You Hate Movies

We're playing Save or Kill once again, this time with Christmas movies. Faced with two Christmas classics, which would you save if it meant killing the other? The holiday stakes are high! Who will survive? Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Matt Hughes, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Fred Claus, Home Alone, White Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life, Silver Linings Playbook, Gremlins, Home Alone 2. When two choices are presented on the save or kill chopping block, it stands to reason spoilers may follow.

Having redefined the possibilities of blockbuster franchise genre filmmaking, Marvel Studios is an enterprise unlike any other major film studio. With more than a dozen beloved pictures under their belt, we set out to rank the entire cinematic universe from best to worst. Featuring: Abi Porter, Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Every Marvel Studios movie, Ang Lee’s Hulk, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Spider-Man 2, Watchmen, The Count of Monte Cristo, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Deadpool, Uncle Sam, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, the Marvel Comisc Civil War storyline, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Happy holidays to all casual movie goers, film lovers, and cinephiles! For the second year in a row, You Hate Movies is bringing a grand tradition from out of our homes and into your yuletide movie room: The 33 Days of Christmas Movies!

Thank God for Denis Villeneuve! He’s come to save us from the recent 2016 movie slump with his elegant and emotional sci-fi powerhouse Arrival. Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: The Addams Family, Interstellar, Hellboy 2, Jurassic Park 3, E.T., The Arrival, Contact, Independence Day, District 9, Cloverfield, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Journey, the Garth Brooks song “The Dance.”

Journey through the wilderness and fart across the sea as we watch and debrief Swiss Army Man.  Featuring: Bethany Allen, Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Cast Away, Hook, The Bridge, The Far Side comics, The Revenant, Beetlejuice, Interstellar, Touched by an Angel, It’s a Wonderful Life

Marvel Studios is at it a 13th time with Doctor Strange. Some of us liked it, one guy didn't, and one of us doesn't remember it that well. Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: The Imitation Game, Star Trek: Intro Darkness, Guardians of the Galaxy, Suicide Squad, Casino Royale, Groundhog Day, Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Batman Begins, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Ghost Dad, Ant-Man, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

In this Halloween special we revisit and celebrate Tim Burton’s bizarre 1988 death comedy Beetlejuice.  Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns Spoilers: Edward Scissorhands, Ally McBeal (season one), The Accountant, Kung Fu Panda 3, and The Wizard of Oz. 

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

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

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.