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#144 - Reading More Brutal Movie Reviews

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#144 - Reading More Brutal Movie Reviews

A conversation between Smosh hosts Shane and Amanda and guest Ian Hecox centers on the transformative power of a well-designed website—like Squarespace—turning hobbies into profitable ventures. Ian, a dedicated movie reviewer, shares his curated list of favorite films, including *Mad Max: Fury Road*, *Arrival*, *City of God*, and *RRR*, highlighting films that combine visual impact with strong storytelling. He emphasizes the value of a balanced media diet, enjoying both classic and "bad" movies as sources of joy. The discussion also touches on cultural shifts in comedy, moving toward earnest, hopeful narratives, and contrasts with earlier cynical or dark tropes. Ian shares personal anecdotes about internet-era content, such as Smosh bras and early web merchandising, adding humor and nostalgia. A playful game of movie review guessing is woven throughout, where listeners try to identify films from cryptic, often absurd reviews, showcasing the fun and accessibility of film appreciation. The episode blends humor, personal reflection, and deep cinephile insight, celebrating both the artistry of films and the joy found in shared cultural experiences.

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A beautifully designed Squarespace website is the difference between thinking about photography school and selling your portraits online. It's the difference between giving away those cookies you just made for free and running your cookie empire. A beautifully designed Squarespace website is the difference between having a movie reviewing hobby and a movie reviewing career. Squarespace, because no matter what you're into, a website makes it real. Use offer code DIFFERENCE for 50% off select plans. Terms and conditions apply. Hi, welcome to Smosh Mouth. I'm Shane. And I'm Amanda. And we have, wow, such a wonderful guest with us. You guys have not seen him yet on this pod. His name is Ian Hecox. Right. Hello. Hi. Happy to be here. Love what you guys are doing. This is your first time on the new set? Yeah. Oh my God. When you first walked in, he didn't know which chair to sit in. Yeah. Can you believe it? He was like, do I host this show? Yeah. You were like, the middle duh. And I was like, oh, that makes sense. Because, like, you're the host. I'm the host. And you would put the guest in the middle, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, that would be crazy. Dude, you're rocking a fit today. I was going to say, I love the yellow socks. Thank you. This is solid. We both got the selvedge. Yeah. I was looking at our jeans, and I was like. Very similar. Oh my God. We're wearing the same jeans. I like the yellow socks with the dots. Thank you. If you guys are just listening, he's wearing a cool outfit. Thank you. And I also have a Smosh shirt on, which is the coolest part of the outfit. That is so cool. I got the classic Smosh tee. Yeah, I'm wearing a Smosh bra. It's awesome. I can't wait to show it to you guys. Oh, that's so cool. You know, we actually used to sell. Well, I don't want to say we, but. Back when it was just you and Anthony. You sold Smosh bras. Back in the Defy days, there on the site, they sold Smosh panties. You guys are sickening. And I did not. I did not. Condone that. Condone that. You didn't know it happened. It was weird. You're just sitting at your desk signing. Approve. Approve. Approve. No, that was in the Defy days. And yeah, there was like Smosh panties. And if I recall. There was like a heart above the word Smosh or something. Was Smosh written on the butt or the front? That's a good question. I do not remember. And you guys had nothing to do with the creative of it? It just appeared on the site? I don't remember because I feel like they used to sell like a ton of stuff that was just like. Yeah. Slap a label on it and sell it. That's wild that they went past you and did that. I mean. Maybe it was Anthony. I wish I had a pair. We can get you one. Okay. There's nothing stopping us from doing that, I guess. I wonder if eBay has one. Probably. Probably. That'd be sick. Probably. It says, shut up. Shut up. That is actually really funny. That is funny. It'd be on the butt because I fart. I've never farted in my life. You should get on the fart train. I should get on the fart train. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Imagine instead of a massage train, it's a fart train. Okay. So what's cool about today? Speaking of. Speaking of farts, what are we talking about today? Okay, Ian, we know how much you love boobies. You always. I thought you said boobies. Well. No, we're not bringing this up. Hey, you said that you don't bring up boobie stuff, but you do bring up boobie stuff. When did you guys have this conversation? I never said boobie stuff. I said that I've never brought up the breast milk thing. And every time somebody's brought up breast milk has been against my will. Okay. Please. And again. Another case where I thought you just said boobies and you're like, oh, breast milk, Ian, breast milk. It's funny. I didn't actually say breast milk right here. Did you guys hear that? Yeah, but that's when you were inferring. No, no. Because you're like, oh, the boobie stuff. It's the boobie stuff. What's crazy is I didn't say breast milk and I didn't say boobies. That's what you inferred. It just keeps happening with you, you know? I can't with you, Amanda. Okay. So anyways, we asked Ian because we know how much he loves movies. Movies. Movies. And randomly, he'll be like, oh, I watched this movie, you know, from the 1980s. You'll bring up boobies. You'll bring up a movie that I've never heard of before in my life. Yeah. Okay. Like what? Taking Pelham 1, 2, 3, the original. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, that was sick. And then recently you were talking about some, was it an Italian or French film from like the 60s? With the ship? With the ship? I don't know. Didn't you watch an old movie with a ship? Like the battleship Potemkin? Sorry. Something like that. I saw that a lot. You watch a lot of like foreign, random foreign films that I've never heard of. I think it's, yeah, I think it's important to have a good, because I watch so much media. That I think it's good to have a good media diet. For sure. So I like to balance the crap with like something where I feel like, oh, I'm going to like take something away from this. Wow. That's really smart. See, I'm at a place where I'm like, I don't want to watch crap. Oh. Do you know how some people are like, oh, I watched this thing on Netflix. It was so cheesy, but it was a joy. It was a fun. I can't do that. Oh, I, yeah, I love watching bad movies. Like I watched, there was a new Alan Richson. Richson? Is that how you say his name? Richson? Rich, Rich, Richson? He's doing what I do. Whatever. It's called War Machine. Nice. I wanted to watch that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's just like military propaganda. I wanted. But with like an alien that just like kills people. It's that big guy from Reacher, right? Yeah, yeah. He's awesome. He's a big guy. Yeah, he seems cool. The guy that beat the shit out of his neighbor. In real life? Yeah. Yeah, but he deserved it. Yeah, his neighbor was being an asshole, so. You guys know his neighbor? He went all Reacher on him. Yeah. Out of everyone in the world. Reacher sounds like something else. Why would you pick a fight with him? He went all Reacher. Out of everyone in the world, it's like, I'm going to pick a fight with that guy. The guy who's known for playing a guy on TV who just beats the shit out of people. And he's massive. Yeah. Fun fact. I learned recently that I am in, that I've technically worked with Alan Richardson. I did an episode of Fred the Show back in the day, back in like 2013. Crazy. And he is in the episode I'm in. It's an episode where Fred Figglehorn. I don't know the show. Oh, you know what's funny? I don't know Fred. You guys are laughing. This episode of Fred the Show that I've done, I think is the funniest episode of television I've ever been a part of. Wow. How do I not know this show? It's legitimately, it's because it ran for like 10 episodes on Nickelodeon and then got canceled. But it got three movies. I think the show might have been after the movies too. Really? It's really weird. The show is legitimately good. This is what's crazy. The show is legitimately really funny. No idea. Written by Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin. Fuck, I fucked that Sorkin up. Yeah, he fucked up. No, in the episode, Fred drinks some expired milk and he starts hallucinating. And this evil, the expired cow shows up in his mirror and is like threatening him. And