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It is because I mean, when you look at a lot of his movies They're all great in Everything from the prerestige is still one of his best films, but then how do you even like say something's better That's better than something like Tenet, which is so different And he really is the filmmaker of the century for sure Arguably especially when it comes to cultural impact Yeah. box offers performance And just massive storytelling and uniqueness and creativity, he's up there for sure. There There's really no one like him working on the scale and with the quality and he's really a special filmmaker And I watched the prestige recently and I was like It's still so good. I don't actually I should stop talking about it in case you want to take it early. Well, maybe this is your way to make me take the prestige early I don't want you to. It's tough. it is because prestige that's a fair second round pick for sure in a Christopher Nolan movie draft. I mean, that's totally fair. But I mean, with Spielberg coming out with the movie this year and Deny And Nolan, you know, we're eating so well this year as cinema Goers and the Odyssey tickets just went on sale for the second time the other day. Obviously, they went on sale last year. I didn't get those Anthy and I are usually fortunate enough to get pretty early access to films, especially anything that's going to be in IMAX. So we're banking on early IMX screenings for the film. I mean, it's happened with pretty much everything this year so far. I didn't feel like waiting for three hours in line. So what happened was the AMC app kept crashing crazy. And so like you would either get you're in line for an hour, or you'd get through the line, then you go to buy your tickets and say app error And you could b you from buying the tickets. I went out of the website a handful of times and every time it said over two hours and I was like, I got stuff to do today Yeah. especially because you know, I mean, a lot of people they're probably working from home or they're doing it while they're at work. So I think a lot of people were fortunateough to be able to do that, but not everyone has the time to sit there on their phone to try to stay in line for these tickets But what I did was after like thirty minutes of trying like that with my stubs I went straight to the TCL Theater website tickets like that instantly because not people not many people were browsing the actually site. Not every theater has their own website. Uually a lot of even smaller theaters like the Westwood in LA over in Brentwood, which is a great theater that also projects film. They often have a partnership with Fendango. or someone like the Vista, the New Beverly, they have their own websites. And so eventually those went on sale, but with the Fandango it was the same issue. IMX the home page, sameame issue. It was just loading, loading. We'll connect you to our partner, loading, loading for like an hour. It's crazy how big this film is because so it comes out july seventeenth and then Literally no studio is going near that for two weeks. It hadp Man three Spider Man four. comes out july thirty first. So even Disney was like, we want to release this Spiderm Man movie in July We're going to stay away from it two weeks of padding from the Odyssey because it's going to oververwhelmed cinemaovers and everybody wants to see this movie and releasing anything else would be honestly you'd be throwing money away because everyone's going to go see this film. What's so interesting about with Spider Man is There's been virtually no marketing. Yeah, they've had a teaser and a shorter trailer But there's been no marketing campaign yet. And obviously it's going to start up probably in June. They'll probably start ramping up that campaign for Spiderm Man But it's pretty shocking. and I think they know even if they start the marketing now, the Odyssey is really going to take away a lot of the momentum, plus with obsession and with back room still performing super well, you're not, I think going to get as many eyeballs bang for your buck. So I think they're holding on a marketing until the end of June for Spider Man. I'm sure they're making all the content right now, the interviews and like the fun stuff. They're probably filming that stuff now and then getting ready to unload it in mid July. Did you see the GQ interview with Matt Robert and Tom. They did Matt Damon and Robert Pansson Oh the magazine. Yeah Yeah, ye Yeahah they did an did like a forty minute talk. Oh really? The three of them. Oh I got to watch that. It's great. It's really insightful and a ton of fun. the three of them because the the spread that did they did the marketing for that great shoots and then they had some cool video shorts that spreaded on some butter man. It is awesome But that segment that they did with GQ, thirty minutes are just them three. No panelists, no modere are just talking mostostly what was cool about their careers and just like balncing around topics, not just staying on the Odysy as a topic. obviously M Christopher Nolan in general was the main topic of conversation But they were bouncing around different projects they've worked and they were kind of just like it seemed like the directors of NJQ were just like just talk about whatever you want. It doesn't have to be about the film. talkalk about like past projects. L Matt ased this great question of Rob, like curious what he thinks his best or his favorite performance was because You know, good time for for Matt is his favorite Robert Pansson performance and it was such a game changer of his career Um So it was really cool and insightly,heck check it out. You to watch that. I know. I wish I wish we had that access for thirty minutes with those guys. Yeah. also like I Just make it less fake and less forced. Exactly. Let them chill and and just actually talk and not just always be about the project you're promoting, but the actual fact that they're talking is promotion enough. Yeah, the fact that if people are watching it, then it's working for the movie. It's working in the movie's favor. It's a great chat. but to watch it. It's all connected to Christopher Nolan. Yeah, which is what we're doing today in this episode Do a movie draft for his films. The guy's career has meant so much to me. Do you remember the first time you saw a Christopher Nolan movie I think it was well, in theaters it was Batman McGgins in theaters And we saw we saw M mental pretty young and insomnia pretty young when they came out, but we didn't understand who Nolan was because they were very early films for him because Mento was two. Yeah. I remember seeing insomnia clearly and liking the film because We James and I, we were watching all sorts of movies when we were kids and our dad. just took us to all kinds of movies. Oh yeah yeah. And our dad would take us to everything, but we wouldn't just see the James I would like we would see everything. Sor Mento was two thousand. Yeah. I think that Inomnia might be the first one we saw I honestly can't remember. That's the thing with Christopher Nolan. But then when Batman Begins came out, I think that's for me where, you know, we were fourteen years old is when that was coming out and we were starting to really understand who filmmakers were. So I knew who Christopher Nolan was when that was coming out. And I think we were just starting to get interested in film outside of just being a film fan, but just like becoming cineophiles and exploring more film. And I remember seeing Children of men for the first time around that time that really shaped mentality, I think for how we interpret films, how we digest cinema. Oh five was a good year I thought that was a great yeah U and Batman Begins comes out, but I think because it was coming out, I think we remembered seeing insomnia when it came out the year or two before and I think in o four. But also like they were like TV movies. like T andT would play stuff like that all the time. I feel like Inomnia was a TV. I think Insomnia was like TBS because' Robin Williams now Pacino like like AC TV network probably was playing that a lot. I think I remember. So I remember being exposed to Nolan. And then I remember when he got announced and we saw like the first trailers for Batman begins, there was like everyone was like, Oh this this indie director is takaking on Batman. He did this movie with Pacino and Robin Will., that was' anie movie. huh? That was' anndy movie It was not an ind movie wass a forty million Wner Pros that going from a bit to that. Okay, so not an ind director. But he's still young in his career taking on Batman. He's probably what like thirty