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Top 6 Desert Island Movie Franchises with Jesse
This episode dives into the somewhat whimsical yet nostalgic topic of choosing my top six movie franchises to take to a deserted island. I reflect on the emotional connections, moments of joy, and memories attached to the franchises i pick. I would love to here what films you would take, send us your picks!
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Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast, a movie podcast where we usually recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to me and Jason discuss. But today you will be listening to me discuss my top six desert island movie franchises movie franchises. So Jason has gotten sick, his kids have been sick for like a week and then he got sick. He's been sick for a few days so we haven't been able to get a movie out yet. We still plan on doing Men in Black. So, don't worry, we will eventually do that, but we're going to have to take another week before we can do it because he keeps getting sick and his whole household's getting sick. He has a bunch of kids, so you know they're constantly getting sick and they get him sick. He had to leave work a few times and because that we have both have full time jobs, it's really tough for us to, you know, just stop everything and do an episode, especially when you know we had bad weather in Tennessee and now he's getting sick and God, I hope I don't get sick. So I decided what if I did something different? You know, I want to stay consistent on this podcast. I want to try to get something out every single you know day that we're supposed to. So I decided that I'm going to pick my top six Desert Island franchises. So I've been thinking all morning on what movies I should pick, because there's a whole bunch of franchises. I mean everything from. You have a bunch of superhero ones, you have a bunch of horror movie ones like Halloween, nightmare on Elm Street, scream, evil Dead, then you have, like the DC Extended Universe, the MCU, you have the X-Men series, you got the Lord of the Rings series, the Hobbit series, the Teenage, mutant, ninja, turtle series, godzilla, all the Pixar stuff, hangover, lethal Weapon, planet of the Apes, star Trek, rambo, karate Kid. There's just so many. So I decided wouldn't it be fun if I picked my top six? I know six. Why six? Because I wasn't satisfied with five. So what I'm going to do is, every before every time I pick a franchise, I'm going to give an honorable mentions to another franchise that I would love to put on the list. But I just, you know, I want this list to say true to who. I am no outside, you know, interference here Not thinking about like what somebody would think if I pick this movie or anything Franchise I mean. So let's get started. I'm going to do my first honorable mention Now. I will say in the sixth spot I did pick a horror franchise and there are a lot of really good horror franchises.
Speaker 1:Well, not really. There's a lot of horror franchises that have a lot of movies in them. Not a lot of them are that great. I'm looking at you Halloween series. I mean seriously, there's maybe like three or four good movies in that entire franchise. Friday the 13th get out of here. Nightmare on Elm Street, love the movies, but you know, they're just not ones that I can just go back and rewatch and rewatch the thing. I wish I cared about two of the three thing movies, but they're just, I just don't, you know. So it's tough.
Speaker 1:So what it came down to was I'm on a deserted island, desert island, they're deserted island, desserts island, I don't know, um. But so I picked, I came down to two and I decided on scream versus evil dead franchise and they're kind of. They all have bangers and they all are so enjoyable. Now, critically, I think the Evil Dead franchise is probably, like you know, better reviewed on the outside. But then I thought, huh, I watch the Scream movies more than anything.
Speaker 1:But what it came down to was all right, I'm alone on an island by myself and I can watch movies. Would I pick Evil Dead or Scream? I was thinking I'm alone, because that's what this is, it's just me, nobody else. I'm just here watching movies on an island. Then I thought, well, obviously I'm gonna want something that brings me joy, which both franchises do. But then I thought, well, obviously I'm going to want something that brings me joy, which both franchises do. But then I was thinking, oh well, I probably want to watch something that makes me think of something that I love. And since the Scream franchise is my wife's favorite movies, obviously I'd want to pick that one, just because you know, it just remind me of all the good times me and her spent watching these movies. And plus they're bangers, and Matthew Lillard is a god in that first one. So obviously I have to pick the screen franchise, though let's be real, bruce Campbell great in the Evil Dead franchise. He's so good, probably, and it's tough because there's just so much iconic stuff in both of them. But I think that the Scream franchise for me is probably more rewatchable, and you know they're like very witty and funny, very funny. So is Evil Dead. But you know they're all funny in the Scream franchise and you know I'm gonna be on a desert island. I want to think about my wife, you know, call me, call me a roman romantic, am I right? But anyways, yes.
