We Hate Movies - S15: On-Screen Live 3.31.25 A Working Man & The Woman in the Yard Reviews, Two Travolta Secret Movies™️ & more!

Episode Date: April 2, 2025

On this week's OSL, we're reviewing the new Jason Statham/David Ayer human trafficking actioner, A Working Man, along with the latest horror out of the Blumhouse, The Woman in the Yard. We're also shining some light on TWO! Travolta-led Secret Movies™️ and going over the weekend box office! PLUS: Steve breaks down what happened when he attended the Princess Mononoke IMAX re-release! On-Screen Live airs Mondays at noon/eastern on our YouTube channel! U.K. and European listeners: be sure to snag your tickets for our 3-night, 6-show residency at the Oxford Comedy Festival, happening this July 18-20! All show and ticketing info is available on our website. Through December 2025, we’ll be donating all proceeds from our Tee-Public store to the Center for Reproductive Rights. Check out the WHM Merch Store featuring new GHOSTHEADS, Too Old for This Shit, Forrest the Universal Soldier, and Jack Kirby designs! Pick something up and support a good cause! Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

Whoa, what is going on, everybody. On screen live, my name is Andrew Jeepin, and this is our show for Monday, March the 31st, which reminds me, everybody, March is over. Tomorrow is April the first. Do not sanction any April Fool's buffoonery whatsoever. Put a stop to it in the office. At home, threatened divorce paper write-ups. Like, whatever you got to do, we got to put a stop to April Fool's Day. It's cruel. And anybody who's into it, man, you got to rethink your priorities. Just got to put that out there. Now, we got a lot to get to today going to bring in three fellow April fools here we have Steven Sadek not a fan of April fools and I think my priorities are right where they need to be honest I was thinking about my priorities I'm like yeah those are good yeah yeah you got some decent priorities just okay uh it's just a shirt that says Hemingway on it oh no it's an old man in the sea if it goes if you go down oh no keep it right where it is I stand it up

Speaking of not standing up You know him You love him Mr. Eric Siska Yes I want to find that old man in the boat Right I'll see where the dingy is dude But by the way I'm a fan of April fools I want everyone to spread this message tomorrow

Maybe post it on our subreddit I hate those bastards right Say that I tragically passed away Oh there you go Classic prank dude Please say that I'm dead Thank you. Faking your own death, I think, is the oldest prank of all.

It's what Jesus did. That's true. And he came back for that bean dinner. No, no, the bean dinner was on the way out, right? Yes, the bean dinner was on the way out. That was the last meal. They were like, Jesus, you can have baked beans or buffalo wings, whatever you want, buddy. Right.

It's like prison, right? You can have lobster and steak if you want, but he chose bean dinner, bean supper with his buddies. Steve, any indication of what was consumed at the last supper out of curiosity? It was a bunch of bread. probably there must have been some meat somewhere you know right that's what i'd like to think yeah top a nod possibly nice tasting menu maybe some yeah exactly oh there you go oh we i saw the i don't want to delay chris but i saw that i texted you guys about the last supper uh yes the chosen uh when it's it's it's it's a trailer of jesus being cool the johnny cash music yeah and i was laughing

in the theater. It's awesome. Speaking of laughing in the theater, and speaking of a dude who will flip the money changers table, Mr. Chris Cabin. I think you have to go with lobster and buffalo wings. You got a mix and match.

I don't think you can go one way. It stakes too much. You're going to be heavy going into the death chamber. I don't think that's good. You're clarifying. You're clarifying appetizers are available for your last. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no. I think you'd get a clear, well, you know what?

There's no, there's no restrictions. So why not go for a 50, 50 wings and a lobster? Some poo-poo platters. The weird thing was Jesus wanted to have it at Barcade, but like the apostles just kept playing those 8-bit video games and he's like, guys, guys, over here. Can we put the burger time down? I'm going to be crucified tomorrow. Got some information you might want to hear.

That suggests a fried ravioli, which I'm not a fan of. I'm going to be honest with you. But, you know what? let him have his day of course. Check this shit out. I'm going to read this one on the air. This is from Mark E. in the chat. They say when they were in Iraq and their second go-round

which thanks for doing that, buddy. One of the interpreters got me with an April Fool's joke. They said by telling them the president of Iraq was assassinated, went to look it up and he started laughing at me. He seems like a pretty cruel joke for a military commander to play there. Sure.

But see, this is what I'm talking about. Dude, you're joking about fucking the president of Iraq being assassinated, like that could lead to some major shit. That's really hard to hear as a troop, you know, oh, they got to him before me. Or was this the new president? Yeah, I don't know, it depends on what level we were. A lot of

context missing here. Yeah. I'm going to guess it was the sequel. Got it. Speaking of sequels, we have two in this week's top of the box office, see if you guys can get any of these really quickly. First one is from 2001. This was a movie that I

I'm pretty sure most of us, if not all of us, on this show right now, this was our first exposure to Wuzha Cinema. Oh, yeah, Crouching Tiger. Eric Siska is good. Oh, hell yeah. Look at that. Love that. It's great movie.

I recently rewatched it. It's fantastic. Really good stuff. Really good stuff. Next one is from 2010. This is top of the box office this day in 2010, March the 31st, 2010. This star is a child star who's now grown up, and she makes some movies and albums

and whatnot. She's more of a pop star. And this is a movie about her dealing with her musician father, who ironically is not played by her real-life musician father, a one-hit wonder from the 90s. It's obviously it's Miley Cyrus, but I don't know any of those movies. Good enough, Steve, that's correct.

