We Hate Movies - S16: On-Screen Live: Predator: Badlands Review, Thoughts on The Chair Company, the Varanasi Trailer & More!

Episode Date: November 19, 2025

On this edition of On-Screen Live, we're reviewing the very popular new franchise entry, Predator: Badlands; checking in on Tim Robinson's hilarious new Max series, The Chair Company; reacting to the trailers for the new SS Rajamouli film, Varanasi, and the next ‘holiday weirdos’ documentary, The Merchants of Joy; and we’re also going over the weekend box office and skimming the trades for some Entertainment Newz. On-Screen live will return in December! Get your tickets to our 15th Anniversary show happening December 6th, 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, you don't want to get sold out! 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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I'm going so I'm going Hello, this is our show for Monday, my name is Andrew Juppen, and I'm alongside three other dudes that embarrassingly fell through a chair at work. We have Eric Ziska. Oh, my God. You ever have one of those moments where you sit down wrong? Yeah.

in what way? The chair just because, many ways, Chris, we've talked we've talked about sitting on the balls as you get and that's just a nightmare scenario. We've discussed that at length, yes. I think in an upcoming episode we have a good chunk there is describing what we all think about possibly sitting on our balls one day. Yes, I was wondering. I'd add free.

Please, please do. Let's just say I was talking about balls to make you head. Okay, good. There we go. Now that he's happy, as is stephen Sadek, we got a lot to get to get to get you. We got some industry news tell you about something cool and something totally not cool. We will start with something cool. Governor awards happen.

Tom Cruise finally gets his Oscar as the current awards hopefuls turn out in droves to see him get it, man. This is like, this I feel is like what, if he didn't get something for Magnolia where there was like some real acting afoot. All the action stuff, this is fine. Hey, man, man, you've done a lot for the movie. Not for any specific movie. Because it'll be weird to give him an Oscar for like Top Gun Maverick or something like that. Yeah. But at the same time, it's like, you know, you're still, I mean, you're not dead. You're not on death store. You could act maybe. Yeah. You can do it. I think you're good. But, you know, as long as he gets something, that's fine by me. that's that's that's that's that's that you're not going to wait are you're you're you're you're you're you're not going to wait that's the the that's the you're not going to wait that's the the lifetime achievement and that's that this is nice enough he i watched the speech the speech is good i thought so this already happened this is not part of the upcoming ceremony no fuck that dude i want him like repelling off the ceiling to get this that's the thing no you're totally right because you know that if if if he

was honored on the night, something like that could have happened. was this also honored along the way was Wynne Thomas, actress and choreographer Debbie Allen. And then, of course, the big one was Dolly Parton. In absentia, she was not there. I heard she's been ill. Received a humanitarian award. That's a lifetime achievement.

You give someone like Dolly Parton a lifetime achievement award. Two things. One, Christopher Cabin, the man has grays. He's just not allowing them to be gray. Thanks for It's not showing up on TV It's all the time That's what I mean, and two

This is more of a guest room Oscar You know what I mean? It's like it's not the Oscar you have On the mantle like this When you invite people in I'm like yes that's my best supporting actor Oscar Even my you know I was a producer on the best picture over there

That's over there My Golden Globes This is like oh yeah you're staying for the weekend Yeah that's the Oscar That's a picture of me with I don't know George Seagal next to nice you gave you gave you got a

I got a big 80s like that oh I see oh so it's the Oscar it's the Oscar yeah and the next that is a framed photograph of Tom Cruise and George Seagall I'm gonna say you do think you think Tom Cruise that's that's the oh Tom Cruise I have so many questions

first of all where is that Oscar I just need to see it I need to number one. I just like this fantasy bedroom idea of you doing interior decorating thing what Tom Cruise's guest room would look like. You should actually do that with that room back there. Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah, make what would Tom do? Right. I think a number one idea. Dude, Steve, you have to get a popcorn machine put in the room. Every guest room in Tom Cruise's house has like a little nice AV setup popcorn machine right there. You don't have enough to leave. You know

what I mean, a George a george Segal just shoot me over here. Or cardboard whatever you prefer. Here's the stupid news to get ready for this donkey shit. Tilly Norwood creator unveils AI AI led time travel series

for the history channel. Now this is very important to remember this is the Dutch only history channel this will not be airing here. Oh thank God. But it is like some some Dutch historical investigator is going to go back in time thanks to this

I was going to time I was going to say is so like the little characters I am Teddy the tortoise we are going to go back in time and learn all about this now that person's a star now that person should be on the cover of entertainment weekly Tony the tortoise should be

right there like hey this fucking Tilly Norwood man I really don't like her and by the way I've heard an uncle of mine is actually an AI paramedic and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, the, and the, uh, the, the, the, the older boys on the school bus were telling me all about it. Yes. I was going to say, uh, the almost famous, uh, remake with Tilly Norwood is going not be horrible. Uh, when they have to do the whole pumping scene. It's going to be, I can't