it's played by Alan Richardson. And I had no idea. He is not a cow. And he's like, I have to fight this cow. And I show up as a chocolate chip cookie who trains him in karate to fight this cow. And it's legitimately so funny. So, so, so. What? Yeah. So the chocolate chip cookie. The chocolate chip cookie would dunk into the milk, which is the cow's expired milk. No, I'm just a chocolate chip cookie who's training him in karate. Okay, no. There's no connection. It's crazy how I see this so differently. It's legitimately funny because in the scenes with me, I'm in a giant cookie costume. Uh-huh. And he'll be talking to me, but my over the shoulder shots, they just held up a real cookie next to the camera. That's so clever. Really funny. That's so clever. It's a really funny episode. And it's a really funny show. Why didn't you ever meet the cow? I wasn't in any scenes with him. How? You're fighting. Oh, no. You're training. I'm not fighting. I'm training. I'm the Yoda. Okay, and get this. In the Fred movies, his dad, John Cena. Yes. I am one degree away from John Cena. I don't think John Cena was in that episode. So, you're basically like John Cena. No, John Cena's his dad. John Cena's in Fred the show. Did you meet John Cena? No, I just said I didn't meet John Cena. You know what's crazy is I really want this story to end where you meet both of them. So, just let me have it. I haven't met either of them, but I have worked with them. So, you did no scenes with them, but they were in the show? Yes. Wow. You know, because the show just loved to cast like huge buff guys. Yeah, I was going to say. Apparently, yeah. Is that? Well, they cast me as well. They got the three buffest men. But they put you in a fat ass cookie. Hell, yeah. And I look good as hell. How do you do karate in a cookie costume? I wasn't doing karate. I was just training him in. Wow. I guess I don't understand. You clearly don't get the highbrow nature of Fred the show. Like, wow. No, it's legitimately. It's the funniest show. I would love to see a clip of that. And I, look, I think So Random and Goldbergs were really funny shows. Fred the show might be the funniest show I ever got to be on. So, why do you think it got canceled? Just nobody was watching it. That's why it got canceled. Okay. Yeah. But it was legitimately funny. And I think, unfortunately, at that point, because Fred was like the first big YouTuber. Like, first, like, most. What's his name? The channel was called Fred. What's his full name? Fred Fiddlehorn. Fred Fiddlehorn's the character. Oh, got it. Okay. The actor who plays him. His name's Lucas. Do you think that he still does? He doesn't still do Fred. And he does not like to talk about it. He doesn't want to talk about it. Well, because it was such a big sensation back in the day. Well, yeah. Because it was just like. That's what I'm interested in. That's his past. He's trying to put it in the past. Because he was like a very, like, everyone, like, anyone that wasn't a fan of Fred really hated Fred. Yeah. Because he had this, he pitched up his voice in editing. And he was, like, really hyper. And so, just like, anyone that wasn't, like. A fan of Fred. Yeah. That wasn't a fan of Fred was like, I hate Fred. Fred sucks. So, he was one of the first YouTubers to go to, like, the mainstream. Yep. Like, Nickelodeon was like, we'll give you some movies. We'll do a show. And so, people thought the show. It's like, oh, it's Fred the show. It's probably. And I remember at the time, before I worked on it, thinking like, oh, Fred the show. Oh, my God. And then I got the script. And I was laughing my ass off. And I did it. I was like, this is really funny. And they kind of, like, they kind of unpaste his voice for the show. Yeah. It wasn't as intense. The show is unf-- Do you think people didn't watch it because they were annoyed by his voice? I think they didn't watch it because of the connotation of the character already. And I think Fred, by that point, had already kind of been. Because people were getting a little worn out on it. This is like 2012, 2013, and Fred was at his peak in like 2007, 2008? Yeah, probably 2009, maybe. Yeah, so it's just a few years after. Anyways. Anyways. We're talking about movies. Wow, so anyways, we're talking about movies. I really appreciated that lore. Yeah. Why we brought you on, Ian, is because you actually have a letterboxd. I do. And you write movie reviews. Yeah. Are you bringing any movie reviews today of your own? Uh-oh. You were. Okay. Secret. Before we started filming, you were typing ferociously on your phone. Well, because I remember I re-watched Mad Max Fury Road last night. So good. That movie's perfect. So good. I remember seeing that in the theaters at the Vista before it closed down and then reopened. It was epic. That movie is perfect. It's perfect. Truly. It's literally perfect. It's one of my five-star reviews. You know, Tom Hardy barely speaks in that movie, and yet he's so impactful. He's so good in it. I think he speaks more grunts than actual words. It's incredible. Yeah. Are you willing for us to go delve into your letterboxd today? Of course. Yeah. What are your top movies? My top four? My top four are perfect. Yeah, what are your top four? I love a top four. Or top four are your favorite, but then also what are movies that you think are perfect? Okay. I think those are two different categories. That's a great question. What are movies that you think are perfect? Perfect. How about that? Because, yeah, there's movies that are your favorites. Right. And then there's movies that you think are perfect. That you're perfect, that you, like, don't ever need to re-watch. I do think Raiders of the Lost Ark is a perfect movie. Wow. It's also one of my favorites, but I'm like, I think it is structurally, as a story, and filmmaking, just the way it's shot, is just, like, perfect. I do agree. I think Arrival is, like. Arrival is one of my favorites. I would say Arrival is close. I don't think there's any movie that's perfect. Sure. Sure. But I would say. On a relative scale. I mean, look, I gotta give it to RRR. I don't think it's perfect. Yeah, but that movie rocks. What's crazy. Definitely not perfect in the way of, like, I don't know, female representation. Sure. Do you have any reviews from RRR that you picked out from you? No. Because I actually have some. Oh. Selena actually picked out some reviews from RRR. Okay. So, if you don't know what RRR is about, it's a fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s. Yeah. And also, a lot of dancing. Yeah. And animals. There's some dancing. It's not a lot of dancing. Oh, but the dancing is just legendary. Yeah, dancing is, like, a huge part of it for me. Competitive fighting dancing. Oh, yeah, for sure. Some excellent mustaches, also. Oh, the mustaches are out of this world. Some of the worst dialogue for all of the English speakers, which I think makes the movie. better, because it just adds this layer of comedy that's, like, kind of unintentional. Yeah. Where it's, like, they come into a scene, and then the British people are like, and that's that. Okay, here's a review. The timeline of my experience with RRR. Zero through 20 minutes. Why are people obsessed with this movie? Yeah. It's so over the top. What is even happening? Yeah. 21 through 80 minutes. Okay, I get this. It's growing on me. This is cool. 81 plus minutes. Fuck yes. Iconic. Hit me with all of it. Yep. Another review. Now, excuse me. I have some dance moves to learn. Another one. Contains the best piggyback ride action sequence in somatic history. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Life will forever be divided into two parts. Before RRR and after RRR. Mm-hmm. This movie was great. Last one. No movie has earned the title card doesn't appear until 40 minutes into the movie more than RRR. Eat your heart out. Drive my car. It also appears three times throughout the movie. I love it. It's kind of like. Because. Yeah. It's kind of like. It's split into three acts kind of thing. Yeah. I love it. No, that movie's incredible. It is such a fun movie. It is like a rough first 10 minutes where you're like, what's going on? And then they just busted this lady's head with a stick. Yeah. And you're like, huh? Yeah, that was hard. Also, it was like very intense to watch. You know when you're watching like a 3D movie and you're like, what is reality? It's visually intense. That's what it felt like when I first started it. You also have to like get used to like the physics. Yeah. And the. The world where it's just like, these people are superhuman. Yes. And you just have to accept that. Yeah. It's so good. Yeah. Okay. So RRR, you think is a perfect movie. I don't know if it's a perfect movie, but it's one of my favorite movies. Yes. Your top four. Okay. So my top four, my top four are. Arrival. City of God. Yeah. City of God is so good. I haven't watched that. You know what's funny? I watched that movie when I was like 12. Dude, really young. And I haven't seen it since, but I remember watching it and just being like, this is crazy. But I need to rewatch it now as an adult so I can actually understand what's going on. But my brother showed it to me when I was a kid. He's like, this is one of the best movies ever made. Right. I was just like, oh, this is just scary. I feel like, man, Brazil went through some crazy shit in like the 70s because, you know, City of God is based around that time. So is I'm Still Here. I'm Still Here. Which is like crazy. And then also The Secret Agent, which came out last year. I need to see it. I haven't seen any of these. Is it really good? It's good. It's a little confusing. Yeah. But I think that's kind of the point because I think that time in Brazil was very confusing and weird. But yeah, City of God is just incredible. I have RRR on here. I have They Came Together. Yeah. In my top four. That's Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler just making fun of rom-coms. It's like the naked gun of rom-coms. I don't know if I saw it. So it's the same people that made Wet Hot American Summer. Yep. It's like, it's one of those jokes per second movies. Got it. Just nonstop jokes. And then the other one on my top four, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. I just recently watched that again. And the most amazing thing about that movie is every shot is a painting. The way they light, everything is unbelievable. The way they have a scene where it looks like they're lit from candles. I was sitting there being like, how did they do? And they're barely speaking in it. I feel like you'd like Train Dreams. That's on my list. I need to watch Train Dreams. One of my favorite movies that is not in English is Volvaire. It's one of my all-time favorites. Oh, I got that on my list. It's Pedro Almodovar, who's one of my favorite directors. I love him. Broken Embraces is also such a weird, good movie by him. But Volvaire is one of my absolute favorites. It's about sisterhood and mother. And it's just gorgeous. I love the way he shoots. He's also very sexual and sensual, the way he shoots. It's a porno. Well, it's Penelope Cruz. Yeah, it's Penelope Cruz. But everyone in it, it's just. And that movie goes places where you're like, what's happening here? Cool. Yeah. Amadeus. Amadeus is so good. I've still never seen Amadeus. It's such a commitment because it's 12 hours long. No, it's not that long. Can you do it? No. No, it's only 160 minutes. Okay. Do you know what I think is a perfect movie? What do you think is a perfect movie? The Birdcage. Okay. Not the original. I haven't seen the original. The original is like a French movie. Oh, but the Robin Williams? The Robin Williams one is so unbelievable. That's one of the more recent movies I've seen. I'd never watched The Birdcage. I didn't really know what it was about. And then Courtney and I watched it one weekend. And that movie rocks. That movie is so funny. I think I was reading that Nathan Lane wasn't originally supposed to play the role he was in. This might be wrong, but I thought I was reading that it was like, oh, Steve Martin was originally supposed to be in that role. But I can't imagine that movie without Nathan Lane. It has to be Nathan Lane. Nathan Lane is the reason that movie works. It has to be. And I love that Robin Williams played it the way he did. He played it. It's one of his, honestly, most like, one of his more like downplayed performances. Yeah. Like more along the lines of like Good Will Hunting or something. He's not playing it big. And it works so well. That movie is so good. Good Will Hunting is also an awesome movie. It's an amazing movie. Yeah. You got good picks, man. Can you give us your top fours? I mean, I gave you more than top four. I have Arrival up there. I got Dune 2. Dune 2. You like Dune 2 more than Dune? Yeah. Yeah, I like Dune 2. I think Dune 2, I think Dune, the first Dune was like, the pacing was just kind of slow. Yeah. Yeah, right. Still incredible, but. I am so curious what the next Dune is. Because do you know anything about Dune lore? Yes. Whoa. Sorry. I love Dune. I mean, I. Really? I love Dune. I've read, I've read a little bit about it. I'm saying like the books. About how like, yeah, about how like the timeline is just Duncan Idaho's all the way down. They start cloning him like a million times over or something. Yeah. No, because they go like. Is that correct? It is. There's a million Duncan Idaho's. And then there's a worm emperor. Yes. Like there's a guy who's a worm. Yeah, I heard that like. The thing is, what's funny is I'm thinking about when I watched the original, which I felt like I was actually tripping on acid when I watched the original. I was like. Sure. And the worm is so. Uh, what's his name? The, uh, the guy who plays, um, Stellan Scars, uh, Stellan Scars. Oh, you're talking about Baron Harkonnen? Just all of the creatures in the original. And that movie feels like it's three and a half hours long. Yeah. Um. I think it is. But I just think that it goes to such a weird fucking place. Yeah. Cause in the books. But I've never read the books. Yeah. So in the books after Paul Atreides, there's a, I'm sorry, spoilers, but like this is not going to, the movies are not going to get to. I don't know. No. Cause this is like book five. there's a, I think his son becomes like an immortal worm emperor who rules the universe. Yeah. There's apparently a dominatrix planet. Oh, cool. Dominatrixes who are a thing. And there's just a bunch of weird shit. Because Paul Atreides is like a false. He's a false prophet. So in the last Dune 2, there you have the Florence Pugh situation. He's like set up to be with her. I'm trying to remember. I need to re-watch Dune 2. Well, if you have, you know, three hours. What Dune 2, what you just said reminded me of and this is so weird that my brain went here, but just thinking of like the score and the music, Sicario is also such a good movie. Oh, yeah. The score of Sicario. Before Taylor Sheridan just started writing content for Republicans. We're going to come for you if you bring up Taylor Sheridan. Yeah? Yeah. You know what's crazy? I was on vacation and I met this woman whose son is in the new Taylor Sheridan. Oh, good for him. I don't know much about Taylor Sheridan. I've only seen. I mean, Yellowstone He had a. He writes Yellowstone? No, dude. He created Yellowstone. Oh, shit. You will shit if you look at what this guy has done. 1926. Also, he was a cop in Sons of Anarchy. He was a cop in Sons of Anarchy. He was an actor. Yeah. But he wrote Hell or High Water, which is incredible. Such a good movie. He wrote Wind River. Yep. Sorry, wrote, directed Wind River, which is incredible. Such a sad movie. So good, though. He did Sicario. He wrote Sicario. And then he did Yellowstone. He did all the variations of Yellowstone. He did 1926, whatever the other. Oh, so then he started making money. And now he did the new show Madison. So he does every, like. Everything. He does every, like. He does the shows that everybody's mom is like, have you watched Yellowstone? Yeah, of course. But it's brutal. That's my favorite show. It's brutal. I feel like he, like, really, like, struck gold with this kind of, like, white man power fantasy kind of thing of, like, I want to live out on a ranch. The hierarchy of the older man taking on generation at generation. Yeah, yeah. And he struck gold. So, yeah, he did, like, Yellowstone, 19. But again, he did really amazing things. Heller Highwater, Sicario. Wind River. There's a scene in Sicario that plays in my head every now and then. You know the scene. At the dinner table. I think that'll. At the end? At the end? Yeah. With Benicio Totoro? I mean, that whole movie's great. So good. It's also. You're watching it, like, I felt like I was Emily Blunt watching it the whole time. Just, like, so out of my element. So fish out of water. Like, I shouldn't be here. Right. That's what I felt like. I was watching it. And, yeah, she's, like, the avatar for that. Exactly. That's not really her story. No, it's not. Is it Benicio's story? How often do you watch movies? I won't say, like, every day. But. I go, he watches them all the time. But I've seen. Truly all the time. So far, I've seen 53 this year. Wow. I will say my normal is that, but since having a kid, it's really hard to watch a movie. But I'm actually finding my. I've been really into shows, but I'm finding my joy for it. But I was, like, movie person. I watched everything that was out. Everything that, like, everyone was talking about. The indie films. It's hard to watch movies right now. But I miss so badly going to the movie theaters. And. But, God, I love movies. I