What Were They Thinking?

This week, it's Mariah's turn to choose the doom & gloom and she brings back old stalwart Neil Breen with his 2016 manifesto Pass Thru. She also joins the fellas to help discuss the fake tiger, Breen's lengthy monologue on the evening news, the drug cartel leader's yell-acting, the useless subplot with the child astronomers and much, MUCH more. Next week: a long-promised film is finally delivered....

This week, Patty picks the movie for the guys and bestows upon them... Metro starring Eddie Murphy. Yes, it's the action/comedy with very little comedy that made the nation come together... and ask each other if they'd seen that new Eddie Murphy movie to which most people shrugged and walked away? After Nathan reveals his very personal connection to this film, the guys also discuss Michael Wincott...

The Worst of 2023 concludes and bookends our series with unnecessary sequels with The Exorcist: Believer, David Gordon Green's attempt to resurrect the series. The guys talk about this film disrespecting the original film by way of their abuse of Ellen Burstyn, having two possessed girls this time, the Linda Blair cameo, the Religious Avengers (TM Jason MacLeod) and much more. Next week: Patty giv...

The Worst of 2023 rolls forward with a breakdown of Oscar-winning writer/director Florian Zeller's followup to The Father... The Son. He went from winning an Oscar for Best Screenplay to... THIS!? Gabe Elder-Gomes joins the guys to break this baffling representation of mental illness from... someone else's perspective? What is happening? They discuss the gameshow environment and a very unprofessio...

The Worst of 2023 continues with a discussion of the polarizing film The Flash starring real-life criminal Ezra Miller. Resident comic book expert Josh Kotsabasakis joins the guys to discuss the film and attempt to avoid as many real-life Ezra references as possible. Why does this movie have so much spaghetti? Are the CGI babies the worst? And what about the rest of the CGI? Does this movie not ev...

We're back! The Worst of 2023 begins with the sequel to the hit Conjuring-verse horror flick - The Nun II. Is this one of the more unnecessary sequels in recent memory? How much preparation work was require for Valek's magazine stand scare? How should this movie connect to the Sister Act-iverse? Just how convoluted IS this universe? What is going on with Taissa Farmiga's hair... and why is it perf...

Enjoy one more festive rerun before we return from vacation! It's time to get festive up in here so the guys are joined by Steve and Izzy of Everything I Learned from Movies to discuss the Nicolas Cage crime-comedy Trapped in Paradise. They discuss everything including the crazy notion that Cage, Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey were cast as BROTHERS, the endless chase sequences, small business banks, D...

Enjoy this rerun while we are away on vacation! Tis the season! The guys present their Christmas episode with regular recurring Christmas guest Mariah Lirette as they discuss the Disney Plus Exclusive Home Sweet Home Alone. Does this movie really think that making the 'burglars' into a likeable cute family was the appropriate update for this film? Why does the movie keep forgetting that Jeff is a...

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It's the official kick-off of the holiday season here on What Were They Thinking? so the guys bring back resident Christmas expert Mariah Lirette to discuss the 1960s classic Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. They talk about the shoddy costumes and inconsistent makeup either fully covering or barely covering their faces, the legendary career of Pia Zadora, Santa Claus' bad stand-up comedy career,...

This week's movie is truly baffling as the guys look at the Christmas (adjacent) film Pottersville, which is somehow not about the fantasy town from It's a Wonderful Life. Nope, it's about a sasquatch... and the furry community? Nathan and Brendan of course discuss all the furries content (especially the Kubrickian dance party in the woods), a detail about Thomas Lennon's character that left a bad...

This week, the guys are joined by Galen Howard to wrap their heads around Kirk Cameron's brain and the film A Little Piece of Heaven, a joyful uplifting Christian movie in which children are kidnapped and convinced that they've died and gone to Heaven so they will hang out with Kirk's lonely developmentally delayed sister. Yup. With this being the wildest premise maybe ever featured on the show, t...

