We Hate Movies - S8: WHM Mail Bag: Film Critic Run-Ins, Sleepover Film Selections, and Disastrous Midnight Movie Experiences

Episode Date: January 31, 2018

On January's WHM Mail Bag, the gang reads letters about film critics they've met, bad film selections for sleepovers, unfortunate midnight movie experiences, abrupt screening shut downs, Jim Belushi's on-set demands, passing out from movie violence, and people throwing up at the movies! PLUS: Steve and Chris celebrate the addition of ER to Hulu! Get in your film-related Valentine's Day letters (or just stories about bad dates) soon for our February episode! Send them into [e-mail]! Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a headgum podcast. Welcome to WHM Mailbag, everybody. I'm Andrew Jupin alongside who we got here. Stephen Saneck and Christopher Cabin. We're here to read some letters, but also we're here to talk some business. So Steve Sadek this month in WHM. This month's in WHM.

You're a loyal WHM fan. You got all of your great worst of 2017 content. But he didn't get all of it because now we have a different Patreon tier, which is $5, new episode that is a full episode which this month we did on Bright which is... I'm still scarred.

It's a problem. It's Will Smith Joel Edgerton David Ayr, Max Landis Numer Pace. Numer Pace. And Edgar Amir is having a great month in that fucking Versace show which I love. We watched the first episode. I'm down. He's fantastic in it too. He's great.

And then the second Penelope Cruz opened her mouth. Me and my wife at the same time we're like, yes. It's fucking great. So there's that. That was the $5. We also released the entire old, if you're looking for episodes 100 and something through two. It's like 109 and back to two.

Yes, that's where those live in a really easy format to find them. Big thanks to our WHM Superfam, Drew Stewart, by the way, who helped with some of the organizing. There's a spreadsheet. Marty, shut up! There's a spreadsheet that's, you know, you could look through everything. It tells you when shit aired, like, what it is. I mean, it's thorough.

It is thorough. Awesome. So Drew Stewart, thank you for that. We also have our $8 tier, which you can get the Nexus on, and you'll also get everything else under it. We did a fun episode on the Galileo 7, which is like a Spock-centric episode. Right.

We're having a lot of fun on that one. And we also did a Bobby's World Animation, Animation, Damnination. So there's a ton of great WHM content. If you're on the Patreon, go to patreon.com slash wHs slash We Hate Movies. There it is. To find that stuff. And for both the Nexus and animation, damnation, there's a ton of old content.

There's days where the content on there fucking commentaries a whole grab bag and you know what gang by the way commercial free Yeah exactly And just a little announcement We are going to Austin, Texas

With our good friends at Headgum Specifically our good friends At Black Men Can't Jump Because we're doing a show On March the 10th At 7 p.m. That's right With Black Men Can't Jump

It's going to be an awesome show Those guys are hilarious We're pretty good We're also kind of okay. We do it what we can. But it's rad, man. It's a whole headgum showcase the whole day. We're taking over a venue in Austin, the North Door.

We're at 7. 9 p.m. is our good friends, Jake and Amir of If I Were You, and the dudes at Twinivation are doing a show. So go to headgum.com. Click on their live tab. All the info is there. You do not want to miss this. We are hitting Austin hard. We're hitting the ground running the first time there. I feel like we're going to sell out.

really kind of quickish. So, because people love us in Austin. People love Black Man Candy. Jump in Austin. It's going to be a show that's going to go quick. So you want to get your tickets really soon. As Jeremy Irons line would say, be prepared. That's right.

Is that all the business? Oh, and just a quick, for February, we want your romance and relationship type emails for the next mailbag. Which you are doing the mailbag way. It's going to happen. Yeah. If they're movie-centric, all the better. Oh, yeah, sure, sure.

Yeah, like a Valentine's Day date to the movies where I don't know, you fucking shit your pants in the bathroom by accident? That seems like something at WHM listener would do. We absolutely love it when you shit in your pants. You ever? That's the best laugh ever. I just laughed and then hiccuped with this seltzer. The, uh, uh, you ever watch Hiroshima Mon and War with your, uh, with your lady there on Valentine's night? I did.

Holy shit. It was like, we like to watch romantic, like, criterion movies. And I was like, oh. Just because it's got a more. I don't know. It's like, oh, we're just learning a lot about erosion. No, you should watch Amor for the next round. Yes, speaking of love, baby. And speaking of movies that make you want to kill yourself.

February on the... Oh, that's right. On the Patreon, I almost forgot. We are going to be doing a little movie called Man of Steel. Yeah, this quiet indie romance movie called Man of Steel. It's about a guy from a foreign town. Yeah. He meets a girl.

Amy Adams is in it. She's a tremendous. Oh, yeah. Lawrence Fishburn, a powerful role. Kevin Costner, better than he's been since Fandango, I'd say. Eating a hero cake? Yeah. So, yeah, no, that's our patron exclusive episode that you can only

get on the $5 tier. Enough business. Yes, let's get to some letter reading. Sure. And I feel like Steve Sadek start us off. Critic opinions, question mark. Dearest W.H.M. fellas, my grand aunt was film critic Judith Christ. Did I say that correctly probably?

Judith Christ? Yeah. Yeah, you got it. Okay. And I don't... It might be Christ. Maybe she's related to the Lord. Oh, man, the late grade J.C. And I often think to myself that you would really have loved your show. Well, that's nice to hear. Especially your tenant, it's okay to like a movie. She gave a lot of things a chance that I think other people wouldn't. For example, in 2000,

when a ton of critically acclaimed movies came out, She had Aaron Brockovich at the top of her year-end best list. Wasn't Aaron Brockovich also critically acclaimed? Yeah, didn't it win her an Oscar? June Roberts won a category. And I think the Sotomayor was not that great of a movie. I love that movie, but... That's fair.

We all have different opinions on we have movies. I remember there was a big tale on entertainment tonight about how her breasts were large in that film. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. Was it a push-up bra? Is that the idea? I mean, I don't know the movie magic behind it, man.

but the point was entertainment tonight decided to do a whole thing about it. It was like, hey, everybody, Julia Roberts has big boobs in this movie. Are you sure that this wasn't late era hard copy? Yeah, you know what? One of the other.

Late era hard copy turned into hardcore pornography so quickly. I didn't even know it. We didn't always agree on movies. She liked Slingblade and we argued over that piece of crap movie for a long time. That's a movie that's fine. I don't know what I would think about if I watched it today.

