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0:00Welcome to Hey Tablo
0:01Many of our fans have asked me to do a list
0:06like a movie list
0:07movies to watch before you turn 30
0:10movies to watch before you die
0:13or do not die until you see these movies
0:16And here's what I've decided
0:19Instead of just giving you my list
0:20because I've seen so many movies I can't just like pick 10
0:24I'm gonna go to Letterboxd and look at this list that they actually just recently put up called
0:31Movies Everyone Should Watch At Least Once During Their Lifetime
0:35and I will decide for you
0:38if these movies are seriously worth watching within your lifetime
0:43Uh and I'll pick out the ones that I really think belong on this list
0:52Okay so I'm on Letterboxd and the great thing about Letterboxd
0:57is that the reviews are sometimes better than the movies
1:01Like they are hilarious
1:03I don't know if that was the intention
1:05when this app was created
1:07but it devolved or evolved into just really hilarious like one-liner reviews
1:15So of course since I'm a movie lover
1:17I'm a movie buff I do have a Letterboxd account
1:23On this episode I will reveal my account and the reviews I have
1:29To be honest I did it for a while and then I quit
1:31'cause like I watch so many movies
1:34it's so hard for me to journal every single one and review every single one
1:38So I did it for a little while and then I quit
1:40Just because I like a movie
1:41doesn't mean you will but I mean it's Hey Tablo
1:44I get to have an opinion
1:45Okay so let's go
1:46Uh the first movies here
1:49are Psycho 2001: Space Odyssey Schindler's List Goodfellas Back to the Future
1:54Oh my God even the first line
1:57Okay it's gonna be impossible for me to pick and choose from all these movies
2:02so here's what we'll do
2:03I'm gonna focus on movies you need to watch
2:06before you hit 30 or 40
2:09if you're already like 35-
2:11okay
2:12Or 50 even
2:13but movies young people should watch
2:17before they're quote-unquote Tablo old
2:20So Psycho 2001 Schindler's List all amazing beautiful movies
2:25Goodfellas of course, but
2:27focusing on movies you should see while you're young
2:30uh I don't know if I would add those to the list
2:33So here we go
2:34I'm gonna keep going down until
2:36Okay this one this one's gotta go in the list
2:39Spirited Away
2:40Okay not only have I seen this maybe 15 times
2:46my favorite scene is when the parents turn into pigs
2:50That's such a powerful scene that like once you s- at when
2:53when I first saw it I was like "This is like a nightmare."
2:55Like I thought this was like a family movie
2:57What the hell is going on
2:58But anyways the reason why I would add this to the list
3:02is because first of all
3:04this is gonna be a weird take on the movie but like
3:07it shows great work ethic
3:10Like the work ethic of this main character right
3:15She's like trapped on this island with like spirits
3:19and you know it it's like she should be afraid
3:22and just scared and just trying to escape as soon as possible right
3:26Every single scene should have been the main character trying to escape
3:30but she puts in work
3:32Like she she like you know she's like "I'm here
3:37I might as well work hard too." You know what I mean
3:42Because in life you're not always gonna be in a situation
3:45where you want to do the work
3:47Like not every jo- most jobs are terrible
3:51You know you you have a terrible boss
3:54You know you don't really wanna be there
3:55But before you escape making the most of it
4:00I think this movie shows that
4:02I know it's a weird way to see this movie
4:04but that's what I got from it believe it or not
4:06When I first saw it
4:08Technically I was a kid too when I first saw it right
4:10I was young as hell
4:11I watched it I think with Mithra and Tukutz
4:14Tukutz walked out in the middle
4:16But Mithra and I watched the whole thing and and the thing
4:19that the only thing that was going r- like going through my head
4:22I was like "Wow that's a terrible situation to be be in
4:25It's like terrifying and sucks
4:28but she's like working hard." Let's look at some of the reviews here
4:32Okay s- Letterboxd you go for the reviews
4:36Look at this
4:37The first review: "I got lost in a department store
4:40when I was five and it felt a lot like this."
4:43Oh here's another one:
4:44"I mean probably the best movie ever made?”