also love international movies. So much. Yeah. What's your favorite international movie? Volver. Oh, there you go. What were you writing a review of while you were. I was. Yeah. You're aggressively typing. Well, that's. I was writing a new review of My Feelings on Mad Max Fury Road. Oh, right. Right. Oh, did you have an old review? And have your feelings changed? My feelings haven't changed. I feel like the. Some of the VFX have aged a little bit, where I'm, like. Some of the explosions, some of the. And also the 3D thing, where the steering wheel comes out of the screen. Oh, well, God, that was corny as hell from the get-go. Yeah. Oh, I kind of like that. I forgot that that movie came out in 3D. Oh, yeah. And when Mad Max Fury Road came out, like, the concept of a dine-in theater was still kind of, like, novel. And we went to this dine-in theater, and we were all watching on 3D, and then that part happens where, like, the guitar comes out at the screen, and everyone was just like. Aww. Like, it's just such a. It's such a great movie, and it happens, like, right towards the end, and you're like. It's great. I never could do the 3D thing. Same. The only movie that I didn't mind in 3D was the original Avatar, for some reason. I will say, dude, Dread. Oh, you're talking about. I would say, like, on level with, like, Mad Max, I feel like Dread, that came out in 3D, and that actually had some pretty. some pretty good 3D effects. It was also kind of secretly directed by Alex Garland. Oh. Who did Ex Machina and Civil War. Yeah. Ex Machina is so good. No, that movie's really good. I finally watched it at one point. Dude, that movie fucking rocks. Dread. I have not seen Dread. It's got, uh. It's Carl Urban, who, he's in a mask. I love him. He's in a mask the entire time, which I think is, like, that's something that movies always. They always, like, chicken out and have, like, the star take their helmet off or take their mask off to be, like. He stays in it the whole time. All you see is his mouth. Does he have this, like, thick Australian accent? He's Australian, no? No. He lives in New Zealand? I don't know. I don't know what he is, but, um, he. You see his. All you see is his mouth, and he just has this, like, this, like, grimace. He's so badass. The entire. And he's, like. He's incredible. I love Carl Urban. He's so good in that movie. Is he done with The Boys? Is The Boys done? I think it's done. Yeah, it's its final season. Thank God. I loved The Boys for the first two seasons. Same. I know. And then I was, like, I need. This has to stop. I've been watching it, and I was. I just. I just don't like the. All the gore, like. Yeah. For no reason. It gets over the top. This is my take on The Boys this season, was there was an era, like, Game of Thrones came out, and Breaking Bad, where it was, like, new to have things go wrong, and for the villains to win. It was like, whoa, what is this? This is crazy. Yeah. But now, watching The Boys, I've been able to predict every scene, because I go, okay, this is gonna go wrong. All right, this plan's gonna fail. All right, the worst thing that could possibly happen's gonna happen. And it does without fail, to the point that I'm actually bored. I'm, like, I am no longer surprised by this. Yeah. Like, you need to have different things happen. Mm-hmm. Um, it's funny, like, we got so into that, that now, when shows have a good thing happen, that's when I'm surprised. Yeah. I'm, like, whoa, a good thing happened? And I, and I, I like that. Like, Paddington. I like, yeah. That's a perfect movie. Okay, Paddington 2. Still haven't seen it. I know. Paddington 2, everyone says that. I know. I haven't seen it. I watched Paddington, and I still have yet to watch Paddington 2. Everyone talks about it. It goes to prison. Paddington 3 is fine. Yeah. It's lovely. It's got Olivia Coleman. She's great. Oh! Speaking of Olivia Coleman, The Favourite is one of my fucking favourite movies. Oh, the Yorgos movie? I loved it. Yeah, it's good. I loved it. Would I re-watch it? Maybe once more. That's it. I feel like that's most, like, most Yorgos Lanthimos movies. You're like, that was good. I don't want to see that again. I cannot re-watch. Yeah, Poor Things, I also love Poor Things, will not be re-watched. Oh, yeah, I have zero interest in re-watching. But I was laughing so hard at Poor Things. Very darkly funny. I thought Mark Ruffalo's character was one of my favourite characters I've seen in so long. I think when he stopped, I, there was this interview about him, when he stopped doing The Hulk, he felt free. Because I think you're on a really serious contract with, obviously, Marvel. And so he felt free. So I felt like he was just like, I am gonna have the most fun in this wild character. He was, I just, his character made me laugh out loud. And I don't know, I don't know if it's like doing comedy all the time. I really struggle to laugh out loud in movies, which sounds so sad to me. No, I. But that's to surprise me. And I felt like he was joy the whole time. Yeah. And I also feel like, I know that Ted Lasso was really funny because it was joy, but like, I really feel this shift in comedy, where instead of like everything's, this woman's life, everything's going wrong and how terrible. I feel this shift of like joy, and it can be dark joy, but like this joy. It can be like hysterical joy, or excited joy, or scary joy. But that's like the way comedy's going right now, and I'm really into it. Yeah. No, because like, I think similar with comedy, you know, I remember when like Girls came out. And I remember at the time being like, I love this. And you know, that was like when like Curb Your Enthusiasm was on, like, where it's like, oh, these despicable characters. All these people are cringey and hard to watch. And it's funny because these characters are awful. But now, like, I love when I have a character I can root for. Like, it's really fun. And I love the kind of like thing you're seeing with a lot of characters, which is the kind of character who's oblivious and naive and they're so positive and so kind. They're so earnest. And I love that earnesty. It's what I loved about like watching The Birdcage. I was just like, there's a lot of earnesty in it. A lot of the scenes that are really funny is where it's just like genuine kindness coming from these characters. And even if they are a villain, my favorite part is even if they are the bad guy that we can't stand, they have this like really awesome redemption arc where it's like, oh, you're fighting for something that you believe is right, but we all know it's not right, but you don't know it yet until you lose something or somebody that you love kind of points it out. And then you have to go through this journey of like self redemption. And that's where I also find joy in that. Totally. Like the show DTF St. Louis that we both love. There's all these characters that you're like, villain, villain, are you the villain? And then you're like, oh, oh, you guys are just so in your own bubble. And the best character ever is someone who's not aware of the with how they're making people feel. - Right. hurting this person's feelings but they don't understand why yeah that's my favorite is them like i almost i feel like another like hot take i throw out there hot take i almost feel like because so much uh american shows and just movies for the past like decade have been so like everyone's awful everyone has bad intentions everything ends up going wrong i almost wonder if that sphere allowed for anime to become as mainstream and big because in anime like people are like we're gonna work hard and we succeed like there's a lot of like the good guy wins and there's kind of like that that's like a very like typical storyline in a lot of not all animes plenty and yeah like death note has like a lot of dark endings but so many are just have like a oh if you work hard and you believe in yourself we will persevere and win and that's yeah like refreshing i think that's also connected to like the honestly the romantic era that's coming back so hard as people are like romantic society fight it's the main story and everything which is just like obviously the hero's journey you know it's a it's kind of interesting that like romanticities become like so huge but there aren't any like big romantic movies that have come out no i don't think is it well they're trying is it like is it trying well michael b jordan bought fourth wing the series which was like interesting such an such an i have a lot of thoughts on that series but he bought that series to make i think it's really hard to make a movie like that because it's so hard to make a to make them into but like the visual like the sarah j mass like she took it back so she all of her rights were sold to hulu and then she just took all of her rights