Anthony Cumia Talks About the Most Popular Movies for Memorial Day ｜ 05-24-26
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On this episode of the WABC Minicast, host Anthony Cumming talks about the top 10 movies people watch on Memorial Day weekend, and gives his top 10 favorite movies to watch over the holiday weekend. Plus, FanDuel is giving you the best chance to win on Draftkings this summer with their new Super Sub.
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Kyle from Virginia has something to say about that.
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Yeah, I was wondering if you were going to do the top 10 gyms next.
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Old friend of yours, Scorch, if you remember him.
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You have to tell me if it's douche or dressing.
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If you're wearing something blue, send me a picture of yourself.
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See, people that know me over the course of the years know I despise radio things,
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like the hacky old-school bits that they would do.
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We're going to have this gentleman give roses to his sweetheart.
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And then he picks a different girl than his wife,
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But, boy, they're still getting mileage out of that,
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So I don't normally do it, but it's Memorial Day.
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I was just talking about how awesome Band of Brothers was.
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But the top movies, number 10, American Sniper.
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Clint Eastwood, a biography of a Navy SEAL, Chris Kyle.
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He signed my .50 Cal magazine for my Barrett rifle,
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obviously before somebody decided to take him out at a rifle range.
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Platoon is number nine, coming in at number nine, Platoon.
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There are some things that you watch, and it's a little dated.
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I don't know why he's got 80s hair in it, but just great.
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sergeant barnes is amazing and uh elias uh that's great 1998 thin red line coming in at number eight
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uh guadalcanal world war ii movie i think sean penn's in that one uh going back to 1970 going
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back to the 70s a classic rock movie uh patten george c scott that one's great some of the old
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movies especially uh during the 90s and 2000s they really started coming out with some very
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realistic and graphic uh filmmaking when it came to war movies so watching pat you'll laugh a
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little at watching the the germans die whenever they get shot they they put both hands on where
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the bullet went and they arch their backs backwards and fall down and spread their arms
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out on the ground that's how every single german died in world war ii um if you uh watch these old
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war movies from the 60s and 70s uh number six full metal jacket 1987 that one was of course
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not a typical war movie there's not a lot of war in it it's more of a study of the uh soldiers the
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characters obviously the first half of the movie taking place um at boot camp is uh better than
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the rest of the movie a lot of people say that better than the entire uh rest of the movie is
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just that beginning part with arlie ermy and private pile all right we're halfway through
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halfway through now if i was a real radio hacky guy i would i would wait and i'd go to a break
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and i tease that well the second half of the list is coming up
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oh god did i despise that stuff maybe i should hit the phones
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no i'm not going to do that to you guys uh number five uh we were soldiers
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based on the first major battle of the vietnam war ladrang valley mel gibson of course starring
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as uh colonel moore in a gripping story of leadership loss and the families left behind
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that was pretty good mel gibson uh always turns in a stellar performance number four
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footage the battle footage i don't know ridley's great at doing stuff like that um this is obviously
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the 1993 battle of mogadishu and uh just a great movie re-watchability factor uh it's it's
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fantastic that's from uh 2001 uh now we're really going to go back uh 1989's glory going back to
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the first all-black volunteer regiment in the Union Army.
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This one starred Denzel Washington and Matthew Broderick.
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This was a little weird, and Matthew Broderick pulled it off,
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but this wasn't very long after Ferris Bueller's day off.
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Denzel, of course, again, another one that always turns in a stellar performance.
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But Matthew Broderick kind of overcame the Ferris Bueller.
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It was like Ferris Bueller goes to the Civil War.
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That would have really turned off a lot of people.
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Was it the Thin Red Line that I talked about with Sean Penn?
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i think michael j fox was in one of these war movies and that kind of took you out because
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michael j fox it was very difficult for him to go to a drama to dramatic kind of a war movie like
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that uh i don't know why you know he's a good good little actor at the time but uh it did it
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didn't work and and one of the one of the parts of band of brothers that took me out of it uh
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because because the acting was amazing in band of brothers but jimmy fallon was in it they gave
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jimmy fallon a little part where he drives a jeep up into um it was the battle of the bulge
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the ardennes forest he's like hey guys you need anyone need some ammo and you're like oh it's
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Jimmy Fallon, you just totally ripped me out of the movie.
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Another Mel Gibson movie comes up at number two, Hacksaw Ridge.
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A medic who didn't want to fight, and it turns out he saved a bunch of people
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and uh number one the number one movie you got to say it like this and the number one movie that
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is watched during memorial day weekend war movies coming in at number one from 1998
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steven spielberg saving private ryan that's right people and i have a bunch of sound effects
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and drums that play, and that would be my radio bit
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Steven Spielberg's masterpiece follows a squad of U.S. soldiers
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searching for a paratrooper behind enemy lines after D-Day.
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The opening beach scene is one of the most realistic
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Yeah, that opening sequence to this day is brutal.
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And then the scene where the Nazi, the German soldier puts the dagger
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into the Jewish American soldier's chest in the building.
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So that one coming in at number one, there's your list.
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