4:49I love these reviews
4:51Okay
4:51Wait I'm gonna I'm gonna review it too
4:53Okay Spirited Away
4:57work ethic
5:01Okay here you go
5:02There's my review
5:03Work ethic 5 stars okay
5:06Okay let's go through some other movies
5:09I'm gonna j- they're
5:09All these movies are great by the way so you should
5:12Most of these movies on this list
5:14you should see them if you get a chance but
5:17I'm gonna just like run through them until I find movies
5:20that are perfect for young people to watch before they hit 30
5:24or young people to watch before they hit 40 or young at heart
5:28to watch before you hit 50 60 70 80 okay
5:32Fight Club Do the Right Thing all great movies
5:35Titanic
5:36Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5:38This has to go on the list
5:40I know many of you have probably seen this movie
5:43but if you haven't please do
5:44because this got me through a lot of heartbreak
5:51When you're young you're gonna have relationships that fail
5:55You're gonna go through breakups
5:56heartbreak right
5:58And this movie First makes you more depressed
6:03So if you watch this movie if you just had recently had a breakup
6:06and Tablo recommended this movie and you're watching it
6:09for the first like half you're gonna be like "f**k Tablo
6:12Why did he recommend this
6:14Because I'm feeling worse." Right
6:16But if you watch the whole thing
6:18you get like you get a full understanding of what loss is
6:22Like this this this picture basically like within like 2 hours it's surreal
6:28It's like a sci-fi at the same time
6:30while being a romantic comedy and also drama
6:34And it just somehow encapsulates like the feeling of losing someone
6:42That scene where Jim Carrey is like alone in the car
6:45and he's like crying
6:47oh my God I've used that meme so many times
6:51Not for like heartbreak reasons but I use that for like let's say
6:56like an album came out and someone's like
7:00"Mm mid." I'll respond with that meme
7:07Okay let's look at some of the reviews
7:09This movie destroyed me
7:12It somehow reminded me of a quote from Call Me By Your Name
7:16"If there is pain nurse it
7:18And if there is a flame don't snuff it out
7:20Don't be brutal with it
7:22We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster
7:26that we go bankrupt by the age of 30
7:29and have le- less..." Oh by age of 30
7:33Oh my God
7:34"And have less to offer each time we start with someone new."
7:38Call Me By Your Name also a great movie
7:40Uh I'm gonna review this as well
7:43Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7:45Uh okay
7:48I'm gonna give it 5 stars
7:49Review
8:04Forget AI I need that memory-erasing machine
8:15Okay let's go through more movies
8:18Good Will Hunting
8:21I don't wanna add it because it's so
8:24You know you would expect it on a list of movies
8:27you should see before you hit 30 40 50 or 60
8:30But do you know that my yearbook quote
8:35was the last line of this movie
8:36"I gotta go see about a girl"
8:38Okay here's the thing
8:39In the movie Matt Damon leaves a letter for Robin Williams
8:44and that's the line right
8:46That's what it says
8:47And then Robin Williams looks at it
8:48and he's like "He stole my line," right
8:51And after leaving that letter Will Hunting that character drives to Stanford
8:58That's how the movie ends right
9:00And when I was doing my yearbook quote I was headed for Stanford
9:04So I was like
9:06And also this this movie was just my favorite movie at the time
9:09The funny thing is when I wrote the quote
9:11I hadn't even seen the movie
9:13I don't think I had actually seen the movie
9:16I downloaded a screenplay
9:19There was a screenplay that came up of the movie
9:21but I was so interested in seeing it that I f-
9:25and I wa- I wanted to be a film filmmaker right
9:27I wanted to be a screenwriter as well
9:29So I downloaded the the script first
9:33and read the script so many times that
9:37And I didn't care about spoilers
9:38Like I just wanted to see
9:39how the script goes to the movie right
9:42And I loved the ending even before seeing this movie
9:46So like reading a book right
9:48And then I went to see the movie
9:49and the movie like paid off
9:52Like whatever I had imagined it did more even more right
9:55The music was so good
9:57So I'm gonna put that on the list
9:59Haru really loves this movie too
10:01You know the "It's not your fault," that line
10:05I did that on Haru once like as a joke
10:11Here's the thing like we saw this movie and some time had passed
10:15We saw it together and some time passed
10:17And Haru like had this you know thing at at school
10:20that you know she was kind of down about
10:23And when she told me
10:24I was like "It's not your fault." And
10:28she's like "Thank you Dad." And I was like "It's not your fault
10:31It's not your fault." And I did the Robin Williams thing
10:35Once she realized what I was doing
10:36she was like "Dad what the f**k?"
10:41"Not the time Dad."
10:43Okay I'm gonna review it
10:46It is my fault though
10:51Finding Nemo great movie
10:53Requiem For A Dream terrifying movie
10:56Pulp Fiction when it first came out it was crazy
11:02Kung Fu Kung Fu Panda
11:04Seriously there are basically no movies here that I haven't seen
11:07Maybe there's like 2 or 3
11:09Okay Matrix Akira
11:14Okay I'm gonna keep going
11:17Oh Up
11:18Up was so good too
11:19That opening scene- Yeah is a film in itself
11:24So like did you cry
11:25I definitely cried
11:26I cr- I cry a lot in movies though to be honest
11:30I cried during Little Mermaid
11:33The the- Not the animated one the live action one
11:36I cried when the dad lets the daughter go
11:39You know I once cried like long time ago
11:42uh we were in a car together Epik High
11:44on the way to like Busan or something I think to perform
11:48And in the in the car
11:50there was a TV thing that you could watch
11:52So we watched Spider-Man 3 the one with Tobey Maguire
11:57and it's the one where like
11:59It's it's the it's the terrible one
12:00The one where like Sandman
12:03comes out- Mm and Venom
12:04But anyways Sand- there's a scene where Sandman
12:08I think he's like he's like dying and Sandman takes out this thing
12:12and like looks at a like a picture of his kid
12:16And at the time I was a kid
12:18Like I w- I hadn't been married
12:20Like I would never imagine being a dad
12:22at that that age right
12:24But when that scene came out Mithra and I were sitting like this
12:28Tukutz was sitting in the front right
12:29So Mithra and I were watching it
12:31and that scene comes out and I go-
12:35Like this right
12:37And what's hilarious is Mithra
12:39without looking at me Mithra's like "Please don't f**king tell me
12:45that you're crying in the middle of Spider-Man 3," right
12:48I'm like "I'm not crying
12:50I'm not crying
12:51I'm just looking out the window." And he's like-
12:52"You're f**king crying during like this f**king Sandman."