wait until she ODs on the streets of the grid. I like the idea of like soft launching this in the Netherlands. Maybe. me. You know what I mean? You know, you know, like, you know what I was like? Tilly Norton. Oh, oh, my God. It's a big of new star, blah, blah, blah. See their fucking Dutch fucking history channel show, okay? It's not exactly. And I don't think it's even a secret movie territory. Yeah, but I don't think she's, I don't think she's acting in this. I think it's just like the same company. Oh, that's even worse. Exactly. So it's just like this dip shit. Like, let's go. Like, why do you need AI for this? Like, like, It's so. It's so lazy. It's so lazy. There you go. It's so. It's so. It's so. It's so. It's so crazy. I think she. Natasha's working on this history channel thing, too. Is that right? She might be crying. She's still producing. I read that story that she's still producing with Ryan Johnson. And I don't know. I don't think Ryan Johnson's saying. no, no, no, you guys, you guys, you guys, you guys, you guys, no, you guys, you guys, no, you guys, yes, she's still doing the AI company. Chris, yes, she's still producing the third season of poker face. But the pitch is Peter Dinklage is going to play the Charlie character, which then gets me thinking, like, this creatively bankrupt idea where like, well, now anyone can play Charlie and this show can just go forever. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know about that. But, you know, I liked season one. And then I, I, I, I, you know, then all her, she's making AI movies now.

I never watched a second of that. David Lynch said it was okay. Oh, she said, like, hey, man, do you mind if I put my garbage on the stoop? And by the way, AI's cool, right? Like, yeah, you could use that. And he went inside. Yeah, I think like when she asked him about it, it wasn't like, oh, yes, he gave his approval or whatever, the response was probably like, I don't fucking care what you do. Whatever you create artistically or otherwise has nothing to do with how I live my life. Stop asking. And Natasha, the leaves are encroaching my property. I don't know why you would remake that Stephen Spielberg Kubrick movie, but that's fine, Natasha. If that's what you want to do, you should go ahead and make the little boy movie again. She saw him stumble and pass away and then like,

weekend at Bernie's him before calling the paramedics. that's right. AI is the future. What do you think, Stanley of Michael Jordan? Well, yes, I too believe he should be able to do that. Rick, Morty, what do you think? What do you think about all this? All right, so there's just some a little bit of infuriating news there around the

entertainment biz. Let's at the box office. It was a surprising this is how it's gross. And at 5 still chugging along here is the black phone two with another 2.7 million dollars here.

I watched it. I rented it finally. I thought it was okay. I'll tell you. what though, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, as, you know, as much as much sense as what happens in number two, put it on a boat. Just put it on a big boat. Grabber just happens to be there and is brought back. There's a phone on the boat. Grabber goes to Manhattan.

I'd see that. oh that's actually uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, long distance. Come on. It's right there. Actually, yeah, you're we are due for the European vacation sequel from this franchise. Oh my god. That's how you get Steven Seagall and Blackbone. That'd be so good. In it number four, regretting you still chugging along here, week four, another four million

dollars. My God, this has made 83 million dollars around the globe, which is wild, 45 of that. Also here domestically, Paramount bought it's paid for, 30 million was the budget on the guy. doing good. People like adapting these books, I guess. Yeah, I mean, it's always an easy, you know, that's like date night fare kind of a deal, you know what I mean? Right. Yeah, totally. You got to have a reason to get somebody into a theater, I guess. This is the idea. No, absolutely. No, I don't, I don't, you know, big rudget being there. I think it's a lot of Ghostbusters fans coming out for McKenna Grace. She's not wearing a curly-haired wig. Or the black phone guy is that right. Yes, he's not. Oh, yeah, I like that kid. In it number three in its second week in the box office,

we're going to talk about this bad boy in just a minute. But Predator Badlands in its second week rocking another 13 million, which, you know, it had some competition this week. So it's a bit of falloff. 68% it lost not great, you know, but you know,

specifically movies in the 80s are you know what I mean? it's a real direct one-to-one kind of competition deal. Absolutely. And this is, I mean,

this is fine, 66 million domestic 136 global. We'll be getting a lot more of these movies and that's all I'll say right now because I want to leave my convection. for the review here. But yes,

of Arnold that's right. Bachman's the running man once again to a really paltry $17 million here for Mr. Edgar Wright. I couldn't get out of the house yesterday

for this one. Like I really just kind of looked at my keys, puttered around. Like, I knew, I even kind of wanted to see it just for this. You know what I mean? I could always justify that for myself. I was like, I had nothing to do yesterday afternoon. What if I just relaxed? I did that. I was much better. I mean,

I mean, I was ready to go. I'll tell you, like, I love Glenn Powell. I think he's great. I think Josh Brolin's great. I love Coleman Domingo. I will always, always, always give Edgar Wright a chance. Yeah. You know, but man, I saw a thing that it totally like my balloon was full. I was ready to go. then someone came along and I think it was fucking vulture in it was fucking vulture I don't know I don't remember some media website had something that was like why isn't penny wise at the end of the running man and I was like waiting for POV like you've never believed because what in the fuck are you even I don't even know what that means I don't want to know embarrassing get your ass to AI. If that's what you can go to AI, if it's just you and you're just you're just like, man with Pennywise at the end, none of us. Did you see it, Chris? I have not seen writing. I did not see it. Well, apparently there's a reference to Derry Main in it. So I think that's what this is being disgusting. For some reason, we're putting Stephen King stuff in a Bachman and I don't think you should do that. No, I agree. It's bullshit. It's stupid. and I really hope Edgar Wright was and that was the power right. It just didn't look very good.

we're not grabbing me. I know they were trying to make it like a bigger thing by making it like he's running around the world. I feel like you kind of made it less because of that. No longer feels like that TV show, no longer feels like that commentary on television of the 1980s and now. Yeah, it just didn't.

