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The Movies Of 2010 (Season 2 Episode 5)
In this episode of 'Best Movie, Worst Movie,' hosts John Campia, Robert Meyer Burnett, and guest Cliff Steven delve into the cinematic landscape of 2010, discussing standout films and hidden...
The Movies Of 2010 (Season 2 Episode 5)
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Well, greetings and salutations everybody. Welcome to season two episode five of Best
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Movie, Worst Movie.
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We're, of course, take a collection of films and we adjudicate and pronounce what is the
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best movie out of that group and what is, of course, the worst movie out of that group.
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I'm one of your hosts.
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My name is John Campia.
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Good to be here, guys.
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And I'm also joined by my regular co-host, the one and the only Mr. Robert Meyer Bernette.
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Robert, how you doing, sir?
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John, it is great to be here.
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I'm really looking forward to doing this particular episode.
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And speaking of this particular episode, our regular co-host Cody Miller is, of course,
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getting prepped for the Olympics in a few months.
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So we are thrilled to be joined.
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Once again, he was with us last week.
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The one and the only Mr. Cliff Steven, Cliff, thanks so much for being here, man.
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Oh, thanks for having me back.
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I'm glad I did well enough that you would want me back.
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It was the DCU one that we did last week, which was a lot of fun.
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That was great.
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And so this week, guys, we're going back.
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We're going back 10 years.
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We are going back into day on best movie, worst movie we are talking about the films of 2010.
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Guys, it was an amazing year in film in 2000.
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Okay.
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And of course, a lot of stinkers too, in which we will get around to in just a little bit,
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but it really was a phenomenal year that kicked off the decade for us.
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And just incredible film that we still a lot of movies that came out 2010.
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Did I remember as I was looking over the list, going at least a dozen times,
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God, that movie wasn't 10 years ago.
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Was it?
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And then the next one, God, that movie wasn't 10 years ago.
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Was it?
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It was certainly a collection of them.
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So let's not waste any time.
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Let's dive right into our best movies of the year, that year.
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And I will, I will kick a soft on this one.
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I will kick a soft on best ones.
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Now I want to give an honorable mention here.
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I want to give an honorable mention to a film that I won't be surprised if one of you guys
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because we have not talked about this.
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I don't know what you guys are going to say.
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I wouldn't have said this the year came out, but it's just it has stood up the test of time.
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Inception, which is so weird.
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It is one of those films that you stop and go, wait, what?
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No, you can't.
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Inception didn't come out in 2010.
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Oh, yes, it did.
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It is an older film now, ladies and gentlemen, you're getting older.
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It is an older film.
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But inception, of course, was great on several levels.
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First of all, of course, Christopher Nolan was already his name by this point.
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Christopher Nolan was Christopher Nolan.
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It was a great story, a lot of depth to the story, some great talent in it and visual
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effects that blew our minds.
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So we got into it.
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It was deep, twisty.
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It was Christopher Nolan getting into his visual effects era.
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It was great.
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So I just wanted to at least give a mention.
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And there's probably about 30 other films I can give a mention to.
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But for me, the best film of 2010 also just so happens to have won the Academy Award for best
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picture of that year.
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It also won the Academy Award for best lead actor.
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And of course, it gave us the director who would go on to create the masterpiece known as
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cats.
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So there's that to keep that in mind.
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But of course, we are talking about the movie, the King's speech.
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This on its surface is not a movie that looks like a prototypical John Campiapick for
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a favorite movie, anything.
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But this is a movie that blew me away on so many levels.
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And here's the brilliance of it.
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About 60% of this movie is two guys sitting in a room talking at various stages.
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Jeffrey Rush and Colin Firth at different points sitting down and chatting with each other.
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And every time they would, particularly this one scene that takes place in Jeffrey Rush's
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characters, kind of a therapy office, where it's just these two leather chairs sitting over
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a table, leaning in towards each other and just talking for what felt like a good 10,
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15 minutes.
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And I was riveted every step of the way in today's Twitter generation that we are all
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the part of where we are 140 or it might be 280 characters or less now where everything's
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got to be action something to be quick scenes.
