The Greatest Action Movies of All Time - Clickbait Bonus Episode

Hi, we're still on break, but here's a bonus thing from BigSandwich.co. It's got a huge back catalogue of stuff. I'm here too. Yeah, Mason's here too. He had to be. He drove all the way from wherever he lives. I said, you got to come in for this 30-second recording. Denmark. And he was happy to do it. That's right. That's where I live now. That's where he lives now. So what is it? It's in the title. But if you head to BigSandwich.co, we do video game let's plays. We do bonus podcasts. Like we do a clickbait or we got this cupboard covered where we look at terrible clickbait articles. That's right. We do movie commentaries. What else are we doing on there, Mason? We're doing video game let's plays. Oh, we do. It said that already. Did you? Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm so jet lagged from coming from Denmark. That's okay, man. It's not your problem. It's a long trip, I think. Yeah, it is probably. I think also. Where we look at a pick a year in pop culture and we go, oh, interesting. That's right. Oh, interesting. And probably another thing. Yeah, sure. Also, our podcast goes out there early and so do all videos, et cetera. Anyways, enjoy. Okay, now. This is free, but you can sign up for more. Yeah. That's fine also. We don't have to go back to Denmark. Yeah. Where the weather is cold. But yeah, but you need to be back tomorrow as well. All right. In case this doesn't work. Okay. Yeah. Okay, bye. Bye. Red hot comic book movie. Lies. Shooting up your butthole. We got this covered. We got, we got this covered. Covered. Folks, welcome once again to another episode of We Got, We Got This Covered. Covered a podcast where we talk the best and worst of clickbait. We have a nice time, don't we? That's true. are. Now for people who have just joined us, which is everybody. People who weren't listening to us before we started recording in our regular lives, James has invented a new character that he's enjoying and it's fun. I genuinely think it's fun. It's Dracula, but he also collects bones. Yeah, he collects bones, but he's a regular Dracula, so he's not collecting the bones for... He's not Bone Dracula. He just likes having... He's like, oh, how many bones do you think I have? And he has four, if we figure it out. Is it more that you just like doing the voice? Because doing the voice is fun. It's fun to do a fun voice. Yeah, it is built around the voice, yeah, but I like the idea of this Dracula. He's got a little bone collection that he's doing, you know? And he's also... He does all the other Dracula things, but this is just a thing that he has. Does he know regular Dracula? Oh, he is regular Dracula. Oh, okay. Yeah, sure. Is he? Yeah, sure. What do you think? I don't think about it at all. I mean, now I can't think of anything else. Normally on this podcast we talk about clickbait. Yeah, yeah, but we're talking about Dracula. He's a regular Dracula, but he also collects bones, but they don't have to be human bones as we established Mason. Now you've been back from England for some time. Yes. You'd think you'd be over your jet lag. You'd think a lot of things. Yeah. That's the human mind for you. Isn't it though? God. So this week... Yep. And also what I find on this podcast as well, when we started, you're always trying to deflect because you don't want to get into it because I read you some clickbait. I'll invent an incredible character. You'll invent an incredible character that is dead in the water and we'll never hear from again. No. Okay. But go on, sorry. Put it on the regular podcast, we'll see. Yeah, we will. Yeah. But this week we're taking mercy on you because we're diving into the Rolling Stone magazine. Hell yeah. And they've come up with another fabulous list. The 50 best action movies of all time. Now, have we already told people why this list is bullshit? Because Die Hard's not on it. Unless they've done a quick edit. God, they better have. This is also not pre-Die Hard if you're wondering. No, this came out, I thought this was more recent than it is, but this is from 2021. Yeah. So there might be some missing things. There'll certainly be no John Wick 4 on here. So we can't fault them for that. We can fault them for everything else and we will. And we will. But not that. Do I need to take any notes? Because I've got a little document open. You know what? We should take some notes. I'm thinking there's almost certainly going to be some stuff we haven't seen in this. I'm not sure how far reaching it is, but I think there's going to be some Hong Kong action here. But there will, and I think as well, like the last Rolling Stone list we covered, which was the Hollywood's 50 worst decisions, it'll get more egregious as it goes along. Absolutely. When we get to like number 10, we're like, hmm, where's Under Siege 2? Where's Speed 2? Why haven't they covered those ones? Great