back because like i guess it's probably too horny because at that point it would be like it would be like softcore porn i think it's visual i genuinely think the the author and the person are colliding on who is going to be cast because in these books they're god-like beautiful right creatures no one on earth looks like that what do you think nobody's hot enough nobody's hot but also yes i do think i do think there's some that i think they're probably hard to translate over to movie and tv show they could get cringy cheesy real yeah like some of some things truly just the medium that they're made in is where they work best right and i think also with books like romanticy it's where people really want to place themselves in it and when a movie you literally can't do that you're watching it i don't ever i i asked myself this the other day when i was watching it and i was like i'm reading those i never put myself in their shoes it's always like i'm watching them from afar like a little creep yeah you know what i'm saying you know it's weird like when i'm reading i'm a huge pervert i'm in the room i'm in the corner it's like yes i i have this feeling that like pretty much every sex scene in a movie is like not erotic at all i don't think that it's erotic at all when they're shooting it but but i mean like oh wait what do you mean like the final you're saying like as a viewer i'm watching it and i see a sex scene i'm like it never like i feel like it never achieves like what it's trying to achieve really except those aren't good sex there's only there's only one sex scene that you think is it does the job yeah what is it all right you ever seen the uh you're not gonna guess this setup is i can't even handle have you ever seen the the um who else is in it the if you don't jude law get to it uh snipe uh world war ii sniper movie so enemy at the gate i've never seen enemy at the gate with what's her name rachel vice oh so many people in the room are like yes and they're like yeah enemy at the gates also that scene is so hot also i'm sorry cold mountain it's such a sad long movie but jude law and cold mountain and nicole kidman's relationship is very maybe it's just so maybe it must be jude law but there but there's something like i think i think because like enemy at the gates is very good because like i feel like with sex scenes and movies they're always like oh yeah we're gonna like show some titties or whatever no in in enemy at the gates they don't show anything yeah they're laying next to each other aren't they in like a camp with a bunch of people yeah they're like yeah there's like a bunch of people sleeping next to them and they're like getting busy under the sheets and it's very erotic whoa yeah okay i agree with you i think it's the intention behind it the scene i think some movies go way too hard and you're like oh those are two actors who worked out really really hard for this scene and you know they stopped and go and they don't have a lot of chemistry and it's just awkward and like i do think there are some sexier there are some sexier scenes that i will have to ruminate on the rest of this episode i can't i can't quite think of but i will say rachel her she is like sexy as hell i don't think that's her last name vice yeah rachel vice rachel vice oh with a w yeah yeah yeah yeah that scene's pretty hot anyway i don't know about there but um no that's that's good so do we want to read some of your letterboxd reviews i also have a game i want to play i don't have good ones you do serious ones well because i feel like i feel like that i don't want to be that annoying person i don't want to be on letterboxd that just makes like one sentence jokes all the time okay i like like occasionally i'll do like a joke but then i also think like being earnest about my love or hate for a movie is is good i think it's i think it's good to provide an actual like opinion and feeling on on things so also phantom thread i know a lot not a lot of people loved that movie but i loved that movie um you're crazy i do have some letterboxd reviews too and you have something you said you have a gate well i was gonna pick the you know they have like a bunch of the most popular rated movies okay on letterboxd i was gonna pick a movie and i was gonna read a review and then give you guys a chance to guess yes that's great done let's do it um i'm gonna pick a random movie and it's a movie that you guys definitely both know it's gonna be like how did that mouse learn how to drive that car sure that's stewart little you know what shane i have to say something you're really good at games yeah you should like create a game i'm sorry i'm being real right now i created a game it's called sniper chess uh no no but like you're really really good at at like i'm like oh that's such a good idea that i would never think of wow you're so welcome we also used to do a we used to do a show similar to this called netflix and chill don't tell me that just let me sit in that where we would read reviews of netflix movies and if you guessed it wrong you'd have ice poured down your pants yep this is back when you we try it uh it would go up then oh my god all right shut up here's the first review of this movie very popular very well-known movie okay sayoban gave it four stars said it's probably siobhan but that's okay yeah probably siobhan siobhan it's okay now hey hey hey you know what you know what forget this game no i don't want to play uh okay okay okay gave it four stars okay they said fellas is it gay to be in love with your imaginary friends oh is it gay to be in love fellas i said fellas so it's a hot man male imaginary friend the only imaginary friend oh uh inside out no no you're crazy that was an insane holly gave it five stars okay said bitches be so fine then boom they're a figment of your imagination oh black swan oh casper nope shit all right whoa whoa what am i saying this one's probably gonna give it away i think ian you'll get it with this one sure junior gave it five stars said they could use that soap and take a fucking shower fight club it's fight club oh oh my god i forgot that there you go imagination yeah okay because brad pitt is so hot in that movie right yeah yeah right all right i'm i can pick another yeah yeah yeah do it yeah this is fun yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm having fun all right i'm truly just picking like the top movies on all right here we go okay james gave this movie five stars okay james and he said the most fun and light-hearted horror movie ever made parasite no uh this is barbarian the most not fun and light-hearted adam bolt gave this movie four and a half stars he said the most fun and light-hearted he said worried for the guy taking the longest bath of all time salt burn i'm just kidding what all right um the longest bath of longest bath of all time i don't know a guy taking the longest bath in a horror movie all right here we go okay i said woman warren gave this three and a half stars he's they they wrote did they ever record him jerking off buried no i'm just kidding no wait 127 hours no jesus what are you saying no he never he's stuck in a cliff he's not taking a bath or jerking off well if maybe if was it his arm that got stuck or was it his leg franco baby god that movie can you read it one more one more give us one more uh jackson gave it four and a half stars said it must suck for all the people in like asia always seeing him sleeping when it's on truman show you got it oh it is the truman show they ever record him jerking that's true longest bath one of the houses i i forget i haven't seen one of my favorite movies ever yeah that is such a good movie for sure yeah okay another one you want to keep going let's keep going let's just keep doing this it's fun because people love to make shitty jokes I do have horror movie reviews but let's keep going maybe I'll do one to end this is the first one you're not going to get but you can try to see if you get lucky four and a half stars from V they write what's up guys I'm fucking crying okay so it's a sad movie or it's a comedy okay keep going gave it four and a half stars said a movie about a man who runs and enjoys cutting grass Forrest Gump damn nice way to go I'm really good at this so how many points did I just get none you get no points wow you get nothing oh what's that what's that from I have no idea you get nothing you drink fizzy lifting drinks okay let's see if you guys can get this on the first guess okay Sam gave this movie five stars he said so this is why teachers make you take your hat off in school final destination hereditary it is not hereditary okay River gave this five stars and said when I say I love French cinema this is what I mean um blue is the warmest color it's not Amelie I don't know French cinema uh uh uh uh what the hell oh