Best Steven Spielberg Movies, Ranked

Hey all, welcome to another episode of Past Times at 80s High. Got a little different one for you today. We're gonna do our seven favorite Steven Spielberg movies. Any association is welcome. Um, the boys are here as always. Kevin, hello. Hello, hello, Dungo. Hey. What's up? And Brother Mark. How's it going? It's going. And I'm AJ. And always we love to get the ball rolling out of the gate here and not waste your time. However, we do love to give our shout-outs. So take it away, Kevin.

Alright, so we got some local ones here. We got Dar es Salam, which I believe is Tanzia. Uh Bandar Sari Bagawan in the Brunel Mora district. I know we were just there last weekend, weren't we?

Yeah, we had a live cast, yeah.

And uh Pod Gorica. So we got that going for us, which is nice. That's in Montenegro. Yes. So we we are far reaching, my friends. Far reaching.

Yes. And lots of new locals listening too, which is awesome. People starting to interact a bit and loving to see that. So thank you out there for that as well. And awesome. Well, I guess I have the honors today, and we'll just take it away out of the gate unless you guys have anything else to add. All right. I won't go in depth. I feel this could possibly be a pretty repetitive list, but that's okay because we like that sometimes. And my number seven, um, from 1998, both director and producer of is Saving Private Ryan. This was one of my favorites. Um funny story behind it, actually. But uh I mean it's just a great movie. That first beach scene, and of course, something that's gonna be pretty repetitive here as well, is John Williams, you know, doing the score, and just an amazing um the photography in this movie is just is that the right word, or is it filmography? You know, cinematography. Thank you. Yeah, cinematography, just incredible. And that first, like whatever it is, like 40-minute long, you know, Omaha beach scene. Fucking amazing.

My dear Mrs. Ryan, it's with the most profound sense of joy that I write to inform you your son, Private James Ryan, is well, and at this very moment on his way home from European battlefields. Reports from the front indicate James did his duty in combat with great courage and steadfast dedication.

Love this movie. Um, just wanted to go into something real quick about it. Uh, I saw it several times the year it came out, and once at the drive-in because it was always just fun, you know, to go have a couple beers and watch a couple movies. And a buddy at work, uh Brian, I won't use last names, is in the passenger seat. We're watching this flick, and I got popcorn that was so extra buttery that it literally I think I ruined. I think I ruined my pants because it just leaked through the bag so bad.

Is this gonna be one of those ones where you cut the hole in the bottom of the tub of popcorn?

Kind of, kind of, but but it was a fucking riot because I had candy, I had popcorn, and Brian's just reaching over to eat popcorn, you know, and I just look to my left and the people in the next car looking over at us. I'm like, Brian, I'm gonna put this in the middle, I think. But anyway, I I digress. That was that's my number seven, so I'll just send it to you, Donnie. In case anyone else has these down the line, I won't go too crazy, right?

And we are gonna have repeats and we are gonna have them at varying times, so it'll be interesting to see what everybody has to say. Spielberg was amazing, right? And he did, he's like probably the one of the OGs for the blockbuster, the summer blockbusters. Oh, yeah. Um and definitely he kind of had he was not just a one-trick pony, and in previous movies, he was worried that he was gonna be typed as a director, but he was very careful not to be, which was cool. So, you know, he did like his his you know, blockbuster, sci-fi, whatever, but he also did like a lot of human humanist stuff as well. So my my number seven is gonna be one of the humanistic side ones, and it was Schindler's List, um, which was you know, obviously historical fiction based on a true novel, uh Schindler's Ark, and uh just an amazing what I want to do for this is kind of give, like you did, your favorite. So I'm gonna give like my favorite scenes from each of his movies, and my favorite scene in Schindler's List is the very end where he's saying goodbye to everyone, and uh he gets a gift from uh I believe it's Ben Kingsley's character, gives him a ring, and it says, like, he who saves one life saves the entire world, and then he just breaks down, he's like, I could have saved more, I could have saved more, you know. And it's like he saved thousands, you know.

It's Hebrew from the Talmud that says, Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.

I could have got more out.

I could have got more. You have no idea. If I just generations because of what you did.

I didn't do enough.

You did so much, um, and it was just such a heart-gripping scene and how he chose to film it in black and white. It's just that, you know, those are movies that are tough to watch. I mean, it's not like that's not something that's entertaining. Um, it's but it's good to watch, you know. You kind of have to, but you're not gonna watch that one multiple times, but it is good enough to be on my top seven. Absolutely.

Jerry made out what whoever his girlfriend was during Shin Lu's.

I was just gonna bring that episode up. Yeah, and what her father was irate with with Jerry, right? Yes, how could you be making out during that movie? He was a survivor, wasn't it?

It's a good moment of uh levity and during a tough that's you know, it's funny that they can make fun of that. Typical Larry David, absolutely, which is great, you have to, you know, because it is so depressing, yeah. But yeah, unreal. Larry David's the only guy who could do that, you know. It's pretty cool. Awesome.

All right, Kev, that's to you. All right, so for my list, I went with director because uh, like I said earlier, it's the level of involvement on a production, he gets so many and nothing against it, it's just that between um Amblin Entertainment, Dreamworks, and all of that, there's so much that he is connected to how much of it is he actually uh involved with, you know. I mean, like I said jokingly, was he on the set of animaniacs? Was he on, you know, did did he really like you know, probably gave final approval on some of the other ones that are gonna be talking about today, but wasn't there? Um so as a as a director, um, I think Spielberg is probably the king of the popcorn movie, like Don was saying, the blockbusters. Uh yeah, he's he's in the conversation, but he's not not my favorite director in any means. Uh more of a Kubrick, Gilliam, Scorsese, uh Coppola, Francis Ford, not Sophia, um, Hitchcock, um Arson Wells. I think that as a director, Spielberg is really great about building those moments and telling that story. Um, but I watched Schindler's List last night, which is my number seven pick, just like Donald. Right. Um because I'd never seen it before. Wow. Uh in the 90s, I didn't go to movies what that often. It was very rare because I was doing something that nobody does today, and I was living my life, and it was way better than any movie. So I I caught up last night and and watched it, and it was it was a great movie. Yeah, absolutely. And it certainly makes you think about how horrible people can be and how people can go along with those things. And like you said, that end scene where he's like, this ring could have this four more people. Yeah, I could have sold this car, that's ten more people. I think it was 1100, 1200 people that he actually saved, the the actual Schindler um saved, and and it made me think about you know, a lot of what we see and hear today, and uh and these things seem to be happening again, and it's just amazing that that we can't uh that we still let these things happen. You know, it's um so it it it was a this is this is where I have trouble with Spielberg, is he he does these things immensely, but then there's things and I'll use Schindler's list as an example. Ralph Fine's character, Rafe, sorry, Rafe, or did he change it to Ralph? I can't remember. Um his character is so deplorable, so horrible but we never understand why. There's never any explanation of why he has such hatred and why he has such blatant disregard for life.

I'm only trying to do my job.

I'm not gonna have a macumman to these people it will take more than that. I'm sure you're right.

Like she said, you know, when he's standing out there on the balcony just pegging people off. I mean, it's I mean, just a moving scene, but I'm like, I want to know why this guy is like that, which is why I love Kubrick, because Kubrick would have a whole library full of notes on every character, character. Yeah, and there's so so I find that with yeah, I find that with Spielberg, is that there is, and again, I'm not knocking him, it's just that I feel like there's you know, I I have those feelings watching his movie, like I want to know what this character's motivation is more than but then he tells. But again, absolute genius the way that he carries you through and tells those stories and gives you the highs and the lows and and takes you on that trip. So anyway, that's basically my my feelings on Spielberg in general and Schindler's list, which again just horrible to to look back at those, you know, those events. Um the humanity or or lack of humanity that was actually unfucking real.

Awesome.

All right, brother Mark, to you. Okay, well, I just mine are kind of all over the place. Uh no rhyme or reason, but um starting off with a made-for TV movie that came out in 1972. The name of the movie was Something Evil. Um and uh it was basically a family from New York that finds this nice farmhouse down in Jersey somewhere. The kid from uh Family Affairs in this one. His name was Johnny. Well, he's still alive, actually. Johnny Whittaker. Um redheaded guy. But uh so you know the movie starts where this guy is uh freaking out. He jumps to his death at this farmhouse, and as the movie goes along, I mean things aren't going too well. I mean, I'm I'm just gonna go out on the limb that meant this is a very obscure movie.

It is, I because I've never seen it.

Yeah, I mean, I this is like around when I was eight years old, or not even eight, but you know, we'd watch these thrillers.

So it rang a bell to you.

His face rang a bell. Yeah. But the mother, she kept hearing a baby crying, and she would go, Well, for the first time there was a rat in the wood stove or a safe. I don't even then the next time it was like a jar with like embryos in it. And the third time it was too, but the little red-headed kid there, he started uh becoming possessed.

I want to leave this place.

Something's a powerful package. Like love. It's a powerful force, Marjorie.

So it's kind of like a Damien type of movie, because I'm I've never seen it, honest, so I'm curious. And and uh this kid was just gonna keep being bred to be a serial serial killer, apparently.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, pretty much, and they got the hell out of there. So, but I mean it was I was entertained when I saw it, and uh that's where I'm going with number seven.

