UPCOMING AT YOU!

The number of June PAF entries now at 521. That might be a record. I don't know.

so excited for Andor

With Disclosure Day out, I got the idea to watch the Minority Report reaction on YouTube and it looks like it's not there any more...? Did that get a copyright strike?

You are going to love Best In Show. Can’t wait.

I forgot to promote 1776 (1972) this week and last week for the upcoming 4th. Sigh.

I watched Totally Whatever’s 2-part Fellowship of the Ring reaction. It was quite good, can recommend.

Can't wait for Best in Show!! 🐕

Any chance you'd rewatch Evolution (2001) for a video? I really like that one and wanna see your thoughts on it.

I am looking forward to KK.

Could we put the movie Evolution (2001) on the next poll? That's a favourite of mine and I would like to see all of your reactions to it if any of you haven't seen it.

Was really hoping Kong was with Carly

--Pumped about the war bracket poll. --Very much looking forward to Road to Perdition. --King King (2005) and Best in Show are good. --Ecstatic for Andor. Only a week away. Loved your GoT reactions (my fav reactions on the channel), but time to move on from that world. Though, 6 eps of AKOT7K = good.

I am still on my Cassie-induced Cool Hand Luke high, so while it's fresh in her mind, I need to re-suggest a Paul Newman/Steve McQueen poll. The Hustler (1961) - Paul The Cincinnati Kid (1965) - Steve Bullitt (1968) - Steve Papillon (1973) - Steve Towering Inferno (1974) - Paul and Steve The Verdict (1982) - Paul Color Of Money (1986) - Paul, but only after The Hustler.

Does someone know when the Mission Impossible reaction will be up

Cassie, next month consider doing a POLLCEPTION, we haven't had one in awhile. Throw (16) different categories in the hopper and randomly pick (6) categories we can vote on to select one for a poll.

OK You and Carly need to see Obsession 2026. IT's the perfect date movie for you guys!! Promise! Quite the love story!!

Wow! Okay, you’ve won me back over. Jackson’s KING KONG, finally 🙌🙌🙏🙏 ready for some Andor next

Also another idea for a poll...and Director's/Extended Cut poll. Since that was a big topic this year. Movies that Cassie watched the Theatrical Cut for but have a Directors Cut or Extended Cut. Depending on the movie, Carly could join her for the rewatch

MI8 so cool been waiting for this one for a long time. Definitely going to do a Cassie & Carly Marathon Re-watch Reaction for the first 7 Movies this week. Here is an idea for a poll. Franchises to return to that Cassie only has 1 to two movies left to complete. I can think of quite a few

Cinebinge reacted to Pearl, the prequel to X. Both George and Simone loved it, particularly Mia Goth’s amazing performance.

Finally the end of Mission Impossible. Such a great franchise

I've added quite a few War movies recently to the request site that only have a few votes. Too Late The Hero (1970) Michael Caine & Cliff Robertson - British Commandos behind enemy lines Stalingrad (1993) German film about the battle of Stalingrad When Trumpets Fade (1998) Battle of Hürtgen Forest They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) Peter Jackson Documentary on WW1 Von Ryan's Express (1965) Frank Sinatra POW escape All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 + 1979) Goodnight, Mr Tom (1998) A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond. My Boy Jack (2007) Daniel Radcliffe plays the son of Rudyard Kipling who goes off to fight in WW1. For the poll I’d be happy with any of these classics set in WW2 to win - Battle Of Britain , Where Eagles Dare, A Bridge Too Far, The Longest Day, Thin Red Line, Kelly's Heroes, The Guns Of The Navarone, Empire Of The Sun, The Eagle Has Landed, Greyhound, The Dambusters and many more. Lets just say I like this poll idea

Of the PopcorninBed Requests top 50 war movies, I would be happy if any of these (w/Requests war movie ranking noted) randomly selected for the war bracket poll: #2-The English Patient, #3-Downfall, #5-The Killing Fields, #6-The Wind That Shakes the Barley, #7-Michael Collins, #16-Gettysburg, #20-The Thin Red Line, #23-Warfare (2025), #26-All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), #31-Rob Roy, #35-Guy Ritchie's The Covenant, #36-The Outpost, #39-Empire of the Sun, #40-Letters from Iwo Jima, #41-The Deer Hunter, #43-Black Book #45-Enigma, #46-Three Kings, #47-Salvador. https://beta.popcorninbed.com/requests?tab=all-requests&genres=War

I think I noticed something significant on the Cool Hand Luke reaction - namely that the blurred movie image is not quite as blurred as I've known it to be in the past. I mentioned a while ago that I was having trouble syncing during reactions because the movie itself was *so* blurred (especially if I had to resync due to buffering), but this was much better. If that's a tweak Ben has done, it's much appreciated.

