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Yeah, I like HDTGM a lot. Some of the criticisms I've seen around here aren't even inaccurate, they just don't bother me as they do some people. On an internet that is over-saturated with vlog critics who aren't very funny and act like every single movie they watch is the worst, most infuriating thing ever, it's nice to have a voice that's more joyful about bad movies and piloted by actual comedians.
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After seeing all the praise it gets around here, I'm curious: is We Hate Movies the kind of podcast you can listen to even if you haven't seen the movie, or is it something that's really only funny if you're familiar with what they're discussing?
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Feb 21, 2013 02:56
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bobkatt013 posted:Does not matter if you have seen it or not. Alright, cool, maybe I'll check it out sometime.
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Feb 21, 2013 03:12
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I'm not "up to date" on WHM but I think I'm gonna have to listen to this episode soon. I had never heard of this movie but it sounds/looks like one of the most insane things ever.
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May 16, 2013 15:49
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I still don't understand the constant making GBS threads on of HDTGM when every criticism seems present in WHM as well. Everyone except Chris Cabin has an incredibly annoying voice.
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Jul 22, 2013 04:38
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OldTennisCourt posted:I don't see this at all. Even if you think it's true, at least they don't scream "I KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW" whenever anyone mentions something remotely weird in the movie. I enjoy that. They have enthusiasm that's different from the "nerds snarking about bad movies" thing that's so prevalent on the internet. And as mentioned above, June is really funny and has a unique take on the movies, so her vocal quirks don't factor into it too much for me. I enjoy WHM too, I'm just saying I don't understand all the hate HDTGM gets.
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Jul 23, 2013 01:58
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I've only seen the trailer, but at one point the Facebook movie kid says "The first rule of magic is always being the smartest guy in the room" or something like that. Now, I'm no magician, but I'm pretty sure that's not at all any rule of magic, let alone the first one.
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Aug 23, 2013 15:08
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I agree, their hatred of Jim Belushi is my favorite thing.
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Oct 17, 2013 02:09
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A Violence Gang posted:Trawling the WHM archives I relistened to Babycakes which is another fantastic example of what I was talking about above. It's just so much more interesting when an attempt to create pablum results in utter insanity than it is when someone intentionally makes ludicrous bullshit. Like, Nicholas Cage and Uwe Boll know what they're doing but Riki Lake or Mary Steenburgen absolutely do not. I can still enjoy the former but the latter is like a glorious discovery of outsider art in bad movie podcast terms. Yeah, that's why The Room is so popular. Even though Tommy Wiseau now pretends it was a comedy all along, the fact that he clearly took it so seriously is why it's so endearing.
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Oct 17, 2013 04:40
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"I thought he was able to do those things because he really committed to being blind"
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Nov 26, 2013 22:15
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bobkatt013 posted:Maybe I should suggest Tiptoes. What a fucken strange movie. Do it. Tiptoes is one of those movies I want to hear as many takes on as possible because of how bizarre it is.
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Dec 5, 2013 17:03
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Production posted:Jason Mantzoukas is a very funny guy, but I get a lot more replay value out of the podcast where only one guy doesn't understand what happened in the movie, instead of all three of the hosts. HDTGM is the Prometheus of podcasts: I completely enjoy it, but I can't quiet my sense that if the characters were a little more competent, they'd notice even more interesting things than they do. I think they notice a lot of the minutia that's funny, they just don't understand the plot of most things.
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Dec 26, 2013 16:51
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Yeah, when someone in this thread compared June to a Grandmother it was pretty spot on. Her frame of reference is totally different from the typical nerdy comedy person.
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Feb 16, 2014 18:11
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It'd be a weird time to get a divorce, you'd think they wouldn't try for kids if their marriage was on the rocks.
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Mar 26, 2014 00:37
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It would also require June wearing a fake stomach and tricking all their friends and fans.
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Mar 26, 2014 03:13
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Yeah, when it's something like Gone Fishin' I think it's worth mocking, but generally one needs to be very careful about trying to mock a comedy.
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Jun 3, 2014 23:13
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Since people have been quoting their favorite WHM moments, I have to give special mention to the part in the Die Another Day episode where they're talking about the use of London Calling when Bond says they have to go to London. I've been slowly making my way through their back catalog and Jupin's impression of a Mary-Kate and Ashley movie is hilarious for someone who grew up in the nineties with a younger sister.
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Jul 23, 2014 15:14
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radlum posted:Yeah, you are making it seem worse than it actually was. The baby was an "issue" a couple of times and I really didn't mind, I mean, why would I be upset over a baby interrupting my free bad movie podcast? Is Sharknado 2 so important that the discussion must not be interrupted by anyone? I figured they might've just not been able to get someone to look after it on short notice. With a baby that young I wouldn't want to just get a babysitter if I were them.
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Aug 2, 2014 13:14
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Yeah, I don't care what anyone else says, Martin Short has done quite a few funny things.
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Aug 4, 2014 13:21
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RagingBoner posted:It's Chris, who is my least favorite of the bunch. He is constantly doing this feigned, righteously indignant shtick that just crawls all over me. Yeah, that annoys me too. He's always doing the angry nerd on Youtube style "WATCHING THIS MOVIE MADE ME WANT TO THROW MYSELF INTO AN INCINERATOR" shtick which has never been particularly funny conceptually. But I think he gets some decent jokes in, same with the other guys.