All right, I'll have to check that one out. So, anywho, all right, so back to me now for number six. So, this one um is one of many movies um in a series, but I couldn't leave it off. And Kevin, this is one you've spoken about in the past. This is Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. 1989, this one came out. He directed this one, another John Williams, you know, score. And I just out of the I mean after the first three, it completely lost me. But out of the first three, this was always my favorite. The first one's pretty dark. I thought Temple of Doom, the second one kind of sucked, and then this one just was everything I loved as a kid. The way it starts out, they show him young. I think it's River Phoenix playing him, and he does an incredible job, but I crossed an important artifact, it belongs in a museum. It really tells the story of who Indy is, and then Sean Connery's addition to this as his dad. The humor in it was just absolutely spectacular. The action, you know, I'm not a big like you, Kevin, who knows so much about directing of movies. I just I'm going by entertainment for me here. Yeah. And I loved it. I mean, the humor, the connection between Connery and Harrison Ford were just spectacular. One of the scenes I always go to in this one is when they're tied to the chairs back to back, and they find out that they're both sleeping with the blonde there. She talks in her sleep.

She talks in her sleep.

Yeah, exactly. Just a spectacular, spectacular scene.

That's how Austrians say goodbye.

This is how we say goodbye in Germany, Dr. Jones.

So did I. He said he had two days stopped that it would blend in, disappear. Are you kidding? I made that up, you know, markets get lost once in his own museum.

The movie's great. They do, they play off each other so well in that movie. Yeah.

But anyway, and then when uh when he leaves, you know, he says, You didn't bring the diary with you, did you? He would never be that stupid. And Harrison Ford's facial expressions, just such a good actor.

But doesn't he say he mailed it to the Marx brothers or something like that?

I might as well have mailed it to the Marx brothers. I should have mailed it to the Marx brothers. Well, you take it easy.

That was a good one. I like how you do that, AJ. That was good.

But speaking of uh the 40s and World War II, that's another one based while Hitler is raiding Germany and yeah, and he signs his book for him. Remember, yes, but anyway, all right, Dongo.

Cool. Uh, this again um go falls into like the summer first, one of one of probably the first summer blockbuster kind of movies. And I I have this lower on my list because the ones, yeah, I went with my favorites, right? So this one the top six were pretty easy. The seventh one was I had like five I had to choose between for the Shinla's list. But this from six to one is pretty much rock solid, yeah. And uh so this one is Jaws, and uh I went at number six with Jaws just because it's pretty awesome, but the movies before it were uh to me a lot better. But and I believe this is one of his you know first kind of big entries into filmmaking. You know, he wasn't the first choice to be the director, but he kind of he kind of slid into it. And uh my favorite scene in there, like I love the quint stuff, but I just the very ending, the last the pinnacle when he when he's like, open up your mouth, you son of a bitch, and shoots the tank or whatever. All right, all right, all right, come on, show me the tank.

Show me the tank.

That's probably my favorite scene of that movie. Um but you know, it's it's kind of local for us because it's kind of was filmed in Martha's Vineyard, which is you know, I've been there a bunch of times and love the vineyard, and it just brings it kind of close to home. But it's uh, you know, the John Williams, the score of that, you know. Um, I wasn't all crazed about the shark. I mean, for the time it was probably pretty good animatronics or whatever, but that movie wasn't about seeing the shark. That that movie was about like not knowing where it was, not seeing the shark. The anticipation of it. Yeah.

So that was that was kind of the I heard I heard that wasn't even a real shark.

They called him Brucey. And he wasn't supposed to be, and I and I and it's funny, you you wonder how things happen, but he was supposed to have a much bigger part in the movie, but he kept breaking down. Yeah, yes, I did hear that. Yep. But that's part of the genius is that in whether it was intentional or accidental, that really helped build the suspense in that that you didn't see him. Because if you did, imagine if he hadn't broken down and he was all through that movie, a mechanical shark. Yeah, it might not have been what it turned out to be.

No way. And something that you just said, Donnie, and Kevin alluded to earlier, is that is absolutely the first blockbuster. Like that is when the blockbuster came about, and and then Spielberg was involved in so many more beyond that that I'm sure we'll get to. Great pick. Off to you, Kevin. Number six.

All right, number six is and was directed by Steven Spielberg, and I absolutely loved it. There's or at least the first couple of incarnations, and that was amazing stories. Um such a great TV show. And it was the first time that the quality of the theater came to television. Really, everything was like pretty cheesy on television prior to that. You know what I mean? It was like everything had a very small budget, and you could see it when you watched it. You know, whether it was Helen Hunt jumping out a window in an after-school special or whatever else. You know, they weren't high-quality productions. And amazing stories brought that quality. And it was really cool to watch as a kid. It was, I mean, generally speaking, it was kind of like a a souped-up Twilight Zone kind of, you know, the shorter stories, and you know, a little bit, not all of them. They was a little kinder, gentler than a Twilight Zone, most of them, but some of them were a little dark. Um, and I, you know, he had done the movie two years earlier than that as well. And that's something that might come up later. But so maybe that was the spark that created Amazing Stories. I don't know, but it was just it was great, and I just always remember it as being the first time that you were like, Wow, this is really well done for TV.

Right. Awesome. I gotta go back and watch some of those episodes because some of them pop into my head once in a while. Yeah, wasn't there one like kind of a city Hansel and Gretel one where they were like she was gonna cook the kids, I think, or was that it was like the beginning, I think, of them telling the story, and it was kind of based on that stuff.

Yeah, I'm thinking I'm wondering if that was amazing stories, or was that something I know what you're talking about? It almost had like a dark crystal kind of feel to it, whatever it was. But I don't know if that was the same or if it was one of the later renditions, right?

A show like this, it's just not right. Gotcha.

But that just made me think of you know, we were talking about television. It's I always love the they call television a medium because it's not rare and it's not well done.

That's great, that's a good one. I like that, yeah, yeah. Awesome pick. All right, Mark, off to you to wrap up number six.

All right, well, it's a good segue to me, Kevin, because I I p actually picked the Twilight Zone, the movie. And uh, he was a producer along with John Landis. Unfortunately, this uh movie was marred by tragedy, and uh Spielberg pretty much said, No movie is worth dying for. So he he left, and that was the they had a big fallen out between John Landis, he was the other producer. Yeah, so I mean, two children were decapitated by this helicopter. I didn't know this. You did not know this? It wasn't even they were, I believe.

Now you're talking real life, not in the movies.

No, real life. Absolutely, yeah. Vic Vic Morrow was the actor. Uh I know that he was decapitated, but I I were the children as well. It was a couple of Vietnamese kids, right?

Yes, yeah. No, it was horrible. Absolutely horrible. Wow, I didn't know. I mean, not to but yeah, anyway, um the one that he was heavily involved with, there were there were four Twilight Zone um episodes, if you will, and the one that he was heavily involved with was Kick the Can. And do you remember that? Where uh I think it was Sunny Vale Nursing Home or something to that effect. And in the original one, they decide to they I mean, they want to get young again, they want to play Kick the Can because there were kids out there doing it, and all but one went with it and they went out and they became kids and they never came back. And it was it was wonderful. But in this one, they actually decided to come back. They said, Okay.

There were kids in the bed.

Well, they're old now.

Because they were like they the whole thing was yeah, but then I have to go through this person dying, and I hated that, or all these bad things, and so uh Murray Matheson, he played Mr. Agee, and he was like, Oh, I'm not going out here playing some foolish child games. He looked exactly like uh Walter, the uh Jeff Dunham puppet.

Oh, the puppet. I didn't know who the hell you were talking about.

Yes, Walter, the Camungeny guy there. Yeah, yeah, he's great. And then they had the time out episode where this guy is uh pretty much a bigot, and then he goes to Nazi Germany and the deep, you know, as a Jew and goes to the deep south as a black person and so on and so forth. Then you had it's a good life with this kid that just kind of could get people to do whatever he wanted, and then uh my buddy, one of my I'm a huge John Lithgow fan, he was in the uh the uh nightmare at 20,000 feet. And you know what? That freaking thing out on the wing was real in this. He was real. They found the holes.

There's something on the wing.

There's someone on the wing, something, and of course, he's the star. He was losing it, man. Everyone thought he was crazy, but he wasn't. And then, of course, Dan Aykroyd was at in the beginning and in the end.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Didn't his eyes bug out on him? Yeah, so that intro in the beginning where he's riding along in the car. I can't remember who else was in the car with him.

I can't remember.

I can't remember, it was Ed Begley, I can't remember who it was, but they're driving along and they're listening to Credence Clearwater, yeah, and the tape gets eaten. And so they start talking, and he's like, Finally, goes, You want to see something really scary?

And he turns and all that, and his eyes bug out, yeah.

Right. So one night I'm driving my buddy, we're driving home on the highway, and we're listening to midnight special, and the tape gets eaten. Oh, and my buddy looks at me, he's like, What the fuck? He says, Something bad happens, I'm getting out. No sooner did he say that the woman in front of me fell asleep driving her Ford escort. I watched her car go off the side of the highway, and it was where they had blasted out. So there was like almost like a ramp going up to where they'd blasted out part of the mountain. And she went off the road, onto that, flipped the car over. Her hatchback landed on the hood of my mother's car. I slammed on the brakes, finally stopped. She slid up. It was just like, and we're just like, whoa, holy we just had that conversation. It just came out of our mouth. Oh my god.

And then that Twilight Zone music.

Absolutely. And everyone survived.

I know you survived.

Um, I didn't. I was the only one that didn't survive. She was she was actually fine again. Twilight Zone-esque. Guy behind us was off-duty fire EMT, and woman coming the other way was an off-duty nurse. Uh and then like took care of her, but I can still see that. Like, I can see my headlights shining into her car and watching her bounce around on the hood of her car as the thing's sliding down the road, sparks coming off it. I mean, because we must have been going 65, 70 anyway. It was crazy.

Unbelievable. Wow. Jeez.

Um, so everything happens for a reason. Yeah, so that was my number six pick, and uh it was it was entertaining. I was entertained.

Oh, damn straight. Cool. All right, where are we? Number five, yes? Yes, indeed. All right. Uh, this is one where he was the executive producer in 1985, and it is back to the future.

When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit.