Alexina's bouncing back there what she's dying all right another one let's see it um I'm trying to find one that doesn't spoil it uh okay Freya gave this five stars it said can't believe they invented the entire country of France for this movie oh no oh no you guys know it this is what what is happening and it's the most French thing so like Ratatouille it's Ratatouille oh oh nice what was the second thing again what this is why I watch this is French cinema this is perfect French cinema hat off hat off in school that's why you have to take your hat off in school I don't like Ratatouille I don't want a rat cooking my food we talked about this scary rats okay yeah you said you had a hard time with that movie it's not real Amanda yes it is it's not it's an animation uh never happened Faisal Goes West that was real Fievel Fievel okay I've got a good one I got another one and here's one a movie that I think is actually perfect okay this is I think a perfect movie okay okay someone said uh Patrick gave it four and a half stars they said the second best diehard movie it's not diehard um of course James gave it three and a half stars said young Patrick Bateman wait Christian Bale wait perfect movie Jonathan Fuji gave it four and a half stars said Tom and Jerry ass movie oh it's not it's not it's not the fighter it's not no no way wait till you find out what this movie is it's not Christian Bale it's not Christian Bale they're just saying that he's like a like a young young Patrick Bateman fine so he's crazy very attractive man Tom and Jerry ass movie it's like a diehard what the hell all right I'm gonna give you one that's gonna give it away but sorry wait someone this makes me want to rewatch the movie Hannah gave it five stars and said they say six seven about six or seven times in this movie um okay Benjamin gave it four and a half stars and said I'm a full grown ass man and that furnace is still terrifying home alone it's home alone oh young Patrick Bateman why am I so bad it is who is young Patrick Bateman Kevin Kevin is a young what no I don't agree with this I don't agree with that at all this is why this is why you should like he's got his morning routine he's doing all sorts of stuff okay but he's not a killer so that's second he's a kid he basically kills them that's true throughout that movie no no you're right you're right you're right wow I see it I guess all right I'm gonna pick this one might be a little bit harder okay I'm having so much fun I can tell I love just reading this this is fun you like having control and power Muriel gave it five stars getting killed because you're not a crazy cinephile no idea Muriel I think a lot of people probably guessed it what are you saying really okay hold on well Muriel's just the person who no I know but I have a deep connection Hannah gave it four and a half stars said one don't pick up the phone oh scream scream how are you guys so how are you so good I'm so I watch more movies than you clearly I'm like I am the movie person damn not you not you so wild this sucks don't worry about it but that beginning scene of scream is a classic for almost every movie actually when a stranger calls is like the classic have you ever seen that where it's like they're in the house is it Jodie Foster okay I found the same reviewer for this this is a new movie okay Muriel gave this movie five stars Muriel stop it they said didn't mean to moan like that my bad a lot of these people are just like reviewers on the pianist Adam Bolt who gave a review on a different thing four and a half stars or as we Australians call it Tuesday something with Chris Hemsworth Aaron gave this five stars said as Charlie XCX once said beep beep so let's ride okay Fast and Furious no moaning didn't mean to moan like that it's something hot or not David gave it five stars said I would drive one of the spiky cars okay so it's Mad Max Fury Road Mad Max Fury Road so they didn't mean to moan about they're just like it's hot it's a hot movie I don't agree with that what it's super hot what are you oh well this is crazy okay I love the top review on this one all right Carly gave this movie four and a half stars and they said where the fuck is the breakfast breakfast at Tiffany's it's not breakfast good guess though that's a great guess but you didn't damn get it Trav gave it four stars they said me and my five personalities at 3am oh oh oh the one with James McAvoy split where the fuck is the breakfast I don't know Soup George gave it two and a half stars said they didn't even eat breakfast what the hell what are you talking about breakfast I don't know oh wait someone said Andrea gave it three stars and all captions if you say something about breakfast again no they just said that fucking victorious episode with crying emojis victorious episode yeah you guys are probably not getting help from that oh no oh god they didn't even eat breakfast is this a popular James wrote two stars I can't believe I watched victorious version before this what are you saying oh is it Schindler's List no what I that you're crazy wait is this a popular movie it's a very famous movie incredibly famous movie Princess Bride it's not Princess Bride stop stop keep going Andy gave it five stars said the only movie where a guy called Bender is the coolest dude on the planet Bender Bender this one person just has a heart for their name four stars they should have just started a band and called themselves Lemonade Mouth to be honest what Lemonade Mouth the connection between this movie and just fucking Disney and Nickelodeon Breakfast Victorious Bender we're so lost Molly gave it four and a half stars said the Victorious parody of this is better stop what is Victorious okay okay is it Rashomon let's move away from Victorious every television show is Vivian Rashomon we're getting really bad Vivian gave this movie four stars and said when your circle's small but y'all crazy okay alright okay so it's okay Parakiss gave it four stars and said dumbass makeover took a star off makeover there's a makeover Mrs. Doubtfire not Mrs. Doubtfire it's like it's like a group is it like a group of friends it's sort of it's a group of people becoming friends what this is awful becoming friends um a group of people Heathers it's not Heathers you're getting close they definitely did not become friends Breakfast Club it is Breakfast Club Breakfast Club they didn't even eat breakfast Victorious Victorious did an episode a parody episode of that makes sense who's Bender I forget Bender was he like the the reject guy Breakfast Club they actually didn't even eat breakfast they didn't actually even eat breakfast damn why did I think of that I'm thinking way too specific I'm gonna go with a really there's a movie that you both love okay and I think you might have even mentioned it in this episode oh my god I love this movie it's a really cool movie Shay gave this movie four stars and they wrote she fucking looks like Willy Wonka Arrival it's not what who looks like Willy Wonka and Arrival Lucy gave this movie five stars and said the movie equivalent of being hugged Paddington not Paddington no it's not my favorite I've never seen it you're crazy she looks like Willy Wonka number one gizmo fan gave it five stars and said when will anyone love me like that oh Karsten gave it three and a half stars said, "She's so craze." - Oh, "Enemy at the Gates," of course. - "Hereditary." no i hate that movie stop it wait she's so crazy some of these reviews i don't understand what did you mention that's what i'm struggling with hold on hold on hold on hold on amelie you got it oh her hair how dare they how dare they how dare they she looks like willie wonka that movie is so good it's one of my favorites it's so good yeah yeah how dare they how dare they wait i have one oh okay okay selena's gonna shout out some reviews and then we're gonna guess okay viking gave the snow stars but liked it i thought this was about magicians um uh the prestige i was just gonna say that no but that is about magicians yeah yeah it's about magicians magic mike oh yeah nice nice it is about magicians oh shit they're magicians they're getting you no no no yeah how did you get those abs you know you probably worked out pretty hard and he also dances and okay magic fine fine that's a true story about channing tatum okay um do we have more you have a new one i'll read you my review and you can guess because this is what i just picked out okay how about that and you write letterboxd reviews no but i actually i told ian the other day that i want to okay okay you can start here's one this is like it doesn't cost anything you can just do it you can do it for free okay awesome thanks guys okay so this is one that you guys are going to be like i what okay all right what's going on that's enough that's enough stop stop stop stop stop stop