Episode 042 (Chivalry After Hours) - "Stop Down Movies Re-Visited"

Asim and Leo join Jaime to discuss their own version of stop down movies.

• Relationship with movies
• Impactful movies
• How they are tied to your childhood

Issue a verdict.

Transcript

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Discovery Chronicles with your host, Dr. VLH, Dr.

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David, we're going to bring it to you to not drink during the podcast.

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Yes. And me, I mean, they need to make uh this podcast equipment a lot more expensive to get some of these files off the air. Gather around, as we discussed, a modern manly approach to children. So I hope you're ready, because I know we are. So let's get into it. And we're back here with Leonoriega and our new special guest is Asim Lewis. We'll get into what Asim does and all that. But today we're going to do Stop Down Movies Re-Revisited. Because it got a lot of talk. I got a bunch of text. And I said, you know what? Let's let's kind of go over it again. And welcome, Asim. You want to tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do and you know what you know what got you into watching movies and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_01: 1:35

What's good, brothers? Yeah. Uh no, thanks for uh inviting me. I was first of all, I was you know upset that I was not invited to some earlier topics, so thanks for letting me jump in here. Hey, we can topic that I might be able to uh add some.

SPEAKER_03: 1:51

Yeah, I I mean if you want to do a a quick a quick you know like quick rundown uh on the episodes that you wanted to say something, if you would just want to quick comment, I'm down with that.

SPEAKER_01: 2:12

Yeah, I've I've I've I've listened to to handful of episodes and I've heard my my name pop up in those in those episodes, and I'm like, well, where was my call? I'm right here. I can chime in. But you represented me well, but I was just like, you could have called me, but it's all good, so I'm here now. Yeah, but yeah.

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Now that you now that you say that.

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No, no call.

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We didn't did we do a yeah, we did a little bit of hip hop.

SPEAKER_01: 2:41

Yeah, we did. Yeah, we did. You did a hip-hop one, you did a movies. Well, you did a couple movie ones. Video games, yeah, uh fighting games, marking games, yeah, you like the thing I do. Yeah, no, you got a shout-out.

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All right, all right. Well uh We had your protege on.

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I mean I was like, no, I heard my name. So I was like, okay, this they're acknowledging me, so it's all good. Yeah, you're all good.

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That's what I said. Your protege Joaquin was here, you know?

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He was telling us all the tricks you showed him. Yeah, and he he was right. Uh and that well, I was I was upset with that one because like I said, that was for for a son to not know how to do a shoriukin or a hot oken, that's something wrong with that. So that was what I was the first time I was upset with you.

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I was like, how do you let this man not know how to do because see what happens when you have kids is they don't listen to you.

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What had happened?

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That's what happens. I'm telling you, this kid here, I told him to go into wrestling. He didn't go into wrestling for three years, his freshman year in high school. He comes home, dad. I'm gonna do wrestling. I was like, great, son, that's a great idea. By the way, how did you you know come about this? He goes, Oh, you know, I was talking to Coach. Coach Menno said I should do wrestling. I was like, okay, then that fuck me. You know what I'm saying? I've been telling you for three years. You know, golf. You know, he got into golf a couple years ago. I'd been taking him to go, you know, to the driving range with me since he was like five. And no, I don't want to, nah, it sucks and all this and that. And his cousin invites him, comes home. Dad, I uh I want to know how you know, I want to learn how to play golf. I was like, oh, okay, all right, you get one little you know, invite from your cousin, and all of a sudden now you want to do golf. So I mean it's yeah, it it's it's not because I didn't tell him first show. That's the way, man. It's actually I have a I have a picture of him doing his fatality. Oh yeah. I have a picture of him doing his first fatality. He's he was probably like seven. Nice. And so I have that picture of him. Actually, I was gonna post it with the episode. So so that's that's why they just don't listen to you. Mark Twain has a great quote about it. It says, uh, you know, before like when he was a young kid, he's that his my dad knew everything. He goes, then you know, when I got a little older, like 18, you know, it seemed like he didn't know anything at all. He goes, then I got 20, and then he goes it and it was amazing how much he learned in those three years, you know what I'm saying? It's like, no, that motherfucker knew like he he knew all that stuff before that, but yeah, that's why. And that that's why I'm like, you know, ask, you know, ask uh steal a seam.

SPEAKER_01: 5:42

Being the the movie and TV show person, my my that's where all my quotes come from. But that that same quote or the same uh similar quote to that from modern family when when the mom is talking about your your kids are like the the the lunar landing hitting that orbit around the moon. Like they leave you, they go on to the dark side of the moon, there's no sound, there's no communication, and then they swing back around and all of a sudden they're back with you again. So, you know, you gotta wait for that that swing around, that the swing shot. Yeah. Then they're back on your team.

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And and it's it's really it it's kind of I don't even know how to explain it, but when when it happens, you're like, what the hell? You know, because they used to listen to you, right? When they're when they're babies, then they get about teenagers, you know, 12 or 13, they they don't. They just stop listening to you. They you're like, damn it, son. You know, so I would so what I would do is I I would say I would take them to people that I was like, oh, go talk to so-and-so about it. And then he'd come back, he's like, Oh, he said this. I was like, Yep, yeah, so that's all I said, you know, everything I said. Yep. So yeah, it's it's uh it's part and parcel partial being a parent. So I'm not not too worried about it. But I knew you would tell him, and I knew he would receive that information.

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So I was like he now knows how to do yeah, yeah, it kind of yeah.

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So anyway, so stop die movies. I think what we talked about before was like movies that that that are on what wait I meant.

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Yeah, uh a scene's relationship to movies is pop. It's just the same thing, right? Like you know, yeah. I yeah, like, yeah, my whole and just a preface too, because Leo and I have had this this conversation before, but we've joked about starting our own podcast called the the uh what I what do I call it? The the movie apologists and the critical keys. Yeah, I I I love movies to the point where it's hard for them to be bad for me. Like it's like I like I will I'll appreciate something about the movie, even if it's considered a bad movie or people don't like the movie. Right or my favorite movies the worst, you know, whatever, you know. I like it for other reasons or whatever like that. But yeah, yeah, my Leo and I talked about, yeah, my dad would take me to the movie theaters and that was our that was our connection, you know. It wasn't pulling the football or catching baseball or anything like that. It was like movies and he would he would always take me up to the uh to the movies. Especially when I got to fifteen, fifteen when you when you were still too young to go see like the adult movies, you know, and he would take me to go see the the the rated R movies and be able to watch that. I wasn't supposed to be in. He would take me like, oh yeah, this is this is where it's at. So yeah, that's just that's kind of a history of it.

SPEAKER_03: 9:00

Yeah, I mean that's that's cool. I mean, I I guess with with our kids, we we watch movies all the time. And you know, it's kind of a thing we do, but it's not something that we did with our parents. I mean, I guess we saw some movies with them, but it wasn't it wasn't a thing, you know. It's always interesting hearing, you know, how people connected with their parents or what they did because it does follow you. You know what I'm saying? It it kind of makes you who you are. So so then that there's your um so you're mad.

SPEAKER_01: 9:29

I remember our mom took us took me, I guess, to see Gremlins. That's the first movie I've ever seen in the theater. Yeah, that movie is really close to my heart.

SPEAKER_03: 9:40

Yeah, no, I went I was there with you.

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Yeah, yeah. I was like four years old. Like when did Gremlins come out? 86.

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84. I want to say it was earlier than that. I don't know.

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But we need a producer on this to fact check us. Right?

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Gremlins was 84, and you left the theater because it was too scary. Our mom had to take you out.

SPEAKER_01: 10:02

I didn't leave. What? That's not sad, but religious.

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Sir, that's what happened. That's exactly what happened because I was I was pissed because I was like, man, I kind of want to watch the rest of this movie and shit.

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And so you know. But she did always talk about how I would jump like all the jump scares. It's not even a scary movie. It's four years old. What do you want to do? What do you want from me?

