Does Star Wars Top The Lord of the Rings? — Intentionally Blank Ep. 254
Intentionally Blank
Brandon Sanderson & Dan Wells
4.9 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Dan, we're going to try to go faster this time. Okay. No food hoists. No hoisting our food. We are going to finish our trilogy list. We're going to go right through our trilogy list. Next one up is Oceans 11. Let's just say, if you miss this, we have a part one. We're ranking the best trilogies of all time. We got long winded last time. |
| 0:21.9 | We are going to get long-awydded this time. We're going to start pretending that we're not going to. Yeah. Ocean's trilogy. Oceans. First one, I love and adore. Yes. The third one, I have a soft spot for it while recognizing that it's not very good. Okay. The second one has both my least favorite and most |
| 0:41.2 | favorite heist things. Okay. Ever. So I'm very mixed on number two. So this is the same for me that you |
| 0:48.1 | talked about last time when you talked about How do Train Your Dragon. I could not tell you what |
| 0:53.2 | happens in a movie two or three |
| 0:54.9 | other than Julia Roberts gets recruited. Yeah. Could not tell you the first one is an all-timer. |
| 1:00.1 | I've seen it many times. Two or three, never watched again, never was interested in watching |
| 1:05.6 | again. I enjoyed them when I watched them. I'm sure I walked out and said, that's a good film. |
| 1:10.2 | Just totally can't remember a thing. |
| 1:12.7 | Yeah, and that's fair. The first one is so far above the others that it's unfair to include them all as a trilogy, frankly. |
| 1:20.2 | Yeah. Number two, they are trying to make as much money as they can. And part of their plan is to raise the level of a house in Venice by a few |
| 1:31.2 | inches so they can make a crossbow shot. Their return on investment cannot possibly be in the |
| 1:37.8 | red on that one. And I do remember Julia Roberts has to pretend to be Julia Roberts. And that is one of the |
| 1:43.4 | funniest things I've ever seen. |
| 1:44.9 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:45.5 | Just the audacity of having the actor playing somebody else who gets recognized by Bruce Willis playing himself, thinking that it's the real Julia Roberts. |
| 1:57.0 | The whole thing is so funny. |
| 1:58.3 | I love it for that reason. |
| 2:00.3 | It's the only good part of the movie. Okay. Well, I do remember that. I have to put it in C. I don't know. C? Yeah. Is one strong enough to put the whole trilogy into C for you? I have to speak up. I feel like 13 is much better than we're giving it credit for. |
| 2:18.2 | I don't know where you're... Like I said, it's better than it has any right to be. It's 13 the one where they... But that's still not very good. Where the friend of theirs dies at the beginning and they decide to get revenge. Yes. So I do remember one thing about it. I could not tell you what happens after that moment because that moment was strong. I feel like it has some of the strongest cinematography in it. |
| 2:36.2 | I think there's a great score. |
| 2:37.3 | I think the acting and the script on it is great. This is looking at your guys's list. I'd watch those three movies over Guardians of the Galaxy. That's me. But see, it's not whether the movies are good. It's whether they're a trilogy. That's true. As a trilogy, I'd rather watch all three of those than all three of Guardians in the trilogy aspect. Yeah. So yeah, I will put oceans into sea and I'll put it above how to train your dragon because I would rewatch any of those three before I'd rewatch how to train your dragon. I mean, I'm not talking about whether I'd watch him or not. Like, I would absolutely watch, so I got to put it above J.J. Abrams. I would absolutely watch any Oceans movie before I watched movie two of Star Trek. But as a cohesive trilogy, it obviously didn't leave an impact. I didn't have to be like, oh, I have to see movies two and three to understand movie one. Like, good point. There is not an arc that carries across. |
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