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You Hate Movies

The podcast where casual movie goers, film lovers, and cinephiles argue about movies. Our full catalog of episodes is available to stream and download at youhatemovies.com.

Is Christopher Nolan’s newest record-breaking blockbuster truly sublime cinema or a case of film bro hype?

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns

Each of our esteemed cinephile hosts is up to the challenge of ranking the five greatest animated movies of all time!

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

It's the biggest night in movies! Listen in as our star-studded cast presents this year's best-of-the-best in filmmaking accomplishments. Nominated by our esteemed hosts and voted on by a jury of You Hate Movies Patrons, these are the You Hate Movies "Haties" Awards!

Finally! The definitive best movies of 2025 lists are in. Buckle up for our panel of expert cinephiles arguing their way through a few big agreements and many petty squabbles as we settle this year’s cinematic top tens.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Taylor Long, and Tyler Hanns

Welcome to the first-ever “By Committee” episode, where we present a You Hate Movies best-of list not via individual hosts, but via the outrage, rancor, and vengeance of a list made by committee. In this episode, best Christmas movies.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Bailey, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Peter Hornberger, Taylor Warren, Sarah Hanns, and Tyler Hanns.

It's the biggest night in movies! Listen in as our star-studded cast presents this year's best-of-the-best in filmmaking accomplishment. Nominated by our esteemed hosts and voted on by a juror of You Hate Movies Patrons, these are the You Hate Movies "Haties" Awards!

Finally! The definitive best movies of 2024 lists are in. Buckle up for our panel of expert cinephiles arguing their way through a few big agreements and many petty squabbles as we settle this year’s cinematic top tens.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Taylor Warren, and Tyler Hanns

Listen as we put our resident expert cinephiles and guest patrons to the test in a harrowing contest of Christmas movie trivia!

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Bailey, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Peter Hornberger, Sarah Hanns, Taylor Burdiss, and Tyler Hanns

The whole world seems to hate Joker: Folie à Deux, but the definitive take, as always, comes from You Hate Movies.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

More than four decades and nine feature films—we are ranking the entire Alien franchise from worst to best.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Lexi Listek, and Patrick Porter

It's been forty-four years since the original Alien film, and we're still watching these things even though they haven't been good since the '80s. Does Alien: Romulus bring back the magic of the original film, or is it another dud?

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Lexi Listek, and Patrick Porter

14 years after the first big-screen Wolverine and Deadpool crossover, we’re here again. Is the record-breaking blockbuster everything audiences hoped it would be? Or has this long-anticipated redemption been foiled by the declining MCU?

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Peter Hornberger

Join us as Josh recaps the Planet of the Apes reboot trilogy, and then reviews the neverending franchise's latest installment.

Featuring: Josh Porter

Join us as we explore the most exciting and/or dumb movie news from May 2024. Do critics love Furiosa? Is Hugh Jackman a coward? What the heck is a review embargo? Our expert opinions, analysis, and arguments await you.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Gavin Bennett, Josh Porter, and Patrick Porter

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, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Our panel of expert cinephiles (and readers) have all read and seen Dune 2 and are fully prepared to offer praise, to nitpick, and to argue about whether or not Timothy Chalamet ruined the movie.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Gavin Bennett, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, and Patrick Porter

Glamorous! Who are you wearing? It's award season at You Hate Movies, and we have thoughts about the Oscars.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Your resident expert cinephiles have finally compiled the definitive list of the top 10 movies of 2023.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Join our expert cinephile panel as we rank the top five greatest cinematic depictions of Santa in movie and Christmas history!

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Peter Hornberger, and Tyler Hanns

Cowabunga! Three longtime Ninja Turtle fans and one complete newcomer to the IP have gone through Mutant Mayhem and back and returned to argue about it.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Matt Hughes

Well, all of us saw Oppenheimer, but only one of us saw Barbie. But that won't stop us from arguing about both!

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spanning four decades, nine movies, and two franchises, Rocky Balboa and Adonis Creed come head to head as we rank every Rocky and Creed movie from worst to best.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Levi Warren, Matt Hughes, and Patrick Porter

What better way to end the year than with our top ten favorite movies of 2022?

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, and Tyler Hanns

Happy Halloween! It's time to complete David Gordon Green's Halloween quasi-reboot trilogy.

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, and Tyler Hanns

There’s still time to immerse yourself in Halloween through the power of movies. We’ll tell you how! Our panel of cinephiles has assembled their own respective Halloween movie recommendation lists.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Levi Warren, Patrick Porter

Earlier this year Hulu managed to shock the world with the unimaginable: A very good sequel to a franchise genre film with Prey. Can they do it again with Hellraiser, one of the most unique and beloved horror films of all time? No.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Levi Warren, Patrick Porter

As we celebrate the greatness of Prey, it's time to rank all seven movies in the Predator franchise from worst to best.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Levi Warren, and Patrick Porter

The unthinkable has happened! In an era of threadbare sequels hopelessly abandoned to streaming services, one magnificent entry rises up from the ashes of the Predator franchise.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Levi Warren, and Patrick Porter

The god of thunder is back! But is there any thunder left in a decidedly un-cinematic Marvel Universe bogged down by underwhelming non-events and Disney TV shows?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

In the final installment of our three-episode journey into the Jurassic Park franchise, we're learning what the Jurassic World trilogy means to its evolving target audience.

In this second installment of our three-episode journey into the Jurassic Park franchise, we're debriefing the sixth and ostensibly final entry in the Jurassic saga.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, and Patrick Porter

In this first installment of our three-episode journey into the jurassic park franchise, Josh is taking a deep dive into Jurassic Park and its sequels, what does and doesn’t work, and how Jurassic World: Dominion fares as the saga’s conclusion.

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, Josiah DePaoli, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Listen in awe as not even our most dedicated Marvel apologists can find anything nice to say the Disney corporation's latest blockbuster.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

We watch a lot of movies. In this bonus episode—previously exclusive to Patreon—we’ll take a (relatively) spoiler-free tour of what we’ve been watching and to whom we would recommend or warn against it.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

The Batman is back... again. We have lots of thoughts about it. Maybe we liked it. I don't know. We don't sound like it sometimes. So brace yourselves—one way or another—for our opinions!

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Your resident expert cinephiles have finally compiled the definitive list of the top 10 movies of 2021.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Does the final installment in the MCU's Spider-Man trilogy really earn all its fanfare, or does it amount to little more than dorky fan fiction?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns

Finally, we settle the great Christmas movie debate once and for all by presenting our top 10 favorite Christmas movies of all time!

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, Peter Nikiforov, and Tyler Hanns

Listen as we put our resident expert cinephiles to the test in a harrowing contest of Christmas movie trivia!

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, Peter Nikiforov, and Tyler Hanns

Halloween isn't over yet! Listen as we continue the spooktacular celebrate we began last year by surviving Halloween Kills!

