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It's time for our monthly wrap-up show! On this episode we hand out our June Pride Awards, including unique categories like Wingman/Wingwoman and Scene Stealer. We rank our top films for this series and unveil our mid-year top five movies of 2024. The episode also features a look ahead at anticipated films and a tribute to Donald Sutherland. Finally, we reveal our plans for next month's theme: '80s summer comedies! Listen in for all the details!

04:23 June Pride Awards & Rankings

22:27 Mid-Year Top Five Movies

46:19 Honorable Mentions and Disappointments

52:04 Anticipated Movies of the second half of 2024

57:57 Remembering Donald Sutherland

01:01:31 Revealing What we're watching this July

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

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Texas, hurdles relentlessly toward Earth, the world braces for an apocalyptic end.

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

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

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very soul of our civilization.

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The 35 and 70 millimeter prints that encapsulate the magic, the emotion,

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and the dreams of generations past.

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

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are carefully cataloged and cradled confines of the bunker.

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Perhaps there was room for more.

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

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The movie nerds stand united the keepers of a flame promising a

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future where the art of storytelling endures Transcending the boundaries

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of time and space God help us all

Nathan:

Welcome to back to the framerate Part of the Westin Media Podcast Network.

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

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

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of the impending asteroid apocalypse.

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You can find more episodes of this podcast on backtotheframerate.

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com where you can subscribe and share our show and find us on our

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socials at Back to the framerate.

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

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Brianna Budworth and Sam Cole.

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Hello everybody.

Sam:

Hello.

Nathan:

How are you?

Sam:

Doing pretty well.

Sam:

How are you doing?

Nathan:

Excellent.

Nathan:

Excellent.

Nathan:

As you know, I think I

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think B is muted.

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It appears sadly.

Bee:

So I'm here

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four years

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later.

Bee:

You would think I figured it out.

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I

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could have let that slide in the name of comedy, but I just, I'm too

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much, too much empathy as a human being.

Sam:

You know,

Nathan:

thanks.

Nathan:

Well, glad you're all here and welcome everybody listening and tuning in.

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For our June wrap up episode.

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We do this every month where we just get together for a week and catch

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up on what we've been watching.

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And especially this month we are going to hand out our June award,

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our June, June awards, what is June awards, our June pride awards.

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We watched some, some great movies this past month in we did, and just kind

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of like catch up our final thoughts on that before we move on to our

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next theme and share about what we've been watching this the past couple of

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weeks should be a fun little episode.

Bee:

It's summer guys.

Bee:

It's officially summer.

Nathan:

Summer's here.

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Summer Blushbusters.

Bee:

Yes.

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Some, some, some, some time in the box office is back

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with inside out too.

Sam:

I loved your Facebook, Nathan, when you posted about

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going to see inside out too.

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And you're like, I'm going to be, I had to do my part and contribute

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to Bob Iger's retirement fund.

Sam:

I thought that was

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brilliant.

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He's, he's, he's having a good, he's got to help him out, help him

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out, you know yeah, I've been having some fun with my socials this week.

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I I also posted, cause you know, yesterday we, you know, I live in

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Massachusetts and we had a tornado warning and I sent it to you guys.

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We've been having a lot of fun on the show.

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Teasing our anticipation for twisters.

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So I put, I shared it with you guys and I posted it on, on a, on my socials

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the picture, the, the meme of Glenn Powell, looking out the window of.

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From the trailer where he's like, like, woo, you know, I

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don't know what you call it.

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He got the framing right and the facial expression perfectly.

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It was instantly recognizable.

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Like I got the, I got it like immediately.

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I was like, yeah, spectacular.

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Of

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course, I took a picture of the tornado warning that

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came up on my dashboard as well.

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So

Bee:

we are really excited for Twisters.

Sam:

Yeah, we are.

Sam:

More than we should be.

Sam:

More than we should be, but it could be awesome.

Sam:

You never know.

Sam:

It's fine.

Bee:

It might be great.

Bee:

There's always

Sam:

hope.

Bee:

Yeah, you don't know.

Bee:

Hey, we all just made

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plans to go out and see it together in a couple of weeks.

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So yeah.

Bee:

Hell yeah.

Sam:

That's true.

Sam:

That is true.

Nathan:

So yeah, let's, let's get into it.

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We so this past couple of weeks we watched some great movies.

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Sam, I know you been busy.

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You were off.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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In San Diego the past week doing some, some business, some work.

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So you weren't with us last week and I don't know if you had a chance to watch.

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I didn't even ask you off when we were off the air,

Sam:

you know, like a complete idiot.

Sam:

And I'm going to apologize to the whole world on this podcast

Sam:

because the world is listening.

Sam:

That's how good our numbers are.

Sam:

So you should join it too.

Sam:

Listener out there, but I did not see it and I completely forgot to see it.

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And then, not only that, but today I had free time to watch it and I was just like

Sam:

sitting around like a jet lagged idiot.

Sam:

So you know what, you could've done your apologies

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and you could have just listened to our episode on and

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learned everything you needed to know.

Sam:

That's true.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

The episode is out.

Sam:

And I saw that, but it was like half an hour before the podcast, so I was like

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too late.

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1, 1, 1.

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That was kind of funny.

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Well, the episode only dropped, you know, at midnight.

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Earlier today, the, I was teasing that that was going to be the most

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obscure it is the most obscure movie that we've reviewed on the show.

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I'm referring to the 1996 film lilies from John Grayson, a movie that none

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of us have even heard of until a couple of weeks ago when now friend of the

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show, Duncan Flaster recommended it.

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And we had, we had a great time talking about it, but none of

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us had even heard about it.

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I am.

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I would guess that nobody, probably very few people listening to this

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episode, the show prior to that episode had even heard of it either.

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But what's really funny is that episode has already been downloaded more than

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our flash episode from a year ago.

Sam:

Oh wow.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Sam:

That's amazing.

Sam:

You never know.

Sam:

Well tune in, tune in

Bee:

folks and listen, listen to Lily's.

Bee:

It's a good movie.

Nathan:

So we, we will, you can refrain from any of the discussion around

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Willys, but you know what, Sam, if you ever get a chance to check it out,

Nathan:

I'd love to know what you think of it.

Sam:

I definitely will watch it because I was planning on watching it and

Sam:

then schedule change, but like, yeah, I'm fascinated cause I have no pulse

Sam:

on whether you liked or disliked it.

Sam:

And so I got, I got to listen and watch.

Sam:

And

Bee:

we won't tell you either.

Sam:

Exactly.

Nathan:

Okay.

Nathan:

So.

Nathan:

Well, me and Bee will probably partake in some of these awards.

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And Sam, if you, if you do not wish to do all these, that's perfectly okay.

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But

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we, I, I, I will do my best.

Sam:

You do your best wish.

Sam:

I wish.

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And you can make up some things if you want, as you want to.

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I,

Sam:

I'll be brave.

Sam:

Just like Disney's brave, unlike its sequel coward,

Sam:

which is not as good a film.

Sam:

, Nathan: I hoping Eng Grief actually was a cyclical coward.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

Awesome.

Sam:

It doesn't, but wouldn't that be like insane if it did to be amazing?

Bee:

Oh my God.

Sam:

And like the hero failed, like he was a coward.

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He never overcame it.

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There was no arc.

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It's not a Disney

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movie.

Bee:

I know.

Bee:

You're not describing a Disney movie at all.

Bee:

That's why it

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would be great.

Sam:

The audience would be so shocked.

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It'd be a hit out of like, they'd shock watch it.

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They'd shock watch it a couple of times and be like, is this real?

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Can we enter

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our new Disney era?

Bee:

Oh God.

Bee:

I'm so tired.

Nathan:

Let's save this episode from the gutter already.

Nathan:

Let's rank these movies.

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We, we watched three movies for our June pride.

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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

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Then we watched Portrait of a Lady on

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Fire.

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Portrait

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of a Lady on Fire.

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It's been a, it's been a long day.

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And of course, Lilies from 1996.

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And I think what we're going to do is we're going to give out some awards here.

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But I think the first thing we want to do is, should we do this at the end?

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Rank these?

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This was at the top of our agenda, but maybe we should do this at the end.

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Sure.

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We'll do this at the end.

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We'll do this again.

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Let's start with our first award.

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And this is something we've been a little bit tradition here is

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our wingman wing woman award.

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What character would you want to be your wingman wing woman on a date?

Sam:

I can, I can definitely answer that.

Sam:

It would, it would have to be Terence stamp, be very supportive.

Sam:

I would have to, I would have to say so it was, it was either that or one of

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the people from the like drunken the, the brawl, like the, the, the minors

Sam:

in the town getting drunk just because they'd be so like drunk that you could

Sam:

like manipulate them and like tell them what to do as you're like wingman.

Nathan:

That's great, Sam.

Nathan:

I'll jump ahead.

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I also have.

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Terrence Stamp as Bernadette as my, my, my wing woman award, just

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because I, I think that Bernadette would take no shit from nobody.

Bee:

It proved themselves to be a great wing person.

