Nov. 29, 2024

Movie Sequels Draft (Rerun w/ Jacob Phillips)

Happy Thanksgiving! This week, we are playing a rerun of the movie draft we held all the way back on episode 2 of the show with Jacob Phillips: the Movie Sequels Draft. This was a really fun draft! I hope you enjoy revisiting it or hearing it for the first time!



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Transcript

yeah now we're going to Move to the movie draft portion if you missed last week I'll give you a

 

Jacob Phillips (01:35:08.436)

Oh yeah.

 

Eli Price (01:35:22.095)

quick overview of what this is. Basically, it's a back and forth choosing. You're drafting, it's like drafting your dodgeball team in the schoolyard. You got to, you're picking the best players. So the category we have for today's movie draft is sequels. So any sequels, it doesn't have to be a direct sequel like the second in the series.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:35:33.079)

Definitely.

 

Eli Price (01:35:50.279)

It can be any sequels, it just can't be the first one, because the first one isn't a sequel by definition.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:35:54.446)

That's right.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:35:58.094)

Hehehe

 

Eli Price (01:36:01.003)

Totally unnecessary for me to say that other than my like Odd out there dry sense of humor But yeah, so we're gonna draft sequels we're gonna go back and forth Yeah, I gave Jacob the first pick last week So I am taking the first pick this week And I'm really in this month like in the moment right now. I'm honestly not sure

 

Jacob Phillips (01:36:13.87)

Let's do it.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:36:21.614)

Let's do it.

 

Eli Price (01:36:28.707)

Like I'm torn. I thought I knew what I was gonna do But now I'm torn because I want it. I want to get the best I Want to get the best of the best? We're drafting seven each and I want to have I want to have the group of movies that would that's gonna win a poll Yeah

 

Jacob Phillips (01:36:32.06)

Ooh.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:36:44.878)

It's understandable.

 

Eli Price (01:36:48.815)

You know, OK, I'm going to go with my gut of what I was originally going to do. I'm going Empire Strikes Back.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:36:57.399)

Mm. Yeah.

 

Eli Price (01:36:59.211)

You know, I think it's my favorite. I think it's the best Star Wars movie. It's just so incredibly good. Such a great movie. And so maybe it's a little pandering because I think the people will like that pick. I think it'll be a fan favorite. But I mean, for me, it's a five star movie. So it might be pandering.

 

It is probably my favorite on my whole list. So Empire Strikes Back, pick number one.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:37:29.278)

Yeah, and it's also, I mean, I think it's really well respected as one of the best sequels of all time. I'm gonna go with one that is kind of in the same vein. There's a little pandering, but also this is probably just my highest rated on there. I'm gonna go with the Dark Knight. Dark Knight, it's in my top 10.

 

Eli Price (01:37:38.379)

Yeah, for sure. Where are you going?

 

Eli Price (01:37:50.732)

Okay, yeah.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:37:57.978)

It's one of those movies that like, I've seen it so many times that like, if it's on TV or if someone's watching or something like, I know exactly where I'm at in the movie and I'm totally fine to sit down and be like, oh, this sequence is coming up. I'm excited for this, you know? And it's, yeah, it's one of the best, it's got one of the best villains that we've ever seen on screen. And I mean, Heath Ledger as Joker is just incredible.

 

Eli Price (01:37:58.075)

for sure.

 

Eli Price (01:38:07.024)

Mm-hmm.

 

Eli Price (01:38:13.655)

Yeah, for sure on my on my list for sure.

 

Eli Price (01:38:21.371)

Mm-hmm.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:38:26.771)

steals the show of the movie. Yeah, it's just it's a classic.

 

Eli Price (01:38:28.719)

for sure.

 

Eli Price (01:38:32.783)

Yeah, definitely. So that's that's actually helpful because now I get to pick the other movie that I was torn between Yeah, I'm going with the Godfather part two for my second pick I Think probably the Godfather part two is the more like film of my two choices so far like the film guy choice But yeah, and actually like a lot of

 

Jacob Phillips (01:38:39.303)

Okay.

 

Eli Price (01:39:00.239)

Yeah, I saw this recently letterbox had tweeted that in their ratings that for the first time ever Godfather part two was rated higher than the Godfather Yes, yeah, which is Crazy to think about but a lot of people do a lot of people say that part two is better than their original and You know, they may be right. It's been a while since I've seen it

 

Jacob Phillips (01:39:11.97)

Dang, wow.

 

Eli Price (01:39:28.951)

I need to go back and revisit these.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:39:31.982)

Yeah, I actually haven't seen any of them. It's a travesty, honestly, that I haven't. So yeah, I need to watch them. I need to keep up on them, because yeah.

 

Eli Price (01:39:35.699)

Really? I did not realize that.

 

Eli Price (01:39:42.203)

Well, let's get together sometime. I have the Blu-ray collection, so yeah, we'll jump in. That was a Black Friday grab for me one time. Yeah, so Empire Strikes Back and Godfather 2 for me. Where you going next?

 

Jacob Phillips (01:39:45.843)

Oh yeah, let's do it.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:39:52.44)

Nice.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:40:02.394)

I'm gonna just go along with the kind of blockbuster-y theme that I went with The Dark Knight. And I'm gonna go with Terminator 2 T2 Judgment Day. And this was actually a movie I revisited recently. And man, it just, I mean, it holds up still after all these years. It's incredible. It's scary. It's violent.

 

Eli Price (01:40:15.745)

All right.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:40:30.334)

I mean, it's everything that you want in a blockbuster. And Arnold is, it seems like at the peak of his powers at this time and it's just like absolutely awesome there. And then you have a strong, even though she's kind of crazy and kind of like a conspiracy theorist, you have, you know, Linda Hamilton is Sarah Connor. She's incredible. But yeah, it's awesome. It's a really great movie. I forgot how good it is.

 

Eli Price (01:40:34.491)

for sure.

 

Eli Price (01:40:39.511)

Mm-hmm.

 

Eli Price (01:40:51.463)

Mm-hmm.

 

Eli Price (01:40:57.631)

Yeah, yeah. I mean, James Cameron. Yeah. I mean, you can't go wrong with James Cameron, right, Jacob?

 

Jacob Phillips (01:41:03.966)

Well, on some of his later things.

 

Eli Price (01:41:08.899)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. For for those of you who don't know, Jacob is is a avatar hater. But what? Yeah, we we won't get into that because Jacob will talk way too long about something he hates. That's that's not healthy, Jacob. It's not healthy. So, yeah, so we're back to me. I have a couple that I'm that I'm trying to.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:41:16.874)

Yeah, wave water is not on my list.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:41:25.838)

Hehehehe

 

Eli Price (01:41:38.095)

of torn between here. I'm gonna pick one and hope that I get to come back and get grab the other one. I'm gonna go Mad Max Fury Road which I was thinking about it and I was like is this a sequel or is it a reboot? And so yeah I started googling it and all the all of like the articles were like sequel sequel sequel

 

Jacob Phillips (01:41:50.217)

Mmm. Good choice.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:41:58.19)

I think it counts.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:42:06.186)

Yeah. Yeah, no, I definitely think it counts.

 

Eli Price (01:42:07.035)

It's the sequel then. Yeah. So, uh, yeah. So Fury Road, in my opinion, is the best action movie of all time. Um, it's just incredible. It's like perfect, perfect action movie from start to finish. Um, and not just like, you know, it's dealing to with some like layered themes on top of that. So I just.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:42:20.651)

It's pure action.

 

Eli Price (01:42:36.019)

I love that movie. So, yeah. Yeah, that's my third pick. Where are you going next?