I'll never watch it again. I watched it once. You'd be like, this looks like shit. That's what I, I mean, maybe. That's the way I had it figured, man. Good late period, unfortunately late period. John Ritter in that movie. That's true.

Oh, RIPD. But from a young age, she gave me the appreciation for the art of criticism and for loving movies. Besides yourselves, fuck you, Chris Cabin. Do you have a favorite movie critic past or present? What do you look for in movie opinions? Any funny critic-related stories? Thanks for being a bright spot. Sarah from Calgary, Alberta to Canada.

Nice. Past critics, I mean, the great Roger Eber. Of course. Roger Ebert also took a lot of fucking flack, just like Judith Christ, apparently, for giving movies a chance. Raj, like, towards the end there, was kind of the fan of the three-star.

Yeah, he got a little soft in his old age, old age, which is fine. Totally, totally fine. And, I mean, he found, like, Ava DeVernay. I mean, he was, he really bolstered her career early on. Sure. So he was great. I like reading Tony Scott, A.O. Scott from the New York Times.

Manola Dargis also from the Times is someone I read a lot. There are two people who, just in my day job of film exhibition, my boss and I immediately go to the Times. We're in New York, obviously. If they, like, and this is a thing, man, like people like to say sometimes that, like, Like, critics don't have as much. Like, critics don't have any power over, like, Marvel movies. Sure.

But a critic will fucking kill or lift up, like, indie art house stuff for sure. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. So, you know, I'll get my, an email from my boss that's like, did you fucking see what Manola did. God damn. You know what I? So it's like, or, like, wow, Manola, great review in the Times or whatever. So for sure, both of them.

And I read Chris Cabin. He's a little bit contrary. I'm a little bit. It's the world's most contrarian. No, what were you, like, 10th on that list? I think 10th. Of all the fucking film critics, dude. A lot of my slant boys are on that list.

Chris, are you worried about, you know, some maniac taking a, taking that list as a kill list? Like, he's going to kill all of that. I mean, that'd be, A, that'd be a great movie. I thought you were going to say, shoot me like Gianni Versace outside of my bungalow in Miami. Oh, I forgot. Chris is Miami bungalow. What's the address again? Chris is coming back from buying a bunch of magazines and a news.

1611 No Way Street I really like Richard Brody from the New Yorker I really like him Jay Hoberman he does mostly like DVD stuff for the Times now I think I really like I read most of his books Jim Hoberman used to be the big critic

for the village voice and he was amazing there and what's another one there should be another one right I'm gonna just name drop a little bit Not really, but no, I really like old AV people that I used to follow. Such as Scott Tobias, Noel Murray's fantastic. Keith Phipps.

Keith Phipps. Our friend Nathan Rabin, who's done a bunch of nice tweets. We've never met him in person yet, but one day that will happen. But Nathan Rabin, of course, I loved reading. Who's writing on Nathan Rabin's Happyplace.com, I believe that. I hope I got that right. But is it just Nathanraban.com? Yeah, Google that.

Google Nathan Raymond, you'll find it. And actually, Dave Sims, we just did blank check with that guy. That guy's hilarious. And by the way, and Tasha Robinson as well. Tasha Robinson. Of course, just to clarify that, it is just Nathan Rabin.com.

The name of the website is Nathan Rabin's happy place. Got it. But yeah, Keith, Keith Phipps is at like Uprocks now? I always loved reading his stuff on the dissolve. Because they just came about

when I was the right age and I just read the ton of read the shit out of them and I wind up agreeing with those people a lot. Oh, oh, and the absolute best, Arm and White. You know, spoken like a true contrarian. Exactly. But you guys have.

Any like, because I know that any, like, actual run-ins with film critics that are humorous? Because I know that that's happened to you guys a bunch. I happened to me. Jay, Jim Hoberman and me, I was at, like, it was just, there was two people in the screening for Andrew Bezalski's Beeswax. Yeah, that sounds like the right number for Wuzolski press screen. It was like 9.30 a.m. And it's just me, I walk in and there's only one other person and I finally see it as Jay Hoverman. And I'm like, I'm not going to say it.

anything. So I sat down and like the movie starts and like this is a rarity. This almost never happens that film forum. The print broke. Yeah. They're pros down there so that's rare. So like the rarity of film forum was not somebody dead in the front

row. Wedged into the second row. Barely get out of there. Tight seats as it turns Oh yeah. So Homerman like so it just crashes since there for like 20 minutes. It's me and Jim Hoverman and it's dead silent for eight minutes and then all of a sudden from across the hall.

Hey, how are you doing? I'm Jim. I am Chris. I've told this story before, but I once played the film Stealth for Gene Shalette. Oh, of course. Yeah, the greatest of all film critics. I mean, well, certainly the most cartoonish of all film critics. And I projected the film.

I've told the story before, but long story short. afterwards I said Mr. Shalett what did you think of the film and without missing a beat without breaking stride on his way for the can just shouted it's got Oscar written all over it sarcastically as he went and urinated

I stalked Rex Reed for a couple of years he's a piece of shit don't read Rex Reed did you send like parts of your skin to him oh yeah yeah I took his dog to get this dog I mean like it didn't work out no all right

yeah there we go some film critics we like reading and some we've met Pauline Kale once kicked me in the head Pauline Kale she was long dead before you were on the scene also read old reviews from Janet Maslin Janet Maslin longtime critic chief film critic for the New York

Times wrote like the first great review for Stop Making Sense oh cool yeah so dudes and ladies in the world of film criticism for sure all right Chris Cabin next email here we go Constantine who was my first R-rated movie. Making me feel

pretty old. Yeah. That's going to keep happening. So they say. Hey guys. Love the podcast. The increased frequency of Donald Trump impressions in particular has really increased my quality of life. You're welcome.

Oh, dear. It helped me get through the shit hole that was 2017. I know we all like to pat ourselves on the back for getting through 2017. 2018 ain't looking great. No. We're off to a rocky start. I don't think that they're all going to end, actually, folks.

Well, the good news is the show's staying on the air. There you go. Write it out. Podcasts are illegal. Yeah. They're all going to be round up and shot. We just need to get like a pirate ship and do it from the international waters. Oh, shit, pirate podcast.