Bee:

I'm going for Sophie.

Bee:

From Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Bee:

She was the housekeeper.

Nathan:

Okay.

Bee:

Yeah.

Bee:

I think she can keep a secret, which I like.

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And I think she really, like, sticks with that trio.

Bee:

You know?

Nathan:

I like that.

Nathan:

I like it.

Nathan:

Okay.

Nathan:

Our next award is our Scene Stealer Award.

Bee:

Dun da da dun!

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Sam, since you just volunteered to go first.

Sam:

Yeah, so You know you have to go first all the time.

Sam:

For the scene stealer award, I don't know if, I mean, it's not like a It

Sam:

certainly steals the scene, but it's not like a positive, upbeat scene.

Sam:

I think it is one, a scene that just stands out, like, intensely in my mind

Sam:

as in Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

Sam:

When Guy Pearce shows up at the Miner's Town, like, all by himself, and you're

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like, Oh my god, he's in serious trouble, and he gets chased, like, I find that

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scene scary part.

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Extraordinarily intense, and like, that scene is a standout in a

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different, terrifying kind of a way, but like, that's a huge standout for me.

Bee:

Wow, I went so much sexier than you did.

Bee:

Yeah, I went with the

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darkness.

Bee:

Yeah, I went with Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Bee:

Zubruh, zubruh.

Bee:

With the, you dreamt of me?

Bee:

No, I thought of you.

Bee:

What not a dry seat in the house, folks.

Bee:

What a great line.

Sam:

It's an amazing

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line.

Bee:

Their chemistry just off the charts.

Bee:

I mean, I know we've used like scene stealing kind of loosely.

Bee:

Really?

Bee:

Really?

Bee:

I would totally say their, their chemistry.

Bee:

Mm-Hmm.

Bee:

. Their,

Sam:

yeah.

Sam:

Their chemistry was like incredible.

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I went with, I went with the, another movie for, for scene

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steel award, and I went with Brent Carver's role as Countess.

Nathan:

As the Countess in Lilies.

Nathan:

Oh

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yeah.

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And

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I literally went with this because every moment that Brent Carver

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is in this movie, he stole the scene, this movie, he literally stole the scene.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

This is the reason why this movie.

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Is as good as it is for me Sam.

Nathan:

And I think it's worth seeing because of Brent Carver in this movie.

Nathan:

So he's incredible in this.

Nathan:

And the reason why this movie is I actually bumped it up from a three

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to a three and a half last week because I just kept couldn't not get

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over how great he is in this film.

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And it made me sad.

Nathan:

You know, a couple of years ago.

Nathan:

And he didn't do a lot of films.

Nathan:

He was mostly a theater actor as well.

Nathan:

I came to find out and I, which I, that's wonderful, but I was kind of sad

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to realize this because I want to seek out more things that he did, but yeah.

Nathan:

So yeah.

Nathan:

There is an award that I overlooked that we've done the last couple of

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months that I totally forgot about.

Nathan:

And I hope I don't, I don't mean to spring this on you, but we've done this before.

Nathan:

So I'm going to kind of do it again.

Nathan:

We have in the past done an award called best sidekick, which would be.

Nathan:

An award for if you were going to go into battle,

Nathan:

be

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your partner in crime, your, you know, your master to your blaster,

Nathan:

your master,

Bee:

Bernadette, baby.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

I was going to say, I was going to go with the, the low hanging fruit,

Sam:

the phrase I just want to keep

Nathan:

the theme from every month going.

Nathan:

I mean,

Sam:

and also Bernadette, like literally like.

Sam:

Kicks that like she needs that guy like I mean, she's she shows her

Sam:

her skill set on screen So yeah, that's it would have to be that

Nathan:

you're right.

Nathan:

That is kind of low hanging fruit, but I realized I forgot to include it

Nathan:

Yeah, I think I'd have to do the same thing.

Bee:

Yeah

Bee:

That's a movie about sidekicks, right?

Bee:

That's a movie about

Sam:

yeah Friends

Bee:

that have to that are like sort of friends Forced

Bee:

into being sidekicks together.

Bee:

It's two are already sidekicks.

Sam:

Exactly.

Sam:

It's like, it's thematically perfect, you know?

Bee:

All

Nathan:

right.

Nathan:

So our fourth award, and this is be one that you suggested,

Nathan:

which I think is great.

Nathan:

Best costumes.

Bee:

So relevant for, for me.

Bee:

This series,

Nathan:

Sam, do you have a one you'd like to submit for

Sam:

probably be guy Pierce and Priscilla queen of the desert because every, he has

Sam:

like six of them, you know what I mean?

Sam:

Like,

Bee:

and

Sam:

they're all very loud.

Sam:

Yeah.

Bee:

Oh, I could watch guy Pierce on top of that bus just played music.

Bee:

That was great.

Bee:

I went with portrait for this one.

Bee:

It's just so rich and

Bee:

textured.

Bee:

No, I, I mean, I love the green dress.

Bee:

I also just love that color green.

Bee:

It's its own character.

Nathan:

Totally.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

You know, for me, this is a no brainer.

Nathan:

It's the costumes in, in Priscilla.

Nathan:

If I had to choose my favorite I, you know, cause I wanted to be specific.

Nathan:

I forget which one that is, but if I, I there's, I think I'd go with the

Nathan:

costumes that the trio are wearing when they are performing the song Finally,

Nathan:

and they go through several wardrobe changes during this performance.

Nathan:

First, there's those yellowish red flowers, then the black and

Nathan:

blue peacocks, then the yellow desert lizards, I'll call it.

Nathan:

And then the, then they have these fun.

Nathan:

French, like 17th century, like King Louis, the eighth style outfits,

Nathan:

the whole, the whole performance.

Nathan:

And like the four or five wardrobe changes, they go for that entire song.

Nathan:

It's only about three minutes or so long, but it's a.

Nathan:

Feast for the eyes.

Nathan:

And it's completely unforgettable that that scene.

Nathan:

So I'm going with the cost, all the costume wardrobe changes for that

Nathan:

song, which is the highlight one of the highlights of the movie for me.

Bee:

I love it.

Nathan:

So be, you still insist that we need to skip this next award.

Nathan:

It's just too creepy.

Nathan:

We just

Bee:

rephrase it.

Bee:

How do you want to rephrase

Nathan:

this?

Bee:

I would you say who would you

Sam:

get to rebuild the air conditioning system in the shelter

Sam:

structure to breathe better?

Sam:

Technical nerds, sorry.

Sam:

Let's go forget I said that go back to where your mind was right before that.

Sam:

And then start over here.

Bee:

Just going to say you can save one character.

Bee:

Save

Nathan:

one character, isn't that the same

Bee:

thing?

Nathan:

Save one character.

Nathan:

I don't think about the

Bee:

fallout shelter like you do.

Bee:

I don't think I think we're thinking about it different.

Bee:

Just save one character.

Sam:

Save one character.

Bee:

Yeah.

Bee:

Who would you say?

Sam:

Oh, man.

Sam:

God, the definitely, definitely, definitely.

Sam:

The, and I'm, I'm, my mind is completely blanking, but the main

Sam:

character from portrait of a lady on fire, the lady on fire, the lady

Bee:

character.

Sam:

Yes, absolutely.

Sam:

Yeah, you would have to definitely her.

Sam:

Everybody else.

Sam:

Sorry.

Bee:

Suck it.

Nathan:

This was, this is difficult because I don't know how much time

Nathan:

I want to spend with many of the characters from these three movies,

Sam:

or if we didn't spend it to the characters, you could just save

Sam:

the bus from Priscilla, queen of the desert and like, we could weld it into

Sam:

our shelter and have more space, you know, like, like build onto our house.

Nathan:

It's, it's tough because we really don't ever get to know

Nathan:

anybody's true identity in the, in the movie willies, except for.

Nathan:

in the older version of Simone, and I'm not spoiling much Sam and

Nathan:

neither of them seem like a good time.

Nathan:

The entire cast of portrait of lady of fire, I think is loaded with

Nathan:

trauma or some sort or another.

Nathan:

And that leaves the cast of Priscilla.

Nathan:

And I suppose.

Nathan:

If I look at the entire cast Hugo Weaving's character seems like the

Nathan:

type of person who, whose personality won't grate on me after a couple

Nathan:

of years trapped in a bunker.

Sam:

He

Nathan:

provides live entertainment,

Nathan:

but he's going to have to work on his lip syncing.

Bee:

I, that is also my choice is Tick from Priscilla.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Bee:

He just seems the most, I don't know,

Nathan:

he's most of the level of everybody.

Bee:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Like,

Bee:

I just think I'd get on with him.

Bee:

Yeah.

Nathan:

There you go.

Bee:

All right.

Bee:

All right.

Bee:

We got to rank them.

Nathan:

Was that our last award?

Nathan:

Let me look here.

Nathan:

Okay.

Nathan:

One

Bee:

to buy on Blu ray.

Bee:

If you had to pick a movie.

Bee:

Oh, that was

Nathan:

yours.

Nathan:

One to buy on Blu ray.