this is a review you wrote did you write this like in your notes no no no i screenshot enough stop oh oh you you found letterboxd reviews okay here we go try to guess this this isn't kind of a bit of a niche one but this is a newer movie okay okay i'm just glad we're seeing kids go outside again instead of being glued to their ipad screens okay uh is this like this is four four stars from miko stand by me this is a new movie new movie no one questioned why this kid is running the town dry of tinned soup like here comes soup boy three stars by jay what oh shoot i may not have seen this have i seen this movie yes i have yes oh god uh okay kids getting outside three and a half stars by coffee you can tell this is made by a former sketch comedian because it's almost entirely set up for one really good bit weapons yeah yes nice okay yeah yeah that was just one that i wanted that i wanted to do no that's good that's good wait can i read you guys one that caroline uh caroline who's our lovely pa wrote caroline this is a review wait okay okay so caroline our pa wrote this review yes she gave this movie five stars loved it being better than the men around you rocking a bob and having a horse like yeah having a better than the men around you so who has a bob who's on a horse okay okay i'm trying to think of movies it's not it makes you think of like mirror mirror like princess diaries is this like a popular one she doesn't know it's like a popular one she doesn't have a bob on a horse is that is a new movie or a bob on a horse no i wouldn't say this is a new movie okay oh well you know who has a bob on a horse who uh lord farquad shrek wait no but that's funny it says being better than all the men around you i don't think lord farquad remember when i had his haircut and you kept telling me that i had his haircut no i said you had the haircut of a 13th century crusader and then i did the berries and cream commercial yeah i did and i put a wig on and it looked exactly like my hair i don't think i know okay i think a bob on a horse wait is it worthing heights no she does not have a you're crazy he has more of a bob that she gave it four and a half stars and says i love in movies when men are stupid idiots and girls save the day wait did caroline also okay so she wrote a second review caroline just caroline wrote caroline really needed to get her appeals to every little girl's dream and desires duplicity deception and being exceedingly better than their male peers and having a kill count oh shit she's a murderer do you think caroline do you think i've seen this movie you guys have all seen i've seen this movie okay i've seen it all seen it did we mention it today the horse and she rides a horse she's got a bob shit i feel like okay ella gave it five stars and this is gonna give it away the l in lgbt is for lee shang oh is this is this long yeah does she have she does kind of have her hair yeah that's really good okay i got i got a review for this okay great movie i demand a weasel spinoff yes i understand he killed 27 children but just look at the little guy this is like fiefel goes west or something all right are you gonna answer what if i was right he's like yeah you got it right all right we're done wait okay all right a weasel spinoff i'm sure he killed okay this is creepy okay he killed 27 children but just look at the little guy the hell i feel like maybe this isn't good give us another review no no okay i'll give you another review yeah i was reading like 10 reviews before you guys were guessing them yeah it's okay and come on yeah yeah okay this happened to a couple of my friends a single thing okay here's another one weasel my beloved that's not gonna actually help us in any um not gonna lie getting choked to death by margot robbie seems fun uh i feel like that could be multiple margot robbie movies uh wolf of wall street nope there was no children killed in that movie withering heights this person said i don't care i'm just gonna say it king shark is it king shark is a himbo oh this is uh i mean suicide squad yeah nice yeah there was that weird weasel thing yeah you're right that's weird forgot about that i just recently watched it for the first okay i think you guys are gonna get this really really good okay four and a half stars by camilla ed warren exercise this put wait sorry sorry can you repeat that can you repeat sure sure four and a half stars by camilla ed warren exercise this put ed warren exercise this is it the exorcist nope oh okay look me dead in the eyes and tell me james wan isn't into puppets a little too much two and a half stars by jay james wan is that a director yes puppet four and a half stars by vi thought my house was haunted because the tv kept turning off turns out i was sitting on the remote is that review have anything to do with the movie thought my house was haunted because the tv kept shutting off turns out i was sitting on the remote it's not even does that play a part of annabelle you're getting close okay conjuring yes oh and here's what annabelle is in it annabelle's in it here's what i wanted to read to you because you are a sicko and do this five stars by reese one of the little girls slept without the blanket covering her feet and was shocked when the demon grabbed her question mark you always sleep with your leg out dude you're gonna get snatched shane you're gonna get snatched i know i believe that that's the conjuring i think such a good horror movie so dark this game is fun i don't know but i don't know if y'all have seen this but it's a newer it's a new movie came out in 2025 probably haven't i said uh my review was the major sure loves to talk about nut sacks what are you doing sorry when did you say this movie came out 2025 the major sure likes to talk about nut sacks is it the new avatar movie no oh that's a good guess um they don't even have nut sacks do they i'll give you another one i think these ones are gonna be fun uh is this same movie yes okay all right i got it okay so i'd be the guy okay i'd be this i don't know why it's making me laugh i'd be the guy dying sorry oh no i'd be the guy dying because he sorry fuck what the fuck all right there's nothing that has made ian laugh this hard dude i've never seen you like this what got you all right i'd be the guy dying because he has to shit that's what's making you laugh so hard no i've never seen a guy because that happens in jurassic park a guy dies because he has to shit yeah i remember well he's on the toilet he's scared he's crazy yeah but he kind of what's happening here i don't know uh here's another review yaoi so doomed they kept calling each other brothers we've definitely not seen this movie i'd honestly sign up just to make a friend like pete okay the band the show the movie this this one should give it away thought it was about walking then came the poop is it the long is this the long walk yes i haven't seen the long walk i haven't even heard of it oh that makes sense that someone dies because they have to shit yeah yeah well you know what's funny because shitting is hard i know the premise of the movie is that they have to keep walking and if you stop walking you get killed yeah but like marathon runners shit themselves and keep running all the time why would anyone want to watch this movie well it's a it's a stephen king book turned it's great movie i've heard it's really good but yeah there there yeah there's a couple people where shitting is is like it's a it's a problem i think it's funny that in the same year two stephen king books got turned into movies the running man and the long walk oh is that really funny it was okay i saw it okay i watched it one one day just at home that's fine oh ian did you notice we have a table i you know it's funny i because i know people were asking for a table oh yeah they were oh yeah there's no way i didn't even hear about that i don't know i don't check did you no i didn't know that wait i got one more from caroline okay caroline okay caroline's gonna close this out here five stars loved it irish boy wants to be in the center of a dance circle so bad he makes it a whole thing i had two slushies half bag of popcorn and half bag of gummy worms yum yum yum titanic that makes sense that makes sense thank you he's not irish though irish boy no he's not irish but there were there were irish people oh yeah remember the irish boy was in the center of a dance circle so bad um oh uh uh is it is it um i hate that i keep bringing up emerald fennel movies but um salt burn salt burn i don't know is it salt burn how recent is this movie it's a new movie it came out in 2025 oh boy i may not have seen it i swear uh are there other reviews for this movie mac gave it four and a half stars standing ovulation i mean ovation whoa um joe a gave it four and a half stars that one sequence you'll know when you