What if we went to the pirate bay? Or mega upload. Imagine that if it was like an island. It's like an island like where school. Skywalker is and that's the pirate band. All these hackers and torreners are. All right. I have

pretty much no good movie related stories but when the constantly episode was released the memories of this one came flooding back. I grew up Mormon. Whoops. Oh boy. And as noted, Mormon lover, Steve but possibly not Andrew Chris or Eric knows. Mormons are

not allowed to watch R-rated movies. Wow. So back in the day, John Smith had the foresight to be like, all right, eventually someday there's going to be a bullshit organization that gives ratings to things called movies. Yes. Well, not John Smith. I thought that's what was Joseph Smith.

Oh, Joseph Smith, excuse me. What was John Smith? He was, uh, what's his face? Pocahontas's his boyfriend. I'll stop ruining this. Well, I mean, Joseph Smith. Pocahontas's his boyfriend. Justice Smith certainly didn't like Martin Scorsese.

Although I heard a lot of. a lot growing up that it was okay if it was due to violence but not sex. Well, that's all of America. Yeah. That's just not relegated to the Mormon. That's TV as well. When I was in eighth grade, I got invited to a

seepover by a girl. I didn't know very well. I don't remember anything else about the party except this girl announcing that she had just gotten and wanted to watch Constantine. Are we talking on the boot? That seems pretty sinful for Mormon to get a movie on the boot. Yeah. I know. I mean,

It's probably, I imagine it's, you know, just a DVD blockbuster situation. This little bootlegger went to hell. Constantine 2003, did she maybe get Netflix mail? It could have been, yeah, she could be getting some mail. By the way, I started doing discs by mail again. It's great. I don't know what I was thinking. The selection is so much better than streaming.

Yeah, yeah. Fuck you, Netflix. I being the good Mormon young woman I was at the time, of course, asked to look at the box to see the rating. When I saw that it was Grated R I vehemently fought against watching it

but was shot down by this girl in her flesh Oh absolutely It's her fucking sleepover Dick in the mud And also like You know they're like

Oh the Mormon girl You know what I mean And that's not right You shouldn't be saying that But that's what they did Oh was she saying She was the only Mormon in the room I don't know

I mean I guess maybe she's the only good Mormon The only one who's like The bad Mormon Coming this fall She probably already had a sip of Dr. Pepper, so she already knows where she's going.

Daniel steals the bad Mormon. That's sensual. The phrase, don't be such a baby, was definitely uttered. You know what? Sleepovers are fucking brutal. I stared at my lap during the whole movie. Oh.

But it just seemed so exciting. I kept moving my eyes. You're a lap or the move. Well, I mean, the PJs might be interesting. I kept moving my eyes to look at the screen with my head still bowed down or literally watching the movie through my fingers. Wow.

As a result, I remember pretty much nothing about the movie and the live episode literally did not ring any bells at all. I was waiting for you guys to talk about how the final confrontation took place in a gas station, but I guess I imagine that. There's the confrontation outside that gas station where he gets

attacked by that bug crab thing. Yes. Yeah. So maybe that's where she thought the movie ended. But you know what? Just to clear our record, we fucking talked about it. We sure did. I was mortified after, feeling dirty, and hid that I had ever watched it from my parents for years.

Now I'm not a Mormon anymore, and find the whole thing laughable. Anyway, that's my story. Thanks for all the last guys. Hope you all have a great 2018. We're doing our best. Nicole from D.C. Yeah, I was a noted coward for a really long time with movies, and I could not watch horror. movies and I remember

I had this trick that I would do which is focus on a different part of the screen or a different part of the room that I was in. Oh shit but in the general direction of the television. Exactly. So like in these kinds of situations like oh cool let's watch this movie like oh yeah sure I'll be

I remember even like I had a big clown thing I still have a bit of a clown thing oh yeah I couldn't watch that 1989 Batman movie for a really long time or you know that was one of the first movies I saw in theater I I covered my eyes during it. I remember in school, they were like, we're watching Batman today. Because it was like at the end of the year.

And I was like, oh, fuck, I'm going to get outed. So that's what I developed it. I think I was actually looked as a Catholic school. I focused on the cross every time the Joker was on screen. That is something, man. Paul Schrader would love to hear that story. What did you do when they showed killer clowns from out of spacing school? He just looked at Dean Wormer the whole thing.

Were you looking at the Bible? Tim Burton's an 89 Batman and a Catholic school. Like, you know. That's a real problem. It's a bit of a problem for a second grade, I think it was.

I was like, I don't know if I could handle this. And then also when I saw Event Horizon, I was like, I thought I was able to do it and I was not able to do it. That was me really looking at the exit sign the entire.

Oh, you were in the theater. I was in the theater. Oh, my buddy was like, Hey, man, we're 13, let's go here, Event Horizon's like, what about that fun comedy across the way? Yeah, one time I had a sleepover It wasn't a horror movie

It's all that don't be a baby That's that That is the nuclear insult Until you're about 16 years old Somebody saying Oh don't be a baby You do not want to be a baby No, nobody wants to be

And I was calling this whole sleepover babies Because this one sleepover I was at And this was like maybe first grade They were like Oh let's all watch all dogs go to heaven And I was like I don't want to watch that Yeah, it's for big I'm not a baby

Yeah, and they were like, yay! And I was like, this fucking stinks. Later, that very same sleepover. Pornography? No, but somebody hucked a fucking Alf doll across the room, and it hit this kid in the face, and his nose started bleeding. What?

He went home. Because it was an alf stuffed animal, but the schnaz was plastic. Oh, you got to look off of those plastic bits. Yeah, dude, this kid got fucking bombed right in the face. And like what the funeral was two weeks later. yeah dude his nose went up into his brain and killed him i like accidentally corrupted a friend of mine that sounds about right um i sounds exactly right i unknowingly this kid his mother who didn't have

like a religious affiliation she just had this weird fucking code in her head of what movies were dirty or not oh that was the word she used dirty that's a dirty that's a weird one really problematic guess what so she's not home i'm over at his house we're hanging out it's like a saturday and, like, I brought over my DVD or my VHS of the Sandlot. Sure. Oh, come on. And we're like, I'm not kidding you, 40 minutes in. Uh-huh.

She walks in with groceries, watches, like, one minute. Was with the lifeguard? It was with the lifeguard. Of course. Of course. This was my parents, M.O., man. They always walked in at the sexy parts. The worst time.