Bee:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Is it?

Nathan:

I feel like that's the same as like our number one movie maybe.

Nathan:

Well, here's

Bee:

my counterpoint.

Bee:

I was just going to say, sometimes.

Bee:

I'm like, you just want the quality of the movie.

Bee:

You're like, you know what?

Bee:

This is a movie that's just really pretty to look at.

Bee:

And I kind of want it on 4K and I can throw it on the background,

Bee:

but I don't necessarily mean that's that can be one of my motivators.

Bee:

I don't know.

Sam:

I hear that.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

So a blu

Nathan:

ray or 4K, what movie am I going to drop 30 bucks on?

Nathan:

Or 30, 20, 30 bucks on?

Bee:

Pick one to buy.

Bee:

Physical.

Bee:

All right.

Bee:

Pick

Nathan:

one to buy.

Nathan:

I'm going to jump in here, all right, because I actually do it

Nathan:

like they're actually is a movie.

Nathan:

That I am, I kind of like do have like saved in my two buy bin at some point and

Nathan:

I'm been eyeballing it and it is Portrait of the Lady and fire the criterion.

Nathan:

I I am looking at that.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Waiting for the Barnes and Noble sale to come through.

Nathan:

'cause I, I really do wanna pick that up.

Bee:

Yeah, same.

Bee:

That, that is, that's one of those that's just beautiful to look at.

Bee:

Yeah,

Sam:

I would definitely, that's what I would buy as well.

Sam:

Whether the criterion or just just the film, like just the, if it's available,

Sam:

like I would definitely purchase that.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

So those are our awards.

Nathan:

Any, any other superlatives we can think of?

Nathan:

We did, we kind of like did this very quickly, actually, I feel like

Nathan:

we had no production meeting between last week's episode and tonight.

Nathan:

But this is fun.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

What a ranking.

Nathan:

Let's rank these pretty quickly.

Nathan:

Sam, you got two to rank.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

It'd be funny if you were

Nathan:

Lily's number one.

Sam:

Definitely number one, Lily's.

Sam:

I'm going to take a gamble on it.

Sam:

Like chips in Vegas.

Sam:

No, just kidding.

Sam:

One would absolutely by significant distance, not significant, but

Sam:

by distance, top of the mountain portrait of a lady on fire.

Sam:

Number two would be Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and alas, I mean, that would make

Sam:

Lily's automatically three, but I haven't seen it, so I don't know, and I apologize.

Sam:

What you don't know is that I've been fired, and that I won't be

Sam:

able to No, I'm just kidding.

Sam:

Yeah.

Nathan:

I'll go.

Nathan:

I mean, same, same, same order.

Nathan:

A portrait was the crown jewel of this for this series for me.

Nathan:

I love that movie.

Nathan:

Portrait

Sam:

is also portrait is on a cinematic level of like that's for me.

Sam:

It's more cinematic than Priscilla Queen of the Desert, even though I like

Sam:

Priscilla Queen of the Desert a lot.

Nathan:

And Yeah, followed by Priscilla and, and Lily's Lily's.

Nathan:

I was down.

Nathan:

I, Sam, you, I know you weren't here last week, but I, I did not

Nathan:

like it the first time I watched it.

Nathan:

I watched it a second time and I got a lot more out of it.

Nathan:

So it, it definitely requires your full attention is, was our assessment.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

Cause I was, cause I had seen that, that like, there was like, had a vague

Sam:

comment that's like, sounded like the first viewing didn't like it.

Sam:

And I was like, Oh, I I, I can't wait to listen to this cause I,

Sam:

I enjoy it when you like trash a film, that's not the case this time.

Bee:

No.

Bee:

I have the same order.

Bee:

I mean, it's, I don't really think it's a surprise or a secret that

Bee:

portrait's up there for my number one.

Bee:

But I will say, I think Lily's and Priscilla kind of like on the, on

Bee:

par with each other, they're just two very different movies for me.

Bee:

So.

Bee:

There's not that big, there's a big distance for me from portrait

Bee:

and the other two films, but it's a much smaller distance between

Sam:

Portrait is on like Everest and the other two films sound like

Sam:

they're on like Kilimanjaro or something like that, which is still

Sam:

impressive, but it's not ever garbage

Bee:

mountain.

Bee:

I

Sam:

picked that randomly by the way.

Bee:

Hemingway?

Nathan:

All right, so that is, that's kind of, I think it

Nathan:

wraps up our June pride awards.

Nathan:

Let's transition to our 2025 mid year top five, which is something I've been looking

Nathan:

forward to for the last six months.

Nathan:

We did this a year ago where we did our 2024 mid year top five.

Nathan:

And I think only two, do you know what year

Sam:

it is?

Sam:

2024.

Sam:

2024.

Sam:

Yeah, I wrote

Nathan:

down 20, 25,

Sam:

you leaped into the future.

Sam:

Like Avatar three is only six months away.

Sam:

I'm still

Nathan:

20.

Nathan:

Tell us how twisters

Sam:

was

Nathan:

2024.

Nathan:

We don't see

Sam:

Jurassic world four by then.

Nathan:

What I was trying to get to the point is that I remember last

Nathan:

year we did this be, you went with us, but only two of my favorite.

Nathan:

Films in my top five still made it onto my end of year list.

Nathan:

So, well,

Bee:

we've been Q1 is tough, right?

Bee:

And we're finally, we've finally moved on from Q1 and, and now

Bee:

we're leading into summer.

Bee:

So I think there's a lot to look forward to.

Bee:

There's been some gems this year, but I, I would say that the best is yet to come.

Sam:

For sure.

Sam:

Yeah, for sure.

Sam:

All right.

Sam:

So

Nathan:

let's do this in.

Nathan:

Why don't we just continue the same order we started in?

Nathan:

We're going to go from five to one.

Nathan:

And Sam, why don't you lead us off with your number five?

Sam:

So my number five would be bad boys ride or die, which I just

Sam:

saw when it came out two weeks ago.

Sam:

Okay.

Sam:

And I enjoyed it and I thought it was decent and it was just had,

Sam:

it was not perfect, definitely some criticisms, but it had that

Sam:

old school nineties action vibe.

Sam:

So I thought it handled nostalgia in a, in a pretty good way.

Sam:

So I enjoyed it.

Sam:

Number five.

Nathan:

So my dirty little secret is I've only seen the first bad boys.

Sam:

If you only see one other bad boys film, see bad boys two

Sam:

for like the most over the top.

Sam:

Excessive action sequences in the it's like two and a half

Sam:

hours of Bayhem and I love it

Bee:

It's it's really the fast five of right of bad boys.

Sam:

It's crazy.

Sam:

Yeah, I

Nathan:

know I I so I probably won't see this before it leaves the theaters But

Nathan:

I will marathon all these one day is is my plan my number five is Dune part two,

Nathan:

and I'm surprised this, you know, when I first saw this, this wasn't higher

Nathan:

on my list, it's been slowly falling.

Nathan:

And I think it's because I'm finding, as I find myself

Nathan:

distanced from it, I am worried.

Nathan:

I'm seeing a lot of the flaws in this movie.

Nathan:

And the more I think about it, it has some pacing issues.

Nathan:

I think I now think that Dune part one is a better movie in a lot of ways.

Nathan:

And I don't know if that's a.

Nathan:

Something that it's contentious, man, I don't know,

Sam:

but I, I'm the, like, the polar opposite.

Sam:

But yeah,

Nathan:

I don't like how they tr how, and again, I, again, I'm not a

Nathan:

huge fan of the David Lynch version.

Nathan:

I have not read the books don't

Nathan:

. But this is a really good movie.

Nathan:

But the, as I distance myself from it, I find myself just kind

Nathan:

of souring a little bit on it.

Nathan:

It's the, the memory of it is not as strong as.

Nathan:

I recall being, whereas the opposite with like Furiosa, which

Nathan:

I was kind of like middling on it.

Nathan:

And it's stronger as I think about it more, I find myself

Nathan:

recalling things more and more.

Nathan:

I like about it.

Nathan:

I look forward to seeing this again.

Nathan:

I'll probably watch both Dunes again, back to back someday, and I will find it.

Nathan:

Watching as a whole, I think it will work better, but yeah, it is, it

Nathan:

is it is my number five right now.

Nathan:

I, I think they, they, they do mom dirty in this movie.

Nathan:

I don't like what they do with I forget her character's name, but

Nathan:

I don't really, I feel like she's, she's sidelined in a weird way.

Nathan:

Why?

Sam:

Oh my God, she's like front and center.

Sam:

Like

Bee:

we got to do an episode on part two, a doom part

Sam:

two contentious episode.

Sam:

That'd be incredible.

Sam:

I need to

Nathan:

understand

Bee:

what

Nathan:

you're talking

Bee:

about with

Nathan:

Rebecca Ferguson.

Nathan:

I don't dislike this.

Nathan:

It is my number five, but I might not be surprised if this falls out

Nathan:

of my top 10 altogether by the end of the year, the way it's going.

Nathan:

Interesting.

