JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Rena (@RenaHundert) dig deep into The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the David Fincher fairy tale with a creepy old baby version of Brad Pitt, a surprising amount of boner references, and a largely unnecessary Hurricane Katrina subplot all wrapped into a nearly three-hour-long package.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Zahid (@zahiddewji) discuss Batman Forever, the 1995 superhero jumble directed by Joel Schumacher that brought forth the horrors of Bat-nipples and unnecessary Nicole Kidman romances into Bruce Wayne's world. But, hey, at least we got "Kiss From A Rose" too!

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Sina (@SinaAmedson/@SaudiDoodi) discuss 1992's Aladdin, a late-stage Disney Renaissance musical that left audiences cheering and a young Sina wondering why Arabs got such a bad rap in movies.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Raf (@EarlyLateNight) discuss X-Men: The Last Stand, the end of the first X-Men cinematic trilogy and an utter disaster of filmmaking that sacrificed storytelling for (attempted) fan service, and sacrificed real X-Men fans for teenagers who wanted to hear the Juggernaut reference memes.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Neel (@MrNeelGhosh) pop 2020's cinematic hatred cherry by discussing Saw mastermind Leigh Wannell's The Invisible Man, a movie that Jay liked, Neel hated, and both of them thought was too predictable for its own good. Elisabeth Moss, we still love you!

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Adrienne (@craydrienne) discuss From Justin To Kelly, 2003's musical trainwreck starring American Idol's first-ever winner and runner-up, Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini, in the least sexy, most unbelievable spring break movie of all time.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Parker (@FEARSAUCE) discuss the wholly abominable Loqueesha, a movie about a white guy pretending to be a black woman that also happens to be a really, REALLY bad movie pretending to be an insightful comedy about race relations in America.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Sean (@sean_mullavey) explore what led Captain Marvel, the MCU's girl-power answer to Wonder Woman, to turn out so disjointed and generic despite fan-service moves galore and an Oscar-winning actress in the title role.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Elyssa (@elyssamp) discuss 1992's Pauly Shore/Sean Astin/Brendan Fraser caveman coming-of-age comedy Encino Man and discern the subtle differences between doing stupid comedy well, doing stupid comedy and having fun, and doing stupid comedy that's just plain dumb.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Jono (@JonoZalay) discuss Martin Scorsese's award-winning The Irishman, and once they get over the whole "blah blah blah it's too long" thing, have a pretty coherent dissection of the merits and pitfalls of mob movies.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Krystle (@krystlechats) get high on their own film snob supply to dissect Reefer Madness, the 1936 weedsploitation movie that was designed to scare parents into making sure their teens weren't smoking the devil's lettuce, but really just made it look like a fun time with dancing, music, and sex!

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Adam (@adamjokes15) discuss Summer Catch, a baseball movie/sex comedy/alcoholism cautionary tale from the early 2000's starring teen heartthrobs Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Perry, and Jessica Biel that's so inexplicably bad it can't even coast on sex appeal.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Jeffrey (@jeffreygberner) flip off all the haters and talk about why Joel Schumacher's derided Batman & Robin is actually a work of fun, campy brilliance, Bat-nipples and all.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Lily (@LilyHolleman) discuss 1940's classic The Philadelphia Story, a screwball comedy about Katharine Hepburn marrying then divorcing then re-marrying an abusive alcoholic while fending off the advances of the guy the aforementioned abusive alcoholic hired to ruin her life with tabloid reporting. Ah, the wacky hijinks of high society!

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Niles (@NILES100) discuss Tyler Perry's latest non-Madea-based sex thriller, A Fall From Grace, and all of the continuity errors, shoddy filmmaking, and memeworthy moments his Netflix debut has given us on a shit-stained silver platter.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Alex (@thealexfarivar) discuss Rocketman, the Elton John biopic starring Golden Globe winner Taron Egerton, and how disappointed Alex was when he found out he was watching a full-blown musical instead of the gritty drama he was hoping for.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) brings his old roommate Grace (@GraceBaldridge) back to the couch to discuss their disastrous trip to see Tom Hooper's Cats, a misguided mish-mash of bad CGI and utter insanity that has haunted both these poor souls ever since they left the movie theater that fateful January afternoon.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Alan (@chill_jamil) discuss Nicolas Cage's Next, one of the many movies in the Nic Cage cinematic library that feels less like a good filmmaking decision and more like a chance for him to get out of crippling debt through the magic of his beautifully strange "Nouveau Shamanic" acting.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Caleb (@caleb_lush) discuss Michael Mann's Miami Vice, a re-imagining of the classic 80's cop show that takes a potentially fun concept and bogs it down with problems like incomprehensible dialogue, needlessly grim storytelling, and Jamie Foxx not wanting to ride a boat on camera.

