The 1999 Movie Draft

Did Don Draper really buy the world of Coke? Did Tony Soprano really die or just order more onion rings? The finales of our favorite shows can make us argue, make us cry, and make us crazy. From Spotify and the Ringer, I'm Andy Greenwald and this is Stick the Landing, a new podcast where we'll be telling the story of modern TV backwards, one fade out at a time.

Find Stick the Landing on Wednesdays on the prestige TV feed on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Sean Fennese. I'm Amanda Daven. And this is The Big Picture, a conversation show about 1999.

Chris Ryan is here drafting with us once again. What's up, man? I'm doing very well. This is our 40th draft and so we we head to up our game.

This is 40. Well, this has been 40 on this podcast for a while for me honestly. Hey, first off. But you're almost there.

You're 40. Family, Nathan is here. I'll be 44 tomorrow. Congratulations.

Happy birthday. What's your sign? I'm an Aries. Okay.

We'll get into that later. Ma'am. Mallory Ruben is here. Hello.

Am I supposed to give my age? You don't have to if you don't want to. I guess I don't come up contextually when we talk about where we were in Antionine. Absolutely will.

Do you want to robinson is here? Oh, hello. And Rob Mahoney is here. You know them from various Ringer podcasts.

You know them from various big picture drafts. This is the murder team. This is the hit crew. You didn't let Rob speak.

Oh, hi. Did you want to say something? No, absolutely nothing. He's very economical with his words.

Try to be. You want people to assign names to voices, you know? Yes. There's seven voices that could be important.

This is a rare case though where we're on video. And so don't even worry about talking. It's beautiful and it'll be fine. I'll do my best.

Rob, I should boost the text. I'll just stand out a little bit. Lots of opportunities for that. With this this draft class.

How do you feel about this guy wearing a cowboy hat on your corner today? I don't love it. Just because my culture is not your costume. But I like to think you're trying to tell us.

What's funny about that is that black people with any cowboy culture. I've been high-roaded. Yeah. Just remember it's tough for me.

Just remember there's a white girl car for almost everything. I can promise you. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I've taken responsibility for everything that's ever happened before.

I do this guy that plucked. I take it back. I take it all back. Let's save that level of enmity for the drafting.

Let's do it. We have waited a long time to do $99. This is widely considered one of the best movie release years of the last hundred years of movies. I don't know.

Why did we wait? Was there a reason? Because you have a diabolical system known only to yourself where you save the important things for occasions. And we decided 40 is it.

I'm feeling excited about it. So, 1999, Chris, I'd like to start with you. Okay. In 1999.

You were roughly 37. I just retired from the Michael League Baseball. Where were you? I was looking at Boston.

I had just returned from a semester abroad. So much like Tom Ripley, I chased the car. I was across the continent. Was this in Kosovo?

Where did you do? I was in Ireland, in Cork. And then I traveled all over Europe. They have a lovely spring break there.

It's like a month. And then I got back and I saw the Matrix. And I was like, this is what it's all about. You know?

This is all this is Oscar bait, guys. This is Oscar bait. Somebody's got to do that. Who's going to star as him?

You're going to bring hedges out? You're just kidding. I see it. The film is abroad.

Yeah. But there's an extra space between the A and the B. And it's like, is it about your pursuit of an Irish orbit? Yeah.

A little bit. The Beekeeper. What else? What are the other influences?

What if Link later did Beekeeper? That's the first right. Okay. Okay.

I mean, I was a freshman at high school. Pretty much a virgin who can't drive. You know, I got some follow up questions. That's a 99.

So in some ways that was just, you know, the absolute rock bottom of my life. And in other ways, I was open to the possibility of pop culture because I was stuck at home. We were like, you know, I was like, you know, I was like, you know, I was like, you know, I was like, you know, I was like, you know, I was like, you know, I was like, you know, I was like, you know, I was like, I was open to the possibility of pop culture because I was stuck at home, with a cable subscription, no HBO. But you know, TRL was hitting hard and when I could get someone to drive me to the mall, I could see a lot of movies.