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Well, this movie just saturated in the drama of the moment, the story of these characters
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and the dialogue and the chemistry and the relationship between them and how it evolves.
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And it just climaxes in such a beautiful, perfect way in the story.
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And it really is like everybody knew already Colin Firth was a great actor.
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But that was the one to me that made me go, he's not just a great actor.
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He is truly one of the world class.
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He is a world class actor and I desperately, desperately loved him in this movie.
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I desperately loved Helen Abautum Carter was fantastic in it.
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Jeffrey, Jeffrey Rush was fantastic in it.
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This is a movie that I don't say this often.
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It has no flaws.
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This movie has no flaws.
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Certainly there may be a couple of elements that could have been better, but you're talking
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about changing a seven to a nine.
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This is a movie that had no flaws.
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And I was enraptured with it as much as the last time I saw it about six months ago,
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as I was the first time I saw it 10 years ago.
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It has made an incredible impact on me.
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And if I were to put together a favorite film of the decade list, I'm not 100% sure.
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But King's speech might be number one on my best of the decade.
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That's how much I love this movie and just how much of a masterpiece I really feel it is.
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So for me guys, my best film of 2010, I'm going with the King's speech.
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And put my stamp on it.
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So Cliff, let's go over to you.
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You can come up, you can batter up here.
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What would you say?
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Because that was a great year for film, man.
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But what would you say stood out the most to you?
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So, okay, up until this moment, I have there's two in my head.
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And I can't.
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Okay.
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So the fact that you basically laid out inception as a kind of an honorable mention,
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that's one of my two, but it's not what I'm going to pick.
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But I agree with everything you said about it.
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It is brilliantly crafted.
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It is Nolan, you know, as you said, at the height of his powers coming off the dark night,
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you know, the way it's practically done, it's very smart.
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It's it's gorgeous to look at everything about it.
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I agree.
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The movie that I am picking, however, I'm picking for a very specific reason,
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which is when I went to the theater to see this movie,
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it blew me away.
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And part of that is because I saw it in the theater,
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but I can't deny that I just blew me away.
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And that movie is kickass.
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What I wasn't expecting.
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Wow.
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I was not expecting kickass to come up here.
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I love kickass.
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I do too.
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I was not I did not read kickass.
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So I kind of went into it raw without any knowledge of what it was other than
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that it was supposed to be this R-rated comic book movie.
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And, you know, we went opening night and it was like some sort of church revival.
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I mean, people were screaming and cheering and it was just the it was so adrenaline pumping.
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I mean, you you've got Chloe Grace Moretz, who nobody had, you know,
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she's not an anybody's radar at this point.
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This little girl, foul mouth and violent and the action sequences in that and
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and, you know, her as hit girl and Nicholas Cage as big daddy.
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Like just everything about that movie blew me away.
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And I went to see it probably four more times that weekend,
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simply because I was like, I got to keep seeing this with the most people possible.
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Right.
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I do not want to wait and have this be, you know, me and four other people.
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Like just the response to it was so intoxicating.
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And I love that movie.
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I think that movie holds up incredibly what now kick us to.
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I hate can't stand kick us to.
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And I think everything that's great about kick us is lost on kick us to.
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But but kick ass is a totally, you know, I mean, listen, this is this is pre dead pool.
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This is, yeah, you know, we're not making R-rated comic book.
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You know, what are you nuts?
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And the way that Matthew Vaughan created this world,
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it just, it blew me away.
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And it is a movie that I have gone back to many, many times at it never stops being fun.
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It never stops being entertaining.
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And I just, you know, it's one of the great experiences, theatrical experiences that I've ever had.
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And so I, you know, maybe that seeps into this somewhat and and become a little bit of a,
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the elixir that that keeps me going.
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But I love kick us.
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And, and, you know, I don't know that it's, I don't know that it's as good a film,
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one to one as in as inception.
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You know, I mean, inception is just so wonderfully built.
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But, but for me, kick ass is is to me the best thing I saw that year.
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You know, that's the funny thing to me.
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You mentioned kick ass too.
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I've said this on my show before, but I knew Nicholas Cage as big daddy was great
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in kick ass.