 

Jacob Phillips (01:42:43.794)

Well, you know, I, two back to back blockbusters for me. I'm just gonna go with one of the biggest blockbusters we've ever seen, Top Gun Maverick. This is one, it's recency bias probably, but Dead Gummett, this movie, seeing it in theaters, I mean, just reminded you how good the movies are, you know, like, and going to the theater. This is like, I mean, it probably is like,

 

Eli Price (01:43:05.742)

Yeah.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:43:11.498)

I would probably say this is my favorite theater experience I've had probably, like just watching a movie in the theater, it's that or Interstellar. Are two just like, man, you see those movies in theaters and it's like, it's intense, it's excellent. But I'm a huge Tom Cruise fan, Top Gun Maverick is phenomenal and just like a lot of the stuff, you're like, how do they do that? And then you go into all the behind the scenes and it's like, they actually just did that. It's really cool, so I love it.

 

Eli Price (01:43:16.521)

Okay.

 

Eli Price (01:43:41.771)

Yeah, I mean with movies like Tom Cruise and you can't lose. Yeah, sorry, that was on cinema at the cinema. Reference there. Most of you will not get that. That's OK. It's probably for the best. You don't want to go down that road. All right. I've got another pick and I'm going to go back to what I was looking at before and go with Blade Runner 2049. Great movie.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:43:45.206)

now.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:43:48.903)

Hehehehe

 

Jacob Phillips (01:43:55.843)

Hehehe

 

Jacob Phillips (01:44:06.814)

Nice. Yep. Definitely on my list.

 

Eli Price (01:44:11.595)

Um, yeah, I don't have a whole lot to say about it other than just like man, deni villnu Just like knocked it out of the park. Um And my it's better than the original in my opinion. I watched the original one A while back. I actually read. Um, do androids dream of electric sheep? which is the book that it's based on and then I watched the movie and um, It's good, but um, man that

 

Jacob Phillips (01:44:21.579)

Yeah, absolutely.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:44:32.567)

Mm-hmm.

 

Eli Price (01:44:41.019)

2049 is just like incredible. So yeah, what you got? Number fourth pick.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:44:43.563)

Yeah, no doubt.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:44:47.566)

I'm gonna go with Return of the King. This is, Return of the King is part of, obviously, the Lord of the Rings franchise, and I grew up watching these movies. I've probably seen these movies more than maybe any other movies, like at least franchise, for sure. And Return of the King is just, I mean, it's excellent. I mean, there's a reason why it won as many Oscars as it did. It's...

 

Eli Price (01:44:52.687)

Good pick.

 

Eli Price (01:44:58.296)

Mm-hmm.

 

Eli Price (01:45:09.563)

Sure.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:45:17.942)

just a really incredible culmination to the whole franchise and the whole series. So it has a really special place in my heart and I love it.

 

Eli Price (01:45:28.94)

Mm-hmm.

 

Yeah, yeah, it's it's I mean, we're not wife and I are actually listening through slowly, but surely the Andy Serkis narrated audiobooks, which are incredible. And so we're in the middle of two, like, I think like dead middle of two towers. And he actually does voices for all the characters Andy Serkis does.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:45:44.03)

Oh nice. Yeah.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:45:52.141)

Nice.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:45:59.042)

That's awesome.

 

Eli Price (01:45:59.467)

And like most of them, he actually gets like spot on to the movie characters. Like he does the voice and it sounds just like the the actors. Yeah, he's Andy Serkis is great. But yeah, Return of the King. I probably should have picked that already. So I'm kind of upset, but I'm not going to go to towers with my fifth pick.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:46:12.662)

He's so talented, man.

 

Eli Price (01:46:28.695)

I'm just gonna leave two towers on the board. And I'm gonna go with a movie that's near and dear to my heart. You probably saw this coming at some point. I'm going with Paddington 2. I mean, it doesn't get any better than a bear that is just there to teach all of us, you know, whether civilian or fugitive, that-

 

Jacob Phillips (01:46:41.32)

Mmm, I knew it.