I think I saw a lot of these movies the next year, blockbuster or on cable or whatever, but I did see a lot of movies because I had nothing else to do. Mallory, did you want to address your virginity in 1989? I was in seventh and eighth grade. Okay.

I just heard it first, not it first. So clearly you're gonna go there. Yeah. Yeah.

I'll be going in as a foot. I have to find a letter. What cleaver of pi was it? No, no, no, no.

Okay. A warm out. It's like, Chris is determined not to else fucking hard. Like.

Yeah, I was in middle school. So 99 was a big movie here because this was like the beginning of that stretch of your life, you know, and in elementary school, early middle school, like you're going out on your own, your parents let you go hang out with your friends, but also you're still hanging out with your parents a lot. So I feel like I saw maybe double the movies in the stretch out in theaters and I didn't any other point in my life because I saw the movies, I saw the friends, I saw with my family, so then there were the movies like the alluded to American pie that just instantly made their way into the Franklin Middle rotation. And you basically couldn't go over anybody's house without immediately rewatching American pie together.

So it was a formative time in R and And so I was like, teach me. And so then we went through a whole Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, whole thing where he taught me how to play pool. And I bought him a UQ. I started watching Earl Strickland and Efren Reyes videos.

And in 99, it was all about competitive pool to the point where I became intramural pool champion of Uizanatek University. These are all facts. I can never tell where the man ends and the bit begins with you. This is all facts.

Can we get this fact checked? Like the jinnamill. Intramural pool champion, 1999. College is fucking amazing.

That's like university. How many years did your teacher then spend in hiding on Tatooine? Oh, well, a long time. Because you did the force.

I was a chosen one. So I had to protect me. I'll tell you straight up. This was what I was into.

That whole time, pool, pool, pool. The only thing I broke pool for, the Matrix. It's eight hours a day. Nine ball racks, three-star drills.

Setting it up. It's just around the ball. The only film from 1999 you've seen it in Matrix. I just thought at the time.

So I wonder what's the one movie that Van feels like he has to draft or else he's going to have a day? Well, look. Real quick, there was a girl that worked at the, I don't remember her name now. There was a girl that worked at the Kindle with me.

And she had gone to see the Sixth Sense. Because you have to go and roll to see the movie. We were in Russian. She had gone to see the Sixth Sense.

I would not leave to go see movies or go out and do anything. And she came back and she was like, man, I can't tell you what happens in the movie. It'll ruin the whole fucking movie. And then I was like, just fucking tell me.

I'm not going to see it. And she looked at me. She was so upset. She went, Bruce Willis is dead.

And I was like, how you fucking pushing? How could I fucking be? I've seen the fucking train with the movie. So anyway, so I'm just saying that was my life.

Deep in the bug grip pool. I gotta say, that's the weirdest thing that anyone's ever seen. I had no idea. What made you give it up?

I was like, I get hooked on pads like this hat. And then I'll just let it go. But I get deep, deep. I was going around to different pool halls, trying to test my metal and stuff and getting fucked over.

I was deep, deep into it. So if we took you out now, when was the last time you played? I'll play all the time. Now I play.

So you would just dominate all of this? Yeah, it would be true. Well, I didn't mean it against me. I mean, I would be like a little bit of a joke.

Oh, I see. You should be concocted elaborate scheme for immediately after this recording in which you are the center of this scheme that we've devised. Well, it's 24 hours to execute the total podcast. It's a very important point.

I'm happy to be the roof. I'm going here. I'm not happy to do it. Joanna, who were you?

What were you doing? What were you living? I was here in sunny California. It was half the year as my senior year of high school, half the year as my freshman year of college.

So all the movies that came out before, say, October, I saw in the theater. I was there every week with my friends. That's what we did every single weekend as we would go on Friday and see whatever was out. When I got to college, I kind of stopped going to that.

From October on, it's like kind of a blank space because you're living a different life in the dorms, et cetera. But the sixth sentence, I saw the Friday with my friends, my sister was from college with her friends. I took them on the Saturday and then I took my parents on the Sunday and it was just like this. Because spoiler culture was very different then and you just had to like get them before word of mouth of what the plot of the sixth sentence was.

