We discuss the 3rd entry this franchise, 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade', a film that we all universal agreed upon is a course correction from its predecessor. We have some fun on our Harrison Ford Movie Draft and share some of our latest movie watching.

04:35 The Question

11:04 Movie Facts

20:57 Nathan's review

25:04 Bee's review

28:27 Sam's review

01:56:00 Vault Decision: Save or PURGE!!!

01:04:22 Harrison Ford Movie Draft

01:18:49 Weekly Highlights

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In the dying embers of human existence, as the asteroid, a

behemoth the size of Texas, hurtles relentlessly toward Earth, the world

braces for an apocalypse again.

Deep beneath the bunker, a refuge plunges into the bowels of the Earth.

Here, the chosen gather, their purpose clear, to preserve the

very soul of our civilization.

The 35 the magic, the emotion, and the dreams of generations past.

These masterpieces, each frame a testament to the human spirit, are

carefully cataloged and cradled in the cavernous confines of the bunker.

Perhaps there was room for more.

For friends and family yearning for salvation, but sacrifices must be made.

The Movie Nerds stand united.

The Keepers of a Flame.

Promising a future where the art of storytelling endures, transcending

the boundaries of time and space.

God help us all.

Welcome to Back to the Framerate, part of the Westin Media Podcast Network.

Join us as we watch and discuss films on VOD and streaming platforms, deliberating

on whether each one is worthy of salvation or destined for destruction in the face

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I am Nathan Shore and accompanying me are the extraordinary movie mavens,

Brianna Budworth and Sam Cole.

Hello.

It's a pleasure to be here.

My, my heart is filled with mirth because I just got a new triple A

card in the mail, which will help my vehicle for a year to come, baby.

Anyway, off topic, but happy days.

You are living the life there, Sam.

Living

the life over here.

Sam and Bea I was talking with someone who Who listens to our show,

but didn't realize that what we do here is more than just, we rev, review

films, they seem to just listen and then tap out after our main review.

And so they're not listening to the whole thing.

There are literally, thousands of podcasts out there where you can just

listen to opinions about these movies, but it's always been our intention to

not just give our thoughts on movies.

that we feature each week, but to deliver an entertaining piece of content with

some banter and film recommendations and other things that we do in our lives.

AAA, Hey, plug the AAA, you can get a discount on hotels,

restaurants, get your AAA.

It's really not that much money a year.

It's worth it.

It's true.

Yeah.

Anyways, a few weeks ago, we did a fun game where we did our IMDB

game, which was a lot of fun.

So what I'm basically saying, stick around for the entire episode because it's chock

full of surprises each and every week.

So what I'm going to start doing.

Is giving our listeners like a table of contents every week.

I'm not going to do a long, elaborate intro like I'm doing right now every

week, but so on today's episode, we're going to have a discussion of the film

we're reviewing, make our important decisions on whether it deserves to

be saved into the precious confines of a shelter or eliminated into the

vast wasteland of the pocket fallout.

Then something I think we on the podcast are going to have a lot

of fun with our listeners at home.

And they'll enjoy, and that's going to be a Harrison Ford movie draft.

We did this last year, one time with a 1984 movie draft.

I think we have a lot of fun doing this.

We'd love to know the listeners at home, who you think got the

best draft of the three of us.

And then if time permits, we're going to try to do maybe a weekly highlight where

each of us will share maybe something from the last week that we watched or viewed

related to movies or not, it's always fun.

Depends on what we're in the mood for, but that's what is going

to be on the show this week.

But before we get to that, I have a question for my co host.

It's a pretty simple one.

Required some math, but I don't think you're really going to go to math here.

Oh boy.

It's important.

This has some big stakes.

Are you ready?

I'm

scared.

Okay.

How many?

Reese's Pieces, could you fill the Holy Grail from this movie, this

particular grail that was inside of the temple of the sun, of course it's

intended purpose, and we all know that Jesus demanded no green M& Ms or

the, some PA's head was going to roll.

There's.

There's actually no real answer to this.

However, I did do a lot of research on this and it's estimate, and this

is important information so you can make your best guess and the person

who has the most accurate guess to this number is going to go first.

First or last, I'm going to go first because only I would

think of such a ridiculous game with so much lunacy involved.

So I will go first in a review, but that's how we're going to determine the order.

So whoever gets closest will go last and so forth.

But anyways, this is the information you need to know.

I, it's estimated on the internet.

And by the way, I used six different.

AI chat bots to figure out this information.

Okay.

Okay.

There are eight ounces of liquid that can fill the

Holy Grail from this movie.

And the average size of a Reese's Pieces is 0.

7 cubic centimeters.

So knowing that information, how many do you guess will fill that Holy Grail?

Okay.

You're saying Reese's Pieces, not Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

No, Reese's

Pieces.

You mean like the little

B, there's a

Steven Spielberg tie in here.

Reese's peanut butter cups would be like four of them.

Yeah, okay.

I'm just checking.

No,

I know, I'm just, yeah, I hear you.

Okay.

Fuck, I don't

know.

I don't know.

103.

I'm going to say,

so I'm seeing the cup and I'm seeing Douglas Holmes cinematography and

hearing Spielberg's voice, all right, I'm pushing for the dolly shot rah.

Um, um, I would say.

Well,

you're both pretty far off the actual number that's estimated from

six different AI chat bot things that I averaged out is 467 based on you're

trying to let the robots take my job.

This

is how I spent my Sunday doing this.

You're

making me hungry though.

I went again, my instinct was to go higher and there's a scene at the

beginning of Willow when Warwick Davis like doesn't trust his instinct and the

wizard is you should trust your instinct.

So I just can't wait

for the day that you and I get high together and watch Willow

because I know we're both fans, but it comes out at the weirdest time.

Oh God.

Yeah.

I look forward to that as well.

Yeah, it's gonna be good.

Oh because Sam, you were still the closest.

You are going to go third Sam, Ah, Bea, you're second and I have to go first.

That's my punishment.

I'm third for the three quo.

Er, back to the frame rate with a joke saw coming all day.

Oh my god.

Okay.

If you hadn't already guessed the film that we are

reviewing this week is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade from 1989.

Steven Spielberg, third film in the trilogy, third film in our quest for

fortune and glory in this retrospective.

Can't wait to talk about this with each of you.

Be the first time you've seen this movie.

First time you've seen any of these Films in the Indiana Jones franchise.

If anybody's tuning in for the first time, but I let's start with a plot synopsis.

Let's pull this up here.

It is.

All right.

And here it is.

The intrepid explorer, Indiana Jones sets out to rescue his father, a medievalist

who has vanished while searching for the Holy grail, following clues.

In the old man's notebook, Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a

beautiful academic, but they are not the only ones on the trail, and some sinister

old enemies soon come out of the woodwork.