question. This is outrageous. It is outrageous. Okay, well, I'm excited. Oh, we're going to do 10 and then we do a regular episode and then another 10. This is going to take, well, if we do one every five weeks, we'll be on this for the rest of our lives. All right, let's get into it then. Most of our lives. Unless this isn't particularly interesting, in which case we'll just... Oh, I've dropped all my box of bones. They were in a box. That's more world building, I appreciate. Why was that? Was it like an ornate box? No, it was a cardboard box. A cardboard box. You had an office works or something? I've never been to office works. What do I need with stationery? You could go at night. I could. What time do they open? They close at eight, I think. I mean, it's daylight savings. Can I go at night even? Probably, yeah. I reckon after maybe seven, it'll be done. Should I bring a Dracula umbrella? It's a regular umbrella, but it's owned by me, Dracula. Oh, I think you should bring it. I think I'm losing track of the voice. I don't know. You're sounding more British, but a Dracula could be British. I can be anyone. Yep. Or British. You're just full British now. What are we doing? Let's go. Get out of here, Dracula, but you collect bones in a box. I will return with more bones. It is fun to do the voice. I agree. I mean, you did the actual voice. Yep. Okay, let's go. From bullet ballets to sci-fi epics, James, kung fu classics to superhero adventures, the greatest big screen adrenaline rushes ever. Blah, blah, blah. This is David Fear. He should live in fear of us, I think. Yeah, he should, David Fear. We're going to get you. If, in fact, he still worked for Rolling Stone. We're going to DAC you. We're going to DAC you, David Fear. That should be your number one, David Fear. We're going to DAC you for your bad calls here. I'm excited for this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what do we got at number 50? Oh, you're going to read the preamble. There's a preamble, of course. Let's preamble. All you need to make a movie, James, a wise Frenchman once said, there's a girl and a gun. It doesn't say which Frenchman. Yeah, who? Maybe we're supposed to know. Gerard Depardieu, because he's a bad dude. Yeah, it was probably Emmanuel Macron, president or possibly prime minister of France. Oh, I like that guy. No, neither do I. This is going to be a good politician. Never. All right, then. Sure. Unless Jimmy Carter's reborn in another body. Doesn't he suck for reasons also? I think, what if Jimmy Carter took the substance and became a younger, more beautiful, more perfect version of himself? Did you see Transformers 1, by the way? I have seen Transformers 1. You like it? Yeah. It's good, isn't it? It's cool. It's cool. We'll talk about it on the regular. We will, yeah. That son of a **** flipped his lid. Yeah. All right, what are we doing? Let's go. All you need is a girl and a gun, James. It helps, of course, if you throw in a few explosions, several car chases, some knockdown mano a mano fistfights, a smattering of kung fu, and any number of sword fights as well. You know what I'm enjoying about this article? Nothing. No, I am. I'm loving it. Because this is pre-AI. Oh, so a man probably had to write this. A man probably wrote this for real. God, imagine having to actually write something. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. Action's been a part of the movie since the days of Keystone Cops and mustache-twirling villains tying up heroines on railroad tracks. You could even argue that the Lumiere brothers shot of a train pulling into the station, which allegedly caused audiences to scream and flee the room. Who's arguing that? Nobody. I don't think it was an action. I like to say it as a gag. Yeah, it's a gag. It was the world's first example of an action movie. The holy trinity of cinema, i.e. thrills, chills, and spills, has been a main attraction of the media for decades. Okay. Once the age of the blockbuster really kicks into gear in the early 1980s, you couldn't throw a rock at a multiplex without hitting something that hyped up the motion in motion pictures. We're shouting out the 50 best action movies of all time. This is all time. Yeah, these are, yeah. So, number 50. Yep. You haven't read ahead. I've only read the first one. Okay, well, I was hoping for a shocked reaction. This shouldn't be on here. Number 50 is 2015's The Man from Uncle. Unbelievable. Bad start. Directed by Guy Ritchie. It's not even bad. No, but I mean, think about this. What was the big action set piece at the end? Boat. It was a boat, and then, was there two boats, and they were gonna... There was a toilet fight. Was there? They have a brawl in a toilet. The two main guys? Yeah. So, it's Armie Hammer and Henry Cavill. Yeah. And they're taking the roles made famous by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum in the TV series in the 60s. Alicia Vikander is