So I saw it three times opening weekend to be like, you have to go with me now, ask me no questions. I will tell you nothing about it, but I don't want anyone to talk to you before you see this movie. And to this day, I definitely haven't seen any other movie three times on one weekend, sixth sentence on set crime. So yeah.

The movie here in general was a don't spoil this form. You kind of move it. We'll talk about you in a minute. Next, what were you doing?

This is the right turn, 10 years old. Very formative. I mean, movie lives. I saw a lot of movies, but it's more kid-friendly fair.

In a particular Star Wars episode one was the thing for me. My parents got me out of school early to see an opening day. Whoa. I went and I think came out of May and over the course of that summer I saw it 10 times in theaters.

That was like my project. Did you dress up? Did not bring that. Okay.

10 times. That's a lot. Red flag about me. No, I love it.

I was listening, 10 year olds. What else are you going to do? This is the thing. It's like you might do it little.

Well, that's the funny thing about being 10 during this year is then I grow into an age where every person in my middle school thinks they're anarchist. Because of Fight Club. I was in the first generation to grow into. In 1999, I was reminded of this while watching a movie with my wife this weekend.

A 99 is the year I started dating my now wife. We were seniors in high school. We put on the film South Park, Colen Bigger, Longer and Uncut for perhaps you've seen it. The Five Star Masterpiece.

She said I remember being nuzzled with you on our friend Sarah's couch in the fall when we had just started dating, watching this movie when it had come to home video. She said I felt like this is it. This is exactly what I want my life to be. The fuck that's happening?

That's incredible. That will live with you. I never thought that moment again. And then I...

We like Cartman is the funniest person ever. It was because if you were 15 or 14 in South Park premiered, it was not unlike the Phantom Menace. And she saw Satan and Saddam. We locked in.

So the movie here for me was not unlike a lot of you guys. I saw a ton of the movies that were coming out. It was an extraordinary time. It was a variety of reasons why it was such an extraordinary time.

But I really told you what you're saying to you on it, which is that I was right at the end. I went to college in the fall of 2000. And so I was right at the end of seeing every movie every weekend. Now just, you know, eventually pivoting to watching every Kevin Smith movie on DVD over and over again in my dorm room.

But it's an exceptional movie here. And I don't totally know why that is because it's working. If you look at the top 20 box office performers and you look at the Academy Awards, which are the two kind of polarities we examined as we do a draft, they're both kind of bad. You know, there's not a ton of great blockbusters.

There's some classics, you know, there is the Sixth Sense and there is a Matrix, but there's also the general's daughter and a lot of forgettable stuff there. And then the Oscars... Quite bad. Very fun.

I wonder if any Oscar winner so unrepresented... In the fourth categories will even go drafted. Amongst our eventual 42 picks. Come on.

I don't know. We are selecting 42 points. The top eight winners though. The top eight winners.

So if you go picture director, the four acting categories and the two screenplay categories, when you look back at the list, I don't know. I wouldn't be stunned if they were overlooked. It's not great. There's some good below the line stuff and notably note this is pre animated feature and this is a great year for animated movies.

So maybe a good winner would have been in that a lot. But yeah, I'm not taking American Beauty. I wish all of you the best. Fantastic movie.

Fantastic movie. American Beauty. I watched it. I was so mad.

It's so bad. You know, I don't want the fuck. I love that movie. What's your favorite?

I think it's a good word for burning. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

So American Beauty, bad movie. Save it for a while. You never pick it first. I'm not going to pick it.

I mean, you won't say that now and then you don't know what's going to happen. I do. Because some things could, I mean, I guess you do, but some things could break in terms of there's certain categories with only so many movies, right? And so especially if people take those movies and other categories, then you might be up against them all.

There is not a force on earth that will make me pick that movie. Okay. Scarcity is always an issue. But this year in particular, even though there are so many great films, there are a couple of movies that you got to attack aggressively.

Any thoughts on why 99 was the way that it was? I actually think it has a lot of magic. I think you alluded to the part about the spoilers or the spoiler proof movies or the movies that you basically had to go see to not have the ruin slash also be part of any kind of conversation. But even things that are pretty standard, really well done, thrillers or dramas have this aura to them still.