Nathan:

Interesting.

Nathan:

Yes, I know.

Nathan:

I knew

Bee:

interesting.

Bee:

Well I'm in no place to talk because.

Bee:

As the both of you know, I have been, I've had like a top seven and the bottom

Bee:

three have all kind of like shifted and been vying for this fifth place.

Bee:

Just sort of like the, the best of the middle and have sort of all come together.

Bee:

So I've changed my mind a few times on this list now and I probably will again.

Bee:

But I'm going to go, it's wide release was 2024.

Bee:

I'm ignoring festival releases because I'm not a critic.

Bee:

I'm going to say when I was able to see the movie, which was this year, Perfect

Bee:

Day is Vin Vendor's number five for me.

Bee:

Perfect day is more like perfect movie.

Nathan:

And we were talking before we started recording, I, I squeezed

Nathan:

us in at the last minute last night.

Nathan:

And, and I was saying that this movie is tailor made for me.

Nathan:

And I just had a, just a little bit of hard time finding it's it wasn't

Nathan:

pulling at my heartstrings the way I wanted it to, and it should have.

Bee:

I totally get that.

Nathan:

Sam, what is your number four?

Sam:

So hold on.

Sam:

What's my number four is Jim Henson idea, man.

Sam:

And I know that's a documentary, not a film, but like,

Sam:

yeah,

Sam:

I yeah, sorta.

Sam:

No, just, of course it is.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

But I'm a big, like Ron Howard fan and I just, Was like happy to see

Sam:

him sort of focusing on this and I like Jim Henson so much that like

Sam:

whether this, this documentary was like stylistically perfect or had like

Sam:

some flaws, just the subject matter.

Sam:

I learned things about Jim Henson and I didn't know there

Sam:

was so much archival footage.

Sam:

I mean, it's easy for me to please, like, if you just strung the archival

Sam:

footage of Jim Henson without a narrative, I still would have liked it.

Sam:

So I am incredibly biased, huge Jim Henson fan, a huge Muppets

Sam:

fan, but that definitely definitely made the list of like, I will

Sam:

watch that again over the years.

Sam:

That's why.

Sam:

It made me

Bee:

watch the Dark Crystal again.

Sam:

I watched

Bee:

it and then I was like, I just want to watch the dark crystal now.

Nathan:

I do want to see this.

Nathan:

What, what, what platform is this streaming on?

Nathan:

I forget.

Nathan:

Disney plus.

Nathan:

It is Disney plus.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

This has been something I wanted to check out for a while.

Nathan:

Great.

Nathan:

My number two, I'm sorry.

Nathan:

My number four.

Nathan:

I, wow.

Nathan:

You are in the

Bee:

future,

Nathan:

man.

Nathan:

I am in the future.

Nathan:

What's it

Bee:

like?

Nathan:

My number four is Inside Out 2.

Nathan:

Wow.

Nathan:

Yes.

Nathan:

I really did like this movie a lot.

Nathan:

It's.

Nathan:

I, I think I did not like it as much as the first one and it did not, the first

Nathan:

one, I will, I will all out weep over.

Nathan:

I think it's a near perfect movie.

Nathan:

And this one though, here's, here's the other thing.

Nathan:

I have a daughter who was turning 13 and.

Nathan:

This nails so many aspects of what I see her going through right now.

Nathan:

I also see a lot of the flaws in this.

Nathan:

There's, it is, it's, it's a small movie and I think that the first

Nathan:

movie does a much better job I don't know if I articulate this the best

Nathan:

way it opens up the world of what the inner psyche, the emotions can

Nathan:

be in this movie really niches down in a way that I wish it didn't.

Nathan:

I wish it expanded the world more.

Nathan:

And I don't think this movie expands the world of the inner emotions as much.

Nathan:

And this, this, it's a very small story in a way, but that's what I

Nathan:

kind of like about also it's dealing with in some ways, a very mundane.

Nathan:

Topic about a girl that's just turned 13.

Nathan:

That's going off to this hockey camp.

Nathan:

And it's just dealing with a very tiny, small story of this girl's life over

Nathan:

the course of like two or three days.

Nathan:

And it's introducing the, obviously the carriers of anxiety.

Nathan:

My daughter, and I don't want to give too much away in my personal life,

Nathan:

but it resonated so much with me.

Nathan:

About what's been going on in my life and her life over the past year.

Nathan:

So I sat next to her during this movie and we kept looking at each other this

Nathan:

whole time and it's like, yeah, like so much of it, they nailed about what it

Nathan:

means to be 13 and dealing with anxiety and you know, some depression sometimes

Nathan:

and all these sorts of emotions that young teenagers are going through.

Nathan:

So.

Nathan:

You know, they, they, they nailed so much.

Nathan:

Right.

Nathan:

And it was a very emotional watch for both of us and, you

Nathan:

know, what we've gone through.

Nathan:

So, yeah, it is not a perfect movie.

Nathan:

It's not as good as the first one, but it is, it definitely

Nathan:

hit us very close to home.

Nathan:

So that's why.

Nathan:

I, I, I did love it a lot.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

So that's, I

Sam:

look forward to seeing it.

Sam:

I haven't seen it.

Sam:

There's a, I got to play catch up.

Sam:

There's a few movies out now that I really want to see.

Bee:

So you're the sequels, man.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

Sequels

Nathan:

be, what is your number four?

Bee:

My number four is a movie that I saw earlier this year and it has stuck

Bee:

in my craw ever since is our cautious Stevenson's the first omen, right?

Bee:

You're the sequels prequels.

Bee:

This was.

Bee:

Incredible.

Bee:

I love horror movies and Nathan, we were talking about earlier, this has been

Bee:

a prolific year for the genre robust.

Bee:

I wouldn't say it's all all worth paying to go see it in the

Bee:

theater, but, and it never is.

Bee:

But the first omen is, is the rare.

Bee:

Prequel, and I'm sure there's another one in here that we'll talk about

Bee:

that, that exp that could stand on its own legs and be its own thing.

Bee:

And not only that, it's a movie with a message I think it says a lot about

Bee:

women's rights, about reproductive rights it's a damn good horror on its own but it

Bee:

also makes the other Omen movies great.

Bee:

And it's just, it's shot so beautifully.

Bee:

It's really just beautiful to look at.

Nathan:

Excellent.

Nathan:

I want to see this.

Nathan:

I about two years ago, I watched all the Ullman movies over one weekend.

Nathan:

So I need to watch this soon while they're all fresh in my head.

Bee:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Okay.

Nathan:

So Sam, we are on to.

Nathan:

Number, you're number three.

Sam:

So my number three at present would be a movie called Land of Bad.

Sam:

Starring Russell Crowe, Liam Hensworth, came out in February.

Sam:

And I wanted to mention it cause like in the, you know, the

Sam:

first six months of like 2024.

Sam:

I mean, I'm sure it's already forgotten, but I liked it.

Sam:

I thought it was, it reminded me of like a nineties action movie.

Sam:

I thought there was some decent moments in the script.

Sam:

I like Liam Hensworth.

Sam:

Some parts of the climax I had issue with, but I thought Russell Crowe was excellent.

Sam:

It was a pleasant surprise.

Sam:

I was not expecting it to be good, and I went to the movie theater, like,

Sam:

out of total boredom that evening, and I genuinely enjoyed the movie.

Sam:

I'll absolutely watch it again when it comes out on

Sam:

streaming, if it not already is.

Nathan:

Nice.

Nathan:

Excellent.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

My number three is late night with the devil.

Bee:

Oh, that's been on my list.

Bee:

Yes.

Nathan:

I mentioned this a couple, maybe a month ago on the

Nathan:

pod or three, four weeks ago.

Nathan:

This movie is still stuck with me.

Nathan:

It's, it's, it's such a throwback movie.

Nathan:

It's about a late night shot talk show host.

Nathan:

And it's all shot like, like found footage, but it's like

Nathan:

the lost episode of the show.

Nathan:

Cool.

Nathan:

It's such a unique film.

Nathan:

It's a lot of fun.

Nathan:

I highly recommend it.

Nathan:

It is it's, it's stuck with me ever.

Nathan:

I really think this will probably still stay in my top 10 of the year.

Nathan:

What's his name?

Nathan:

D Dasmalchian.

Nathan:

What's his first name in he is so good.

Nathan:

He needs to get more roles.

Nathan:

Love this film.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Both of you, you guys are going to see it.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Bee:

Yeah.

Bee:

Late night

Nathan:

with the devil.

Nathan:

I think it's on, it's on Shudder.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Yeah, I almost watched

Bee:

it this weekend, but my partner decided that it would be too spooky.

Bee:

It's not, it's

Nathan:

really not that scary at all.

Bee:

Okay.

Nathan:

It's not that kind of movie.

Nathan:

No.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

B, what is your number three?

Bee:

My number three, Luca Guadagnino Challengers.

Bee:

I was shocked by how much I love this movie.

Bee:

I've been a little on the fence with Zendaya, but I, I love Mike

Bee:

Feist, so I was excited to see this.

