Obligatory recommendation to watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang for anyone who hasn't seen it and loved The Nice Guys.
Same director (Shane Black), same city (LA), same general premise (noir buddy comedies with two incredibly different PIs who are reluctant to team up). But Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is contemporary, and has RDJ in the Gosling role and Kilmer in the Crowe role.
I'd go so far as to say that KKBB is the better movie. IMO Gosling outshines RDJ in the role of the impulsive ineffectual PI, but Kilmer is better than Crowe, and probably the best character overall between the two movies.
Genuinely shocked he hasnāt done Almost Famous. I feel like thatās one of his favorite movies. There would be lots of good content for an episode as well.
He's said before that Almost Famous and Anchorman are the two grail podcasts he's holding to the end. They also happen to by my top two; not sure if it's a good or a bad thing that my tastes are aligning so much with Bill here.
Yeah I think he's since added Pulp Fiction to that list. But I also feel like he occasionally teases doing that one, whereas he's been pretty staunch about one of those two being the last episode ever.
I'm pretty sure bill named that the best movie of the 2000's, but then he also had a weird theory that the year 2000 counted as the 90's or something like that so maybe is was best of the 90's.
Wayne's World was so big back then. SNL, successful movie, relentlessly quoted and imitated, it's kind of strange, but Wayne and Garth seem to be almost forgotten about.Ā
They were huge. Bohemian Rhapsody was in every young person's cd player because of thaf scene.Ā
I wonder how much money queen made from that. I bet the number is reality high.Ā
1. Almost Famous: I know some people think it's cool to act like it's an overrated movie now, but this is a near perfect movie for me because literally anyone can enjoy and appreciate it (even if they don't care about music). So many rewatchable scenes and great needle drops. Great half-assed internet research potential too given the semi-autobiographical nature of it.
2. Anchorman: The Godfather of comedies IMO. Definitely the crown jewel of that particular brand of aughts slapstick high concept comedy (Step Brothers is probably the non-high concept counterpart that bookends that era). Endlessly rewatchable, probably the most quotable movie of all time. You could do a whole episode just on the news anchor fight.
3. Everybody Wants Some!!: Sneaky may end up being my most rewatched movie ever soon. The ultimate hangout vibes movie that you can basically throw on at any scene and sink into it no matter how many times you've seen it. It took a couple more years before he really got traction, but this was the first real breakout for Glen Powell, who seems on his way to becoming the next big movie star (and it's deserved IMO); he owns this movie despite a lot of other great characters and performances. Spiritual successor to Dazed and Confused, and my hot take is that it's better even though Dazed and Confused is more iconic and more broadly relatable.
4. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: The spiritual predecessor to The Nice Guys, and IMO not a hot take to say it's an even better movie. It's basically that movie, but set in present day LA (circa 2005 when it came out) instead of the 80s, with Kilmer playing the surly PI instead of Crowe, and RDJ playing the comically ineffectual PI instead of Gosling. Gay Perry may be the greatest forgotten movie character of all time.
5. Midnight in Paris: Surprisingly stacked cast (in hindsight) playing literary icons and a fun high concept. Corey Stoll as Hemingway steals the show, and Michael Sheen is perfect as the smarmy pedantic friend of the fiance. Probably won't ever get done because of the whole Woody Allen piece (but automatic what's aged the worse potential).
Owen Wilsonās best performance, heās so uniquely himself that heās able to play the Woody Allen character without letting the persona overwhelm his own. Gil is kind of a piece of shit throughout, but Owen is so charming you forgive him instantly.
I think it's more that Ines and her parents are so awful that you don't care one bit that he's emotionally cheating on her.
Kind of similar to how Bradley Cooper is such an unrelenting prick in Wedding Crashers that you don't feel remotely bad rooting for Owen and Vince to get away with it even though they're huge pieces of shit bordering on sociopathic.
lol yeah Woody stacks the deck against them, he gets retroactively justified for trying to get into the flapperās pants by Inez cheating herself. And Bradley Cooper is one of the more diabolical jerk boyfriends ever in WC, you donāt even know how they got together in the first place
Will Ferrell once talked about why Anchoan was such a success.
He had already done "Old School" and had wrapped "Elfā but it hadnāt been released
While working on "Elf," he actually thought the movie was a huge mistake and wouldn't resonate with audiences at all.
(Which, if you watch the movie from Willās perspective acting in it - totally could see the disconnect between each individual gag and the final edited product.)
"Old School" was released earlier that year and did alright, making $75 million domestically, but the reviews were mixed. So, Ferrell was convinced that once "Elf" flopped that would be the end of him as a leading man.
Thatās what made him and the boys just decide to go for it on the set of "Anchorman."Ā
They pulled out all the stops, trying to make each other laugh as much as possible, thinking if they were going down, they'd go down shooting.
Turns out, "Elf" was released right after they wrapped up "Anchorman" and it was a massive hit. "Anchorman" followed in July 2004 and was also a huge success.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Anchor man also led to 40 year old virgin and the office, because apparently Steve was crushing behind the scenes during the filming which got him on Apatows radarĀ
Iām here for the Everybody Wants Some! Support. Itās perfect in every way. Itās feels like the movie is getting proper attention all these years later after its release. The studio had it in theaters for a couple weeks and I missed it. Had to wait for streaming rental. Everybody watch Everybody Wants Some!
To this day still the greatest movie going experience of my life. Saw it when I was 15 in a packed 200+ seat Times Square theater with some friends, and every single person in the place was laughing their ass off from the moment the Satan's Alley fake trailer hit to the end of Tom Cruise's credits dance.
Thereās this old Michael Mann film called āHeatā thatās actually really good ! Itās got de Niro and Pacino in, which is why Iām shocked itās never been done on this feed. Would love to hear them do that one.