And she was like, oh, my God, no. And, like, literally dropped her groceries to turn it off. Just pulled the VCR right out of the wall and threw it out the window. Just a big eject and then, like, you know, what happened to my tape didn't matter to her. Oh, man. Did you get asked to leave? No, she's like, oh, you should know better. Oh, that's a bit, yeah, you don't want to hear that.

That's stupid. All right. Mailbag question. Hey, gang. I recently went to a midnight showing of die hard. It was amazing to see it on the big screen for the first time with the exception of an overly talkative and interactive audience. I know that certain movies like Rocky Har pictures show and The Room encourage this

but is this appropriate movie viewing behavior for a movie like Die Hard? People were finishing movie lines and commenting on everything. I get it. It was the 1980s and you could smoke in an airport. God, God bless those times. I don't need smarmy hipsters

to point that out to me. One guy next to me was openly and carelessly texting on his phone. Oh, that's a nuclear problem. I didn't know if I was in the wrong and this is acceptable or not, but I gave out my fair share of head turns and dirty looks.

Eventually, I ended up moving to the back of the theater where I couldn't hear every comment made. There was still a low murmur throughout the entire movie. Am I in the wrong on this one? Thank you for all the good times. Corey R.

It's a tough one. I firmly say pretty much no, but the thing is it's a midnight screening. That's what I was going to say. That's the variable here. The midnight screening. Like a retro is a retro. Like, you know what I mean?

If we're showing diehard at 7 p.m. It's after dinner, whatever. Exactly. This is like, this is when the fucking goblins come out. I feel like... It's one of the reasons I don't go to midnight screens anymore. I don't.

I have not in years. And I, yeah, it's because that encourages that. And this is also interesting, though, because it sort of marks like a changing in die hard, like in our culture. Yeah. So, like, I guess die hard is a thing now that we can just do that with. Like, I'm sure they went. Ape shit over Yippie Kaya motherfucker.

Sure. We all were having a laugh at I got a machine gun now. Ho, ho, ho. What about I killed a kid? Oh, just monstrous applause. I killed a kid. Woohoo!

Oh yeah, he said it. He had a ray gun. The screen or whatever. Yeah, so that's tough. I feel like the problem is it's a midnight movie. Yeah. That's the thing. That's the time. That's when you let those people be goblins,

although I will say in defense. of what was going on here, midnight movie or no, fucking put that phone away. Fuck you. That's a problem. I saw,

and I've never done this before and I will never do it again. I did have a good time. It was a snuff film. There's a snuff film. No, I did a rocky horror. It was live.

It was on Halloween. It was literally up the street. My fiance is like, oh, it's in a graveyard. It's kind of cool. Like, you want to go see this thing? I was like, yeah, sure. And I didn't realize

it was like a rocky horror thing. Like I thought it was like, That's the only way that movie's shown, and it's where we have actors in the front of the screen, and we're just, and like, but the weird thing is like everything has its joke. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's like the known joke where everyone is saying it at the same time. Yeah. Like, it's not like we're just having a good time riffing on a movie or whatever. It's like this, that, and the other thing. And I found it oddly homophobic the entire time as well.

What? Really? Yeah, well, the F word was used a couple of times. Like, it's like, eh, no. Yeah, that's tough. I mean, Rocky Har isn't a movie that I would call homophobic. No, the movie wasn't. The, the thing was.

Every time, like, Tim Curry would come on screen, like, yeah, that's a, you know what I mean? Like, that's weird. You know what? It was an odd one. Was that a jersey version of it? Yeah, I was going to say. It might have been the jersey dialogue to got a little heavy. Well, it's weird because I'll tell you one time, my sister was in a production of Rocky Har.

while it was going on or like a production of the stage show oh okay good in the actual musical also it is the most uncomfortable I've ever seen my father which was just about as entertaining if not greater than the actual

it wasn't like just watching him getting redder and redder kind of a situation yeah and my sister was running around in her bra sure you know it was just fucking hysterical as was the style at the time but so they're doing all the call like they encouraged the callouts

right like somebody came out beforehand and was like do the thing. Yeah. But there was a guy, front row, may as well have had a, this is my thousandth time scene. Oh, Lord. This motherfucker, inserting, like, extra things on top of the things that were already

inserting. So everyone's, and I wasn't familiar with any of the callouts, but a lot of people in the audience were, so they were doing the thing. And then this guy, pinching for time as he was, is like rush saying. other things to fit them in between the things that people are already saying. So, you know, someone's like,

ba-b-ba-ba-ba. And then this guy, knowing that there's a second bab-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ha coming up in a couple seconds, is like, blah-blah. Yeah, there was a couple of that going on too.

And there was like, what the fuck are you doing? Hang up on them. Some people have different scripts. I wanted to flush this guy down the toilet. And to be fair, like, I like, I like, can't we just watch the movie?

That's the way I feel. Who wants to watch the movie? I love the music and that. I think that movie is so funny. Fucking Meatloaf is outstanding in that movie. Tim Curry is fantastic. Tim Curry, of course, really good. Barry Boswick, Susan Sarandon.

Great. All great. Can't that just be it? Because it should just be a sing-along. If we're going to really do it, just do a sing-along of the songs, not the dialogue. That's kind of what I thought it was. That's what it was all these years of like, oh, the Rocky Horror thing. I was like, oh, I'll go there and I'll sing along the song.

Yeah, no. We're fucking throwing bread at the screen. and that all has its place and it's a cult thing but I just wish there were some screenings where it was like hey curmudgins only people who don't like fun let me just watch the movie

I'm sure once every three years it shows that film forum they don't let any of that shit happen yeah that's a good point unless you have a peony and you're fucking doing a score to broken blossoms but I also but to your point I do think that that would be a great thing to have It's an orange movie, you call it.

And everyone who comes to the orange screening knows to be the fuck quiet. You know what I mean? Even for like Die Hard or any midnight movie. You know what I mean? And actually every week I'm totally at the IFC Center. They have really cool midnight movies. And I don't know that they're at midnight until I see it.

It's like, oh, cool, they're playing. Oh, at fucking midnight. And then I don't go. That's the thing. It's like, oh, I think that was the last time I went to one was me and a buddy went to the IFC. and saw our midnight screening if they lived. And it was problematic.

Because I just want to watch this amazing movie. Sure. It was just like, everybody was way too into it. And I was like, I just want to, where's my orange screen? I need an orange screen. I'm telling you, but that's just how it's going to be with it. Like, you need, it's also the movie itself. Like, I went to, the last midnight screening I went to was The Exorcist.

