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1st Jul 2024

June Wrap-up / Pride Awards / 2024 Mid Year Top 5

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

04:23 June Pride Awards & Rankings

22:27 Mid-Year Top Five Movies

46:19 Honorable Mentions and Disappointments

52:04 Anticipated Movies of the second half of 2024

57:57 Remembering Donald Sutherland

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

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

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

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

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

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very soul of our civilization.

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

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and the dreams of generations past.

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

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are carefully cataloged and cradled confines of the bunker.

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Perhaps there was room for more.

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

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

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future where the art of storytelling endures Transcending the boundaries

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of time and space God help us all

Nathan:

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

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

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

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of the impending asteroid apocalypse.

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You can find more episodes of this podcast on backtotheframerate.

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

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socials at Back to the framerate.

Nathan:

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

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Brianna Budworth and Sam Cole.

Nathan:

Hello everybody.

Sam:

Hello.

Nathan:

How are you?

Sam:

Doing pretty well.

Sam:

How are you doing?

Nathan:

Excellent.

Nathan:

Excellent.

Nathan:

As you know, I think I

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think B is muted.

Sam:

It appears sadly.

Bee:

So I'm here

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four years

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later.

Bee:

You would think I figured it out.

Bee:

I

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

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much, too much empathy as a human being.

Sam:

You know,

Nathan:

thanks.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

For our June wrap up episode.

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

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up on what we've been watching.

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

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

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

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

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

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weeks should be a fun little episode.

Bee:

It's summer guys.

Bee:

It's officially summer.

Nathan:

Summer's here.

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Summer Blushbusters.

Bee:

Yes.

Bee:

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

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with inside out too.

Sam:

I loved your Facebook, Nathan, when you posted about

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going to see inside out too.

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

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to Bob Iger's retirement fund.

Sam:

I thought that was

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brilliant.

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

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

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

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

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

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Teasing our anticipation for twisters.

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

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

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

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don't know what you call it.

Sam:

He got the framing right and the facial expression perfectly.

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It was instantly recognizable.

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Like I got the, I got it like immediately.

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I was like, yeah, spectacular.

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Of

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course, I took a picture of the tornado warning that

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came up on my dashboard as well.

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So

Bee:

we are really excited for Twisters.

Sam:

Yeah, we are.

Sam:

More than we should be.

Sam:

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

Sam:

You never know.

Sam:

It's fine.

Bee:

It might be great.

Bee:

There's always

Sam:

hope.

Bee:

Yeah, you don't know.

Bee:

Hey, we all just made

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

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So yeah.

Bee:

Hell yeah.

Sam:

That's true.

Sam:

That is true.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

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Sam, I know you been busy.

Nathan:

You were off.

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Yeah.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Yeah.

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

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

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

Sam:

you know, like a complete idiot.

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

Sam:

because the world is listening.

Sam:

That's how good our numbers are.

Sam:

So you should join it too.

Sam:

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

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

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sitting around like a jet lagged idiot.

Sam:

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

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and you could have just listened to our episode on and

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learned everything you needed to know.

Sam:

That's true.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

The episode is out.

Sam:

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

Nathan:

too late.

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1, 1, 1.

Nathan:

That was kind of funny.

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

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

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

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

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

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show, Duncan Flaster recommended it.

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

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us had even heard about it.

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I am.

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

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

Nathan:

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

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our flash episode from a year ago.

Sam:

Oh wow.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Sam:

That's amazing.

Sam:

You never know.

Sam:

Well tune in, tune in

Bee:

folks and listen, listen to Lily's.

Bee:

It's a good movie.

Nathan:

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

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

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

Sam:

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

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

Sam:

on whether you liked or disliked it.

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

Sam:

And

Bee:

we won't tell you either.

Sam:

Exactly.

Nathan:

Okay.

Nathan:

So.

Nathan:

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

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

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But

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

Sam:

You do your best wish.

Sam:

I wish.

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

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I,

Sam:

I'll be brave.

Sam:

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

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which is not as good a film.

Sam:

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

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

Awesome.

Sam:

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

Bee:

Oh my God.

Sam:

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

Sam:

He never overcame it.

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There was no arc.

Sam:

It's not a Disney

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movie.

Bee:

I know.

Bee:

You're not describing a Disney movie at all.

Bee:

That's why it

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would be great.

Sam:

The audience would be so shocked.

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

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

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Can we enter

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our new Disney era?

Bee:

Oh God.

Bee:

I'm so tired.

Nathan:

Let's save this episode from the gutter already.

Nathan:

Let's rank these movies.

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We, we watched three movies for our June pride.

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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

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Then we watched Portrait of a Lady on

Bee:

Fire.

Bee:

Portrait

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of a Lady on Fire.

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

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And of course, Lilies from 1996.

