Loose, thoughtful movie talk with memory attached.
What We've Watched Podcast follows Chris and Emmett through movies old, new, beloved, forgotten, and sometimes only recently caught up with. The appeal sits in the drift: memory checks, production facts, ranking arguments, and casual jokes gradually become a full critical shape.
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What We've Watched Podcast is a long-running movie conversation that treats film talk as something best built in motion. Chris and Emmett do not rush toward a finished thesis. They talk through expectations, credits, release context, memories of earlier entries, and the small factual checks that shape a better opinion. The result feels casual, but it is not thin. Episodes keep returning to how movies actually work: adaptation choices, sequel structure, production history, visibility, performance, tone, and the odd afterlife of films that were once everywhere or barely seen at all. One week might follow The Return of the Musketeers across split adaptations, returning casts, and the awkward business logic of making one epic into two releases. Another might rank 2008 or 2009 by personal top fives, using the list format as an excuse to remember whole movie years in detail. Newer releases enter the rotation too. Wolf Man becomes a discussion of what horror loses when the audience cannot clearly see faces, bodies, and dramatic choices. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opens into legacy-sequel expectations, long development histories, and the joke mechanics of its title. The Bluff gets treated as a fresh curiosity, approached with the lighter energy of trying something because the premise looks fun. The Saturday Morning Nostalgia episodes widen the lens toward cartoons, toys, breakfast-cereal memories, VHS traces, and short-lived franchises like Ring Raiders. That side series gives the show a second mode without changing its basic temperament. The rhythm stays loose. Corrections are part of the texture. Agreement does not end the discussion; it usually gives the next tangent permission to start. The humor is conversational rather than performed, often coming from misread notes, half-remembered actor runs, or practical reactions to strange franchise decisions. Film knowledge shows up through use, not display. The show is best for listeners who like criticism with room to wander and who enjoy hearing two regular speakers reconstruct the viewing experience together. Its strongest quality is patience. Instead of forcing sharp verdicts, it lets judgment gather through examples, comparisons, and the pleasure of remembering movies out loud.
Made for: For film fans who enjoy relaxed review conversations, retrospective rankings, sequel talk, adaptation context, and old-media detours. It especially suits listeners who prefer patient back-and-forth over tightly scripted criticism.
What sets it apart: The show stands out through its unhurried reconstruction of the viewing experience: the expectations, corrections, tangents, production context, and practical scene-level reactions all stay in the final shape of the opinion.
Weekly movie discussion podcast with your hosts Chris and Emmet
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Scene-level observations and candid revisions make Chris and Emmett's film conversations feel thoughtful without becoming formal.
Chris and Emmett treat movie talk as an open-ended process of recollection and argument. Their top-five conversations on 2008 and 2009 weigh films against their release years, while episodes on Wolf Man, Human Highway, and The Four Musketeers move easily between immediate…
A werewolf steps into daylight, and Chris and Emmett make you care about the lighting.
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A catch-up on Wolfman that sharpens once the film finally lets light in.
Chris and Emmett use Wolfman as a catch-up on the January 2025 Lee Winnell movie they had kept putting off after the mixed response it drew. The discussion is strongest when it stays with the details that keep coming back: the comparison to Invisible Man and Upgrade, the heavy…
A sequel conversation that uses split-production history to argue for watching The Musketeers films together.
What We've Watched frames The Four Musketeers through its odd release history: a second half of a story first planned as one large epic with an intermission.
A year-end film list that turns 2008 into a lived-in shared memory exercise.
Chris and Emmett close in on the end of their 2000s run with a top-five look back at 2008, and the hook is how the conversation keeps tying that year to where they are now.
Chris and Emmett tease out the comic friction and character play inside My Man Godfrey's household chaos.
Episode 469 has Chris and Emmett digging into My Man Godfrey, the 1936 William Powell and Carol Lombard comedy, with the relaxed confidence of people who enjoy how much mischief is packed into one unruly household.
A Thundarr rewatch weighs childhood-cartoon affection against merchandise-era TV and network second thoughts.
Thundarr the Barbarian lands as a practical test for the hosts' current tier-ranking format: can an early-1980s Saturday-morning cartoon still hold up when childhood affection is set beside adult scrutiny?
A loose but engaging 2009 finale that doubles as a lived-in reflection on a fun, uneven decade-ranking project.
Episode 475 brings Chris and Emmett's individual 2000s top-five lists to a close with the films of 2009, neatly setting the finale against the project's starting point in episode 420 and its 2000 list. Its appeal is not really the suspense of a tidy countdown.
A grounded case for giving Human Highway's stranger edits another look.
Human Highway gives the What We've Watched Podcast a nicely odd corner of screen history to work through: a barely released August 1982 cult film directed by Dean Stockwell and Neil Young under the Bernard Shakey name.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
The hosts discuss their tier rankings for Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starting with WandaVision as the first MCU TV show.
The hosts introduce their Christmas film tier list episode, ranking 19 movies from their podcast's 10-year history based on film quality and Christmas spirit.
Hosts Chris and Emmet conclude their series ranking top films of each year in the 2000s with 2009.
Chris and Emmet discuss the 1982 cult film 'Human Highway,' directed by Neil Young under the pseudonym Bernard Shakey.
Chris and Emmett review the 1995 pirate film Cutthroat Island, directed by Renny Harlan and starring Geena Davis, Matthew Modine and Frank Langella.
This episode discusses the 1989 film 'The Return of the Musketeers,' the third installment in Richard Lester's Three Musketeers series, exploring its connection to the original novels and previous movies.
The hosts discuss their top five films of 2009 as part of a series rounding out their favorite movies of the 2000s decade.
The hosts discuss the 2024 legacy sequel 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice', its long development history, and their initial reactions to it.
The hosts discuss the 2026 movie 'The Bluff', exploring its title meaning, creators, release on Prime Video, and their initial impressions from the trailer.
The hosts discuss the obscure 1989 animated series Ring Raiders, its brief five-episode run, and its connection to toys and comic books.
Chris and Emmett spend the week on Wolfman.
What We've Watched Podcast episode 471 treats The Four Musketeers (1974) as the second half of the Three Musketeers project that started in 1973.
Chris and Emmett use episode 470 to rank their top five films of 2008.
What We've Watched Podcast episode 469 covers My Man Godfrey (1936), a William Powell and Carol Lombard comedy directed by Gregory LaCava.
Episode 14 turns to Thundar the Barbarian.
This episode discusses Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, analyzing films like Iron Man 3 and exploring how this phase differed from Phase 1 in terms of storytelling and structure.
The hosts discuss creating an MCU tier list, revisiting their previous top five ranking and debating how to categorize Marvel movies and shows by phases like the Infinity and Multiversal Sagas.
The hosts celebrate their podcast's 10th anniversary by revisiting and comparing their top five movie lists from 2015, discussing how their opinions have changed over time.