Bee:

It blew me away.

Bee:

I thought the performances were all great.

Bee:

The soundtrack, this is some of the best Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross work

Bee:

I've heard in a film in a long time.

Bee:

Might be their top ever.

Bee:

It is thrilling.

Bee:

Thumping.

Bee:

It was great to hear in a theater.

Bee:

Some of the camera work felt so fresh and exciting and new.

Bee:

I loved Guadalino's take on Suspiria and I, this is up there with that for me.

Bee:

I thought it was great.

Bee:

And I An evangelist for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

Sam:

I've really got to see it.

Sam:

I mean, it got really good reviews too.

Sam:

So, I mean, I was definitely interested.

Bee:

It's a great movie about competition.

Sam:

Nice.

Sam:

Yep.

Nathan:

All right, Sam, you're number two.

Sam:

So my number two would have to be Furiosa.

Sam:

You know, halfway through the year.

Sam:

Definitely a fan of the Mad Max franchise.

Sam:

I thought it was a very, like, worthy entry.

Sam:

Not perfect, but for this first half of the year, it's definitely

Sam:

would take the second spot.

Sam:

Like, no question.

Sam:

It's really too damn bad that it didn't perform at least decently.

Sam:

It's, it's not done well at the box office, and I know that, like, puts

Sam:

a halt either, like, for a while or permanently, or I guess we'll see what

Sam:

happens on Mad Max The Wasteland, but I'm just always game to return to that world.

Sam:

And you know, so it's frustrating, but the, I, the movie does have

Sam:

some really great epic moments.

Bee:

It was, that was a fun time at the theater.

Sam:

It was, it really was.

Bee:

It was just a fun time.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

My number two is also challengers.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Well, your number three was challenges for all the reasons you already mentioned.

Nathan:

B.

Nathan:

Yeah, I also think this might be, Reznor's and Atticus Ross Atticus

Nathan:

Ross's crowning achievement as well.

Nathan:

First thing I, when I think of this movie I, I cannot get out of my head

Nathan:

the, the soundtrack to this, how it, I don't want to say it assaults you, but

Nathan:

it, it just, it kind of, kind of, yeah,

Sam:

they do the soundtrack for the social network.

Sam:

Oh

Nathan:

yeah.

Nathan:

Mm-Hmm.

Nathan:

. Sam: Like I, I, I love the music in that movie.

Nathan:

And that's a further endorsement of why I have to see challengers.

Nathan:

But like, and,

Bee:

Girl With a Dragon Tattoo.

Bee:

The Fincher girl with a Dragon tattoo.

Bee:

Oh yeah.

Bee:

Nice.

Nathan:

But not in a bad way.

Nathan:

Like it, honestly, I'm watched this movie and I found myself, my, my just

Nathan:

pulse is racing through this movie.

Nathan:

Mm-Hmm.

Nathan:

. Even for during times where like, there's not much happening.

Nathan:

Like

Nathan:

Mm-Hmm.

Nathan:

. Nathan: It's tense.

Nathan:

It, it, it is.

Nathan:

And.

Nathan:

Amazing cinematography.

Nathan:

I saw things in this movie shots.

Nathan:

This movie I've never seen before in a movie

Nathan:

ever.

Nathan:

You know, the, the tennis scenes are shot incredibly well.

Nathan:

That ball is coming right at you at times.

Nathan:

And I know it's a CGI effect, but like, I've never seen tennis shot this way.

Nathan:

It's really, really incredible.

Nathan:

So, and I'd like to start,

Bee:

I've never seen tennis film that way.

Bee:

And I grew up in Rhode Island, so if I'm in

Nathan:

tennis was my sport in high school too.

Nathan:

So

Bee:

yeah,

Nathan:

it was I had a great time with this movie.

Bee:

Oh, I'm so glad.

Bee:

I loved that movie.

Bee:

Yeah.

Nathan:

So yeah, a lot of fun with challengers.

Nathan:

Yeah, it is my number two so far this year.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

So B tell me, tell us what your number two is.

Bee:

Nathan, we disagree on this movie, but my number two is I saw the TV glow.

Bee:

I was

Bee:

glued to the screen in this movie.

Bee:

Something, well, nothing really was happening in the movie.

Bee:

And I just noticed myself totally enchanted, totally on the

Bee:

wavelength of what was happening.

Bee:

We mentioned, I loved we're all going to the world's fair.

Bee:

I think it was incredible.

Bee:

One of the most unnerving films I've ever seen.

Bee:

I don't know that this is that good for me, but it's definitely

Bee:

one of the best of the year.

Bee:

I think it's so important for, for folks around our age.

Bee:

This says a lot about dysphoria.

Bee:

It says a lot about media.

Bee:

It says a lot about consumption of media and how we attach ourselves

Bee:

to it and see ourselves through the lens of what we consume.

Bee:

And shape ourselves by it and how we stand by that as we, as we shift and

Bee:

change and it does it all through the lens of the super creepy story.

Bee:

It's a little twin peaks.

Bee:

It's a little, are you afraid of the dark?

Bee:

I was so sold on board.

Nathan:

I was, I was going to mention this in the next segment and I'm moving

Nathan:

music because I did catch up on this.

Nathan:

This did not.

Nathan:

Make my top five.

Nathan:

I don't know what to make of this movie.

Nathan:

I wasn't connecting with it because you know, it's funny.

Nathan:

This movie is, is geared toward,

Nathan:

you know, my

Nathan:

generation.

Nathan:

Yeah, absolutely.

Nathan:

And you know, maybe I wasn't a usual teenager.

Nathan:

You know, I was for, I'm, it's firmly steeped in early nineties and

Nathan:

this nostalgia WB shows like Buffy,

Nathan:

you know,

Nathan:

X Files, all these things.

Nathan:

You know, I, many.

Nathan:

You know, I, you know, early nineties, sci fi films, sliders, X Files.

Nathan:

I was in, I wasn't really always into the culture of trading tapes with friends.

Nathan:

And maybe that's why I wasn't a big TV watcher.

Nathan:

Perhaps it was more of a movie person.

Nathan:

I just wasn't really finding what this movie was trying to say.

Nathan:

Maybe it's what it was.

Nathan:

And I was just struggling with it.

Nathan:

It's glacially paced is one thing.

Nathan:

But the visual aesthetic and ambition of this movie is there.

Nathan:

And there was, was really cool to see this movie.

Nathan:

I just really could not figure out what I was trying to take away from this.

Nathan:

I don't know.

Nathan:

I'm really glad you liked this movie.

Nathan:

A lot of people are.

Nathan:

Glowing over this film.

Nathan:

And that's wonderful.

Nathan:

I just could not figure out what was going on.

Nathan:

That's okay.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Anyways, that's it.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

So yeah, our number one, Sam, what do you, is your number one?

Sam:

So for me, just far away and above for the first half of 2024

Sam:

would definitely be Dune part two.

Sam:

I loved it.

Sam:

I thought it was.

Sam:

An improvement on the first film, I'm like the, the, the like total antithesis, like

Sam:

there's, there's a game called actually, nevermind that metaphor is terrible I'm

Sam:

just going to reference a video game, but yeah, I, I like doing part two to a lot.

Sam:

I thought it fleshed out.

Sam:

A lot of action and scenes in the book, like it brought them to visual life.

Sam:

I actually saw it.

Sam:

I mean, I saw it in IMAX, but I saw it again recently

Sam:

on like a regular TV screen.

Sam:

And I was surprised at how well the story translated and the images held up.

Sam:

Even on a smaller screen, I even noticed more details in some moments.

Sam:

Cause I wasn't so like overwhelmed by the size of the visuals, but that.

Sam:

I would say hands down Dune part two so far this year.

Sam:

I actually thought I really liked how the Rebecca Ferguson character was handled.

Sam:

I thought it was, I mean, I I'm a big fan of the book.

Sam:

I thought they did that well.

Sam:

So yeah, that I would, I would definitely give it that.

Sam:

And it's, it's in, in terms of like production and visual and

Sam:

style, it's like Epic and scale.

Sam:

I'm like Lord of the Rings.

Sam:

It's like a Lord of the Rings level film in 2024.

Sam:

So that would be number one for me.

Nathan:

Okay.

Nathan:

Great, so is it me?

Bee:

Mm hmm.

Nathan:

All right, my number one film so far

Nathan:

Madame Webb Just kidding.

Nathan:

Just kidding.

Nathan:

No, my number one.

Sam:

We definitely needed a Samuel Jackson sound effect right there.

Sam:

Like what the f

Nathan:

My number one film so far is Love Lies Bleeding.

Bee:

That was a great movie.

Nathan:

Which I think I even mentioned two, three weeks ago is my favorite

Nathan:

film of the year so far still.

Nathan:

So if you've been listening to the show, you already know this.

Nathan:

Yeah, I, I love this movie.

Nathan:

It is it reminds me a lot of the Coen brothers aesthetic and Kristen

Nathan:

Stewart, I think is great in this.

