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Here's a surpise mega-length bonus episode for you! We join forces with Kordell Cabe and Justin Warfle, hosts of The Consensus Movie podcast, to journey through the last century of cinema history and share our favorite movies from each decade. Join us for a wide-ranging discussion of the movies that have impacted us from the 1920s on.
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It's time to wrap up our third season of Let's Finally Watch This. We start by making a few observation about this season as a whole before diving into the heart of the episode--our Ranking of Essentialness for this season's movies! We also share our personal favorites from the season.
Thanks for joining us for yet another journey through the decades of film!
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It's 2014. Franchise movies abound, and American blockbusters are making bank around the world. But some directors, like Wes Anderson, are making movies that defy blockbuster conventions and that experiment with film style. The Grand Budapest Hotel, considered by many to be Anderson's magnum opus, follows concierge Monsieur Gustave and his Lobby Boy protege Zero as Gustave inherits a famous painting, is accused of murder, breaks out of jail, and escapes from fascist Zubrowkan troops (among other escapades).
What The Grand Budapest Hotel offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: a star-studded cast, including Ralph Fiennes, Adrian Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, and Owen Wilson, among others; a nostalgia for the culture of old Europe; an odd couple pairing with fussy, pompous Gustave and simple-minded Zero; and Anderson's unique, meticulously constructed style.
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It's 2004. Teen movies exploded as a genre in the 1980s and have continued largely unabated since. With Mean Girls, comedian Tina Fey helps bring forth a teen movie that resonates with its viewers, both reflecting high school girl culture and critiquing it. The plot follows previously homeschooled Cady Heron's involvement in the popular girl clique "The Plastics," her slow transformation into a Plastic herself, and the fallout that follows.
What Mean Girls offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: an honest look at mean girl culture; rumors, gossip, and a Burn Book; laughs alongside the moral fall and recovery of Cady Heron; and possible flashbacks to your public school career.
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It's 1994. The top-grossing film is The Lion King, but right after that is Forrest Gump. Gump, played by Tom Hanks, wins audiences with his memorable phrases ("Life is like a box of chocolates"), his optimistic outlook, and his "right place, right time" escapades through American history. It's a comedy, a drama, and a movie that left its mark on culture.
What Forrest Gump offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: a singular, iconic character perfectly played by Tom Hanks; a meditation on the tumultuous second half of the 20th century; a series of fortuitous events where the nice guy always comes out on top; and a story that refuses to fit neatly into normal categories.
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It's 1984. A glance at the year's top ten grossing movies shows we're deep into the blockbuster era. Director James Cameron makes his mark on science fiction with The Terminator, an action-thriller that combines the relentless threat of a horror movie with a time travel backstory--and it captured the culture's imagination. It's a film that even if you haven't seen it, you know about Skynet, the Terminator robots, and Sarah Connor.
What The Terminator offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: Arnold Schwarzenegger as a relentless killing machine; a well-constructed backstory that takes a small cast and gives it big stakes; plenty of violence and mayhem; and the iconic line, "I'll be back."
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It's 1974. It's the height of New Hollywood, and Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski, is a quintessential example of the darker subject matter and bleak outlook often associated with the movement. Considered one of the greatest movies of all time, this neo-noir crime drama follows private investigator J. J. Gittes, played by Jack Nicholson, as he digs into a world of government corruption, murder, and tangled family relationships amidst a Los Angeles drought.
What Chinatown offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: a tightly written, highly regarded script; a compelling mystery based in Los Angeles's historical water wars; a complicated femme fatale who knows more than she is willing to share; and a bleak, though famous, ending.
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It's 1964. The Golden Age of Hollywood is over, and New Hollywood is about to begin, an era known for anti-heroes, changing morality, and less traditional plots. At the same time, the spaghetti western emerges, ushered in with A Fistful of Dollars, starring Clint Eastwood as the "man with no name" and directed by Sergio Leone. This is a different type of western, a grittier, less black-and-white western, that takes place in a town where rival gangs rule and the coffin-maker is kept busy.
What A Fistful of Dollars offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: an seminal example of the evolution of the western; a mysterious, iconic anti-hero protagonist; a tale of crime and harsh justice; and a lot of cool, grimy, sweaty close-ups backed by Ennio Morricone's now famous score.
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It's 1954. The American occupation of Japan had ended a few years before, and Japanese cinema is beginning to make an impression on the world scene. Released the same year as the original Godzilla, Seven Samurai is an essential classic from director Akira Kurosawa. Poverty-stricken farmers threatened with bandits decide to hire samurai to protect their village. This seemingly simple plot begins a massively influential film and an undisputed classic of cinema.
What Seven Samurai offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: a window into famed director Kurosawa's style; the plot that popularized the "assemble the team" trope; a microcosm for war, love, life and just about everything else; and the character Kikuchiyo--when you watch it, you'll know.
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It's 1944. The Second World War is still raging, and the two top grossing films are musicals. However, Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder, is a different sort of film, a seminal example of film noir. It begins with insurance salesman Henry Neff confessing to a murder, and it follows his involvement with unhappy wife Phyllis Dietrichson and their plan to kill her husband and collect the insurance money without being caught...if they can.
What Double Indemnity offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: an outstanding example of film noir, a fascinating framing device, a quintenssential femme fatale, and an examination of temptation, guilt, and the consequences of what follows.
