 Adam does movies live. I'm Adam. What day was it? Tuesday? We got a Tuesday night showing. It's a fun one. I brought my buddy Tony back from Hack the Movies and today we're gonna give off our top five directors working in movies today and from yesteryear they might be dead, some of them, so spoiler. Maybe they'll come back as ghosts and make good movies again. Who knows? Tony, how you doing, sir? Hi, Adam. Okay, so Alien 3. This is why I think it's good. Oh, sorry, we already did that. Wrong video. Oh, right, right, sorry, sorry. I just had so much more to say. Well, I don't think you said enough in our last movie feuds a week or so back and that's probably why you lost. Probably that's true. That's true. Is tonight a competition? I didn't put a poll up. I guess I should have to say who's director picks. Do you agree with more? But I think you and I chatted before this, just because we have a top five here doesn't mean that that's like the be all end all. In fact, when I was making my list, I was having a hard time, who I should leave on, who I should put off. But I think the Stanley Rubrik, for me at least, little play on words there, if you like that, is directors that not only have made movies that have withstood the test of time, but also have kind of impacted how movies are made or are just these like classics that I can't seem to get away from over the years. Yeah, and for me, I picked five directors that have influenced me personally. Sure. Where I learned the most about filmmaking and who influenced the works that I did and college and stuff afterwards. And even some of the stuff I'm writing now that I don't talk about because I don't want to jinx anything. But yeah, so that's why I went for them. Because there's plenty of great directors who aren't on my list, who I love, and I've probably seen their movies more than the people that are on my list. I'm in that boat too. But I'm like, yeah, but I'm just like, who are the five that really left an impact on me? Yeah, so that's my... Do you want to just throw out, we can do three honorable mentions? Yes, how about you do that first because I closed the tab where I had my honorable mentions up and I need to find it again. One of them for sure for me is Guillermo del Toro. He did some phenomenal movies like Blade II, Hellboy I and II. You know, I thought he did Blade I, but I don't actually think he did. Nope, he did not, he did not. Okay, he did the sequel, which I think is actually better. I like his... A lot of people do. Yeah, I like his, just the way he infuses CG, even though it looks fake as shit. It's done in such a cool stylized way that it just comes off as fun and then full of like heart, you know? What I liked about him was he really blended the whole puppet and CG stuff that was real noticeable in Hellboy II. Obviously he does stuff like Pacific Rim where he can't really use practical effects, but even like Pan's Labyrinth, Shape of Water, he blends those physical suits with CGI so seamlessly. So yeah, he's a good one. The funny thing is, I'm not even the biggest fan of Pacific Rim. That's probably my least... I would not look to him for Pacific Rim when I'm referring to Guillermo del Toro movies. In their alley, I just saw Not That Long ago and that was actually a Patreon request for me to watch that film. It's really damn good and that is like one of the sadder movies I've seen in a long time. I missed out on that one. I did watch the show that he put together. I mean, he didn't direct it, but he was the host, the cabinet curiosities. Yeah, I think the last movie I saw from him was maybe Shape of Water and Crimson Peak. Did you like Shape of Water? I thought it was okay. I thought it was a little overrated, but I thought it was okay for the next part. I liked it quite a bit, but I do think, I mean, it was up for like a bunch of awards and people were praising it up and down when you have Pan's Labyrinth right next to it, which I do think is as brilliant as a film can get. Even, I haven't seen some of these early ones, of course, because I don't know any movie before I was born, essentially. You had to have seen Mimic. Yeah, I have seen Mimic. Mimic is great. I actually liked Mimic quite a bit, the blind guy with the spoons and the sewer and those disgusting, I don't even, the insect bug. Yeah, they were like bugs and they put their hands together, spoiler. They put their hands together and it looked like people. And their wings looked like leather jackets. Oh man, that movie is awesome. Mira Sorvino vehicle. Yes, yes. Is the Alien 3 guy in there too? I don't know if I should get a name. The guy played Dylan. Rudy? Yeah, was that Charles S. Dutton? Is that his name? It's not Jeremy. Yeah, Charles S. Dutton. Yeah, that was him. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, Charles S. Dutton. Yeah, I know the movie. I'm very familiar. Okay, yeah, I think Yomo Del Toro's really good. Really appreciate him. Do you want to throw one out or do you want me to keep going? Yeah, I can do one, a runner up, Robert Rodriguez. He almost made the top five list. He almost made it. Let me pull up his page here. Robert Rodriguez, that's the Spy Kids, right? I assume that's why you like him from Spy Kids. Specifically, 90s and a little bit early 2000s, Rodriguez. You'd be happy to know, Tony, he has a brand new Spy Kids film coming out. I saw the trailer for that today. I usually, when people bring that up, I'm like, okay, I'm not counting the movies he does for kids, but stuff like Desperado and now Mariachi were super influential to me, like, especially when it comes to action. I've tried to mimic some of that action stuff in those films. Love Once Upon a Time in Mexico. The faculty is great. From Dustle Dawn. I can't say, Love Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Although it did have the fun line, are you a Mexican or a Mexican? A Mexican. I always thought that was pretty good. Yeah, and then Grindel's was fun. I wanted Ms. Shetty. No. You don't like Grindel's? The Planetary was the better of the two-part Grindel's vehicle, but I had a miserable time watching Grindel's. I like both. Ms. Shetty was a let down, because you can tell Ms. Shetty was like, because I remember at the time at Grindel's, they were like, we shot 50 minutes worth of footage. And then when you watch the movie, you're like, oh, you guys really had to struggle to come up with the rest of that movie, didn't you? But no, faculty is great. What's with him in that? Dustle Dawn's kind of the same way. It's 75% this bizarre Quentin Tarantino style flick. And then the last 15 minutes is the good stuff, the vampire killing. Yeah, that's fun. I actually liked, he actually remade from Dustle Dawn as a show a while back. And the first season was just the first movie, but stretched out and he expanded on the lore. And I thought it was actually really good. It's one of the few movies, turn TV shows that are actually decent. But yeah, then everything after Sin City, I kind of... Sin City is great, I love Sin City. I didn't bother with Sin City too. I saw the last 20 minutes of, huh? Yeah, I saw the last 20 minutes of Alita at a gym and I was like, oh, this is the movie everyone pretended to like to spike Disney and now Disney owns it. Alita is like the greatest film ever created. I don't know what your problem is. I actually, my whole family saw Alita in theaters and we did enjoy it quite a bit. Haven't watched it ever since, but we had a good one time watch. I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel. I just thought it was funny everyone just spited it and then now Disney owns it. Yeah, Disney owns it. But yeah, Rodriguez, definitely. I got one for you. Are you done with Rodriguez or you have more to say? Yeah, he's just, obviously they teach Mariachi and stuff in film school and he hasn't got a lot of good ideas for like early filmmakers. That's one of the reasons he's a runner up for me, but he has not impressed me in a long time. I hear you. Okay, I'm in the same boat as well. I got Edgar, if this director is wrong, I don't want to be right on the list. I have him too. He almost made the list. I think it's again, this is going to be a thing you see with me in a lot of these lists is I haven't seen a lot of the early stuff by him and it looks like, I don't know if these are actually movies or shorts. Some of them might be music videos. Don't was the trailer he made for Grindhouse. Yeah, a lot of these look like shorts or music videos. You should definitely at some point check out the show he did, Spaced with Edgar Wright and Nick Frost. That's kind of like where they blew up. Okay, I mean, I love those guys are so good. Dude, that show is good and it's full of movie references and you would really, really enjoy that show. Plus, the second season came out after Phantom Menace. So most of the second season is about how much they hated Phantom Menace. It's a lot of fun. That's awesome. I feel bad. I still haven't seen last night in Soho. So I have seen that. I have not seen the world's end, which I have heard mixed things on. I know it's part of the kind of whatever universe with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, which are both fantastic. I love those movies so much. Out of the trilogy, that was my least favorite, but upon rewatch, it gets better with rewatches. The first time I felt a little left down, but I've watched it a few times since then. It's not one I want to revisit a lot, but the few times I have revisited, I loved it. Sure, definitely. And I love Scott Pilgrim as well. Scott Pilgrim is like a top 50 of all time for me. That movie is so good. Baby Driver, I really did enjoy it. I did feel like the final 20 minutes was kind of a let down, like it didn't end on another banger, high speed chase, which whatever. Still a great movie. And last night in Soho, Tony. It's Edgar Wright for sure, but again, I think it kind of drops the ball in the last act quite a bit. I'll give it a shot at some point. It's definitely worth watching. Yeah. Okay, any more on your list? Well, I had like, I guess the big one, I'll throw out like a few small ones, but like Fransford Coppola is one of them. Sam Raimi, definitely Sam Raimi, but Ridley Scott, I love his director commentaries. I just, I can hear, I can listen to that. Not anymore, cause now he sounds like an old alcoholic, but like in the early 2000s and stuff, his commentaries were great. He would talk about like what he did wrong and how the audience overreacts the certain mistakes he made. He hasn't made anything good in a long time. Martian doesn't count, cause I think he was a last minute replacement for another director and that movie was like ready to go. I love the Martian. Yeah. But I, when I was watching it like, when I was watching it, I'm like, how come all this other shit sucks? So this movie was really good. And then I found out like, he wasn't supposed to be the director. He kind of just like stepped in. I think if I'm remembering that right, that's what have kind of like a Peyton Reed replacing Edgar Wright and Ant-Nan. He just kind of stepped in. Where is he? But I love, obviously, Alien is the movie that made me in love with films. Right, of course. G.I. Jane also. Obviously love G.I. Jane. Deep Tony, yeah. Glad Eater was a big one. I have a review for Glad Eater coming out. Legend, when I found out there was a director's cut of legend and it was so much better. That was great. I've never seen this movie. Someone brought it up recently in a live stream. I don't know what this is. It's pretty good. You should watch the director's cut. But that's another fun one to listen to his commentary because they built all these big sound stages and there was too much natural gas from all the plants and stuff. So one of the sound stages blew up. So like the movie, the farthest in the movie was supposed to be way bigger but they had to compensate for one of their sound stages blowing down. So he makes fun of that. And I think in Glad Eater, when all the flower petals are falling in the stadium, if I remember right, one of the guys was like, why'd you do this? He's like, because I tried it in Legend and it didn't work and I wanted to try it again. So he's just a really fascinating filmmaker to listen to. He has a wide variety science fiction. He's got some horror in there. I had no idea he did Matchstick Man. Yeah, he did Matchstick Man. That's a good point. I think Hannibal's underrated and I have a whole video about that. But yeah, really Scott is probably my last runner up. And of course he got like Spielberg and whatnot, but I, yeah. Tony, I'd like to pride myself on women in tank tops and being able to spot the actress. Okay. Is that Dawson's Creek girl herself? Katie Holmes. Katie Holmes? Why don't you click on it? Let's find out. I think that's Katie Holmes. I'm wrong. No, no, it's Marion Codillard, my co-star from the Dark Knight Rises. Oh my God, that was way off. Oh, I can see it now. I can see it now. Well, that's from 2006, so. Well, there goes the all credibility I had at spotting women in tank tops. Okay. I think that 1492 movie, I think that's about Christopher Columbus, Italian hero Christopher Columbus. Italians aren't allowed to celebrate anymore. Oh, that's the new one coming out, right? I haven't watched this movie. Oh yeah, Napoleon. Yeah. I gotta check out. Did you see the last duel? No, is it good? Cause every other movie I've seen from him lately has sucked. Is last duel good? I didn't mind it. I actually kind of enjoyed it, but it does the thing that I'm not a big fan of. It does the whole he said, she said style of storytelling. So you get half of the movie from the perspective of, no, I'm sorry. You get a third of the movie from Adam Driver's character, a third from Matt Damon, and the final from the female Cormac or whatever the heller name is. I'm not. Oh, I know you're not. Let me look up her name quick. Jody Corner, I was close. Okay. Yeah. It's interesting. I think it's a decent watch. Okay. But yeah, nothing, nothing more, nothing less. I don't know if I need to bring up any more. I think I had one other one I was gonna talk about. Let me look back on the notes here. Do you remember when I last one I was gonna say? The list that you had. The list that I spewed out. I guess it does. Oh, I was gonna say Richard Donner and Alfonzo. I can never say his last name. Coron. Coron, Alfonzo Coron. Yeah. We can bring up Richard Donner quick. Alfonzo Coron. I really, I think he's just a brilliant director as far as how he frames up shots in the long takes. He's really known for those long shots like in Gravity. The cameras flying all around Sandra Bullock. That movie was a roller coaster to watch in theaters. IMAX 3D. He did Harry Potter in the Prisoner of Azkaban, a lot of people's favorites because it visually just looks completely separate from the rest. I really liked his version of Great Expectations when I was younger, his adaptation of that story. I don't know how it holds up now. I saw it a long time ago as well, but I think easily his greatest movie for me is Children of Men. That's a good one. Top 100 for me of all time. I just, a brilliant film. Someone shared it on Twitter, the big like the long shot with them attacking the car. And I'm like, man, I've got how good that movie was. It's so good. And there's two or three of those long shots throughout the film. Plus you just have this war torn Europe backdrop, Clive Owen, every man Clive Owen, who I don't know what happened to him. Where did he go? He's gone around. I'm looking it up right now. I'm looking it up right now. City, you know, he was in, where is Clive Owen? I think he was a cameo in Sin City too as well, but that was one of those weird movies where I don't know if the actors were actually back or if they just repurposed footage from the first movie. Look, look, look. He was the voice of Jason and Louie. Or maybe you remember from the TV mini series, Liza's story, you watch that one? Oh yeah, of course. Critical Darling Liza's story. In 2020, it says he was in one episode of Curve Your Enthusiasm. So, you know, he's around. I love Curve. I don't remember how he's been in it. I haven't watched the last few seasons. Oh, here we go. The last big movie, everyone remembers it, Valerian in the City of a Thousand Planets. I didn't ask you to say that. Oh my God. How could you not want to see Luke Basson's spiritual successor to the fifth element, Valerian? Is that the one with the Chronicle Dude, who is just an Alzheimer? Yes. And the model that Hollywood wants you to think and act when she's... The twerking chick and the enchantress from Suicide Squad. Hollywood keeps... Carole Delevingne. They keep thinking they can pass her off as an actress and it hasn't worked. I feel like both of those two are kind of like, they were pushed on us for a while and they just didn't do anything. I liked Dane Dehan, but he