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Justine (@JustineMachine) discuss Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning boxing drama Million Dollar Baby, the movie that was advertised as "Rocky for girls" but turned out to be something much more depressing! Sorry to re-traumatize you with that neck-breaking scene, Justine!

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Jay (@DietJay) and Kristen (@KayGull) assemble to discuss Marvel's franchise-sized gambit, The Avengers, a movie that both of them saw in theatres and that neither of them enjoyed. What went wrong for these two that led them to dislike one of the biggest box office successes of all time?

JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/

Take a taste of this special episode showcasing the kind of content you'll get by joining the Blockbusting Patreon, along with an important announcement about the show's future.

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Tiffany (@FakeTiffanyAle) get extremely in-depth on Noah Baumbach's weepy divorce dramedy Marriage Story, one of Netflix's latest bids at winning a Best Picture Oscar that Tiffany thinks takes too much artistic license with its semi-autobiographical origins.

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Daniel (@Danielemmons) take a long, hard look at Super Mario Bros. to see if they can squeeze some extra life out of the famously disastrous adaptation of the Nintendo hero. Can Daniel convince Jay that this is something sublime and not cinematic sewage? Did Bowser cause 9/11? All of these questions (and more) will be answered!

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Joe (@faination) discuss Sorry To Bother You, the debut feature from renowned socialist rapper Boots Reilly that Joe found just a bit too wacky and on the nose (and full of horse dicks) to be the effective union-friendly satire he was hoping to see.

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Kristin (@KristinStahlman) rail lines of movie magic as they discuss Brian DePalma's Scarface and try to figure out what all the hype is about with this wacky, wild, weirdly-accented-Al Pacino 80's classic.

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Hannah (@hannahbananaphone87) make like angry mama bears and maul The Revenant, a movie that tortured audiences into thinking Leonardo DiCaprio deserved to win Best Actor and left us both thinking: "hey why did they fuck up good storytelling by adding an hour of meditative nonsense in the middle?" C'mon Señor I��rritu!

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Nate (@NateMediaGood) discuss The Shawshank Redemption: the #1 movie on IMDB, a Best Picture nominee, and a movie that works the average man's emotional heartstrings like an evil puppeteer. You'd better get busy livin' and not get busy watchin' this movie.

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Joe (@HereWithJoeCarl) discuss 2012's Trouble With The Curve, a movie about Clint Eastwood being a baby boomer baseball scout – already a better title for this piece of shit – who can't deal with going blind and tries his best to actively ruin his relationship with his daughter, Amy Adams, who really, really deserves better than this. Poor Amy. Thank God her career survived this strikeout.

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Aaron (@FunnyBrooks) discuss Maid In Manhattan, a 2002 Jennifer Lopez vehicle that the wheels fell off of almost from the get-go. But besides all the actual problems with this movie, Aaron hates it for a very personal reason: because it plays a crucial role in one of the worst dates he ever went on.

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Yourgo (@yourgeaux) discuss Swiss Army Man, the 2016 comedy-adventure movie starring Daniel Radcliffe as a farting corpse. It won over Jay's heart with its whimsy and made Yourgo question everything – specifically, questions like "why does this weird-as-hell movie exist?" and "should we be searching for meaning in this damn thing?"

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Kelsey (@iamkelseylane) discuss Gaspar Noé's psychedelic opus Enter The Void, one of the shiniest pieces of beautiful garbage in modern cinema history, with beautiful visuals that can't override wooden acting and characters that it feels impossible to care about. PROTIP: if your movie about drugs is too boring to watch even while you're on drugs, maybe take another crack in the edit bays!

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Matt (@mattgarylester) discuss Aquaman, the 2018 Hail Mary pass thrown by DC Comics to try and reel in new fans after all its other movies floundered with critics and audiences alike. Does Jason Momoa have the charisma it takes to take on the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Turns out he doesn't!

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Radu (@RaduBondar) discuss MacGruber, an SNL movie and parody of 80's action flicks starring Will Forte as the most inept special agent of all time. It's got all the ingredients to be a fun, funny movie... so why does Radu hate it so goddamn much?

