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Ultimate '80s & '90s Action Movie Countdown · Tigs Bits Podcast

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Welcome to Tiggs Bits. I'm Tiggs, and joining me, as
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always is Jr. the handler and Chad Blasi the One man posse.
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And today, we're counting down the top 10 action movies of the
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80s and 90s. These films are legendary,
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featuring larger than life stars, jaw-dropping stunts,
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soundtracks that defined a generation.
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Gentlemen, it's good to see you. This is going to be fun.
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I think this is going to be an excellent excellent list.
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No, it's going to be great dude. This is this is going to be fun.
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I can't wait. I haven't seen this list yet
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that you're going to propose to us, so it'll be interesting to
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see if it aligns with my memory of that time span and what
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exactly, you know, some of those big movies and we know some of
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the real big ones there. But you know, I just yeah, this,
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this, this is going to be a ton of fun right here.
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Well, that. That's kind of, that's the fun
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of this, isn't it? Jr. is that I like y'all to come
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in a little bit cold. I've barely looked.
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I've looked at a list long, long enough to see I have a list, but
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I'm not going to. I'm not really looking at it
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until I come to it either. I did glance at it and I already
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do disagree. I'm just going to say that I
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will say that there's already some disagreements in my mind,
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but it's it's another generated list from ChatGPT taking over
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everything that it believes is the most popular movies of the
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80s and 90s that are in an action genre.
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It asked me, do we want to specify this from like a Indiana
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Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark to a Terminator 2 or how did
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we want to do it? And I said, well, I want it
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all-encompassing. I want everything in there.
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Just let's go with box office hits, cult classics, throw those
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things in there. And so it generated us a list.
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You know, and that's the difference.
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There's going to be most popular and then there's going to be
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best. Or you know, the ones that stood
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the test of time, the box office hit.
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Then think about how many times you look through Netflix or one
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of those deals and you're scrolling through and it shows
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you Academy award-winning movies and you scroll through them and
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you like, I've never seen any of these.
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Or you try one and you're like, no wonder.
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But it was huge popularity and a critically acclaimed and all
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that. And then some that that bombed
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when they came out end up being the ones that live the test of
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time. The other day, the Texas
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Chainsaw Master, that guy made that for like 40 grand because
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no one wanted to do it. And you know what I mean?
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Nobody liked it. It's still getting played today.
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So anyway, and I am so excited about this topic today because
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boys, if there's one thing I did growing up, it was watch some
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action movies. And I'm from a kid that grew up.
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I was born in 1979, so this is right in my wheelhouse.
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I was that I was of that generation where both parents
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worked their BCR came into existence.
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Get anything to keep you occupied.
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You go home, you get off the school bus, you walk home, you
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do what you Lots of movies, lots of times parents partying with
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their friends, going to other friends houses, movies, movies,
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movies. So I'm pumped about this topic
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and I've got A and I'm going to try to jog my memory.
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It's been a long time since it was the 80s, but there were a
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lot of movies that I know we're not going to make this list, but
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if I drop the name, there's going to be lots of people who
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are going to be like, Oh yeah, that was a good movie.
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So I'm looking forward to this voice.
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And this is 100% what I was counting on with Jr. because
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he's the wild card in this deal. He's going to remember stuff
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that I don't remember. And I guarantee you that is not
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on this list. I like kept digging it for
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alternates. Give me more, give me another
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alternate, give me 10 more, give me 10 more, give me 10 more.
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And it just kept going. And I knew every single movie
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like we know of every movie that we're going to talk about.
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So to narrow it down to 10, pretty impossible.
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Next week, next. Week we'll do next week we'll do
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foreign language action films to really I remember that when you
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when you've watched everything at your local bait and tackle
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little section, they have a VCR movies.
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You will watch some extreme stuff ninja movies that you
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don't understand a bunch of those too.
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Yes, for sure for sure. Sorry about the lighting boys to
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and everybody out there in in tigs bits world.
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I'm actually coming from Houma, LA.
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I'm in the same state as Brantley this week.
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I am at my house here and I don't have my lighting situation
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how I do at home, so apologize for that but hope everybody can
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hear and hearing is most important because there's
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nothing to look at here anyway so.
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No doubt, man, no doubt. Well, look, before we kind of
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cover in this episode, call us at 225-800-3058.
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That's 225-800-3058. Let us know.
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We might even feature you on a future episode so.
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Yes, please do, because I know I'm gonna miss some and I would.
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There's gonna be some somebody who'll jog my memory on some
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gym. So please do everybody.
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They call the 80s and 90s action movie The Golden age of action
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movies, which if you ever heard When we Were young, the golden
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age of anything. I mean, how Dang old did that
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make you feel? Right.
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Like, yeah, the golden age of Hollywood.
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Yeah, all black and white, all black and.
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White. That's right.
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That's right. So like, this is now the
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equivalent of that. And it makes sense.
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I mean, think about it. When we were born.
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You're born in 79, Jr. I'm born in 78.
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So I'm a year, year older than you.
