After the baffling quasi-prequel Prometheus, Elderly director Ridley Scott is taking us for our sixth lap around the Alien franchise. Join us as we try to make sense of this awful mess. Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: The Alien franchise, and Finding Dory.
We're playing Save or Kill once again, and once again, with like-named actors. Faced with two actors who share a name, which would you save if it meant killing the other? The stakes are high! Who will survive? Featuring: Abi Porter, Mike Jensen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Matt Hughes, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Love the Coopers, and Valentine’s Day
Can the sequel to 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy recreate the magic of the original? Some of us think so. One guy doesn’t. Featuring: Mike Jensen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Matt Hughes, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2, Gremlins 2, Frozen, Man of Steel, Walking Dead, Slither, Henry, The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Every year, we make a wager on which movies will make the most money during the summer movie season. In this episode, we will argue about who will be the big winners at the box office. Play along and let us know which movies you think will be the top 10 of the summer. Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Prometheus and Very Bad Things
Join us as we venture into Darren Aronofky’s arthouse horror masterpiece Black Swan only to compare and contrast it with the same director’s sister-film, The Wrestler. It’s film art’s take on high art vs. low art according to the seasoned art critics of You Hate Movies. Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Black Swan, The Wrestler, and Tangled
It’s April 2017, what the heck is going on in the world of movie news? Who knows if we’ll be any help. Journey into chaos as we explore the most exciting and/or dumb movie news this month and offer our expert opinions along the way. Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Free Willy and Valentine's Day
Is Kong: Skull Island big dumb fun, or just fun? Or just big? Or just dumb? Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns Spoilers: Kong: Skull Island, Batman v Superman, Godzilla (2014), and The Mummy Trailer
In this episode, join us in the You Hate Movies Thunderdome, as we pit beloved movie characters, one-by-one, in a brutal, all-out battle to the death. Today’s Thunderdome: Stupid X-Men mutants. Could that multiple man guy beat anyone? Or that one guy with, like, quills coming out of him? Root for your favorite stupid mutants in the Thunderdome! Featuring: Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Peter Rollo, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Some spoilers for the X-Men movie franchise, and Philidelphi...
We’ve arrived at the tenth X-Men movie, and apparently it takes that many to make a truly fantastic one. Join us as we celebrate, discuss, and scrutinize James Mangold’s Wolverine finale, Logan. Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Peter Rollo, and Tyler Hanns Spoilers: Rocky Balboa, The 12 Dates of Christmas, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Wolverine, X-Men United, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Two dudes marooned in total isolation, struggling to survive, and find their way home and into our movie going hearts. Who did it better, Cast Away or The Martian? Featuring: Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Looper, The Twelve Dates of Christmas, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Revenant, Titanic.
Join a panel of hosts who believed Jeremy Saulnier’s tense punk rock thriller Green Room was the best movie of 2016, some hosts who liked it a little less, and someone seeing it for the first time. Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Green Room, Home Alone, 10 Cloverfield Lane, and District 9.
We can’t leave M. Night Shyamlan’s filmography alone! Join as we argue about the controversial directors possible return to form, Split. Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns Spoilers: Split, The Visit, Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense, Signs, Lady in the Water, The Village, and The Happening.
Who in the world cares about some host of You Hate Movies’ top 10 favorite movies of all time? Maybe you do! Who knows? Join as we celebrate and mock Josh’s all-time favorites. Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: As we work our way through the ten, some spoilers may accompany the movies as they are listed.
Good grief, we love Alfonso Cuarón’s dystopian masterpiece Children of Men. Listen to us fawn over it for an hour! Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns Spoilers: Children of Men
Many felt as though 2016 was a sad year at the movies. With so much negativity in the world of film this year, how can one possibly select 10 movies to celebrate. You Hate Movies is here to lift your movie going spirits! Here are our top 10 favorite movies of 2016. Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.
Join us as we explore the most exciting and/or dumb movie news from December, 2016. What is the Godzilla sequel called? Which role did David Bowie almost play in Lord of the Rings? Which movie was pirated most in 2016? The answers—as well as our expert opinions—await you, followed by our most anticipated movies of the fall. Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Star Wars Episode 7, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Godzilla, X...