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Alex (@alexpriceindeed) take some shots at 007 himself when they tear into Quantum of Solace, the movie that took all the goodwill Daniel Craig brought to playing James Bond and squashed it with one of the lamest Bond villains and most inane plots of the entire franchise.

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Kelly (@thisiskellyryan) discuss Disney's original Beauty and the Beast, an animated "classic" about a hot nerd from a French town that hates smart people and her romance with a horny man-bear, and explore why this Best Picture nominee is all song-and-dance sizzle and no steak.

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

SUPPORT RICARDO'S KICKSTARTER: http://kickstarter.com/projects/mintplusplus/twin-peaks-enamel-pins-0?ref=14ufjg

Jay (@DietJay) and Ricardo (@mintplusplus) take Robert Zemeckis's Flight in for a landing and explore all the bad writing and absurd plot devices that Denzel Washington had to act his way past over the course of Academy Award-nominated performance of one of the most cartoonish alcoholics in cinema history.

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Lou (@loumisiano) discuss A Clockwork Orange, the go-to movie for disaffected hipsters and angsty college students to love and a movie Lou thinks is dated, overly obvious, and doesn't get its message across as effectively as its fans think it does.

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Jon (@shefsky) discuss Chappie, Neill Blomkamp's colossal sci-fi misfire that managed to misuse Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver, and the legendary South African rap group Die Antwoord in the name of telling a sad, half-baked story about an abused robot. Not very zef if you ask me.

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blockbusting

Jay (@DietJay) and Alexis (@FilthAlexis) discuss Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, one of the movies that kick-started Jim Carrey's film career with a lot of mugging and some pretty heavy-handed transphobia. How did jokes like "uh oh, the woman I kissed is actually a man, better bleach my mouth" affect trans folks like Alexis when they were kids just trying to make some sense of their identity? Tune in to find out.

Jay (@DietJay) and Andy (@ASAP_ROFFE) discuss American Psycho, the undeniably bleak satire starring Christian Bale as the worst man possible. Turns out Andy's problem with the movie isn't necessarily the movie – it's the fans who think that Christian Bale's character isn't actually the worst man possible, but rather someone to be admired. I guess maybe you shouldn't like Huey Lewis and The News?

Jay (@DietJay) and Cooper (@coopdoggydawg42) discuss The Incredible Hulk, the second movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that stars Edward Norton as the jolly green giant and features muddy production design and a vibe that made it clear that they hadn't nailed the MCU secret formula quite this early on.

Jay (@DietJay) and Robert (@_RobertSchultz) discuss Ad Astra, Brad Pitt's "I'm a sad man in space" movie that's 60% interstellar travel, 30% waxing poetic about daddy issues, and 10% action-packed sci-fi thriller, which adds up to be 100% the exact movie Robert did not want or need to see at this point in his life.

Jay (@DietJay) and Michelle (@SpeakingSarcasm) discuss Danny Boyle's Yesterday, a movie that shoehorned a rom-com inside of a high-concept premise about a world where the Beatles no longer existed and one man decided to play all their songs and make a profit off it. But as far as rom-coms go, it's hard to root for anyone to fall in love when they're making unconscionably bad decisions the entire time.

Jay (@DietJay) and Murray (@murrayvcomedy) discuss Dan In Real Life, 2007's almost-a-rom-com starring Steve Carell at the height of Carell-mania and Dane Cook at the height of "hey can we stop trying to make this guy the lead in movies yet?"-mania. Can Dan survive the carnival of horrors that is being a middle-aged widower whose kids hate him and who wants to bang his brother's girlfriend? Stay tuned to find out!

Jay (@DietJay) and Keith (@queefray) unravel Martin Scorsese's Civil War-era tapestry of the Big Apple, Gangs of New York, a movie that proves that just because you can have a romance between two bombshells like Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz doesn't mean you should. Learn a lesson from Bill the Butcher and trim the fat, Marty!

Jay (@DietJay) and Al (@AlBahmani) discuss Flashdance, the '80s classic that's less of a movie and more of an extended music video that got panned by the critics but became a popular, Oscar-winning hit. Along the way, these Texan boys get stuck in a classic dilemma: does the fact that the plot is thin and the characters are thinner keep this movie from being worth a watch? OH WHAT A FEELING!