I couldn't leave it out. I'm an 80s kid. This is the middle of the 80s, I'm 14, I think, at this point, and it was just fun. I stated in last week's episode or the one before that I loved Michael J. Fox. He was just a fun actor those days, and just an incredible movie. I mean, it's fun, and uh it's still fun to this day. Do I did I like any of the other ones? Meh. But the second one sucked, the third one was okay, but this movie was just spectacular. I mean, the whole the whole concept of it was just fun. Back to the future, just an oxymoron that was so effing cool, and I'll leave it at that and go to you, Donald.

All right, so this one's going back to yours, is Saving Private Ryan in 1998. Um, I could not leave it out because I'm a big war movie fan, and that first scene is my favorite scene of you know many war movies that I enjoy just because of that. That Omaha Beach scene was just amazing. And uh just recently, uh Matt Damon and uh who's the other guy? Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck, yeah, sorry, uh, were on Rogan and they were talking about that scene and how you know he originally had like a speech before, and then uh Spielberg was like, Nope, no, no dialogue. So the only thing he says is I'll see you on the beach.

Yeah, get around 30 seconds, let me with you work nice thick, start with side stick, move fast and clear those murder holes.

Plenty of beef between men, five men, shoot the opportunity. One man's a waste of ammo. Stand out of your weapons, keep those actions clear.

I'll see you on the beach. And then the for the next 20-something minutes is just you know, brutal realism combat and how they filmed it and how they used the apertures to make it blurry, and you know, all kinds of director type stuff that went into that um to make it more realistic. And then there were guys that were like walking out of the theater because they were getting too, you know, people that had been in combat were getting, you know, too. It was too hitting close to home kind of thing. And uh, you know, the rest of the movie's okay, it's pretty good, but that first scene is is amazing.

Bangalores! Yeah, yeah, yeah. What a movie though. Yeah, what a scene. Awesome.

To watch that and it pisses me off every time. It's like, why couldn't they just frickin', you know, like B-52 or at the time B-17, B-29s? Like, why didn't they just freaking carpet bomb the beach just before this? You know what I mean? Knock out those bunkers, you know.

But I thought they were supposed to. There was a weather issue. That's why that's why so many of the paratroopers, obviously, why they were way off. Yeah, was way off, and they had such a hard time finding him, is the weather was bad, and they weren't able to do or to soften the beach like they had planned on doing. Right.

Yeah, what a vicious scene.

The fog of war, and quite literally the fog in the sky.

Not to be cons uh confused with the porno saving Ryan's privates. What's the plot of that movie? Awesome.

All right, Kevin, number five to you. Number five now. Okay, here we go. Um obviously, Jaws was, you know, like has said been said before, was yeah, you know, the first big summer blockbuster. I think it was really the first in you know the movies that uh Spielberg Spielberg did leading up to that. Um this one shows his absolute mastery of the timing and the suspense and and uh telling that story, but building, I mean, you can you can just feel it again without without seeing Brucey and again like AJ said a couple times, John Williams, just that music. I mean, you don't you don't even need the villain really when you're that good at setting up the suspense with you know what you don't see with the camera and what the music is telling you. Absolute genius. And I think that's the first time that he really brought that all together. There's a few examples before that where you can see that he's developing these things, but but that's the one where he hit his stride and he's like, ah, this is this is how it's done, this is what I'm gonna do. And again, was that was that situational? Was that because the shark didn't work like it was supposed to, and he was forced to think outside of the box and do it differently than he had planned on originally, right? Sometimes genius comes from mistakes. I think it was Picasso. Picasso said Picasso said he loved mistakes because that was nature telling him to go in a different direction and make something different with it.

Very true. I did get the follow-up on the so the first director that they wanted was John Sturgis, who had directed Old Man in the Sea, and then the second director was Dick Richards, who had just directed the Culpepper Cattle Company, and he kept calling the shark a whale, so they got irritated by that, and then Spielberg, who was 26 at the time, 26. You know, that's you know, out of college, maybe, and you know, he was begging to do it, so they gave him the shot. But yeah, fantastic job at it.

Unbelievable. The guy was old and and drunk and didn't realize that the movie was about a shark. That might that might have been annoying.

Yeah. There is a very, you know, the Quint stuff is very white whale-ish, you know. We've talked about that before. It's very Moby Dick-ish-esque. Yeah, right. Yeah.

Speaking of which, what did you say the second director's name was?

Uh Dick Richards. Dick is a bad name.

He's got a double phallic name. He does, like Peter O'Toole. Not a lot of double phallic names in our room.

You gotta point it out when you see it, you know. Well, we had a politician called Dick Sweat down in Manscaped here back in the day.

And there was a race car driver called Dick Trickle.

And our high school principal, Dongo and I was Dick Ayers, also known as Dick Hairs.

And we had uh uh the guy that did ran the local newspaper, his name was Dick But. I swear to God, Dick and he got hi Mark, uh Mark, this is Dick But calling. It's like, oh my god, even he doesn't even try to cover it up, just get a hand over the speaker because you're laughing so hard.

Before I go to you, Mark. Uh, you all know Chris is one of our most loyal listeners. So, quick story, he'll appreciate this. I couldn't go on the senior class trip with all my buddies because I failed to graduate and was thrown out of Guilford. And I tried, and thrown out. I remember Richard Ayers, the principal, said that I could not go. I think they were all going to Plymouth for a party after. It sucked.

Yeah.

Well, anyway, I wanted to go. He denied me, and I was so angry, I went, fuck you, dink. And Bub, Bub stuck his head out the window and said, No way, it's fuck you dick. It was spectacular. What could he do at that point? You guys were graduated. Anyway, quick story. All right, brother Mark.

Okay, well, uh, one thing I did notice, uh, doing just the you know, the little uh details and everything. Yeah, most of these movies came out in June. Some are blockbusters. So, anyway, um, this is a very, very fun movie. He was the executive producer, came out on June 7th, 1985. It's The Goonies. And and it was it was just a lot of fun, you know. They uh how I mean the house was gonna be uh taken away, so they went going after a treasure and everything, so they could uh you know, save the house from the grandmother. And uh it was just it was so much fun. I mean, drummatus was in it, he was the uh the um deformed guy. What did he he kept saying?

Sloth sloth.

Was he saying guys? I mean, I love the you know, Cyndi Lauper's song during it and everything, but uh yeah, and one of the one of the things I really liked about this movie was uh the pleasure of finding an absolute other beautiful woman. It uh played by Ann Ramsey, it was Mama Fratelli, or yeah. I mean, just I'm like looking at her. It's like, is that where Sam Kinnison got his freaking uh idea on his uh that was the look? That was exactly and she even freaking screamed like him or talking oh man, yeah, beret in a trench coat.

She's a great character, man. Oh, yeah. And beautiful, Mark. Absolutely gorgeous.

No, she was gorgeous. It was it was just it was good, it was great fun, you know.

Her sons were just spectacular together when he slaps him in the face with a piece of pizza. Here's your fucking pepperoni. Pepperoni?

White pepperoni? Come on, come on, come on. I'm gonna win!

I said run away now, or he doesn't say the F-word, but oh they were great bumble in this great one that wraps up number fiver, correct? Yeah, four, four to me.

Or four, she's a whore, whore.

All right, once again, director, producer, and john williams yet again, 1982. Talk about having blockbusters. This is E.T. the extraterrestrial. As a kid, I think I'm 11 at this point. Seeing this movie was just so much fun. Look what it did for Reese's PCs, supposed to be MMs. Didn't we discuss that last week or a couple weeks ago at one point?

They did do a lot for Reese's PCs, yes. But it was just whatever the heck the thing said.

So well written and just so fun. I mean, of course, we all love the uh the extraterrestrial type of thing, you know, out of space, you get into it. He was a botanist, and he's here to, you know, collect plants, and we know the story. He just wants to phone home and go home. But some of the scenes in this and the heartbreak that this movie built up to man when he's in that ditch and he's like white and almost dead, it's just so it's heartbreaking.

Put him on O25 liters by nasal cannula and draw blood gas in 20 minutes.

Get a hypothermia blanket and some room.

Leave him alone because an absence of spike in the gamic lobby. Leave him alone. I can take care of him.

Get a Doppler scope in here and set me up for a 2D cardiac echo.

And it's cool and diaphragmatic.

And the acting in it, a young Drew Barrymore. Uh yes. Four years old. Four years old.

Yeah. That might have been her first. I don't know.

And just to see them, you know, all out on Halloween, like the kids out in the neighborhood, which I'll get to something about that later as well. But just it made it takes me back thinking about it now, like how shit used to be, and incredible movie, incredible score by John Williams. I mean, you go back and just listen to that music as you know these scenes play out, and it just gives you a he's just so incredible about making you feel what's going on.

And we've talked about it was based on his childhood somewhat. Yeah, I did not know it was inspired by his childhood, yeah.

Yes, yeah. He had uh created an imaginary character when his parents divorced. Oh wow, yeah, yeah, and he kind of used that remembrance of it.

You kind of looked like you were walking like E.T. They're talking when you did that. What a guy, though, Deck. Awesome. All right, that's to you then, Dongo.

Okay, so this one definite summer blockbuster. I remember all of us going to see it at the theater that's uh no longer there, but uh over by where Puppu used to be. Yeah, yeah. And it was uh 1993. He was the director of Jurassic Park. Yes, and uh that was kind of the maybe the first um With the the CGI, you know, the the computer generated images of the dinosaurs. I I don't know if there was some before that, but that was like when it really hit the screen in a big way. He also liked it had invested in like a digital surround sound uh company at that time, too. Dolby Digital. And like all those things just kind of came together at once. And and back then the theaters probably only some theaters were really geared up for it, you know, to get the true surround sound and the true screen stuff. I always remember being in like, say you're in a theater and you're watching some stupid like rom-com or something, and you hear the movie next to you, like I'm in the wrong noises, and you're like, oh man, that movie over there sounds way better. But uh, my favorite part in that movie, there's a lot of them, but I I love it when they see the dinosaurs for the first time.