in it. She is in it, that's true. But, like, isn't the end, the twist, there's gonna be, there's two boats, and they're gonna blow each other up, and then there's a time shift or something? That's right, and then they show it happening. They're like, well, actually, I did this, and then they show it happening. It's like, yeah, you just explained it. It's hardly Tom Cruise coming through the roof, you know, hanging on the thing and hacking the computer. He's not even in this movie. He's barely in it, in the sense that he's not in it. Yeah. I've just written, no, that's my note. This should not be on the list. There's no way this should be on the list. Again, this is like, this is, how many action movies would have come out in the last 50 years? If he put Snatch on here, I would go, okay. Like, not really an action movie, but, like, no, come on. No. Just no, Mason. Okay, well, bad start. People like that movie, though. I don't hate it. I don't hate it either. But it's not, it's not great. No, and it's, it's, I'd maybe turn it on to, I like the look of it, I like the idea of it, but I just don't like it that much. I felt that way about Operation Rue's Degreer. I couldn't finish that. Yeah, it's just like, oh, this is Inglourious Bastards, but it's like, not as good. Oh, are you talking about? Wait, which is that one? You're thinking of, these are all Guy Ritchie movies. They are. But you're thinking of. The Henry Cabell one and. Yeah, Henry Cabell. Jack Reacher Little Glasses. Jack Reacher Little Glasses. Is that not Operation Rue's Degreer? No, but that is also a, Operation Rue's Degreer is the one that's got Jason Statham and Aubrey Plaza and Josh Hartnett. Oh, okay. And they're trying to trick Josh Hartnett, who's a movie superstar into doing something. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Welfare. Yeah, I quite like that one. Rue's Degreer. I don't know Rue's Degreer. Operation Fortune, I couldn't finish it. I don't know Rue's Degreer. I get maybe 10 minutes in. Okay. It's a new era and this, this. We've got Hugh Grant, he's like, eugh. He does have Hugh Grant in it, yeah. He's like, eugh. He's more like, eugh, anyway. Eugh. Eugh, eugh, eugh. Eugh. Eugh. Eugh. Eugh. Eugh. Eugh. Eugh, eugh, eugh. Eugh. Eugh. Eugh. Eugh. Eugh. Obdacular workload? Obducular workload, bones. Smells like bones. Give me bones you've got in your body. I don't want them, but if you want to give me one, I'll take one. Okay. He doesn't want them, mate. He doesn't want to... He takes blood, he doesn't take bones. It's just a mystery as to why it that's, this is his pillow. I completely agree. I mean, I guess, you know, who, who can explain? I have too many watches. You know? Yeah. Who can explain what you like? And he gets them in a cardboard box there. Yeah, So, who can blame him? It's wonderful. As a joke, we should get him bones on DVD. Oh, you boys. You boys, you got me. But they're only like real bones. What do you got to me? Alright, number 41. 41? 49. Yeah. Sorry. I've skipped 10 because I ate them. Did I die? Yeah, you died. Okay, I think we're in better territory here. Number 49, 1981's Escape from New York. Yeah, alright. I'll tell you. John Carpenter. We recently talked about The Thing from Caravan and Garbage. We're big fans of John Carpenter over here. Absolutely. I... Yeah, look, I haven't seen it in a while, but it's good. Is the sequel good? I don't think it is. Not as much. I don't think it is. It's not as good. It's got surfing at the end of it. Yeah. And during it. High five and surfing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that during it? I can't remember. It's a gritty, mean world with a mean man. Yeah, and greatly inspirational. Because, of course, Snake Plissken inspired Hideo Kojima to make Solid Snake. That's right. For the Metal Gear game. I saw an interview with Kurt Russell where he talked about that. I think he just went, I don't know. Yeah. Was his answer like... His answer didn't make sense. It's like he didn't understand... Yeah, yeah. The question or something? No, I think the question wasn't posed sort of to... I think the question was posed to him about Hideo Kojima and, you know, adapting his character into a different thing. Yeah. And I think Kurt Russell thought he was asking about adapting... Oh, that's right. Like an escape from New York or the thing into a video game. And sort of it was kind of a confusing answer. But, yeah, Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken. One of the greats. Yeah. I think it's a great, weird New York. Sort of in the style of the Warriors. Yeah. Or the Running Man or something like that. Yeah. Low budget but makes use of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I don't remember any action sequences off the top of my head. Just violence, I guess. Oh, we didn't even talk about the score when we talked about... The thing. Oh, yeah. Ennio Morricone. Well, we'll talk about