You Hate Movies

Save or Kill: Actresses

We're playing Save or Kill once again, this time with actresses. Faced with two actresses, who would you save if it meant killing the other? Once an actress has been killed, their entire life's work is lost with them. The stakes are high! Who will survive? 

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Matt Hughes, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Dogma, Adaptation, It’s Complicated, The Descent

The Magnificent Seven

Bad news, guys: We didn’t like Magnificent Seven. Join us as four people argue with the one guy claiming to like it.

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Django Unchained, The Avengers, Avatar, Blazing Saddles, Return of the King, League of Extraordinary Gentleman

The Meaning of Whiplash

In today’s episode we argue about how to correctly interpret the meaning of Damien Chazelle’s 2014 Jazz Drama, Whiplash. 

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Peter Nikiforov, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Whiplash.

Thunderdome: Tom Hanks

In this episode, join us in the You Hate Movies Thunderdome, as we pit beloved movie characters, one-by-one, in a brutal, all-out battle to the death. Today’s Thunderdome: Tom Hanks. Could Woody defeat Forrest Gump? Root for your favorite Tom Hanks in the Thunderdome!

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter.

Spoilers: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, The Revenant, Dallas Buyer’s Club, the Pixar short Lava, Bosom Buddies, Arthur Christmas, Toy Story, Forrest Gump, The Polar Express, You’ve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, Philadelphia, and Cast Away. 

TV vs. Movies

Is TV really the new film, or just an inherently limited medium for those who hate movies? In this episode we pit the best of TV against the best of movies in order to determine who rules the narrative format.

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Stranger Things, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Seinfeld, Grey’s Anatomy, Breaking Bad, Parenthood, Friends, My Name is Earl, Dead Poet’s Society, Drop Dead Diva, Dexter, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal.

Summer Box Office Results 2016

Every year we bet big on which movies will make the most money during the summer movie season. In this episode, find out who was clever enough to count on Finding Dory and who was clueless enough to bet on Independence Day: Resurgence.

 

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Sarah Hanns, and Tyler Hanns.

 

Spoilers: X-Men: Apocalypse, Toy Story 2, Star Trek Beyond, Cats and Dogs, and the Whitney Houston song, "I'm Every Woman."

First Impressions: Fight Club

Join a panel made up of those who love David Fincher’s 1999 cult classic, those who hardly remember it, and someone seeing it for the first time. Together, we argue about whether Fight Club translates to new, modern, and female audiences.

Featuring: Erik Tabinowski, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, and Patrick Porter.

Spoilers: Fight club (the novel and its film adaptation), Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Mission to Mars, A Beautiful Mind, The Dark Knight, Jaws, 12 Monkeys, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Seven, American Psycho (the novel and its film adaptation), Karate Kid, The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan.

Movie News: Aug, 2016

Join us as we explore the most exciting and/or dumb movie news from August, 2016. Why is China upset about 3D? What is the BBC’s all-time favorite movie? Did Tyler just promise to watch all the Madea movies? The answers—as well as our expert opinions—await you, followed by our most anticipated movies of the fall.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Jason Bourne, Fantastic Four (2014), Harry & the Hendersons, Phantom Menace, the Dead Rising video game, Furious 7, Tammy and the T-Rex, Paddington, The Shining, The Evil Dead saga, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Batman Begins, The Grey, Taken, Liam Neeson’s movies (in general), Batman (1985), Godzilla 2000, Face/Off, Mamma Mia, Training Day.

Suicide Squad

Warner Brothers is at it again with another DC comics adaptation. Like Man of Steel and Batman v Superman before, critics and audiences are already  wildly divided over David Ayer’s Suicide Squad. Is this another classic case of critic’s pessimism, or will we finally have to admit this is a dud?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, and Patrick Porter.

Spoilers: Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman, Tomorrowland, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ghostbusters 2016, Bourne Identity, The Dark Knight Trilogy, and Batman the Animated Series.

Jason Bourne

In this episode we debate whether or not the fifth film in the Jason Bourne franchise is a worthwhile return.

Featuring: Josiah DePaoli, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, Sarah Hanns, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Every Bourne movie, Save the Last Dance, Snatch, Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt," The Ocean's Eleven Trilogy, Mr Robot, Finding Dory, and Home Alone.