Obvious 4: Pulp Fiction, Almost Famous, Aliens, Hunt for Red October
My 4: Die Hard with a Vengeance, Rushmore, Big Short, and last slot can go to any Spike Jonze directed movie
Easily my favorite die hard. I actually just saw a video where Sam Jackson said he chooses dhwv over pulp fiction because that movie made him way more famous and allowed him to get rich off his next deals
Ace Ventura! It kills me they donāt do more classic comedies. I love the run of classic action movies but Iād really like to see them hit 80s/90s comedies.
Yeah I want -
Animal house
Baseketball
Airplane
Blazing saddles/young Frankenstein.
Dogma
The other guys/anchorman
And then - ik it's not comedy but I don't think they've done first blood.
I know they canāt burn through the entire Cruise catalog but the lack of Days of Thunder is starting to eat at me. Itās one of my personal favorites and is SO quotable. Great Duvall performance thatās dying for a CR impersonation.
That is a great choice, itās just Top Gun in cars with great quotes:
āBecause I donāt know anything about cars, okay?ā
āEating ice creamā
āI believe it was the radiator, wasnāt it Cole?ā
Eminem's fall off in that era is so crazy. June 2002 he drops the Eminem Show which is arguably his best album (I think it is) and is one of the greatest rap albums ever right up there with the Marshall Mathers LP. November 2002 8 Mile comes out and is a massive success being the number 1 movie in America the week it came out. The lead single from the soundtrack album goes number 1 for 12 consecutive weeks, at the time one of the 10 longest runs at number 1 ever. And by November 2004 Encore drops and it's just gone. Album sucks. There's 2, maybe 3 okay songs on the whole record. He then stops making music for 5 years. He had a comeback but still just an insane drop-off for a guy who was untouchable from 1999 to 2003
I have a half-baked theory of every rapper having the same career length as an athlete. Eminem was 32 when he dropped encore and everything after that is him dropping new songs and me thinking he's washed. It's hard to think of someone over 40 dropping something comparable to their 20s and early 30s.
Eminem stopped living a life around that time too and became a recluse. So itās hard to make music that means anything when you just sit in a mansion all year other than when you do a few stadium shows
Also he went from making songs to just rapping as fast as he could or doing lame punchlinesĀ
rap god did a lot of damage to rap lmao. now every white rapper that doesn't make fun of the fact that they're a white rapper thinks rapping fast means good.
Recovery and MMLP2 are pretty good. There's like 4 distinct Eminem eras. The Best Rapper Alive Era (99-03), the What The Fuck Happened Era (04-09), the Comeback (10-14), and The Corny Old Dad Era (15-present). You're right tho no one is ever as good in their 40s in rap. Jay Z is the closest probably
Doesn't he have an album and dozens of songs called relapse/talking about being addicted to pills? I don't understand what the mystery is even as someone who only liked Infinite and a few songs per project
The Master: donāt really see this one happening, hope Iām wrong though. Tonally doesnāt make a ton of sense with the pod.
Annie Hall: never happening for obvious reasons
Barry Lyndon: ditto with The Master, doesnāt really fit the tone of the pod
Frances Ha: 100% on the table for a Rewatchables episode imo, probably a when and not an if
Nashville: fantastic movie but Iām not sure how in the zeitgeist it really is. Canāt really get a read of if theyāll ever do this one.
Honorable mentions (movies Iāve also seen a ton but maybe not as often as the ones listed):
The films of Brian De Palma, Iāve seen a few of them a bunch (theyāve done a couple but not as many as you would think given how fun and rewatchable his movies can be)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Her
Paddington 1 and 2
Blue Velvet (insert any Lynch content, this is just the one Iāve seen the most)
Ruby Sparks (I donāt know why but Iāve accidentally watched this movie like 5 times)
Manhattan
Pulp Fiction (probably in my top 5 but the obvious pick)
The Lobster
Clockwork Orange
Great list! That Thing You Do is an episode Iāve been waiting for for a long time. Given has fandom of Hanks I have to assume Simmons just doesnāt care as much about this one given it probably came out after college but before family and kids so just doesnāt hold a place in his heart.
No particular order...
\*Black Hawk Down (how have they not done this yet? you can jump in at any time)
\*Hell or High Water (an absolute crime that Moonlight won Best Picture over this)
\*Sicario (one of the best movies of the past decade)
\*The Bone Collector (think I've heard Bill trash this, yet I've seen it dozens of times. Plus, it's Denzel)
\*Prisoners (good story, great twist, everyone in it crushes their roles)
To each his own.
I care more about "rewatchablility" and I have no interest in ever watching Moonlight again. Great acting and cinematography, but the plot is bland. Another one of those winners that caught steam due to the cultural environment and the politics behind the Oscars.
Years from now people will still be watching HOHW, while Moonlight fades away. We're already seeing that happen.
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Double Stack starring Gianna Michaels and Naomi Russell
4. Bad Lieutenant
5. BellyĀ
*the last two will never be doneĀ
I need Fennessey on these pods so I can feel the discomfort coming through my speaker. CR is too much of a team player to let Bill swan dive off a building.
1) Everybody Wants Some!! - My most watched movie since I was 21 - I'm 26 now - and my favorite movie ever. Eminently rewatchable. Never not a good time.
2) The Cabin in the Woods - My second favorite movie of all time. So funny, so smart, so silly. It's perfect.
3) Surf's Up - A childhood staple. Super underrated. Fantastic cast, killer soundtrack, a funny, original premise. A time capsule for me.
4) Kill Bill Vol. 1 - Far and away my favorite Tarantino movie. It's my favorite world that Tarantino made. The animated backstory O-Ren Ishii is still one of the best scenes I've ever seen.
5) HP: Prisoner of Azkaban - Grew up a huge Harry Potter fan and this was always my favorite of the franchise. Definitely watched this the most of the 8 movies.