Jay (@DietJay) and John (@johnfahyyouknow) discuss Venom, starring Tom Hardy as both a sexy idiot journalist and an alien who wants to fuck Tom Hardy. This movie makes just about no sense, but as John and Jay both know, Hollywood execs making comic book movies don't care about making sense – they know you silly nerd sheep will go see the damn movies anyway.

Jay (@DietJay) and Aaron (@AaronWoodall14) debate the merits of The Martian, Ridley Scott's sci-fi flick that inexplicably won the Golden Globe for Best Picture – Musical/Comedy by turning one of the most obnoxious characters ever captured in sci-fi into a charming, swearing vlogger played by Matt Damon. Should this film be left for dead on a faraway planet or is it worth a watch? Listen and decide for yourself!

Jay (@DietJay) and John (@thejohnhastings) discuss Warriors of Virtue, 1997's long-forgotten kangaroo kung-fu movie that came out at just the wrong time (because you can't compete with Power Rangers, man) to find an audience, even if that audience would have probably turned on it in adulthood because of how garbage this movie is at the end of the day.

Jay (@DietJay) and J.D. (@jdwitherspoon) discuss 2014's Hercules, a mostly-forgotten version of the Greek myth starring The Rock as the titular hero, ready to go full Dwayne Johnson on your asses. It promised big-time monster fighting action in the trailers, but instead delivered a weird rehash of 300 that was absolutely not what J.D. and his best bros were expecting on guy's night out at the movies.

Jay (@DietJay) and Eric (@EricLampaert) discuss The Cloverfield Paradox, a sci-fi thriller in the Cloverfield universe that had one of the most ingenious marketing campaigns of all time designed to get you to watch one of the most mediocre pieces of space trash ever put on film. J.J. Abrams, why have you forsaken us?

Jay (@DietJay) and Andy (@imandyhaynes) discuss Christopher Nolan's Inception, the 2010 dream-heist movie that was a crowdpleaser and a critical success, but sported a weird, whiskey-ad aesthetic and an exposition-heavy script that left Andy with a bad taste in his mouth that no amount of BWAAAAAAMP sounds could remove.

Jay (@DietJay) and Drey (@daileydr) discuss Corky Romano, the 2001 Chris Kattan movie about a veterinarian-turned-mobster-turned-FBI mole that was critically panned (and rightfully so) but remains one of Drey's favorite movies to this day because he identifies with poor, youngest son, constantly-bullied, "aw shucks let's all just have a good time!" Corky.

Jay (@DietJay) and Katharyn (@ewgirlyounasty) discuss Fever Pitch, a run-of-the-mill Reese Witherspoon rom-com that Katharyn has never seen due to her white-hot hatred for male love interest Jimmy Fallon. The good news: she's not missing much!

Jay (@DietJay) and Aaron (@McCannMan) discuss Final Destination, the horror movie franchise-spawner where the villain was the concept of death and the main attraction was the Rube Goldberg-esque murder machines that got us there. But excruciatingly bad acting keeps this concept from really reaching the heights of fun it could achieve... even if it did suck Aaron in to hate-watch the entire franchise.

COME TO MY ALBUM RECORDING: http://bit.ly/2yNSJLw

Jay (@DietJay) and Victor (@hidethisforme) discuss the original Star Wars, the landmark space opera that spawned the franchise to end all franchises, introduced the world to George Lucas's weird sci-fi mind, and became the most blatant cash grab in cinema history – even before Disney got their paws on it.

COME TO MY ALBUM RECORDING: http://bit.ly/2yNSJLw

Jay (@DietJay) and Shafer (@ShaferWard) discuss Ghostbusters, the 80's classic that manages to be a nostalgia trigger for so many folks while simultaneously being more on the wacky side than the funny side. Also, we unveil the not-so-secret conservative undertones to this very strange movie!

COME TO MY ALBUM RECORDING: http://bit.ly/2yNSJLw

Jay (@DietJay) and Brett (@whatbrett) discuss Zoolander, 2001's iconic "the fashion industry is secretly a bunch of assassins" comedy that relied on the wacky physical comedy skills of a star who Brett thinks was better off sticking to playing straight men.

COME TO MY ALBUM RECORDING: http://bit.ly/2yNSJLw

Jay (@DietJay) and Ali (@aliwoodsgigs) discuss Toy Story 4, the latest and greatest money-grab movie from Disney and Pixar, and a movie that Ali feels ruins an already stellar trilogy by weakening the characters and shoehorning in an unnecessary story.

