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Best Boston movie? Mount Rushmore of Boston movies?

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00:00fun little debate for my lead this morning because we debate a lot whether the departed
00:04or the town is a better movie in boston but the boston globe just came out with the most
00:10quintessential boston movies ever and they did it in bracket format and we are at the final four
00:17and i'm going to give you the final four and i want to know your opinions on it okay goodwill
00:23hunting the friends of eddie coyle spotlight and fever pitch why well hold on a second
00:34spotlight is about the very organization that is running the bracket the the boston globe i don't
00:42good movie but i wouldn't call that a quintessential boston movie me neither that one beat out the town
00:49what yes goodwill hunting beat out the departed so that was a tough matchup but what about ted
00:55what about mystic river what about gone baby gone like there are so many other movies that i would
01:01have on up there yes it like to me and i i understand it's before my time and maybe it's
01:06a wonderful movie but the friends of eddie coyle i don't think i've even seen that and i've seen
01:12every film ever right good good job on the mystic river one what was the uh bomb movie the one
01:19about
01:19the patriots day no no no no no this one is about the boat that blows up offshore yeah uh
01:24man why am
01:25i drawing a blank on his name jeff bridges or yeah yeah um the boston police back in the day
01:31what's the
01:32name of that man why am i drawing a blank on that movie because that was a pretty good movie
01:35i have to
01:36find i just saw this list and i i mean immediately i think the departed the town but i understand
01:41goodwill
01:42hunting beating out the departed um i don't necessarily know if i agree with it but it like
01:47i i just i was shocked when i saw the friends of eddie coyle and spotlight spotlight i've seen
01:52it it's a it was good very good movie but i don't think it's quintessential boston no um wiggy d
01:59sees it in the twitch chat says blown away was the name of that movie yeah yeah that was a
02:04good movie
02:04that was a good but at mystic river you said and what was the other one you said gone baby
02:08gone
02:08gone baby gone was a good one someone just said boondock saints oh yeah that was a good one too
02:13the first one was better than the second one but yeah i'm fine with fever pitch being up there
02:18yeah um on the subaru of new england text line what about the fighter uh that's more lol but
02:25well i mean yeah yeah yeah i'm an extra uh metro west 14 in the twitch chat is suggesting black
02:33mass
02:33which is pretty good yeah that was a good movie about what he bulger yeah i like that one
02:38pretty good it's just crazy to me but yeah um curtis loved fever pitch one of his favorite films of
02:44all time yeah not a not a mount rushmore boston movie in in any stratosphere ever i mean boondock
02:53sakes by a million the town is it's it's the town or the departed that's it i agree with you
03:00yeah
03:01celtic pride too i forgot about that i see that on the list with uh damon waynes and uh
03:06ackroyd ackroyd yeah yeah that was a good i also think ted deserves to be up there i don't think
03:11ted
03:11is a historic boston movie remember we had dan ackroyd in the old studio yeah yeah that was awesome
03:19that was really 19 uh all right yeah i mean i they of course they include spotlight yeah there he
03:27is
03:27they just better not win i mean the winner there has to be good will hunting out of the top
03:30four
03:30yes out of those i would say yes and i and i would agree that the potted and uh that
03:36the top the
03:37town are better than good will hunting yeah all right courtney thank you

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