see it magnum opus type scene spirit awakening type scene inspirational foundational centers yes oh yeah so what about the two slushies damn that was just caroline you were doing work my god the concession was like are you gonna watch the movie jesus i'm back for another slushie hit me man come on hit me sinners is rocking me can we talk about some of our lowest rated movies i want to know what some of your lowest rated movies okay so i got i got um this one's an all-timer wonder woman 1984 that movie's pretty rough i need the stone um wow did it in voice that was that your review for it no i didn't leave a review uh don't worry darling rarely has there been a gap so enormous between how how smart a movie thinks it is and how smart it actually is whoa performance on i carly was much better in my opinion oh dude it is like the best way to describe that movie and and i'm i this is not my original thought this is somebody else's thought was like a white woman's attempt at making a jordan peele movie oh that is brilliant like it felt like a student film that had like a 200 million dollar budget whoa there was so much drama surrounding it because she apparently olivia wilde was dating harry styles during the shooting and that's yeah i don't care about that well the truman show but harry styles violently eats pussy oh there was a yeah there was there was that scene listen i think harry styles is cute i don't ever want to see him do that sorry i don't know what it is i don't like it fair i don't want that on here tiptoes have you guys ever seen tiptoe i am very aware of tiptoe isn't that gary old not gary oldman it is gary oldman playing a little person it is a they just have shuffling around on his knees and when he's sitting in a couch they have he has little like puppet legs oh i saw and he's like he's clearly like in the couch and this is a serious movie this is not a comedy matthew mcconaughey it's matthew mcconaughey it's matthew mcconaughey and gary oldman are brothers i think they're twin brothers i think they're maybe twins i forget they're brothers so matthew mcconaughey joel mckale make fun of this movie all the time on the soup or i don't know his brother is supposed to be a by gary oldman on his knees and and and it's like an oscar bait movie like they like they were really trying it's a great actor yeah not yeah but speaking of another like total train wreck oscar bait movie music i don't even know if i've heard about this wait is that sia's movie yeah sia's movie where she like the dance okay speaking of dance moms which we weren't speaking of but i'm thinking about dance moms for some reason which i'll explain later uh one of the lead in dance moms is gary oldman on his knees and it's like an oscar bait movie and it's like an oscar bait is the lead in music and she plays someone she just it's not the right casting sure yeah okay but i do have a lot of review that i think you guys are gonna get four stars jiba tony collette deserves a normal family hereditary six cents six cents we we nailed two different ones yeah yeah she boy she loves to play moms that are uh haunted one of my favorite movies six cents is incredible of all time yeah and then i i told you that i didn't realize the little boy's name is cole and i've loved the name cole forever that's my son's name oh boy should i ask him if he sees dead people and he's just like no that's his thing now he goes i think we're out of time i think we're out of time oh okay wow ian could be here all day look me too i could go on forever this is what we do most of the time yes we talk about movies we talk about shows that we're watching is that is that a problem no that's awesome it's we we love our medium it's fine it's great we love our medium they tell us about ghosts that they see yeah they're from long island you guys are awesome no um we do really just love shows and movies yes and i love you guys oh that's the first time you've ever said that uh never yeah you probably won't hear it again and that's the hardest i've ever seen you laugh and it was about poop shitting while walking yeah okay nothing goes together like stephen king and pooping that is true that is so true that is true ian thank you for joining us thank you you're gonna ask me like what my socials are no they can find me uh you can find ian somewhere watching a movie that's probably true that is actually true you watch a movie every day you said oh wait quick what movies are you guys looking forward to one one movie one movie one movie i still need to see project hail mary because i love the book i love the book and i just haven't gotten a chance to see it yet the taste of things i actually a french movie and i am excited i i'm excited for that resident evil movie could be good oh director of weapons be good i think it's good me and spencer and angela are gonna go if you want to maybe come you just can't sit next to us already planned you already planned this yeah of course all we do is text about resident evil i'm actually not kidding you know what you know i think could be a banger movie i'm just gonna call it sheep detectives what is that up nope you know what i can't wait to see the mummy the new mummy what the the the guy's name mummy no the mummy because they have like the lee whatever's mummy new mummy that mummy with the girl yep all right comment down below what movies you're so judgmental uh comment down below what movies you're excited to see what your favorite movie is yeah what your least favorite movie is talk about movies down below yeah and uh we'll see you next week bye Thank you.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. A beautifully designed Squarespace website transforms hobbies into viable businesses, whether in photography, cookie sales, or film reviews.
  2. Ian Hecox, a passionate movie reviewer and fan, shares his deep love for foreign films, classics, and niche cinema.
  3. His top movies include *Mad Max
  4. He emphasizes the importance of a balanced media diet, appreciating both critically acclaimed and "bad" movies that bring joy.
  5. The conversation reveals a personal connection to early internet culture, including Smosh merchandise and obscure web content.
  6. Ian’s humor and storytelling shine through playful movie trivia, including fictional or absurd movie reviews.
  7. There’s a growing cultural shift in comedy toward joyful, earnest, and optimistic narratives, contrasting with past decades of cynical or dark humor.
  8. The episode blends personal nostalgia, film appreciation, and light-hearted game-like interactions to explore movie reviews and cultural trends.

Summary:

A conversation between Smosh hosts Shane and Amanda and guest Ian Hecox centers on the transformative power of a well-designed website—like Squarespace—turning hobbies into profitable ventures. Ian, a dedicated movie reviewer, shares his curated list of favorite films, including *Mad Max: Fury Road*, *Arrival*, *City of God*, and *RRR*, highlighting films that combine visual impact with strong storytelling. He emphasizes the value of a balanced media diet, enjoying both classic and "bad" movies as sources of joy.

The discussion also touches on cultural shifts in comedy, moving toward earnest, hopeful narratives, and contrasts with earlier cynical or dark tropes. Ian shares personal anecdotes about internet-era content, such as Smosh bras and early web merchandising, adding humor and nostalgia. A playful game of movie review guessing is woven throughout, where listeners try to identify films from cryptic, often absurd reviews, showcasing the fun and accessibility of film appreciation.

The episode blends humor, personal reflection, and deep cinephile insight, celebrating both the artistry of films and the joy found in shared cultural experiences.

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A beautifully designed Squarespace website turns a hobby or passion into a professional venture, such as turning photography into a selling business or a movie review hobby into a career.

Users can use the offer code DIFFERENCE for 50% off select Squarespace plans, though terms and conditions apply.

Ian Hecox highly rates movies like Mad Max: Fury Road, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Arrival, and RRR, which he believes are structurally and emotionally impactful.

Ian Hecox loves Volvaire by Pedro Almodovar, praising its visual beauty, sensual storytelling, and themes of sisterhood and motherhood.

Ian enjoys films with strong storytelling, emotional depth, and unique perspectives, such as foreign films and those with a balance of humor and serious themes.

Ian and the host play a movie review guessing game on Letterboxd, where listeners try to identify movies based on humorous, creative, and sometimes absurd reviews.

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