Fast movie rants with actual film sense.
We Hate Movies turns film criticism into a crowded table argument, with the group bouncing from production disasters to actor choices to stray pop-culture detours. The mood is loose and abrasive, but the movie knowledge underneath is steady.
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We Hate Movies is a film conversation show that treats flawed, beloved, cursed, and ridiculous movies as shared wreckage worth climbing through. The group is fast. It interrupts itself constantly, pushes jokes into fake premises, and then snaps back to a concrete point about what a scene, effect, performance, or production choice is actually doing. Recent episodes show the range clearly. The Island of Dr. Moreau becomes a case study in combustible casting, director chaos, and the strange logic of expecting Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando to make a production smoother. Dawn of the Dead becomes a remake argument, with Romero and 28 Days Later feeding into a complaint about influence and missing social texture. The Departed opens the door to Infernal Affairs, Scorsese, Hong Kong action cinema, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and the velocity that later points toward The Wolf of Wall Street. In Time gets handled as a goofy almost-Timecop premise with plenty of title-game riffing. White Noise 2: The Light sends the group into the weeds of direct-to-DVD sequel culture, Patrick Lussier credits, and the irresistible comedy of horror franchise subtitles. Supernova brings out the show’s taste for mangled sci-fi, studio interference, pseudonymous direction, and effects work that can still earn a grudging compliment. Joy Ride shows its warmer side, especially with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett from Radio Silence joining a detailed chat about suspense, taillights, post-Scream rhythms, and the pleasure of a well-built trucker thriller. The mailbag episodes add another lane: reader stories, college folklore, live-show business, and unruly side conversations that sound like the group refusing to leave the room. The show is profane in spirit even when the criticism is specific. It likes bad ideas, but it likes explaining why they are bad even more. It is strongest when a stray gag reveals a real reading of the movie. The result is film criticism as group momentum: noisy, informed, impatient with polish, and happiest when a movie gives it something truly strange to chew on.
Made for: For film fans who enjoy rowdy group chemistry, horror and genre detours, remake arguments, and bad-movie autopsies with enough knowledge to make the jokes land.
What sets it apart: The show mixes trash-talk energy with specific film literacy, so production disasters, sequel oddities, and genre mechanics all become part of the same live-wire conversation.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A joke-dense movie conversation that finds sharp criticism, production curiosities, and genuine affection inside both failures and favorites.
We Hate Movies turns movie discussion into a rowdy group argument, with Andrew Jupin, Steven Sadek, Eric Siska, and Chris Cabin moving through scenes while trading jokes, production context, and pointed criticism.
Andrew Jupin's crew turns a zombie movie's bland hero into toast; your mileage depends on the jams.
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A gleefully hostile ride through John Dahl's 2001 trucker thriller, where one bad stop turns into a bigger problem.
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A college liquor-store joke becomes a chaotic mailbag legend as the Red Dog tally keeps climbing.
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A messy sci-fi title gets a sharp panel teardown, with a few effects landing hard enough to earn real praise.
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A Disney bear musical turns into a brisk tour of animatronic dread, tangled music credits, and a joke that keeps changing shape.
The Country Bears comes through as a Disney musical curio full of animatronic unease, odd performer credits, and backstage logic that keeps giving the panel reasons to side-eye it. Directed by Peter Hastings and brought in through a listener request from Nathan in St.
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A sharp remake debate where Dawn of the Dead gets pinned between Romero, 28 Days Later, and one very weak slice of toast.
We Hate Movies keeps its remake run moving with Dawn of the Dead as a crowded point of comparison, caught between Romero's original, 28 Days Later, and the shadow of 28 Years Later.
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The hosts of We Hate Movies review Zack Snyder's 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead.
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We Hate Movies records a live Oxford edition of The Nexus about Star Trek: The Next Generation season seven episode “Sub Rosa,” which aired January 31, 1994.
Andrew Dupin, Chris Cabot, and Eric Siska read listener stories about vomiting, breakups, sex-mom dynamics, and movie-store mishaps.
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The hosts of We Hate Movies discuss the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead, comparing it to the original and 28 Days Later while critiquing its lack of character development and social commentary.
This episode discusses the 2006 film 'The Departed' as a remake of 'Infernal Affairs', comparing their faithfulness, plot elements, and influences from Martin Scorsese and Hong Kong cinema.
The hosts of We Hate Movies discuss the 2011 film 'In Time' as part of their listener request series, offering a comedic review.
The hosts of We Hate Movies discuss the 2007 direct-to-DVD horror sequel White Noise 2: The Light, directed by Patrick Lussier, as part of their listener request month.
The panel opens on Joy Ride as the highway tale of two brothers who fucked around and found out.
WHM Mailbag for March 9, 2026 opens with Andrew Jupin, Steven Sadak, Eric Siska, and Christopher Cabin previewing a March 19 Timberwolves screening, a March 20 Varsity Theater night for Conan the Barbarian, and a March 22 Den Theater show for Big.
The panel tears into Supernova, a 2000 sci-fi mess with a trail of directors who all seem to have bailed at the right time.
The Country Bears kicks off listener request month with a 2002 Disney movie that, to the panel, plays like hell's Chuck E.
The hosts of On-Screen Live introduce their first episode of 2026 with casual banter about being stranded on a desert island and tease upcoming segments on listener requests and trailer reactions.
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