was a miscast on that. But we can talk about that another day. Okay, final one I want to just quickly show. Let me bring it back up really quick. Let me bring it back up really quick. Nope, that's not it. That's not it. There we go. Richard Donner. Richard Donner, the lethal weapon, what is four called? Quad, Quadra G. Quadra... I don't know what the real... No, the Alien movies made up the word Quadrilogy. I don't think that's a real word. I think it's called something else. But yes, in the Criterion collection, the weapon movies, much like... Who was it we were talking about before? Who has his dude that he always works with? Oh, we haven't mentioned him yet. Never mind. Yeah, we haven't mentioned him yet. Okay, well, Donner is a big Mel Gibson fan, hopefully just for his acting presence and nothing outside. But I mean, he's got lethal weapon with him. He's got Scrooge. He has... Scrooge has grabbed Su... Superman the movie? Freaking good. I love Maverick. More people need to watch it. I'm not talking about the Tom Cruise one, which is also great, but the country Western comedy Maverick is gold. It's got Foster. It's got James Gardner. It's got Mel Gibson, of course, and a whole bunch of others, plus a really fun tip of the hat to lethal weapon. Yes. You did a little movie too called Superman. Yeah, that's my... I just got the 4K restoration of that, the whole 4K Christopher Reeve box set. But ironically, the one movie that I used to watch of his a lot as a kid was The Omen. That was... By the way, The Omen was like... When people talk about movies from their childhood, I'm like, yeah, The Omen was a big one for me. And they're like, wait, what? I'm like, yeah, I love The Omen. That one movie is awesome. That's great. I love that. I thought you were going to say The Goonies, you know, kid Goonies. No, I actually don't like The Goonies. That's disgusting. That's disgusting. I don't think that back. You know what? I think it's because I just... I didn't like it that much and some kids got real defensive that I didn't like it that much. So then I decided I hated it. Oh, yeah, that's... Maybe I should rewatch it. Maybe I don't actually hate it. Maybe it's just been decades of spite. I think it's quite... That's how I already am with Sound of Freedom, a movie that I said was very mediocre. And now I just hate it. I still haven't seen it. Because so many people have been so awful. If any of you were there for our last live episode, I accidentally watched The Sound of Freedom from 2010, the Russian jazz club movie. Accidentally, yes. I was so embarrassed that I watched the wrong one. So I couldn't review the movie. I felt it was a shame. I know you're a big fan of the toy. That's your favorite Richard Donner movie, right? I've never seen the toy not to be confused with toys with Robin Williams. Oh God. That was a weird ass movie. No, the toy is like some kid, the guy's like, what do you want? And he's like, I want Richard Pryor. So Richard Pryor is basically this kid's like slave or something in a movie. I saw it when I was really young and I thought it was probably a fever dream and I never looked at it. The Goonies though, I've seen probably 20 times. I still love it. 16 blocks, I think is pretty underrated or it's at least never talked about. But that's what I consider the final Die Hard movie. And it kind of goes out with a little bit more grace and a little bit more plausibility. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, do you want to get into the big ones? Should we get into them? Yes, I do. Our criterion collection, has it worked? All right, let me find the right. I have this all tabified out, Tony. It's going to be what it is. Awesome. It's going to be a disaster. I'm just going to say that right now. I have to stop sharing this. Remove. Okay, there we are. You know what? Maybe we should read super chats in between. So we'll do a super chat amount. We'll see the ones that are there. And then after we do our five each, we'll do the final super chats that come in. Please super chat. It's basically the only way I make money on YouTube. Tony can attest to this. YouTube is a full time job and I already have a full time job in a family. So it's two full time jobs for the price of fun. Yes. And remember, I will only be answering $500 super chats. So, you know, if you want to, if you want me to. He's very specific about that. I love coming in and big leaking. No, I'm kidding. I really hate cocking the high price point. Ask your sergeant for a $5 super chat. Says, I'll say it. Tommy Wiseau is director. Is director by a direct. He's making fun of a Tony little ongoing joke here. The running joke is, I don't know if you ever notice on the X, do we call it X Twitter? Yeah, I call it X. I only call it super genius Elon Musk's new branding of Twitter X. Whenever a new movie comes out, there's always the fake reactions to those films and set your watch to it. There's always three or four comments that say Halle Bailey is capital IS, the little mermaid or Ariel, you know. What's another one, Buzz Lightyear. So Chris Evans is Buzz Lightyear in the new film. Who the fuck would ever say that? It's so obnoxious, but that's the kind of crap that comes through your time. So yes, Tommy Wiseau is director from, you know, critically acclaimed hit The Room. Yeah. On my movie roast list. I do want to say, I do want to read the book that the actual director of The Room did, the guy who pretty much ghost directed. I think Seth Rogen played him in the disaster artist movie. He wrote his own, yeah, he wrote his own book about what happened and how he basically kind of directed that terrible movie. He didn't write it, but he was like, because Tommy Wiseau didn't know what to do. So that was great. Behind the scenes on The Room are so fascinating to me. Just the amount of money wasted, the double camera setup. Yeah. All right, we got Jan Rose in the mix. Okay. Thank you for the $5 Super Chat Master Sergeant. Thank you, Jan Rose. My favorite director is Mike Flanagan. I'm obsessed with all his movies, especially Ouija, how I hate reading that word. It's so unnatural. Origin of Evil. He knows how to do horror, amazing. I wholeheartedly agree with that. The funny thing about Ouija, like the Ouija board movie sucked. It was terrible. And then they pretty much, because he was still kind of up and coming. He did Oculus right before that. And they were like, hey, you want to do the Ouija board movie? You don't even have to pay attention to the first film. And he made it a prequel anyway, just to test out like doing a follow-up. And it's so good, but that movie is so good. And it has no right to be that good because it leads into a terrible film. I assumed it was going to be terrible based on the other ones. Yeah. Well, the first one was just like a cash grab, whatever. But he actually put effort into the prequel. And I don't know why, but it paid off for him because now he's one of the best. I'm actually a sad Dr. Sleep bomb. They shouldn't have called it that. I know that's what the book was. They should have called it Shining 2 or something. But yeah, he's killing it. They made it Shining 2, Tony. They already made it Shining 2. I didn't care for it. What, the Dr. Sleep, or is there a different one? Yeah, Dr. Sleep. I didn't care for it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He directed it. Yeah, I don't like that movie. Okay, never mind that. Yeah, I don't like that. I don't like, I'm sorry. It's not for me. That's okay. Jonathan S, $2. Thank you, Jonathan. I think people still sleep in on Dennis. I never know how to say his last name. Billy Neely. Billy Neely. I like him. Let me look at his catalog. Yeah, I really like what he's doing with Dune. I liked prisoners. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like prisoners and arrival. Blade Runner 2049 is shit. And I don't know why people pretend to like it so much. Screw all of you. The original is better. Stop pretending it's bad. Stop saying it's boring. And then pretending 2049 is good. It's boring and bad. But a lot of his other movies are okay. I'm kind of an, under the opinion that both movies are kind of boring. Blade Runner 1 and 2049, but 2049 looks beautiful. He knows his way around the camera. I'll say that. Great looking film, Dune, beautiful film. And I think Arrival is just a stunning movie to be in. I love that IMAX is not letting the Marvels play in their theaters. They chose Dune 2 over putting the Marvels and IMAX theaters. Yeah, because Dune 2 is gonna look so much better than the Marvels. That's the one you want. So I read something because I went to Google and someone in the comments said that the Marvels cost like half a billion to make. So like there's no way that's true. So I Googled it quick and all I could find, I couldn't actually find the budget right now, but it said within the first couple months it had cost them 160 million. And that was before they basically scrapped and redid it also. They might be right. It might be a $500 million film before you add marketing and stuff to it. But Dune is gonna look better because unlike Marvel movies, unlike Marvel movies which are stitched together and post at this point, Dune is based off a book. They know what they're doing. They probably storyboard it. Like the first new movies effects look great. They look phenomenal. So Well, you're talking about the first new, the new one did you say? Yeah. I don't know the last time you saw the original Dune. Oh, I'll talk about it when we get to one of my directors. It's not holding up the best. Okay, we have Ninja, beautiful 499 super chat. Looks like Ridley Scott was the only director for the Martian. Tony's a liar is basically what Ninja's saying. True. Yeah, I heard true. Was in talks, but took a different project. Really? I thought I already like came in last minute. Maybe I'm not. Ladies and gentlemen, I 100% apologize and take responsibility for having this clown on my channel. I could be wrong. Missed information, trying to discredit Ridley Scott. Hey, Tony, did you ever watch Raised by Wolves? No, I haven't. So that's a Ridley Scott vehicle. I'm pretty sure he directed some of it. Kind of like David Fincher directs the first, you know, a couple episodes of projects. That movie is bonkers. All right, I'm sorry. That show, it went two seasons on, I think HBO now called Max and they canceled it unfortunately, but I really enjoyed the kind of shit show that it was. I should check it out. I heard things about it. You would like it because it's so insane. It looks like Drew Goddard wrote it. No, you're still trying to take yourself out of this. Yeah, it's over. I thought they were developing with him. Maybe I mixed something up. You just got ninja'd. All right, I'm moving on. Tony can figure out his life. King Cold with a $5 beautiful super chat. Thank you, sir. Does the video of you guys first meeting still exist? John Carpenter, one of my favorite for me. Tony, do you still have the footage of us outside the waterfall embracing underneath and then the rain starts to come down in slow motion? The stars come out at night. You know, you know, I don't know if I have that footage, but I should check and see if Andy's Ignore still has that debate video. Yeah, he kind of, so Andy's signal, how do you say his name? Signore. I say signore, I've never been corrected. Stainore, who knows? The guy from, he used to be at Honest Trailer. Screen junkies. Screen junkies, he got wrongfully ousted. I don't care. I don't care about the drama. That's how a lot of people know him for, so I just wanted to put that out there. But yeah, he does like drama stuff now. Yeah, he invited us on to do a debate for the Ghostbusters movie. I don't know if you can find that video because he totally pivoted into kind of what I would consider gossip, columnist, like tabloid type content, which I think- And it worked really well for him. Yeah, it's absolutely trash lowest of the low. Like I make no, I mean, it really is, but it's working, it's making him tons of money and so, you know, whatever, people like smut. Okay, speaking of, let's go to Matt Sclero, a fan of the channel and a friend, Tony. Adam, you can't talk about Sound of Freedom anymore. At what point, Tony, he scolds me. I say a friend and he instantly scolds me. At what point, Tony, in the Sound of Freedom, did you realize you were watching the wrong movie? Well, I never realized, because like I said, I never saw a poster or a trailer for the Sound of Freedom you guys are referring to, so I assumed it was the right movie. Thought it was weird that people wanted me to watch a Russian jazz club in the USSR. I don't know, but I gave it a shot. That's where we're at. Okay, that's it for the Super Chats right now. Please send more at the end, you know, send them in at any time, I'll read them at the end. You have a question for Tony or I, movie related or otherwise, maybe we'll, maybe we'll get saucy with it. I will say anything you want me to say within reason. Like you could literally just send money, be like, Tony, say, just give me a name of a friend of yours. And I'll say they suck, I can't say probably. Hey, I'm walking here. You can say that. Be like, $5, can Tony say I robbed the whatever store on this date? I will say it, I will say it. Tony, please incriminate himself and take the fall for me. Land on the sword. Okay, let's go to Tony's number five. So we have our number five spot for directors right now. Tony, the floor is yours. So yes, David Lynch. Everyone knows I'm a David Lynch guy. I put him on the list because he kind of got me to change the way I thought about like more artsy films because like in high school and whatnot, I thought they were all stupid. And then in college, you got to watch a lot of experimental stuff and I could never really jive with a lot of it. I thought it was all dumb. But a friend of mine in college introduced me to the show, Twin Peaks, which he directed the pilot of and you know, he was one of the creators of it. And it had enough of a story to grip me in and then it weaves in these kind of like weird, bizarre just mysteries and just weird otherworldly things. And I'm like, I kind of like this. So then I checked out a few of his other movies, like Eraserhead. Eraserhead is very bizarre. I don't understand a lot of it. It's very dreamlike. This is the first time I got into like surreal dreamlike films. But again, there's enough of a narrative to keep you going and not fully tune out, at least for me. And then after that, I got hooked. Like I watched The Elephant Man, which is a little bit more simpler because it's a true story, but Wild At Heart, I love. I know you reviewed that recently. I did, yeah. Again, again, weird shit in that movie, weird unexplained shit, but the plot is basically Wizard of Oz. So you can kind of follow along with it. And Nicholas Cage going full Elvis for most of it, which I did appreciate. Yeah. But then he has like real haunting scenes in his film. Like I don't know if you've seen, you've seen Mahalan Drive, right? I think you've worked out that too. Yeah, I just rewatched it and reviewed it on the channel, another bizarre Patreon request, of course, a couple of months back. And I have to say, I watched that back in high school and I thought nothing of it. I didn't really care for it. Upon rewatch, I enjoyed it way more the second time. I wouldn't be surprised if most of his movies worked that way. I could see watching Wild At Heart again and appreciating it a lot more. Yeah, so Mahalan Drive is an interesting one because it was going to be a Twin Peaks spin-off and it was filmed as a pilot for a show. So that's why I think there's a lot of weird random shit. I don't know if it'll ever be explained, but it probably would have been explored further. Sure. But you've got that scene where the two guys are at the diner and the guy's just talking about his dream and the vision he saw. And then he's like, OK, well, let's walk to the other thing and prove that it's not real. And then it is real. Stuff like that, I've never seen that in college and freezing up. I mean, I was not expecting that. But also, in that film, like I said, there's haunting imagery and whatnot. But then you have the wacky hitman who fucks up the hit and he keeps killing the wrong people. And it gets more and more like, is this a fucking comedy bit inside this weird? It's so bizarre. It's so surreal, the whole movie, the trip. Yeah, Blue Velvet is great. That one's a little bit more ground in the reality, but there's enough weird shit in it to keep your attention. And also, what's his face? Dennis Hopper is incredible as the villain in that. And then Lost Highway is another one where I don't technically know what's happening or what the point is, but I'm engaged the whole time. So yeah, he really got me to change the way I thought about surreal artsy stuff. And I attempted to