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

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

Nathan:

Rank these?

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

Nathan:

Sure.

Nathan:

We'll do this at the end.

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We'll do this again.

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Let's start with our first award.

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

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our wingman wing woman award.

Nathan:

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

Sam:

I can, I can definitely answer that.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

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

Sam:

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

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

Nathan:

That's great, Sam.

Nathan:

I'll jump ahead.

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I also have.

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

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

Bee:

It proved themselves to be a great wing person.

Bee:

I'm going for Sophie.

Bee:

From Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Bee:

She was the housekeeper.

Nathan:

Okay.

Bee:

Yeah.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

You know?

Nathan:

I like that.

Nathan:

I like it.

Nathan:

Okay.

Nathan:

Our next award is our Scene Stealer Award.

Bee:

Dun da da dun!

Nathan:

Sam, since you just volunteered to go first.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

as in Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

Sam:

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

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

Bee:

scene scary part.

Sam:

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

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

Bee:

Wow, I went so much sexier than you did.

Bee:

Yeah, I went with the

Sam:

darkness.

Bee:

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

Bee:

Zubruh, zubruh.

Bee:

With the, you dreamt of me?

Bee:

No, I thought of you.

Bee:

What not a dry seat in the house, folks.

Bee:

What a great line.

Sam:

It's an amazing

Bee:

line.

Bee:

Their chemistry just off the charts.

Bee:

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

Bee:

Really?

Bee:

Really?

Bee:

I would totally say their, their chemistry.

Bee:

Mm-Hmm.

Bee:

. Their,

Sam:

yeah.

Sam:

Their chemistry was like incredible.

Nathan:

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

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

Nathan:

As the Countess in Lilies.

Nathan:

Oh

Nathan:

yeah.

Nathan:

And

Nathan:

I literally went with this because every moment that Brent Carver

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

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

This is the reason why this movie.

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Is as good as it is for me Sam.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

So he's incredible in this.

Nathan:

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

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

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over how great he is in this film.

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And it made me sad.

Nathan:

You know, a couple of years ago.

Nathan:

And he didn't do a lot of films.

Nathan:

He was mostly a theater actor as well.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

So yeah.

Nathan:

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

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months that I totally forgot about.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

be

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

your master,

Bee:

Bernadette, baby.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

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

Sam:

the phrase I just want to keep

Nathan:

the theme from every month going.

Nathan:

I mean,

Sam:

and also Bernadette, like literally like.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Nathan:

you're right.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Bee:

Yeah

Bee:

That's a movie about sidekicks, right?

Bee:

That's a movie about

Sam:

yeah Friends

Bee:

that have to that are like sort of friends Forced

Bee:

into being sidekicks together.

Bee:

It's two are already sidekicks.

Sam:

Exactly.

Sam:

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

Bee:

All

Nathan:

right.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

which I think is great.

Nathan:

Best costumes.

Bee:

So relevant for, for me.

Bee:

This series,

Nathan:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

like six of them, you know what I mean?

Sam:

Like,

Bee:

and

Sam:

they're all very loud.

Sam:

Yeah.

Bee:

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

Bee:

That was great.

Bee:

I went with portrait for this one.

Bee:

It's just so rich and

Bee:

textured.

Bee:

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

Bee:

I also just love that color green.

Bee:

It's its own character.

Nathan:

Totally.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

It's the costumes in, in Priscilla.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

and they go through several wardrobe changes during this performance.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

And then the, then they have these fun.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

the whole, the whole performance.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Feast for the eyes.

Nathan:

And it's completely unforgettable that that scene.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Bee:

I love it.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

It's just too creepy.

Nathan:

We just

Bee:

rephrase it.

Bee:

How do you want to rephrase

Nathan:

this?

Bee:

I would you say who would you

Sam:

get to rebuild the air conditioning system in the shelter

Sam:

structure to breathe better?

Sam:

Technical nerds, sorry.

Sam:

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

Sam:

And then start over here.

Bee:

Just going to say you can save one character.

Bee:

Save

Nathan:

one character, isn't that the same

Bee:

thing?

Nathan:

Save one character.

Nathan:

I don't think about the

Bee:

fallout shelter like you do.

Bee:

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

Bee:

Just save one character.

Sam:

Save one character.

Bee:

Yeah.

Bee:

Who would you say?

Sam:

Oh, man.

Sam:

God, the definitely, definitely, definitely.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Bee:

character.

Sam:

Yes, absolutely.

Sam:

Yeah, you would have to definitely her.

Sam:

Everybody else.

Sam:

Sorry.

Bee:

Suck it.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

neither of them seem like a good time.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

trauma or some sort or another.

Nathan:

And that leaves the cast of Priscilla.

Nathan:

And I suppose.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

of years trapped in a bunker.