12:59"Spider-Man 3 you're crying." And I'm like "I'm not crying
13:02I'm not crying
13:03Something got in my eye." so I cry a lot
13:08But anyways Up's great but I'm gonna
13:11I want this list to maybe have 10 movies okay
13:14So I'm gonna keep going
13:16Oh La La Land great movie
13:19Oh shit look at these bangers after bangers
13:22Forrest Gump Pursuit of Happiness Empire Strikes Back Terminator 2 Parasite
13:29Oh Pursuit of Happiness needs to go on this list
13:32Do any of you remember a few weeks back on Epikase
13:36we did like this life advice kind of corner
13:40And Tukutz
13:42was like "You know put your hand on your over your heart
13:46Did you really try that hard
13:48Did you really try so hard that you're you're you're you're complaining
13:53or you have burnout
13:54Did you really try that hard?" If you can say
13:58"I've worked really hard," after watching this movie respect
14:05Because this movie is the definition of somebody like f**king grinding
14:11Without giving too many spoilers this is actually a movie
14:14based on a true story
14:16and Will Smith plays the dad
14:20and it's it's it's the dad
14:24doing everything he possibly can to provide for his kid right
14:31And he goes
14:32from like having less than nothing to
14:39So in the true story he becomes this legendary investor
14:43and becomes like like multimillionaire right
14:48Or even more than that right
14:50But it it shows him going from like all these
14:53uh missteps in his life and going from like rock bottom
14:58to to this job
15:01I'm not gonna say what
15:03and I'm also not gonna reveal whether or not he gets it
15:06Although I just told you what happens in the true story
15:10but anyways there's this one scene
15:13where the dad and the kid they are evicted from their home
15:17so th- they're basically homeless right
15:20And at night they have no place to sleep
15:23So they go to the bathroom at a at
15:26at a subway station and s- the Will Smith character is holding
15:32It's his actual kid in the movie
15:34So he's holding his kid and has one leg
15:39against the doors so that no one can come in
15:41'cause he's scared someone's gonna come in right
15:43He's like in the bathroom stall basically
15:45And wow that that scene was so powerful
15:49I first saw this movie on the plane
15:51For some reason I always choose the wrong movies
15:55when I get on a plane
15:56I I started like crying
15:59Right
16:00And Mithra was sitting over there
16:05He's just like "Again?"
16:08Anyways I watched this movie again recently
16:12and let me just tell you seeing this movie before
16:15you're a dad- Mm and then watching it after you're a dad
16:19or a parent it it it is so devastating
16:25But because it's so devastating
16:28at the end the catharsis you feel it it
16:32it really makes you feel like you can do anything
16:35If you have s- someone worth doing anything
16:40for you do have the superpower to do anything right
16:46It's hard to go to those lengths
16:49because we don't h- we don't always have somebody to protect
16:53or somebody to do any- everything for right
16:57But once you have it like you'll be amazed
17:00uh at at at the at your potential
17:03Like you'll be amazed at the things you you you can do
17:06and the lengths you can go to once you
17:09once you have that somebody
17:10And it doesn't have to be a kid right
17:12It can be a friend
17:13It it can be a significant other
17:15but what I'm saying is if you have somebody
17:18that you want to like strive for right
17:23If you want to give more than you have for um
17:28you you gain those superpowers
17:30I I believe that this that's what this movie teaches
17:34And it's good to it's good to watch as a young person
17:37because e- even if you aren't thinking of getting married
17:41and becoming a dad or whatever or a mom
17:44um it puts your life into perspective a little bit
17:48Everybody you know
17:49I I don't subscribe to the idea
17:52that cert- like certain types of struggle
17:56should be compared to other types of struggle
17:58Like everyone's struggle regardless of what degree
18:01it is for that person it is a struggle
18:05So I don't-believe we should compare one person's problems to another
18:10but it does it it for me
18:13it put things into perspective
18:15I was going through multiple different things
18:17uh during the first time I saw this movie
18:20I was in my mid-20s when I first saw this movie
18:23and you know the 20s are terrible
18:27Everyone who's been through the 20s
18:28uh you you know how terrible it is right
18:31Like I wouldn't go back
18:32But it w- it was just confusing
18:35and like just you know just even when things are good
18:38there's always something going terribly wrong
18:41and this movie sort of like put things into perspective
18:44and I was like "You know the the thing that
18:47I need to overcome isn't as difficult as what this character's overcoming
18:52so maybe I c- I can do it," right
18:55Uh so this is going on the list
18:58I'm gonna give you give it a review
19:00Don't watch on a plane
19:06Okay moving on
19:08Oh shit
19:11Whiplash 1,000% needs to go
19:16Oh and I've reviewed it
19:18Okay so when I was doing Letterboxd for a while
19:22I guess I reviewed
19:23Let's see what my review was
19:24Show your activity
19:26My review was "I watch this once every 3 months
19:31basically whenever I feel lazy."