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Whenever we were listening to music in the 80s, we were
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hearing some of these soundtracks, you know, coming
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out like Dangers Highway to the danger Zone, stuff like that.
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I mean, those are classics now. That was the equivalent of like
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Elvis back in the the time the distance Harry.
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Como, yeah. Perry Como.
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Well, Lawrence Welk, good Miller Trio.
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Yeah, I saw, I saw. We we we put the YouTube on a
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lot of times at home and let the music play.
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And Teresa, I'll just pick something, let it go.
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And she classic rock and Guns and Roses came home.
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It was like November rain. I'm like, that's classic rock
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now. Wow.
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OK. Yes, it totally is.
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And they got me here in Baton Rouge.
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They have a great station, Eagle 98.1.
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I didn't listen to it for years. I listened to it when I was
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younger to hear the old music, the classic music, and then it
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started becoming like more recent and now it is like, you
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know, Nirvana's classic rock and stuff.
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Like what I don't understand, but it is, I mean, it is.
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It's just that's part that part of part of the time.
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But anyhow, let's jump back into these movies and start with the
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top ten and coming in at #10 thanks to ChatGPT and its list,
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I don't know if I put this movie in the top ten list of action
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movies. I know I don't.
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I can just go ahead and say I will not.
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Great movie. Great song from the movie Mad
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Max Beyond Thunderdome in 1985 with Mr. Mel Gibson.
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That was a a great one. It was a good one.
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I was a good one. I didn't.
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That wouldn't, yeah, that wouldn't be one I would
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initially have thought of. But let me tell you, and
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thinking back, I know I watched Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome, all
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of those several times back then.
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Dude, that was some high level stuff.
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You talk about Tina Turner in her heyday, L Gibson at the
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Rocking. He was the young guy on the
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rocket ship on him. That was a big those were big
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movies and and go back and watch a hair of a man.
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It was intense and the way they shot him.
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That's wild. That was I I wouldn't have put
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it on there, but I can see it being on there 100%.
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That's hard. It's hard for it's hard for it's
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not your typical military. It's almost got the sci-fi.
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It blends genres a little bit there the same thing.
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I'm thinking another couple of movies and we'll go to our our
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our just general discussion later and I'll mention some of
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those, but they're kind of the same thing.
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I almost know. Do they fit this criteria?
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But it's action, it's a movie, so.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blasey, you have any thoughts on
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it? Was it a a big movie for you?
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It it, it was a huge movie. It was crazy.
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It was like you said, it's it's intense.
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It's like it to action movies. It was like what Slipknot is,
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you know what I mean? To music, right?
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You know what I mean? It's on another level, yeah.
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There's nothing cartoony about it.
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There was full blown adult, there was not trying to blur the
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lines that it wasn't adult. Yeah, yeah.
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I think it's a film, though, if you go back and watch it today,
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that it still holds up to the test of time.
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The way it looks visually. Yeah, it still looks good.
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It had to be a huge budget too. Think about those scenes, those
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big huge scenes with all that stuff going on and all those
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people and fighting and, you know, blowing up in the, you
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know, did it in the desert, though.
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Cheap place to shoot. But yeah, that is.
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True. I wonder whether it's really
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good, you know what I mean? Counted out rides you know to
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come cruising around in. I mean it was so and you think
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how big it was too. It got a resurgent too, because
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Tupac California love. They basically recreated that
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whole scene for the music video. So that is.
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True. I mean, it's exactly right.
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That's exactly right. Who we got on #9.
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Coming in at number. Nine.
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That's a strong. Ten, That's a strong.
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That's a. Strong ten, I mean they're all
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all ten of these are very strong.
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There's not any weak ones in here.
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Number 9, I think 10 and 9 are both the weakest of the deal,
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which they should be. They're coming in at 10 and 9.
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Number 9/19/94's iconic non-stop tension thriller with Keanu
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Reeves speed. Great movie.
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Great. Movie.
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Yeah, intense Sandra Bullock. Yep.
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Just doesn't, just doesn't jump out there, those first ones to
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me, because again, I'm my brain just instantly goes to a
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camouflage and that vein of action.
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But 100% action. It's a little, it's a little one
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of the newer, you know, it was a little more modern than some of
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the ones we're thinking about. But yeah, that's chat GP2 for
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you. I mean, it is.
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And it's all in one place, right?
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Everything's on bus, you know? Yes, and he can slow.
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Down. No, he can't slow down and
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there's no there's. Not a lot of fights.
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Or something I forget. Yeah, yeah.
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It's just him barreling through Los Angeles on a or San Diego on
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a bus that can't slow down. That's all it is.
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I mean, that's that's. Literally what it is.
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I mean, it did well in the box office, obviously.
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Here's a fun fact. Well.
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Enough people to lie to ChatGPT that it need to be on this list.
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OK, who we got for 8:00? Yeah, now we get to #8 and the
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man is back. He's already been in the top
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ten, and I think he's going to be in it again because he had
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one heck of an 80s for sure coming in #8 and I think this is
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a strong one to be there. It's a a sweeping historical
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epic with breathtaking battle scenes, One of the visually most
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appealing movies that I've ever seen.