 

Eli Price (01:46:56.119)

Really, it's just all about being kind to one another. I mean, it doesn't get any better. It doesn't get any better than a bear that loves marmalade teaching Brendan Gleeson how to make marmalade in jail. Like, I mean, what more could you want in a movie than that? I mean, it has a jailbreak scene? I mean, come on. It's...

 

Jacob Phillips (01:47:18.826)

Yeah, I mean, there's not much.

 

Eli Price (01:47:26.263)

I love Paddington 2. It's a great movie. And Nicholas Cage, Nicholas Cage and Pedro Pascal agree based on the, yeah, yeah, and variable weight. So Paddington 2, I love that movie. But yeah, what are you going with at number five? You're in fifth pick.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:47:29.652)

It's an excellent choice.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:47:36.166)

Oh yeah, yeah. Unbearable weight.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:47:50.478)

I'm torn between a couple of them. I'm torn. But I'm gonna go with another one that's near and dear to my heart, something I grew up watching a lot, and that's gonna be Toy Story 2. Toy Story 2, I would probably agree, it's the most rewatchable and most enjoyable one. Toy Story 3, I think a lot of people say is the best one, but it's also kind of depressing. And it's... I...

 

Eli Price (01:47:53.121)

Okay.

 

Eli Price (01:48:01.142)

Great pick. The best Toy Story movie.

 

Eli Price (01:48:14.563)

That's, they do. They do, but I think they're wrong.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:48:19.286)

I enjoy Toy Story 2 way more. So I haven't rewatched three in a long time. So I do need to rewatch it just to kind of see my rankings officially. But I still have Toy Story 2 number one for me, just because it's so fun. Like it's, and there's so many like just moments that just really like formed my childhood as far as like just imagination goes, you know, just a lot of stuff like that. So it's awesome.

 

Eli Price (01:48:40.396)

Yeah, for sure.

 

Yeah, it's there's a lot going on in Toy Story 2. That's just like great. And I would argue so Toy Story 3. I love Toy Story 3. Like you tear up at the end, like, yeah, great. Great Toy Story movie, I would argue, like has a little redundancy from Toy Story 2. That's one of the reasons I think it's not as good. Like you have a similar you kind of have a similar villain in a different body sort of thing. Yeah, I don't know.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:48:51.979)

Yeah.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:49:02.75)

Yeah, I can agree with that.

 

Eli Price (01:49:13.387)

Anyways, great pick. Toy Story 2 is a great, fantastic pick. I'm struggling here because there's a lot that I still wanna pick, but we're only doing seven. So I kept the number of movies we were choosing low because I knew it would make it a little tougher on us. Man, there's some... I wanna make my list a little more versatile, and so I...

 

Jacob Phillips (01:49:25.718)

Yeah.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:49:32.674)

Definitely.

 

Eli Price (01:49:42.811)

I think what I'm gonna do is...

 

Let's see, let me make sure I'm not missing anything.

 

I feel like right now I have a lot of...

 

I guess not a ton of most of my movies are serious more serious, so I'm gonna go I'm gonna go the comic book route. You have a comic book movie. I need one too. I'm gonna go with spider-man 2 Yeah, Sam Raimi spider-man 2 toby maguire I think I think spider-man 2 is better than the first one even So that's that's kind of a that's kind of a trend with with all of my fix there

 

Jacob Phillips (01:50:13.284)

Nice, great pick.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:50:23.114)

I agree.

 

Eli Price (01:50:28.783)

They're movies that I think, sequels that I think are better than the first one. Uh, maybe with the exception of Godfather, I'm not sure what I think there, but yeah, all of these other ones I think are the better of the two. Um, so yeah, I'm going to go with Spider-Man 2. Great movie. Upside down kissing. Gotta love it.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:50:32.967)

Definitely.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:50:50.51)

What more could you want? I mean, and Alfred Molina is awesome. Like people forget how awesome he is. And that sequence where he wakes up in the hospital is like genuinely terrifying. Like that's some Sam Raimi horror right there. Well, I'm gonna go, oh sorry.