four forty. No, he wass young. When when you did Batman begins Yeah, I think thirty five, thirty six. Sure about that? thinkink so, yeah. Are you sure about that? That's my guess. I'm pretty sure that he was in his mid thirties when he did memento. Let me look up his birth date When was Christopher Nolan? noah Birth. I bet you it's late seventies, like seventies. nineteen seenty He was born nineteen seventy. thirty five. So ye So he was thirty five four when you made batman begins Oh wow, I guess he was that young,h Look you go. Look at you go. Hes he was he the thing is well he made following when he was like twenty nine, thirty and then that did that did well that slam dance andessa got him memento. He did memento a couple of years later and then insomnia after that and then got the Batmanst job So it all happened pretty quickly especially after Memento came out. I mean, the thing with Mento, it's such a special movie. Yeah. If someone wrote that fucking script today and made that movie, it would It could win like best picture. It's that good of a film, but I think obviously we all know cinema was overall had higher quality all around. twenty years ago, twenty five years ago. Yeah That movie, I think, was very much ahead of its time in terms of the style of writing, the nonlinear story structure, which wasn't the first time it'd ever been done. This seems like Obviously Tarantino inspired Christopher Nolan, P peopleople inspired Tarantino of course, too. But the nonlinear story structure became very popular after memento came out, I think. Yeah. And I also think Nolan was someone who even when he was young, he he felt older I think the way he carried himself and the way mature Yeah the way he dresses. He wears the vest. Yeah. So look black tea all day. He appeared older, but he was really so young doing Batman begins. He's he's just a mature genius at even in his twenties and thirties. But I mean, He's obviously a very intelligent writer, writing meemmento at such a young age based off of hisis brother's short story Also very interesting read And following is a good script too. Yeah It's very lean, but it's a good script and it has a great twist at the end and that's why I think it resonated with audiences at festivals. Like it had a great final five minutes of the reveal of who really the culprits what was really going on. And it's so interesting to see. when you look back on his career, we've seen so many he's a blockbuster filmmaker But starting with small scale five million dollars budget with Mmento Inomnia bumping up a little bit, but then Once he entered the realm of big budgets, he was built for it Yeah. He was made foriff.' such a great filmmaker, but what's so I think my favorite part about Chris Rllan, the things I read and the stories and the interviews is he still treats his sets like they're independent productions. He doesn't have a bunch of company men everywhere because he's earned the right to say, fuck off, let me do my thing, which not a lot of filmmakers can get in terms of creative control final say But um Not having studio heads down his throat constantly on set, having minimal crew. you know, even though it's a two hundred million dollars movie, minimal crew in minimal locations and keeping it simple and practical filmmaking as much as you can And the Odyssey is really, I think going to be a special movie in By the time it comes out, you know, it might be our number one movie if we ever rank his movies again. because hearkening back to The filmmaking of the past And not many people want to go explore that movies, you can't deny a lot easier to make now than they were seventy years ago. You know, David Lean, making Lawrence of Arabia, can you imagine what was like to be on that set every day in the mar desert In Africa Walking around Moving set every day. three hundred horseback riders. one hundred ten degrees every day Can you imagine the daily toll that took on every department, every crew member But that's what movieies making was. That's what it was like. You're going to war every single day because it is a war. for a movie like that, for a big picture an epic like that But cinema, not that it's hard and still not hard. Technology changes have made a lot of things more easy. Transportation' a lot more advanced, getting gear. everything has been easier But it seems like with the Odyssey, everything I've read, everything I've listened to from interviews, from cast and everything, it was the most difficult shoot of everyone's life that worked on that movie, but they lived every second of it, but it was so difficult. and going back to Lower the rings, using helicopters to take everything up mountains because it would take hours to hike and gear literally can't get up, doing the same thing here, shooting at the top in peaks of mountains, having helicopters bring gear and crew up to shoot and walk and the actors hiking up. So it's back to that I want to make a David Lean type of picture It sort of disappeared a long time ago. Yeah, if you want to make these kinds of movies, they shouldn't be comfortable and easy. The rise of visual effects in digital world building using green screens and huge, huge set pieces is really it really changed the game where studios were like, They just are they would Understandably, they avoid the giant logistical nightmare of shooting remotely, physically for months on end. And no one someone who is bringing that back and showing how essential it is to be able to get these kinds of images and and the remote locations. And I'm sure we've just seen we've just scratched the surface of what the Odysse's imagery is. Not to mention keeping film alive and helping make Kodak the busy it's been in three decades, the manufacturer of celluloid and film. And you know, I think there was At Canas here, I think it was twenty five percent of the films were shot on films A. Wh which is incredible. You know, most of the movies were shot in R thirty five, but a lot of them, I think it was like twenty movies were shot in thirty five millimeter, sixty five millimeter print, which is absolutely incredible news, but that's because of Christopher Nolan in his films. And the first time ever pushing IMAax, pushing the boundaries of IMAX film with doing test shots and the prestige than every film since that, adding more and more film from IMX film cameras and IMX film sixty five millimeters until. and then the Odyssey, the David Keeley camera is invented David Keey helped pioneer this movement of IMX filmmaking for cinema outside of documentaries with Christopher Nolan, the unspoken hero passed away last year, who is one of the main reasons why film production is the highest it's ever been in terms of cellular film as much as Christopher Nolan is them to working together for decades making as popular as it is, but building the first ever IMAX camera that allowed a production to shoot every single shot for the first time using IMAX film and IMAX cameras. It's never been done before. When do you think it that Nan solidified his status as the great filmmaker of the era? I think the Dark Kight I think the Dark Knight instantly made him the biggest director on the planet. And also I think because of that, there was a title shift where we're at this era now where the director is as big of a star as the movie stars landing. Directors always have been stars But when it comes to like branding, selling a project, the director might sometimes be important more of a rock star now than the movie stars are because movie stars have been diluted in terms of there's so many actors, so many stars, they We see so much of their lives, they're less mysterious. The allure is gone of like, who's this mysterious figure that's in movies only? That's the only time I see them I think that Nolan was like the first rock star director of the twenty first century to really help pioneer that fact that directors are massive massive stars. I would say it was with its inception because he proved that was he wasn't just It like the Dark Knight wasn't just all he had I think because Batman Games is great But the thing with the prestige is I don't think any of us realizeed how good the prestige was until you watch it over and over again And then you realize boy it's a masterwor When it came out, it was highly received, it did well, but it wasn't like a game changer kind of movie.. It's eight point five ninet, which is huge. But when it came out, it wasn't like the most talked about movie of It didn't get any awards recognition for anything So when it came out, I don't think anybody knew how good it was. It's one of those movies where over time, as people revisit it, they realize how masterful