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I'm talking, of course, about 1995's Braveheart.
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Braveheart, yeah. Oh wow.
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Yeah, yeah. Just.
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Absolutely. Aren't they redoing Braveheart
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in their new Braveheart coming out or something?
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I heard that. I think I heard that.
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I think I heard. I'm like, how do you redo that?
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How's that going to happen? I don't understand.
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Like, you know, but supposedly they're redoing it.
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I think I need to dig out of that.
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Yeah. That's a great movie.
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That's an absolute great movie. I mean, that's how many times
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you've probably seen that movie. You know, I've seen it.
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I don't know, at least 1520, you know, if it's ever on, I never
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turn it. It's one of those movies.
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That's true. I don't know if I've seen it
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from start to finish in one sitting more than like 3-2,
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maybe three times just simply because I'm but like, if it's
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on, I know what's happening. I can pick up and continue on
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with it. I agree.
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It's just so, as I said, story is just so gripping.
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I mean, it starts off so strong and you're bought in the whole
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time. And I mean, it's just, it's
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definitely one of the. I would say it's one of the best
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movies ever made, one of the best of all time.
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Yeah. It's definitely, it's
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definitely. I got to be up there.
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I mean, it was just like you said, visually, the whole thing,
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the, the, the period piece, the whole, you know, the, the
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animals, the whole thing is wild.
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Yeah, it's intense. I'm scanning the list.
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I'm just looking to see years seeing if that's the.
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Yeah, there's there's a Braveheart too, coming in 2025.
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There is. Oh, wow, yes, wow.
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Holy cow. Just kind of trailer up already
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for it, Yeah. Wow.
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All right. Kind of like Gladiator 2, which
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is depending on when you're seeing this is out now or has
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just about to come out when we're recording this.
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And I mean, I'm looking forward to to seeing that.
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I think it's probably something we're going to have to going to
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see for sure. I'm going to see it like soon
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and we'll probably talk about it on the show coming up.
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So that's it. That's great news.
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That's great, great stuff to know.
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Things you can only learn at Tigs.
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Bits, that's right, that's. Right.
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Again, this one, this one's in the 1995 movie.
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My mind just goes back farther than that.
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I was thinking more 80s, but it it's in the period, so it works.
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So what's next? It's in the period.
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What's next? Blade 2 coming in at #7 Now, I
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think that we all will agree that this sucker is an action
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movie and it's what we, I think what we consider an action
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movie. I mean, it's the perfect blend
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of sci-fi and action Arnold Schwarzenegger at his freaking
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peak. Justin the body, Ventura.
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Yeah, absolutely. The body.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Carl. Carl Withers.
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Absolutely. When they Dutch.
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Oh man, that yeah, when they grab their arms together at the
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beginning and they do the flexing thing.
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Easy. The CIA got you pushing too many
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pencils. Oh my gosh.
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Man, great movie. We what I've watched that with
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with Riley. That's kind of what I'm going
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down this list to like. What have we seen and we have
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not seen he hasn't seen anything yet that that we've talked
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about. He has seen predator.
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He freaking loved it. I mean, told you not.
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Yeah. I think he was 9 or 10 when he
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saw it too for. The first time like.
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Let's watch this. You know, it's, it's action.
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This is a guy's movie, you know what I mean?
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It's, it's absolutely. And he's and and Arnold is, was
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so good in that era. This is prior to him being the
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governor and then the guvenator and all the things we know him
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as now. Back then he was Arnold the
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power lifter bodybuilder. And.
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Just this really strong action actor, kind of like Sylvester
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Stallone, they had, they had a reign there during that time
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period with the action movies being the, you know, the the
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strong guys that the fighting scene stuff more so than the
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detective type things like Mel Gibson usually did.
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Not Braveheart, obviously, but yeah, So what a great movie.
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Predator. Yeah. 7:00 You could probably
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move it up in my world, but that's I'm glad to see it on the
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list for sure. Yeah, it has to make that list.
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It absolutely has to make the list.
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One thing I was always disappointed in, you know, they
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had so many good video games and unless I just flat out missed
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it, they never had a really good Predator video game.
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And it just seems. Like it?
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Just seems like it would have been perfect.
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A perfect. I think they had one for Sega
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maybe, but I don't remember. It was like they probably had
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too. Just once again.
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Yeah. Aging wasn't it wasn't that
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good? Yeah.
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It's like the whole story about ET.
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You ever heard that story? They made an ET movie or an ET
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Nintendo game that was so bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Very couple documentary on that, yeah.
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Yeah, the worst game ever made. Worst.
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Game ever made. Yeah, isn't that Craig?
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So maybe that maybe Predator was #3 on that list.
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We'll have to do that list one day.
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Top ten worst video games of all time.
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I'd love that. Would be fun.
