His Scott Pilgrim take was actually great. Van choosing Hancock however blew my mind. Funny enough, that movie was written by no other than Vince Gilligan
Great call. I'll offer up Lawrence of Arabia. Its widely considered one of the best 'white guy emerges themselves in a foreign culture and becomes the best at it' movies and no women even speak in it either.
The Midnight Boys on RUclips is just the greatest thing. Audio podcast is one thing, but seeing this chaos and jokes makes it even 10 times better. Facts.
I disagree with Robocop. There are 3 black main characters with speaking parts and none is a thug. Politician, exec and a police chief. None of them die either. For the 80’s thats unheard of.
@@CrookedShoeTalesClarence's black henchman who giggles for no reason, the black executive spends the whole movie kissing Bob Morton's white ass, and the black Sargeant is the stereotypical angry black police sargeant.
I came here from the audio version just to see Kerm get called out for the Royal Tenenbaums and was gonna laugh - until I was typing this out and realized I also can’t spell it 😂😂😅😅
Forty minutes in and this might be a funnier draft than the time Charles picked Piccolo, Comic Book Storm, Optimus Prime, Domimic Tarreto lmao (& I still die laughing on repeated watches/listens)
@@eoghan1023 Look for the first Black Heroes of Fandom Draft - the thumbnail should be Black Panther, Miles Morales and Blade, left to right, from two years ago (They've done three but I believe there's only video of the first from a couple of years back) I put it on in the background whenever I'm doing work cause it never fails to make me laugh. Poor Charles in this one lmao.
Batman begins is white as gosh darn heck. An edgy anxty billionaire goes to learn from ninjas to avenge his parent's death. The master of said ninjas? Why, a white dude (Liam fcking Neeson) named Raz-a-gul of course, and then proceeds to learn to ninja better than all the other ninjas combined. White dude fantasy 101 😤 And his love interest is Katie frickin Homes! Anything Dawson's Creek adjacent definitely bumps it up a notch
Superhero - Wanted (recasted a black role with Jolie) Comedy - Animal House Action - Face Off Oscar - 12 Years Of Slave (I Said What I Said) Wild Card - Shaun Of The Dead/High Fidelity
That BttF pull from Van is brilliant and I somehow never thought of that for shame. But it has a moment with the band and Biff’s stooges calling them spooks. Van wow you whiffed forgetting that.
I always found the karate kid movies absurdly white. This is a Japanese martial art and there isn't one Asian teenager in the San Fernando Valley who is competing in the tournament. Moreover, I can't see a version where Terry Silver from karate kid 3 is not white.
The San Fernando Valley was really white in the early 1980s. Asians were a tiny percentage of the population and most of them were Korean and Filipino. Karate is more of a Japanese and Chinese thing. Definitely should have been a couple Mexicans though.
Superhero: Sky High Sci Fi: Predator Oscar: Lawrence of Arabia Sports: Rudy Action: Goldfinger Comedy: The Hangover Horror: Halloween Also, charles 100% won this draft.
I’d love to see a Rewatchables of this episode. Just to see the reactions from Simmons and Fennessy. And then see if Chris Ryan does the Wayne Jenkins as D-Will Jenkins lmaooo
The Midnight Boys needs some Merch !!!! A "Recklessly Nutting" T-shirt should be the first item available. (Idea - A squirrel with a pile of nuts around him that look like footballs and basketballs. Take my moneyyyy !!!!
@@Braedon-fy3ly ERRONEOUS! Eroneous on ALL COUNTS! Let the court show there's only 2 of us in the whole galaxy basically and look what they did. They did Sammy Jacks extra dirty and Billie D betrayd the rebellion. Star Wars is always at the top of my list for whitest movies.
@@horelpit7 😂 I see what you mean, but as a black Star Wars fan I choose to highlight the criteria they made that the eligible movies have to have an all white casting. That in itself disqualifies Star Wars franchise as a whole. We’ve had black representation and even star roles in all of the new Star Wars content too.