And I mean like I like Edgar Wright quite a bit. I mean, he's responsible for some of my favorite. movies, you know, you know, you know, you know, like, you know, like, like, like, like, I was, I'm, I'm, I'm, you know what I'm, Scott Pilgrim. I think it's fantastic, uh, but I wasn't super into let, uh, late night, late night in Soho, last night and so ho. Not good. The Soho film.

Um, I'm, I'm, I'm the dude that dug on that. I like that. Which is I don't like Edgar right. To me, he's British Kevin Smith. I like three of his comedies. The rest of his output, I'm just like, eh, yeah, it's a reasonable comparison. I think he's got it in him for great movies. I think Scott Pilgrim is a big Scott Pilgrimhead.

I think I even really like Baby Driver, even though all the stuff with the lead, that's not great. Murder is a row of bad people. All the stuff with the lead, all the stuff with the villain. There's a couple of people in that movie that are fucking career landmines. I forgot Baby was doing some bad stuff too.

Yes, he was. Is he now in park? he's everywhere. He's everywhere. He has a new show coming out. He has nothing. It didn't really derail anything. The only thing it did derail for sure was I think a lot less people went to see West Side Story. I think that was because it came out right before that game. Right. Ansel Eggglort. Yeah. And I didn't care for West Side Story. I'm alone in that. I did not see it. It's fine. I don't know. I'll never will I'll ever watch it's, and here we go. People were asking, people were asking a book I was reading. It's the dream hotel by Layla Lalami. Pretty cool dystopian sci-fi. Pervert stuff, dude? No, literary fiction. Oh, uh-huh. Yeah. It's a good book. It's a change up for you. Yeah, you finally put down that copy of Mindcumph. It's a joke. It's a joke. Read it a couple of times. A couple of Easter eggs you didn't get the first time ran? word. I love that succession joke. But yeah, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, let me, uh, let me put it's, I'll watch the running man directed by Edgar right three times before I watch. Now you see

me. Now you don't. Which my God, what are we doing in America? 21.3 million dollars for the third entry in the Jesse Eisenberg and friends magician fee franchise. I, I didn't know this came out. I didn't see a single. trailer for it. How is it doing critically? Do people seem to I don't know? This franchise, I'm a lurker on Twitter these days. Just from what I'm seeing, there's a big irony, fun time at the movies with these movies. Like, oh, they're so stupid. They're fun. And I can't. I watched the first one. It was miserable. It's awful. According to Rotten Tomatoes,

59% on the critic side of things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, on the, audience side of things. you know, a lot of people in the chat here seem to be saying this movie sucks. I mean, would this be something for January,

perhaps? Oh, yeah, I could see that. Yeah, you know, January. This, this franchise is such a fucking weird thing. I mean, it's even used as a really great joke on the studio when Dave Frank goes like, and he's, they go to, they go to, like, um, um, um, like the, like, like, like,

he's like, uh, he's like, uh, spending all this money. He's going crazy. He's wasted. And he's like, I got all this fucking money from those magician movies. That's good. I, yeah, I only saw that first one and it's like, there's like a twist at the end of that movie that I was like, oh, so this wasn't like a magic trick, whatever. It's not a twist. You just like lied to the audience the whole time or withheld under the guise of it, like, like, like, like, which it's just and that just rubbed me the wrong way. Also, like,

using magic to steal things. It's, it's like, smart to me. I mean, that's, it's interesting idea that, like, in, like, robbery and theory, like, yeah, you can use distractions, but, like, making that connection is a bit much. And, like, I get it.

There's a lot of people out there who, like magic. I really I really don't. I don't like it. I think I think I think I'm so Rachel just pointed out. It did crazy it did way better overseas. And I can see that being like just one of those things like oh Jesse this cast I got to go see it and they're throwing things and there's a big fucking who pairs thing. Great. Did Ruffalo come back for this one or no?

Maybe he's the at the end. Maybe he comes up. That's a very question. Because he was in the second one, because the twist has to do He's hunting them, but for reasons you don't think of it back as Dylan Rhodes. And now you see me now. Very excited. Yeah, this was looking at 76 globally. So yeah, I mean, that's a bunch of countries, not just one.

So yeah. And the PLFs, the premium large format screens, were 20% of its domestic. gross, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, so you're, you think, you're, you think Morgan Freeman in this movie is just like truvac, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, wait, what about doing? Is this not a, is this not a medicine commercial that I'm, yeah, I'm checking your prostate or what have you. I love that medicine commercial. I, I've never, I never expected to be like having my morning coffee hearing Morgan Freeman say, and side effects

diearia get busy living and and get busy ladies and sudden death, all those good ones. Now that's more like it, Mr. Provasic, or whatever the fuck. Diarya, cha-cha-cha-cha.

Diarray-oh, it appears as if I'm so Rachel went to the theater to see this movie. She's saying Ruffalo appears as a hologram only at the end of the movie. Oh, that's amazing, like Darth mall. I'm like spider legs, that's right.

They gave me spider legs to get on the task force. Elsewhere really quickly because last OSL we mentioned it. Then none of us saw it and no one else really did either, but the Oz Perkins drop. It came in 7th. 2. It came in 7th. It came in 1st opening. This is also the second horror tank in a row for neon after something called Shelby Oaks, which I was completely unaware of when it came out. That's directed by a YouTuber, I believe.