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That would. Be just Reese's Pieces at him or
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something. He caught him with his little,
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you know, pixelated head. It was awful.
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Watch that doc it was. It was good.
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Yeah, I got to see crazy. Yeah.
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And then they they were trying to find it, find the dump where
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they had. Yeah.
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Sure. Put them and all and all that,
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that stuff, Yeah, trying to find some because they, they were
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hundreds of thousands of them. They just buried them.
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It's crazy so bad we can't even sell them.
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Coming in at number six and as, as we kind of tease, going to
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the commercial break, legendary characters, some unforgettable
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themes. This one certainly is up there
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for me. And being involved in the top
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action movies of all time, I think it's rightly placed.
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I think it's exactly where it should be.
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But it has a couple of legendary actors in it, none other than
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Harrison Ford and Mr. Sean Connery in Indiana Jones and the
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Last Crusade is what they have coming in.
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I could use just take the whole franchise minus the last movie
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or two. I don't I didn't see, I haven't
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seen the last movie, to be honest with you.
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But Indiana Jones when I was a kid, there was nothing bigger in
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1989. And Indiana Jones, huge, man,
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that was 3 or 4 right there in that run, that series of that
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movie franchise that were so good.
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And another just visually, I mean, these scenes, these
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places, I mean, it takes you to another time and place and you
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feel like you're there. Those are amazing.
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It was really good. They're down in Disney.
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I hadn't been to Disney in years, but they had the Raiders
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of the. It was one of them, you know,
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one of the Indiana Jones deals. Yeah.
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And dude, it was so cool with the ball rolling after the guy
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and the guy barely escapes it. You know, that was a cool little
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experience. You know, I was one of the
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things that stood out to me. So, dude, that franchise was so
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great. Like you said, all those movies
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were so good. They just kept coming there,
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those first two or three that were just phenomenal.
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So. Oh yeah, I definitely agree with
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this being in there. Yeah, it has to be.
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I saw, I saw that too at Disney. Unbelievable.
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Just the special effects that they do, the guy that jumps out
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just before the ball hits crazy. Like it's really neat to see
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what something like a sequence that they film like that in an
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action movie, what it's like to in real life, which is basically
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what that what that is. Cool, cool.
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Fun fact. Talking about video games,
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Indiana Jones has a video game coming out in like a week or
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two. That is it being it.
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It looks incredible and it's kind of based off of the old
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indie, the younger version in this era, maybe even before the
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late Raiders of the Lost Ark or what whatever.
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I'm I'm pumped. There will be a Tigsbits review
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on that game. It's already I'm looking at it
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right now on my screen. It's pre downloaded for whenever
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it comes out, it'll be downloaded.
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I can't wait to jump into that one.
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That's that'll be fun. Yeah.
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And I don't know if they've ever had an Indiana Jones video game.
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I'm sure that they have, but none that I've ever heard of
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that just took off and. Looked this, but this one looks
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fun. There's a game called
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Unchartered, which was basically like you were getting to play
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like Indiana Jones and they've had Netflix shows and stuff like
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that based off of that video game.
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That's what it reminded me of some.
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I'm hopeful that it's going to be kind of like that because
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it'll be a it'll be a blast if so.
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Moving along, coming in at #5 there is 0 doubt that this is a
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top five movie. I mean, none whatsoever.
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It's taken a while. He has not made the list yet.
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You knew Sly would show up at some point in time.
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He may be there multiple more times.
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I don't know. I haven't gotten that far,
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Rambo. First blood, 1980 and two.
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You were three. I was 4.
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Great movie. What a great movie, man.
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That's that to me that that was the of the 80s action movies.
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That is, that is it for me. You know, Rambo and then the
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whole Rambo once again, that franchise, you know what I mean?
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When it comes in, you got First Blood Part 1 and 2, whatever,
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and then you go into Rambo. Was it First Blood Part 1 and
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Part 2? Is that how it was done?
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I think it was first bloods in 1982, so I think it's first
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blood. Part 2, Part 2.
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OK, Yeah. And so, but dude, what a great
21:27
movie. I mean, it that that impacted
21:30
all the way down to the Rattlesnake Rodeo when you
21:31
walked around there and you had to buy your survival knife.
21:34
You know what I mean? Yeah, Everybody had a Rambo
21:36
knife. Everybody did.
21:37
That is right. With this exactly.
21:40
Right with the compass on the top and you can unscrew it and
21:43
put your Flint and your fishing. Yeah, You had the little saw in
21:46
there, the little, you know, thing.
21:47
You had your fishing line in there, you had matches in there,
21:49
your whole Survival kit. That was money.
21:51
Bought 1 every year at the Free State Festival.
21:55
Rambo Rambo knife. Absolutely.
21:57
Rainbow Knife, that is crazy. That is exactly where that came
22:01
from. And then?
22:02
After 2, when he when he took down the helicopter, everybody
22:04
wanted to shoot a bow and arrow with them, something exploding
22:06
on the end of it. That's right.
