on a whatever. Ugh. Ugh. All right.

It's Hollywood out of ideas. And then they were like, what about on a bus? And people were like, finally. Fuck, yeah. They looped the cameras. They looped the cameras. Cameras. Cameras.

They looped the cameras. It's just cameras. Right? Yeah. Good movie. His name. Yeah, his name's Jack Jack Travis Jack Jack can Jack Canyon Yeah, man, yeah, what a jacked Canyon would look like counter is doing bicep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah What is it? What do they say about speed they say what is what is Bruce fear say about they say it's a blast Yep, that's exciting They say, what does Bruce fear say about speed? They say it's a blast. Yep.

That's exciting. They say it's a high concept blockbuster. That's true. It's the sort of movie that looks positively idiotic on paper, diehard, but on public transport. That looks definitely works. Once you keep the engine at full throttle and put the right movie stars in the driver's seat. Oh, wow.

The bus driving seat. That's correct. Yes. My notice should be higher. Yeah. I don't know what's next, but it's ridiculous. Okay. Maybe they should have called this like Western action films because I feel like you could have just packed this with, not that I've seen a bunch of them, but like Hong Kong cinema and yeah, you know, like, because then you're kind of doing both and it's like, are these even comparable? Yeah, like, I mean, I'm sure

we'll get a couple more Hong Kong action is towards the like the one like Jet Li's the one At least the one is the classic Hong Kong action. That's the one that kicked it all off. I think oh, yeah Yeah, but I think if you were like To include to include one Japanese movie would suggest you're covering all of like world cinema on this. Yeah, and the fact that You're including taken and theugitive and presumably not, you know, all of John Woo's action movies from like the late 80s, early 90s. Yeah. That sounds crazy to me. Absolutely. You know, so I maybe it should have been, maybe this should have been top 50 American movies. I agree. Like here's number 43, James, you know.

The Transporter. No. It's from 2017. No, the Transporter reboot with Ed Skrin maybe. It's not the Transporter reboot. It's 2017. You're close though. Is it The Last Jedi? No. What is it? It's Wonder Woman.

No, this shouldn't be. But it's iconic, she's iconic isn't she? I like that movie. It's more like, I wonder if this is recently bought. I'd put it in top 50 superhero movies. Sure, yeah that would. But I would not put it in top. It is, I mean it is. It's got the World War I train sequence. Yeah, I think it's, this might be in this and so high. There's a moment where she just beats up a guy, but she thinks he's the devil so she really beats him up. That's pretty good I guess. That is pretty good yeah. It's Danny Houston.

It's Danny Houston. And then she really beats up the devil. That's right. This I think is on there because it was fairly recent at the time. Four years later yeah. And also because it was... I hadn't seen Wonder Woman 84. Yeah that was bad wasn't it?

Yeah. When did that come out? I want to say... Actually it would have been like... Because that retroactively ruins a lot of Wonder Woman doesn't it? It does. I mean there's a she would have been like... Because that, that, that's retroactively ruins a lot of Wonder Woman, doesn't it? It does. I mean, there's a few things that retroactively ruin... Yeah, that came out in 2020. Well, so... Or maybe it'll be higher up on the list. That's weird. Just to upset people. That's weird, right? Well, look, Wonder Woman 2017

is not, it's not responsible for Wonder Woman 84. That's a good point. And I think also because this was surprisingly good. Yes. Because it was not... At that point I think for me it was my best DC movie that I'd seen. Yes. Was it better than Man of Steel? Who cares? I don't want to get into this. Yeah. I just hope it shouldn't be here.

Yeah. Shouldn't be here. Yeah. And also that trench run. You know she does... Yeah, trench... Yeah, the World War One part. That's the good part. That's the good part. Yeah, the World War I part. That's the good part. Yeah, anyway. Number 42.

Yep. From 2002. This is Hero. Oh, not Jet Li. It was Jet Li. It was Jet Li. Yeah, it was Jet Li. And...

Shall we go in that? No, Maggie Chung is in it. And Donnie Yen and Tony Leung. Hero's great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have seen Hero. Donnie Yen and Tony Leung. Hero is great. Yeah. Yeah, I have seen hero. Yeah Donnie Yen is in this This is a great cast. It is isn't it? So it's about a nameless warrior who's granted a rare audience with a king who secretly

Who's recently survived several attempts on his life The man claims to afford all three assassins and defeated them as he regales the region with stories of these encounters However, there's a second plan that's being being brought into play. Great fucking movie. Great. I like it more than House of Flying Daggers or whatever it's called. Crushing Tiger Eden. Yeah, that one.

Whatever. And probably for that. There is probably a movie called House of Flying Daggers. There is actually. Yeah. I was just looking at a poster right now. The tagline is you wouldn't want to bloody live there because you'd be like brushing my teeth.

Ah, daggers. There my teeth. Ah daggers! There's so many flying daggers. Too many. Too many. I saw Crouching Night of Hume Dragon in the cinema and I'm like, I don't like this. It's too long. Interesting.

I need to watch it again. I'll say it's only 120 minutes. It's not that long then. There's also a sequel. Yeah. It came out like Michelle Yeoh's in it and maybe someone else, but yeah. I don't know. Anyway, good movie.

What's next, Mason? Oh, you're going to love it, James. What is it? It's from 1990 at number 41. It's La Femme Nikita, directed by Luc Besson. I've never seen- Big pedophile. Yeah.