Yeah, I did that. And you're not going to get any hooting and hollering at that. Oh, no, nobody. woo-hooed when she pees on the floor? No, no vomit. Whoops. That movie is too terrifying. Like, literally once that movie starts, like, I am fucking terrified. Yeah. So it's tough. The midnight movie thing is tough. I will say to our thing about, like, seeing stuff that's not at midnight. Yeah. I went and saw a screening of McGruber at Brooklyn Alamo that started at like 930. Nobody said shit. Everybody just

laughed their ass off that whole time. Well, it's Alamo. You'll get shot in the head. Oh, that's true. All right. Let's keep it rolling here. Christmas Nazi panic or as Christmas Nazi panic Trauma's Christmas Nazi panic Or as most families

know it now Just Christmas Babe Hey guys I wanted to write About the most Afraid I've ever been During a movie

Whoa In December 2015 My wife and I were in Germany For our honeymoon Which happened to coincide With the release Of the Force Awakens

I'm a massive Star Wars fan Who isn't And What do you want a prize? No it. And because my wife is awesome, she had called ahead and reserved

tickets for an English language only screening at midnight. Watch out. Getting those uptempo numbers, man. Around the middle of the film, I'm enraptured, the right way to watch that movie. On comes the scene where General Hux makes his big speech in front of the First Order troops, and I notice it's got strong Nazi overtones and, as

Andrew Jupin would say, indertones. Then I mentioned, then I remembered I was in Germany, and I wondered what the German audience was thinking. Right as I have this thought, the scene reaches its climax and the movie just stops. Uh-oh. The house lights come up and people are leaving the theater

and I start to panic. Rally out front, guys. They reminded us of it. Fortunately, a kindly old couple behind us noticed our confusion and explained that there's normally an intermission. When I asked people if they would get, when I asked if people would get upset, about the Nazi stuff

the woman answered Of course not It's just a movie It's a perfectly rational thing to say Is there a time When a movie caused you to panic Or otherwise be upset Love the show

And I can't wait for the chance To see you guys in Austin Hey listen to the beginning of the episode You'll find out May the Force And not the Nazis be with you James

This is exactly how I saw The Force Away I was in Germany at the time And I went to a midnight So I guess that was The last midnight screening I've been to really. Did they have the walkout thing?

No, they didn't have an intermission. Like, it was just, it was just at the, I was in Nuremberg, I don't know. Maybe if you're in Berlin. It's more of a Berlin thing, I think. I don't know. But yeah, it was fine. I didn't think about the Nazis that often. I don't know, I feel like, you know, you were in Germany for pretty much a whole year.

I don't know, I'd be just like, is that guy a Nazi? Is that, what was a Nazi? No. I'm foolish, you know, but. That's ridiculous. It's a silly idea. That's first day. syndrome, Steve.

First day you wonder about some Nazis. You have a better chance of running into that in this fucking country. Now, absolutely. Yeah, you know, I will admit that going to see Dark Night Rises after all of that. Oh, yeah.

The Aurora stuff. That was a bit weird. Like, we saw it together. We were, you know, just being in a crowded theater in Manhattan, it was like, what's going to happen? What are we doing? I will recall one ridiculous instance of when Passion of the Christ came out

we went to see it and I remember it was weird but we're in this movie it's like fucking Jesus torture porn and all of a sudden like every time something bad happened to Jesus there was a thunderous noise coming from the ceiling of the theater oh really it was just the air conditioning unit but the timing of this busted A-C was like every time Cavizel's getting the Cat-09 tails

it's like and I was like the Lord is mad through the air conditioner I think the Lord is over Jesus at this point you know what I mean it's been a couple thousand years sure there's been a lot more atrocities

that the Lord can get worked up over that's true and also he kind of engineered the whole thing that's the thing that was his plan exactly it's on him he put the kubosh on the whole thing He could have stopped it. They say he could stop it anytime he wants. That's right. He had his points, though.

He did. I mean, look like that. All right. All right. An evening. Jesus. An evening with Damien Lee. Who the hell? Just an evening? He's the director of Abraxas, guardian. Oh, okay. So that, oh boy. Hey guys. My name is Tyler. And I'm from the home of Johnny Mnemonic, Toronto.

Great town. Johnny, that's a town in Toronto. Mnemonic. Johnny Mnemonic, Toronto. Yeah, that's a nice area. I've been a fan since Copycat, but only now have I had cause to reach out. This past week, I had the privilege of seeing a Braxis, Guardian of the Universe, in quote-unquote, beautiful 35 millimeter. Yeah, I bet that was a bit banged up. Yeah, a little bit.

Or at least it was as beautiful as a copy of a Braxas could be after sitting in a random closet for years unaccounted for at, I believe it ended up. T I oh Toronto International Film Festival headquarters yeah so TIF has a they do the festival obviously but also there's a massive movie theater there yeah um this is big film center tons of stuff in it but they have like five theaters they screen stuff year round that's cool isn't it kind of like facets they get like a lot of weird like random stuff too right um yeah their their programming is pretty diverse I don't follow it okay closely but yeah they have a lot of cool stuff come through the story of finding it was long and complicated they usually are anyhow the real reason that i'm writing is that damienly the director was an intendance

and shared some things during the q-na that i think you'd find interesting a report from the field um unlike steve he has read a fucking comic book fucking somebody should finally he was very up in front and honest about taking inspiration from the new gods and even gave a quick explanation of mother boxes and dark side and the anti-life equation so we all knew what he was talking about also he consistently referred to Jack Kirby

as the king how fucking dare you I'm the king of comic books around here Damien you sued Balushi was around because he'd been romantically involved with the female lead that poor woman yeah that's that's heartbreaking

it's like listening about the War of the Roses when Lee approached him to ask about doing a cameo Belushi agreed to be in the movie but only if he had total control over every aspect of the character Are you surprised at all

anybody? I mean of course we can't confirm nor deny any of these are real things but that's what we're just reading par for the course though Meep James's taking care of business I think that my character

would be eating a sausage sandwich He'd be eating it here, here, here, and here. You know, I tried, I tried to get it into Twin Peaks, and David said no about the sausage sandwiches. It was really interesting. I just imagine him at MoMA now, like they're going to show all Twin Peaks at once at this 18-hour wonderful thing,

and then this fucking, like, culture critic has to talk to Belushi about what he got to eat or not on fucking set. I'd sit through that Q&A. Absolutely. Very curious. Oh, David just, a great he's a genius wasn't just donuts and pie and coffee man we did get all sorts of beef steaks and pizzas you know what big venison chili fan it turns out um that's why he's

playing principal rick ladimer again that was all from his from his film the principal from the principal see episode like eight of this show and also see the episode on our bracts well would you explain what the conversation is like it's a really good point it's rick laddmer come on Yeah, it's really good point. Pardon me. That was all Belushi's idea, of course. And as a young director, Lee said, okay, so he could cast a big actor. You got Jesse the body Ventura. What else do you need? Actors.