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It's 1934. It Happened One Night, a film nobody thought would do particularly well, sneaks in just before the Hays Code is enforced. The movie, directed by Frank Capra, follows pampered heiress Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) as she tries to escape her controlling father and join her fiancé. She meets with ex-reporter Peter Warne (Clark Gable) on the bus to New York. Hijinks ensue, and love blossoms. It's a romantic comedy that influenced many, many afterward, and one of three movies to win all five major Academy Awards.
What It Happens One Night offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: an early and quintessential example of a romantic comedy, Colbert and Gable's pitch-perfect onscreen chemistry, witty dialogue and colorful characters, and an iconic hitchhiking scene.
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It's 1924. Buster Keaton, one of the cinematic greats of this era, is at the height of his career. Called "The Great Stone Face" due to his distinctive stoical expression, Keaton's films include dangerous physical stunts and impeccable comedic timing. Sherlock Jr. is no exception. Keaton plays a movie projectionist who hopes to become a great detective as he tries to untangle mysteries and win the girl both in real life and in his daydreams.
What Sherlock Jr. offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: 45-minutes of superbly paced comedy; a quintessential look at one of film's great actor/directors; a series of perfectly orchestrated set pieces; a wild, "how did they film that?" motorcycle ride; and plenty of laughs.
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It's 1914. Out of Italy comes what many classify as the first film epic. In this silent film, the girl Cabiria survives an eruption from Etna, is kidnapped by pirates, nearly offered to the god Moloch, and spends years as a servant. Meanwhile, Roman soldier Fulvius Axilla and his Samson-like servant Maciste cross paths with Cabiria and their destinies are entwined as Rome wars against Carthage and years pass.
What Cabiria offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: an epic story set against major moments in Italian history, the iconic and unsettling "Temple of Moloch" scene, engaging characters (mostly) in wide-ranging plot, and the one-and-only strongman Maciste.
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It's 1904. French director Georges Méliès is at the height of his career, creating fantastic, creative movies in the early days of cinema. Like his earlier A Trip to the Moon, this film is about a fantastic voyage, but as the Institute of Incoherent Geography visits mountain villagers, the surface of the sun, and monster-infested oceans, it is in some ways a more frantic and adventurous movie.
What The Impossible Voyage offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: a 20-minute feast for eyes and imagination; another example of Méliès' cinematic experimentation and opulent sets; and an almost fever-dream level series of cartoonish escapades.
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It's time to wrap up another season of Let's Finally Watch This. We start by making a few corrections, filling in a few gaps in this season's discussion of film exhibition, and discussing how film continues to change up to the present.
But, then, the heart of the episode--our Ranking of Essentialness for this season's movies! We also share our personal favorites from the season.
Thanks for joining us for another journey through the decades of film!
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It's 2013. The top-grossing film of the year is Disney's Frozen, but that's not the only important fairy-tale based animated film released this year. In Japan, Studio Ghibli released The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, a beautiful, compelling retelling of the Japanese folk tale, "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter." It's a film that lets us experience Japanese history, Japanese animation, and the creative ability of Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata.
What The Tale of the Princess Kaguya offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: beautiful, water-color-inspired art; a thematically rich retelling of a popular folk tale; scenes of beauty, melancholy, and longing; and a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating, even after 10 years and 97 reviews.
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It's 2003--and it's the holidays. Many of our standard Christmas movies were released in the 1940s, but since the 1990s, there has been a resurgence of Christmas movies, creating a number of new holiday classics. Among those is Elf, directed by Jon Favreau, a movie nearly everyone has seen, except for Let's Finally Watch This co-host Timothy Deal.
What Elf offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: a modern Christmas comedy that is both family friendly and heartfelt; love-him-or-hate-him Will Ferrell as the Christmas-obsessed Buddy the Elf; deep discussions of the proper use of fruits in children's books; and an introduction into the four food groups: candy, candy cane, candy corn, and syrup.
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It's 1993. Multiplexes have arrived, and there are plenty of movies to show—Jurassic Park, Tombstone, Schindler's List, the original Super Mario Bros. movie.... Okay, not all are great, but it was a time of the blockbuster. In the middle of this comes Sleepless in Seattle, an iconic romantic comedy with the now-classic pairing of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
What Sleepless in Seattle offers casual movie fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: a near-religious search for romantic "magic," clever writing with an unconventional romantic comedy structure, great acting by Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, and references to Cary Grant and tiramisu.
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It's 1983. The blockbuster age has started, and the top-grossing movie of the year is The Return of the Jedi. However, another pivotal space movie is also released this year, The Right Stuff, a film examining the early years of the space race. Based on the book by Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff follows the journey of the Mercury Seven as they undergo grueling trials and first-of-their-kind flights.
What The Right Stuff offers offers casual move fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: cutting-edge (at the time) editing of flight and space, a fascinating (and mostly accurate?) retelling of a slice of American history, an ambitious scope, and a tribute to men who had "the right stuff."
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It's 1973. We're in the middle of the New Hollywood era, when movies tended to be more uncoventional and often darker. However, some movies are still all-around fun. The Sting, an Academy Award-winning caper movie featuring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, dives into the underworld of the 1930s with effortless skill. Two con men attempt to take revenge on a crime boss by swindling him out of his money, and the audience is along for the ride.
What The Sting offers offers casual move fans who have always meant to watch classic movies: stylish suits, clever cons, card sharks, a smart script, and plenty of "The Entertainer."
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