it is So to do the dark night But then to do inception right after that and to follow up You know, an industry changing film like that. Dark night and to follow that up with yet another groundbreaking gigantic epic that made nine hundred million dollars at the box office Original story. In twenty ten it made that much, which is about one point four billion right now if you adjust for inflation. And on top of that, it was incredible. It's so smart and well received by everybody, Visually stunning. So I think that after inception, he it He is the guy The d to Dark to do the Dark Knight then inception is just like it made him Like it's like a kind of it's like a Spielberg kind of run two unbelievable movies back to back that the whole world saw. Juggernauts. Yeah. but genre in cinema changing movies. Yeah. The Dark Knight changing how manyany awards can get nominated for B best Picture of the Academy Awards. That movie changed that rule system. He broke the rules because they didn't get nominated an inception So visionary so visionary so unique Highly original, Obviously a lot of influence from different animes. likeike was it perfect blue The filmmaking behind that, the music lived rent free in everybody's head for years and people were stealing that music from Hans, the Bas, changed the movie trail is forever. Absolutely. They're still influenced by it. But he's really still, I think you're absolutely right. And he's a filmmaker who, in my opinion' never missed. A lot of you have mixed opinions about tenenet, which I think is his lowest rated movie according to IMDB. Oh right right at Inomnia is seven point two, but I think Inomnia is really great too. 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Availability, amount of discounts and savings, and eligibility vary by state Like when you look back on What he could what he accomplished with what happened with the fallout of Heath Ledger passing away at only twenty eight his expectations were to put the Joker in the third film Wh's going to come back in probably a major role I mean, can you imagine what that would have looked like to have the Joker come back in theam Joker and Bane and Catwoman. Yeah in a Christopher Nolan Batman movie. can you imagine what he was going to do in the story, but you know, quickly having to change everything up and turn Bane into the main villain. Maybe he would have been the main villain anyways Or then Razag Gool, but Taly it would have been such a different film but to still be able to pull off what they pulled off, Despite the fact heath passed away and doing the right thing and not even bringing up the Joker in the film at all, just pretending like The Joker is not in this world anymore once he's reed, I think there was right thing to do. So I think he's someone who really is a visionarybody he respects the craft and he respects filmmakers and he respects artists to do something like that, I think was very, you know Mendable Very commendable for sure is the right thing to do. You can see a lot of studios going in the other direction of maybe trying to bring that character back to life with another actor or CGI or something. Do you even think Barry Kogan's joker is ever going to be seen again? I honestly I don't know. I think they might I think they're going to backstep backtrack that completely I don't know if it worked. I't think it landed quite as much as they thought it would. And yeah, I think the design was really interesting in terms of this highly deformed face from whatever happened if you fell in the vat or whatever looked like an explosion or something I don't know if people were into that aesthetic of the Joker. I think Barry's a great actor and And obviously he's in a couple of Christopher Nolan movies as well. and his three favorite movies of all time. I've seen him on his letitterbox before The Batman begins Dark Night and Dark Knight Rises or his three favorite films, which is hilarious and I love that I would personally backtrack. I think the world's seen enough of Joker for now notot to mention Would't be surprised Joker shows up in DC in the next couple of years anyways. Yeah. And I would't even be surprised if the next Superman movie has teases of Joker or Batman in them if they're going might be their own Batman. Yeah. because you know, they're probably going go that route in DC and the DCU or whatever I think that we've had plenty of Joker, whatever. Let's get on. Let's get some new villains in there. Yeah. You know, I think the Riddler was the right choice for the first Batman movie U I thought it was a really well done character until really the third act. I didn't really love how he was kind of MIA in his in his own schemes But it was a good metaphor of being able to control people manipulate them through the internet, which is very common. I would say scratch the Joker in this film, sccratch Catwoman, give us all new characters. I think that's really what we need. I think that's what they're doing. We'll see. I think that's maybe why they took a while to do some rewit. Maybe they originally were going to have theoker and' was a big role And they they went against it, but maybe no one's going ever live up to the Joker from Chrism N. I love Joaquin and what he did, but still even how great that is. It's still he is on a different level. Yeah. he's really it's one of the it'll be one of the great performances in history. think With the Odyssey coming up, we're going to get a great performance and maybe the best performance of Matt Damon's career and see over my shoulder. We got this amazing new poster from movie posters. com. These just dropped like two weeks ago, this new poster from the Odyssey, It's of Odysseus in front of the Trojan horse with a plume of fiery smoke and Embers billowing behind them. It's in this incredible image. The vocabulary in this ad has been Wonderful man.an can I save it? The plume and billow. Wow. I gotta hook it up for our friends up there in Toronto at movieposters. com. They send us this poster as well as a light boox. It's in, makes any double side print poster look incredible, which this one is. They have original prints, classic posters all kinds of collectibles over several million prints of everything you can ever imagine. So go go there today And use our code at checkout to get Timerson off. That code is Raiders ten at check out today for movieposters. com Our great friends up there. so go there and get some amazing posters, especially the Osey posters. But in general, speaking of posters,ll do we're going to do the draftting a bit. I'm still liking talking about Nolan. When it comes to posters I love his his style And you can tell he has a lot of input on what happens. You know, I think the Batman Begins poster was really incredible. The meemmento poster also astounding where it sort of just captures the aesthetic and motif of timee and an endless loop, which Leonard traps himself in with the pololaroid photo within the pololaroid photo within the Polaroid photo. The Dark Kight poster with the firebat symbol and the skyscraper, That's so iconic. The Inception poster, which was heavily inspired by heat is I think just a great hom much. The film Interstell has a bunch of great ones. Dunkirk is a beautiful with great silhouette ant, I love to, but Oppenheimer I adore the Oppenheimer poster with Oppenheimer standing in front of the atomic bomb. orange aesthetic and hue. so many people on it when it came up, but man, when that came out, like, what are you guys crazy This force is incredible. So I've always out no one has basically like his own font. K of Its not in every poster his posters do have simple fonts and and like the Nolan font is it looks like it's just a variation of like slight change from like aerial. It's like aerial black with a lot of space in between. Yeah, slightly different from Aerial, but pretty close. and it's in Oppenheimer, it's inception, Dark Knight, Batmanins Insomnia might be the first one that had that font. If you look at insomnia, the prestige is a little different. It's a little wider you know, a little more crushed, but it still has that simplified fun. But like yeah, Inception, Dark Knight, Batman Mcgins, Dark Knight Rises and Dunkirk and Oppenheimer Insomnia. they all have like this very like off aerial font, which is like it's Nolan's font. I think he knows that he's a brand. Yeah. I think it's very smart to do If you look at the posters for pressure, the film that just came out. It looks an off and longer post Yeah. It really does. Yeah Um It's obvious it's very much like a similar vibe movie to Oppenheimer as well U But overall, Dunkirk. you know, we've done so many episodes on this guy in his