It's the last song. You got a Hemsworth floating around in here. Yeah, I don't know which one. Is this what they played at The Last Supper? That's what, that's the movie they watched. They were like, Jesus, you can watch whatever movie you want to watch, man. It's your, it's They didn't want Billy Ray Cyrus playing her dad again

because he was the dad on the show that she was popular on, right? That would make it seem too much like the show, the movie. Yeah, this is a, I think it's a Liam Hemsworth we got there. And Greg Kinnear is the father. Oh, wow. So they did a little dad swap. Yeah, trade up from Billy Ray

Cyrus. I agree. I'd rather be raised by Greg Kinneur for sure. Absolutely. This next one took the top of the box office this day, Marshall 31st in 2006. This is a sequel to an animated film. It's the first sequel of what would have become many. Toy Story 2? Oh, 2006, Steve, notice.

Ice Age. Oh, yeah, yeah, man, that's Scrat, huh? We were trying to get him on T-shirts. Did he have his own, like, uh, Hulu streaming cartoon, maybe? They must have been some stupid thing. I know they had, like, shorts in front of shit. It was like, Scrat's big score and whatever. Did that, uh, Dennis Leary military show get canceled yet, or, uh...

Probably already did. Yeah, I haven't heard the word, but, man, I watched the trailer for it, and it is just TBC, too much canceled. Did not look good? Salute your shorts or something? It was like, they're in Sweden or something. Going Dutch. Going Dutch. It's parks and Rick, but during the, in the military, which is great.

This is our little light news of industry talk right now. We're going to look up to see if that show has been canceled yet. Oh, it says present still. Okay. I've renewed yet, but we'll wait in here. One more top of the box office. Just from this day last year, it was a very disappointing team-up movie. Okay.

What's the year again? Disappointed team-up movie. 20-24. 20-4. With some big stars. Oh, boy. Expendables four? Oh, no.

Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, boy. The boys. That's a Godzilla X-Kong. I prefer Godzilla X-X-X-Kong. That's right. They say,

your mama's Godzilla movie. When they're stripping. I like that one. Get it on, dude. King Kong is, like, throwing his thong at people. Yeah. Earth's hollow for a reason. You know, you're in trouble with that Godzilla X-Kong,

because it starts with King Kong, like waking up and taking a shower. Like, I'm not kidding. And I was like, I'm in trouble. Oh, yeah. The movie's in trouble. trouble everyone in the theater was in trouble it was a bad movie have some okay movies floating around the box office here let's check out what was going on on not an entirely embarrassing

weekend at the box office this is highest gross I should say of course I forgot to do this at the top but welcome back everyone in the chat Jeff McFarland will be real. Greg Bufato. Let's see. E. Simon says 14. Super Rob. Don't forget sucked is back.

I always like to be sucked in the chat. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Tyler Tino. Do you pronounce that G? Tyler? Let me know, man. I'm so, Rachel. I don't know if I said of yet, but French toast 663.

I like that. All right. So here we go. We got some stuff floating around the box office. In at 5. It was a movie, man. you got which way the wind was blown at South by because no one was really

talking about A24's death of a unicorn. I want to take a victory lap on this. When the trailer came out, I was like, this looks fucking stupid as in. You were right, Steve Seda, you get points on that, man. Did any of us see it? I know I didn't. I have not. So we're judging it already, guys.

Come on. I think the buzz. We're that bad. I'm just tired of A24 whatchitz, honestly. Like, you know what I mean? Like, the small ones? A good director. sure, I'm in, but like, just like a, it's an A-24 movie. You like A-24 movie. There's an A-2, A-24 movie coming out with Dakota Johnson doing hitched.

Oh, nice. Yes, that's right. Yeah. Oh, really? And they're doing the Paul Rudd Tim Robinson movie, which I am interested in. That's, that'll get you back on the Paul Rudd train. I am, I'm interested in that. But this one, yeah, I haven't even seen. Honestly, even the poster makes me turned off.

that's the most I know about it is what the poster just showed me and I'm like no how to kiss your dragon no I'm not doing it there's a a pretty decent new St. Vincent's song on the soundtrack but that's as far as I've gone but this I mean here's the deal too

5.8 million on 350 screens which is more screens than some of the films that did better in the top five I mean they dumped this movie I didn't even know it was coming out like I knew that it was I knew it existed and then like it kind of disappeared and then like it's out that was the week this was the weekend for that because also like getting the colet sarah out because like i heard nothing about

it i had only remembered hearing about it when uh carry on came out i remember reading oh uh daniel deadwaller's doing another movie with him that is already done i was like okay i i guess it's happening and say the title so people know what you're even talking about a woman in the yard which is a we will see later yeah Because Colman, Sarah, no one knows what you're saying. You're like, Gazutite or whatever. Oh, yes, I'm saying, God bless you in a different language. Well, I didn't know that it was a Jamalette-Sara movie until you said it yesterday.

So that shows you what the advertising was doing. Nothing. Yeah, so anyway, yeah, this will come and go and you'll be able to rent it. Too sweet. Tomorrow, probably. Yes. Chris will have a lengthier capsule review on this in a bit. But yes, the new Jamo Colette Sarah movie from Blumhouse and Universal.

Woman in the Yard. Here we go with some more horror at the box office, 9.5 million. So this did a bigger opening than Hard Eyes and Companion, but not as big as Wolfman or the Monkey. Okay. So there's that going on. Makes about sense. That's about the ballpark. I read a review for this over the weekend.

And I was like, that's what that movie's about. Yeah. I've been trying to do a Steve Sadek method. I've been trying to avoid trailers. like, I still do not know what the new P.T. Anderson movie is about. I've been avoiding it like the plague. And I'm trying to do that with all movies now, as many as I can. Other than ones are on this one, and usually the ones that are in this one,

I'm probably going to know what they're about anyway, just because I know. Two fucking victory laps in one day. I love it. Everyone's coming to my side. Yes. Wait, what is your victory lap with this movie, Woman in the Yard? The trailer thing. I've been saying it for years. Oh, sure.

Off trailers for years. We should mention that Steve is under the weather. He's got a little cold. He's not doing the, my dad plays in his pajamas at the casino now. Well, I can do it really well now. My dad plays at the casino at home. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's actually not bad.