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Aug 14, 2014 16:47
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Vakal posted:The line is from another Stephen King movie, Secret Window, but they haven't done an episode about it yet. Yeah, I think Steve just said "You stole mah story" at one point during one episode in reference to Secret Window and they started saying it periodically.
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Sep 2, 2014 13:56
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I've not really gotten into Flophouse because I already have enough podcasts to listen to and the sound was so bad in their first episode I couldn't get through it. Could I just listen to episodes featuring movies I'd like to hear mocked, or is it so in-joke-y that it's not worth bothering?
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Sep 8, 2014 12:52
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Thanks for the Flophouse info, y'all. I'll check some episodes out.
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Sep 10, 2014 13:54
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weekly font posted:I like Flop House but I think they get too distracted with puns/tangents/references and barely discuss the movie outside of the broadest terms and then jump into mailbag stuff which is my sign to turn it off. WHM does what I want out of a movie podcast but yeah, sometimes they run stuff into the ground. Yeah, this has been my problem with the Flophouse after recently listening to some episodes. They have 30 minutes of mailbag, and the mailbag in the episodes I've listened hasn't been all that entertaining. I also haven't really found the two guys who aren't Elliot Kalan that funny either.
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Oct 15, 2014 03:59
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I don't think I get why Eric Szyszka(?) is so loved around here. He says some funny things sometimes but I think Stephen Sajdak has the best batting average.
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Oct 15, 2014 14:24
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Yeah, when I found out Chris Cabin isn't a comedian and is an actual movie critic it all sort of clicked into place for me. His fake outrage isn't fake, it's the actual reaction of a movie geek watching a bad movie played up for the podcast. He's actually not that bad for a non-comedy person, but then, I really think that WHM has the least funny hosts of the big movie podcasts in general, while it is still the best of them as an actual movie podcast for the reasons mentioned by other posters.
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Dec 17, 2014 03:52
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Charles Dance was in Dracula Untold, so maybe that's the movie they're talking about?
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Jan 13, 2015 23:42
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I agree, HDTGM's enthusiastic tone, actual funny people as hosts, and weird perspective makes it my favorite. It's refreshing in a sea of angry nerds who act like the movie they watched is a pile of demon poo poo that fell on their house and killed their entire family. I like WHM, but it does stray pretty close to the "Nostalgia Critic" type model of talking about weird and bad movies at times. The reactions of HDTGM's hosts seem more varied and sincere than most bad movie "review" things.
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Jan 14, 2015 15:56
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June's "dumb" opinions are varied and sincere, and Jason making a joke about jerking off is one very minor part of his take on a given movie. I like both the Flophouse and WHM, but from what I've heard of the former Elliot barely cares about the movie and is just looking for his next opening for a bit, while Stuart and Dan never really say much period, while in the case of the latter everyone's angry about the movie and is going to complain that something a character does isn't what they'd do in that situation, even if it's a crazy sci-fi or fantasy movie. I'm not saying HDTGM is objectively better, but I do think their take on the movie isn't always "THIS MOVIE SUCKS AND IS STUPID" the way it is for so many internet bad movie reviewers.
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Jan 14, 2015 16:15
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SamuraiFoochs posted:IDK where you're getting that from WHM. They actually recommend movies fairly often, and most of the time they're laughing about ridiculousness rather than getting really pissed. Obviously there are exceptions, but as a general rule. I dunno man, I've listened to quite a bit of their output and usually, even if they recommend the movie by the end, they do seem to approach it in a more vitriolic, "internet critic" way most of the time. bobkatt013 posted:Mostly the situation is when they would kill themselves like in Blame it to Rio. Not just that, almost every episode they have a few instances where they either say "You would never do this in X situation!" or "If it's me, I'm doing X". That's more what I was thinking of in my other post.
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Jan 14, 2015 16:33
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bobservo posted:Yeah, agreed 100%. Andrew and Steve feel like real a comedy team (and the WHM dudes most skilled at improv/impressions) and play off of each other incredibly well. I think Chris only gets poo poo because it's really hard to replicate that kind of chemistry. Yeah, I know around here Eric is mainly the one singled out, but I actually think Steve is the funniest guy on that show.
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Jan 15, 2015 15:50
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I think in America people mainly just think of him as a monstrous historical figure because of the fact that he impaled his enemies and because he was the basis for the vampire. A lot of people don't know about German pamphlets from the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Jan 20, 2015 16:32
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It's a bit of both. She feels that if you credited all the monkeys it would be more revealing of the artifice of it all, which would then make it clear that there is no actual monkey that is capable of evil plotting and premeditated murder.
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Jan 26, 2015 14:59
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Jupin has more of a New York accent than Chris, too.
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Jan 27, 2015 03:08
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I think Tiptoes is endlessly fascinating.
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Feb 4, 2015 01:59
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Calaveron posted:Him then admitting that he sounded like Cosby made me drop the weights I was lifting and trying to control myself from bursting in laughter We get it, YOU LIFT WEIGHTS! We can't all be muscleheads like you!
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Feb 19, 2015 03:10
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HDTGM is continuing the streak of not having June on when the movie would be perfect for her.
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Mar 6, 2015 16:27
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Or she's shooting something and the schedule doesn't allow for her to go do the podcast.
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Mar 21, 2015 02:21
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Man, still no June on HDTGM.
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Apr 3, 2015 14:41
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Yeah, I guess you're right. She better be back for Furious 7.
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