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matthew Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

More than a half-century after what is arguably the most influential work of science fiction was published, it finally gets a faithful big-screen adaptation. Or… half of one anyway. Our expert cinephiles (made up of both longtime Dune readers and Dune newcomers alike) weigh in on Denis Villeneuve’s visionary epic.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns

Join us as we explore the most exciting and/or dumb movie news from August 2021. How old is Ridley Scott? Can we remember which Expendables movie was which? Should Bethany watch The Texas Chain Saw Massacre? The answers—as well as our expert opinions—await you.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Michael Dumont, Patrick Porter, and Vanessa Porter

Marvel Studios returns to the big screen with Black Widow. But can Natasha's spy thriller rekindle Marvel's old magic, or has the MCU overstayed its welcome?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Michael Dumont

After the long plague delay, John Krasinski returns to the world of his kiddie-pool horror hit with A Quiet Place Part II. After all our dotting and fawning over the original, can the follow-up possibly curry our favor?

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Michael Jensen, and Patrick Porter

For the first time since 1962, the world’s most famous kaiju duke it out on the big screen. Does Godzilla vs Kong bring Legendary’s Monsterverse to an epic conclusion worthy of the titular titans?

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

After years of mewling fan outcry, Zack Snyder has delivered. Has he over-delivered? Can Snyder redeem the merciless crappiness that was Justice League, or is an entirely new movie necessary to accomplish so heroic a feat?

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

With hardly any movies being released and even fewer being watched, we managed to scrape together our top 10 lists for the world's most beloved year to date.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

It took nearly three decades, but beloved 80s boneheads Bill and Ted have finally returned in 2020. Concluding our road to Face the Music, here are our thoughts on the conclusion to the Bill and Ted saga. Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

It took nearly three decades, but beloved 80s boneheads Bill and Ted have finally returned in 2020. Before we can face the music we have to survive a most bogus journey. Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

It took nearly three decades, but beloved 80s boneheads Bill and Ted have finally returned in 2020. Before we can face the music we have to embark on a most excellent adventure.

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

This Christmas we can’t help but gush and deliberate over one of our favorite holiday flicks. Come discover the tragically underrated and overlooked The Family Stone.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Fourteen years ago, Borat left an undeniable mark on popular culture in a faux-documentary that will have audiences cackling and cringing as long as people watch movies. That’s a lot of legacy for a sequel to live up to all these years later.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

In a year of movie drought, Netflix wants to remind us they can still release stuff. Can their adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock’s southern gothic masterpiece convince our panel of devoted fans and newcomers?

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

There’s still time to immerse yourself in Halloween through the power of movies. We’ll tell you how! Our panel of cinephiles has assembled their own respective Halloween movie recommendation lists. Some of them make sense, others less so.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

There’s a spoiler in there for The Village.

The big Summer blockbuster sort of came back (and then died again)! We managed to find a city with an open theater to experience Christopher Nolan’s big budget brain bender. Did we get it?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Peter Nikiforov, Patrick Porter

Spoilers: Tenet and Inception

Well, he's been avoiding it forever, but we finally got him. Sort of. It's the summer of top 10 lists! 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 Tyler's all-time favorites.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

It's the summer of top 10 lists! 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 Patrick's all-time favorites.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

It’s the Summer of top ten lists! From romcoms to black cinema to 90s overload, here are Ivory Mobley’s top 10 favorite movies of all time!

Remember when we published more than one host top ten movies of all time list in recent memory? Here we go again. 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 Matt's all-time favorites.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Remember when we published a host top ten movies of all time list back in... last week? Here we go again. 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 Mike's all-time favorites.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Remember when we published a host top ten movies of all time list back in 2017?? Here we go again. (And again in our next episode.) 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 Liam’s all-time favorites.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Join us as we explore the most exciting and/or dumb movie news from April 2020. How did Steven Spielberg save Babu Frick? When will we get to go to the movies again? Who did Darron Aronofsky pick to play Batman? The answers—as well as our expert opinions—await you.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

You Hate Movie’s joins the quarantined world on a Zoom call as we discuss which movies are getting us through our isolation. From comfort flicks, to comedies, to body horror. Here’s how we’re staving off cabin fever with cinematic medicine.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Is Sam Mendes' one-shot war epic 1917 a gimmicky hype-fest or is it already one of 2020’s best movies?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Avengers: Endgame

Is the academy award-winning Parasite worthy of all its wild acclaim? If you doubt it’s greatness, did you even get it?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Never one to overlook an opportunity to argue about movies, a panel of expert You Hate Movies hosts is here to present their top ten favorite films of the decade. Our choices will thrill and disgust you, or make you ask, wait, what movie? Here are our top ten movies of the decade.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

As faithful purveyors of our own opinions, You Hate Movies returns with our annual Top 10 lists. From indie joints to summer blockbusters, critically acclaimed and critically reviled, things we loved and things we may have loved or hated (we’re not sure). Here are our top 10 movies of 2019.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

It just seems like there aren’t enough opinions about Star Wars out there these days, so You Hate Movies has arrived to rank each feature film from worst to best, settling the debate once and for all.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Michael Dumont, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: X-Men Apocalypse, and the Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons.

The world’s most beloved sci-fi franchise is owned and operated by an evil corporation, and its troubled sequel trilogy finally comes to a decisive finale in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. But does anyone have balanced film criticism to offer a Star Wars movie anymore, or is it all a shouting match between nerds and their detractors? The definitive review lies ahead!

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Terminator Genisys, The Last Jedi, and The Force Awakens

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: Christmas movie characters.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Audition, The Counselor, Hereditary, Fight Club

Join us as we explore the most exciting and/or dumb movie news from December, 2019. Which soulless cooperation is responsible for the quasi E.T. sequel? Will James Cameron survive to see Avatar 5? How big must an iPad be for Martin Scorsese viewing? The answers—as well as our expert opinions—await you.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

We went to see a movie we knew almost nothing about, maybe the weirdest movie of the year, and we’re having a hard time finding anything wrong with it.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

After a celebrated return to the pop culture spotlight, Pennywise the dancing clown is back to conclude his latest cinematic adaptation, or maybe deflate it like a balloon.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: It (the novel, movie, and TV miniseries), Wreck It Ralph, and Watchmen

Against all conceivable odds, Warner Brothers and DC have somehow done the unthinkable and delivered a true cinematic experience: Joker.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Joy

Every year we bet big on which movies will make the most money during the summer movie season. In this episode we talk about more bad guesses, the worst kids’ movie of the summer, and Tyler singing autographs in South Korea.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: The Fate of the Furious

In this episode, we are taking a twofold journey into Jim Henson’s beloved and divisive fantasy epic The Dark Crystal. For the first half-hour, our resident Dark Crystal geek, Josh, takes a deep-dive into The Dark Crystal and its new Netflix prequel series, Age of Resistance. Then, at the 36 minute mark, the whole gang is together, some of them seeing The Dark Crystal for the first time some 37 years after its release, and arguing about it.

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: IT and The Fifth Element (second half only)

In our Sept, 2019 Executive Producer episode we’re being made to discuss the 2017 adaptation of Power Rangers, and movies syndicated for TV.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Sliding Doors, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Power Rangers, The Shawshank Redemption, Knight’s Tale, Superman 3, and Batman Returns.

Movie lovers tend to love Quentin Tarantino movies… But do these movie lovers love this Quintin Tarantino movie? It’s time to debrief Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Hateful Eight, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained

Disney keeps making movies they already made and we keep paying to see them, but can all the VFX in the world recapture the original magic of The Lion King?