SPEAKER_03: 10:30

The truth, motherfucker. That's what I want. I want the truth. No, no, I remember that movie. Because back in the day, we'd go to the the theater on Bruton. I think it was like Bruton Theater or whatever. We'd we'd uh probably spend there all day and then just kind of buy one ticket and just sneak into the other ones. Yeah, I remember one time like my my two older brothers went to a movie, another movie, and I went to we went to two separate movies. I must have seen like never ending stories, something something like that. They give bought me tickets for that. And then the movie ends, and everybody's falling out, and so I just hung out and I was like, well, you know, let me just go sneak into this movie while I'm waiting for these clowns. And then I walk in and it's like, okay, this is this is not a this is not a kid movie. You know, it's like then you see what's her face, what is that movie, Bolero or something that that has uh Bow Derek. Bo Derek's on the screen. I was like, Oh, yeah, yeah. Uh, let's see what's going on here. So I just snuck into that movie, and I was I didn't know anything about this movie. I just you know, you see Bo Derek, you're like, okay. I was like, let's go. Yeah. Yeah, which of course then it came out in 1984 also, so it must have been you know about the same time.

SPEAKER_01: 11:54

And then Glenn's was 1984. Yeah. And then around that same time, like uh when did ET come out?

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Oh, that was way earlier than that. 80 that is 82? 82.

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I think it was 82. Yeah, yeah, eighty two, yeah. So that was that was a V that was a VHS movie for us, and like that's one of the themes, like top 20 movies of all time. You know, like ET is one of those like never in the story and gremlin and movies like that are like what E.T. is to see. And I don't know what the equivalence would be like for Hyman for him growing up, like because the movies are I mean, who knows? Well, I mean Lost Boys, you love Lost Boys, and you know Well, I remember E.T.

SPEAKER_03: 12:48

I mean, I think E.T. I was I was big in the bikes, you know what I'm saying? And and seeing them ride off in those bikes all the time was such a freaking badass scene in those movies. And I think I was reading an article one time that it it upped the sales for BMX bikes because they they show up everywhere in that movie. Yeah, right. Yeah, and so you know, me being like I've always loved bikes, and you know, I had my own bike, and I would I went from where we live all the way to Box Springs and stuff like that, you know, on a bike. So that movie is such a great movie for that. I mean, all those movies, the Never Ending Story is one of my favorite all-time movies. You know, the Goonies, I mean, all those older movies, Karate Kid, those are the movies that that I remember that I loved. And then plus, you know, since our children brothers always watch horror movies, that's how I got into horror movies. You know, I watched The Exorcist when I was like eight years old and shit. So, you know, probably should I should uh I probably shouldn't have been watching, but you know, it just it it created a a special like okay uh now uh now we're watching Freddie Krueger when it came out, you know, the first one, uh Nightmare on M Street. And I watched all those at the movies at the freaking drive, the drive-in and stuff like that. So and Nightmare on Mm.

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The Astro, right?

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Yeah, Astro Drive In. The drive-in, yep. And Nightmare on Elm Street came out in 1984. Look at that. 1984 was a great year for movies.

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Yeah, 80s was a great year for movies.

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Yeah, let's let's get back on topic. Get back on topic. All right, so on the original episode of the Stop Down movies, right? Movies that that you'll stop what you're doing and watch. We created some parameters, right? We said, or I said, I'm not talking about or I'm not gonna list any Marvel movie, any comic book movie, basically, and any Star Wars movie. Those things are just I'm gonna watch them. So let's just let's just go ahead and move the conversation forward, right? Because we can spend all day just talking about Star Wars or Marvel or DC or you know that type of stuff. Yeah. So Asim, is are there parameters that you set for yourself? And Lel too, did y'all set parameters for this topic? I mean, did y'all say we're not gonna do this one? Or you know, tell me, tell me how you how you came about your your list.

SPEAKER_01: 15:15

Well, I'll I'll jump first. I I I agree with your parameters because yeah, if if you say Star Wars, then I'm gonna I'm gonna instantly get to my actually voice, and we're gonna I'm just gonna start deep diving into everything Star Wars, and then we would just be completely off topic. So so yeah, let's just we uh we understand that we're gonna we're gonna watch those Marvel movies to the same thing. I don't really have any parameters, but I like I said, I just recently listened to that original podcast because I want to make sure I I knew what you what you guys have talked about. I didn't want to retread too much ground that you guys had already talked about before. But when I when I listened to that podcast, I I think I took a slightly different definition of stop down movies. I think you guys have that same definition, but I think as topics you kind of just you start just going and it goes off into other tangents.

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Right.

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But I really for me personally, I really was thinking of movies that I would specifically start watching even if it was thirty minutes into the movie, forty minutes into the movie. And and I just happen to turn it on, which is not a thing that happens often anymore because we're not watching you know, television with channels and uh like that as much. But every once in a while that scenario does happen, even now, like with you know YouTube, TV, food, foo, and all that kind of stuff. So that would be my only thing, is I like I said, and I don't I don't want to limit you guys to anything, but for me that's kinda like where I'm coming from is that this is a movie that doesn't matter where in this movie, if I catch it and it's on, I'm everything else shuts down and I'm now into this movie. From that point on.

SPEAKER_03: 17:17

Yeah, no, I got you. Lel, did you did you do anything similar as far as your list of of movies? Did you have parameters? Did you have sums that you some movies just take out?

SPEAKER_01: 17:28

No, no. Even if it's like the end of the movie, or like this, the end is like the end is the best part. Like there's movies like some some movies.

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I was gonna say that that's that's uh that's a topic right there, man. Movies that uh like Full Metal Jacket, right?

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They stick the landing.

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That's like Full Metal Jacket. The first I can just watch that first part where they're in like basic training on that. And and I don't remember.

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Nobody wants second half. Yeah, after that, like movies like that. That's the best part. So there's movies like there's movies like that, like I will watch the like what the hell happened? Where what part are we at? And then I know it's the end, or if it's at the beginning, like, okay, I'm gonna sit down and do the thing, you know. But that's like I don't think there's uh the uh parameters, the offset or something you can watch the movies that you want to watch over and over again are gonna fall into all these categories, but that's not what it seems like David and DLH they don't like to watch movies like that. Like you're the only one that watches movies like that.

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Yeah.

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So I don't know.

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There's movies that well, like you know, we we stated it then, and I think we've we're restating it now. Now we have so many streaming services that you have a watch list, right? Like I my watch list uh has a shitload of movies on it. And it's movies that like, you know, I'm in the mood to watch a movie. I don't want to get too deep into it. I just want to fucking have a good time and you know, I don't care because I've seen this movie 30 times, so it doesn't matter, but I want to see something. And those are the movies that you know, like I can watch rounders any day, all day, whatever, right? But the other day Yeah, yeah.

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Oh, you want to watch all the you want to watch all the poker scenes, all the poker scenes, you know, like uh the breakup, right?

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The breakup is a like when you when you when you think about that movie, you you think about all the funny parts, but it gets so freaking dark in the middle, it gets so like, man, I man, I got my own fucking problems, dog. I I came to the movie to like have a good time. And so sometimes I'll go through and just fast forward all the bullshit, all the fights, all that stuff, and just watch all the funny parts, right? Like when they're you know, that that band. That the brother has that they're practicing in the bedroom. Yeah, when he's playing Madden against uh the guy that's dating Jennifer Aniston.

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I mean just all those scenes are that dude discounts this counts Tom Brady, that dude that's dating everything.

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Yeah, so so you but you forget about all the all the just really sad. Like they get super dark. Not dark, but just too like too real. And those discussions are like you we've all I mean if you've ever dated, you've had those discussions, dude. Like those very same ones. And so I was like, man, I kind of want to relive that shit. Like just get get back to being funny. Do you I want to start with the movies? My uh what was that?

SPEAKER_01: 20:52

Go ahead. No, no, I'm saying start with your stopdown movies.

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Yeah, see.

SPEAKER_01: 20:57

You want to start with mine?

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Yeah, let's go with yours.

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So do you want uh how uh how do you because I know you guys kind of spoke about them before and then kind of highlighted specific ones you want just to list, or just kind of just give me how do you want to give me your top five?

SPEAKER_03: 21:15

Whatever parameters that you may, just give me your top five.

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And uh and a little bit about the movie. Well, from from okay. Well, from earlier we were talking about the movies. My number one movie that it's all these parameters of all time is is E.T. Like I Okay. I don't care where that movie is in in it, beginning, middle, end, wherever it's at, I'm going to stop and and continue watching it from that point on throughout the end. That's 100% number one for me. When I first I first time I saw that movie in 82 or whatever, my cousin took me and we had it was back when you had to like stand in line to get your ticket and stand in line to get your seat when it's time to go see the movie.

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Yeah.

