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Film Sack ROUNDTABLE: Our Mid-Movies

Film Sack

Scott Johnson

Tv & Film

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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That's right, a discussion with the Film Sack crew about those movies that are not great, not terrible, but we love em all the same.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to an episode of Film Sack that is a special roundtable.

0:11.6

You know them, you love them.

0:12.8

Actually, we do get a lot of feedback about these.

0:14.2

People really like these versions of the show.

0:17.1

Good. I like doing them.

0:18.1

So that's perfect.

0:19.0

That was Brian Dunaway.

0:20.3

That was Brian Ibbitt. ibbett randy's over

0:21.9

there too hi randy hello let me tell you boy do we do we like to talk about movies yeah we do

0:27.7

this week on this roundtable episode we're talking about the average we're talking about

0:34.0

movies joe average you're all right with them like you know what I mean? Like this is like a movie in a genre where you go, yeah, I could watch that or I don't know, you know, but we're not going to talk about bad or good movies except in relation to these that are in the middle. Yeah, exactly. We're calling them mids.

0:55.8

That's probably the best term for it.

1:16.0

People like to use that, throwing that term around a lot. Like, oh, that game was mid or that show was mid or whatever. And usually they do it in a negative way. But I think we can actually put a little bit of positive spin on the term. I think so. Yeah. Yes. Yes. it's movies that other people don't consider great and you don't consider great, but it's okay. You can watch it.

1:26.3

It is okay. You should, hey, it's always been okay, but we're not. I think that was, that was one of my problems when you presented the topic. Not like, I was like, oh, okay, Randy's asking. But more like my problem, like, my problem was like, oh, I got to, I got to, I got to, like, digest this. See what I'm thinking. And so I was kind of like, hmm, I'm like, so I went to my first movie that I consider, to me is me or mid. And I was like, well, that's not true because a lot of people love dirty dancing, but I've seen it tons of times. But it doesn't really speak to me because the topics aren't really aimed at me. Like, you could certainly be a lot closer to the topic. I'm not saying it's a bad movie. It's a great movie, but I just, I've seen a million times. I'm kind of like me I don't see there's that's a

2:02.0

there's a difference right between you but that's a good movie I mean it is I guess it is um

2:09.0

I feel like it's just above mid okay dirty dance all right yeah yeah that's probably fair I mean okay

2:15.7

the first one I thought I was broken arrow we've done that on

2:18.2

this show john travulta being a bad guy uh what's his name who sounds like jack knickleson being the

2:24.4

good guy christian slater christian slater um those the john woo one of my favorite action directors

2:31.2

of all time and i'll watch it even today happy to just sit

2:36.3

down and go oh broken arrows on but I am under no illusion that that's a great movie

2:41.0

right or even no one else is right no one else is it's a perfect example no one's going to

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