Any war movie poll needs to include: The Lighthorsemen - great WWI movie about Australian Light Horse soldiers in the Middle East. Gettysburg - long but solid movie detailing the battle, although some huge aspects left out (they couldn't begin to cover it all, even in the director's cut) The Devil's Brigade - based on the true story of a joint American-Canadian unit formed in WWII (although it oversells the delinquency of the American troops) In Harm's Way - not based on a true story, but a very interesting look at warfighting behind the scenes.

Peter Jackson's King Kong is PHENOMENAL

A movie about a crazy dog-show - how is that more popular than Once Upon a Time in the West? Okay, we have funny people in this community, but as always, Cassie will make it work ;-) I still maintain that King Kong is not a return to a universe, but just watching a remake. But since the movie is not half bad, that’s not a problem either. And of course, Andor is really cool. At least Andor isn’t as much of a pretty boy as Jon Snow, IMO. :D All in all, once again, you’ve got a really good week in store for us.

I Love Best in Show! If you love Dogs and Quirky Characters you'll Love this Movie!

Like you need it, having a Dad and a Husband and Brother and all, but JIC, a brief WAR MOVIE list: MIDWAY (2019) – you will get Pearl Harbor vibes in parts, but with families instead of gfs/bfs. Also, more historically accurate and less cheesy than the 1976 movie of the same name. DEER HUNTER – Small town America at its best, Vietnam at its worst. With young Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken and even younger Meryl Streep. THE OUTPOST - a true story from the Afghanistan war with Orlando Bloom and Scott Eastwood, who owns every minute he’s onscreen. PATHS OF GLORY – WWI war movie AND a court drama. Brilliantly done by Kubrick. LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA – a Japanese perspective on this epic battle directed by Clint Eastwood. Controversial (many Pacific vets, including those in my family hated it), but well done. HAMBURGER HILL – a grunt’s view of the futility of the Vietnam war. THE LONGEST DAY – A fairly accurate, albeit sanitized, portrayal of D-Day with actual D-Day vets. THE BIG RED ONE – Sam Fuller’s anti-war war movie based on his own WWII combat experiences. THE LOST BATTALION – Made for TV but an exceptional WWI movie about an American melting pot battalion from NYC who turned the tide in a major WWI battle. U-571 – very loosely based on a true story with authentic flavor of submarine warfare in WWII. Matthew McConaughey owns this one. A BRIDGE TOO FAR – You saw snippet of this battle in Band of Brothers when they were in Holland. GETTYSBURG – over-long and the beards can be distracting, but a good Civil War movie.

Well shoot.....was gonna cancel membership since thrones is over but Andor is coming?! Allright take my money

King Kong and Best in Show? That’s a good week.

Be sure to watch the extended edition to King Kong

Disappointed Once Upon A Time In the West lost, but Best in Show and Road to Perdition are good. Hope Spinal Tap is next!

I prefer the theatrical version of King Kong (2005). Better pacing. My suggestion to people is to watch theatrical on first watch and then, if they so desire, watch the extended thereafter. Theatrical version is already three full hours. Theatrical = Runtime 3h 7m (187 min)

Excited for all three movies this week!

Yay a hard days night is moving up I must say this is the most proffesional channel Ive yet seen. Plus I love Cassies reactions and finally figured out to do a full watch using my phone for her reaction

I Knew It, I Knew You, Sorry gf left this morning bumping that song and came back bumping 2Pac, To Live In Die In LA Greetings to Cassie & Family and her PIB Family About Last Week. We finished them all. Cool Hand Luke one of our favorites. The Insider great political thriller On The Basis Of Sex is real feel good movie just saying. The End Of Game Of Thrones. Which there will be a discussion when I am sure my gf will donate $$ under my name. Everyday I get woken up by the dogs or my gf. I walk to the dresser and above the dresser sits a placque from the Simpsons but instead of pictures of Maggie there are pictures of Sharon Tate Like This https://photos.app.goo.gl/eJtTyuw7n7b7BXv96 My gf made it for me to not lose hope. Sometimes you got to have the patience of Jobe. For 3-4 years I then we have been trying to get Cassie to watch a Sharon Tate movie. Patience is a virtue. In 1997 Rolling Stone magazine did a interview with Trent Reznor from NIN. He had made a studio in the house where Sharon was murdered in, but he left, this what he had to say about that: While I was working on The Downward Spiral, I was living in the house where Sharon Tate was killed. Then one day I met her sister [Patti Tate]. It was a random thing, just a brief encounter. And she said: 'Are you exploiting my sister's death by living in her house?' For the first time, the whole thing kind of slapped me in the face. I said, 'No, it's just sort of my own interest in American folklore. I'm in this place where a weird part of history occurred.' I guess it never really struck me before, but it did then. She lost her sister from a senseless, ignorant situation that I don't want to support. When she was talking to me, I realized for the first time, 'What if it was my sister?' I thought, 'F*** Charlie Manson.' I went home and cried that night. It made me see there's another side to things, you know? The Week Ahead: King Kong, Best In Show, The Final Mission Impossible. We own all three but have been packed away. Good Thing she did them alphabetically. Andor is a show we actually love. Your Moment Of Zen: Everyone who knew Sharon loved her. She was almost 9 months pregnant when she died. So what her favorite things? Favorite bands? favorite restaurants? Favorite makeup style? Get to know Sharon here: https://youtu.be/1IL11FjFApc?si=_rDAKSKEzRCJWxVC

