TOP FIVE: Favorite Movies You'll Never Outgrow

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[00:00:29] Welcome to Will Helma, I am your host Ben Beck and on this episode we're diving back

[00:00:34] into childhood memories, young adult memories, whatever you want to consider it.

[00:00:40] We are revealing our top five favorite movies you'll never outgrow no matter how old you

[00:00:47] get.

[00:00:48] We're talking movies.

[00:00:49] I look back to movies maybe before my teenage years that came out but of course I need a

[00:00:55] co-host for this episode.

[00:00:57] I'm excited that's this first time on the podcast hopefully not the last but I've enjoyed

[00:01:01] working with him in other ways that I'm sure he's going to tell you about.

[00:01:06] He has his own TikTok, he's a teacher but of course he is the program director for

[00:01:10] altered reality events.

[00:01:12] Please welcome to Will Helma my friend Michael G. Inferencesco.

[00:01:16] Hey Ben thanks for inviting me to be part of this, love the show and I'm really psyched

[00:01:23] to be a guest host this is cool.

[00:01:26] Yeah I know we talked a lot about this in Rhode Island, I know you know we had talked numerous

[00:01:32] times and phone calls and such and zoom meetings but we met for the first time in person at

[00:01:38] Rhode Island last year and of course like extended the invite to you then and you accepted

[00:01:45] and here we go we're off to the races.

[00:01:48] Yeah I didn't recognize you.

[00:01:51] I saw you for the first time I was in business mode just directing people and pointing fingers

[00:01:57] left and right and then I was pointed out that you were standing there.

[00:02:00] It's like oh man there he is.

[00:02:03] Yeah you had a lot to do Rhode Island is I know we'll talk about this a little bit later

[00:02:07] too towards the end but man I was so impressed in just the size and scope of Rhode Island

[00:02:16] Comic Con it had been a show that had been on my radar for years and I was excited to

[00:02:23] finally get to be brought in and be a part of it and then it blew away my expectations

[00:02:29] not only just the size and scope of the show as I mentioned but just the altered reality

[00:02:33] team themselves were just I've said this to a number of different people but your altered

[00:02:40] reality team programming staffing volunteers they are bar none the best team of people I've

[00:02:48] ever worked with when it comes to a show.

[00:02:49] Oh man that's really nice it's a great compliment thank you yeah we're the bad news bears

[00:02:54] of the Comic Con world you know speaking of movies you'll never outgrow.

[00:02:59] We've just we're just a bunch of people that are nerds most of us have like day jobs

[00:03:05] like you said I'm a teacher my assistant programmer is like a manager of works at Verizon

[00:03:12] cell phone store whatever I don't think you'd say names of brands on your show whatever

[00:03:15] not sponsored but yeah they're just we're all just people that during the rest of the

[00:03:21] year work our regular jobs and on the side most of us there are some full time of place

[00:03:26] with most of us you know we come in for the shows we do the bat you know we do the run

[00:03:30] up work in the shed you know deep in the shadows and just pull together every year multiple

[00:03:38] times a year for multiple shows and somehow we've managed to put something together that's

[00:03:43] gotten some serious national attention over the years with our guest lists and some of

[00:03:48] the viral moments that have happened over the years so it's it's great I thank you

[00:03:52] for for complimenting the team they deserve it they work all of them work very very hard

[00:03:57] to make the show successful provide good memories for the people that attend so thank you

[00:04:03] for that yeah yeah not a problem and I've made a lot of great friends just from working

[00:04:07] one show and I'm sure I'll make more along the way so I'm I'm excited and I'm excited

[00:04:13] to have you on too because this is a topic that I I came up with all of a sudden and then

[00:04:19] the moment I thought of it was like wow like this is going to be a tough one to do

[00:04:23] because there are so many movies that you know I said this to you before we started

[00:04:28] recording our generation at the best movies when we were growing up yeah for sure yeah it was

[00:04:33] uh it was uh uh the better of some of riches of films yeah but I mean it's a testament

[00:04:42] to you know this topic in ones that were bringing up and the number of honorable mentions

[00:04:46] that we have that yes these are movies from our childhood so we're talking or you know

[00:04:51] from our younger days we're talking movies that are 20 30 40 and beyond years old but we still

[00:04:58] continue to watch them which means they hold up well most of them probably hold up maybe not all

[00:05:04] yeah some of them I think the nostalgia factor weighs in pretty heavily for me for I think a lot

[00:05:10] of my choices but what you'd be the judge of that and your listeners too yeah oh excuse me um so

[00:05:18] yeah so to anybody who's listening for the first time obviously uh we're gonna dive through into our

[00:05:23] top five going from five to one and then we'll throw out some honorable mentions at the end that

[00:05:27] will go through relatively quickly uh neither Michael or myself have revealed our top fives to each

[00:05:32] other so uh this way we don't influence each other's choices so he doesn't know any of mine I don't

[00:05:37] know any of his and I mean we're well beyond spoiler territory for any of these movies so uh you've

[00:05:46] got this boiler warning for for the episode um I went with my list I went with movies I pretty much

[00:05:53] tried to go with anything I was born in 79 so I went with anything that came out before I became a

[00:06:02] teenager so 12 years old younger that was how I format in my list I don't know if that's how you

[00:06:09] know you worked with yours but uh we'll see as we go through yeah I was I'm a little older than

[00:06:17] you I'm not gonna reveal my age it's alright students are always trying to figure it out and they

[00:06:23] are very ruthless in their attempts to find me on the internet and do that but I did something

[00:06:29] similar but although I did include a lot of movies I saw as a teenager so um because I think that's

[00:06:36] when I I kind of started to understand like the value of film you know as a kid you go to movies

[00:06:42] whatever movies your parents like drag you to and that becomes your movie but when I started

[00:06:47] choosing for myself I think that's uh more a lot of mine lie not all of them but a lot of them do

[00:06:54] yeah no fair enough um alright so then with that being said let's dive into our lists and kick it

[00:07:01] off with number five we'll send it over to you uh what have you got for your number five

[00:07:06] alright my number five selection or selections it's a tie I have two movies we talked about the fact

[00:07:13] that I could not come up with just five I had to have six one shoehorned in there um was between

[00:07:19] two films that um well the first is ET that's the first film that I selected uh gotcha I was a kid

[00:07:29] when I saw this movie um so I was not a teenager but something about it was it was the first movie

[00:07:37] that I can remember um one of the first movies I should say that I can remember having a huge

[00:07:43] kind of hype bus kind of drive and all over the world on it like there was there was merchandise

[00:07:49] so it was ET everything TT serial ET toys ET toothbrushes bed sheets underrues like ET was all

[00:07:58] over the place it was in commercials everywhere Reese's pieces everybody was going crazy and Reese's

[00:08:03] pieces because of ET and I there was that film I remember wanting to see it it had come out and

[00:08:08] my parents didn't get me to the theater right away to see it and I was just so anxious I was trying

[00:08:14] to consume as much ET uh propaganda as I could and I hadn't even seen the movie like I was so

[00:08:22] I was so sold on the hype train uh for that film and today I mean I know that Spielberg went back

[00:08:29] and made changes to the film and then made adjustments to you know change guns into uh walkie-talkies

[00:08:35] and stuff and and modified some of the original effects you know adding some digital effects to

[00:08:41] some of the sequences it doesn't that stuff doesn't really bother me all that much um but

[00:08:46] I can I could throw ET on and you know I have a I have a 12 year old son now and

[00:08:51] a lot of these films are films that I'm introducing him to or have introduced him to

[00:08:56] or if they show up in the theater again you know as a special rerelease we go back to the theaters

[00:09:01] to see them ET is one I could see I could watch uh just about anytime um you know still to this day

[00:09:11] it's it remains kind of etched in my mind as a period of my childhood that um just was iconic

[00:09:19] you know those those ET moments the other film that I have for tied for fifth place is like

[00:09:26] this is where I started I this is like my favorite movie of all time I think maybe one of them

[00:09:32] I it's been superseded I think in recent years with some of the Marvel films but this is one that

[00:09:37] when I was younger like I loved it is the blues brothers a movie as a kid again a big fan of

[00:09:45] SNL in the 80s with the when the blues brothers used to show up there and acarid and uh

[00:09:50] blue sheet doing their thing on and then seeing the film it became when I was a young adult

[00:09:57] like I love the movie so much because a young adult I found a group of friends and we all loved

[00:10:01] it we used to watch the movie like every two weeks you know if there was nothing else to do or before

[00:10:05] we went out for the night to the bars or whatever and we would watch it again and quote it to each

[00:10:10] other we knew the lyrics to every song we knew every line of the movie from top to bottom um we

[00:10:16] even saw it out I got a chance to meet Matt Katar Murphy uh at a bar in Providence he was playing um

[00:10:23] and we got a chance to talk to him that became a legendary moment among my friends that we still

[00:10:27] talk about some of the things that we we saw him walk into the bar and he's playing pool and there

[00:10:32] was like 14 empty beer bottles lined up on the pool table and uh he was just playing pool we walked

[00:10:38] in he had bandhead and set up yet we got there early and he was just playing pool in the bar with

[00:10:42] some of the people from his crew and we just went over and started having a conversation with him

[00:10:46] and he played a bunch of blues brothers songs um yeah something about the magic of that film you know

[00:10:53] like the the magic car that they drive around in that can be amazing unbelievable things uh so those

[00:11:01] for me are my number five choices together ET in the blues was two very different films I know

[00:11:07] but movies blues brothers uh was the one of the first movies I bought on digital when it was like

[00:11:12] let's buy it on digital and you know so I still have the digital version of its extended edition with

[00:11:17] the extra scenes and stuff so um yeah cool stuff those two films that's I mean they're and they're

[00:11:24] great picks to kick everything off with too I mean you mentioned ET I'm a sucker for that movie as well

[00:11:29] uh didn't make my top five but it was it was really close it is in my honorable mentions uh you

[00:11:35] know I still eat Reese's pieces because it's you know I don't I still eat Reese's pieces constantly

[00:11:42] for that and I don't know if you're you mentioned you have a 12 year old son which is one of the reasons

[00:11:47] why I asked you to do this episode with me is because I figured these are probably movies you're revisiting

[00:11:52] because of your son and I don't know if you or your son are minecraft players at all

[00:12:00] but they just released a pack and I bought it purely for the nostalgia where they recreated

[00:12:05] universal studios with a bunch of the rides and ET the ride is one of the rides in there

[00:12:14] and I went in and I rode the ride through minecraft and it actually brought back a lot of memories

[00:12:19] because I rode that ride when I was younger oh that's cool yeah we do play minecraft I didn't know

[00:12:25] about that uh you know my son bounces from game to game so maybe we'll we'll we'll throw that one back

[00:12:31] on and take a look at that it's pretty cool yeah it's in the store I think it was like eight dollars

[00:12:36] but like there's it's got the mummy ride back to the future earthquake jaws like there's a bunch of

[00:12:42] universal studios rides in there that you can actually ride through it was pretty cool so great picks

[00:12:47] and blues brothers is another one I mean that mall scene is a classic scene you know so much so

[00:12:56] that other shows have tried to recreate it twisted metal tried you know doing it recently with Anthony

[00:13:01] Mackie and it was good but nobody can ever do it as well as the first day they they that mall was

[00:13:06] abandoned right they um I remember correctly they they went in and they furnished and stocked every

[00:13:13] store in that mall like it was an empty mall just to do that just to destroy everything

[00:13:19] that's a fantastic scene yeah and I think anybody who's ever been to a shopping mall after

[00:13:24] watching the blues brothers just always wishes they could just drive through them all

[00:13:30] at some point in some way yep especially in the older days when you used to go in there and you

[00:13:35] used to see like a car like up on a pedestal that like you can win or something you you're just tempted

[00:13:41] to hop in that car and start driving great picks my number five I went with a movie that's actually

[00:13:50] before my time but not much but it is one of the first movies I ever remember seeing in theaters