do stuff like him in college to varying results. But yeah, now I just I really love his stuff. And he's just a very fascinating, interesting guy, too. He's a real fucking weirdo. I follow his YouTube channel. Where he just every day uploads a video telling you what the weather's like. He did a short film on Netflix called Oh God, what was it called? It was it was it was literally just him interviewing a monkey about a murder. As one does. As one. What did Jack do? And it's fucking hilarious. Like the monkey talks. It's so good. And like you said, he did do Dune, the original Dune movie. And he learned a lot from that movie. He learned to like get final edit on your film or else it's going to be chopped up garbage. Yeah, I I don't even like hate that Dune movie. It's just it's very old. It's very dated. The effect is tough. Fans have put together like all the deleted scenes and stuff and like restructured it like we cut it to how it should have been according to the original script. It's free on YouTube. I don't know how. But that cut exists. But yeah, he'll never return to do like a proper director's cut. I think like I said, it I think it reaches the, you know, whatever the limitations are after 40 or something years, it becomes almost like public property. So a lot of those really old movies you can actually just find on YouTube. I wonder birds are go a few days. It's great after YouTube. A lot of them sometimes I feel like these like whoever owns those films don't know about content ID on YouTube and they just don't put them in there. Yeah. And then like Twin Peaks Firewall could be the movie was really good. I didn't like it at first. Then I grew to like it. And I love a few years ago. They're like, hey, David Lynch, come back to do Twin Peaks. You get like 18 episodes or something. Just do whatever the fuck you want. And he just do whatever the fuck he wanted. That's awesome. And then he ended on a cliffhanger again. They were like, wait, you ended on a cliffhanger 25 years ago. And now you come back. Everyone, like a bunch of actors died as soon as he was done filming. So they'll never come back. And he ended the show on another cliffhanger. I'm like, bravo, bravo. Is that the, is Twin Peaks the one that's kind of, I guess, inspired, not inspired. Alan Wake was inspired by Twin Peaks. Is that, is that real? The video game? Probably a lot of it has been inspired. And like I said, Oh, speaking of Twin Peaks, not the plug, but the Tony Peaks shirt is back on the Retrowear store available for purchase. If you want me in the tiara, like Laura Palmer, it can be yours. Oh, that sounds amazing. But yeah, I like Lynch, his movies all have some kind of dark comedy to them. They're very haunting, but very engaging and entertaining. And I'm sure there's a bunch of people in the comments right now going, what a pretentious hack. Yeah, I put that comment in there. Yeah. No, no, David Lynch is fine. My number five pick is honestly, probably the lamest you could possibly get. So let's go to it. And that's James Cameron. I was very close to not having him on my list at all because I do not like Avatar 2 at all. And I already know what the next 30 years of James Cameron's career is gonna be. And spoiler, it's not for me based on Avatar 2. However, the man, the myth, the legend has given me, and I think many people here, some of the greatest movies, just full stop in the action genre sector. We have Aliens, the spiritual successor to Alien, took things in a different way. Not a spiritual successor, it's a legend sequel. What the fuck are you talking about? It's a spiritual successor. It's a sequel to Alien, you ask? Took things in a completely different direction, changed the myth, though. So I should say it made the myth, though, because in Alien, we don't really have anything to go off of really Scott's film. So Cameron really kind of crafted this world with the Xenomorphs, there's a name to the Aliens. There's the Queen that's produced in these eggs. We get a lot more of that. Plus we just have a bunch of badasses going around with big guns and Bill Paxton yelling game over, which I appreciate. RIP, of course, to Bill Paxton. Yes, of course. And then you have The Abyss, which I haven't seen this movie in a while, but I remember it being haunting and beautiful at the same time, especially in that second half. I'm sorry. Yeah, and then he ruined it with that dumb ending. He added that, the director's cut, they made the ending way too long, it was lame. I didn't see the director's cut. I tend to just go with what the theater provides because I'd say it's a 50-50 split on whether the director's cut's actually better. And sometimes they add so much bat. I just watched Tony, not to get too into the weeds, but we're a dumb and dumber family over here. Oh yeah. At some point, dumb and dumber was on Prime or something for free, and I didn't wanna go get it out of the DVD closet. So we put it on and the movie was way longer. It had such horrible pacing and there was all these extended scenes that weren't funny. And I realized I was watching some fucking director's cut of the Farley Brothers movie. Do they? They ruined it. Does that version have the thing where they cut to the kidnapped boyfriend? He has his own subplot? Yes. Yeah, blame. I've only ever heard about it. It's terrible. I've never actually watched it. And there's like, you know the scene when they're in the hot tub bath? They're at the motel for just a little bit. They're in the hot tub like sweet. The scene in the version I saw, the director's cut goes on for like five minutes. It's this whole backstory. It's really bizarre. You know what? It's funny you're mentioning director's cuts because yeah, his are very like, the Titanic director's cuts too long. Terminator 2 is way too long. The director's cut, there's only a few scenes. The only scene you need it from Aliens to be put back in is Ripley finding out her daughter died. The whole stuff with Newt's family getting caught, like attacked by the aliens. You don't need any of that. Yeah, I don't know why he like needlessly goes back and just pads out his film other than to sell copies of DVDs and Blu-rays. That's usually the name of the game. Yeah, I usually avoid director's cuts like The Plague. Anyway, the abyss. It depends on the movie. It depends, but again, I really only, Peter Jackson's director cut of The Lord of the Rings are about the only thing I'll actually revisit. True Lies, I feel like this out of all the Arnold movies is talked about the least and it's one that doesn't really get brought up that often and True Lies is freaking gold. This movie from beginning to end is like peak Arnold Schwarzenegger action film married with James Cameron's brilliant style of filmmaking, some hilarious moments. At some point it stops being a movie about a secret CIA agent and it starts turning into marital problems, the film, where he kidnaps Bill Paxton and starts interrogating his ass, it's so good. The little segue it does is really fun. I really enjoy True Lies and they haven't been able to recreate it. Like I said before, they made a TV show a few months back, died in like a month and then that horrible Netflix show, Foo Bar is basically True Lies, but what if his daughter found out he was a spy and I gave up three episodes in? I mean, it's called Foo Bar. But True Lies is solid. It's on point. I actually brought up True Lies recently. We were shitting on A Dial of Destiny and how horrible the horse chase scene was and I was just like, it just reminds me of better stuff. Like the horse chase in True Lies. Yeah, he goes through the hotel and the motorcycle takes the horse and jumps off the roof. The horse stops, kind of cop on you. Cause he wants to jump. So many good moments. I feel like 10 movies have copied the scene and maybe this isn't the original version to do it, but it's the one that I remember the most, where Arnold is given a truth serum drug and he's handcuffed and he's like, I'm going to kill you both. And the guy's like, well, how are you going to do that? He's like, because my handcuffs, I undid them or whatever. And then he kills them exactly how he said he was going to. That's been done in like five or six other things. I think Drew Barrymore did it the best in Charlie's Angels where she talked about how she was going to jump on that guy and that guy and the moonwalk out of the thing. Then she didn't really moonwalk. Um, but yeah, I like Cameron, but really that's what she didn't really move. Got to trot it backwards. It wasn't a movie about it was really. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, when it comes to Cameron, the only ones I really revisit are just aliens and Terminator one and two more one than two. I'm a bigger fan of one. I'll revisit true lies. If nothing more than to see Jamie Lee Curtis putting on that fantastic strip tease. If you can, I'm hoping they finally put it on like Blu-ray. I think they said he was finally going to get around to do it on Blu-ray. Really kind of an ass. Isn't he about releasing stuff? Speelman is like that too on some of his films. But I think he's also can we point out Prana to shouldn't be on there. He got fired a week into that movie. He didn't direct that movie. Yeah, I don't know. Because, you know, he was directed something. So they have to throw it in there and ruin it. And I know he's done documentaries. I think I watched one of them. Yeah, but yeah. Yeah, because he's really into the ocean exploration. The Ghosts of the Abyss, I think I watched. Yeah, Titanic. I loved all the technical side of it with the movie. I have a whole review on that too. I've actually reviewed pretty much all his movies. Yeah, Titanic. The story just drags so much. I'm in the same boat as you are. I hope it's not the Titanic. You know, I just watched the Futurama with my family where they're on the Space Titanic. Space Titanic. Oh, good. My kids hadn't seen Titanic yet. So half the joke, you know, like the whole joke was lost on them, but they still liked it. Speaking of boats, after this video that we're doing, I have to watch Speed 2 Cruise Control, which I think came out the same year. And if you ask me, much better. But yeah, Avatar, I didn't care for Avatar. Much better Speed 2 Cruise Control. Yeah, I didn't care for Avatar the first time I saw it. I was hyped up for it. And then I watched it and I went, OK, that was whatever. And then my friend forgot his credit card, so I had to pay for his ticket. And then my cousin wanted to see it a few weeks later. And she said she'd pay me back, and then she forgot. So I spent like $40, $60 on a movie that I didn't care for at all. And I didn't bother with the second one. I think it's on Disney Plus. Yeah, you don't need to bother with the second one. Terminator, you should, though, because Judgment Day is about as great as a sequel that you can possibly get. And it's one of the major reasons that really James Cameron only needs Terminator 2 and Aliens for me to be like, this is the guy. This is the guy. Yeah, Terminator 1 is just stunning. Terminator 1 is still my favorite. I feel like if it had the budget and the music from Terminator 2, it would be so much better. But I still really like the first Terminator. Terminator 1, though, has some badass music. I like the suit. It does, but the second one really just, the second one kind of tells sort of the same story with very few differences, but the production value's up. I'm like, man, I wish for Terminator 1 had this kind of production value. The foster parents are dead. They're dead. Yeah. All right, let's move on. We got to get through these. We have Tony's number four pick, John McTiernan. John McTiernan. Yes, John McTiernan is probably responsible for my love of the action genre. Quick note, Tony, this is the one that I almost swapped with James Cameron, but since you showed me your list ahead of time, I'm like, okay, we're covering some of these other people. There's another one on your list I almost put on mine. So we do have definite cross-pollination of lists. Yes. Yeah, I mean, he hasn't directed too many films. But the ones that he has, like Predator is my favorite action movie of all time. It's really good anytime. I love Predator. It's my favorite Arnold movie ever. And yeah, he just knows how to craft an action film. Yeah. Better than anyone else was doing at the time, as far as I'm concerned. Maybe James Cameron could give him a run for his money. But then you have Die Hard afterwards, which is even, which is so incredible. Die Hard is the best, man. It's just peak. Yes. And if anyone brings up the debate, please watch my short film I did last year where I turned it into a Christmas movie. Yeah, Die Hard- More of a Christmas movie. More of a Christmas movie than it already is. It already is a Christmas movie. And again, Predator takes itself very seriously, which is pretty funny. And I love here in his commentary track too, where he just points out like, I didn't realize, it took me years to realize how kind of self-aware it was in his comment. I was gonna push back on you because I don't feel like maybe it was accidental, but I always felt like it was kind of in on its own joke. And that was half of the talk. A little bit. Yeah. These guys were growing around, they're the best of the best, cocky, and then they just immediately get eviscerated by this threat. It doesn't have as much wit as his later movies does, though. But no, it is self-aware to a point. Like, I love his commentary track, where he's talking about like the minigun. And even he was pointing out, there's absolutely no reason anyone would have this in the jungle. It's heavy, it runs out of, it's meant to be mounted to things. You're not supposed to carry that gun. But yeah, Die Hard is phenomenal. There was plenty of twists and turns. Anytime I think of Predator, I always reminisce about every single person that incorrectly inflects how Jesse Ventura says, I ain't got time to bleed. Cause every time I'm around someone, they're like, I ain't got time to bleed. Like, what is this saying? Like that he's like super cash. He's like, I ain't got time to bleed. I ain't got time to bleed. Yeah, he's just, I ain't got time to bleed, Adam. I was the governor of Minnesota. My old stomping grounds. Thank you for voting for me, Adam. I don't think I was old enough to vote at the time. You know, at some point, I was old enough to see Die Hard though. And speaking of Jesse Ventura and Terminator, me and you should talk about a Braxess one day, his Terminator ripoff he did. I don't know what that is, but now I'm interested. We're gonna have fun with that. Yeah, so Die Hard, again, like he knows how to do the explosions and everything, keep you engaged with the somewhat ridiculous premise. I love how he kind of saved Predator a little bit. Like I learned a lot. Again, I like directors that I learned from. And even he, when they were making the movie, was like, this monster is not working. This monster is garbage. Like as soon as they pulled it out of the box and he saw the suit, he's like, this is terrible. We have to start over with this monster. Film anything that doesn't have the monster and let's start over. And that was like the best decision ever. Yeah, well, it's the Jaws approach, right? You keep getting in. Yes, which was always the intention, but eventually it had to be revealed and the original monster looked terrible. And then you have, Hunt for Red October is really good. Out of all the Jack Ryan movies I've seen, I haven't seen the new show. I think Hunt for Red, I know it's the first one, but I think that's the best one. Is that one with the mutiny? I always, there's like four submarine movies and I always, there's like Crimson Tide and taking of- There's like K-19. No, that's the one where there's like, the Russians develop like a, an ultra silent sub. And Sean Connery kind of goes AWOL with it and they're trying to Hunt for Red October, this sub. So- It's in the name, yeah, okay. Yeah. And then Jack Ryan has to like investigate. And then of course, I have a full review coming out for this, Die Hard with the Vengeance. He came back after that second one was just kind of meth. And he completely- By Remy, by Remy someone. Rene Harlin. Rene Harlin, yeah. Who did Long Kiss Good Night, which is an awesome movie. Now it's so funny because like, so with Die Hard, he kind of created this whole genre. It may be it existed before, but Die Hard- Die Hard, yeah. Like popularized it. Kind of like Halloween's not the first slasher to want to popularize it. And then for like- It did for action movies what John Wick has done for them in this generation. Yeah. Well, yeah. And that's the thing. So every other like the sequel to Die Hard and then all these other movies were just Die Hard on this, Die Hard on that. So he comes back with Die Hard with the Vengeance and he, the whole formula is