22:11
That is right. I mean, man, what talk about
22:14
just influential movies, all of these these are like the
22:16
greatest boys movies of of all time is what this should be
22:20
called. And I mean Rambo, you didn't
22:23
want to be him then then think about it.
22:25
Just talk it back to about video games because all this stuff's
22:28
all happening at the same time. Contra, you think you we would
22:32
have never had Contra. I don't think Contra would have
22:34
been as big of a video game as it was in the late 80s if it
22:38
wasn't for Rambo and and Predator and those types.
22:43
Of well, Contra, Contra wouldn't have been as big as it was
22:46
without Commando. And I hope Commando makes this
22:48
list, but we'll see. But another thing, another thing
22:51
to think about on some of these movies and this, you know,
22:54
Braveheart hit the same thing. It's on a period piece and a
22:57
subject that's sensitive and an important history of in the
23:01
history of time. You know, Rambo was about PO WS
23:05
and things like that in some of the wars Americans have fought
23:07
in other places in the world. So another layer in there of
23:10
that movie that expanded it more than just there's no sci-fi.
23:14
That was some real life stuff, you know, told through
23:17
theatrics. But anyway, Gil Rambo, you
23:19
kidding me? Great movie.
23:20
It has to be there, it has to be there, it has to be coming in at
23:25
#4 and the oldest or the youngest of these movies, I
23:30
guess you could say this is the youngest of the movies made in
23:33
1999. Frankly, I never really looked
23:37
at this movie as an action movie, but it has been plastered
23:40
all over everything that I've asked ChatGPT of list.
23:44
And I guess in a way it is because it had revolutionary
23:47
special effects, a very thought provoking story.
23:51
It had a heck of a musical disco track, not disco track of diss
23:56
tracks, just, you know, back then when we had CDs, that CD
24:00
came out. I'm talking about the Matrix.
24:04
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
24:05
Yeah, Keanu Reeves has made this list twice now, you know.
24:10
Wow, yeah. I love the matrix, so I I don't
24:14
know if I put that at #4 I don't even know if I put it on the
24:18
list honestly. I wouldn't have because of the
24:21
time period, because my like I said, I'm thinking, you know,
24:24
but I guess that is 1999, so it's in the scope.
24:26
Barely in there, Yeah, it squeezes in, yeah.
24:29
But when you compare that to Rambo in 82 and The Matrix in
24:32
99, that just seems so far apart.
24:34
But it's 80s and 90s so. Yeah, but to kids 20 years
24:37
apart, you know, you think about how many people do the whole
24:41
matrix dodging the bullet thing. I mean, yeah, I mean, it's, it's
24:45
you know what I'm saying? And having people use references
24:48
to the matrix on on stuff still. Now you know.
24:51
Oh, yeah. I mean, we've used it, you know,
24:52
a lot, right? Yeah.
24:54
Yeah, take everybody does and you know, and like that a lot of
24:59
things and you know, you think about some of these movies like
25:01
the Indiana Jones and you wonder if that'd be an interesting
25:03
rabbit hole to go down. Who did some of these things
25:05
first? Who laid out that plot of need
25:08
help from this person who doesn't want to help?
25:09
They go try to help. They have to solve this puzzle
25:11
after they've done this long journey and that most people
25:14
wouldn't make. And then there's the redemption.
25:17
I mean, you know, what's the what's the chronological order
25:19
on how they were made, who ripped who off kind of deal on
25:22
some of this stuff. That'd be an interesting thing
25:23
because a lot of them kind of repeat themselves and take parts
25:27
of the plot of an action movie. Matrix being a whole, you know,
25:32
probably if you look at some sci-fi action stuff through the
25:35
years and I'm sure they pull because it's all odes to their
25:38
heroes and who they look up to as directors or film makers.
25:41
Same as you would as an artist or an entertainer in any field,
25:44
I suppose, but need to look at it through through that lens.
25:48
But Matridge, Yeah, big. I mean as big a movie as there
25:50
was. So Jim denied on that, but
25:52
wouldn't been on mine. It just gives me more room to
25:54
tell you all the ones I wish was on the list.
25:57
That's what me too, me too. I've got a couple too that that
26:01
I know we're left off that I think should be in there.
26:05
But moving along, coming in at #3.
26:10
Mel Gibson makes another appearance on this list.
26:14
Not surprising. I do not believe I've always
26:17
looked at them as as action comedies, but they're an action.
26:21
It's an actual movie. Of course.
26:22
Yeah, of course. I'm talking about Lethal Weapon.
26:25
Yeah. I mean, I don't think you can
26:27
have an 80s action movie list and not include it.
26:32
What are you thought? What are?
26:33
Your thoughts Jr. Again, I lean towards the comedy
26:36
aspect of it, but another good action movie.
26:39
An action, I mean, he's jumping. Listen, he's having to get off a
26:43
toilet before it blows him up, you know what I mean?