[00:13:58] because it was before my time it had to have been a re-release of some sort maybe within like

[00:14:04] five years or maybe like a 10 year anniversary release of it but I went with a Disney movie that I

[00:14:10] still love to this day and it is still probably one of my favorite Disney movies of all time

[00:14:15] and that is Peach Dragon oh wow yeah um you know the the music from that movie it's one of the first

[00:14:23] ever instincts I uh one of the first ever instances I think I remember ever of seeing a movie that

[00:14:30] combined animation with live action well before Hoothraim Roger Abbott you know which was I think 1988

[00:14:38] so we're talking almost a decade before Hoothraim Roger Abbott did it we had Peach Dragon which

[00:14:44] combined both not to the degree that Hoothraim Roger Abbott did it but you know who can

[00:14:52] who just doesn't love that big green dragon Elliott it's you know um and then they tried the remake

[00:14:59] with Bryce Dallas Howard not too long ago and I enjoyed it but it wasn't it didn't recapture

[00:15:05] the magic as well as the original did for me so Peach Dragon is one I will always go back to

[00:15:12] if I ever need like a pick me up of some kind it just it makes me happy no matter how many times I

[00:15:19] watch it uh that never that never changes and I just adore that movie so it had to be in my top five

[00:15:27] yeah it's still fill my head for cup without a bow that's good choice man

[00:15:32] yeah good choice all right takes us into number four uh what you got for your number four

[00:15:41] my number four um is a movie that I saw I believe again as a as a pre-teen or young teenager

[00:15:50] and then just it somehow just managed to be super influential for me to this day is the princess bride

[00:16:01] of course um I mean I know these are probably you know that ET Princess bride those are

[00:16:07] pretty seminal films so you know I'm not I'm not delving as deep as Peach Dragon just yeah but don't

[00:16:13] worry I'll get there particularly my honorable mentions but um the the nature of this film being

[00:16:21] as different as it was being kind of a movie a story within a movie where you have the grandfather

[00:16:27] reading to the son uh or the grandson the story you know the reading out of the book and then having

[00:16:33] the actors you know kind of like shifting and changing based on like the interruptions and uh

[00:16:41] you know the kid it keeps pulling you out of the story back to the kids bedroom I always thought

[00:16:45] that that was kind of unique in filmmaking at the time I hadn't seen any kind of fourth wall I mean

[00:16:50] there's there was a little of it here and there you know like spinal tap and stuff like that which

[00:16:54] was like mockumentary style but this is more like a fourth wall break kind of film which I really

[00:16:58] like that I like the when you play with filmmaking and I think this may have been one of the first

[00:17:03] films where I noticed it and started to kind of get me on that path that really you know like the

[00:17:07] that whole Deadpool she whole kind of thing where the characters are aware that their characters or

[00:17:13] you know there's just kind of like this you get get deep and intense into a scene and then it cuts

[00:17:17] back to the kid because he has a question interrupts you and being a dad now and that hits different

[00:17:22] as a father now because you try to tell a kid a story or read a story that you love and they keep

[00:17:27] stopping you to ask questions and you know when you yourself get engulfed in the story and

[00:17:32] and have to stop and explain or you know don't worry there's not going to be a lot of kissing it's

[00:17:37] just going to move on we're going to be more action later don't worry you know plus you know I think

[00:17:42] I think the acting is fantastic I was a wrestling fan as a kid so Andre the giant being in this film

[00:17:48] um doing his thing was appealing to me and in the years since you know as the director of programming

[00:17:56] for Rhode Island Comic-Con I've gotten a chance to meet a lot of the actors that were in those films

[00:18:02] you know they carry out ways while a shaw and you know and other you know characters that have

[00:18:09] been in the film love Chris Chris surrounded right yeah most this most recently in November yeah sure

[00:18:15] right yeah and uh I've really want to meet Mandy Patinkin I love his TikTok he's he's

[00:18:21] hysterically funny um you know he's he's kind of down to earth grounded kind of uh sentimentality

[00:18:28] with him and his wife and his son kind of like goofing around so yeah it's I think it's just it could

[00:18:33] be one of the most perfect movies ever made for me and when I was a kid I got the it was the first

[00:18:38] movie poster ever bought was the Princess bride um one of my first serious girlfriends loved

[00:18:45] the song storybook love that plays over the ending credits so I bought the soundtrack so that we

[00:18:50] could play that music you know that really you know euphoric first relationship with your teenage

[00:18:56] or kind of stuff you know all those things kind of stuck with me so if I can watch the Princess bride it's

[00:19:02] it's always an easy throw it on streaming and let's check it out again kind of film yeah no that's

[00:19:08] that's a great pick and it's one of those ones I'm with you I've had the great a lot of opportunities

[00:19:14] and I we mentioned most notably in November Chris Aranne and I actually was the one that got

[00:19:18] to moderate his panel at Rhode Island Comic Con so I got to have conversations with him um I had

[00:19:24] earlier a year or so before that I had the great opportunity to moderate for Carrie Ellis who was

[00:19:30] just genuinely one of the nicest guys I had ever worked with when it came to moderating and you know

[00:19:37] and being on stage um but I'm with you like it's it's so so close to being a perfect movie like so

[00:19:45] many similar to the Blues Brothers so many movies have kind of tried to replicate it uh you mentioned

[00:19:52] you know fourth wall breaks and using Deadpool Deadpool 2 I don't know if you know this or if you've

[00:19:57] seen it but Ryan Reynolds released a second version of Deadpool 2 called once upon a Deadpool where he

[00:20:05] took a lot of the a lot of the the violence he tried to make it as closer to family friendly as

[00:20:11] possible and it was the whole story of Deadpool 2 being told by Deadpool reading the story

[00:20:19] to Fred Savage who was tied to a bed yeah I think I saw that I did see that it's pretty good

[00:20:26] which I think is just it adds to the brilliance of Ryan Reynolds but again it pays homage to

[00:20:31] the Princess Fry which I think is just yeah and for Fred Savage it'd be a part of it was just

[00:20:36] just as great and the um the short-lived uh streaming service Quibi one of the first things that

[00:20:43] they did when we were locked down during the pandemic was they had actors I act out moments of

[00:20:50] the film and cut them all together into a supercut of Princess Fry so uh I did actually have Quibi

[00:20:57] I did subscribe to it because you know what we were looking for new content at the time um and I

[00:21:03] that was the reason I think I did because I wanted to see that and they did include I believe

[00:21:08] Carrie always was in there but he was Prince Humberding I think he played for his part of it uh you know

[00:21:15] and uh there's just like you know actors across the board that were just locked down

[00:21:19] making costumes out of stuff in their house just doing like 30 second scenes and they cut it together

[00:21:25] I think you can find that on YouTube now yeah I think the whole cut is on YouTube now which

[00:21:30] is really funny so it's worth that's worth checking out if you're a fan of the film too and Fred Savage

[00:21:34] I think he's in it too I think he he does something I don't remember which part he plays but

[00:21:39] it's some good stuff for many people to think in I think does a scene in it as well so totally worth it

[00:21:45] yeah a lot of fun uh so for my number four I went with uh oddly enough another Walt Disney film

[00:21:53] I didn't even really think about it until now uh but this one's from a little bit later in 1986 that had

[00:22:00] a boy getting sucked in time sent to the future uh in a spaceship that was navigated by Paul Rubens

[00:22:11] and that is flight of the navigator nice um this is a movie I remember just being so odd

[00:22:18] but yet so lovable at the same time seeing all these you know these creatures that were a part of

[00:22:26] the ship hearing Paul Rubens voice that I didn't realize until I was older was Paul Rubens because

[00:22:31] when I grew up I knew him as nothing more than Pee Wee Herman you know and then as the older I got

[00:22:37] in the more I realized who Paul Rubens was as an actor then realized Paul Rubens was the the voice

[00:22:43] of the ship and but I mean this is just another one of those things that like when you're younger

[00:22:50] you know the the the thought of being of flying a spacecraft was something every kid probably not

[00:22:58] maybe not every kid but a lot of kids kind of dreamed about when we learned about that kind of thing

[00:23:04] so this was a movie that was just very fun for me and it's not it's a little dated now at this point

[00:23:13] but it's uh it's still a fun watch it's got very early Sarah Jessica Parker in it as well

[00:23:22] um not that that matters or we'll make you want to watch the movie before

[00:23:27] but you know when it comes to star power it was you know very early for her Howard Hesmond as well

[00:23:33] and I mentioned Paul Rubens but yeah just a movie that I I still love to this day

[00:23:39] that's why it made my list that's with number four that's a great film um one thing I should mention

[00:23:47] and maybe I'll bring it up again later is that for a long time my friends and I had a podcast

[00:23:53] which is still up on Apple podcasts you could still find the episode so that we haven't

[00:23:57] recorded in a long time called the the League of Extra Nerdy Parents which was four dads who would

[00:24:03] take old films that we watch as kids and watch it with our kids and then talk about our reactions as

[00:24:09] adults and their reactions as seeing it for the first time is 21st century kids and uh that's I

[00:24:16] believe one of the films that we covered in that so you could find that episode and I listened to

[00:24:21] our kids tell us um about what we uh what we saw and what they saw and how they liked it and

[00:24:28] most of them don't like the movies uh we are in the process of bringing that podcast back kind

[00:24:36] of retool a bit so you know hopefully if your listeners are interested in in that kind of stuff

[00:24:41] they can check out the podcast or subscribe and this should be new content coming up there soon

[00:24:45] but I can talk about that again yeah so but I do they reminded me flight of the navigator remind

[00:24:50] me that was one of the ones that we uh one of the films that we talked about in that show how did

[00:24:55] what was your son's thoughts on flight of the navigator when you did that one? Honestly it was so

[00:24:59] long ago I don't remember we're going back like I think we started the podcast like in

[00:25:04] 2015 or something and we did it for two or three years and then you know everybody kind of got

[00:25:09] busy the pot and then the pandemic hit it just became a whole other thing so I don't remember

[00:25:14] you'll have to go listen to the show to find out well I mean if nothing else us talking about all

[00:25:20] these different movies will give you a bunch of movies you can add to the list of new movies to

[00:25:24] watch for the podcast when you relaunch it yeah yeah that's it is something that when I was compiling

[00:25:30] this list I was thinking then there's some films on here and I was sure that you were going to

[00:25:34] mention a few that we didn't cover that we could come back to but our kids are older now like right so

[00:25:40] you know my son was like five or six years old now he's gonna be 13 my other friends sons are like

[00:25:45] 18 now so we may have to just do something a little different than what we were doing. Yeah

[00:25:50] yeah next generation of of it maybe yeah I will see what we come up with yeah all right well that

[00:25:58] takes us then into our top three what do you have for your number three all right my number three

[00:26:06] not a kids movie I don't think I picked any kids movie or maybe one kids movie it depends on

[00:26:13] what you define as a kids movie I suppose but you know we defined it differently in the 80s right

[00:26:17] because yeah kids movies we were watching movies we shouldn't have been watching when we were younger

[00:26:22] but yeah kids movies yeah but seriously even still like kids movies that were kids movies had

[00:26:27] some serious themes in them and some questionable moments so you know now it's a lot more they're

[00:26:33] not more guarded about what kids see and how they define that what g ratings versus PG ratings are

[00:26:38] and stuff but my third is a movie man that I just this is one of my favorite movies to throw on

[00:26:47] in the background when I'm doing something and it's it stars a guy who we have had at Comic-Con

[00:26:58] I did this chance to meet him it's real genius uh val Kilmer with Val Kilmer yeah at his at his best

[00:27:08] I think Val Kilmer at his most Val Kilmery you know like you know kind of it was a toss up here

[00:27:16] between this and one of the movies that ended up on my honorable mentions which is Willow because

[00:27:22] you know Val Kilmer in those two films probably my my favorite memories of him as an actor

