Why Did We Watch This

The Drat Pack
Why Did We Watch This

Is there such thing as a movie so bad that it's beyond fixing? Leigh, Brendan, and Chris are pretty sure there isn't. Join them as they watch bad movies, talk about what did and didn't work, and try to improve these cinematic messes. Also, they make custom cocktails and drink a lot, too.

  1. DEC 9

    115 – The Polar Express

    At long last, the prophecy has come true- we’re finally discussing that Christmas white whale, that rotten chestnut, that ho ho holy hell what a piece of crap movie we’ve been threatening to do for years. That’s right, for our … Continue reading →

  2. NOV 25

    114.5 – Hallmark Christmas Movie Generator Game III

    ‘Tis the Christmas season (because Thanksgiving is boring and who cares, let’s just skip over that whole bit) and what better way to celebrate it than by a third session of our patented Hallmark Christmas Movie Generator Game (patent not … Continue reading →

  3. NOV 11

    114 – The 13th Warrior

    One must give credit to Michael Crichton, the man who created works of fiction that asked questions such as “what if Disneyland had dinosaurs” and “what if apes were jerks” and “what if Beowulf was boring and also laced with … Continue reading →

  4. OCT 28

    113.5 – Kevin Fantastical Degrees of Seven Bacon

    A mini episode in which Leigh, Brendan, and Chris start out discussing original fantasy movies, then muse about why there are so few good original fantasy movies, then play an impromptu and unplanned game of Kevin Degrees of Seven Bacon (an invented game based on something Leigh has dealt with from her parents where you have to determine what movie someone is trying to remember based only on the vague information they can muster up). We really cover a lot of ground here! Naturally we also introduce our next movie and accompanying cocktail, and boy is it… esoteric! Continue reading →

  5. OCT 14

    113 – A Haunting in Venice

    October is back and so is our annual Halloween Spooktacular! We’ve previously dealt with a murder AND a death, so it only makes sense that a haunting should follow suit- and this haunting is in VENICE, baby! Kenneth Branagh returns … Continue reading →

  6. SEPT 30

    112.5 – Reliable Rewatches (or: The Twin Demons of Capitalism and Nostalgia)

    As we slowly crawl to the end of another excruciating year, the Hallo-Thanks-Mas holiday corridor creeps up along with it. As is often the case with these periods, we sometimes fall back on tried-and-true movies to rewatch (or music to … Continue reading →

  7. SEPT 16

    112 – Love’s Labour’s Lost

    Rita Mae Brown’s definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. On an unrelated note, in this episode Leigh, Brendan, and Chris return to the filmography of Kenneth Branagh just to see how we … Continue reading →

  8. SEPT 2

    111.5 – Maladapted from a Video Game

    Remember a few weeks ago when the Borderlands movie came out and no one liked it and it flopped and we all agreed that there was no reason to talk about it ever again? Well, we're talking about it briefly. Or to be more specific, we're talking broadly about movies adapted from video games, a much-maligned niche that has only rarely ever resulted in a movie that can actually function on some level. Leigh, Brendan, and Chris muse about the innate difficulties of trying to adapt a video game in the first place, the problems that seem to affect most movie versions, and if there have ever been any successful ones in the first place (there's a few!). Join us again in two weeks when we cover some wildly different territory with a setting-shifted jukebox musical adaptation of a lesser Shakespeare play directed by someone whom we've talked about, uh, quite a bit. Hey nonny nonny! Continue reading →

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Is there such thing as a movie so bad that it's beyond fixing? Leigh, Brendan, and Chris are pretty sure there isn't. Join them as they watch bad movies, talk about what did and didn't work, and try to improve these cinematic messes. Also, they make custom cocktails and drink a lot, too.

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