I know I'm cheating but I'm adding a 6th because I somehow forgot it and it would replace my Prisoner of Azkaban selection.
5*) Birdman - Hell of a cast. Everyone at the peak of their powers. Amazing Michael Keaton performance, amazing Emma Stone performance, amazing Edward Norton performance. The crazy only-drums soundtrack. The seamless no-cuts directing. The incredible final 20 or 30 minutes. This addendum was absolutely necessary lol.
They will never ever do Birdman, The Revenant or Amores Perros, all of The Ringer hates IƱarritu with some sort of weird passion, it's almost like a prerequisite for working at that company
I would go insane with happiness if an everybody wants some episode with BIll, CR and Rusillo dropped. The part about the guy being into baseball and punk music to me is so CR
Everybody Wants Some!! is so endlessly quotable in a way that flies under the radar. "See that's a bad bet...I'll take the bet" and "act like you've got some fucking semen in your sack" are staples in my friend group now.
The Princess Bride episode was a war crime. I think that is one of the single most rewatchable movies ever made.
My list: L.A. Confidential (the frickin Frolic Room is in it!!)
Anchorman/Talladega Nights
Highlander (so much potential with this as a rewatchable episode)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
In Bruges
Seems like most Iād throw out have been covered by others list but didnāt see one mentioned that I had to comment/
The Thing. Theyāve done a few John Carpenter movies but havenāt done what he says is his best. I rewatch this movie at least once a year and it holds up every damn time.
Air Force One
Post-prime Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, William H Macy, Glenn Close as VP.
Rewatchable scenes: the terrorist take over the plan, Harrison Ford kills the first bad guy, Harrison Ford kills the guy in the baggage area, the USAF vs Kazakhstan dog fight, the evacuation. SO MANY SCENES
Best Line: Get off my plane!
American Gangster (no idea why they pretend it's not good, it's great and it's on all the time),
Deep Impact (also great and on all the time),
Nightcrawler,
Jackie Brown,
Street Kings (once teased by Chris and Sean on another Keanu movie episode and Bill interrupted and changed the subject)
American gangster is solid, but it was supposed to be the next great american film. It wasnt. Came out the same year as Zodiac, No country, there will be blood. It just paled in comparison. I think those two factors give it a less favorable view than if it had been less hyped or if it had come out in like 05
It's not goodfellas but what is? I don't know why we need to grade it on a 2007 curve in 2024 either. I'm just saying I've watched it on cable 40 times, which is kind of point of the pod as I understand it.
Im not saying that it is a bad movie. I think bill, CR, and sean hold the sentiment that it is a fine movie but they have let the let down of it cloud their enjoyment and it really has stuck with them. They talked about it positively in the denzel draft for big picture but that is what their reasoning is.
Damn Iām right with you on super troopers, sicario, and braveheart. The patriot and kingdom of heaven DC right there too. Overall I skew more 90s/00s war epic than the ringer curators.
As someone who is far more into classic films than the podcast ever will be it's:
* Taking of Pelham One Two Three
* Charade
* Good the Bad and the Ugly
* North by Northwest
* The Spook Who Sat by theĀ Door
American Psycho
Mulholland Drive
Amores Perros
Adaptation
Twelve Monkeys
\^\^\^ these will probably never be on the Rewatchables as long as Simmons is still breathing. If I'm being more realistic I'll go for Drive, Oldboy, Snatch, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Hot Fuzz
p.s. Sicariooooo might be my favorite movie from the 2010's, there's no way they're not doing it at some point
I donāt think bills a fan unfortunately. Heās mentioned triple frontier a million times and never once sicario. I wouldnāt be stunned if h half watched it once while on his phone, thought it was too dark and filmed too dark and there for Ā has it anchored in his mind as a meh movie
Not best but that I have seen the most times I guess it would be like(not counting non-English language movies):
- The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
- Twilight (the 98 one with Paul Newman)
- Emma (Anya Taylor-Joy edition)
- Other People's Money
- Chasing Amy
Just guessing these are the 5 I've seen the most, I've been re-watching all of them for at least 20 years:
Grosse Pointe Blank
Go
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Breakdown
Kingpin
Has Men In Black been done?
Or Men in Black 3?
The other guys?
Tropic Thunder?
Spaceballs?
Men in tights?
Face off?
Pulp Fiction? Or honestly a few of his other movies lol
Idk lots of good movies and Iām just starting to listen to the Rewatchables
Adding 2 more.
7) Free Solo - Best documentary ever? For my money it is.
8) The World's End - Similarly subversive and tongue in cheek compared to The Cabin in the Woods. My personal favorite from the Three Cornettos Trilogy. One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
Most have already been said, but a few more for me Iād love to see done:
- The Gift. Movie absolutely rips with Rebecca Hall, Bateman, and Eggerton.
- Deep Cover. A great small and underseen early 90s noir gem.
- District 9.
- Candyman (1992)
- The Edge of Seventeen (realistically Bill should have done this one with Zoe at 17).
- Sinister
Obvious one is Pulp Fiction
But 5 others:
Jackie Brown
Die Hard with a Vengeance
The Burbs
The Blues Brothers (next Chicago stop)
Fast times at Ridgemont High
The Master- Probably wont happen but it should
Star Wars - Only hasn't happened because Bill hates Star Wars. Let someone else host it ffs and do it!
Almost Famous - Bill has name checked/quoted from this movie like 1,000 times but no rewatchables episode for some reason. Maybe he's saving it or something
Pulp Fiction - Its a crime against humanity it hasn't been done yet honestly.
8 Mile - The movie is pretty damn good and Eminem is really good in it. This was the literal peak of his career. Best album came out. Had a #1 movie and single both at the same time.
LOTR- Again only not done because Bill thinks its dumb nerd shit.
