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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…”
“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 …”
“Man on the Moon is the movie that I'm thinking of.”
“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”
“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…”
“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…”
“Any Zoomers listening to this who haven't seen that movie, go watch it immediately.”
“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…”
“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…”
“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 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…”
“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.”
“There's a great documentary about it called A Television Event.”
“you think about movies like heard that tell you a little bit about maybe more of a little bit utopic vision”
“no they're gone there's a great documentary on it called holy hell you should watch it it's pretty Bonkers but they're from California from California”
“this is excellent. (and now this tweet is my contribution to the inescapable Barbiemania)”
“I think another movie uh Wally by Pixar that's the future we're driving towards”
“"it's like the first ten minutes of saving private ryan. but your butt."”
“I brought The New Four Seasons - Vivaldi Recomposed by Max Richter. I like music with no words for working. That had the old comfort of Vivaldi and pieces I knew really well, but enough new notes that…”
“you know movies like Matrix was coming out around that time point that really influenced how I think about the potential impact that technology can have for our lives in general”
“I don't know if you saw either demolition men or iRobot people make fun of the idea that you uh yeah like you can't just talk to things and what the hell if we're talking about a um EXO cortex that fe…”
“I don't know if you saw either demolition men or iRobot people make fun of the idea that you uh yeah like you can't just talk to things and what the hell if we're talking about a um EXO cortex that fe…”
“have you watched this movie Prestige no I haven't”
“Have you seen the documentary The phenomenon of course I mean that that that and that that was the same pitch there right they're like look even if you don't believe all this what are the odds that al…”
“you know you think you see like the John Wick movie where John Wick's like you know he he he wants to he just wants peace like you know in in the Dr movie he just wants he's like listen I want to reti…”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?'”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“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…”
“You ever seen the movie Her you know with uh Walking Phoenix and um I think Scarlett Johansson”
“It's a great movie with Billy Bob Thorne. It's his first movie, Slingblade.”
“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?”
“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”
“And that Scorsesei bookend documentary 2019. It's it's sort of a documentary. It's it's it's a fictionalized It's very It's very Dylan. It's like a fake documentary.”
“I'll add two here. I'm gonna add two there. There's a very famous uh Penn and Baker documentary. Don't look back. Sure. That's table stakes.”
“No Direction Home 2005 incredible documentary.”
“I want to start with a video game that I liked to play during the pandemic called Overcooked.”
“When the computer does batch jobs, a failure was not all that big of a deal. The general response to such has been and still is to reboot the system. To quote an iconic television show, have you t…”
“Top Gun Maverick, which had more planning than anything Trump does.”
“Does this first one, it's from Sailors Beware, isn't it?”
“Well, talk us through Lucky Dog, which is another clip we've got cuz this was the first one before they became a very famous comedy duo.”
“So, then take us through to the finishing touch because this is one when they they were established at this point, weren't they?”
“Um there was a movie that I did called The Tale. Um that is a really beautiful and painful uh movie about um this woman who is coming to terms with the fact that she was groomed by this older by her u…”
“I Love Boosters is coming out on May 22nd, I believe, which I'm really excited about.”
““Singin' in the Rain””
“Oh, I love You've Got Mail, the Meg Ryan movie from the 90s. It's so good. It's my favorite bookstore movie.”
“I would say you know the future is more like Wall-E. Have you have you seen that cartoon? Yes. Yes. I love Wall-E.”
“I thought The Big Short was a great entertain from a piece from purely an entertainment perspective.”
“you sent me a movie recommendation recently, which I haven't gotten to... Weapons... Yeah. Yeah, I like that movie.”
“Ocean's 11. I love that movie. Fantastic.”
“You saw it on TV through the brand new XG Games and MTV Sports, in theaters through movies like Point Break and Airborne.”
“You saw it on TV through the brand new XG Games and MTV Sports, in theaters through movies like Point Break and Airborne.”
“Marty Supreme : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32916440”
“We talked about how the Klan was reborn thanks to Thomas Dixon's book and play, The Klansman, the film, The Birth of a Nation”
“But I suffered when I watched Nothing But Trouble, which is very bad movie, folks. Folks, it's not good.”
“Have you seen Song Blue, by the way? No, not heard. I keep hearing it's great. The movie is so good.”
“Centennial car. They actually made a movie about it a few years ago that Clint directed that is lowkey pretty great. Okay. You know, Paul Walter Hower. Oh, yeah. He plays Richard Juel. He's so good in…”
“It's everyone's living now Billy Bob Thornton's Bad Santa. How good is Bad Santa? Oh, it's the greatest.”
“That's Joe Dirt. Just a favorite movie.”
“It's been featured in a couple of movies, including a 2003 heist film called The Italian Job.”
“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.”