Speaker 1:So number six is the scream franchise. Yeah, and I guess, if I obviously scream one's my favorite, and if I was gonna rank them, which I just decided to do, which makes this very scary to do uh, scream number one with a bullet. And I'm not gonna lie, I love scream 4. It's great the ending with uh, what's her face? Emma roberts, yeah, emma roberts, great, uh, but it's also. It's got, it's got all I'm returning. David arquette, nev campbell, courtney cox uh, it's the first one with Hayden Penetary I hope I said that right. And plus, we got a Colkin in it. Baby Alison Brie, community fame, let's go.
Speaker 1:And then so Scream, scream 4. Man, it's definitely either going to be Scream 2 or Scream 3. I'm going to go Scream 3. Scream 2, just because my boy, jamie Kennedy, isn't still in that one. He's in it a lot, and so then I'll probably go Scream 3.
Speaker 1:And then the remake, scream, and then probably Scream 6. And then we'll see what, you know, kevin Williamson can do with Scream 7, which is just, you know, everything that's going on with that movie is wild, but you know it is what it is. We'll see what happens, but yeah, so my first desert island pick would be the Scream franchise. Plus, I have to have a horror movie franchise because that's my favorite genre, of course. Now, if we had to pick you can only take one movie it'd be the thing, but especially if, like, I'm on like hot island, the thing, that'd be great. So we're gonna do our first honorable mention, which obviously the one in that one would have been the one for the horror, would have been evil, dead.
Speaker 1:So, and for the next honorable mention that we're gonna do, this is gonna ruffle some feathers, okay, but if I was thinking to myself, I'm on a deserted island, I am going to pick movies that I love, that I love almost all of them, and it's not going to annoy me watching this movie and thinking about, oh yeah, whenever I wasn't on this island there was all this crap, you know. So I'm actually one of my honorable mentions is going to be the Star Wars franchise because, you know, really there's only like four, maybe five, good movies in those nine movies and, honestly, some of the ones that are considered good. There's, I got Force Awakens. You know, it's just like if I'm going to be on a desert island, it's like, do I really want to watch the third movie, that one movie, over and over and over again? Because there's like that I mean we already have Star Wars and then they just keep redoing things and redoing things like, ok, I get it. It's. You know, there's themes and stuff, cool, I don't know. I just when I think about it, I would hate to not have Empire Strikes Back in my life, but you know, I think I'm just going to have to take a pass on Star Wars and just go around. Plus, because there's some real bangers coming up. And if I had to pick a sci-fi franchise, you'll hear what it's going to be soon.
Speaker 1:So for my number five franchise, it's this is a franchise that I loved growing up as a kid and you know there's one bad movie out of all nine of them, just one, only one. So I've decided to pick the Rocky franchise. You know, there's something about on AMC. They used to, as when I was a kid, all the time run just marathons of them. I can't remember around what holiday it was. But I would just sit there and watch them like all day and I'd get so pumped I was thinking I could be like a boxer, I'd go out and get fight night so I could play that game. Because I came, ruled and where did those games go? But there's just something about them, you know, I love like the raw indie feel of rocky one.
Speaker 1:So good, it's just. You know you got like the weird romance but it just feels like this could have been somebody's like dang, this is their life, where, versus as they, you know, kind of progress more, kind of gets a little more bombastic. But yeah, uh, love the first rocky. Rocky 2 is great. Just essentially it's like a classic sequel. But you know it stays in the rocky universe which is, you know, just very down to earth. And then we start going with rocky 3. You know it gets a little sillier. You got hulk hogan, mr t, but still it's great. People are getting hit and dying. Um, rocky four it's just straight schlock, schlock. Yeah, um, people really love this one. Um, I loved it as a kid. The more I rewatch it, the more it's just kind of like okay, what is this? Right, but it's still great.
Speaker 1:Rocky five, I throw it into the water. Um, rocky balboa, baby, come on, come on. So unrealistic, so wild, so crazy. And we just literally tried to do this in real life with Mike Tyson and whatever Paul. But I love it.