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I didn't fully understand how great he was in it or how important he was to it until I saw kick
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ass too. You know, there's an all saying, there's an old religious saying that says,
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every person has a Jesus shaped hole in their hearts.
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Kick ass too had a big daddy shaped hole in its heart.
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That I think was, they, it was upon seeing kick ass too, you're really,
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or it's damn, that's how important he was.
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That whole presence of that character was in the first one.
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And the music choices,
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I mean, that's for every in your head.
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Probably my favorite sequence in the whole film is that whole gun battle.
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Yep.
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It's amazing.
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So that I promise, dude, that is, I think I, I care, I remember being this shocked about any
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pick, but I'm such a great one to hear.
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So I'm going with King's speech.
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You're going with a very, very similar movie kickass and Rob going over to you.
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What represents to you the best film of 2010?
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Well, I too, first of all, have to talk a little bit about inception because I saw that movie
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eight times in the theater.
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And that was the last time I'd seen a movie that many times in the theater.
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It really spoke to me.
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I was coming off of a breakup, I have to say.
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And I, the movie was, it was all about loss and, and this profound sense of,
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of loss that a man had for his, his wife and, and, you know, I don't know if anything in that
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movie was actually true.
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I think it's all a dream.
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I don't think there's any reality in that movie at all.
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I think it's a man caught in his own psychosis, but, but that's also the brilliance of what
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Christopher Nolan did.
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He's, he's not telling you.
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No, he doesn't tell you.
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And like you said, it's so beautifully done.
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The production signed Hans Zimmer's score, that piece of music time, everything about it.
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I just love, love, love that movie so much.
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I don't even know if it even quite holds together because every time I look at it, I wonder.
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But the movie that I've watched the most, I think, since, that I've owned on Blu-ray
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over the last 10 years, a movie that I referred to, why, I, I go back to it again and again and again.
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And it's a movie that gets increasingly more meaningful as the years have gone by.
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His David Fincher's The Social Network.
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Uh, yeah, I, I think I knew you would go with the social network is sure.
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Now, we all know it's the story of Mark Zuckerberg, a fictionalized Mark Zuckerberg.
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And, and uh, the Winkle Voss twins and the creation of Facebook and the, how, how friends
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become enemies, how, uh, what great intelligence can, can, can give rise to in America.
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And it's also directed by David Fincher with such surgical precision.
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And you're basically going in and out of flashbacks during different, um, depositions in various
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court cases and you're going in and out. And it's really, it's people in rooms talking.
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But it's all about American innovation and how an idea literally can change the world.
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The beginnings of Facebook, but how, how people with the best of intentions when they begin,
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how ambition and intelligence can lead to the destruction of friendships and, and, and, and, and then
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can also change the world. And it's a movie that begins with a nine minute conversation between a
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guy and a girl in a loud bar. You know, and you think how, what, who does that? You know, and, and
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this, uh, Rune Mara with Rune Mara, with, who later went on and played, uh, Elizabeth Slander
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and the girl with the dragon tattoo. But it's a film that it's all about character and it's
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all about people and motivations and what drives an individual. And while I can never relate to
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Mark Zuckerberg as a, as an individual, on a personal level, I really, um, his singular vision
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and his drive and his intelligence and all of the people that he meets. I mean, in a way, I find
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it all aspirational because it's a movie about really, really smart people. And while they have a
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lot of problems banging into each other, I find the whole movie ultimately fulfilling because
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whatever you want to think about anybody, something was created that literally changed the world.
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And that's Facebook. And, and it's funny because the ad campaign in that movie is when you get to
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500 million friends, you're going to make a little, you're going to make some enemies, you know, that
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was the, well, now Facebook has gone on far past 500 million. And it's changed the world. It's changed
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the elections. It's changed the face of America. It's changed the way people think about social media.
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And in 10 years, the world has just changed, but that film, I mean, even even the, the performers,
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you, you have David Fincher employing effects technology where, where you, you, you, you have a
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twin being played by the same person. Army Hammer is playing both Winkle Voss twins. And it didn't even
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start. When I first saw the movie, I thought, I thought it was literal twins playing roles. I
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did. It wasn't until after the fact that I realized it was the same guy playing. They never filmed
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at Harvard, you know, and the technology there and, and Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker,
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one of the founders of Napster is great. Even even Dakota Johnson isn't an early role in that movie.