 

Eli Price (01:50:52.471)

Yeah.

 

Eli Price (01:50:56.333)

Oh yeah.

 

Eli Price (01:51:03.867)

Sure, yeah.

 

Oh yeah. Yeah.

 

No, I was gonna say go ahead, six pick for you.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:51:13.862)

I'm gonna go, I'm between two iconic franchises right now. And I think I'm just gonna go on just enjoyability more with this one. And I'm gonna go, Annie and the Jones and the Last Crusade. I think this is the best Indiana Jones movie to me. It's really close because Raiders is just awesome.

 

Eli Price (01:51:21.476)

Okay.

 

Eli Price (01:51:31.067)

Mm. Yeah, it was on my list for sure.

 

Eli Price (01:51:40.868)

Mm-hmm.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:51:41.046)

But the addition of Sean Connery and just their back and forth in chemistry throughout the movie is like excellent. And there's just so many great one-liners. Um, there's even the great, like, you know, point of, you know, whatever you want to say about the Holy grail, you know, but it's like, yeah, of course Jesus wouldn't pick the flashy one. You know, I don't know. There's just some, there's some cool stuff in it. I really like it.

 

Eli Price (01:51:49.743)

Yeah.

 

Eli Price (01:52:01.949)

Ha ha ha ha.

 

Eli Price (01:52:05.723)

Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, great pick. I had thought about it, but, but yeah, it's been a long time since I've seen it. So like, you know, I didn't want to pick it because I was like, maybe, maybe I wouldn't like it as much. I don't know. It just, it's been a long time. I'm realizing now I've, I picked the movie. I have two, like other than dark night, obviously I have two superhero movies. Spider-Man two is one of them.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:52:33.823)

Uh huh.

 

Eli Price (01:52:34.091)

I have another one that I have rated higher, but it's too late now. So I'm going to share that. It's not my pick. Logan. Logan is a great movie. So feel free to pick that if you want with your last pick. But I

 

Jacob Phillips (01:52:40.212)

Okay.

 

It's on my list too.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:52:49.016)

I would argue that that's the best made superhero movie.

 

Like ever.

 

Eli Price (01:52:55.767)

Just like ever? Yeah, it's so, I think it and Dark Knight, I think I have three movies that are superhero movies rated like a four and a half stars, nine out of 10. And it's those two, Logan and the Dark Knight and also Into the Spider-Verse. Or.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:53:01.375)

Yeah, other than Dark Knight.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:53:19.978)

Yeah, I'll say Logan's the best Marvel movie ever made.

 

Eli Price (01:53:23.583)

It is. I would agree. I think it's the best. It's not MCU and MCU movie, but I think it's the best Marvel movie for sure. You know, I love Into the Spiderverse, but yeah, probably still looking. So, yeah, I'm sticking with Spider-Man 2, though. Still a great pick. But it's my last pick. So.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:53:29.016)

You're right.

 

Eli Price (01:53:49.951)

Yeah, it's hard. There's a few that I would like to pick. Maybe we can share some honorable mentions in a minute, but I'm going to go with something off the wall. It's not something I have like, you know, I think I have it rated like three and a half stars or four stars. I can't remember off the top of my head. And it might not even be one that most people are aware of.

 

This might hurt my my poll chances, but it's something it gives. It gives me some versatility with a very, very different option from anything we've we've done. I'm going to go with the trip to Greece. Yeah, so there's there's a series. It's, you know, usually referred to as the trip series. It's this like. I don't know how to describe it. It's like a pseudo.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:54:23.182)

I'm very intrigued.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:54:33.715)

Interesting, okay.