it next... Maybe that's the thing Ben can put in. Next week. Yeah, next week. That's right. Yeah. And it's sort of this kind of... It is... This is kind of like... It is kind of like one of those director video kind of action movies that sort of cut into the mainstream. There's a whole bunch of them. It's just this one kind of, you know... It's better. It has the star power and it just tips it over the edge a little bit. Yeah. So this is worthy. The sequel is like the same, right? But worse in a lot of ways. Worse, yeah. Yeah. It felt, to me personally, it felt kind of like the same again. Shitty kind of imitation. Exactly, yeah. Okay, now number 48. Whoa. We're not going to know this one. All right. Maybe you know it. This is 1999's Dead or Alive, so this is a Japanese movie. Oh, I do know it. This is by Takashi Miike. It's a Yakuza flick. A cop is determined to take down a mobster by any means necessary. No one can say that the prolific Japanese filmmaker doesn't present his old chestnut birth story with a maximum amount of panache and a 200 beats per minute pace. I can say that. Well... I'm comfortable in saying that he doesn't do that. Okay. It's a gonzo go for broke version of a typical two sides of the coin movie. As for the ending, let's say it's one of the greatest cinematic exit strategies ever. Whoa. And one which takes the entire action film genre to its logical endgame. Which I think is that these two guys kiss. Oh, that'd be awesome. I think it's probably that, right? Might as well. Like, I've got a gun and we're going to kiss. Kiss the gun. Well, even if you didn't have a gun, I'd still kiss. You know? You don't need to have a gun, all right? No, no, no. You're doing it wrong. Because we've been shooting at each other all day. Yeah. And just, you know... Ready for kissing. I, you know, I just... Let's put these guns aside. For kissing. And do a big kiss. Yeah. Okay. And back to the guns. That's right. But they're more kissing. But that's interesting. That's... Why is the video game Dead or Alive? You think of Dead... The video game series with Bouncy. Bouncy Physics. Which became a... A movie. A movie with Uwe Boll. No, but it did have Eric Roberts in it. I listened to Eric Roberts' audio book. His autobiography. Yeah. It's good. It's really good. Okay. He's got a... No, you're right. It's by Corey Ewan. It looks like an Uwe Boll movie. It does, doesn't it? Yeah. So I go on. It's good. It's... He's really... It really does feel like he's just there having a chat with you. Okay. You know, a lot of autobiographies are read by the author. Yeah. It really feels like they're like, oh, I forgot I have to do this. I don't really want to be here. I... I listened to Stanley Tucci's one as well, and I'm like, doesn't really seem like he's just kind of phoning it in. Get to the point, Stanley Tucci. Exactly. That's right. Skip the bad stuff. Yeah. Great. Yeah. Just go off wherever you talk badly. I would highly recommend Robert's autobiography. Did he talk about Julia Roberts? Yes. Cool. What did he say about her? She's cool. He said she's cool? He didn't say that. Did he talk about Doctor Who? Ah, I don't think so. No. Because he played the master. He did play the master. But he was a worm. That's true. He was a worm guy or something, wasn't he? Yeah, he was a worm guy, yeah. Yeah. Because he'd used up all his regeneration, so he had to be a worm guy. Is that what's going to happen to Doctor Who when he... No, he can't because he's infinite now or whatever, isn't he? Yeah, that's true. Who cares? Next. Okay. The thing about this, though, is... Next. I don't know if I would choose to see this. Based on that picture? Based on this picture. What if they were kissing? Yeah, maybe. You know, when there is, you know, Hong Kong action movies I haven't seen yet, for example. Exactly. Good point. Anyway, number 47 from the year 1996. Jet Li's The One. No. Michael Bay's The Rock. All right. Okay? Yep. Just, you're not feeling it? I agree. No, it's a good movie. I would say it's probably his best movie. Well, David Feer, who should fear us, has said the best Michael Bay movie by a huge margin. Pain and Gain's pretty good. I've never seen Pain and Gain. And Transformers The Last Knight is exquisite. That's a good movie. It's a good movie. What do you like about it? I like... Hang on, which one? I like Stanley Tucci in it. Yeah, he's the wizard. He's not phoning it in. I'm liking his autobiography. The Merlin. That's exactly right. I liked... What about Cogman? I liked Cogman. He's a headmaster. Yeah, I know. I know who he is. But how would you know that from the movie? Because I read the supplementaries. You know that from the movie? Yeah. I liked the part where, you know, incredible actor Sir Anthony Hopkins shared the silver screen with, you know, what's his face, Wahlberg. Yeah. And he's like, you'd like to know, wouldn't you, dude? Yeah. It's good stuff. It's a great