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As a girly wakes up in bed with one morning and, and I just, I love the film Trent Resner is the
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first time I believe that yeah, Fincher and Trent Resner and Atticus Ross have teamed up for that
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score and everybody remembers that piano piece. You know, you remember that you hear it and
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that it's just I, I love that film so much. You know, it reminds me another great film that came out
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that year was David O'Russell's The Fighter, which won a couple of Academy Awards including Christian
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Bale, his first Academy Award. But that was a travesty of justice for a couple of reasons. Number one,
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to the social network Andrew Garfield. I believe, which was really a lot of us are
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introduction to Andrew Garfield. Absolutely. And I to this day, wholeheartedly, not only do I believe
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he should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor because he was the humanity in that movie.
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He was the heart that the, the, the true humanity of that movie was Andrew Garfield. I believe
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not only should he have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor, I believe he should have
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one best supporting actor. But instead, Christian Bale got best supporting actor, not that I am
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besmirching his performance. He was not a supporting actor in the fighter. He was every bit a
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lead actor in that movie. As Mark Wahlberg was, they were co-build. They were both on the poster.
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The movie is about both of them. It's he was the lead. They just decided for awards consideration to
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arbitrarily decide to run him in supporting actor. But that always reminds me about social
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network because Andrew Garfield should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor. But Christian
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Bale took a spot. And I have to say, you got to give a shout out also to Aaron Sorkin's fantastic
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screenplay based on the was that there were reluctant billionaires, I think, the novel and
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the not novel, the nonfiction account of Facebook. Or maybe it's fictionalized according to
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Mark Zuckerberg. But and also Brenda Strong, who doesn't love or not Brenda Strong, Brenda Song,
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who plays Andrew Garfield's girlfriend in the movie. That's right. She's toad to dores, crazy.
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You might set your sheets on fire, but who wouldn't want to do it? Well, one of the interesting
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things about social network is when you think about it now, 10 years after the fact,
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you're kind of like that movie shouldn't have worked because we're still in the up swing of
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Facebook at that point. Like we're not as you said, we're so much further beyond where we were
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in 2010. And you're like, really, you're going to make a movie about this thing that's just
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starting to to really take hold of everybody. Like it's a, it's a, when you think about it,
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it's a weird time. You're not looking back on it. You're kind of building this movie while it's
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still happening. Well, yeah. And you have people in it like Peter Teal is played. You know,
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one of the great, one of the great venture capitalists now. He's had 10 years of also changing
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the world. And it's, it's really interesting to go back. I remember when that movie came out,
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it seemed so of its time. Like this is so immediate. How could they make this movie? And they did. And
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I just, you know what? It's the characters. That movie is all about character character. It's
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almost like all the presidents men in that way where it's like we're making a movie while all
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this is still unfolding. And, and you're, you're, you're kind of trying to stay just ahead of it
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enough to make it relevant without it. Yeah. It's, it's a, it's a great. It's a great point. Like the
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Lex Luthor and Batman of Superman. Because I liked social network. I'm like, you just imagine he's
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actually Lex Luthor is just the change name that he took from social network. That's exactly how I
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felt about it. I'm like, how can you not like this casting? Okay. So what we've got for best if we
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got King speech, we got social network, we got kick ass. Let's go and reverse order now here.
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As we talk about the worst films of 2010 in as much as there's a lot of glory in 2010. There's
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also a bunch of refuse in there as well. So let's go and reverse order to hear Rob. You just gave
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your best. Start talking about the worst. What was to you? The worst example of a film in 2010.
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Well, I'm going to talk about a film that is such a monumental crushing disappointment because it
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has such wonderful source material to draw upon. And it is, it is, it was, it was directed by a
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director who began his career with, with big highs became a man who was beloved in America
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that had such a turn, such a change of fortune and ended up directing really some of the most
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god awful movies I've ever seen. And, and this movie is certainly at, at the top. And I'm
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going to give it to the sham hammer and night shamblon and his adaptation of the last airbender
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where he the last, yes, the last avatar of the last, the last, the last, yes, the last airbender,
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after the last airbender based on the great animated series. My God. How do you fuck up a movie so
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badly? I, here's a movie where people just show up and tell you everything they're going to do.