completely changed. Well, you know why Tony? It's not a Die Hard formula. That's why it's a lethal weapon formula. No, no, no, no, that's a misunderstanding. That's a misunderstanding. But no, actually every single Die Hard movie besides five started off with something different. Hang on. I thought I read that it was a repurpose of lethal weapons. No, I read that too, but that is not true. The writer made a script. Yes, that is false. It's also with the speed two thing. Speed two started off as Die Hard three. I've been peddling this misinformation ever since- Dude, it's not your fault. It's like everywhere, but like I knew the, this like rumor like started, must have started in the last few years. No, I read this like, I read this in a magazine on like entertainment, whatever it was called, way back when I was in, when this movie came out, it wasn't much longer that I heard this rumor, I guess. But maybe he got this reported because like he made a script called Simon Says that was turned into this. But anyway, Die Hard three, Die Hard with the Vengeance, like he just outdid himself with that one. He completely like reinvented his own formula. Yeah, and then Last Action Hero is where I kind of learned that like it helped me along with another director on this list to like understand parody and pointing out, like he kind of makes fun of his movies in Last Action Hero. Whether you like the movie or not, I understand. I never really cared for that movie. And I really tried because I love satirical humor. I love parody naked gun is one of my favorite comedies. Hot Shots is up there. I just felt like Last Action Hero was missing something. I don't know what it is, maybe humor. Maybe that's what was missing. I didn't find any of it very funny. I did like how it kind of just, he was kind of make a fun of himself and like the whole genre that he was like participating in. Yeah, after Die Hard three, he gets a little sketchy. The Thomas Crown affair, Remake's not that good. People like 13th Warrior, but yeah. Well, let's not scan over Rollerball. I mean, what do you do? I did like Medicine Man back in the day. I need to revisit that. Yeah, Rollerball, the movie where he didn't like the producer and then got an investigator to wiretap him, which led to John McTiernan going to jail for a year, being sued by everyone, because apparently he was wiretapping a lot of people. Wow, okay, it's full Nixon. Great action film director, not good at getting away with wiretappings. You gotta get away with it. You gotta get away with it. But yeah, he kind of birthed my love of the action genre, the over-the-top guns blazing explosion action genre. Without him, I don't know. I don't even know what kind of movies I'd be watching. You're nothing without him. Probably dumb Disney stuff. I don't know. I don't know. Be one of those guys who watches Disney and Harry Potter. A real loser, we call them now. I would say a flexible, kind of well-rounded, well-adjusted individual who doesn't really need. That loser, loser. Well, I think the real alpha male is one that's comfortable with his skin and his taste in films. Speaking of alpha males, let's talk about Quintin Tarantino. Tony and I were debating if it's Quintin or Quintin. It says Q-U-E, so I don't know. I guess I always said Quintin. By the way, Adam, I get it. You have a foot fetish. I know you're trying to sneakily work it in there, but I get it. I like feet. I'm a simple man. I'm a simple man. I'm a simple man. I think that he just has seven screens playing the Barbie teaser up at all times. Margot Robbie's feet going across. He's like, I had her. I had her and once upon a time, what was I thinking? What was I thinking? The sad thing is, there's a bunch of directors that I love who I've not seen their most recent movies. I still haven't watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It's a long movie. It's a very long movie. Yeah, so is Hate Belate. I went to his 70-millimeter road show presentation of that, and like that movie did not need to be long. You didn't like that movie? No, I liked it. It just didn't need to be that long. It's very long. Yeah, so it's a stage play, right? That's he presents it like a stage play with different acts and they go long. Probably with Modern Tarantino, I feel his editor dying, I think, hurt him a little bit. Like the editing of his. I don't know where he had an editor. I thought he always had one. Yeah, he had a female editor, Sally Mank, edited all of his films. I think up until Inglourious Basterds, and then she like fell down a hill in California and like died. She was with her dog. I think the dog made it. She fell down the hill and died. She died like a horrible death. But yeah. Can we save the feet? Can we salvage the feet? But then afterwards, like Django, which I liked. Hate Belate, I liked. Yeah, but there was something off about, I think Django, she didn't do either way. Hey, Belate, there was something up with his editing, but I love his filmography before that. Yeah. Reservoir Dogs is a classic. I have a bunch of reservoir dog figures just off camera. Whole fiction obviously is like the gas standard for him. It made it made having a pointless conversations cool. I don't know how, but I guess when you put Samuel Jackson in the room, everything kind of gets a little cooler at the end of the day. Or a bunch of ripoffs of that as well. Yes, there were. I always like Reservoir Dogs more than Pulp Fiction. I like Pulp Fiction, but not as much as Reservoir Dogs. What's your favorite, by the way, once upon a time in Hollywood, that's definitely the weakest for me as far as this catalog goes. Actually, maybe I did it like, I'd take it back. I'd say, death proof is his worst because it's really nothing for 90% of it, and then a car chase with his stunt girl. I'd say, death proof, then Jackie Brown is my second least favorite. Then I would throw Hollywood up there third. Kill Bill will be in my favorite. Kill Bill 1 and 2. I know a lot of people don't like 2, but if you look at them as one movie, I really enjoy both. I need to rewatch too, because I've had like a massive chip on my shoulder about the ending of that movie for so long. I need to kind of like somehow get over it, I guess, and call my feelings because I love volume one. And two is 80% there for me, but the whole bullshit black and white Superman monologue with the nipple twist to kill him just did not work. I, have they released, because I remember when I, when Kill Bill came out, I was in high school and I got super into it. A good thing about Quentin Tarantino is he will get you interested in all the films he's referencing and kind of inspired by it. So I went down a rabbit hole of like Kung Fu action movies and stuff. I went to a convention and I tried to get like the Japanese release of Kill Bill where the big bloody scene was in color. So like I was like one of the guys at high school in like college who had the full color fight scene. I don't know if they've ever released that in America, not black and white. I have to check that out. But yeah, I love that whole, I just love Kill Bill. I think it's a really good story. It's well crafted. I like the non-linearness of it. I do too. Yeah, I do too. Some people are not a big fan of the non-linear stuff. I really like it when it's done well. Well, that's why he's on my list. Just because all of his movies, he doesn't have a ton either but they're all very different from the next. He goes out of his way to hit up different genres and to like challenge himself, which a lot of directors don't do. They tend to rest on their, oh, Jesus. They almost knocked my ear off, Tony. Oh no. This corded headset. Wait, wait. You almost ripped your ear off like, hold on. Oh God. Oh God. Like the cop in Reservoir Dogs who got his ears off. Oh, we brought it in. We brought it together. By the way, I just knocked over Michael Madsen and like a bunch of other stuff doing that. I forgot. It comes with like a set and I forgot his feet were like peg to the board. So I just knocked a bunch of shit over. Dancing around it with the blade. What's the song again? Stuck in the middle with you. Stuck in the middle with you. I feel like he was also, I know he wasn't, but that's the first movie that stands out to me to use an unconventional song for a torture type sequence. That one jumps off. A lot of people, a lot of movies do that now where they'll use some like random fucking, you know, Disney type song. It's a little horrific thing. I learned a lot from Mr. Pink in that movie, like always hide until everyone kills each other and then just run away. That's just smart. That's just smart. Just look out for yourself. Just look out for yourself. And I've definitely. Okay, Tony, this next pic on your list was almost in my five spot. The reason it's not is because I've only seen four of these films, but I love them. Yes. Go ahead, you have the floor. I love Stanley Kubrick. As a kid I watched The Shining a lot. And I really like, again, you know, classic kids film The Shining. I thought it was really good at picking movies for me to watch. Yeah, I watched The Shining. And then one day I stumbled on a documentary about him. Because I thought The Shining was on. And I realized I was watching a documentary. And it's called Stanley Kubrick's Life in Pictures, I think. And I just, for some reason, watched the entire thing. And I fell in love with the guys, like whole life story and all his films and the behind the scenes of his films. And yeah, he was a very fascinating director. He didn't direct many movies, if you think about it. But he directed the hell out of the ones he did. He directed the hell out of them. He was very, kind of like Christopher Nolan. He really pushed the boundaries of filmmaking. Right. He was like 2001 at Space Odyssey. A lot of those miniatures and stuff still hold up to this day. They look beautiful. Well, and I would say kind of like Tarantino, he really went in different branching paths to this film. So he tried totally different movies. He's got a sci-fi film, and then he goes to this horror psychological thriller. And I don't even know what the hell you call Clockwork Orange. That movie is just... Yes. He really knows how to like get under the audience's skin and make them very uncomfortable. Throughout all this, we're like The Shining, you know, like a crazy alcoholic dad, wanting to murder your family. Clockwork Orange, you have like a crime-ridden post-apocalypse, not post-apocalypse, but like a dystopian future. Plus... Well, yeah. And then the rehabilitation of a psychotic... Which is actually my favorite. A lot of people like all the beginning stuff in Clockwork Orange. That movie kind of picks up for me, like during the rehabilitation. And then they reintroduce them back into society. That's like my most interesting thing. I really, that's the stuff I like too. I didn't realize it was hated. I thought that was kind of immediate, fascinating. Yeah, Full Metal Jacket is incredible. I love it. It's an epic film. That's another one where people really like the beginning more than the later half, but I'm just like, nah, I kind of like all of it. I can see it with that, just because it's more focused on the training and all the military-based stuff. I never saw, this is sad to say, but I never saw Doctor Strange Love, which I know is kind of like Kubrick for a lot of people. It is... Doctor Strange Love is hilarious. Frickin' Peter Sellers in that movie is spot-on. George C. Scott, one of my favorite actors, spot-on. You get a young James Earl Jones in there. It was just having a lot of fun with all the Cold War hysteria at the time. Would you say full stop if I were to watch it today? I think it does. Honestly, like there's... So like basically one of the guys goes rogue. He's like headed, I think, to Russia with a bomb. And there's a part where like in the war room, the American guy is like calling someone and trying to explain what's happened and the guy's like freaking out. And he's like, look, yeah, so one of our guys, he went a little funny in the head. And he's trying to have a conversation. Then there's a part where they're arguing. I think that's the line where they're like, guys, there's no fighting in the war room. And then I think he's like... Yeah, and then there's like... There's no fighting in the war room. There's a character who's like obviously an ex-Nazi. Yeah, Dr. Strange love the titular character. He's like a former Nazi. So it's part of that project paperclip. It's just a fun comedy. And none of his other movies were ever really that funny again. His last film, I Love Eyes Wide Shut. I didn't see that either. Well, again, like with his, him pushing the boundaries of filming. There was this big party in the beginning of the film. And he had the cameras and the film stock like customates so he could use natural lighting with all these candles and stuff. So yeah, Nolan, he really pushed what you could do with cameras and whatnot. And yeah, he pretty much has a lot of really good films. I've only seen Paths of Glory and his other stuff a few times. I've seen Sparta, I guess, my grandfather was real into those historical epics. But now 2001, Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. Full Metal Jacket are my favorite. Nice. They're just really good visuals that tell a really good story. And I think he wrote most of them too. I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, it just, it seemed like it's with just the style of these films and how they flow. And I would say, check out the document. There's two documentaries on him, but I think Life in Pictures is like, check that out. Cause he was a real fascinating guy. Fantastic. Let's go to my, you mentioned him quite a bit. So let's just, let's just roll out the carpet for him. Christopher Nolan himself. He's been behind Oppenheimer. This guy, I almost put him on the list, but I didn't want to seem biased cause I have worked with the man. You've worked with him, of course, as everyone knows. Everyone knows. Incredibly famous. He was in The Dark Knight Rises, what most people herald, not only the best Batman film, but the best of Christopher Nolan's works. And I agree with that. I agree with that. But I didn't want to pick him because it was obviously biased. But yes, he is very, very good. You know, there's only one movie on this list that I haven't seen and I heard it's good. And that's Insomnia with Robin Williams. Have you seen Insomnia? Yes, not for a long time. I actually still have the VHS tape of it. I want to pop it in soon. But yeah, I think it's actually a remake. I didn't even know he did Insomnia until just recently. Did that come out post-memento, but pre the prestige or where does that? Yes, I think it was post-memento and like right before Batman begins. I remember at the time, like even as like when I was like, when I was like 12 or something when it came out, I remember like, cause I was into those kind of like traumas investigating murders and stuff, like seven sounds of the lambs. I remember it had a really cool visual style. Okay. And it really stuck out to me. So I remember hearing when he was going to do Batman, I'm like, oh, you know what, that seems like it could be good. But yeah, Insomnia is good. Following his original film is really good from college. I think it was like when he was out of college. That's a good time. But yeah, you usually don't go wrong with him until recently. I don't know how you feel about him recently. Well, what do you mean, Oppenheimer or Tenet? Well, not Oppenheimer, he won me back. Dunkirk, I was a little let down and I never felt the need to re-watch and Tenet I just straight up didn't like. So you'll notice I have a five star rating on Dunkirk. I love that film. I thought. Really? You know what blew me away more than anything. When the movie was done, I found out it was PG-13. I don't think another director has made me feel so much tension and so much like shock and awe for a movie that's PG-13. I could have swore it was R. I thought there was carnage and stuff everywhere, but there really isn't. I saw it a second time. I took my grandpa who was I think in his 80s at the time. He's still kicking at 96 years old. Amazing man. But I think that's half of it for me was that second experience with my grandpa who has lived through a lot of shit of course at 96, but just his visceral reaction to everything going on and taking in all the scenes and it was just an incredible experience. And the way Nolan plays with sound for better and worse for some people, I think is just on a whole other level. Yes, there's some audio issues with people talking, which I've never had. I think people just have shitty hearing. That's what I'm getting into, Tony. I think that's the tension. I don't remember. I reviewed Tenet on my Patreon when it hit streaming. I'd have to re-watch my review to see if I had an issue