Oh, that's cool. Bathrooms guy? Bathrooms guy? Backrooms. There's a YouTube short of, it's like a horror short where in these back rooms, and everybody really liked it's very spooky, and he got it's, but I think, I think they're just making a bigger version of the back rooms, but for some reason, I thought this was him as well. I don't know if, I don't know his, his filmography, his YouTube thumbnail filmography, to answer that, but was this, was, was Keeper wide? Or was it, uh, small? It was wide, I believe. Let me get a screen count for you, but I'm pretty sure it was wide. In, in terms of movies that I would have liked to have seen this week, I think, Keeper would have been even higher than running man because it looked kind of me. It's up my alleyish. I was kind of like, I might just wait for streaming in a couple of weeks. It was that that I'm fine with. You know, yeah, I'm totally fine with it. I mean, it's crazy. Like they are now, their neon is already in production

with Oz Perkins like on his next movie. And part of me is like, you know, I mean, like we've talked about before, but like I thought long legs was pretty good. I really like the monkey. Why don't we take a break? why don't we let these things breathe a little bit? Why don't you? Why don't you know what I mean? It's kind of nuts. How fast these are coming out. These Perkins joints, man. Like, I mean, the monkey was like six months after long legs and this was six months after that. Like, it's just been pretty much nonstop. Eric, to answer your question, Eric, it was on 1950 screens. So yeah, that's a big, nice wide release. Yeah. Um, so, uh, uh, uh, uh, um, uh, um, um, um, uh, uh, um, uh, um, uh, so, um, Um, um, but all these people were like, some article was like, it's time for neon to break up with us Perkins. I was like, okay, maybe just take some time. It's, you know what I mean? It makes sense if you, the director makes you money and you like what he's doing to kind of stay in that biz, you know what I mean? But at the same time, maybe not every 15 weeks. Exactly.

Hey, boy, boy, boy, that's the 15th, boy, that's in a few weeks. We're going to be at the bell house and beautiful Brooklyn, New York for our 15th anniversary show, all on Total Recall Live. It's going to be great. It's going to be live. We're talking Total Recall. We might have some fun in storage, but it's going to be a live show mixed with probably some reminiscing over the last 15 years. It's going to be so fun. It's going to be so fun.

I mean, the Arnold impression, it's going to be. out the ace. You're going to have so much we love the bell house. It's kind of we already did an episode on his running man perfect synergy. I guess we could always do a redux at some point. I had a this is probably too much information but I had a stress dream about this last night

that we were about to go on stage and I couldn't find my shoes or my socks that I had to go on barefoot and I was nervous because everyone could see my weird feet. Oh, dude. You know what they're going to do? All the cameras come out. You're on like, like, like, you're on the fucking feet sites. Show off those arches, baby.

Get them out there. If you're, if you're going to do it, you've got to give these people what they want. Guys are printing it out, pictures of your feet, and they're blasting on it and then posting that on the internet. Dude, they're like, you know, especially on like fuckahobbit. dot net you got them hobbit this is not an ad for fuck a hobbit dot it is an ad for our 15th anniversary December 6th is a Saturday night

just in a few weeks from now at the bell house tickets are on sale WHMpodcast.com is where you can find him it's gonna be a hell of a time tickets are going fast we want you to be there don't get sold out y'all come on out people let's do it I might where she's this one I might I probably want to see your pretty little face

come on out. I think maybe I'll bring like a backup pair of tennis shoes just in case Steve's true. We got something to cover up those things. Garbage bags. Oh yeah, garbage bag would be good. I bet the venue has, you know, just empty out the beers, the open beers that are in there. Oh, yeah, there you go. Tie that around your feet. Oh, man. Well, you know, that's movies that are out, of course. but the cool thing about movies is there's always more on the way. let's take a look at what's coming up in a segment we like to call trailer segment. Oh, yeah. Oh my God. S.S. Raj, baby. He's back. My man's back. and this is

I've been hearing I don't know if it's called I've you've you've you've you've how have you've been saying Andrew Varanasi and this is we will be watching the trailer from the official channel for this movie

which is indeed Varanasi the movie or something like that so and I think the only thing is this addition of to the world at the end of it is like the subtitle that I've seen used other places. So here's the interesting thing, both this and the other trailer,

we'll be watching here. you can watch along with us. The links are in the episode description below. This thing, it's like a sort of lengthier little teaser for this movie, not a full on trailer. It's just basically three and a half minutes of them going, look how fucking cool this is gonna be. And I gotta tell you, this is a way

you get people psyched up for a trailer, folks. uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, so, uh, and we're, and we're watching it separately because in, you know, the, the, the industry doesn't want people to know about their movies. So you could watch it along with us with the link below. The theaters are doing great, Eric, don't worry about it. Yeah, I wouldn't worry about. I'm this, this is the new access Hollywood. What are we doing? This is that, this is access Hollywood. Extra, extra. Those, those Cretans get to play trailers, but not. me. All right. All right. Here we go. Varanasi. Varanasi, whatever you want to call it. This is a little

real real here. I'm going to take a look at all of it right now. Three, two, one, go. Now this first part here, it's not a trailer before the trailer. I have watched this already. This is like really long and quiet title cards here, so we're not missing anything. Nice. Showing business. Yes. I like, See, I like knowing things. I like knowing you have a company here. from the director of RR, leave that on for a while. I know what's happening in the world. I like from the director.