19:36This movie definitely has to be on the list okay
19:39And I guess when I reviewed it
19:41I reviewed it in February last year
19:44Oh it was February this year
19:46I guess I re-watched it that day too
19:50Sometimes when I feel lazy I don't even watch the visuals
19:55I just like leave it on as sound
19:59So the movie's about like this jazz drummer and this school
20:04like I think it's a college right like a music academy
20:07and this musician like this musician/uh instructor named Fletcher
20:13who's like the f**king devil okay
20:17Like he's the most abusive problematic human
20:23Like just the the way
20:24he berates you in to to quote unquote
20:30"push you into greatness," it it's just it's just unbelievable
20:34If you've seen this movie you know what I'm talking about
20:36But if you haven't warnings okay
20:40Like a huge warning
20:42Do not go into this if if you have problems
20:46with what a movie character says okay
20:50Because it's it goes like it goes worse than you
20:54you can possibly imagine
20:57This movie was made by the La La Land director
21:00and it was originally one of like his
21:04I think he he it it was a short film
21:05that he made as like a student maybe
21:08and then he turned the short film into a feature length
21:12And when this movie came out I identified with it
21:16uh because of 2 things
21:18One I'm a musician right
21:20I love music
21:20So when I watched the movie
21:22I identified both with the main character the young student who's
21:28in the band that this terrible teacher's you know the leader of
21:33and I also identified a little bit with Fletcher
21:37although he was just f**king batshit crazy right
21:40And the reason the reason
21:43why I identify with both characters is because as a music creator
21:48and as a musician I put myself through a lot of shit
21:52sometimes to the point of like y- like abnormal
21:58to the point of like this is just this manic right
22:01Like this manic you know fugue state of like just cr- creating
22:07And especially when I first saw
22:09the movie i- it was that it was around you know that age
22:12So I identify with somebody
22:14uh being a student of music trying to become great
22:19and also I'm a I'm the leader of Epik High right
22:24And when I was watching this movie
22:27I wa- I actually watched it I rented out a theater
22:30so that a lot of our fans can watch it together
22:33I like a whole theater right for a night
22:36And Mithra and Tukutz saw this movie too
22:38and the whole time I was looking at their reaction because
22:43I was worried that they would see me in Fletcher
22:48Because I admittedly I've been pretty hard on my members
22:53especially at the beginning of Epik High
22:55Like I wanted our team to be great
22:58Like I wanted us to be better than we actually are right
23:03And to do so I had to sometimes push my team including myself
23:09Uh I I'm I didn't just do it to them
23:11but I did it to like the 3 of us
23:14uh to push ourselves like beyond our limits right
23:19And always pushing the envelope and sometimes that required me to like
23:24you know demand things that I didn't really want to in my heart
23:27but I knew that it would get us to that next level
23:31and al- and it ultimately make our fans happy right
23:36So I was worried that they see me in that character
23:39I kept looking at them right
23:41And here's the thing
23:43They were looking at me too
23:48So this movie made me like rethink some things too
23:51Like I was like you know greatness is great
23:54Like you know being awesome
23:56and our fans being happy with you know music that's
23:59better than what what we can deliver that's that's all good
24:03But like I don't wanna be that guy right
24:07So-Uh I identified with him in some ways
24:10and also hated that I did
24:13Here's the thing that I hate to admit
24:15There's that one scene after the the
24:19the instructor does like these terrible things and then they split up basically
24:23and then they get back back together at like this jazz cafe right
24:27Chance meeting and then they sit down together
24:29And the student is supposed to hate this guy right
24:32The he- this guy basically killed him
24:35Almost killed him right
24:37But at that mo-
24:39like there's a there's a the- Fletcher says to the student
24:43"You know but I did it to make you great
24:48And who does that these days," right
24:50That's the gist of what he says
24:52He's like "Nobody strives for greatness anymore
24:54and nobody's willing to push somebody to become great
24:59And if all the greats that we love in jazz
25:02or music or arts in the arts if they weren't pushed
25:06would we have them?" That's the gist of what he says
25:09And although the way that that character did it is totally wrong right
25:15When he said it I was like "Yes."
25:20Like I could hear my inner self agreeing with him right
25:24And it's kind of sad because I'm like that to myself
25:28I'm basically Fletcher to myself and I've always been that way
25:34And when I was a kid
25:35my my parents were like that to me
25:38Um a lot of the teachers like because the the age that
25:41I grew up the time that I grew up especially like
25:45when I was really little and I was growing up in Korea
25:48yeah abuse wasn't even called abuse
25:53Like teachers would just like seriously just beat on you right
25:57So I think after that
26:00uh once it stopped like I started doing it to myself
26:03I think I've mentioned this before
26:05And I have a song called Over
26:08It's an Epik High song but it's a solo song and
26:11it's in English and the whole song is about being an overachiever
26:16Mm-hmm
26:17And I put all these emotions into that song
26:21and and I wrote that song
26:22before I think it was before I saw this movie
26:26But when I saw this movie
26:27I was like "Oh my God this is what Over was about."
