Ep. 651 - The Top 10 Films of 2021

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4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

It’s the most wonderful episode of the year! For the first episode of 2022, David, Devindra, and Jeff count down their top ten films of 2021. In a year full of ups and downs, tune in to find out what the Filmcast loved in and out of the movie theaters.

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Weekly Plugs

David - Culturally Relevant: 5 Lessons from 2021

Jeff - The Dungeon Run episode 105 coming this week!

Devindra - All of my CES 2022 coverage

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)

Top Ten Movies of 2021 (~41:00)

Jeff’s top ten:

10. Don’t Look Up

9. The French Dispatch

8. Last Night in Soho

7. Nine Days

6. Red Rocket

5. Mass

4. Werewolves Within

3. C’mon c’mon

2. The Worst in the Person World

1. Bo Burnham: Inside

Devindra’s top ten:

10. The Harder They Fall

9. The Power of the Dog

8. Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

7. The Disciple

6. The French Dispatch

5. Pig

4. Dune

3. Drive My Car

2. The Green Knight
1. The Matrix Resurrections

David’s top ten:

10. Plan B

9. The Card Counter

8. Flee

7. Mass

6. Bendetta

5. Drive My Car

4. Dune

3. The Last Duel

2. Spider-Man: No Way Home

1. Nine Days

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Filmcast, a podcast about movies.
0:22.6	I'm David Chen and preparing my top 10 lists this year is only slightly more agonizing
0:27.4	than recording a normal podcast episode.
0:29.9	Joining me today is David Rojardoor.
0:32.2	My top 10 list is really just the top 10 things that kept me sane last year.
0:36.8	That's really all it is.
0:38.5	And Jeff Kanada.
0:40.2	I don't have any expectation that this podcast is going to be in anybody's top 10.
0:44.8	I'm just hoping for an honorable mention.
0:49.5	Welcome, welcome everyone.
0:51.8	Of course, those are all a reference to the fact that on today's episode of the podcast,
0:55.6	we're going to be counting down our top 10 films of 2021.
1:00.6	I'm going to go on and limit say this is probably going to be our most listened to episode
1:04.3	this year.
1:05.3	It's also the episode where we put in the most work out of any episode this year.
1:09.0	Most pure hours.
1:10.0	Pure hours of white, knuckling, washing things.
1:13.7	Yeah, just pour it into my eyeballs, babies.
1:17.1	Yes, it's, yeah, I don't know about you guys, but I feel like this year, I looked back
1:23.9	it last year and I feel like I had more films that I wanted to put in my top 10 this
1:31.5	year and didn't have room for 100% absolutely.
1:35.2	100% all the movies that got moved from last year or basically.
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