It's it's a dinosaur.

Cold blooded totally wrong. This is a warm-blooded creature.

This thing doesn't squawk.

This thing's got what, a 25, 27 foot neckrach third. Uh the guy, what's his name? Sam Neal, and then Laura Dern. He sees like it's a brontoosaurus. Is it a brontosaurus? And he's he's like, they they they move in herds. They move in herds, you know. They're moving in herds.

They do move in herds.

Like he was that and it was cool, the music and everything. It was like, whoa, that's a lot.

Another perfect example of John Williams that scene right there when he's standing up in the Jeep and he grabs her head and turns it to right. Right, right, yeah. Oh, yeah, incredible movie.

Yeah, so that's Jurassic Park. And I remember a group of us going to that.

Just to grow up and love dinosaurs the way I did as a little kid. I always talk about David reading to me and singing my dinosaur books and me getting pissed off. But just that movie to see those dinosaurs, you know, in the CGI, like that's when it was good, but I do have a a complaint, and it's that it's come so far that now it's almost working backwards for me, like it's almost taking away from movies. Makes sense. That kind of does make sense. Yeah, and it's like stop trying to fucking make everything look so good and taken away from the dialogue and the actual movie, right?

Absolutely, yeah. Cause I think all of us Star Wars fans would take the the original Star Wars model stuff versus the you know, in the newer series, they went way too much. Zero question.

Yeah, zero there's dialogues in those movies now, yeah. Right. Like honestly, yeah, Jurassic Park was yeah, like you were just talked about the sound, the CGI, and all that. Everything that came after that for me is like it's just like loud banging shit.

Oh, yeah.

And and like the what do they get? A third avatar out. Yeah, I don't think I've been through the yeah 20 minutes of the first one. Me neither. It doesn't, it's like I don't know, it's like 15 Jurassic Parks, it's ridiculous. Yeah, and they all be like, hey, maybe we could agree it's a bad idea to bring dinosaurs back to life. Just a thought.

Right, right. You brought up it being so realistic now. So you're saying like like back when Land of the Lost came out, the sh TV show in the 70s.

Well, I don't know if I take Alice over the T-Rex in Right, right, right in Jurassic Pirate.

It's like you can have the special effects, but also don't forget that it's the story in the in the dialogue and the actor that makes the movie, you know. Those don't exist anymore.

It's all the special effects. Here's a here's a bright, shiny thing, and here's an explosion.

Yeah, right.

And somebody's gonna say stuff in between, but all it does is get to the you know, it's like what was the the whole Marvel thing they went off on? And it was one of the I can't remember which one it was, but it was like the whole movie. I'm sitting there, and all they're doing, aside from bright flashes and explosions, yeah, is there every once in a while it would slow down and they'd be in an office somewhere and they would try to cram like explain why they're not following the comic book canon, yeah, and then set up the next movie. It's like that's all some of those movies are is just like explaining the next one or setting up the next one and explaining why we've changed everything that you loved about it as a kid. Yeah, it's like why am I paying to see this?

Right. Another reason for you out there, folks, to listen to past times at 80s high because we take you back because I'm pretty damn certain the four of us here agree that movies suck now.

The new and a rough sucked. Oh man, that thing sucked. I can't remember.

Unbelievable. All right, so number four to you then, Kev.

Alright. So I was a little confused, AJ, when you spoke earlier about the last crusade because you said what did you say? You said you the first one was dark and you didn't like the second one? I didn't love the second one. Okay. So I always thought the second one, which is my pick, Temple of Doom, was the dark one. That's where he reaches in and pulls the heart out, and it was kind of dark, and all of that, but but I didn't find Raiders? Yeah, I didn't find Raiders to be dark. I thought I thought Temple was much darker. But anyway, I I loved all three of them, and I'm just really glad they only made three of them because the they were three of the best movies ever. And if they'd gone on and done a fourth and fifth one, they would have really, really sucked.

They would have been terrible.

They would have been terrible, almost unwatchable and insulting to the to the viewers. To the franchise. I loved the first three, and like you, I did love The Last Crusade, but being a little darker, I picked Temple of Doom because I just I kind of like that. Uh just an incredibly exciting representation of what our parents grew up with with the the serials in the in the movie theater that were you know five or ten minutes long. Like uh, what was the the the uh we talked about it in the Saturday mornings and it's escaping me now. The island with Chaka and Oh, Land of the Lost.

Oh, HR Puppets.

Yeah, Land of the Lost on HR Puppet and stuff. It was, you know, it's like it was a cliffhanger for the sake of being a cliffhanger. So but that's what our parents saw when they went to the movies. They saw a three or five-minute bit. It was, you know, like King Solomon's Lines, or it was uh by Smasher, they said, or Peril of Gnoco. Those were the ones that Spielberg grew up with seeing in the theater, right? And literally just made them into amazing movies with the whole Indiana Jones series. And I just absolutely loved them. They were so much great fun, they were so exciting, and again, like you say, John Williams with the music. I mean, you can't hear that piece, and not be like, all right, something cool is gonna happen. And of course, Harrison Ford was just fantastic in those and and the the leading ladies and just everything about them was just what made movies fun. Yeah, yeah. You somehow took everything that made movies fun and exciting and put them into a three-movie series.

Yes, yeah, there you go. Incredible. What was the fifth one called? I know Crystal Skull was the fourth that we don't scan.

I only know three of them. Yeah, exactly. Something about a clock, I think, would have been. If there was if there was a terrible fifth one, it would be something about a clock, something. I don't know.

I haven't seen it, nor will I, probably. And don't get me wrong, I I like the Temple of Doom. It just was to me not my favorite, but the the middle part's incredible of that movie. Like when he turns and short round and when he's like bad for a little bit. And he's right, right, yes. I love that part. Awesome. All right, brother Mark, wrap it up. Well, you know what I mean.

Yes. Well, speaking of uh fun movies, uh, I really just went ape over this next one. Um, it's called Harry and the Henderson's, and uh he's basically an uncredited uncredited executive producer on through his company there, and uh again, Jonathan Litgow is a wonderful wonderful actor. Just so friggin' funny. And they they run over uh an animal and uh it was incredible fun. I mean, this guy this this Sasquatch was quite friendly. I mean, and of course, they follow the the stereotype where they just have a horrible odor. I don't know why they have that, or if it's even true, but unfortunately um Harry absolutely did. You know, he he was he had the gift to laugh and everything, you know. They're sitting here watching bedtime for Bonzo.

Now I know where Bonzo gets his bad habits.

That's outright bribery.

And he's friggin' just going hysterical, throwing things all over. The only thing I didn't like, he threw a pie and it hit Reagan right in the face, you know. It was like, hey, it was that was that on purpose, but whatever. Um just at the end of the movie. Fun movies. It was just a riot. And Litgow, God, he just he has a knack to make you laugh. I mean, he was a massive hunter in this movie. He had taxidermy all over the walls. This is a lovely room of death. Take care now. Bye-bye then.

Harry didn't like that.

No, Harry didn't like it at all, so he's like getting rid of it. And you know, he wreaked havoc for a bit, but they tended to uh end up coming over to liken him, and yeah, he went back and he there are not just one. There were not how could there just be one? There couldn't be.

There can be only one. I don't know if the smell is um uh I think it might be situational, because if you spent the first 20 plus years of your life living in the wilderness covered with fur, I'm guessing your your odor might be a little unpleasant. All right, well, I mean, indoor type people. No shower. No showers.

Yeah, they clean themselves, damn it. They clean each other. You know, I've never seen my Rocky Pocky going into the shower and take a shower. You know, oh boy. A basset hound. He's a basset hound, people.

Good pill, but yeah, and he was the uncredited executive producer of that, which I wonder how that happens. I have no idea. Like is it like an Alan Smithy? Did he say, I don't want my name on that?

Yeah, I don't know, but he showed him that's I mean, I went ape over it, you know? It was great.

Do you know uh they don't do it anymore, but do you know what an Alan Smithy is? No, so an Alan Smithy in Hollywood is a a film that the director, when it's done, doesn't want to be attached to it. Wow, they don't want their name on it. So that was the fake name that they'd put in. And then somebody did a movie about Alan Smithy or something like that, and it kind of boots the whole thing. So they I guess there's another name that they use now, but for many, many years, that's what was it. If you know, if you had a vision as a director and then they edited the film and or you got to the end of it and you're like, this is crap, yeah, and they didn't want to be they didn't want to be attached to it, that would be the that would be the name they would use.

I have to Google that Alan Smithy movies and see where it comes out.

Well, that's the funny thing is you sit there and you watch a movie and you watch the credits and you see directed by Alan Smithy and you're like, hmm.

No wonder it sucked.

I love it. He might have been doing something else or under contract somewhere else or whatever.

Yeah, so he couldn't be credited, right?

Or I mean, but that was a risky movie. I mean, look at like Caddyshack, one of the greatest movies of all time, in my opinion. With the gopher, it's a dancing fucking gopher. I mean, who looked at that? And we all still love him. Right, even Star Wars with like puppets and Yoda and whatever else. People must have been like, What in the fuck is this? And then they turned out to be awesome. But you know, I can see somebody told the ewaks. Yeah, well, yeah, the then it did suck, but um, but you know, I can see somebody, a producer or director, or somebody going, I'm not gonna stake my reputation on this.

You know, but my favorite, uh, my favorite line at the end was that there was another guy trying to hunt down hairy. Yeah. And I I not to jump on anyone that might have this pick, but my favorite line was uh, I think Lithgow said something like, Yeah, you know, they can't win a mall, whatever. He says, Well, uh, what was his name? Gillum? He says, Well, there's always Loch Ness.