films. We haven't done episodes on every one of his movies Um we haven't We haven't done solo Batman episode We ha't solo trilogy. We probably should. We've never done a solo Dunkirk episode either. but We've done did didn't we I don't think we ever did Dunkirk. But we've done memento, We've done Inception Interstellar, the Batman tririlogy, we've done Oppenheimer. We did tenet. Our tenet one was great because we actually went into detail on all of the terminology and any confusing bits, whether it's the temporal pincers or reversion versus inversion. That was a fun episode. If you still don't understand tenet, I would go back to that for us Um, But he's one of my all time favorite filmmakers. He's the top five in my, I think, of all time for American filmmakers, certainly Um, and I adore the movies and I'm just so ecstatic for j. Here's the Google search. Rayers of a Lost podcast hosted by twin brrothers Anthony and James Devonany frequently discuss Chropher Nolan's film Dunkirk. we haven't done an episode on it you right? They often highlight the movie as a masterpiece of twenty first century cinema. That's crazy. it's just picking up on our content. Yeah That's great Shall we start this draft? Yeahes. so you aix flippp or something. Do you have a coin? I came very I'm prepared for this draft. Do You have like take one of those DVD's you got onene of those steel books or something? Let me see what I got my Let's see We can flip steel book. Those are pretty sturdy bro We have it's been here for four years whichich one is that avent? Do you have a nolen one U No one won no, I don't N dark night Oh there, there you go. a steelook. It's a box. let'sop the dark knight. It's a box set box. Yeahes, it's the box. Okay, so the front of the box is the cowl The rear is the symbol in the wall. The rear, the front and the rear Yeah, yeah ye. the back the back I just wasn't expecting you to say rear re The rear of the DVD case. it does sound weird. sounds weird U so I'll flip What do you want? Make it a good flip? Do you want the cowl which will be heads, obviously or tails for the symbol. I want the cowl. All right, the cowl gets first pick Andch tails. Well hit my foot, That's not fair Just good didn tot hit your foot? Just just kidding. Do you want do you w to flip again? No, you won This is honestly, I think the toughest first pick we've ever done for a movie draft before It might be just But at the end of the day What I'm going to do is I'm going to pick Maybe the most important film in his career U Do you want to keep track of the follows No, I'm not going to pick following. Are you arere you doing this episode I don't know who's doing this. Whever's doing it, you can't forget what to put the draft online. Oh, would you last time did that not happen Yeah, you didn't do it. Weere the last two drafts? Are you sure? Yeah, you haven't done any poll results for either draft that we've done onn Spotify? on Instagram. can't do polls in. No no on Instagram. No, Instagram. I did' totally forget. Yeah I forgot anyways Do want to pick a team name Yeah, I'm gonna pick ooh, let me see if I can come up with something from Chris Fernol and Punoney. It's gotta be Ooh, this is this is tough. What What do I do? I'm gonna pick Um, The I don't know huh. This is I I'm gonna to do what name trans the transported Anthony. The transported Anthony No the great the great Antoine. the great Antoine is might the greatreat Antoine You got to pick team., I'm gonna be James is Batman. Vs veryy subt James isat Don't tell anyone. All right, well, James is Batman, my first pick of the Christopher Nola movie draft. I'm gonna go Dark Knight The Dark Knight. it's his highest rated movie, I think his entire career across all Metrics, whether it's IMB, run tomatoes, letterbox, and p shirts, number one for everything It is one of the most important films of the century and defined The superhero genre in so many ways and changed it. There was a world before and after Christopher Nolan started making superhero movies and especially with the Dark Knight Yeah. There's a Hollywood before Chropher Nolan made the Dark Knight and after Movies changed You change things forever Christopher Nolanss the Dark Night is so special. I mean to take An IP in a character that we've seen so many iterations of live action but animated Fucking cllaymation stop like the amount of versions of of Batman there are comics, books graphic novels. A character we all know so well, Rugs, Rugs, whatever. Yeah. Merchandise for eighty years But to reinvent it in a way that made it fresher than ever, as fresh as if you had just invented the character for that film. That's how I think that's what it felt for me when he made that movie and I watched it for the first time Thatm begins, I think is fantastic. with the Dark Knight was like, it seemed like no one had ever invented this character before. That's how unique and cool he made it. And I love the tone, the atmosphere, feeling very much like a Michael Mann movie, specifically inspired heavily by heat. Um Good verse evil, the moral ambiguity Chaos as the main motif of the joker throughout the film, each Batman movie having a theme and Chaos being the theme of number two with the Dark Knights And Heath Ledger gone way too soon. Imagine the career that guy would have had at only twenty eight years old passing away after making The Dark Knight. He did not go crazy from the Dark Knight despite what the media tried to paint him as. he was already working on other films. He was madeid production other films. He had put the joke behind him. It was a terrible tragic accident What happened to him, but he didn't go insane from playing the Joker. He said it was the most funny he ever had on set. Yeah, he made I'm not there. And then he was working for the in the Terry Jillian film, Imaginarium, Dr. Parassis. Yeah. So he was on his second film after rapping D. He had finished Dark Knight like eight months previously. So he was he was done with the Joker But the character is so I can't think of a more loved villain in cinema history At least the century like a more loved movie villain than the Joker. I mean, can you imagine people have tattoos of his Ledger's Joker rightight in my chest It' to freak the ladies out. This your girlfriend get freaked out her She We're saving it til now. She hasn't seen me naked yet. I never se me naked All right, great pick man. Thankk you. What do I take from my first pick There's so many good ones left So many good I mean the entirety of his career besides the darkight. I'm going to go with Instellar take an interstellar for. I'd be surprised by that. I love Intersteller. I know you do I you why you Do you think it' a bad movie? No, you know how much I love Intersteller? come on Well, Instell I think that Insteller has aged so well And is it's going to be I think we'll all consider it one of the great sci fi films ever and still right now do But it's it's It's everything about it from the story to the filmmaking and making space cool again And HansZimmer score McConaughy during his insane era of the reconnanaissance Working with Hoyt for the first time in the cinematography, they pulled off But it's a very smart film And it was a very hopeful film about the future rather than the cynical nihilism we get a lot of the time And I really appreciated that. But there some great ideas. Incredible ideas, incredible filmmaking, the practical sets, the practical miniatures And iconic sequences, it's a film built around like a few major set pieces and manan they really were And to get the math right, black hole to to the first time to see like an accurate black hole on screen, but also to have your characters literally enter the wormhole through there It's unbelievable love I love everything about the film And I remember when it came out it got a little I got a little heat about the theme of love, remember People were complaining about it. Yeah, how like love is the answer. But I think it's a really beautiful theme and it worked really well. And it's a great it's also a great film about being a parent in the next generation and improving the world for them and then the people after us And So there's so much about it Everything about it I just adore and it's one of my most listened to soundtracks of all time. A movie I watch every single year, I think. And it was so exciting for the rerelease. What was that two like a year and a half ago when they dropped it U in IMax in twenty twenty four. I was so excited about that and to experience it And IMax seventy millimeter again What an experience because The filmmaking is astounding in this movie. you know, especially the like you said, the miniature work