 

Eli Price (01:54:48.323)

documentary Like it's it's Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon their two British comedians and they basically like there they go on a road trip together and they're going to these like kind of bed-and-breakfast and Across I think in the first one they're going through England or Scotland I can't remember

 

But yeah, they're just kind of doing it because they're going to review these restaurants and bed and breakfasts for a magazine or a write-up of some sort. And it's really funny, but it's like pseudo because they're playing themselves. But it's also scripted to a certain degree. There's a lot of, obviously, they're two comedians, so a lot of it is improv'd.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:55:35.235)

Mm-hmm.

 

Eli Price (01:55:46.915)

But there's also, there's like, it's scripted to a certain degree as far as like what's going to, like things that might come up or something like that. So I don't, I honestly don't know to what degree like it's scripted and to what degree it's improved. Most of their conversation is improved for sure. But it's hilarious. So you need to watch these movies sometime. If you've never heard of these or.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:55:57.052)

Yeah.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:56:02.146)

That's fun though.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:56:06.83)

That's awesome.

 

Eli Price (01:56:15.095)

whatever, it looks like the first one is actually on Pluto TV or Tubi right now. So you can go watch it for free with ads if you want to do that. It's called The Trip. But yeah, so The Trip to Greece is actually the last one in the series. I don't know if they're, I think, I don't think they're going to make more. But yeah, there's, there's four of them.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:56:22.926)

There you go.

 

Eli Price (01:56:40.939)

So there's the trip, the trip to Italy, the trip to Spain and then the trip to Greece. And and yeah, the trip to Greece is actually my favorite of the four. You know, there it's it's almost this like they're coming to the end of their journey and you kind of kind of see them age as you go through these movies with them, too. And there's just this like heavy.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:57:02.391)

Mm. Yeah.

 

Eli Price (01:57:07.799)

You know, they're funny, but they're also British. And so like, you know how the British are funny. But they they joke about like very serious things. And so you have these moments where they're like really come into terms with like death and like just like the the inevitability of it. And, you know, the I guess how life is just like so short.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:57:13.111)

Yeah.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:57:22.61)

Mm-hmm.

 

Eli Price (01:57:33.371)

And so like it's extremely funny their conversations. They do a lot of like impersonations There's this bit in one of them where they're like they're trying to see who can do the better the better My mind just went blank Alfred and and Christopher Nolan's Michael Caine, I don't know why I couldn't think of Michael Caine They're trying to like go they're going back and forth of who can do the best Michael Caine impression and it's hilarious like

 

Jacob Phillips (01:57:51.138)

My cocaine. Heh heh.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:58:00.266)

That's awesome.

 

Eli Price (01:58:02.523)

They're like, you know, I don't want to bury any more batmans. And it's like, how many batmans are there? How many batmans have you buried? It's great. Yeah, they're hilarious. But but yeah, the trip to Greece just has this. I know I'm going way too long, but it just has this like.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:58:06.466)

Hehehehe

 

Jacob Phillips (01:58:11.381)

That's awesome.

 

Eli Price (01:58:22.191)

This very like, it's funny, but it also has this just very profound element to it that I just, it like, it really spoke to me. So that's my last pick, kind of like an off the wall pick. Um, so along with it comes a recommendation to watch through the trip series when you get the chance. So that's my last pick. Where are you going last, Jacob?

 

Jacob Phillips (01:58:35.811)

Nice.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:58:44.962)

There you go.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:58:51.626)

I'm gonna go, this is a tough one. I mean, we'll talk about some of the honorable mentions, but I'm gonna go ahead and take Skyfall. Skyfall was one that I was really excited for when it was coming out, and it definitely lived up to the hype, which was awesome, and even exceeded it. And Javier Bardem just continues to be an incredible villain when he's on screen.

 

Eli Price (01:59:01.807)

Great pick, yeah.

 

Eli Price (01:59:10.096)

Mm-hmm.

 

Eli Price (01:59:21.147)

For sure.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:59:21.55)

You know, in this one, No Country For Old Men, if you've seen collateral, he's not really like a heavy villain, but he's he's really excellent. His his sequence there in collateral. But yes, Skyfall, it's it's super intense, great action movie and James Bond at arguably his best.