Whitest Movie Draft: 1) The Titanic 2) Cleopatra 3) Death Wish 4) Top Gun 5) Rocky 6) The Blindside 7) Pretty Woman 8) Good Will Hunting 9) Braveheart 10) The Matrix. Honorable mentions Flash Gordon Dirty Harry LOTR Home Alone The Blues Brothers & West Side Story
Van...you my man 100 grand...but brother, as much as I LOVE Lala Land, you can't put it over Moonlight. You and me about the same, both from the south, and I agree with you 97.2%, but this that 2.8%.😂😂😂😂
The most chaotically good show on the Ringer
Nerd media***
It always gets the most laughs out of me.
The Whitest Movies Draft aka every Bill Simmons Rewatchables episode.
yoooo, this is dead spot on🤣
💀💯%
True but he loves Denzel, Sam Jackson, and other black led movies. But yes some very white movies in the catalog 😂
🤣🤣🤣 He did Purple Rain a few weeks ago and I was like “Switched it up didn’t we?” Lol
Chill he gave us Juice
Drake being Scott Pillgram who is dating a High Schooler is hilarious
A minorrrrr!!! 😂
And arguably doesn't change the movie at all!😂
La La Land is a banger but Charles cooked with Scott Pilgrim and Napoleon Dynamite
His Scott Pilgrim take was actually great. Van choosing Hancock however blew my mind. Funny enough, that movie was written by no other than Vince Gilligan
Napoleon Dynamite was the first movie I thought of when I saw the theme of this draft. It’s a perfect pick.
Nah its Dead Poets Society. How it didnt even get mentioned not alone win?? Ridiculous
For my money, Gone with the Wind might be the whitest film EVER.
Great call. I'll offer up Lawrence of Arabia. Its widely considered one of the best 'white guy emerges themselves in a foreign culture and becomes the best at it' movies and no women even speak in it either.
My thoughts exactly
Grease 2. The first song is more white than LoA and Gwtw combined.
Nah its Dead Poets Society
@@blessembreaks ugh. Thats a pretty good pick. You got 1 or 2 more? I feel your locked in the right way.
The Midnight Boys on RUclips is just the greatest thing. Audio podcast is one thing, but seeing this chaos and jokes makes it even 10 times better. Facts.
This podcast will be studied for generations
Jomi won the white people hat draft from the jump.
Surprised no one said Titanic
That's the number 1 pick 😂😂😂
SUPERHERO: The Rocketeer
SCI-FI: Robocop
OSCAR: Monsters Ball
COMEDY: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
ACTION: Escape From New York
HORROR: The Exorcist
I was just thinking of the Rocketeer! A movie from 1991 that sort of glorifies the 1930's, I feel that's a very white movie.
I disagree with Robocop. There are 3 black main characters with speaking parts and none is a thug. Politician, exec and a police chief. None of them die either. For the 80’s thats unheard of.
@@CrookedShoeTalesClarence's black henchman who giggles for no reason, the black executive spends the whole movie kissing Bob Morton's white ass, and the black Sargeant is the stereotypical angry black police sargeant.
Jomi going full white guy with the KFB NASCAR jacket
Plus the Bass Pro Shop hat lmao Jomi got on full cosplay
I came here from the audio version just to see Kerm get called out for the Royal Tenenbaums and was gonna laugh - until I was typing this out and realized I also can’t spell it 😂😂😅😅
kerm fighting for his LIFE after he wrote the l 🤣
No breakfast club or Forrest Gump is crazy work
I was thinking breakfast club cos they coulda had atleast one of the kids be black,but no.
For the role of Forrest I agree, but they cooked with Bubba and his shrimping
No Dead Poets Society just shows how out of touch these ppl are.
Wrecklessly nutting is permanently added into my vocabulary now. Thank you Van.
lol Steve fighting for his life in this pod
edit: by the way, Rocky lost his fight to Apollo in the first movie
Ever since his Geordie LaForge pick in the Black characters draft, you could tell he'd have his moments 😂
Forty minutes in and this might be a funnier draft than the time Charles picked Piccolo, Comic Book Storm, Optimus Prime, Domimic Tarreto lmao (& I still die laughing on repeated watches/listens)
Which episode was this?
@@eoghan1023 Look for the first Black Heroes of Fandom Draft - the thumbnail should be Black Panther, Miles Morales and Blade, left to right, from two years ago (They've done three but I believe there's only video of the first from a couple of years back) I put it on in the background whenever I'm doing work cause it never fails to make me laugh. Poor Charles in this one lmao.