Sam:

He

Nathan:

provides live entertainment,

Nathan:

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

Bee:

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

Nathan:

Yeah.

Bee:

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

Nathan:

he's most of the level of everybody.

Bee:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Like,

Bee:

I just think I'd get on with him.

Bee:

Yeah.

Nathan:

There you go.

Bee:

All right.

Bee:

All right.

Bee:

We got to rank them.

Nathan:

Was that our last award?

Nathan:

Let me look here.

Nathan:

Okay.

Nathan:

One

Bee:

to buy on Blu ray.

Bee:

If you had to pick a movie.

Bee:

Oh, that was

Nathan:

yours.

Nathan:

One to buy on Blu ray.

Bee:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Is it?

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Well, here's

Bee:

my counterpoint.

Bee:

I was just going to say, sometimes.

Bee:

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

Bee:

You're like, you know what?

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

I don't know.

Sam:

I hear that.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

So a blu

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Or 30, 20, 30 bucks on?

Bee:

Pick one to buy.

Bee:

Physical.

Bee:

All right.

Bee:

Pick

Nathan:

one to buy.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

like they're actually is a movie.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I I am looking at that.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Waiting for the Barnes and Noble sale to come through.

Nathan:

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

Bee:

Yeah, same.

Bee:

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

Bee:

Yeah,

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

like I would definitely purchase that.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

So those are our awards.

Nathan:

Any, any other superlatives we can think of?

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

But this is fun.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

What a ranking.

Nathan:

Let's rank these pretty quickly.

Nathan:

Sam, you got two to rank.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

It'd be funny if you were

Nathan:

Lily's number one.

Sam:

Definitely number one, Lily's.

Sam:

I'm going to take a gamble on it.

Sam:

Like chips in Vegas.

Sam:

No, just kidding.

Sam:

One would absolutely by significant distance, not significant, but

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

able to No, I'm just kidding.

Sam:

Yeah.

Nathan:

I'll go.

Nathan:

I mean, same, same, same order.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I love that movie.

Nathan:

Portrait

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

Priscilla Queen of the Desert a lot.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I was down.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

like it the first time I watched it.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Bee:

No.

Bee:

I have the same order.

Bee:

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

Bee:

portrait's up there for my number one.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

So.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

impressive, but it's not ever garbage

Bee:

mountain.

Bee:

I

Sam:

picked that randomly by the way.

Bee:

Hemingway?

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

wraps up our June pride awards.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

forward to for the last six months.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

And I think only two, do you know what year

Sam:

it is?

Sam:

2024.

Sam:

2024.

Sam:

Yeah, I wrote

Nathan:

down 20, 25,

Sam:

you leaped into the future.

Sam:

Like Avatar three is only six months away.

Sam:

I'm still

Nathan:

20.

Nathan:

Tell us how twisters

Sam:

was

Nathan:

2024.

Nathan:

We don't see

Sam:

Jurassic world four by then.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

So, well,

Bee:

we've been Q1 is tough, right?

Bee:

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

Bee:

we're leading into summer.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Sam:

For sure.

Sam:

Yeah, for sure.

Sam:

All right.

Sam:

So

Nathan:

let's do this in.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

We're going to go from five to one.

Nathan:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

saw when it came out two weeks ago.

Sam:

Okay.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

old school nineties action vibe.

Sam:

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

Sam:

So I enjoyed it.

Sam:

Number five.

Nathan:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

for like the most over the top.

Sam:

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

Sam:

hours of Bayhem and I love it

Bee:

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

Sam:

It's crazy.

Sam:

Yeah, I

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

on my list, it's been slowly falling.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

distanced from it, I am worried.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

But yeah,

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

huge fan of the David Lynch version.

Nathan:

I have not read the books don't

Nathan:

. But this is a really good movie.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

of souring a little bit on it.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I was kind of like middling on it.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

recalling things more and more.

Nathan:

I like about it.

Nathan:

I look forward to seeing this again.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

is it is my number five right now.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Why?

Sam:

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

Sam:

Like

Bee:

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

Sam:

two contentious episode.

Sam:

That'd be incredible.

Sam:

I need to

Nathan:

understand

Bee:

what

Nathan:

you're talking

Bee:

about with

Nathan:

Rebecca Ferguson.

Nathan:

I don't dislike this.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Interesting.

Nathan:

Interesting.

Nathan:

Yes, I know.

Nathan:

I knew

Bee:

interesting.

Bee:

Well I'm in no place to talk because.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

Day is Vin Vendor's number five for me.

Bee:

Perfect day is more like perfect movie.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

us in at the last minute last night.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Bee:

I totally get that.

Nathan:

Sam, what is your number four?

Sam:

So hold on.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

yeah,

Sam:

I yeah, sorta.