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And we this they also used to oversell theaters then. So when we got inside the theater, there was only one seat left. It was on the front row, dead center. And I had to sit on my cousin's lap because I was like a little kid, you know. Yeah. I had to sit on his lap. So I'm like my neck is bent backwards, like looking up at the screen, you know, to see this movie, and it was still like the most like uh impressionable, you know, movie on me at the time or whatever. So yeah, that one number one. And then like I said, it gets it gets after that, it gets weird because at that point it's it's about specific scenes, like when I when I'm flipping through movies or whatever and I catch I catch that scene and then it catches my eye and I I'll I'll continue watching. But I can pretty much like I mean you guys had I think I think one of the other guys had mentioned it in the last podcast was Lord of the Rings. I can I can also stop in specifically Two Towers. And that was I guess it's not really a parameter, but when there's movies that have series, because I know the guys are like he uh one of uh one of the guys said they Indiana Jones and it was like all of them it didn't matter or whatever. But I have I have like specific ones in the series. Like I'll I may not watch any of the other movies in the series, but this one, if I catch it, a next one would be uh this one specifically Order of the Phoenix. Harry Potter. Harry Potter, Order of Phoenix.

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Yeah.

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The other Harry Potters, I don't necessarily have to stop and watch Order of the Phoenix, I'm I'm done. I'm watching it. I'm gonna continue watching it uh all the way through after that.

SPEAKER_03: 23:59

Why why that one specifically?

SPEAKER_01: 24:02

So like I wasn't I was super skeptical about getting into Harry Potter in the first place. Leo and I've had this discussion too. I I was when Harry Potter came around, I'm a Star Wars kid, you know. That's so that's Star Wars is end all be all as far as I'm concerned, and and nothing is going to like nothing would ever live up to that, you know, in movie history, as far as I'm concerned. It's Star Wars or nothing else. And so when I saw the height of Harry Potter, and you know, initially I was like, yeah, whatever. I was like, you know, these dumb kids like a wizard. I was like, okay, cute. You know, I was like, let me uh let me show you a wizard that's called a Jedi, and it's like, you know, a lightsaber's gonna, you know, destroy these guys. You know, I was just I was home teaming it like big time for for Star Wars, and I was just like, there's I don't want to deal with this.

SPEAKER_03: 25:00

You did the C you did the you did the cocky sniff, you know, like Yeah, uh Harry Potter. Okay, yeah.

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Yeah, oh 100%. Yeah. Yeah, like yeah.

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Trash.

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But I uh exactly. But the the first this this by this time the first movie had already come out on DVD at the time. And uh I was in the Best Buy, I saw it on the shelf, and I was I looked at the case and I had the full buster face look at that thing. I was like, like Harry Potter. I I picked it up, I turned it and looked on the back of it because I was just kind of looking to see what the images looked like, and then I was reading the the credits on there. And it always, you know, it had like the director and actors' names and stuff like that. And then halfway through that credit, it said musical score by John Williams. John Williams. And that that struck a nerve. John Williams. How dare you? Jay Dub? J Dubb? He fucks with this. I was like, wait, time out. I was like, Jay Dubb, please name one?

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The big man?

SPEAKER_01: 26:19

Yeah, I was like, wait, I was like, is there another John Williams that I don't know about? I was like, dude, also on this podcast, they have shamed Jaiman for going to Best Buy. Why don't people go to Best Buy?

SPEAKER_00: 26:31

Like, someone else gotta go to Best Buy, man. Like, what the hell?

SPEAKER_01: 26:36

But I bought that I bought that DVD on spot. Like I was like, I have to take this home and watch this. I have no I have no you know understanding of Harry Potter. Watched it, loved it, and then continued the rest of the series. But when it got to Order of the Phoenix, it was I think that movie is like the culmination of all the things that are wizards. Like everything after Order of the Phoenix is like the doom and gloom part of it. You know, everything kind of is it's all turmoil and it's like the the the the evil part of it is you know coming out. But the the Order of the Phoenix showed it at its height. You know, you got the the wizard battle at the end. It was it was just awful. So that's one I could just stop and watch at any point in the movie. And I think probably after that, uh it's a lot of my movies are probably gonna be after that are gonna be old school, older movies. So I would probably go with something like Big Trouble Little China.

SPEAKER_00: 27:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 27:39

Uh because again, that movie that movie doesn't like that movie doesn't have a rhyme or reason anyway, so it doesn't matter where you catch it. You're you're pretty much getting the same information. It's it's it's so bizarre. So yeah, you feel big if I put the channel in Big Trouble Little China's on, I'm just gonna stop and watch it. And I'm and I hope that I'm catching it at a part where I can see any of the scenes with the three storms. As long as I get to see a scene with the three storms, go over. You know, that's all I need to see. Preferably thunder or lightning. I mean, if I get to catch him doing his stuff, his his raiding before raiding, yeah, then you know, we're good. What was that? Four? Was that four or five?

SPEAKER_03: 28:25

Let's call it four. I'm curious about the last one.

SPEAKER_01: 28:30

And then probably this was weird because it I guess it does have a slightly different it does have a slightly different parameter because I can only watch it in December.

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Okay.

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But but when it's on and I catch it, it doesn't matter. And it's it's well, it's I'm gonna c I'm gonna make it a combo, a combo pack, but it's Christmas story and Christmas vacation.

SPEAKER_00: 29:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 29:02

Because they're like, I always run those like all day, every day. And it doesn't like like on Christmas Day when I watch a Christmas story, I end up seeing the entire movie, but I never see it in in order. Like I'll watch 10 minutes of it here and catch some 10-minute scene cracked up, then I'll watch another 10-minute scene. By the end of the day, I've seen the entire movie, but it was not in order, and it was if it was completely all jumbled up. Yeah. And the same thing with with Chevy Ur Christmas Vacation. It's the same thing. I I but only in December. I I refuse to watch those movies outside of the month of December, or even sometimes just Christmas Day.

SPEAKER_03: 29:47

Yeah, Lethi loves.

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I'll go with that's my yeah.

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Let's he loves Christmas vacation. Actually, she loves Christmas stories too. Um Christmas Story I never saw it as a kid. Like I I didn't see it, and so when I saw it, I was already like, I think I was already here. I was freaking like 25, 28, whatever it was. And I was like, okay, that's fine. I guess I don't get it. You know, and I and I think it's just because if you watch if you watch a movie when you're younger, it's just it's more of a you know you're more impressed by it's more impressionable or something like that, and then you love it because of it. And if you watch it later, it just it's it it doesn't have the same effect. And so I've seen it, I'm just like, that's okay. Letty loves it. So I've seen it and and when it's on, I'll watch it, but it's I'm like, uh I can do without that movie. Christmas Vacation, it's just a funny ass movie. And well the you know, it's it's just it's that's a classic movie.

SPEAKER_01: 30:42

Well the weird thing is I didn't I didn't like Christmas story when I first saw it. I first saw it in like I think it was like in I was like in sixth grade or something like that, and the it was right it was during Christmas time and they had brought all the all of the kids into the cafeteria and it was like a free period and they put the TV up and put it on, and I had never seen it before, and so but everybody else in my class apparently had seen it, and I don't know if that was a cultural thing at the time, because I was like, I I was like, I had no idea what this movie was at all. And so when I first saw it, I was I didn't laugh at it at all. I just sat in the room watching all my classmates like cracking up, and I'm like, what are you laughing about? Like I didn't get at all. But then, yeah, I was like, what am I watching? And I was kind of upset about it. Like I was like, I but then it was years later. I I watched it, and I think I think my mom and I were watching it at home, and uh probably on one of those, you know, Christmas Days where it runs all day long. Yeah, on the list. And I just we both watched the the the aunt's gift with the bunny outfit, and that scene came on. He comes down the stairs in the bunny outfit, and I cracked up like I'd never cracked up in my life. Like I lost it. Me and my mom both, we lost it. And then we were like, let's watch it from the beginning. And then we watched it from the beginning, and we lost it through the whole movie, and then it just became it just became that movie for me. So it was just weird. I don't know how it happened like that.

SPEAKER_03: 32:25

Yeah. Yeah. I mean that's that's a good list. Like it it is a, you know, uh I like the parameters that you that you put on it, even though you said you didn't put in parameters. So, Lel, what do you got? And then we can we can discuss, I guess, the ones that y'all have in common, if y'all have any.

SPEAKER_01: 32:46

My uh stop down movies, like let's let's go back to what y'all were talking about in the first incarnation of this. Y'all said they're pretending like well people don't stri like people don't have people don't watch TV like that anymore. People stream, people like okay. If this movie is on and let's pretend like the movie is playing, yeah, you know, like let's just let's just assume that that's happening. There's a you know, and the movies that are on all the time, like you said, like the Fast and the Furious movies are on all the time.

