The Film Thugs Movie Show

The AFI lists have begun making decreasing sense. The criteria has become so... oddly non specific that its becoming difficult to really discuss them with any level of sanity. So this week, in order to preserve our sanity, we look at three lists. 100 Passions 100 Cheers Stars Hopefully you will be able to make more sense out of their choices than we could.

The further into these lists we delve the less sense they begin to make. At first there was some logic. Laughs- Is it funny? Then it got tricky. Thrills... what? How do you quantify that? Now... well, now we take a very subjective look at heroism and villainy and come up with a list where pedophile dream monsters are less villainous than sharks, and where bank robbing murderers are more heroic than Superman. Maybe you can make more sense of it than we did.

You know those dreams you have where a random bunch of crap happens and you just accept it because it's a dream and you don't know not to accept it? Imagine if you were awake and aware and all that crap started happening around you. That is what this list is like. AFI decided to set the broadest parameters imaginable and put together a list that abandons all pretext towards things like "logic" or "reason." Sit back and enjoy. Merry Christmas, you lucky people.

As we near our 100th episode we decided to get all "themey" on you. Welcome to the first in our series looking at the AFI lists. What better place to begin than with comedies. An interesting list and we have a lot to say about it. However, much like movies of today, the list falls apart in the third act and needs to be taken to task. So, take a listen and see what you think and see if you can figure out the glaring omission early on.

Stunt casting (casting a non actor) has been around as long as regular casting. It varies from politicians to musicians to athletes to bullshit reality TV people (and no, they are not reality TV "stars"). This week Vijay steps in for Clarkson (who is off honeymooning) and we have a very rambling discussion about rappers acting. Enjoy.