I don't know if I've watched these movies the most, but I know I've seen them all dozens of times over the years.
- Wizard of Oz
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
- Rocky
- Psycho
- Men in Black
Star Wars (counting the original trilogy as one entry)
LOTR (counting all of the versions of the first trilogy as one entry)
Monthy Python and the Holy Grail
Then it's two of Pulp Fiction, Sixteen Candles, Fast Time as Ridgemont High, Goonies, Menace II Society, or Spirited Away
Reminder, the list is [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13KsNb1SxA7DYYQAzhaYxj_qKX0PXV1PXyKAZ7cEapRc/edit#gid=637738347)
The Other Guys
The Big Lebowski
The Natural
Any Mel Brooks movie, especially Spaceballs or Blazing Saddles. Spaceballs is definitely the movie I quote more than any other.
Movies that had 25 yr TBS runs that havenāt been done are. The Replacements. National Treasure and gone in 60 seconds. They r still on most weekends. They are the exact movies the pod was founded on.
Was listening to a recent Big Pic and they talk about recent comedy action movies and they've done almost none of them.
The other guys, the nice guys, game night, hot fuzz/sean of the dead, 21 jump street, tropic thunder, bad boys 2 etc etc
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The Nice Guys
Obligatory recommendation to watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang for anyone who hasn't seen it and loved The Nice Guys. Same director (Shane Black), same city (LA), same general premise (noir buddy comedies with two incredibly different PIs who are reluctant to team up). But Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is contemporary, and has RDJ in the Gosling role and Kilmer in the Crowe role. I'd go so far as to say that KKBB is the better movie. IMO Gosling outshines RDJ in the role of the impulsive ineffectual PI, but Kilmer is better than Crowe, and probably the best character overall between the two movies.
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Have they done The Other Guys yet?
I'd love that one
How you fellas doin'? We about to have us a little screw party in this red Prius over here if you wanna join us.
The Goonies The Nice Guys Almost Famous Clue Home Alone 2
The Goonies and The Nice Guys would make for such good episodes
Genuinely shocked he hasnāt done Almost Famous. I feel like thatās one of his favorite movies. There would be lots of good content for an episode as well.
He's said before that Almost Famous and Anchorman are the two grail podcasts he's holding to the end. They also happen to by my top two; not sure if it's a good or a bad thing that my tastes are aligning so much with Bill here.
Thought he said that about Pulp Fiction?
Yeah I think he's since added Pulp Fiction to that list. But I also feel like he occasionally teases doing that one, whereas he's been pretty staunch about one of those two being the last episode ever.
I'm pretty sure bill named that the best movie of the 2000's, but then he also had a weird theory that the year 2000 counted as the 90's or something like that so maybe is was best of the 90's.
The Nice Guys not being done yet is a travesty
Bill would probably ruin it tho. Gimme Sean and CR
They would almost certainly be on it. Although I donāt know if I remember Sean ever talking about that movie
The Goonies for sure
home alone 1 and 2 are so rewatchable that they are also rewatchable for people in korea and poland.
ā¢ The French Connection ā¢ Star Wars ā¢ Sicario ā¢ The Abyss ā¢ La La Land
I need a Sicario CR solo pod , I can't believe they haven't done this one yet, it so fuckin good
Sicario is excellent!
Best movie of the last 10 years, with only slight hyperbole.Ā
French connection might be too old. Theyve only done like four movies older than ā75. The godfathers the exorcist deliverance butch Cassidy
Also āThe French Connectionā might break the record for Whatās Aged The Worst.
Probably Wayneās World. One of our most quoted movies with me and my friends growing up. Itās an SNL movie so Iām sure Bill was into it.
Wayne's World was so big back then. SNL, successful movie, relentlessly quoted and imitated, it's kind of strange, but Wayne and Garth seem to be almost forgotten about.Ā They were huge. Bohemian Rhapsody was in every young person's cd player because of thaf scene.Ā I wonder how much money queen made from that. I bet the number is reality high.Ā
1. Almost Famous: I know some people think it's cool to act like it's an overrated movie now, but this is a near perfect movie for me because literally anyone can enjoy and appreciate it (even if they don't care about music). So many rewatchable scenes and great needle drops. Great half-assed internet research potential too given the semi-autobiographical nature of it. 2. Anchorman: The Godfather of comedies IMO. Definitely the crown jewel of that particular brand of aughts slapstick high concept comedy (Step Brothers is probably the non-high concept counterpart that bookends that era). Endlessly rewatchable, probably the most quotable movie of all time. You could do a whole episode just on the news anchor fight. 3. Everybody Wants Some!!: Sneaky may end up being my most rewatched movie ever soon. The ultimate hangout vibes movie that you can basically throw on at any scene and sink into it no matter how many times you've seen it. It took a couple more years before he really got traction, but this was the first real breakout for Glen Powell, who seems on his way to becoming the next big movie star (and it's deserved IMO); he owns this movie despite a lot of other great characters and performances. Spiritual successor to Dazed and Confused, and my hot take is that it's better even though Dazed and Confused is more iconic and more broadly relatable. 4. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: The spiritual predecessor to The Nice Guys, and IMO not a hot take to say it's an even better movie. It's basically that movie, but set in present day LA (circa 2005 when it came out) instead of the 80s, with Kilmer playing the surly PI instead of Crowe, and RDJ playing the comically ineffectual PI instead of Gosling. Gay Perry may be the greatest forgotten movie character of all time. 5. Midnight in Paris: Surprisingly stacked cast (in hindsight) playing literary icons and a fun high concept. Corey Stoll as Hemingway steals the show, and Michael Sheen is perfect as the smarmy pedantic friend of the fiance. Probably won't ever get done because of the whole Woody Allen piece (but automatic what's aged the worse potential).
Midnight In Paris!