SPEAKER_00: 33:31

Yep.

SPEAKER_01: 33:31

Which I don't watch those movies. You know, Avengers movies. Yeah um which is funny because sometimes they play Infinity War and Endgame back to back, like god damn it, we had to wait two years to watch that shit, but it's my favorite one, which like before you did the podcast, I used to tell a theme we used to talk about the Saturday movies. My Saturday movies of flipping through channels while I'm working. The first one is Demolition Man. Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 34:09

It's it's a watching back, yeah, to watch to go back and watch that one. But go ahead.

SPEAKER_01: 34:14

And it's another thing we always talk about with Sander Bullock. Like, has she ever been peak Sander Bullock? Like, just like we talk about uh Cameron Diaz with Matt.

SPEAKER_03: 34:28

Hey dog, that's another podcast. That's another podcast. Let's not let's let's save it. Leave it just you know, like shoot our load on it now, you know. Just like let's let's save it. That's a whole nother because I I would say speed. But I mean But he was super cute in this one. I'll give you that.

SPEAKER_01: 34:48

Yeah. I love that movie, and I'm shocked that they haven't done like a remake because they've ruined all of our shit from back in them days. Like they did Total Recall, they did the next one the enemy mind.

SPEAKER_03: 35:03

Oh, hold on. Go back to demolition math. There's a lot of like inside jokes uh jokes in that movie that are freaking hilarious because of the movie, right? They're just kind of like just making fun of uh Savich Salona like uh he doesn't know how to use the two tiles or stuff.

SPEAKER_02: 35:20

Yeah, he's dumb, right? He's a yeah, he's a Neanderthal, right?

SPEAKER_03: 35:26

And he's what are the three C sills for?

SPEAKER_01: 35:30

He's a because he's yeah, he's a dumbass, right?

SPEAKER_02: 35:32

Like And then he keeps getting tickets and he's a neutralized.

SPEAKER_01: 35:37

No, it's it's a r like I'm shocked they haven't fucking remade it. And it would suck, but I'd go see it. Me and it's him being there in fucking night one. Right. All right. And uh the next one, Anime Mind. Okay. I fucking love that movie so much.

SPEAKER_03: 35:58

You remember Enemy Mind? Yes. Yeah, I remember it. Or no.

SPEAKER_01: 36:02

I don't even know. I think it was Cruz, our older oldest brother that showed me that movie.

SPEAKER_03: 36:09

You were telling me you were telling me about that. That it's a theme. Yeah, it's one of his favorite movies, which I didn't know, and I'm kind of curious. How did you come about that? Like, did he say, man, this is the my favorite movie? Or how did you how did you come about that movie?

SPEAKER_01: 36:22

No, no, like it's the only movie. I don't know. It's the only movie he's ever had a like a connection to. I don't know what it is about it that makes him, you know, like the human side of our oldest brother.

SPEAKER_03: 36:38

I've never seen it. I've never seen it.

SPEAKER_01: 36:41

I watched it with uh remember like me and the theme talk about it all the time. I watched it at uh theme's spot over here recently, not maybe a couple years ago. And I'm using that I for I was I fucking genuinely shed some tears. I was like, this movie is fucked up, man. I'm crying. And I thought it seemed like, yeah, thank you for giving me this gift of showing me this movie again. Maybe it's my connection to like I don't know why Cruz loves that movie, but it's and you gotta watch it, man. Like, what's his name? The quarterback is he's a quarterback for the Oilers. That's what Donald sucks, right? He plays for the Oilers. It's Dennis Quaid?

SPEAKER_03: 37:30

Yeah, Dennis Quaid.

SPEAKER_01: 37:31

Yeah, Dennis Quaid. And it's just it's a really good movie. You gotta check it out.

SPEAKER_03: 37:37

All right, I um I'll re-watch it and and let you know my thoughts. I haven't seen that movie in probably I don't know, 30 years, 40 years. It's been forever. But I'll watch it.

SPEAKER_01: 37:49

No, like I love that. It's a it's great. I fucking love the next one, ATL with T.I. in Lord London. That movie is on I don't care, I'm watching it. Okay. That movie's on I don't care. I'm watching it. I've never seen it. It's on the fucking channel. You gotta watch that one too. I don't think I see that movie. I gotta watch it. I'm sorry. I'm I'm flipping channels. Again, let's presume there's a world where you're still flipping through channels.

SPEAKER_03: 38:31

Yeah, they go back about 30 years. That's like the mid-90s.

SPEAKER_01: 38:37

And when it's on, I'm like, okay, what's going on here? And it's so weird. Like fucking T.I. is on a he's in a roller skating team. Like, what the hell? What this doesn't make any sense. He's a roller skater, like what the hell? And London, it's just that's not hard. When I found out that it was about roller skating, I was like, no. I had no idea. I just assumed that it was some kind of some kind of heist movie or some kind of you know, I had no idea. They were like, no, he's a roller skater. Like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_03: 39:21

You're not selling this movie. You're not selling this movie at all right now.

SPEAKER_01: 39:28

No, it's just I know I just I just like watching movies. It's really funny. And well hear you. And uh, let's see, is that three movies? I got three. You talked about it earlier. No, wait, did you? He's just in the NT.

SPEAKER_03: 39:46

Yeah, yeah, we talked about it. Right? You were talking about it? It was on, it was on earlier today. On on the uh this fictional box in my living room that plays movies all the time. You know. Yeah, it was on. And I did watch it. I did watch it in in preparation for our future podcast. But yeah, I had to I had to I had to do some research.

SPEAKER_01: 40:10

That movie is so funny too. Because it's got so many people in like fucking whatchall it? Van Asple. Yeah. My girl Scarjo.

SPEAKER_03: 40:21

Yep. Jennifer Aniston.

SPEAKER_01: 40:22

Jennifer Aniston. E from Onto Us. Yeah. Yeah. Uh what's her name? What's the what's the chick's name? Gigi something.

SPEAKER_03: 40:32

Yeah. Jennifer plays Gigi. Jennifer Goodwin.

SPEAKER_01: 40:37

Yeah, yeah, yeah. G is in it.

SPEAKER_03: 40:39

Yeah, Jennifer Connolly, Drew Barrymore, Justin Long.

SPEAKER_01: 40:43

Yeah, Jennifer. Drew Barrymore's in it. Like fucking. Anyway, really funny movie. I like that movie a lot. Whenever, whenever it's on, again, in this fictional world where things are playing.

SPEAKER_02: 41:00

In a loop, you're all they don't ever stop.

SPEAKER_03: 41:05

Yeah. Like you remember when HBO HBO always played, like there was an HBO channel and there was like movies constantly. That's that's what it's like. Now you just go to HBO, the streaming service, and you just pick whatever movie. But back in the day, you know, the home box office.

SPEAKER_01: 41:24

There would just be stuff. There would just be stuff. Well, that was also part of the the excitement of it was that you catch something that was awesome. Like you catch a predator on HBO. You're like, oh my god. Yeah, Predator's on. I gotta watch that. I think that's one of my movies that is like Predator. The first Predator.

unknown: 41:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 41:47

The first that's on my list. Like Predator. That wasn't a movie that I put on my list, but Predator when it was on. And I I'll film Heimat the other day. I said Big Ron. Gooch. He's the one that got me on Predator. I've never seen I never saw this movie. You know, because it's a Raider R movie. And you know, it's like kind of fucking Forbidden. And I saw it when I got when I was a freshman. You saw it, you saw it on like at at the house, not in the theater. Yeah, yeah, no, VHS. Right. Right, right. My last one, let's see uh Enemy Mine, Emilitian. He's just not the he's just not the VHS. Oh, the last one is a movie I knew was gonna be a top-down Saturday movie. And I watched it in the theater with a scene. And I said, I'm gonna fucking watch this movie forever. Every time it's on, and that was the flash.

SPEAKER_00: 42:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 42:56

It's a bad movie. Yeah. So many it's so bad. It's a bad movie. And I knew I was gonna watch it forever. Every time it's on, it's on all the time because it sucks. Right? And I told Asim, I was like, I forgot how much I love Michael Keaton Batman. Yeah, you know, like and this is like you know, like this is another five into another podcast where I'm like time travel.