A trailer

somewhere.

Hold on.

I'll do the trail.

Dun.

Junior.

Dun.

Yes, sir.

It is you, Junior.

Dun.

All right.

Here's the trail.

That's great.

We're about to

complete a great quest.

The Holy Grail.

Dr.

Jones, that's

This

is it.

Look, the shield is the second marker.

We found it.

Indiana Jones is on the quest of a lifetime.

But for some adventures, One Jones is not enough.

Dad?

Junior?

Don't call me that, please.

Follow me!

I know the

way!

Race across three continents.

And in this sort of race, There's no silver medal for finishing second.

Hang on, Dad!

Of the enemy, Nazis.

I hate these guys.

Ahhhhh!

Our situation has not improved.

In his search for the holy grail.

How dare you kiss me.

Are

you crazy?!

Don't go between them!

Go between them!

Are you

crazy?!

Okay.

That's a piece of the trailer from The Last Crusade.

Sam, hand it over to you.

Do you have some movie facts for us?

Indeed.

Going right to the tonality of this movie this film is Spielberg's

and Lucas's answer and rebuke to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

They go back to a lighter More open aired, much more akin to

Raiders feel with this movie.

This film is obviously directed by Spielberg, Steven Spielberg from a

screenplay by Jeffrey Boehm, who I believe wrote some lethal weapon films.

Two and three, two and three.

Interesting.

And he

did some other, he did inner space, the lost boys and the dead zone.

So he had a really good track record.

Oh, the lost

boys.

Awesome.

I do the lethal weapon two better than three, but that's a side point, but

story by George Lucas and Menno Mayhays.

And this is based on characters by George Lucas and Philip Coffin produced

by Robert Watts which I was actually really happy about because he, I feel

like he was an associate producer.

On a previous installment.

And so I was it was, and I've watched behind the scenes all the time and

I just enjoy his general energy.

So I'm happy to see Robert Watts is like the producer of this movie.

It's just he's

a fun interview always.

Yeah, he's good.

He's ah, they wouldn't let us shoot that blur, starring Harrison

Ford, Denholm Elliott Alison Doody, John Rhys Davies Julian Glover as

the main villain, and of course, Sean Connery plays Harrison Ford's father.

Fun fact, Sean Connery was only 12 years older than Harrison Ford and so for him

to play his father Yeah, but Harrison

Ford is so hot.

They did a good job making their appear more of an age gap there.

Returning cinematographer Douglas Slacombe, who did the previous

to Indiana Jones, also the third one as well, of course, edited

by Spielberg's main collaborator, Michael Kahn music by John Williams.

And this was a big success.

The budget was 48 million.

474 million worldwide.

According to this, I, it says it's the biggest film worldwide of 1989.

I thought that was Batman, but I guess, I don't know if it's

Batman came in number two.

Oh, really?

Wow.

That's amazing.

So yeah, including worldwide gross.

And I always thought it was Batman.

That's impressive.

So yeah, more lighthearted than the first this.

Had this they really went globetrotting this film.

They went to Italy all the desert scenes were shot in Spain Where

they did the scene with a tank?

They went to Petra in Jordan, which is the like the what's it called?

The Temple of the Sun is it?

That's

what they call it in the movie and the movie.

Yeah I'm

blanking what the actual called and it's in the, I'm

blanking now, but I'm sorry.

And just random thing here but the two temple of doom writers, Willard

Huck and Gloria Katz, who collaborated with Lucas on American graffiti.

They chose not to return due to both having other commitments

and feeling satisfied with their work in the second film.

Other commitment was Howard, the duck.

Oh my god, I did not know that.

Wow.

Wow, what a quack.

You gotta get your priorities straight, you know what I gotta say.

Which I feel the difference in the writing and I actually like Jeffrey

Boehm's script and just, I can feel the tonality difference to what I'm saying.

He, Spielberg this is actually, it was fascinating.

Due to Spielberg's commitment to this film, he had to drop out of

directing Big and Rain Man, both films, which he was interested in.

I'm, Rain Man by Barry Levinson, I really like.

I, it would have been a totally different, Steven Spielberg had directed that.

It might have been great, I can't even imagine, but the film that was not to be.

Interestingly enough, Lucas had initially wanted to do a Haunted House movie.

And Spielberg was not huge on the idea.

But they do incorporate that into the castle in the film which is on the border

of Germany and and Austria and Austria.

Yeah.

And so they do have sort of sequences.

It's not literally a haunted house, but that's the closest to haunted.

They get Lucas was the one that was pushing the idea for the grail.

And Steven Spielberg was concerned about that it would come across

too close to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and that it would be

associated with too much silliness.

It was Spielberg that pushed the idea that the search for the Grail

is the search for the Father.

Spielberg loves this movie because of the father son relationship

and the humor and the tone.

And he said before in interviews that it's his favorite Raiders film.

He refers to all the Indiana Jones movies as Raiders films,

because obviously the first one.

So he likes it a lot.

Temple of Doom is actually his least favorite.

And that's what I've got at the moment.

I'm sure I'm missing, I feel a little unprepared tonight.

I was cooking chicken and I burnt it, so otherwise I would have had,

what, 20 more minutes of prep.

No,

that's very good facts you dropped on that, so thank you.

Bea, were you going to say something?

Oh, he said, just Steven Spielberg, it was Temple of

Doom was his least favorite.

It was his

least favorite, yeah.

I just, upfront, I just want to say that it's so wonderful that

there's the continuity with these three movies with, director, producer,

cinematographer, composer, editor.

And of course, you can feel that you really do feel that,

especially in this third movie Yeah.

Get my Asperger's out.

Fuck, fuck, shit.

No, just kidding.

Yeah but as I was saying, yeah, you really, as Bea, you also

mentioned, you feel the continuity of the cast and crew, both sides of this

camera, you really feel it in this film.

A few things I just wanted to mention here.

You mentioned the budget of 48 million in 2024 dollars, that would

be about 121 million if shot today.

Wow.

So yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And the 474 million box office.

This was released on May 24th, 1989, almost five years to

the day after temple of doom.

That was on May 23rd, if memory serves.

So that I think it's also Memorial.

These traditionally come out Memorial day weekend.

Do anyone remember what?

Raiders was, I don't remember offhand of that.

I feel like Raiders opened later in June was the one outlier.

I feel like it was

a summer movie.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Firmly summer.

I was also looking at the box office.

I'll do this really quick.

And people that, audience.

Let us know if this box office rundown is dragging or not.

But I love looking at this because I think it gives context.

What was going on in the box office that weekend in Memorial Day is

always a fascinating weekend for me.

But Indiana Jones debuted at number one, 37 million, see no evil, hear no evil.

And it was third week, 6.

3 million.

Anybody remember?

That's a

fun movie.

