[Film]Buffing Up

Next up for our watchlist is a film neither of us had seen, Tootsie. A story about Dustin Hoffman being a failed actor who dresses up as a woman to get on a daytime soap opera. Wow, that's a doozy. Let's see if we liked it! Welcome to Film Buffing up, an AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, travel through the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see how they stack up in the 21st century.

Boy, up next is a movie we both really hated the first time around. Will a rewatch change our minds? Welcome to Film Buffing up, an AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, travel through the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see how they stack up in the 21st century.

It's Mike's turn to subject Jen to a movie she won't like, so this week we watch Saving Private Ryan. Welcome to Film Buffing up, an AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, travel through the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see how they stack up in the 21st century.

It's time for Jen's favorite movie of all time (probably,) Frank Darabonts 1994 adaption of Stephen King's "The Shawshank Redemption." And since Jen doesn't write these descriptions, let me take the time to tell you that Andy Dufresne is actually an American Psycho-esque sociopath and definitely, totally, 100% murdered his wife. Welcome to Film Buffing up, an AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, travel through the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see how they stack up in the 21st century.

Number 73 on the list is Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. In this episode, Jen and Mike discuss whether this was a twin film to The Wild Bunch, and whether its smart to name your gang after the location where you are hiding out (It's not.) Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

Hello Clarice....it's time to watch number 74 on the AFI 100 Films for 100 Years, Silence of the Lambs! Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

On the hot seat this we watch Sidney Poitier's seminal detective noir filled with racists and buffoons, In The Heat of The Night! Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

RUN FORREST RUN! This week we watch number 76 on the list, Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump. A nostalgia-bait extravaganza starring Tom Hanks as a man who finds himself involved in every major event in modern history. Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

The first "walk and talk" political thriller is on the block, 1972's Nixon Drama Docu-pic, All The President's Men. Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

This week we watch Modern Times, Chaplin's last film of the silent era and one of the reasons why later in life he was accused of soviet sentimentality and blackballed from Hollywood. After watching it, eh, I can kinda see why. Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

A bunch of wild cowboys, a can of beans over a fire spit, and one last job before they retire. Is it Red Dead Redemption 2? No, it's the Wild Bunch. Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

Starting the second fifth of our series with a "bang," or, more aptly, an absolutely train wreck that psychically drained our wills the live? We watch the 1960 film The Apartment. Also I repeatedly forget the name of the Alfred Hitchcock film "Rope" for some reason. Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

20 episodes! We are finally one fifth of the way there. This week we watched the Stanley Kubrick epic, Spartacus. We talk about the movie, the concepts of twin films, and review the upcoming 20 films on the list. Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

This week we go to the silent era and watch the 1926 "Poetry in motion" drama, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. Also, Jen learns the origin of a horrible word. Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

James Cameron's attention to detail and bizarre laser-focused obsession with shipwrecks delivers the 1997 masterpiece, Titanic to the list. But does the seminal romance drama hold up 20 years later? Let's find out! Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

This week we watch a movie new to both of us, Peter Fonda's 1969 directorial debut and counterculture classic, Easy Rider. The story of two hippies who travel from the west coast to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. What do we think, and was it an easy watch? Let's find out. Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

This episode of [Film] Buffing up, we watch the Marx Brother's A Night At The Opera. We never saw a Marx Bros film before, so what did we think? Where does it stack? Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers sit down and watch all 100 films for 100 years and see where they stack.

This week we watch Platoon, the 1986 Oliver Stone film with literally everybody in it about F'ing New Guys harrowing first weeks during the Vietnam War. Did we like it? Where does it stack on our list? Listen to find out. Film Buffing up is an movie watchcast where two filthy casual film-goers grind through the AFI Top 100 Movies for 100 years and see where they stack in 2020.

Welcome to Film Buffing up! This week we watch Twelve Angry Men, the legal drama where one guy stubbornly grinds the legal process to a halt and annoys a bunch of people! Nominated for three Academy Awards and nestled at 87 on AFIs 100 Films for 100 Years list, it's surely going to be good. Do we like it? Listen and find out. Film Buffing Up is an AFI Watchcast where two casual filmgoers, Jen and Mike, go through the list of the American Film Institutes 100 Films for 100 Years and see how they stack up.

