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“The current movie, which is Project Hail Mary, which I hear amazing things about.”
“The first time I knew about Silicon Valley is through a lowbudget movie called the the Pirates of Silicon Valley where it's the dramatized fight between Steve Jobs and uh and Bill Gates.”
“And and and the way I the way I framed it was, you know, there's this scene from Carl Sean's Contact, the movie version of it, where, you know, they they kind of discover alien life and this internati…”
“I think memento is a good. Movie.”
“I love the film Fight Club and uh there's some scene in it I think where Brad Pitt or or or maybe it's Ed Norton I can't remember takes off his ring uh uh before having a fight”
“Um so in high school I actually wanted to be a musician to start. So I had like written an album. I was in a band. Um and then I saw the social network and I saw Pirates of Silicon Valley. So I actual…”
“And I think Oenheimer was like an incredibly well-made movie. Um, and had, you know, incredible performances and was was like, you know, put together really well. It was, you know, tremendously intere…”
“One of the things that I like most about, A Wrinkle in Time is something that I also like most about the movie Interstellar, in that love becomes a factor in reality that's so strong, it can actually …”
“We don't want to find ourselves in a James Cameron movie. You know Terminator [laughter] he's he's great movies. Love his movies but but we don't want to be in Terminator obviously.”
“Man on the Moon is the movie that I'm thinking of.”
“Any Zoomers listening to this who haven't seen that movie, go watch it immediately.”
“You ever seen the movie Her you know with uh Walking Phoenix and um I think Scarlett Johansson”
“There's a great documentary that you can watch on YouTube. It is about Demis and DeepMind and some of their accomplishments. It's called the thinking game.”
“Let me start by saying if if anybody watching this hasn't seen Once Upon Time in Hollywood, pause the podcast immediately. Um, go watch the movie >> and then come back because I would just we going to…”
“Well, the new Christopher Nolan movie is coming out. The Odyssey looks interesting. Great call. Great call. Yeah, that's mine. Great call. I went with the Odyssey. What is that? What is that about? Th…”
“When you came on the podcast three years ago, we talked about the 1983 TV movie The Day After, which is about a nuclear war.”
“Also, we mentioned the Blackberry movie. Great movie. I think it's on Netflix now. Is that why people are talking about it? It is on Netflix. It's a great story. It's a great, great movie for ages. Bu…”
“you think about movies like heard that tell you a little bit about maybe more of a little bit utopic vision”
“it demands to be seen not on TV but on the big screen. Disclosure Day is in cinemas Wednesday, June 10th. So book your tickets now.”
“And there's this scene in the movie Fiddler on the Roof where the protagonist who's a milkman in the town of Anatevka uh you know around the time of the Russian Revolution just before actually go very…”
“Check out the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGsK1iAKEoA”
“you ever see that movie zootopia you ever see that movie zootopia there's like a sloth in for the approval yeah accidentally tell a joke and and I was like oh no this is good here we go going to take …”
“you look at sort of watch Star Wars and it's like R2D2 and see3 I love those guys uh”
“Oh my god. So, there's kind of a fictionalized but largely correct version you should check out. I think it's called Tetris. It's a movie about it.”
“I actually with my with little ex my kid everything's called X um we watch Terminator 2 uh which holds off actually”
“that line in No Country for All Men where the killer is waiting for the protagonist... 'if your set of rules brought you here, then what good are your rules?'”
“there also the movie on Stephven Hawking so like it's a lot of movies have been made... that's one of my one of my favorite movies”
“not goodwill hunting Google hunting is also amazing.”
“Former presidential candidate El Gore presents the documentary An Inconvenient Truth.”
“Yeah, you know what doesn't get talked about enough is this movie that was Oscar nominated, but a lot of people haven't seen it.”
“his new movie, The Invite, directed by Olivia Wilde, has been generating a lot of buzz”
“writing slacker movies like Superbad, to having one of the most prolific, wide-ranging, and successful careers in Hollywood”
“when I was making pineapple express, like we sort of have like a really silly, ridiculous storyline”
“and knocked up like, I think it was like all about that. And long shot was like it was like a romantic comedy”
“movie like long shot, it should be like fundamental character things that are evolving and changing”
“being in the Fablemen, Steven Spielberg, et cetera. Yes. A thing like that. You're like, of course I'm going to work with Steven Spielberg”
“I watched Spaceballs before Star Wars probably a hundred million times”
“I was a kid, you know, and I was sort of inundated with, like, Hannah and her sisters and things like that”
“I always think of that line of network where Robert Duvall is like, it's a volatile industry”
“have you ever seen the movie Burn After Reading H amazing movie everybody should watch it it's very funny”
“Friday is probably the closest one, you know? And I love that movie”
“I came up watching Lethal Weapon, you know, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Superbad”
“I came up watching Lethal Weapon, you know, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Superbad”
“we would watch fast times and things like that. Like it seems like. Super bad has somehow like filled the slot”
“and, and Beetlejuice was one of my favorite movies ever growing up”
“home alone is the movie that made me want to make movies”
“we just became obsessed with like Christopher Guest. Films and waiting for Guffman”
“like things like Ninja Turtles, honestly, like has been one of my favorite things we've made in years”
“He also...voicing Kung Fu Panda”
“Ocean's 11. I love that movie. Fantastic.”
“Mario is jumping back to the big screen with the Super Mario Galaxy movie, the sequel to 2023's The Super Mario Brothers movie.”
“Um, have you seen Project Helm Mary, by the way?”
“I want to start with a video game that I liked to play during the pandemic called Overcooked.”
“Oh, I love You've Got Mail, the Meg Ryan movie from the 90s. It's so good. It's my favorite bookstore movie.”