He witnessed the death of a unicorn and got kissed by a drag. And now he sounds like that for some reason. And now he sounds like. My daughter and I have tried other online casinos, but that fairs the best. So, you know, I like the context. You know, we got new listeners. They don't know these road jokes about local commercials. The most hyper-local of commercial.

Coming in at number three, the Chubin' Pollen Last Supper. So here we are. This is a fathom event. $11.5 million. Wow. I'm imagining ham and eggs, maybe a big pile of toast. Oh, that could be. It was a breakfast, you said?

I'm sure we've had this conversation before. This is a TV series that they put on. Correct. On screen, right? Yes. Did this air on any network or is it like Jesusfish. TV or something? It airs somewhere.

Does Angel Studios have like a TV network maybe? It is wild that this is a thing in this country, right? Like this is a juggernaut. Look at this thing. Huge juggernaut. You know, the funny thing is, though, so there's some other Last Supper movie that came out a couple weeks

prior to this like it's an actual movie same deal and apparently I was seeing some reports some theaters were fucking it up and playing that movie and not this The Chosen like I actually won like total first hand story a woman I used to work

with who goes to these things takes her elderly Italian mother to all of them you know she even said she was like we were seated for the first two episodes of the Chosen they're a big fan of the series the theater played the wrong fucking thing. Was it like what? We're talking about the fucking, uh, uh, the Christmas story in April?

That's not going to work. No, it was an, it's another movie about the Last Supper. Oh, I see. So it's about, so Jesus is in it. So did anyone, how did you notice it was different? Because one starts like a movie and the other one's got your fucking TV intro to the Chosen. Wow. I can't believe the Chosen got Willem Defoe back.

What? Yeah. Hey, what's for? at dinner. Guess who's coming to dinner? Me, Jesus. Oh, man, do they show the last supper in that movie? It's been a while. I think so.

You got it. That's the big one. That was where he got his mom to cameo. She's making the sauce in the back. Oh, yeah. That's the sausages. Coming into number two and tanking fucking hard. The plane is crashed into the mountain for Snow White. a paltry $14.3 million, which represents a 60, what do I put? 66% fall. Ouch town for the budget.

And that has got nothing to do with the two words, free Palestine. Let me be completely honest. No one wants to see this movie for a million different reasons. Because who has no one has nostalgia for 1938 or whatever the fuck. Like, why do you know a lot of people have nostalgia for 1938? Not the right reasons, though. Right, yeah. The rights of 1938.

Yeah, the stepping of 1930. And the wrongs as well. But yeah, dude, I mean, just like, I'm sorry, no one gives a shit about that story. No one wanted this movie. And you're blaming that girl. Eat a bag of dicks, dude. Don't blame Rachel Zegler, is her name, right? Correct.

Blame those goddamn abominations in the trailer, those fake dwarves, the CG people. They're disgusting. No one wants to look at that for two hours. Nope. Well, because it's vomiting. I was taking my popcorn bucket at the movies and hacking up a lung in it. Good thing. There's three refills because I'm going to pour this out to throw up in it and then dump that out.

I brought it over. They, I dumped it out and all slithered out. You know how like liquidy shit does? That's all right. And I had them refill it. And it was, it was delightful. I mean, if you want to fold in the Israel Palace night shit with that, go right head. But the thing is you don't have a take on it.

You don't like, it's same thing with the Lilo and Stitch thing. It's just the same movie. you're just putting in the new effects to make it look like it's different. Like people, I think, are getting hip. Also, like, this isn't one of your powerhouse ones from the 90s. So, like, it just was an even larger ask of people.

Like, no one gives a fuck. I'm sorry. Like, R.H. Yeah, exactly. R.H, people didn't, look, I've seen Snow White maybe once. Like, it wasn't a movie that I had my house a time, you know what I mean?

Isn't it also, wasn't there? Didn't the movie that broke up Pattinson and Stewart, isn't that the Snow White? movie as well yes yeah well yeah we've already been here and you made another fucking hit out of it that but chris that was a generation ago now there's not young kids kids don't watch old movies like that when would what did that movie come out like 2015 that's an old man movie or i guess so so we'll go even way way way back way way back and our president came off the mountain and weighed in on that scandal at the time and we all yes appreciated that you know i'll say um you know

I was kind of like whatever on that Spielberg, Westside story. But over the weekend, Chelsea and I were just looking for something to catch up on. And we watched that Hunger Games Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie, which Rachel Zegler is like the co-lead of. And like, she's really good in that movie. Like, it's not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but she is a competent performer. And again, just like, I wanted to go to bat for her about something

because I'm not going to see that fucking Snow White movie. No, exactly. Again, just to blame this girl for your like corporate grubborn. ridiculous failure is so fucking pathetic, huge corporation, very sad shit. I have not seen a single movie she's ever done, so that's how you're going.

I think she's in that Shazam 2, by the way. She is. She's actually a better part of Shazam 2. Did I see Shazam 2? Can I don't help me out? No, I didn't do it for the show. I watched it for this, but not for the show. Eric, I do think West Side

Story is worth seeing. I do, I will go to bat for that one. I know I know you're crying a little bit. I know. It's okay. Come on, Chris. Eric's not going to give a shit about a movie like that.

I've just tried. I'm trying here. Is anyone waving a gun around? If someone's waving a gun around, I will watch that. There is a gun. Yeah, many bullets are in the gun, you know, that whole speech.

Okay, all right. I'll check it out. There's a whole speech about a gun. That's right. Anyway, speaking of guns, a lot of guns in the working man or a working man. Coming in at number one, off the top rope with 15.

