Season Six Bracket Challenge, Part 1

0:00 Hey everyone. Before we get into today's episode, I just wanted to remind you that we have a ton of extra content over on our patreon. We do movie watch parties special page here on the bonus episodes and all other sorts of wacky stuff that you can access easily. If you head on over to patreon.com slash film Whiskey on today's film and whiskey, it's bracket time, record time. We put all 32 movies from season 6 into a Madness style bracket and Whittle them down to just just one at the same time, we're trying 3 rise from our friends at Doc's, Winston's whiskey. That's all ahead on the film and whiskey podcast.

0:57 Hey, everybody. Welcome into the film and whiskey. Podcast. I'm Bob book, I'm Reggie Brad. It is the Most Wonderful Time of the Season, shh. But a bird, a bird up below. I'm so excited because it is bracket challenge o'clock right now bracket time, man. Okay, listen. If you're new to the podcast, or if this is your first season that you've joined us, we structure our show. Thus, we have 32 movies in each season and at the end of each, Season. We put those movies into a Madness style bracket and we Crown one movie, the champion of that season. So this is season 6, we are here to determine what is the season six Champion?

1:45 Brad, there's a little bit more to it than that but that's basically the gist of what we're doing here. That's that's it. We literally do nothing else but the bracket preparation. So I think we should give the people a little bit of like our our Ecology. Like let's let's lay the foundation here for what? The pocket looks rad piss off. Bob the most that is definitely your methodology for sure, 100%. So what we do is, you know, we give these movies a rating at the end of each week out of 10. And so at the end of each season, we have a nice little numerical list of how our movies came out. And so I rank those all by you know, what was a 10/10? What was the nine-and-a-half Bubba blah.

2:25 But at the same time Brad and I independent of each other. We just Take the list of movies. Once we hit week 32, we look back over the list and we just kind of rearrange them by what our heart tells us is the the best movie that year, there's no Rhyme or Reason to it. It's just hey, it's been 32 weeks since we've seen some of these movies. It's been one week since we've seen some of these movies. How would we reorder these? If we were doing it right now and it's so at the end of that, we have three lists, we have our numerical list and then we have our go with the heart list. For each of us, we average all of those. Together and we come out with one final list that without fail pisses both of us off. And that's how I know that.

3:07 It's a good methodology because we take one through 32. We seed them out. We put them in a bracket and I every single season, dude, I look at this bracket and I'm like, this is weird. This doesn't look right and and that's how I know that it's red. It's exactly, right? Yeah. I think that each season, I always my heart just kind of its a free spirit. Bob it, wanders through the list willy-nilly, and just kind of forget certain movies that I might have been pumped about earlier in the year and elevates other movies that I might have given like a seven and a half, or an 82 and yet somehow it's in my top 10 and that's, that's just me.

3:47 And my gut feeling Bob, I trust it's mine. Our I know things. I am trying to find words that don't sound accusatory of you Brad G. But whenever we come out to our weird-looking funky seating every season, it's mostly because of you, like, let's just be real here because I mean I really were not the final Authority on movies. Bob. Oh, I'm not, but what I'm saying is my scores, stay pretty consistent from like the time we watch the movie to the end of the season, I'm like, oh yeah, this is still a 10/10. Therefore, in my mind, I'm probably going to rank this in my top two or three of the season and so like, you know, generally there's a little bit of shuffling in my list, but It's pretty consistent and then I get your list back and, you know, without spoiling, which movie it is Brad.

4:33 There's a movie this season that you gave a 10/10 to. And then I think you ranked it like, number 13, out of 32, on your list. I sure did. And I just, I don't get it man. I don't understand your, the depths of your heart, I think for me, it's more about what movies would I want to watch again? Hmm, I don't know if that's an accurate depiction of like, you know, the best movie at one and the worst at 32. But I would say that just because I gave a movie a 10/10, does it mean I'm like, akin to re-watch it where is there certain movies that I would re watch over and over again? That might rank a few spots higher? So you know what's really funny is, I feel like the way we approach, this is almost completely flipped from each other, because when I'm ranking my movies, I'm, I'm mostly just like, what's the better movie? Like whether or not it's re-watch or not like what's the better film here?

5:25 But when it comes time for us to actually, We do the bracket and there's a head-to-head matchup and our criteria in a head-to-head. Matchup is one of these movies is going to get thrown into the fiery furnace, and never seen or heard from again and only one can survive forever. That's what I'm usually like. All right. Which one would I rather watch again? Like if I had to, if I had to just stumble upon this, on the cable, on weekend afternoon, like what's the movie that I'm going to stop and actually watch? And so it's funny because I feel like you do that during the listing and not so much during the head to head and I do it during the head-to-head and not during a listing, I think what I'm hearing is you're just trying to draw this out so that you don't have to throw in of your movies.

6:10 That's true. All right man. Let's let's reveal the bracket here. I will say before we get started that we are trying three whiskeys today from our friends at Doc Swensons, they've been our sponsor throughout season six. They've been an incredible sponsor for us. They sent a seven-digit Different spirits to try one of which was a rum that they finished in a whole bunch of different kinds of casks and that, that one Brad and I are just keeping for ourselves. We don't really drink rum on film and whiskey, surprise, surprise, but what we have left over after the rum is three, rise and three bourbons. And so on this edition of the bracket episode, we're going to drink the three rise next time around, will drink the three Bourbons so we'll break it. You know, certain points Brad will try these rise but it's time for us to dive into Ooh, this man and I'm looking at our bracket right now.

6:58 Once again, it is incredibly frustrating for me at least, so if you're following along, we are going to start up in the upper left-hand quadrant with our number one, overall seed Brad reveal our seed. So that, you know it's hey reveal our number one seed to the listeners. I was going to say we should name each quadrant. I was liking about this Cruise quadrant the, the Hank or Santa Cruz. Quadrant obviously in the in the crews quadrants are number one film of the season. Is Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park?