of The shuttles going back to how they do it how they did it in Star Wars and you know really just Doing as much as you can in camera as much as you can onset through the lens greatreat prop masters and production designers Even making it simple of mounting a camera on the outside a ship. on a sound stage and just having a giant projector screen creating environ for you Yeah. It's a blue screen green screen but it looks like But mounted to the ship as it's going through different environments and the atmosphere of different planets. and it's just simple stuff like that that works so well as well as The emotional core of this story is just as profound as the practical filmmaking and theiss you're seeing. I think that's why it's so So It resonates with so many people on many different levels because the visuals are just Unlike anything you've ever seen before But the emotional core for the characters of Coop on this journey trying to save his family connecting it to his daughter and love being somethingomething that can transcend space and time in gravity It was really interesting and I loved it. I would love to have seen the original version because Spielberg was gonna to direct this movie based off the script that his brother wrote Jonathan Nolan Jonathan Nolan And then no one got attached and rewrote it eel. I don't want to see the original version. No, just I mean, script wise. Okay. I don't want to see the movie but script wise. I've read some of it and it's very different Um It's actually extremely different J Nola's first script. It just opens totally differently. and in terms of Like Cooper and the family, those dynamics are very different. You should check it out sometimes. It's cool. but it's a totally different movie But a lot of the same themes are there and some of the same scenes. think that's why he's acialilm Instellar My turn to pick my turn. My turn My germs, myerm Let's see, do I go for a best picture when or do something cool Um What Oper andver iss not cool Al probleam' very cool boy when you said, you should tried do something cool and making it seem like Oenheimer iss not cool Often I was extremely cool but I think inception's a lot cooler so I'm gonna take inception. Inception Inception of my second pick. This was the movie that Anthony spoke about it So wonderfully earlier Thank you. I think a film that was so ahead of its time. have this ambitious of an idea on this scale pull it off and make almost a billion dollars at the time. in a time where movies were All pretty pretty fucking good. We were getting really good cinema, really good blockbusters in this area. Yeah. and to still just stand out as No one can compete Christopher Noell at the box office. This is before our superhero movies are making a billion dollars This is before that era And so we were still getting really great original stories that were some of the biggest movies of the year Nowot that's not happening this year in twenty twenty six, which is amazing but used to happen more often But inception I loved everything about it And I thought the ensemble cast and how they work together as characters was so impressive onn the scale of a story and this unique mind bending film. An adventure It's so complex, but if you pay attention, It's all spelled out for you And after multiple rewatches, it's very easy to understand But I've never seen anything quite like it before. and the scale and scope are just enormous globe trotting mind exploring The concepts themselves are just so interesting. What if you could go into someone's mind insside their dreams and explore that space Customize it and steal ideas and steal memories and change memories. That's so fascinating justust from a small scale level but then to turn into the Biggest movie of twenty ten That was so impressive It's also so incredible how how insanely successful it was for being such a challenging movie Like I think, Tenet would have been extremely successful if it had come out without COVID happening And when you think about some of the best spectacles and action set pieces in the last twenty years The spinning hallway in inception has got to be one of the most exciting things I've ever seen in a film. astounding. So so cool. And I see people endlessly talk about like a lot of bigig action scenes that are so CGI heavy. I'm just like Guys is an't even real. The only sceneI real That scene is the reracing wires Yeah. That's it This is they did it. They really did it. Ain't even real guys, come on, it's an animation sequence if you think about it C on. Great pick, nice I'm going to go with for my second pick Oppenheimer It it was a film that had so much built up on it And it was a film that actually lived up to the hype and the expectations and anticipations. and was the best trailer of that year And it was my most anticipated film couple of years I was so excited and you know, the first the first bits of footage that we saw and seeing Killian You seeing the filmmaking and the IMX film and then Really still not showing anything regarding the It was just the photo of Killion for like half a year. Yeah, it was great. That's it in the hallway. The black and white in the hallway and I think it's Snolan's most creative film. And it's his most artistically ambitious film as well the way they edited this, the way they shot this in photographed sequences and and captured his mental state And it's in a lot of ways his most abstract film is as well as it it's most like poignant one You really in a way, he really made you feel the paranoia happening within him, the anxiety happening within him and the grief It's a great exploration of a person whose impacts on the world was immense U, and we knew very little outside of a name and an event So it was really a great story The music was from Ludvk Jennifer Lames editing Hoida and Hoima, just Unbelievable cinematography The fact that no CGI always using in this film is just Holy shit And when it got to the the big sequence in the ten minute sequence building up to the explosion, the test detonation How anxiety inducing and suspenseful that was. It was so masterfully constructed by everybody And to finally see that explosion and see that fire and and and to choose to do the reveal of it without any sound, no audio and we're just looking at the immense power of these flames and and the power of mother nature harnessed is extraordinary And it's it deserved all the acclaim, all the Oscars It really is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking and And I love everything about it. Unbelievable cast and It was just like, I love the way they make movies. These guys Hgree, Oppenheimer. It's cool too It is cool. It's cool on with it Next up for me We're our teams right now, we've done three picks each T twoo picks each. That's it. Let's do another pick that we can talk about what we got. We just got started. My third pick of the draft My third pick, my third pick How can you not know? Nice. How can you not know the prestige baby. What a third round steel Not a steel. What a steel? I love the prestige so much. A movie, like you said, gets better every single time you re watchatch it. A confusing movie, maybe the first time you watch it, but Christopher Nolan gives you rules with the first three minutes of what you're about to see I thought I love period pieces and miss I miss how good they used to be And in this era, we were getting great ones. Yeah Prestige came out. Aonement was around this time. Pride and Prejudice was around this time. We were getting really great authentic And what felt like accurate to the time period pieces. I felt really immersed inide master commander. master commander I mean, the authenticity of these films are what seldom. in this movie felt authentic. It felt like I was really in this world in eighteen ninety to whatever year it was. Two lead performances though shocking. really good Christian Bale, Hugh Aackman, opposing forces two massive stars immense talent goingo toe to toe I think it was just an exciting film. You don't always get that kind of star power with two leads. I think And that's why I think was so exciting when we had Oncepon Time in Hollyood with Brad Pitt and Leo together on as opposing as as co leads. When you have that much talent in a film, it's just There's so much they can take advantage of it and Christopher Nolan is such a brilliant director. He gets every bit of skill that those guys have I's Hugh's best performance. I think it is too. I think Hughs terrific. He's really playing two characters. three characters sometimes. U he plays obviously himself, but then the imposter for several sequences, but then Kind of doing a slightly different version of