$1.2 million Not too shabby. This actually So let's see where we are here A similar Size opening to Dentive's 2 From earlier this year and it's got a 40 million dollar budget. So this is this is doing just all right

It's at 30 million globally. It's doing just But look at this. Amazon you could put a movie out in the theater and it actually makes money. Can I Can I ask a question or ask a favor? Can we fucking solve this Alamo Union situation so I could watch this movie and drink a fucking beer for once

I had to go to a regal and have a soda with the working that's not what I wanted to do. We know not what I wanted to do. Give those people their union and let me go back to that theater. There's got to be other theaters that serve beer in there. I'm sure. Brow bag it. Come on, baby. There is a bar at that regal union square but the problem is then you're just going up to that bar at the regal union square going, could I have a bud light? You know, I was at

I was recently at Cinema 123 by Angelica now on 59th Street and second I think they had beer. They were serving beer. They do. Yeah, but again, the Alamo is actually just the closest movie theater to my house. Oh, so here it is. And I enjoy it, and I would like to go back.

So your solidarity with the working man only goes as far as, what's that, 20 minutes? Yeah, it's 20 minutes in the past. It's convenient. Just, you know, thank your lucky star. it's convenient to be in solidarity. Exactly. Eric, I'm using my platform right now. Thank you so much.

With my last words, it will be my platform. Steve, you should swim across the river to that look cinemas at 57th Street and the river. No. That's the only way you can fucking go to that theater, man, is either you walk a thousand miles or you take a rowboat. Yes. It's a really stupid placement for a movie theater. Elsewhere around the box office, this was a cool little thing.

the big 4K iMacs release of the anniversary of princess montanoke four million fucking dollars folks yeah look at that four million dollars on a measly 330 iMac screens that is a 12,000 dollar per cap on iMac screens wild number it was gorgeous i saw it at lincoln square iMacs on saturday night packed screening so packed so what it smelled like honestly you can say it was come on you could say what did it smell like it sucked it smelled like shit you can say it's it's that it's not that kind of anime eric this is like a lot of trench coats with a trench coat so i go not attack on titan that's a different crack exactly very different i don't think any any public bathroom should have a push open door i it's you're asking for trouble right

so i i go there's a bathroom story go ahead please so i go to the restroom restroom push open door. Now is this, wait a second. We got to set the scene here. Is this the IMAX bathrooms, the upstairs, the small one? Yes. Yeah, I got closets in this apartment

bigger than those bathrooms. But the door is, it's a little lighter than I expect. And I kind of slam it open. I almost clip a small child. Oh, the child's father, Benny Safty, no big deal. That's all.

And I was like, oh, sorry, man. He's like, oh, no, it's good, it's good. It's good. So that's why I have a Betty Safty story. And his son is safe until they build a bigger door. Yeah, dude, until they get that hydrogen door working. Yeah, that's rubbing elbows with the great. Yeah, we had a good time together, Betty Safty and I.

Yeah, you almost made his kid wear a fucking helmet for the rest of his life. Did you ask him about the fucking rock movie? I did not It was a very It was a passing thing He's like Sorry I almost killed your son No that's okay

And we're fine after that Well if you did Maybe a future movie could revolve around this You could be like about the bath It's called the bathroom door Right It's about you to see how he would portray You on screen

That'd be something Mm-hmm And we'll make a movie about It'll be called The Woman Outside the Bathroom Door Hey So you know we have this big residency This summer

In the great city of Oxford We're playing the Oxford Comedy Festival, three-night residency, six shows. But Eric, as we learned over the weekend, we have a little bit of a ticketing update. Is that right? Yes, we have a ticket update for our shows in Oxford, England. If you don't know, we're doing a six-show residency in Oxford, England.

And we just got word. The Hellraiser show is sold out already. Look at that. It's March. These shows are in July. Do not sleep on these tickets, folks. Hellraiser no longer available. but plenty of other, you know, are.

We've got a lot of other shows. If you're going to that Hellraiser show, by the way, what? You're not also going to the Gleap Glossary at 7 o'clock? We're doing Darth Vader live Gleap Glossary. Pull these things together. Listen, now you put your quid down already for that Hellraiser show. Next paycheck, put another quid down for that Gleap Glossary.

And good news, if I can't make it because I die, I'm asking these guys to scatter my ashes in England. I want to make it to England before. So just either I'll be there or my ashes. It'll be a good choice. Okay. And don't worry, we're not going to take all the, we'll just take like a couple ice cream scoops full of them.

Yeah, yeah, nothing crazy. You know, I don't even spend all afternoon spreading your ashes. No, no, no. I'm still waiting on this visa. I don't know if they're going to approve me or not. But listen, buy those tickets so then they have to, right? Yes. We have to.

That would be the gun to the head right there. But yeah. And Eric's totally right. Just schedule, they'll get a resi at some place in town for an early supper. Then you come see this Gleap Glossary about Darth Vader. Look, it's going to be the first ever live of Gleap Glossary. That's worth it alone. Plus, we have other full episodes.

We're doing there. Quantum of Solis is another one on the first night. And before that, we're doing animation damnation on Teenage Mutantia Turtle's elementary. I got to learn to say that because they say it all the time over there. They do. My dear turtle. That's right. And King Ralph, of course, closing out the whole damn thing with King Ralph, I'm not mistaken.

Yes, King Ralph. And earlier that same night, we're going to do a live nexus on just the TNG episode, Subrosa. Yeah, Dr. Crusher having sex with a ghost. That's why you hear. A ghost who her grandmother also fucked. So taking granny's sloppy ghost seconds. We're going to be talking all about it. Generational fucking.

