Open Borders October Ep.05: The Best 80s Movies?

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Welcome back to Open Borders October. I'm your host, Keith Foskey, otherwise known as the Harbor Freight, Doug Wilson.

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And as you know, Doug Wilson does his No Quarter November every year, and that's coming up soon. So we only have a few more days to finish out our

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Open Borders October. And if you're unfamiliar with what we're doing, Doug talks about everything that's controversial. So what we're doing is talking about everything that is universally adored.

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And today we're going to talk about 80s movies. And I am joined today by my older brother,

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Bobby Jones. Oh, thank you, Keith. I am the wish .com version of Keith. So yeah, no, there you go.

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Okay. And the reason why I asked Bobby to come, well, first of all, is because Bobby's never been on my podcast before.

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No, never. And I feel bad because I've been doing the show for a few years and he's never been on, but he is today.

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So I'm remedying that. But also Bobby helped inspire my love of movies because Bobby's actually my stepbrother.

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I met him when I was six years old. That's when him and well, six or seven, I forget. But when we met, I had never been to the theater before.

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And you took me to my first movie ever. And it was? American Ninja 2.

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It was American Ninja 2. I always thought it was American Ninja 1, Michael Dudikoff. But it was American Ninja 2 because it came out in 1987.

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Yeah. American Ninja 1 came out in 85. That actually inspired my love of karate. Because when we went at the theater, they don't do this anymore,

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I don't think. But they actually had real ninja weapons under glass and you could look at them and you could see the swords and you could see the ninja stars and you could see the ninja coups and all those different things.

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And it was like, this is what I want to do. And it changed my life. And then they sold all that at the flea markets.

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Everything, you could be a ninja. Absolutely. You could be a flea market ninja. That's a good name for a podcast.

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We should start a new podcast, Flea Market Ninja. Well, what we're going to do today is we're going to give you a list of our top five 80s movies that we think everyone should see.

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But before we do, I have a few caveats to mention. Number one, most of these movies I grew up watching on network television, which means

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I saw them with censoring. So before any of you say, you shouldn't be watching this movie or you shouldn't be watching that movie because it has bad language.

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Understand that most of these movies that I've seen, like Die Hard, I didn't know it had a lot of bad language until I became an adult because I always saw it on TNT or TBS.

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I saw it that way. And there are ways to continue to see these movies with censoring. If you want to watch these movies with VidAngel, you can do that.

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Or if you want to use like Holy Moly Media, which is a DVD service which provides DVDs that are censored.

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I did a whole video about this. You can go look up that video on our channel. And while I'm mentioning it, go ahead and subscribe to our channel.

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That way you'll be alerted whenever we put out a new video. So if you're concerned with the content of the videos, you don't want bad language, you don't want nudity, and you shouldn't, then you can go see those movies on VidAngel or through Holy Moly Media or another like service.

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Another thing we're going to talk about is that we felt like if we just did the top 10 80s movies, that the problem we were going to have is that we would both have the same because there are certain classics that like everybody knows is great.

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So what we did was we came up with a list of 10 movies that we cannot choose.

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And we're going to share these with you and share with you a quick reason why. Why did we choose these? Well, here are the 10 movies, 10 classics we can't choose.

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And I have them here, not in order of when they were made, but rather in alphabetical order. And we go by first -

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Back to the Future. Back to the Future is a classic. It's a great movie. Everybody loves it. It formed one of the greatest trilogies of all time.

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They've talked about remaking it and I heard Tom Holland was considering being part of the remake. And I say this, shame on you for even thinking of that.

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It's absolute blasphemy. It's a third commandment violation. I know. I'm starting to like Tobey Maguire's Spider -Man better now because of this.

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Absolutely. All right. So the second one is - Breakfast Club. Now, are you a fan of Breakfast Club?

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I was not to the ultimate classic in my life. I know it is a classic. Anything really by John Hughes was.

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John Hughes is great. He could write teenagers very well. But no, I mean, it's never my go -to.