7:42 I'm not surprised at all like not even a little bit, are you? No, no, no. I think I had it as my number two overall. It's It's freaking Jurassic Park man. There's dinosaurs, there's horror there's family Dynamics. It's just so good and it's going up against our number. 32 overall, seed, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Scott Pilgrim vs. The T-Rex. It is a losing battle, my friend. I think it's pretty obvious, that drastic Parks moving on here. But say, one nice thing about Scott Pilgrim, right? That's what I was gonna do, you know, it's the number 32 seed and it's not Cup of tea, but even I'm a little bit surprised that it shook out to be the 32 seed.

8:26 And I think that says a lot about the quality of films this season. We really didn't give. I think we only gave a couple movies anywhere below like a seven and a half this season and this one shook out to about a seven, I think I gave it a five and a half and you gave it like an eight. Maybe. So, you know, it was low ish but even that is our worst movie of the season. I think that says quite a bit about what we're going to be looking at in the bracket. It but say one nice thing about the movie itself, Bob. I like Michael Cera and I like Edgar Wright. Okay, not in this movie. But yeah, Jurassic Park moves on drastic park, all right? And we're jumping immediately from the widest gap. Between matchups to the narrowest one because the next matchup is the 16 seed Raging Bull up against the 17 seed. The Searchers Now again these are two movies that we rated quite highly.

9:23 I gave Raging Bull anion, I think Brad, you gave it either a seven and a half or an eight, The Searchers. I also gave a 92 and I don't remember exactly what score. You gave it Brad, but it really ended up. I think it was around a 9. Yeah, it ended up coming out to how we seated them out in our individual lists. And I, as I recall, Raging Bull was pretty low for you. And so that's how it ends up here at 16. And I'm kind of shocked to see both these movies here. And this was a really hard Jump For Me Brad? Yeah, I think that if I just had to go on overall enjoyability, I'd have to go with the Searchers but the idea of throwing out that final scene of raging Bowl to be lost to the fiery. Inferno is like really hard because I think that might be like a top-20 all-time scenes in film history. I'm gonna be honest here because I'm the guy that liked Raging Bull more.

10:20 Or I picked the Searchers and I think because it's ultimately I think the Searchers is a more influential movie in Hollywood, it inspired Spielberg and Scorsese and George, Lucas, and all of these directors that we know and love now, and I think taken as a whole, I think it's a, it's a more consistently good movie where as Raging Bull had higher Highs, but they didn't come until the very end of the movie. So because of that, I'm actually moving the Searchers on Yeah, I actually chose the Searchers as well. Wow. Okay. Legitimately almost chose Raging Bull, just because the scene of hit of De Niro, trying to talk to Pesci at the end of the film is, is so crushing. Yeah, in such a beautiful way, but yeah, I couldn't quite do it, man.

11:11 All right, so the Searchers is moving on and that takes us to the number nine seed, baby driver up against the number 24 seed, Close Encounters of the Third Kind Close Encounters was, I think pretty easily ranked for us. Brad is the worst of the four that we watched from Spielberg. I think I actually ranked it as this third worst, but I understood exactly where you were coming from. It's a movie that like, there's some tonal whiplash. On in that movie. Hmm, and I think there's a couple storytelling leaps that I wish that he had drawn out a little bit more for the most part. I think it's a brilliantly constructed film. It's a really, really well-written script.

11:52 And I hate to be the guy that's like I'm going to put baby driver on over this classic movie by Spielberg, but I honestly think that if if I'm just taking it at face value, I like baby driver better than I like Close Encounters and I'm going to move baby driver on. Yeah I'm going to move baby driver on as well. I think that Close Encounters really is a great movie but it's almost worth it. More for the interview that is done with Spielberg where Spielberg realizes that he was trying to pair his parents back together. You're the one who showed me this Bob, and I like that interview makes the entire movie worth it because you get to see Anna Spielberg soul for a second, and it's incredible. Yeah.

12:36 So I think it's pretty clear that we're moving baby driver on. Like, I said, I ranked Close Encounters 18th out of the 32 films for the season. Not a bad movie by any stretch, but baby driver. I think is one of the better action, movies of the last 10-15 years and so yeah, yeah, it moves on. It's crazy how brackets work man. Because we just had a Raging Bull in the Searchers two of the most highly regarded movies ever. And now you got like baby driver sneaking into, you know, the round of 16. Yeah. Yeah. It's that's man. That's how it works. You gotta you gotta you know, seven, eight nine. See that can do some damage in the tournament. You just never know what's going to happen. All right, man, why don't you give us our next matchup? Yeah.

13:17 This one we are going with to action Classics Shaun of the Dead and the Terminator. If you had told me before, we started this bracket episode, that Edgar Wright's would have to pretty easy victories in the fridge. In the first round, I'd be really surprised and that's saying nothing about Edgar Wright, he's a great director. And and the Terminator is kind of a watershed moment in sci-fi and action Cinema, but especially the fact that we have t to floating around somewhere on this bracket, and then that movie is just so superior to the first Terminator movie. Yeah. I don't really feel bad getting rid of it in favor of Shaun, of the Dead here.

14:00 And so that's what I'm going to do. Yeah, I think Shaun of the Dead is one of my absolute favorite comedies of all time. So that that's an easy pickup. The Terminator is fun. And it's engaging and I really think Arnold does a great job being a robot but it's nothing compared to what Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg do and Shaun of the Dead. Alright so there are first four entries into the round of 16 Jurassic Park. The Searchers baby driver Shaun of the Dead. We're moving down into our lower left quadrant here. What's this one called Brad? This one is the Hanks quadrant Okay, I was gonna I was thinking you were just going to pick variations of Tom Cruise's name. It just call it like the Tom bracket that, but that applies to the Hanks bracket to, yeah, we should call it the the mission impossible.