You got Jesse the Body Ventura. What else do you need? He's a big performer. Sven Olthorson. That man's an actor. Yeah, he's a truthester. Number three, Lee described Jesse Ventura as delicate. And said he'd stop. take because his socks were getting wet oh man my featsies you're getting cold hold on we're gonna nope nope we're gonna have to shut down for the day i got a wedgy you know what i'm not i'm not

feeling this scene hey dame uh dame guess what man uh baba these socks are soaked and i'm really prone to athletes foot this is gonna be bad you know either we stop right now or you're shut down for six weeks buddy and damien i was just in the uh in the shitter there and i I was taking a pish, and when I put my dick back, I peed a little in my boxers. We're going to have to call the day. Oh, that'll cancel the day of shooting. Also get used to that one, bud. Oh, Lord.

Okay. Lee also said that, like most action movie sets, it was a high testosterone environment, and that Thornton would frequently bully Jesse. Oh, man, Schendt's giving me shit again today. Hey, Jesse, give me your milk money. You don't hate that guy. Give me your podium, Jesse. You can't do that. You're not allowed to do that, Sven. You're a big baby.

No, I'm not. No, I'm not, Sven. Hey, Jesse, I have your nose. Give it, give it back, Sven. I'm going to eat it. No, Sven, give it back. Damien, Sven all ate my nose. I'm going to tell Mr. Schwarzenegger, you did that to me.

Oh, please. me and Arnold live together practically. We're good friends. He takes you a baby, too. I'm friends with Arnie too, all right? We're better friends. Do you see that? He gave me a boat for Christmas.

This is my Arnold boat. You weren't in Predator. I was the Petitor. Anyway, allegedly, Jesse had to be bullied into doing the shirtless scene because he was too selfish. conscious about being all doy You know what, dame, dame.

First of all, I'm going to tell you something in confidence. Please never say it in a room full of 50 people. Oh, I am very upset about my doingness right now. Also, the Paduan Rattel was Jesse's idea.

Well, because you know what? You don't want to cut it. You don't want to cover it up. It's been all this emotional abuse from Spend. It's just, it's been leading to a lot of stress eating, pal. Oh, there's still more in here. There is a lot of interesting stuff. There's only so many fritters you can eat in a morning.

They cause, number four, they caused so much damage to Thornbury, Ontario that the town vowed to never host a production again. Sounds about right. We raised that town to ruin. Five, it actually had a limited theatrical release and was, in fact, partially funded by Cineplex Odeon. There you go. Anyhow, that about does it, I think. I know it's not the usual setup for a question, but I figured you'd have a lot to talk about regardless.

Thanks for the years of entertainment. Introducing me to Abraxas in the first place. Tyler, P.S., I'd originally post this to the subreddit, but those fine people convinced me to send it in. So I'd like to give them a bit of a shout-out. We got a good group on that sub, barely any weirdos. Nice, barely any. That's pretty cool.

Yeah. Reddit.com slash. slash we hate movies. Yeah, something like that. Something like that. We got to separate it. You'll find it. If you want to, you should.

Yeah, you'll find it. Yeah, all right. So let's keep the ball rolling. Okay. Ghost riding. Hey, W.HM gang. Been listening to the show since Halloween 3 and yes, it took me this long

to send an email in. That's okay. First time, long time. So back in the wonderful year of our Lord, 2007, a great year that it was, I saw the last showing of the night for the hit Marvel film Ghost Rider. I would say hit Marvel film.

Yeah, hit. About halfway through the film, I noticed a dude kind of getting up and walking around. Like he was going to the bathroom, like he was doing the bathroom pace, we all know so well. Oh, I know that game.

Yeah, you don't want to miss the movie, but you're just going to get up and kind of shake around the theater a little bit, see if it goes away. Walking on the heels of your feet, like, ooh! Yeah. Ten minutes later, the movement stopped

and the house reeked of the smell of disgusting old cold cuts. Oh, fucking shit. Five minutes later, the house lights went up, and the manager explained that the film was canceled that night, and refunds would be issued. As we all walked towards the exit, we were witness to a dude passed out in a pile of vomit. She's us. Now, here's the best part. I worked at that theater at the time as a projectionist.

So I came in the next morning, and the overnight cleaning crew didn't clean it. Oh, sons of bitches. They just used a leaf blower on the vine. Fomit spreading and cooking it to the floor. What are we talking about? Fire these people. Wet drive act. That's why it's there.

It was everywhere. Like some Kurosawa-esque arterial spray, but with liqueified apps and $5 beer buckets from the Applebee's. Surprisingly, vomit is fairly common at the theater. Any lovely stories, thanks for the laughs gang, Brian. Oh, yeah, I got plenty of those. fucking thing. Why don't they didn't we just have the fucking chemical

shake that clumped it together? Yes. You had a thing where if someone puked there was of course carpeting everywhere in these multiplex hallies. You sprayed a thing on it and it basically turned it into the consistency of like sawdust and then you could just sweep it up. Yeah. So that was that for

what a genius that invented that. I know. I recall one time working sort of like late shift projectionist situation my brother and two of his friends came into the theater to see something and I'm like setting him up with tickets or whatever I think one of the friends was actually a buddy of his

at the time who worked there so maybe I wasn't getting them the free tickets anyway one of the kids they were like early high school at this point what it was gonna move we were talking here I don't remember what it was yeah I don't well I also don't remember what was because they didn't even get that far

Oh interesting They'd been drinking the entire night and we're talking like they're in like 9 10th grades something like that. The one kid is lit. He's fucking, you look you take one look at somebody and you're like they're already blacked out.

Yes. You're not going to remember a second. I could give this kid my fucking banking information and it will not matter. So this kid's lit and he decides he's going to go, he's going to throw up. And the closest bathroom is the women's bathroom. So you've got this

like 15, 16 year old kid puket his guts out. on the fucking floor of this lady's bathroom, man. And it was wretched. I had nothing to do with that cleanup op. We made them handle it, I think, is the memory. Oh, nice. Because the manager came out was, like, flipping out.