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They just, they just talk about it. They tell you everything that's on their mind. I mean,
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this was a wonderful animated series that was so developed and so interesting and such a great
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world and such a great mythology. And apparently he was a huge fan like him and his kids watched it
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and he wanted to do this. He loved the creators and producers. The enemy series were producers on
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the movie. Everything was there. Everything was there. And I, I saw this film and I just watched
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this and I'm like, this is truly wretched. This is such a misunderstanding. Everything that made
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that animated series great is nowhere to be found in that film. And I, I, I just don't know what
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happened. It was one of those, it was a movie that I got progressively more angry as I watched it.
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Now it might not have been as difficult to watch as say the happening where I wanted to laugh
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at every scene, but it was just so wrong headed. It seemed like every camera angle was wrong.
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The performances were still to the script didn't do anybody any favors and nobody looked the way
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they were supposed to look. And I just hated every moment of this movie. And when you first,
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when I first heard the term sham hammer, it came out of your mouth. I'm like, that movie was
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sham hammered. That's exactly what happened to it. And I didn't until until you said that word
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allowed. And I heard it for the first time I never quite understood, well, that's what happened.
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It was sham hammered and boy is at a disappointing film, especially if you love that show. And, and there
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is a fan base connected to that show that we're so devastated by that. And you know what the funny
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thing is because M. Knight was kind of, he was already in a downward trajectory at that point. And
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we saw the trailers for Avatar, the last airbender. And a lot of us thought, okay, okay, everything's
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fine now. M. Knight is going to get back on track. This looks pretty good. And it did look pretty
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good. And then we watched the movie. And it was so wretchedly horrible. I remember the first time I
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saw it. It was in a theater. And the movie ended. And there was a couple there, younger couple.
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You could tell they were both Avatar, they're both Avatar fans. And the girl was literally
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yelling at her boyfriend at the end of the thing, not because she was mad at him. But he,
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just the boyfriend was the, no pun intended was the Avatar for M. Knight, I think. And she would,
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like everybody in the theater just stopped leaving because they wanted to hear this conversation.
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This girl just yelling at her boyfriend of all the ways this movie fucked everything up. And she
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was so angry and so mad. I thought she's probably a representation of a lot of people out there
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right now. And that is truly one of the awful ones. So guys, we got one vote here.
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See, and I can't, I can't even discuss it because this movie is so universally reviled. I never
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even saw it because by the time it came, like it didn't take long for word to be like, oh, this
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thing is horrible. And I was like, all right, great. Time, time, time saved. Noted. I never saw it.
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So I can't even, you know, it wouldn't have made my list because I've never even bothered with it.
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And you have won it life. You are winning life as a turns up. You can't see it, guys. Rob is still
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shaking his head. Ten years later, I want my two hours back or my hundred and plus minutes back.
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I mean, it's just, but you know what? I take no pleasure. I want every movie to be good.
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You know, you know, there's so much time and effort that's put into making these things. And
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when I see films that go so horribly awry, I wonder, you know, as an editor myself, I've been in
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edit bays for thousands of hours working on films. And I don't know how something like this
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happens. Don't you know, like aren't you on set looking at the monitors and looking at your
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daily is going, we need a little bit of a course correction here. But it was more than little.
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I mean, that's the thing. It was more than a little course correction that was needed in that point.
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All right. So we got one boy here, voe vote here for Avatar, the last airbender, clearly having
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not seen it. That will not be your picture today, Cliff. But I'm sure you got a good one for us.
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What is your representation of the worst of 2010? All right. So like best.
