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I wrote down all the suggestions from this episode. Producer Josh's list Honorable mention: Avengers: Endgame 10. Under The Silver Lake 9. Lady Bird 8. Snowpiercer 7. Phantom Thread 6. The Grand Budapest Hotel 5. Black Swan 4. Paterson 3. Moonlight 2. Mother 1. Inside Llewyn Davis Engineer Devon's list Honorable mention: '71 10. Four Lions 9. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World 8. A Field In England 7. The Master 6. Under The Skin 5. The Raid 2 4. Raw 3. Moonlight 2. Lady Bird 1. Phantom Thread Paul's Famous Friends Jorma Taccone: Attack The Block Leslye Headland: John Wick, Mad Max: Fury Road, Black Swan Adam McKay: The Act of Killing Michael Weber: World of Tomorrow Conan O'Brien: Bone Tomahawk Levar Burton: Get Out Jenna Fisher: Bridesmaids Felicia Day: What We Do In The Shadows Janet Varney: Under the Skin Patton Oswalt: Mad Max: Fury Road Ike Barinholtz: Mad Max: Fury Road (someone who didn't say his name): Mad Max: Fury Road Seth Rogan: Mad Max: Fury Road Sarah Silverman: Bridesmaids, Wolf of Wall Street, Brittany Runs A Marathon, Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Justin Roiland: Her Emily Gordon: Would You Be My Neighbor?, Get Out, Phantom Thread, The Babadook Rob Huebel: The Lobster, La La Land Bendavid Grabinski: Mandy, MacGruber, Mad Max: Fury Road listener calls Shaun the Sheep, Cabin in the Woods, About Time, You're Next, Shame, Coco Swiss Army Man, Pitch Perfect, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Arrival First Reformed, Upstream Color, Detroit, Birdman, Killing Them Softly, Her, Her

I wrote a script that I think is better This is bad Scene: Office CUBICLE Desk, three monitors, coffee cup, knick Knacks of marvel fandom, wooden puzzles "Oh, this is bad, this is really bad" A gunshot is heard Dead guy in cubicle The End

For anyone who hasn't watched this yet and plans to I watched it at 1.5x speed and doing that it almost matched the pace of a normal film. Towards the end of the movie there is an insert shot of a digital alarm clock going from 11:59pm to midnight and although I have no evidence I feel almost sure that Neil Breen waited until that time of day to film that rather than realizing he could just set the clock.

Heubel noted during the cleared-off-desk sex scene that they should have scored the shirts before ripping them off. It looks like they may have, but it didn't work.

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I talked about Once once. Once!

HDTGM All-star Rob Huebel joins Paul, June and Jason to discuss the 2012 cult classic, Fateful Findings! Recorded live from the Moore theatre in Seattle, they talk about everything Neil Breen including soft curves, magic, tons of laptops, the salad scene and more.

In no particular order: The Farewell Little Women Booksmart Rocketman Judy Parasite Knives Out

THANK YOU for listing those out @AlmostAGhost - I was making a list of the ones I hadn't seen, but this is a lot better. I'm not sure what my Top 10 would be yet, but now I do want to make a list and hopefully narrow it down to that many. I was glad Under the Silver Lake got some love and that would be up there in at least the top 20 for me. The person who first recommended that movie to me also threw me some other gems over the last couple of years, and because of that I'd have to throw in A Ghost Story into my top bunch as well. That is a movie I VIOLENTLY cried through. There's sobbing, there's ugly crying and there's whatever the fuck this movie made me do which was akin to convulsing my way through an existential crisis.

I'm watching it now and it is as terrible as I remember. I had entirely forgotten about its crazy jazz fusion score, I would actually listen to this if I had a record of it. Edit: Oh snap! THERE IS A RECORD OF IT

Paterson is so good. I really loved it and I'm pretty mixed to negative on Jarmusch overall. I can't believe I forgot Columbus in all these lists. I blame Letterboxd for how it sorted my movies (it looks like it put it last on my ratings of 4 star movies for the decade). It's such a great movie that really moved me. I can't tell how much of that is because the movie is good or how much is living near-ish Columbus and working there briefly. I think it (maybe unintentionally) tells the story of a lot of people from Columbus that could be bigger but are stuck in this medium sized city with no opportunity to go anywhere or have connections. So, they just kind of stay big fish small pond except this pond doesn't particularly appreciate big fish.

The Married Life Is Fun And Games (Unless You're Married To Kevin James...)

Also, why does Neil rub the blood all over his face when he's mourning the alcoholic? What is with this film's relationship to blood?