It's amazing. You know what? That's got to be one healthy. the ghost. Generational fucking. That's what the boomers have been doing top down ever since they took control. Hey, speaking of nothing at all related to that, but in relation to this awesome art that Felipe made for the tour poster, we're not going to be dragging any shit across the pond with us. So if you want to order stuff online from our merch store, y'all, we will sign it for you there, you know, whatever. But just know, if you buy stuff from our

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Chris Cabin you were teasing it a little bit ago what is going on with the woman in the yard I mean other than she looks like she's waiting for the bus or something shit I don't know what's going on there I mean that's I mean that that is what you would hope for when you first see her but that's not

what's happening she is a ghost of some sort but yeah I mean to not ruin the I guess what you would call the twist of this movie. I am limited in what I can say. It's a little heavier material than I think

Colette Sarah is probably up for. It's a bit child abuse was going on from the trailer of my nuts. A little bit, a little bit, yes. Because, well, because of what is being considered. Like it happens, it opens on the aftermath of a family, the father has died in a a crash, a car crash and the mother is alive

with their two kids out in the country house and one morning she wakes up and looks outside the window and there is a woman in the yard the woman you show in the black lace thing, the kind of funeral kind of outfit there

and from there you know there's different like should we call someone should you you know that's the original things but then something is revealed about i would say about 45 50 minutes in uh and it becomes clear that it's a little bit more grave what is being considered here um i it's not as jumpy as caled sarah usually like what i usually like about even the bad nison movies there is a certain like absurdity to it like and it open too it's not it's not like anybody's hiding it it's a little silly that unknown is about what it's about you like the the

corn shit and all that nonsense it's so stupid it's so stupid this this is about something pretty serious i would say uh and i i don't think he's quite up for that uh taking that as seriously as you needed to be taken. Also trying to be entertaining. He does some interesting stuff. I'm not going to say it's a completely waste of time. There is stuff there for complete. It is worth seeing.

It is towards the back of the catalog, I would say, for sure. Chris, is this better or worse than Jungle Cruise? Or Black Adam. Anything he did with Dwayne Jones. It's definitely better than Black Adam. Okay. Sure. Okay. That is not that is yeah, that is undeniable. Oh my God. But not in the orphan stratus. No. Does she reveal herself at the end as a member of it digging?

She does not. This is not a LinkedIn to the, I'm sorry to say, not part of the universe as we were we were trying to build out there. No, no, no. It's about something really, really grim and bleak and great. So how many, how many, how many star is You know, one out of five would you give? A one out of five, one to five, you mean? Yeah, okay. Like a two, two and a half area. All right.

There's stuff going on there. There's ideas, the visual, you know, there's visual ideas going on. It's not without its talent, but like, it's just not something I would tell people to see. Under any circumstances. And I understand most of the time, there's a lot of times I don't understand why people are burying the movies they bury. this one i understand it completely got it yeah i mean usually when a blumhouse movie comes out man you can't escape the blumhouseness of it all and yeah kind of radio silence on this because it wasn't yeah because it isn't a silly like uh the ghost is trying to pull my underpants

down or anything at the end of like it's not anything stupid or silly at the end of all this Blumhouse presents the ghost is trying to pull my underpants down an underappreciated horror series. A sex comedy from Jason Blum. No, it's not a silly like that. That would be the change, right? That is what the Blumhouse thing would be.

It's something a little spooky and a little silly. This, the spookies there, the silly is not. Yeah, right. And what he's trying to do, he's not up for what it is about. Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense.

Make sense. uh so that's a that's a skip it from chris uh here we go here uh david aer's follow up to the fantastic beekeeper just really couldn't do it this is a working man uh this next statham motion picture here steve say that you and i both saw this we did uh separately uh again i would love to have seen it at alma but uh the bastards didn't break uh it's not very good i i find it Like some of the action, the last big set piece is fun. We're obviously setting up for a sequel. This is based on a novel by reactionary writer Chuck Dixon,

who wrote a lot of Batman comics way back when I was a lad, which I like those, but he kind of has outed himself as a right-wing crank, which is obvious, which we're doing kind of kind of sort of Q and on adjacent. But it's also like the problem is I almost wish it were. It just, he's like, I'm going to find your daughter in about nine and a half days. Like, it takes this dude fucking forever to find this girl. Dude, I was thinking the same thing. You got a two-hour motion picture here.

And this dude's doing a lot of side quests. It's like, it's like, first you must get ingratiated with the town's big drug supplier. And that takes 50 minutes out of the movie. And you're just like, there's a poster somewhere with this dude swinging the sledgehammer at people. What are we doing here? Exactly. The side quest, the drug dealerness of it all, like, when he's doing two drug deals with blue crystal meth, I'm like, get the fuck out of here. Come on, guys. Twice. He does two drug deals in this movie, and both times you see him like immediately getting rid of the drugs, which is really funny. It's like he spends thousands of dollars on meth and then throws one bag in a river and flushes another. And I'm like, why do I need this? This is not part of the story of getting this girl. It's like if Liam Neeson is in Taken and he's in taken and he,

He's like, I got a special set of skills. They're working at Radio Shack. And you're going to see me have a fucking part-time job for a little bit. And then maybe I'll get to the takening of it all. Like, it takes so long for this guy to get on the case. But I think you're missing. The intended audience for this motion picture, as I understand it, are going to get just as hard watching the crack go down into the toilet

and be as they are watching the child be rescued, from the evil watch it's you know it's I think those are all things within the fantasy for them there's like extended Russian mafia stuff then there's like the king of the biker gang is involved

and I'm like ladies and gentlemen that feels very like Romero night ridersy kind of like there's a part of this movie where like a biker gang like runs into like a Russian mafioso's like meet up house and crash And it's like, this movie you didn't think

would be a movie where someone rides a motorcycle into a house, but it happens in this movie. Nice. I like that. It's odd that this movie, considering I said this on Letterbox, it's co-written by Sly, one of our newly minted ministers of Hollywood or whatever. I was genuinely stunned that the villains in this movie are Russian oligarchs.

Yes. Very much surprised by that. And that the family of the kidnapped girl is a Michael Pena led, like, self-made, really successful Latin American family. Was genuinely surprised the script was not flipped on that. Yeah, that is surprising. And also, by the way,

should say a little bit of a lockstock reunion here with Jason Fleming at a retirement. He's looking good these days. He's looking good. He's got a funny, goofy little Russian accent. Incredible exit to the film, I have to say. And that's the thing is buried with this. That's in the middle of that movie, which is a bummer.