 

Eli Price (01:59:32.403)

Mm-hmm.

 

Eli Price (01:59:40.523)

Yeah. Yeah, for sure. It's it's hard, like because.

 

Eli Price (01:59:48.855)

I would casino Royale is so good. It's hard to say that like it's not the best of the series, but Skyfall to me is like right there with it there. I think they're both like just really good James Bond movies and

 

Jacob Phillips (01:59:51.829)

Oh yeah.

 

Jacob Phillips (01:59:59.754)

Yeah, I think Skyfall's a little bit more complete and better paced than Casino Royale is. Because there's a point in Casino Royale, if you haven't watched in a while, where you get to it and you're like, oh, the ending's coming up. And then it goes on for another 30 minutes, and you're like, oh my gosh, I forgot how much of this is left. But Casino Royale still is super awesome, and you get a really raw 007, which is fun.

 

Eli Price (02:00:17.092)

Yeah.

 

Eli Price (02:00:20.783)

Mm-hmm.

 

Eli Price (02:00:28.823)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. So that's our list. I'm going to read them out. So I went with Empire Strikes Back, The Godfather Part 2, Mad Max Fury Road. Yeah, Blade Runner 2049, Paddington 2, Spider-Man 2 and the trip to Greece. So that's my list. I'm happy with it. Jacob.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:00:44.174)

Excellent.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:00:56.927)

Yeah, it's a great list.

 

Eli Price (02:00:58.367)

Jacob's list is the Dark Knight, Terminator 2, Judgment Day, also known as T2. That's right. Top Gun Maverick, Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, Toy Story 2, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, and finally Skyfall. We all know James Bond doesn't name his movies after himself.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:01:06.407)

T2.

 

Eli Price (02:01:28.099)

You just got to figure it out, figure out if it's a James Bond movie or not. Yeah, so those are our list. We'll put a poll up and let the people choose who who have the best draft. And so, yeah, I, you know, I had the off the wall pick at the end might hurt me. But maybe people will appreciate me. Yeah, maybe people will appreciate that. And we'll see. I don't know.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:01:32.43)

That's right.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:01:51.15)

It's a fun recommendation though.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:01:56.982)

Yeah, you took some risks and I think that that's warranted.

 

Eli Price (02:01:58.105)

Um.

 

Eli Price (02:02:01.755)

For sure. Yeah, I didn't get really I didn't get an animated movie in there. I wanted to You probably picked my favorite of the options But so I went

 

Jacob Phillips (02:02:12.104)

Yeah, despite my hat, I was not going to pick Space Jam 2 either.

 

Eli Price (02:02:17.588)

Yeah, yes, yeah, I'm not we won't get into that but some honorable mentions for me Yeah, so I'm trying to look through my list I have things like Incredibles 2 and how to train your dragon 2 as far as like animated sequels both really good

 

Jacob Phillips (02:02:20.707)

Yeah

 

Jacob Phillips (02:02:35.056)

Mm. Yeah.

 

Eli Price (02:02:44.487)

You know, I mentioned Logan. You've got obviously two towers also. Aliens was one that I was was struggling with. Alien, the first one is. Better, in my opinion, so it didn't kind of fall into my my category, I was going with of like better than the first. But Aliens is still a great movie. And James another James Cameron addition there.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:02:52.546)

Oh yeah.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:03:03.607)

Yeah.

 

Eli Price (02:03:13.823)

Yeah, the last Jedi. I'm a last Jedi truther So that might have got me some that might have really hurt my list if I put that in there But I already had empire so I didn't need to um Prisoner of Azkaban, I think prisoner of Azkaban is the best harry potter movie Um, it helps that it has a great director. Um, but yeah uh Obviously, you know, you got the rocky movies

 

Jacob Phillips (02:03:22.419)

Yeah, I think so.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:03:43.926)

Yeah, Rocky 3 was on my list.