Sam:

No, just, of course it is.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

some flaws, just the subject matter.

Sam:

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

Sam:

was so much archival footage.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

watch that again over the years.

Sam:

That's why.

Sam:

It made me

Bee:

watch the Dark Crystal again.

Sam:

I watched

Bee:

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

Nathan:

I do want to see this.

Nathan:

What, what, what platform is this streaming on?

Nathan:

I forget.

Nathan:

Disney plus.

Nathan:

It is Disney plus.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Great.

Nathan:

My number two, I'm sorry.

Nathan:

My number four.

Nathan:

I, wow.

Nathan:

You are in the

Bee:

future,

Nathan:

man.

Nathan:

I am in the future.

Nathan:

What's it

Bee:

like?

Nathan:

My number four is Inside Out 2.

Nathan:

Wow.

Nathan:

Yes.

Nathan:

I really did like this movie a lot.

Nathan:

It's.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I think it's a near perfect movie.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I have a daughter who was turning 13 and.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I also see a lot of the flaws in this.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I wish it expanded the world more.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Topic about a girl that's just turned 13.

Nathan:

That's going off to this hockey camp.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

the course of like two or three days.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

but it resonated so much with me.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

So.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Right.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

know, what we've gone through.

Nathan:

So, yeah, it is not a perfect movie.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

hit us very close to home.

Nathan:

So that's why.

Nathan:

I, I, I did love it a lot.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

So that's, I

Sam:

look forward to seeing it.

Sam:

I haven't seen it.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Bee:

So you're the sequels, man.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

Sequels

Nathan:

be, what is your number four?

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

You're the sequels prequels.

Bee:

This was.

Bee:

Incredible.

Bee:

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

Bee:

a prolific year for the genre robust.

Bee:

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

Bee:

theater, but, and it never is.

Bee:

But the first omen is, is the rare.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

also makes the other Omen movies great.

Bee:

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

Bee:

It's really just beautiful to look at.

Nathan:

Excellent.

Nathan:

I want to see this.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Bee:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Okay.

Nathan:

So Sam, we are on to.

Nathan:

Number, you're number three.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

first six months of like 2024.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

I thought there was some decent moments in the script.

Sam:

I like Liam Hensworth.

Sam:

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

Sam:

It was a pleasant surprise.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

streaming, if it not already is.

Nathan:

Nice.

Nathan:

Excellent.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

My number three is late night with the devil.

Bee:

Oh, that's been on my list.

Bee:

Yes.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

pod or three, four weeks ago.

Nathan:

This movie is still stuck with me.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

the lost episode of the show.

Nathan:

Cool.

Nathan:

It's such a unique film.

Nathan:

It's a lot of fun.

Nathan:

I highly recommend it.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

What's his name?

Nathan:

D Dasmalchian.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

He needs to get more roles.

Nathan:

Love this film.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Yeah.

Bee:

Yeah.

Bee:

Late night

Nathan:

with the devil.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Yeah, I almost watched

Bee:

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

Bee:

It's not, it's

Nathan:

really not that scary at all.

Bee:

Okay.

Nathan:

It's not that kind of movie.

Nathan:

No.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

B, what is your number three?

Bee:

My number three, Luca Guadagnino Challengers.

Bee:

I was shocked by how much I love this movie.

Bee:

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

Bee:

Feist, so I was excited to see this.

Bee:

It blew me away.

Bee:

I thought the performances were all great.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

Might be their top ever.

Bee:

It is thrilling.

Bee:

Thumping.

Bee:

It was great to hear in a theater.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

I thought it was great.

Bee:

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

Sam:

I've really got to see it.

Sam:

I mean, it got really good reviews too.

Sam:

So, I mean, I was definitely interested.

Bee:

It's a great movie about competition.

Sam:

Nice.

Sam:

Yep.

Nathan:

All right, Sam, you're number two.

Sam:

So my number two would have to be Furiosa.

Sam:

You know, halfway through the year.

Sam:

Definitely a fan of the Mad Max franchise.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

would take the second spot.

Sam:

Like, no question.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

some really great epic moments.

Bee:

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

Sam:

It was, it really was.

Bee:

It was just a fun time.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

My number two is also challengers.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

B.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Ross's crowning achievement as well.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Sam:

they do the soundtrack for the social network.

Sam:

Oh

Nathan:

yeah.

Nathan:

Mm-Hmm.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

But like, and,

Bee:

Girl With a Dragon Tattoo.

Bee:

The Fincher girl with a Dragon tattoo.

Bee:

Oh yeah.

Bee:

Nice.

Nathan:

But not in a bad way.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

pulse is racing through this movie.

Nathan:

Mm-Hmm.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Like

Nathan:

Mm-Hmm.