[00:27:29] you know notwithstanding Batman but uh those two films him is Mad Martin and him in real genius

[00:27:35] um it's just real genius was like the first movie I remember there being kind of like an activist

[00:27:41] feel to it you know the idea that the government is trying to build this super weapon uh and they're

[00:27:47] they're contracting these height these college kids that are citing you know what their science

[00:27:51] degrees and are geniuses to make this laser and when they come to the realization that the laser

[00:27:56] has one purpose like it will only fire for a moment and it can hit a very single target from space

[00:28:03] they realize it's an assassination weapon and then they go about sabotaging it and just breaking

[00:28:09] it so that it can't be you I don't know there's something about the nature of of like kids

[00:28:15] young people realizing that they're they they have a chance to make a difference and

[00:28:21] and stepping away from the selfishness of we did it we get our diplomas we're good

[00:28:26] to oh my god what have we done really you know I don't know there's something about that I

[00:28:30] realized it as a kid watching it i was like wow man like this this is heavier stuff than most

[00:28:36] films you see as a kid would provide to you you know I see I think we see a lot more of that

[00:28:42] with representation in film disney especially trying to be more representative trying to kind of

[00:28:47] to bring some of that I wouldn't call it disney activism but it might be a little more

[00:28:52] social justice kind of stuff um this was the first film i remember feeling that way and kind of like

[00:28:57] getting it you know and the scene of them the kids like jumping in the giant piles of popcorn at

[00:29:04] the end yeah to everybody wants to rule the world by tears for fears right like uh i remember

[00:29:10] i was a i was a teenager i was working at burger king and i was up at you know early because I would

[00:29:16] open and go in and we do all the prep work for the morning and cutting the lettuce and tomatoes and

[00:29:21] getting everything ready for the breakfast lunch kind of rushes and i was sitting there i had

[00:29:25] a few minutes and i popped the tv on in my room and that scene was on and i remember sitting

[00:29:30] there philosophically thinking about ruling the world i was like well why would anybody want to

[00:29:35] like listening to the lyrics of the song it's like it would be a lot of work to rule the world

[00:29:40] like there's all these villains dr doom and whatnot that want to rule the world but like once you do

[00:29:46] you are responsible for every life on the planet like you you can't just like

[00:29:50] oh now i get to sit in my big throne and drink mimosas or whatever all day like

[00:29:55] you know like you have to rule the world like you've taken over if you have to make sure the

[00:30:00] economies are good that people are being fed that the world is moving forward that's working

[00:30:04] people are going to work kids are being educated you know the power is on right like all that stuff

[00:30:09] has to be controlled by one dude and charge of the entire planet i was just remember sitting there at

[00:30:14] like 16 years old going man i would never want to rule the world like so i don't always stuck with

[00:30:20] me i guess and that that mount my son for some reason loves that song weird you know

[00:30:24] that he loves it it's a great song i mean there's it's tears for fears they're a great band and

[00:30:29] then that's a great song but you mentioned i mean that's the anytime anybody mentions real genius

[00:30:34] that popcorn scene is always like it's instantly the first thing i think of right yeah i mean so

[00:30:39] it's so it's so visually stunning in the and iconic the kids jumping around eating and then

[00:30:44] leaving with giant wheel barrels filled with popcorn bringing them back home it's just it was cool

[00:30:50] you know the and the john greys has laslo um you know the crazy guy that lives in the closet you

[00:30:56] know it's just like there's so much fun stuff in the film um and the actors in it i mean a lot of

[00:31:02] them didn't go on to do a whole lot you know except maybe valcu or john greys has done quite a bit

[00:31:06] since then but the other actors you know they're just kind of like going back and seeing them and

[00:31:11] and watching those sequences again watching uh you know the the rivalry between the main character

[00:31:19] and the professor the exploding apple that he drops into his trash you know just little stuff like

[00:31:25] that that you know i don't know uh i kind of wanted that when i was a teenager i was like i hope

[00:31:31] that's what college is like you know when i go to college like having like just having a bunch of

[00:31:35] crazy smart people making ice luces you know in the hallway outside the horns obviously that wasn't

[00:31:43] what my thoughts yeah that's it wasn't what college was like for me either so but that's my number

[00:31:47] three that's a good one i mean it's another movie too that further solidified uh that William

[00:31:53] Atherton always played a dick yeah in movies and he's coming back for the new uh yeah for frozen

[00:32:00] empire i think he's the mayor the mayor now like i think he's the mayor i hope he has a happy as a

[00:32:07] face turn in the movie like he like supports them you know instead of trying to stop him you know

[00:32:12] yeah i'm i have high hopes for that movie i loved after life um i'm excited to see him come back

[00:32:19] and i'm secretly maybe not secretly but i'm hoping they're they're they're going to throw us a

[00:32:25] Lewis Tully cameo at some point too yeah that gets up to Rick Moranis to decide

[00:32:30] that yeah we'll see he's back he's doing a little here and there so maybe yeah maybe he'll do it

[00:32:36] so for my number three i mentioned that i had a tie as well and this is where my tie comes in

[00:32:42] not as much of a dynamic difference in the ones that you chose between ET and the blues brothers

[00:32:50] because mine are actually a a movie and it's sequel so they're they're they're just as

[00:32:58] beloved to me so i had to choose them uh and that is teenage mutant in tutorials

[00:33:04] and teenage mutant in tutorials to secret of the ooze i don't mention the third one because

[00:33:09] it's not worth mentioning but i just um you know these are movies that i still quote to this day

[00:33:20] um especially secret of the ooze i think that there's more quotable lines in that movie than

[00:33:25] there are in the first one but the first one still has its share of them uh you know these were

[00:33:30] this was cartoons that we loved as a kid in the teenage mutant in tutorials cartoons and then

[00:33:35] to see live action and then live action done well i mean these movies granted the costumes are

[00:33:43] definitely aged but they they still hold up they still feel believable at least to me and to a

[00:33:50] number of other people i know that watch these movies uh you know when you talked about with ET all

[00:33:55] the marketing hype that they did with ET with racist pieces i mean pizza hut dove on teenage mutant

[00:34:02] tutorials to the nth degree like pizza hut at everything marketed as teenage mutant in tutorials i

[00:34:09] remember there being an album that came out of the teenage mutant in tutorials performing a concert

[00:34:16] of like two or three songs that you could get the cassette tape of and i remember wanting that cassette

[00:34:22] tape so bad and getting that cassette tape and listening to it on repeat constantly but these are

[00:34:29] just movies that i still just adored to this day uh you know and it's actually thanks to you

[00:34:35] and altered reality that i actually got to meet a number of the people that were part of those movies

[00:34:42] you know i got to meet Judith Hogue uh i got to meet um uh i got uh Ernie Ray's junior i got the

[00:34:49] moderator panel of Kevin clash who was splinter in those movies and so that was a part of my childhood

[00:34:55] i got to read live you know thanks through your shows but these are movies that i will still

[00:35:02] i will still quote with some of my best friends constantly and quoting them never gets old

[00:35:10] you know i think one of the quotes that we there's not even really a reason for them it's like

[00:35:15] you know how occasionally someone will reference something and it makes you think of that and then

[00:35:19] your movie quote kind of goes along with it that's not ours at all we just will throw out these

[00:35:25] quotes randomly um you know one of the quotes from teenage mutant interstitials to secret of the

[00:35:31] use if we constantly do is you know someone will say like oh that's a little hot yeah a little too hot

[00:35:38] and they're like hey look it's raff yeah a little too raff it's they're so they're totally

[00:35:44] ridiculous but we just love quoting them the you take the ugly one no you take the ugly one i'll

[00:35:51] take the ugly one well which ones the ugly one like they're just there's so much fun and i will

[00:35:58] i don't think i might be like in my 80s and i don't think i will ever get tired of those two movies

[00:36:04] they're just a ton of fun yeah those are two of my wife's favorites honestly yeah she loves

[00:36:09] and i mean they're great films i i uh i like the third one i'm sorry i like to do it i did like

[00:36:16] turtles in time i thought it had a kind of a different vibe to it i didn't hate it um

[00:36:21] but yeah getting to meet some of the actors like we talked about before being having my the

[00:36:26] opportunity to be on you know backstage with some of these folks and talk to them um judith hoge is

[00:36:32] one of the sweetest people i think i've ever met i got a chance to walk her back to her table

[00:36:37] and um after her panel and she was so chatty and asking me about me and my life my family and

[00:36:45] my work at the show and she kept like everybody that saw her in the hallway because other people would

[00:36:50] be moving through the service cartors of the celebrities and show you know agents and people were

[00:36:54] worked for the show and she would every person that she walked by was happy to see her hugging her

[00:37:00] um she kept the apologize i'm so sorry i want to talk for a minute you know like because

[00:37:04] she was just wonderful just a wonderful wonderful person and uh that's one of the things that

[00:37:08] makes my life so weird you know it's like we talk about these films that we've we've watched with

[00:37:14] kids and now we get the chance to meet and hang out with some of the people that made these films so

[00:37:18] great it's surreal you know i say i have a very often like i have the weirdest life in the world to be

[00:37:24] able to do what i do and meet these people so yeah that's it those are great choices man i love those

[00:37:29] films too yeah young sam rockwell kind of hanging out in ninja turtles was it the first one that's

[00:37:35] right he's in the first one yeah that's right he's one of the one of the uh the almost foot clan

[00:37:43] he's like kind of he's the one that's kind of like bringing all the kids in and telling them they can

[00:37:47] get cigarettes and and such i mean that's another thing that kind of shows how how different movies were

[00:37:54] in you know back in that time because turtles was 1990 so you know there's a scene in it where

[00:38:01] one of the a teenage kid is asking sam rockwell's character for cigarettes he's like you want

[00:38:06] regular or menthol they don't do that in movies anymore right yeah for sure they definitely don't

[00:38:14] do that anymore so all right number two on your list number two oh man um yeah this is one uh

[00:38:25] that i i kind of thinking you're gonna it's gonna be somewhere on your list too i don't know um one of

[00:38:31] them uh the movie about a group of kids trying to save their homes from the evil developers uh

[00:38:41] uh try to take down a story uh um the truffle shuffle and hey you guys it's obviously the goonies

[00:38:51] yeah the one of the greatest kid ensemble films if not the greatest ever put to celluloid

[00:38:59] with a group of young actors many of whom all of whom i think have gone on to great things in and

[00:39:06] outside of the industry um you know you've got you know so i mean it's just this feel good uh

[00:39:17] spielberg uh kind of like come and just just ride the ride it's like a ride movie it's like you're

[00:39:26] you're with them throughout you know Chester Cobblepot and Sloth and uh you know just the

[00:39:33] fortellies coming after them you know what Joey Pants out there is yeah one of the fortellie brothers

[00:39:40] just like iconic actors of the time iconic moments you know like the lore of the film and then

[00:39:49] the and then the Cindy Lauper rock and wrestling connection that they brought together the video

[00:39:55] I'm i mean the video event of the goonies good enough video which was shown in two parts right

[00:40:02] yeah captain lu albano i mean the goon Andre the giant like that video still makes me laugh when

[00:40:08] I watch it you know you've got rowdy rod the great rowdy roddy piper who i did get a chance to meet

[00:40:14] as well back in the day god blesses soul you know may he rest in peace um do it his thing and it's just

[00:40:23] i don't know it's just it's it's so eighties right like it is such a jewel of the eighties every

[00:40:29] bit of this film and all the merchandising and the promotion that went into it the movie itself you

[00:40:35] know who didn't who like among us in this world of comic con today us middle-aged guys now who

[00:40:41] didn't feel like a gooney when they were that age right like you were you tried to figure out which

[00:40:46] one you were everybody wanted to be Mikey because he was kind of silently cool a little nerdy and

[00:40:51] awkward but you know most of us were we're pretty much you know one of the others mouthed mouthed

[00:40:58] mouthed or data right i mean but to see you know key like kwan to see him go on now finally

[00:41:04] to be recognized for his chops right like how great is that right i i was such a big fan of

[00:41:11] that movie and um everything everywhere all at once and when he when he and Brendan Frazier both

[00:41:20] one Oscars in the same year i was so excited because i adore both of those actors and you're right

[00:41:26] to see key he quan gets such a resurgence in his career after so long and then to see him in

[00:41:33] Loki and to see him in like he's he's doing more projects now he's back to work it's just

[00:41:39] it's so heartwarming to see him back to it yeah yeah i mean it's just um it's again goonies like a lot of

[00:41:45] the films i think i put on this list i consider really close to perfect movies and the goonies is

[00:41:50] out there it has its moments like there's there's like the you know the whole thing about the octopus

[00:41:57] which was cut out of the film but it's in the music video and i mentioned it in the film you know

[00:42:02] when the cops are asking them stuff about you know you know what happened and they say the octopus

[00:42:07] were scarce like what octopus but then we you know even before the internet right we're digging

[00:42:11] in to try to find out what's going on with that there was no IMDB to find the trivia to figure out

[00:42:17] what that disconnect was like you you had to read magazines and word amount stuff to get the answers

[00:42:22] yeah oh there wasn't octopus seen if they didn't include them uh um yeah great movie great cast

[00:42:30] i could watch that a million times well i could watch it you know this does that thing that goes

[00:42:34] around social media what movie would you watch for 24 hours straight for a million dollars like

[00:42:39] i don't know why that's such a hardship for anybody but i mean the goonies would be easily my

[00:42:43] my choice for that i just watched that for 24 hours and collect my million

[00:42:49] yeah that's um surprisingly not in my top five but it is in my honorable mentions and

[00:42:54] it's it's not it has nothing to do with the movie for a reason it not being in my top five it's

[00:42:58] just there was so many other great movies that it was hard to to choose and narrow down

[00:43:03] and i'm sure this won't be the last time we do it uh but you know we talk about these great

[00:43:08] opportunities to get to meet these actors that have been part of it you know Cory Feldman was

[00:43:13] that contrapolis new jersey last year i got to moderate a panel with Sean Astin last year

[00:43:18] uh through fan x bow which was a great honor for me because you mentioned you know in addition to

[00:43:24] Mikey you talk about Lord of the Rings and all these other great franchises that he's been a part

[00:43:29] of and movies that he's been a part of so it's and you talked about like all almost all of them

[00:43:35] have moved on to great have great careers uh Joey Pants obviously Martha Plimpton has done she's

[00:43:43] been really successful on television Josh Brolin's in the Marvel Universe now you know Jeff Cohen is

[00:43:49] it hugely successful talent agent like there's they all have great careers now and it's

[00:43:55] it's great to watch and to know for sure yeah so that's it we've had we've had Joey Pants at our shows

[00:44:02] we've had Cory Feldman we have had Sean Astin at our shows um we really wanted to get Keo and

[00:44:09] Kwan I think um he's very popular right now maybe down the road we'll see some of

[00:44:13] like him at one of our shows now that he's an Oscar winner uh he's very busy um but yeah like there's

[00:44:19] there's uh it's an amazing pedigree that film and the the the class of the goonies has

[00:44:26] has really kind of kept Holly would go and yeah yeah for sure uh so for my number two

[00:44:34] I man my number one and my number two are so close i'm not gonna lie like I probably could swap

[00:44:41] them and it really wouldn't be it wouldn't make much of a difference but uh my number my number two

[00:44:49] is a movie that I watch at least once a year my number one and my number two are both movies

[00:44:55] I watched at least once a year um we talk about you know living out boyhood dreams and I mentioned

[00:45:02] flight of the navigator of being able to fly to ship uh you know flight a spacecraft but

[00:45:08] who wouldn't want to be chosen to do it I know in our cave game uh yeah my number two is the last star

[00:45:18] fighter it is a movie i've had the opportunity to meet Lance Guest um it's there's been rumors for

[00:45:25] years about the possibility of a sequel i'm kind of on the fence for it it's like well

[00:45:32] why touch it i don't know if it needs to be touched i don't know if it needs a sequel definitely

[00:45:37] doesn't need a reboot just there's a lot of really dated special effects in this movie but it doesn't

[00:45:46] bother me at all because it's just full of nostalgia for me of the number of times i think this is

[00:45:51] one of those ones that if you could wear out a blu-ray or wear out wear out a DVD i probably would have

[00:45:57] done it with this movie because i remember buying the special edition when it released on blu-ray

[00:46:03] i bought it on DVD i owned it on vhs it was a movie that is always in my collection and i just

[00:46:11] i love this movie so much i don't really know what else i could say i could say about it

[00:46:16] oh yeah this is um this is definitely in my honorable mentions list um because obviously you know

[00:46:22] growing up in the eighties video games were so huge and it was the first movie to feature cgi

[00:46:28] as part of the film it's the first i think it's the first or one of the first movies big budget

[00:46:33] movies to use cgi as part of the film and they you know that very blocky

[00:46:39] spaceships and stuff they i think they still look pretty good but uh yeah the blast what is

[00:46:44] a death blossom moment death blossom yep uh and rig you know uh it's just yeah it's yeah

[00:46:53] being plucked out of your your mundane life in a trailer park in realizing that you've meant for

[00:46:59] something better uh who's dream that was everybody's dream as a kid you're sure i'm definitely

[00:47:04] right about that right i mean it's it's one of those things that like when you're when you're

[00:47:09] younger you think about it you're like oh if somebody came down and chose me i would absolutely

[00:47:13] go with it the older you get well what i go because i've got family i've got work obligations like

[00:47:20] what i when i go along with it but yeah like you're right like who wouldn't have wanted to get chosen

[00:47:28] to you know plucked away now games are so big it would never happen because if they chose

[00:47:33] somebody who was good at video games it would be like some eight year old kid

[00:47:37] well i mean the theme the theme is there and ready player one to some degree right like having

[00:47:41] that eighties knowledge and the ability to play those old school games and know them kind of leads

[00:47:47] that you know that protagonist to success so i mean it's still we still see it i don't think we're

[00:47:52] seeing it the way we were because now everybody back then i think there were few there were very

[00:47:57] few people who were good at those arcade games like you had to have like no social life to go into

[00:48:03] an arcade and play a game and master it to the degree that he does in that film like that was

[00:48:10] you know you they are home systems weren't really that kind of thing and most of us at play video

[00:48:14] games were we it isn't like it is now where everybody owns a PlayStation and an Xbox whatever

[00:48:20] or everybody switch or everybody's on their phones playing games like then it was like a very

[00:48:24] specific group of nerds and geeks that were in the arcades every day popping those quarters and

[00:48:30] trying to get the kill screens on games and being you know getting the top score the perfect score

[00:48:37] that it was more like a novelty kid parents dropped their kids off and go shop in the mall

[00:48:42] you know as a teenager i worked in an arcade so i saw a lot of that i think that's why that film

[00:48:46] is so great is because then being being you know that character being that good at one game

[00:48:54] was not there was like one in your town that was the dude that was good at the games right

[00:48:59] and everybody else was just kind of like either casual or they just you know couldn't get as good

[00:49:04] they didn't have the money or the time or whatever but um yeah totally great fuck yeah almost war

[00:49:10] totally great film you can you can on this podcast okay yeah i'm trying to try to keep my language

[00:49:15] clean most of the time um yeah but totally great great film yeah all right so then that takes us

[00:49:24] now into our choices for number one um and i'm curious because i i'm very you know i've

[00:49:32] listened to your list and um i don't know where you're going with your number once i'm very

[00:49:37] curious but bring it on what have you got for your number one oh man it's it's really this is

[00:49:43] really not it's not like some deep dive from my number one it is it's pretty obvious you know who

[00:49:50] didn't want to be a Jedi growing up as a kid oh yeah and i this i saw this is dating me but i saw

[00:49:57] this movie in theaters in 1977 with my dad um and it meant that much to me you know and i

[00:50:08] i mean this is the first movie that i remembered just stars in the eyes for i mean it's it's

[00:50:15] Star Wars a new hope it's the 77 OG Star Wars movie right like i have seen this movie more than

[00:50:22] any other film on any list i've ever made ever like this is the movie i've watched the most um

[00:50:29] i've seen it hundreds if not thousands of times just with my son watching it watching it since

[00:50:36] 1977 every time we have kids you know no vcrs right back then no DVD players are streaming services

[00:50:43] if it showed up on television there was a big event Star Wars tonight on you know ABC at say to

[00:50:49] clot you know we you know everybody would come over to one kids house and watch it again you know

[00:50:54] I'm during the commercials we were just like acting out the scenes and i had the action figures

[00:50:59] i still have some of my old toys from then um the t-shirt i still wear Star Wars t-shirts to this day

[00:51:05] like and i run i do too yeah i run a club at school that's that's a group of kids that are like

[00:51:12] Comic-Con love their kids and we do a Star Wars we celebrate me the fourth every year at the school

[00:51:16] where you know when dresses in Star Wars gear dresses up like Star Wars characters like

[00:51:22] this has got to be like this is i mean it has to be the property the ip the film the franchise

[00:51:30] that has had the biggest cultural impact on this planet it has to be i mean Star Trek we can argue

[00:51:36] but i think Star Wars over supersede Star Trek i think it's tv shows and continuing the movies

[00:51:41] the toy lines people collecting Star Wars toys as adults you know um and you know kids still playing

[00:51:49] with Star Wars toys watching new movies Disney picking this is like the only Disney movie i think

[00:51:54] that i picked only because they bought Star Wars you know like yeah so yeah Star Wars 1977 a new

[00:52:01] hope my all-time movie i will never ever outgrow it is still to this day fantastic cinematography

[00:52:08] fantastic music sound great acting you can say what you will about the dialogue and Lucas's

[00:52:15] ability to do it but this was when he was putting every ounce of himself into a movie he was doing

[00:52:20] it to be successful it was his one shot to show uh you know the the studio system and he i mean say

[00:52:27] what you will about the guy now and what he did with the franchise after that we can have that debate

[00:52:32] on some other podcast about Star Wars but i will say in 1977 he was on his game he wrote a great film

[00:52:40] he pioneered special effects um he was smart enough to know that merchandising was going to be huge

[00:52:47] right like i mean these are all things that that we see now as adults but as a kid this movie just

[00:52:52] turned me into a forever fan and it remains to this day and i'm in the bag for anything Star Wars

[00:53:00] i don't care how good or bad it is i can make that determination after but i'm in the theater on day

[00:53:05] one when it's there and i'm streaming it on day one when it drops so Star Wars is my all-time top

[00:53:11] movie i will never outgrow it's it's a it's a great one and i can't i can't fault you for it one

[00:53:17] single bit i mean we're talking about a franchise that might have had a law at one point but is

[00:53:22] probably at the strongest it's ever been now with mandalorian and asoka and new movies coming out

[00:53:28] new movies in the works and not only that but as you mentioned with the technology like you know

[00:53:34] redefining the technology back in 1977 and still redefining the technology now

[00:53:39] you know you look at mandalorian with the big led wall that they use now so that they don't have

[00:53:46] to film in tinesia anymore like that was new technology that was brought and now so many other

[00:53:51] studios are using that technology because of Star Wars you know and then developing it and

[00:53:57] and bringing it to the forefront of hollywood um you know we we i'm i knew we weren't

[00:54:04] we were gonna bring it was gonna happen again but you know when talk about people that we've had

[00:54:08] the opportunity to meet over the years back in november at Rhode Island Comic Con Anthony

[00:54:14] sir Anthony Daniels was one of the guests and i remember being in the auditorium when he came in

[00:54:20] with his lovely wife and he wanted to go over everything for for his panel and you were sitting

[00:54:26] there and engaging him in conversation and Jay and i you know you're one of your assistant program

[00:54:32] directors or the assistant program director Jay and i were just kind of standing there looking at