 

Eli Price (02:03:43.967)

Um, you've got, yeah, we, we talked about the mission and possible movies. Um, I don't know. I was trying to figure out. So you have, um, the, the ma'am, Sergio Leone is like man with no name series. And I just don't know. Like, so the, I had the good, the bad and the ugly on my list, but I wasn't really sure, like, can you consider that a sequel? I don't know. Cause they're not, is it considered a sequel?

 

Jacob Phillips (02:04:00.651)

Mm-hmm.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:04:09.106)

It's considered a sequel, technically. Yeah, whenever I was looking up like what, like some of the best sequels just to kind of get like my brain running and that was on there consistently.

 

Eli Price (02:04:13.506)

Okay.

 

Eli Price (02:04:17.899)

Yeah. OK. OK. Well, it's just hard because like they're not really like related movies other than. Other than like the character, and he doesn't he's a man with no name and he has a different name in all the movies. So I just wasn't sure is like, are these just like people package these together because of like.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:04:32.247)

Yeah.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:04:36.339)

Yeah.

 

Eli Price (02:04:44.515)

director like actor combo or is it actually sequels? But yeah, the good, the bad and the ugly, like probably should have been picked. But yeah.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:04:45.588)

Right.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:04:52.278)

Man, if that's the case, the Leo Scorsese cinematic universe is pretty crazy if you consider all those direct sequels to each other.

 

Eli Price (02:05:01.58)

Yeah, for sure. Yeah, there were some there were some that I haven't seen That I kind of wanted to mention just because they're things that I do want to see like Kill Bill volume 2 I It's the only I think I haven't seen that and death Bruce from Tarantino. I just have never gotten around to it so yeah, there's the

 

Jacob Phillips (02:05:12.64)

Mm-hmm.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:05:20.234)

Yeah, I haven't seen Death Proof either. Kill Bill Volume 2, I liked significantly more than the first Kill Bill. So yeah.

 

Eli Price (02:05:28.916)

Okay, so it might have fit in my ass.

 

Might have fit with my trend there. But yeah, there's the before series. Yeah, Before Sunrise, the first one. I haven't seen them, so I can't really pick them. But I do have the Criterion edition of the trilogy, so I'm going to get to it. You have a Satyajit Ray's trilogy with an Indian director from the 50s with a

 

Jacob Phillips (02:05:35.18)

Yeah.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:05:39.223)

Yeah.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:05:42.807)

I haven't seen them either.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:05:47.726)

Nice.

 

Eli Price (02:06:01.923)

Path of Panchali is the first one and then you have I think the second one is upper Appara he toe apparejito. I don't know how to pronounce these but yeah It's supposed to be an incredible trilogy and one that's been on my list for a while never gotten around to it Evil Dead 2 Never never seen the Evil Dead movies

 

Jacob Phillips (02:06:14.787)

Nice.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:06:21.578)

me either, but that one's considered one of those that's better than the original.

 

Eli Price (02:06:25.855)

Yeah, you have, um, uh, che part two. Uh, yeah, is, is one that I've, I've never seen the che movies and then, uh, Sanjuro, which is a, um, Akira Kurosawa, uh, Sanjuro is the sequel of, is it Yojimbo? Is it, am I right? Yes. Yojimbo is the one that's more well known samurai movie. And then Sanjuro is the, the sequel to it.

 

Jacob Phillips (02:06:29.648)

Mm-hmm.

 

Eli Price (02:06:54.687)

Never seen either of those, but I love Kurosawa, so I'll have to get to those Yeah but yeah, that's that's a That's some just honorable mentions things that you know maybe one of those on that list you think We should have picked or maybe Yeah, maybe you had some that we didn't even mention that we should have picked just to let us know But yeah, that's all we have this week

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My name is Jacob Phillips, and I am a 25 year-old minister and podcaster. I love Jesus, my family, movies, and sports. Excited to be a part of The Establishing Shot family!