Nathan:

. Nathan: It's tense.

Nathan:

It, it, it is.

Nathan:

And.

Nathan:

Amazing cinematography.

Nathan:

I saw things in this movie shots.

Nathan:

This movie I've never seen before in a movie

Nathan:

ever.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

That ball is coming right at you at times.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

It's really, really incredible.

Nathan:

So, and I'd like to start,

Bee:

I've never seen tennis film that way.

Bee:

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

Nathan:

tennis was my sport in high school too.

Nathan:

So

Bee:

yeah,

Nathan:

it was I had a great time with this movie.

Bee:

Oh, I'm so glad.

Bee:

I loved that movie.

Bee:

Yeah.

Nathan:

So yeah, a lot of fun with challengers.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

I was

Bee:

glued to the screen in this movie.

Bee:

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

Bee:

And I just noticed myself totally enchanted, totally on the

Bee:

wavelength of what was happening.

Bee:

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

Bee:

I think it was incredible.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

one of the best of the year.

Bee:

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

Bee:

This says a lot about dysphoria.

Bee:

It says a lot about media.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

It's a little twin peaks.

Bee:

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

Bee:

I was so sold on board.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

music because I did catch up on this.

Nathan:

This did not.

Nathan:

Make my top five.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

This movie is, is geared toward,

Nathan:

you know, my

Nathan:

generation.

Nathan:

Yeah, absolutely.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

this nostalgia WB shows like Buffy,

Nathan:

you know,

Nathan:

X Files, all these things.

Nathan:

You know, I, many.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Perhaps it was more of a movie person.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Maybe it's what it was.

Nathan:

And I was just struggling with it.

Nathan:

It's glacially paced is one thing.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I don't know.

Nathan:

I'm really glad you liked this movie.

Nathan:

A lot of people are.

Nathan:

Glowing over this film.

Nathan:

And that's wonderful.

Nathan:

I just could not figure out what was going on.

Nathan:

That's okay.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Anyways, that's it.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

would definitely be Dune part two.

Sam:

I loved it.

Sam:

I thought it was.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

I thought it fleshed out.

Sam:

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

Sam:

I actually saw it.

Sam:

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

Sam:

on like a regular TV screen.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

I thought they did that well.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

style, it's like Epic and scale.

Sam:

I'm like Lord of the Rings.

Sam:

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

Sam:

So that would be number one for me.

Nathan:

Okay.

Nathan:

Great, so is it me?

Bee:

Mm hmm.

Nathan:

All right, my number one film so far

Nathan:

Madame Webb Just kidding.

Nathan:

Just kidding.

Nathan:

No, my number one.

Sam:

We definitely needed a Samuel Jackson sound effect right there.

Sam:

Like what the f

Nathan:

My number one film so far is Love Lies Bleeding.

Bee:

That was a great movie.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

film of the year so far still.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Yeah, I, I love this movie.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Stewart, I think is great in this.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I just, I love the story.

Nathan:

I don't know.

Nathan:

This is my favorite film of the year.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

of the decisions are in this film.

Bee:

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

Bee:

Stewart, and she, she crushes it.

Nathan:

She does.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

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

Sam:

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

Bee:

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

Sam:

Sorry?

Bee:

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

Sam:

Yeah, exactly.

Bee:

My I love, I love low

Nathan:

rent, you know, crime movies.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Sam:

So did you like that Steven Soderbergh film with,

Sam:

with God, I'm brain dead.

Sam:

With Adam Driver, the, the heist movie.

Sam:

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

Sam:

Oh

Nathan:

Logan

Sam:

Luckey?

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

Logan lucky.

Sam:

Did you like that film?

Sam:

That's like low end heist.

Nathan:

I don't think I saw it actually.

Sam:

Oh man.

Sam:

You would like it.

Sam:

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

Sam:

Good film.

Sam:

Yeah.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

So B we're up to your number one.

Bee:

Well it's a little anticlimactic because Sam and

Bee:

I have the same number one.

Bee:

It's doing part two.

Bee:

Surprisingly.

Bee:

It's so, so good.

Bee:

I had been anticipating it.

Bee:

Yeah.

Bee:

All year.

Bee:

It did just get topped at the box office.

Bee:

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

Bee:

We had a good run.

Sam:

It's a good run.

Bee:

I'll take it.

Sam:

Excellent quality.

Nathan:

All

Sam:

right.

Nathan:

So that is our 2024 mid year top five.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Sam:

There's more to come in 2024.

Nathan:

Find out

Sam:

by listening to Back

Nathan:

to the Framerate.

Nathan:

Any honorable mentions you'd like to bring up?

Bee:

Yeah, for sure.

Bee:

Let's see.

Sam:

Lyle Crocodile.

Sam:

Sorry, that was 2023.