So, you know- How big is he? That's not great. I imagine as a man he's an average size. But he's doing big pedophile stuff. Seems that way. Most of his stuff seems to be. That sucks actually.

I've never seen this. What's it like? I mean it is like it like separated from the, you know, that stuff. It's pretty cool. Wasn't's a TV series as well. Yeah, there was it had Peter Wilson. Yeah. Yeah. And there was an another one and then there was just Nikita. I think there would have been another movie. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is a French movie. It is a French movie. Yeah,. That's right. A gutter punk junkie is arrested after a botch robbery. Instead of being arrested, she's declared dead by the government, renamed

Nikita and trained as a deadly assassin. I remember really enjoying this at the time. All right then. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Nikita came out in 2010 for on the sci-fi CW. Sorry. There you go. There you go. Wow. that's nothing better than a CW series based on a French thriller from the 90s. It got an approval rating of 84, 85% and it went for four seasons apparently. All right then. Who knew?

No one did, cause no one watched it. No one knew a goddamn thing. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I'm gonna say, I guess, cause I don't know, I haven't seen it. Let's note it down a couple of these as up for debate. I think this is definitely an up for debate option. I haven't seen it, so I can't say it, Mason. Right. No, I haven't seen it. Let's note it down a couple of these as up for debate. I think this is definitely an up for the up for debate option. I haven't seen it, so I can't say Mason. Okay. It's not for me to say. Okay. So we got the last one, do we? This is number 40. Yep. From 1979.

Mm-hmm. The Warriors. I, you know what? Walter Hill? Have I seen all of The Warriors? I've played some of the video game. You might, I mean retrospective. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've certainly heard somebody go come out to play. I seen that. Yeah, nice. Got James Reamer. That's cool. That's true. A massive gathering of the armies of the night from the five boroughs finds Coney Island's own warriors venturing deep into the heart of the Bronx. After being framed for assassinating a charismatic leader, they've got to run a gauntlet of angry, colorfully costumed enemies in order to get back to their home turf. Yes, it's largely one long chasing.

So is Mad Max. So is Speed. So is Speed. Cairns. Speed. Exactly. Exactly. We've got to speed.

But you're an officer of the law. You'll just find me. No. I mean everyone will. Not me, but you all get fines, yes. Brutal. Well, the law. It is the law, isn't it?

Yeah. Have you seen The Warriors? Yes. What do you think? Is it an action movie? Yeah. You know, it's mostly, it's a chase, but it's like a 1970s chase. Yeah, I was going to say like the punches are like...

It doesn't have the frenetic nature I feel of like modern. If you would describe a modern movie as like it's a non-stop chase, that would be a real handful. My note is it's a chase but it's a 1970s chase. That's the spirit. So there we go. Wow, this has been very exciting so far. I can't wait to see the next 10.

Also, I think we did too many then. I think we're supposed to go to 41 and then stop. Wow. We've bled into the next episode. The next episode will be shorter by the amount of time that it took us to talk about the worries. I've done a quick skim ahead. And some of these, you're going to be like, all right, and some of these, you're going to be like, excuse me, why is this so low?

Mm, Jet Li's the one. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. When he fights himself from another dimension. Yeah low? Mm, Jet Li's the one. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, when he fights himself from another dimension. Yeah, I know what Jet Li's the one is. I don't need to tell you twice. Yeah, it's that classic, they're like, this is a multiverse, but there's 17 dimensions or whatever. 17 dimensions.

Yeah. The 17 Jet Li's. That's right. All right, cool. Pretty good. Yeah, there's a nerd one and a cowboy one. What? And a construction worker one. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Yeah. A's a nerd one and a cowboy one. What?

And a construction worker one. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. A Native American one. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Is he doing it for a costume party or something?

No. I mean, either one. Wait, what? I mean, it would be bad if he was, but he's just dressing like that? Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Why? He's from a Native American universe.

Okay. Where everybody's Native American. I guess. Even if you're not. Correct. I don't like this. That's true. I didn't bring this up. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. All right. So cool. I was gonna say any suggestions. Well, if you have clickbait. Yeah, email in and weeklypunnetpod at gmail.com but put clickbait in the subject line. I've got a few rare interviews ready to go for the next excellent love let me tell you you're not gonna love them i want need you to be clear the ones i have so far you're not gonna love well i've never loved them mason so i don't know why you'd think that i would love the next one yeah yeah yeah yeah cool cool all right should we

hit the road let's hit the road folks thanks for listening thanks for listening oh look who's come back it's dr, but he's got a box of bones Hey Dracula, you got any more bones in there to show us? I dropped all my bones in the toilet No, well like would have retrieved the bones. No, no, no, I need somebody to retrieve my toilet by regular bones from the toilet They're not my bones. I mean I own them but they're not from my body. Couldn't you do it? Mason come to the toilet with me. No I'm not going to do that. One of my weaknesses is getting bones from the toilet. You don't know that?

No. You don't know? No. Do you want your good friend Dracula to get toilet water on his cape? I mean you could take your cape off, put it in another room. Come on, let's be serious. Let's be serious for one second. Okay, sorry Dracula.

I was being ridiculous. So you'll help me? Yeah, let me get some gloves. No, no, there's no time. Alright, bye everybody. Bye Dracula. But you collect bones.