I'm not from the guys who brought you. Yeah. Here come the guys are back. I mean, just look at the visuals here, man. It's, I did see a thing. It will be released in IMAX. Should have mentioned this is coming out. Summer of 27.

Yes. I'll be there. It seems like an asteroid was around. We got these ice shelf here. What's below this? Oh man, look at this. Are we talking ancient aliens? Is Pandora the Navi down here?

I don't know, but here's a cool ship frozen in ice, which is awesome. Yeah, it's like time hopping, I guess is the idea too, like going all over the world but also hopping through time. Little tree of life. is tilly nor is tilly nor is t is tis going to be hopping through time with us too i hope not i don't think so from what i've heard i don't think i hope if she hops through time these fucking cool hippos get her look at these hungry motherfuckers oh look at that oh dude wow this a big ass hippo in a weird god get a shit him out at some point look at this i didn't know hippos had all this inside them this is crazy oh no well show me more of that no no fuck you teaser no

Oh, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like that's just cool, uh, uh, uh, and it's like that's like, uh, I hope there's more movement in these. Right now, this is reading a little, uh, the flash me, you know? Oh, I can see that. Remember that part in the film the Flash? I do. I guarantee you without seeing any of this movie. I, I, I, I, I'm having a little fun. Look at this. Look at this. It's a stack of people holding this one dude with the arrow and he's trying to fucking

and he's just that stack of that stack of people sadly reminds me world war z I thought the same thing yeah not great oh I don't want to know what's going on there oh shit is Nero's going to destroy the planet music is always great yeah yeah the music is very good

we got a smoky trident and I think this is the actor Mahesh Babu right here who I think is the The titular Varanasi, if I read the description, and then, of course, I don't think she's in this at all, but Priyanka Chopra Jonas is another lead here. There was a, they had an image of her, like a screenshot from another story or something like that. She looks like she's doing cool shit in the movie. Hell yeah, man.

Just let's fucking do it. The lady in red that's falling in the hippo stomach, that's her, I believe. Oh, okay. The lady in the hippo's that's that's a weird, dude. You know, that's a ticket you buy in because of RRRR, which is totally right. Oh, yeah. I mean, and if anybody has seen Bahubali, it's fucking great. It's so good.

Is this you and your devious internet behavior or can you get these movies in legitimate places? This has been on fucking Netflix. Is that's the other one, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, uh, yeah, yeah, uh, that's the fly one, the fly one is incredible. The fly one is so fucking good, uh, but Bobavali is much more in the register of RRR, uh, fans of that. They will like both those movies quite a bit. Ega is a weird fucking movie, but it's great. I, I love it quite a bit. Uh-huh. Uh, yeah, man, I'm pumped. So that's, you know, something to keep me on this rock for a few

more years, no, no, no, now the other thing, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, uh, uh, December 1st. So I wanted to talk about really quickly. It's called the merchants of joy. And I, I wanted to share this because, uh, we are all big fans of, look at those fucking people, kinds of documentaries. Oh, no. Is this, is this J-O-I? Merchant of J-O-Y? No. J-O-Y. This is about, the rugged world of the rugged world of the the new york city that sell christmas trees yeah yeah so it's a it's a probably a 90-something minute movie chalk full of real characters kind of a deal

so let's see we got this pulled up here again this is down in the the show information folks if you're watching along at home okay here we go the merchants of joy new documentary coming out 12 1 on amazon On three, one, two, Go. Oh, yep. I got the spinny wheel. Yeah, but it's all right.

Oh, yep. Three seasons starts now. The five families of Christmas. The five family is a Christmas. All right. Somebody got to get whacked for Christmas. That guy just kind of got whack. Actually, yeah.

Dude, they talk about someone gets killed at some point. Because of Christmas shenanigans? Listen, it's coming. It's pretty difficult for anybody to compete with me. You can't trust anybody in business. When I play, I play the way. Oh, yeah, you do. We used to pay off the mafia.

There was a competitor murdered. Yes. There was a competitor murdered. It was like rent fare a little bit, I got. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, you have high production value. You have to make all of your money. You do

It is wild You know, you know, you don't know if you don't know if you ever When these people take over town They're selling their Christmas trees They take over the sidewalks, you know Kind of a huge bummer this year We love getting a real tree every year But you've got a kitten

Can't trust it. Cannot trust it. Because of the cats I switched a fake tree And I haven't gone back now you can't have real because if they get sick I'm gonna have even I'm gonna ride over me I got two kittens last year so I didn't have a tree at all last year but my old cat used to just constantly drink the water yeah oh okay my old my older cat leaves the tree alone like he's been fine the other one that passed away was also fine with it but this guy we'll see next year about a there might be like a small Charlie Brown guy the house in the house.

That was amazing by the way. I'm watching that and I'm watching the merchants of J-O-I right now actually Oh nice. Yeah, the merchants of J-O-I it's one scene, it's 61 minutes long which is an annoying length. It's not a good camera angle. It's just one

just and then center. microphone, just tell me what to do just tell me what to do for like a lot. uh, uh, uh, uh,

me, uh, uh, maybe someone in the chat will have the name. If you're looking for another Christmas weirdos doc that is, uh, partially, I think at least linked to New York city, I don't think it's entirely set here. There's a doc about dudes that are like, uh, crate diggers at record stores for like,

weirdo Christmas records and stuff. Yeah. dude, and it was a I'm that dude, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, fucking fucking stuff. Thanks to I think that was on Hulu, uh, if I remember correctly, but that's another holiday weirdos documentary.