with the volume. I don't think I did. I heard all the numbers the same, but I had no issue. I had no problem. Yeah, no problem with that. I remember going to Mission Impossible 4 to see the beginning of Dark Knight Rises and I remember people complaining about Bane's voice, but I thought it... I remember... This voice is so good. My memory of... Because they changed it afterwards. That's why he sounds a little weird in that movie, like no matter where he is in the room, it sounds like he's right in your face. I think because they got freaked out by that preview and everyone complaining they couldn't hear him, but maybe because I saw it in an act. No. Part of me at this point, I'm so cynical at this point that I feel like it might be a marketing tactic. They just use every time with Christopher Nolan, but he fixed the audio. There's a new version, so then they go out and see it again. No, their favorite marketing thing with Christopher Nolan is he doesn't use CG, and it's like a bullshit. He uses a ton of CG. Just because he doesn't use as much as a Marvel movie doesn't mean he's not using CG. Wait, are you telling me they practically bent all those buildings over themselves in Inception or they actually shot a lot of the film in space and then made a graphic bookshelf? He uses CGI better than most modern filmmakers, but I don't know why they play up this whole angle that he's not using CGI. It's like, no, you can pretend he's, you can just say he's using it. Well, he doesn't pretend he doesn't use it at all. Yeah, I would just say he uses it when it's appropriate. He's just good at visually using what he can at his disposal. Yeah, and I like that he kind of, I like that he kind of tells these, he's good at blending this kind of sophisticated story and then mixing it with big budget blockbuster schlock and kind of making it work. Yes. Yeah, he tricks you into thinking that the movie's smarter than it is and dialogues typically witty enough where you're fooling yourself at that point. Although Dark Knight Rises was a little too dumb in the plot department for me, although I still enjoy that movie plenty. I think he gets really good performances out of his actors. Tenet, I will pretend you didn't just say that. I'll cut you deep there. I'll cut you deep there. Tenet, I will agree is his weakest film and that wasn't that long ago, but I did watch Tenet twice. I don't know why I did. And the second time I liked it quite a bit more when the pieces started to make sense. You talked about nonlinear storytelling. Christopher Nolan's the master of nonlinear storytelling. Sometimes he gets it a little wrong and he goes a little too out there and Tenet was definitely one of those movies. Well, I remember after like his Batman movies and Prestige, I went back and watched Memento and I couldn't believe how good it was. I'm like, this movie is, I've never seen a movie like this before. This is great. I really got into Memento after that. I enjoyed the Prestige. I do think- I love the Prestige. I think some of the sci-fi stuff and just, I don't know. I know it's hinted at very early on, but I feel like the first time I saw it, I'm like, wait, he could just clone? I'm like, wait, but it clones also the clothes and everything else are- I'm like, what are the limits to this cloning? It just really, it may be like really fake. Cloning all the atoms and particles that go through the thing, Tony. You don't even understand science. Why wouldn't you just like keep cloning yourself and taking over the world? Like what the- That's what's so, that's why I love the film. The fact that the trick itself is so stupidly simple because it's just two guys that look identical, go through two different doors. And the fact that Hugh Jackman's character is so obsessed with this guy and how he did the trick that he completely creates this amazing new technology, the sci-fi wonder, and he doesn't give a fuck about it. All he wants to do is get the damn trick performed. And I thought- It's like, you could just get money and clone the money and food. You could clone food, like- He doesn't care. He could end world hunger. He's so obsessed. And there's tons of little winks to the audience ahead of time, how they talk about the old woman who's got the fishbowl between her legs. And it's all performance art. And Christian Bale says something like, you have to be 100% dedicated to your craft at all times. He was actually referring to himself. But yeah, I love the movie. It's my favorite Christopher Nolan film, Hands Down. It has been a minute since I've seen it, but yes, I really like it. And again, me being a big Batman fan, I like what he did with the Batman mythology. How he kind of set it in a real world, but it wasn't super realistic because none of that shit could happen. But also he kind of like infused his love of like the James Bond movies into it and kind of made it his own thing, which I really appreciate it. Yeah, I just, I mean, I look at his list and most of these movies, not most, but I'd say 50% of these movies I have a five-star ratings in- Dude, I love Interstellar. What about you? Interstellar is so good. I think that that is a underrated film by the community of Nolan fans. Cause I think- I disappointed myself and I actually brought this up. I do a podcast with a friend of mine called Here's What I Don't Get. And I think I brought in one of the things that upsets me is like, when I accurately predict a twist, like early on in the movie. Yes, I did it too. I did it too. And then I don't get to be surprised, but I still really enjoy Interstellar, but I would have liked to have been like, oh, instead of like, oh no, I know what's happening. I know. Your time about when he communicated with himself at the beginning, I'm like, nah, I got it. I said it right away too. I'm like, it's him, it's him. Because you know, Christopher Nolan, and that kind of hurts it too. That happened to me with Shutter Island and that's one movie I couldn't get past, the fact that I used the twist right away. It didn't have enough other things working for it, where I mean, that movie really was built upon the twist reveal. Whereas I think Interstellar just has enough interesting stuff going on, regardless, that was just the chair. Yeah, it didn't seem like the movie existed for a twist, really. Right, M.I. Chameleon film. Yeah, the twist was just something. By the way, speaking of directors I love, who I haven't watched any of their shit in years, Scorsese, the last thing I saw of his was Hugo. I didn't even see Wolf of Wall Street or any of the Irishman. Scorsese has a lot of good stuff, but it really is kind of just, that's a director I would say that really has one molding that he likes to fit in. You know? It's always the mob boss type of, and he's easy to fit in. Not always, he does do a lot of mobs, but he's, I know we're on a tangent about Scorsese, I just wanted to say it briefly, like he has made movies that I love, the part, the aviator I love. Yeah, I am a screen aviator, so I guess. Yeah, he's made a bunch of movies I really, really enjoy, but yeah, for whatever reason he didn't make them list and for whatever reason, I haven't been watching his new shit. I should get to that at some point. Well, let's get to your next one on the list first. And that is, are you liking these segues I'm attempting? We have Mel Brooks, comedy legend, Mel Brooks. This is a great pick. Yes, Young Frankenstein is my favorite comedy of all time. But like, he really introduced me to my love of parody and making fun of something you love, which I ended up doing multiple times throughout my life. I, like I said, I had a, my senior thesis is like a parody of like those feel-good like dramas and whatnot of overcoming obstacles. We're pointing out how dumb they really are. Yeah, I love how he parodies stuff and like the little jokes that he puts in. How much do you hate those hacks that basically ruined the entire parody, you know, the nod, the nod another, whatever the disaster. Yeah, scary movie, not another team movie. A few of them are like the first scary movie was fine. Yeah, the first one. And I feel bad cause like airplanes great and the airplane guys ended up doing some of those movies and they sucked. Yeah, but airplane two sucked. Airplane two sucked. Which, what's the one they do with Val Kilmer years ago? Top secret is really good. But you're right, that 2000s era of like epic movie, superhero movie, because a lot of times, they were looking at like movies that were coming out and then just parroting scenes from the trailer. Like, I'm like, hey, look, it's Iron Man and Superman. It's like, yeah. It became the really bad family guy observational humor show. And I like family guy, but it's like the worst family guy where it's just- Yeah, those I hate. It's basically, yeah. But yeah, no, movies like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein and Spaceballs too. That was just so good. Blazing Saddles is- Remember when they tried to cancel that one on online years back? They only, they've been trying to cancel that movie. They just found out about it. Adam, they've been trying to cancel that movie since it came out. What are you talking about? That's true. Back in the day, they weren't even mad about the Edward stuff. I think people were mad about the farting in the movie. I declare. Yeah. No, Blazing Saddles is great. There's so many lines of dialogue that like, do you have to think about them for a second? Is Gene Wilder, do you have a cameo on that? No, Gene Wilder is a main character in it. He's the guy, he's the sharpshooter, but he has like the shaky hand. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I said, it's been like 15 years since you've seen that. I love what he's just like, look at my hand and he's like steady as a rock. He's like, yeah, but I shoot with this one. What are my, what are my, what are my favorite jokes is when they think Bart's dead and he comes back and they were like, they said you was hung. And he goes, yeah, and they were right too. And as a kid, I didn't get that right away. Now like, oh, wait a stick. But no, young Frankenstein, I've seen that movie like six million times. It's a class, it's a class. Mel Brooks is another, Ian Leslie Nielsen to me are just kings of deadpan comedy and their timing and delivery is second to none. You have, that's so funny that this is on here. Dracula dead and loving it. I've been watching that. That's one to be right now. And I've been watching it so much. That's the last one he's directed. It's so weird. She will become one herself. Yeah, he's also a good actor. I like him when he acts in the movies too. The shorts. High anxiety and silent movie I need to rewatch. The original producers I need to rewatch. Robin knows. I love history of the world part one. And then I saw a trailer for the Hulu series for part two. And I went, no, no. I saw Josh Gad who Camille Nanjiani and I went, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's a hard pass. Hard pass. Josh Gad is the male version of Aquafina to me. I don't get the appeal. I'll never get the appeal. Robin Hood men in tights. That's a good one. Yeah. And like I said, he really knows how to take a movie as a framework and point out some of the ridiculous stuff in that movie. But he also loves to throw in a lot of his little jokes. Like the, you actually did a voice role in it about someone else we're going to talk about. But the Halloween parody I did, the Halloween of five minutes. I probably wouldn't have done that if I like didn't know Melbro. Like I was like, I'm going to take something I love and point out like some of the ridiculous stuff in it and just have fun with it and add little gags here and there. Like there's little stuff. Like usually jokes have like a setup and payoff, but he's going to just throwing random shit in like walk this way. But he's like, hey, walk this way. And then he walks with the cane and then Gene Wilder also walks with the cane and realizes he didn't have to do that. There's shit like that. Like that you wouldn't really think of. His movies get funnier the more you think about them. I was thinking of my favorite scene in Spaceballs, which I think it's close to the end where they're at the bar and the guy just starts convulsing cause he ate something bad and the creature rips out of his chest. And it does the frog song. I love my heart. By the way, same actor. That was also John Hurt from Alien. They brought him back. No way. That's awesome. That's why he looks and goes, oh, not again. It's the same actor. I haven't seen it in a long time. I just, they're kind of coming back to me. But you idiots, you captured their stunt double. Oh my God. Yeah. Well, yeah. Dark Helmet or whatever with Uranus is gold. And you got, of course, John Candy in there. That old movie is just a fun watch. It's funny though that you're watching Dracula dead and loving it. Cause I legit for the longest time thought I was the only person that knew of that movie. It seemed like it kind of came and went for Mel Brooks. It didn't get much to steal. That's his last movie. It's the last movie directed. He produces a lot of stuff. He actually produces, he actually produced some David. He actually got David Lynch's start with elephant man and whatnot. But yeah, no track. When Leslie Nielsen is having, trying to give commands to the two women in the room that he's done the shine there too, whatever he calls it. You move that over there. No, not you. It's just like a hoosun first type joke. Really good. And at that time, like when I was a kid, I watched the Gary Oldman Dracula. So I loved in the beginning where he had the hair, but then it turns out it's like a wig that he takes off. Yeah. Mel Brooks, like my favorite comedic director of all time. Great thing. Yes. I've parodyed many things because of him. I was actually looking for, you know, comedy directors and I don't know how Mel Brooks did not jump right out. I was looking at like Ben Stiller directed movies cause he did Zoolander and Tropic Thunder and you know, some of those, but he didn't have as much as I thought. And that's kind of how it kept going. Like literally, the web series I did mummy cop years ago was like a police procedural. I mean, with mummies and vampires and stuff. And I was just pretty much making fun of the police procedural drama. Yeah. The water wars series that I did with my buddies was also parodying a lot of action films and the over the top. So yeah, we get it, we get it. All right, let's take the temperature down and go zero laughs, full stop with David Fincher. Oh, yes, alien three. Alien three. A lot of laugh to be found in that film. A lot of laugh to be found. Alien three, we don't count that as a David Fincher film. He doesn't acknowledge it as a movie that he did. So neither will I, but I'm counting it because it's the movie that introduced me to him and I fell in love with his work. So I'm counting it. I will say out of everything on this list it might be better than Benjamin Budden. I don't care for Benjamin Budden. That's the only one that. I don't. Have you ever watched the show, the league, the FX series, the line? I know what your tie is like the football, the football show or a comedy. Yeah. Yeah, I know what it is. I haven't watched it. The one episode they talked about how I think they hid like a sex, like they did like a home sex video and they hid it in the Benjamin Budden case and they're like, because I know no one would ever look there. And they're like, and they go, and they go, who has three hours for that shit? But then like one of the characters is an asshole and actually watches. That's awesome. Like I hid in the Benjamin Budden because absolutely no one will ever watch it. That's great. Yeah, I wish I liked it. I'll watch pretty much everything else on this list. It is solid. I wish I liked him as much as other people, but really after Zodiac, I kind of like fell out of love with his stuff. How good is Zodiac though? That movie. Zodiac is great. Oh my gosh. And upon rewatches, it just gets better. It's like a fine wine. Yes. The panic room, I think, the panic room to me is such a fascinating one because the premise is so basic. Yeah. A mother and daughter get locked in a panic room. There's a couple of killers, Jared Leto's in the mix, one of one of Fincher's boys for some reason. And the whole movie is basically just a celebration of how freaking good Fincher is with the camera because that thing is whizzing all over this house. I just rewatched it for like a fifth time and it still blows me away how good it is. And it's another movie like Nolan where you think, oh, he's using practical effects. No, he's not. No. He's putting CG railings in and he's putting the camera through them. It's really good. The good thing about Fincher though, I don't think he pretends that he isn't doing that. Like he'll show you how he does