Hate Watch / Great Watch

The Hate Watch/Great Watch Podcast is pleased to welcome the newly-hitched Krystal and Sean Brady back to the show! We discuss topics including Timothée Chalamet, pitch meetings for Thanksgiving parade balloons, and the accordion section of an articulated bus, all in service of a RomCom that has touches of David Fincher stylization and Charlie Kaufman high concept! 

Plus: Big old honkin’ box! 

Prepare for the origin story of IRSman, it’s Stranger Than Fiction (2006)! 

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Nicole Wiegand returns to the HWGW podcast to start heat with other guests, but also to join us in discussing a long-distance romcom that you might have a mistaken impression of. Other topics in our conversation include awkward movie-watching experiences, the Labubus of sexual deviancy, sad whales, a Greyhound with a podcast, and nature’s toilets! 

Plus: Take part in our Lake House Challenge! 

Don’t take two years to listen to this episode, it’s The Lake House (2006)!

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February is a month associated with love, poetry, and romance, so we thought: everybody could probably use a good cry. Along the way we discuss Roxanne (1987), the Dark Angel TV series (2000-2002), Glen Hansard in Once (2006), dinosaurs riding motorbikes, and that pickup artist guy Mr. Mystery (or whatever). 

Plus: Allison read the play to prepare! 

Remember to microdose your misery, it’s Cyrano (2021) 

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Aliya returns to the HWGW Podcast to advocate for men having silly hobbies, praise crazy ‘90s hacker fashion, swoon over Matthew Lillard (we are a pro-Matt Lillard Podcast), and do an impression of Elmo! 

Plus: Eugene / The Plague looks like Katt Williams. 

This is the greatest story Shakespeare didn’t write, it’s Hackers (1995) 

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Welcome to the Year of the Yak, where cohost Allison YAKulis chooses all the films covered on the HWGW Podcast this year! We’re starting off with a nostalgic fave of hers, but don’t think that means we’ll go easy on it. We talk about cultural context, attempt to define “Hangout Movies”, and badmouth Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat! 

Plus: Learn about the Columbo Comeback! 

Get ready for weaponized swearing, it’s South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut (1999) 

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175. Zardoz (1974) 

Hello Excellent Brutals! 

After a trip to the nearest Sonic for lunch, we are joined on the show by Bryan Bierman to talk about a film he describes as “The Finnegan’s Wake of science fiction”. Topics discussed include: Green bread, Ego death, middle school musical productions, and whatever the hell “Tippogrance” is!

Plus: an update on the baby Hechicero! 

Join us in second level meditation, it’s Zardoz (1974)! 

Previous Episodes Mentioned:
Ep. 8 - Dune (1984)
Ep. 30 - Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Ep. 94 - Sweet November (2001)
Ep. 55 - The Cell (2000)
Ep. 5 - The Apple (1980)
Ep. 164 - O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Ep. 123 - The Greasy Strangler (2016)
Ep. 71 - Dreamcatcher (2003)
Ep. 173 - X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) 

Links:
 • Grave ‘n’ Breakfast (short, 2020) on imdb 
 • Zardoz Speaks to You! by Roger Mitchell on Barnes & Noble 
 •Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 (1990) trailer on youtube 
 • Alien on Stage (documentary, 2020) on Letterboxd 
 • Danny Dejewski on facebook 

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Hello Excellent Do-Gooders!

On our penultimate episode of HWGW for the year, join Allison & Hunter for a trip to China in the year 660! First things first: This film is a mystery, so if you want to experience it with no foreknowledge, please watch the movie first! Topics discussed on this episode: our Wuxia names, how this isn’t too different from a superhero movie, bludgeoning weapons, how Shaofeng Feng might be the Chinese James Spader, and how to get yourself a monkey arm! 

Plus: Mutual Respect! 

A movie worth drinking the golden soup for, it’s Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (2013)! 

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Hello Excellent Dids! 

The Hate Watch/Great Watch Podcast welcomes Aydan Eyes back to the show to talk about: psychedelics, the worst Pa Kent in cinema, Stephen King, horrible diseases, and pressing toads against your eyes! CW: Some discussion of drugs at the episode’s end. 

Plus: A brief appearance from Boof Acid, The Beatles’ lawyer! 

X gon’ give it to ya, it’s X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) 

Previous Episodes Mentioned: 
Ep. 141 - Carnival Magic (1983)
Ep. 90 - Austin Powers in: Goldmember (2002)

Links: 
 • Aydan Eyes on spotify 
 • DMX: X Gon’ Give It To Ya on youtube 
 • A Succulent Chinese Meal on youtube 
 • Hunter’s Crack in the World review on MovieJawn

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Hello Excellent Pardners! 

First of all: Go Birds. We’re joined on the podcast, after far too long, by Tabitha to take an all-inclusive vacation to Westworld! We came up with a new travel slogan for Mexico, talked some more about Stephen King’s The Long Walk, and asked: How do these guns work? How does anything work? You only had how much air left? 

Plus: Yul Brynner as the Predator! 

It’s all fun and games until the robots revolt, we’re talking about Westworld (1973)! 

Previous Episodes Mentioned: 

Ep. 159 - JAWS (1975)

Ep. 04 - Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

Ep. 116 - The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

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Hello Pegasassy Humans! 

On this, the final film of this year’s VAMP-tober lineup, Allison & Hunter spend all night …or multiple nights (?) trapped in an artist’s loft with a drugged-up vampire played by a Backstreet Boy! Content Warning: plot-relevant discussion of drugs and drug use We discuss inside jokes, cinema’s worst toilets, and the importance of making art whether it’s bad or good. 

Plus: How did you know my mummy’s name was Martha?! 

Not even this could make us stop loving Tubi, it’s Vampire Burt’s Serenade (2020)!

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