Is that the Gene Crowley?

Yeah.

Yes.

Yes.

It's a great one.

Feel the dreams in a sixth week of release 5.

6 million.

I love feel the dreams.

Yeah.

Again, rest in peace, James Earl Jones, his role in roadhouse

number two, what a great

week.

Yeah.

Number five, a movie I saw in the theater probably a week

after this was pink Cadillac Clint Eastwood movie was in this as well, 4.

4 million.

Number six was canine with 3.

1 million.

I think that's the James Belushi police dog movie.

That's right.

And Turner and Hooch with Tom Hanks came out later that summer.

Yes, exactly.

This made the box office top 10.

Okay.

Yep.

And in his fifth week of release in seven number seven in a

sixth week of release, making 2.

5 million was pet cemetery number eight in its eighth week of release.

1.

4 million was major league movie.

I saw twice in the theater.

I loved it so much because I love baseball movies, two baseball movies

in the top 10 this week and dogs rain, man, that number nine this week.

1.

2 million in its 24th week of release and number 10, a movie.

I don't remember at all.

Scandal just made under a million dollars.

I don't know.

I'm sure

that

is

what's crazy is that outside of.

The second baseball movie and scandal.

I have seen everything except the last crusade

until this week

at the 62nd Academy Awards.

This was nominated for best score, best sound mixing, but in one best

sound editing, they liked the sound.

And by the way, totally random comment.

This is just me.

I'm like obsessed with the clock, but this last crusade is like,

Between seven and eight minutes longer than its two predecessors.

Yeah.

Raiders is hour 51, Temple of Doom is hour 53 and Without credits.

Last Crusade is two hours and one minute.

I go, I'm just, I'm obsessive with, I'm fascinated by time.

But so Raiders, if you really like Indiana Jones movies, there's more of

Last Crusade, about eight minutes more.

I

think you can feel it.

Yeah.

So I think we get now to our thoughts on this film.

I guess I'm going to take it away.

Nathan.

All

right.

I will take it away.

Okay you know something?

I'm gonna say something I thought would never come out of my mouth.

Is this your

favorite?

And it's not really a hot take, but typically for people of my

generation, this may be blasphemy.

I think Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Is the

best film in this franchise.

Yeah, I've heard that a lot from people.

And after watching his first three movies my entire life, it

doesn't mean that it's my favorite.

It's teetering, but I think this is by far the most put

together film in the franchise.

Actually still, it might be my favorite, but I think it may, maybe that I'm

looking at this with, shall we say, there's some personal baggage as well,

as I watch these first day films.

I think it's obvious we're going back to the Raiders of the Lost Ark

of it all, and it has all the feels.

Of great action and location set pieces that Raiders had.

It's got that mystery.

It's got great villains, but also crusade gives us, I think, a version

of Indie we've never seen before.

And it does this in a couple of ways, two ways, basically.

And first, we got that great.

Prologue.

I think it's great.

Some people don't like it.

They find it fan service y, but I still think it's a wonderful opening.

And it does this with an, but also does this with incredible father

son storyline, which makes Indy more than just an action hero.

It transforms him into a character with real emotions.

In Paraders and in Temple of Doom, he is, I feel like he's strictly an action

hero and he's Given so much more to feel in this movie, the father son storyline

gives Indy emotional vulnerability, making him more than a archetypal action hero.

It turns them into someone that we can all relate to someone dealing with

unresolved family issues, longing for validation and ultimately finding peace.

And in that relationship rather than the treasures that he's seeking and to keep,

to keep the short I love all the course correction that Spielberg and his team are

doing with this film after temple of doom.

The comedy in this film is great.

Connery and Ford's chemistry is amazing and surprising because on paper.

This shouldn't work.

Neither of Con neither Connery and Ford are known for their

comedic chops and their timing, but somehow, It's amazing how

good they just, their dynamic, like, how the f I'm like, when

you see it, it's my god, these guys really are great actors.

They come off as

Like a comedy team that could go on the road.

They're that good.

I, you would never think of these guys as non comedic actors.

This is the funniest Harrison Ford movie ever by a long stretch.

And this is not really a straight forward.

Actually it is a comedy.

It's an action comedy.

It really is.

But he's never been this funny.

He's never had this great comedic time.

The, comedic timing.

I have a lot more to say about this, but also the, I'm happy they shifted away

from slapstick humor and more toward site gags in general, funny banter.

I think was the right choice.

There are a few nitpicks I have in this movie, but.

It's just a stellar entry in this franchise, in this movie, more than

ever, I think from where I am in life, means the world to me, and I will talk

more about why that is in a little bit.

This is a five star movie.

I love it.

Yeah, we're so back.

Yes, I.

Loved this movie.

I thought I was just so happy watching it the whole time I was screening ear to ear.

I think you're right.

It is an adventure comedy, an action comedy.

I think this is a wonderful, delightful, and whimsical blend of camp, And

action that we don't get to see a lot and it nearly crosses the line

into being too much a few times and there's it perfectly reigns itself back

and I think it just toes that line.

The entire time we're back with amazing set pieces.

I loved that intro.

With the circus and the railroad cars, a bittersweet reveal for

me with it being river Phoenix.

I didn't know.

Yeah.

I was like, Oh my God.

And, but over and over this movie sets up Indy, the idea of India, someone who

might not always be a good guy, but who's always doing it for the right reasons.

And we see that.

I think the prologue sets that up really beautifully.

It's a great sequence.

It's really fun.

It's action packed and also right away you see the score is going to

be for me the best of the three.

I had a wonderful time listening to the John Williams score.

It felt like we were moving again.

My big issue with Temple of Doom is you take this great action adventure

hero and you put him in a haunted house and it felt claustrophobic and it

felt like it dragged on for too long.

Great to be out in the wild again, sprawling and traveling and seeing Indy

challenged in element after element, not just tortured in a haunted house.

That was really fun.

And the casting is spot on.

Like you mentioned, Nathan, there's she talks in her sleep, might

be one of the best line reads.

I It was so much fun.

Sean Connery turns the everyman that Willie was in the last movie on its head.

He's not helpless.

He, in fact, is the helper.

And he gets Indy where he needs to be in the end.

I think Elsa's a great turncoat.

That is, I love that every time in this movie when there's a love

interest, we get a totally different dimension and type of woman.

That's just a treat for me.

We get to see John Rhys Davis again, that's incredible.

Sorry, I feel like I'm taking forever on this one.

I just, I love, I loved this movie and I like, The connection that Spielberg and

Lucas are drawing with the with the Holy Grail and that sort of search for purity

in intention that becomes, that later you can backfill to Temple and to Raiders.

For me, it's a four and a half.

I think Raiders hit the five star mark for me, but I thought this was wonderful.

All right.

Thank you.

Great.

