The podcast where we love to hate movies! Comedian Jay Light sits down with a guest to talk smack about a movie they wish they hadn't watched.
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Stuart ( @stuartbthompson ) disagree about whether or not Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas deserves to be canonized as one of the best mob movies in cinematic history, but agree that die-hard Goodfellas fans are pretty bad people.
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Leah ( @leahkayjay ) discuss Darren Aronofsky's excessively bleak drug addiction drama Requiem For A Dream and explore the perils of trying to like "cool" art when all you really want is a movie that makes you feel good and not like you've been run through the emotional wringer.
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Jerron talk about Denzel Washington's feel-good football flick Remember The Titans and try their best to convince Disney to never tackle race relations in their movies ever again.
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Kasey ( @KaseyKoop ) discuss the award-winning satire Ingrid Goes West and its cast of wholly unlikeable characters while taking a deep dive into why the film's portrayal of depression, obsession, and social media addiction can be viewed as both spot-on and way off the mark.
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Brett ( @iBrettmypants ) talk about Margot Robbie's passion project I, Tonya , the concept of "uglying up" to get critical acclaim, and why sometimes documentaries tell true stories better than an adaptation can.
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Zach ( @ZachNoeTowers ) discuss the absolutely awful Stephen King adaptation Dreamcatcher , where fart and poop jokes get mixed in with an all-over-the-place plot about fungal aliens that make you fart, suicidal psychic bros, and the angriest Morgan Freeman performance you'll ever see.
This week, Jay ( @DietJay ) and Kyle ( @kyleclarkisrad ) talk about the big, beautiful mistakes made by Beatles jukebox musical Across The Universe , including playing it too safe with the plot, having too many characters, and putting the only interesting part of the movie in the trailer.
This week, Jay ( @DietJay ) and Jessica ( @JMScomedy ) discuss whether or not Napoleon Dynamite still holds up and explore how this little indie that could managed to turn awkwardness into a bona fide industry.
This week, Jay ( @DietJay ) and Omid ( @Omid_Singh ) argue about whether or not Blazing Saddles is racial satire or straight-up racist and try to figure out whether or not Mel Brooks would give a good blowjob.
This week, Jay ( @DietJay ) and Saurabh ( @skikani ) talk about how Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom takes a perfectly good franchise and mucks it up with racism, an awful love interest, and a bevy of other things that Steven Spielberg came up with while in the dark depths of divorce.
This week, Jay ( @DietJay ) and Evan ( @ItsEvanWilliams ) team up to talk shit about the truly awful Halloween: Resurrection , the worst film in Busta Rhymes' filmography and a movie so bad Jamie Lee Curtis asked to be killed off so she wouldn't be part of the franchise anymore. Along the way, they figure out what makes a good slasher flick and talk about the impact of the original Halloween on horror filmmaking....
On a very special episode of Blockbusting, Jay ( @DietJay ) and Mark ( @MarkTheShark927 ) talk about the Boston Marathon bombing movie Patriots Day , a movie that made proud Bostonian Mark so upset that he puked in-studio while we recorded. Plus: is it time to retire Mark Wahlberg as the apparent face of Boston in Hollywood?...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Eric ( @EricOligny ) talk about Midnight Cowboy being both ahead of its time and irrelevant in an era of normalized "edginess", and also try to figure out if Jon Voight is playing the same character here as he is in the Shia LeBeouf classic Holes .
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Mark ( @markellislive ) talk about WALL-E feeling more like Blade Runner than a cute animated movie and try to figure out why Disney loves traumatizing children, whether it's by killing off characters they love or just showing way too many lion testicles.