Bee:

Yeah, nevermind.

Bee:

Remember that movie?

Bee:

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

Bee:

were kind of vying for the middle.

Bee:

I thought Monkey Man was a great.

Bee:

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

Bee:

I was really excited by it.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

I thought that was great.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

that are like pretty good.

Bee:

You know, that's what we need.

Bee:

Just some, some movies in the system.

Bee:

Hit man.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Hit me.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

my top 10 civil war, civil war might be.

Nathan:

Way in up there.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

little bit as being problematic.

Nathan:

I did still like it.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I liked it a lot as well.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I think there would be revolt amongst both of you.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

came out in February, which I loved.

Nathan:

And.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

space and he befriends this giant spider.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

top 10 or 11 if we were doing that.

Bee:

Yeah.

Bee:

For me, it was Evil does not exist.

Bee:

That came really close.

Bee:

I love drive my car.

Bee:

Evil does not exist.

Bee:

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

Bee:

I find myself thinking about a lot.

Bee:

It stayed in my memory.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

How about this?

Nathan:

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

Bee:

Um,

Bee:

bike riders.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

You were saying before.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Bee:

I was pretty bummed by bike riders.

Bee:

I love.

Bee:

A dude's rock movie.

Bee:

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

Bee:

It's, it's not casting.

Bee:

It's not pacing.

Bee:

It's not any of that.

Bee:

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

Bee:

It just was a little bit messy.

Bee:

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

Bee:

If that makes sense.

Bee:

It just felt like it had the self awareness.

Bee:

That I found deeply unattractive in the whole thing.

Bee:

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

Bee:

been done a lot more interestingly.

Bee:

So I was bummed.

Bee:

I was really looking forward to that one.

Sam:

I do want to see that.

Sam:

I got to check it out.

Sam:

I mean, it's not like a

Bee:

bad movie.

Bee:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

with or you're just not big enough?

Sam:

Oh God.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

like dramatic thriller with them.

Sam:

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

Sam:

it would probably be that film.

Nathan:

No, I get it.

Nathan:

That movie, the trailers lied to us.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

Yeah,

Nathan:

I get it.

Nathan:

Yeah,

Sam:

it wasn't bad though.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Bee:

Yeah.

Bee:

Nathan, I think I know what yours is.

Bee:

Can I try and guess?

Nathan:

You can guess.

Nathan:

I've been very vocal about it.

Bee:

Is it Drive Away Dolls?

Nathan:

Yeah,

Bee:

yeah.

Bee:

The movie that could have been Love Lives Bleeding.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

What is next on our agenda?

Nathan:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

Yeah, let's do that.

Bee:

I've got

Nathan:

nothing prepared but twisters

Sam:

and, and um, quiet place, day one.

Bee:

Done.

Bee:

Nice, nice.

Bee:

Not the crow.

Bee:

I'm not looking forward to the crow.

Bee:

Oh,

Sam:

alien.

Sam:

Romulus.

Sam:

Sorry.

Sam:

Alien Romulus.

Nathan:

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

Bee:

I've got a big, long list.

Bee:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I, I like Robert Eggers sometimes

Nathan:

I can't wait.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

more witch in, in less Lighthouse.

Bee:

We'll see.

Bee:

Yes.

Bee:

I, I love, I love light.

Bee:

Huge fan.

Bee:

The witch, not

Sam:

as much the lighthouse, but yeah.

Sam:

Oh,

Bee:

I loved the lighthouse.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

I'm intrigued,

Sam:

definitely intrigued by that.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

Hopefully, like cautiously optimistic, I'll say.

Bee:

Yep.

Bee:

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

Bee:

I thought X and Pearl were, Great.

Bee:

So I'm excited to see where they go.

Bee:

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

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

Definitely looking forward to that.

Sam:

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

Sam:

I'm sure there'll be something radical.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

forward to that a little bit.

Nathan:

I do like the

Sam:

trailer.

Bee:

Gaga's Chromatica Ball dropped on HBO Max.

Sam:

Nice.

Bee:

It's exciting.

Sam:

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

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Oh yeah.

Nathan:

Mm hmm.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I had it at one time.

Nathan:

I'm curious.

Nathan:

Ah, and see how we did.

Bee:

How we're

Nathan:

doing so far.

Bee:

Yeah.

Nathan:

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

Bee:

I really want to see.

Bee:

Might be quite a lot to edit out.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

It's.

Nathan:

Actually, I posted it to our Instagram.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I made a whole fun graphic out of it.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Alright, here we go.

Nathan:

But does he follow us?

Nathan:

I'm really

Sam:

looking forward to Argyle 2.

Nathan:

Here we go.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

B, yours was Bob Marley, One Love.

Bee:

Damn, it really stunk too.