Sam.

I agree with everything you guys said.

I love the movie.

Few interesting things.

When they did a first cut of the film Spielberg felt, That there wasn't enough

action or he felt not, or what he said was he felt that we weren't giving them

as much action as the audience expected.

So that motorcycle chase right after they get out of the castle, that motorcycle

chase was done after the fact in Marin County, California, right near Lucas

Valley ranch, and it's excellent.

And it's perfect that chase happened there.

Cause I think what originally would have happened is that you just see that get gag

where the Nazis are going into the boat and they like zoom by in the motorcycle

and knock those two guys into the water.

I think that was the original cut.

And I'm so glad they added a chase there.

I love the movie a lot.

I, it is really.

If you go online and look at debates, if they're like ranking Indiana

Jones films, Last Crusade and Raiders are always neck and they're both so

good that it's really hard to say one is much better than the other.

If for me personally, I think just because Raiders was the first and it introduced

this type of like modern action adventure, Raiders to me has the slightest edge.

But I love Sean Conner in this movie.

I love the character like their relationship.

They seem not only is there, is it comedic, but they seem like.

A real father and son.

And I like how annoyed like Harrison gets at his dad and he's come on, dad, come on.

It's just so realistic.

And I appreciate that a lot more now.

This was the first Indiana Jones I saw in the theater.

It was like the last day of first grade.

I was like eight years old.

So I went to see it with my dad and like a matinee show.

Just amazing.

Obviously as an eight year old, I'm not going to get a joke about Get,

understand the joke of Andy and his father sleeping with the same woman.

That's something, figured out later on.

And but like the visuals, the genius of Spielberg is like, love that movie

as a little kid, and obviously I couldn't pick up on everything I picked

up on now, but I could pick up on the visuals and the movement of the story.

And it was just wildly entertaining.

There's so much

momentum in this movie.

There's so much momentum.

They're moving.

I think I to me, I feel like this is more of a bit more of a chase film where like

Raiders, I like how Raiders spends a lot more of its time at the Tannis dig site.

Like I like that mid section.

This movie is more like, like globetrotting adventure.

I love it.

I would say if I was being nit pieces, I don't.

Some of the set pieces I like better than others.

For some reason it's clever and I like the thing with the boat propeller, but

the boat chase in Venice, I've always thought that's good, but it doesn't

for it for some, for other set pieces.

I put that, that more lower on the bar.

But what makes the movie and what elevates it and what this movie

needs is a an incredible set piece.

And I think the tank.

Rivals, the truck chase in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

They're both about eight and a half minutes long.

All the stuff that happens on the tank, all the, that's amazing.

Them escaping the fireplace with the revolving door is amazing.

So when the set pieces are at their best, they're incredible in this film.

I think everything looks good.

Like the catacombs under Venice.

I just the, this movie has a very.

epic feel because they're like literally going after the holy grail and it's

like dangerous and far away in a canyon in the desert and i love the climax

when they're in that place and they have those three challenges i mean i

think the breath of god the word of god the path of god My favorite is when

Indy literally has to jump into that impossible chasm on a leap of faith.

And I was

on the edge of my seat.

That was so well done.

I was so tricked by

no, it was incredible.

And but the stakes are so high at the end of that movie.

It's like his, he is just rekindled with his father and

his father's life is on the line.

He has no choice.

That's what's great about it.

You've added the ticking clock element into this.

It's not about Indy getting the holy grail.

There's major stakes to this because of that, the urgency now, it's a

brilliant, it's a brilliant move, major

stakes, incredible.

And this is a piece of set design.

I have always been obsessed with like cliffs and

not just like world saving stakes, it's personal stakes, personal

stakes.

Yeah.

It's like character driven stakes.

Yeah.

I think.

I don't know why I'm obsessed with it, but that cliff that Indy has to

do the leap of faith on, the shot where he comes out and you're looking

down at the blackness of that cliff, that place was epically terrifying.

That temple and those challenges has the most supernatural,

spiritual, otherworldly depth.

dangerous feel to it in these, in just that places in my, I love the night.

I love the humor.

I liked the Sean Connery gets to meet the night because his academic

quest is fulfilled and he, they can't cross the seal, but he waves him.

The ending is just perfect.

It's epic.

I would give it four and a half.

I just, because Raiders has that edge, but like I can arguably see

this as a better movie than Raiders.

That's why it's a challenge for me because I just, for me,

it's just Raiders being first.

But to your point, Nathan, one thing I think Spielberg or the cinematographer

said in this film, because of its personal character driven nature,

there are a lot more closeups of Indiana Jones, like extreme closeups

on his face and his father face.

He's not in as many closeups in the first two films.

There'll be closeup shots, but it's more like wide or him talking to

people in last crusade is a very, is the most personal of the three.

And I can honestly see why Spielberg at that time wanted to end it there.

Cause it's like the perfect trilogy ender.

It's just perfect.

It is, it

sticks the landing more than the other two.

It really, they literally ride off into the sunset in the last shot.

How perfect is that?

They're riding into the sunset.

That's the shot.

They actually ride toward it.

It's And it also gets

your comeuppance, which I really liked.

Exactly.

Yeah.

I love the ground splitting apart there with all the I remember being a little

depressed after I saw the movie when I was a kid because I was so blown

away by Indiana Jones's adventures.

I was like, Dad, I want to go on adventures.

Like, how do I get to do that?

And he was like it's a movie, but yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's a point I, I was thinking about as I'm watching this, that it

stuck to my ribs as I, I couldn't shake there is a divine force that

seems to be watching over Indy.

And I love that the film is acknowledging that in this moment.

In, in, in this version, in, in this film here because Indie this film is in, on

the joke through the first two movies.

No matter what shenanigans befall him, he's going to be okay.

And it's not just that this movie's acknowledging that there's a

mystical presence or maybe it's a guardian angel that is with him.

And it's going to throw back his hat at the end of the scene as well.

And this movie is in, is finally in on the joke.

It knows who the audience is and what it is.

And it's for the first time, I feel like it's really comfortable

in its shoes and it knows how to.

Write the perfect movie that is addressing that because I, and I

love how it's embracing kind of the ridiculousness in a lot of ways that

this guy's gonna be okay no matter what.

He's not gonna fall off a cliff and the hat's gonna blow right into his hand.

He's gonna fall, jump into the water, and his hat's gonna float right over to him.

And we, I love when this

hat just blows back in the ciid

and we think nothing of it because that's just.

He is just always going to have that kind of luck or a guardian angel

or something or God or whatever.

He's a very like faith based filmmaker.

And I think he does a great job in this blending the ridiculousness.

That is faith sometimes,

but, and you talk about the humor or like his faith or Indiana Jones always

had, like having divine interception.

I love it when he like survives the tank thing and his father's happy to see him.