14:53 Bracket, the Jack Reacher bracket, The Edge of Tomorrow bracket, the Maverick bracket. Yeah, the Maverick the Top Gun bracket. All right, well leading Off The Top Gun bracket is the to least action-packed movies ever made and it is the number of Commander overall seed. Brief Encounter up against the number. 29 overall seed, The Quiet Man, The Quiet Man is action packed. Dude, it has like a 15-minute fight scene, okay, it has action, I don't know if it's packed with action, there's like some action dangling off the end a little bit like a hangnail. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay, action, egg nail if there is one movie this season that I am shocked by its placement, it is brief encounter.

15:40 I thought that I was going to have to defend that movie to the nail that it would be our most boring episode of the season because you would be checked out and calling it dumb. And I like, I am so pleasantly surprised a that you liked that movie. But be that we both liked this movie enough that it is the number four seed, Bob Brief Encounter, fun fact, incredible booty. Well, it is a fun fact. It is such a good film. I think that it is quiet. And it is intense. And the most important thing, I think I can say about it is that it is incredibly sincere and believable.

16:21 And then there's the quiet man, which is a movie that I really like, but that I don't do anything more than like, I don't know if that makes us sincere. Yeah, it is not very believable. All right. So the quiet man was your movie, dude. Like we put this movie on the list because you were like, we got to do. It at some point it is a whore just film to look at and features one of my favorite John Wayne performances. Like there's a lot of good things to say about it and so I'm going to put the ball in your court here, man. Which one did you move on? I put Brief Encounter forward. Wow. Yeah, I'm so proud. I love the quiet man. It's really a fun movie but it's not, it's not compared to brief encounter.

17:07 Brief Encounter is a, is a movies movie by You know, I will say we are recording this episode, a few weeks in advance. Spoiler alert. It's Valentine's Day and what a nice watch a movie about infidelity obvious. But yeah, but I mean like it is one of the classic romance movies. It's a tragic movie but like you got that and then you've got the quiet man which is like the uplifting Romance movie. This would be a nice little little Valentine's pairing. I like it, I don't think so. I don't, I don't think my wife wants to watch. Watch a movie about infidelity with me on Valentine's Day. Wow. All right, your wife needs to expand her Horizons, man. That's what I'm saying here.

17:48 Just like what's-her-face expanded her Horizons and Brief Encounter. Yeah, you know, all right, we're moving on, dude, we're gonna go to the number 13, overall seed, Raiders of the Lost, Ark up against the number, 20 overall seed, Lawrence of Arabia. Now, again, I feel like we have to put disclaimers on these things because, like, when I say real, Is the number 13 seed, and Lords Of Arabia is the 20th. Like, it sounds like, hey, we don't know what we're talking about and be that we didn't enjoy those movies and that is not the case. Like I gave both of those movies, and nine out of ten, they're great movies. They just didn't crack that top tier for me and honestly, having the director format Brad. I think that I enjoyed both of David lean's, other two movies more than I enjoyed Lawrence of, A Bia as important as it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that I definitely enjoyed writers a lot more.

18:46 I definitely enjoyed bridge and Brief Encounter more. So for me Raiders is going on carefully. Like I like I like Lawrence of Arabia. I think it's incredibly important in cinematic history but I just I like Raiders more. I probably also like Raiders more but I did move Lawrence of On and oh yeah. And like I don't feel great about it but at the end of the day, Raiders is another one of those movies that it's a great movie, it's a great Spielberg movie but like, Jaws, I feel that it might be just a tad over estimated, you know, like, I'm gonna compare to Jurassic Park. I think Jurassic Park, does everything. Raiders does better than Raiders the same way? I think it does everything.

19:34 That Jaws does better than Jaws. Hmm, I don't even think Raiders is my favorite of the Indie movies. I think Last Crusade. Is probably my favorite one. So yeah. As much as it pains me to throw Raiders of the Lost Ark up on the altar, I'm gonna put Lawrence of Arabia into the next round and that means, you know, that means Bob, what does it mean? Means that we're about to flip the coin of Dustin e, the queen of Destiny which is always held by Brad in the most suspicious of circumstances, Brad. I have never once lied Robert. All right, we're going to say At Raiders of the Lost Ark is heads, Lawrence of Arabia is Tails.

20:14 When we come to an impasse, we flip a coin to see what moves on to the next round. Brad flip that coin Bob is Lawrence of Arabia. The film you chose is going deep into the next round of this bracket. Wow. You've gotten so good at teasing this man. Like you've been taking notes on Ryan Seacrest on American Idol thought that was going a different way, with every single word, you said. Yeah, it feels like a Family Guy scene where they just draw it out or like My Cousin Vinny. Yeah.

21:01 Alright. So Lawrence of Arabia moves on. That means my bracket is still unblemished, Brad. Yours is taken a hit at this point. That takes us to our next. Match up the number 12 seed, heat up against the number 21 seed, Moonrise Kingdom. Now Brad, I will speak for the both of us here. Moonrise Kingdom ended up being a weirdly divisive movie that I did not see that coming easily, the most divisive movie in film and was in the history of the film and whiskey podcast and it didn't become divisive until the last, like, five minutes of the episode, it was such a pleasant and enjoyable. Time and then out of nowhere. The, the de visite that division struck, yeah. I, I was very proud of myself for, for waiting till the end, if you had the, I had the wool pulled over your eyes, pretty hard.

21:57 Let's so, blindsided, now, I will say this. Okay, Brad has some some personal moral objections to that movie because of that he actually said, I don't think I'm going to score this movie because I think I would give this movie a very low score just because I disagree with it ethically. And so he with withheld his vote. What's the what's the word when you obtained from voting on that movie? So our seating really only reflected my first score and then our placement of the movie on both lists. So where did you put it on your list? Let me take a look. I put it at number 16.