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: The Lion King, Titanic

While Disney shamelessly plunders their back catalog for remakes, we take a tour of the original renaissance of Disney animated films and rank them best and worst.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Heather Tabinowski, Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: The Princess and the Frog, The Nutty Professor (1996)

Love 'em or hate 'em, there sure are a lot of Marvel movies. At this point it's starting to seem like there are just as many Spider-Man movies. Will one more overdo it, or can Tom Holland charm his way through another franchise entry?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter

Spoilers: Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Captain Marvel, Muppets Most Wanted, and The Simpsons, Season 9, Episode 2, "The Principal and the Pauper."

The longest running film franchise in movie history is here for more destruction. Finally, we get to argue about Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Michael Dumont, and Patrick Porter

Spoilers: Godzilla (1998), Godzilla (2014), Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla 2000, the legend of Johnny Appleseed, and apparently Matt spoils something about Games of Thrones.

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.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Avengers: Endgame

The culmination of 11 years, 11 franchises, and 21 films is here: Five dudes and two girls arguing about Avengers: Endgame.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One, Super 8, Big Hero 6, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe

Horror maestro Jordan Peele returns to the director’s chair with another scary socio-political parable. But does the complicated weirdness of Us stick the landing?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Us and Get Out

Just when you thought DC and Warner Brothers couldn’t make a bigger mess, they arrive with Shazam!… and totally redeem themselves! Or has the bar just been set oh so low?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and a minor gag is spoiled for Deadpool 2

There’s a Marvel movie fronted by a female superhero, and people are either pretty excited or pretty upset. Behold, four more dudes and one more girl arguing about Captain Marvel.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Peter Nikiforov, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: The Secret World of Alex Mack, Watchmen, Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Panther, Wonder Woman, Avengers: Infinity War

Nearly two decades after it began, M. Night Shamylan finally completes the Unbreakable trilogy with the final installment: Glass. But is the end result "classic Shamylan" in the good sense or the bad sense?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: The Village, Brigsby Bear, The Happening, After Earth

Join us as we explore the most exciting and/or dumb movie news from February, 2019. Who is showing up for the Jumanji sequel, and who cares? Why does James Cameron love water so much? How does Abi feel about the blue Will Smith genie? The answers—as well as our expert opinions—await you.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Avengers: Infinity War

We're playing Save or Kill once again, this time with highly anticipated 2019 movies. Faced with two 2019 options, which would you save if it meant killing the other? The stakes are high! Who will survive?

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

As faithful purveyors of our own opinions, You Hate Movies returns with our annual Top 10 lists. From indie joints to summer blockbusters, critically acclaimed and critically reviled, things we loved and things we may have loved or hated (we’re not sure). Here are our top 10 movies of 2018.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Ivory Mobley, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: We’ve done our best to avoid spoilers, but minor or abstract spoilers may follow the movies mentioned. There are, however, certain spoilers for Sorry to Bother You, Game Night, Tully, First Reformed, and Hereditary.

Where does Creed II fits into the pantheon of Rocky greatness, and is Rocky IV is all it’s cracked up to be, or little more than an awesome training montage?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Ivory Mobley, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: The Rocky Franchise.

When you’ve seen Home Alone a few dozen times, you start to notice things. Join us as our panel of expert cinephiles make plain the hidden supernatural reality that kept Kevin Mcallister trapped in his house: The Front Door Santa.

Spoilers: Home alone, Labyrinth, Home alone 2, Krampus, Christmas with the Kranks

Featuring: Josh Porter, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Halloween is back (again, but probably not for the last time). Join a few slasher film fans and a few newcomers as we compare and contrast the original classic with the latest revival.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Mike Jensen, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: The Halloween franchise, Friday the 13th and the 2009 reboot, and the Seinfeld episode The Junk Mail

See (nearly) unlimited movies for only ten bucks a month! It was an offer that seemed too good to be true, and in the long run, it was. More than a year later, what have we learned from the MoviePass debacle, and how can we love again?

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Every year we bet big on which movies will make the most money during the summer movie season. In this episode, we talk about the inevitable surprise hit of the summer and about who was clueless enough to bet on Tully .

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Hotel Transylvania 2, The Last Jedi, Mission: Impossible - Fallout

You guys ready to revise those Pixar Best-of lists? 14 years later, is Incredibles 2 a serious contender for the top 10, or do we have a Cars situation on our hands?

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: The Incredibles and Incredibles 2

Join us as we explore the most exciting and/or dumb movie news from July, 2018. How can Aqua Man talk underwater? Is Bill & Ted 3 Happening? How will we survive without MoviePass? The answers—as well as our expert opinions—await you.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Spider-Man 3, Kong: Skull Island, Justice League, the Aqua Man trailer, Split, and those Coca Cola short films that play before the movie.

Need relief from the wildly polarizing backlash of the last Star Wars movie? Listen as our hosts argue about a middle-of-the-road experience and help you find your footing before the next one.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Solo, The Force Awakens, and Rogue One

Are there more bad Jurassic Park movies than good ones? Listen as our hosts grapple with the ramifications of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns, and Liam Gonnason

Spoilers: The entire Jurassic Park franchise, Fargo, and the PC game “Ski Free.”

in 2016 we went nuts for the Merc with a Mouth. He’s back, so we are too. Can Deadpool 2 maintain the magic, or is more of the same not good enough?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: The Simpsons Movie, Deadpool, Logan, and Back to the Future

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, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Ocean’s 11, The Great Muppet Caper, and Avengers: Infinity War, Becoming Christopher Robin, and the trailer for Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Nineteen Marvel Studios films and dang it if we’re not still pumped as all get out. Listen to a group almost as sizable as the case of Avengers: Infinity War go gaga while one guy complains about comic books.

Spoilers: The Avengers, Rogue One, Bambi, Watchmen, Captain America: Winter Soldier, and Voldemort’s nose

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Mike Jensen, Jarin Oda, Peter Nikiforov, and Tyler Hanns.

Shhh... We have lots of thoughts about John Kransinski's first forray into horror.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Cloverfield, Away We Go, It, 13 Hours, It Follows, The Babadook, Stranger things, Super 8, and Godzilla (2014).

Ernest Cline’s beloved treasure trove of pop culture adventure, Ready Player One, was finally adapted into a feature film by none other than Stephen Spielberg! Holy moly! Oh, wait, hang on, we have some problems here…

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Ready Player One (the novel and the movie)

We’ve got complicated and divisive opinions about Alex Garland’s complicated and divisive sci-fi think piece, Annihilation.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Matt Hughes, and Patrick Porter.

Spoilers: Annihilation, mild/abstract spoilers for the novel from which it was adapted, and for Avengers.

Forget the Academy! You Hate Movies has the definitive take on this year’s Oscars!

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Shape of Water, and The Phantom Thread

Our last episode was on the 17th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In this episode, we shake things up by taking a deep dive into the 18th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Is Black Panther actually one of the best things to happen to cinema, or something else?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Black Panther, The Lion King, and Avengers: Age of Ultron

Do you realize that there are now seventeen Marvel Studios movies? Guess what, we still like them. In fact, we like #17, Thor: Ragnarok, quite a bit.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thor 2, The Lion King, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers, The Last Jedi, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Man of Steel

We watched a beloved bad movie just so we could watch a new good movie about a bad movie. Here’s what we think about The Room and The Disaster Artist.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Spider-Man 2, The Disaster Artist, The Room, and The Family Stone

After the 2016 slump, You Hate Movies is back with our annual Top 10 movies of the year. Horror, art house, super heroes, and a romantic humanoid river monster all find their way into our hall of fame. Here are our top 10 favorite movies of 2017.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Blade Runner, Logan, Snatch, Wonder Woman

A bunch of excited Star Wars fans pile into the theater for Rian Johnson’s much-anticipated sequel: The Last Jedi. We left the theater arguing. Now you can listen to more of it.