But Denholm Elliott is like standing in the background didn't

he just fall off the cliff?

He's he can't, he's like, how did that he, they're

acknowledging how ridiculous it is.

I will say I wasn't.

necessarily thrilled with what they did with the Denholm Elliot character in this.

I feel like they turned him into a total doofus, he's

not a doofus in the first one.

Yeah, he's

not.

And I think the movie needed that kind of comic relief, but he really

is a bumbling buffoon in this movie.

And the moment that gets a huge laugh I will, cause I saw it, my,

it's not even a complaint, but I saw this movie way too many times.

I love it, but I almost know it too well, but I, in the theater, what

always got laughs is when it's the cameras pushing in on Indiana Jones.

He's Brody, you'll never find him.

He'll blend in, disappear with any luck.

He's got the grail already.

And then it just cuts to Marcus Brody.

He's Oh, does anyone interpret it?

I speak ancient Greece.

I have to say it is my, one of my favorite quotes from this movie.

I did capture that audio and I want to play it because this just speaks

to the quality of the writing and the comedy in this, which is so much

better than the Temple of Dubai.

Oh, let me play it here.

He's given them to Marcus Brody.

Marks.

He didn't drag poor Marcus along, did you?

He's not up to the challenge.

He sticks out

like a sore thumb.

We'll find him.

That hell you will.

He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he needs.

Brody's got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan.

He speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom.

He'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see him again.

With any luck, he's got the grill already.

Does anyone See, I thought that was Indy bluffing, I thought he yeah.

He's

totally

bluffing.

He knows, he's just trying to throw the

Nazis off.

You know what's interesting too, I feel like It's a bit

later, it's a bit later where he's talking to his dad like, yeah,

he'd get lost in his own museum.

He tells his dad that, yeah.

What's

interesting with this movie Like Raiders, Spielberg himself actually

seems more interested in the story as a director, so when there's like expository

dialogue, when they're explaining things, there's like, when he's with Donovan at

that like cocktail party, they talk about the plot and they talk about how to find

the grail and it's very focused on it.

In Temple of Doom, Every time there's plot forwarding moments Spielberg was

always undercutting it with Oh, here's some gross out comedy or here's someone

God.

Yes.

And Raiders and crusade.

They actually they focus on the They let the story, they don't, when it

comes to expository dialogue, they don't, the movie doesn't like try

to make you not pay attention to it.

It just focuses on it.

And it in and of itself is interesting.

I'm so glad you brought this up, Sam, because this is something I

wanted to mention the last two movies, and I kept forgetting to do so because

in Raiders of the Lost Ark, there's a very important expository dialogue

that happens where they're talking about where the Nazis are digging.

And it's something that I.

Always never really paid attention to because at the same time it's

when Indy has the poison date and all you're doing is watching.

Is he going to eat the date?

Is he going to eat the date?

But him and Sal are talking about where they're digging.

The Nazis are digging in the wrong place in the back of the

coin.

Exactly.

And I have, I had to watch it probably like 15 times to start paying

attention to that bit of dialogue.

The other thing in temple of doom There's this whole conversation about

the thuggy cult happening at the dinner that I'm not paying attention to because

I'm watching all the gross out food that's happening, but there's a lot of

information going on at that scene that no one's paying attention to in this movie.

One of my biggest complaints was that they're dumping all this expository

dialogue, and no one's paying attention to it because don't listen to this.

Look at this.

I think Spielberg himself said too, that like he, he often

he'll do a lot of meticulous storyboarding on action sequences.

He did a lot less storyboarding with Temple of Doom.

He said that he was under uncomfortable with the darker nature

of the story, and he didn't quite tonally feel comfortable with it.

So he said that he went out of his way.

To interject as much humor as he could to lighten up the movie.

And you can see those tones at odds with each other in that film.

Whereas this film, the wit and the action, it's like, it feels just like

everyone's on the same page this go round just, and I thought I was, I forgot.

I think that speaks to the comfort.

That you mentioned earlier, Nathan, there's just this, we've lived in

this character's skin, everyone who's worked on this movie has followed

along and grown with the character and thought about the character and

they're growing in the same direction.

And there's a confidence And storytelling that comes from that, I think that

like tank chase, it means a lot because it's just that this movie has

that desert, like a B you talked about in the first film, how everyone's

like really dirty and grimy and dusty.

Like

the 80s were the sweatiest time to make

this film goes back to that, like the dirt and the light.

Desert and like vehicles kicking up dust and horses.

It's got that it's back to that.

That third act really helps make the movie for me because to the grandeur of it.

I love everything else, but I love how big the ending gets.

It's just their quest.

It's huge.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Man, what else?

I actually have some thoughts on the ending and you might not.

Like all my comments on it, but I don't want to jump there yet.

Cause there's a few things I think is also important to mention that,

the course correction with the lesser emphasis on blood and gore is a big thing.

It's funny that temple doom is rated PG.

This was PG 13 and there is not.

Barely a trace of blood in this movie.

I think the only blood we see might be on River Phoenix's chin

in the beginning of this movie.

It might just be the anxiety that like all the decapitated

heads in this movie might bring.

That could be it.

Like a

lot of people, perhaps.

But.

I, so there's that.

What else?

I will say one nitpicky thing, and this is just I totally love

this movie, but I wanted to, Nathan, you know how you'll sometimes talk

about okay, so I've never noticed this ever watching it before, but

when they're tied up to the chair.

In the castle.

Yep.

And he's let's me kill them now.

And then Elsa's no, they might be useful.

They all leave the room.

There's no guard.

Like they just left them there.

What's that was a little bit like, that's a little convenient.

There's little

plot holes like that.

Like in the.

Airport or like off the blimp or whatever, when they punch the guy.

And then it's that's never really followed up on.

There's some stuff like that.

That just doesn't come all the way full circle.

It doesn't distract me, but I noticed it.

This was the first time I,

go ahead, Sam.

Oh, no, I was gonna say, I know it's meant as like comedy, but with the

first time when he like bumps into Adolf Hitler in the theater, I was terrified

because I was like, Oh my God, he's going to like, take, he's going to find out

who it is that he signs his autograph.

And you're like, Oh, like that, that, that scene is tense.

But it was funny

going back to the blimp for a moment.

This was the first time I noticed, and this was like probably looped in

dialogue in post that Indy destroyed the radio on the Zeppelin afterwards.

I never heard picked up in that.

Yes.

I noticed that too.

Yes.

And because I always was wondering how stupid, like this

doesn't make any sense at all.

If he's throwing general Vogel.

Out of the Zeppelin, why is the Zeppelin still taking off?

Like, why aren't they like calling the come back?

Like, why is it taking them like a half hour to figure this out?

And I never picked up on that, that looped in dialogue when they're going through

the belly of the Zeppelin afterwards until until this past week, like 30.