his character every single time there's a new interpretation of him. I Lord Corlo is a different feeling. It's a really great performance. they all and Christian's great as well I love this film. It's so well written. It's very different from the book. if anyone's ever read the prerestige Similar story Um, But I think Nolan, it's a rare example where the movie's better than the book here I think it's a really impressive screenplay based off that book And I love it, man. it's so good. It's so twisty and it really gets you at the end And what's sururprising about it is it's mostly shot handheld. Yeah, a lot of it. It's heavy handheld use. There's no big cranes coming in to show the environment, no massive establishing shots. Yeah. Nolan loves handheld. he'll throw it in when he wants in a lot of film. was interesting with Oppenheimer was like the longest shot he'd ever done was that shot tracking Robert Downey Junr. Yeah the we never seen any never does that never does big wondners. He's never been a winner kind of filmmaker Which is not wr with. not yeah, he's amazing And anyy circus is I love Any circus in this. Yeah. he's great. David Bowie Tesla is perfect. Yeah. It's just the cat. The cat is great. Scarjo, Scarjo. Rebecca Hall, It's a perfect movie. It really is 's great Great pickmen, thanks You fucked Mm h Uhh. because I'm takaking Dunkirk But my third pick, pretty good film H first nomination for bestest director C you belie it tooken that long Isn't that insane? Christopher Nolan made the Dark Kight He made inception and he made interstellar And the prestige and the prestige and he did not get nominated for bestest director for any of them It wasn't until Dunkerk he finally got his first Nomination And what's crazy is like a second director will not get Aards Oh my God, how win Snaps! The second movie that's pretty good. Unbelievable. Tk this guy twenty years of directing movies to get a nomination. It's crazy. N not just movies, some of the best movies ever Yeah, it's really it's's it's honestly mind bogling. The guy should have like eight Oscar nominations and should have won already possibly. But Dunkirk is one of the it's one of the most unique unique war films ever made and pushing the boundaries and trying something different and notot giving audiences what they've seen before, I think is a A specialty of Nolan's. And Dunkirk was an extraordinary experience especially in IMX With the filmmaking with the editing the approach to the story It was so visceral. and magnetic and also emotional But he threw out all the cliches and all the story elements war films usually have. And he stripped it down bare essentials and it really worked And the big set design, the huge action set pieces to have real spitfire dog fights on film and to really capture these these these planes um, duking it out in the skies was just Unbelievable to behold on the big screen This summer, serve up the cookout cllassics, Oscar Meer hot doogs and Heinz mustard Grill up a dog, add classic yellow mustard, or load it Chicago style We all know it's not a cookout without Oscar Meyer and Heinz Tomorrow morning is knocking. Stock your fridge now. How about a creamy moocha frappuccino drink? or a sweet vanilla? smmooth caramel maybe, or white chocolate mocha. Whichever you choose, delicious coffee awaits. Find Starbucks Frappuccino drinks wherever you buy your groceries Introducing Taco Bell's new jalapeno citrus salsa with bright citrus, real red jalapenos, guailo chiles. Usually, you add sauce to the food, but when the sauce is this good, the food is just there to get the sauce to your mouth That rolled quasada, not a rolled casadia anymore Now it's a sauce shovel. Taco Bell'salifeno c Citrus salsa, Get it with any item on the canantina Chicken menu while it's here. The participate in US. Taco Bell locations for a limited time only while supplies last. contact store for availability. And Han Zimmer's score he worked with Benjamin Walfish on that. It's a really nice score It's one of his Most unique as well Ver, very cool sounds and and approaches to to the the musical ideas in this film Great performances from all the actors, a bunch of unknown, then a bunch of very famous people I think kind of Brana is great in this. It was their first collaboration and now he loves using Brana now three films in a row with him And the young actors did a really good job, especially the lead He carrired the film. it's a difficult thing to do. Hey, you're Chrisher Nolan's movie, holy shit and you're like twenty And even Harry Syles is pretty good in this movie. Yeah gotta say But there's the set pieces everything from, you know, the the sh the ship get gets bombed and it starts sinking And the kid the guy trying to escape the flooding of the interior of the ship. to some of the big spitfire set pieces and crashes U to the boat's all coming home and Even the the soldiers on the beach getting getting attacked by by planes, enemy planes up from above There's incredible sequences and It's it's a it's anxiety inducing film So many great moments of intense suspense and dread and And it's it's a movie that gets your your heart going for sure but ultimately tells a great story And Americans essential story from World War two that we never learned in school. Not really This is big in England They learned this in their history I didn't know anything about Dunkirk, Not really. I read a book. When they announced this movie I read a book on it. Then I watched a couple documentaries, a couple of podcasts, and I was I couldn't believe that we never really learned this at all history. Obviously in America, you learn a lot of American history. You learned some World WarI But you don't really learn about this one because it didn't really involve America very much. It was at all mostly ye really at all. They're like, yeah, we might show up. I don't know. We'll see you after Dunkirk basasically But obviously it's a very British and French story So we didn't really explore Dunkirk from a school perspective, but I never took like history in college where you might have learned history, World W Iwo history probably wouldn't go more in depth into all things like this. but yeah, I thought it was an incredible story I never heard of Next up for me Or no, name the teams What do we got James' Batman has the Dark Knight, Inception and the prestige And the great Antoine As Instellar Oppenheimer And Dunkirk. prettyretty good teams. Yeah, P pretty great. I'm going grab another Batman movie now I'm going to type it in. I already know which one it is. Batman begins, baby That's frightening me. It's time my enemy shared my dreamy this is movie. I love it The best origin story of the century for superheroes Comp of characters the blueprint that everyone tries to replicate still Batman begins. The incomparable Amazing origin story Chrisher Nolan and Drew Gardard, his co writer No, not Drew. What's his name Oh, um David Squire. David Square. That's. that's what was. I was a D and a G. for initials. You got that, right, man. David S. Gyer We all know now with the RC coming out that Nolan was supposed to do a Troy movie but then swapped and ended up doing a Batman movie. And pitching this was Did S Gyer. and really grounding the character of Bruce Wayne and Batman to our world like we've never seen before and taking away all the fantastical elements that we were used to with the previous iterations, whether it's Tim Burt' versions or Schumacher's versions and really making it seem like what would happen, what would Batman look like or Bruce look like if he actually existed in our world, shooting in our normal cities shooting Pittsburgh Um You know, I love this story, the nonlinear structure for the first thirtyish minutes until that Bruce is back and knows where his path is going to be now after grappling with The death of his parents in his youth to being rebellious wanting revenge Un Joe Sill trying to kill him in the courthouse but he doesn't get the opportunity to until he runs away and explores life as way a life is a criminal is a way to understand criminals and be able to fight against them to try to save his city. He has the funds to save his city from a superficial level, but not actually do anything any good about it And that's where he gets the motivation and idea to create something new, something theatrical, which he learns from the League of Shadows. I thought it was so fun to explore these parts of Batman's lore from the comics and stories that we've never seen before in film spepecifically with the League of Sadows apppproaching Batman is someone who's trained as a ninja Deception, theatricality, the shadows. that was really exciting. because