22:38 So right in the middle, okay. Yeah, it definitely fell in my estimation this time around. Like I used to love that movie, more than Grand Budapest of than this time around. I was like, what the hell was I thinking? I'm okay, just saying, let's get rid of Moonrise Kingdom because, like, you know, I like heat. It's about on the same level as heat, in terms of like, which one would I rather watch on a Saturday afternoon, kind of a thing? But it's not worth carrying into the next round. If it's going to be like, a weird thing that's gonna always Stoke division. Let's just throw it. To the wolves and then move heat on third into the fiery Inferno and keep heat out of it. Yeah, counter-intuitively Kathy.

23:19 Yeah. Who would have thought? Yeah he does moving on part of the reason that it was so easy to move heat on as because I have a feeling that whatever comes out of that matchup now it's we know that its heat is going to have a really hard time in the next matchup because we've got the number five. Overall seed Terminator 2 Judgment day. Going up against the number 28 overall seed, The Grapes of Wrath 'The, I don't know that we need to talk about this very long Brad. Yeah, Grapes of Wrath is. Okay, hmm. Terminator 2 is incredible. The end. I mean TT aims on here. Yeah for real, I want to drink rye whiskey Robert I do too. So real quick.

23:59 Let's recap the for movies that moved on Brief Encounter, Lawrence of Arabia heat and Terminator 2 and now Brad it is time to drink some whiskey. Can you Can you direct us to which of these three experimental casks? We are going to be trying first. I think we should try their funky drummer, mmm. The funky drummer is an, like we said, an exploratory, Cask from Doc Swensons. It's a straight rye whiskey, which has been finished in Jamaican rum casks. Brad. I am pouring it out right now, so you Regale us with the story of your experience with this bad boy? Yeah. Well, I will start by saying Doc Swensons is incredible stand-up guys.

24:44 Like they are such cool guys. Making truly incredible, whiskey there, there, exploratory, casks guys. You have to go get them. Like, if you are seeing anything in a white label from Doc Swensons, it means that it has a it's a once-in-a-lifetime like try it now or forever. Hold your peace. Kind of whiskey and having them send us these seven versions of it, you know, six Whiskey's in a rum, I have tried them. Holy shit. Okay, that's all. I'm going to say, go buy it.

25:27 Secondly, let's talk about the funky, drummer got funky, drummer, the funkiest of drummers. Now, this one is a rye whiskey. Finished in a Jamaican rum casks. I think Bob might have already said that, it's coming in and 105.3 proof. And I will say, I think this is like one of the most classic Nice rise I've ever had and I will say this one, it doesn't rise to the levels that were going to hit with our other to rise that they sent us. But for me, on the, on the, on the nose, the palate, and the finish. It just had one of the most Pleasant baking spice Rye, Okie vanilla taste to it, that I've ever had.

26:15 Yeah, so this is a blended whiskey that or a blended. It's a blend of 25-year rise both from MGP. The first one is a 95, R I5, malted barley, Mash Bill. The second one is a 51%, Rye, 45% corn, 4%, barley Mash bill. So, you know, it's kind of like right in the middle is probably sitting somewhere about 75% rye and I really like that it, I think it is rounded quite nicely by some of those corn notes Brad. I think you're right in that, you know, I'm especially comparing this to one that we're probably going to drink next which is Similarly, finished. But that I thought had a lot more character than this. This is like, hey, here's a classic Rye flavor with a little bit of tropical notes thrown in on top of it.

27:00 And it's at, you know, I don't say Cask strength but it's 105 proof like it's it's a, it's a little bit of a kick in the head. I really like this man. I think it is a, it's a really good Baseline to start from in R3 rise today. Yeah, I think so. The like this, and I'll say this, if we scored this out, I would probably come out to like a 37 38 out of 50. Yeah. And if that's setting the Baseline the standard for where we're going. I am very excited. I definitely get a lot of banana on this. It reminds me a lot of some of the rise we've had from Barrel like you just kind of reminds me of that flavor profile. Really nice.

27:43 Kind of classic spicy. But it doesn't tip into that like dill or mint. It stays on the sweeter side. Is it this is like this is a rye for bourbon Drinkers and that's why I like it so much. I'm right there with you, man. It would be somewhere between like 37 and 40 for me definitely on the higher end of the upper proof Rye spectrum that we've had. And I think it's a great place for us to just start here as we segue back into our bracket. What do you say man? Yeah, let's get to it. Are you popinjays George Beast? Your trusted voice in the world of selective Spirits. Today's 62nd whiskey appraisal is brought to you by doc Swensons, doc Swensons the perfect whiskey for adventurous whiskey.

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29:06 That's tocbs whisky.com. Until next time folks. This is George be stagger signing off. All right, we are moving our way to the top, right bracket. Also known as the, let's make it Tom Cruise, rain bracket. Mmm! Love it. And our first matchup in this bracket is the grandest the most Budapest. Ian Hotel versus the number thirty one seed. The Big Lebowski. Hmm this is our that is the number two seat Grand Budapest Hotel. Brad. I don't really think I need to say too much about this.

29:47 Am I surprised that that Lebowski is 31 kind of? But even though I liked that movie better than I used to, I still just don't see it as more than, like a seven and a half. And I will, I will freely admit that. I just don't, I don't get that movie, I don't get it. What is there that so many people love about it, you know, I'm glad people like that movie. It's fine. It is a good movie. It is no Grand Budapest Hotel, which we should say. Was Brad G's number one, ranked movie of this year. When you turned your Liston over Jurassic Park. Over Jurassic Park. I freaking love that movie dude. Yeah, I don't think I realized you liked it that much. Well I mean it helped that we had Patrick Williams on to talk about it.