He should be the big guy, I think. big time because he's really good but like that's at least when statham is getting the statham around to the movie that's great when it's all this other like he's doing stuff i'm like i of course he's got a durter of his own like we're spending 20 minutes getting this girl into hiding with david harbour and i was like come on like just get go and get to the ass kicking and also like he's sleeping in his car in the first in the beginning of the movie because he's such a working The truck he is sleeping in is worth $75,000. So, like, maybe sell that and get a decent apartment because it's Dodge Ram.

We love Dodge Ram. The new Dodge Ram. It's like, how does he afford that if he's such a working man? Dude, and it's like tricked out the whole fucking entertainment system is in this truck. You're totally right. Sell that shit. And also, like, dude, you're saying Michael Pena and his family are like your family. Yeah.

Ask Michael Pena if you can sleep in the game. guest house. This dude is loaded. He's a fucking land developer. But it's all that prideful, whatever. I will say they give him British citizenship. He's just a British dude. And you know what? Shock of all shocks for every other movie that tries to

make him an American or like an ambiguous, whatever, it doesn't matter at all that he was like British Special Forces. It's all the, you know, all the fight background, his serving in the military. It's all still there. It's all relevant. And he doesn't have to try to hide

this real blazing British accent. Is he like the Felix lighter to the sound of freedom guy? Is he like the British version of like, because I would assume that the sound of freedom guy is our James Bond essentially. Of course, yeah. Oh, sure. And he would have to be the other side of it coming from. The other side of it, sure.

Like Britain spends one of their own pedo hunters. And they like, they rip people out of like grocery stores, I assume up and down. the great coasts of this land. Chris, we also got the Australian version with Life After Fighting. Remember that? Oh, man.

Yes, but that has an actual great fight. It does. The end fight of that movie is fucking nuts. There is just something going on in the atmosphere across the entire planet where grown adult men want to see children in peril so they can like, I don't know, I don't know. He's a hero, because you know what, the first time they had, aka their marriage, didn't work out. So, you know, now they have to save them from, from a child traffickers instead of their wife. I wish all human traffickers were this nice.

They put this girl on ice again for about eight and a half days. Like again, she's just... Well, I mean, to be fair, Steve, I've never met one. They might be fine. I don't know. This is weird, though. I mean, because like, obviously now because of the movies that have come out, we're saying shit about Angel Studios and the Conviso movie and whatever.

But I feel like this kind of... of harkens more to like a taken situation it is which is pre that stuff um which is why like like because yes it's a both of those kinds of movies play in the same world of horror or whatever but like this isn't as like diluted and reactionary as i feel the angel studios stuff is like it's dialed back like to a more 2008 they're a very specific group they're not like everywhere kind of big. Right. Yes. Yes. And this Stallone writing credit on it. I mean, I'm sure a draft of this

was written in the 80s or 90s or something. I'm sure. That's possible. I mean, I don't know when this book came out that it's based off of, which is the other thing to keep in mind. But like the Sloan... It was a book. The Stallone part of it is, I feel all the fucking dirter shit. It was like,

I'll punch it up and give it a little more heart for you. I know about heart. You know, I'm a father now. Because it just, it does feel like, it does feel like you can have a much more trim film that doesn't have any of the dirter stuff, and it's the same fucking movie. A book came out in 2014.

Wow. All right, wow. Stallone getting back to work for some reason. Yeah, but you know, there's a decent enough supporting guy, although Michael Pennied sort of disappears in the movie, which I guess is you had to kill something because if you're going back and forth

with David Harbour and this daughter the whole time and the fucking the grandfather who's like cuckin him out of like custody of his own child which is insane who was that guy I have no idea the mom is dead not divorced which I was surprised by yeah yeah and you've got like put the ins and outs of the ruffin mafia Russian mafia were like are just filled again aside from Jason Fleming who's not in it that much are filled the nobody's and I want like something a face yeah guy who's playing like the top dude And you know he's the top dude because he's got a hat on. Yes, that guy, like, that guy should have been somebody. Exactly. Right. We're clearly setting up a sequel with that dude and his fucking cane with a skull on it, which is amazing. Oh, it's kind of awesome.

I mean, like, look, a sequence where Jason Statham beats the shit out of a bunch of dudes in an ill-lit room while drop-kick movies the boys are back are playing. And, like, I can't fucking hate a movie for that. And I'm sure a lot of people had a problem with drop-kicks. being in the and I don't give a fuck so like that entertained me enough I mean it's the kind of thing like you watch it at like you know double the speed until a fight happens then you can slow down watch it speed it back up again but there's no like to the beekeeper there's no like uh you don't feel that awesome catharsis uh that you that you got with the beekeeper so for me I was like yeah the fights are good and everything and the action is entertaining me but I'm not getting that like

Yeah. And the world is less interesting. You know what I mean? The beekeeper nonsense, which is stupid, but fun to just sort of enjoy. Interesting world building, you know. I'm sad to see Michael Payne. I mean, the last time I remember seeing him is that Fantasy Island movie. Yeah.

Oh, my God. It's really sad that he's just turning into these movies. Yeah. And this is it. And it's not even like he's given anything to do. Like, it doesn't team up with Jason Statham. He just weeks, you know. No, that's not good.

Yeah, I was actually, you know, as far as the weeping goes, though, like, he's got a scene where he's, like, drinking and he's like, he's got to break down in front of Statham. And I thought actually, Michael Penn, you pulled it off. I don't think I'd seen him cry in any, or no, doesn't he cry in that terrible crash? Possibly, yeah. Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, he's crying a lot in that movie. But, you know, I just, I wanted to see him in it more. The dude, whoever the dude is who played the head biker guy, that guy was awesome. And as a matter of fact, you're selling him for another movie or something else.

I think so, right? Like, they, um, speaking of the Romero of it all, like that dude's got like a Ken 4-E vibe to him big time, too. Yeah, I could see that for sure. So that was kind of cool. I'd watch a movie with that dude raised in hell. Yeah, totally. You know, whatever.