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If it's on, I'll watch it, but it wasn't ever one of my go -tos. And I think it's because it came out in 85. This is a teenage -themed movie.

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I was 10 when it came out. So it was a little bit older than what I was interested in. Sure. And I would say it's one of those movies that captures a specific moment in time.

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And like you said, neither of us were in high school at the time. But going back and watching it now,

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I can appreciate it more now than I did then. After going through high school. And I know why it was a classic.

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My favorite episode of Psych, which is a show you and I love, is the Psych episode where they did their high school reunion.

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They had all the callbacks to Breakfast Club. They did. That was great. If you'd ever seen Psych, go watch Psych, and particularly watch the

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Psych episode with the - And then they had Molly Ringwald in it. They've had Judd Nelson. Yeah, they've had all the characters. All the characters.

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Which is, and even the - Anthony Michael Hall. Anthony Michael Hall became the captain. Yeah. In like the fifth or sixth season.

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All right. So the next movie is Die Hard. I mentioned that one already. Hippie by Day, Ricky Martin. It was just my favorite line.

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That's the edited version of his catchphrase. Hippie by Day, Ricky Martin. Die Hard, 1988.

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Is it a Christmas movie? Is it not? There's more Christmas references. I've seen a video where they did the numbers, by the numbers, and Die Hard has more

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Christmas references in it from sayings to decorations to talk about Christmas than A Miracle on 34th

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Street. So there we go. All right. I would say yes. All right. Well, we may do a debate later in the year.

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I'm trying to get... I met a theologian. His name is Dr. Jordan B.

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Cooper. He's a Lutheran theologian. And I swear he looks like Macaulay Culkin. Now, you know me with people looking like each other.

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I mess up a lot, but I think I got this one. In fact, I'm going to throw a picture up in post. I'll throw a picture up and people can tell me if they think

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I'm right or not. I wouldn't say you mess up a lot. I think Mr. T and Mike Tyson do look alike, so. That's not what I said. I said

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Patrick Swayze and Mike Tyson. And I'm telling you, there is a silhouette.

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It was Patrick Swayze and Mike Tyson. Don't you dare. Anyway. Okay.

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So we got to get through these 10 because we got other ones to get to. All right. So E .T., obviously a beloved classic. Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

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Wonderful, beloved classic, even though I agree with Daniel O 'Brien, who was on crack .com,

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that Ferris Bueller was a sociopath. Oh, yeah. The way he treated Cameron is not the way you treat friends.

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I agree with the other guy that said that it all happened in Cameron's mind. Could be. Fight club style. Yeah. Ferris Bueller is the

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Tyler Durden. Yeah. And to him. I agree with that. We don't talk about fight club. That's right. All right.

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Ghostbusters, obviously. Had an uncle who thought he was Saint Jerome.

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I'd call that a big yes. All right. See, these are movies that are ultimately quotable, even with the obscure lines, like I just made.

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Predator. Predator. Did you know Jean -Claude Van Damme was supposed to be the predator? I've seen pictures of him in the suit.

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Which would be a lot less intimidating when you have a five foot seven predator. Doing a split.

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He's falling off the trees. He's got his feet between two trees. You can't do this.

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I'm from Austria, too. He's from Belgium.

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I know. Okay. Star Wars. I put sequels.

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That's Empire and Jedi was 1883. Obviously, those are classics.

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Terminator. Awesome. Top Gun. Awesome. These are all said. These are movies that are great.

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We can't pick these. We have to pick movies that are not on this list. I have my list. Bobby has his list.

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I made another rule, and I forgot to tell you. If this doesn't work for you, it's not your fault.

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It's my fault. In my head, I said I didn't want to pick holiday movies. I didn't put

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Christmas Vacation is great. Christmas Story. That's in classic mode there. I think outside the 10, there's still classic movies.

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There are. I'm trying to hide my list from you. I'm going to fold it a little, just so I can see it, and you can't. We're going to go back and forth.

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These are our top 10. Bobby and Keith's top 10 1980s movies that we think you should see again. See them on VidAngel if they got bad words, because some of them do.