all of that shit. Yeah, he puts it all out there, it's really good. But yeah, like I'm looking at it. Like, yeah, I like the game. I remember watching the game as a kid and thinking it was cool. You should rewatch the game if you just like it. I love the game. The game, Patek Room was great, Zodiac was great, Seven Phenomenal. Seven's like top of the line, top tier thriller, kind of has a blend of horror in there. I know. Starring Kevin Spacey's, you know. Innocent man, Kevin Spacey. Just illegally, he's an innocent man. If you say otherwise, that's defamation. So make sure you say a ledge. So what were you saying about innocent man, Kevin Spacey, Adam? No, I was just saying that Kevin Spacey has creepy vibes to him already. He does? Yeah, so it kind of works in his favor in this film. When I saw Seven originally, I had no idea who the actor was and he was very off-putting. And now that I know who he is, he's very, very off-putting and it makes it even better. But yeah, Seven is, is peak Snyder, right up there, oh, I'm sorry, Fincher. I know your thing. You must have Zack Snyder in your top spot, right? No, I assumed you were bringing him in. Oh, well, this is awkward. Well, this is awkward. Well, this was not official. Fight Club is good, but it kind of got ruined by film bros liking it a little too much. Yeah, I know. And it has a bad reputation now. That's like the red pill community trying to take the matrix from me. Don't say you're red-pilled. Come on, fuck you. And the worst part of that is that that last Matrix movie tried to like fight back and instead they just made a shit movie. I didn't like girl with the dragon. We don't talk about the fourth Matrix. I didn't like girl with the dragon tattoo because as it was coming out, like a whole trilogy had just been finished like a year before. Yeah. And I'm like, why is he remaking a movie? That why not just re-release that movie? Fincher, that was a European movie, Tony. We don't count those. We don't count foreign film. I thought that was a waste of time. Social network didn't care about. What? Social networks, like that's top tier. Everybody wants social network. You're the only guy I know that doesn't like social network. I hate it. I just want you to. You just said, you don't like it. You just said it. I quote, I hate social network. Market. I hate social network. Yeah. And then I never saw gone girl. Yeah. Was that his last one? What else has he done? Yeah. So he's one of those assholes, Tony, that started doing the whole producing side of things. And he did that. Was it Manhunter? He did some show on Netflix. Oh, he did it. He did a few. Didn't he? He like started House of Cards. Yeah, he's going to produce House of Cards. And I think he directed the first episodes. He did the JJ Abrams thing with Lost, where he kind of like the ball rolling. Oh, he produced. He produced the. They made a Girl with the Dragon tattoo movie like a few years ago and no one fucking saw it. Or they made a sequel and I think he produced it. Yeah, I think he was different actors, though. Yeah, it was all different actors. Yeah. That's so like why again, they literally just made a trilogy that didn't need to be made. He also did some music videos, too. That's kind of where you got to start. That's where I started. Yeah, that's where I started. I did not see. What is that, Manhk? I didn't see Manhk. That was a Netflix movie and Netflix movies are notoriously trash. So I just I didn't want to tarnish David Fincher's good name by watching it. But yeah, no, I I loved the House of Cards and then they, you know, vision like from a cinema talk from a cinematic standpoint, I think Fincher is amongst the greatest hit. Like the looks of his films are so polished, so well executed, a panic room, the game, Fight Club 7, Zodiac, social network. He's got six gold stars for me. Yes, I just I can't complain. He's giving me some really good gems. Let's I really like him. He's another one I wish he puts up the doubt that I could really enjoy again. But yeah, that and that's that's the tough part is he really had like Christopher Nolan keeps going up in my head canon as far as directors, whereas Fincher is starting to kind of lose me is not directing anymore like he used to. And Cameron, you know, he's lost in Na'Vi Planet. So yeah. Yeah. OK, Tony, your number one. Yes, is the horror director, I would say, more than anything else. Not just hard. He does a lot of action, too. Well, he's he's he's known for his big shoe. Yes. I love John Carpenter with every fiber of my being. His films, his music, his bitterness toward Hollywood and life is really all the favors. His self deprecating stuff, like when he talks about how Halloween two sucks and he wrote it when he was drunk and he didn't care about it, which is funny, because people were like, Halloween two was great. And then you have John Carpenter going, yeah, but he sucked. I shouldn't have did it, but I just did. I don't really care. Oh, no, I love John Carpenter. It like he I I'm looking at his filmography. I actually did a video last year. We went through his whole filmography. There's very few movies of his that I don't like. But no, even like Dark Star. Dark Star was the film he made right out of college. It's actually the origin of Alien because Dan O'Ban and the writer of Alien is in it and there's a subplot about an alien that gets out on the ship. Now, it's a beach ball. It's literally a beach ball with things glued to it. It's very low budget. I actually like some of his movies more than he likes them because they'll be like, yeah, Dark Star was that good. I'm like, fuck you, that movie's great. Um, Halloween, probably one of the most important movies I watch as a kid. Yeah, it still holds up very well. Yeah. The thing is my favorite top 10 for me as far as the thing is probably in general, the thing is probably his greatest film ever. I loved his movie with Kurt Russell Elvis as a really good Elvis biopic, Kurt Russell, because he kind of like depicts Elvis as kind of like a weirdo, whereas I don't think other people were doing it at that point. Where's Elvis? Oh, there it is. Way at the bottom. Yeah. Yeah. We were talking about this, how, you know, directors have their boys and that's what I was alluding to you. Kurt Russell is definitely is definitely Carpenter's boy. Yeah. Now you got the fog. Some producer got in there and made them add more gore to it. But that movie still really holds up. That movie used to really creep me out as a kid. Yeah. It's a decent film. Yeah. That's the one that ends at the lighthouse, right? Where they're trying to get that. Yeah. OK. It's been a while. Both escape movies, I love. Fuck everyone. Escape from New York is great. It's phenomenal. And I love that escape from LA. Oh, that escape from LA is just a remake, but done really stupid. And I applauded for that. I have to agree. I I watched Escape from New York back in college. I didn't care for it. I thought it did not hold up at all. It's really dark. Didn't really have the humor or anything. It was just this kind of drab, dreary film. However, Escape from LA, I I get a kick out of that film. That movie does it for me. The show on the over the top, like surfing section with the shitty CG everywhere. So stupid, but a lot of fun with that. Oh, it was so fun. Well, I appreciate that. He was just like, I'm just going to do the same movie, but like just change a few things. And that's funny, Tony, is I didn't see Escape from New York until after I saw Escape from LA. Escape from New York. And I was like, this is the same fucking movie, but but way more boring. And Pam Greer isn't to trans trans in that film. I think she is the second issue. She's not in the first one. She's in the second one. I thought she wasn't the first one as a different character. No. OK. So maybe that was because the funny thing about Escape from LA, it's kind of playing up as if it's a third movie because they keep referencing Detroit as if there was a movie called Escape from Detroit, but it doesn't exist. This is the misadventures of Snake Pliskin in between movies. That's his name, right? Because they keep mentioning Detroit and he's like, you escaped from New York and you survived Detroit. It's like, what happened to Detroit? I need to know. It has a badass ending where he just shuts everything down. When people when they say like, which character symbolizes your politics more than any other character? For me, it's Snake Pliskin. Snake Pliskin, yeah. Where he's just like, you know what? You know what? I hate all of you because you all hate me. I'm turning off the entire world. We see when this can hits the ground, throws a deer. It's the real one. I might I may have made a short parody in college called Escape from Jurassic Park, where I played Snake Pliskin with really bad digital dinosaurs. Christine is awesome. Have you ever seen Christine about the killer car? No. Oh, I've heard of that. I've not seen that movie now. It's good. Actually, a lot of Halloween ends was pretty much half a remake of Christine right down to the main kid, looking exactly like that film's character. I wish he did more Stephen King stuff because Christine is great. But then he has a lot of range of Mars. Yeah. OK. That's one thing. Rash, that's when things went south. Things went south after after a certain point, things went south. But like he then you change it up. You have something like Starman, which is like this romantic drama comedy about an alien that takes the form of someone's like at like late husband. It's really good. OK. Big trouble. Little China is definitely an action comedy. Yeah, I told you I haven't seen that movie. I've been makes me sick of my stomach. I haven't watched that yet. Yeah. Prince of Darkness. That's part of his apocalypse trilogy. It's the thing Prince of Darkness and in the mouth of madness. And they're all they're also Prince of Darkness. Had as a scene in it. And I've talked about many times that has scared me more than any other scene because the first time I watched the movie, I didn't realize it was part of the movie and I started freaking out. I don't want to spoil it because I want people to watch it and get freaked out like I did. They live another great comedy about the aliens trying to take over. Rowdy Rowdy Roddy Piper. Rowdy Roddy Piper was an underrated actor. I'm mad that he mostly did schlock because he was such a good actor. Tough and deadly. I've seen tough and deadly like 30 times. Yeah, so stupid. I'm here to kick out. We say I'm here to chew gum and kick kick. Yeah, kick ass and chew bubblegum and I'm all out of all the gum. Yeah, it's classic. Yeah. And then like he's got he's a little hit or miss in the 90s, but he still has some good stuff here and there. And then the last film he directed was The Ward. Yeah, I'm sorry. Amber Heard. I've seen the poster of this, but I have no idea what it's about. Do you want to see Amber Heard in one of her first roles? Did they just take the same poster from drag me to hell and then change? There's so many posters where there's just demons, arms pulling someone away. So he kind of fell off a little bit, but I love his music that he does these days. His music is great. Oh, you should also have a chase. And yeah, yeah, I've seen the poster for this. I never saw Daryl Hannah's in the same Neil. Oh, my God, that was during the 90s trend of remaking the universal monsters like updating them. Definitely check out Body Bags. It's an anthology horror film, but he's the host of the movie. He's the zombie in the in the morgue that's like introducing all the segments. Wow. So yeah, he acts on occasion, too. The models in this. Nice. Yeah, dude, Mark Hamill's in it. Everyone's in it. Oh, wow. I love John Carpenter. Yeah. Wait, West Craven. Oh, no, no. West Craven, I think, is a cameo in it. Pam Raimi's in it, too. He's another cameo. They're not actually in it. Let's let's crave him. Yeah, check it out. I think it's on two of you or something. But no, John Carpenter, he's out of all these directors. He has the biggest catalogue of films that I like and have watched multiple times and watch religiously all the time. Yeah, but yeah, he is a good pick. He's he's got some legendary films on this list, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. But not as many as my number one spot. And Tony, honestly, I don't know how anyone in the film space could not have Steven Spielberg at least in their top 10. Because because I knew you were going to pick it. Probably I said top 10. I said top 10. OK, I'm respecting you here. OK, I'm just I'm scolding someone out there that has some pretentious list and they've excluded Steven Spielberg because it's basic. But if you look at this gentleman's catalogue of films, I don't know how you in your right fucking mind can't put him on. He's got Jurassic Park, ready player, wine, West Side Story remake. Actually, I heard I know you're trying to discredit him, but I heard West Side Story is actually really good. Just no one saw. I do want to see. Actually, I want to see the Fableman's, but mostly because David Lynch accident, not so much moving itself. I heard that's really good, too. I did not see the Fableman's because it's three hours long and I was just, you know, eating something, supper or something at the time. Real quick, you know what I love about Steven Spielberg? Yeah, he'll produce like these transformers and these Jurassic Park spin offs. And it's just so his company, Amblin, makes enough money that he can put out of Fableman's. And it doesn't matter if it bombs, bombs because because Jurassic World Six made a billion dollars. He could put out his life story if you want to. Yeah, that's good on him. I think he's he has enough pedigree to his name where he can do that kind of thing. Yeah. And Schindler's listed low and probably made him, you know, probably gave him enough to buy three more summer homes. Yeah, ready player one. I like ready player one, Tony. So I know you said that as like a slap in the face, but I'm a fan of that film. I like it. I didn't actually, I didn't hate it. Some people really hated it. I just thought it was whatever. It's a Warner Brothers movie. So it was kind of annoying that like all the big caveos that they put in there were all Warner Brothers properties. I'm like, really? Not one Darth Vader in this fucking bunch. I don't want to use picking Darth Vader to cosplay as I was cynical on it because the book, I mean, the book came out before and it was based on the book and that's the whole premise of the book was about like nostalgia and whatnot. And obviously by the time it came out, we had all these terrible movies either coming out or they'd already come out like Space Jam 2. And it was all the same shit. You know, it's like, look at our properties. We have all these properties, but yeah, I enjoyed it. It felt like kind of an old school Spielberg, you know, look and feel and it was it was good. But you look at this list, though. You have you have so many iconic films that still hold up and they're still referenced constantly, save in private, Ryan's in there, the Indiana Jones trilogy trilogy. Tony. Yes. By the way, I love even when he makes like a bad movie, it'll still like people will still remember something from it. Like, like, look, Lost World, it's not that great guys. I'm sorry. I don't like. But the rampage at the end and the seamer, the bus is hanging off the side of the cliff. That even though it doesn't even though it doesn't make sense that like there's just a giant glass pane on the black, but it doesn't make any fucking sense. But people will remember that and like it's legendary. And of course, the gymnast kicking a raptor out the window when it's like that's and a hook was not a movie. A book was a movie I loved as a kid. But as I got older, I like he doesn't like hook. No, which I if a director hates his own movie, I don't really buy that because sometimes they're just jaded. But yeah, when I revisited hook a few years ago, I'm like, not as good as I remember, but also not as bad as some people say it could have benefited from some rewrites. I think Robin Williams just being in it makes it a little better because some actors are just charming like no other. And he's one of them. Minority report is there is kind of a some of the Spielberg movies. I feel like it started to trend down as the film goes on. Minority report is one of those for me where I feel like the first two acts are freaking great and then he kind of loses it by he doesn't stick the landing. The same I've actually I've actually rewatched that recently and I feel different. I think it was I think we saw it all the way through. I just think when he loses his eye, you know, he was blind for a little while. That whole section is just a little weird and out of place. But yeah, maybe it gets better at the end. War of the Worlds is the same. I really like