Is Battlestar Galactica still on the very short list for series?

Oh, YAY! Road to Perdition is excellent. That was one of my very first requests ever on this channel. Just know that the father/son relationships featured in it are VERY complicated, and pretty dark. But also beautiful, in a way.

Please… consider A Perfect World (1993) for Father’s Day… Please. Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood.

I had just recently looked to see if you had a reaction to the Peter Jackson Kong. I hope it's the extended edition you'll be watching. 3h 20m...

Wow, what did we do to deserve this? Pretty dang good start to the summer... I always get suspicious when someone is being too nice...we will be watching you 😋👍

I've been holding off on finally seeing Final Reckoning just so I could watch it just before watching your reactions to it so it would be fresh in mind. Glad that day is near. And Kong soon and Andor soon and a LIVE soon, should be a fun month. Never had a root cannel before. I had a bunch of cavities as a kid, and I think all of the fillings fell out from them. Other than ice cream sugar sensitivity, my teeth have mostly felt fine most of my life, although I am missing 4 teeth which a crazy doctor did to me as a preteen because I had them so out of alignment in the front, and then I got braces a few years after that in late high school. Honestly my mom probably should've sued him. Other than that, I can also tell one of my molars is vastly different in shape from the other across the great divide by feeling it with my tongue.

Oh youre doing the GoT Live on the 20th? Awwwww... I cant make it.. Ill be working. I thought you said this coming Saturday. Bummer.

That's crazy I was just wondering a couple days ago if you were ever going to watch King Kong

M:I8 with Carly <3

Are you going to react to the Mandalorian and Grogu movie?

Well, there's your 'finish a franchise' goal finally checked off (unless you previously counted the so-called Sam Gerard duology). Friendly reminder that you're also just one outing away from finishing the Godfather, 2001, Gremlins, and Jack Ryan series.

I like genre specific for the bracket polls. After war this week, could do romance next. I am also good with not specifying a genre. Just glad to be doing the bracket polls. Also like standard Patreon polls. Easy to please me. I like polls based on random selection from Requests (genre specific or not). I like polls in which you specify the candidates.

Three movies in one week! And the men rejoiced - Hooray!

I like the bracket.

I prefer the bracket to polls, and generally prefer mixed genre, randomly selected from the PR leader board, than genre specific Maybe expand the pool next time, say top 200?

I think I prefer the bracket format for polls rather than the list. It makes me think about the choices rather than just picking my favorite. Sorry to hear about your kid's root canal, hopefully he can get some nitrous, sure helped me through mine.

Yessss to Road to Perdition coming up. Great Father's Day gift/movie. I love Road to Perdition. Pumped about Andor starting next week. I notice there are 230 war movies on the Requests leaderboard with over half having 3 points or less. I suggest to use at most the Top 50 war movies. Awesome doing war bracket poll this week. One of my favorite genres. Looking forward to King Kong (2005) and Best in Show. I liked the 1933 King Kong. I haven't seen any of the Mission Impossible movies so trying to decide if I will watch The Final Reckoning reaction. I think I will.

Pretty good week ahead, my rewatch of King Kong is way overdue, not sure about best in show but I’ll give it a shot if it’s streaming free on anything. Regarding war films it’s cool you’re doing a bracket but can you watch two movies. As you really need to just watch Kelly’s Heroes, it’s been in lots of polls but never won. As something more well known as always beaten it. It also stars Mr Eastwood and you seem to be on a run of films at the moment. plus it stars It also stars the late but great Donald Sutherland and I personally think it’s one of his best characters. But hears a few War movie suggestions, Battle of Britain The Dam Busters A Bridge to Far Greyhound Bat*21 Ran The Siege of Jadotville Flight of the Intruder The Tuskegee Airmen K-19: The Widowmaker Tears of the Sun Heartbreak Ridge Tropic Thunder Stripes Air America

I'd prefer A Mighty Wind or even better would be Waiting for Guffman... but Best in Show is still a good watch.