26:31Okay since I've already revie- reviewed this one I'm gonna pass
26:35Punch-Drunk Love great movie
26:37Okay Dead Poets Society is su-
26:40so obviously a movie that needs to be on this list
26:43Do I need to put it in
26:44Oh it's so good though
26:46You know one of my favorite things about being a parent
26:51is that I get to re- rewatch all the movies
26:55I loved with my daughter
26:59and I know it's not that's not the case for everyone
27:01but like it just so happens that like my daughter loves films
27:06and it's n- I don't know if it was because of me
27:09but like she just she just has this distinct taste
27:13and she one day came to me
27:15and she was like "Dad have you seen Dead Poets Society?"
27:19And I was like "Of course I've seen it multiple times."
27:22And she's like "I wanna see it with you." Right
27:24And I was like "How do you know about it?" And she's like
27:26"Well you know I love movies so I always like search up
27:29like classic movies or..." I'm like "Classic movie?"
27:35"Dad have you seen John Wick 1?" "Yeah
27:38Do you wanna watch that with me
27:39I've I've always been fascinated by classic films."
27:46John Wick 1
27:47But anyways so she wanted to watch Dead Poets Society
27:50and I warned her
27:51I was like "You know it's a pretty heavy movie
27:53Uh it's a beautiful movie but it's it's it's pretty heavy,"
27:57and there's a scene in there that like really uh
28:01really f**ks me up every time I see it
28:03because you know the one character in this movie
28:05that's supposed like the dad expects him to be a doctor- Mm-hmm
28:08But he wants to do acting
28:09That whole storyline f**ked me up so bad
28:14when I was young
28:15Uh not because of me
28:17but because I saw m- my I have an older brother
28:21who's much older than me and his life was sort of like that
28:25and I had to see that as a kid right
28:28Which I think that was the reason why
28:31I I went I eventually ended up going to the arts
28:35because I s- I saw a dream crushed- Mm
28:41under the same roof and the way a dream gets crushed
28:46is like with a whimper
28:50Anyways I saw that
28:51So this w- whenever I rewatch this movie
28:55just like that whole tragic storyline is more like it
28:58just seems so personal to me
29:01and hurts me every time I see it
29:04But anyways I warned my daughter
29:06and she's like "You know I still wanna see it."
29:09And we watched it together and like I cried and she cried
29:13and then she even wrote like a like a thing about it
29:17You you guys have read it right
29:18She wrote like an essay about it and uh
29:21but she she loved the movie
29:22Like although there's a tragic s- there's multiple tragic storylines in this movie
29:28uh at the end of it it is uplifting
29:31It is uplifting
29:32Again like Good Will Hunting it it's got Robin Williams in it
29:35Uh Robin Williams such a great actor and I think I think
29:38if you watch this movie like you miss him more right
29:42So it's even more tragic
29:43And this is a weird for thing for me to throw out
29:47uh but like I was
29:49in a movie with him
29:54Um
29:56although I was in it for like a split second-
29:59I was in
30:00Believe it or not if you don't know
30:02and if you're hearing this for the first time
30:03you're gonna be like "What the f**k?" Tablo me
30:06I was in a movie called August Rush Uh
30:11and I actually shot the movie for over like over almost a week
30:15I think and I was with Robin Williams for a week
30:18Wow
30:19Uh the one scene I'm in is Robin Williams throws a knife
30:22It lands like it lands like right in front of me
30:25and I get shocked
30:29Uh I shot many more scenes
30:32but I only made it into a split second
30:35Okay
30:35So it's not
30:39It's not like I went there to shoot a split second
30:42But anyways he was so
30:43He was such a such an amazing person
30:48Like y- you know there were all these people
30:51that are shooting together and it was like an ensemble
30:54But he was
30:55He like would sit with me and like have conversations with me
30:59He he actually knew quite a bit about Korean music
31:03and he was just so so humble
31:06Like he didn't even come with like a manager or anyone
31:08He came just with a suitcase did his work
31:12He was friendly to everyone made us laugh
31:15He he was he was awesome so
31:18Anyways so I'm gonna review this
31:22Wait I haven't reviewed this
31:25I'm sure all the reviews here are like "O Captain
31:27My Captain," but let's let's see
31:29yo this comment f- I can't beat this comment
31:35Okay someone someone reviewed and this is their review: "Be right back
31:40About to carpe all the DMs."