30:31 I think that he is has just such an incredible way of elucidating. What makes a movie great and fun and enjoyable. So I really enjoyed hearing him talk about it. But on top of that, I just had a freaking blast watching that movie it is wild, it is zany, it goes places you would never expect it to go and I love Ray Fiennes I think over the last few years of watching this podcast we've only had refines on two or three times I think three between The Prince of Egypt Schindler's List and now Grand Budapest. Yeah. And then, although Very Potter and the Harry Potters. So actually, we've had a pretty good dosage of him.

31:12 I love Ray Fiennes. I do too. So Grand Budapest Hotel is moving on and that takes us to what I think is probably a much more intriguing matchup here Brad because I have a feeling, we might be split on this one. It is the number 15 seed silence up against the number, 18 seed, The Princess Bride. Now The Princess Bride is a movie that I have a bone to pick with you about because, you know, we both kind of said, hey, it's a fine movie, it's pretty good. It's more clever. Than it is laugh-out-loud funny. I gave it a 7 and a half. I believe you gave it either an 8 or an eight and a half, and then you turned your list back in and it was like, way higher up. The list than I would have expected it to be and I said, what the hell?

31:57 And you said, I love that movie. So it seems to have re risen in your estimation here. I love the The Princess Bride. Bob, I put it at number 9 out of 32, so not like crazy. Crazy high. But you know, top ten. Yeah, I think. That what sticks out for me with the Princess Bride is how it is. Such a farcical film, where everyone takes the film. So seriously, and I for me, I think it's the peak of like 80s, farcical movies, like I like, I like Spaceballs, that's pretty fun.

32:37 There's other films like that in the Mel Brooks type of vein of Comedy you know Blazing Saddles is Abel from the 70s. But I for me, Princess Bride just kind of takes the cake and like I said, I didn't watch it till I was older. So it's not like I have some Nostalgia here. I just I really enjoy that movie. I'm gonna be honest man. I moved silence on here and it's not because I think silence is like some Masterpiece because once again on the re-watch, I was like, yeah, this is a good movie, but it's definitely really long and I could see how this would not be compelling to someone who isn't Christian. Not my favorite Scorsese movie. Definitely the worst of the three that we looked at from him.

33:17 And so this was one of those toss-ups where I'm like, I think whatever goes here is going to get beat by Grand Budapest in the next round. And I don't really care what I move on. So I put silence there just to spice things up a little. Yeah, I mean, I like silence, but you're right in saying it was not the, the best of the three. And I'll also say, I'm glad that they came up against each other because I think they might be the most Only different movies like like Far and Away. The most different films we've had this. He's yeah for sure. So I'll yeah, I'll flip the coins. I'm moving. The Princess, Bride ahead. All right, so that means silence is going to be heads. Princess Bride is going to be tails for a spot in the round of 16.

34:01 Brad, flip that coin. Robert Bradley your streak thus, Our of winning, the only coin toss Will Survive. Silence is moving on into the next round, okay. I don't really feel like a moral Victory about that. It's more like, you know, Lambs to the slaughter here against Wes Anderson's Silence of the Lambs to the slaughter, nailed it. All right, here's one that I'm excited for and I really hope that it doesn't become divisive. It is the number ten overall seed, A Few Good Men up.

34:41 The number 23 seed, collateral. Talk about a dude movie matchup. This would honestly be a great double feature. I would watch the hell out of both of these movies back. Yep. A Few Good Men. Ended up in my. I want to say it was like in my top five of the season and I would not have anticipated that. Let's see her. Oh no, I had it at number 9. So I mean still way high up there. This is a movie that the Rob Reiner of it all I think are the three The things that we didn't like about it, like it's just, it's kind of flat looking, it's not visually that interesting, but it also might have my favorite, Aaron Sorkin script, and it's got a great Tom Cruise performance.

35:22 And it's got a great Jack Nicholson, performance. And the last 40-ish minutes of this movie are just picture, perfect. And if I happened to catch any of that last 40 minutes on television, I'm not turning it off. Whereas, I think, I could pry myself away from collateral at pretty much the point. So it's Cruz versus Cruz, man. Where did you come out on this one? You had to do it to me you know the more I reflect on collateral the more, I think that that Tom Cruise his performance of a hired, you know assassin Hitman it's one of my favorite villain performances of all time.

36:03 Like I like I want to go back and watch it again but I think he just has an incredible ability to simultaneously. We make you like him as a character and it masks how desperately evil and heartless he is. And there's so many moments like when he's talking to Jamie Foxx's boss on the on the radio and he's like empowering, Jamie Foxx and he's teaching him how to be a man that stands up for himself and it's moments like that where you're like, man, I really like this guy. And yet at the end of the day, he is pure evil personified. I'd like, he like, he is just as, as heartless as Anton chigurh, you know?

36:45 Yep. And I, so I just, I actually think that he's up. There is one of my favorite villains, But A Few Good Men is the better man. All right, yep, A Few Good Men moves on into what is quite possibly. The second Duty as to match up in our bracket, that's time around the number seven, overall seed Bridge on the River Kwai up against the number 26 seed Avatar, a movie that Brad just continues. To not give any credit to. I'm not arguing that it's a great movie. But I think to the head of for other movies, I think it's better than you. Give it credit for. Yeah, I did go back to see the way of water in IMAX 3D. Like I drove to Cleveland to see it. Not just in 3D, but in IMAX, it was Far and Away. The best 3D experience I have ever had in my life and there were things about the 2D version of that movie, that I was like, oh, the special effects in, this are great. Like the CGI is incredible, but they were a few elements in it that looks kind of chintzy.