This was one of the first films I watched for the podcast and it was mesmerizingly bad, so seeing this show up on my podcast app this morning made today a magical day. I'd like to talk about the scene I found most upsetting, which is the one where Neil struggles to lift a cup of coffee, collapses, and then spills the coffee all over his 1995 laptop, papers, and face. Why would he put the coffee mug on his laptop? Does he deliberately use that specific laptop as a coaster, and if so, is the reason that he has so many dead laptops because he uses them for non-computing purposes as well? Does Neil not have any straws or travel mugs that could aid him in drinking coffee without spilling in his impaired state? I need to know more about his relationship with coffee and computers. (P.S., if anyone from the show is reading this, I'd love to hear the gang talk about more movies from the Neil Breen vault because they're all gems)

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Pornhub, I guess, per Jason? And there is an official site to buy the bluray from. Not that I recommend that at all. There is a version including commentary by Neil Breen on YouTube, which I am going to need to be much higher than I currently am to watch. It really is such an awful film, and not really in a fun way. It makes Birddemic look like Citizen Kane. If it makes June feel any better, I think that actress whose age she is concerned about is 25 now, which means she was about 17 or 18 when she made the movie? And she apparently does a lot of small parts in Disney series so... she's OK? I guess?

I don’t care that I’m banned from Long John Silvers, it’s my wedding day and I’ll eat where I want.

Whew. I thought I was the only one expecting a minisode when I opened stitcher this morning.

Yeah, if I were in charge of nominating, I'd certainly have put Gerwig on my list and potentially Marielle Heller. Scorsese probably wouldn't make my top 5 (but maybe). Tarantino wouldn't have gotten close. I also think the problem is, as Graham says, it's still men in the academy. The by product of that is they simply aren't seeing or appreciating the movies on the same level. I think they aren't seeing Little Women as the same caliber movie as Joker (or whatever) and it's not part of the conversation on any level for them (Not that movies directed by women are inherently for women and not men. Or movies from men are inherently for men, not women. That's obviously dumb).

Sorry, we mentioned it briefly in Cinco’s announcement thread. Since HDTGM dropped the Reindeer Games episode instead of a mini we needed to stretch Cinco’s pick out for two weeks to stay on track. Rather than just talk about The Commitments for two solid weeks (which is totally fine to do), we decided to combine it with Once since the main character in Once is the guitar player in The Commitments.

It seems like any “official” awards should be judged by a group of men, women, non-binary (apologies for groups I’m leaving out), ,etc. ..., to TRY to even things out. it would also be nice to have a system that accurately included all groups when voting for the president of the United States (and I think president should be in caps, but since Trump’s in there, I don’t want to boost his ego. And I’m sure he browses this forum ALL THE TIME.).

So he wasn't really in the limo he just sent out his entourage to pretend so he had a plausible reason for not showing up?

I didn't add American movies directed by women or people of color. I put up a few already but, again, I want to recognize some that aren't in my favorites. A lot of these are maybe not great or top 10 of the year but I think they are all worth your time. 2016 Tallulah Edge of Seventeen Jackie Queen Of Katwe Sleight American Honey Fences Swiss Army Man 13th 2017 Detroit The Rider Mudbound Thor Ragnarok Kingdom Of Us Shape Of Water Beach Rats Columbus 2018 The Kindergarten Teacher Skate Kitchen Private Life Leave No Trace The Long Dumb Road You Were Never Really Here Can You Ever Forgive Me? Madeleine's Madeleine To All The Boys I've Loved Before Blockers Uncle Drew Crazy Rich Asians Blackkklansman Blindspotting Black Panther Roma Creed 2 The hate U Give Widows Searching

2016: Moonlight, Paterson, Certain Women My real favorite is the fall episode of Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life which I can technically count as a movie right? 2017: Get Out, Lady Bird, Good Time I have some similar reservations to Amy for Get Out. I'm not holding out for Jordan Peele to better it but I find it's a tad inconsistent. I feel like the humor takes away from the horror. I still respect it a lot of its strengths though. 2018: Sorry To Bother You, Eighth Grade I'm still waiting on seeing a few more movies before making a 2019 list. For a lot of these movies, I wouldn't put them on a list of the 100 greatest as they are just my favorites. I'd seriously consider Moonlight and Get Out and that's about it. Maybe it's recency bias against them but we're talking top 100 of all time not just movies I like a bunch.

On the episode, I think they only covered that the movie was based on Doris Lessing's novella "The Grandmothers" and didn't mention that Lessing has said her story was based on true events that she heard happened in a small community in Australia. Also, Kulap mentioned that she watched this movie at Sundance. I wonder if she remembered the audience laughing during the movie? According to this article the movie was...not received well (and I do feel a bit bad for the director).