So, yeah, it's not exactly a run out to the theaters, but I'm glad so many people did. Like, I'm glad a movie like this, even though it's not good, is out in the ecosystem, just like the fucking Jesus thing. Like, whatever it takes to bring people to theater, I don't know with it. It's an action movie. Yes, it's based on a book,

but, like, relatively unknown IP for most people. Dyerard is based on a book similarly, you know? Right, exactly. Like, unless you're into that world of the pulpy, whatever. Yeah, I will never remember Dyerd's based on a book. Yeah, and I wonder, because hasn't it also been, that book has been adapted a couple different times to make a couple different movies?

Yeah, it's interesting that way. I forget. Is it a coloring book? What is this book? I thought, I thought Dyehardt shared it's, source material with another kind of big movie. I could be wrong on that. But anyway, so that's some stuff, you know, out of the theater.

But at home, there's always some stuff to dig through because the thing is, man, like, not every actor is a millionaire or a bazillionaire, you know, so like you've got to fucking pave the driveway. You got to put food on the table. And sometimes that, you know, turns out to be when a secret movie rears its ugly head. Now, Eric, you got the ball rolling on this. This is kind of like a two-for-a-secret movie, actually. But I think we should start with where you started.

Sure. Let me tell you how this all came to pass. Yes, what was going on? So I saw that, you know, I knew I couldn't make it out to the movie theater this weekend. I had a lot going on. So I was like, I'll do a secret movie. And I went up and I saw, ooh, high rollers with John Travolta. just came out.

Look at this poster. How do you say no to that? I'm like, I'm planning my weekend around this thing. Absolutely. Look at lame bond over here. And then I come to find that it's a sequel to another movie called Cash Out. They didn't go Cash Out too.

So I was like, oh shit, I better watch Cash Out before I watch High Rollers. So I know what's going on. And thank God I did, to be honest with you. You need to see Cash Out before you see High Rollers. Is that right? Now, I gave it my best because Eric was talking about these movies. I did watch Cash Out, but I did not get to High Rollers. Yeah, Chris.

Are they both directed by Prince of Darkness Randall Emmett? Yes, they are. Under a pseudonym called like Ivers. I have no idea what any of that's about. Why is it like Burr-Lives? Burl, I have no idea. Why is he the Prince of Darkness, Chris? Isn't he the guy that, uh, from the reality TV show who's also doing all this stuff with,

um, Hey, the guy from the reality TV show. Let's break that. I'll get it. You guys keep going. I'll get it. Okay.

Uh, someone who sucked had a better one than lame bond. James bald. There you go. I like that he's embracing the baldness. And he was great. The main is like 70 years. years old and he looks fantastic in these movies. He's looking really good in cash out,

yes. So cash out is contained like he's trapped in a bank. It's a bank robbery gone awry. What is your retired cop? Retired special forces. He's a retired thief guy who, like the movie starts with him doing one last

big score. Got it. Stealing this like sick looking sports car that apparently Travolta convinced Tom Cruise to let him borrow like for this scene. It's like some of the super rare car thing. Gorgeous automobile. So Travolta like goes to steal it and he gets like fucked over by Kristen Davis,

who's an undercover FBI agent. That's like you get a three months later deal and Lucas Haas is his brother. And that's the whole like dim-witted brother. Yes. Like Lucas Haas tries to do this half-ass bank robbery and Travolta's like, oh geez, what are you doing, man? You can't be doing schemes without your brother. hilariously, cash out involves, like, trying to lift a hard drive full of 600 million in crypto.

Oh, dude, I got to tell you, hearing Trevold to say crypto kind of sucks. And this is the thing is why you have to watch Cash Out before you watch High Rollers is High Rollers opens with you assuming you've seen all that movie because the whole gang is back together. They're on the beach having a wedding. Surprise thing of this Link character who's like this girl that's like good with computers. Yeah, she's a hacker of the team. She's marrying the bank manager from the first movie, and I did not see that coming. Why would you call cash out too if that's the case?

What do we do it? I don't know. She's marrying the hostage from the first movie. The guy with the long hair? Yeah. What the fuck? He's all over this movie, too. What?

But then the budget has been stepped up. This is pretty, so there's more going on here because he's got a, John Travolta has to convince. the casino world, right, that he's a billionaire that's a real elusive billionaire within the world of the movie named Donovan Cage. That's awesome. So you have Travolta introducing himself as Cage, making me think of a better move. Chris, real quick, did you find the Princess Darkness?

Randall Emmett, of course, was indeed. He is from, he's the ex-husband of Lalakent from Vanderpump Rules. he was on the show for a while. Also, Prince of Darkness, he was indeed the guy who was Bruce Willis's, who was exploiting Bruce Willis towards the end of his career. I see.

That's why my Prince of Darkness meter was going off. Yes, he's the producer on all of these. Look at this shit. He's got a midnight and the switch grass. Yes, yes. And he's still, apparently up until even last year, he was still pushing Bruce to work.

He's kind of a king of a bad movie in terms of producing. But he's also produced good movies. He's like a Scorsese guy. He worked on the Irishman and silent. He did. He put him money to a lot of those things. Yeah. Oh, my God.

This dude has actually produced, I believe, another two recent secret movies that, Eric, you covered both of them. Armour with Stallone and Alarum. He is the king of those movies. And I think also, yeah, I don't know if he is involved with Saban films, but they seem to work in tandem. quite often. Better reign in hell than serve in heaven. That's what they say. Isn't that from that David,

to complain God? Yes, it sure is. I believe that's what I believe Timothy Hutton says. Yes, I do believe so. So, Andrew, you mentioned Kristen Davis in the first movie. She's been recast as Gina Gershawn, which is kind of a trade-up, but then she's kidnapped and not in the movie really that much at all.

And the plot is a little convoluted because it's a one last job type of thing, this evil billionaire guy, Salazar. Oh, I love a Salazar. Right? He sets them up to swindle this New Orleans casino owner named Zade or something. Zade Black. Zade Black. Yes.

Anyway, there's a reveal that Salazar and Zade Black are actually brothers. And this is a sibling rivalry for some reason. Oh, shit. We do hear that Zad Black. Zade Black owns the largest collection of authentic snuff films in the world. Authentic. Like, come on. Can I get,

do we get to see The Authenticator at any moment? That's the guy I want to meet. Steve Buscemi in this as Authenticator. Oh, no, unfortunately, you don't get to see those snuff films. But, you know, this is just a, it's infinitely better than cash out one, but it's still kind of dull and lifeless. There's at one point early on in the film, Travolta and crew are stuck on a rooftop, but you can tell they're not filming on a rooftop.

They're just like shooting them up from the ground like that. Oh, man. They have to jump off the roof into a pool. So you got them like that. Then you just cut to just a shot of a pool, and it's just Travolta jumping in regular style. That, wow. We jumped off.

There's no cut to a doll or a dummy or a... an effect shot. Just fuck a doll off a roof, dude. Let's do it. What are you doing? Like, I feel like Travolta's got to step in and be like, yeah, I'll give you $5,000 more dollars for a dummy there. You know what I mean?

Like anything. But it was better than cash out one, which maybe is why I rated it. Two out of five stars. Check it out. I don't think he could be given five grand if he's fucking borrowing cars from Tom Cruz in the Scientology parking lot. I don't know how that's going to work. The Celebrity Center parking lot.

Well, maybe it's a thing where they were switching. He's like, all right, like, let me borrow that car. You can have one of my jets, you know. I see. Because he, Treveldt is doing just fine, man. He's got his own plane. I bet you anything. Because the start of Cash Out 1 is him and Kristen Davis, like, sitting in a private jet.

I bet you anything that was Travolta's plane. And he was like, yeah, come shoot on it. It'll be cool. You know, like, come on. I'm sure, yeah. Yeah, I would not, from what I've seen, I would not recommend Cash Act. but based on Eric's description of what happens in the movie

I might be checking out high roll. You've got to do it. I mean, you have to see what these guys are up to these days. And Travolta is not terrible and he's looking great. I mean, wow, I mean, the man's like in his 70s.

He is trying in that catchout. He will say he is giving an actual performance in a movie. Put him in a working man. You know what I mean? Instead of that fucking weird Ricky Jay dude who wears a cape at the end of the movie which is a bit of a plus dude I was laughing

oh okay this guy who I am calling scumbag the penguin uh huh yes that's what he's he's dressed exactly like the penguin but more of a scumbag dude I laughed so hard at the reveal of that guy yes I literally almost passed out in my scene of the movie I got

so lightheaded and I got dizzy and I was just like just scream laughing at the reveal of this guy he kind of looked also like the fat guy from Borat. Yes, he does. To give you an idea there. Just make, oh, who's the guy behind it all? Oh, it's fucking John Travolta. Now I've got a movie. Well, I don't know. You're really selling me on this fat man in a cape at the end of this working man. I need to see this movie. Well, just imagine if it was Travolta still bald dressed up like the penguin dude. Like that would still be pretty

cool. Sure. Like, honestly, the only thing that guy's missing at the end of that movie is a fucking umbrella. Like, he looks exactly like the penguin. He's got the cigarette colder the whole bit. Yeah, if the penguin is really into sex slavery. Yeah, which you might be, you know, depending on the... It happens every day. But that's going to do it with this edition of OSL, but as always, there's a ton of stuff coming up here this week on our wide world of shows.

First, though, if you missed it last week, we had two Patreon bangers, including the listener requested the Nexus, where we indeed were talking about that great Tony Todd performance. Someone online said that his appearance as Worf's brother was better acting than this episode disagree that came out he's great in it

and then also on Friday if you missed it perfect time get your get your entertainment for the weekend ready to roll folks never too early to plan the weekend with the gamementary came out or sinkable commentary to David Fincher's the game oh the Michael Douglas

impressions of it all hell yeah so that's going on those are already out so you can get those now Patreon.com slash we ate movies where tomorrow It's April 1st, but we're not fooling around. We have an all-new episode. An Enemy of the State kicking off a two-episode-only, two-episode-only, tribute to Gene Hackman.

But this movie, it's a lot better than you remember. We had a great time talking about it. And you can catch it on the Patreon, ad free. That's right. Zero commercials on that fucker. And then closing out the week, this was a total, total banger. and like just the classic sense of a lifetime movie. We're talking pocket dial murder on once in a lifetime.

Yes, yes. And the Big Daddy Dispatch, this was called the pocket dial murders. Incorrectly, it's pocket dial murder. I saw some people had a little confusion about that. I don't think you should be that confused. It's just an extra ass and a thaw thrown in. Well, also, I do understand, though, that nobody's ever called it a pocket. This is a butt dial murder.

It's a butt dial murder. That is what happens on the hell. It is a butt dial. It is a butt dial. They just happen to call that because they can't have butt on the post. Yes. So the premise is someone butt dial someone and on the phone they hear someone being murdered. So now we have to investigate that.

By the way, folks are you listening to this on audio? Check out our live streams. We're doing this live every Monday more or less at noon Eastern. YouTube.com slash we hate movies. And here's the thing about that extra S there. in the BDD. Indeed, there's only one pocket dial broadcast murder, but

the movie pocket dial murder actually contains murders. There are. Multiple bodies drop in the movie, but only one is broadcast over the phone. We covered this. We recorded this episode. It's coming out to you folks at home. I do not remember

the second murder. Of course. It's the file of it. So, don't worry, dude. None of us remember anything about that movie. We'll have to actually relisten to the episode to remind ourselves if we have to. But that is going to do it for this week's OSL, folks. As always, thanks so much for tuning in. If you're getting this on the audio feed, the Wednesday after.

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