Best in Show, absolutely!

Cassie and Ben- very impressed with the new web app. It takes a little noodling to figure everything out but it has some cool features.

Best in show is so funny. I also like their others, A mighty wind, Waiting for Guffman, and Spinal Tap of course. Love Road to Perdition as well! Great father's day gift! Lots to look forward to.

Awesome! Looking forward to all of these.

Enjoy Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), Cassie! Enclosed is an BBC Scene by Scene interview with Jeff Bridges. He talks about Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) at 12:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3P3dIyY4_0

Like the Bracket polls the most - keep ‘em coming.

I hope you watch your reaction to Dead Reckoning for refreshing memory

I saw Road to Perdition (2002) when it was first released in cinemas in 2002! It's a very good film that featured the final (on-screen) performance of legendary actor, Paul Newman! Enclosed is a 2002 BBC Parkinson interview with Tom Hanks promoting the film. It also features a wonderful interview and songs from David Bowie! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xYFeQZ5UCM

We definitely need a fantasy bracket. The chronicles of Narnia, the neverending story, Excalibur, Masters of the universe.

Very much looking forward to Best in Show this week and Road to Perdition next week. These last couple entries in the Mission Impossible franchise bored me to tears so I’ll be skipping that. Sorry to see that Cassie won’t be reacting to the 1976 King Kong. I was hoping that the presence of a young, handsome Dude (Jeff Bridges) would sway her. For me, it’s all about the Kong suit (designed by and filled by legendary Rick Baker), Charles Grodin and Dwan (a young, gorgeous Jessica Lange).

You ought to set up a poll, maybe 25 to 30 movies, for the titles submitted the most times, whether that's more than once in a month or month after month, to PaF that haven't won. I've noticed several titles that are submitted by multiple people over and over. Plus titles I've heard you mention more than once when you're reading the wall.

I haven't seen that particular king kong in yrs. No better time for a refresher! Enjoyed your react to the original. I hope you and Carly get a vintage Tom Cruise "Run" scene in MI: F.R. lol. Look forward to Andor, and congrats again on finishing GOT. Fun ride.

June 20th for the YT Live...OK Cassie, I'll post off my parcel to you tomorrow. Hopefully it will reach you within 10 days! (Do you still have that Hotel Chocolat Velvetiser that someone sent to you at the last package opening???)

Like you Cassie, this was my first watch of GOT, and I can't believe it's over! Really enjoyed it, can't figure out why I didn't watch it sooner! Sunday nights will just not be the same! At least I have the live to look forward to!

Great lineup. Road to Perdition is a favorite of mine. Excited to finish MI franchise.

I'd better catch up and watch those last few MI films to catch up. Road to Perdition is a fantastic film, ngl was kinda hoping for Escape To Victory as World Cup starting but if you not a big fan of the sport I can understand why it's been missed.

Great. I freaking love King Kong. It's a very special movie for Peter Jackson, as 1933 original influenced him greatly as a kid. He tried to make it in the middle of the 90s, before making The Lord of the Rings. So you can really see his version as an ultimate love letter, while still being Jackson's movie. Most of his The Lord of the Rings team worked on it. You may want to check making of features that can be found on YouTube.

Cool line up - I’m looking forward to all of these. Keep that Kong train going with Kong Skull Island!

May I make a suggestion add the series down abbey to your list of shows to watch

That’s a good week! I won’t be watching Andor but I just hope it’ll finish up before we reach October, so that month can be dedicated entirely to horror movies.

As I mentioned to you a while ago I hope you don’t forsake the 1976 version of Kong. It’s not a great movie but it has its moments and it holds a special place in the hearts and minds of us Gen-Xers. It was our first major blockbuster landmark film a year before star wars

I am very excited about both Andor and Road to Perdition. Andor has become my favorite show in a long time, and Road to Perdition I remember liking when I saw it but it's been so long it'll be like watching it for the first time, so I am excited to do that with the channel!

I'm guessing the Spy Game reaction will be on youtube next week? I'd also like to point out to Cassie or Ben if you're reading this, that there are still a few movies on the Popcorninbed website that Cassie has reacted to and need to be unlisted from the leaderboard: Scott Pilgrim, Finding Forester, The 13th Warrior, and My Sister's Keeper.

I recommend Catherine O'Hara again in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Awesome sequel to enjoy 😉.

Finally!!! I was always wondering if you would finish MI :)

Here we go! MI8!

Looking forward to it! Also, make sure you know where Andor takes place in the timeline. I watched another reactor who didn't know after watching almost 2 seasons 🤦‍♂️

Looks awesome!

Looking forward to King Kong & Mission Impossible Final Reckoning 😀.

King Kong. Oh boy... By the end of that movie, I had tears running down my cheeks. So GOOD.