I know

It's amazing.

Like I've noticed little bits of dialogue that like the first time watching

temple recently, I actually did not focus on all the gross out stuff and I

listened to the expository dialogue and they explained a lot about the thuggy.

I was like, man, I'd never knew that before.

This is only my 40th time watching this movie, but I hear that.

I, and, but there's little things like that.

I love it when Sean Connery shoots the tail of the plane, but when it

shows the wide shot of the plane.

Yes.

The tail's fine.

Like it's,

by the way, there are like four major action set pieces in this film.

There's like the boat chase, there's the motorcycle chase.

There's the plane dog fight in the tank chase.

The plane dog fight.

It's really cool.

And I love the banter between him and his dad, but.

It looks awful.

Like those hats, they couldn't bother to have like even the

tiniest little fan blowing them to show that there is some wind.

I

was just watching this so happy because I was like, man,

these guys fucking love planes

like

their

hats off or something, because it just, it shows that

they are clearly not fine.

And the funny thing is.

Steven Spielberg did another movie involving planes that same year, and that,

those flying sequences look a lot better.

Yeah, they're, yeah, no, exactly, that was Christmas 89, that's incredible

that's Ellie's favorite movie, sorry, sorry Ellie, I couldn't resist but yeah

but even in 1989, That plane chase was very entertaining, but even as a kid,

it looked, I could feel like I couldn't articulate it back then, but it looked a

little wonky, but I like, I do love the, yeah, I love it when like the Nazi flies

into the, under the bridge and like clips his wings and just slides past them on

like under the top of those hilarious.

That was

amazing.

I know you mentioned the tank chase, but like you said, I love

that you said that tank chase is on par with the chase in Raiders.

I think I agree.

And Harrison Ford riding a horse, chasing down.

I think, my God is Is there a better, is there a more natural combination

of two mammals on screen with,

I can't think of, I can't think of it.

You are forgetting about one great set piece though, Nathan.

And it's the first one it's with River Phoenix.

It is great.

It is great.

That's amazing.

I

love you get so much good backstory not to drag us all the way

back to the beginning, but there's so much good stuff that happens.

Yeah, I'm taking us along.

Learning that Indy gets the scar on his chin from fighting a lion.

That's pretty cool.

Perfect.

And I just the whole circus car chase I thought was great.

And then getting to see his dad and how that sets all that up was perfect.

Yep.

I also love the opening shot of the mountain, like the

Paramount logo on the mountain.

The movie starts like I just love the variety of Indiana Jones movies opening.

Cause it depends on what mood you're in.

If you want like a big splashy nightclub scene, go see Temple.

If you want this epic desert, beautiful shots in Utah and there's always,

there's like singing at the beginning.

I don't know if it's, if that's like the Boy Scouts or like Native

Americans in the background.

I never knew what that was.

Cindy

was a Boy Scout.

No, but there's there's audio at the beginning and there's

like singing and drums that you can hear behind the mountain.

And I've always loved that.

I never know what that was supposed to be, but it sounded cool.

I can't wait

to rewatch these movies because you, sometimes you both say stuff

about them and I'm like, there's so much I'm sure I'm not picking up on.

I want to talk a couple of things about the end because I do have

a couple of nitpicks with the end.

I love this movie through and throughout, but there's a couple

of silly things at the end here.

Donovan and Elsa enter this chamber.

First of all, they're ignoring this 700 year old man dressed like a knight,

just, chilling there and maybe talk to that guy for a minute or two.

I don't know.

He might have something.

They're Nazis, Nathan.

They're bad people.

I know, but it's, it makes, paints them as just not very.

Interesting villains, they're not, and here's what silly is that Donovan

goes through the effort of sending in his minions into these trials

one at a time to you do this so that I don't die, but he so cavalierly

drinks from the grail, and Wait, so

you mean when they enter the grail room as villains, they just seem like dumb

or cartoonish or I didn't quite understand

what I'm saying, what I'm trying to say is maybe I didn't explain it

properly because I do that a lot of times, but Donovan is sending in all his minions

and Nazi soldiers in one at a time into the trial, like the first one, the breath

of God, and they're beheading them one at a time and that's smart, don't do it

himself, he's sending in other people.

To do it, which is also weird.

It's not about the penitent man must kneel.

The penitent man must kneel and roll, which is, I don't know if that's

supposed to be, but anyways, so he, but once Indy goes through, apparently

that trial has been triggered.

You don't have to ever do it again.

He's able to do somehow.

He also knows he can do the word of God.

I guess he heard Indy.

His dad tell him how to do that part about, Jehovah, he, even though Indy

did the bridge, he was able to do that.

I know he put some pebbles and stuff over it, but he didn't, he only did

like the first five or seven feet of it.

And that's like a 30 foot bridge.

And he was, he would still do that.

But even after he gets to the Knights chamber, he gets in there and.

He is so cavalier about, I can't decide and else's Oh, I'll choose for him.

Maybe not.

Maybe I'll have one of these other guys do it.

In that moment.

Yeah,

exactly.

And I'm like, it's just turned him into such a stupid character.

I get it.

I get it.

It's great for the film.

But when I thought about it, I was like, you know what?

It's just, it just doesn't work.

They needed it for the story, but it's a, I always thought I always

had this like alternate hilarious ending in my head where the night is

so glad that someone's there that like the night runs away and Indiana Jones

is forced to be the new guardian.

So he's just stuck in that room for the rest of his life.

And like the movie ends with a taciturn Harrison Ford, like

sitting on the night's chair.

And he's just shit, and then the camera pulls back and that's it.

I

just feel bad.

They fucked up that night's house, like I know

she's still stuck there alive, technically forever.

And like his place.

I was like, do

we think it reset?

He doesn't

have the grail anymore, does he?

The grail fell into the pit.

It's just that it's still there.

It's on that ledge.

It fell underneath.

It's just,

so the knight can just swoop down and go get it, put it back, you think?

It's I don't know, it's still on the foundation, that would be such an

inappropriate mood killer if, after the end credits, it cuts back to the grail

on the ledge and you see the knight reach for it, but he just falls in and he's

Does the knight, does the knight die?

Yeah.

I

feel like the grail force field is still protecting that area.

So I think he's just stuck there and he's got all the time in the world.

So he can slowly chisel away at that pillar.

That's like blocking the exit.

He's got some, he's got some maintenance jobs to do in there.

The last thing I just want to say, I think these, we talked about.

The scene where Elsa is hanging from Indy's hand and soon falls and Indy takes

her place and his dad is holding him for me is the most important scene in this

entire

film because throughout we've been told that Henry only cares about

the grail and his son is secondary.

That's what the essence of what we've been led, what's going on here.

And Indy desperately wants to have his dad's approval and affection.