it's something that a lot of the video games have explored, but not really in cinema And then just a great story with Rouse Al Goul is a great villain. Lilliam Neon' fantastic in everything he does and it's one of my favorite roles he's ever done Christian is the best batman in Bruce Wayne combined. Like sure some other actctors might be a better Batman or a better Bruce Wing Depending on your opin, but overall, no one's done both roles better than Christian Bale combined. aggreed And he's the best one It' the best I like everything about it. I love the tumblers, the batmobile. I love the suits. It obviously got I think its best version in the second film in Dark Knight But I love this movie. Bruce is just a character that anyone can relate to And I think that's why we love this movie so much and so many people see themselves and Bruce someomeone Wh has a tragic story that they just want to overcome. They they have a good heart. Bruce has a very good heart because of the things that's happened to him, He's being steered in theong direction. We've all been in the wrong path before But once we find our path and we find what we're meant to do then this is an extremely fulfilling story, and an extremely fulfilling character to watch. and I love it Why do we fall We can learn to pick ourselves back up Still haven't given up on me, have you, Alfred. Never. Consent I won't bury another b bn I hope you're not a member of the fire Brigade All right, I'm going to go with Nolan's big breakout meento All the way back in two thousand, which I think is still one of his best screenplays and one of the most interesting screenplays. we've gotten this century especially in the crime genre. And I really like Guy Pearars in this film. I think he carries it really well and he's an extraordinary performer in this and He's had a really impressive career This might still be his best performance I like Care Moss in this. I like Joe Pantoliano in this It's an interesting cast. Lenny. Lenny. I'm John Agabe. I'm a John G And it's a film obviously that U I think inspired and irreversible probablyably because irreversable came out, no too But it's such a unique story and its such a rememarkable way to to show a film that it's no wonder it was difficult to get it made at first And studios, I'm sure were It was really Stehven Soderberg to help get Mento made because The screenplay was put out there. Nolan pitched it And nobody really understood what it was going to be and they didn't get it. And they didn't know what to do with it. and so Nobody greenl it. And then Soderberg famously at an industry party kind of berated a bunch of studio heads. and execs saying, oh, you guys all passed a memento. what the fuck you guys doing This's like one of the best films ever 's it's one of the best screen plays out right now and you guys are all passing on it. L you guys are idiots. And then that eventually got some reputability for Nullit and then it finally got green lit It a soda burg is a big instrumental figure in momento ever getting made Um, and no one You know, with the second film to have a to actually work with some money. I think it was a seven million dollars budget Which is pretty good. if you adjust for inflation, that's probably about twenty million dollars right now. That's a good budget. That's a good amount of money. Just to correct you. So you're kind of right kind Soderberg helped him get distribution for it. Gotch then helped him get insomn Inomni. Okay. So made it and they did the festival circuit and he couldn't they were trying to find a distributor for the film one would pick it up. Yeah And then Soderberg called Dan Aloneoney, who was an exec, I can't remember at what studio. And that's what it was. So he got U I think there' screen gems Maybe what who put out who distributed Mmento? Let me check But so he had already made the movie was already made. Gotcha. And that's what it is. And then he was like, you guys are fucking idiots the best I saw on the festival circuit year. That's what Let me see what movie Stio picked it up for distribution. It was New market. New whoever that is, New Market distributed that movie. Wow I don't even know that's that distributor. They did Heschher. That was the last Um I remember the last movie they did was Hesher was pretty good But Memento it's a fascinating story and it's so detailed and It's so it's a movie that it really does reward rewatches and revisits and It's a film that never ages in It's a film So much so shrouatded in mystery where And it's so complicated that even if you've seen it five times, you're still like, okay I think I almost have it. Let me watch it again. Back when mov was notothing wrong with that. Yeah, exactly. backack when it it was so common to rewatch movies a lot way back back in the day, not as much as it is now, I think Um, but it was it's a movie that I've seen so many times and It's so surprising and it For a small scale film, it packs a big punch in It's so creative and really brilliant in in its approach to filmmaking And it really was such a coming out party for Christopher Nolan It's no wonder He was the biggest director in Hollywood only a short time after. Really good first feature performance, two, five million dollars budget, gross to forty million do. So all of his movies make money really solid He's never had a flop in his career. You could argue the prestige H hundred mill hundred million on a forty million dollars bud DDs DVD sales definitely made. That was a hit and since then it has So it wasn't the strongest performance. And I guarantee they weren't spending as much on marketing back then as they do now. Well, mean plus they had the second box office with DVD sales DVD rentals. So like procedures a h. So They probably made fifty million in a second box office run because it was a very popular word of mouth film Um All right, good pick I'm going I'm going to round out the actually I'm going to get Dark Knight Rises for my next pick because fuck it, the movie iss awesome. I don't care what anyone says. I love this performance Tom Hardy specifically. and I think that the opening of this movie is one of the best opening scenes of an action film in history. It's one of the best set pieces you'll ever see you know, logistical nightmare shooting this. A lot of it was miniatures, but a lot of it they shot like these two planes in the sky. And so impressedive what they were able to do. It's Pat shit, crazy stunt wise, it's so cool I love the opening, but I love Tom Hardy has being in this movie so much. And it's sort of just What do you expect for scope? We're going to blow up a city. It's not world ending But it's city ending, city dooming, which is kind of just as terrifying in a lot of ways. I like the concept of holding a city hostage is great. It was really cool. I can't think of anything ever doing that before. Yeah. And even getting fun cameos from Killing Murphy as scarecrow again was a blast But overall, you know, there are some things to nit pick. Yeah. I mean, they didn't pick the best cut of Mario Marion Cootyard's death is Talia. They might not have had other takeakes who knows? He shoots fast. Yeah. So it is what it is Yeah. That's like a standout that people nitpick. But at the end of the day The scale. Filmmaking, the music from Hans, sort of the culmination of this trilogy of the filmmaking team of Nolan of Hans as well. and It's a really, really impressive movie. Do you know, there's some stuff cut out of that film. Have you heard about the Matthew O'Deeen that got cut out of? Oh no. So he Matthew B'dine plays one of the higher ups in the police department And he's in the remember It's revealed that he died in the battle. It's just like a shot of him dead. Yeah. What happened was they filmed the way they film Matthew M'Deine's death in Dark Knight Risees is he was actually run over by the tumbler. Oh wow. from like one of the enemy tumblers and it was so graphic that it was going to make it a R rating. The NPAA was like, this is way too graphic of a death So they had to cut it out of that sequence. So that's why it does have an awward some awkward editing in the third act where sequences like Marion Cottillard's death as well as Matthew ModDine's reveal of being dead It just kind of is a little bit jarring. It's because they had to cut his death out B end of the day. What the this fucking movieck Awesome movie rock. It's awesome. L it up. You know, I don't give a fuck. Did he spend the whole day drawing the bat symbol with gasoline? M cares. Fuck it I don't give a fuck. It's a superhero movie. It's about symolm badan baby.adman. L that shit up. Also, so many people complain. How did Bruce get from the Middle