We Have Notes

We were truly caught off guard by the emotion in this episode! Thirst, surprise, anger... the stuff of life. Not that you'd remember after, if you were dealing with what Guy Pierce, the heroin-chic misanthrope of Meredith's college dreams, is in this ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE (but we still had notes).

How does Road Trip, a movie premised on needing to retrieve a sex tape made while cheating on your girlfriend from said girlfriend's mail room at college, surprise us by not being quite as horrible as we thought it was... also will Stanley really keep doing Cross Fit? All the big questions, as well as a big snake (ah!) and some questionable race stuff awaits you... as do our notes!

Part 2 of our rewatch of Gladiator includes actual research! Also Ridley Scott's hubris and more of Russell Crowe looking like a pre-problematic snack. Finally: betrayal and our verdict on Gladiator, 20 years later.

Back when we didn't have so many mixed feelings about Russell Crowe and men were men, we could just obsess over his guyliner. But little did we know the Germinaics were coming, and we'd actually have to do some research for this episode.

We dig into the crates and watch the movie that speaks to the heart of every dudebro alive, and you'll want to hear the hard lessons that Stanley has learned now that he's watching High Fidelity as an adult. Claps for Stanley and NOTES for this movie.

About the movie: High Fidelity is a 2000 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears. It stars John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Todd Louiso, and Lisa Bonet. The film is based on the 1995 British novel of the same name by Nick Hornby, with the setting moved from London to Chicago and the name of the lead character changed.

Three of the undoubtedly hottest ladies to ever kick ass, what men think feminism is, an absolutely genre-defining instance of black face, an innocent time when the worst we could imagine of tech bros is that they'd erode our privacy, and all the action sequences you can shake a stick at. Plus: a Sizzler cameo? We took the notes so you don't have to!

Ang Lee takes our lives into his hands on this watch, because we were DEAD at how well the CGI from this 20-year-old movie holds up, and have lots of thoughts about the "Romance" that develops in between the badass fight scenes.

Welcome to We Have Notes. For our first movie, we watched Billy Elliot. Neither one of us had ever seen it before but both had extremely wrong impressions about what this movie was. 1980s miners, union politics, and... plies? Imagine the notes!

This is your first chance to hear the greatness that is We Have Notes, and we're kicking things off by talking about the Oscars