“Snakes… why’d it have to be snakes?”

Raiders of the Lost Ark --- Legend or Letdown? Come Join the discussion!

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In 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones is tasked by US Army Intelligence to help locate a legendary ancient power, the Ark of Covenant, before the Nazis get it first.

Release date: June 12, 1981 (USA)

Director: Steven Spielberg

Story by: George Lucas, Philip Kaufman

Prequel: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Budget: 20 million USD

Running time: 2 hours

“The Force will be with you, always.”

Star Wars (latter retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope), Legend or Letdown? Come Join our discussion!

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The Imperial Forces -- under orders from cruel Darth Vader (David Prowse) -- hold Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) hostage, in their efforts to quell the rebellion against the Galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford), captain of the Millennium Falcon, work together with the companionable droid duo R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) and C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) to rescue the beautiful princess, help the Rebel Alliance, and restore freedom and justice to the Galaxy.

Release date: May 25, 1977 (USA)

Director: George Lucas

Story by: George Lucas

Awards: Academy Award for Best Music (Original Score) more

Budget: 11 million USD

“Chancho, when you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room... It’s for fun.”

Nacho Libre, legend or letdown? Come join our discussion as we break down what we loved, what didn’t quite land, and how the story and characters resonated with us.

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Ignacio (Jack Black), or Nacho to his friends, works as a cook in the Mexican monastery where he grew up. The monastery is home to a host of orphans whom Nacho cares for deeply, but there is not much money to feed them properly. Nacho decides to raise money for the children by moonlighting as a Lucha Libre wrestler with his partner Esqueleto (Héctor Jiménez), but since the church forbids Lucha, Nacho must disguise his identity.

Release date: June 16, 2006 (USA)

Director: Jared Hess

Screenplay: Jared Hess, Mike White, Jerusha Hess

MPAA rating: PG

Budget: 35 million USD, 25 million USD

Running time: 1h 32m

🚨 Welcome to Reel Legends Movie Club!!!

We watch it, you watch it, we all give our takes on the Podcast! Details coming soon.

June 2025 Movies:

🟡 June 19 – Star Wars: EP IV - A New Hope

🔵 June 26 – Raiders of the Lost Ark

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“Your mission, should you choose to accept it…”

Mission: Impossible, legend or letdown? Come join our discussion as we break down what we loved, what didn’t quite land, and how the story and characters resonated with us.

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When U.S. government operative Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his mentor, Jim Phelps (Jon Voight), go on a covert assignment, the mission takes a disastrous turn when fellow agents begin dying and Ethan becomes the prime murder suspect. Now a fugitive, Hunt must unravel who the true villain is before it's too late.

Release date: May 22, 1996 (USA)

Director: Brian De Palma

Sequel: Mission: Impossible 2

Running time: 1h 50m

Adapted from: Mission: Impossible

Budget: 80 million USD

“The crime you see now, it’s hard to even take its measure. It’s not that I’m afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But I don’t want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don’t understand.”

No Country for Old Men, legend or letdown? Come join the discussion!

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While out hunting, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) finds the grisly aftermath of a drug deal. Though he knows better, he cannot resist the cash left behind and takes it with him. The hunter becomes the hunted when a merciless killer named Chigurh (Javier Bardem) picks up his trail. Also looking for Moss is Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), an aging lawman who reflects on a changing world and a dark secret of his own, as he tries to find and protect Moss.

Release date: November 9, 2007 (USA)

Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Screenplay: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Story by: Cormac McCarthy

Running time: 2h 2m

Awards: Academy Award for Best Picture 

"Don't tell me I can't do it; don't tell me it can't be done!"

The Aviator, legend or letdown? Come join the discussion!

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Billionaire and aviation tycoon Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a successful public figure: a director of big-budget Hollywood films such as "Hell's Angels," a passionate lover of Hollywood leading ladies Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett) and Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale), and an aviation pioneer who helps build TWA into a major airline. But in private, Hughes remains tormented, suffering from paralyzing phobias and depression. The higher he rises, the farther has to fall.

Release date: December 25, 2004 (USA)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Awards: BAFTA Award for Best Film

Nominations: Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Running time: 2h 35m

"Because the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes, the house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, and then you take the house."

Ocean's 11, legend or letdown? Come join the discussion!

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Charming Danny Ocean is a man of action. Less than 24 hours into his parole from a New Jersey penitentiary, the wry, charismatic thief is already rolling out his next plan — the most elaborate casino heist in history.

Release date: December 7, 2001

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Running time: 1h 57m

Budget: 85 million USD

Distributed by: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures

"You know what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like this?"

Big Trouble In Little China, Legend or Letdown? Come join in on our discussion!

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A rough-and-tumble trucker, Jack Burton, and his local friend, Wang Chi, face off with an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath San Francisco Chinatown.

Release date: July 2, 1986 (USA)

Director: John Carpenter

Starring: Kurt Russell; Kim Cattrall; Dennis Dun

Budget: 25 million USD

Running time: 1h 40m

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios

“You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting.”

A Knights Tale, Legend or Letdown? Come join our discussion!

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Peasant-born William Thatcher (Heath Ledger) begins a quest to change his stars, win the heart of an exceedingly fair maiden (Shanynn Sossamon) and rock his medieval world. With the help of friends (Mark Addy, Paul Bettany, Alan Tudyk), he faces the ultimate test of medieval gallantry -- tournament jousting -- and tries to discover if he has the mettle to become a legend.

Release date: May 11, 2001 (USA)

Director: Brian Helgeland

Running time: 2h 12m

MPAA rating: PG-13

Story by: Geoffrey Chaucer

Distributed by: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures · See more