[00:54:37] each other trying our hardest not to geek out by the fact that we were in the room with c3pil

[00:54:46] i mean it was yeah we you know as per as moderators as programming people like we try our

[00:54:52] hardest to be professional and we're usually we we pull it off rather well but that was one of those

[00:54:58] few moments where we were like all right keep it under control keep it under control yeah he was

[00:55:04] yeah i've met billy de Williams i've met peter mayhew i've met david prouze um

[00:55:13] and then obviously uh Anthony Daniels this past year we did have kakari fischer at one point

[00:55:19] unfortunately that didn't work out we also had um uh Kenny Baker but he passed unfortunately

[00:55:26] and he was obviously we couldn't have met the show um that was terrible and horrible of

[00:55:32] we lost him um but you know Anthony Daniels was i think the the the cast member from star wars

[00:55:39] or the original i mean we've met tons of people from the shows and stuff over the years but we

[00:55:43] knew to talk about the OG cast members like i still have yet to meet mark camel i'm hoping someday

[00:55:48] i get the me too i haven't met him yet either but um the uh

[00:55:53] and mr. Daniels sir Daniel sir Anthony Daniels was he he had a very he really wanted to make sure his

[00:56:00] his presentation his panel was was great for the audience man he he put a lot of time and detail into

[00:56:07] how he wanted his panel to go and you know we we pulled it off for him and he was very happy with

[00:56:15] the way everything went it was fantastic presentation and anybody that's listening that was in

[00:56:18] the audience or has ever seen him do his thing it is just he he loves his fans so much and he loves

[00:56:25] to make sure that they come away with what they feel is like a worth worth their time and a great

[00:56:30] experience and afterwards he came backstage and he was complementing all of us the team for

[00:56:35] for the work that we had done and i had the chance to tell him which you know again my crazy life

[00:56:41] i had the chance to tell him you know when in 1977 my dad this is what i said to him you were standing

[00:56:47] there i think when i said this um my dad took me to see this movie called star wars and

[00:56:53] like this week this golden robot delivered the first lines in the first film of the series and it's

[00:56:59] it changed my life i said i have lived my life loving star wars i raised my son loving star wars

[00:57:04] my life and i bond over star wars like and he was so touched by that you know you think he probably

[00:57:10] hears a lot of stuff like that from people but he was still very attentive to that um and very

[00:57:15] grateful to you know for me his wife was also you know she was like very sweet and very nice about

[00:57:20] everything i mean he was just a consummate gentleman i was so glad to have the opportunity and

[00:57:25] if we ever bring him back and god i hope we certainly hope we do at some point

[00:57:28] when you come to one of our shows and he's there please take the time to make sure you see him live

[00:57:32] or go to his table and meet him get a photo and an autograph because he is just a class act across

[00:57:37] the board man it's wonderful when you meet your heroes and they're great like that you know they're

[00:57:41] wonderful people so so cool yeah i i agree with that come 100% completely and he was so nice and

[00:57:48] just such a gentleman and you know yeah i i've had i haven't really had the opportunity to meet many

[00:57:57] but getting to meet sir Anthony Daniels was just an incredible opportunity it's one of my favorite

[00:58:03] memories of Rhode Island from last year yeah sure thing so all right that takes me then to

[00:58:10] my number one let's say this here this one i'm curious yeah because i didn't have goonies i didn't

[00:58:16] have star wars but um this one is one that holds a very special place in my heart mainly because

[00:58:24] of who stars in it uh and i as somebody that i still miss to this day because i was devastated when

[00:58:30] passed uh it's a movie from 1991 where captain James hook kidnaps his children and that is the movie

[00:58:39] hook directed by Steven Spielberg with Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman and this is um you know we

[00:58:48] talk about you know great opportunities when i worked the show last year then they you know they sent

[00:58:54] me an email this was before i was working with you guys at altered reality they sent me an email saying

[00:58:59] like okay who on the guest list would you want don't a basco who plays rufio was on that list of

[00:59:05] guests and i said well i i kind of want to make him my top priority like if i can get him that would be

[00:59:11] great and i got him so i got to moderate a panel with don't a basco one-on-one on stage uh in

[00:59:18] philadelphia we had a ton of fun we kind of connected a little bit so much so that i got to hang out

[00:59:25] with him a little bit more at contrapolis na juzzi working with you guys at road island um he has him

[00:59:32] and i we have stayed in contact via email uh so it's great to have a connection now to

[00:59:41] one of my favorite movies as a kid but you know putting aside that connection to Dante this is just one

[00:59:47] of my not just one of my favorite movies from from my childhood but one of those movies one of my

[00:59:52] favorite robin wayms movies there's just i don't know what it is about the movie but it just

[01:00:00] it captures so much i mean it takes a classic tale and modernizes it at least at the time

[01:00:07] you know so to see peter pan as an adult and now he's a family man trying to rescue his children

[01:00:13] there's just so much to this movie in my opinion not only that but the number of people who cameo

[01:00:20] throughout the movie that i'm some one or two people may not even realize are in this movie you've got

[01:00:27] phil Collins plays a cameo as the detective who comes to the house after the kids uh

[01:00:33] Gweneth poutro plays a very young wendy but the two cameos a lot of other people may not realize

[01:00:39] her in it our george lucas and carry fisher are in the movie uh they are actually at the very end

[01:00:45] of the movie when uh when twoodles finds his marbles and he flies off and he's there's a couple that

[01:00:53] are kissing on the bridge and the pixie dust lands on him and they end up like floating that's

[01:00:59] carry fisher in george lucas uh and Glenn close is in the movie as well as the pirate that hook puts

[01:01:07] in the boobucks and i love revealing that to people who don't know that that's Glenn close

[01:01:15] because once you see it you can't unsee it but there's just there's just i just have so much

[01:01:23] love for this movie um robin weems was a personal hero of mine still is to this day um even though

[01:01:30] he's been gone for almost a decade now and i just i don't know i just adored this movie i

[01:01:37] couldn't not it wouldn't there was no way it was not going to be in my top five and then the more

[01:01:43] i thought about it the higher up on the list it went wow yeah i this interesting the difference

[01:01:49] between our films i think because i'm a little older a lot of my films are are kind of earlier

[01:01:57] in some ways than yours are you know like you have films from the 90s by then i was you know

[01:02:02] in my teens older teens so i was i wouldn't consider those movies i saw as a kid so yeah but hook man

[01:02:08] that is a great choice it is just a great film we have spielberg and lucas at the top of our

[01:02:14] lists respectively yeah it's cool yeah i mean and there's a reason because they're just great

[01:02:19] directors then and even now i mean they're still putting out great films um i don't think lucas

[01:02:24] is putting out nearly as much i i don't know is he has he put out anything like me i don't think so

[01:02:30] i don't know what exactly he's doing but he's a billionaire so maybe he doesn't have to do

[01:02:34] he doesn't have to i think he's probably consulting with disney on somewhere stuff you know i don't

[01:02:39] you know they own the properties but i'm sure you know they talk to him on the regular but who knows

[01:02:44] i don't know spielberg's still out there we just watched um the color purple last night the musical

[01:02:49] my wife and i um that's him right didn't he yeah i think that was him yeah so he's still out there kind of

[01:02:56] you know making great movies so he made the goonies too that's another spielberg movie that's on my

[01:03:01] list is any tea right so i got some yeah it's kind of a defiant you know the eight 70s 80s and

[01:03:07] early 90s were all about those three guys those two guys just you know cut in their teeth and

[01:03:11] Hollywood making names for themselves and just pushing the envelope and the work that they did um

[01:03:17] so yeah it's not surprising i suppose but anyway cool choice man good list yeah i mean

[01:03:23] then you talk about another you know real quick mention of hook too is like you talk about again

[01:03:27] merchandising i remember owning i wanting and owning as many of the toys for hook as i could

[01:03:33] the rafts the pirate ship like at all of it all the lost boys hook and rufio and like it's just

[01:03:40] yeah i again it just holds such a special place with me and that's for sure for sure um all right so

[01:03:51] great top five's from both of us very different um i love it when it happens that we don't share

[01:03:57] any movies um i don't mind it when people do but i you know there's so many movies out there that

[01:04:03] i i think it's good that we didn't share yeah um any of the same movies however some of our

[01:04:08] honorable mentions yeah maybe we might share maybe because we both have a bunch um so let's go some

[01:04:14] of those through very relatively quickly we don't have to go into any kind of discussion for them we

[01:04:19] can just kind of rattle them off a little bit okay um so throw out a couple of yours your honorable

[01:04:24] mentions all right um okay couple of mine uh breakfast club um growing up in the 80s you know

[01:04:32] we still show this movie in school kids uh cyke class is usually show it to talk about the

[01:04:37] different arc types um who we which one are you i was the geek obviously growing up

[01:04:42] yeah i what i'm pretty sure i was too when we had the big breakfast clip panel this year so we had

[01:04:46] pretty much the entire cast just about i think right at the time the moderate i was i

[01:04:52] moderated yeah um yeah i i also have on my list the monster squad is one of those great Hollywood

[01:04:59] movies yeah there he goes well fansquite not great movie for Halloween to throw in watch yep

[01:05:06] fun scary too like that's one of those kids movies that shouldn't be a kids movie like they're

[01:05:11] peeping the sister through the window like that's like a little creepy wouldn't see that in the

[01:05:16] kids movie today and you know women get you know people getting not just women but people getting murdered

[01:05:20] and blown up and it's very gory for kids movie but hey whatever mentioning virginity and yeah yeah

[01:05:29] crawl one of my favorites 80s flick star wars basically it's just star wars again you know

[01:05:35] all the the the the heroes journey of luke sky walkers is the same same film pretty much but

[01:05:42] uh set in a fantasy slash sci fi world um speaking of fantasy dragon slayer one of my favorites

[01:05:49] as a kid um again you know some stuff in this movie you probably want to show your kid today but

[01:05:56] sure uh that other going on the dark idea the black hole Disney's black hole you can

[01:06:02] catch that on Disney plus it's worth your time it's cool and creepy and freaky and funny and

[01:06:08] they're also scary um let me think here a couple more really quick oh masters of the universe come

[01:06:15] on I know people hate on this movie but doppelongering as he man right first movie ever with uh

[01:06:22] Courtney Cox right great film a lot of fun campy but I mean you know you've got uh

[01:06:30] a skeleton played by um oh my god what is his name uh oh my god I can't remember the actor it's

[01:06:37] socks I know and it's it's bothering me too cuz I know it's I'll remember or you can look it up

[01:06:43] but you know um frank langella oh my god right I just got it as you said it yeah I mean come on

[01:06:50] the dude's an amazing actor he he choose the scenery in the best possible ways in that movie

[01:06:55] and uh and then a couple of movies that may be vague or not recognizable for you your audience midnight

[01:07:01] madness from the early 80s uh Michael J Fox as in one of his first films about a group of uh college

[01:07:08] kids it have to go around the city solving puzzles to win a big prize at the end uh yeah it's

[01:07:14] one of the first movies my parents ever took me to that's why I remember it so if you can find it

[01:07:19] it's not easy to find but it's uh I have it on DVD but it's called midnight madness uh the famous

[01:07:25] Leon moment from that movie if you know it you know um and then scavenger hunt another movie very

[01:07:31] similar to that from the 70s about a group of people trying to win in inheritance and their

[01:07:37] their dead rich uncle gives them this massive scavenger hunt around the city to to find

[01:07:42] and get points and the one with the highest points wins and that's got like jerk Benedict as a young guy

[01:07:48] had Arnold Schwarzenegger in his very first movie appearance in a cameo um yeah those are a couple of

[01:07:54] uh movies and then last uh um and one movie I haven't mentioned is the never ending story I can't

[01:08:01] I can't not make a list about cut kid movies without and uh have gotten to know and become

[01:08:06] good friends with Tammy Strohnatch who played the childlike Empress through my work in the cons