@@moderndancingfool thank you mate
On the Denzel discussion, Glory can get pretty white savior-y at times.
As far as the draft goes, Footloose is the whitest movie ever made.
@@ajgator7 Denzel literally had a white daddy savior in his 80s movie Carbon Copy.
Gah damn, Footloose is a GREAT shout.
Batman begins is white as gosh darn heck. An edgy anxty billionaire goes to learn from ninjas to avenge his parent's death. The master of said ninjas? Why, a white dude (Liam fcking Neeson) named Raz-a-gul of course, and then proceeds to learn to ninja better than all the other ninjas combined. White dude fantasy 101 😤
And his love interest is Katie frickin Homes! Anything Dawson's Creek adjacent definitely bumps it up a notch
500 DAYS OF SUMMER
Seriously could have gone #1 overall. First movie I thought of.
Caddyshack might be the whitest movie ever
I'd have gone that or Honey I Shrunk the Kids for comedy.
This was a real fun episode and would love to see more of this type of episode when things are slow and there’s no hype show to talk about.
They are too young for that one.
First movie that comes to mind is Titanic
#1 - Whatever the F*** Movie 43 was
A few that jump to mind-
American Pie
Gone Girl
Grease
The Holiday
The Royal Tennenbaum bit and Van's stance on La la land got me in stitches😂😂😂
BIG LEBOWSKY, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
This show never disappoints
44:02 "When he was writing on that board all you woulda heard was the shots." Fell out of my chair laughing. Van is so goddamn funny.
Shocked The Princess Bride wasn't in the conversation.
Field of Dreams and really any old Christopher Nolan movie should qualify
Field of Dreams is a good one
I told y’all lol numbers don’t lie !! Rings of Power is it !!!
If Weekend at Bernie's isn't on the list, fire everyone here.
Not drafting ferris or any molly ringwold movie blows my mind.
Steve never get to do shiii 😂😂
They always handicap his ass lol
Superhero - Wanted (recasted a black role with Jolie)
Comedy - Animal House
Action - Face Off
Oscar - 12 Years Of Slave (I Said What I Said)
Wild Card - Shaun Of The Dead/High Fidelity
That BttF pull from Van is brilliant and I somehow never thought of that for shame. But it has a moment with the band and Biff’s stooges calling them spooks. Van wow you whiffed forgetting that.
When Van said he was gonna shake things up with his superhero movie I knew exactly what he was picking
Have not watched yet, but Hoosiers and Field of dreams better be in there
I always found the karate kid movies absurdly white. This is a Japanese martial art and there isn't one Asian teenager in the San Fernando Valley who is competing in the tournament. Moreover, I can't see a version where Terry Silver from karate kid 3 is not white.
The San Fernando Valley was really white in the early 1980s. Asians were a tiny percentage of the population and most of them were Korean and Filipino. Karate is more of a Japanese and Chinese thing. Definitely should have been a couple Mexicans though.
I had no idea black people loved Wet Hot American Summer
Denzel was in Glory. White savior movie.
A few additional suggestions:
Caddyshack
Footloose
Any John Hughes film
Stand by me
American graffiti
The fact that yall didn't put Die Hard in the action category is wild!
Van's LA LA LAND take is incredible
22:59 that look to the right and left kills me 🤣
Superhero: Sky High
Sci Fi: Predator
Oscar: Lawrence of Arabia
Sports: Rudy
Action: Goldfinger
Comedy: The Hangover
Horror: Halloween
Also, charles 100% won this draft.
Dewill Jenkins got tears in my eyes
Denzel literally had a white daddy savior in his 80s movie Carbon Copy. It’s the whole plot of the movie
When Christian Bale gets his Hughy Lewis freak on in American Psycho... that is the White Guy HOF.
I’d love to see a Rewatchables of this episode. Just to see the reactions from Simmons and Fennessy.
And then see if Chris Ryan does the Wayne Jenkins as D-Will Jenkins lmaooo
I just wanna say im watching u guys since the inception of the pod and u always put a smile on my face so i just wanted to thank u
Speaking of Inception lol - that would have been a great pick as well (I’m black and I love that movie btw😂)
Next one, blackest movie draft.