Speaker 1:It's got that classic, classic speech that he gives to the guy that was in Heroes. You know the quote where he says but it ain't about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. I mean, come the fuck on, you know he looks wild in that movie, but you know, it's just fun, it's just fun. And if I'm on a deserted island, desert island, deserted island, how do you even say it? I don't know. Um, I definitely want that. And then, of course, you have creed. You know you have. Honestly, you have two masterpieces. You have rocky and you have creed. They're both great. Uh, I mean, I never expected a rocky movie to make me cry. And then creed happened. Right, michael b jordan's great in it. Ryan coogler, he's just one of our best directors that we have right now. And just whenever you think of the classic Rocky running through the streets of Philadelphia, then you have the Michael B Jordan Creed one doing it and you got like the four wheelers in the background. It's so rad. I love it.
Speaker 1:Creed 2, I enjoyed, don't remember as much. I still haven't watched Creed 3. I need to buy it so I can just watch it, but you know, I'm sure it's good. Right, it's actually directed by Michael B Jordan, which makes me super interested in it. Um, but yeah, whenever I thought about it, I was just like I love the Rocky movies. I've always loved the Rocky movies, uh, and they're just undeniably great in my opinion. Um, and honestly, I would probably rather watch the Rocky films over the Star Wars films. Don't get me wrong. I do like the Star Wars franchise. I don't want this to be, oh, he doesn't like it. No, I enjoy them. I'm just thinking. I'm just being me. This is what I'd rather do.
Speaker 1:I feel like I get kind of in a bubble where everybody just wants to talk about, you know, the pop culture, nerdy stuff, and so then it ends up being like a movie that I end up talking about a lot and thinking about a lot, but I mean, truly deep to my core, this is the type of shit I like. I mean, I love just the grittiness and, you know, the just feel of these Rocky movies, I don't know, and they just kind of, you know, evolved over time and then de-evololved with Rocky V and then, you know, tried to do their cash grab with Rocky Balboa and then did like a more I don't want to say like prestigious one, but I think they just, I don't know they got to the heart and Creed, they got into the heart of what the Rocky series means. So that is my fifth one, the Rocky franchise. So that is my fifth one, the Rocky franchise. And so for the next honorable mention, I will say this was a tough one, right, because I do love these, this franchise, but I don't know, it's like, as much as I love them and I quote them, I just decided, like if I was on an island I would, I just wouldn't pick them, right, it's like, even though they're funny and all right, I should probably just tell you right, I decided for honorable and the next honorable mention to be Fast and the Furious franchise. I love these movies and, honestly, if you asked me, five years ago I was picking these movies. But also, when I was asked that I didn't have, you know, a lot of time to think about it, but this time I did have a lot of time to think about it.
Speaker 1:But this time I did have a lot of time to think about it and you know there are some bad ones in it. There's some ones that whenever I look back, I'm like I don't know which movie this is. I think it's like Fast and the Furious 4. I'm just like I don't. I think it's Fast and Furious and or Fast and Furious dude, who the fuck knows with these titles, right, fast and Furious, yeah so, and that was the second one, just directed by Justin Lin, who I like as a director, um, but you know, it's just not memorable at all. Just, I get, whenever I'm trying to think about it, I think this is the one where, yeah, it's the one where it's like it has one of the main characters come back. So it's just I don't know what.
Speaker 1:Just whenever I think about it, I'm like, eh, wet fart. Um, fast five, masterpiece. Fast and furious six. You see, that's another one where I'm just like I don't remember that one. Then you have furious seven. It's great because in a street war, uh, the street always wins. Um, the fate of the Furious has, when the cars go, zombie mode that rules. But I don't know I don't. I just the movie doesn't work for me, the villain doesn't work for me.
Speaker 1:F9, great, but you know it didn't give me what I wanted. And Fast X I heard it was so bad I just can't watch it. Like it upset people that love the franchise. I'm going to watch it. I actually may watch it today and I might like it and regret picking this the whole time. But yeah, when I just thought about it, it's like these are really fun movies and I love the quotes. You know I live my life a quarter mile at a time, but yeah, I just couldn't do it.