East Wherever it is to Goth them. He's batman Batman. who like he's like James Bond. You don't need to know. it's just that he does it. L you did I don't believe that he can pull the shit off You don't think he's got like a fucking an emergency jet or boat somewhere man, yeah, I love this movie. And Bane Bane is the shit in this movie. one hundred percent Do you feel in charge? We're quoting Bane for years because of this movie. Cratching this playe. This gives you power. I got the trilogy. I got the trilogy, guys. G got the trilogy Wow, we'remost we're almost out of films, almost there There's two left. I don't know I'm getting the one I wanted to. I'm getting tenant Yeah. I love tenet. I know you love tenant too We have since we saw it Not just because we're Nolan fanboice It's a great movie. It's kicks ass. It's a fantastic science fiction film. It's so smart and I You know, I hate I don't like people who just like hate on movies just because they don't understand them And you know what Nolan doesn't, he's not a cookie cutter director He presents his films and his stories and It's your responsibility to like, if you like the film, you can investigate it a little bit more. If you don't like it, then so what? You don't have to complain that that you didn't understand it Um, T tenen it's brilliant And it's really just The set pieces are astounding. the filmmaking I like the global Uob Gobe trying nature of it we hadn't seen since inception So it was great to get back to that boond esque international locations and and environments It's a beautiful film filmmaking wise and then I love everything about it. I love the cast. It's really unique cast, mostly all new actors for known except for Kaine and Branna. And there's a bunch of new faces for a Nolan film I thought John David Washington did a hell of a job in this film, I really liked him as a lead in this And the the stuunson set pieces are as explosive and dynamic and real as you'd expect from a Nolan film I really love especially The third act of this film But Stalts twelve this is just basically just like an invasion different in the way everything's divided into groups and The red and the blue Aaron Taylor Johnson coming out of nowhere in this film And we were like, what the fuck Arent Taylon Johnson to this movie What? This might be his coolest role. Yeah, yeah, he's so great I love the film, I love the concept of timeim inversion of the temporal pincer. All that stuff is so cool and fascinating and I really liked everything about the movie and I think it's a great score from Ludvic Its still pulse pounding, but interesting and great sounds in ideas and melodies and M, it's just it's It's such a fun movie. It's a great rewatch I think it's it could be known as one of its coolest movies too. It's a very cool movie Pattinson in this film. So charming So charismatic loved him in action set pieces. He had obviously never done anything of this scale before And then doing the Batman the year after or two years after, It's an extraordinary piece of science fiction and I think it's a film that will live on and fans will love it as time goes on But there are undeniably, you know, big critics for this film. Whatever, fuck off. That's awesome. Ten it's great Sen it is great All right, what do I pick with my neck? I'm gonna go insomnia. insomnia Insania is a really good thriller. Really good Crye movie, Mystery film, Al Pacino, coming to Alaska to investigate a murder But also he's got baggage he's bringing from his past. questionable decisions Overall, the three leads I think are just so excellent in this film Pacino Robin Williams and Hillary Swank. Hillary Swank was coming off an Oscar win She won for a million dollar baby a few years later, but she won for What was it Oh ys don't cry. No, she won two thousand for Oh yeah boys don' cry. Absolutely right, boyson't cry two thousand come So a huge star at the time. I know a couple things couple things I know a couple of things or two U Hillary was a was a huge star, you know U And so I thought she was a great character in this movie It's twisty and Silar to similar to how he plays with your mind his audience remember watching him with mento putting you in the shoes of Leonard's headspace of how fractured his mind is with the editing, the pacing the forward and backward storytelling piccino coming to a place where the sun doesn't set Insomnia seeping into his day to day life gettingetting confused about things, seeing things that aren't there puts you in his shoes as well in a very effective way. I think it's a great film with some really great set pieces. I think the log chase is really exciting and a really cool part of the film And Robin is terrific in everything he does and it was very cool to see him do. He's done in some dark roles in the past like twenty four hour photo But I think insomnia is really terrific. And I really like the, you know Wallally Fister's work in this film a lot. It's a good looking movie. Yeah. He' he was He made some great looking movies man. same glacier as Batman begins this shot here Oh man, I'm sorry, that's an interstellar The u I love the log chase in this film, but the helicopter show is the same. love I love the chase on the logs. Yeah and then when Pino fallino falls under the logs a As a super fan of he how cool must has must this have been to be working with Albucino. Insane man. And then he presents him as Oscar when he wins. Yeah, it's wild. Did he? Yeah. Oh my Godd, you're Pppenheimer. repent you to him. That's crazy. Wow All right My final pick is following, obviously. this is the last one left, but Not that I'm upset about it because following is great And I saaw this for the first time on DVD ure I think after dark night just like wanting to get more into his philmography and then renting it. on Netflix and really enjoying following and it's a cool film Nolan made on the weekends with his friends Sen He self funded it. He shot himself. He was the DP and the director shooting on film He worked In corporate Filmmaking U he would make videos for you make films shorts for businesses, so that's where he learned how to shoot on film in a really extensive way and to light becausecause he didn't go to film school and It's a really unique film. I love the concept of The guy this guy named Bill. He just decides to start following people and seeing what happens when he follows people. He's a writer right Yeah researcher. Yeah And he just starts following random people. If you see someone that piques his interest to'll follow them across the city as far as he can. And then u then this leads to him following a guy that he look seems looks thinks looks interesting And it comes he comes to find out that the guy is actually a robber. he breaks into people's homes and steal shit And so this guy takes him under his wing to start stealing things and nicking people's homes, nicking people's apartments And that leads him into a crime mystery where he ends up getting in over his head. And it's it's really it's a good it's a good film, great debut U extxtremely well made for such a tiny budget. But you can see a lot of his tean season and a lot of his interests as a filmmaker and a storyteller, the kinds of characters he likes to write. This guy's name is Bill Cobb. And but certain certain archetypes as well and the suaveveness, the sophistication, no the criminals, the robers named Cob I' sorry m but it's a great Great debut, excellent twist at the end If you haven't seen it, won't spoil it, but it's a lot of fun and really U again, Nolan, not essentially playing with time but playing with u the structure of what's been happening until and then then revealing what's been happening behind the scenes the whole time Fllowing beforefore Han Zimmer Christopher Nolan had a composer he did it with every other movie before he did. So he did this one David Julian.. He did all of his short, he did his short films. He did Larsceny, did Doodlebug Following memento insomnia. Wow. I didn't know he did this first ones too. He did all of those Christopher Nola movies, and obviously Hans does. Batman begins in zero five over So I totally never looked I never looked into that that David Julian was always his compos and also he did the prestige. Yeah. David Julian. Prestige is good. interesting. All right, well nameame off the teams and that's that's the end of the draft Okay, the teams are I'm sorry whereere's my notes? I mean, might as well give me the win guys. I mean, b that trilogy. James Batman got I mean to his credit as his name s it's in his name He got a Dark Knight inception, the prestige. Batman begins, Dark Knight Rises in insomnia. do it again nice and slow, aren't he