Obviously, like, town to miss Ripley is an example of something that I've been thinking about because Ripley's on Netflix. But just to watch those guys in full flight, just being beautiful and perfect in that movie. Yeah. I feel like that runs through a lot of the best movies of this year.

I don't want to like rattle off a bunch and then give away. But like it's just, it's got to kind of like the fact that people who were 10 and people who were 20 during that year are just like, this is such a totemic year for me is really saying something. It's also the confluence of the careers. You still have a lot of the legacy stars that were around in the 80s and the 90s who are still in the twilight of their creative zenith, but they're still on the tail end of it, right?

Some of those people are just reinventing. And then you have all of these new stars, new voices that are popping up like it's a reinvention year, not a reinvention year. It's like a second wind year of Keanu Reeves who you'd always know. Like he's here again.

And then other people, and then you know, Kevin Smith is in his bag doing something different. And then like when you said about the time of the Mr. Ripley, every time I see that movie, because I watch that movie a lot. It's one of their movies.

Every time I see that movie, I think, wow, look how in their shit everyone is. Like everybody is perfectly cast, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Damon, Jude Law, everyone's right there. And that has to do a lot with where people are at their careers at the time. And it just doesn't happen all that often.

I think mostly when you look at the box office, like we look at Phantom Menace at the top of the box office, but and Toy Story 2 is there, but there isn't a lot of, as some talks about franchising for a living, this is the very end before we really start hitting the franchise taking over. Spider-Man starts soon after Lord of the Rings comes out blah blah blah. And then we are in our franchise trilogy era. The Matrix is on there, but like we didn't know the Matrix was going to be what it became, et cetera.

And so that, you know, you have something like the Mommy, where it just feels like so special and of its time. And yes, there were sequels, but let's just not talk about the Scorpion King. And let's just think about how this felt like distinct storytelling. Again, I love a franchise now.

I'm going to talk about them a lot. It's a period before the maze. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Free score tries. Yeah. Prepping for the.

It's like we had the internet, but you're still almost straight. It's like the cast, right? So in it, like the Matrix like taught us about the internet. We were like, interesting, but also maybe bad, but good.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And also a huge part about how the internet relates to movie going.

Dial up. How long did it take you to download on that porn platform? It's been a long time. It looked up at me and I was like, can you get to ask me something sincere?

Yeah. Do you guys just send like download the movie trailers from, you know? I would always try to get, I remember very vividly trying to download short clips or some trailers of a rest of our lives, very different. The Tarantino movies, I remember there being like forums where you could get clips of the movies.

And I was like, isn't it so cool that I have it on my computer and not on a VHS tape. And so the other thing is like, basically this is the dawn of DVD. Yeah. It's right around 97, 98, 99.

I guess I probably got started getting DVDs in 1999. But home entertainment was just a huge part about you said you saw most of these movies from Blackbuster Rentals. I'm sure that's true for me too. I'm sure it's fine.

Working. Yeah. Yeah. Not a Hollywood video, family.

No, the Blackbuster was right down the street. Yeah. So and Elton Don with there sometimes. So yeah, it was near his home in Atlanta.

So you did to go see Elton while you were running a movie. If you had the power wealth and success of Elton, do you think you would still go to the video store? Or would you have something to do it for you? It was combined with the tower records.

So he would hang out at the records store. It was a Blackbuster tour. Or maybe they were right next to each other in the store mall. No, I'm singing it on.

Not a combination check. I do think it was like a free flowing exchange of ideas because you could like spend a lot of time listening to the records and then go rent whatever movie. How did that shared real estate impact the snack allotment? A Blackbuster that was really crucial, like making sure they're still working for fun.

Yeah, it was still very, very large. Okay. I mean, it's Atlanta, you know, everything. It's suburban.

Can I ask you a question? Mal has notes even about who you were in 1999. Did you hear a reminder of who you were? I was like, really?

You don't have to do that. I've never even seen this software work. The podcast that we covered on Rewashable is 99. You guys remember we had a whole podcast?