Spoilers: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, The Force Awakens, and Back to the Future 2

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns

Happy holidays to all casual movie goers, film lovers, and cinephiles! For the third 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!

Every year we bet big on which movies will make the most money during the summer movie season. In this episode, we talk about the surprise hit of the summer and about who was clueless enough to bet on Transformers: The Last Knight.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Like most of the world, we saw the new adaptation of Stephen King’s "It." Listen to three hardcore fans of the novel sort out their feelings with two ladies who just learned about Pennywise this week.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter

Spoilers: It, Marvel's Avengers, (and at the very end, with warning) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Can you believe there are folks in the You Hate Movies camp who had never seen Sacha Baron Cohen’s mockumentary masterwork, Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan? Okay, it was just Bethany, but still! Listen as we revisit this unique moment in cinema and find out if Bethany Allen survived the shock.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Borat, and Hated: GG Allin & The Murder Junkies

We're playing Save or Kill once again, this time with beloved action films. Faced with two action flicks, which would you save if it meant killing the other? The stakes are high! Who will survive?

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: When two Save or Kill options are listed, spoilers for those movies may follow.

Join us as we explore the most exciting and/or dumb movie news from August, 2017. What fate awaits the Transformers cinematic universe? How does Woody Harrelson describe the Han Solo spinoff? Is Bruce Willis sleeping through his new movie? The answers—as well as our expert opinions—await you.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: The Death Wish trailer

Hey! Six films in, Spider-Man got his best movie! Let’s argue about it a bit.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: All Spider-Man movies, Superman, and Batman Returns,

It’s Road to War for the Planet of the Apes! Join us as we argue and celebrate our way to the rebooted Planet of the Apes trilogy finale! This week’s episode is the grand finale: War for the Planet of the Apes.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: War for the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Logan, and the original 1968 Planet of the Apes.

It’s Road to War for the Planet of the Apes! Join us as we argue and celebrate our way to the rebooted Planet of the Apes trilogy finale! This week’s episode, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Mike Jensen, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, District 9, Batman Begins, Alien Covenant, Batman v Superman, Congo

It’s Road to War for the Planet of the Apes! Join us as we argue and celebrate our way to the rebooted Planet of the Apes trilogy finale! This week’s episode, Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Mike Jensen, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Planet of the Apes, Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes reboot, Forrest Gump, The Terminator

Four movies in, Warner Brothers and DC have finally landed a picture that people seem to mostly like: Patty Jenkin’s Wonder Woman. In this episode we’ve got a panel of men and women arguing about just how good Wonder Woman really is, while engaging in a fair amount of nitpicking.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Mike Jensen, and Patrick Poter.

Spoilers: Wonder Woman, Batman v Superman, Captain America: The First Avenger, as well as minor spoilers for Splash.

In today’s episode we ask the burning modern question: If you love trailers, do you hate movies? Are trailers one way of enhancing the moviegoing experience, or do they just spoil everything?

Featuring: Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Captain America: Civil War, Quarantine, Terminator Genisys, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, Rogue One, Godzilla (2014), From Dusk ‘till Dawn, Watchmen, and Eyes Wide Shut

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 Philidelphia.

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-Men Apocalypse, American Psycho, Dallas Buyers Club, The Lost World, Rubber, Super Mario Brothers, Prometheus, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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, 101 Dalmatians (animated and live action), My Girl, Christmas Vacation.

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 stands to reason spoilers may follow.

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, The Count of Monte Cristo, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Deadpool, Uncle Sam, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, the Marvel Comisc Civil War storyline, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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 Factory.

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, The Polar Express, You’ve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, Philadelphia, and Cast Away.

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 Lambs, and Hannibal.

Every year we bet big on which movies will make the most money during the summer movie season. In this episode, find out who was clever enough to count on Finding Dory and who was clueless enough to bet on Independence Day: Resurgence.

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Sarah Hanns, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: X-Men: Apocalypse, Toy Story 2, Star Trek Beyond, Cats and Dogs, and the Whitney Houston song, "I'm Every Woman."

Join a panel made up of those who love David Fincher’s 1999 cult classic, those who hardly remember it, and someone seeing it for the first time. Together, we argue about whether Fight Club translates to new, modern, and female audiences.

Featuring: Erik Tabinowski, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, and Patrick Porter.

Spoilers: Fight club (the novel and its film adaptation), Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Mission to Mars, A Beautiful Mind, The Dark Knight, Jaws, 12 Monkeys, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Seven, American Psycho (the novel and its film adaptation), Karate Kid, The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan.

Join us as we explore the most exciting and/or dumb movie news from August, 2016. Why is China upset about 3D? What is the BBC’s all-time favorite movie? Did Tyler just promise to watch all the Madea movies? The answers—as well as our expert opinions—await you, followed by our most anticipated movies of the fall.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Jason Bourne, Fantastic Four (2014), Harry & the Hendersons, Phantom Menace, the Dead Rising video game, Furious 7, Tammy and the T-Rex, Paddington, The Shining, The Evil Dead saga, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Batman Begins, The Grey, Taken, Liam Neeson’s movies (in general), Batman (1985), Godzilla 2000, Face/Off, Mamma Mia, Training Day.

Warner Brothers is at it again with another DC comics adaptation. Like Man of Steel and Batman v Superman before, critics and audiences are already wildly divided over David Ayer’s Suicide Squad. Is this another classic case of critic’s pessimism, or will we finally have to admit this is a dud?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, and Patrick Porter.

Spoilers: Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman, Tomorrowland, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ghostbusters 2016, Bourne Identity, The Dark Knight Trilogy, and Batman the Animated Series.

In this episode we debate whether or not the fifth film in the Jason Bourne franchise is a worthwhile return.

Featuring: Josiah DePaoli, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, Sarah Hanns, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Every Bourne movie, Save the Last Dance, Snatch, Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt," The Ocean's Eleven Trilogy, Mr Robot, Finding Dory, and Home Alone.

It’s 2016 and the Jason Bourne franchise is still trucking. To prepare for the latest installment, join us as we debrief the original trilogy with old fans and a guy meeting Jason Bourne for the first time.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Legacy, Spider-Man, Ronin, Captain America: Civil War, The Incredible Hulk, Scooby-Doo, Captain America: The First Avenger, Die Another Day, Enemy of the State, Captain America: The Winder Soldier, True Lies, Transformers, Dark Knight Trilogy, Awakenings, andDaniel Keyes’ novel Flowers for Algernon.

Join a panel made up of those who love James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster, those who hate it, and those seeing it for the first time. Together, we argue about whether Avatar deserves the acclaim or the critique, and how it fares upon first viewing seven years after the 3D hype.