What for you? I don't know. There's always Loch Ness.

You know. Was that a setup for a sequel? Yeah, right. Well, maybe, well, maybe, but they didn't do it.

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Well, possibly, or they were just using that to build to you know, like that might have been building to the reveal of Brucey. Right, right. And then when it came to the reveal, they were like, he's fucking broken.

But anyway, just back to uh the scene, you know, we were talking about how he was kind of based on uh Quint, you know, Moby Dick story and all that. And when he talks about the Indianapolis and being on that, just that whole scene with them. We've talked about it, like I said in the past, but when they're singing, I'm tired and I want to go to bed.

Show me the way to go home. I'm part of the water.

That the three of them and how they played off each other. It was it was fucking genius, just incredible. And I think you said it in the past, Kev, where was it he got too hammered the first night, so they had to redo the take, right? Right, you drink a little less tomorrow, and you thought he was gonna get fired. But what a movie, and that's all I'll say. And go to you, Donnie.

All right. Um, so you guys had picked two the two, two and three, but I'm picking, I always go with the OG, the original, and it's uh Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark. I love that movie, love it, love it. Um just a marriage. It's a swashbuckling movie, you know. He's obviously not a pirate, but he has that like you know, hero western, but he's you know, he's does it all, you know. Wow, he's incredible, travels the world, and it's just amazing. Uh every scene in that movie is awesome. Um, my favorite scene in that movie is hard to pick out, but I would probably say the when they find the ark, you know, because they they had the map room and they knew they were digging in the wrong place because the staff was the wrong height or whatever. This means six kadam height.

About 72 inches. Wait, and take back one kadam to honor the Hebrew god whose ark this is.

Bellak's that is too long. They're digging in the wrong place.

They knew where it was and they dug it out, and then you know, they the snakes and all that, it was a great scene. Snakes.

Why did it have to be snakes?

Aspy dangerous. You go first.

But uh, it was funny how the guy that his nemesis, yeah. Snakes. Um, you know, Bullock is always kind of like stealing it at the last. You know, Indiana Jones does all the hard work and then Bullock just kind of stakes it from him, you know. But great, great uh nemesis there. But I love that movie. It was amazing. But he also like that was like just after Star Wars, and uh Lucas was involved in that too, you know. So like you got Lucas and Spielberg, two dynamic dudes doing a movie, and it was it was awesome. I loved it.

Awesome. And now now that we've covered all three, I was just talking about the you know the favorite scenes, and I honestly can't remember. Was it Raiders or was it or was it Temple where he comes running out and and the and the the the more comes out and he's doing all the stuff with a sword and that's Raiders, yeah. And he just goes, Oh, fuck it. Yeah, and that was that was ad-libbed.

Right, right, yeah, yeah. And how spectacular, and it was awesome, yeah. Yeah, like and the way his face looks when he does it, like yeah. I'm just gonna get it. Yeah, that was a great scene, yeah.

Right up there with I love you, I know. Exactly.

Same ad lib, right? So um, also, since we've talked about all three, something I loved about the three of those movies is how they would always show the airplane going on the map, yeah, you know, and showing where we're heading and where we're exploring. Just friggin' incredible, incredible series. So what a great franchise.

Um, so we have the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, Last Crusade, Kingdom of Hull, and then Dial of Destiny. Yeah, I haven't seen that one, which was 2023.

Is that the one with the kid? Um Shia LaBoof, yeah. That was that was Crystal Skull.

I saw that one, it sucked.

I have not seen Dial of Destiny, I think was more about how women are better than men. Of course it was, and we're wrong.

It might have been a television series or something. I don't know what it is.

Wait, Goving's ruined everything in the world and all that.

Yeah, oh yeah, don't get me started.

Awesome. Well, we got all three of them in there, like you said. There are only only three, Kevin. Yes, yep. So glad they stopped after the third one.

Exactly. All right, number three to you, Kev. All right. I'm going way back here. I think actually I think it predates uh Mark's earlier pick of the um uh something evil. Something evil, yeah. Your first pick, and this is duel. And I absolutely loved this movie. It was a made-for-team TV movie with Dash Weaver. Okay, and I think it was like his first big deal. I mean, it was his first, you know, he'd he directed a few TV shows here and there. He made some shorts. Um, one of them was Amblin, like Amblin Entertainment was a short film about two hippies hitchhiking and falling in love or something like that. I don't know, I've never seen it because I don't think it's available. And there's a few of his early shorts there that aren't available, but um Duel was the opening scene made me think of what makes Spielberg great, one of the smaller things. And that's the the movie starts, it's just a car backs out of the driveway, out of the garage, and you're looking through the windshield and it's backs out of the garage, it drives through the city, goes through stoplights, and you are first person. You're just looking through the windshield as it drives out of the city and kind of into the desert or the urban areas or whatever else. You don't even see Dennis Weaver until about five minutes in you catch a glimpse of him in the rearview mirror, which is absolutely brilliant because you're you're sucked into it, you're brought into like what's happening here, but you you kind of fall into that like that first person thing where you're you're experiencing it, which is great for the movie because he ends up getting behind an oil truck and the guy's like spitting fumes and he's trying to get around him, and then he gets to be a little bit of a dick driving the car, and then obviously um has the the run-in with the tractor trailer that ends up like harassing him through the whole movie, and it's just it's fantastic.

I'm just gonna butt in one sec, Kevin. Yeah, so the reason you love it is it's about road rage.

Of course, absolutely.

I mean, it's it's it's me all the way one hundred percent. Uh I'm not driving when you're gonna go. Let him go. Sorry, I I felt bad cut me off.

No, one hundred percent. But I I mean to make a whole movie about a road rage incident is just you know fantastic. But again, the the thing was this is very early for him. I think his first like feature, you know, full length that he did is I was watching War of the Worlds, which is another one that's like watching that is it's like, how can a guy make ET and then make that pile of shit?

I know.

I mean, it was so bad, just so bad. But there was a scene where they're racing away and he's in the minivan, and the camera goes from in front of the minivan all the way through the minivan and then back around, and then it's like from the road up, and then you come up, and you're you know, the camera's looking right at Tom Cruise driving the I mean, he does some really wild perspective stuff with the camera, and that's what I love about him. I think you were gonna say something about it earlier with E.T., but that scene when you're in the ghost outfit or sheep, yes, be careful there, yeah, and and E.T. is walking, and you're seeing him like being outside in the world for the first time, and of course it's Halloween, so the guy's got the knife to his head, yeah. Whatever else, so here you are, you're you're this being on another planet, and you're seeing all this madness, but you really understand it because instead of just watching him walk down the road, obviously he's they've got the sheet over him because you can't walk down the street with E.T. Yeah, hell of a costume, absolutely, yeah. They didn't have that technology then for for anybody, you know, wasn't it Walmart for $7.99? But like I said, just that perspective of E.T. that you get from nothing but the camera with a sheet over it with eye holes cut out. Exactly. I mean, he's he's brilliant at that perspective, and that's that's kind of you see that coming out in the beginning of duel.

Nice, and I another one I still haven't seen. I gotta check that out, you know. There's another one too that I don't know if will come up. I won't mention it yet, but perhaps we can discuss afterwards. But Great Pick, and that sounds fun, like Road Rage.

So I need to check that 71, 72, maybe is that that there was a movie back in the day where there was, and I'm not talking about the one where Deke notes.

That's what I thought you were gonna bring up, Mark.

No, no, but there was another one where a freaking 18-wheeler just chased this couple up and down all over the place. That's not dual.

Was that the Stephen King one where all the vehicles who made who? I forget what it was called. I don't know.

There was just it was a movie when I was probably 10 years old, maybe. Oh and it was just I just remember it's like, oh my god, this pickup. I mean, he was driving 18-wheeler and he freaking chased this poor couple everywhere.

That's probably it. No, no, no. Duel is just Dennis Weaver.

Speaking of which, there was a Steve Carell movie not long ago, and his name was Cal Weaver in the movie. I can't even remember the name of the movie, but every time he'd introduce himself to a woman, he would say, not to be confused with Dennis Weaver. McLeod. Was he McLeod? Yes. Great pick, Kev. I I actually I'm gonna try to find that tonight if I can and watch it.

Yeah, I think it's uh you I think you'd have to pay $399.

Damn it. Damn it.

Yeah, another $800 we pay in streaming services.

Awesome pick, though, Kev. I can't wait to check that out tonight.

Yeah.

If I can find it and pay for it at $399. Yeah, I think Paramount. Awesome. All right, so that's number three wrapping up to you, Mark.

Okay, well, this movie was released on my 18th birthday, June 11th, 1982, the aforementioned E.T. Yes, um, just a uh again, a very fun movie, extremely emotional. And my favorite scene in this movie was something Kevin just had referenced, and I thought it was so freaking hilarious that E.T. was playing a ghost trick or treating with that freaking long head of his.

And it's like it was great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Come here, come on.

It was ridiculous. Oh my god, but I couldn't believe that Drew Barrymore was in this movie. She's I mean, she apparently she was a child actress who survived everything.

Oh, she was in so much.

Well, I know, but most I mean, I mean, the aforementioned there's that word again, um, Johnny Whitaker from Something Evil, um, Buffy, the girl, died from an overdose at like 15 or 16.

So there.