31:47I'm about to carpe the shit out of these DMs
31:52Okay I can't beat that
31:55The brilliance
31:59How can
32:01Nowadays people are too busy carpe-ing DMs
32:10Oh
32:11Oh
32:19I didn't
32:24It's kinda hard being a Letterboxd reviewer
32:28I- It's a lot of pressure
32:30Like you're always like on the verge of becoming cheesy- Mm-hmm or cringe
32:36You have to like Oh man
32:40The carpe-ing the DMs
32:41Oh my God
32:44Okay
32:45Uh let's go see some more
32:47Totoro great movie
32:49Okay I'm not even gonna get through half of this list
32:52and I'm gonna hit 10
32:55Oh Inside Out
32:56The first Inside Out I saw this on a plane again
33:00But this time I was with Haru and my wife right
33:04And so Haru and my wife like the seats got mixed up
33:07so s- they were sitting with another person and I was sitting
33:10with two other people like towards the front of them right
33:13So they could they could see me from the back
33:16And I'm like "You know I wanna see something light,"
33:18because the last time I was on a plane
33:20I watched Pursuit of Happiness-
33:21and like you know I was crying on a plane
33:23I don't wanna be crying on a plane
33:25So I turn on Inside Out
33:26I'm like "You know seems fun
33:28It's got weird wacky characters." Turn it on
33:31You know when when I cried
33:33Didn't take me long
33:35Towards the beginning of the movie there's a scene
33:37where the the girl- the daughter plays hockey
33:41That's it
33:42She's just playing hockey
33:43So I I think it was like a montage
33:46It wasn't even like a like an like a proper scene right
33:49But I don't know
33:50I don't know what it was
33:52Right when it happened I went
33:55And as I went right over here-
33:59my wife and my daughter they saw me and they're like
34:07My daughter's just like "Look at my dad with those Pixar tears."
34:13If you put a daughter
34:15in any movie I will cry
34:20Seriously
34:21Any movie
34:22Doesn't matter if it's a horror film
34:24a comedy like a a- like an anime
34:26It doesn't matter
34:27Daughter Like like a dad
34:29and a daughter come out I just c- I just cry
34:31I I don't know what it is
34:32I just start crying
34:33I'm like "Huh." Okay
34:36Uh Inside Out I don't think I should put it on the list
34:40I'm gonna go
34:41Okay
34:42Since I'm not gonna get through the whole list I'm gonna go
34:44from the very back and move towards the middle now okay
34:49'Cause
34:50I don't wanna like I don't wanna shortchange all of these movies
34:54And I still have to reveal my-
34:57My profile right
34:59Okay I'm gonna go through them pretty fast too
35:00Okay let's see here
35:01Mummy, About Time, Ferris Bueller, great movie
35:09Interview with the Vampire is on on this list
35:12Hmm I've seen it
35:13I like- I liked the novels
35:16Uh hold on
35:18Let me see here
35:20Okay page 8 had some bangers but nothing
35:24that I would add to the list of movies you gotta see
35:26before you hit 30
35:28Uh okay
35:29Let's look at page 7
35:32A lot of bangers here as well
35:34but who put RoboCop on here
35:39I mean yeah w- okay it's like a cult classic
35:42and I loved it
35:43but I don't know if like this is the movie
35:46you gotta see like you know in your lifetime
35:50You know I do feel like this list was front-loaded
35:56Ghost Dog a great movie
35:58Oh Lady Bird was such a good movie
36:02Such a good movie but I now have to be picky
36:05because I can only add 3 more to this list
36:09I know someone's some like movie hipster
36:12is gonna be like looking at our final list
36:14and they're gonna be like "Pfft."That's
36:16that's what Tab- Tablo thinks are the 10 best movies ever made
36:20No
36:22I'm trying to just pick a list of 10 movies
36:25you should see before you're 30 before you're young
36:27Like before you get like quote-unquote "old"
36:29Okay
36:30Or 40 or 50 whatever
36:32Um have you seen this movie called Edge of 17
36:35It's good
36:36Man I've seen every movie
36:38Like indie movies
36:40Like just
36:43It's a really good movie
36:43It's about like you know you know ed- someone
36:46at the edge of 17
36:47Uh it's really good
36:49Mind you this list this list that Reddit compiled
36:53on Letterboxd it it doesn't have many many
36:58It it doesn't have many movies that I would consider movies
37:01you should see in your lifetime by the way
37:04Reddit doesn't always get things right
37:08We know that right
37:09Oh look Oldboy is on this list
37:13Uh because my wife is in it
37:15I'm gonna skip over it
37:18I don't get added because of
37:20No no no
37:20That's too that's too like biased
37:24Oh you know The 400 Blows
37:26This uh
37:27There's a movie
37:28called The 400 Blows and it was made in 1959
37:32Okay
37:33Uh François Truffaut
37:34And it it it was a movie of
37:37during the French New Wave
37:39There was a there was an era
37:40where these movie critics started making their own movies and they
37:46It was very free-flowing and they broke all the standard rules of film
37:50And this was one of my actually like one of my favorite movies
37:53uh as a kid
37:55But it might be a little too old
38:01to put on this list
38:03And also I don't want
38:05If I put this on this list people are gonna be like
38:07"Oh look at him trying to- trying to seem like he
38:11he's a cinephile."