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Sarah Hanns, Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Avatar, The Revenant, Memento, The Terminator, Titanic, Lord of the Rings, The Polar Express, Beowulf, True Lies, The Dark Knight, Fern Gully, Pocahontas, Dances With Wolves, X-Men, Inception, T2: Judgment Day, Wall-E, Star Wars: Episode I, Toy Soldiers, Terminator Salvation, Jurassic World, Edge of Tomorrow, How to Train Your Dragon, Gravity, the first trailer for the 2016 Ghostbusters remake, The Universal Studios Terminator Ride, and the song from The Jungle Book, “The Bare Necessities.”

We’ve finally arrive at Paul Feig’s 2016 reboot of the supernatural comedy classic, Ghostbusters. Can a fantastic director and perfect casting breathe new life into the beloved franchise, or did all that talent go to waste?

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: All Ghostbusters films, Avatar, Bridesmaids.

We’re working our way to Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot by revisiting the 1989 sequel Ghostbusters II.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Cool Runnings, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins, This Film is Not Rates, Taxi Driver, Titanic, The Muppet Movie, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Honey I Blew Up the Kid, Honey We Shrunk Ourselves, Dumb and Dumber, Beetlejuice, Dante’s Peak, Volcano, Under the Skin, Star Wars: Episode I, Bridesmaids, Fantastic Four (2015), Chappie, Oceans 11, and the first trailer for the 2016 Ghostbusters.

Today we begin the road to Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot by revisiting the beloved 1984 original.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Jurassic World, Creed, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Amazing Spider-Man, Scary Movie, Blues Brothers, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Ant-Man, Bridesmaids, Year One, Dr. Who, Gilmore Girls, The Real Ghostbusters animated series, and the Terminator soundtrack.

On today’s special mammoth-sized episode we challenge a panel of 7 individuals to rank Pixar’s 17 films from best to worst without killing friendships in the process.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns, and Whitney Depaoli.

Spoilers: Bicentennial Man, The Land Before Time, Inception, Brother Bear, Frozen, Tangled, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Short Circuit, Flight of the Navigator, Elysium, Gravity, X-Men: Apocalypse, Chappie, Unfriended, American Tail, The Rescuers, Zootopia, Rudy, Watchmen, Antz, Braveheart, The Nickelodeon animated series Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, the Cars Land are of Disney California Adventure, the 1986 Jim Henson TV special The Christmas Toy, and The Walking Dead (Season 4).

Thirteen years after the original, does Pixar’s Finding Dory capture all the magic of its predecessor? Or is it simply wringing money out of a beloved franchise with a few effective fish jokes along the way?

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Finding Nemo, New York Minute, Predator, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Alien, Despicable Me 1 & 2, Minions, The Secret Life of Pets trailer, Cars, Cars 2, and The Good Dinosaur.

After a long and troubled production, Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur was as divisive as it was visually breathtaking. In this episode we celebrate the goodness of The Good Dinosaur, while condemning the critics who clearly hate movies.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: The Revenant, Inside Out, Toy Story 3, True Grit (2010), Ratatouille, Lion King, Stand By Me, Dumbo, Pinocchio, Brave, White Fang, Harry and the Hendersons, You’ve Got Mail, The Land Before Time, and the PBS cartoon Dinosaur Train.

Nine movies in, where does each installment in the X-Men franchise rank from best to worst? Join us as our expert opinions go to work on 16 years of super hero film history in order to list the best and worst of the movie mutants.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Every X-Men movie as well as the animated series of the 90's, District 9, The Usual Suspects, Dumb and Dumber, Total Recall, Batman begins, Kill Bill, T2: Judgement Day, Looper.

We head to theaters a ninth time to see an X-Men movie. Does X-Men: Apocalypse maintain the longstanding franchise's recent revival, or has it stalled out again?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: All X-Men movies, Alien, Star Wars: A New Hope, Legend, The Simpsons Episode 168, The Fifth Element, T2, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Road, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Jaws, and the X-Men animated series.

Join us as we explore the most exciting and/or dumb movie news from May, 2016. Who will direct Godzilla 2? What is the new Transformers movie called? Does a studio executive know his butt from a door? The answers—as well as our expert opinions—await you, followed by a special Marvel Cinematic Universe round of Save or Kill?

Featuring: Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Peter Nikiforov, Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Fantastic Four (2015), Creed, Thor, Thor 2, Man of Steel, Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Guardians of the Galaxy, Deadpool, Iron Man 3, Jungle Book (1994), Hail, Caesar!, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Blues Brothers, Matrix Reloaded, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Ant-Man, and one major spoiler for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Eight years and 12 movies after Marvel Studio’s Iron Man, we’ve arrived at Captain America: Civil War. Is the third installment in the Captain America trilogy Marvel’s most sophisticated outing yet, or has the studio powerhouse lost its touch?

Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Captain America: Civil War, Inglourious Basterds, Batman v Superman, Star Wars, Deadpool, Coming to America, Alan Moore’s graphic novel Watchmen, just about all the marvel movies, and also sports that include fields and benches.

In this episode, we wrestle through one of cinema’s greatest debates: Which Tom Hanks loves Meg Ryan movie is better, Sleepless in Seattle or You’ve Got Mail? Before we settle the argument once and for all, we put our rom-com know-how to the test with a game of Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail trivia.

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Sarah Hanns, Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: When Harry Met Sally, Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, Joe Vs. The Volcano, The Shop Around the Corner, Batman v Superman, Sophie’s Choice, and American Psycho.

Every year, we make a wager on which movies will make the most money during the summer movie season. In this episode, we argue about who will be the big winners at the box office.

Featuring: Abi Porter, Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Star Trek, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Fight Club, Rush Hour, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Lone Ranger, Neighbors, Bridesmaids.

Zack Snyder is one of the most divisive filmmakers in the world of genre-filmmaking. In this episode we rank his entire filmography from best to worst.

Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns

Spoilers: Every movie in Zack Snyder’s directorial filmography, George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, World War Z, Troy, Love Actually, Immortals, The Cell, 300: Rise of an Empire, Lord of the Rings, Van Helsing, Mighty Ducks, A Series of Unfortunate Events, he Frank Miller graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns, I am Legend, and the Terminator soundtrack.

Join us as we join the rest of the world and argue about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Is it a disgrace to the legacy of the comic book titans, or one of the best adaptations of their collective mythology?

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Batman v. Superman, Man of Steel, Scrooged, the bad DC comics TV shows, the Adam West Batman television series, The Dark Knight, Watchmen, Goodwill Hunting, Spider-Man, The Social Network, Batman Forever, Matchstick Men, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Buried, Mallrats, and the Frank Miller graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns.

Before there was Batman v. Superman, there was Man of Steel. Was the world right to be divided, or should they all just shut up and enjoy some Superman?

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Man of Steel, Batman v. Superman, Superman Returns, Green Lantern, Godzilla (2014), The Fighter, Morning Glory, Interstellar, The Good Dinosaur, Transformers, Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

10 Cloverfield Lane: A tense and scary claustrophobic thriller, or an hour and a half of being confused by the fact that the word Cloverfield is in the title?

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Cloverfield, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Prometheus, Signs, The Hills Have Eyes, The Fly, District 9, Independence Day, Night of the Living Dead, Evil Dead, The Mist, the Richard Matheson novel I am legend, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rossane, Breaking Bad season 1 episode 2, the Nine Inch Nails video for “Only,” and Cannibal Airlines.