[01:08:12] and she's done panels uh with me at educational panels at shows and stuff and um she's got a new

[01:08:18] movie dropping now um the the witch and the man and the man in which I think it's called that

[01:08:26] she is finally got I think it's gonna be dropping on some uh film festivals um but they're never

[01:08:34] any story man I mean God with our tax and you know look everybody crying over our tax dying in

[01:08:39] the swamp of sadness and you know luck dragon and it's just yeah so many movies my god my god

[01:08:46] Ben so many movies for my childhood tired to pair them down but I will stop there to not be labor

[01:08:51] all of this no it's fine um never ending story is also one that is on my uh my honorable mentions as

[01:08:58] well uh man in which is the movie yeah that uh that Tammy Strohnatch has coming out soon but yeah

[01:09:05] I mean those are some great honorable mentions as well I wrote midnight madness down because I

[01:09:09] I love Michael J. Fox and I wasn't familiar with that well he's like 15 or 16 in the film he's

[01:09:14] like plays a kid uh you'll see you'll recognize some of the other actors in the film too it's

[01:09:19] Steven first is in it um and the actor who is in um the the star of uh uh American Werewolf and

[01:09:28] London that actor uh who who is the Werewolf that's not Griffin done no no Griffin done was his

[01:09:35] friend that's like yeah he's a ghost in the movie but the main the main I can't remember he's

[01:09:39] okay become like a horror icon kind of actor he's also in the film check it out if you could find

[01:09:44] midnight madness it's totally worth a watch you'll like it okay I'll have to look for it I mean

[01:09:48] you mentioned with you know talking about Michael J. Fox real quick and and I'll share a story

[01:09:53] with you real quick some of my friends know this already I had the uh I'm a massive back to

[01:09:57] the future fan which surprisingly is not in my top five kind of because I put it in a kind of

[01:10:03] in a class of its own um but I've met almost the entire cast of back to the future over the years

[01:10:09] and the one person I had never met was Michael J. Fox uh that changed last summer when I had

[01:10:17] the opportunity to finally meet him um a great friend of mine was the one that moderated a panel

[01:10:21] with Michael and Chris Lloyd and Tom Wilson and I didn't have any opportunity because I was so

[01:10:28] busy working that I didn't I didn't have any chance to go to his table to meet him so a bunch of

[01:10:33] the people from the show him included told me make sure you're backstage when that panel ends and

[01:10:38] we'll see what we can do about giving you an opportunity and they they made the opportunity happen

[01:10:44] I got to meet Michael backstage after his panel you know shake hands with him and you know got to

[01:10:50] talk to him for a couple minutes and it was one of those moments that like I've met like similar to

[01:10:56] you I've met so many people over the years that was one of those ones that after it happened

[01:11:01] I was kind of I kind of just moved away as this he was leaving and I sat there and my buddy came up

[01:11:07] to me and said yeah right I'm like yeah I'm good I'm good and then I was like but I gotta go because

[01:11:13] I got to be on the other side of the floor in a couple minutes and I remember walking across the

[01:11:17] con floor and stopping and I actually I got emotional because it hit me that this is 35 years I've

[01:11:25] been waiting for this moment and it finally happened that's great and I got really really emotional

[01:11:33] about it um and then like a part of me was disappointed it's like oh I didn't get a picture with him

[01:11:39] but he was in his wheelchair so what I really want to picture of Michael in his wheelchair

[01:11:43] and then the more I thought about it and I'm like the picture would have just been for me to post

[01:11:46] online and nobody needs to share in this memory but me yeah yeah so I don't I didn't I'm fine

[01:11:53] with that a picture very cool I have the memory and that's all that matters that's great man I'm glad

[01:11:57] you got the chance to do that that's it's a great great meet uh so just a real quick throughout

[01:12:03] a couple of my honorable mentions before we get ready to wrap things up I've got the rocket

[01:12:07] here from 1991 yep that's just a great movie little monsters with Fred Saturday night Mandel

[01:12:14] from 1989 I mentioned who frame Roger Rabbit earlier Harry and the Henderson's with John

[01:12:20] Lithgow yeah uh transformers the movie from 1986 oh wow um had the great opportunity to moderate a

[01:12:28] panel with Peter Cullen last year which was fantastic uh never ending story in ET both on my

[01:12:33] list as well pop i from 1980 oh yeah good one good one another one with Robin Williams yeah uh

[01:12:40] space camp from 1986 okay um with Kelly Preston and Leah Thompson uh I'm in a couple other

[01:12:47] I this is a weird one to be on my honorable mentions but for some reason I just love this movie follow

[01:12:53] that bird from 1985 bird yeah that's a deep cut a lot of the Sesame Street characters um two more

[01:13:05] real quick ones adventures in babysitting uh huh with Elizabeth shoe uh and another one that I

[01:13:11] don't know if not enough people know about this movie but a movie from 1987 called batteries not

[01:13:16] in clue oh yeah oh yeah yep that's another one we did on our podcast oh yeah yep that's just a great

[01:13:23] another heartwarming really heartwarming movie that I love so yeah great lists great top five great

[01:13:31] honorable mentions hopefully for listeners after the listening this brought up a lot of you know

[01:13:37] memories and is gonna cause you to kind of maybe go back and watch some of these movies um oh

[01:13:43] oh shit one more I forgot uh ex caliber oh god 1981 yeah yeah that's uh not a kids movie

[01:13:52] no it's i mean it's it's PG but just not yeah it's 80s PG right or yeah there's some new

[01:14:01] unity and profanity and violence now they don't do that anymore but yeah that was before PG 13

[01:14:06] was a thing right yeah I'm pretty yeah I'm pretty sure yeah you know I had another one on mine

[01:14:11] that's kind of similar as dune the original dune yeah I never saw I never saw the original

[01:14:18] dune my first foray with dune was the most recent one okay um and funny enough I'm actually going

[01:14:25] to a screening tonight of dune part two oh cool enjoy at the time that we're recording I'm gonna try

[01:14:30] to get to see I did see the first one when it streamed um I have to go back and rewatch it I think

[01:14:34] before I go see the second one but yeah the first that original ladies movie is kind of a mess

[01:14:39] um but uh it's just staying isn't it right like yeah and Kyle McLaughlin you know uh is

[01:14:48] is the main character of the film so it's it's uh definitely a uh and it's you know it's directed by

[01:14:54] oh my god what's his name uh eraser head director oh um the crazy guy sort of twin peaks

[01:15:05] I can't remember the director's name I'm sorry David Lynch yeah it's so David Lynch it was like

[01:15:11] him at his most lynchest and if you're a lynch at his most lynch if you're a fan of dune or

[01:15:18] the new movie or the old movie or either of them or both of them there's a great documentary called

[01:15:21] Joderoski's dune I don't know if you've ever seen it it's about a movie they were going to do a dune

[01:15:26] before in the 70s before the 180s came out and they hired Alejandro Joderoski who's a director

[01:15:32] an avant-garde director from uh I want to say Mexico but I'm not maybe Spanish I'm at the

[01:15:37] Spanish director I think he's Spanish who directed this movie called El Topo which is like the craziest

[01:15:43] movie you'll ever see in your life they hired him to make dune and he was so out there and he got so

[01:15:48] kind of crazy with it that eventually the whole production fell apart but a lot he hired HR

[01:15:54] Geiger for the first time to design ships and creatures and a lot of those designs ended up in

[01:15:59] things like Star Wars the you know the sequels uh the prequels I should say it ended up in things

[01:16:06] like alien like all of these different people these set designers these these artists um these

[01:16:12] writers all went on to bigger things because of the parrot the all the work they had done that never

[01:16:17] slept away today through the dune film that never happened check out that that documentary it's if

[01:16:22] you're a cinephile that is a documentary you want to know because like I'll have to check that out

[01:16:26] yeah she's called Joderoski's dune it's so good even if you're not familiar with the because they

[01:16:31] went on to hire David Lynch and they made the dune movie but Joderoski was the guy that was trying

[01:16:36] to like put it together in his crazy manner um you know I think it'll open up your you and you're

[01:16:42] already a whole new group of films and filmmakers and creators if you check that out so just I love

[01:16:48] yeah and I love documentaries like that when you see when you find out that there were originally

[01:16:53] supposed to be versions of movies that just never made it to the light um you know another one

[01:16:58] that comes to mind is Superman uh Superman oh I forget what the title of the documentary is but

[01:17:03] it's the one on the documentary about one Kevin Smith was supposed to make the next Superman movie

[01:17:09] and see it yeah uh with Nicholas Cage is Superman and the giant spider um Arctic so that's

[01:17:17] another good documentary um for people to check out um but yeah great lists great honorable mentions

[01:17:23] hopefully it gets people encourages people to check out some movies uh but before I let you go

[01:17:28] obviously I want to give you an opportunity to kind of plug away anything you got going okay let

[01:17:33] us know about some ultra reality shows your TikTok any anything you want to plug now's the

[01:17:38] cool yeah um I'll start by plugging the ultra reality shows for 2024 we've got five shows uh

[01:17:44] confirmed this year so far there may be others but as right now we have five dates settled uh

[01:17:49] anime con which is June 15th and 16th at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence if you're

[01:17:53] in the Providence area or you're in the New England area or even you know in the Tri-State area

[01:17:58] you could take a train up it's a great show we did our first anime con not con last year it was

[01:18:02] really popular well attended a lot of we have a lot of great voice actors and creators coming

[01:18:09] really good time uh then in the new jersey at the metal lands expo center July 13th to 14th is

[01:18:15] contropolis jersey which is our contropolis brand show um just a small growing comic con uh we usually

[01:18:22] bring some great guests into those shows as well a lot more of them intimate feel so you get a chance

[01:18:27] to really spend time you know walking the aisles checking out some of the panels and meeting some of our

[01:18:32] guests um then we have Colorado Springs Comic Con out in the Springs at the Broadmore Arena in Colorado

[01:18:39] Springs August 23rd to the 25th that's our second biggest show of the year uh we've grown that show

[01:18:45] quite a bit over the last few years um a lot of big guest guests are there in the Springs if you're

[01:18:49] in the Colorado area or on the West Coast um Terracon September 27th 29th full on horror uh themed con

[01:18:57] at the Royal Plaza and Marble Mass um another great venue great show uh if you're a horror fan don't

[01:19:03] want to miss that and then our flagship our biggest show of the year Rhode Island Comic Con returns

[01:19:09] uh November 3rd to the 5th at the convention center at the and we also use the Amica

[01:19:14] mutual previllian the amp next door and we use the omnihotel for our panels so it's a three building

[01:19:18] show um tons of big celebrities like in 2023 we had uh like Marissa Tome was there in 2023

[01:19:27] was one of our biggest names as you know Anthony Daniels we spoke about just it surprises me which

[01:19:32] celebrities we manage to book each year sometimes like um so you don't want to miss that show it is

[01:19:38] a big event every year um totally worth it so those are the all-to-reality shows that I'll be working

[01:19:43] on with my team this year Ben I'm sure will be at many if not all of those shows moderating for us

[01:19:49] um on a personal note I'm an educator and what I do outside of all the other stuff that I do

[01:19:55] is I I do uh educational programming at conventions educational conventions and cons around the

[01:20:01] country where I teach teachers how to teach with comics pop culture stuff like that I have a

[01:20:08] I have a cohort called lit x l it x x being a variable we believe that literature can be anything

[01:20:14] so it can be music it can be video games it can be graphic novels it can be anything

[01:20:19] it can be taught storytelling can be taught through multiple means and multiple texts so um we uh

[01:20:25] we are putting on events uh we're building up we're actually building out our website now we're

[01:20:31] growing um we're doing we were at New York Comic Con with a bunch of panels will be at Chicago C2E2

[01:20:36] with some panels this year if you're going to be in Chicago you can check out our our offerings

[01:20:41] there that's coming out soon when we finalize our schedule we also have uh you know uh we could

[01:20:47] find us on most socials that we are lit x w e a r e l i t x so you could find us on instagram