War of the Worlds. I know some people hate this film. That the kid being alive at the end, the kid being alive at the end was fucking stupid. The boy in general was was stupid. Yeah, but there's enough good in the film to out. Yeah, the terminals are great, you know, like smaller scale Spielberg Tom Hanks. He likes Tom Hanks a lot. I didn't see the post. I didn't see Tim Tim. I saw Tim Tim and War Horse on the same day because it was like a weird thing in 2011 where there were just two Spielberg movies in theaters at the same time. So I go, let me do let me do a double feature. War Horse was good. He's gotten a little weird. Like if he's not making like a rated R thing. Yeah, modern Spielberg shies away from violence a little too much. Like War Horse. I'm like, this is a war movie. You could show a little bit of violence and didn't he a couple years not that long ago, actually, it was him or the other guy. I can't remember who the other director was that did this, but they regretted CG and the stupid guns out and put in the walkie-talkie. He did what Lucas did for E.T. on its 20th anniversary, but then he has since and to his credit. And I think we mentioned this in our worst director's cut video. To his credit, when that movie came out, when he released it on DVD and I have it, he made both versions available. He's never hidden. Yeah, he didn't even do the Lucas for his like, this is the only version. It's definitive. Yeah. And like, he was forced to do a extended ending to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He really didn't want to do it where you see the inside of the ship. Richard Dreyfus. And he was, he had to do it to get another movie made. Oh, good, too. Close Encounters. I missed it. Even, I will say, like you, like you pointed out, even some of his weirder movies that don't stick to any like AI, for instance. Which was almost, almost a Stanley Kubrick film. I kind of did AI. I found the ending to be like fucking trippy and kind of like sad and haunting and all sorts of good stuff. Now, listen, listen, listen, the ending, it's a common misconception. They're not aliens. They're just advanced robots that's showing how far robots have advanced. It's very common misconception. Really? Yes, but that was almost a Stanley Kubrick film. And he was good friends with Spielberg. He was actually recording that documentary. He was like kind of jealous that Spielberg was able to get out so many movies because it took him so long to make films. And I think he was like, hey, I want you to do this. I know you could pull this off. And some people feel a little weird about AI because it's like it's Spielberg trying to be like Stanley Kubrick because it was like after he died that they finally went into it. How do you say that? And I can kind of picture it now to some of the stuff that I think Kubrick, like how he would have handled it differently. But yeah, Bridge of Spies. This is kind of there's a couple of types of Spielberg movies. You have the, you know, you have the family or friendly ones, the very like bombastic, larger than life tales. And then you have this kind of smaller stories. Bridge of Spies is a is a really good flick. Lincoln, I did not see it because I heard it was really boring and long. And that he makes movies for your granddad. Yeah, Munich is another one. I would say is a granddad movie. That one I did, unfortunately, watch and found it to be very tedious. Yeah. BFG is terrible. That's one of his newer films. He's got to stop doing like. Like, I know you like Ready Player One. It's your favorite movie of all time. But he's like he he'll never be the blockbuster action adventure. Spielberg, again, he's kind of lost that for me. And it's like, stop trying, even though Tintin was good. It's like everything after that. I'm like, stop trying. Just do these other movies. He doesn't need to do that. He can age gracefully with his film properties. You know, the other biggest thing I noticed with his movies that sets him, I think, above a lot of other directors is Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Jaws. They all have fucking amazing scores. Yes, John Williams, John Williams. Yeah, Christopher Nolan always kind of has that same kind of score. It's changed recently because he was doing a lot with Hans Zimmer. Now he's been doing it with like a new guy. But yeah, I know what you're talking about. John Williams, though, and Spielberg were just the dynamic duo with these things. By the way, I like that twice he had two movies come out a year. So it's like, it's like, hey, guys, 1993, go see my dinosaur movie and then look at the horrors of the Holocaust. And then in 1997, were those the same year? Yeah. And then 1997, it's like I'm making this movie about how slavery is awful and humans are so terrible to each other. And also see my other dinosaur movie in case this one doesn't do well. Yeah, over here. Well, it's it's your whole it's your whole producer thing. He doesn't keep all his eggs in one basket. Yeah. At that time, I love probably wasn't producing like he is now. I love Save a Private Ryan. That's a great war film. That movie is great. He knows like when he when he does, you want to think of him as this like gory, violent director. But when he goes for it, he goes so far. And I think each team. Yeah. And I think I bother saving. That's maybe why he's like kind of toned down the gun violence and stuff, but sometimes you kind of need it like Indiana Jones needed it. Yeah. You needed Indiana Jones shooting people. It looks weird when he's not when the guy gets hit with the propeller blade. I got to see some blood spray on the window. Yeah. Yeah. I need to see a little bit of blood. All right. You see some spackle. Well, that's I mean, that's our list. I think I think we nailed it, Tony. I think we covered a lot of bases. You know, we don't have Michael Mann on here and some of the other ones people like. But Michael Mann, you know, he's got heat, which is phenomenal. And then he is collateral, which collateral. Is that what it's called? The Tom Cruise movie? Yep. What's the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie? Is that also collateral? That's collateral damage. Damage. I remember the trailer. The trailer was really there was a time when that came out around the late 90s, mid 90s. They really were hyping up the motorcycle with the fat ass tires. Do you remember those 40 motorcycles and half of the collateral damage trailer was that guy going up and down the stairs on the motorcycle. Hey, Michael Mann made the first Hannibal Lecter movie, Manhunter. It bombed. No, thanks. Which is which is why it's actually not bad. But that's why when they did Silence of the Lambs, they're like, should we reference that other movie we made? They're like, nah, ignore it. Take out take out all. Even though the book is a sequel to Red Dragon, take out all the Red Dragon references because that previous movie bombed. We're going to pretend it's a whole new thing. Amazing. I just watched the Silence of the Lambs. Still still damn good. Another one of my childhood favorites. I had a really forced Tony. Tony gathered around the breakfast table. I literally I literally in in my review for Silence of the Lambs. I call my mom because Johanna was weirded out that me and her used to watch it so much as a kid. I'm like, mama being told that that's not normal. We're very like not normal. I don't watch many movies with my mom, but I remember specifically seeing Misery like three times with her. She really like she really like Kathy Bates no matter what she was doing. She's like, I just like that Kathy Bates. What a good actress. As she did she love Kathy Bates. Did she love Kathy Bates as an Eskimo in the movie North starring Elijah Wood and Bruce Willis as a pink. And Bruce Willis. Oh my God. Have you reviewed that? We should review that. Yeah, we should review that one day. Like North was a movie that really existed. Dude, and there's a lot of actors in that like half a Seinfeld's in that film. Elaine's like Julie Louis Dreyfus is in there. Jason Alexander is in there. There are I remember I remember in college we were in the screenwriting class. We were writing stuff and the guys like my movie's name is North. And I was like, hey, buddy, just a heads up. You're it. I mean, this has happened before, but like the name of your movie is similar to one of the most famous bad movies of all time. They made a horror movie a few years ago called The Room. I'm like, why would you call a movie The Room in this day? Well, yeah. And then there's Brie Larson's Room, which is always fun because that's like an Academy Award winning film. And then you have the room, which is the complete opposite. I'm surprised. Brie Larson isn't your favorite director. Didn't you love the unicorn store? I, you know what? I haven't seen it, which probably is shocking to you, but it looked like one of the worst pieces of tripe to ever come out. You don't have any female directors. Wow. Wow. I really don't. It's, you know, because they just really didn't get their just desserts until recently, Tony. They didn't know what you're talking about. It didn't exist until five years ago. No, they've always existed. Lana Wachowski, Lily Wachowski, they've always existed. OK, I also like Catherine Bigelow, James Cameron's ex-wife, one of his many ex-wives. Catherine Bigelow is pretty good. She may one of my favorite vampire movies near dark and then also Hurt Locker and all that other stuff. Yeah, she is good. I like her lockers solid. OK, let's go to the super chats to round this out. Let's fire any more in while you're here. We got Tony. Get those super chats in right fucking now. Tony is on the hot mic. Let's let's keep it spicy. If you guys are wondering, by the way, why I'm wearing my strong female leads t-shirt, it's because I reviewed the another film by a female director, Ghostbusters 2016. Oh, I wore this shirt because that's directed by directed by Paul Feige or Feej, however you say another. I wore this shirt. I wore this shirt because I'm wearing it in your thumbnail. And by the way, that's a beautiful picture of me and your thumbnail doesn't look super not flattering at all. Thank you. Oh, really? You gave me that thumbnail. I gave you several options. And I don't know. I feel like that's the bad one. You sent me the photo to use. You know, I didn't want to ask you for another one on this stream. So I figured I'll just use one of the other ones he gave me. I wasn't. No, I was looking at that. I was looking at that. I was looking at that before stream. Like, man, I look really bad in that photo. I should have done a better job. You should have. You better fire your publicist who sent that to me. OK, super chats. Yeah, yeah, fire yourself. All right, I think we ended at Matt last time. So we have Silent Evil 999, which is 666 reverse. I see you. What? Silent Evil. Oh, Tony, that just reminded me of maybe the greatest plot ever told. End of days when the fucking force. Nineteen ninety nine. Oftentimes, the devil's messages are upside down in reverse. So nineteen ninety ninety ninety nine. Oh, my one year of his return. As in six, six, six, the devil's number. Well, what happened to the one? Where did the one come from? Yeah, don't worry about it. Just dismiss a number. OK, Silent, thank you for the two dollar super chat says underrated director name Adrian Lynn. Tony, there's your strong female lead. No, he's not a female. It's a man. Oh, Adrian is a man. However, I'm looking at the thing now. Yes, they did flash dance nine and a half weeks. Fatal attraction. Deep water. Do you deep water? Yeah. Oh, God, that movie was garbage. Well, he made other good ones. Wow, it looks like you took a break between 2002 and then deep water. Jacobs ladder is really, really good. I made the mistake the first time I got high. I got way too high because I went with people who are like legit stoners and they they spoke me out way too much. And then I thought I wasn't high anymore and I finally made it home and I'm like, oh, I like the movie Jacobs ladder. And then I realized I was still very high at them and I had a panic attack watching that movie. Oh, my gosh. But yeah, he remade Lolita, which was a what should we call it? Stanley Kubrick, though. He did flash dance. Yeah. No, the guy's right. He is under he's underrated. Not many movies, but they all seem like bangers. I think Tarantino says he likes the Lolita remake more than Stanley Kubrick. At first, I didn't see where deep water was on this, but the poster is very different than what I was looking for. OK, yeah. OK, fair enough. OK, fair enough, fair enough. Let's see what Brian Babin has to say. A beautiful $12 Super Chat from what looks to be an Autobot symbol. Yeah. But no super no comment. Just straight up. Here's 12 bucks. Maybe maybe on YouTube, there's like a sticker or something that doesn't show up. That's what I was thinking recently. Well, I don't know because I used to just go through YouTube exclusively before I switched. And sometimes Brian, I've seen him before, he'll just throw some money and be like, please just shut up already. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Brian. I appreciate it. Shadow, shadow humor. I've seen him around before. Five dollars. Thank you, sir. Adam, I'm watching Christopher Nolan's tenant. The execution is terrible. And I'm absolutely checked out halfway through the movie. Wow. I mean, I can't blame you. Like I said, it took me two different attempts to watch the film. And I did have a better experience the second time, but that movie requires 1,000 percent invested focus. And you really have to pay attention. I did end up enjoying it, but it took a while. OK, shadow humor back again. He is pissed. Ten dollars Super Chat. He's the angrier shadow humor gets, the more money he throws out. He's just like. I do want to say about Tenet, I'm sorry. But that lady is nice. She's very nice. She was not hot enough to destroy the world over. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It was like she needed some meat on the bones, I believe. Yeah, she was like tall and lanky. She's like five, maybe. Like I know she's the gold lady from Guardians of the Galaxy. Like she looks like that. Yeah, probably better looking than anyone I've hooked up with personally. But I'm just like ending the world. It's definitely not over her. I'm sorry, it's just definitely not over actors and actresses that look really good in makeup, one of which is Orlando Bloom as an elf, Legolas. Orlando Bloom as Legolas is peak man in my wife's opinion. She saw him outside of Lord of the Rings years and years ago. And she's like, oh, well, I like him as Legolas. I'm like sorry for your loss. I was only ever attracted to him as Legolas and nothing else. Yeah, I think the same for Gamora. What's the actress who plays Gamora? Zoe Zaldana. Yeah, Zoe Zaldana, obviously very striking woman in real life. But as I don't know why, but as Gamora, she's she's like a 10 out of 10 for me instead of a nine and a half out of 10. OK, let's keep going. Shadow Humor, thank you again. I'm really sorry for your loss on tenant and he's back. Five dollars. It's just insane how much of a mess tenant is compared to his other success. Shadow, I hope you make it through this whole movie and you continue to comment with money along the way. He's got the stream will be done and your PayPal is just going to go off. I'm going to wake up tomorrow with a copy and it's a shadow humor. At least we can all agree. The Dark Knight is one of the greatest masterpieces in cinema. OK, so he must have he must have shut it off or he walked away. Yeah, he kind of like soothed his pain by looking at Nolan's other work. Yeah, I think he forgot to he forgot rises in the title rises or whatever the hell it's. Yeah. Yeah. He has a cool. Look at his thumbnail. That thing is bad ass. That does look cool. Yeah, he's like a mercenary. He's got he's got I don't know. I love it. OK, let's see. Last one, Shadow Humor really stepped up the game. We have a five dollar gorgeous super chapter. Toronto, John Spielberg is tops. He was very prolific in the 1970s and 80s would have been completely different without him and without John Williams scores. So there it is. Toronto, John fully agrees with us. Yes. OK, well, you guys, that was wonderful. Tony, it's always fun with you. It's always a good thanks. I can't I can't say mad at you. Also, I can't believe I didn't mention Tim Burton. I like a lot of his stuff, too. Yeah, I think Tim Burton's kind of sully to his own name in the last. Yeah, but I'm thinking of like as a kid, I mostly watched his movies. Well, yeah, when you got Beetlejuice, Batman, one of Batman Returns is Batman Returns is still stellar. Pee Wee, which the late Pee Wee. I mean, yeah, Pee Wee's big adventure. I'm not a big fan of Edward Scissorhands and most of all, I was I'm not really into