3 white guys and one black guy drafting.
Footloose better make this draft 😂
We need a DnD campaign episode during these tough times
INSANE misfire not to have SUPERBAD, especially with the aforementioned King of the yts, Michael Cera
"What's Up Doc?" should definitely be on this list.
Apollo Creed won the fight in rocky via split decision.
Watching this at 1 am is a bad idea, I’m trying to not HOLLER out my laughter
Jomi's Kyle Busch jacket going triple platinum
Home Alone is top ten whitest movies of all time
Annie Hall and The Breakfast Club
Steve is right about Reacher!!!
Steve solo pod on blackest movies next ??😂😂😂😂😂
New to the Midnight Boys and boy I'm glad RUclips suggested this to me.
this is one of the greatest pieces of content of all time
This is brilliant. Van Lathan rules the ringer verse
Favourite Ringer podcast episode ever! 😂
52:57 How did I know he was gonna say La La Land ?!?!?
Hey! I was also watching 3:10 to Yuma! Great Film! Good Draft! I called out a shocking amount of these picks!
The Midnight Boys needs some Merch !!!! A "Recklessly Nutting" T-shirt should be the first item available. (Idea - A squirrel with a pile of nuts around him that look like footballs and basketballs. Take my moneyyyy !!!!
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby was missed.
I know it's not because Van is in charge, but we can't act like Christopher Reeve as Superman shouldn't be on the board
Steve might have this one
How tf Dead Poets Society didnt win this is beyond me. Easily the whitest movie ever
Jomi looking hella good today ❤
Counterpoint: Donald Glover could have played Scott Pilgrim.
This shit UNBELIEVABLY entertaining 😂😂😂
You guys forgot about “RV” with Robin Williams and “SuperBad”
Van choosing Hancock as his whitest super hero movie and his breakdown of why it’s a white movie is why Van is HIM
we could just bring back the herbivore dinosaurs, but the plants they eat are all extinct so we’d have to bring the vegetation back first
"two movies, no Jesus" 😂😂😂😂
Star Wars films need to be up there and I say that shit with my whole chest.
You got Billy D. Williams, James Earl Jones, and Samuel L. Jackson fucced up
@@Braedon-fy3ly ERRONEOUS! Eroneous on ALL COUNTS! Let the court show there's only 2 of us in the whole galaxy basically and look what they did. They did Sammy Jacks extra dirty and Billie D betrayd the rebellion. Star Wars is always at the top of my list for whitest movies.
@@horelpit7 😂 I see what you mean, but as a black Star Wars fan I choose to highlight the criteria they made that the eligible movies have to have an all white casting. That in itself disqualifies Star Wars franchise as a whole. We’ve had black representation and even star roles in all of the new Star Wars content too.
This was epic!
Pleasantville, Point Break, Road House
Princess bride should have been here too!
Without even looking, I'm gonna guess some Tarantino and Woody Allen movies make it into these lineups 😭😭
28:48 is a wild question 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You had my attention, now I'm intrigue....
Putting on a space suit, doesn't make you an astronaut.
FightClub - They reset everyones credit back to zero?
Might be the blackest thing in a white movie...😂
How you miss Mean Girls and Clueless? Seem got confused because yall add superhero films that everybody likes
whats the movie charles said that got bleeped? at the top
Whitest Movie Draft: 1) The Titanic 2) Cleopatra 3) Death Wish 4) Top Gun 5) Rocky 6) The Blindside 7) Pretty Woman 8) Good Will Hunting 9) Braveheart 10) The Matrix. Honorable mentions Flash Gordon Dirty Harry LOTR Home Alone The Blues Brothers & West Side Story
Aleya sounded mad offended about the ranch mix up
LOL. Boys need to lock in to the black Batman in comics, Jace Fox. Mind you, he is in the future
This episode is one for the record books.
Jomi’s laugh always makes me laugh 😭
Denzel is literally in a white savior movie coming up in gladiator 2.
this is fuckin hilarious guys. you might say its slow season, but this was just a great idea, period. im white, this is perfect lmao
Van...you my man 100 grand...but brother, as much as I LOVE Lala Land, you can't put it over Moonlight. You and me about the same, both from the south, and I agree with you 97.2%, but this that 2.8%.😂😂😂😂