SPEAKER_03: 43:28

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01: 43:30

Another time travel movie, but I identified it as a Saturday movie like what we call Saturday, what I call Saturday movies, you call Saturday movies. Like I'm gonna be watching this movie every every time it comes on. And then uh let's see I think those are my main ones that I watch all the time because they're always on. And then um I know Hyman went like Rapid Fire, and the uh you went rapid fire in like Troy and some of the other movies, Gladiator. Like those are all movies I love too. But you Hyman needs to give us more movies. More talk more about the movies that yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 44:18

Yeah, so you know, like the the movies that that are to me, like I've I I'll have the watch list, right? And and actually now that you know Esteem kind of hooked it up, I rewatched Braveheart about a month ago or something like that. And it's it's still man, it's still it still holds up, dog. It's it it used to be my all-time favorite movie, and then it kind of drops down, you know, after a while, and I'm like, let me re-watch it. Let me see if I remember it being as good. And damn it, if it's just as good as I remember it. It's everything about that movie I freaking love. Go for it down to the betrayal, you know, where he's just looking at him like there's there's times, you know, when when you're watching movies and you're like, this actor sucks. You know what I'm saying? This actor's crap. And then you watch movies where you're like, okay, now that's acting. You know what I'm saying? Uh that's that's how you do it. There's a bunch of scenes in it. I love King Longshanks. I love his one-line.

SPEAKER_01: 45:25

It's like, like, who is this who speaks to me as if I speaks to me as if his advice? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 45:36

Yeah. And he's like, uh, he's he's my minister of defense tired. He goes, is he qualified? I know the art of war.

SPEAKER_03: 45:44

And I was like, well, can you tell me that?

SPEAKER_02: 45:48

What do you say? Can you tell me about the present situation? He throws his ass out the window. I'm like, Lionshang is like the freaking coldest motherfucker in that movie.

SPEAKER_03: 46:01

He's so freaking just ahead. Three steps ahead of everything. You know, like in that that whole movie. And then the whole brotherhood aspect with what's his name, William Wallace and his boy, like they're they're always together, right? They're they got each other's back. It's like they're going through it. And then when they have that fight, you know, when when he's telling them, he's like, You're doing this because you think you think he's she sees you. And he goes, I don't think she does. I know she does. And your father sees you too. And he fucking I think he fucking hits him in the fucking face. Yeah. And that's he just hits them, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 46:41

Yeah, they square up.

SPEAKER_03: 46:43

And and I think those situations are exactly why I love it, right? Because when you do have a friend like that, a brother that uh you know forces you to look at your own mistakes or or force you know, kind of speaks his truth and you speak your truth. And there's love there, right? There's there's brotherhood, all of that. But you're gonna fight. You know, you're gonna fight, you're gonna argue. And in the end, he's still there, right? He he goes whenever he gets he gets captured. He's he's still there with him. So I mean that that movie right there, like I had to re-watch it just to kind of you know recenter myself and and because I hadn't seen it in a while. But that movie, yeah, I mean, it's never it's never on. It's not a stopdown movie, per the definition that I put, but I went back and watched it. And it's such a good movie. A few good men.

SPEAKER_01: 47:40

Well, you love huh? Well you love those well, you love those kind of movies, huh? Like uh Gladiator, Troy. Troy is excellent.

SPEAKER_03: 47:48

But and that's I think it's because of the same aspects, right? Troy, it's the two brothers. And there's a there's a scene, right? Right, when he goes to the the other two brothers, right? They they go to fight Paris. And then he's like, Step away, Prince Hector. You know, I'll kill him at your feet, I don't care. And then he's like, No, he's my brother, right? And I'm like, Yeah, that's that's what I'm talking about. Like I love those scenes. I love like Prince Hector, that character.

SPEAKER_01: 48:18

It's it's it's and hey man, it's kind of the reverse because like you're the little brother, but you're the person of this. Like, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03: 48:28

No, you're you're all Paris, dog. I had to come clean as shit. I gotta I'm like, God damn it.

SPEAKER_01: 48:37

But but there's a scene in there where where he just he just exposed that you ran out of Grizzland.

unknown: 48:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 48:45

I was like, God damn. There goes three dollars. I don't know how much movie tickets were back in the day, but I would assume it's like a dollar and something like that.

SPEAKER_01: 48:55

Two dollars. Uh but those those movies that made. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 49:01

I think those movies I've always really liked. And and actually now that we're like we're talking about it, it's the same way with goodfellas. They're all friends, right? They're all in there, it's arguments, but they still, it's like he's like, because if you're digging the ditch, it's talking about, I don't care, I'll dig the ditch. You know, it's like it's just there, there's there's brotherhood, there's camaraderie, they have a task, you know, they they do it, they they get pissed off at each other, and then well, and goodfellas they start killing people, but never mind on that.

SPEAKER_02: 49:32

There's it's just there's a common part.

SPEAKER_03: 49:35

Yeah, there's a common theme in all of them. Tombstone is the same thing. You know, he goes, I have I have many friends. He goes, I don't, you know, when uh Doc Holiday is talking about why it earth.

SPEAKER_01: 49:45

Right.

SPEAKER_03: 49:46

Yeah. And he goes, I don't.

SPEAKER_01: 49:49

That's a hell of a thing. That's a hell of a thing to say to me.

SPEAKER_03: 49:52

Yeah, when he goes to visit him. I mean, it it and they all have a common theme, right? They all have it's brotherhood, it's you're you're gonna back them. And actually another another series that I re-watched here recently is uh since we're on a a bit of a Western kick, you know, is Regulators. The uh what is that movie called? Um Young Guns. Young Guns. I rewatched Young Guns.

SPEAKER_01: 50:16

No, yes. No social movies or stop down movies. Those are stop-down movies.

SPEAKER_03: 50:22

There and it's the same thing. You know, it's the it's brotherhood. It's it's he knows the meaning of pals. You know, because we all have that. We uh you know, we pledge his fraternity because you know, we we feel strongly about brotherhood, right? And there's times when you don't really want to do the thing that everybody wants to do, but you do it because you all kind of agreed to do it, right? And so I think that those are the movies that I love the most, right? Those are it it's the ones that you have a group, you made a pact, you're gonna finish it, and you're gonna argue about it, and you may not, you know, really be all in on it, but you will because you're gonna back him up. And so I think that's for me, that's that they all kind of have that same theme. I mean, in any one of these boys in the hood, the Matrix, it's all uh like a brotherhood theme. You know what I'm saying? It's like we're gonna go save Morpheus, you know, we're gonna go in there and and get him. So it is I never I didn't think about it like that. The town, same thing, heat, the same thing.

SPEAKER_01: 51:27

It's about but aliens are but so those are like like some of your favorite movies. Are all those still stop damn movies for you?

SPEAKER_03: 51:37

No well, training day is like I don't care when training it, you know, where it is, I I will watch it. And I think I said this in the previous podcast, there's times I get a little it gets impatient, especially if they have commercials and shit like that, where I'll just you know find it and then go to that.

SPEAKER_01: 51:58

Throw on the real throw on the real movie.

SPEAKER_03: 52:00

Yeah, and then go to the same point where I am and then watch it from then on, right? That way you don't have to mess around with commercials and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_01: 52:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_03: 52:08

Like I have FUBO, and so there's movies playing right now. So I'll do that. But yes, training day, it doesn't matter where it is, I'll watch it and continue watching it. Tombstone doesn't matter. I mean, I could you know watch the last 10 minutes of it, you know, a middle part of it. The the beauty of re-watching movies is that you already know the story, right? And so I I know you guys probably do this, you know, because I know I do it. Like when you first go watch a movie, you're like, okay, I'm gonna take in as much as possible. Like I'm gonna try to, you know, figure out what's going on and then go. And then I want to re-watch it. Because I was like, okay, now I know where everything happens and now I can focus on little parts of the movie, right? I don't have to really be in tune with the movie because I've already seen it. So I'm gonna I'm trying I'm gonna tie all the strings together from the beginning. That they leave you clues in the beginning, you know? And then I'm gonna try to do that's how I re-watch movies, and that's why I love re-watching them because you catch all the little stuff. You know, like Marvel is great.

SPEAKER_01: 53:14

But no, Jayman. Well go hymn. No, Jayman. Silver Chronicles, Warterproof. Don't watch anything more than that's uh that's a misquote. The power of the Stop Down movie though is that okay, I have uh a huge like Blu-ray collection. So I got a whole shelf that I have of you know Blu-ray movies. I have now I have my my my Plex scene flicks, you know, I got every movie I can imagine that I would ever want in, you know, at least 1080 and some in 4K. You got all these great ways to w you know watch this stuff. But there are times when on regular TV with I do have YouTube TV, so that's a that's a couple times where I'll be flipping through and actually get that old school experience. Right. But there's times when I'll flip through, catch a movie, and like I said, 30 minutes in and watch it in the edited format, because it's editing you know, it's edited for TV.