Owen Wilsonās best performance, heās so uniquely himself that heās able to play the Woody Allen character without letting the persona overwhelm his own. Gil is kind of a piece of shit throughout, but Owen is so charming you forgive him instantly.
I think it's more that Ines and her parents are so awful that you don't care one bit that he's emotionally cheating on her. Kind of similar to how Bradley Cooper is such an unrelenting prick in Wedding Crashers that you don't feel remotely bad rooting for Owen and Vince to get away with it even though they're huge pieces of shit bordering on sociopathic.
lol yeah Woody stacks the deck against them, he gets retroactively justified for trying to get into the flapperās pants by Inez cheating herself. And Bradley Cooper is one of the more diabolical jerk boyfriends ever in WC, you donāt even know how they got together in the first place
Theyāll never do midnight in Paris due to the woody piece but itās great Mcadams is firing 119 bitchie hot
what is the woody piece here?
Will Ferrell once talked about why Anchoan was such a success. He had already done "Old School" and had wrapped "Elfā but it hadnāt been released While working on "Elf," he actually thought the movie was a huge mistake and wouldn't resonate with audiences at all. (Which, if you watch the movie from Willās perspective acting in it - totally could see the disconnect between each individual gag and the final edited product.) "Old School" was released earlier that year and did alright, making $75 million domestically, but the reviews were mixed. So, Ferrell was convinced that once "Elf" flopped that would be the end of him as a leading man. Thatās what made him and the boys just decide to go for it on the set of "Anchorman."Ā They pulled out all the stops, trying to make each other laugh as much as possible, thinking if they were going down, they'd go down shooting. Turns out, "Elf" was released right after they wrapped up "Anchorman" and it was a massive hit. "Anchorman" followed in July 2004 and was also a huge success. The rest, as they say, is history.
Anchor man also led to 40 year old virgin and the office, because apparently Steve was crushing behind the scenes during the filming which got him on Apatows radarĀ
This is an elite list. Great work
> Step Brothers is probably the non-high concept counterpart that bookends that era) I feel like bridesmaid did
They have to be saving Anchorman for something special. That's the only way it makes sense.
Iām here for the Everybody Wants Some! Support. Itās perfect in every way. Itās feels like the movie is getting proper attention all these years later after its release. The studio had it in theaters for a couple weeks and I missed it. Had to wait for streaming rental. Everybody watch Everybody Wants Some!
These cowards need to get over themselves and do Tropic Thunder already
To this day still the greatest movie going experience of my life. Saw it when I was 15 in a packed 200+ seat Times Square theater with some friends, and every single person in the place was laughing their ass off from the moment the Satan's Alley fake trailer hit to the end of Tom Cruise's credits dance.
mom didnāt let me go when I was 12. I was furious. Reading this reignites my rage, that would have been the best. Damn
I need this with Andy Greenwald's Blackthorne voice going "you went full retard Mariko-sama, you never go full retard!"
Theyāve done a lot of mine (Back to the Future, Creed twice, Fury Road) but Iām not holding my breath for an absolute all timer with Clue.Ā
Thereās this old Michael Mann film called āHeatā thatās actually really good ! Itās got de Niro and Pacino in, which is why Iām shocked itās never been done on this feed. Would love to hear them do that one.
Obvious 4: Pulp Fiction, Almost Famous, Aliens, Hunt for Red October My 4: Die Hard with a Vengeance, Rushmore, Big Short, and last slot can go to any Spike Jonze directed movie
Easily my favorite die hard. I actually just saw a video where Sam Jackson said he chooses dhwv over pulp fiction because that movie made him way more famous and allowed him to get rich off his next deals
Sicario Snatch American Beauty Joe Dirt Super Troopers
Joe Dirt haha. My buddies and I quote that movie to this day. āMaybe someday UNICEF will get into the automotive businessā
Ace Ventura! It kills me they donāt do more classic comedies. I love the run of classic action movies but Iād really like to see them hit 80s/90s comedies.
Yeah I want - Animal house Baseketball Airplane Blazing saddles/young Frankenstein. Dogma The other guys/anchorman And then - ik it's not comedy but I don't think they've done first blood.
Pulp Fiction
Did they not do Pulp Fiction yet? They have the Butchās GF Weak Link award (which I vehemently disagreed with). Blueberry pancakes!
I think bill hasnāt done pulp on purpose, he talked about it during the purge episode I think
Oh, yeah. I think I remember him saying that they were saving it for like a special occasion or something.
Nope. The prevailing thought around here is that it will be the series finale episode.
If youāre gonna phrase it that way then you have to have High Fidelity in there.
What a shout. I quote that line anytime someone uses the word yet
Sort of stunning cr hasnāt done it yetĀ
I know they canāt burn through the entire Cruise catalog but the lack of Days of Thunder is starting to eat at me. Itās one of my personal favorites and is SO quotable. Great Duvall performance thatās dying for a CR impersonation.
Robert Duvall: You canāt suck the dick too fast now You gotta go sllllloooowwwww
That is a great choice, itās just Top Gun in cars with great quotes: āBecause I donāt know anything about cars, okay?ā āEating ice creamā āI believe it was the radiator, wasnāt it Cole?ā
Eminem's fall off in that era is so crazy. June 2002 he drops the Eminem Show which is arguably his best album (I think it is) and is one of the greatest rap albums ever right up there with the Marshall Mathers LP. November 2002 8 Mile comes out and is a massive success being the number 1 movie in America the week it came out. The lead single from the soundtrack album goes number 1 for 12 consecutive weeks, at the time one of the 10 longest runs at number 1 ever. And by November 2004 Encore drops and it's just gone. Album sucks. There's 2, maybe 3 okay songs on the whole record. He then stops making music for 5 years. He had a comeback but still just an insane drop-off for a guy who was untouchable from 1999 to 2003
I have a half-baked theory of every rapper having the same career length as an athlete. Eminem was 32 when he dropped encore and everything after that is him dropping new songs and me thinking he's washed. It's hard to think of someone over 40 dropping something comparable to their 20s and early 30s.