37:47 And then in 3D it was like, oh, this looks photo-realistic then like it looks so much different than it did in 2D that has nothing to do with this Avatar, but we're never going to talk about it again. So I figured I might as well get it out there Bridge on the River. Kwai is 55 times the movie that Avatar is yeah. Yeah Bridge on the River. Kwai is truly just a Credible film. It's one that I you know watch when I was like 10 to 12 years old, didn't watch it for two decades and here I am just blown away by what lean did. I'm moving Bridge on the River Kwai on, okay? So that that quadrant is wrapped up, we're moving on The Grand Budapest Hotel silence, A Few Good Men and Bridge on the River Kwai and that takes us to the lower.

38:35 Right quadrant, which what are we calling this one, man. The Ethan hunts bracket. The hunt region starting with the number three seed, Taxi Driver up against the number 2030. The number 30 seed Last of the Mohicans to Daniel's y OU, our good friend. I know you love this movie, man. It's a pretty good movie. It is no Taxi Driver. No no, Taxi Driver. Like everything I liked about you know something like heat is just Amplified tenfold. Fold in Taxi Driver. So yeah, Taxi Driver moves on a deeply unsettling movie, we all dude. Yeah, that one doesn't sit well with you by the end, highest recommendation from filmin whiskey. Go watch it.

39:28 You'll feel terrible. And that takes us to the 14 seed O Brother, Where Art Thou up against the 19 seed misery. Once again, tonally, wild match up here and I think, potentially Ali divisive Again, Brad because both of these movie, I'll go ahead good. Here's what I want to see. I just want to see the sirens, you know, ler and seduce Clooney and his friends and then he wakes up in the bed with Kathy Bates getting ready to break his ankles. That's that's the mash-up. I want to see from this season. I think that both of these movies are not entirely fulfilling to me and I like, Them both and it just kind of comes down to which one do I think, is the more successful at What It ultimately sets out to do?

40:17 And I think that misery is just slightly more successful at that. I actually like, I actually might get more enjoyment out of. Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? But it's really really narrow. And so, for that reason, I moved misery on. Yeah, I honestly these were two of the most enjoyable films of the Year for me. I just think they're both so incredibly successful. What they want to do for me O Brother, Where Art Thou moves on. I think it's it's just such an incredibly witty comedy and Clooney just turns in an incredible performance. So, I'm ready to flip the coin, man. All right, that means that That O Brother, Where Art Thou will be.

40:59 Heads. Misery Will Be Tails. Brad flip that coin. Bob were sticking with the heads and O Brother, Where Art Thou will be moving on. Alright, I have taken my first l in the bracket this season O Brother. Where Art Thou will be going up against Taxi Driver. Once again. Wildly different movies in the round. Can I just tell you why? Raising Arizona is a terrible movie. Oh yeah. Speaking of our next matchup, the number 11 seed aliens going up against the number 22 seed, Raising Arizona.

41:39 Before, you tell me why it's terrible. I have to say, man, this was an incredibly hard matchup for me, and I want you to imagine liking O Brother, Where Art Thou, 15% more than you do. And that's like how I feel about Raising Arizona and then you've got aliens, which Which is a nearly perfect action sci-fi movie that I am shocked to see all the way down at 11:00 and I think Brad it's because you didn't have it as high up your list as I expected it to be. Yeah, I had it ranks number 19. So just a little below, the halfway point. Now this is not again I'm not trying to be accusatory here. What is it about the movie? That Made it drop that far when it came time to rank them all out. Honestly, I think it's the fact that it didn't like stick with me a ton like the things I kind of remember from it. In its favor are the relationship between the little girl and Sigourney Weaver.

42:41 And I think that the horror scene with the face sucker that's LED in there, by what's-his-face the the bad guy. Paul Reiser, that Paul Reiser. Thank you. I think that that scene is incredible, but there's just too many scenes of really bad 80s, practical effects /cg, that just don't look good and the final fight, Scene is just bulky and awkward and so, like it's a, it's a great action movie. I really enjoyed it, but it also was hard because we also had T2 in this bracket and I think that that kind of, you know, influenced my opinion on this movie.

43:28 All right. Well, I'm gonna be real with you, dude. My first pass at this bracket. I put Raising Arizona ahead of aliens And the more I think about it the more I'm like, you know what, I like them almost equally. It is not worth the effort of having Brad. Be mad at me about this. I'm going to put aliens ahead. I will, I will take the high road. I love when you submit to my will, all right? Aliens is moving on, and it's going to be going up against Lee thinks that Raising Arizona is a bad movie. Everybody. Just so we all know. Raising Arizona is no more. Aliens is going up against our number six seed. A little movie called Jaws, which is facing off against the number 27, seed. Rushmore Rushmore is a movie that there are there's a certain subset of people that think it's like perfect. I do not.

44:20 In fact, I think it is pretty accurately placed here at like number 27, on our list. So I was going to say, where did you put it on your list? Because I put it at 17 for me. It was like the epitome of a forgettable middle of the road movie. It was number 30. For me really? What kind again? Like, it's a seven. Seven and a half for me. But that was, that was good enough to be number 30 this season, you know. Wow. Yeah. Okay, get the hell out of here. Rushmore, its jaws has turn the down. Is that that the final word on Jaws. That's it man. Okay, so the four movies that have moved on our Taxi Driver O Brother, Where Art Thou aliens and Jaws if I may say so for absolute bangers, bro.

45:11 Great great region down here, just incredible movies and now it is time for us to drink a second whiskey. We are looking at Doc Swensons, Tres Amigos. This is again an exploratory Cask. It's a Rye whiskey that has been finished in both rum and Tequila casks. It's clogging in 101.9 proof Brad. I might be in love. Yeah, I was in say, I have always said that. If there was another liquor, I would you no desire to get into. If companies wanted to send me free product, it would be tequila. I like I love tequila, man.