Speaker 1:So for the next franchise I decided to pick I wanted a comedy franchise and, like I'm not going to lie, these are three movies that I watch every single year and usually at the beginning of the year. So it's about to happen now, and that would be the Austin Powers franchise. Yes, they're so good, they're so funny. All of them. They're all three great. I don't care, I mean, if I had to rank them, it's spire, shagamy, international, man of mystery and then gold member, but they all have something fun in it. Gold members great. Eats his skin. Uh, smoking a pancake, a bong and a blunt, a bong and a blint, I don't know Whatever, but so great and Awesome.
Speaker 1:Powers of Spy who Shagged Me, it's just, you know, that's the one I watched the most as a kid and it's the one that just kind of stuck with me the most, even though there are all the good bits in the International man of Mystery, especially whenever he has like a penis pump and it's just like penis pump and it's just like. It's like that's not mine. I wouldn't do it, baby. Then he brings out a book on how to use it and this is my bag, baby. So good, but yeah, uh, some fun facts.
Speaker 1:Actually didn't know this, but I was reading up on it, and myers himself has stated in interviews that the idea of austin powers came to him one night while driving home for ice hockey practice, hearing the song the look of love by burt baccarat know because it's in the first movie on his car radio he wondered where have all the swingers gone? And conceived the character who would become Austin Powers. And then later, in another interview in 2018, myers stated after my dad died in 1991, I was taking stock of his influence on me as a person and his influence on me with comedy in general. So Austin Powers was a tribute to my father who introduced, introduced me to James Bond, peter Sellers, the Beatles, the goodies, peter Cook and Dudley Moore, which is awesome. That's great.
Speaker 1:It's fun that it came from, you know, a place of love which I think whenever you watch it, it's you know, you can kind of feel it that he really loves this universe and the characters, which is, you know, something that I feel like is gonna. You know, I will say like, I feel like it's something that kind of rings throughout all these franchises that I pick, like how much love has gone into them. And you know, like, with Scream and scream and rocky, like there's not really a lot of cash grabs in them, right, except for, you know, maybe rocky balboa, but there's still so much love in that movie because sylvester stallone loves that character. And like, through the scream franchises, like you know, the first four was made by Wes Craven, who obviously loves these movies because he kept making them. And then, when the next ones got made Scream 6 or 5 and 4 or 6. God, like it was made by two directors that loved it, the radio silence directors Matt and Tyler. But yeah, and that's, I think, like resonates throughout the Austin Powers series and like they're so, they're just so funny. They're just so funny, yeah.
Speaker 1:But so now we are going to hit our next honorable mention. Oh man, this one's tough. You know, if I'm just being, if I'm just going to be true to me, I love this series, I love it to death, watch it every year. But you know, if I had, if I, just if I truly thought about it, the movies that I'd rather have would just be a little different. So I'm going to put my next honorable mention is going to be the Harry Potter franchise. I know my wife is going to divorce me. This is going to be hard. Like I love the franchise, but you know it's just.
Speaker 1:I guess, whenever I think of myself on a desert island, like I just don't think that I want to watch Harry Potter and like, even with the next franchise that I'm going to pick, it's probably not something that I talk a lot about, but like I grew up loving, like probably more than Harry Potter, and then, when the newer movies came out, like they're so, like, good, like prestige wise, which is something that you know, I just want really good movies when I'm there, but I also want, like you know, fun movies which this next franchise I'm going to pick has and I loved. I do love the Harry Potter and they all do the same thing. But, like as this the next franchise I'm picking, but I don't know. There's just something I was thinking about. I was just like, when I was looking out the movies, I was like I think I'd rather take a different franchise over Harry Potter. Um, even though it'd probably make more sense for me to take Harry Potter rather than scream Uh, especially if it's something like I'm alone on a desert and I just are on an island and I just want to think about, you know, like something that makes me think about my wife and stuff, you know. Um, but you know I love horror movies the most, so I just gotta go with that one. But yeah, I do love the Harry Potter movies. It's just, I don't know, I guess, whenever I just think about being on a island alone, it's like I don't really want to take children's movies, I guess, I don't know. But anyway, so for my next franchise, this is one I grew up loving. I think I own all of them, except for the latest one that came out and I picked Planet of the Apes.