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Steph ( @StephTolev ) discuss why Christmas movies should only be watched around the holidays, plead with Hollywood to stop stunt-casting athletes, and try to make sense of how Book Club made it to the top three in the box office this week before we explore the beginning of Adam Sandler's "phoning-it-in" phase, the disastrous rom-com 50 First Dates . Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - Deadpool 2 Launches with Over $300 Million Worldwide Wik...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Brodie ( @ayobrobro ) discuss mom-friendly movies for Mother's Day, a Hungry Hungry Hippos movie starring only The Rock, and how impossible it is to avoid Avengers: Infinity War spoilers before explaining why Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One is the phoned-in culmination of everything that's wrong with making nerdy shit palatable to mainstream audiences. Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - Infinity War Tops $1 Billion Internationally, Beco...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Tom ( @startthemachine ) discuss the seemingly-impossible storytelling feat that Avengers: Infinity War pulled off, talk about the creepy undertones of Overboard , and play a round of "What Movies Was Jay Not Allowed To See As A Kid" before diving into the logical leaps and cardboard-cutout storytelling that makes The Shape of Water one of the worst picks for Best Picture in film history. Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - Avengers: Infinit...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Moses ( @racebanning ) praise the unstoppable Disney/Marvel juggernaut, discuss why it was great that we weren't children of the 80s, and unpack why ego makes for great art (with a little help from Judd Apatow's new Garry Shandling documentary) before laying into Michael Bay's Transformers , a silly movie that takes itself way too seriously as evidenced by the solid hour of military propaganda scattered throughout the damn thing. Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S ...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Justin ( @justincomic ) chat about what makes A Quiet Place rise out of the horror movie doldrums, try to guess who's gonna die in Avengers: Infinity War , and talk about why it might be a good idea to stop watching trailers before arguing about if Star Wars: The Last Jedi needed emotional stakes and whether or not Disney was the right company to take over the franchise. Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - A Quiet Place Back at #1, While Sup...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Aaron ( @fuckingpatrick ) try to figure out who the target audience is for Rampage, wonder what happened to quotable Will Ferrell movies, and discuss how hard it is to combine comedy and religion on screen before talking smack on Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and discovering that maybe we're just two sad sacks who hate fun. Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - Rampage Tops Weekend Box Office, but A Quiet Place is Making the Most Noise Wikipe...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Kym ( @KymKral ) discuss the runaway success of A Quiet Place , ponder why people never use guns right in horror movies, and explain the joys of seeing movies by yourself before diving deep into why Titanic ruins a perfectly good disaster movie with a completely unbelievable love story. Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - A Quiet Place Delivers Not So Quiet $50 Million Opening Wikipedia - Titanic (1997 film)...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and David ( @hoohoo3000 ) unpack whether or not we're at Peak Nostalgia™, play "Tyler Perry's Madea Movie or Scorned Black Woman Movie", and discuss whether or not the people who make kids' movies have kids (or even interact with other humans) before describing Colin Trevorrow took a beloved franchise and sucked out all the soul with his silly lil' dinosaur movie Jurassic World . Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - Ready Player One Tops Easter W...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Keith ( @keithtellsjokes ) discuss whether or not Black Panther will reclaim the top spot at the box office after its historic run, how to get gay characters to be accepted by the non-arthouse crowd, and what Mel Gibson has to do to fall out of Hollywood again before eviscerating Zack Snyder's titties-and-explosions extravaganza Sucker Punch. Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - Pacific Rim 2 Tops Weekend as Black Panther Becomes Fifth Larges...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Leah ( @LeahKnauer ) talk about Tomb Raider titties, Christian rock bands, and how Moviepass makes you feel better about seeing bad movies before delving into the many mistakes made in Jennifer Lawrence's spy movie misfire Red Sparrow. Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - Black Panther Tops $600M Domestically While I Can Only Imagine Surprises with $17M Debut Wikipedia - Red Sparrow...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and John ( @JohnTole ) try to figure out what a "cinematic ouevre" is and whether or not Rick Moranis had one, what movies we were allowed to watch at church, and letting Bruce Willis be Bruce Willis before John turns the Blockbusting tables and defends M. Night Shyamalan's derided 2008 movie about plants killin' people, The Happening . Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - Black Panther Remains Box Office King, Topping $1 Billion Worldwide Wikipe...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Nat ( @NatBaimel ) talk about how many dead people it takes for a studio to not release a movie after a mass shooting, turn more movies into horror films, and predict the Oscars as they're happening before picking apart the disastrous Jumper , a "sci-fi action thriller" that is none of those things. Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - Black Panther Tops $500 Million, Becoming Tenth Largest Domestic Release All-Time Wikipedia - 90th Academy A...
Jay ( @DietJay ), Michael ( @PizzaSkarsten ), and Sam ( @SamBrown42069 ) discuss watching people do drugs on camera, the buck-wild plot of Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 , and what would go down in an American remake of Love Actually before we pick apart Zach Braff's Garden State, the truly awful quirk-fest that spawned a thousand terrible mixtapes. Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - Black Panther Continues Dominance in Second Weekend, Topping $700 Million Worl...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and John ( @JohnPoveromo ) discuss Black Panther 's box office dominance, the Passion of the Christ sequel we all didn't know we wanted, and whether or not there should be more movie-themed sex toys before exploring all the cinematic crimes committed by Zack Snyder's most disappointing disaster, Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice . Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - Black Panther Delivers Fifth Largest Opening of All Time, Heading Toward $218M+...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Alex ( @dapperduong ) discuss winning an Oscar versus get knighted by the Queen, the twisted genius of Netflix's marketing, and overly sensitive Australians before they vivisect the monstrously bad Chinese-American co-produced monster movie The Great Wall . Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - Fifty Shades Freed Leads Weekend as Franchise Tops $1 Billion Worldwide CinemaBlend - The Story Behind Netflix Releasing Cloverfield Paradox After The ...
Jay ( @DietJay ) and Julie ( @julieseabaugh ) discuss if The Rock can be our next Daniel Day-Lewis, an app that can add Nicolas Cage to any movie, and cover Quentin Tarantino's reckless treatment of Uma Thurman on This Week In Hollywood Predators before she explains why Amy Schumer's Trainwreck is unbearably bad, thanks in part to its shitty portrayal of the life of a journalist. Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - Jumanji Tops Super Bowl Weekend and $855 Millio...