26:44
Like, so things were happening in that movie, you know what I
26:47
mean? In all those movies, you know,
26:48
there was, there was a lot of action involved, but it was
26:50
definitely a comedy. I can tell you, yeah, and I can
26:53
tell you, too. All the ladies back then thought
26:56
Mel Gibson was so cute and they loved his action of him running
26:59
around. And I can remember my dad even
27:01
saying, and he runs, he can't even run right.
27:03
He runs so goofy in this stuff. And you know, dad being jealous
27:07
of mom's affection for Mel Gibson while watching these
27:11
movies in that era. Exactly right, if you know what
27:13
I mean. So, so some of the popularity of
27:15
the movie is some of the stars in there, which it is a great
27:18
movie. I'm not knocking on that.
27:19
But I also think it gets a couple of notches.
27:21
Probably had a killer soundtrack too.
27:23
Probably had who knows Glenn Frey or somebody did a no it.
27:27
I have a fun fact and I did not know this whatsoever and it
27:31
just, I just read it and it makes perfect sense.
27:34
You're going to be like, holy cow, the bluesy score in that
27:38
fun fact. The bluesy score is by Eric
27:41
Clapton and Michael Kamen. There you go ahead.
27:44
And Clapton do the soundtrack, yeah.
27:45
Clapton. You got, yeah, Clapton playing
27:48
some stuff while male and his hairdo are running around with
27:51
no shirt on. That gave it a couple extra.
27:53
He got a couple of votes for that for sure.
27:56
So, yeah, great, great movie. I mean, I there's a lot more,
28:00
more action act action movies that we'll discuss in the free
28:04
form later. But yeah, great, great movie, no
28:06
doubt. Yeah, I think every woman on
28:09
earth and. Spawned the franchise as well
28:12
too. I mean, you know, there were
28:13
several of us. Sure did, 4-5 at least. 44I.
28:17
Believe yeah. Yeah, and they were all good.
28:20
I enjoyed all four of them. I can't say the same for Indiana
28:23
Jones, honestly. The last I didn't even see the
28:25
last. Crystal Skull?
28:26
You didn't think Crystal Skull was the best?
28:29
Was that the one before the one that just came out?
28:31
If no. That's what I watched.
28:36
I like, I didn't like the last two.
28:38
I can tell you that. Oh, I don't.
28:40
I can't really get tell you because I didn't see.
28:42
Raiders do the lock start when he got that cup.
28:44
Man, that's, I mean, that's. Good stuff.
28:46
Yeah, buddy, that's good. Yeah, that's exactly right.
28:49
Have reached the pinnacle of this list and two movies that I
28:55
I, I I think it'll be better for me to go around and get a guess
29:02
from both of y'all as to what you think it could possibly be
29:07
before I tell y'all either one of them.
29:11
One's got to be die hard, right? And one's got to be commando.
29:19
One is die hard and one is not commando.
29:26
Wow. Big trouble with little
29:28
Chinatown. We're going to end up having
29:32
some of these. Credibility on this list here.
29:36
OK, I don't. Know I think these both are
29:38
these both are deserving. Die Hard's on the list.
29:46
Arnold has not been on here but one time.
29:49
Oh yeah, yeah. Oops.
29:54
So we had what, earlier? Predator.
29:57
We. Had Predator, now we got.
29:59
But the last action hero. Terminator.
30:02
No, not the last action hero, but a good movie.
30:07
A good movie, but no Terminator 2.
30:10
Twins. Twins.
30:12
Twins. Yeah.
30:14
T2. T2 Terminator.
30:15
Yeah, There you go. Total action movie.
30:17
Yeah. T2, no doubt.
30:18
Yeah, yeah, I didn't. My brain wasn't thinking.
30:21
I can't get over the commando thing because I mean, you
30:24
talking about the 80s action movie Commando?
30:26
Man, Are you kidding? Me how is it not and die?
30:29
Hard, die hard. I don't know who Bruce Willis
30:32
paid to make sure his movies get on every list there is.
30:34
So is it going to be on this list or is it Christmas movie?
30:37
When the Christmas, if we're going to do it on this list,
30:40
we're automatically omitted from the Christmas list.
30:43
I'm not going through this again in a month with you guys.
30:45
Tell me. It's been eliminated.
30:47
Podcast World, y'all bear witness to this.
30:49
I'm telling these turkeys right now, Thanksgiving, that Die Hard
30:53
is not going to be on our Christmas list.
30:54
It's going to be on this list. How far did Die Hard make it in
30:57
our Christmas? List last year too, I'm sure it.
31:01
Was, I'm sure. It was in the top five, I think.
31:03
I think if I remember correctly it was definitely a top five.
31:07
Beat out like A Christmas Story or something.
31:12
The Griggs who stole Christmas. Something with Christmas in it
31:14
is imagine. Hey anyway.
31:16
We did a we did a little breakdown on Christmas movies
31:19
last year is what we're talking about.
31:21
You can go back on our YouTube channel, watch those if you if
31:24
you want to watch. We did it NCAA Tournament
31:28
bracket style and had them face each other and it it definitely
31:32
created some some situations where you like, but I can't, I
31:37
can't put Frosty up against Die Hard.