And he has that opportunity to grab the grail and his father

calls out, Indiana, let it go.

And in that instant, Henry is both acknowledging that It's not worth it, but

you are, and basically you're not defined by your treasures, but by being my son.

And in that instant, like all their shit is resolved and it's

such a great bit of writing.

It's a great moment.

And it's the first time he calls him Indiana in the whole movie.

He's always called him junior.

So it's it's, I have literally just said the same thing.

Spielberg loves the scene.

And I think he.

Yeah.

Loves the movie because that moment like just

it's this is a great double feature with the Fableman's

Yeah.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Yeah.

I love

it.

He's working out a lot of stuff.

A lot of issues.

Daddy issues.

For sure.

A lot of his movies have big child of divorce energy,

Yeah.

You know what?

There is, there's another clip that I want to play here.

Then we could probably take a break here.

Okay.

I know we're going backwards from the climax of this movie

here, but there's such a, there's a lot of subtle moments here.

I love all the quiet dialogue that Indy and his dad have, and there's the great

scene on the Zeppelin, but there's the scene also where after the tank falls down

and Henry thinks he lost his son and he has that scene where I think I thought

I lost him and all that and he sees that He lived we already talked about this a

little bit You But for a few seconds, he becomes his father and he hugs him and.

It's one of the, it's such a great moment where Indiana Jones, he smiles

and he's being embraced by his dad.

And honestly, it's the first time I watch this movie where I actually started to

cry because I know that feeling, to seek that affection from someone and then.

Five seconds later, it's like back to work, and it's almost I didn't mean to

get that sentimental, so it's such, it was a home hitting moment in a lot of

ways for me, but yeah but that was the essence of this whole movie and then

it culminates in that ending, but yeah.

It's a perfect ending.

It's, like I said, the ending out of the three that sticks

the landing for me the most.

Especially, I really didn't like the ending of Temple, and I

think this is so much stronger.

It does a couple things.

What you're talking about with the father and son relationship,

Nathan, I think is spot on.

It's so validating, not just that they find each other and have affection for

each other despite their differences, but how they're two pieces of a puzzle, and

their work complements each other so well.

That they are that they work together.

And that they're this great combination and that together

they can solve these problems.

And I like that the diary is the sort of prop throughout the film

that tells the story of distance and then bring each other closer.

And then it's just a tool that's used, pages are ripped out, but that bond is

still the same and that togetherness.

And you get such great storytelling at the end because you see Elsa fall and

you see her It comes back to intention again, and yes, it's the moment of

Sean Connery Henry saying, Indiana.

It's I choose you.

You're my priority over this, but it's also the character development for Indy.

It's what we get to see him grow as to and saying, I'm going to put family first

and the intention behind this first.

Also, one quick thing that I was just thinking that I really like, but

the story structure is even though the MacGuffin is the grail, I like cleverly

doing the script where it's like the diary, but Brody has the map, but they

go back to Berlin just to get the diary.

It's not quite straightforward.

And I like the twists and turns are entertaining there.

Some great accoutrements.

Great accessories.

Yeah.

This movie is just so smart, lean, and we're gonna wrap this up.

I, one of the things I think just makes this.

Just wonderful filmmaking being the third film in this franchise is that The things

that were, Already familiar, so familiar with the Indy character in the universe.

We, we don't have to keep seeing over and over.

Like for instance, what I'm trying to say is like when they get to Berlin

and Indy overtakes a guard to get his uniform, we actually only see a quick

moment of some feet being dragged.

It, Indy steps out dressed as a Nazi soldier

and the camera passes by their motorcycle.

And it's just Oh, they're here.

And they punched a guy out.

Got it.

Yeah.

Okay.

We can fill in the gaps we've already seen so many times

having watched him sneak up on enemies and do this sort of thing.

It saves us from having to watch it again.

That's keeping this, the momentum moving forward.

We can picture it in our mind's eye, how that exchange went down.

Spielberg was smart enough to trust the audience did not have

to show us another instance of.

Indy sneaking up on somebody and punching him and taking him out.

We didn't need another fight sequence.

We got what we needed to in those little moments.

So it is it's really well done.

Yeah.

I don't have anything else.

I don't know about you guys.

It was great.

It's a good movie.

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Okay.

So we're going to come back and get to our decisions on whether

Indiana Jones and the last crusade is going to be saved in a vault.

For future generations are purged into the fiery apocalypse.

Seems like there might not be a lot of suspense here, but I will go first.

Cause I went first on my review.

I, like I said before, if I think this is a better movie than Raiders

of the Lost Ark, and I said that was a perfect film, then absolutely.

This movie has to be saved.

If these were the only two Indiana Jones movies ever made, then they would be.

That's all I would ever need.

Yes, this movie must be saved in our vault, a hundred percent.

Yeah.

I totally agree.

I, I was a little on the fence earlier because Raiders is just such a perfect all

encapsulating film, but this movie just touches on so much character development

that I do think if you're going to have multiple Indiana Jones movies in

the vault, these are the two to have.

The differences are important enough.

So it's a yes for me.

But B, you haven't seen Crystal Skull yet, so we don't know.

Sure.

Maybe we can have three.

I don't know.

My mind's open.

I know literally nothing about it.

Are there still Nazis?

I don't know.

We shall find out.

Okay.

I was surprised to see them back.

I was like, ooh.

Though I truly love this movie, I don't, I would not include it in the

vault just because, no I'm kidding, I would put it in the vault, yeah.

I totally believed you, Sam.

Me too.

Yeah, I was like, alright.

You should trade a fuck with us.

Yeah, pretty much.

But I can't say, yeah, like I agree.

It's if I, it's almost as good as Raiders, it's of course, like I

can't, I also, when it comes to, if we did the Star Trek franchise, I'd

be doomed because I'm a completionist.

So even the shitty ones, like I need to have all of them

on a shelf so I can have the.

To choose.

If one movie's missing, as terrible as it is, that's the one I'm going to

want to watch because it's not there.

All right.

That was, I think, that was a really good discussion of this film.

Thanks.

That was Thanks guys.

All right.

I'm so glad.

Something that will never happen.

Oh, no, what were you going to say?

I was just going to say, I'm so glad to be watching these finally.

And.

Thanks, guys, for going along and doing a rewatch for me, because

I really wanted to see these.

It

only gets better from here.

It's true, and one thing that will probably never happen on the show, but

if you want to talk bad threequels, if we did threequels from 1983, we could do

Jaws 3D and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3.

Awful movies.

That'll never happen, but listeners stay tuned for when

we're

all together to watch Jaws next year.

Let's get this in the room.

I almost forgot to do this.

Here we go.

All right.

Junior.

All

right.

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Truth wise, you take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I

show you how to beat the radicals.

I reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to rescue the ship.