Nathan:

And I'm already blanking on the other actresses name off the top of my head,

Nathan:

cause I didn't do my research this week, but their, their chemistry is amazing.

Nathan:

I just, I love the story.

Nathan:

I don't know.

Nathan:

This is my favorite film of the year.

Bee:

This was vying for fifth for me because it's so good and it's so it's

Bee:

just so tight like it just feels so clean for how bold and creative some

Bee:

of the decisions are in this film.

Bee:

Yeah, Katie O'Brien is, is who plays Countner, Kristen

Bee:

Stewart, and she, she crushes it.

Nathan:

She does.

Nathan:

Sam, I think you would really like this movie a lot too.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

If you get around, when you get around to this.

Sam:

And I, I bet, I would definitely want to see it.

Bee:

Sam, you're walking away from here with a big list.

Sam:

Sorry?

Bee:

You're walking away from here with a big list.

Sam:

Yeah, exactly.

Bee:

My I love, I love low

Nathan:

rent, you know, crime movies.

Nathan:

That's, that's really what it comes down to, where.

Nathan:

Where the, everyone's really incompetent, you know?

Sam:

So did you like that Steven Soderbergh film with,

Sam:

with God, I'm brain dead.

Sam:

With Adam Driver, the, the heist movie.

Sam:

And, and Bond was in it, Daniel Craig was in it, James Bond.

Sam:

Oh

Nathan:

Logan

Sam:

Luckey?

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

Logan lucky.

Sam:

Did you like that film?

Sam:

That's like low end heist.

Nathan:

I don't think I saw it actually.

Sam:

Oh man.

Sam:

You would like it.

Sam:

It's that was, that was, was positively received.

Sam:

Good film.

Sam:

Yeah.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

So B we're up to your number one.

Bee:

Well it's a little anticlimactic because Sam and

Bee:

I have the same number one.

Bee:

It's doing part two.

Bee:

Surprisingly.

Bee:

It's so, so good.

Bee:

I had been anticipating it.

Bee:

Yeah.

Bee:

All year.

Bee:

It did just get topped at the box office.

Bee:

It got crushed by inside out too, but you know, we had a good run.

Bee:

We had a good run.

Sam:

It's a good run.

Bee:

I'll take it.

Sam:

Excellent quality.

Nathan:

All

Sam:

right.

Nathan:

So that is our 2024 mid year top five.

Nathan:

It'll be really interesting to see which of these films stay in our top 10 or

Nathan:

what drops out or where, how far any of these fall by the end of the year.

Sam:

There's more to come in 2024.

Nathan:

Find out

Sam:

by listening to Back

Nathan:

to the Framerate.

Nathan:

Any honorable mentions you'd like to bring up?

Bee:

Yeah, for sure.

Bee:

Let's see.

Sam:

Lyle Crocodile.

Sam:

Sorry, that was 2023.

Bee:

Yeah, nevermind.

Bee:

Remember that movie?

Bee:

Yeah, there were, like I said, there were a lot of movies that

Bee:

were kind of vying for the middle.

Bee:

I thought Monkey Man was a great.

Bee:

I know Jordan Peele had a lot to, to do on that movie, but

Bee:

I was really excited by it.

Bee:

You know, we've, the ultra violence is back in theaters in a

Bee:

big way and it's, it's just fun.

Bee:

And I loved seeing some fist fighting instead of some gun fighting.

Bee:

I thought that was great.

Sam:

I also thought that that Roland Emmerich really upped his game.

Sam:

With Moonfall part two, I just was just, I loved it.

Sam:

I thought it was, I thought it was improvement visually storytelling wise.

Bee:

So far this movie, I'm just excited to see a lot of movies

Bee:

that are like pretty good.

Bee:

You know, that's what we need.

Bee:

Just some, some movies in the system.

Bee:

Hit man.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Hit me.

Nathan:

I, you know, I, I will mention a few hit man was, would, if we had a top

Nathan:

10 list, which we don't have hit men might be on the very outer reaches of

Nathan:

my top 10 civil war, civil war might be.

Nathan:

Way in up there.

Nathan:

I like civil war, even though we kind of talked about a

Nathan:

little bit as being problematic.

Nathan:

I did still like it.

Nathan:

And Abigail was a horror movie from I think March or April.

Nathan:

I liked it a lot as well.

Nathan:

Considered that briefly, there was a movie that would probably be my number

Nathan:

six that I really debated on, but I just couldn't knock off doing two.

Nathan:

I think there would be revolt amongst both of you.

Nathan:

It is an Adam Sandler movie, which I think would just be called spaceman that

Nathan:

came out in February, which I loved.

Nathan:

And.

Nathan:

And I really thought about keeping it on my list somehow.

Nathan:

It's a really touching, bittersweet movie about a man that is isolated in

Nathan:

space and he befriends this giant spider.

Nathan:

And we don't know if he's imagining it or if he's, if it's, if that spider's really

Nathan:

there, but it's, he's, is he going crazy?

Nathan:

In the solitude, it did not get the greatest reviews, but I love it.

Nathan:

What Adam Sandler is working like in that register of a dramatic role.

Nathan:

It's no uncut gems, but I do like it when he's kind of flexing the dramatic chops.

Nathan:

And I think it's, I think it's a solid effort from him.

Nathan:

So that was something that I considered in my top five.

Nathan:

And there was one other movie that I thought about, which was pretty

Nathan:

good and it's called Suncoast, which was a Sundance movie that came

Nathan:

quickly to, I think, Hulu with Woody Harrelson, which I liked a lot as well.

Nathan:

Um, but yeah, so those are ones that probably might round out my

Nathan:

top 10 or 11 if we were doing that.

Bee:

Yeah.

Bee:

For me, it was Evil does not exist.

Bee:

That came really close.

Bee:

I love drive my car.

Bee:

Evil does not exist.

Bee:

Didn't really touch drive my car for me, but it was it's a movie that I,

Bee:

I find myself thinking about a lot.

Bee:

It stayed in my memory.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

How about this?

Nathan:

Any, what is your biggest disappointment of the year so far?

Bee:

Um,

Bee:

bike riders.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

You were saying before.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Bee:

I was pretty bummed by bike riders.

Bee:

I love.

Bee:

A dude's rock movie.

Bee:

I am here for that, but the bike riders, it was so strong in the first half.

Bee:

It's, it's not casting.

Bee:

It's not pacing.

Bee:

It's not any of that.

Bee:

I think it really comes down to the story it chose to tell.

Bee:

It just was a little bit messy.

Bee:

And it really felt like everyone knew they were in a movie.

Bee:

If that makes sense.

Bee:

It just felt like it had the self awareness.

Bee:

That I found deeply unattractive in the whole thing.

Bee:

So I'm just, and if it just felt very run of the mill, I think it could have

Bee:

been done a lot more interestingly.

Bee:

So I was bummed.

Bee:

I was really looking forward to that one.

Sam:

I do want to see that.

Sam:

I got to check it out.

Sam:

I mean, it's not like a

Bee:

bad movie.

Bee:

It just didn't live up to the hype for me.

Nathan:

All right, Sam, is there anything that you saw that we were disappointed

Nathan:

with or you're just not big enough?

Sam:

Oh God.

Sam:

I, I mean, I, I was, I, I didn't hate it, but I was disappointed.

Sam:

In, in civil war, I thought the scene with Jesse Plemons was like

Sam:

incredible and I thought, thought if that scene in the middle of the film

Sam:

had been like expanded into a more like real time, like situational,

Sam:

like dramatic thriller with them.

Sam:

But, but, I mean, that was, I didn't hate it, but I would say

Sam:

it would probably be that film.

Nathan:

No, I get it.

Nathan:

That movie, the trailers lied to us.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

Yeah,

Nathan:

I get it.

Nathan:

Yeah,

Sam:

it wasn't bad though.

Sam:

Like it was still, I mean, it had some incredible scenes like, and I liked all

Sam:

the actors, like, I mean, that they were, you know, like Kirsten Dunst was amazing.

Sam:

I just, it just, it was not the film I was kind of expecting.

Bee:

Yeah.

Bee:

Nathan, I think I know what yours is.

Bee:

Can I try and guess?

Nathan:

You can guess.

Nathan:

I've been very vocal about it.

Bee:

Is it Drive Away Dolls?

Nathan:

Yeah,

Bee:

yeah.

Bee:

The movie that could have been Love Lives Bleeding.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

What is next on our agenda?

Nathan:

Because I know we're already going on a long year tonight for, for this episode.

Bee:

Want to talk about some movies we're looking forward to?

Bee:

Yeah, let's do that.

Bee:

I've got

Nathan:

nothing prepared but twisters

Sam:

and, and um, quiet place, day one.

Bee:

Done.

Bee:

Nice, nice.

Bee:

Not the crow.

Bee:

I'm not looking forward to the crow.

Bee:

Oh,

Sam:

alien.

Sam:

Romulus.

Sam:

Sorry.

Sam:

Alien Romulus.

Nathan:

Oh yeah, that's, I am looking forward to Alien Romulus as well.

Bee:

I've got a big, long list.

