Joel McHale

"Then I’m gonna go with the Holy Grail. I think these movies always get pushed aside as being silly and yes, they are silly, which is one of the intents of the movies. It was just, as a child, and as I grew up and watched them as an adult, they were one of the reasons why I was like, “Oh, you don’t have to think the way that everybody thinks” — these guys just did whatever they wanted to do, and their imaginations ran wild. They were always a huge inspiration, and so that movie was such a great capsule of that. And so funny. So good."

"Then I’ll go with Ikiru by Kurosawa. The scene about a man who died. The opening scene is like, “Oh, this guy died — let’s talk about his life.” And then it goes back. It is, you know, it was made in the ’50s and it was hard to get good prints of it, but now the Criterion Blu-ray is out and it looks a lot better. It’s just a beautiful movie, astonishingly; the movie and the message."

"Dr. Strangelove, I think, is probably one of the funniest movies ever made. It operates on so many levels. Just that opening sequence when the planes are fueling — it is the most sexually suggestive opening of any movie, ever. And just George C. Scott. It’s an amazing movie."

"Let’s go with Children of Men. That movie is just a perfect movie. Clive Owen just destroys that movie. And the message of that movie is just so beautiful. I think it’s some amazing filmmaking."

"Blade Runner, of course. A sci-fi film noir executed so well; I mean, it’s a flawlessly executed movie and it’s a beautiful story. And it’s Harrison Ford at his very finest — he should have won two Oscars for that."