And I was like, no, it's this kid who works here. That's my brother, and that's their buddy that did it. It was like, clean it up, guys. Wow, you just sold them all out, huh? Oh, well, there was no way around it. Everybody witnessed what happened. So I forget, I think this was an evolution. I thought

I'd like Oh yeah An Ivan Reitman film Oh God Yeah it is isn't it That's why I saw it the theater I got tricked So I was with my cousin at the time

And we were just hanging out We were watching the movie Are you no longer cousins It was just your cousin at the time A cousin at the time We are now ex cousins A lot of a lot of lawyers Got involved in that

Separating that So we're watching a movie And like maybe like three rows up I keep on seeing this kid kid and like his mother keeps on handing him a one of those old like big popcorn uh buckets buckets yeah and like he keeps on like just putting his head down in it and i think he's just like picking up a piece of popcorn with his mouth and doing like the thing oh that's how i do it something like that and you're facing it like a horse so uh towards the end of the movie i have to

run out because i have to piss and um she's still in and she's like i'll just wait for you here I come back Almost the whole thing is cleared out Except for my cousin and a couple other Stranglers And I looked down I see the thing and they left it The thing was full of vomit

The kid was vomiting Throughout the movie And they didn't want to Wait what was the movie Evolution Oh yeah leave Just go yeah leave Leave you're sick

Get to bed mister Jesus Put your PJs on Jesus Christ Orlando Jones doesn't need the money that, well, maybe. I mean, he's already got your money. Maybe that's the thing is, well, we paid for the movie.

Yeah, but, like, you just leave. They give you a comp ticket to come back another time. No. Jesus Christ, that's savage, making that child sit through that movie. Maybe that's why the kid kept throwing up. He's like, I thought this was supposed to be fucking funny. Trulia and Moore could do better than this. Exactly.

It's just got like, Goctmaster! Ghostbusters! It's just like. I'd even take a junior at this point. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It's almost, it's, it's, it's also exactly like men in Brack. Ah. David D.Colini.

Oh, television. David Dukovny can't hold a movie together. David Dukovily left the Xbox with their hands. And so. Yeah, people throw up with the movies all. Yeah, you'll get it. Love it. Last one of the month.

Take us. out, Steve Sadek. Double date from hell. Ruttrow. Hey gang, today I'm going to share the tragic story of the most awkward double date of my life, in parentheses so far. Oh, man, still on the scene. Exactly, man.

It was my sophomore year of college and my roommate's girlfriend at the time was always trying to set me up with her friends. That's obnoxious. You're not on a sitcom. Stop it. Also, you're in college. Everyone's everywhere. Like, you know what I mean? Like, now... Everyone is everywhere. No, exactly. You're interacting

with ladies all the time. Or gentlemen. I don't know what's a deal. This is not too detailed here. They were all big into scary movies, so we were going to see a double date of the newly re-released carry. Now, this is my question. Is it re-released or a remake? I think he means to say the remake. Got it. With Julianne Moore. Yes. Yes. Because I don't know if there was a big re-release of carry. I don't remember there being, unless like he's talking about like a little theater. Like a little retro thing. Yeah, I guess it could be either way. I just read it as it was the... I don't remember restoration or anything.

Also, that remake of Kerry, not that bad. Not bad. I never saw it. I mean, Julianne Moore is great. You know, what was it? Chloe Grace Moritz. Yeah, she's good. She's pretty good.

Now is probably a good time to mention that I have a problem with getting lightheaded and in some cases passing out watching prolonged scenes of torture. I wonder what the first time was that this fella cracked the nut that that happened to him. What were you watching when you were like, It's a thing, man. Was it hostile? It could have been hostile. Was it farther back?

Siriana. That's just called going to sleep. Congratulations on being the first person to mention Siriana in 10 years. Do you remember that got fucking George Cooney and Oscar? Yeah, it certainly did. Fucking whatever. I am making my way through ER and I am loving it.

Really? Yeah. Nice. I've still never seen an episode. It's a good one. I haven't been back. It's totally regular television. If you're like, oh, man, I don't know.

I just want something that's totally regular right now. Put on E-R. Oh, is it like West Wing? Like, Premium crackers. Exactly. It's a lot like West Wing, actually. It's a lot of walking and talking. We're almost always talking about the job.

And you're just like, oh, wash over me fucking kind of, kind of intense, but also incredibly boring television. It's a good, like, making dinner show. Exactly. The worst case is until this was when I ate shit trying to get up to leave the Prometheus surgery scene. Oh, I just re-watched that. That's a toughen. I woke up to some very concerned movie

goers being reassured to my friends being reassured by my friends that it's fine. He does this all the time. Despite this, my stupid ass was too proud and agreed to go anyway. Not 10 minutes in during the opening birth scene, which I

think this is probably now, it's definitely the remake. That sounds like that. During the opening birth scene, I knew I was fucked. I was trying to fight. I was it, but it looked like a losing battle. I leaned over to my roommate, who was aware of my condition and I said, dude, it's not

looking good. If I pass out, I'm just going to fault towards you. Just play it off, and I'll wake up and will be good. About 15 minutes of hell, after about 15 minutes of hell, I hadn't passed out, but I needed to get some air. So my roommate...

Pohagan. Sorry. Give this man some air. My roommate had escort me down the stairs so i didn't repeat the prometheus incident then i came back to finish the movie needless to say that was the last date i had with her but unfortunately not the last time something like this has happened to me in the theater i assume you all have never had this happen to yourselves but have you ever been in one of those concerned moviegoers i mentioned earlier who have witnessed something like this thanks for keeping my hour commute entertaining jonathan from Houston, or should I say

Hauston, as I was drunkenly corrected by a guy while referring to Houston Street in Manhattan a few years ago? Listen, buddy, let's address the last part first. That's just the way it is. The city is Houston, the street is Houston. Never the Twoskinsel me. We'll fucking throw you in the Hudson if you say otherwise. Yeah, that's it.