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Okay. When looking at the list, there were really only a couple of films that kind of jumped
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out as like, Oh, that would be a contender. That would be a contender. Like it wasn't a long list
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that you would think are the best of the year. When it came to worst to the list,
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that list was pretty long. Like when it came to worst up, I was like, Oh, there's a lot of really
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bad stuff. And it's like, well, this is bad in this way. And this is bad in that way. And it kind
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of, for me, came down to two films. And I'll give kind of a runner up. And I'll tell you why I'm
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excluding it. My runner up was a movie that for all intents and purposes should have been great
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because it had talent behind it. It had a very legendary comedy director. And it was Valentine's
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Day. Oh, I know. It's when you're talking. And that's a terrible movie. And that would have been,
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you know, you've got Gary Marshall directing. You've got all of these every, you know,
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major star in Hollywood is all part of this. It's this big anthology story. And I was like,
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Oh, that's my pick. And then I kind of threw it out because I went back and I looked through Gary
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Marshall's tomography. It looked great. It looked great. Yeah. But then I went back and I looked
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through Gary Marshall's filmography. And I was like, Oh, he hasn't actually made that many great
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films. Like we go, Okay, pretty woman. He's much bigger in TV. So I kind of couldn't hold it
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against him that he'd made a terrible film because I was like, Oh, he's been making terrible films
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for decades. It's just the one or two that kind of broke out. So I kind of threw that one out.
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And what I landed on was it's a movie again that had great source material to pull from.
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I had a lot of talent in front of the camera that you could look at and go, this is going to be
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amazing. And in the 20, nine years, I guess, since they had done this prior, the technology had
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advanced to where this thing's going to be a home run. Oh, I thought I knew what one you're
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going to pick, but I'm not sure now. The one I'm picking is the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans.
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A movie that should have been amazing with Liam Neeson should have been amazing and was just
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kind of awful. And we saw in 3D the 3D was terrible. That was rushed. Same with last
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airbender. 3D was terrible. That was a point. Everybody's coming off of James Cameron's avatar
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where now everything's got to be 3D. So the story is secondary, characters are secondary,
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everything secondary to the 3D conversion. And I think this is a movie that sort of got buried
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in its ambitions. And I remember watching it and just kind of being like, this is awful. And
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Ray Harryhausen and it's this amazing kind of throwback piece. But man, do I not like Clash of
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the Titans, the remake of Clash of the Titans? And that was right in the midst of when they were
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really trying. There was a real belief that Sam Worthington was a big, big star. Again,
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yet coming off of Avatar. He's going to be the next big thing. And this is a huge star that
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we're putting in this. And then it just kind of lays there. And it's not, you know, and yeah,
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you've got Liam Neeson. You've got all this, like, you've got all this talent behind the camera
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in front of the camera, all this technology at your disposal to really, you've got the Greek
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mythology of Perseus and Zeus. And then it's just like, here it is. And it's in 3D and it's not
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that great. It's a great example of, yeah, I try to explain to people a lot that sometimes like
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people ask, how do they even make this movie, right? I actually months before the movie came out,
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I got my hands on the script of Clash of the Titans. And it read pretty well. I remember I read
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the script and I thought, you know what, this could be, it's a, this is a great example, a textbook
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example of the poster child, if you will, for just because something worked on a page,
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doesn't mean it's going to get executed right. And it can be totally lost in that translation.
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And that's a movie to do because I remember thinking, man, this script is actually pretty good.
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And then the movie came out. And it was what it was. So that's a good one. So we've got,
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we've got Clash of the Titans. We've got last airbender. I was, I struggled with this because I had,
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it's hard, right? I had three particular because Clash of the Titans really could have been up
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there too. I kept coming down to three. And I did make my pick. But the three I came down to was
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one was Avatar of the last airbender. That was when I really considered for worst of.
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Another one that I had really came close to picking. Also, tremendous source material.
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Some very good talent in front of the camera. Jonah Hex.
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That was my second choice. With Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, and actually some people we know,
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we're attached to that film. And eventually they was ended up being directed by the director of
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Horton. Here's a who. Yes, they got the director of Horton. Here's a who to direct an R rated,
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well, what they wanted to be in our rated kind of film. Anyway, so that one was also truly horrible,
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especially when you consider the potential that that movie had. This isn't the sexiest pick.