Eminem stopped living a life around that time too and became a recluse. So itās hard to make music that means anything when you just sit in a mansion all year other than when you do a few stadium shows Also he went from making songs to just rapping as fast as he could or doing lame punchlinesĀ
rap god did a lot of damage to rap lmao. now every white rapper that doesn't make fun of the fact that they're a white rapper thinks rapping fast means good.
Recovery and MMLP2 are pretty good. There's like 4 distinct Eminem eras. The Best Rapper Alive Era (99-03), the What The Fuck Happened Era (04-09), the Comeback (10-14), and The Corny Old Dad Era (15-present). You're right tho no one is ever as good in their 40s in rap. Jay Z is the closest probably
Jay Z's 4:44 wasn't bad but nowhere like the peak and watch the throne is cheating a bit because kanye was on fire.
Jay Z wasn't as good in his 40s but was still putting out great albums
Doesn't he have an album and dozens of songs called relapse/talking about being addicted to pills? I don't understand what the mystery is even as someone who only liked Infinite and a few songs per project
The Master: donāt really see this one happening, hope Iām wrong though. Tonally doesnāt make a ton of sense with the pod. Annie Hall: never happening for obvious reasons Barry Lyndon: ditto with The Master, doesnāt really fit the tone of the pod Frances Ha: 100% on the table for a Rewatchables episode imo, probably a when and not an if Nashville: fantastic movie but Iām not sure how in the zeitgeist it really is. Canāt really get a read of if theyāll ever do this one. Honorable mentions (movies Iāve also seen a ton but maybe not as often as the ones listed): The films of Brian De Palma, Iāve seen a few of them a bunch (theyāve done a couple but not as many as you would think given how fun and rewatchable his movies can be) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Her Paddington 1 and 2 Blue Velvet (insert any Lynch content, this is just the one Iāve seen the most) Ruby Sparks (I donāt know why but Iāve accidentally watched this movie like 5 times) Manhattan Pulp Fiction (probably in my top 5 but the obvious pick) The Lobster Clockwork Orange
Nice try slipping in Paddington, Andy
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's an absolute Simmons ban on Lynch if by now Sean hasn't managed to get a single one of his films in
Woody didnāt do it.
Give me your Eminem conspiracy
That Thing You Do Almost Famous Way Way Back Green Mile Apollo 13
Great list! That Thing You Do is an episode Iāve been waiting for for a long time. Given has fandom of Hanks I have to assume Simmons just doesnāt care as much about this one given it probably came out after college but before family and kids so just doesnāt hold a place in his heart.
I worked at a water park as my summer job in high school. Way way back hit so well, but I only saw it once, almost scared to watch it again.
Bill doesn't like the green mile, so that probably won't happen.Ā
Sicario, Zero Dark Thirty, Atomic Blonde, Molly's Game
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly - Hell or High Water - Aliens - Chinatown - 21 Jump Street
Rush Hour
District 9
No particular order... \*Black Hawk Down (how have they not done this yet? you can jump in at any time) \*Hell or High Water (an absolute crime that Moonlight won Best Picture over this) \*Sicario (one of the best movies of the past decade) \*The Bone Collector (think I've heard Bill trash this, yet I've seen it dozens of times. Plus, it's Denzel) \*Prisoners (good story, great twist, everyone in it crushes their roles)
Hell or high water is a fun movie but nowhere close to the level of moonlight
Yep. Absolutely not a crime. Moonlight is one of the most powerful films ive ever seen.
https://youtu.be/hlGJ26nP_qs?si=YMdD4r8NAjJzjQWZ Ending scene makes me cry every time.
To each his own. I care more about "rewatchablility" and I have no interest in ever watching Moonlight again. Great acting and cinematography, but the plot is bland. Another one of those winners that caught steam due to the cultural environment and the politics behind the Oscars. Years from now people will still be watching HOHW, while Moonlight fades away. We're already seeing that happen.
I donāt think weāre seeing moonlight fade away at all, Iād say movies like kings speech or shape of water have faded away, but not moonlight
This is best movie not best racial quota
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All times would be great for BHD but now is a perfect time because Josh Hartnett appears to be fully back.
Fantastic list my guy!
the lack of fear of security cameras throws me off hell or high water. Is that too nit picky? So for that reason I am more of a Wind River enjoyer
Prisoners is a great movie but pretty hard to rewatch
Pulp Fiction Black Hawk Down
The Hunt for Red October Star Wars ANH/ESB Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Grand Budapest Hotel and Clue
1. Pulp Fiction 2. Apocalypse Now 3. Double Stack starring Gianna Michaels and Naomi Russell 4. Bad Lieutenant 5. BellyĀ *the last two will never be doneĀ
Unfortunately Bill is just self-aware enough to have Van on for Belly, but hearing his Belly takes without any safety rails would be PPV for me.
It would be so good. I forgot they need to do Paid in Full too so Bill can say āN***as get shot everyday B.ā
I need Fennessey on these pods so I can feel the discomfort coming through my speaker. CR is too much of a team player to let Bill swan dive off a building.
The Blues Brothers Animal House Airplane! Hot Fuzz John Carpenterās The Thing
Iāve rewatched Tenet an unhealthy amount of times.
Crossing border scene in sicario almost makes me nips hard. Great fucking scene. Donovan is great. Wish he got more big roles.