[01:20:55] and um tiktok and youtube uh that way because we have some programming up on youtube video uh

[01:21:01] videos of us talking about education and me personally um I I go by if you could see you can't see

[01:21:08] here because it's not a video but I go by the trying trying teacher is my kind of like online

[01:21:13] brand and I have uh an instagram I have an x count on trying teacher an instagram is trying teacher

[01:21:21] and a tiktok at trying teacher which i've got videos about me reviewing comics that I read

[01:21:27] sometimes movie reviews talking about education and teaching strategies so go find me on tiktok

[01:21:33] and subscribe I don't have a lot of followers but you know I just do it for fun in

[01:21:37] um just to kind of get some of that good stuff out there for teachers and uh want to be teachers

[01:21:44] as well i've been a teacher for 20 years in public schools so uh I've got a lot of experience

[01:21:50] and i use comics uh i gestured behind me again you can't see me um that have like a

[01:21:56] classroom library of thousands of graphic novels in my classroom for kids to read so um that's

[01:22:02] me i do a lot of stuff i do a lot of stuff as you can see but um check out the comic con shows

[01:22:07] you know the the altered reality shows um if you come to the main stage you see a uh a guy running

[01:22:13] around with taking with his head cut off it's probably me you say hey

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[01:22:23] all the information where they can find altered reality and their list of events

[01:22:27] lit x um your instagram your tiktok and all that i'll make sure that's all on the show notes for

[01:22:32] listeners to watch uh to make it easier for them they can just go to the show notes of this episode

[01:22:37] and find uh where to follow and i encourage you guys to do that um and in addition to that i'll

[01:22:43] even throw out there too look up the instagram accounts of all the shows as well um

[01:22:48] because each of the shows has their own instagram account as well as altered reality

[01:22:52] and there you can find guest announcements and and stuff like that so and as you mentioned hopefully

[01:22:58] i'll be at uh you know most of if not all of those shows and i can't wait for conces and to start back

[01:23:04] up i know you have a little bit of a different feeling about that um but yeah so um michael thank

[01:23:11] you so much for coming on i'm glad we finally got to do this yeah man this was great thank you

[01:23:16] for inviting me i hope uh i hope this was good and then you want me to do it again sometime

[01:23:21] oh you're welcome back on anytime um and you know if the opportunity ever rises i've done

[01:23:27] these at live at shows before and do them one of these that at a show would be great too

[01:23:32] oh man yeah maybe we can make it happen yeah see so i know luis is going to be coming on soon as well

[01:23:39] we're gonna be doing the wwe themed event or episode at some point uh we just have to work that out he's

[01:23:45] uh he's uh he's a he's a great man but he's a hard man to kind of nail down yeah he's very busy

[01:23:49] very very busy guy he's incredibly busy um but thank you again for for coming on and

[01:23:55] and being a part of this this was great sure thank you so all right with that being said guys we're

[01:24:00] gonna go into the willhelm post credit so stick around

[01:24:09] welcome guys into another willhelm post credit after such a great conversation about these childhood

[01:24:18] movies that we like going back and revisiting and special thanks to michael for coming on and

[01:24:24] doing this one with me this was so much fun this was one i was really anticipating doing one because

[01:24:30] it's a topic that's it's very close and i i was really really looking forward to diving into but two

[01:24:36] to do the podcast with michael um you know michael and i are still relatively new friends we've only been

[01:24:43] you know known each other correspondingly for you know about a year now um you know when i first

[01:24:49] started talks about potentially working with altered reality of their shows and you know michael and

[01:24:55] i didn't meet for the first time until november uh didn't meet for the first time in person until

[01:24:59] november but you know and i hope he feels the same way but we became pretty fast friends and you

[01:25:05] know i'm really looking forward to the next time we actually get to hang out in person you know so

[01:25:10] like i said hopefully he he feels the same way about that uh but special thank you for him for

[01:25:16] coming on and being a part of this uh this episode oh i got a lot again once again you know i love

[01:25:25] that this is happening it's one of my favorite parts about this uh so much great feedback for

[01:25:31] this episode so you know what we're gonna dive right into it because there's a lot that we have um

[01:25:37] special thank you to everybody for for contributing to it uh but yeah so let's let's dive right into

[01:25:43] it um first one comes from Alex Kruger uh who was just on the baseball top five baseball movies that

[01:25:49] i just did a couple weeks back uh and he says i've been so excited for this episode since you announced

[01:25:54] it was coming well thank you Alex i've been excited for it too um you know at the time i'm recording

[01:26:00] this this well this post credit uh you know literally the night before you're hearing it is when

[01:26:05] i record these but this episode was recorded a couple weeks ago uh so yes i did announce this a

[01:26:11] while back and i i was really looking forward to it and since i recorded it i've been really looking

[01:26:16] forward to getting out getting it out to all of you uh to hear so thank you for that Alex uh but

[01:26:22] now going into you know i put the question out there as i always do you know as i try to do for

[01:26:28] every episode and this time it was like you know what childhood movies do you constantly go back and

[01:26:33] revisit uh and and tend to enjoy so we got a lot of responses let's get through them starting first

[01:26:40] with Stephanie Kennedy she says goonies short and sweet right to the point love it Steph and goonies

[01:26:47] is a favorite of mine as well Beth Riker uh says the iron giant another short and sweet to the point

[01:26:55] and yeah that's a great i it's been a while since i've watched iron giant i really

[01:27:01] i really need to go back and revisit that one uh nan i miss says princess bride such a great movie

[01:27:09] i had the honor of moderating a panel with karaoke's not too long ago uh you need about two years

[01:27:15] ago and then last this past november at Rhode Island Comic-Con i moderated a panel with Chris

[01:27:21] Sarandon who you know is prince humber dink in um in the princess bride so two absolutely fantastic

[01:27:28] actors i've had the pleasure of meeting and i'm sure i'll see them again through you know

[01:27:33] through this journey of conventions and who knows what other people from the princess bride if any

[01:27:38] i'll get to share the stage with her meet uh as well as any of these other great movies that'll be

[01:27:43] brought up uh tooni Bruno says back to the future goonies labyrinth ghost busters indiana jones and

[01:27:52] eladden all great movies i know i'm gonna squash this right now i know a lot of people who are listening

[01:28:01] who listen to this episode and are listening right now and know me and have known me for years

[01:28:05] are gonna be questioning how come i didn't bring up back to the future in some of my favorite

[01:28:10] movies well that is because anybody who knows me should know back to the future and all three of

[01:28:17] those movies they're in a league of their own okay they they get saved for special occasions

[01:28:25] because they are movies they're very special to me so yes of course i love revisiting those movies

[01:28:31] but again they're in a league of their own uh christen mayon says jumanji missus doubt fire

[01:28:39] rockadoodle i know there's a lot more but i'm drawing a blank so jumanji missus doubt fire

[01:28:46] can't disagree with you one bit about there and rockadoodle that is a

[01:28:53] that's an oj that's going back always i remember that movie that's another one i haven't seen in

[01:28:59] years but yeah god that's a great movie i want i remember of it it's a great movie

[01:29:05] a j stonkton another one of my great con buddies who works with the author reality team

[01:29:11] uh a j says willy wanka in parentheses gene wilder a j you don't need to look we we all know

[01:29:18] when you say willy wanka we know you mean gene wilder uh merry poppins wizard of odds and misses

[01:29:25] doubt fire another misses doubt fire one that's great and wizard of us wizard of us was when i did top

[01:29:30] five most essential movies wizard of us was my number one it's a great great flick

[01:29:36] uh shan palace says star wars indiana jones ghost busters back to the future and Jurassic park

[01:29:45] each and every one of these are franchises and i'm not complaining in the least because

[01:29:52] all of them um all right some of the franchises one or two of those franchises have

[01:29:59] some weak links in the chain but i'll accept it they're good uh christ jones says transformers

[01:30:07] the movie the goonies the lost boy the lost boys you revisit that from being young i don't know if

[01:30:15] you should have been watching that one um pyre strikes back the princess bride and indiana jones

[01:30:20] in the temple of doom more more great choices another goonies one in there um pyre from star wars

[01:30:27] princess bride another indiana jones temple and doom i prefer last crusade over temple of doom but

[01:30:32] temple of doom is great kiu kuan come on can't go wrongly short round uh erica and ferner says

[01:30:39] honestly so many labyrinth princess bride never ending story goonies ghost busters monster squad wolf

[01:30:47] mans gotnards uh little mermaid finding nemo inside out a laden lion king hook pop i and so many more

[01:30:57] um i'm gonna i'm gonna call you out on the inside out one that's not really childhood

[01:31:03] uh because that's relatively new that's within the past decade and i i know you're not a kid

[01:31:09] erica so i'm gonna call you out on that one but all the other ones um i i think are very very

[01:31:16] fitting monster squad great of course a laden hook on my list i mean come on so special to my heart

[01:31:24] and pop i hollywood listen i know you're trying don't remake pop i it doesn't it's not needed

[01:31:30] it's not needed uh denice eventually stole anderton says my girly pick is steel magnolias that all

[01:31:38] star cast alone has my vote it has every emotion all in one i laugh and i cry i couldn't relate as a

[01:31:45] mother who has children and lost a child on the flip side kid in me the last star fighter

[01:31:51] robert prestinist entari arcade game gone real life i mentioned it it's in it's on my list

[01:31:59] last star fighter listen folks if you haven't seen the last star fighter yes the special effects are

[01:32:08] i'm not even gonna say a little dated they're dated uh such a great movie though i don't care how

[01:32:14] dated it is if you've never seen the last star fighter do yourself a favor watch the last

[01:32:19] star fighter it's so good uh derrick o'neill says i don't know if this fits the brief but i'm the youngest

[01:32:26] of five brothers so my childhood favorites were breakfast club nightmare on um street lost

[01:32:32] but not our lost boys and ferris bueller's day off i could possibly live on a desert and watch

[01:32:37] any of them on repeat uh funny enough you know breakfast club very pertinent to today march 24th

[01:32:45] 1984 and today is march 24th 2024 on the at least the damn recording this it is march 24th so

[01:32:52] it's the 40th anniversary of the day they had detention not of the movie the movie released a

[01:32:57] different time of year but it is the 40th anniversary of the day of their detention and of course

[01:33:02] me being who i am i posted a picture of me with molly ring walled uh Anthony Michael Hall and

[01:33:09] alie sheety along with uh andram McCarthy was in that picture too but uh moving on

[01:33:16] Megan diveley leemon says the goonies indiana jones a christmas story drastic park the sound

[01:33:23] of music good lord how can i forget ghost busters just all the newest one last night i just saw it

[01:33:29] tonight as a matter of fact and i highly enjoyed it uh and for scomp force comes a great movie

[01:33:36] force come has a fantastic soundtrack uh for anybody who was a music fan man what a great soundtrack

[01:33:43] uh jamey dimmick says number one goonies it's the perfect childhood movie goonies getting a lot

[01:33:49] of love man love it uh no particular order for these and american tale the never ending story no

[01:33:55] matter how much to it traumatizes me and leelo and stitch never ending story is another one they're

[01:34:01] remaking and god hollywood is running out of ideas there are some great original movies it still come

[01:34:07] out but i'm kind of getting tired of the remakes let's uh let's chill please original stuff

[01:34:16] paul Williams this ought to be fun and i mean that all hardly in the in the nicest way

[01:34:23] in no particular order the secret of nimm as a kid the great owl scared the living hell out of me

[01:34:30] secret of nimm is a great movie uh the last starfighter another great mention uh

[01:34:36] Allison wonderland and pyres strikes back and oh here we go night of the living dead yes i saw

[01:34:42] it way too early in life of course you did why am i not surprised you were doing good you're doing so

[01:34:49] good for anybody listening paul always throws in the horror stuff because he's a huge horror fan

[01:34:56] what lies what lies beneath podcast zero it's on break right now but go check it out because there's

[01:35:01] some great backlog to go listen to uh Jennifer Kennedy says the last boys man god i can't complain

[01:35:09] i saw i saw total recall when i was way too young so i guess i can't complain but anyway

[01:35:17] lost boys toy soldiers dream a little dream the first what the first uh is my love for korey and

[01:35:24] vampires i love the adventure and kids besting adults in toy story and toy soldiers and it was my first

[01:35:31] action movie uh so great that's awesome uh cera gear says goonies because i always wanted to go on

[01:35:41] an adventure like that uh lion king the animation the story and the music Aladdin see above

[01:35:50] the blue bird i loved a lot of Shirley temple movies when i was a kid but this one just stuck with me

[01:35:55] i've never seen blue bird um i've never even heard of it like a lie so but fair enough

[01:36:02] that's those are some good choices and blue bird i'll have to uh after looking too

[01:36:06] naven morrow says oh man narrowing down all the movies i have watched in my lifetime that will

[01:36:13] always that i will always rewatch to a top five is next to impossible and thanks for showing my age

[01:36:20] uh i'm gonna have to put some trilogy sagas in here because you can only choose one of them

[01:36:25] the original teenage mutant ninja turtles trilogy as i was a diehard both of these movies and the

[01:36:31] cartoons growing up uh the back to the future series are always worthy of rewatching with michael j fox

[01:36:36] and christopher loyde at their best the first transformers movie will always give me chills when

[01:36:40] i hear the voice of optimist prime for the first time in that movie the never ending story yes i

[01:36:47] loved it when they broke out that song and stranger things last but not least i will always watch

[01:36:52] the star wars saga as it's grown with me throughout my life great choices um i had teenage mutant

[01:36:59] turtles one and two in my uh in my top five of course because they're just great movies

[01:37:05] um i'm not gonna name the trilogy because the third one is kind of a forgettable movie i guess it

[01:37:11] has its moments back to the future again being mentioned i said you know they're kind of on a pedestal

[01:37:16] when it comes to me so of course they're very uh very important in my and my life as well

[01:37:22] the first transformers movie i'm not sure if you mean the live action or not uh if you do

[01:37:29] i'm i'm gonna call you out like i did with arica within side out because i know that's not from

[01:37:34] your childhood so i'm gonna assume you mean the animated movie but if that's the case then yes

[01:37:40] i agree with you wholeheartedly 100% and yes hearing hearing them sing the the song from never

[01:37:47] branding story and stranger things was uh was great uh and lastly and longly we have Jamie

[01:37:54] Hollins palace dear dear friend of mine from childhood uh she says i typed a whole thing and then

[01:38:01] facebook fricking refreshed i'll give you my top five but only two will have the extensive why

[01:38:07] because i can't bring myself to type the rest again sorry Jamie uh she starts with saying

[01:38:13] labyrinth our labyrinth i could recite that movie in my sleep my sister and i still randomly send

[01:38:20] each other a quote from it and easily uh and easily do a whole scene of dialogue i love genifer

[01:38:26] connolly as the female protagonist an ultimate heroine when she rescues her brother i love the

[01:38:31] weird jim henson muppets i love the music i love the tricks and challenges and david bowie was

[01:38:37] in his prime never ending story i love the fantastical scenery and adventures i love the twinkle

[01:38:44] in the eye of the bookstore owner when he told bashing he couldn't read the book i love the coziness

[01:38:49] of bashing set up in the school attic as he was reading the book our tax succumbing to the swamp of

[01:38:54] sadness that scene is burned into my memory and if i ever suffer from that from amnesia i'll probably

[01:39:01] still remember that scene uh i held my breath i'm gonna try you past the oracle of very cool scene

[01:39:08] the characters are so memorable as well or try you the rock bider morla the childlike empress

[01:39:15] morrick falcor i still sometimes see morla in a hilly mossy grassy grassy area uh there's also

[01:39:22] something about the way they ate food in the movie maybe asmr before i knew about asmr

[01:39:28] bashing sandwich the stew or soup but try you was given when you've met falcor the rock bider's

[01:39:34] rocks all so satisfying who doesn't quote the childlike empress when she yells call my name

[01:39:42] and also who knew he yelled moonchild that's what he yells i keep forgetting because i never knew

[01:39:50] what it was and i knew i looked it up and i couldn't remember sorry uh and who who knew he yelled

[01:39:55] moonchild before the internet because i certainly didn't and no i didn't read the book

[01:40:01] and who doesn't love when falcor helps bashing chase the bullies into the dumpster my

[01:40:07] others without the extensive why in no particular order merry poppins i love singing along with this

[01:40:13] especially feed the birds and chim chimony newsies another one i love to quote and sing too

[01:40:18] and we learn a little along the way about the news boy strike of night of 1899

[01:40:23] and night member for christmas i loved him burdened in the afman and all their dark quirkiness

[01:40:28] and we still try to watch it every year sometime between halloween and christmas

[01:40:33] thank you for all of that jamey um god i wanted a falcor so bad so bad i wanted a falcor growing up

[01:40:42] and as for the merry poppins it's um you know it's it's great because i i put a post out there one time

[01:40:49] asking people if you could see me um perform anything from a musical

[01:40:57] um what would it be and so many people posted you know some great roles from uh

[01:41:07] you know the music man and and great as showman and stuff but jamey i believe was the one

[01:41:13] that said she could see me playing bird from merry poppins and i loved that so much because

[01:41:19] i love dick van dyke i love bird from merry poppins he's such a great character

[01:41:24] and i sing right along with with all those songs too jamey so thank you for all of that

[01:41:29] uh but thank you to everybody for all of this great feedback i i love it let's keep this going

[01:41:35] in future episodes of this podcast um i've got a lot of top fives lined up i i don't know which one

[01:41:44] is coming next so keep your eye out on social media uh i'll be posting it you know on the

[01:41:50] the will home facebook page which is facebook.com slash will home podcast so you can go there to

[01:41:55] keep track of what episodes are coming up and where you can leave feedback um or you can always

[01:42:01] just email me directly feedback at willhomepodcast.com if you want to leave me a voicemail um you know and

[01:42:08] let me know about uh all of that you know and and give me the feedback that way it's it's going

[01:42:16] to be great and you know speaking of that um i do still have one more i have one more piece of feedback

[01:42:22] and this one actually comes in the form of a voicemail it's one of the reasons i saved it for last

[01:42:28] i kicked it off with Alex and i'm gonna end it with Alex because he did send me a voicemail for this

[01:42:34] so let's go ahead and let's play this this uh voicemail from Alex. Hey all Alex Kruger leaving

[01:42:40] feedback for favorite childhood movies you'll never outgrow number five surf ninjas Ernie Reyes

[01:42:46] Jr. Leslie Nielsen the Sega game gear and Rob Schneider this movie has always made me laugh and

[01:42:52] insured i was singing Barbara Ann incorrectly number four D2 the mighty ducks it's thanks to this

[01:42:58] movie that i have always known the Iceland and Greenland have names that do not represent their ecosystem

[01:43:03] i love this flick for a great job by the cast especially the newcomers and i don't know

[01:43:07] soul who alive who has seen this movie as a kid and hasn't tried the knuckle puck

[01:43:11] bash brothers for life number three three ninjas rocky cult and tum tum stage a martial arts

[01:43:18] version of homelone and pure hilarity and soos this movie is one that doesn't get enough love

[01:43:23] these days but anyone from a certain era will always speak very highly of it their bedroom was so

[01:43:27] cool and even though it made no sense i always wanted to play super mario brothers three with a power

[01:43:32] glove oh the power glove what a time to be alive number two honey i shrunk the kids any movie i can

[01:43:39] show my girls and they will beg to watch it again is going to be a big hit and this one is no exception

[01:43:45] rick maranis in his prime crazy special effects for the era and when i was eight i went to

[01:43:49] universal studios in orlando and is able to walk around in a honey i shrunk the kids world and that

[01:43:54] memory will forever live with me damn what a great movie i had number one heavy weights there was

[01:44:00] never a doubt this was my number one peak villain bend stiller so many mighty ducks cast members and

[01:44:06] ungodly quotable this pleases me is one of my most popular memes to use my friends as is do it to

[01:44:13] Lars and it is a pleasure to serve you Tony not only that but has any movie romanticized off-road

[01:44:19] go-carding like this film but the single craziest stat is that Paul freaking fee feig feig i don't know

[01:44:26] is skinny tim honorable mentions because as the youngest of four i was introduced to way too many

[01:44:31] movies i shouldn't have as a kid goes to hackers johnny lee miller angeline jolly wendell pierce

[01:44:36] fisher stefens and of course Matthew lilyard in a technic color fever dream who hasn't said

[01:44:42] mess with the best die with like the rest at some point in their life that's it for me as always

[01:44:47] keep up the great work thank you for that Alex and man wait a way to bring in five movies in your top

[01:44:55] five that haven't been mentioned at all um you know surf ninjas d2 three ninjas come on man that

[01:45:04] is such a great movie i have not seen that movie in years uh that's definitely one i need to go

[01:45:12] back and revisit honey i shrunk the kids great movie i even like honey i blew up the kid which was the

[01:45:19] awful sequel with uh carry russell you know coming in where they blew up the baby um or maybe

[01:45:25] that's what it is honey i blew up the baby no honey i blew up the kid that's right i was right

[01:45:28] the first time heavyweights great movie and even you know hackers as your honorable mention six movies

[01:45:35] none of which had been mentioned so way to go bringing in some some fresh blood into the list of

[01:45:40] of movies um hopefully you guys listening out there took away from this you know what i did in

[01:45:47] movies that we just need to revisit you know kind of bringing back some memories from childhood with a

[01:45:52] lot of these movies that were mentioned whether mic on i mentioned them in our top five's or you know

[01:45:57] you guys mentioned them in your in your feedback and you're hearing other people's feedback and being

[01:46:01] reminded of that you know these these movies do this for a reason you know in in reminding us about

[01:46:07] our childhood so it's so great to be able to be reminded of of what could arguably it better

[01:46:16] be a better time in our lives you know a more innocent we'll say that a more innocent time in our

[01:46:21] lives uh but thank you once again to everybody for all the great feedback that you left i encourage

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[01:49:02] patreon to find out uh i did and mention earlier i went and saw ghostbusters for as an empire tonight

[01:49:08] and i will tell you this as a fan of the ghostbusters franchise both movies and animated series from

[01:49:16] childhood i highly enjoyed this movie i know critically it's getting panned a little bit uh depends

[01:49:24] on who you ask there's a lot of mixed reviews the audience really likes it the critics not so much

[01:49:30] i will tell you if you're a fan of the franchise you will get what you need from this movie but as

[01:49:35] i tell everybody whether it's a review here on willhelm or i'm at a panel or i'm at a show don't

[01:49:40] listen to me don't listen to critics if you want to see a movie go see the movie judge it for

[01:49:46] yourself and and make your own decision uh as the weather not you like it don't don't decide because

[01:49:54] of what critics say some of the best movies that people love and adore have been horribly panned by

[01:50:02] critics keep that in mind okay many of these movies that we have mentioned on this podcast whether

[01:50:09] it's myself and michael or all of you through feedback if you go and look at their ratings they're

[01:50:14] not highly rated movies but we love them anyway so as for ghostbusters for as an empire as for any

[01:50:20] other movie go and see the movie for yourself don't listen to us with that being said thank you guys

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[01:50:37] you one more time to michael g for coming on um make sure you check out uh listen back to all

[01:50:45] of the shows that michael mentioned i'm gonna be at all of them as well so uh you can find me

[01:50:52] at all of those shows if you happen to go to any of them uh please make it known and and and we'll meet

[01:50:58] I promise you uh we'll meet up uh but thank you as always for being a part of the community i love

[01:51:03] doing this and i love that i have people that follow me and listen but until next time i will see you guys

[01:51:09] down the road on another episode of will helm take care