Andrew, you got to go to the WFMU record fair. They do it every year. It's a huge, they rent out of space. So cool. There's like acres of records. Is that right? And the weirdest creeps selling them. I was there with my wife, I was a huge record. collector. I got some VHS tapes. Hey, hey, it's got Ellen Bursteads. It's like. It's only nude scene in it. Do you work with it?

Yeah. Absolutely no problem. This sounds like that scene in eight millimeter where they're going around. Yes. Yeah. The the the the smut mongers farmers market that he goes to. Yes. Yeah, but it was just in November, but you should definitely, I'll remind you next time around. Oh, for sure. Do I have to pretend I listen to WFM? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I, I, I, I, I, I will totally check that out, though. That's, where do they, where do they do it? Is it in Jersey? No, no, it's like, oh, is that right? Like, like, over there, like, kind of, like, well, it's, like, almost pseudo-fashioned district-y kind of place there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, that's fucking great, but, yeah, anyway, but, yeah, I was like, oh, it's the new Christmas weirdos documentary, so there you go, folks, the merchants of joy.

All right, uh, let's talk about it. I feel there's going to be some interesting stuff to be said here. predator badlands uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, so much, uh, but I'm, but I'm, uh, but I'm just going to get right to it. I will describe my problem with this movie in one word, bloodless. Yeah. I'm sorry. Like the predator is a franchise for adults.

And I think it's incredibly, uh, uh, you know, just, uh, just a little bit cynical to have this like, if it's PG 13, we'll get the kids in for adults. the blood and there's a little cute thing. It's a fun adventure. It's a fun adventure. I really enjoyed all the the punisher. Or the punisher. My God, the predator. Punisher versus predator. I'm sure that was a comic of few people read in the 90s. But yeah, it's just like the whole notion of it's this synth army of security guards that's fighting them, which like, yeah, he's killing them coolly, but they all have the white milk blood, big bummer. to be fair, you do be,

that's not exactly the same thing. then, yes, you've got the alien universe come blood, but not enough, honestly, when they're lighting up all these scents during part of this movie, it should have been a white Christmas, if you know what I mean. I want to see that shit everywhere.

No, I'm totally like, you're totally right. Like, he should have been fucking covered in it. Yeah, but you know, this is now Disney's Predators movie. movies so it does get a little too mandoling and grogrew with the cuteness of the creatures I mean the creature designs are good yeah like the expansiveness of the world it seems like they really cared about how everything looked unlike predators Nimrodot Tal's predators from 2010 which was shot in Robert Rodriguez's backyard and looks terrible and everything's ill-defined to this you could actually tell they thought about these designs and it shows you know. I I'm I I'm I'm within I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I'm I'm within I'm with I'm with I'm like I'm like I'm with yeah yeah I'm like sweat and spit and whatever yeah yeah that's what we're kind of talking about here that's what I kind of come to predator for is for the the the gore and the the intense because there's so few like action intense sci-fi movies you know what I mean like like

Because nowadays, it's kind of a bummer It's kind of a bummer to see El Fanning I think, I think her love her She's great as both characters You know what I mean? It's a character that could actually Could be obviously really annoying You know what I mean?

And like she's not the problem with the movie at all And I think the dude playing the predator And the predator mom, dad stuff is kind of cool I just think yeah, it's that And what bothered me more was Eric's point is the cute animal guy and like that, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, but I'm really selling and I just, that book, even more than, like, the bloodless sin battle at the end, but although that, that is, like, they kept, they kept taking the foot off the gas with, like,

is this big monster a huge nightmare monster that we need to kill or is it just kind of cute? And, you know, we know what that is. So, yeah, yeah, I mean, so it's like, it's, it's fine, you know, like, I gave it three and a half. I enjoyed my time with it, but it's definitely nowhere near the heights, I think pray is, yeah, I'm just the thing. And I'm just like, oh, that's exactly what the sequel should look like after two. Like, that's where you should have gone with this. And like, I give the predator some points for being nasty. It's a really nasty movie when you go back to it.

But all that shit with the like, well, what happened with the first one? Well, they had a bunch of group of guys. And like, well, like, that stuff was like Thomas Jane do this thing. That stuff was so annoying with Tegan and it made the movie way longer. This one, at least it feels a little bit more focused. It feels like it is for a little while just El Fanning and the Predator, which would have been perfect. But they had to do this. I really like the evil El Fanning.

I think she's great. But I'm also kind of at the end, I'm like, a lot of this is looking like alien aliens. Like this, the fights and all that. I'm like, that's your cousin. don't bring your cousin's shit to your house. Come on, man. Don't be playing that game. To me, to me, she knocked it out of the park. Yeah. I do want to give, oh, go ahead, Steve. I do think to your point, Chris, I think that that is clearly in the offing that we're like, maybe we're going to, maybe we'll do Alien versus Predator a little bit better than last time. And they probably will. Because again, I think this is a very competent and fun adventure. But it just feels a little.

less trunkey, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, It's also very severely setting up a sequel in a way that the other the other predator movies. And also, because it's kind of like they end the movie a little bit on like an Al Bundy joke. They absolutely do. Because it's kind of just like like the ship's coming up and it's like, what's going on? Dun dun dun dun da da da da da and he's like, it's my mother. And I was like, oh, dude, this predator runs out with a fucking rolling pig. and, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like you doing?

uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, it's a zanomorff. My dad's a predator. And I'm in therapy. Uh, we've, we've, uh, been giving them some, some props and we have not said his names. I just want to make sure we get it on the record. Demetrius Schuster Koloa Matangi is the guy who played, uh, the predator in this movie, um, did a great job, I think.