No, it was 99. No, many podcasts were a part. You did all that work for this podcast. Have you met Mal?

This is just a grid. So you're just going to be writing everyone. I do have my rankings on another tab that you were not allowed to see. I don't think when I will have it, he spent a lot of time just like quietly making his own record of whatever he drafted.

I don't think it would be handled like in no computers. I will actually be able to update this. So it's really just here is like a comfort blanket. For the listeners at home, virtually every Ringer podcast you listen to, the podcaster has their open in front of them with notes and the ability to consult by the internet.

We're doing things a little bit differently here today. In part because we're on video van. Of course, what is the ready? Yeah, no.

All vibes. You know we're drafting 42 moves. The funny thing is though is like I'm just going to feel my way through this. I was around man.

I was smelling the lilacs. No, you weren't. You weren't really really leading for the matrix. You had chalk steaks.

That was not only true. What does one wear to the intro center? Literally that. Okay.

Okay. The pool is getting all over my white tees. My mom started to get like, she was concerned. Like when I was like, what's this blue stuff on some kind of drug or something.

I was chalking up and then getting all over my tees. That's what it sounds like when you chalk up. And then I had to break you. I saved up 350 bucks.

Was all the money in the world to me in the bio special queue. Do you have a case? Yeah, I did. I just can't believe anything.

It's like a 30% chance that this is completely bad. I swear to God. Like if all facts. And you knew Dickie from Princeton.

We get it. I'm telling you, tell us all facts. There are people that listen to this right now to go, yeah, man, it was crazy. Cause I was like, we go somewhere and play, I'd be like, yo man, bring my cue.

And then we get to go, do my thing, do my thing. You know what I think? Power player. I feel like we should be back to the draft a little bit.

I'll just. I think going with your heart is maybe not a bad strategy. I agree. Yeah.

You can prepare like Mallory. I did. It's great to fill out the pics. How are we supposed to run?

You said they're going to have an idea. I see the raker tab. If you don't think I'm going to be speaking. No, no, no.

Well, I'm just trying to get a gentleman's agreement. They were not looking at each other's screen. Absolutely not. I'm not looking at each other's screen.

I'm just not going to lie today. I'm not going to lie. You won't say you saw Seabiscuit, for example. That's so cool.

I'm not going to say that. That's clearly indicate that you have lied in draft's past. Yes, about Seabiscuit. That was, I've seen Seabiscuit.

I've seen Seabiscuit. I've seen some hard track. I've seen some hard track. I've seen some hard track.

What happens in Seabiscuit? It wins. It wins. What?

What's worse than equals to Seabiscuit? It's too cool and worse. It's not a written law that you need to have seen the movie that you're drafting. This will test the bounds in some ways because we've never drafted so many.

I'm not saying you. I'm looking you in the eye. There's a bunch of movies that I could draft that I will not because I did not like them. I'm drafting the movies that I liked.

I'm also going hard only. I'm curious. I was going to ask if you had a prediction. If perhaps counterintuitively a year this rich and steeped in cinematic history, maybe there's actually more chaos and less consensus at the top because we have so many picks.

Perhaps everyone is just going to come in and be like, this is what I have a fond memory of. I'm just talking about saying yes. I think there's a solid five at the top. There's a lot of you.

There's a lot of you. You can have a consensus top two rounds. You can have chaos by like three times. I tend to rejoin that there are five films that are incredibly important because they have some flexibility in key categories that you're going to need.

After that, I do think for the most part it will be the personal free for all that you're describing. That's the best thing. One of the great things about this year and in this era of movies which we all love is that they just made so many of them. In fact, when I was making the long list, I got a couple of movies wrong which are friend Rob identified to me having the release date is wrong.

Last night I got notes from not one but two members of the house of R about one movie in particular that was missing that they both clogged from my lungs. That's all hilarious. You would never guess if I gave you guys an hour what movie they pulled. Oh, no, no.

I love this. I'll maybe acknowledge it at the end. If I draft it. We might get drafted.

Okay. If this is the first time you're listening to a big picture draft, we draft from six categories. We do with Snake Style. We have a random draft order which our producer Bobbie Wagner will share with us.