31:40
I'm sorry. Personally, I like Die Hard
31:42
better than Frosty, even though I know in my heart of hearts
31:44
Frosty's what should win. Yeah, it just created a
31:49
quandary, but it was fun. There is no quandary in my
31:52
opinion though, that Terminator 2 is a top 2 of all time.
31:59
Absolutely. It's it's in there.
32:01
Yeah. I mean, you talk again, it's in
32:03
the 90s. So it's it's a little newer than
32:06
some of these some of these classic classics like Rambo and
32:10
visually, I mean next level soundtrack, next level.
32:14
I mean, you talk about number. I mean, huge rock ballads for
32:17
was that Guns and Roses and all that stuff that was huge.
32:22
Arnold, I mean mega mega star at this point in his career, great
32:28
cast all around him and then action pad next level action we
32:31
didn't even know existed. You know, with the because I
32:34
believe T2's the one with the, the guy who could morph in and
32:38
out and could, you know, could break apart was made of liquid
32:40
basically. And I mean, how scary was that
32:42
guy chasing that's? The first visual, that's the
32:48
first movie that I ever went wow visually.
32:53
And it was really the first one where CGI was really, they were
32:57
able to start using CGI. And I've watched documentaries
33:01
on T2 and them like rendering those different things where I
33:07
could do it on this computer in here right now in 2 minutes or
33:12
less on some of these things, probably less where it took two
33:17
or three days for them to just do not even one sequence, like
33:22
10 frames of a sequence, you know, that would like bullets.
33:27
But it worked. It looked so real and that in
33:29
the scenes it was in a modern day Los Angeles.
33:32
So and it looked like this could actually be happening, like a
33:34
War of the Worlds type thing. You're like, oh, is this really
33:36
happening? I mean, this looks like it's
33:38
going down and and it just was really well done for sure.
33:42
So well done. So well done.
33:44
You'd mentioned it. A fun fact that's that Guns and
33:47
Roses, You Could be mine and Brad Fidel's score define the
33:52
film's futuristic intensity. Which if you think about the
33:56
musical score in that, of course, yeah, you had Guns and
33:59
Roses and that was when they were at their height of use your
34:02
illusions one and two and you. And Rock'n'roll's at its height
34:06
of money making and power. Oh man, yes.
34:10
You know, it's like a lot of all of that stuff was really just a
34:13
perfect marriage of timing and everything.
34:16
It just all, it all happened at once.
34:18
The music was there, the rock'n'roll was there, the edge.
34:22
Space age, rock'n'roll theme. I mean, that was perfect.
34:25
How did it was perfect? I'm curious about one thing
34:28
though. I mean, how did Kenny Loggins
34:31
movie not get in there? Danger zone?
34:35
How did Top Gun not make it? You know, I'm kind.
34:37
Of is a I am so glad that you get to the pre.
34:41
Mention that. We just wrapped up the top ten
34:45
and coming in at #2 was was was Terminator 2 and coming in at #1
34:51
was diehard. I thought it was the opposite.
34:54
So To Die Hard ended up coming in #1.
34:56
Yes, Die Hard is number one. Yes, we we never, I don't think
34:59
we ever really made that clear on the last segment.
35:01
I got y'all to guess. Yeah, Die Hard number one, I
35:05
don't think we ever made that official announcement.
35:07
Yeah, Die Hard came in at #1 But as you mentioned before, we went
35:12
to break blasey, Top Gun, man, I don't know how the heck you
35:17
leave Top Gun out. That's my number one movie of
35:21
all time. Action movie.
35:23
I mean, it has everything. It's got action, it's got a a
35:27
love story, it's got more action.
35:29
It's sad. I mean, what else do you want?
35:33
Dude, and those and those Dang jet engines.
35:35
Dude, That's when I first got surround sound in my trailer and
35:39
Troy, I'd gone to RadioShack and got the big floor speakers, got
35:42
the center speaker and the two back speakers.
35:44
Had that five point system. Them jets would come over.
35:49
The whole trailer is just shaking.
35:51
That's how you tested it? We wanted to test.
35:54
Yourselves and over and over again.
35:55
Yeah, absolutely. You did you want to be on?
35:58
You want to turn it on and that carrier sitting there and you
36:01
just barely hear and then here it comes.
36:08
And I mean that's how you test your your THX system out.
36:11
What? Will this do you know and just
36:16
go into highway to the danger zone?
36:18
Hell yeah. I'm on that motorcycle, leaving
36:21
Kelly Mcgillis's house. It's just so and look, talk
36:28
about 40 years, almost 40 years later, having a sequel to it
36:32
that I thought was just as Dang good.
36:35
Almost pretty good. I did a great job good.
36:38
Job. Good job.
36:41
Well, I can tell you this I learned a lot in this watching
36:43
this list one I'm I'm older and watched a lot of crappy movies
36:48
compared to what the rest of the population in the world watch.