In this episode of Buffing Up, we watch the original Carol Baskins in the 1937 slapstick comedy with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant, Bringing up Baby. Where does it stack? Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers sit down and watch all 100 films for 100 years and see where they stack.

It's your resident film casually, Jen and Mike, back at it with another episode. This week, one of Jen's favorite films, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense. Is it good, or is it Dead On Arrival? Film Buffing up is an AFI watchcast where two filthy casual film-goers watch all 100 of the American Film Institutes top films of the century...and then rank them!

Your two favorite casual film goers are back! This week we take on the 1936 "musical," Swing Time. Starring two people that dance, and ... stuff. Clearly Mike didn't like it, but what does Jen think? Film Buffing Up is the AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, dive through the American Film Institutes 100 Films for 100 Years. Where do they stack up on their personal lists?

This week Jen and Mike dive into hard decisions and weird, listless relationships, the 1982 film Sophie's Choice. Welcome to [Film] Buffing Up, an audio watchcast where two filthy casual film-goers try to work their movie watching muscles and go through the American Film Institutes 100 films for 100 years collection. Where will these timeless classics go on our personal lists? Only one way to find out.

Hey hey! This week your two favorite casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, dive into Martin Scorsese's 1990 Mob crime epic, GoodFellas. How does it hold up? Where does it fall on the list? Listen to find out! Welcome to [Film] Buffing Up, an audio watchcast where two filthy casual film-goers try to work their movie watching muscles and go through the American Film Institutes 100 films for 100 years collection. Where will these timeless classics go on our personal lists? Only one way to find out.

Continuing down the rabbit hole of questionable additions to the American Film Institute, Jen and Mike check out number 93 on the list, The French Connection. Will they like it, or will it go to the bottom of their list? Welcome to [FILM] Buffing up, a AFI Watchcast where two casual film-goers watch through the American Film Institutes 100 films for a 100 years and ranks them on their own scales! Where will your favorites end up in this very non-scientific analysis? Find out!

All right ,it's time for some Pulp Fiction. Both Jen and Mike have fond memories of watching this film, but does it hold up? Let's find out. Welcome to [FILM] Buffing up, a AFI Watchcast where two casual film-goers watch through the American Film Institutes 100 films for a 100 years and ranks them on their own scales! Where will your favorites end up in this very non-scientific analysis? Find out!

Number 95 is in the bag. We watch for the first time, and hopefully the last, the 1971 Post-Western Drama "The Last Picture Show" where ....stuff happens, I guess? Welcome to Episode 5 of [FILM] Buffing up, where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, strengthen their movie muscles by watching the AFI 100 films for a 100 years list.

Another Tuesday, another movie on the list down. This week Jen and Mike watch number 96 on the AFI 100 Films for 100 Years, Spike Lee's racially charged drama: Do The Right Thing. What are our thoughts? Will Mike over-analyze it? Listen and find out! [Film] Buffing up is an AFI Top 100 Watchcast where two filthy casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, go through the American Film Institutes 100 films for a 100 years list and see where the last century's best film stack in the 21st century.

It's time for one of Mike's favorite films, the seminal cyberpunk neo-noir thriller - Blade Runner. But will this classic hold up better than it's prophetic vision of a future 2019? Find out in episode 4 of [Film] Buffing up! [Film] Buffing up is an AFI Top 100 Watchcast where two filthy casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, go through the American Film Institutes 100 films for a 100 years list and see where the last century's best film stack in the 21st century.

Episode 3 of our AFI Top 100 Watchcast, we dive into a wholely unfamiliar film, the 1942 Bio-pick Yankee Doodle Dandee. Will we love it, or will we call it macaroni?

Two novice film-goers, Jen and Mike, continue their journey through the American Film Institutes "100 Best Films of the Century" List, starting from the bottom. This week, Pixar's animated classic "Toy Story" is up.

Jen and Mike, two filthy casual cinema-goers, begin their journey of watching and cataloging the AFI Top 100 films of the century by starting all the way at the bottom with Ben Hur.