SPEAKER_02: 54:40

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 54:46

It's not it may or may not be in you know 4K depending on what you know thing you're streaming it from or whatever, what service you're using. Right. And I will still continue to just sit and watch that movie, even though I could just get up and go two seconds, or even just put my plus on and watch it in four full four K here from the beginning, but I will just sit and watch that version right then there at that moment and continue to watch it. That's why like that's why I I I had a you know specific movies that I would do that with because of other movies I would I would literally say, oh yeah, that's my movie. Let me turn on my plaques. I wouldn't just watch it from where it's at because I would go, I have the better copy of that that you know that I can I could go and watch it from the beginning right now. But there are some where I'm just like, Well, I caught it, I'm here, I'm watching it, and I'm not gonna do anything differently than let's see it through to the end. Yeah, like like I think Let's bury the thing. Like I think remember the time. Let's bury the thing. Oh, remember the titans? Is that what you're about to say? Yeah, right. I watch a I will watch that movie fucking time it's on.

SPEAKER_03: 56:04

Yeah. National Treasure. Like, I'll watch National Treasure. I don't care where it is.

SPEAKER_01: 56:09

Like National Treasure.

SPEAKER_03: 56:10

I love that movie.

SPEAKER_01: 56:12

You know, I yeah, I see that. Yeah, I that's true. Yeah. That other movie way more probably on TV than I haven't. Let's uh let's bury the don't watch a movie more than once right now, a team. What how many times did you go see Phantom Menace in theaters? In the theaters, yeah. I'm not ashamed to say I saw Phantom Menace 13 times in the theater. Once, once I saw it on the same, twice on the same day in two different cities. Or sorry, not two different cities, two two different theaters in a different city. So I drove to a different city and saw it on two different theaters in that city. I was in I was in College Station at the time, drove to Dallas, went to Plano, and watched it at the first and only digital theater, it was like the first one that we had in in the city, watched it at the digital theater, then timed it perfectly to leave that theater, drive across town over somewhere off of 635, and uh on the east side, um 635 is I forgot, I think it's a uh was not regal, it wasn't legal then. I think it's a legal theater now. But they were the they were the only theater in Texas to still have THX certified theater. And they had they had fan of it playing in THX, and I was like, Yeah, we're gonna I'm going to see it. And so me and a friend drove all the way into that and then drove back to conversation. Well, you know what? And then uh team saw Force Awaken three times, I think, in like a 12-hour window. Yeah, I think so twice with you and then once the next day. Yeah. Yeah. And I saw the dark night seven times in the theater. Like, let's just, yeah, high meet border proof. Don't watch anything more than once.

SPEAKER_02: 58:22

Oh, so now it's just me. See, now you're now you're regularly.

SPEAKER_03: 58:33

See, now you're right. That that's another I think that's another another podcast that we need to do, like us three, is is movies that you saw at the movie theater by yourself. Because I know I have like a shitload that I went by myself because see one, I I couldn't I couldn't go with anybody, right? And and and you know, uh, kids were too young, and and Letty's like, I don't really want to watch that. So I was like, fuck it, I'm going. You know, which is you know, the Phantom Menace. I went to go see it at the movies by myself. I was like, and I had already seen it, but Letty had class, you know, and so I've only seen one movie by myself. Really?

SPEAKER_01: 59:18

Ever. One. And it was and it was only it was it was only because I was mad at the people that was I was at because I was actually at the theater with someone. I was at the theater with two friends. We were in New York, and we were there on we were in New York on vacation, and we were in Times Square, and they asked to they I said, Well, let's go explore Times Square. They're like, We want to go see a movie. And I'm like, We're in Times Square. Why do I want to I don't want to see a movie like we let's do New York shit, you know? We're in a movie. Right, we're living a movie. Let's just let's just do this. And they decided to go see Pride and Prejudice that had just come out then.

SPEAKER_02: 1:00:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 1:00:08

Then I boycotted because I was like, I'm not going to see I'm not going to see whatever you go see. So whatever. So I went to go see the Sixth Sense while they went to see Pride and Prejudice. And so I'm in the theater seeing Sixth Sense. And Sixth Sense had been out for a while already. There was no one in the theater except for me. That was the most terrifying. Yeah, that's they closed the door. Oh, it was bad. So yeah, I don't generally go by myself. I couldn't. That's my one experience.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:48

No, I I uh I had to a bunch of times just because nobody wanted to go, right? And and if I I'm kind of particular about certain things, and if I ask you, you know, hey, let's go, and you're like, nah, then then you're off. You know, you're off the list. You know what I'm saying? I'm not asking you for shit anymore after that. You know what I'm saying? Like, I uh maybe I'll ask you a couple of times, but if once I you know, once you'll be like, nah, then I'm like, alright, cool, fuck it. You you're off the list. Like, I'm never asking you for shit again. But I I went to go see the like the first Spider-Man with what's his face? Toby. Toby. Yeah, so I saw that one by myself because it when it came out, I wanted to go see it, and nobody wanted to go. I said, I'll go. Fine, I'll go by myself. The the Wolverine movie, you know, the like the really bad one.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:40

Where you X-Men Origins Wolverine? Yeah, Origins. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:01:45

I went, I I took the day off. I was like, I'm taking a day off, and I'm gonna go watch this movie at like 10 a.m. You know, so I did. That one of Phantom Menace, a bunch of those, Jaimet.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:57

Yeah, it was cool that they put Gambit in that movie because that's always been our thing, all right. Like my favorite X-Men Gambit, and yours is Wolverine.

SPEAKER_00: 1:02:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:08

They've always been at odds. You know, like I thought that was cool. Like I was like, fuck Wolverine, and you're like, fuck Gambit.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:17

Gambit was terrible in that movie. But yeah. So so a lot of- he sucked really a point, I guess, when the kids were too young and Lethi didn't want to go see him. So there's a gap between you know, 2002 to like 2006, you know, where I went to I went to those movies by myself. And then after a while, you know, you go with coworkers, right? Like, look, man, I I want to go see Star Wars and I'll buy the tickets, and so that's what I would do. I'd buy the tickets and then told a bunch of coworkers we'd go see it. You know, and that was the time when you had to sit in line. You know, I think the first one, I think Phantom Manus, I had to sit in line. You know, we had to get there at 10 o'clock for a midnight showing a bunch of crap like that. Now it's so easy, right? And then now you just oh the tickets are on sale. Great. That's what I've done with everything since then. I'll just buy four tickets. You know, with with me and the kids and and Lethy. And so now she'll go, right? Now she'll because uh I go to a bunch of her, so you know I kind of made my I kinda made my my argument. I was like, so I've seen all these other movies. With you You're gonna go see this movie, and she's like, okay. So you know, especially with since Marvel became a big thing, you know, Marvel became the you gotta watch it just to have like Leo and I have talked about this before, like the movies you have to watch just to be in the conversation. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:48

It's kinda like Yeah, event film, events, event films.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:54

Yeah. Kind of like Game of Thrones, right? Game of Thrones, I watched it because after a while it's like was everybody was talking about it. You're like, man, I I guess it's you know what? Screw it, I'm gonna watch it. I'm gonna watch it. I tried watching it the first time and I just I absolutely Yeah, I was like Yeah, and I think I watched it up until the last season. Like so the last season was gonna come on, and so I freaking burned through every every episode up until the day before, and then I started the new season. So you know, a lot of Game of Thrones just kind of runs into you know, I couldn't tell you what season one or season five or season four. Like I I I just know them, it's one complete story to me, you know? Because I I didn't take any breaks. Right.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:36

But yeah, but those are that's kind of what happened with uh kind of happened with me and the team. Like I think uh we've seen every superhero movie since like Captain America Winter Soldier or something. MCU and DC. Every single one. And now I had to go pull about the house. Every single movie. And like you gotta see these movies in the theaters, like you gotta see movies in the theater sometimes. You know? No, absolutely. And that's what that's what let me let me ask this question. Now that we're gonna you know, now that we're not in this old olden time hypothetical world where where TV shows just run all day long and in the kitchen in some random time period. Is that is that a is that a lost thing? You know, is that uh a nostalgic thing that that goes hand in hand with movie watching? And is there a problem that it's not not that way anymore? Or is it just something that like how do you view it as it as it wanes, you know? I guess because you really just you don't get that experience that much anymore.