Yeah. So yeah, he he was the director and the producer on this Spielberg, and he all you know, Kathleen Kennedy was involved. And just, I mean, the the bond that E.T. and Elliot grew to have was just immense. And you know, in fact, the entire family ended up uh coming over and just really embracing him, and he was, you know, learning English and everything, and it was so heartbreaking when he was in the row because we thought he was dead, and Elliot had that that bond with him that he felt the sickness as well. And I don't quite what what broke that up towards the end? I mean, it was kind of where uh they I mean Elliot was that's what it was. Yes, love I had it, it was that's exactly what it was. Yes, love it was love. But uh anyhow, um, you know, the fact that he just came back in full force, he was healthy as I'll get out, he ended up phoning home, um, and then at the end, he goes up to Elliot. I mean, everyone goes to say goodbye. He goes, come. And then Elliot says, I, you know, I can't basically, and uh it was, I mean wasn't a porno, right? Oh my god, is that where your mind goes with this? I'm kidding, keep going for that. His buddies came and got him, and he went back home, and uh he's not gonna forget. He's not gonna forget them. So I don't know, they never did any sequels with this, thank God. So yeah, just an absolute uh uh uplifting movie.

I would say that was very uplifting and uh incredible movie, incredible movie, and they didn't do a sequel, which they should do with so many other movies, just leave it be. You made a masterpiece, exactly let it remain a masterpiece.

Exactly.

Yep, awesome, you know.

Mark, it's it's funny, you know, you talked about the the girl from um Family Affair, ODing, and it's just by the grace of God, really, that Drew Barrymore didn't, because there's stories about her like at five years old ripping lines and drinking at 2054. No, honestly, I mean there's there's so she's talked about it a lot. Um, she was she was partying with the big boys when she was very, very young. Wow.

Well, that just makes you really feel good about that.

Kindergarten show and tell. Gen S. This is an analytic drugs. This is what an eight ball looks like.

No, no heroin for you till your eighth birthday.

Oh my god.

Awesome. All right, so that's number two to me, correct? Don't one of you picked this, I believe it was you, brother Mark. Uh, this is from 1985. Not only was he the executive producer, but he also wrote this story. Yes, which is what is big, and it's the Goonies. We've we've discussed it, but the reason this movie's so important to me is the same reason this show is important to me because it takes me back to when we were all riding our BMX bikes around as you know, a group of friends and just dumping them on the lawn and running into our buddy's house and just fucking hanging out and exploring and just figuring out what we're gonna do for the day. And you already talked about the plot, Mark, of course, the you know, saving their house from the golf club that wanted to go in. What a scene, man, when they're in that attic.

What are you doing? Hey, Mike found the map! Yeah, it doesn't look like that's the 1632. Is that a year something? No, it's your top score on point. Yes, it's a year, chuck. Look great, it's a map of our postline.

What's all that Spanish junk right there?

Uh the mouse. The mouse, you said you could translate translate right here. Yeah, translate it. Yeah intrusers beware. Crushing death and grief. Soaked with blood of the trespassing thief.

And they find that map and they it's just the we did shit like that when we were kids, even if it wasn't real, like in this movie, you know. It was we still did little events like that where we made something up for the day. We used Kevin something you've discussed many times in the past, our imagination. Oh, imagine that, and we exactly and we'd come up with something, we'd come up with a plan, we'd go. I remember one day I was the knife thrower, this guy was the hatchet thrower, and we went on missions and just exploring the woods and just having fun as a kid, and that's why I fucking love our show because I want to be doing that, I want to see kids doing that now, you know. Fucking luck instead of the mental health and this and that. How about go outside and fucking play?

Jesus, growing EMP might be a good thing for these pencil neck key kids.

But that's the problem, though, is if you know if you don't grow up learning to create your own adventure, you look at these kids and what are they doing? They're sitting, they're sitting there playing on a video game. So, what happens to your life when all of your accomplishments are on the PlayStation of the Xbox?

Yeah. What do you mean?

You got your badges in the world. Go out into the world and have an adventure. You're having a substitute adventure that does nothing for you. Exactly. Nothing at all. Go out and experience life. There's your adventure, and you feel a lot better when you have real adventure, not fake pushing buttons. Right. Come home, that's like I was talking about.

You expended energy, yeah, you got exercise. There's just so many, you got sunlight, vitamin D, just so many aspects that no people think about now. And when we go back, and I've seen some reels that have come up, Kev, that you didn't make but brought into our sites, or maybe the algorithm did, but just showing the difference between parents back then and parents now and and kids back then and kids now.

Like he put up, it's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your kids are? Yeah. Because somebody had to ask, somebody felt it was necessary that they ask on television, do you know where your kids are? Because a lot of parents didn't didn't know. Like I said, yeah, we should probably have an idea where the eight-year-old is at 10 o'clock.

Like I said in the post, and Donnie said in the cast recently, if we didn't call home, we're fine. Yeah. No worry. I'll see y'all on the case.

No need to worry until there's something to worry about, which also plays into the anxiety of everybody in the world today, is you're worrying about shit that hasn't happened and probably won't happen.

Yep. So you're wasting your days worrying. Yes. And where does that shoveling smoke? And shoveling shit.

Shoveling smoke.

Exactly.

It gets you nowhere except exhausted.

Awesome.

Go and live, people. All right, Dongo. After this cast.

Let's go to number two to you, Dawn. So my number two has been mentioned multiple times, but it is uh right up there. Appropriately placed it. Number two is E.T. 1982. Love that movie. Love it. It's an amazing movie. What I like about it so much, too, is that you think about it. It's a sci-fi movie. There's really not a lot of like special effects in that movie. You know, it was pretty low budget. I mean, they had the little animatronic E.T. And then they had the ship at the very end. But other than that, it was just the movie. Like it was just the movie, and it's very Goonie-esque, which is you guys have mentioned the Goonies a couple times, where it's just it kind of leaves the adults out of it, which I like. Yeah. And you talk about perspective. Like it's it's a kid, you know, it's kids, and kids doing things that you know are above their you know, like they're they find an alien, you know. That's like, this is amazing. They found an alien, and they it doesn't phase them a bit. They're just like, all right, we gotta hide it, we gotta keep it cool, we gotta go out. And my favorite scene is like we've said this already, is the trick-or-treat scene. That is an amazing scene, you know, because you know how he like healed somebody and he saw the knife in the dude's head, he's like, ouch. Ouch. Oh, stop that. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Fake. Ouch. You know, and then he sees Yoda and he's like, home. You know?

That was so awesome. Home.

Incredible. Which was a great shout-out. You know, you talk about shout-outs and Easter eggs and all that stuff. That was an Easter egg to Star Wars, you know. Absolutely. That was amazing.

Um, and the sunsets in that scene, I think, too. Don't quote me on that, but I believe you see the sun going down and just uh the memories of Halloween from our childhood.

And it man, imagine kids did kids were the primary focus in that movie, and they and they the adults were kind of the side, you know, after the scene.

Which is why I think we love it so much.

Yeah, we were kids watching this, and they didn't wear helmets when they were bite riding their bicycles either.

Of course, right? Yeah, yeah. So it was it was a great. I love that movie.

Awesome, classic, classic mean, yeah. All right, so that's number two to you, Kev.

What a guy, AJ. Thank you. Uh, number two, I can't believe this one hasn't been mentioned yet. Um, uh again, uh our buddy Richard Dreyfus from Jaws. But in this one, he's an electrician or a lineman, and uh he goes a little wonky when he sees something uh kind of UFO-ish. Yes, and uh I just love Close Encounters of the Third Kind because it was it was such a great movie, and at that time, anybody that even questioned or talked about, I mean, there was you know, Leonard Nimoy did the the TV show, and people talked about the strange unknown stuff, and there was up here in New Hampshire there was uh Betty and Barney that had been abducted and all that, but yeah, the hills. But most people were batshit crazy if they even thought for a second that there was UFOs. Right, yeah, exactly. Um but that was like one of the first movies that I remember that was like really kind of pitted the people against the government agencies, you know. It was it was the government was hiding something from us. Imagine that. Imagine that imagine that. Um but just just a great fun, fun movie. Um, the scene where he's making the devil's mountain out of the mash potatoes. Iconic.

Well, I guess you've noticed something a little strange with Dan. It's okay, though. I'm still dad. I can't describe it. What I'm feeling. What I'm thinking. This means something.

This is important. Uh but a a great fun film back in the day and and uh one of his better ones, I believe.

Awesome pick. All right, Mark, wrap up number two.

Well, nobody's picked this one yet, so it's uh Jaws. Uh what's that about? I I don't know. I mean, again, this movie has did a lot to do to to instill fear in uh the American public. About sharks. And yes, they do attack people. They don't particularly want to eat you. I mean, I don't know about tiger sharks. They'll eat anything. License plates, and as we know, they did kill a tiger shark in this well. They you know what I mean.

No animals were harmed.

No and it wasn't a real tiger shark, but they they're like the they call them the garbage disposal of the uh or the garbage men of the ocean. So um my favorite part of this movie that it to me, I mean not I'm not even talking about the head coming out of the ship there or the shipwreck, but the very beginning with that hot chick, and I believe she was skinny dipping into the ocean. So right off the bat, I'm I'm pulled in, you know. Yeah, right in right into it. Yeah. And uh, I mean, I'm only 11 at the time, but uh anyway. Um and next thing you know, there's something happening in the suspense, and that's where was something happening?

I don't know, maybe he went girl when skinny dipping, and then you said something was happening.

In the ocean or in your pants? I was only 11 at the time, but I know I keep it.

That wasn't a thing when you were 11. It was when I was.

I I probably I had chest hair in in seventh grade, for God's sake.

That's when I thought I broke it. Could have used it as a kickstand.

Anyway, I digress. Yeah, yeah, I digress, but I mean, that was just very sus suspenseful to an 11-year-old boy and knowing that she's gonna probably get attacked by a shark. Come on in the water, and you know, it happened to be Bruce, I believe, but uh but I I just absolutely loved Richard Dreyfus in this, and um he's just so funny singing all those sea tales, if you will. He was probably married to a C slot, bro. We know. But um, it was just um and I gotta say, I I I don't think anyone's gonna pick this, and I don't even know if Spielberg did it, but I didn't even mind Jaws 2. I thought that was okay. I like how it he didn't like it, he didn't like Jaws 2. Hated it. It was okay. I I I I was entertained by it, but no, I mean obviously didn't touch the original, and I think they should have just left Jaws alone too. Yeah, I mean so, but yeah, what'd they do? Three?

