You're Wrong

Holiday season! A time of happiness, wholesomeness and fun... right?

Well, not according to the Top 10 lists the nerds — together with Matt's better half, Laura — thrashed in this episode. Some were just plain bad, others were weird or nonsensical, but then towards the end things get... worrisome. Very worrisome. To the point where, likely for the first time ever, one of the massive tangents they usually go on felt entirely justified. 😟

Uh... happy holidays, I guess?

It's the last episode of T.A.X.E.S., and there'd no better way to cap the series than with Demolition Man, one of the most entertaining and insane action flicks ever to come out of the 90's!

And you know how it goes... if the movie is as bonkers as this one is, how much more so do you think the conversation these four had about it was?

The answer is "a lot". A whole lot.

For the third installment in the T.A.X.E.S. series, the nerds decided to pick a less-known Wesley Snipes movie to discuss, and the one they went with was The Contractor!

Now, at this point, you might be asking yourself "isn't The Contractor a Chris Pine movie released earlier this year?". And you'd be right, it is. But that's not the movie I'm talking about. Nope, I'm talking about 2007's The Contractor, starring Lena Headey and Charles Dance (and Wesley Snipes, obviously). That's right, Cersei and Tywin Lannister are up in this bitch!

But don't get your hopes up, because not even they couldn't save this dreck. There's a reason — a very good reason — why you never heard of this atrocity of a movie before. Also, you probably noticed this episode is just shy of 2h long... when have you ever seen these crusty old farts talk for that long about a good movie?

The T.A.X.E.S. series continues! This week, Chris, Luciano and Matt watched and discussed Rising Sun, a movie that juuuuust barely manages to stay on this side of being outright racist — and against two very different groups, to boot. The fact that it actually manages to stick to "only" heavily stereotyping those groups is quite impressive for an American-made movie about Japanese business culture shot in the early 90's. 😐

Also, seeing as the movie stars Sean Connery, this episode obviously features several instances of shitty impressions of him. Gird your loins accordingly.

This week, we're kicking off yet another special You're Wrong series: T.A.X.E.S.! This one will see the nerds pay homage to an oft-forgotten star of action movies of the 90's, one Mr. Wesley Snipes (which makes the meaning of the acronym painfully obvious, of course).

In this first episode, the movie they picked was Blade, truly a film that is a product of its time in many more ways than one. This is a movie that near and dear to their blackened, shrivelled hearts and they all had the nostalgia goggles fully on both while watching and during their conversation, but they still had a complaint or five to file... which is about as surprising as saying the sky is blue.

As Halloween Month draws to a close and we release an episode on Halloween Day proper, there really was no other way to cap it than to talk about Halloween, the 1978 John Carpenter movie that basically launched the entire "slasher" sub-genre of horror movies!

The nerds were joined by first-time guest Matt (yes, they were very confused about it, too) — the only person in the group who 1) had already watched the movie several times and 2) actually likes the horror genre — to share their (very different) perspectives and opinions about this cult classic and, uh... let's just say not everybody was on board with calling it a "classic". Hell, not everybody was on board even with watching the entire movie rather than just the "Coles Notes" version of it. 😒  

There was one thing everyone was on board with, however: ensuring the conversation was a solid 100 minutes of sheer insanity.

In what might well have been the best decision ever made by Warner Bros. in the history of space and time, they decided to put James Gunn (and Peter Safran, but be honest: did you even know the name before reading about it in the announcement? We certainly didn't) in charge of everything DC!

The nerds were ecstatic about the news and decided it was bombastic enough that they needed to talk about it ASAP. Well... Luciano and Matt were, anyway. Chris and Spencer were so distraught that their homeboy Zack Snyder was left entirely out of the deal (and the conversation, really) that they couldn't even make it to this recording. 😏

They're also debating forwarding their ideas on how to fix the clusterfuck the DCEU currently finds itself in directly to the new heads of DC Studios. What's the worst that could happen (besides a restraining order), right?

Halloween Month, week 4! For this one, the nerds decided to tackle some of the dumbest Halloween-related Top 10 lists they could find on the Internet and, to no one's surprise, the Internet delivered some weapons-grade, industrial-strength dumb. Those lists couldn't even get candy right, for fuck's sake.

Also as expected, they had a lot of fun dunking on the lists... even if they weren't entirely sure what they were talking about. In more ways than one.

For the third episode of Halloween Month, Chris, Luciano, Matt and Spencer decided they wanted to be topical and watch a recently released horror movie. None of them are avid fans of the horror genre, but given the month's theme and the possibility of talking about something more current, they thought it was worth giving it a try.

Alas, the movie they picked was Nope. 😑

In their defence, it is advertised as a horror movie, its trailers are certainly cut to make it seem like one and the previous two horror movies helmed by Jordan Peele actually are scary, so their pick made sense. The nerds were left unconvinced by this one, however.

Not, mind you, that you'd be able to infer any of that very clearly from their conversation... this time, they weren't even able to keep their chat focused only on this movie! I think this is what it's like to watch people go insane in slow motion.

Halloween Month continues! This week, the nerds focused their creative powers into coming up with... peculiar... horror scenarios and stories, things you've never heard of or seen before. Or, rather, a bunch of things you probably have heard of and/or seen before, but mashed up together in very weird ways. Ways that don't always make 100% (or even like 75%) sense.

Also, all of their brainpower was focused on coming up with these scenarios. Which means they had none to spare to ensure they stayed on topic. 

Not that that's new or surprising or anything. 🙄