Bee:

I don't have anything but Nosferatu is up there.

Nathan:

You shared the trailer for that and I can't wait.

Nathan:

I, I like Robert Eggers sometimes

Nathan:

I can't wait.

Nathan:

And like I was saying when I responded to you, I hope it's

Nathan:

more witch in, in less Lighthouse.

Bee:

We'll see.

Bee:

Yes.

Bee:

I, I love, I love light.

Bee:

Huge fan.

Bee:

The witch, not

Sam:

as much the lighthouse, but yeah.

Sam:

Oh,

Bee:

I loved the lighthouse.

Bee:

So I'm, I'm here for whatever he wants to give me.

Bee:

Talk about sequels, Gladiator 2, I'm, I'm thinking about it.

Bee:

I'm intrigued,

Sam:

definitely intrigued by that.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

Hopefully, like cautiously optimistic, I'll say.

Bee:

Yep.

Bee:

Maxine, I'm excited to see this trilogy round out.

Bee:

I thought X and Pearl were, Great.

Bee:

So I'm excited to see where they go.

Bee:

And then there's more Smile 2 kinds of things, but really War of the Rohirrim.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

Definitely looking forward to that.

Sam:

And there's, I, there's more too, for me, I just don't have my list, but I'm,

Sam:

I'm sure there'll be something radical.

Nathan:

There's, the next Joker movie, Follet Adieu, is, I'm looking

Nathan:

forward to that a little bit.

Nathan:

I do like the

Sam:

trailer.

Bee:

Gaga's Chromatica Ball dropped on HBO Max.

Sam:

Nice.

Bee:

It's exciting.

Sam:

Oh, and I mean Rings of Power season two I'll definitely be watching that.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Oh yeah.

Nathan:

Mm hmm.

Nathan:

I should have had up our most anticipated movies of 2024 list.

Nathan:

I had it at one time.

Nathan:

I'm curious.

Nathan:

Ah, and see how we did.

Bee:

How we're

Nathan:

doing so far.

Bee:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Maybe I'll pull that up and edit this out.

Bee:

I really want to see.

Bee:

Might be quite a lot to edit out.

Nathan:

No, I'm going to pull that up here.

Nathan:

It's.

Nathan:

Actually, I posted it to our Instagram.

Nathan:

Let's see if I can easily pull this up here.

Nathan:

I made a whole fun graphic out of it.

Nathan:

Nope, that's Kevin Bacon, who we follow.

Nathan:

Alright, here we go.

Nathan:

But does he follow us?

Nathan:

I'm really

Sam:

looking forward to Argyle 2.

Nathan:

Here we go.

Nathan:

Top 20, 2024 most anticipated films in no particular order.

Nathan:

B, yours was Bob Marley, One Love.

Bee:

Damn, it really stunk too.

Nathan:

Driveway Dolls, Beetlejuice 2,

Bee:

Oh yeah!

Nathan:

The Book of Clarence,

Sam:

Beetlejuice 2.

Bee:

I didn't see that.

Nathan:

Furiosa, Dune Part 2, The Bike Riders, Mickey 17, which

Nathan:

we won't get until next year.

Nathan:

We won't

Bee:

get.

Nathan:

Gladiator 2, and The Lord of the Rings, The War of You know,

Bee:

I think I didn't know a lot of what was going to be

Bee:

announced, but yeah, one love it.

Bee:

I mean, when is a biopic ever really?

Bee:

Oh, twisters.

Sam:

Definitely.

Sam:

Yeah.

Nathan:

And Sam, your top, your 10 anticipated films

Nathan:

were Civil War, Gladiator 2.

Nathan:

Beetlejuice 2, Alien Romulus, Twisters, Deadpool 3, A Quiet Place Day 1, Dune

Nathan:

Part 2, Furiosa, and Inside Out 2.

Sam:

That's right.

Sam:

I have not seen it yet.

Bee:

You know what this really highlights for me is how early, like, sequels,

Bee:

legacy sequels, prequels and stuff start advertising, and then we're, you know, we

Bee:

just learn about other movies, sort of.

Bee:

Oh

Nathan:

yeah, I mean, for us to do this list January, I mean, we

Nathan:

don't even know half the movies are going to come out this year.

Sam:

Mufasa the Lion King could be good, honestly.

Nathan:

You know what?

Nathan:

I was, I was so pissed.

Nathan:

I'm watching Inside Out 2 and the two trailers are the Mufasa trailer and Moana.

Nathan:

It's like, you know, this Disney They're catching in on us.

Nathan:

I know.

Nathan:

Damn, you know, all right.

Nathan:

So my top 10, man, my, my 10 anticipated films were the bike riders, alien Romulus,

Nathan:

civil war, Mickey 17, driveway dolls, horizon and American saga one and two,

Nathan:

which I still am looking forward to.

Nathan:

Cause I want

Sam:

to see that.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

I

Nathan:

love a West, like the Western American epic any day of the week.

Nathan:

Alto nights Deadpool three for Yosa in dune two.

Nathan:

And just because it's on this page as well here, we have Ellie's top 10

Nathan:

was the Book of Clarence, Civil War, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,

Nathan:

The Bike Riders, Dune 2, Joker 2, Beetlejuice 2, Deadpool 3, Ballerina.

Nathan:

Did Ballerina get pushed?

Nathan:

Ballerina got pushed, didn't it, next year I think?

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Yeah, and Bob Marley, One Love.

Bee:

Ellie I think liked Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes though.

Bee:

I think so.

Bee:

I feel bad.

Bee:

It seems to be genuinely well

Sam:

liked.

Sam:

Yeah, it's actually did.

Sam:

It was the movie that actually did decently in the May of

Sam:

like box office emptiness,

Bee:

something had to,

Nathan:

all right.

Nathan:

Is there anything else in my list?

Nathan:

This is just one, we've

Bee:

just dropped a lot of movies at this point.

Bee:

We have, if you've kept up with all the movies, is Cause we've

Bee:

just name dropped a lot of movies.

Sam:

I'm really looking forward to driving Miss Daisy to

Sam:

visiting, visiting the grave.

Sam:

It's going to be good.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

I think I feel like I want to acknowledge one thing.

Nathan:

I don't really have that much to say about this or done any research

Nathan:

on it, but I feel like we should acknowledge the passing of Donald

Nathan:

Sutherland, which happened a couple of days ago, which is unfortunate.

Nathan:

The only thing that is kind of unfortunate is I realized as I'm.

Nathan:

You know, I was very sad about this, but I realized that there are very few movies

Nathan:

that I realized that I can think of that.

Nathan:

Like I kind of remember him from, he's, he's such, he kind of became

Nathan:

a character actor later in his life.

Nathan:

Not really character actor, but he was always played like the, like the father

Nathan:

figure or like a villain or had only like a scene or two in big budget movies.

Nathan:

And he was, of course he was, Great in the movie mash and invasion of the

Nathan:

body snatchers, which I think was like 78, but he quickly kind of became, uh,

Nathan:

not a leading man, you know, once the eighties came around and I was trying to

Nathan:

think about what are the iconic movies.

Nathan:

And I was wondering if you guys have any thoughts on other, any films that are

Nathan:

favorites of yours with Donald Sutherland.

Sam:

I mean, iconic would definitely be mash, but I mean, that that'd be way up

Sam:

there, you know, but there's a lot of films that he's in that I like, like,

Bee:

yeah, same.

Bee:

So for me, Fellini's Casanova.

Bee:

Is a big one.

Bee:

He starred in that one.

Bee:

I love Fellini.

Bee:

I think Donald Sutherland is great.

Bee:

But you know, of course, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is the iconic one for me.

Bee:

I think that's sort of where I was introduced to him.

Bee:

Don't Look Now.

Bee:

That's a great one.

Bee:

I mean, I like him as

Sam:

president snow in the hunger games for me.

Sam:

That was, yeah, yeah,

Bee:

for sure.

Sam:

And honorable mention to backdraft, not the best movie,

Sam:

but the Ron Howard fire movie.

Sam:

I liked him as the villain in that,

Nathan:

but that's kind of the role that he fell into.

Nathan:

Over the last 40 plus years is small villain roles or

Sam:

yeah, like he's always a small villain.

Sam:

Like he was the, the, the, the bad general and outbreak with Dustin Hoffman.

Sam:

And I liked him.

Sam:

I really liked him in that like a supporting kind of a role.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

And he had a great, great small role in like JFK, which was like one scene.

Nathan:

Yes.

Nathan:

It

Sam:

was a huge scene.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

So he like, yeah.

Sam:

He's like, here's what's all the secrets.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

And, but man, the guy had some of the best eyebrows in Hollywood,

Nathan:

so that's, you know what, and it's

Bee:

just like there's not a lot of role, you know?

Bee:

I think he probably aged out of a lot of interesting roles, which is too bad.

Bee:

But I'm glad we got to see him in some great movies for as long as we did.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

One of the last movies he did, well, he did, he had small parts in

Nathan:

moonfall, which you mentioned a couple of moments ago and, and at Astra,

Nathan:

I think he had a small role in too.

