***THIS IS A SPOILER FREE EPISODE***

Robert Altman’s Gosford Park - 7:45

Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind - 18:18

Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down - 35:27

Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Coming Soon in Part Two later this week!

David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive - Coming Less Soon in Part Three later this week!

This is a Filmly Feud. Yes. You have read that correctly. The overall structure of the retrospective is that we’re gonna FEUD over our two favorite FILMS in this category. Get it? Annnnyway, Part One reviews the other three nominees, including Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, the winner in Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind, and Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down. We do this without spoilers, but with all the biographical information, gossip, and fake news you never knew you always wanted. You’re welcome.

In our discussion of Gosford Park, we try to reconcile how a director with such an exciting life could make a movie so boring. We mispronounce the word “quips,” and Also Mike finally takes a stand in what is perhaps the most polarizing debate ever litigated inside of an anecdote inside of a podcast: Maggie Smith vs DAME Judy Dench.

Ron Howard’s work in A Beautiful Mind strikes up some heated discussion on how the story could have been improved by yours truly. (Again, you’re welcome.) We also fantasize about punching Russell Crowe and make some serious fun of Mike 1’s history of DVD blind buys.

We conclude with a Radio Rahim styled Love/Hate review of Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, where we rejoice in Tom Sizemore being Tom Sizemore, but not so much with Josh Hartnett. Then we oooh and aahhh over helicopters for like, awhile.

Coming soon in Part Two, we review the first Lord of the Rings, and it’s a ruthless look at the movie’s highs and lows, filled with pre-Stranger Things 2 Sean Astin hate (I was soooo wrong! He’s great in that!!!) and nerdgasms galore.

Then in Part Three, we give the cinematic world the analysis it’s always needed about David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. Of course, we’ll elude and list off another audacious re-rank we’ve pompously entitled “Perfecting Perfection,” but we do this throughout the three part retrospective, not just at the end.

So we hope this week’s format is more listener friendly. You can navigate or embrace the spoilers however you see fit. Do contact us on social media and give us some feedback. Also, please help us spread the word about the podcast. Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening.