We Hate Movies - S16: On-Screen Live: Paul Thomas Andersons's 'One Battle After Another' starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Chase Infiniti, Teyana Taylor & Benicio del Toro!
Episode Date: October 8, 2025Originally live-streamed Monday, October 6, 2025 On this week's On-Screen Live, the gang is on-hand to sift through some entertainment news items, analyze the tepid weekend box office numbers, and d...ig up another gem of a Secret Movie™️, however the biggest goal of this week's show was to chat a blue streak about Paul Thomas Andersons's One Battle After Another, which takes up the majority of the episode. No spoilers are dropped, so feel free to listen without having seen it yet! Steve also gives his thoughts on The Smashing Machine, while Andrew and Chris heap loads of praise on the new Jim Jarmusch film, Father Mother Sister Brother, dropping later this year. Be sure to check out the new Craven Tier on our Patreon! This all-new, video-centric tier grants you access to all the audio shows we put out each month, as well as two new shows, WHM After Dark, a monthly, AMA-style chat show where we answer questions from Patreon supporters, and Scaredy Cats, a quarterly show where we break down a more contemporary horror film. October's After Dark airs Tuesday, October 21 at 8pm/et and the first Scaredy Cats episode, covering Barbarian, will drop on October 29th! Be sure to pick up our digital show on Terminator: Dark Fate, available now in our Patreon shop! Don’t sleep on snagging your tickets to our 15th Anniversary show this December where we’re talking all things Arnold in Total Recall! It’s gonna be a gas and we wanna see you there! Click through for tickets now! Throughout 2025, we’ll be donating 100% of our earnings from our merch shop to the Center for Reproductive Rights. So head over and check out all these masterful designs and see what tickles your fancy! Shirts? Phone cases? Canvas prints? We got all that and more! Check it out and kick in for a good cause! Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
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Well, well, well, what is going to be.
going on one and all. Welcome to WHM on screen live. I'm Andrew Jupin, alongside three other
embattled individuals. We have Stephen Sadek. Howdy? How's it going? Going good, man. How are you?
Doing great. Happy to be back. Yes. Loving this, uh, uh, balmy October weather. You know it,
dude. You know, a rare thing. How about this? You guys, uh, we're talking Rangers
losing in the preseason. Giants losing in the regular season and the Yankees losing in the
season. You love it.
Right, Chris Cabin? All spaces of life.
I mean, that's what this weather does
to you is, I mean, it's just
a curse on us all, including on
Netflix teams. And I have to
ask, Stephen, the SADAC machine,
does that make you Polish?
It grinds you down to about a five,
four level. Oh.
That's like a Dr. Seuss device
of some kind. Yeah. And
of course we have Bob joined. Or I mean, Eric
Ferguson. Well, I'm looking for
the rendezvous point for
a few small beers
what time is it
yes tell me what time it is
yeah well we don't need time
by the way you know if you're
doing the audio version you're getting half the show
here look at this I put it I put on
a robe I had
that's yeah dude I'm
I'm dressed as an approximation
of comrade Joshua I feel
yeah you got the beard for it
Eric you're just missing you need a special
order the old man glasses
these are not as good
they need a bigger lock all the sun from every
angle kind of yeah oh you're right
I'd oh yeah the sides oh
the side guys like you're going to be
sitting at like a fucking
like gambling machine all day
yes I mean I I predict this
Halloween costume to be everywhere
not just because of our sister but it's
it's so easy and it's so like
the cheapest it's the cheapest it's such a good
good movie everybody's loving it second
point I think Eric has
cleverly figured out a way to drink
good beer at noon on a Monday.
Right, yeah, it's part of the costume.
Yeah, yeah, that's all
fun little costume. You're
dropping off a political radical
who was trying to save his daughter
before you got here. Yes, thank you. I would
take, I would, I would get a DUI
for the revolutionion.
That is right.
Speaking of the revolution, what's going on?
Our revolutionaries in the chat, Graham Hill,
Lappenstein sucked
meth. I'm so, Rachel.
Icy weaner, Rose, foolish hooligan, love seeing y'all back in the chat, Osiris, Mason, Pete Robles.
I can't believe these chatters. These chatters are making you say, icy weiner sucked.
Yeah.
That's right.
A small price to pay.
I agree with you, Stephen.
Bob Ferguson's are going to be everywhere.
I do hope some cosplayers take up the challenge.
You get a Stephen J. Lockjaw post-attack.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yes.
You're going to meet some putty.
you're going to need some putty
but I want to see post attacks
I want to see group costumes
let's have the whole like
get your friends together
do the French 75
you know one of you can be
Alana Hame and that hilarious
fucking liquor store wig
I mean I even think the
the Benicio costume would be a lot of fun
because like he's in a karate
or a karate outfit for most of that movie
I think at the end he's just got a denim
like he's in regular like denim jacket
but I think he still has the karate
ghee pants
yeah so that's what I think that's what
makes it a costume, and it's also another pretty inexpensive one for that.
Yeah, the great thing about going to someone from one battle after another is they're all
fairly cheap Halloween costumes.
So I thought we'd do something a little different today, you know, before we get into box office
and all that stuff, forget birthdays, forget death days.
I think we should take a little gander at some recent headlines.
Ooh.
From the entertainment biz and give our thoughts on some movie news, entertainment news.
I would love to.
Is it about that,
is it about that young ingenue Tilly Norwood
that variety can't stop writing about?
I love those articles.
She OD,
she OD'd on the streets of the grid.
Oh,
that's it for it.
Yeah,
she fucking died horribly.
It was awesome.
Too much megabytes.
Yeah,
she got derezed on the streets of the grid.
I heard they had the pump her stomach.
It was full full of gigabytes.
Digital cocaine.
It gets them every time.
Oh, yeah,
that's dumb.
No,
but here's another thing that might be a bad.
idea. Jason Bateman and talks to
direct Universal Features take on
John Grisham's The Partner
with Tom Holland
gearing up to Star
here. Now this is a Grisham
tale about a lawyer that
fakes his own death for a bunch of money.
And then someone tries to fucking
fuck up his shit being
hidden away or whatever. And I think Tom Holland
is playing that guy. If it keeps him away
from James Bond, I'm very happy.
But I want to see
I want to see little Tom Holland in the courtroom going
This man leads to...
I want the death penalty on this little boy
like you wouldn't believe.
Yeah, I could see that.
He's the one hunting. I assume he's the one trying to find
whoever hid themselves.
He's probably on the hunt.
I think he's probably the guy.
No, I think the guy is the thing is...
Because the guy is trying to find out
who's blowing up his cover.
So I think he might be the guy.
And then it's like,
trying to queers a deal
and then he goes
and tries to fucking find him.
Absolutely Scrooge.
It's absolutely screwed.
That's, I mean, I think
that's pretty clear.
I was just, I was,
I was thrilled because my God,
we're just,
we're doing more adaptations
of this dude.
You thought it was over with.
That's good.
I'd be,
hey,
look, that's maybe more,
I want a courtroom drama.
Yes.
You hated the last good one.
You hated true number two.
That's true.
Yeah.
Good movie.
make a good one. I'd like that.
Whoa. Get the hell out of here.
Hey, speaking of bad decisions
and going back on them immediately,
this is quite embarrassing. Do you guys
fucking see this? Amazon Prime
video already quietly scrubbing the
gunless James Bond artwork after
everybody flipped out over the weekend.
I didn't even notice this even happened. He's known
for using guns. Yes.
There is, dude. He's a gun guy.
I got a couple of these. So look, this is, so this was
the Connery one. Okay.
So this is, on the left, if you went to watch these movies on Prime over the weekend,
well, I think it was in conjunction for yesterday, because yesterday was like James Bond Day or whatever.
Happy birthday, James Bond.
So, yes, look at this. Look at this shit.
It's kind of great.
Well, it's the way that, I mean, also, it's a little unnatural post to even hold a gun.
Yeah.
But it's a super unnatural pose to not hold the gun.
Oh, my hand is having Trembish.
Oh, look at that.
There's nothing there.
He's rubbing his nipple.
Yeah.
Oh, you're going to get a little harder for you.
He thinks he's about to have a heart attack.
He's about to grip his arm right there.
He's got the pinky out in the gun holding hand.
So, like, with the gun gone, he's also just got the pinky out.
It looks so dumb.
And now, that's a British thing.
Like, the teacup, you do the pinky out, with the gun, you do the pinky out.
I think just for holding.
I don't think that would be good when you actually fire the weapon, not having a full grip on it.
Now, here's the really embarrassing one, though.
Look what they did to my boy.
look with if you fucking went on amazon yesterday and you wanted to watch golden eye you just got this
rolling up his sleeves i guess
he's like jerking off a horse look at that it's what you do when your boss is like now i need you
to come in on saturday okay uh-huh yep yeah i'll come in oh yeah yeah exactly yeah i'll be right
there coming in on saturday this is just too much 90 shit like the grisham the grisham thing
is 90s shit and this like
the ET like let's take
the let's put the radios in for fucking
why who cares
we're done with this of all the social
problems in the world right now
that we that Amazon could be
putting their
their massive resources into solving
the guns on the James Bond poster
should be fairly low on my left he's not the one
going into the schools with that stuff
exactly
really isn't
so speaking of the 90s Chris Cabin
final news item
over the week here. And this one, I'm, you know,
I don't know, I'm kind of excited for this.
Dude's got a decent, ish track record.
Resident Evil,
the new production from Zach Craigor
casting Severance Breakout, Zach Cherry,
true detectives, Callie Reese.
And another fella there,
what's this guy's name? Oh, Jonah Wilson from
Twisted Metal, which I do not watch.
I have not watched it. But the three of them added
into this movie, Callie Reese specifically, dude,
that's like, I need a badass in there.
you know, you can see Zach
Zach Cherry's probably going to get like
the horrible fucking nerd
death along the way.
You're going to want to sign up
for our Craven tier to hear our thoughts on
Zach Krueger's barbarian. But I'm a big
you know, a big Zach Kregor
fan, a movie fan. Not a big fan
of the weirdest, could you know, FYI.
But big fan of his movie work.
Right. And it's just kind of an interesting thing.
Obviously, he's on the carousel and now you
have to do something and it's Resident Evil
and there's never been a good Resident Evil.
movie so it's like I don't know
we're gonna see we're just gonna see people
will fight you on that Steve I agree with you
completely but people
people love those dumb movies for whatever
reason the middle section of the Paul
WS Anderson gets a lot of
defense uh I
I think one of them is passable
but the rest of them are trash
I could imagine it's a good hangover
fair you know what I mean for a lot that's not
what they're arguing they're arguing
like like
legitimately genius because of screens on screens
Oh, no, no, dude, it's just, it's just a zombie action movie.
It's never going to be any of that.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
But with Crager at the Hound, this could be fun.
I haven't played one of those games in a really long time,
and I feel like we're on the fourth remastering of part four or whatever the shit.
I don't understand.
I guess we're just like making graphics look better every time.
I feel like there's a lot of new additions of games that I played close to 30 years ago.
Do they remaster, do they remaster twisted metal yet?
get that remastered? I'm sure
you can, dude. I'm sure it's just in time for that
TV show you're not watching.
I'm not a fan
of remastering those Tomb Raider
games because I like to jerk off to a lady
that looked like one of Gumby's blockheads
with huge tits. Exactly. If I can't
jerk off to a chick that looks like goo,
what am I even doing? Well, that's a challenge.
You see the blocks on her?
Oh my God. Exactly.
Look at them polygots.
Now we're talking.
So, I don't know, interesting additions to that cast.
I thought this guy, this Jonah Wilson, I thought that was the name of the dude who, that new Chewbacca, but that's a different.
Oh, no, that's Yona something or something or other, yeah.
I was like, ooh, Chewy and Resident Evil, but it's just this guy.
I don't know, does he play like the clown or something?
I don't know what goes on on the Twisted Metal Show.
I haven't gone near it.
I could not tell you.
Just FYI.
Oh, yes.
Junis
Sodomio.
Pardon me?
I knew I was way off.
Can we get some Junos
Sodomier for the table, please?
Junis Sotomo.
I thought you were saying a Supreme Court
Justice man for a second.
Some Jonah,
Santa Mayor, please. Thank you.
Make it sound.
I can't wait to read his scathing
dissent.
So anyway, that's some news items in the
entertainment biz now for the big news items man we want to check out what's going on at the box
office this is a segment we like to call highest gross
switched out to all new movies it's all right it's been a nice long time since we've done a
highest gross segment so mm-mm switched out to all new movies it would almost have to be
since the last time we did this i believe was in july uh
So here we go.
Coming to at number five,
maybe some quick thoughts about this.
I think maybe just Steve and I saw it.
Conjuring the last rights.
Still kicking it at the box office,
if you can even believe it here.
You know what's funny?
I literally had a ticket for this movie.
And when you guys told me the runtime,
I unfandango did it.
Did a little exchange, did it?
That's right, yep.
Yeah, I love the fan.
That's the best part of the Pandango app
is the ability to get a refund on almost any ticket
if you do it in a timely fashion.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
and just you know what it's like i'm going to get to it eventually put that right in my like you know
fandango credit and i'm going to use it to buy a movie ticket someday so don't worry about it yeah it's a great
system you got bad gas and you're like do i really want to see the count during last rights
you know i'm just going that's not why that's not why i mean you weren't you weren't home farting your
ass off eric it was the run time is what i'm going come on but like a midday showing you can fart your brains out
the fucking place is not going to be that
packed. That's fair. I will say
this conjuring, I did see this,
this is probably my favorite of the bunch
because it's the last one.
Ferecally, we are done
with this shit. And I'm like, I
after the last one, which was the
worst one by far, I think.
It is. Yes. I was like,
at least this one is legible. It is
long. It's way too fucking long.
But like, I was like, this is legible.
This is easy to get through. The
fucking marriage plot is stupid. But
whatever.
And I'm like, and maybe it's over.
Maybe this is over. Thank God.
I was kind of hoping that Patrick Wilson was going to have a heart attack
or that pinball, that ping pong game.
I was like, come on right there.
Because they are teasing this whole movie that like he's going to drop dead of a heart
attack.
And like, you start thinking to yourself like, all right, like I've watched all over
these movies.
I've looked at their Wikipedia.
I know that he had like a stroke towards the end of his life and died five years later.
like so you're then like pathetically using knowledge of these people's lives or at least i was
to be like boy are they going to kill him a different way in this and like of course none of that
fucking game to be they should have them do you know there's going to be more of these chris there's
gonna be more of this this is a very common if it's the tv show whatever but if there's another
one of these i'm going to be very sad but what if in this other one of these if they continue
this and patrick wilson has he strokes out he's like has a big stroke and then he's like a
ghost helping
Lorraine from the other side
I like that
I kind of was wondering if there was going to be
some she sees him on the other side
and even better
and after you help her from the other side
you can finger her from the other side as well
that's right technically true
definitely could we do that I would like to be clear
I would not like to see any of this
what if when he gets to that other side
he thinks he's going to help out
but then he's in now he's in jail with all the other
people he all the other souls he screwed over life jail he's in afterlife jail okay that's what
that's what that's what after life is okay I was not aware of that was all these other ghosts
you'd be here we ever heard of hell sure yeah but there's other another part of it too you know
you're not going there what are you fucking stupid there's a other part of it I might hit limbo
I might get limbo and that's what limbo if you're lucky yeah that's what I'm like I want this
movies not in limbo
week five another four million
dollars rocking this fucker up
to a 168
domestically 458 million
globally with a budget of around 55
million dollars so yeah
this is just fine and it's already it's paying
for Warner Brothers to do some other
things like a movie we're going to be talking about at length
later so I'm here for
it something I was not here for
Steve you got something? I agree
it's totally offensive the ending
is really the worst part
is just like that I want to see
this woman's wedding is just like
I don't, I really do not
you know what I mean? No, no, no. We'll
see. Yeah, also the fact
that you would invite
former haunting people
to your daughter's wedding, dude, you have
no fucking friends. We have
to have a seat for Annabelle. We have to have a seat
for Annabelle at the wedding. Come on.
Let's have her come through.
Honey, this is someone who I fought a ghost for them
once, so be nice.
You got to be like, oh,
That's one of those wedding invitations you get
and it pisses you off because you're like, fuck.
Now, I got to go.
They solved their ghost pro.
We have to go.
Now we've got to buy her a fucking present.
We've got to get a hotel for the night.
God, this is going to come.
Yes, if you don't get something good off the registry,
they're going to bring that ghost back.
Lily Taylor's arguing with Ron Livingston.
He's like, can't we just send a freaking gift?
He fixed our car, okay?
Yeah, Lily Taylor guesting at that wedding,
Ron Livingston nowhere to be found
I guess it's possible
that character died before the
Or divorce
Oh yeah
A lot of these extreme haunting marriages
Aren't really gonna last
I would I would wage
And they fail
It happens
Yeah
Speaking of stuff that happens
Sometimes it happens that movies like this come out
Gabby's dollhouse the movie
What is this?
I don't fucking know
It's some television show
that we've made into a movie
that grows $5.2 million in its second week.
Yeah, you know, 33 million globally.
It's the only kids movie out now until Thanksgiving.
So it's got some runway, but like,
is it like a Guller Rouge travels?
They get small and they go in the house.
Nice.
I don't know.
I don't know about that.
The only way I know about this movie is there has been an advertisement for it
above one of the exits to the subway in my neighborhood.
So I don't know.
I think it's a Netflix show
Maybe it's a somebody TV show
Peacock maybe if it's universal
Each episode begins with the live action
Gabby playing in her bedroom
She then unboxes a miniature package
Received in the dollhouse delivery
Brought to her by the Meow Meow mailbox
Oh
That is a catalyst for an adventure
Inside of the animated world
Inside for dollhouse
Okay I'm on board now
Yeah
I'll talk to you on boat for Gabby's dollhouse
The movie hold on tight it says
Changing out my Fandango credits
Going somewhere
Gabby puts on
her cattyers headband and shrinks
down with her stuffed toy panty paws
who comes alive.
I'm surprised. I feel like I actually sound like I'm doing
one of those, it's always the best
when, uh, Madlebs? No,
the Macy's, uh, the Macy's
parade when they have to like,
the announcer has no idea what the fuck they're talking about.
Gabby puts on her cattyers headbands, shrinks down with
their stuffed toy panty paws. It comes alive.
Gabby has a hug attack. Oh, and now it's
blowing down Fifth Avenue. Bye. Yeah, exactly.
And now Gabby's dancing outside.
of Macy's with Santa
you totally
does sound like that copy that like Al Roker's got a
fucking gun to his head being forced to read
and here's a gentle green giant
here with broccoli and peas to give
us all the vitamins
we need. Oh, it's
SpongeBob Squarepants in the land
about what the fuck is this saying?
I do have to ask
who is that, is that
Kristen Whig? It is
Christian Whig. Okay, I've been
like trying, I've been seeing this
poster everywhere and like, I've just
been seeing her face. I'm like, wait, is that Barbara
Compton or is that Kristen Whig?
No, it's Kristen Weig. Yeah, she's
there because you didn't like Wonder Woman
1984 enough. Yeah.
Where is Kristen Wig? She's the
one. The silver-haired girl? Yes.
Oh, my God. She's not the 17-year-old girl.
Well, no, I know that, but I
thought there was no way this other person
was going to be fucking Kristen Wig.
Yeah, it's sadly, Kristen Wig.
Oh, if I get my face closer to the computer,
Yeah, there it is.
Her next on her, on her, her docket is Masters of the Universe doing the voice of Robato.
Okay.
And then something called Cut Off, which is, seems like a Jonah Hill directed dromedy deal.
Well, she's a good talent.
I like her.
I do.
No, I do.
I root for her.
But I just, I just won't be checking out whatever this shit is.
Because again, it's not for me.
If your kids fucking like it, whatever.
I'll be there in the bathroom.
Oh, dude.
They'll let you in, my friend.
you're getting arrested if you have the medellos you're getting arrested i think beer or no beer
he's getting arrested a few small gabbies oh man moving right along here uh i think it's one of
the best of the year others may differ from my opinion but in it number three for its first week
the smashing machine uh steve sadick wanted to give you uh a minute here to talk about it because
you recently got to it i did it this weekend tepid uh response for me man it just it was just
okay. Like I think
the Rock and
Emily Blunt are great in it. Their domestic
scenes are the best things in the movie
him hulking out
but also like it's all this controlled
rage when he's dumping out that shake
that she made I was
oh dude yeah because she made it wrong
or whatever. Yes, it's got the wrong milk in it
or whatever it's just I told you it's a
banana and a half now it's a banana and a half
she's like the last week it was a half
but this week it's a banana and a half
and he's just like but thank you so much
really appreciate it. I really appreciate it.
It's so, the tension there is so
good and they have great chemistry together.
The
MMA of it all, I think
the movie doesn't do a very good job of
I don't think those scenes are particularly well-filled.
I think the movie is actually really well directed, but I
didn't, I don't find those scenes
terrifically exciting. I don't think that
like... How he captures the actual
fighting, you mean? Exactly. And like, in boxing
movies, it's very clear.
when like, oh, you got to hit the eye because that's what his weakness is.
And like, it's very dumbed down boxing.
But as a film goer, like, it lets you understand, like, what the strategy is and how
you're going to win and how you're going to lose.
There's a little bit of that with the illegal need of the head stuff.
It's, I also just don't care for MMA, which might be a bit of a hindrance on me.
Right. But ultimately, like, the ending, which I'm not going to spoil, but like, the title card
comes up after the whole events of the film and there's a little bit of a postcard.
where you see something that's a little
different than the rest of the movie. But it's just
like, hey, FYI, these guys
only made this much money and now
these new UFC fighters make millions
of dollars. This was his story. His name is Mark Kerr and I'm like
the money was never the point of the movie. So I don't know,
like leaving it on that note kind of, it underlines what I
think is a problem in the movie. I don't know what the reason
of this movie is. I don't know if it's a domestic drama. I don't know if it's a
sports movie, I don't know if it's
whatever it is, if we're trying to make
the MMA, are we saying something about MMA,
are we saying something about the violence of MMA, or are we saying
something about anything
really? I just, it just sort of
is what it is, and I think it's,
it just, for some reason, it just lacks
intensity and to me, reason
for being. The reason
is Oscar Knights.
Yeah. Yes, which I
think he's very good in it, and so is she's great.
I think the thing with the money is just
trying to highlight again, like this
it's from a like thankless
point in this sports existence
where like you couldn't even say like
well you know Mark Kerr got the shit
knocked out of him and he had to learn how to lose
but at least he was making millions of dollars
that dude's just fucking shopping at Costco
like everybody else and doesn't have a great life
and I'm sure he's pretty thankful
this movie got made about him
you know what I mean? So I always that's how I took the money thing
I 100% I agree with that
and I think it also has to do with like
the playing off of
you know what's the difference of how you see yourself
versus who you are in the world
and when those moments have to actually
when you have to come in conflict with that
reality like yeah and like
that's his the whole thing is that like he is
obsessed with his vision of himself for a good
portion of the movie and then he has to deal with the fact
that like in reality he's just another
guy who did that like he's not
anybody special he just did this
that's what I but that's what I think it's not
it's not him that realize that
it's the real version which
sort of a bit of a difficult thing to deal with.
I don't know. It just, it really just
kind of didn't work for it, but I don't hate it or anything
like that. It just sort of was like a low
level, like, I was just kind of really
disappointed by it because I think it looks good. I really
like the use of diagetic music
throughout, like that just centers you and the time.
Oh, yeah, big time. And in not an annoying
way. Like, it's always like music that's
like playing and, you know what I mean, in a doctor's office
that's the right thing, but it's also the right volume,
which is something that I don't think
diagetic music gets very well
very often or like there's always a TV
on or something that you know what I mean it's just I like that part of it I think that
the costume design the production design is really good it just I was just waiting for it
to happen let's drop those stars how many stars I gave it three out of five on letterbox
there you go there you go bad um yeah you know I have to say I think this is a great example
of the potential of value and a platform release because a two four my friends
they just went wide with this fucker as wide as you could go and a
gross six million dollars it's the lowest
opening weekend gross of a DJ film which I mean it does
not matter that's just a statistic and of course
obviously it would be considering the kinds of movies he normally makes
so that's not indicative of anything but I do think like
they really should have given this a beat and it's like because it's only
now like you release it on October 3rd like October is when you see
it's like the official start to if you're trying to like get something
into award season October is like that first month where it's viable
and like platform that shit
New York and L.A. Give it a weekend. Give it
two. See what goes on. See if you can build
word of mouth and then
spread it out because now
you've blown your wad. You opened
$6 million everywhere. You can't expand it
anymore. There's no way for this to
get any kind of word of mouth going
to the point where
it'll stave off like losing theaters.
So like they totally screwed themselves
on the release of this unfortunately.
But you know
maybe maybe some folks will find it. Maybe
to do like a re-release kind of closer
towards the holidays or something.
Do you think it's going to hurt the
nominations possibilities? No, I don't
think so because I think enough people are going to be
at least talking about him.
Yeah, for sure. And her, I think she's really good.
Yes, I think Emily Blunt was also really great
in the movie. And I do agree with you that
the parts that I was paying attention to
the most were their domestic
scenes. And honestly,
anytime outside of the ring,
mainly because I'm just not,
I don't care about mixed parts.
arts. I really don't. So it was just like
get me more about the people. And so I was
receptive more to those scenes. But I do think the movie needs to
and I agree with you. I think but I think it's the movie's job to make
you care about the MMA. Oh yeah. Paul's flat on that. Except
the opening scene is pretty cool with the
what you're doing the the DV version and then it turns into whatever.
You know what I mean? That was actually pretty compelling. But other
than that, yeah. Yeah. Pretty compelling.
We'll talk about it at length a little later in the program but
in its second week of release Paul Thomas Sanderson's
One battle after another in its second, $11.1 million.
And yeah, you know, the great success of things like conjuring last rights are why, you know, this movie doing, let's see, where are we here globally, 102 million, globally, 43 million domestically on around, there's been a lot of reports of the budget, so we'll say 135 million.
Like the conjuring being so great in the black is why it doesn't matter that this is a doing gang bust.
yeah um but it's still you know looking at it uh what are we here jesus like 12.8 million
dollars in imax like this weekend alone pretty wild or uh it's in the two weeks together rather
um i've seen it on i max twice we'll get to it more later but uh yeah pretty great that it was able
to kind of hold in and wasn't just like a week i could see this coming back like towards uh maybe
the award season getting like that opi i max re-release kind of thing
they'll definitely look at like what all is going to be in iMacs like around the end of the year
and i bet you anything you'll see like split screens of you know some some showtimes it's
whatever movie other times one battle getting back in because next week we're going to have
tron aries i assume taking up a good amount of these uh showing so they're going to want to
get it back at some point yeah for at least one week i'm going to guess with tron arries we'll see but
yeah i don't know what kind of i don't know what kind of
legs that fucker's going to have.
Speaking of a film with no legs
because it is
supposedly a one and done
like just for this week
because it's not really a
movie. It's a filmed
record release party
technically. It was number one at the box office.
Taylor Swift, the official release party
of a showgirl.
It was just those three
four and five October
in theaters. Is she singing a song
at least or what are we talking about? Like
don't they play the album or something
yeah I don't particularly know
what I don't know I have no idea
I just heard anyone in the chat
yeah call it out chat let us know if you've seen this
and what this is I just heard Chris Cab and groaning
we're going to lose our precious audience
all the young people
let's just say we're logging off right now
let's just say it's great I'm fairly swift
agnostic like if I hear some of her music
and it's okay I'm like cool I don't search it out
I agree with
you i feel like if she turns out to be god i didn't wrong her too much by going so against it
sure i'm agnostic yeah uh-huh uh-huh uh-i'm so rachel in the chat says it's basically an album
listening party with the music video attached at the end with some behind-the-scenes stuff from the
tour so at least you get to see here it's not i i just thought it was just like aren't we excited about
like you go to the theater and it's just being like this album is great it's just this on the
hi this is taylor swift thanks for coming all the way to the theater you're not going to see me
or anything i'm in my pajamas recording this in my huge house but here's my record here's track one
she could she could do that she could just she absolutely yeah yeah this is and they would love her
for it love her for but i mean this is no era's tour opening i mean 33 million kind of
whatever and it's gone after this so you know rock would like 33 million this week
I'm sure. I'm sure you would have.
But again, you know, DJ, we know
you're watching. It's not about the box office
with this one, dude. Elsewhere,
just wanted to get in. Something here was
just featured at the New York Film Festival
and Focus Features is already
flushing it right down the toilet.
But Ronan Day Lewis's
Anamone
released 700K
which would be fine
except for the fact that for some reason
focus features put this bed boy
on 865 screens what on earth are you thinking what is what is happening in your brain
i think daniel de louis matters that much are you crazy dude i honestly feel there was multiple
meetings and it was exactly like that guys it's daniel day's film out of retirement right the grand
return there's going to be roses tossed at us if it was p t and if it was a p t anderson
movie with fucking daniel day louis that's another thing if it was a annual day louis
and his son making a movie together with Sean Bean.
Shouldn't films have to be made by filmmakers?
Did the ballot of Jack and Rose do crazy numbers that I missed it?
No, it did not.
There are Daniel DeLewis movies, a Daniel Day Lewis movie.
This is the Daniel Day Lewis movie.
You know what I mean?
Like anyone should have seen this comment.
Daniel Day lose us with this one.
I did not see it.
A friend of the show, Sean Weiner saw it at New York Film Festival and thought it was
finds, it's sort of
like Daniel Day and
Sean Bean are acting against one another and then
any time they're not acting, it's just kind of like a
music video vibe.
The last movie that he's
known most for is a movie
like partially at least
about a very barbed relationship
between two people who think
their brothers. And then you make a
movie about a barbed
relationship between two brothers
as the comeback movie that nobody
wants to see. What the fuck?
What are you thinking?
Well, because you're living in, you know, you're...
Davita Loka.
Yeah, yeah, I guess so.
Whatever.
But, yeah, I just, I saw the number 865 and I almost fell off my chair.
That's some bad planning.
Because that's all the money your movie's going to make.
Because, you know what?
To say what you will about the smashing machine, like, I can see them being like,
at least we're going to get a weekend to the box office for ourselves before
Tron Arias comes in and blows doors off
the place for at least one weekend. We know that
it's going to have one weekend where it's really going to feast.
Who knows what happens after that? But like
this, I'm just like, where was your, if you're,
the only thing that makes sense is that you really thought
Daniel DeLewis, on his own,
just him was worth this. And it just doesn't make a sense.
Also, like not really any advertising for this.
No. No. No. No. I mean, again, the smashing machine,
I saw tons of trailers. Yeah.
And TV spots. Like, people do that movie's coming out
this week. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so
So, yeah, anamone.
Just had to put that out there.
Is it anemone or anemone?
Is it anemone?
I don't know.
I have no idea.
Monomino.
Chat, let me know.
Is it like a sea anemone?
Don't you say see anemone?
I guess we'll have to defer to you, Steve.
You're the book guy.
You are the book guy.
Mr. Book learned.
Steve got, somebody says Steve's got it.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
So there we go.
Someone didn't want to say it in the chat.
but they then they then said it anyway.
So that's a word we're led to believe.
That's an actual word.
It's an actual word.
I thought it was like the name from the word book,
which is called the dictionary.
Oh, all right.
Ooh, dictionary.
Look at you.
A plant of the Buttercup family,
typically bearing brightly colored flowers.
Themines are widely distributed in the wild
and several times are popular garden plants.
Nope, not a word. That's just a flower.
And yes, Steve, anemone, short for sea anemone, a sedentary marine colentery with a columnar body,
which bears a ring of stinging tentacles, get this guys, around its mouth.
There's all kinds of sawtrap words in that fucking sentence.
You mispronounced my favorite flower.
You're going to die now.
Hello, Andrew, you're going to die from an anemone?
It's called anemone, actually.
I'd like to point out that I never actually tried to say it.
I'm going to take you to Mexico to see if you can pronounce things right.
How about this?
We're going to be pronouncing things all sorts of incorrectly on these two new tier
offerings we have.
Because do you guys know about this?
Craven tier we've got?
Oh, I had no idea.
A new tier on the Patreon.
Patreon.com slash we hate movies.
It's a video tier where you get, yes, all of the audio.
stuff lumped in, but you get two new video programs and want to give you the deets on October
situation for this. So first up, of course, is WHM After Dark. That is our AMA style Q&A chat show,
which airs monthly live. And the next one is going to be the 21st of this month. It's a Tuesday
night, 8 p.m. Eastern Time. We will be live on Patreon. Talking about whatever you guys
want us to talk about. We will answer your questions. Like right now, on screen live,
people chatting asking me, I'm not answering
any of that crap. No.
You're not looking at that crap.
You can't.
Crap old. Do it. After dark, you can ask us about anything.
We talked about music last time. We talked about movies, anything.
And I might bring my kitten out again. If he's not being a complete son of a bitch.
Full pussy show.
Patreon.com.
Look at that. And then later on this month,
the 29th, we are airing the first of our new show,
Scareddy Cats, which is a show where we sort of break down
modern horror and we teased it up at the top already but yes that's right the first episode
dropping on the 29th we're going to be talking up and down about barbarian hell yeah look at
Felipe's artwork here it's the best we've ever looked frankly yes it looks just like me um but you know
this is a video experience it's going to be sort of like this you'll have a video you could watch
it a whole episode or you could enjoy the audio experience instead that's right you know we may be
using some like visual cues to exemplify talking points so like that's why you know we want you
to watch this so you can see what we're doing we can see eric's Halloween costume and so on
we're going to be talking a lot about Richard Brake that's going to be exciting oh definitely
i'm going to have to look it up i was just watching something and richard break popped up and
i was like hey look at that richard break did you wrong so yeah 1021 is the october after
dark and then 1029 the first episode
sort of Scarety Cat's airs on the Patreon as well.
And then also that very next day, that end of the October is pretty packed.
Because coming up on the 30th, of course, it is a Q3 commentary, Friday the 13th,
Mentary, part two.
Yeah.
Hell yeah.
Exciting.
That first one is like one of our best received commentary tracks.
And I got to tell you, this part two is edited and ready for release.
And it is very funny.
These movies just make great fodder to friggin talk over.
that's for sure right you sign up today you can also listen to that original friday the 13th commentary
tract there's so many many many commentary we are borderlining it's not this one but i think maybe
the next commentary that we release will be commentary 40 we've got wow there's coming up on 40 of
these fuckers um which is great and they're all you know on patreon except for one that's on a DVD set
from vinegar syndrome and you know big frant you know twilight john wick
we got them we got them all folks
absolutely
so there you go
just had to break
plug our stuff
Richard
Richard break
yeah they did it
Chris Cabin real quick
let's me and you squeeze in here
talking about the new
Jimmy Jarmish movie
father mother sister brother
that we caught at the NYFF
just fuck was that
last Friday my God
that sounds right
but we both we both dug on this one
I thought it was a return to form
for Mr. Jarman's show.
You want to give a little capsule description
of what this sucker's about?
What's a trio of stories?
One's about a father.
One's about a mother and one's brought a brother and a sister.
Yep, so far.
You got it so far.
That's about, I mean,
and they're all about like different,
like how you communicate with your family
as time goes on,
whether death makes it easy in some ways
to communicate.
even since they're not there anymore
to have all the weight
of their existence on you and stuff like that
there's a lot of existential pauses
as you might expect from Jim Jarmush
yeah I really loved this
I thought this was very tender for him
the first part was my favorite
but I really thought both the second
and third were very well done and really well performed
Tom Waits
and Adam Driver
I thought were really
freaking great in that first one
and then I thought the trio
in the middle were amazing
with Cape Lanchette, Vicky Cripes
and Charlotte Rampling
crazy old Charlotte Rampling
Oh yeah
I mean I love that it is
It's a return to form
Also in the sense like the structural sense
It is a triptych of stories
That are just the
The loosest bit related
Due to the theme of like
Family relationships
Like that's it
There's no like characters
sauntering in and out of the other stories
it's just everything is separate except
like the theme that he's going for
which is I love when Jarmish breaks
out his movies like this it's like very
night on earth kind of vibes right that's the cab one
that I'm thinking of yeah and yes Steve I was thinking of you the whole
like first half hour because the fucking Tom
Waits performance as just like this old
dad who's weird and living alone is
quite great that's phenomenal
I think the last time we saw him in a bigish movie was that
Babylon he's in Babylon right
or...
Oh, no, no, no, no, he's in Lickrish Pizza.
I got, no, I missed it up.
The weird...
Yes, he is in Licker's at the party.
He's like, let's go fucking drink.
He's with Sean Penn.
The Sean Penn part.
He's with Sean Penn.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, I was trying, because I was like,
he was in like, what, seven psychopaths that part of the McDonald movie?
He's in.
He's in.
Buster Scruggs.
He's in.
He's the one who's saying,
uh, good night, Mr. Pocket.
Uh, but, uh, he's also, he was in a very small part in, uh,
the dead dog.
die the zombie movie
he's still haven't seen that
I really love it
but I know people
I understand why people don't like it but I think it's really
wonderful I'm just kind of looking for horror to watch
and I've been kind of on a weird jarmish cook
kick for a little while I rewatch Dead Man
watched Nightiners the first time
did coffee and cigarettes again so maybe
I'll do that as well just kind of
you might hate it you might very well get it
I love that Dead Man
it's um yeah I don't I don't
love it, but it is interesting. It's like him
using all
his Jarmish powers to make like
a really flat
and
you know, his style of comedy.
A zombie movie.
Yeah, it's
certainly weird, but
just in like that kind of expected Jarmish
way. I don't know. I felt it was him
like pushing his style through his zombie movie
and it's fine, you know.
Yeah. It's a lot of cool like
upstate film
locations, which is pretty sweet.
So you got that going for you. Oh, yeah. No, not
this one. Maybe this one, too, because the Dead
Don't Die was filmed basically
where I grew up, so.
Yeah. The first sequence, yes,
the first sequence of this movie, this
new one, I believe, is like in
the Catskills. Interesting. Possibly
Berkshires, but it's like up
there. And then
the second takes place in Dublin and the third in Paris and it's like
on location, really nice looking, very cool.
So this will be out limited. I
Christmas Eve from Mooby
so look for that to expand
you know sometime
sometime in the new year
all right gentlemen
let's get into it how many times has everybody seen
Paul Thomas Anderson's one battle
after another
just the ones just one I'm good
I got tickets for this Thursday
I'm going to go back I'm so excited
good stuff Chris how many times
dose those those
nice
yeah I'm actually really tempted
to rewatch it again in theaters, even though there's
some stuff I want to catch before it.
But I just, you know what I mean? It is
Yeah. It was that exciting. It was that
cool. It was that a like
revelatory cinematic experience.
Like I kind of want to do this again, which is
very rare to go back to the
theater for something.
Yeah. The last time I went back to the theater
it was, I think, Dune Part
2 I saw twice in theaters.
In the same weekend, that was some insane
shit.
Sort of unintentionally, last minute,
a second time. But yeah, I rarely do the go back. So like when I do the go back, it must
mean like something really struck me about this. And like from the moment I saw it like the
Sunday of opening weekend, as soon as I left the theater, I was like, got to get back,
got to get back, got to get back, got to see it again, got to get back, got to do it, wave
to the future. And so I did last Friday and it was still, you know, it's even better because
you just, you know where everything is going to land and then you can just kind of like sit in
it. Yeah. So your asshole isn't so
tight during the final chase scene.
That'd be nice. What a great chase scene.
And you know what I do appreciate about the film
is finally someone else,
apparently PTA agrees with me.
These people that are obsessed with fucking Christmas,
man. Whoa.
I knew there was something going on with
Yeah, you're not wrong.
Yeah, that Christmas Adventures
Club dude, there's some sick tickets in that group.
It's just such a funny movie, too.
You know, speaking on the Christmas adventures.
And there's just so many great moments
comedy and levity in a tense movie.
Oh, yeah, yeah, super tense.
But that's what, like, yeah, go ahead, see.
No, even as Sean Penn, who as repugnant of his character as he is, and he is,
and it's, like, seethingly so, like, from the top to the bottom,
the way he walks around, like Frankenstein's monster.
But he's still very funny, too.
Like, even the first moment of her, like, making him get a hard on is fucking hilarious
in a scene where you have no idea where this is going.
Well, because it's dealing with his tenderness.
That's like what's so weird.
I mean, that's such an interesting way to get your in with this character is that like,
you get him at these tender moments like her, like seducing him and him actually feeling more
for her than he, she does for him clearly.
And like that just bounce up.
The fact that he is so honored to be part of the Christmas Adventures Club is like,
it like it overtakes his whole being.
And like you can tell Sean Penn just completely, I mean, the walk, when he goes to get the
fucking a ram
to go open the door.
I laughed for like
five minutes straight. It's so awesome because
he's got a travel-sized battering ram
in the back seat of his truck. I died.
Oh my God. He puts down the flowers
and takes the, like that's such a perfect
little encapsulation of who he
is and what he's going through. And
he sets the flowers down. He doesn't
angrily throw them in the yard. He gently
places them on the porch. He gently places them on the porch.
and then goes to get his travel-sized battering ram.
Did you guys feel, speaking on,
the Sean Penn character is what inspired this thought,
because I thought it both times I was watching it,
there were definitely people in that theater with me,
both times,
that was not sure if they should be laughing at this movie.
Okay, I remember that.
It was weird, and I was kind of like,
I wanted to be like, it's okay, it's fine,
I know you want to.
It was just weird, like you could feel all these moments
where it was like this weird douche chill
where there shouldn't have been a douche chill
it should have been laughed
and so I'm you know
I mean I think there's signifiers
that you should laugh I mean
what's interesting about the movie too
is the names are very compelling
almost like Wes Anderson names
like Colonel Lockjaw
Sense Sergio Saint Carlos
that is a Wes Anderson character
yes absolutely
the
and I think but like
it's just interesting for Anderson
the last couple of movies
I think there will be like
he's he hasn't done like
epic in a little while. You know what I mean?
It's been big, big
movies, like you know what I mean? Need to be seen on
the big screen. Like, Looker's Pizza, Pizza and
Venom Threat both need to be seen on the big
screen and even the master as well.
But actually the master's pretty epic, but
this is like, this is like
I'm in a, it's a big
movie. It has big
themes, big moments.
It's just such a big experience.
And that's why I, it
makes me want to go back to the theater.
Because I just, you know what I mean? Like I want more
of that in my life kind of. I think it's a great example of like you don't need to have like
only Avatar be in you know premium large screen auditoriums right like this you know on its face
is more like just kind of a like comedy drama that has a lot of tense action elements built
into it. I've seen people like referring to it as an action movie which I guess so but I think
that brings like a little baggage with it.
You know, a lot of folks say,
oh,
PTA finally directed an action movie,
I guess.
But like there is,
this is another,
this,
Killers of the Flower Moon,
another Leo movie that I saw in IMAX,
that's not what you would think
is a necessarily like IMAX needed movie,
but like seeing killers of the flower moon,
it was the same experience.
Just like,
whoa,
like there is an argument to be made for a large format for any kind of movie.
Right.
And you know,
the politics of the moment,
too very very compelling in this movie i was thinking about uh when i after watching this i
not really there's not really a correlation per se but it was reminded me a little bit of eddington
which i felt was a little south parkian in its take on the politics of the time
well this is much more hopeful uh yeah i'm just saying i feel like edington did a little
they're both bad yes sure yeah i i think that that's i mean i think that's i mean i think that's
But I respect Eddington and this movie for,
I think a lot of people are very sheepish about making real political movies
that are real political movies and it's not hiding behind it.
And not to be, again, not hiding behind horror to do these kind of comments.
Like, it's really,
this is the real world that we're living in,
even if it's a heightened version of it.
You know what I mean?
Like this is what I think is happening right now,
sort of to a degree.
And also through the lens of Thomas Pinchin and everything else.
And made in the USA.
So you can't, yeah.
You know, this is a homegrown movie,
Mr. President, so no
tariff. It speaks to
what I think it was Andrew
who was saying, like, the fact
that this is like these movies
of now. Like,
Eddington,
something like this doesn't just come around.
Like, the fact that people didn't know how, like,
how to take it in if they should laugh or not.
It's because laughter, like,
you don't know if it,
like, you don't know if your laughter
is condemning you, right? Like, you're like,
if you find this thing funny,
you find it light. That's not the
same thing. You can laugh at something that
is heavy. That's a different
calculation, at least in my
view. And I think that's exactly
where this and Eddington
have been sticking people. It's like, they don't know
how to take these things because they are dealing
with some pretty spicy material.
And like, to me, this is the
other to inherent vice.
Where inherent vice, all of its paranoia
and stuff is subsumed in the humor
of it and all the comedy that's
coming out of like him sucking on the banana.
all this stuff is like covering over
the destruction of LA
this all that stuff actually comes to the surface
and the comedy is kind of what's going on
underneath like the fact that you can't remember
your revolutionary politics because you smoke too much
weed and drink too much wine like
that that is funny
like you just you can't do it because you fucked yourself
up too much to do the thing you were supposed to do
at the time and it also takes
the air out of that some of that shit a little bit
too right like when
we see these things portrayed in movies, especially if you've watched anything that's sort of like
weather underground coded or something like that. It is taken so seriously. And like in these
scenes in this movie where it's like Leo outside the store just fucking yelling at Comrade
Joshua on the phone and you know, I'm going to find you. This like it's just it's so it's such
an interesting way to present all of the stuff that we've seen in other movies. Right. But it's just
it's presented in this style in this way with this kind of temperature.
to it and god damn it just
works everything about it
and it's also interesting like for Leo
specifically the
difference between this character and Rick Dalton
specifically like because I think on
paper they could be very similar they're both washouts
both you know what I mean
inebriated for various reasons
etc etc and that
being a weakness for them but it's
the nuances that he gets
in this character versus
the nuance he gets it's just
I think that he's getting a lot of
of plotts for this role and I think he deserves it and also obviously Tiana Taylor is fantastic
absolutely fantastic of this movie. Chase Infinity is the she should her name should be above the
poster she's like the movie and like she does for such a young actress it's like to be able
to do this and not it's a really fearless performance really funny performance her telling
Sean Penn that his t-shirt is very tight dude yes funniest lines it's like such a like mean girl
like it's exactly right for her age and you're just like yep if a girl that age told that to you
you'd think about it for months.
God,
my shirt was too fucking tight.
Fuck,
that she just told,
God damn it,
she got me.
Fuck.
You know.
But yeah,
you know,
I,
she was great.
I had seen her on that presumed innocent show,
where she's,
you know,
she's in it for a bitch.
She's,
uh,
Jillen Hall's,
uh,
daughter and Ruthenegga's daughter.
She's not the presumed.
No,
she,
uh,
no,
no,
no,
um,
but she's the innocent,
if anything.
Right.
She's not in it a ton.
was what I was getting at
so it was cool to see here
here I think we got to get into it
we kind of mentioned him a little bit but like Benicio
Benicio just being on this run
man that I think now is going back
to what no sudden move
the Soderberg
where he was he was great
and I feel like that was kind of like
at least from my memory
the first time in a while where we were like
whoa Benicio's kind of like
really doing it in this movie
he's really doing it in this movie
and he was also doing it in phoenician scheme earlier this year like this is like a massive
year i think for him but this fucking just sensei saint carlos is just it's such a great character
like his i love i mean and we won't get too spoiler here spoilery here but like his major sequence
where he's taking leo through his store and just you see how his world is connected and all these
these connections he's got whether it's family or people he's helping out and he never loses his
composure and that's you know he's going through do this get this out of here this that the other
because he does this every day like he's constantly dealing with one battle after the other and
you've been smoking pot on the couch for the last 16 years it's it's it's different for people
of color and especially you know these migrants that he was trying to help out in the film yep
it's all and also like it's just all underplayed like again which it goes against leo is being so
big he's being much more reserved and like just a line like i've got a he kind of just tells
it like he's got a cat and has it
just enough why I got a little
Latino Harriet Tubbin thing going on in my house
the way he says it is just such a
fucking funny like great
delivery and sets up what
you're about to see but in a very
matter of fact kind of way which is
he's fantastic and I'm always
a sucker for it because you don't get in a ton
in movies that he's in
but whenever Benicio is
speaking Spanish in movies I think it's awesome
and I love that there's
I'm trying to remember there's like no
subtitling any of that
which I think is indeed the move
you understand it so
but I'm sure
certains who were already upset with this movie
also got upset about that
probably because find anything to piss your
pants about baby
but yeah just I mean his whole thing
in the way he sort of loops back into the movie like you think
he might be gone for a little bit and you're like well that was nice
and then he's back and you're like oh that's even better you know
because that because when he comes back those are those are the moments
that are getting memeified throughout the universe but
even when he's like when he's helping bob and he's like bob bob you know shoes off the mat
you get off the you know all that all that stuff with the dojo like it's just is really really special
um wanted to point out also some french 75 people uh just alonahame really great jungle pussy
wood harris uh regina hall wood harris i'm always hyped to see and stuff and man he's just like
kind of blink and you miss it he eventually gets uh out of the movie but it's like
damn just all these like little
face like real faces like wood harris has like a real face
lanaham's got a real face like pta again doing a great casting job of making all
these people feel totally real like even even leo like the way they make leo look in this
movie i'm real a lot of people are talking about this like his like whatever they're
calling it like dumb fuck era where he's just playing like you know lower status
idiots like it's great
him playing lower status i think is really great i also i'm a sucker for a time jump in a movie
like a significant time jump it's and playing with that aspect of it yeah yeah it's a bit of a
getting the band back together too and like what had what hath we wrought and all this kind of stuff
i'm a sucker for all those themes and i think that's what regina hall brings to it like her
her piece of just sort of like she didn't leo out you know what i mean she has been doing it
she's exhausted in this movie and it's really clear
and I think that's, you know, she's a really great, you know, avatar for what this kind of a life can lead, can wreck on you.
You know what I mean? If you're not getting wasted every day. I get wasted every day.
Yeah, it's, yeah, it's a cautionary tale of what it's like living a life like that. It's also a cautionary tale of, hey, listen, fascist, when you join up with other fascists because you think they love you, they're going to fuck you in the face just as hard.
I sure will. Not to spoil too much, but.
what an amazing final image go see it you know what i'm talking about yes go see it go see it uh so
we got to get going here we are at the top of the hour want to get this in really quickly because
i don't want you to have watched this for nothing mr cisco let's talk about some shit you dug up
this is a secret movie
all right tin soldier tell us all about this master look at this poster this poster's so much more
exciting than the film uh i like the deniro beard is that a real thing what are you talking like
he's got a beard in the in the future film yeah barely feature film 80 something minutes um tin soldier
my goodness i mean what's great about de nero in this movie is you realize he can sell a movie
like everyone else is kind of more you know not they're fine i mean this has jamy fox in it
as a cult leader who Scott Eastwood is a former member who has gotten out and he's like a quasi
militaryish guy now and it's like sort of like a Waco thing where the government's trying
to recruit him to help them storm the compound basically for this cult and that's where De Niro
comes in holding a manila envelope and like when he's talking about like what's been going
on like you believe it you buy it then you cut back to scenes of
Scott Eastwood and Jamie Fox and you're like
it doesn't seem as good as what he was saying
because it's like he's really doing a great job
of acting it
Jamie Fox is kind of all over the place
in this and Scott
Eastwood is driving
driving around as usual.
That's what I was saying is Scott who's in the cult
is he what they drive from town to town
to get where they need to go and then the government
needs them to drive him in because he's a car.
Does he have a flatbed?
Does he have a flatbed?
He does have a flatbed.
He's a good shape in this one.
Probably have some nice abs,
although you didn't see it.
The sin of the movie, though,
I mean,
it could have been interesting.
The real sin is nonstop
CG explosions.
Oh, no.
Nonstop, nonstop.
And there's one good car crash
that looked real, though.
So,
yeah,
to the car crash.
If you want to watch a car crash,
you got it here.
Do you think there's,
because there's two kinds of secret movies.
movies that intend to be secret movies.
That is just like, hey, look, let's just get up, let's get five million bucks.
We'll pay the, are the big actors and dump it on Amazon.
Or was this a real movie, a movie that someone somewhere wanted to be a real movie that turned into a secret?
I think they wanted it to be a real movie.
I feel like getting Fox and De Niro, and it was sort of like maybe an announcement for Scott Eastwood that then they decided to not do.
By the way, I did this movie instead of another secret movie that I wanted to do because the other secret movie,
was two and a half, almost two and a half hours long.
What a what?
And I think that secret movie wanted to be in theaters and wanted to break through
the zeitgeist and that's called Primitive War, which is a Vietnam War era movie
starring Jeremy Piven, of course.
And it's about American soldiers in Vietnam who come across dinosaurs and now they're
fighting dinosaurs.
That movie was in theaters for a little bit.
It was in theaters.
It came out.
it was out for like a week maybe two weeks at that sounds about right i was about to rent that for this
segment but then i was like two almost two and a half hours oh what's tin soldier doing today
you have to know when you're getting to nero only for like a couple days unless you're david
oh satan you know that you you're not this is not going to go into theaters right like come
no like yeah it's denier at this point he's just doing this stuff to you know keep the rent up on
his seven restaurants i'll tell you what chris gabin i ever call
just this year as a matter of fact
seeing the Alto Knights in theaters
so you never know you're going to get
but he's leading that
I'm saying when you only have him
for a couple days to do
you're never getting that into
like an actual big theater
it's not going to happen Chris
Chris is right because De Niro
has like maybe four minutes in this
movie yeah maybe five
who's got more screen time
him in this or a Pacino
in the new Gus Van Sant
oh shit
maybe
Pacino by a hair. Oh, wow. Okay. Holy smokes.
Either way, Pacino's at least grabbed your attention in that role.
That's true. That's true. My God. So there you go. Secret
Movie, Man, and that is going to bring us to the end of onscreen live for this week.
Of course, the week is just getting started here in the WHMU, of course. Tomorrow, we hate movies
kicking off. You guessed it. The 2025 Halloween Sputtacca with an episode on Needful Things.
This is a fun one. We're talking all sorts of Stephen King.
a lot of Max von Schido Impressions
and Ed Harris
yelling all around of course
and you can get that guy commercial
free on the Patreon of course the ad
free tears over on
there Patreon.com slash we at movies
we're also on Thursday
one last little treat for you this week
that's right this once in a lifetime
coming up it's a lifetime
adjacent it's a Fox
made for TV movie from 1991
called The Haunted and yes
it's a secret Ed and Lorraine
Warren moving. That's right.
It's the Smurl case
but it's like a Roshaman
thing, right? Like they remember it different
than the new movie does. Yes, they
certainly remember it differently than the new
movie does. Ed and Lorraine,
not so much heroes of this one.
But that is going to do it, folks. That's what's going
on this week. OSL will
return later this month, but
not next Monday, so don't look for
us then. But we will let you know when
we'll be back on the air. But until
then, I've been Andrew Jupin.
Steven Sadek.
Eric Siska, Chris Cabin.
Have a good week, y'all.
Bye-bye.