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Go ahead. Go first. First, I want to ask you how you came up with your list. The reason

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I ask, there's movies that are classics to me, and I can't believe people haven't seen them.

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The way I did my list is I went back through life and talking to people about movies, and I'm like,

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I haven't seen that one. Really? That's where my list came from, is that these are movies that, in talking to people, they don't know it.

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I can quote them, but they've never even seen them. Yeah, that's like you and Ross. Y 'all connected over a movie.

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What was it? Oh, actually, we connected over Ray Stevens. Ray Stevens music, which is awesome. The Pirate Song.

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Yeah, okay. That's the kind of thing. For me, I picked five movies that I would be happy to watch right now.

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When I said five movies, these are five movies that I could watch anytime.

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I don't need a reason. If these were on, I'm watching them.

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These are those five. That's sort of the same. I'm picking these five movies because I just love them.

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That was my reasoning. Gotcha. All right. What was your first one? My first one is 1985's

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Once Bitten. Oh, man. Jim Carrey? One of Jim Carrey's first films. I'll say it.

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I'll admit it. I don't mind. To this day, I like scary movies. I like that Fear Factor thing.

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Growing up at a funeral home, it does take a lot to get me. Ironically, doesn't like Fear Factor. Nice. Sorry.

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When I wanted to start watching them, it would have to be The Old Wolfman and Frankenstein, but I couldn't even watch that.

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I'd have to watch The Abbot and Costello, where they meet Frankenstein. Love it. Yeah. Then moved on to where I could watch them, but they'd have to be comedic.

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That's why this one. Once Bitten. Yeah. 1985. It's Jim Carrey and who else?

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Jim Carrey and The Blonde Lady. Most of the other people, you don't know.

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The Blonde Lady, who was the vampire and is a vampire movie. In it, Laura Hutton.

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Laura Hutton. Okay. Or Lauren. Lauren Hutton. One of those. And that was one of Jim Carrey's first movies. Yeah. One of his first.

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It was before In Living Color, of course. Was it really? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, I guess it would have to be. Yeah. 1985. So, yeah.

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All right. My first one, UHF. Oh, nice. I'm a Weird Al Yankovic fan.

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My kids, they love to sing Amish Paradise. They're like, Dad, can we listen to Amish Paradise? That's how they know him.

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So, I tried showing them UHF. It did not connect because of all the references. They didn't get the

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Rambo reference. The one thing they liked, they saw Kramer. Oh, yeah. Okay. Because again, they know

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Kramer from Seinfeld. But other than that, they didn't really get it. So, UHF, if you've never seen it, it's Weird Al Yankovic.

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I think it's his only film that he did. Yeah. That was a parody film, too, to go along with his music. And now they've done his life story, which was a parody life story.

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Yeah. Which is funny. With Daniel Radcliffe. Yeah. Because all the things didn't happen. The movie shows him with Madonna and all that stuff, but it never happened.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. So, UHF. Once bitten, UHF. That's - And Weird Al, too, was always important with us.

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I remember when we'd go on road trips. First, it was Ray Stevens tapes, and then we segued when we ran out of those. It was the -

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Mike Warnke, Ray Stevens, Weird Al Yankovic. We would get them. And I remember having the

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Weird Al Yankovic version. I don't even know the version of Smells Like Teen Spirit.

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I mean, nobody knows the words anyway, but I don't know it by that. When I listen to Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana, I only hear

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Weird Al singing. Oh, yeah. I'm that way with Amish Paradise. Yeah, I've never heard - And they sing Julia's Gangster's Paradise plays.

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I've never heard it. Yeah. White and Nerdy. I've never heard White and Nerdy, ever. Yeah. When the saga begins, it ruined me for the original.

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I can't hear the original now. Absolutely. All right, so number eight. Number eight would be 1987's

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Roxanne. Oh, I love Roxanne. With Steve Martin. Roxanne's the best. And - Daryl Hannah.

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It's a movie. A lot of famous people in it, but yeah. The guy from Top Gun. Top Gun. Slider. Slider.