45:52 I think that a it's such a A vastly different experience than whiskey that I'm really intrigued by it, but also the flavors, you get on, tequila are incredible. So I love seeing them paired up here. I think on the nose, the tequila actually really shines through on this and like in somewhat a good way and in some what a way that I feel like it swallows up the rye just a bit but it's also because we're not used to having things finished in Tequila, like this is just new to us. And so I definitely Definitely noticed it on the nose, but when you get into the taste, really sweet like sugary sweet. It reminds me of, like, you know, those those like kind of gummy candies that are like rolled in sugar. Like the orange orange slices that are like, oh yeah, it kind of reminds me of that kind of candy, but then it has a really nice floral note to it as well and then the rice spice comes right in at the end it was really, really beautiful man. Yeah, I think that you get some of that Agave taste coming through on the nose, but really, for me, that, that note of the, like, a candied orange stuck out. It was very citrusy and very sweet. I think, when I got into the ACT, You��ll palette the Citrus continue to come through.

47:12 There was almost like a toasted sugar like a burnt sugar feel to it. There's some peppercorn. This is incredible. Bob I'm gonna ask you this now. Brad. We're going to throw a call an audible here. You want to just do the third whiskey right now. Do you want to move right into it? Yeah, let's do it, man. Let's freakin do it. I'm going to say this. I have tried, I tried the Tres Amigos. Before we started recording tonight. Tried the funky drummer on air. I have not even cracked the the seal on a third one, which is called Smoke on the Water. This is a straight ride that's been finished in peated. Scotch quarter casks clocking in at 103.8 proof?

47:54 Brad. This sounds like the platonic ideal of a whiskey for you, dude, let me tell you this. If we were scoring out this bottle, I think it might come close to To to being barrel. Seagrass for me. Oh my gosh. Like it is right there. As far as an incredible Rye. That is matched with everything beautiful that comes out of a peated scotch. This whiskey at the very Bare Bones minimum is like a 48 49 out of 50 for me. All right now I will temper your praise just a bit to say That the nose on this is more muted than I expected it to be like it.

48:43 It's not quite as Smoky as I expected and it's also not quite as Rye forward as I expected. Did you have the same experience Brad or was it more than it opened up more for you? Nope, you're done. Bob this has just enough smoke. It's got all sorts of like, toasted almonds, some marshmallow, the Rye comes through a little bit softer, but enough to let you know that it's there. Then I got some interesting notes of grape throughout that I was like just blown away by this, just screamed complexity to me. And I am a huge fan on the pallet for me, some of those notes that come up time and time again with certain rise that like really Woody like almost backyard pulling weeds. Vegetal herbal thing comes out in this. Ride is definitely tips more into the herbal side of Whiskey. Where's the other two were more sweet for me and I think that is the influence of the peated scotch. But this doesn't have a ton of PD Scotch flavored to me, it tastes more, like, some of those younger craft rise that have that like, you know, I don't know. What do you want to call it?

49:56 That herbaceous - to them. Hmm. I mean, I can kind of see where you're going with that. I actually got a little bit of citrus here almost like a fresh. Squeezed, orange juice. The rise spice comes through. Really strong on the palate. There is just a hint of Pete on the palate that really opens up on the finish and hits you with a little more smoke but but on the actual tasting there's some Sherry that's coming through that is reminiscent of the grape. I was getting on the nose and for me it stayed just sweet enough, there's a little bit of vanilla, a little bit of caramel that I love this palette Bob Brad. If I was going to rank these out, I think I would go with the rum and Tequila finished as my favorite. I would go with the rum finished as my second one and then Pride probably put this one third but they're so varied and so complex each of them that like you know, to say that I have a personal preference is not a dig at any of these three. I think that what doc Swensons is doing with her and exploratory, casks.

51:03 I am just wildly jealous of anybody who can Get Doc's regularly in their area so please please please. Please doc Swensons. Makes phenomenal whiskey. Like you guys know how much I love Barrel products. Barrel seagrass is my only whiskey I've ever given a 50 out of 50 on. I think that Doc's Swensons is like it's like 1A and 1B for me I think Barrel is my favorite company still but Doc's wins and is like just there and Buddy else is leagues behind. All right man. Let's get back into this bracket. Let's Whittle this down to around of eight.

51:45 What do you say? Yeah, let's fly through this man. I'm ready. All right, so our first matchup in the round of 16 is Jurassic Park. The number one seed, against the Searchers, the 17 seed. I think this is where we say adieu to the Searchers Brad. Yeah, I mean, we're not we're not going to sing it, but Jurassic Park isn't easy. Easy vote to move on. It's going to be really hard to Beat Jurassic Park. I'm just being frank here. People like yeah Jurassic Park is maybe like a top three movie for you. Yeah, for sure. So it's up there. Yeah. Well at the very least it moves on in this round because I'm moving it forward as well. All right, and then we've got an Edgar Wright head-to-head matchup baby driver against Shaun of the Dead. This is a really hard matchup Brad because I think I'm like baby driver better.

52:34 I think baby driver is certainly, the more polished film. Yeah. I think Shaun of the Dead is going to be more Edgar Wright's Legacy film though and so, it kind of just depends like which one is A preference. I think quite frankly baby driver works for me. Just a little bit more than Shaun of the Dead and I put baby driver on. Yeah, I think it's funny that we, you know, we have Edgar right here matching up against himself. I actually move Shaun of the Dead on. Mmm, I'm so glad this is coming down to a coin flip. Honestly. Yeah, I am too because I, I think that watching Edgar Wright is some of the most fun.

53:14 I had this entire season and baby driver. It's that Shaun of the Dead fits that? So it's an easy coin, flip here. Which one do you want to be heads? Because Shaun of the Dead is actually the higher seeded film. I usually just go with the higher. Geographic is going to be had. So baby driver would be heads. Shaun of the Dead would be Tails. All right, let's flip that coin. Bob Mr. Shaun of the Dead is moving on to the next round. Alright, Shaun of the Dead is moving on. Baby driver has driven itself off of a cliff and that takes us to brief encounter versus Lawrence of Arabia, lean versus lean. I really think Brief Encounters like the little movie that could this season, man.