The six categories in this draft I'm just going to read them off for everyone listening at home. Our drama, action thriller or horror, comedy, blockbuster and this year the threshold is 100 million and there are 21 films that are eligible. 100 million to Mascot. 100 million to Mascot.

I'm here with you guys. Yeah. Cool. Comedy.

Films if you're all black cast. Mmhmm. Yeah, that's your wild card category? What would be better as a miniseries?

Well, the van, what happens if I draft the wood first? No, it happens. No, it happens. You know how much you know how much you already mean to us.

It just goes to the next photo. What does Christmas mean to the black community? A lot. It's like we'll be on a part.

And it'll be like, oh, who's the guy to do that? Let's talk about it. It's like we'll be on a pod and they'll be like, oh, who's got to do the voice at the end? When he act like he'd do, I'm like, that's Chris.

Fuck with him, bro. Fuck with him. He's to eat like for you. And then I say, you know what?

You from Philly. You're going to get it. It's a DNA mill running through you. It's a derision.

Like, he's from Philly. It's back. I just hate Philly so much. I mean, I can't really read that.

I have to have some words. Not a great town. Let's go to a producer, Bobby Wagner. Bob, you need to set a random draft order for us.

Are you probably going to do that? It's so nice to see all of you gathered in the same room. So lovely. You all look like you're having so much fun.

And that was a compliment so that everybody will act very normal about this draft order when I share it. How are you? Go first. How are you doing?

It's the name of the donuts. Wow. You just said you're going first. You just thought, oh, that's so hilarious.

You just started deriding what he was going to do. I like him to make the process transparent. I feel like he's watching personalities today. I agree.

I think I think that's a lot of the mixed bag, to be honest. It's never been a mixed bag in the history of the draft. OK, boy. You don't have to wait a while.

But the process was I went to random.org, which uses atmospheric noise to randomize a list that you put in there. I did clear my cookies in advance, as Amanda has requested on multiple occasions. There we go. It turned out she is going first.

Going second is Rob Mahoney. OK, sweet. Van Leithin will be going third followed by Sean, Joanna, Nal, and Chris on the turn. Chris on the turn.

Chris on the turn. Wow. OK. There's a significant silence.

OK. What we need to do is Vamp. This is what we do. I'm just warning that I won't be able to do.

You want to read the order out one more time? You want to go. The order is Amanda, Rob, Van, Nie, Sean, Joanna, Mallory, and Chris. So you're getting number five, Joanna.

OK. I have told her to be in a math book. You're still in your top five era. So everyone's got to pick six movies.

It's going to seem like all fun and games until basically we get to the turn. And then we're going to get to the turn. And then we're going to have my movie that I won. Yeah.

Which is part of the fun, part of the chaos. I would encourage people if a movie is taken from them that they care about to scream about it, to make a big fuss. You want all seven of us to scream at once? Is that good for us?

OK, well six. Because one person will get with it. We'll be getting one. I feel interesting.

I think you do too. It's interesting for me going first. Because I think that there's a very obvious number one pick for six people. And there's this draft.

And then there's my number one. And so I'm going to do it. In Oscar nominee, I will be taking the town to Mr. Ripley.

Wow. That's my number one too. Yeah, I did. That leaves Van's movie for Van.

And I'm very excited for him to speak on that journey. This is. But what if Rob gets it? Well, then that's between Rob and Van.

And I'm just going to talk about 1999's The Town To Mr. Ripley, directed by Anthony Mignella, which has been back in the news recently, thanks to Netflix's Ripley, which is wonderful. And very beautiful. And I think Andrew Scott might be one of the world's greatest living actors.

It's pretty amazing. But my heart is far too indebted to the original Town To Mr. Ripley. The colors, young Juleau, young Gwyneth, young Matt Damon, young K.

Blanchett, young Isch, Philip Seymour Hoffman. I mean, this is just one of these movies that I saw at a pretty young and impressionable age. And it kind of unlocked a world, I mean, I guess, of just murder and not trusting anyone, but also beautiful people in Italy. What do you most relate to?

Which character in that film? James Redwood's character? Yeah, I know. A hard Gwyneth.