movie. It is a good movie. Yeah. The Rock though, I agree. I think it's also the heart in it works as well. The action works. I think the pairing of Connery and... Nicolas Cage. Nicolas Cage works really well. The villain is really compelling because he's right. Yeah, that's right. He doesn't really want to do a big terrorism. Michael Bean's in it. Yeah, that's true. Fucking... It's a good movie, man. Yeah. I remember enjoying the heck out of it. Yeah, it's a good movie. It also led to like... My note just says good movie. Good movie, yeah. It also led to some sort of situation where the real U.S. Defense Department were like, look, these terrorists have nerve gas. And they showed just the weird thing of green bulbs. The actual department did that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's the thing from The Rock. Yeah. Because no one would make a weapon like that, really. Nobody would make a... That's so unstable. Nobody would make a container of nerve gas that was in... Strung up on like... Like Christmas lights. Basically, yeah. Glass Christmas lights. A cobweb holding them all together. And the other thing is that it's also sort of a James Bond movie. That's true. Because Sean Connery's character in it has been... Was captured in the 60s. That's right. And it's never explicitly said, but he is James Bond. Because you can't say he's James Bond. That's right. Yeah, James Bond, though. They had to call him Dracula. But he likes to collect bones. That's my character. Well, is it? Well, I guess they did it first. They did it first, you know? Welcome to The Rock. Look at my bones. Collection of bones. I've brought them with me. Sean! Put down the bones! Is that a Nicolas Cage? No, it's me. Okay. I'm there. Great. Yeah. Great stuff. What else, Mason? Okay, you're gonna love this one, James. This is number 46. I like this. You're gonna love it and agree with it. Alright. 2008, can you take a guess? Wild Swing? 2008, Wanted. No. Watchmen. No. Batman. The Dark Knight. No. Iron Man. No. Those are all excellent choices from 2008, but they're not as good as 2008's Taken. Uh, yeah, alright. I'll pay that. The first Taken's pretty good. He says the movie that officially kicks off the era of Liam Neeson. The era of Liam Neeson? Or this era of Liam Neeson? The era of Liam Neeson. But I guess this is the era of him just... Yeah. The geezer teaser Liam Neeson. I guess... I guess it kicked that off. I think it totally did. Like, that's, you know, the entire genre. I would even say it's responsible for John Wick. Yeah, okay. I would go as far as to say that. Well, I mean, that was going to be, as we know, that was going to be a direct-to-streaming thing called Storm. I think it's a good movie. I mean, it is very much like, uh, You Should Have Listened To Your Dad, the movie. It is, yeah, that's true. And that's how they... You're an idiot. Isn't that the genius, though, of it? Yeah. But most dads aren't capable. Sure, but they think they are. Like, they don't know. Yeah. I'm running into all the time. You're like, your daughter's being kidnapped and only a man with your skill of collecting books about World War II could save her. We need a big stack of books to get over the fence. That's right. We can't rely on you going over the fence, and it's like 15 different camera angles, that one scene. Believe me, he's too big, he's lumbering around. He's too big, getting his dong stuck on the fence. Like a horse. He's getting his dong stuck on the fence, like that high jump at that time. The Olympics. It's like a horse that needs to be put down, stumbling around with his giant body. I mean, I think we wouldn't get, like, we wouldn't get the Equalizer movies, we wouldn't get Nobody, we wouldn't get all the, like you said, all the geezer teasers, screaming stuff of, like, kind of slightly over the hill, you know, movie stars going, I could be in this for 10 minutes. I'm Sean Penn, I'm doing one or whatever. Did he? Yeah. Wow. I mean, for good or for real, but I think maybe the good outweighs the bad here. That being said, the Taken movies are bad. I mean, it's also diminishing returns. I think the first one is the best one. I mean, it's iconic, it's got, like, iconic lines in it and whatever. Yeah, a particular set of skills and so forth. Yeah, so on and so forth. Yeah, that's right. It's a good movie. I'm Liam Neeson. I'm an old Liam Neeson. Tripped over my dong. He did all the bad guys did. They all did. In a big pile-up? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely, yeah. Yeah. Wow. You like Taken? Yeah, I do. It's the best of the Taken movies. And probably the series as well. Yeah. Does he, does he get kidnapped every week? Is that how it works? Yeah, he's got, like, 15 kids or whatever. Oh, it's a, um, it's a Tim Allen Too Many Daughters situation. Okay. I got too many daughters, aren't I, my man? Yeah. It doesn't work for me. That's right. But here I am. Yeah. What's that number? I just wrote okay. Got a good note for you? That's a good note, and it is okay. It is okay. I think that's beautiful. Yeah. Number 90, number 45. This guy's losing it. I'm saying 90. Yeah, I know. I'm saying 90. Yeah. What do we got? What's the business? From the year 1993. Let me guess. Okay. Last Action Hero. No, True Lies. Nope. No. Not wrong. Time Cop. No. Is it a Van Damme? No. Then I give up. The Fugitive. Yeah. Is it an action movie? Yeah. It is. I mean, it is. It obviously is. It's more of a thriller. Yeah, when you're, like, when the preamble is like, we're good guns and shooting and kung fu adventures and what have you. This, I mean. He jumps out of a train. He jumps off. He jumps out of a train? He's jumping out of trains. That dude's got one arm. Yeah. Oh, I wonder where the bones are. His arm, I think, was removed. Oh, yeah. If only Dracula was here. I'm not interested in that, but if only there was an iconic character who was interested in where those bones were. I haven't seen it in a long time. No, we have. We did it. The Fugitive? Yes. When? We did an audio commentary on it. I'm pretty sure. Speaking of Air Force One. No, I reckon we did a Fugitive. We absolutely have not done an audio commentary. You know what we did? We did a, you know, we did a regular episode of the podcast and I think I watched the Fugitive film. Oh, okay, right. Because we talked about old Harrison Ford movies. We talked about that. Or we were going to or something. Yeah, and then we talked about that and then we talked about Harrison Ford, his Amish that time. Yeah, I watched Witness, yeah. Yeah, and so forth. So, I guess, maybe I watched it and you didn't. I haven't watched it, no. Okay. But I will watch. There is also a sequel. It's called U.S. Marshals. That's right. It's got Wesley Snipes. And a Robert Downey Jr. That's right. And there's also a TV series and there's an original TV series as well. That's right. Yeah, God. What do you reckon? The Fugitive? What do you think? What are we doing as a note? No notes. See, you know what? Put the note there and say, we'll see. Because I want to see where the rest of this goes. I like that. You know? I like that. You know? They don't include Die Hard, but they're including the Fugitive. I like where your head's at. No, I don't even know what I actually mean. I like where your head's at. Does this have comments, by the way? This article? Oh, I don't know. I'm going to scroll to the bottom without looking. Okay, the next one. It's obviously, it's supposed to be here. There's no reason it wouldn't be on the list. Okay. But the placement of this, I think, this is the first one that is designed to get people upset. Oh, I like this. The Die Hard 5? No. But I think that does not deserve to be on the list. This deserves to be on the list. Okay. I'll give you some clues. Deserves to be on the list? What year? 1994. Okay. And it's at 44. True lies. The fact that it's at 44 is insane. True lies or speed? It's speed. Ah! Speed's great! Right? Speed's top 10. Is it the 44th best action movie? Fuck no! Right? It's better than whatever the next movie is. And again, this was, I mean, this is Die Hard on a bus. Yeah, it's bus hard. But it's also, it's also, it's also, it kicked off. Cairns! Exactly. It's just Cairns! Keep driving the bus! It's Die Hard! On a bus! On a bus hard! But this, this, this reinvigorated. Yeah, exactly. Sorry, go on. I'll call you back, Gary, or whatever. Let's move on. Yeah. This reinvigorated the genre, I think. Yeah. Because at this point, people were like, oh, it's another Die Hard on a whatever. Ugh. Yeah. Ugh. Keanu Reeves. It's Hollywood out of ideas. Yeah. And then they were like, what about on a bus? And people were like, finally. Fuck yeah. They looped the cameras. Cameras! They looped the cameras. It's just cameras! Right? Yeah. Good movie. Yeah. His name's Jack. Jack Travis or something. Jack Cairns. Jack Canyon. Yeah, man. Yeah. I wonder what a jacked canyon would look like. Keanu Reeves. Just doing bicep curls. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hell yeah. What do they say about speed? They say, James. What does Bruce Fear say about speed? They say it's a blast. Yep. I agree. So that's exciting. They say it's a high-concept blockbuster. That's true. It's the sort of movie that looks positively idiotic on paper. Diehard. But on public transport. It somehow completely works once you keep the engine at full throttle and put the right movie stars in the driver's seat. Oh, wow. The bus driving seat. That's correct. Yes. My notice should be higher. Yeah. I don't know what's next, but it's ridiculous. Okay. Maybe they should have called this, like, Western action films. Because I feel like you could have just packed this with, not that I've seen a bunch of them, but, like, Hong Kong cinema. Yeah. Because then you're kind of doing both, and it's like, are these even comparable? I