Movie Date Night

Greg takes Lauren back to the films of Arnold Swartzenegger with one of his more silent roles The Terminator. As we pick apart this franchise starter, we discuss how to resolve the Grandfather Paradox, the Terminator’s unnecessary and mysterious apartment, easier methods to kill Sarah Connor and together we share our problems with desert gas station pinatas. Music by bensound.com

Lauren’s pick for this year’s Outdoor Movie Month takes us out to Street Food Cinema’s showing of Pretty Woman. We review our experiences with this outdoor screening at the Will Rogers State Park, Greg shares his disagreement with the film’s title, Lauren will delve into the dark story potential of Kit and together we debate whether this film is problematic or feminist. Music by bensound.com

This year for our Outdoor Movie Month Greg took Lauren to Eat See Hear’s presentation of Groundhog Day. We share our experience watching this classic film in Centennial Square at Pasadena City Hall as well as discuss Bill Murray’s journey through the stages of grief, possible connections this film has to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Greg shares his harrowing tale of self-inflicted torture for watching this film. Music by bensound.com

In this double feature, Lauren and Greg compare the original to the remake of Sabrina. Together we discuss how to make an awkward age gap a little more manageable, alternate casting choices, the redemption of Linus as a character, and Greg gives us his version of how either the remake ‘should have ended’. Music by bensound.com

This month, Greg takes Lauren back to the world of animation via The Road to El Dorado. For this Dreamworks children’s movie, we discuss the copious amount R-rated content, residual homosexual undertones, the many deaths of Arturo the horse, and are left with many, many questions about armadillos. Music by bensound.com

It’s Round 3 of Video Game Movie Month and Lauren goes for a knock out with Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. As we try to figure out this critical failure of a film, we laugh at the incredibly poor visual effects, Raiden: the God of 90’s Boybands, a score of single scene character cameos, and we compare our opinions of the video game movie genre with our online followers. Music by bensound.com

Level 2 of Video Game Movie Month and Greg has selected to play Doom. For this Sci-Fi, Horror film we discuss unnecessary interplanetary travel, the pitfalls of forcing video game references into a film, awkward first-person sequences, and ask the question; Why was Rosamund Pike set up as Karl Urban’s twin sister?  Music by bensound.com

In our first installment for Video Game month, Lauren shows Greg 2010’s Prince of Persia. Together we talk about the casting controversy which surrounded this film upon its release, we discuss the multitude of confusing exposition dumps, behind the scenes female body shaming and share why we both believe this to be a much better unofficial Assassin’s Creed movie. Music by bensound.com

Greg’s pick for Time Travel Month Part II (AKA Neal McDonough Month) takes Lauren to the far and not so far future with Star Trek: First Contact. As Lauren is introduced for the first time to the characters from The Next Generation we discover the heavy reliance this film has upon prior knowledge of the television series. We also try to dissect the logic of the Borg, dive into Data’s sexcapade, and share our love for the unsung star of this film, Alfre Woodard. Music by bensound.com