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“Anything with María Félix in it. Name one. Doña Bárbara, superb. I’d also say, though, more recently, Y Tu Mamá También.”
“Anything with María Félix in it. Name one. Doña Bárbara, superb. I’d also say, though, more recently, Y Tu Mamá También. That’s a great film.”
“Now he's in a new film from director Daniel Rohr called The AI Doc or How I Became. I think I got that right. He's a former entrepreneur and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology.”
“There's a great documentary about it called A Television Event.”
“Also, if you want to see a fun application of this formula for high-dimensional sphere volumes, you might enjoy a video I did with Numberphile a couple of years back that includes a puzzle that incorp…”
“When Hollywood dramatizes this, it's um you know, it's like Henry Fonda and the Oxbow incident or maybe it's Gregory Pek and Tequila Mockingbird.”
“When Hollywood dramatizes this, it's um you know, it's like Henry Fonda and the Oxbow incident or maybe it's Gregory Pek and Tequila Mockingbird.”
“I was watching this movie recently called the Gladiator. -Russell Crowe. Have you seen it?”
“it actually kind of reminds me of this movie Rainman, which I actually really recommend people watch. It's an amazing movie. I love this movie.”
“I recommend people watch these two movies uh Momento and 51st dates. In both of these movies, the protagonists, their weights are fixed and their context windows gets wiped every single morning”
“some of my all-time favorites would be, uh, Real Genius from the 1980s, uh, with Val Kilmer... That's a, that's a classic.”
“I'm just a I'm a sucker for musicals, you know, The Sound of Music, uh Fiddler on the Roof.”
“Sputnik is one of the best alien movies I've seen in a long time... It's really creepy. Really creepy.”
“the Arrival was Oh yeah, Arrival was great too.”
“Have you seen the Forbidden Project?... The whole movie is on YouTube. It's awesome. And that was 1970.”
“Meet Jirro Ono, the sushi monk who's taken the same pre-dawn path to making the world's best sushi since 1951.”
“I don't know if you've re-watched the movie her, but I'm watching some clips from it. Like they want to appease you.”
“This is Wakanda. So Wakanda is a fictional radically advanced uh African city hiding in plain sight from one of my favorite movies, Black Panther. And the provocative idea is that we”
“You know, I don't know if any of the young people here saw the movie 2001 where Hal the computer says basically, "Sorry, uh, no longer taking orders from you."”
“I was watching the movie The Godfather 2, and I I get to a scene and I'm like, "Is that Bruno Kirby? Looks like the actor Bruno Kirby. I'm not sure.”
“We really enjoyed Get them to the Greek. We like these stoner films. We like these comedies.”
“like in the famous Glengarry Glen Ross scene where Alec Baldwin says, ‘First place gets a Cadillac Eldorado, second place gets a set of steak knives, and third place you’re fired.’”
“Start with Sunspring (2016), a short film starring Thomas Middleditch and written by AI, now a time capsule that mocks AI writing for being incoherent and absurd rather than bland”
“It's like Bridge on the River Quai. Do you remember that movie? Yeah. So bridge, you remember that movie, Echo Charles? No, I never seen it. So it's the basically the Japanese Imperial Army has these …”
“Like most, I started out with a very favorable view—one of brave and far-sighted technocrats—informed by movies like “Contagion”.”
“This video gives the gist.”
“That was a clip from a great movie called "General Magic." Named after, of course the company that tried to make a smartphone at the moment that the tech was not ready yet.”
“literally hundreds of millions of dollars of free marketing off of like a cannibalism joke did they never get sued by the movie people I don't think so I mean it's just a name so and I guess the most …”
“Uh, there's a really interesting indie film. It's on Hulu right now. It's called American Sweat Shop. It's with Lily Reinhardt stars in it who was on Riverdale.”
“He also did a 2023 movie called The Last Stop in Yuma County. That is great. Oh, if you get a chance to watch that one.”
“I really like the movie Back to the Future where the kid Marty travels back in time and then almost gets erased from existence.”
“Rule number five, it would have forced HAL in 2001 Space Odyssey to seek external guidance to resolve the conflict in directives that led to the catastrophic decisions in the movie.”
“Andrew and I were Andrew introduced me to Dazed and Confused as a kid. One of our favorites uh movies.”
“I'm sure. I I'm uh also a um a big fan of Timothy Shalabay and Doom part 3 is coming out. I also like Avengers Doomsday.”
“Doom part three. I love Doom one and two so so much. Two was great. I think one was a little bit of Doomsday will be good. Doomsday actually I go with that. Avengers Doomsday is going to be I think fa…”
“It's a great movie with Billy Bob Thorne. It's his first movie, Slingblade.”
“So for people who haven't seen, I would recommend Mahal and Drive. Um, it's one of Eric's favorites.”
“and, uh, and then The Player, um, which also is an alltime alltime one there.”
“another great another great LA movie uh you know um uh Chinatown.”
“I I think Tenant is one of the best movies I've ever seen. Um, and like I I I I sat through Tenant with a giant smile on my face the entire movie.”
“Obviously I loved Inception.”
“You ever seen the movie Hot Tub Time Machine?”
“Morgan Spurlock for people who might not have recognized the name immediately superersized me. Really a sort of a genre breaking category redefining experiment and many more who came earlier from a wr…”
“My favorite one is Freelo. >> Free is so good. >> So good. Alex Honold, what you doing? Talking about counter examples here. I am just endlessly inspired by him as a person and I think Jimmy Chin's wo…”
“yeah Kumari great documentary Fred recommended everybody should watch Kumari ku m a r e I won't ruin the surprise check that out it's a great great film”