the Johnny Depp Tim Burton collection with I can't speak to Edward. I haven't seen him like the Alice in Wonderland. And what was the one? Sweeney Todd and the I don't know what the goth family one was called. There was one where there was a bunch of weirdos in a house. Oh, he remade Dark Shadows. Yeah, Dark Shadows. Yeah. Yeah. No, give definitely give Edward a shot. Edward is solid. I think it's probably about his last good movie. And my favorite is Big Fish. And that was big fish 16 years ago at this point. If we talk about like his best movies, like where he's firing on all cylinders, it's like it's a close tie between Big Fish and Edward. They're both OK. I should watch it with them. We got one one final super chat shot out of a cannon. Oh, from Perm, Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones trilogy are eternal. Wait, so does he mean the Jurassic Park trilogy and the Indian Jones trilogy? What is Indian Jones? Indian Jones. Yeah. Well, that's the eternal franchise that came out before Indiana Jones, the spiritual successor, Johnny, the spiritual successor, Indian trilogy, Indian Jones, Jurassic Park. I assume he means Jurassic Park just individually and then Indiana Jones as a trilogy because there's more than three Indiana Jones movies when you think about it. So he did specify he went very specific with that. There should only be three. There should only be three, I agree with you on that. Maybe we we swing around. We stick around for like one more minute because, you know, kind of set the standard that people can still super chat. Tony, let's let's have you kind of, you know, outro tell people where they can find you. If not, everyone is familiar at this point. I don't know. Well, if you don't know who I am, then you must you must be living under a rock. I am very famous and important YouTuber, Tony from Hack the Movies. Famous and important, but not yet rich, Patreon.com slash Hack the Movies. But yes, I talk about movies new and old inside a video store. You can see my mic's kind of. My God, he just muted himself with a jackass. Let me see if I can unmute him. How embarrassing. Hello. Oh, hey, yeah. You actually muted yourself for a second. I said nothing, but what are you talking on now? You're like on a tin can. Does it sound good now? I switch back. Now it's good. Now it's good. Please bump this USB thing in the box. We have. Yes, I talk about movies doing old inside a video store with a rotating line of co-host. Some of the movies we talked about tonight are coming up. Glad Eater is a review coming up this month, as well as Die Hard 3. At the end of the month, I do live episodes. Adam is usually on them. That's fun. I am going to start doing more live episodes about smaller topics this Thursday. Adam, I fell in love with the Twisted Metal TV show. Oh, my God, really? Like, unironically, dude, it was better than I thought it was going to be. I couldn't believe how much I enjoyed. Did you watch it? No, it looked terrible. And I agree. It didn't actually when I saw it, I was just like, this doesn't look like Twisted Metal. Am I going to like this? And, dude, it was great. OK, it's Anthony Mackie, right? Yes. Yeah, that's the other thing where I was like, I don't really give a shit about Anthony Mackie as an actor. He doesn't really do anything for me. Yes, but like I was a big fan of the Twisted Metal games. I'm like, oh, is this going to be another one of those like in name only? And they throw like sweet tooth in there to pull you. And I think it sets up for the spoilers. Not really a tournament. It does with it does with the new Mortal Kombat movie attempted to do, but it does it so much better. I forgot it was a Twisted Metal adaptation. I just got lost in the story and loved it. And then when it finally became Twisted Metal, it was like a great reward. I you might you might hate it. There's not much. I think less, maybe 10, maybe just 10 episodes. Are they a half hour there? Yeah, some of them are like, yeah, like a little over 20 minutes. They're I binged it all in two days of Mandalorian length. The wrestler, the wrestler Samoa Joe does the body of sweet tooth. But Will Arnett does his voice and he's fucking hilarious. Ornett's always good, dude. Like they yeah, like the characters of the Twisted Metal games don't really matter that much. They're just you only pick the characters. You wanted to see what their ending was, but it actually stays faithful to some of them. Again, better than it had any right to be. So me and Joey see because he's a big fan of the games. We're like going into it on Thursday. That's awesome. You got more super chats. Yeah, I know I see that. We made it, Tony. We got a couple more. OK, well, that's interesting. I should check that out then. Yeah, cold. Did I say that right? Yeah, King, King called $2. He's back at him. You're going to review the new Godzilla X Kong. Yep. When we start doing the X thing instead of the versus thing? Well, they're not fighting this time. So they're teaming up like does that what the means? It means I think it's just Godzilla and Kong. Oh, that's what it means. OK, there's a new they only showed like a 60 second teaser and it just showed that there's a new scary ape. In the yeah, I saw the teaser. I I thought the last movie was just terrible. I really I had fun with it. Yeah, it followed the natural progress. Shitty Godzilla movie. Yeah, it followed the natural progression of Godzilla, where like the first one is very serious and it gets dumber and dumber. Yeah, but at least it was entertaining shlock. I can't think of monsters was decent. That was the one with the what's the like fucking Hydra looking thing. Yeah, King Ghidorah, my favorite, Ghidorah, Ghidorah's cool. And I really actually like Kong, Kong School Island. And I thought it took me it took me a bit to get into that when I realized they were doing like the Toho Kong. Then I got here. Yeah, because I really like the Peter Jackson, King Kong as well, Peter Jackson, by the way, almost made my list as well. But again, he has like the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit and then the Frightners, which I adore dead alive. One of my favorites, but yeah. Is that the one where they eat the eyeballs? Yes, monkey brains. He has a couple really gross out movies. He has a dead alive, also known as Brain Dead. And OK, yep, that is the one I saw. Yeah, bad taste is the other really violent one he has. Yeah, those are those are wild. Yes, of course, I will review the movie. I try to review all the major releases, although I didn't see the new haunted mansion film because I legit didn't think a single person gave a shit. And it turns out they didn't. I was going to see it for the live wrap up, but now I'm not sure. Well, it made it made thirty three million dollars up a budget of one hundred eighty five million. I don't know why they thought that was going to do. And why do you not release it in October? I mean, why are you or at least September close to October? Three months away. Is Disney really unless unless. Oh, unless they did it. So by the time October rolls around, it's on Disney Plus and people are just watching it on Disney Plus. That's the only thing I think of cost analysis here. Do they really think they're going to pull in like that? Tens of thousands of new Disney Plus memberships of a fucking haunted mansion? I don't know. I don't think the last haunted mansion movie did well with Eddie Murphy. It's no people for people forget that was part of like three movies. Pirates of the Caribbean, the haunted mansion and country bears. We're all based around amusement rides. Disney and make a country make a country bears movie. They all came out around that same time, but only Pirates of the Caribbean made it and turned into a franchise. Shit, there was no country bears. Christopher Walken is in it. What, 2002? Yeah. Oh, my God. I didn't even know this movie existed. But then haunted mansion was 2003. And I do remember this because there's the one with the dumb like jazz glasses. Yeah, Pirates of the Caribbean was also 2003. And now now they're trying it again with fucking Jungle Cruise and now haunted mansion. I don't think anyone likes any of them. Jungle Cruise was fine. They tried Tomorrowland also years back. And that was also I also like I like Tomorrowland. I thought Jungle Cruise was fine. It was really kind of a total ripoff of the mummy, though, like beat for the characters were all like the mummy. But again, I think Jungle Cruise cost a stupid amount to make over 200 million. So yeah, when you're dropping that much coin, it's hard to recuperate. You know, speaking of that, Tony, I know we got to wrap up. It's it's getting really late. But someone kind of kind of threw some dirt in my eye. They said I copied your I don't even know. You did, I guess, a budget, you know, you know why they say. Yeah. So I did a video on how budgets are too high and how horror movies are kind of immune to it and how they should learn from them. And then a bunch of people said I ripped off double toasted because he did a similar video and I guess they only get his news from him. So then I linked him to articles that have been saying the same thing about budgets being too high for over here now and how it's always profitable. And I was like, yeah, maybe just multiple people recognize this same thing and want to report on it. So that I think I know that guy. I think he's just being a jerk. Because I know he was he was he was joking. We were having fun. But I know I did I did see that video. And I was just like, Adam, just riding my coattails. I was laughing at it because I I mentioned on a different podcast I was going to do a video on budgets like two months back. And as like the days were going down, I saw Christian Harla from like the Shmo's know he put out a video of Jits and then another one. There was like five different movie critics who all did a budget video. So yeah, clearly we're all thinking the same thing because we go to movies all the time and we live free movies. Yeah. And you know, we comment on movies and stuff and take note of this more than other people, but no, we're ripping each other off. And we're ripping each other off, obviously. I didn't even know you did that video. I was going to ask you, though, do you do movie videos like that? I thought you kind of just did the rarely. I I I started doing it again. I do them randomly. If there's just a topic I've also been doing. I don't know if you notice like throughout the last year, I randomly will cover like a TV cut of a movie or I have seen that. I've seen the work and stuff. So I do. I do like little videos here and there just to have something out during the week besides the podcast. Yeah, I checked it out after I was informed and I thought, oh, I've never seen Tony do a video like this, where he's just kind of by himself, like sad and alone, like me and all my videos. OK, what do we got? So yeah, King Cole, I will definitely watch and review it. I'm not holding my breath. It's going to be something I'm going to enjoy. But I will let you know what to expect, at least from that type of film. Jamin D with an amazing $50 super chat. Is that from Canada, Tony? Is that what that means? That that looks like Canada. So that's a $25 super chat. Thank you, sir. Travis Knight, perhaps underrated for me, did box trolls. Kubo, I assume that's Kubo in the two strings. I didn't see that movie, but I think that's the full title. And Bumblebee, which I've seen Bumblebee. Bumblebee was good. Yeah, he looks like he was. It looks like he was an animator. I'm seeing a lot of animation like the PJs. And he is kind of like, so he is kind of like. Oh, God, we just mentioned Tomorrowland, Brad Bird. Yeah, he's kind of moved maybe more into live action now. Or is he? Yeah, well, he's only has it looks like he has more live action coming up, but he only directed like he he was like the lead animator and producer for like Kubo, Missing Link, Bob and Paranorm, in which I love. But yeah, it looks like Bumblebee directed it, huh? He directed Kubo in the two strings. Yeah, he did Kubo and then Bumblebee. Those are his only two directed movies right now. But yeah, it looks like he could both of them. I didn't see Kubo here. It was good. Bumblebee was pretty good. Yeah, that was solid. Yep. OK. Thank you for pointing him out. We'll keep an eye on him going forward and Drunken Atheist Studio for two dollars. Twisted Metal was a lot of fun. You have you have some support, Tony. You have some people like how excited are you now that you're like so implanted in the Sony Cinematic Universe? I know you love Uncharted. Nope. And I know you're very excited for the Gran Turismo movie coming out that down. Oh, oh, oh, should I add that to the list? I told Tony, you got Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles coming out Thursday, which I'm going to do the very end of the month. I'm doing what is the worst Ninja Turtles movie. So I was waiting for that to come out, and we're going to go through all the theatrically released ones. That's funny, because I was going to be doing a Turtles related to stream this Friday as well on that same topic. Well, I ripped you off. Yeah. Well, I mean, what are you doing it? The end of the month, like the very end of the month, because I need time to watch all that shit. So I'm putting it at the very end of the month. OK, so I suppose you want to come on my little channel Friday and argue them if you don't remember them. No, I would not be good yet for that. Sorry. No, no, I get it. OK, well, we'll save it for it. Save the material for your own fucking channel. OK, it was a lot of fun. I think Gran Turismo is going to be garbage, but we'll see. Maybe it'll be OK. Yeah. Check out like how big were you into the games? I am familiar with them. I played. So I never was a Sony pony until PlayStation three after my Xbox red ringed and and Microsoft told me to jump off a cliff and I never went back after the 360 era. So I've definitely dabbled in some of them, like twisted metal black and a couple of whatever this equals it takes familiar with the formula enough. Yeah, it takes. It cherry picks a lot of stuff from all the lore, a lot of twists like sweet. I don't know the war. I played I know, but you don't you don't have to because like throughout the show, I'm like, oh, shit, that's Twister. That's the old landing. And I'm like, but you don't really have to know that to enjoy. It's like a bonus if you're a fan, but sweet tooth is very much the twisted metal black sweet tooth. He looks exactly like it on a last sour note, Tony, because I just was thinking of the Sony garbage that they produce all that they make all the time. Did you ever see the shitty Ratchet and Clank movie? No, I never played the game. So I never went out to see it. Well, so this is insane. So they came out with that fucking movie. It didn't look great, by the way, it looked like a video game cutscene at the time. And it turns out it was. So the game came out two weeks after and it contained almost the entire movie as cinematic sections of the video game. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't know because I remember when that came out, I'm like, why aren't there more animated video game movies? And now there probably will be because of Mario. Like when they made Sonic live action, I'm like, why did you do that? Just make an animated Sonic movie. But we did get Jim Carrey, at least, having fun again. Now I don't give a shit. First, I watched the first Sonic movie and I went, yeah, whatever. Yeah, it was like, it's great. I'm like, yeah, it's whatever. It was not great. It was like a fine movie. I wish they had the original Sonic design. So all the fucking Sonic fans would bitch about it for years to come. Anic design that was so. They didn't deserve a good Sonic out the bat. They everyone else, like us, we all have to suffer if they're our first annotations. I know. I know the Mario movie is still burned into my retinas from back in the 90s. Yeah. All right. Well, on that note, guys, go over, follow Tony. Subscribe to him. Follow me on X. Follow. You know, we're trying to end this civilly. And then you have to do that. Yeah. Follow him on Twitter. The artist formerly known as Twitter. Now, Elon Musk's abortion X. Go over there. Subscribe to hack the movies and subscribe here. If you somehow came, I don't even know. Does he do? Do people show up on these live streams from YouTube's random like search history? I can't imagine. I don't know. I I community posted it. So hopefully that helped. Maybe people from Tony are here. So subscribe to the channel and we will see you Friday night. But before that, I have a big ass Ghost Busters roast video coming out hopefully tomorrow. If I can, if I can suffer through the editing process, I'll get it to look for that. All right. Take care. See you next time. Now we.