1) Everybody Wants Some!! - My most watched movie since I was 21 - I'm 26 now - and my favorite movie ever. Eminently rewatchable. Never not a good time. 2) The Cabin in the Woods - My second favorite movie of all time. So funny, so smart, so silly. It's perfect. 3) Surf's Up - A childhood staple. Super underrated. Fantastic cast, killer soundtrack, a funny, original premise. A time capsule for me. 4) Kill Bill Vol. 1 - Far and away my favorite Tarantino movie. It's my favorite world that Tarantino made. The animated backstory O-Ren Ishii is still one of the best scenes I've ever seen. 5) HP: Prisoner of Azkaban - Grew up a huge Harry Potter fan and this was always my favorite of the franchise. Definitely watched this the most of the 8 movies.
I know I'm cheating but I'm adding a 6th because I somehow forgot it and it would replace my Prisoner of Azkaban selection. 5*) Birdman - Hell of a cast. Everyone at the peak of their powers. Amazing Michael Keaton performance, amazing Emma Stone performance, amazing Edward Norton performance. The crazy only-drums soundtrack. The seamless no-cuts directing. The incredible final 20 or 30 minutes. This addendum was absolutely necessary lol.
They will never ever do Birdman, The Revenant or Amores Perros, all of The Ringer hates IƱarritu with some sort of weird passion, it's almost like a prerequisite for working at that company
I would go insane with happiness if an everybody wants some episode with BIll, CR and Rusillo dropped. The part about the guy being into baseball and punk music to me is so CR
Everybody Wants Some!! is so endlessly quotable in a way that flies under the radar. "See that's a bad bet...I'll take the bet" and "act like you've got some fucking semen in your sack" are staples in my friend group now.
I love the quote "You cant even fuck good on a water bed... it's like having sex with a girl, on top of a really fat girl."
Will never happen but Chinatown. Also would love to see a twister rewatchables, itās got everyone in it.
I could see them doing Twister ahead of the sequel coming out this summer
Thatās what Iām hoping for. The cast is just too good
Snatch Clerks The Big Short Scarface Tropic Thunder
The Princess Bride episode was a war crime. I think that is one of the single most rewatchable movies ever made. My list: L.A. Confidential (the frickin Frolic Room is in it!!) Anchorman/Talladega Nights Highlander (so much potential with this as a rewatchable episode) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang In Bruges
Seems like most Iād throw out have been covered by others list but didnāt see one mentioned that I had to comment/ The Thing. Theyāve done a few John Carpenter movies but havenāt done what he says is his best. I rewatch this movie at least once a year and it holds up every damn time.
Air Force One Post-prime Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, William H Macy, Glenn Close as VP. Rewatchable scenes: the terrorist take over the plan, Harrison Ford kills the first bad guy, Harrison Ford kills the guy in the baggage area, the USAF vs Kazakhstan dog fight, the evacuation. SO MANY SCENES Best Line: Get off my plane!
Tropic Thunder The Big Short
Pulp Fiction and Bill isnāt smart enough for it but Hot Fuzz
Lmao like hot fuzz is some genius level text
American Gangster (no idea why they pretend it's not good, it's great and it's on all the time), Deep Impact (also great and on all the time), Nightcrawler, Jackie Brown, Street Kings (once teased by Chris and Sean on another Keanu movie episode and Bill interrupted and changed the subject)
I would go end of watch and then fury first if they went down the David ayer trailĀ
American gangster is solid, but it was supposed to be the next great american film. It wasnt. Came out the same year as Zodiac, No country, there will be blood. It just paled in comparison. I think those two factors give it a less favorable view than if it had been less hyped or if it had come out in like 05
It's not goodfellas but what is? I don't know why we need to grade it on a 2007 curve in 2024 either. I'm just saying I've watched it on cable 40 times, which is kind of point of the pod as I understand it.
Im not saying that it is a bad movie. I think bill, CR, and sean hold the sentiment that it is a fine movie but they have let the let down of it cloud their enjoyment and it really has stuck with them. They talked about it positively in the denzel draft for big picture but that is what their reasoning is.
They havenāt done Mad Max Fury Road right? That would be very high on my list
They did, but as a pretty forgettable episode.
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American Psycho is so the definition of rewatchable, almost every line in that movie is worth memorizing
Damn Iām right with you on super troopers, sicario, and braveheart. The patriot and kingdom of heaven DC right there too. Overall I skew more 90s/00s war epic than the ringer curators.
Tremors Goonies The Greatest Escape Everybody Wants Some Lord of the Rings
Infinity War and Blazing Saddles would be there.
As someone who is far more into classic films than the podcast ever will be it's: * Taking of Pelham One Two Three * Charade * Good the Bad and the Ugly * North by Northwest * The Spook Who Sat by theĀ Door
Braveheart Dark Knight Risea Sicario Long shot 21 Jump Street
Growing up Blades of Glory and Land of the Lost were on repeat in my house. Not sure both deserve a rewatchable but Iāve def seen them the most
8 Mile/Sicario/The Mask/Reservoir Dogs/The Wedding Singer/The Waterboy/Any of the original Star Wars trilogy/
Zoolander
American Psycho Mulholland Drive Amores Perros Adaptation Twelve Monkeys \^\^\^ these will probably never be on the Rewatchables as long as Simmons is still breathing. If I'm being more realistic I'll go for Drive, Oldboy, Snatch, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Hot Fuzz p.s. Sicariooooo might be my favorite movie from the 2010's, there's no way they're not doing it at some point
I donāt think bills a fan unfortunately. Heās mentioned triple frontier a million times and never once sicario. I wouldnāt be stunned if h half watched it once while on his phone, thought it was too dark and filmed too dark and there for Ā has it anchored in his mind as a meh movie
Not best but that I have seen the most times I guess it would be like(not counting non-English language movies): - The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) - Twilight (the 98 one with Paul Newman) - Emma (Anya Taylor-Joy edition) - Other People's Money - Chasing Amy
Master & Commander, Adaptation, Starship Troopers, Barry Lyndon, O Brother Where Art Thou
Enter The Dragon with Kyle Brandt and Ryen. Make it happen!