What?

You cheated.

I don't like to lose.

Come on.

Yes.

I I am all about Captain Kirk from Star Trek 2, The Wrath of Khan.

And that audio quote, incredible.

I had

some fun.

One thing that's missing is you should have had, he chose P P P P Pauly.

Maybe I'll do a remix of it.

Need some help.

Anybody want to do some audio editing out there?

Email us.

All right.

I'm a busy guy.

I'm a busy guy.

That was actually really well done.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

So rules of our Harrison Ford movie draft.

We're in the middle of our Indiana Jones retrospective.

So why not do this?

The rules are this.

We are each going to draft five Harrison Ford movies.

And we cannot draft this.

Once a movie is drafted, it is off the table book.

Off the table.

It is and we just want to get our five feet movies.

I'm excited.

All right.

And Saint, this

ain't no joke.

This is gonna be epic.

Yeah.

So what's funny is I looked at his filmography.

He is not the most prolific.

Actor out there.

He's been around since the early seventies, but man, he, and he is a

little bit of a journeyman too, right?

He just takes job.

Yeah.

So let's see what happens.

And I had to do this.

Did you, I know I didn't, I sprung this on you, but do you have any

particular strategy you wanna share?

No.

I'm not telling you.

Poker, puh, poker face.

Okay.

Alright, speaking of my fave, my favorite hair is important.

To do this in a fair way, this is how, we will do a random number for

this, cause I don't have a better system.

No, I like the order we were in.

1 to

20?

We'll do 1 to 20.

11.

He has 11.

16.

And I'll do, and I'll do 2.

And it is 18.

Woo!

So Sam, you are going 1st, Bea, you are going 2nd, and I'm going 3rd.

Okay.

A trilogy of people.

A three quill.

Alright, so Sam, you get the first pick in our movie draft,

Harrison Ford movie draft.

And I want to do this also let's like a timer, like 10 seconds at most.

So let's do this fast.

So keep this entertaining,

sounds good.

So I, when I was born in 1981, for my first choice, I would choose the

excellent Peter Weir directed film Witness starring Harrison Ford.

Okay.

Witness at the table.

Dammit.

Already done.

Not happy.

All right, B.

Blade Runner.

Blade Runner.

Oh, you guys, I don't know what's

wrong with me.

B's second favorite movie.

Okay.

I am, I'm going to go with Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Dammit.

All right.

It's fine.

I'm fine.

You're fine.

You're fine.

We're fine.

I'm fine.

It's fine.

All

right.

I got my Indiana Jones in.

All right.

And are we doing snake?

We're doing snake.

I didn't mention that before, but we have to do snake.

Do what?

Snake order.

Snake order.

So I have the fourth pick.

The third and fourth pick, we do snake order throughout.

I'm just bringing the sign in now.

Oh.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, either way, I'm in the middle, doesn't matter.

Right.

I want to witness, but that's okay.

I have to get in the two of the biggest franchises he was in.

But I, he's, he was never cooler.

In a Star Wars movie than he was in Empire Strikes Back.

Mm hmm.

Okay.

I'm going Last Crusade.

Last Crusade.

I'm gonna take the movie

we just watched.

Last Crusade is off the table.

All right, Blade Runner Last Crusade, we are all in the 80s still.

Wait, do I, It's the early days.

I go now, right?

Or do I not?

Yes, you and you pick two.

You get two picks, Sam.

Oh, wow.

Options.

I'm gonna.

Are the middles really.

I'm

gonna.

I'm gonna.

So I can choose two right now is what you're saying?

Yes.

Yes.

That's incredible.

I'm gonna do a one, two Philip Noyce punch from 1992 and 1994.

That would be.

You aren't you?

Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.

I was going to do Patriot Games.

Oh, I was going to do Patriot Games.

Okay, it's fine.

I had those two available to me.

It was all too clear.

I'm doing The Fugitive.

The Fugitive.

Tommy Lee Jones.

All my favorites are being taken away.

Joey Pants.

Okay, my top tier is gone, all except for one.

But, I don't know if I want that one.

Yeah.

And okay, this is going to sound like an odd pick, but I think this is an

extremely underrated movie, and I think the only time he ever played

a villain, and I love this movie to death, and this is What Lies Beneath.

Ooh, good one.

Good choice.

Never seen it.

I love the variety.

You'd like it, it's

scary.

I would.

I love this.

It's actually really good.

Yeah.

And I can't, I had to go with that because I've got

the other franchise covered.

Nobody's picked the other anyways, it's okay.

I know B, you're not going to take any Star Wars movies.

I like Star Wars.

There's no reason that I wouldn't take any Star Wars movies.

All right.

Oh, I've got another pick.

I think I have another pick.

All right.

I get another one.

Hmm.

I can't, I don't want two Star Wars movies in my pick.

I want variety.

And you've taken all the ones that I want, so I am gonna go down another tier.

You sure it's not Return of the Jedi

. Nathan: Sorry man.

And I am going to here's okay, this is gonna be a little weird Be

you took Blade Runner and I am a giant fan of Blade 20 20, 20 49.

Yeah.

Yeah, I was gonna take

it.

That's a great, it's a great legacy.

Cool.

Yeah, I'm done with that.

I love

that movie.

Fuck.

All right.

I only got one pick after this.

All right.

How many

picks do I have?

You get you're up, you got two picks.

These are your last two, , you got one pick.

Yeah.

Yeah, you're in the middle.

Okay.

All right.

This is tough.

This is tough.

I'll go Star Wars.

Let's do the OG Star Wars.

Alright.

Sam?

Get off my plane, Air Force One.

Air Force One.

Can't believe none

of us picked Sabrina.

Yeah, I've seen that.

And Sam, you have your last pick.

Ah,

fleppergast.

The Devil's Own.

I, completely, I can't believe I'm going to pick this movie.

This I, this is I'm committing blasphemy.

This movie is a guilty pleasure for me.

Give you a hint.

He co stars in this film.

One of his co stars is David Schwimmer.

I'm of course referring to six days, seven nights.

I

didn't expect that.

Yeah, neither did I.

Yeah, I

did not expect that.

I haven't seen it.

So it's ridiculous.

I love it.

It's like Diet Coke, Indiana Jones, basically.

Okay,

be your last pick.

Oh, I got one more.

I thought that was my last one.

You have Blade

Runner, Last Crusade, Fugitive and Star Wars.

Let me guess Force 10 from Navarone?

Nailed it.

Obviously it's Cowboys and Aliens.

No, it's not.

It's not.

It's not.

It's Not his biggest, but he's in American Graffiti, it's not a vehicle for him, but

it's not, and I thought about that because it's a really

great movie, but he's, it's not a

Harrison Ford vehicle, I be tempted to do Working Girl or something,

but I like American Graffiti better.