Was the dude, here's my question though, because it doesn't, it's not really clear from this post script. Was this dude like downtown when this happened or was he like in Houston? Yeah. And said it. And some like drunk Texan was like yeah

it's a really good question yeah I don't know I'm concerned for people at the movies was the question well this I have a story I was performing improv last year I believe or the year before

in a really small theater it's not even a theater it's actually like a screen printing place like literally 30 people can watch a show at once that's not a theater at all it's not theater at all and you know we're doing improv

we were the last show of the night and for some reason in the scene I get cut And if you know anything about improv, it doesn't have any props. There's no props. It's not like this fake blood. Right. I'm like, but I'm fake bleeding.

And I'm like, oh, man, I'm just, and I'm like covering my arm or whatever. And this woman in the front row drops. Oh, no. Just drops, passes out in the middle of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Oh, my God. And like, everyone's like, we stopped the show. We're like, the fuck. Holy shit.

And I'm like, is she okay? And her friend's like, her friend is like, yeah, yeah. this happens all the time when she talks when she sees blood. I'm like, there's no blood. It's a man. I must have given a great performance is what I'm guessing. Yeah, I think you might be the best improviser at all the time. Or were they secretly part of your troop?

Oh man, plants. I wouldn't tell a plant story, Chris. But yeah, man, it's like this woman's passed out. It's this really small. It's not a theater. It's a shoe print. It's a screen printing place that's closed that they're having a thing. And now the manager comes out. It's like, is everything all right? And it's like, I don't know. And their friends

like, she'll be fine. And everyone's like, do we continue to do the thing? Yeah, do we pick right back to where the scene left off? Let's continue being funny. No, it was a thank you and good night. Oh, is that right? Yeah, you have to. I mean, like, oh, fuck. It's also improvises. It's not like, you know,

no one's losing money on the situation anyway. Certainly not. But man, yeah, that was so un- and she wound up being fine. She got up. Thank God. And she was like, yeah, it was just that scene. Like, you know, people have, it's a thing. Like, blood triggers something in people. Yeah.

You see it, like you drop down. It's like the people who think there's actual gore violence in Texas chainsaw, but it's not there, man. It's all in your head, and it's the editing and the acting. Yes, exactly. Have I ever told my Conan O'Brien story? Oh, at New York Film Festival? New York Film Festival.

Yeah, a guy had an epileptic in the middle of Punch Drunk Club. Oh. And Conan kicked him a couple times. with this big Conan feet Conan and his wife was just in front of me and he just was kind of like oh I guess something's happening that's kind of the level of concern I would show

unless I was like right there if it happens right next to me I will act but if it's like five rows back it's like I guess something's going on I don't want to see how this shapes out I don't want to get in the way exactly unless you're a medical professional or you happen to be the most

in approximation of the person you don't want to be the 10th guy their rubber necket. No, exactly. And we're giving bad advice, which I certainly would. Yeah, cut his throat open with a pen. I saw it on ER. We got to trache him. Yeah, I mean, the funny thing for me

is like, the place where I work, the constituency, a lot of elderly folks coming into the building. So in that regard, it's kind of like Del Boca Vista. It's like the ambulance, call an ambulance. Oh, don't worry, I saw one down the street. You know, there's always

old people fucking falling and you know like oh this person hit the stairs doing you know just so it's kind of just there all the time my office isn't at the theater so I don't see it that much but at least a couple times a month it's like I had to call the ambulance again another fucker fell in the stairs somebody missed a step now we got a funeral we had to put a thing up so like you know we keep the house lights down during a film and then you know you set like a cue in the credits to like when you want the lights to come up. Sure. Yeah. So we're playing the film Call Me By Your Name. And if you

haven't seen at the end of the movie, like the credits are it's not just a scroll. Yeah, there's some thought put into that. So we keep the house lights down until the actual scroll starts. We had to put a fucking slide up before the movie that was saying, caution, the credit sequence in this movie

It's a little bit of a to do So we're going to keep the house lights down Until a certain point in the credits So if you're looking to leave Please use caution Because all these mother fires Just eating shit Coming out of this thing

I mean it's a two and a half hour movie I get it you gotta go to the bathroom Excuse me Excuse me what's happening here What's happening here? Yeah that's pretty much it man Brenda you're still here It's too dark I can't see

Where's my soup I'm right here Harold with your soup. Yeah, but other than that, I don't know. I feel like people have... Yeah, man. Screenings being ruined, though, for me, I don't know that that's ever happened.

No, I mean, when I saw Blade, the original Blade, the fire alarm went off, and that was kind of a bit of a thing. That happened to me during the signs. Oh, yeah. You remember that? Were you at that screening? Yes, I was. We're right when the alien runs by the birthday party,

the fucking thing shut down, the floodlights went on, and we were like, what the fuck! I will tell a story. I'm not sure if it's technically a medical issue. If it's diarrhea, the answer is, yes. It was not diarrhea. It was a guy.

I went to see Red Planet in theaters back in the day. That was like 2000. Was that just you and Jay Hoberman again? Jay Hoberman would have walked out. That's not the De Palma run, right? That's Mission of Mars. This is the Val Kilmer one. Yes, which I have not seen.

It's not good. Is Cary Ann Moss in that movie? Which one has Don Cheadle in it? That is mission to Mars. Okay. That is mission to Mars. Yeah. Yeah, he's, yeah, yeah, he's part of the first team.

Okay. So Red Planet, it is, it's like only like seven people in the theater. Yeah, obviously. But I am in, I am right behind a guy. And I don't know if you guys, I mean, this guy was like 53 maybe. Sure. All right. That's an age.

But like he was one of those persons, like he very, he would throughout the movie, very consistently fart and make a very loud noise to accompany the fart Oh he's trying to cover up the fart? Not even that Like just like a relief like It would happen like

Oh like he's like fighting Five minutes pass Right It happens Five minutes pass Oh my god Jesus I think that's shitting your pants my friend

He might have been It smelled like shit Throughout the thing God. But he, like, he got up, he got up right at the thing and, like, was fine, didn't like stop or anything. Wow. And, well, did anybody call him out on it? Well, no, but I thought it was a medical problem. Oh, we're doing that. That's actually kind of true. At a certain point, farting does become a medical problem that you don't want to be a jerk about it. Yeah. But you could be like, dude, it's everywhere. Could you leave? I mean, listen, if farting was my

medical problem, I wouldn't go to the movies. Exactly. That's what I'd be doing midnight shows. That's WHM Mailbag for the month of January, everybody. Remember, get those V-Day related stories into the mailbag. We all hate movies at gmail.com. Until next time, I'm Andrew Jupin. Stephen, say that. Chris Cabin. Take it easy.

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