54:02 This is the yeah, this is the butler. This is the VCU of this bracket and I put Brief Encounter ahead of Lawrence of Arabia. I did too, man. I mean, I mean, I had picked Raiders over Lawrence of Arabia, just by a hair. So, you know, Brief Encounter wins for me here at here's the, here's the PSA for everybody. Go, watch Brief Encounter. It's so good. And yeah, it's so good. And you know what else is good heat? The number 12 seed up against the number five seed Terminator 2. This is a harder one. But I think ultimately T2 is the tighter film it. I mean, like, there's never a moment where this movie doesn't feel like it's being propelled forward. And I think that for me is why Terminator 2 is the better film, and why it's moving on.

54:52 Yeah, I think that heat has the better scene like that scene of them sitting at the coffee shop is incredible. And it's talked about for a reason. But overall, as a film, think that T2 just freaking rocks, Bro, like, it's just non-stop awesome action. When when John Conner realizes that he can control the Terminator and has him turn on the to, you know, biker guys are trying to trying to help him which is comedic in its own right. There's just I just love to to man. So yeah, that's moving on for me. Alright, we're jumping over to the other side of the bracket. We've got the Grand Budapest Hotel versus silence. I don't even think we need to discuss this one. I think Grand Budapest moves on here, Brad. Yeah.

55:38 Silence is fine. It's worth a first-round Victory. But Grand Budapest is going to do some damage in this bracket. Bob then we have a Few Good Men up against The Bridge on the River. Kwai the dad movie Deluxe pairing, ha ha ha, this is really hard dude, I think surprisingly I'm going to move a Few Good Men on. I think Bridge on the River Kwai is actually the better movie, but we talked a lot in that episode about the section in the Middle where they leave the p.o.w. camp to follow. William, Holden's character for a little too long and really did slow the movie down for me.

56:20 And I think A Few Good Men is the more compulsively rewatchable movie and so I'm giving that one on, I'm actually moving it on as well. But wow. Okay. Yeah, I love Bridge Bridge on the River Kwai, but it just doesn't move the way A Few Good Men does. So yeah, I'm moving it Forward. Okay, and that takes us to our last four movies, Taxi Driver versus O Brother, Where Art Thou II mean? I don't know man. I this was very easy for me. I move taxi driver on in a heartbeat. What's one of your favorite scenes from Taxi Driver? I mean like the famous mirror seen like the you talking to me see Honestly, I think pretty much every scene with Cybill.

57:06 Shepherd is actually really really good one. Yeah, like surprisingly. So because I feel like that's not what people remember from this movie, but that's where the sense of dread and the unease and the like, oh this man is like socially inept, and this is going to lead to bad places. I think that's where the movie really succeeds, for me. Yeah, yeah, I'm totally in with you man. Honestly, I think that I had a denier. Neuro science this season where I went from thinking that De Niro was this old man who was like a fine actor too. Kind of understanding why people are like holy shit, that's Robert De Niro. Mmm. Yeah, 100%. Okay.

57:47 And that takes us to our final matchup aliens versus Jaws. I think this is where we're going to stoke some division Brad because I moved aliens on what ya Bob. Jaws is a great movie. Jaws is Perfect movie. Despite what some people say. And I think that aliens is closer to being a movie with zero fat on it, then Jaws is and so I move aliens on. Yeah, I just think you're wrong there Man. II think that aliens has enough chinks in its armor? It's it's a little bit ragged in the way it presents itself, which is fine.

58:27 Like it's the 80s. They're trying to figure out what this new world of Technology is bringing them whereas in the you know, when they're making Jaws they weren't bogged down by that and I think the Jaws is easily the better pic here. Well that means that we have to flip a coin man. And so if we're going geographically, as you say, aliens comes, first aliens will be heads. Jaws will be tails for spot in our round of 8. Brad, this is, this is the first one that I feel like actually has some weight behind. I know. Yeah, I think he might actually be mad at me. If aliens wins this one. I would be. Well, let's see.

59:07 Brad flip that coin. Robert Jaws is a movie that I love and I am so thankful that we had it in this season. I'm disappointed to say that it is going into the fiery Inferno. Oh man, a lie is moving into the round of 8. All right, so that finalizes it. We've got Jurassic Park. Shaun of the Dead Brief Encounter Terminator to The Grand Budapest Hotel, A Few Good Men, taxi driver, and aliens to Jim Cameron's. Only one Spielberg?

59:55 Brad? Are you surprised? That's interesting. I would know, I mean, I did not have to Jim Cameron's in mine. I had to Spielberg's, but somebody literally just ruined that. I am a little bit surprised here. Let's let me, let's see, we have, give me what you have said, you know, I gotta say as you're looking up, whatever you're looking up. These all seem like, Brody movies on the surface but then I think about each of these movies and this is probably the most tonally varied round of 8 that I could remember us having. Yeah, you know, I mean, like, Jurassic Park shot of the Dead. Like sure the, the I get that, you know, like those our dorm room movies.

1:00:37 Yeah. But then Brief Encounter the magic against T2 and then Grand Budapest thrown in there. Like, I'm really, really satisfied with this group of films. Yeah, I mean, We'll say we have the number 18 for 5 to 10 3 and 11. Mmm. So there were couple big upsets here. Yeah, there were some upsets we have some films from you know the double digits entering the round of 8. So this has been a good bracket so far, man. Alright. It remains to be seen what is going to be crowned the champion of season six, join us. Next time as we finish off this bracket will look at The round of 8, narrowing it all the way down to the season 6 champion and will drink three Bourbons from Doc Swensons. But until then I'm Bob book, I'm Reggie and we'll see you next time.