As if our previous seven episodes on Star Wars weren’t enough, here’s another one! Casual Star Wars fans to full-on fanatics debrief and argue about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: All Star Wars films, Jurassic World, Speed, The Sandlot, Godzilla (2014), Monsters, Terminator: Salvation, Captain America: The Winter Solider, Suicide Squad, Spaceballs, Fantastic Four (2015)...
In this episode we’re hyped up on Home Alone excitement as we challenge a panel of hosts to Home Alone trivia, argue about which film is better—Home Alone or Home Alone 2: Lost in New York—and wrap things up with a special game of Home Alone Save or Kill. Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, Sarah Hanns, Tyler Hanns, with special appearances from Katie VanDomelen and Erik Peterson. Spoilers: Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Back to the Future, ...
We're playing Save or Kill once again, this time with Christmas movies. Faced with two Christmas classics, which would you save if it meant killing the other? The holiday stakes are high! Who will survive? Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Matt Hughes, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Fred Claus, Home Alone, White Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life, Silver Linings Playbook, Gremlins, Home Alone 2. When two choices are presented on the save or kill chopping block, it stan...
Having redefined the possibilities of blockbuster franchise genre filmmaking, Marvel Studios is an enterprise unlike any other major film studio. With more than a dozen beloved pictures under their belt, we set out to rank the entire cinematic universe from best to worst. Featuring: Abi Porter, Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Every Marvel Studios movie, Ang Lee’s Hulk, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Spider-Man 2, Watchmen...
Happy holidays to all casual movie goers, film lovers, and cinephiles! For the second year in a row, You Hate Movies is bringing a grand tradition from out of our homes and into your yuletide movie room: The 33 Days of Christmas Movies!
Thank God for Denis Villeneuve! He’s come to save us from the recent 2016 movie slump with his elegant and emotional sci-fi powerhouse Arrival. Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: The Addams Family, Interstellar, Hellboy 2, Jurassic Park 3, E.T., The Arrival, Contact, Independence Day, District 9, Cloverfield, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Journey, the Garth Brooks song “The Dance.”
Journey through the wilderness and fart across the sea as we watch and debrief Swiss Army Man. Featuring: Bethany Allen, Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Cast Away, Hook, The Bridge, The Far Side comics, The Revenant, Beetlejuice, Interstellar, Touched by an Angel, It’s a Wonderful Life
Marvel Studios is at it a 13th time with Doctor Strange. Some of us liked it, one guy didn't, and one of us doesn't remember it that well. Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: The Imitation Game, Star Trek: Intro Darkness, Guardians of the Galaxy, Suicide Squad, Casino Royale, Groundhog Day, Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Batman Begins, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Ghost Dad, Ant-Man, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate ...
In this Halloween special we revisit and celebrate Tim Burton’s bizarre 1988 death comedy Beetlejuice. Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns Spoilers: Edward Scissorhands, Ally McBeal (season one), The Accountant, Kung Fu Panda 3, and The Wizard of Oz.
We're playing Save or Kill once again, this time with actresses. Faced with two actresses, who would you save if it meant killing the other? Once an actress has been killed, their entire life's work is lost with them. The stakes are high! Who will survive? Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Matt Hughes, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Dogma, Adaptation, It’s Complicated, The Descent
Bad news, guys: We didn’t like Magnificent Seven. Join us as four people argue with the one guy claiming to like it. Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns Spoilers: Django Unchained, The Avengers, Avatar, Blazing Saddles, Return of the King, League of Extraordinary Gentleman
In today’s episode we argue about how to correctly interpret the meaning of Damien Chazelle’s 2014 Jazz Drama, Whiplash. Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Peter Nikiforov, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Whiplash.
In this episode, join us in the You Hate Movies Thunderdome, as we pit beloved movie characters, one-by-one, in a brutal, all-out battle to the death. Today’s Thunderdome: Tom Hanks. Could Woody defeat Forrest Gump? Root for your favorite Tom Hanks in the Thunderdome! Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter. Spoilers: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, The Revenant, Dallas Buyer’s Club, the Pixar short Lava, Bosom Buddies, Arthur Christmas, Toy Story, Forrest Gump...
Is TV really the new film, or just an inherently limited medium for those who hate movies? In this episode we pit the best of TV against the best of movies in order to determine who rules the narrative format. Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Stranger Things, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Seinfeld, Grey’s Anatomy, Breaking Bad, Parenthood, Friends, My Name is Earl, Dead Poet’s Society, Drop Dead Diva, Dexter, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Silence of the L...