Speaker 1:Planet of the Apes, the very original one. I watched it as a kid a lot and you know it's iconic, but it was for the long. I mean it's still I don't know if it's still considered my favorite sci-fi movie, but, like, for the longest time of my life it was considered my favorite sci-fi movie. But yeah, like, I've watched all of them, the original, of course, just a classic. But yeah, it's just a classic. You know it stars Charleston Heston. It's like get your paws off me, you damn dirty ape. Oh, it's like, uh, get your paws off me, you damn dirty ape. Oh, it's so good. And the ending, god, it was so great and such a fun little twist.
Speaker 1:You know, I think what it is about the Planet of the Apes movies is just, you know, it gives you that like the original series. Of course it's gonna give me that like, oh, that childhood wonder of, oh, I remember watching these as a kid. I'm stuck on this island. It's going to make me think about nice things, right. And plus, they're so like, like, after the first one they get so batshit crazy. Like beneath the Planet of the Apes, where they have like a cult underneath that worships a nuclear bomb. Is so rad. Escape from the Planet of the Apes. Oh, that's wherever they go, like I guess, like what, back into the past, and it's great because it's like you just have these talking chimpanzees like in you know, like 1973, and it's just like everybody's like what the hell? And I don't know. It's just, they're just so fun.
Speaker 1:That's the one with Zira and Dr Milo. It's, it's a great one, um. And I will say that Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the Apes, I don't remember as much because I watched the first three more than the those four, those six, five, um. And then you got the uh crazy Planet of the Aes or tim burton. That's uh not great, but it's still fun. It's ridiculous. It'll make you laugh and just dude paul giamatti's facial expressions in the tim burton one is so good, he goes so ham with it, and I don't know, I love that, I just I like it's great, um. And then you have the reboot series, rise of the Planet of the Apes Very solid.
Speaker 1:I remember going to the theater and watching it and just being like hell, yeah, let's go. This is great. And then when we get to Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, probably the best in the entire franchise. Just in general, it's just a masterpiece Directed by by matt reeves, who now does the batman. But watching dawn of the planet of the apes, just like the opening shot ending, like beginning on uh, beginning on caesar's face and then ending on caesar's face, and you just have the. You know, like jason Clarke's great performance, gary Oldman's great performance, keri Russell's great performance, I mean it's just, it's bangers all the way through the entire movie. I love it so much. And even like giving Gary Oldman like the little shot where, like he's able to boot up his like iPad, I think for a second to see his family and just cry. And it's just like, fuck this movie's good.
Speaker 1:War of the Planet of the Apes. I have only seen it once, but when I watched it I was like hell, yeah, this, I mean as it goes, I was just crying about a monkey for like 10 minutes afterwards it was great. Yeah, that's one I'm going to have to rewatch again, can't wait. And I haven't seen Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which I know is probably. Oh, you're going to pick a franchise that you're going to take to Desert Island and you haven't even seen all of it. But I hear it's good, right, these are very thoughtful blockbusters and that's what I like about them. It's like you get the blockbuster but they're also thoughtful. So now I am going to do my next honorable mention, and my next honorable mention is going to be the Lord of the Rings franchise.
Speaker 1:You know, they're just the movies that I love and I do think about, but you know, they're just not ones that I jump to watch all the time. It would be great for content because you know, know, if you have the hobbit series with them, which I I don't even know if I'd want to watch them. If I was on an island, I'd put them into the ocean. Um, not really, I mean I'd watch them. I mean, this is like 12 hours with three movies, but with 12 hours and if you had the hobbit movies it'd be 24 hours it'd take an entire day to watch them. Um, I do love the series. It's just it would remind me of, like, uh, the time where me and my friend richard and cody, we just spent like an entire night trying to watch these, like the extended cuts, in just one night. It was rough, I was very tired because I was up all day as well, um, but yeah, you know, it's a beautiful movie it'd be great to see because just based on like visuals alone. But if I had to think about it, you know like there's just more franchises that I prefer to watch over it. And which leads me to my next franchise, the Mission Impossible series. Let's go baby, a franchise with that will end up having a total of nine, but right now only has eight.