COME TO MY ALBUM RECORDING: http://bit.ly/2yNSJLw

Jay (@DietJay) and Daniel (@danmuggleton) discuss The Matrix Reloaded, a movie that took all the fun of the original Matrix and replaced it with bullshit philosophy, uninteresting exposition, and Laurence Fishburne leading a cave rave in a leather vest.

Jay (@DietJay) and Jeanne (@JeanneLWhitney) discuss the Coen Brothers' No Country For Old Men: a Best Picture winner universally regarded as one of the best films of not just 2007, and not just of the decade, but of the entire damn 2000s. Unfortunately, that universe does not include Jeanne.

Jay (@DietJay) and Nate (@natehurdcomedy) discuss M. Night Shyamalan's Signs, the sorta-spooky alien movie with a killer cast – Mel Gibson! Joaquin Phoenix! Abigail Breslin! – that squanders them in favor of telling a story about dumb people and dumber aliens. If you're so smart why did you land on a planet covered in the thing that kills you, huh?

Jay (@DietJay) and Bibbs (@WilliamBibbiani) discuss 1994's infamous Street Fighter, starring the incomparable Raúl Julia, the unshakeable Jean-Claude Van Damme, and a whole lot of oddball plots points that turned a simple, iconic arcade game into a weird, fantastical action movie about narcissistic terrorists.

Jay (@DietJay) and Sarah (@safkami) discuss Quentin Tarantino's latest, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Sarah hated it! Jay thought it was solid but flawed! Will these two crazy kids come to a consensus on what Tarantino fucked up in this one and figure out who the actual hero of the story is supposed to be?

Jay (@DietJay) and Jules (@mamabirdimprov) discuss The Lost World, the first of many phoned-in sequels to Jurassic Park that wowed Jules when he was a wee 11-year-old but cause him great strife as an avowed Jurassic Park Aficionado (a.k.a. a JPA) in his thirties. This film raises a lot of questions – like "Should they have just made this one about the big game hunter?" and "Is Steven Spielberg actually really fucking average as a director?" – and we answer all of them!

Jay (@DietJay) and Michael (@blaucomedy) talk about The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the third film in the illustrious franchise about hot people driving cool cars that replaces all of the original cast members with old people attempting to play high schoolers, and tries to tell way too many stories instead of just letting the hot people drive the cool cars.

Jay (@DietJay) and Gordon (@gordondowns) discuss 1994's The Crow, the movie that helped give goth kids a superhero to root for while simultaneously leading to the "accidental death" (a.k.a. neglect-based murder) of its star Brandon Lee. This is the shit that happens when you make a deal with the devil (a.k.a. Harvey Weinstein) to get your movie released!

Jay (@DietJay) and Pete (@PeteSaintLaurnt) talk about Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the famous musical about a murderous barber starring Johnny Depp as a guy who can't sing and Helena Bonham Carter as a quirky lady, and featuring a poorly-paced plot paired with paint-by-numbers Tim Burton flourishes that make this movie an emo kid's dream and Pete's worst nightmare.

Jay (@DietJay) and Ify (@IfyNwadiwe) discuss 2004's Catwoman, the infamous Halle Berry-starring clunker that is tonally incoherent, stylistically inconsistent, and rightfully labeled as one of the worst movies of all time for reasons that Ify and I boldly uncover as we relive one of the worst movie-watching experiences of our young lives.

Jay (@DietJay) and Paul (@ThePaulOfHaynes) discuss Asia Argento's The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, a movie that covers just about every trigger-warning-ready subject in the book – child abuse, pedophilia, rape, drug addiction, and more – then slaps a cool Instagram filter on it and tries to call itself art. Plus, we can't ignore the dual wrinkle that this movie is based on a book that was written and promoted fraudulently, and was directed by an early Harvey Weinstein accuser who was later revealed to be an abuser herself. It's not very funny but it's a hell of an episode!

Jay (@DietJay) and Abby (@abbyroberge) discuss Oliver Stone's Savages, a movie about two hunky surfer boys who outsmart a Mexican drug cartel while tag-teaming their beautiful girlfriend. Do we think it's realistic? Obviously not. Do we think it's needlessly fear-mongering? Nope. Do we think it's shockingly boring for a movie about drug dealers, kidnapping, and murder? You'd better believe it! 