Nathan:

So good stuff in, in small roles, but always.

Nathan:

Brought his a game, so he will definitely be missed.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Awesome.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

The last thing here is let's see anything else here.

Nathan:

Now we're going to not do that.

Nathan:

We did movies.

Nathan:

We're looking forward to, I think that's about it.

Nathan:

Right?

Nathan:

Sounds good.

Nathan:

Sounds good.

Nathan:

Back to the frame rate.

Nathan:

We're just going to cap capture that.

Nathan:

That'll be our new theme song.

Nathan:

Part of the Western media podcast.

Nathan:

I know.

Nathan:

What are we doing next month?

Nathan:

What's July?

Nathan:

It's summer.

Nathan:

Are you guys excited for this?

Nathan:

No, this is your, this is your dream come true, Sam, right?

Sam:

Seeing twisters.

Nathan:

No,

Bee:

no.

Bee:

What we're

Sam:

doing on the pod.

Sam:

Our, our, our, our, our theme for the pod.

Sam:

Oh God.

Sam:

Yes.

Sam:

You mean you mean like what's coming up directly next?

Sam:

Yeah, it's got to be, it's going to be kind of a, we're doing 80s

Nathan:

summer comedies, like How do we get to this?

Nathan:

This is, I know how we got to

Bee:

this Nathan.

Bee:

We all sat together and you had the most niche Vision for what

Bee:

could classify as a summer movie.

Bee:

You're like, it has

Sam:

to take place on a beach, not a cove, not an inlet.

Sam:

It's a beach movie.

Sam:

There can be no camp,

Bee:

but it can't be a camp from the nineties.

Bee:

It has to be the eighties and it has to be adult, but not too raunchy.

Bee:

Anyway, now somehow we're doing an earnest movie and I don't feel awesome about it,

Bee:

but I am going to go in with an open mind.

Bee:

So.

Sam:

I can't wait for Ernest Goes to Camp.

Sam:

I've been watching clips from it.

Sam:

It's going to be, it's going to be amazing.

Sam:

So this is the most,

Bee:

yeah, this is the self indulgent thing.

Bee:

Nathan's done for the part.

Nathan:

We're watching Ernest Goes to Camp.

Nathan:

The 87, I think we have the late, we have the late eighties coverage.

Nathan:

Ernest goes to camp the great outdoors, which means Sam actually have a lot

Nathan:

of nostalgia for B you've never seen.

Nathan:

You are

Sam:

ever on TV, remote drop.

Sam:

That's all I'm going to say.

Nathan:

And we're wrapping up July with weekend at Bernie's.

Sam:

It's going to be great.

Nathan:

Yeah, so I actually am

Sam:

very much looking forward to this summer.

Sam:

This is like, check your mind, like at the vehicle and walk

Sam:

to the beach without a brain.

Sam:

Like I'm, I'm looking forward to it.

Nathan:

I mean, look, I mean, we we've earned this.

Nathan:

We have watched these winter survival movies.

Nathan:

We watched Christopher Nolan movies.

Nathan:

We watched these epic, you know, Romances, sweeping romances of,

Nathan:

you know, take place over decades

Bee:

as a reward for hard work.

Nathan:

No, seriously.

Nathan:

Do you know how much research I'm going to do for these movies?

Nathan:

Like, I'm going to sit on my couch, like Al Bundy with my hand, like down my shorts

Nathan:

and like doing like, with like, with like, A big gulp, and like, with no notebook,

Sam:

and I do think of it as a vacation like it's a fun vacation, like reward.

Sam:

I may also visit the earnest place where they shot the camp in like South Carolina

Sam:

for a future walks of world episode.

Sam:

I think it was South Carolina, but there are, I have watched videos on YouTube.

Sam:

They go back there.

Sam:

Like it's a classic I can't

Bee:

wait.

Bee:

Quit now I'll try.

Bee:

So I have not, the only one of these movies I've seen this

Bee:

weekend at Bernie's and it's been.

Bee:

Well, over a decade, I'd say 15 to 20 years since I've seen it.

Sam:

The good news is I can definitely say we picked the better of the earnest

Sam:

films like Earnest Saves Christmas, even though it's a box office hit,

Sam:

is not as good as my we will never

Nathan:

watch Earnest Saves Christmas on this podcast.

Nathan:

Yeah, OK.

Bee:

OK.

Bee:

You said we'd never watch an earnest movie like three months ago.

Bee:

And here we are.

Bee:

So it's

Sam:

good.

Sam:

It's it's Ernest goes to jail is good goes to camp is good, I do not like the

Sam:

Halloween one Ernest scared stupid, I thought that, saw that in the theater

Sam:

in 1991, but I have not yet seen Ernest rides again, which is one where he like,

Sam:

meets up with a professor and like, goes after this like, Arthurian Jewel or no,

Sam:

it's like an American something, but I, I, I have to, as a completionist,

Sam:

I have to finish the series, but

Nathan:

you're going to need a spinoff podcast.

Sam:

Chris goes to campus where it all started because the Disney CEO, he saw

Sam:

Mickey Mouse at Disneyland, like walking amongst kids and then Ernest came out and

Sam:

he got bigger applause than Mickey Mouse.

Sam:

So the CEO was like, we needed an earnest film and that's how that happened.

Sam:

So I'm going to try,

Bee:

I'm going to genuinely go in with an open mind.

Bee:

I'm going to try historically.

Bee:

This is not a great decade for women or quick people.

Bee:

So we'll see.

Bee:

That's why we're

Nathan:

limiting it to just three movies.

Nathan:

You know,

Bee:

at

Nathan:

least we're, at least we're avoiding probably

Nathan:

like the really offensive.

Bee:

Yeah, no, they could be good.

Bee:

We got a Bernie's.

Bee:

I remember we're not doing like revenge

Nathan:

of the nerds or.

Bee:

Yeah, vacation.

Nathan:

Ski school.

Nathan:

There must be a movie called ski school.

Nathan:

We could be watching.

Sam:

1990s ski patrol.

Sam:

Yeah,

Nathan:

that.

Sam:

Saw that up here.

Sam:

But yeah.

Nathan:

Just one of the guys.

Nathan:

What year was just one of the guys?

Nathan:

I don't remember.

Sam:

I haven't seen that one.

Sam:

I did see Revenge of the Nerds and Revenge of the Nerds 2.

Sam:

It might, it

Nathan:

might be one of the most offensive movies ever made.

Nathan:

Where, anyways, we won't get into it, but.

Nathan:

We could do a whole month dedicated to losing our entire female audience.

Bee:

I just, like, didn't.

Bee:

We were just talking about how much testosterone was in all of

Bee:

the movies that we were watching.

Nathan:

We have to counterbalance every We have to release the burden.

Nathan:

Oh god.

Nathan:

What's really funny is people are listening.

Nathan:

If anyone's listening to this, like tuning in for our June pride wrap up and

Nathan:

they're listening to the end of this, like they're doing what's after this.

Nathan:

I scribe to this podcast

Bee:

guys.

Bee:

I'm trying.

Bee:

Okay.

Bee:

I mean,

Sam:

At the very least, it is better than Ernest Saves Christmas.

Sam:

That one is fairly dull.

Bee:

I wouldn't know.

Sam:

Yeah, Ernest goes to jail, it's pretty good.

Sam:

He has a twin brother and the wrong man gets convicted, but his brother that

Sam:

looks just like him takes over his life while he's stuck in jail and they Woah!

Sam:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Alright.

Nathan:

Alright,

Nathan:

I'm gonna wrap it up here.

Nathan:

Let's Do I have Do I even have anything to say at the end of this here?

Nathan:

Alright.

Nathan:

You know, Hey guys, just everyone listening to subscribe, you get more

Nathan:

of this really awesome content of us talking about movies and shit.

Sam:

So as Nathan would say, this is, this is the best first half of 2025 ever.

Sam:

Yeah,

Nathan:

exactly.

Nathan:

Okay.

Nathan:

Thank you.

Nathan:

Everyone for listening to us.

Nathan:

That is our show this week back to the framerate is part of the

Nathan:

Western media podcast network.

Nathan:

We also wish to thank Brian Ellsworth for our show opening on behalf of all of us.

Nathan:

We bid you farewell from our fall shelter.

Nathan:

Your presence in our underground sanctuary is truly appreciated.

Nathan:

We are truly sorry.

Nathan:

You cannot join us.

Nathan:

Well, we want to express our gratitude for your company.

Nathan:

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Nathan:

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Nathan:

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Nathan:

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Nathan:

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Nathan:

I don't even know anymore.

Nathan:

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Nathan:

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Nathan:

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Nathan:

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Nathan:

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Sam:

and remember, second place is terrible.

Sam:

There's only first

Nathan:

first loser.

Nathan:

Second place.

Nathan:

Just kidding.

Nathan:

This is the end of our transmission back to the frame rate signing off.

Nathan:

I want

Nathan:

you to know it's over.

Nathan:

Well.

Nathan:

Well.

Bee:

Bye.

Bee:

Bye.

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