#56: Tetsuo/Hard Boiled

We take a look at two studies of the performance of masculinity: Bernardo Bertolucci’s classic The Conformist, and Doug Liman’s rootin’ hootin’ Road House remake. You're Gonna Hate It is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://werejustaskingquestions.wordpress.com/

We’re joined by returning guest Jared this week to discuss two tales of oppression and resistance: Mel Gibson’s Best Picture winner Braveheart and the mid-2000s Comedy Central staple The Hebrew Hammer. You're Gonna Hate It is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://werejustaskingquestions.wordpress.com/

We discuss Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation and the Steven Soderbergh silent, black and white cut of Raiders of the Lost Ark. You're Gonna Hate It is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://werejustaskingquestions.wordpress.com/

We return from our long hiatus to discuss John Ford’s elegiac revisionist Western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and the Steve Martin remake of The Pink Panther. You're Gonna Hate It is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://werejustaskingquestions.wordpress.com/

We’re back for the first time in a long time, with a discussion of Abbas Kiarostami’s seminal quasi-documentary Close-Up and Mike Myer’s era-defining comedy Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Also, Rob is pretty sure he mixed up Steven Wright and Steven Weber, but he is too lazy to go back and check. Only one of them was … Continue reading #57: Close-Up/Austin Powers → You're Gonna Hate It is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://werejustaskingquestions.wordpress.com/

We’ve been on a bit of a hiatus as we’ve been pursuing our post-grad degrees (Rob to help the nation’s youth, Matt to imprison them) but Rob forgot he had this one sitting on his hard drive for, like, several months. He doesn’t remember if he edited it, but he does remember he did an … Continue reading #56: Tetsuo/Hard Boiled → You're Gonna Hate It is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://werejustaskingquestions.wordpress.com/

The boys get wistful with Wong Kar Wai’s classic In the Mood for Love and then blow some shit up with the dark-as-night Michael Caine revenge flick Get Carter. You're Gonna Hate It is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://werejustaskingquestions.wordpress.com/

We double-dip into existential horror with the German Expressionist masterpiece The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and the VOD cheapie The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu. You're Gonna Hate It is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://werejustaskingquestions.wordpress.com/

This month’s picks present two, uh, dissimilar responses to evil in the world. In the first, Carol Reed’s classic postwar noir The Third Man, Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles reunite a decade after Citizen Kane to wade into a morass of moral ambiguity from which no one emerges clean. In Sylvester Stallone’s Cannon Films copaganda … Continue reading #53: The Third Man/Cobra → You're Gonna Hate It is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://werejustaskingquestions.wordpress.com/

Join us for our April discussion of The Man Who Would Be King, John Huston’s Connery/Caine joint that’s simultaneously a pretty great movie about racism and also pretty racist. We also take a look at the film that killed the SNL movie, MacGruber – Rob’s favorite movie about Will Forte dancing around with a piece … Continue reading #52: The Man Who Would Be King/MacGruber → You're Gonna Hate It is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://werejustaskingquestions.wordpress.com/