Is there a story in this silly movie? Do our actions affect others? Can corn be used as a weapon? We break down the story, characters and morality and give our takes on whether this film is a Legend or a Letdown!

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

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!!!

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June 2025 Movies:

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

🔵 June 26 – Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Is this movie overly complex? Are their plot holes? Does Ethan do the right thing? We break down the story, characters and morality and give our takes on whether this film is a Legend or a Letdown!

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

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

Who is the protagonist of this movie? Does merciless evil actually exist? Do our choices matter? We break down the story, characters and morality and give our takes on whether this film is a Legend or a Letdown!

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“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.”

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 

Howard Hughes’ brilliance and obsession clash with personal and professional challenges. We break down the story, characters and morality and give our takes on whether this film is a Legend or a Letdown!

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

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

Is Danny Ocean a good man (even tho he's a thief)? Is the heist confusing? Can a film tell part of it's story off screen? We break down the story, characters and morality and give our takes on whether this film is a Legend or a Letdown!

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"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."

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

Who is the Hero of Big Trouble in Little China? Does the opening Scene make or break the film? What makes this movie so attractive to so many fans? We break down the story, characters and morality and give our takes on whether this film is a Legend or a Letdown!

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

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

Is William a man of integrity even tho he is pretending to be someone he is not? What makes a good friend? Is Jocelyn a girl boss? We break down the story, characters and morality of this iconic film and give our takes on whether it's a Legend or a Letdown — all with laughs, curiosity, and a love for movies!

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

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

Is this a sprawling epic adventure movie or a romance? Is standing up for your rights as a human the most American thing in the world? Do we see epic sets/major practical effects like this in movies anymore? We break down the story, characters and morality of this iconic film and give our takes on whether it's a Legend or a Letdown — all with laughs, curiosity, and a love for movies!

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"I will find you! No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!"

The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- Uncas , his father Chingachgook , and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye -- live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters of a British colonel are kidnapped by a traitorous scout, Hawkeye and Uncas must rescue them in the crossfire of a gruesome military conflict of which they wanted no part: the French and Indian War.

Release date: September 25, 1992 (USA)

Director: Michael Mann

Music composed by: Trevor Jones, Dougie MacLean, Randy Edelman, Ciaran Brennan

Running time: 1h 54m

Awards: Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing, BAFTA Award for Best Makeup & Hair, BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios, Warner Bros.

Who is Bagger Vance? Why do humans sometimes run away from those who love them? Is this just a sports movie or something more? We break down the story, characters, and morality and give our takes on whether this film is a Legend or a Letdown — all with laughs, curiosity, and a love for movies!

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"See the trick is... to find your swing."

Once-promising local golfer Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon), whose career and life were derailed by the horrors he faced in World War I, is brought in to play alongside the stars. His life and game look pretty grim-- until the enigmatic Bagger Vance (Will Smith) offers to help him find his swing.

Matt Damon, Will Smith, Charlize Theron

Release date: November 3, 2000 (USA)

Director: Robert Redford

Story by: Steven Pressfield

Adapted from: The Legend of Bagger Vance

Running time: 2h 6m

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios, DreamWorks Pictures