36:51
But a few things a few takeaways here one, no Jean-Claude Van
36:54
Damme movies. That's a little I would have
36:57
thought for sure. You know, blood sport or
37:01
kickboxer or death warrant or no retreat, no surrender or double
37:09
impact or I mean, he had a bunch of big believers.
37:11
Right. He was huge, man.
37:13
Huge. And then another one, which is
37:15
the most important thing I've learned.
37:16
We don't need to worry about AI anymore.
37:17
We can talk about this one-on-one of our weird
37:20
conspiracy theory podcast later, but I know now as long as we
37:26
have Chuck Norris, we're good because he did not make this
37:28
list. And I can tell you he's going to
37:30
find AI and take it down for the rest of the world.
37:33
So don't sweat. Chuck Norris is on it.
37:35
He's 90 and he's going to go triple Roundhouse, kick AI to
37:39
submission. So no worry about the Terminator
37:41
theory coming true because Chuck's on it because he didn't
37:44
make this list. And I can't believe that Delta
37:46
Force missing in action. I mean, I mean, there's 70
37:49
movies Chuck Norris was in that has much action as all this top
37:52
ten put together, but, you know, weren't as critically acclaimed
37:57
or box office big. I'm sure it's more, you know,
38:00
like I said, VCHVCR era. Yeah, you know, a lot of big
38:05
movies in there that we all watched.
38:07
Head down, pick a flick or rent a flick to grab that one you
38:09
know. Exactly.
38:11
So I was a little surprised that didn't some of those didn't make
38:14
it. Other ones I had on here.
38:15
And if you were talking about like comedy action, like I
38:18
mentioned earlier, Big Trouble in Little Chinatown.
38:21
Yeah, I mean that that's that's right in there for me.
38:23
The Golden Child with Eddie Murphy.
38:24
Eddie Murdie, yes is not as a yes guy, another sly movie that
38:31
is action-packed. If you want to talk about this
38:32
action, you're not defining it as to, you know, shooting or
38:35
blowing up or car racing or any of that is over the top.
38:38
The arm wrestling movie. You talking about the action
38:40
movie Bull Harley? Let's turn that hat backwards.
38:42
Time to flip the switch that could have made it.
38:47
And then yeah, the big one for me was Commando not making it
38:49
because I mean, it's like Predator with a different
38:54
scenario. I mean, this is, you know,
38:56
without the alien. It's it's just huge action on
38:58
the island down there fighting and blowing up.
39:00
And I mean, there's no telling how many evil hench men get just
39:04
annihilated at the hands of 1 Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to
39:08
save someone out of the goodness of his heart.
39:12
So anyway, I hate that I didn't make it.
39:13
But yeah, I was surprised Chuck Norris movies didn't make it or
39:17
Jean Qua Van Damme. And no Beverly Hills Cop.
39:22
Yeah, yeah. If you're going to put Lethal
39:24
Weapon in there, I think you can put Beverly Hills Cop.
39:27
It was close, yeah. It didn't have quite as much
39:29
action. I love Beverly Hills Cop movies.
39:31
Like, those movies were phenomenal, you know what I
39:33
mean? But a little darker, yeah.
39:36
Darker comedy and also, you know, fun fact on that, you
39:39
know, the the the the chief of police, who was Eddie Murphy's
39:44
chief of police in that movie, was actually the chief of police
39:47
in Detroit during that time and was a terrible criminal.
39:50
And during the time they were being movie stars as they were
39:53
protecting drug Lords and things throughout Detroit.
39:56
So rabbit hole y'all go down. Yeah, life impersonates art
40:02
sometimes, and that would be a good a good case in point as
40:06
we're wrapping up a couple to ChatGPT throughout as honorable
40:10
mentions, RoboCop. We didn't get the RoboCop, you
40:14
know, I mean, I don't know. I don't know if I put that up
40:16
there in the top ten, but definitely an influential movie.
40:19
You'll love that movie. Yeah, because at the time, I
40:21
mean, that was something that, I mean, you're thinking about a
40:23
robot and it looked real and it was a big deal, big enough for a
40:26
robot, a RoboCop, to make an appearance at Starcade or
40:29
something like that. WCW and gets locked in the cage
40:33
or break the cage open to let Sting escape.
40:36
Forgot about that. It's terrible segment in the
40:39
show, but it's one of the biggest fails ever there.
40:42
But RoboCop is a movie itself. Yeah, that was.
40:45
It was intense. Yeah.
40:46
As a kid. Why wasn't that?
40:47
It was real. It was What about Mission
40:49
Impossible? Mission Impossible from Mission
40:51
Impossible should. Definitely be yes, you're going
40:53
to be 90 over that franchise speed.
40:56
Yeah. Yeah, East in Boston.
40:57
Great franchise. Oh, it is.
40:59
Yeah. It's phenomenal.
41:01
Yep. Well, look.
41:02
Today boys, I enjoyed today this.
41:04
List. Yeah, it's the great list and
41:06
obviously few left out. And if y'all feel any different,
41:11
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41:13
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41:21
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41:25
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41:31
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