Speaker 1:This was another series I watched as a kid. I loved the first Mission Impossible as a kid, the 1996 one. It's just, I watched it so much growing up. Tom Cruise was my favorite actor. You know, before I knew that he was a sane psycho person. Potentially I even love Mission Impossible 2, even though that's obviously the worst one, but it's got that John Woo action that I loved. And then Mission Impossible 3, I remember when that came out I was so excited for it. And then it came out and I was like wow, this is actually really good and so much better in Mission Impossible 2. And you have Philip Seymour Hoffman who gives maybe the best performance in the entire franchise. The scene with between him and Tom Cruise on the plane is so good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just, you know, banger Ghost Protocol. When that came out, I considered that one my favorite one. It's wild because as these movies keep coming out, you could almost be like, oh no, that's my favorite one, no, that's my favorite one, no, that's my favorite one. Ghost Protocol, directed by Brad Bird, who did the Incredibles, which is very fun. Then you have Rogue Nation. You know, out of all of them, rogue Nation is the one I remember the least, but I remember it being amazing, so I need to rewatch that one. That's the one that introduces Rebecca Ferguson. Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 1:And then Mission Impossible Fallout. It's probably you know it probably really is the best one. You have Henry Cavill caulking his arms like they're guns and I remember reading that that fight scene in the bathroom took four weeks to shoot, and you can tell because it's rad as hell. Um. And then you have mission impossible dead reckoning, where tom cruise takes on the villain ai, which is wild. It's a wild idea, but the movie is so good, it's very. This one just became video gaming type movie, but it's great.
Speaker 1:And the only issue I have with this franchise is the fact that Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning part two is not called that, it's called the final reckoning. So don't how about this Just name Mission Impossible, dead Reckoning part one, just Dead Reckoning, and then you can name the next one Final Reckoning Part 1, just Dead Reckoning, and then you can name the next one Final Reckoning. Sorry, that's like a dumb thing, but that annoys me. Yeah, perfect action franchise, I mean, except for Mission Impossible 2. But I don't know. I mean, if you meet someone that doesn't like the Mission Impossible movies, just get them out of your life. Just kidding. Mission Impossible 1, it's actually also of your life, just kidding.
Speaker 1:Mission Impossible 1, it's actually also co-written with David Koepp, who works alongside Steven Spielberg a lot. He did Death Becomes Her, jurassic Park, carlitos Way, the Lost World, snake Eyes I didn't know. He wrote that. That's awesome. Panic Room 2002, spider, spider-man, war of the worlds, ghost town hell yeah, premium rush that's a fun movie, um, but anyways, yeah. So david kepp he, you know, works alongside steven spielberg a lot um, it's a very famous writer and he wrote the first mission impossible, which, which is cool.
Speaker 1:I'll do my final honorable mention stuff because you know, this next one it's a big one. I mean starting in 2008 and still going, and you know there's a lot of movies I love, but like it'd be a lot of content on an Island by myself. But I guess if I took, if I took this, it's tough cause I don't really want to get rid of these. Um, but if I just had to pick what I'd want to take with me, I wouldn't take the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It'd be tough, like if I had all these movies on just laying out on a table and I'm like I gotta grab it before I go, like I'd want to. But honestly it's tough because I really love the Guardians of the Galaxy series. They're so good. But I'd leave it at home. I would, it'd hurt my heart.
Speaker 1:But you know I got a lot of good franchises and I think I would just have to leave the Marvel Cinematic Universe out of it. Oh, that doesn't feel right at all. You know what Fuck it we ball? Yeah, I'm taking the marvel cinematic universe mainly just because the guardians of the galaxy series they're so perfect. So this is actually gonna be seven franchises I take and you know I can honestly leave the rest. I would just take the trilogy of the guardians of the galaxy. How about that? Just because I don't want to cheat too much. But I am taking the guardians of galaxy series because, uh, they're so much fun.
Speaker 1:James gunn is a great director, all the actors go hard in that movie. It's funny, it's got great action, great sci-fi and, you know, like Rocket and Groot and Drax, star-lord Gamora, come on. And plus, it would be a shame if I didn't have Kurt Russell somewhere on that island. Gotta have a hunk somewhere, right? So, yeah, sorry, I'm gonna cheat a little bit. I'm bringing the Guardians of the Galaxy series. Yeah, that's the only one I'm gonna bring, just a perfect trilogy. Love all three of them, they all. Just Guardians 2 is my favorite. That movie just like rips my heart out of my chest because of how much it makes me cry. It's great Y'all do. He might not be my father, but he's my daddy boy. So, yeah, I'm cheating.