In 2008 the world was shook by a mysterious ad campaign leading hordes of movie goers into theaters to experience the explosive found footage kaiju masterpiece; Matt Reeves’ Cloverfield. Or, is it a chaotic mess that should come with a complementary does of dramamine?

Featuring: Bethany Allen, Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: That Thing You Do, Cannibal Holocaust, The Blair Witch Project, Hostel, A Serbian Film, Scary Movie, Paranormal Activity, Project X, Chronicle, [REC], the pilot episode of Lost, both the 1998 and 2014 American Godzilla films, Super 8, Pitch Black, Gremlins, Signs, Jaws, and Alien.

In the mid-90’s, Eric Roth wrote a screenplay that wowed audiences around the world; The script that became Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump. In the late 2000’s, Eric Roth sort of wrote that screenplay again; the script that became David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. So which one is better?

Featuring: Garrett Holmes, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Sarah Hanns, Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Forrest Gump, The curious Case of Benjamin Button (both the films and the novel and short story from which they were adapted), Super 8, E.T., Flight of the Navigator, Apollo 13, Back to the Future, Fight Club, Inglourious Basterds, 12 Monkeys, Panic Room, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Terminal, You’ve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, and That Thing You Do.

Which Academy Award winning film would you save if it meant killing the other? The Revenant or Birdman? Braveheart or Titanic? In this grueling round of save or kill, what Oscar-winners will survive and what will be left of them?

Featuring: Alla Nikiforov, Abi Porter, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Peter Nikiforov, Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: When you hear movie options presented on the Save or Kill chopping block, it stands to reason that spoilers will follow. Also, we managed to completely spoil both The Departed and Burn After Reading, so watch out.

Deadpool: The satisfying conclusion to every fan’s burning anticipation, or a bit too much? Join our hardcore Deadpool fans and our open-minded newcomers as we debrief our first impressions.

Featuring: Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.

Spoilers: Deadpool (both the Tim Miller film and the Marvel comics title), the X-men movie franchise, Scary Movie 2, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, Punisher: War Zone, Blade Trinity, Taxi Driver, Fight Club, Breaking Bad, Man of Steel, Transformers, Iron Man 2, Transporter Refueled, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Join us as we explore the most exciting and/or dumb movie news from February, 2016 . When will there be more Transformers movies? Who will play the Invisible Man? What’s the latest flick to be endorsed by the Satanic Temple? The answers—as well as our expert opinions—await you. Featuring: Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, and Patrick Porter. Spoilers: Chappie, The Batman v. Superman trailers, the Transformers franchise, School of Rock, Iron Man 3, Terminator: Genisys, that one Sia music video with Shia Labeouf, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Hollow Man, Back to the Future, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Dumber and Dumber To, Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One, Public Enemies, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Prometheus, Deadpool, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Wolverine, World War Z, Austin Powers, the Predator franchise, That 70’s Show, Ocean’s 11, Ocean’s 12, and Spider-Man 3.

A family estranged from one another by space travel and relativity—which movie does it better? Today we pit Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar against the 1986 epic Flight of the Navigator. Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josiah DePaoli, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Peter Rollo, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Interstellar, Flight of the Navigator, The Goonies, Explorers, Terminator 2, Hook, Moonrise Kingdom, Tree of Life, That 70’s Show, Les Misérables, The Dark Knight Rises, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lost in Space, Back to the Future, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, Sunshine, Moon, and Apollo 13.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant. A complex, visionary masterpiece deserving of all the acclaim, or a pretty decent movie with a somewhat flat story bogged down in hype? Today our Revenant-enthusiasts are doing battle with our hosts who think it was just pretty good. Featuring: Garrett Holmes, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: The Revenant, and the Michael Punke novel on which it was very loosely based. Babel, 21 Grams, Birdman, Multiplicity, Up, the Pixar short Lava, Water World, Apocalypse Now, Gremlins, The Exorcist, Russian Ark, Rope, Children of Men, Avatar, Pocahontas, Fern Gully, the Indiana Jones series, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Die Hard, Columbo, Romeo and Juliet, The Dark Knight Rises, Ex Machina, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, About Time, Frank, Tree of Life, Thin Red Line, The Master, Interstellar, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, I Am Legend, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Evil Dead, and the Weird Al song, “Smells Like Nirvana.”

In this episode, join us in the You Hate Movies Thunderdome, as we pit beloved movie characters, one-by-one, in in a brutal, all-out battle to the death. Today’s Thunderdome: Movie Robots. Could Ultron defeat a Terminator T-800? Could Interstellar’s TARS destroy Big Hero 6’s Baymax? Root for your favorite robots in the Thunderdome! Featuring: Patrick Porter, Peter Rollo, and Josh Porter Spoilers: Short Circuit 1 & 2, the Terminator franchise, The Matrix, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Wall-E, Batteries Not Included, Aliens, the Star Wars saga, Ex Machine, The Stepford Wives, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Robocop, Real Steel, the Transformers franchise, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, The Iron Giant, Pacific Rim, Chappie, Prometheus, A.I., Total Recall, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, Interstellar, Big Hero 6, and The Muppets.

Maestro of dialogue and profanity, master of emotion and splatter, exploitation aficionado and b-movie film geek auteur: Today we rank the films of Quentin Tarantino. Before that, we’ll talk about the alleged 70mm film revival and whether or not it matters. Featuring: Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Every film in Quentin Tarantino’s filmography, The Master, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Clerks, District 9, Cocoon, Seven, Planet Terror, Star Wars: Episode IV, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), 3 Ninjas, and Surf Ninjas.

We pit beloved film geek director Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 blood-soaked, racially charged Western Django Unchained against Quentin Tarantino’s 2015 blood-soaked, racially charged Western The Hateful Eight. We’ll wrestle with the question, “What the heck is 70mm film, and why should we care?” Featuring: Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, Moonrise Kingdom, Evil Dead, Reservoir Dogs, The Polar Express, Forrest Gump, Jurassic Park, Snakes on a Plane, Funny Games, High Plains Drifter, After Earth, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill, 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, and Magic Mike.

Welcome to 2016 and the 40th episode of You Hate Movies. We’ve tasked a panel of five hosts to draft a list of their definitive top 10 movies of 2015, then sit down and argue about them. Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Minor and abstract spoilers for dozens of movies released in 2015, as well as Interstellar, Halloween: Resurrection, the Captain America: Civil War trailer, Capatain America: The Winter Soldier, Prometheus, the Rambo 3 and 4, Avatar, Watchmen, Monster, The Matrix, Short Circuit 2, The Running Man, the Rocky franchise, Babe: Pig in the City, and The Guy With the Face.

Today our 7 part series comes to a climactic close with Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Can a movie staggering beneath the pressure of fan expectations possibly live up the hype? Where does it rank amongst the complete saga? Did going Star Wars Pure enhance our viewing experience? Was Bethany a knucklehead at the theater? It’s time to let the truth be known. Featuring: Abi Porter, Alex Rettmann, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Sarah Hanns, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Massive and complete spoilers for The Force Awakens loom throughout this entire episode. If you haven’t seen the movie yet and you listen to this episode, you hate movies. You’ll also get spoilers for the other six Star Wars films as well as Godzilla 2014, You’ve Got Mail, Frozen, Frank, Prometheus, While We’re Still Young, the TV show Girls, the Disney direct-to-video Tinker Bell films, Pride and Prejudice, About Time, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Bewitched, the Hunger Games series, Home Alone, It Follows, and Jurassic World.