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Slider's in it. Yeah, Slider's in it. Okay. But it was just one of these goofy rom -coms I've seen in the theater.

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That was funny, especially Steve Martin. I knew you would pick a rom -com. Yeah. You've always been, you were a huge Julia Roberts fan.

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I don't want to call them out, but Bobby loved him some Julia Roberts. That was his best friend's wedding, that kind of stuff.

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Is that was my best friend's wedding, one of the ones? Is that coming up? No, it's a 90s movie. Okay. It's how

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I conned my ex -wife into buying a DVD player. Nice. Because it came out and I wanted a DVD player and I said, hey, we can get a

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DVD player and best friend's wedding's out. So, yep. Awesome.

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Okay. So my next film, and again, this might be one of the classics, so this one might not be a fair -

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I know what you're going to say. Go ahead. Take a guess. One Crazy Summer. No, that's my number one. Why'd you give him my number one?

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I knew it was on the list. Beverly Hills Cop was not on our top 10, but deserved to be.

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It's definitely a classic. I actually am a fan of Beverly Hills Cop 2. Oh yeah.

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I like that one better. I don't like all the angst of Bogomil and -

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Taggart. Taggart and all that's happened in the first one. I like that they're friends in the second one, but I know the first one came out in 84.

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I think the second one's still an 80s movie, so I could say one or the other. The scene where he steals the house from the guys.

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This is Axel Foley, a Beverly Hills building inspector. Is his house not supposed to have any right angles on it?

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It's supposed to be round. That's a great scene. Yeah, it is. It's classic Eddie Murphy. All right, so Beverly Hills Cop.

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All right. Next one would be 1987's Summer School. Oh man, you were grabbing.

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Summer School's the best. I'm Chainsaw. And I'm Dave. We'll see you at the movies.

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At the movies. Yeah. Yeah, that's great. With Mark Harmon. Who was the guy who played Chainsaw? You know these things.

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You know a lot of names. I can't remember. I can't remember. There's a picture of them now.

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Yeah. It's kind of sad. They aged like fine milk.

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Exactly. They had Courtney Thorne Smith. Like I said, the

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Mark Harmon and Kirstie Alley. Yeah. That's one of the great insults of all movies.

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When Mark Harmon is talking to the principal, and he finds out he's dating Kirstie Alley. He says, I'll be darned, you're a heterosexual.

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I was like, that's a great insult. That was good. Surprised. Yeah. All right.

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Your next one. I just went with Summer School. Oh, you went with Summer School. Okay. For me, this one is going to get me some bad emails,

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I think. This one here, people are going to be like, I can't believe I listened to you for any advice or anything. Because this is going to make people wonder about my brain.

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Caddyshack 2. Oh, okay. Now, I have to explain this one. Because people are like, well, Caddyshack's a classic.

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Okay, but Caddyshack 2 is not a classic. I love it for two reasons.

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One, it's one of the movies that used to come on in the afternoon. It probably was not worth anything.

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Networks could pay like five bucks and play it every Saturday. So I saw this movie over and over and over. I had never even seen

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Caddyshack 1 when I watched Caddyshack 2. Caddyshack 1, I watched later. But Caddyshack 2,

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I knew all the characters. Mr. Hartoonian was hilarious. Roz from Night Court was in it.

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Marshall Warfield. Marshall Warfield. Thank you. But the main thing I loved about it is there's a scene with Randy Quaid, uncle or cousin

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Eddie, Randy Quaid, when he goes off on the lawyers. Yes. And he says, he goes, let me tell you about the

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Peter Blunt method. I find out where you live and I break down your door with a baseball bat.

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And I roast that Labrador and then eat it. And then

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I'm coming upstairs, junior. That's one of the great unrecognized scenes.

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People don't know that, but that's where that's from and it's hilarious. So Caddyshack 2. All right. Wow. All right.

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My next one would be 1988's License to Drive. Oh man, you picked some good ones. Okay. I used to watch this.