Yeah. And that's, did a totally great job. A movie like this. should hate and I should hate the new I should hate the but I don't honestly the lore stuff was one of

of the more appealing parts to me I don't mind pulling that curtain back in the fucking sixth movie let's figure out how these guys communicate what the society looks like I think it's reasonable and it's actually well done Tractedberg really

kind of cares about this franchise I just think the current landscape and the Disneyness of it all is a handcuff that you can feel big time. Yeah, you know, big time. You know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, uh, you know, uh, you know, all this to say, I'll be there for the next one. But I don't know, just show me some dude gets shot and his fucking chest blows out.

Or you know, you know, if we're going to do like, you know, there's always like, it's the unedited version on Blu-Rae or whatever. Give me like a, a nasty version, like, that I can enjoy. You put out this one in theaters, six months later, you release the nasty version. The dad cut. Yeah. Well, I mean, like, like, like, yeah, like, like, you see. If you're like a studio jibbley movie, uh, generally you'll see this more like an independent theater, but I do think some chains when they do some of the jibbley stuff also do this. You will have like in the same day on the same screen, like, here's like, um, the English language dub, you know, for the kids and people that don't want to do subtitles but then we will also on that same day one of those showtimes will be a subtitled version you could do that

where it's like it's just like someone put the code in on mortal combat for the blood and it's like those early in the day screenings like those are you know you want your kids come to your pg 13 action sci-fi movie there's your milk blood and whatever but after fucking five o'clock we get the daddy's home cut nice and it's just it's it's an actual predator movie and not a predator movie with training wheels. There it is. That's how you reinvigrate this theater going experience, folks. You do the daddy cut on all of these. Regretting you, daddy cut. It's dirty and weird. Now you see me three. Daddy cut. Oh, my God. He's going to make something appear you'd rather he didn't. Hey, speaking of weird, let's get into it here as we got a out the hour uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, so good God.

Very, very funny. I, I like, I like the intrigue of it. I, I think that's something that really adds a spice to the, uh, Tim Robinson experience that we've been going through these last couple years. It's, it's, it's what I think differentiates it both from, uh, I think you should leave and, uh, friendship, which are both, I think interesting versions of that. I'm going through I'm on I'm on I'm on I'm on I'm on I'm on I'm on I'm on I'm on I'm on I'm on I'm on I'm on I'm on I'm on a long term thing from Robinson doesn't have to be a long term thing doesn't have to be like a thing that he does this is the new version of him he can go back to this of course but I would like to see something like him just doing like a oh I'm a in like a romantic comedy he's the stepdad or something like something easy and quick that he can just add flavor

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I think this is the, I really think this a little while, uh, we went through everything this weekend, uh, so I'm caught up, was there, was there an episode last night? I think so, yeah, okay, I don't see that because I watched Avatar 2 and my TV died, so, ah, there you go, I have to deal with, uh, yeah, it's, yeah, it's so fucking funny, like these, the worst pillow in town is by a little header here. These little lines, what I, what I, what I like, what I like, what I like, like he's, like, what I'm in the way that he gets, what I, what I like about his stuff, like, it's so obvious to do an office comedy where, you know, Tim Robinson's the wackado dude in the office and everyone's like, why is that guy so gosh darn wacky? Everyone in the world is insane. And that, that tracks, this is more, and I think you should leave kind of universe than I think that friendship was, like, everybody is off, like, wheelbarrow. guy is the wheelbarrow, the janitor

wheelbarrow, dude, dude, the man, the inside wheelbarrow, Lou Diamond Phillips is a very, like, awkward and weird boss, like, it's, when Lou Diamond Phillips fucking, I think it's in the third episode where he's like,

like Tim Robinson kind of like leans, it's when he's fighting about like there shouldn't be football presence in the mall or whatever. And then he leans against the wall and he's like, like Lou Diamond Phillips is like, oh, well, actually while you were gone, Jim actually gave

and impassion speech about why, also, also, is not lean, and it's just, just totally calling out. Oh, God, it's great. Oh, and Jim Downey is terrific. He's having a great year. Oh, my God. Dude, him with those bubbles, man. It is just, and it's that, you're right, Steve, it's that kind of thing where it's like, everyone in this office could easily be like an extra in one flew over the cuckoo's nest. You know what I mean? Like, there's just this nuttiness to it.

