What is the Best Summer Blockbuster of 1996? An Extremely Scientific Determination
/Film Weekly
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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On the July 18, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to scientifically determine the best blockbuster of 1996.
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- The Best Blockbuster of Summer 1996
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome to slash film daily today's Thursday July 18th |
| 0:03.4 | 2024 on today's episode of the show we are going to try to scientifically |
| 0:07.0 | determine the best blockbuster of summer 1996 my name is Ben Pearson I'm an |
| 0:12.3 | editor at slash film dot com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film editor Brad Omen. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, that's me. |
| 0:18.0 | All right, Brad, just to be completely candid with you, I didn't really have any plan for what today's podcast episode would be. |
| 0:25.0 | So I was trying to figure out what could we talk about, what could we do, |
| 0:28.0 | and I was looking back at the movies of 1996 because Twisters comes out tonight slash tomorrow. |
| 0:35.0 | Twister came out in the summer of 1996 and I was looking at that summer and was |
| 0:40.9 | kind of amazed at the breadth of options that movie goers had. |
| 0:45.0 | I wrote down a bunch of movies that I'm going to list here and I thought what we could do on today's |
| 0:50.4 | episode is try to narrow down a few contenders for what we think the actual best |
| 0:56.2 | blockbuster of the year could be and then judge those movies against each other based on some criteria |
| 1:00.7 | that we're going to lay out. So that's kind of the plan, the loose plan for what |
| 1:04.7 | we're going to do here. We're very much like making this up as we go on the fly today. So if the |
| 1:09.0 | podcast is a little bit more, I don't know, Lucy, Goosey and weird than usual that's why but I want to read this list of |
| 1:15.6 | titles to you Brad real quick there's like 20 movies here so forgive me for just like |
| 1:20.8 | listing films but try to put yourself back in 1996 that period where you and I |
| 1:26.8 | about the same age we were like whatever 10 11 12 somewhere in that range yeah |
| 1:31.5 | watching movies all the time and going to the theater a lot. |
| 1:35.0 | Eating Dunkaroos? |
| 1:36.0 | Yes, absolutely. |
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