Speaker 1:And then, sorry, I'm going to just go ahead and go to my last one and I chose the Mad Max max franchise, another series that I watched as a kid. Um, and it's got, you know, thunderdome. Half that movie's great. The other half is like why, why did we do this? I think that's when I was like I don't know, this is stuff with the kids. It's not as good. But the first mad max is a great indie, low budget, just australian action film, revenge flick. It's great. It's george miller's first one. Uh, if you listen to our mad max for your old one, you'll you'll probably remember that I said george miller was actually a doctor in the er in australia and that's how he came up with the idea, because he saw so many car accidents and came up with Mad Max, the movie full of car accidents.
Speaker 1:Mad Max 2. The Road Warrior Was the best of the series, one of the best action movies ever made, until, you know, mad Max 3 Road came out and just became one of the best movies In the history of cinema and it still is and it still goes hard and I love that series and I just recently watched Furiosa Mad Max series actually and to my surprise, it's really good. So you know George Miller man, he doesn't miss Love the guy. Yeah, you know it's probably going to be something that might.
Speaker 1:The only downsides to taking this is that you know it's very barren landscapes that they're in. There's just a bunch of sand and it's just a desert. So you know that might be annoying a little bit, but I won't care because I'll just be pumping my fists in the air because these movies rule and, honestly, you probably have heard throughout this entire podcast that I like to use the word rad a lot and all these movies are rad a lot, so that is why I'm picking them and you know just, I don't know just the direction in it and I can't go anywhere. If I'm going to be stuck somewhere, mad Max Fury Road has to go with me. It's, I think, seriously, the more that I watch the franchise and like movie, even just like watching Furiosa, it just made me like think, like man, fury Road's great Because you, you know, there's little similarities in Furiosa and it's just, I wouldn't want to leave those two movies. It's like I don't know. I mean, if it's just, I love them, they're so good, but yeah, so that's it, just a rundown.
Speaker 1:I am taking Scream, rocky, austin Powers, planet of the apes, the mission impossible franchise, guardians of the galaxy series that I added at the last minute, and then the mad max franchise. Baby, um, what are some of the franchises you would have to take? Are you super upset that I didn't want to take, like star wars and harry potter? I'm sorry, um, you know, sometimes I just don't want to take those. I just, you know, I don't know, but I want to hear what franchises you like. What would you take on if you're going to be stuck on an island for the rest of your life? You can send us some emails to tell us you can. At the top of the the description there'll be a little link you can click and you can just text straight from your phone to us. And if you give us, like you know, your top five, top six, apparently top seven, like I just did, um, I'll read them out on the pod and we can discuss it between me and jason when he gets better. I'm also at the bottom of the description is our email. We recommend mail mailbag at gmailcom. You can send it to us that way as well.
Speaker 1:I hope this episode worked. It's really weird just doing a podcast by yourself, like the more that you just kind of sit here and talk. You're like I have no idea what I'm doing and it feels weird that I'm just looking at where Jason usually sits and just talking to that area of the room. So it's very weird, but I'd love to hear what you think. I hope you enjoyed the episode. I'm sorry that we're not going to have like an actual discussion about movies. A movie I hate that we have to do this, but it's just how it worked out and I'm very sorry about it.
Speaker 1:I know this is coming out a little late, just because we're really hoping that he would feel better this Monday morning or when this is being released, and that we could, you know, like get together at eight and I could have this up by 12, you know, like PM, but not going to work. He's got the flu, you know, just keep him in your thoughts or whatever. I don't know. What do you say? I don't know. But anyways, give us a review. Yeah, give us five stars wherever you listen. Please, it'd be much appreciated. If you're on YouTube, give us a comment saying like, hey, I, actually, I like this podcast. This is great. Yeah, so please do that. Thank you, joey Prosser, for our intro and outro music. You can follow him on X at Mr Joey Prosser. This has been the we Recommend Podcast special episode edition. I've been Jesse. We'll see you next time. Bye, thanks for watching.