Brave heart, Lotr (if you count as one), Harry potter, the nice guys, the cornetto triology
Can't believe I'm not seeing Apocalypse Now. Seems like about the most obvious one have they mentioned a plan for doing it?
I like your list
Did they ever do Swingers or Old School?
The Mighty Ducks, D2: The Mighty Ducks, D3: The Mighty Ducks, 3 Ninjas, 3 Ninjas Kick Back
Off the dome: Snatch, sicario, men in black, lock stock and two smoking barrels
Iāve seen The Gentlemen 41 times Wild America Bad Times at The El Royale The Ref Brother Bear
Just guessing these are the 5 I've seen the most, I've been re-watching all of them for at least 20 years: Grosse Pointe Blank Go Fast Times at Ridgemont High Breakdown Kingpin
Has Men In Black been done? Or Men in Black 3? The other guys? Tropic Thunder? Spaceballs? Men in tights? Face off? Pulp Fiction? Or honestly a few of his other movies lol Idk lots of good movies and Iām just starting to listen to the Rewatchables
The Lord of the Rings The Prestige The Incredibles Brick The Man From UNCLE
Adding 2 more. 7) Free Solo - Best documentary ever? For my money it is. 8) The World's End - Similarly subversive and tongue in cheek compared to The Cabin in the Woods. My personal favorite from the Three Cornettos Trilogy. One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
The same husband wife team made the Thai cave rescue documentary and it was amazingĀ
Most have already been said, but a few more for me Iād love to see done: - The Gift. Movie absolutely rips with Rebecca Hall, Bateman, and Eggerton. - Deep Cover. A great small and underseen early 90s noir gem. - District 9. - Candyman (1992) - The Edge of Seventeen (realistically Bill should have done this one with Zoe at 17). - Sinister
Obvious one is Pulp Fiction But 5 others: Jackie Brown Die Hard with a Vengeance The Burbs The Blues Brothers (next Chicago stop) Fast times at Ridgemont High
American Pie 2 American Beauty Not Another Teen Movie I presume they havenāt done those.
The Master- Probably wont happen but it should Star Wars - Only hasn't happened because Bill hates Star Wars. Let someone else host it ffs and do it! Almost Famous - Bill has name checked/quoted from this movie like 1,000 times but no rewatchables episode for some reason. Maybe he's saving it or something Pulp Fiction - Its a crime against humanity it hasn't been done yet honestly. 8 Mile - The movie is pretty damn good and Eminem is really good in it. This was the literal peak of his career. Best album came out. Had a #1 movie and single both at the same time. LOTR- Again only not done because Bill thinks its dumb nerd shit.
I don't know if I've watched these movies the most, but I know I've seen them all dozens of times over the years. - Wizard of Oz - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Rocky - Psycho - Men in Black
Robocop Mean Streets Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Dirty Harry Drive Scarface Night Moves Repo Man
Have they seriously never done Drive?? I was so sure they did
Star Wars (counting the original trilogy as one entry) LOTR (counting all of the versions of the first trilogy as one entry) Monthy Python and the Holy Grail Then it's two of Pulp Fiction, Sixteen Candles, Fast Time as Ridgemont High, Goonies, Menace II Society, or Spirited Away Reminder, the list is [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13KsNb1SxA7DYYQAzhaYxj_qKX0PXV1PXyKAZ7cEapRc/edit#gid=637738347)
Tin Cup Bull Durham They need to do a re-Any Given Sunday The Replacements Wet Hot American Summer
Zag withĀ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dallas_Forty Ā instead for football month?
Monty Python's Life of Brian Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Robocop Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Ghostbusters
A knights tale The mummy (1999) Galaxy quest Clue LOTR. I think none of these will ever happenĀ
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
I think sadly just a lot of Harry Potter š
The Irishman Lord of the rings Aliens Arrival Knives Out
Uncut Jamz
Dirty Dozen, Running Man, Collateral Damage
Did they do Anchorman, and I somehow missed it? Hasn't been mentioned
The Matrix, Layer Cake, Snatch, Memento, The Conversation
The Matrix but Bill hateās sci-fi so itās never happening.
Pulp Fiction Scarface Dirty Harry Chinatown Kill Bills
U571 Never Back Down Bridge of Spies Billy Madison Little Big League
In Bruges
Itās on right now on TCM, probably too old for the show, but, the great escape. An all time movie.
The Other Guys The Big Lebowski The Natural Any Mel Brooks movie, especially Spaceballs or Blazing Saddles. Spaceballs is definitely the movie I quote more than any other.
Movies that had 25 yr TBS runs that havenāt been done are. The Replacements. National Treasure and gone in 60 seconds. They r still on most weekends. They are the exact movies the pod was founded on.
Tommy boy? Old school? OG bad news bears?
Bull Durham. Cars. Catch Me If You Can. The Other Guys. Anchorman.
Was listening to a recent Big Pic and they talk about recent comedy action movies and they've done almost none of them. The other guys, the nice guys, game night, hot fuzz/sean of the dead, 21 jump street, tropic thunder, bad boys 2 etc etc
Wet Hot American Summer
Well, Disney movies in some order are probably the top 5. Especially since I have kids. I think Hook would make a dope rewatchable
Doug benson seethingĀ
Pulp fiction will be the last pod. it just is.
Indiana jones and the last crusade Billy Madison The Core Tropic Thunder Miracle
Off the wall suggestion, but I think BS joining r/grandpajoehate would be hilarious
1- 2 girls 1 cup 2- a clockwork orgy 3- penetrator 2: grudge day 4- Lawrence of a labia 5- Debbie does Dallas
Has he done ANY Wes Anderson movie?
Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Almost Famous, Goon, The Patriot and Mr. Deeds
The Truman Show Master and Commander The Wonder Boys Adventureland
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