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