Jay (@DietJay) and Kelsey (@KelseyFGold) discuss Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail, a rom-com set at the dawn of the internet starring Tom Hanks as a likable asshole, Meg Ryan as an unlikable nice lady, and a whole slew of weird, rah-rah corporate America undertones. Dare we say fascist? Kelsey dares!

Jay (@DietJay) and Dave (@YatesComedy) discuss Robert Altman's M*A*S*H, the beloved, award-winning satire about irreverent Army doctors that spawned an entire empire of spinoffs and imitators and made Dave and Jay question what the hell the big fuss was all about with all its critical acclaim.

Jay (@DietJay) and Hormoz (@nothormones) discuss Crash, the controversial Best Picture winner about how literally everyone is racist that Jay and Hormoz both used to like, right up until they broadened their cinematic and cultural horizons and realized that there is such a thing as an artful way to handle racial tension, and that this film ain't it, chief. 

Jay (@DietJay) and M.K. (@mkpaulsen) discuss Love, Simon, a coming-of-age dramedy about a gay teen boy that would have been groundbreaking had it come out ten years ago, but in modern times, feels like a big studio trying to cash in on gay pride and LGBT rights being trendy rather than out of any actual sense of support.

Jay (@DietJay) and Justin (@justinmatson) discuss M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, a total abomination of an adaptation that makes fantasy action boring, gives people reason to hate a franchise they know nothing about, and is such a colossal mistake that even Mr. Night himself admitted he'd done wrong by bringing this to the big screen.

Jay (@DietJay) and Carmen (@thefunnycarmen) discuss Mac and Me, the infamous "E.T. if it was actually a McDonald's commercial" movie from 1988 that won a handful of Razzie Awards and won Carmen's heart for its progressive take on alien gender roles and disability visibility and oh my God there's no way Carmen can pull this argument off, is there? IS THERE? HOW DID SHE THREAD THIS SHIT NEEDLE?!?!?

Jay (@DietJay) and Drew (@TheDrewLynch) break the tension to cut through the pretension of Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko, a cult classic that is completely undeserving of its status and is, at the end of the day, a movie made for dumb people to feel smart and for angsty high schoolers feel like they're having a real "cinema" experience.

Well folks, someone done goofed again. Jay (@DietJay) was all ready to talk to Austin (@Austin_Train) about how he hated the Coen Brothers crime comedy classic Fargo, and then he went and watched it again and realized it's a great movie AND that you're allowed to think criminals are idiots and not cool dudes like in Scarface and Goodfellas! What a concept!

Jay (@DietJay) and Shapel (@ShapelLacey) discuss Bring It On, a film that Roger Ebert called "the Citizen Kane of cheerleading movies" and that Shapel thinks is practically slanderous to the sport. Yes, folks, it is a sport. And if you still think that its not after listening to this episode then go back to watching Scrabble tournaments, I guess?

Jay (@DietJay) and Ayla (@AylaGlass) discuss Disney's Frozen, the Academy Award-winning animated phenomenon that swept the nation like a blizzard of mediocrity thanks to its strangely big-eyed heroines and its completely average pop song soundtrack. The perfect disappointment to show your kids!

Jay (@DietJay) and Nicky (@tweetsattoilets) discuss X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the superhero movie equivalent of Star Wars Episode I that features a weird proto-Deadpool, offensive bones, and Hugh Jackman trying his absolute best to save this stupid, terrible movie.

Jay (@DietJay) and Sarah (@SarahKeller07) discuss Beetlejuice, the 80's classic that features an iconic Michael Keaton performance, standard weirdo Tim Burton imagery that freaked Sarah out as a kid, and a plot that is more convoluted than Jay remembered it being. Does this flick stand the test of time?

Jay (@DietJay) and Nikki (@thenikkibon) talk about Wine Country, the reunion movie for a bunch of SNL's funniest women that manages to squander almost all of their talents with a middle-of-the-road script and one-note characters and leaves them in mid-life crisis hell for an hour and 43 minutes.

Jay (@DietJay) and Tim (@ClosedPistachio) discuss Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, the movie that launched a thousand 80's-themed playlists, did its damndest to make Ryan Gosling seem intimidating, and was the cool indie action flick du jour for plenty of film school kids like Jay while simultaneously driving folks like Tim – who thinks this film is chock-full of missed opportunities and flimsy characterization – completely up the wall.