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In fact, I made my teenagers watch this before they got their driver's license. Did you really? Good. It's like a tradition.

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And you learn how to put a Mercedes in the back of a Cadillac. Yeah. And the lady who played

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Mercedes. Yeah, Heather Graham. Went on to be very famous, played in Scrubs, played in a bunch of movies. Yeah. All right.

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So my next, are we down to our final two or was that your last? Is that your fourth? No, that was my fourth. Okay. So this is my next to last, 1982,

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First Blood. Oh, it's sad you don't consider that a classic.

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No, I consider it a classic, but it wasn't on our top 10. Yeah, I know. It is a classic. It is a classic.

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It's also one of those movies, I had my son when he was in homeschool, and I think he was 16,

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I think it was like junior year, right? Junior or sophomore year. I made him read the original book,

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David Morrell. We actually talked to the author, David Morrell. Wow. Because the movie and the book are so different.

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And in the movie, Rambo is sort of like an antihero, but still sort of the character that you're rooting for. But in the book, it goes back and forth.

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And Teasel's story is more, excuse the expression, teased out, because Teasel is a Korean war veteran.

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He's got his own issues, and Rambo has his issues. And so there's this, it goes from one chapter from Teasel's point of view, and then one chapter from Rambo's point of view.

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And you know what? The book never mentions a knife. Drives me nuts. Wow. Because I have the knives.

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I have the collection from Rambo 1, 2, and 3. I have all those knives. And the knife was like a character in the movie. Yeah. But it's not even in the book.

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Wow, that's weird. Yeah. And in the book, spoiler alert, in the book, he dies. There's actually a scene filmed of the original movie where he did commit suicide.

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But they showed it to test audiences, and nobody liked it. Nobody liked it. Yeah. So that's, again, that's just one of my favorite movies.

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I can watch it any time. Was it a Christmas movie? Absolutely, it's a Christmas movie. That one, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon.

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Gremlins? I thought you were going to say Grease. No. I probably almost did. Gremlins. I get

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Gremlins and Grease mixed up. Gremlins is a Christmas horror. But yeah, still Christmas. Okay. It's like on Black Christmas, like a list like that.

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Yeah. All right. Number one, Bob. All right. My number one is 1980s

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Popeye. It is with Robin Williams. Wow, Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall.

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And it was the first movie I remember seeing in a theater. Nice. Yeah. Am I right? It was

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Shelley Duvall? Yeah. Yep. That's... so have you seen it since?

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Mm -hmm. Okay, so you've watched it since. My son recently, JJ, he asked about Popeye.

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He wanted to know what Popeye was. Yeah. And he never heard of it, never seen it. So I showed him some Popeye cartoons. He liked it.

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And I thought about showing him the movie. Yeah. You think it still holds up? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's real good. It's just the standard, typical, it's a very comic book.

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And he eats the spinach and gets strong. Yeah, he gets strong. Cool. Yep. But yeah. All right.

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My number one, you already know because he gave it away earlier. One Crazy Summer. Yeah. I've said this before.

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If you know me at all, you know this is my favorite movie. I've seen this movie well over a hundred times. I still watch this movie to go to sleep sometimes because I know it so well, it becomes like white noise.

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Yeah. I can see the entire film in my head. John Cusack, Demi Moore, one of the

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Murray brothers, not Brian Doyle, not Bill, but the other Murray brothers. The other one. The lesser Murray. Yeah. Is in it.

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The guy from Revenge of the Nerds. Yeah. Booger. Booger. From Revenge of the Nerds. It's just got

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Bobcat go away. Yeah. My favorite bully. Everybody would think that your favorite bully should be

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Robert Zabka or not Robert, Billy Zabka. William Zabka.

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William Zabka from Karate Kid. Karate Kid. Yeah. No, no, no. My favorite bully is Ted. When he's describing

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Demi Moore, he goes, yeah, she's got these braids. What do you call them? Corn husks. I just love that line.

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Corn, is that a corn roast? Corn husks. I just think he's, he just, he plays that mean villain.