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But it's so undeniably awful. I keep coming back to it. So my pick for worse of 2010,
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Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, directed by Kevin Smith. Oh, I like that movie.
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Do you kind of like cop out? I'll tell you why after you tell me why you're
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I want. So here's the thing. This is a movie that was so misguided right from the beginning.
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And look, let me be on record here. I am a I'm a big fan of Kevin Smith. But most of the stuff
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of his that I really love is stuff that he also wrote. He did not write this movie.
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Then he stepped in and this was a very different kind of movie for him to direct, which again,
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I guess I want to see my director step out of their comfort zone. So that's good too. But
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was sitting down and watching this movie. It was the first time, although it had been happening
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for a while, that you could just tell Bruce Willis didn't give one shit about the movie he was in.
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And never has that been more apparent than the most recent death wish he just did this past year.
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You just tell he didn't give a crap. I don't even know if you knew what movie he was shooting.
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But you watch cop out and you could tell he does not care at all. And there are some great stories
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that Kevin Smith tells us now. Oh, wait more entertaining. That's a great more entertaining
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the movie about him and trying to deal with Bruce Bruce Willis. I said, keep saying Bruce Smith
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and Kevin Smith trying to deal with Bruce Willis and the moves are and then tracing Morgan,
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who is so naturally inherently funny. I don't know if he even knew what movie he was shooting. He
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was so disinterested like he just he was bored. He just said he was bored shooting that movie. It
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is a movie that had no flow, no real story, no interest in the people in front of the camera to
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be involved, which just then tells me is not his member. Why should I be interested then? It is a true
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Hollywood train wreck epic. An epic of what a train wreck is. This was this was a major motion
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picture that went off the rails and never got back on. And so while some gray moves I clashed the
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Titans last airbender Jonah Hex and there are others I got key got to keep coming back to cop
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the cop out. But man, you like all right. So here's all right. Let me let me make a case for this.
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The reason why I kind of liked cop out was because I kind of identified it and I saw it as
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it's really an 80s buddy cop movie. You know, down to the herald faltermeyer score, the dialogue.
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It's very, you know, it's not listen, it's not lethal weapon. But it's it's in the sort of spirit of
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like the running scared and 40 hours. It's got that kind of energy to it. It's definitely to me
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when I watched I was like, Oh, this is a throwback. He's making an 80s buddy cop movie. He's not
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making a 2010 buddy cop movie. Like it has all of the all of the tropes and all of the kind of
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shortcomings of a lot of those 80s buddy cop movies that preceded it. And I sort of saw it. I was
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like, I kind of dug that I kind of dug that this was a throwback 80s buddy cop movie. And so and
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so I've never I've never now I can't fault any of your logic behind what you find wrong with it.
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But some of those things are things. Now the look, the willest thing. That's on a different level
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because if you're you know, if you're an actor and you're not participating in the movie that
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you're actually making, then you're probably not going to get beyond that in a lot of ways. But
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yeah, I remember seeing it and just being like, Oh yeah, because I'm like, I'm a big running
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scared fan with Gregory Heinz, Billy Crystal, lovely, the wet, right? Peter Heinz. Love, you know,
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80s buddy cop movies. And to me, cop that was like, Oh, he made an 80s buddy cop movie in 2010.
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Like the lead actress want to be there. Right. See it never seen just like John said. Right.
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And then here in the stories of of the clashes that Kevin Smith and him had on set. Yeah.
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All because he just didn't even want to be there. I mean, it's it's some stuff. But anyway,
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guys, so there there's our three picks. We've got clash the Titans. We've got airbender and we have
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got a cop out for our best. We've had a King speech. We had kickass. We had the social networks.
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Question is guys, what about you? What do you think were some of the best and worst examples
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of films from the incredible year of 2010? You can simply tweet us and let us know what you thought.
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and my show Rob's Observations. The show about something. And Cliff,
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has already made it clear in the last episode that if you want to get a message to him,
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you're going to have to send a proxy through one of us. But anyway, Cliff, again,
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thanks so much for being here. Oh, that's amazing. This is so great. It is always great to have
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you in here. Anyway, guys, that will wrap it up for us for now for this week's installment
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