Episode 200: Top 100 of the 21st Century

Okay, so what are we doing this week? Well, in our episode 100, we took...

picks from the top 100 from the AFI list.

Now that AFI list basically went up to the year 2000.

So we thought to get a different selection of movies this time, we're going to take it from the recent New York Times list of the top 100 from the 21st century so far.

And I think that went up to, but not including 2025, if I'm correct.

So it's like the first quarter of the decade is what they took that list from.

So that's what we're going with.

Now, the other thing we asked you listeners to do is to send in an email and let us know what are some movies that you came around to because of the podcast? What are some movies we turned you on to? And some of some of you did that.

And we're going to go through some of those emails as we go along as well.

Okay, so the top 100 movies of the 21st century.

First off, do anybody have any thoughts of this list in general? Because I think they put it together with a whole slew of directors and critics and actors and stuff.

500, I think, about maybe even more.

What do you guys think about these lists if you looked into it? It's fine.

Michael, I know you did.

It's fine.

I

don't know.

There's kind of like a cottage industry of kind of clickbaity lists that publications put out every month or so to get people arguing on the internet.

And this is one of them.

But as these things go, nothing too objectionable in it.

That's a reasonable summary.

It's interesting that this one, as you point out, this isn't actually that novel, but for some reason this one generated a lot more discussion, it feels like, than these tend to.

At least when...

Maybe it was just the amount of work that went into the presentation, but it feels like this is one that we were talking about online and debating a little bit more thoroughly than your average list.

I don't know what that... what that means,