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Bully so well. And it's a classic bully movie. Getting it over on the bully at the end where the boat explodes and he's like, that's my car.

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There's a tag number. See you later. Absolutely. All right.

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So we're now going to move on to some other questions. That's our top 10, but now we're going to move on to some other questions.

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For instance, and I didn't tell you I was going to ask you this. So this may take you a second. What's the most popular 80s movie that everybody seems to love and talk about, but you've never seen?

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We saw a lot of movies. We started on Betamax. And if you don't know what that is, that's like eight track tapes.

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Yeah. And if you do know what Betamax is, you need to schedule your colonoscopy. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. All right.

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So is there a popular movie in the 80s that you didn't see? But everybody, and like at this point, you don't even know if you want to see it.

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Like holding it as a standard. Go ahead. I don't want to admit this.

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Well, mine's pretty, okay. I've never seen the Princess Bride. Nice. I pulled a lot of clips from it.

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And you've seen my, I did it. Princess Bride characters were churches. Yeah. One of my most popular videos, by the way.

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I still get messages every day on Facebook from people who like it or share it or stuff. It's hugely popular. So that's cool.

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Okay. You've never seen Princess Bride? No. Well, the rodents of unusual size are very disappointed.

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All right. Anybody want a peanut? Okay. All right. Mine, I never saw

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Stand By Me. Wow. Never saw it. And I hear people talk about it. I hear people reference it all the time.

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I know what it's about. But I've never seen it. Never seen it. Never seen

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Stand By Me. If you think I should see Stand By Me, leave it in the comments. If you think Bobby should see Princess Bride, definitely leave it in the comments.

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Shame him in the comments. You want to see a dead body? All right. So we've both given our 80s movies that we love.

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Yes. Is there an 80s movie that other people love that you don't like? You've seen it and you just don't really like it.

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This might surprise you with my answer to this one, but I want to hear yours. Oh, Cold Blooded.

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Oh, is that an 80s movie?

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I think so. I don't know. Cold Blooded is the worst movie ever. Cold Blooded is with Jason Priestley.

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He is a bookie for the mob who becomes a hit man, but he's slow.

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And he meets a girl. Oh, I can't even. No. But it does have one of the worst scenes. Michael J. Fox is in it.

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Yeah. And he's one of the victims. Yeah. And the scene leading up to his death is horrible. It's hard to watch.

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It's like watching Michael Scott go and do the Scott's Tots episode of The Office.

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Like, it's just very uncomfortable. That's this movie. Yeah. No, it's not anything anybody likes.

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But as far as the one I just hate. Well, I don't say hate it. I'm just saying you don't love it. Don't love it.

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You want me to go first on this one? Yeah. Give you an idea. The one everybody seems to like, and it's referenced all the time, and I know

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I've seen it, I just don't love it, is Weird Science. See? I knew you were going to be disappointed in me.

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And I love you still. I just don't love it. I like Anthony Michael Hall. I like the, you know, what's his name?

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Isn't it Bill Paxton? Yeah. Isn't it? Or is it Bill Pullman?

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It's Bill Paxton. Bill Pullman was Lone Star. That's right. Yeah. And president from Independence Day.

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Yeah. Yeah. I can't think of his name. William Henry Harrison. Yeah. Died in 30 days. No. All right.

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So Weird Science is mine. I don't love it. I wouldn't watch it today if somebody said, hey, you want to watch Weird Science? I guess

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I would, but I probably, yeah. And I mean, really the ones are, that I'm not crazy about, was like Pretty in Pink.

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I know it's John Hughes' classic. You know, I wasn't, yeah. But it probably, I don't know if I went back and watched like I did

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Breakfast Club. The song is awful. Oh, yeah. You ever heard the song Pretty in Pink? Because they had all these really great songs from movies like that.

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The song from, oh gosh, what was the one we talked about earlier? The Breakfast Club song.

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Yeah. Like, you know, dun, dun, hey, hey, hey, hey. Like that song gets you going.