Nathan:

Driveway Dolls, Beetlejuice 2,

Bee:

Oh yeah!

Nathan:

The Book of Clarence,

Sam:

Beetlejuice 2.

Bee:

I didn't see that.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

we won't get until next year.

Nathan:

We won't

Bee:

get.

Nathan:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

announced, but yeah, one love it.

Bee:

I mean, when is a biopic ever really?

Bee:

Oh, twisters.

Sam:

Definitely.

Sam:

Yeah.

Nathan:

And Sam, your top, your 10 anticipated films

Nathan:

were Civil War, Gladiator 2.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Part 2, Furiosa, and Inside Out 2.

Sam:

That's right.

Sam:

I have not seen it yet.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

just learn about other movies, sort of.

Bee:

Oh

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Sam:

Mufasa the Lion King could be good, honestly.

Nathan:

You know what?

Nathan:

I was, I was so pissed.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I know.

Nathan:

Damn, you know, all right.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

which I still am looking forward to.

Nathan:

Cause I want

Sam:

to see that.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

I

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Alto nights Deadpool three for Yosa in dune two.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Did Ballerina get pushed?

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Yeah, and Bob Marley, One Love.

Bee:

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

Bee:

I think so.

Bee:

I feel bad.

Bee:

It seems to be genuinely well

Sam:

liked.

Sam:

Yeah, it's actually did.

Sam:

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

Sam:

like box office emptiness,

Bee:

something had to,

Nathan:

all right.

Nathan:

Is there anything else in my list?

Nathan:

This is just one, we've

Bee:

just dropped a lot of movies at this point.

Bee:

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

Bee:

just name dropped a lot of movies.

Sam:

I'm really looking forward to driving Miss Daisy to

Sam:

visiting, visiting the grave.

Sam:

It's going to be good.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

that I realized that I can think of that.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

a character actor later in his life.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

think about what are the iconic movies.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

favorites of yours with Donald Sutherland.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Bee:

yeah, same.

Bee:

So for me, Fellini's Casanova.

Bee:

Is a big one.

Bee:

He starred in that one.

Bee:

I love Fellini.

Bee:

I think Donald Sutherland is great.

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

Don't Look Now.

Bee:

That's a great one.

Bee:

I mean, I like him as

Sam:

president snow in the hunger games for me.

Sam:

That was, yeah, yeah,

Bee:

for sure.

Sam:

And honorable mention to backdraft, not the best movie,

Sam:

but the Ron Howard fire movie.

Sam:

I liked him as the villain in that,

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Over the last 40 plus years is small villain roles or

Sam:

yeah, like he's always a small villain.

Sam:

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

Sam:

And I liked him.

Sam:

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

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Yes.

Nathan:

It

Sam:

was a huge scene.

Sam:

Yeah.

Sam:

So he like, yeah.

Sam:

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

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I think he had a small role in too.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Awesome.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

All right.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Now we're going to not do that.

Nathan:

We did movies.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Right?

Nathan:

Sounds good.

Nathan:

Sounds good.

Nathan:

Back to the frame rate.

Nathan:

We're just going to cap capture that.

Nathan:

That'll be our new theme song.

Nathan:

Part of the Western media podcast.

Nathan:

I know.

Nathan:

What are we doing next month?

Nathan:

What's July?

Nathan:

It's summer.

Nathan:

Are you guys excited for this?

Nathan:

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

Sam:

Seeing twisters.

Nathan:

No,

Bee:

no.

Bee:

What we're

Sam:

doing on the pod.

Sam:

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

Sam:

Oh God.

Sam:

Yes.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Nathan:

summer comedies, like How do we get to this?

Nathan:

This is, I know how we got to

Bee:

this Nathan.

Bee:

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

Bee:

could classify as a summer movie.

Bee:

You're like, it has

Sam:

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

Sam:

It's a beach movie.

Sam:

There can be no camp,

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

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

Bee:

So.

Sam:

I can't wait for Ernest Goes to Camp.

Sam:

I've been watching clips from it.

Sam:

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

Sam:

So this is the most,

Bee:

yeah, this is the self indulgent thing.

Bee:

Nathan's done for the part.

Nathan:

We're watching Ernest Goes to Camp.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

of nostalgia for B you've never seen.

Nathan:

You are

Sam:

ever on TV, remote drop.

Sam:

That's all I'm going to say.

Nathan:

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

Sam:

It's going to be great.

Nathan:

Yeah, so I actually am

Sam:

very much looking forward to this summer.

Sam:

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

Sam:

to the beach without a brain.

Sam:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

We have watched these winter survival movies.

Nathan:

We watched Christopher Nolan movies.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

you know, take place over decades

Bee:

as a reward for hard work.

Nathan:

No, seriously.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

for a future walks of world episode.