SPEAKER_03: 1:06:02

Yeah, I think you know, I I I get I get kind of upset because we pay for so many streaming servers that I feel I should be able to watch any movie I want whenever I want to. But some movies aren't shown in some streaming servers, other ones you have to pay for. They take them off, you know. Disney's you know, kind of created this thing where they take it out of the vault, put it back in the vault, you know, and it's like and so some aren't just just aren't available. So I I don't know if if you know is it a bad thing, you know. I I think it kind of does suck that you know movies aren't just playing, because then you don't you know that now you're forcing me to pick a movie, you know what I'm saying? When you just lay out a movie, I was like, uh I'll watch it. You know what I'm saying? But if I had to pick one, sometimes I'll sit there like five, ten minutes, fifteen minutes trying to figure out what movie I want to watch, to where you're like, man, I didn't I didn't burn through 15 minutes. Like, lay something out for me, you know, just convince me. Yeah, I remember to watch it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:06:59

On your last, on the first version of this type, you know, this topic, I heard you guys talk about Indiana Jones and you know the the series and and that you know, you'd you'd watch all of them. He he said he'd watch all would watch all of them no matter when they came on. And I know we we're not we've excluded Star Wars and Marvel movies, but there's something special about that day when they like when TNT is like it's Star Wars weekend. And it's it's like it's just it's like it feels different that it's like they that they put them all on, they're running back to back, and you're just like I'm gonna I'm gonna just catch one of these somewhere and watch it. And then if you don't catch if you don't catch it here, you might catch it four hours later when it when it comes back on an another time. And they do that with the Indiana Jones movies, they do that with the Harry Potter movies, they're certain channels just play both in order. And they'll they'll do a weird thing where they play they'll play seven of the eight. They won't play one of them. Like, why is what like why where's that one? They do they do with Twilight too. Twilight. Twilight vampire. They'll show all the Twilight back to back to back to back to back.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:28

Yeah, that was happening a couple right before we did that podcast. And I and I did watch, I did watch the last two just because I was like, you know what? There wasn't a bad series. I mean, it's it's it's okay. Like I like when I when I watched it, I was like, it's not bad. I mean, it's it's good, it's a good take on it sometimes. I mean, there's some weird stuff with the the way they portrayed vampires. I go, but man, the story itself wasn't bad. So I I watched it. Oh, another movie I was thinking about is not at the museum.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:56

It's just something special when they come on, though.

SPEAKER_03: 1:08:58

Yeah. No, I agree.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:59

Right, not at the museum. Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:02

I love everything about that movie.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:04

I just him and when I I guess it's uh probably the is it the first one when when him and uh Jonah Hill are just going back and forth. He's like he goes, it's Barundan. It's like Brandon, no Berundan. I'm not here to be to be your speech therapist. Look up uh the look up uh the most used baby names in 1982 or something like that.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:35

So that's another movie that always did National Treasure earlier.

SPEAKER_03: 1:09:38

Yeah, National Treasure. I'll watch that thing. It it's it's really good. It's really good. So I mean, do we need a board approved something here? Did y'all did y'all haven't y'all didn't have any movies that y'all y'all didn't have the same movie, right? Like y'all had five different movies.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:56

No, we were Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we had different, yeah, we had two I think and then you did you give us five new movies, Simon? I don't think you did. I think I guess he went rapid fire on the ranch.

SPEAKER_03: 1:10:13

Yeah, that's how we got on that night at the museum and then Personal Treasure.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:17

Those are all Well remember in the first podcast you in the first part you broke it down in because you had genres and then you have your movies kind of broke into genres and so you I know here you you started with your with that with the the brotherhood with your or the movie that kind of displays that type you know tone or feel to it.

unknown: 1:10:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:44

But yeah. The most rewatchable movie of all time. I think Quentin Tarantino says it's Back to the Future, right? Like a perfect movie. Yep. That's not I fucking love Back to the Future Part 2. That movie is on a lot.

SPEAKER_00: 1:11:04

Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:04

I like that one more. I like that one more than the first. And we've already talked me in the theme talk about these movies all the time. I I talk about my like how much I love Leah Thompson.

SPEAKER_00: 1:11:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:21

As either, like I found I found out Leo's pattern. Leo's Leo's pattern, when you when you when you first look at it, you're like, damn, he it's it's very eclectic, or or he's got some deep, deep thought in some of these movies. Yeah. And then I like pan back and I get that 30,000 foot view, and then I realize, oh, it's got all the chicks you like in it. Oh yeah. It's got Natalie Portman in it. And then oh, there it is.

SPEAKER_03: 1:11:52

There's it's even chicks that look like chicks he likes. You know, that's why he likes the new freaking uh Lois Lane.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:02

The type. No, the type. Come on. Tell me Rachel Rogan is not the greatest Lois Lane of all time.

SPEAKER_03: 1:12:13

Yeah, she's not. Okay, let's move on. Here's here's a movie. Here's a movie that I freaking love watching, and it used to come on a lot, and I don't know why it doesn't come on anymore. But Lethal Weapon 4. It's such a good movie. Because it like Jet Lee in that movie so badass. It's such a good movie.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:36

You think he'll do that again if we asked him to?

SPEAKER_03: 1:12:42

And I think that was that was his that was his debut in that movie. I want to say Jet Lee was like that was like his first American film? Yes.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:53

Yeah, and when he came out, you're like And he not did he not was he was that before uh Romeo Must Die? Let's see with uh Aaliyah?

SPEAKER_03: 1:13:05

Lethe yeah, no, definitely. Lethal Weapon 4 came out in 98, and Romeo Must Die came out in in 2000. It's a Lee Made debut in Lethal Weapon 4 and followed by his first Hollywood leading role in Romeo Must Die.

SPEAKER_01: 1:13:20

Oh okay, gotcha, okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:13:22

Yeah. And in in uh Lethal Weapon 4. So they they they introdu like they they introduced the new Chevy truck in that one. And I just so happened to buy that truck in '99 when I graduated from college. I was like, it's a nice truck. But that was the first time I saw it. You know how some movies just push a push an item, you know what I'm saying? Like and I remember seeing that truck.

SPEAKER_01: 1:13:48

You you were about probably placement thing. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:13:52

I was like, I was like, where have I seen this truck before?

SPEAKER_03: 1:13:57

Oh yeah, that's right. That movie last summer.

SPEAKER_01: 1:14:00

So what are we on a borderproof?

SPEAKER_03: 1:14:04

Borderproof, I mean, I think last time we need we need one better than last time, right? Or something different from last time. So let's let's let's come up with how many times do you have to watch a movie for it to become a stop-down movie? Like what when does it when does it like transition to a stop-down movie? Like how many times do you have to watch it? Do you have a do you have a like a specific number or do you just go, no, that's a stop-down movie?

SPEAKER_01: 1:14:32

If a theme I don't Phantom Menace 13 times, and I watched The Dark Knight seven times, and that's not the most times I've seen that movie. I've seen that movie like 900 times. So if I don't know, the Phantom Minute is not a stop down movie for me. It's not if the Phantom Minutes came on, I don't I don't necessarily have to stop and watch it. I personally think it doesn't I personally think it doesn't matter. I don't think there's a set amount of time. Yeah. No, I don't I don't I don't I'm just saying for me, I don't have to stop and watch the movie if it comes on. I it I don't think it's not over. Not even the door small theme at the end. No. I don't need to no, that's also saying I it that's I watch it 13 times in the theater because I like Star Wars in the theater. Like that's a experience for me. Like I go to the theater and watch it. I want to see it from beginning to end. Like I don't I don't want to catch it somewhere. So that no, that would be the that movie yeah, that movie is not anywhere near a stop down movie for me. I no. But dark movies that are The Dark Knight is though. You wanna watch all the Joker stuff.