I think that was three as well, right? Or did they do more?

Jaws 3D, Jaws 3 and 3D, they did that. Yeah, Jaws this time it's personal and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Right, right, right.

Yeah, you killed my baby. I'll kill you.

Oh, oh god, I'm not gonna get into Sharknado. My father prepared to die.

Sharknado. We're gonna do a whole episode on one of them.

I can't watch it.

I'm opting out right now.

Yeah, you guys go ahead. Yeah, I will not be spending $3.99 on Sharknado.

What I do find funny about those movies is the amount of big name stars that actually do it because they think it's fucking funny.

Well, I think they do it because they like the paycheck. I think that is, you know, which is weird too, because sometimes you see like a great actor in in either a TV show or or a movie, and you're like, what, why are you doing why would you do this? And then you go, oh, that's right. Because he's getting one paycheck bigger than my entire life's revenue. Exactly.

Oh fuckers. That's disgusting, isn't it? When you think about it, but what are you gonna do?

Yeah, I would do Leprechaun 4 if they were gonna pay me that much money. Right. You'll have to explain the series to me, though, because I've never watched one.

Exactly.

I'm in if you want to pay me.

Alrighty, so we're the number one, yes?

Yes, indeed.

All right, pardon me. I may get a little emotional here and I might may go a little deep. And yes, it has been picked. This is 1993, directed and produced yet again, and of course, John Williams. This would be Schindler's list. This movie is so important to me. It just I I did a lot of research back in the day. I've always been intrigued by this. Um, a book, and I'm gonna I'm gonna butcher the guy's name, but his name was I believe Eli Vezel or Eli Weasel. Yeah, I can never say it, you know, but um he became the chairman of the Holocaust Memorial. That book night is I've read it like 17 times now. It's like 118 pages. Can't not I it's incredible. Like if I see it, I'll read it. And this movie brings so much of that out. And something you said in the beginning, Don, uh was I don't know what you meant by it. You said fiction.

Um fictional uh historical historical fiction, but I mean exactly it was uh this a real story, right? Yeah, right.

So I just and then I think now because what was this? I said 93, right? And you talked about the 1200 people you both did, yeah, that he saved, and that last scene just incredible, amazing, yeah. And then um, but then when they at the end when they're putting the rocks on his grave, you know, the act they show the actor and the actual person if they were still with us, right? And then I think it was like five thousand something descendants or more than that, there's six thousand became from the sh the Schindler Jews, and then I mean, here we are in 2026. Can you fathom what that number is? Yeah, like yeah, he I mean, he saved a race almost, if you think about it. You know, it was just so incredible me, some of the uh so incredible to me, and some of the filmography. Uh, we spoke about it being black and white, and when they use that little tiny precious girl in her red jacket. Oh, yeah, it makes me break down when I talk about it. Yeah, but just friggin' amazing, and then when he kisses the little girl at his birthday party and gets put in jail for you know kissing a Jewish woman and her daughter, but I mean but one thing about this, and we've talked about John Williams so many times, but just after this, please go, I beg everyone out there listening, go back and listen to the theme to this movie and the violin solo for this, and there's a great documentary out there on John Williams, and they talk about this, and they talk about this, and when Steven Spielberg and his wife went to John Williams' house, and you know, he played this for them the first time. Um Spielberg talks about how it's like four notes in, and tears are running down his face. From a rock guy, for this to hit me the way it did is just incredible. I mean, the sorrow in that fucking song is so amazing, and I just I love this movie to death, and I'll go to you, Don.

Can I say something quickly? Yeah, absolutely. Just to interject, I mean, I never seen the movie like Kevin as of yesterday, and I have seen a ton of documentaries on the Holocaust, and I just never had the balls, if you will, to watch it because I knew I'd feel the exact same way as you do, AJ. And it just it just crushes the soul to see that that's in the human race. It just boggles the mind, and and music sometimes brings that emotion up. Like you're talking about the violin solo.

Going just real quick, uh, I talked about the book night, you know, something he says in like the prelogue or whatever you call it is you know, he had yeah, he had to get that out there because I mean it's his life story. Like, I mean, his as a gr as a child, he talks about going through the camps with his father and the rest of his family being murdered, and he's like, You have to talk about this, and people have to hear about it and know about it so it will never happen again. Incredible score by John Williams, and that's that to you, Dongo.

Cool, yeah. So when I was saying that, I said he did some historical fiction, like um uh saving private ryan was historical fiction, but Shinlo's list was absolutely based on a uh true story. Gotcha. Um, the the violinist is Ishaq Perlman, yes, probably.

I I I don't know if I'm butchering his first name, and there was a Perlman in the movie, which is I'm sure a pretty common Jewish name. Yeah, it's like but I wonder if there's a relation.

I think it's Itzak. It's take how to how to pronounce it.

Yeah, was that the kid's name, too, that couldn't get the stain out of the tub?

Oh, I don't know. Ishtak?

Yeah, I think it was. Could be another deep scene that one of you guys talked about, but yeah.

Yeah, wow. Yes, Jedi. So my number one has been mentioned, but I gotta, I gotta, this is my number one because I'm a sci-fi guy and it's close encounters.

If everything's ready here on the dark side of the moon, play the five tones.

I love it. 1977. Um, it just it's an amazing movie. I love UFOs. Like, I'm you know, I'm always hopeful that someday the aliens will come down and be like, you idiots.

You know.

Um, that's I can't wait. I hope that happens in my lifetime, but it probably won't. But anywho, my favorite scene in that is probably the mashed potato scene. I love that. That was a great scene. But I also like how you mentioned the government. Like in that movie, the government is involved, right? The military like shuts down Devil's Tower, but they also include the scientists. Like the scientists are kind of running the show, they're running that piano. Do do do doing it. The the gray aliens at the very end, they show a little gray alien. I just it's a great movie. Um, I love Richard Dreyfus in that movie. I there were a lot of people vying for that position. Like De Niro was offered it, um, Jack Nicholson was offered that role. Um, Paul Newman, I think, was the first choice of that role, the Richard Dreyfus role. Uh huh. So a lot of people had rolling out, and Richard Dreyfus nailed it. You know, he was perfect in that role. He's awesome. Yeah, because he's like the average average Joe kind of guy, you know. Yep.

Right. Exactly. So um I I apologize because I'm trying to look at my phone to find something. I'm not not listening, but it's a documentary that just came out, Donnie, and I wanted to know if you have uh seen it. And it's all the new, you know, people in the government now and recently that and people that have dealt with you know, Project Blue Book and all that, and they're all coming out now, and it's fucking has to be real.

Like it well, it's hard to you definitely gotta weave through because there is counterintelligence being put out there too, you know, like the government throws in certain things to get you talking about it where it might be a distraction versus what they really need, right?

I think it's called the age of disclosure.

Is that what it's called? The documentary, but like I mean, what everybody wants to know is is there is there a body somewhere? Like, do we have a body that we did an autopsy? Let's drag that out and show it to people, you know. That's the shit people want to know. You know, was there a craft found and that kind of stuff?

Right, that they're doing reverse engineering on, right?

Exactly. But I try to talk in a stealth bomber, a product of reverse engineering alien technology, couldn't we have a rump stuck like they were talking about it technology?

Sorry, the uh how they're in a bubble. All right, so you have the saucer, the flying saucer, in a bubble, and that bubble doesn't have any effect with our gravity or anything, correct? So they can yeah, it's really fucked up and really interesting, but only God knows what to believe.

You know, it's insane because there's disinformation. Obviously, the government would do that. Obviously, the government would be horrified if they knew there's something out there that could, you know, be malevolent or whatever, you know. Yeah, yeah. And what if we don't have any idea how to defend against it, you know, kind of thing.

How would you if they can get here from wherever they are, which would be many, many light years away, I mean they know of wormholes or whatever to get here, and we have no clue about that.

But there's also talk of traveling of distances of space and all that kind of stuff. It makes it really hard to believe. What makes it more believable would be like a time travel thing, like you know, how Hitler was doing looking into time travel, and we talked about Raiders of the Lost Ark and how he was gathering you know artifacts like the Ark of the Covenant and things that you know, supernatural stuff. Maybe Hitler like dis discovered he had some bell thing that he could travel through time.

What did they call this?

That's more believable than you know, you know, alternate dimension kind of shit.

You know, there's also the thought process of them knowing all that shit, but not knowing everything we know, you know, and trying to learn from us.

That's true, you know, there's uh some theories about Antarctica and uh possibly Greenland. Yeah, it's in the news today. But there's also on the other side of it, there's people that talk about what they refer to as Project Bluebeam, which is where they've got the technology now. If this is all BS, and they could, you know, like they show like the stadiums, the football stadiums in Carolina, and the Panther jumps around the stadium. Like they can they can make what do you call it, the the um oh holographic, like hologram holograms. Thank you, Mark. They can do the holograms now, and so they're saying that there's a faction that believes that it's all fake, that it's all made up, and they're gonna do it to keep people scared. There's a great Chappelle show where he's like, you know, they start feet more into the confusion. Right, they start talking about something and he he starts talking about aliens, and the guy in the in the in the press pool is like, um, did we happen to invade Iran today or something? Because it's all this misdirection about the aliens you're here.