Yeah. I was who wouldn't want to be Gwyneth. Johnson, Mr. Ripley, I think is among those five.

Yes, but you were referring to him. Yeah, I'm not saying that because I knew that if I didn't take it now, there was no chance I was going to be there. And I would be really upset. I think you guys remember the scene where Tom, Matt Damon is dancing to the song.

Yeah. And then Juleau comes in. That is the funniest fucking thing that's ever happened in the movie, man. I watch it all the time.

What a great fucking movie of whites. Juleau, as Dune Leif, I think is one of the most important casting moves that is ever. And the scene where he is like tan and golden oiled on the beach. And then Matt Damon, a very handsome man, shows up looking a little pasty in his line green trunk.

It's looking so wrong. And you had to cast Juleau to make Matt Damon. Again, a very handsome man looked just like Columsey and awkward and wrong. And they did it.

They crushed it. How come you chose the oil beach scene and not the scene where Jude Law stands up completely nude from a bathtub? I love that for you. I love that for you.

Just very important. Just bros, you dudes taking baths. Yeah, movie history. A moment I cherish.

When's the last time you took a bath? B? Yeah. I got a bath.

Years ago. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I take a bath. I do shower after because I don't consider baths to be like a source of hygiene and cleanliness. Just relaxation. And I put a little Bluetooth speaker next to me.

She was a watch. Yeah. I know. Interesting.

We all know this about you. You really said a scene. That's how I get to tell you earlier. This is an interesting picture though, man.

Because part of my process preparing for this draft, I figured the picture has to have an episode about the movies of 1999. And sure enough, Sean and Amanda Chris, you guys talked about it in 2019. And you picked your five favorite movies from this year. Wait, have you been preparing for this podcast since then?

Because the whole line was like this moment. Did you mention in the group chat? We all clocked it. You implied about a week ago that you had a Google Doc going that was several weeks old.

And I didn't. I did. And I did bring an episode. Are you the big pictures talented, Mr.

Raffrey? To hear the beat that I threw out for you. And you took it. And I respect it.

You did go very little differently today. Interesting. I mean, my main takeaway, apparently, is not that I can trust those rankings. But the three of you have become absolute maniacs.

Like in 2019, you were very politely discussing your favorite movies. Well, we would also do something back then on those episodes that we don't do anymore, which is like if I knew Amanda was definitely going to take the talented Mr. Raffrey and put it on her list, I probably wouldn't put it on my list so that we could just talk about more movies and would not pursue the conflict of I'm doing it. I'm doing it or whatever we would get into now.

So I don't know how many movies I go. Yeah, we're kind of making it. I gave you my debut. That's fine.

Directed reviews. Did this for 2007 as well? I don't remember that. Oh, I don't remember if we did it for 2007.

No, no, no. This was for our director. Oh, direct reviews. Directed reviews.

That was the three of us. That was the three of us. That was the year. And it was pre-COVID.

There was pre-COVID. There was COVID. Definitely. There's pre-Rango energy for sure.

I don't think this is going to change Rob's game anyway for me to tell you that he has been watching Mainlining 1999 movies. I've been watching it for weeks. Ever since you asked us to do this. I respect that.

The vulture-simigrade game that I sent to you. Yes, in a Matrix. I play every day. Rob and I play every day.

Rob's been throwing out the 99 stone poll classics for weeks now. So do you feel like something fell into your lap here at two? Do you feel torn at all? I feel great about the order.

Because if it had broken any other direction but Amanda, I would not be in a position to right now. I will take the Matrix in Blockbuster. I thought that was a lot. It's like it's a half-minute.

I'm full of surprises. No, I get to that draft of my heart. Well, in particular for Blockbuster, which is a complicated category in 1999, I wanted to get off the board as quickly as possible. The Matrix is as good as it gets.

One of the best action movies ever made in a great action movie year. And also, I mean, the stunt work is great. The choreography is amazing. There's so many memorable scenes in it.

So watchable. It's also sneaky. It's an exposition masterpiece in the Matrix. The dojo scene between Keanu and Lawrence Fishburne.