38:14Okay I'll come back to that
38:15Um okay
38:17It's
38:17I don't think it's on this list but here are some movies
38:22that that I think should be on it
38:24I'll avoid movies that my wife was in 'cause like that's just
38:28You know it's too biased
38:30Okay this movie is not for everyone
38:33but there is a movie recently
38:35that came out in Korea called The Match
38:38It's based on a true story
38:39It's like a Go
38:40It's about a Go master
38:41Go is a huge deal in Korea
38:44Uh and if you
38:46You know to sum it up like to to like
38:48give you a clear understanding with one sentence:
38:53Do you remember the whole AlphaGo thing AI versus human
38:57The reason why they went against a Korean Go master
39:02is because that c- in Korea Go is huge
39:05and Koreans are amazing at Go right
39:08And this is the true story of like a like this master
39:13who was like just unbeatable
39:15He took on a young prodigy and y- you know the
39:20he even let him like live at his house
39:22and basically like like a like a was a father figure to him
39:25Um and it shows the the whole journey
39:30from basically the apprentice overcoming the master
39:35And the reason why I put this movie on this list is because
39:39if you watch it now while you're young you will 100%
39:44identify with the apprentice character with the young up-and-coming you know prodigy
39:50And then later on in your life
39:52if you watch it you will identify with the older master
39:56I
39:56It seems that I've already rated this movie
39:59and I only gave it 3 and a half stars right
40:01It's not like it's it's not like it's the perfect movie
40:04and there are a lot of movies like this
40:06you know with like a once boxing champion who becomes the aging champion
40:11and then like gets replaced by up-and-comer
40:14There's there's a lot of movies like this right
40:16And even The Godfather if you think about it is a story about
40:19like the Don the father who gets replaced by the son right
40:24Like the changing of generations
40:26And if you're under 30 right now you know
40:29it's not gonna seem real to you like time going by
40:33and then your y- you know your your age
40:37not not not your numerical age but like the age of you
40:42uh being overcome or overtaken by another generation right
40:48And the the feeling of a of an aging champion
40:53or an aging boxer is not something that you can imagine right now
40:57because you're you're the up-and-comer
40:59But there are certain movies like this
41:02that I would recommend seeing twice maybe once at once
41:08when you're young and then like 10 years later
41:12because you get a total- totally different reading of the movie
41:16and you will never have that experience unless you watch it now
41:22when you're young and then watch it again when you're older
41:25Uh same thing with you know Pursuit of Happiness
41:27Watch it before you get married or have a kid
41:30and watch it later when you're a parent
41:32Um you'll get a totally different reading
41:36So that's on the list
41:37Wait let me see s- what some people said in the reviews
41:41"I mean I'm pretty good at Uno but I'm not bragging."
41:48Maybe give us 2 films that are really niche
41:52Really niche you say
41:53Mm
41:54Like how niche do you want
41:56I can niche the niche
41:57Yeah
41:57Yeah
41:58Like don't make me go to my phone
42:00I mean I don't wanna like seem like I'm like bragging-
42:05You know about my taste or anything like that you know
42:08She's putting me under the pressure now
42:10Like God all these movies seem
42:14Have you seen a movie called Marvin's Room It's
42:21A pretty old movie but it's a young DiCaprio before Titanic
42:28when he was doing a lot of indie movies
42:31There's something so subtle and quiet about this movie
42:38Okay so let me just read you the synopsis
42:41It's a it's a story about the years that keep us apart
42:44and the moments that bring us together
42:46A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister
42:50to get her bone marrow
42:51It's a very quiet movie that even with DiCaprio attached
42:58could not possibly be made for theatrical release in 2026
43:04because nobody would would invest in it right
43:10Because I've mentioned this before on this podcast
43:13but unfortunately the age of subtle stories
43:18and like poignant quiet stories that are impactful to the soul
43:24uh the age of those kinds of movies like you know
43:28being in theaters is pretty much sadly over right
43:33They may go straight to like streamers
43:36but theaters don't even want them right
43:39It's just all blockbusters
43:41Or if you have a low budget
43:43like smaller fi- film it's usually horror for that reason
43:47It's hard for the theaters
43:48I I mean I understand right
43:49It's hard for people to for them
43:52to get people to the theater to sell popcorn to right
43:55So but believe it or not
43:57you know there was a there was a period of time
43:59where movies were small like indie movies even had theatrical releases
44:06They they weren't all Titanics right
44:09We had just small stories about families small stories
44:13about heartbreak small stories about you know overcoming you know loss
44:18that were in theaters and that did well
44:21And this movie is sort of like the definitive late
44:26'90s indie film and DiCaprio is amazing in this movie
44:32Everyone in this movie is amazing
44:34Um Drake has a song called Marvin's Room by the way
44:39I'm not sure if he if he i- if it was
44:42because of this movie but when I when when that song dropped
44:45I was like "Oh this guy saw Marvin's Room?"
44:48And but the song had nothing to do with it
44:49So I was like I was like "Okay what?"