SPEAKER_03: 1:15:58

Yeah, I think if Phantom Menace. If Phantom Menace is on like If I'm if I'm flipping through channels in that fictional box in my living room that shows these things called movies, if I'm if I just so happen that I'm flipping through something and I was like, uh, you know, or I turn the TV on, right? And then sometimes it just goes to the last you know thing you had on, and then it it opens up and then the scene starts, and then the elevator doors open up, and it's Darth Maul. I'm watching the rest of it. I'm watching it. Like, fuck it. I'm no we're gonna we're gonna be late to this, you know, to this soccer game and shit. Like, I need to watch this part. That's just I I need to watch it. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:16:43

And then and then duel of the fates. Yeah, and come on, the thing. Like, I would if if if if if that exact scenario happened to me and I turn it on with the fictional box and the elevator doors opened up, and Buzz Ball ignited the double blades, I would watch that scene until the first time they cut away from that awesome ass fight to something else. And I would turn the channel. Because that's the problem. It cuts away, it cuts away to Anakin in the pot or in the ship, and it cuts away the anime running around with her little troops. And he's like, no. Stay on the fight. So no, as soon as that as soon as that as soon as it cut as soon as it does a George Lucas uh face swipe across the screen to something off, I'm supposed to put in the channel. But they got you for that fucking one scene, right? Yeah, they got me for that first few seconds where when when Obi-Wan does his little head fake and then and then and then QuadCon goes in for the strike. They got me up to that. And then it cuts the headmate scaling up the wall with their little grapple guns, and then I'm out.

SPEAKER_02: 1:17:58

I'll flip the channel.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:00

It's like if I put the channel in that same scenario and I catch I catch Jen Urso and Andor climbing up the tower, yeah. I'm watching that all the way to the end because I know that the I'm gonna get the Bader hallway scene. Oh eventually. Again, controversially, Highland doesn't really like Rogue One. What? Well, there's a problem. What when did I say that? I'm when did I say that? You're not big on Rogue One? He said you didn't like Rogue One.

SPEAKER_03: 1:18:39

When did I say that?

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:41

He said that's not one of your favorite movies. You're like, that's not uh one of your Star Wars movies. I see now you're gonna blame the evidence.

SPEAKER_03: 1:18:51

Yeah, this is a Waquin, one of y'all. Okay, so now you're just throwing through salacious comments just to demonstrate. Yeah, and I appreciate it. I mean, if people are gonna click on it, you know, I think that I'm gonna use that as a tidbit to get people to listen, but yeah, that's misquoted for sure. For the record, that was Joaquin. So you take it up, take it up with your nephew.

SPEAKER_00: 1:19:22

Oh, it was Joaquin.

SPEAKER_03: 1:19:24

Joaquin doesn't like Mandalorian either. It was Joaquin. Yeah, he doesn't like the Mandalorian either. And I was like, okay. That's why I kind of take everything he says with a grain of salt. You know, I'm like, if he tells me something's really good, I'm like, okay, um, I'll I'll wait on it. You know. Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 1:19:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 1:19:42

Okay. But yeah, he's he's got very he's got he's we got different taste for certain things. Like like he's we're good with certain things, right? But yeah, he's he's definitely got a different palate than mine. Uh I'll sit there and have arguments. With him. Like, what are you talking about? Like, this is a great movie. Like, that's a great show. He's like, no. It's alright. It's mid.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:06

Like, what the border proof then?

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:12

We're going to border proof.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:14

Yeah, I mean. I said first viewing. I said one viewing is all it takes. If you you know a bit of movie that you would watch, I saw I feel.

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:23

Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're right.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:25

I didn't need to see ET a million times to know that. I knew it. The moment I walked up a scene of the person, I was like, I will watch this movie whenever I see it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:34

Yeah, I I think The Matrix had that effect, uh, Pulp Fiction had that effect. I mean, pretty much all the Star Wars movies.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:42

Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction is one of the most rare-watching movies of all time. I saw it here with you in Pop Station. What did you all border proved in the first stop down?

SPEAKER_03: 1:20:54

I think we're just gonna remember we we border approved just the existence.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:58

I know because I did give a very last part.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:00

Yeah, I think it was just the existence of of stop down movies and pick your five and have at it. I think because we couldn't we couldn't decide. Like they had some okay movies and then some they were just like, yeah, we missed the point of this episode, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:21:23

I mean when if you connect with it, it's yeah, it's gonna I guess maybe it doesn't necessarily have to like I I like I talked about Christmas story, yeah. I didn't like it when I first saw it. But then when I did it, when my mom and I watched it, it just clicked. And then from that moment it was.

SPEAKER_03: 1:21:50

So then that's yeah, I would say we'll border proof what we borderproof last time. Pick your top five, or at least have think about your top five. Because I know the exercise that you gave me a team is like, what's your top 20? Which I was like, son of a bitch, that's a lot of movies. And then it's like it's not enough movies.

SPEAKER_02: 1:22:11

Because then you you have to start teaching.

SPEAKER_01: 1:22:16

Yeah, it's difficult. My top twenty, they were completely different. I would love to see I'm a top twenty.

SPEAKER_03: 1:22:25

Well, I have it, but now but I'm gonna cheat and take all the ones that you have in your top twenty. That's what I said. If I ever get the plex of the month.

SPEAKER_01: 1:22:40

But yeah, we'll say the thing is, well, I was just gonna say that the the thing is uh I started the Plex the Plex of Tears of the Month last December. So we're we're coming up on a year, and and so far it has been the I mean it's been the most eclectic list of movies that excuse me that people have picked, you know, their their top twenty or whatever. And there's there's been a few duplicates, but I'll see there's some movies that that I think tombstone is I'm gonna but I'm gonna go through this December and I'm gonna try to take a snapshot of all of my flexibility of the month winners in their list of movies, and see which movies have been in those lists the most. Because for the most part, it's been completely different movies, which is which I think is kind of cool. But yeah, it's that's fascinating to me. I thought I've seen the same thing, like like movies that I never thought like Rohelio's list. I was like, what the what the hell? What is that movie? Like movies I've never seen before. Right. You know, that's cool. I mean a a themes list is very like a theme's list is very seen. So you've got like Annie and like the whiz and like you know I have Popeye on my list. Popeye, yeah. Popeye is the seamless favorite movie. Like I I've seen that movie. Have you seen that movie, Simon?

SPEAKER_03: 1:24:19

Yeah, yeah, I've seen it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:24:20

Popeye was the Robert Williams Popeye, for anybody who doesn't know. But Shelly, but what the hell? That movie is ridiculous, and that's it's crazy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:24:32

Yeah, I don't think I've seen it more than once.

SPEAKER_01: 1:24:34

Anyway, yeah. It's crazy, it's a crazy movie.

SPEAKER_03: 1:24:37

And that once is enough. I'm like good school. Next.

SPEAKER_01: 1:24:46

You brought it up earlier. You said it's speaking of the studio, the stop down movies, you watch the movie over and over, you catch it at different times, you see different things, and you start to you start to pull out different things from the movie in different scenes or whatever.

SPEAKER_00: 1:25:03

Right.

SPEAKER_01: 1:25:03

And that's that's the reason why Popeye got on my list because when I first watched it, I thought, oh, okay, it's cool. It's just a movie about Popeye, Robin Williams, whatever, you know, whatever. But every time I watch that movie, it it's it might be Robin Williams at his freaking death. And not death acting or something like that, but his improv. You know how Robin Williams just goes off cuff and does stuff?

SPEAKER_00: 1:25:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:25:32

He he says things in that movie under his breath in that Popeye muffled talk that shouldn't some of the stuff he says shouldn't even have passed like regulation, but I don't think that they knew what he said. He said some of the most vulgar stuff in that movie, and it's ridiculous. But you don't hear it, you don't catch it, and then the more I watch the movie, I'm like, he just said that. And I and it cracks me up, dude. It's it's awesome. It's just it is literally Robin Williams doing Robin Williams for that entire movie, and it's it's just like uncut Robin Williams, and it's it's just so good.

SPEAKER_03: 1:26:09

Yeah. Um I would say I've got a way, I mean. We're gonna border proof the same thing we did last time. Get your five. Think about your stop down movies. Get your five, have those in your back pocket, and discuss it with your friends. I mean, it this uh the movie discussions are always good. You're always gonna hear something and you're like, what? I no, I've never seen that movie. I used to write down this at work on we had this uh dry erase board, and I used to put down five movies all men should watch. And then uh I was really surprised that uh, you know, some of our staff had never seen. And I'm like, what are you talking about? Like you should watch these movies. And so that's what I would say. You know, write down your your five stop down movies and take them to work, put them on your chalkboard or your dry erase board or your TV screen or monitor or whatever, and and discuss them because movie watching is a sport. That's why. So there you go. Board approved. Where's my where's my gavel? Hold up. There you go. Board approved. Thank you for listening. If you enjoyed this episode, and you'd like to help support the podcast, please check out the list. And follow us on the text. So thanks to the US.