Right. America, this is Bibble. Bibble is a space creature that lives very far away in a galaxy called Nebulon 5. And he is solely responsible for the wave of technology we've seen over the last few decades. Cell phones, pages, PlayStation 1 and 2. You might think it was the Japanese who were responsible, but anyone in the know knows that it was Bibble for Chisel and all about Bibble. Because only Bibble. Okay, me and Bibble are about to leave, but before we go, I just want to say there's no hope for the planet Earth. There's no way to stop the asteroid, and you're all gonna die. Everyone except for me. And of course, Bibble, who's been so kind to let me accompany him on his spaceship. And I'm bringing those three clone white women with me. Goodbye, America. I hope you all die in a fiery death when the meteor hits next Tuesday. Come on, Bibble, let's get out of here.

Whenever there's the thing gonna be put out, they'll put say aliens, like something bad's gonna come out in the news. Oh, let's drop an alien thing.

But they did change it from what, UFO to UAPs now or something like that. UAP. Right, right. Yeah, so UAP. You know, sums up when they're changing the name of it.

Yeah, right. They're like, yeah, we gotta make this unidentified aerial phenomena.

Yeah, I believe is what it's Donnie, but you get back to Germany and everything, they called them foo fighters also the correct orbs, yeah.

Dave Girl before it was a shitty band.

Right. They were they were orb-like objects seen by fighter pilots. Yes, which you know, anytime there's like, you know, when we drop the bomb, obviously, when we do some nuclear testing, there's you know, something around, and you know, are they checking us out? Uh right.

Oh, no, absolutely.

Kind of like a parent looking like, what are you playing with over there? They're definitely over the nuclear weapons. Make sure all right, they haven't figured it out totally.

I think there's been three or four instances that's been released where they were about to launch nuclear weapons and then all of a sudden all the like everything stopped. Yep, yeah, it failed. And then on the other hand, you have to wonder, it's like every time somebody gets abducted, it's somebody, you know, it's never the CEO of a company, it's always some hillbilly out in a in a flat bottom. Exactly. All right, Kevin. That's number one to you. All right. So my number one had to be and only could be what we started with, which was saving private Ryan. Yes. Um that first 20 minutes is absolutely like I just remember sitting in the theater, which I didn't do a lot at that time, and just I didn't breathe, I didn't speak, I did not take my eyes off the screen. It was absolutely riveting. And you know, they they talked about it a lot then that the people that were there said that that's pretty much what it felt like. It was it was a a very close representation of of what that assault.

Really how it went. Yeah, hell yeah. There's a documentary on it.

Yeah. So the other reason and what never left my mind when I saw that was that my grandfather, my Pepe, um he was he was there. That morning he was one his was one of several transports from the you know going across the English Channel that got sunk.

Yep.

And he swam back to England. You talked about that in a previous cast, actually. Why would you swim to to Normandy? Yeah, you wouldn't. I don't I have no idea where he was, but you know, and they they sent him uh back the next day, and the only thing he said about it is that they just gave him a bag and he had to clean up the beach. So all that stuff that you saw he he was out there. Um now being I think 17 or 18 years old at that time, he was a messenger. And so what he was doing was, you know, the stuff that we see in the movies these people in in battalions, in you know, in platoons, in smaller groups going around together. He was out there by himself. He was running messages to the front and back, um, and and literally out there on his own, which you think about that because it's not like a map, you know what I mean? The line, the line didn't move. Everybody wasn't, you know what I mean? The front was the front, but there were also combatants that got left behind. So you had no idea what you were getting into out there, and and he was he was running around um the hedgerows um that you see that were in that in that countryside. You just couldn't see beyond them. And he he told a story about one night just being frozen. It's it was you know pitch black out, and he couldn't see, but he could hear something moving on the other side of the hedgerows, and he just he just froze there, and this white horse eventually stuck its head through the hedgerow, and that's what it was he was hearing. Um the other thing that I remember him talking about was just sitting there leaning up against a tree having a sandwich, and he's facing one way and his buddy's facing the other, and he's eating a sandwich and they're talking, and then all of a sudden his buddy just took one right through the noggin and was and was gone. So mid-conversation, and and the guy was gone. I mean, war, dude. As you know, you're talking about Seinfeld. What is it good for? Not not the original Tolstoy version, but it makes a lot of rich people a lot a lot more money. It certainly does. It certainly does. The other thing about that movie that that struck me, and I think is really kind of the point of it, is how many mothers lost their only son while that group was going to save the last of four sons, you know what I mean? And there was a lot of tension about that. Right, and it was you say it was fiction, but I believe there was a true story behind it. There is a true story there. Yeah, it was fictionalized, but there was a true story there, and that's kind of a moral dilemma because it's like well, uh, not a dilemma if you're the mother of the one son that died trying to save this woman's fourth son. It's not a dilemma for you. You lost you lost your son, exactly, but on the other side, you can think of okay, this is you know, she's given three children. Maybe, you know, she shouldn't give a fourth.

Um, and it's yeah, or maybe they shouldn't uh draft or you know, or or not allow three to come in from exactly, and I don't think they do that now.

I think I don't think you can uh the whole family can't be taken in, they'll leave it behind that way. You don't have to sacrifice other lives, right? Um, but I think I think it was an exercise in humanity and trying to find some kind of some kind of order in the chaos. Right. Well, at least this woman didn't lose four sons, right?

But like you said, a lot of people lost their only son.

Yeah what I mean, and that's well, Tom Hanks does make a good case for it, too. Like the reason behind it.

He makes a damn good case, like again, which would mean fuck all to the mother of the child.

No, agreed. And that's how the whole team fucking felt like through the movie, the whole team felt that way. Like, yeah, why are we doing this for one guy? Right.

Unbelievable.

I thought the same way. I think the answer would be let's not fucking have wars.

Yeah, good call, right? You know, right. That's always that always should be the tone. That always should be the all right, Mark.

Let's wrap it up. All right, well, uh this uh my number one pick is it proves that all white vans are bad news. They're called creeper vans. Obviously, I'm picking Back to the Future, released on July 3rd, 85. I'm a massive Michael J. Fox fan. Massive, and obviously I love Christopher Lloyd. Who does he's awesome? But what an incredible movie. It was just entertaining from pillar to post. I mean, he ends up going out with his mother's in love with him back in the 1950s and everything. And what's up with that? And that that had to be pretty uh awkward, and just I just really feel ripped off, to be honest with you, that poor I mean, poor Michael J. Fox got friggin' uh Parkinson's because what an incredible actor, what an uplifting actor he always was, always brought joy to my life, you know, between family ties and everything else he was on, uh you know, just all that fun stuff. What was that movie? Yeah, the one with uh Teen Wolf. What was that movie that went, oh yeah? Oh yeah, oh The Secret to My Success.

Oh yeah, that was fun too.

But um yeah, so the f I mean I've always been absolutely um intrigued by time travel. I do believe it's possible. Um I don't know how to do it. I don't know how to do it, but um doing every time we do it every time we go on a show.

You're traveling forward in time, so forward is is happening all the time.

Well that's the tough that's a good point, Kevin. But we're the show we travel back. Some people say you need to move on to the future. Well, the future kind of it's not as fun because of your stupid technology. But uh, I mean, that technology allows us to do our podcasts, so but I mean flux capacitor, if you were yeah, yep. So but you know, biff kind of pissed me off.

Biff, everyone knows a biffular, everybody knows a biff. And uh what are you looking at? Butthead.

Yeah.

So awesome pick. And what a great show, too, huh? Like I felt this was a lot of fun, boys. How about you?

So did I, yes, indeed. Yeah, yes.

I mean, the Schindler Schindler's list was a little uh you know, it's depressing, but it's incredible, and the world needs to know about it, and it's important. It's such an incredible movie.

No, absolutely, absolutely.

And that's part of who Spielberg is. I mean, he's got a large part of his credits have to do with World War II. Damn right. Because I'm guessing at some point he kind of feels the same way that we just talked about that, you know, maybe war, not so much.

Yeah, we shouldn't really get it.

What's called civil about war for anyway?

Easy Axel.

But the movie that I was wanting to talk about so bad that I couldn't because I couldn't watch it and my memory has left me. But Christian Bale was a little kid in it, and it was Empire of the Sun. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, I want it fucking incredible. The color purple was also amazing. Oh, color that was a tough cut on my a lot that were post-I mean, not a lot, but a few that were, you know, post beyond our time, like Munich was good, speaking of you know, the whole Jewish thing. And Banda Brothers, I think he was oh see, I didn't go to TV. That was an amazing movie.

Because it didn't show up.

Yeah, what I wanted to mention was, I mean, I didn't think it was a great movie, but there was one thing that really struck me from the movie 1941. Um, I mean, the fact that that woman was just so horned out about anything friggin' airplane. I need a female to be horned out on anything Z-turn. You know what I mean? Anything Z-turn, you know, all of a sudden, this Z-turn groupie shows up and I actually loved um because there were catch me if you can.

Yep, catch me if you can. Yeah, that was great.

That is based on a true story.

Oh, yeah, that guy does security now for banks and and whatever else.

Yeah, used cars, used cars was one. Yep. Poltergeist is one that I was really surprised didn't come up. Awesome. Well, what a great show, man. That was a lot of fun to talk about. Uh, definitely some depression in there, you know, with a few movies, but they're movies that need to be seen, man. Just awesome. And out there, everyone, thank you so much for listening. We're starting to see interaction on pastimers at 80s high on Facebook. The socials are starting to kick in. We're getting some emails now from across the pond and elsewhere and locals. Thank you so much. We couldn't appreciate it more. All the downloads. This is so much fun for us to take ourselves and of course you back to the good old days. Because I think, like me, a lot of us really wish you know things could be different and like it was then. Anyway, boys, thank you so much. That was a lot of fun, Kevin. Thank you, AJ. Yes, uh, Brother Mart.

That was fantastic and dungo. Yes. And I am AJ, and we are going to be able to do it.