44:56Okay I gotta review this though
44:57Marvin's Room
44:59Well here I'm gonna just write in Korean 마빈방
45:04마빈방
45:05Like PC bang or 노래방 but 마- 마빈방
45:11Okay
45:11I think I need to add a movie
45:15that is fitting for the times we live in
45:19There needs to be an AI movie in here right
45:23Ooh
45:23And we have multiple choices
45:25There's a movie called Ex Machina
45:26uh which is just f**king mind-blowingly good
45:30Even Terminator is basically an AI movie right
45:33About how if you give AI control over our defenses
45:41uh it will 100,000% lead
45:44to the the the end of humanity
45:49Back in those times we called that science fiction
45:52Now it's just the news
45:56But to stay within the movies
46:01to watch before you hit 30
46:03I'm gonna go to AI the movie AI by Spielberg
46:08It was originally a movie that was being developed by Stanley Kubrick
46:12Uh
46:13but after Stanley Kubrick passed away the baton was passed to Spielberg
46:18and he he completed the movie
46:21This is it's called AI
46:25It's called Artificial Intelligence and yes it's a movie
46:28based in the future with you know artificial intelligence
46:33like h- humanoid robots right that are just lifelike and just basically human
46:38Sort of like in the vein of like Blade Runner
46:40Now that I think about it
46:41so Matrix is also like an AI movie too right
46:45But while those movies like Terminator or Blade Runner like those movies
46:51kind of focus on like how AI becomes villains
46:56and like just you know completely destroys humankind
47:01AI also touches on those topics
47:04but is is at the at the heart of the movie
47:07it's a movie about a like a like a child right
47:11It's a it
47:12Okay so the at the beginning of the movie
47:14this family their son goes into a coma
47:19and likely won't wake up from it
47:22so they get a replacement for their child
47:26that is an AI that looks exactly like their child
47:28Okay there's like this service that does that right
47:31But you know and now
47:34they've adopted this AI version of their child
47:36and but the the the actual kid the biological son wakes up
47:42What do you do right
47:42So the parents abandon the AI child
47:46And it's just I can't really put into words like what
47:51this movie does but like it makes you think about humanity
47:57Uh it it at times it makes
48:00you afraid of the future and technology but at the same time
48:05it it makes you feel bad for technology you know
48:08'cause you know AI didn't want to be created right
48:14Like humans created it right
48:16And and also touches on you know the topics
48:19of like what happens when you hand over control of incredible power
48:24to to humans Right
48:25To certain humans right
48:27It when when they when they control the power to create life
48:31uh will they be responsible or will they abandon it
48:35When I watched it you know like I
48:37I I heard whispers of like my own childhood
48:41Uh a lot of times I felt very alone
48:46I was in a different country by myself
48:49as like a really small kid right
48:52Like in this movie the AI character David is 11 right
48:59And I was alone in a count- like a continent by myself
49:04Like my entire family was elsewhere uh
49:07when I was around that age
49:09So I kind of identified with the AI child at times
49:15Anyways it's it's definitely a movie you should you should see
49:18If you're gonna watch one AI movie I would recommend
49:21starting with this one because the other movies are like great
49:24but like they're like f**king terrifying
49:28And and honestly like if you watched some of the other movies
49:32you're supposed to like watch it
49:34When when we watched these movies like in the early 2000s
49:37and like the '90s like Terminator and stuff and The Matrix
49:40we were we were watching it enjoying it because it was so far-fetched
49:45Like we already knew that you know that that's it's it's possible
49:50but maybe not in our lifetimes right
49:53So we still had enough of a comfortable distance
49:57to just enjoy the movie as like a popcorn flick
50:00But if you watch Matrix now try it
50:03Try watching Matrix and Terminator 2 now
50:06It doesn't even seem like movies about the future
50:09It just seems like like imminent and y-
50:12you're like "What the f**k?" and just gives you more anxiety
50:18But Artificial Intelligence AI by Spielberg this movie was
50:22I- it's very poetic
50:23It's it's like watching a Miyazaki Hayao film you know at at times
50:28So I would recommend this one
50:30Some people don't like this movie
50:32because they they believe that if Kubrick had done it-
50:36It would be much better
50:37But but at the same time I mean
50:39I agree to an extent but like if Kubrick had done it
50:42I think it would
50:45I think it would've been amazing but also a little colder
50:50Mm
50:51Some people don't like how Spielberg is
50:55you know injects emotion into all all the movies
50:59but you know sometimes you need it
51:02Okay AI Artificial
51:03My review is
51:06"This is based on a true story right?"
51:11I'm gonna give it 4 and a half stars
51:14To wrap up the episode let's go into my account
51:19and look at some of the movies I've reviewed
51:21I
51:22I only had this profile for like a really short period
51:27I think I just made it to keep track
51:29and then like after like a week I abandoned it
51:31But The Godfather I wrote
51:34"I won't dine with someone who hasn't seen this."
51:40Uh interesting
51:41For Wicked I wrote "I honestly hate musicals
51:45and I still liked it." Ooh
51:47For Marty Supreme I wrote "The scene with the dog
51:56running through the smoke was immaculate." Sinners I wrote
52:01"I love Michael B Jordan
52:02the way he loves anime."
52:06For The Menu I wrote "I ate like three cheeseburgers after this."
52:12One Battle After Another I wrote
52:15"In life one must either have a friend like Sensei
52:19or be a friend like Sensei." Mm
52:23And the most recent movie
52:25before I reviewed the movies today I reviewed Epik High 20 the movie
52:30It was Epik High's concert movie
52:32Oh
52:32I don't
52:33I I think it
52:34I was like "What?" And then I searched
52:37and they had it on Letterboxd
52:39So I gave it 5 stars
52:44And my review was "One of the main characters
52:48is just like me for real."
52:53I'll see you next week

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