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Pretty in Pink is literally like, she's pretty in pink. It's like a terrible song. I didn't really care for that one either.

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I've tried watching it many times and just. Not a huge Molly Ringwald fan. I love

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John Hughes, didn't really like her. Yeah. Okay. All right. Now we have to do our quick debate and we're going to see which side you take.

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This is the question of which is greater, 80s or 90s? Because I'm saying today that I'm the 80s guy.

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I'm going to hold forth the 80s, but the 90s were pretty great too. So some of the greatest movies in the 90s, you can see them up here on the screen.

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You got Home Alone, which again is a Christmas movie, so that might not count. But Jurassic Park, Lion King. I'm trying to see.

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It's kind of hard to see on the screen there, but there's just a ton of great movies that came out in the 90s. Terminator 2.

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Forrest Gump. Yeah. So if you had to say, I could only watch movies from this particular decade for the rest of my life.

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I would have to go with 80s. Because 90s introduced more CGI, where special effects started coming.

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It's still, 80s and 90s are still good because like we've talked before about the movies are rewatchable because they needed a story to carry it.

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You start getting into 2000s and later where CGI becomes a lot more prevalent and where everything is

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CGI now and it makes the story lack, I think. Yeah, and they weren't trying to build a universe.

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They weren't trying to build a franchise. In fact, I heard this and I don't know if it's true, but I heard that when they put

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To Be Continued at the end of Back to the Future - It was a joke. That was a joke. That it wasn't intended to actually be a three -part series, but they just put it in as a joke, like time goes on, kind of To Be Continued.

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But then of course they ended up making Two and Three Together, which is one of the smartest moves. Oh, yeah. Hilarious because it makes so many ties they could do.

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Also, I heard somewhere that when they were filming number two, originally they thought about sending them back to the 70s and that would have been really cool rather than revisiting the 55 situation, going back to the 1970s where Biff has already gone over 21.

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He was given the book then. Yeah, I got you. So anyway, just an interesting side note.

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But yeah, I'm with you. I think the 80s wins. I think they're better stories. I think they're more re -tellable stories, re -watchable stories.

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I say we can go back and watch Breakfast Club. It's re -watchable even if it's out of time today. Still fits for me.

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But I want to hear your thoughts in the comments. If you think the 90s was a better decade or if by some chance you're crazy and you think that the 2000s or the 2010s, shame on you.

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If you think that was a better decade for moviemaking, please tell us why. Argue with us. Leave a very long comment.

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It's good for the algorithm. So tell us all about ... Sometimes people come in and they want to argue and they'll make these ... I'm like, thank you.

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Just leave it. Just keep going. Yeah, because the longer you stay on the video and you're watching the video while you're typing, so leave it.

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All right, so here's the thing. We didn't get to certain movies.

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There were certain classics that we left out that just didn't make the cut.

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So is there any that you want to mention before we sign off? Here's some movies that we should have mentioned that didn't make the cut.

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As far as in classics or ... 80s. Yeah, anything. 80s classics. Anything that we should have mentioned.

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I didn't mention 89's Batman. That's obviously one of my favorite movies. The poster hangs up behind me and my ...

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But that's one of the greatest movies ever made and I didn't mention it and it should have been in the top 10, but I didn't put it in the top 10.

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I like ... I guess it's back to the whole rom -com thing. Mannequin. I have Mannequin 2 under 90s movies and Weekend at Bernie's under 90s movies because I was actually a fan of Andrew McCarthy.

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Yeah. Yeah. He was the Rat Pack guy. Rat Pack, yeah. Yep. All right. So that's our thoughts on 80s movies and here is your homework for the comments.

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Number one, what great 80s movies did we forget? What did we not put in? Number two, what is your favorite 80s movie?

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And number three, which is better? 80s or 90s? Or as I said, are you a crazy person who thinks that movies actually got better after the turn of the century?

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These are the people that like the new Star Wars over the originals. And it hurts my soul that you exist.

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Well, thank you, Bobby, for coming in for the first time. We'll have you again soon. Thank you for watching. I hope you have a great day.