Jay (@DietJay) and Eli (@EliOlsberg) discuss Steven Spielberg's seminal Jurassic Park, a film that wowed audiences at the time and cemented its spot as a basic-cable mainstay, but has since drawn Eli's ire for not living up to the cinematic standard he knows Spielberg can achieve – even for a mainstream popcorn blockbuster.

Jay (@DietJay) and Josh (@theedelmeister) discuss Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, a galactic-level catastrophe that turned both of their stomachs and made Josh swear off our favorite popcorn intellectual (and secretly Republican) British director almost for good. Not only do they dissect the film world's prettiest dumpster fire, they disagree about why they disagree! This movie brings out the worst in people!

Superhero movie hater Jay (@DietJay) and salty longtime Marvel fan Jeremy (@JeremyScippio) discuss the global phenomenon Avengers: Endgame, the culmination of over a decade of comic book filmmaking that is undeniably going to be the highest-grossing movie in cinema history. However, it rings too hollow, shoehorns in too much exposition, and makes too many concessions for its characters. GIMME MORE THANOS, YOU COWARDS.

Jay (@DietJay) and Stephanie (@stephstreisand) dissect the 2005 movie version of Broadway classic Rent, an extremely bad adaptation of a musical that arguably only has its legendary status due to the writer dying. WHOOPS. WE'RE GOIN' THERE! This movie is five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred pounds of bullshit.

Jay (@DietJay) and Jacob (@JacobMTrimmer) talk about The Nightmare Before Christmas, the movie that launched a thousand Hot Topic careers, emo kid journal entries, and open skepticism about the viability of stop-motion animation. PLUS: is Jack Skellington actually one of the shittiest main characters of all time? We get to the bottom of it!

Jay (@DietJay) and Jessie (@jetskijohnson) discuss Jupiter Ascending, the latest movie by The Wachowskis that takes the admirable goal of creating a sci-fi movie led by a strong female character and does everything it can to make that movie as dumb, poorly paced, and incomprehensible as possible along the two-plus hour running time.

Jay (@DietJay) and Steven (@stevenrandolph2) discuss Cast Away, the iconic "Tom Hanks talks to a volleyball for an hour" movie from Robert Zemeckis that triggered every single one of Steven's fears and insecurities in strange and specific ways. Shoutout to abandonment issues!

Jay (@DietJay) and Lisa (@lisa_curry) discuss 2017's indie Oscar darling Lady Bird, a coming-of-age story about a boring white girl that apparently cast Laurie Metcalf through a deal with the devil and baffled both of us in its widespread acceptance and adoration. Will we ever work in this town again after sharing these opinions? By golly we sure hope so!

Jay (@DietJay) and Josh (@optimuswaldge) discuss David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, David Lynch's infamous L.A.-set psychosexual neo-noir, which Josh didn't like because it's weird, hard to understand, and requires multiple viewings to really "get." And yeah maybe he's right, objectively. But is he right right? Does a movie being difficult make it bad?

Jay (@DietJay) and Griffin (@gameboizpod) talk about Adam McKay's The Big Short, the Oscar-winning comedy about the late-2000s economic collapse that Jay puts in his all-time top 20 and Griffin puts straight in the garbage. Can Griffin's well-reasoned, extremely sensible, and unexpectedly personal argument against the film turn the tide of Jay's opinion?

Jay (@DietJay) and Becca (@pizzabagelbecca) discuss 2010's The Kids Are All Right, a movie about lesbian parents that sort of glosses over the lesbian part to make a pretty basic romantic dramedy, which Becca felt even more disconnected to based on her own wildly different upbringing by a lesbian couple.

Jay (@DietJay) and Ian (@IanZandi) try to make sense of Yorgos Lanthimos's The Killing of a Sacred Deer, a weirdo movie by a weirdo director that plays to some of his strengths but falls prey to many of his weaknesses. Is it good? Is it bad? Can we even figure that much out? Or is Yorgos Lanthimos fucking with us all on a colossal scale?

Jay (@DietJay) and Eli (@EliMagers) talk about indie sensation 500 Days Of Summer, the Zooey Deschanel/Joseph Gordon-Levitt movie that turned the rom-com on its head in 2009 but might not hold up to scrutiny a decade later, especially now that manic pixie dream girls and weird dudes with control issues and shaky interpretations of masculinity are no longer all the rage.