Our journey through all six films in the Star Wars saga comes to a close with episode 6, Return of the Jedi. Are there too many puppets? Do the Ewoks meet Bethany’s very high expectations? Does R2 bebop, or beat-box? Only we have the answers! Featuring: Bethany Allen, Liam Gonnason, Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Star Wars 1 - 6, The Lord of the Rings, The Godfather, Rocky, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Gremlins, Swiss Family Robinson, Watchmen, Elf, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Alice in Wonderland, The Human Centipede, Inspector Gadget, Godzilla, Junior, Teddy Ruxpin, Season 3 Episode 1 of Friends, and the hit Shania Twain song, “Man! I Feel Like a Woman.”

Journey to the Dagobah System as we experience the beloved sequel to the original Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back with some familiar fans and folks experiencing Episode V for the first time! Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Matt Comer, Josh Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: The entire Star Wars saga, Rocky IV, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Indiana Jones, Jurassic World, Harry Potter, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, and the Willow Smith song “Whip My Hair.”

Return to 1977 as we debrief the original theatrical release of the first film in the Star Wars saga with a few guests seeing it for the first time. Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Derrick Cisneros, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Men in Black, Legend, Love Actually, Ant-Man, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Despicable Me, Dr. Strangelove, and the Johnny Cash song “One Piece at a Time.”

Today we leave the dark side of the force by completing the final installment in the Star Wars prequel saga, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The best the prequel trilogy has to offer, but how much is that saying, really? Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Matthew Comer, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Star Wars 1-6, Lord of the Rings, and Children of Men.

As we continue our journey to Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, we have to trudge our way through two more prequels. This week’s unappetizing dish is Episode II, Attack of the Clones. Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Peter Nikiforov, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: Star Wars, episodes 1 - 6, Gladiator, Alien, E.T., The Fifth Element, Rush Hour, The Dark Knight, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Men in Black, and Project Runway.

A long time ago, on a podcast far, far away…. Today we begin our journey to Star Wars, Episode VII: The Force Awakens. The journey will be long, but adventure? Excitement? A Jedi craves not these things. This week, we must somehow endure episode I: The Phantom Menace without succumbing to the dark side of the force. Featuring: Abi Porter, Alex Rettmann, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Tyler Hanns, and Vanessa Porter. Spoilers: The Star Wars Saga, Clerks, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Jurassic Park, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Mad Max Fury Road, and the Full House character Stephanie Tanner.

This halloween we’re discussing David Robert Mitchell’s 2015 indie horror hit, It Follows. The film in questions deals with a group of young friends facing the consequences of loose sex. Consequently, some of the conversation on today’s episode is better suited for a grown-up audience. Featuring: Josh Porter, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, Peter Nikiforov, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: It Follows, The Fly, The Human Centipede, House of Wax, Jeepers Creepers, Darkness Falls, Saw, The Hangover, The Babadook, The Strangers, The Shining, Hollow Man, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Joy Ride, Shutter Island, Black Swan, Seven, George Romero’s Living Dead series, Alien, Halloween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Inception, Munich, The Ring, The Prophecy, and Drive.

Today we conclude our celebration of the Back to the Future trilogy with the third and final installment in the beloved time-travel franchise. Featuring: Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Liam Gonnason, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: The entire Back to the Future trilogy, The Prestige, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Home Alone 1 & 2, The Parent Trap, Return of the Jedi, Coming to America, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey, Looper, Rocky Balboa, The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror IV, and Stuart Little.

This week we continue our celebration of Back to the Future by welcoming Marty McFly to October, 2015 with Back to the Future 2. Featuring: Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Patrick Porter, Peter Nikiforov, Tyler Hanns, and Whitney DePaoli. Spoilers: The Back to the Future Trilogy, Super Mario Brothers, Children of Men, Home Alone 1 & 2, The Nutty Professor, Jack and Jill, Rocky II, Friday the 13th IV: The Final Chapter, Willard, Charlie’s Angels, Aliens, Alien 3, Gremlins 1 & 2, Bruce Almighty, and Jaws 19.

It is October 2015, the month and year that Marty McFly himself sets down in the future. To welcome him, we’re revisiting the Back to the Future trilogy one movie at a time. In today’s episode, Robert Zemeckis beloved 1985 science fiction adventure, Back to the Future. Featuring: Josh Porter, Josiah DePaoli, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, Sarah Hanns, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers: The Back to the Future trilogy, Terminator Genisys, Gremlins, Sapceballs, Hot Tub Time Machine, The Prestige, Forrest Gump, Jurassic Park, The Fly, The Wedding Singer, and the Back to the Future animated series.

We're playing Save or Kill once again, this time with like-named actors. Faced with two actors who share a first name, who would you save if it meant killing the other? Tom Hanks or Tom Cruise? Michael Fassbender or Michael Keaton? On and on the list goes. Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Peter Nikiforov, and Tyler Hanns.

I'm afraid we've lost track of Spoilers. When we mention an actor's name, it stands to reason some spoilers for their films may follow.

In this episode, we have two big items on our agenda: First, to argue out our reaction to M. Night Shyamalan’s new found-footage horror flick The Visit. Secondly, we rank M. Night Shyamalan’s films from best to worst. If you haven’t made it out to see The Visit just yet, you may want to skip to 38:45, at which point we move on from major spoilers for The Visit and keep things more general. Featuring: Garrett Holmes, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns Major Spoilers: The Visit (until 38:45), The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening, and After Earth. Mild/Abstract Spoilers: Seven Pounds, Black Swan, The Dark Knight, Chronicle, Night of the Living Dead, The Strangers, The Wizard of Oz, The Blair Witch Project, Cannibal Holocaust, Cloverfield, Crazy Heart, The Amityville Horror, The Ring, The Grudge, It Follows, Stuart Little, The Empire Strikes Back, Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, Saw, Paranormal Activity, Friday the 13th, the Netflix original series Daredevil, the novel I Am Legend, and only minor spoilers for The Last Airbender, because none of us actually saw it.

We have tasked a committee with the harrowing challenge of ranking director Christopher Nolan’s filmography from best to worst. Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Mike Jensen, Patrick Porter, and Peter Nikiforov. Major Spoilers: The entire Christopher Nolan filmography. Abstract & Minor Spoilers: Total Recall, Flight of the Navigator, American Psycho, American Hustle, Reign of Fire, The Machinist, Prometheus, Gravity, Juno, Shutter Island, Godzilla (2014), Jurassic World, Up, Friday, Selma, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Children of Men, Buried, All is Lost, Phone Booth, Chappie, and Zangief from Street Fighter 2.

At the beginning of May, we focused on our annual tradition of attempting to predict the top 10 highest grossing movies of the summer. The summer movie season is over, the results are in, and the winner is not who we expected. Featuring: Abi Porter, Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Peter Nikiforov. Spoilers: Mad Max: Fury Road, San Andreas, Straight Outta Compton, Ant-Man, Pitch Perfect 1 & 2, Mission: Impossible 1-4, Minions, Inside Out, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Jurassic World, The Dark Knight, The Empire Strikes Back, Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Fern Gully, Star Wars Episode 7, Avatar, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Jurassic Park, Bridesmaids, Super 8, Wall-E, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, and Big Hero 6.