I have to say, like Lake Bell as put upon Tim Robinson wife, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, but also the kid's really good. I like when he has the moment with the kid about, but he catches some drinking the beers, like behind. And the way the kid like describes why he likes drinking is this really like dangerous alcoholics excuse for drinking and it's so fucking funny. Oh my God. But I think just to go back to what you were saying, Chris.

and I do think there's a slightly I do think there's something different here. He's very like him and Sophia Lillis his daughter I think and maybe you didn't get to that episode like when they really have kind of some heart to hearts it's night like you know what I mean and like her shitty girlfriend or fiance

and he's just like that girl's funny she's amazing and he just has to be like you sure you want to be with her because like it's when they're playing twister and she's like I told you I could do yellow foot left I told you I told you this. Yeah, yeah, but it's weird. the, the moments, the moments,

not just with the kids, because I think it's that same episode, because the whole thing is the daughter and the fiancee, they want to get married at, like, a haunted house or something. And, like, her parents, not Tim Robinson's daughter, but the other girls' parents are pissed off about that. So they're like,

hey, Tim, like, you know, work your magic on the father and, you know, whatever. And he has this really great, like, And we just love our daughters. And, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, he charms this guy into agreeing to let the haunted house wedding happen. So, well, it feels like a, a piece of dialogue that you would have taken, like,

from the father of, father of the bride part two. And, like, and, like, and just give it Tim Robinson and let him hit the notes that, that Martin wouldn't hit and put the music a little weird. And it makes it just, right, nerve. There's like this weird undertone to everything. And I, I, it's not even the people. It's every way that you talk. It's everything.

It really does. It strikes me. And also that Mike Santini character, like, like, like, like, like, it's now like, like, like a adversary. It is now like, you know, like the co-lead of the show. He is really a standout. Joseph, uh, two disco. I get, I think it's pronounced. I don't know. Yeah, yeah. Not a, like his career was sort of a lot of TV stuff, but man, is he great in this? I was genuinely surprised. He only played trucker on an episode of the sopranos. I think you should leave you should like Zach Canaan. They find these people who are actors that feel like are actors that could hit these notes. Like I think of that the professor and I think you should leave sketch with the hamburger like I'm gonna eat your book. I'm joking. I'm just joking. Yeah. And like that guy's amazing. Like that guy should have his own show. But they find these people from relative obscurity and they're really fantastic. It's really genius how they they pull their casting. I'm thinking about like biff with, you know, you know, you're great, you're good, um, um, so it, it is a, uh, uh, all around. I got to finish. I got to say, I was doing some late night watching. And it's great because every episode is just, it's like 33 minutes. You're in and you're out, which is fine. I nodded off on Saturday night watching. I was in like episode three. I woke up and on my TV is Tim Robinson with a flashlight screaming at the top of his lungs. And I was like, what's good? Oh my God. I was like, like, freaked out. I had

I had auto played through all of the folks, folks, folks, I was just sleep in a chair in my house in the of the night. I woke up, it was like halfway through friendship, was what was on the TV. And it was when he's in the sewer looking for Kate Mara and he's screaming. I just,

and I was like, what is he doing in this episode? Then I was like, no, this is a movie you saw twice. But that is nothing except for me greening out late at night watching stuff. I think it's amazing. It's so funny. Big recommend all around, folks. so there you go. We're going to up speaking to big weeks

you all it's a big week here us of course because tomorrow we love movies month is continuing we're really excited for this one because guess what y'all all the naysayers out there that don't care for live episodes this Hellraiser live

episodes sounds fantastic it is a real I'm not going to toot our own horn too much but it is a real top of our game show folks you don't want to miss it it's very funny um, of course, of course, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, but of a bit of a, um,

a bit of an Oxford week here. Is that right, Mr. Siska? What's coming out on Thursday? Yes. On Thursday, we were releasing the Gleap glossary, which was actually recorded live in front of a live audience, uh, for the first time, not a fake audience like I used to do. Um, it was thrilling, honestly. It's about an hour long.

It's, it's, it's a lot of fun. It was a sold out show. I couldn't believe enough people in England liked us to come out to see Darth Vader, gleepe glossary. So it was, it was, it's what we recorded right before Hellraiser. So you got that whole evening is being released. And then we're also releasing a supplemental Gleap Glossary for if you really hate live episodes, because you're deranged. We're doing an episode on a blaster rifle. Yeah. WHM guns and ammo. That's right. That's right. The Gleap gunnery will also be

on Thursday. And we should say it's a little bit of like a sweeps month kind of thing. So that Live Vader, that's also free feed. So if you're like, Gleep Glossary curious, here's a great show that you can check out. But yes, to your point, the release of these should be flipped so that in the Hellraiser episode, when you hear Chris say, I just learned that Darth Vader is a simp, that's because he learned that before on the episode you will listen to Thursday. there's that. Then Friday

really stoked about this, peep Felipe's art with this shit. As a tradition has become here with We Love Movies Month, we always turn some of these supplemental shows over to motion pictures as well when we usually cover television kind of things. And in the case of the nexus,

we're talking undiscovered country. Amazing. And this is just us as characters from the film. It's so far. and funny. It's a real fun a great movie, by the way. It's a great movie. Just get even if you're like, oh, I didn't watch five. I don't remember. You don't have to watch all this. Watch this sixth movie. And if you're new to like the Patreon stuff, you're thinking, oh, they're doing Undiscover Country

the movie on the Patreon that's probably shorter than the episodes that are released on the free feed. No, it's two hours long. So enjoy. It's a whole episode. Basically a WLM with the Nexus stickers slapped over it. But that was going to do it for this week's on screen live folks we'll be back sometime in december stay tuned to all the socials and subscribe to this channel to find out just when that's going to happen but uh until next time i've been andrew jupin stephen eric cisco chabin have a great week y'all bye bye bye And so on the

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