Sam:

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

Sam:

They go back there.

Sam:

Like it's a classic I can't

Bee:

wait.

Bee:

Quit now I'll try.

Bee:

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

Bee:

weekend at Bernie's and it's been.

Bee:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

is not as good as my we will never

Nathan:

watch Earnest Saves Christmas on this podcast.

Nathan:

Yeah, OK.

Bee:

OK.

Bee:

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

Bee:

And here we are.

Bee:

So it's

Sam:

good.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

I have to finish the series, but

Nathan:

you're going to need a spinoff podcast.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

he got bigger applause than Mickey Mouse.

Sam:

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

Sam:

So I'm going to try,

Bee:

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

Bee:

I'm going to try historically.

Bee:

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

Bee:

So we'll see.

Bee:

That's why we're

Nathan:

limiting it to just three movies.

Nathan:

You know,

Bee:

at

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

like the really offensive.

Bee:

Yeah, no, they could be good.

Bee:

We got a Bernie's.

Bee:

I remember we're not doing like revenge

Nathan:

of the nerds or.

Bee:

Yeah, vacation.

Nathan:

Ski school.

Nathan:

There must be a movie called ski school.

Nathan:

We could be watching.

Sam:

1990s ski patrol.

Sam:

Yeah,

Nathan:

that.

Sam:

Saw that up here.

Sam:

But yeah.

Nathan:

Just one of the guys.

Nathan:

What year was just one of the guys?

Nathan:

I don't remember.

Sam:

I haven't seen that one.

Sam:

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

Sam:

It might, it

Nathan:

might be one of the most offensive movies ever made.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Bee:

I just, like, didn't.

Bee:

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

Bee:

the movies that we were watching.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Oh god.

Nathan:

What's really funny is people are listening.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I scribe to this podcast

Bee:

guys.

Bee:

I'm trying.

Bee:

Okay.

Bee:

I mean,

Sam:

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

Sam:

That one is fairly dull.

Bee:

I wouldn't know.

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

Yeah.

Nathan:

Alright.

Nathan:

Alright,

Nathan:

I'm gonna wrap it up here.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Alright.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

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

Sam:

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

Sam:

Yeah,

Nathan:

exactly.

Nathan:

Okay.

Nathan:

Thank you.

Nathan:

Everyone for listening to us.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

Western media podcast network.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

We bid you farewell from our fall shelter.

Nathan:

Your presence in our underground sanctuary is truly appreciated.

Nathan:

We are truly sorry.

Nathan:

You cannot join us.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

If you are finding solace in our discussions, we kindly ask that you

Nathan:

please subscribe and leave a rating and review, you can find more episodes of

Nathan:

this podcast on back to the framerate.

Nathan:

com in our handle on our socials is back to the frame

Nathan:

rate, or is it back frame rate?

Nathan:

I don't even know anymore.

Nathan:

Just try one of those two.

Nathan:

Your support is the beacon of light that brightens our confined space.

Nathan:

Head on over to Apple podcasts, Spotify, or whichever portal connects

Nathan:

you to our broadcasts and share your thoughts until we emerge from

Nathan:

the fallout, stay with us, keep up alive and keep those reviews coming

Sam:

and remember, second place is terrible.

Sam:

There's only first

Nathan:

first loser.

Nathan:

Second place.

Nathan:

Just kidding.

Nathan:

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

Nathan:

I want

Nathan:

you to know it's over.

Nathan:

Well.

Nathan:

Well.

Bee:

Bye.

Bee:

Bye.

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Preserving Our Civilization One MOVIE At A Time
Back to the Frame Rate is a movie discussion podcast where filmmakers, actors, and passionate wannabes come together to celebrate the art of cinema. From beloved popcorn flicks of the '80s, '90s and today, to timeless classics and arthouse gems we cover it all. But we’re not just here to talk movies — we’re here to save them!

In a world facing imminent asteroid-induced doom (think Armageddon without the happy ending), we’ve built a fallout shelter for the greatest films of all time. With only enough space for a carefully curated vault of 35mm and 70mm reels, the stakes couldn’t be higher. We comb through the likes of AFI’s 100, Sight & Sound’s Greats, and IMDB’s Top 250 to decide which films are worthy of saving — and which will be purged forever.

Join hosts Nathan Suher, Sam Coale, and Briana (Bee) Butterworth as they passionately debate cinema’s survival, ensuring the future of storytelling one reel at a time. Sadly, the space is tight, just enough for us and our cherished 35mm and 70mm film reels. To friends, family, and old acquaintances left in the cinematic dust, our apologies. But fret not, for we vow to emerge when Earth is safe for repopulation. We've preserved the very soul of civilization, ensuring a future where storytelling thrives. Back to the Frame Rate, saving the world one reel at a time!
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