mean, I'm sure we'll get a couple more Hong Kong actioners towards this. Like The One. Like Jet Li's The One. Which is a classic Hong Kong action film. Famous Hong Kong action. That's the one that kicked it all off, I think. Oh, yeah. It's a big one. But I think if you were, like, to include one Japanese movie would suggest you're covering all of, like, world cinema on this. Yeah. And the fact that you're including Taken and The Fugitive, and presumably not, you know, all of John Woo's action movies from, like, the late 80s, early 90s. Yeah. That sounds crazy to me. Absolutely. You know? So maybe it should have been, maybe this should have been top 50 American movies. I agree. Like, here's number 43, John. Do you know it? The Transporter. No. It's from 2017? No, The Transporter reboot. With Ed Skrin, maybe. It's not The Transporter. Oh. It's 2017. You're close, though. The Last Jedi? No. What is it? It's Wonder Woman. No, this shouldn't be here. But it's iconic. She's iconic, isn't she, Mads? I like that movie. Mm-hmm. It's more, like, I wonder if this is recently bought. I'd put it in top 50 superhero movies. Sure, yeah, that would, it would. But I would not put it in top 50. It is, I mean, it is. It's got the World War I train sequence. I think it's, this might be in this, and so high. She just beats up a guy. But she thinks he's the devil, so she really beats him up. That's pretty good, I guess. That is pretty good, yeah. It's Danny Houston. And then she really beats up the devil. That's right. This, I think, is on there because it was fairly recent at the time. Four years later, yeah. And also because it was... That insane Wonder Woman 84. Yeah, that was bad, wasn't it? Yeah. When did that come out? Say, she would have been like... Because that retroactively ruins a lot of Wonder Woman, doesn't it? It does. I mean, there's a few things that retroactively ruin. Yeah, that came out in 2020. Well, or maybe it'll be higher up on the list. That's weird. Just to upset people. That's weird, right? Well, look, Wonder Woman 2017 is not... It's not responsible for Wonder Woman 84. That's a good point. And I think also because this was surprisingly good. Yes. Because it was not... At that point, I think, for me, it was my best DC movie that I'd seen. Yes. Was it better than Man of Steel? Who cares? I don't want to get into this. Ah, yeah. Okay. I just wrote, shouldn't be here. Yeah. Shouldn't be here. Yeah. And also, that trench run. You know, she does... Yeah, trench. Yeah, the World War I part. That's the good part. Good part. Yeah, anyway. Yeah, man. Number 42. Yep. From 2002. This is Hero. Oh, Jet... Not Jet Li. It was Jet Li. Jet Li and... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is Cho-Yo in that? No, Maggie Chung is in it. And Donnie Ying. And Tony Leung. Hero's great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have seen Hero. Yeah. Donnie Ying is in this. This is a great cast. It is, isn't it? Um, so it's about a nameless warrior who's granted a rare audience with a king who's secretly... Who's recently survived several attempts on his life. The man claims to have fought all three assassins and defeated them as he regales the region with stories of these encounters. However, there's a second plan that's being brought into play. Great ******* movie. Great. I like it more than House of Flying Daggers or whatever it's called. Crashing Tiger Hidden Dragon. Yeah, that one. And probably for that. There is probably a movie called House of Flying Daggers. There is actually, yeah. I was just looking at the poster right now. The tagline is, you wouldn't want to bloody live there. Because you'd be like, brushing my teeth. Ah, daggers! There's so many flying daggers. Too many. I saw Crashing Tiger Hidden Dragon in the cinema and I'm like, I don't like this. It's too long. Interesting. I need to watch it again. It's only 120 minutes. That long, man. Okay. There's also a sequel. Yeah. It came out like, Michelle Yeoh's in it and maybe someone else, but yeah. I don't know. Anyway, good movie. Mmm. What's next, Mason? Oh, you're going to love it, James. What is it? It's from 1990. At number 41. It's La Femme Nikita. Directed by Luc Besson. I've never seen. Big pedophile. Yeah. So, you know. How big is he? That's not great. How big is he? I imagine as a man, he's average size. Oh, but he's doing big pedophile stuff. Seems that way. Most of his stuff seems to be. Oh, that sucks actually. I've never seen this. What's it like? Uh. I mean, it is like. Separated from the. He's a pedophile. That stuff. Yeah. It's pretty cool. There was a TV series as well. Yeah, there was. It had Australia's Peter Wilson in it. Yeah. And there was another one. And then there was just Nikita. I think there would have been another movie. Oh, they did a bunch of these. Yeah. It was a French movie. It is a French movie. Yuck. That's right. I remember really enjoying this at the time. Alright then. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, Nikita came out in 2010. On the sci-fi. CW, sorry. There you go. Well, it's nothing better than a CW series based on a French thriller from the 90s. Who knew? No one did. Because no one watched it. No one knew a goddamn thing. Yeah, yeah. Okay. I'm going to say, I guess. No, I haven't seen it. Let's note down a couple of these as up for debate. I think this is definitely an up for debate option. I haven't seen it, so I can't say, Mason. It's not for me to say. Okay. So we've got the last one, do we? This is number 40. Yep. From 1979. The Warriors. Walter Hill. Have I seen all of the Warriors? I've played some of the video game. You might. And I've watched retrospectives on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you've certainly heard somebody go, come out to play. I've seen that. Yeah, nice. We've got James Remar. That's cool. That's true. A massive gathering of the armies of the night from the five boroughs finds Coney Island's own Warriors venturing deep into the heart of the Bronx after being framed for assassinating a charismatic leader. They've got to run a gauntlet of angry, colourfully costumed enemies in order to get back to their home turf. Yes, it's largely one long chase scene. So is Mad Max. So is Speed. Cairns! Speed! Exactly. We've got to speed! But you're an officer of the law. You'll just fine me. No! I mean, everyone will. Not me, but you all get fines, yes. Brutal. Well, the law. It is the law, isn't it? Yeah. Have you seen the Warriors? Yes. What do you think? Is it an action movie? Yeah. You know, it's mostly... It's a chase, but it's like a 1970s chase. Yeah, I was going to say, like, the punches are like... It doesn't have the... It doesn't have the frenetic nature, I feel, of, like, modern... If you would describe a modern movie as, like, it's a non-stop chase, that would be a real handful. My note is, it's a chase, but it's a 1970s chase. That's the spirit. There we go. Wow, this has been very exciting so far. I can't wait to see the next ten. Also, I think we did too many. I think we're supposed to go to 41 and then stop. Wow. We've bled into the next episode. The next episode will be shorter by the amount of time that it took us to talk about the Warriors. I've done a quick skim ahead. Yeah. And some of these, you're going to be like, alright, and some of these, you're going to be like, excuse me, why is this so long? Jet Li's The One. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. When he fights himself from another dimension. Yeah, I know what Jet Li's The One is. I don't need to tell you twice. It's that classic movie where they're like, this is a multiverse, but there's 17 dimensions or whatever. 17 dimensions. Yeah. There's 17 Jet Li's. That's right. Alright, cool. Pretty good. Yeah. There's a nerd one and a cowboy one. What? And a construction worker one. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. A Native American one. Oh, okay. Yeah. Alright. Is he doing it for a costume party or something? No. Wait, what? I mean, it wouldn't be bad if he was, but he's just dressing like that? Yeah, that's right. Why? He's from a Native American universe. Okay. Where everybody's Native American. I guess. Even if you're not. Correct. I don't like this. That's true. I didn't bring this up. Yeah, that's true. Alright, so, cool. I was going to say, any suggestions? Well, if you'd have clickbait. Yeah, email in. Weeklyfunatpod at gmail.com, but put clickbait in the subject line. I've got a few rare ones to go for the next episode. Excellent. Love them. And let me tell you, you're not going to love them. I need you to be clear. The ones I have so far, you're not going to love. Well, I've never loved them, Mason, so I don't know why you'd think that I would love the next ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool, cool. Alright, should we hit the road? Let's hit the road, folks. Thanks for listening. Oh, look who's come back. It's Dracula, but he's got a box of bones. Hey, Dracula, you got any more bones in there to show us? I dropped all my bones in the toilet. So now you have no bones? No, well, I would have. You retrieved the bones from the toilet. No, no, no, I need somebody to retrieve my regular bones from the toilet. They're not my bones. I mean, I own them, but they're not from my body. Couldn't you do it? Mason, come to the toilet with me. No, I'm not going to do that. One of my weaknesses is getting bones from the toilet. You don't know that? No. You don't know? No. Don't you want your good friend Dracula to get toilet water on his cape? I mean, you could take your cape off and leave it in another room. Come on, let's be serious. Let's be serious for one second. Okay, sorry, Dracula. I was being ridiculous. So you'll help me? Yeah, let me get some gloves. No, no, there's no time. All right, bye, everybody. Bye, Dracula, for stealing bones.