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As for this episode, we’re celebrating Ridley Scott by getting mad at Ridley Scott. In our midst we have Alien enthusiasts and Prometheus detractors, as well as a few Prometheus apologists. Will this ongoing debate over the logic and quality of prometheus ever be put to bed? I think you’ll agree we settle things quite nicely. Major Spoilers: The Alien franchise (including Prometheus). Minor or Abstract Spoilers: Splinter, Mission to Mars, Men in Black, Star Trek: Into Darkness, The Terminator, The Lorax, The Jungle Book.Feel like we’re overlooking a quality argument? Suggest an episode at youhatemovies.com

We are, once again, taking critics to task over their collective disdain for Neil Blomkamp’s third film, Chappie. Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Peter Nikiforov, Tyler Hanns. Major Spoilers: District 9, Elysium, Chappie. Minor/Abstract Spoilers: Panic Room, Mad Max: Fury Road, All Is Lost, Phone booth, Buried, The Hills Have Eyes, Short Circuit (1 & 2), Interstellar, it Follows, Dredd, Bicentennial Man, and The A-Team.

We’re pitting one of film history’s all-time classics—the Stephen Spielberg masterpiece, E.T.—against the J.J. Abram's 2001 film clearly inspired by it, Super 8. Featuring: Josiah DePaoli, Garrett Holmes, Matt Hughes, Mike Jensen, Peter Nikiforov, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Major spoilers for E.T. and Super 8, as well as minor/abstract spoilers for: Psycho, Interstellar, Mac & Me, Peanuts, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Muppet Movie, Mad Max: Fury Road, Wall-E, Star Wars Episode I, Independence Day, Austin Powers, Cloverfield, White Fang, Harry and the Hendersons, The Iron Giant, Goonies, Indiana Jones, and Thomas the Tank Engine (again).

In today’s episode we’re presenting 20 different summer movie blockbusters to a panel of our hosts, two at a time, and forcing them to decide which one they would save if it meant killing the other. Featuring: Bethany Allen, Mike Jensen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Rather than ruin the fun of these painful decisions, we’ll warn you that each time two choices are presented, it stands to reason that spoilers for those movies will follow. You will have a brief window to abandon ship if you fear the details that might arise after each save or kill option is introduced. Additionally, there will be some minor or abstract spoilers for the Robocop and Total Recall remakes, the National Treasure franchise, and The Good Son.

We accuse critics and audiences alike of hating movies, for they did not fathom the greatness that is Zack Snyder's adaptation of Watchmen. Featuring: Abi Porter, Alex Rettmann, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Sarah Hanns, and Tyler Hanns. Major spoilers for the graphic novel Watchmen and its subsequent film adaptation. Minor/abstract spoilers for: 300, 300: Rise of an Empire, the Simpsons episode "Husbands and Knives," Fight Club, Suckerpunch, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Saw, Frozen, Birdman, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Grey's Anatomy seasons 2, 3 and 5.

Today we argue about which is the better obscure Phase 2 Marvel movie, Ant-Man or Guardians of the Galaxy. Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Featuring major spoilers for all movies in the Marvel cinematic universe, as well as minor/abstract spoilers for: Pumping Iron, Saturday Night Live hosted by Chris Pratt, Interstellar, Chappie, Back to the Future, the Batman v. Superman trailer, Thomas the Tank Engine, Jurassic World, Star Wars Episode IV, Rocky, Honey I Blew Up the Kid, Inception, The Big Lebowski, and a McDonald's commercial.

This episode we pose a pressing question: Which movie evokes more summertime nostalgia, The Sandlot or Stand By Me? Featuring: Garrett Holmes, Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers in this episode: The Sandlot and Stand By Me, as well as minor/abstract spoilers for The Goofy Movie, Forrest Gump, Hook, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Star Wars Episode IV, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Beethoven, Home Alone 1 & 2, Return of the Jedi, Friday the 13th 4, 5, and 6. The Sandlot 2 and 3. I'm Still Here, Bubble Boy, the King's Speech, King Ralph, and Thomas the Tank Engine.

Today we conclude our five-part miniseries, as we finally see and react to Terminator Genisys. Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers in this episode: All Terminator films, as well as minor/abstract spoilers for Star Wars, Rocky Balboa, Tron Legacy, Short Circuit, and Bicentennial Man.

As we near the conclusion of our special miniseries—Road to Terminator Genisys—we're taking a look at the often-disliked 4th installment, Terminator Salvation. Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers in this episode: All Terminator films, as well as minor/abstract spoilers for World War Z, Lonesome Dove, Back to the Future, Star Wars: Episode IV, The Shawshank Redemption, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Mars Attacks.

This 4th of July, we're electing the best film president. Is it Independence Day's Bill Pullman, or Air Force One's Harrison Ford? Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers in this episode: (major) Independence Day, Air Force One, (minor) Deep Impact, 2012, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Jurassic Park 3, Lost, Seinfeld, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Mad Max: Fury Road, Watchmen, War of the Worlds, Mars Attacks, Star Wars: A New Hope, The Dark Knight Rises, and the hit sitcom Full House.

In the 3rd installment of our four-part miniseries—Road to Terminator Genisys—the franchise takes a significant plunge with Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Featuring: Matt Hughes, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers in this episode: All Terminator films

The 2nd installment in our four-part miniseries, Road to Terminator Genisys. We are revisiting, discussing, dissecting, and arguing about one of the greatest sequels of all time: Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Featuring: Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Mike Jensen, and Tyler Hanns. Spoilers in this episode: (major) All Terminator films, (minor) The Rundown, Jurassic Park, Predator, Avatar, the San Andreas trailer, the Furious 7 trailer, the X-Men character Mystique, our friend Josiah, and Friends season 6 episode 7.

The first installment in our special four-part miniseries, Road to Terminator Genisys. We are revisiting, discussing, dissecting, and arguing about James Cameron's 1984 sci-fi classic, The Terminator

We surfed a 22-year strong wave of nostalgia, affection, and general film geekiness from the original Jurassic Park directly into theaters to see Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic World. We share a few agreements, some disagreements, and accuse some critics of hating movies.

We’re helping all the knuckleheads out there learn how to stop ruining movies for the rest of us.

We're arguing about who will be the big winners at the box office this summer.

We discuss our immediate impressions of the 2012 remake of one of our favorite films, Total Recall.

Revisit the long-running debate over how long Bill Murray had to relive Groundhog Day, but more importantly, WHY?

We narrow down the definitive list of must-see holiday films, and deice one-and-for-all what qualifies as a Christmas movie.

Listen as we evaluate Bethany Allen’s immediate impression of Legendary Pictures 2014 Godzilla.

Mike Jensen argues that the beloved culmination of the Marvel cinematic universe, “The Avengers,” actually sucks.

Josh Porter argues that the often disparaged third entry in the Jurassic Park franchise isn’t as awful as everyone makes it out to be. He probably loses.

Josh Porter argues that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a better movie than Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Bethany Allen vs. Tyler Hanns: Is Frozen too thematically mature for its young audience?