This week, the guys talk about a movie that has maybe the most amount of movie a movie ever movied. That's right, it's 1994's Blown Away starring Jeff Bridges and Tommy "Ireland's Finest" Lee Jones. Why is everyone doing the most insane accent? Are bomb squads sexy? How many rube goldberg terrorist bombs can one man build in the span of a couple of days? Are they using U2 songs as the theme for th...

Ready for the ultimate buddy movie team-up? Well, look no further than Laurence Fishburne and... Stephen Baldwin? Yes folks, let's Fled. Does this movie have the most convoluted inciting incident ever? How many save-the-cat moments can Dodge have in order to make sure people like him? Racist heart attacks? Is Salma Hayek doing a Duck Soup remake? All this and a lot of bad grammar in this week's ep...

Back to the usual grind this week now that spooky season has come to a close as the guys discuss The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. They're not alone though as they're joined by returning guest Sharon Horwatt, who knows an awful lot about this Disney franchise (is 2 movies enough for a franchise?)! Could John Rhys-Davies be playing a more cartoonish villain? What the hell is going on with C...

Schlocktober has come to a close but it's time for Nathan's favourite time of the year - Gamera's birthday! In Gamera vs. Barugon, our feisty turtle friend battles a giant lizard-dog thing with a very powerful tongue and a real appreciation for LGBTQ pride. Why do the characters keep pronouncing Gamera wrong? Is the dubbing kinda racist? How come there are no kaiju for the first 40 minutes and why...

Schlocktober concludes with a discussion of the absolutely pointless capper to the Ring trilogy... well... Rings. Could Vincent D'Onofrio give less of a damn? Why does this movie think Johnny Galecki is sexy? How come Samara has extra powers that only appear when they're convenient to the plot? An underground video-copying cartel!? All this and more! Next week: Turtle, turtle. What We've Been Watc...

Schlocktober rolls on with the ultimate battle of slasher greats as Freddy battles Jason in... well... Freddy vs. Jason. They talk about this ridiculous movie in-depth including Jason suddenly being terrified of water despite being underwater throughout many films, the bad Jason Mewes rip-off, Katharine Isabelle somehow not being cast as the lead of the film, the uncomfortable exchange between Fre...

Schlocktober continues with a discussion of the notoriously bad found footage movie The Devil Inside. What else can be said about this movie? Well, find out! The guys talk about rebellious young priests, outside bibles, the fakest mockumentary "news footage" ever, the infamous non-ending and of course, much more! Plus: WHY DO THEY KEEP FILMING? Next week: Schlocktober rolls on with a cinematic bat...

It's the spookiest time of the year - Schlocktober! The guys dive back into the first non-scam artists Conjuring-verse flick Annabelle and the road starts off... just a little bumpy. They talk about the weird cult subplot that should have been the main plot, the doll not being pleasant to look at for anyone to genuinely want in their house, Alfre Woodard breathing life into the film in the ninth i...

This week, Galen Howard joins the guys for a discussion of quite possibly the least sexy movie marketed as a sexy movie. Yes, that's right - the "sexually brilliant"Exit to Eden "starring" Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell. The guys talk about the addition of a diamond smuggling plot not present in the source material, Rosie's dialogue seemingly consisting entirely of improv, Sex Yoda, the disturbin...

This week, the guys are bestowed with a Patreon Pick from Everything I Learned from Movies in the form of Albert Pyun's Vicious Lips, a movie that seemingly has no purpose for its existence whatsoever. The discussion ranges all over the place including the lamest mass murderer of all-time, landing a huge music gig halfway through an audition, filming in Cher's bedroom, the infuriating twist that m...

This week, it's time to give out some awards! What were the most enjoyable movies we watched this year? What were the worst!? Cara Delevingne and a jellyfish should do what!? Next week: a pick from one of our patrons destroys our souls. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at wwttpodcast@gmail.com  Patreon: www.patreon.com/wwttpodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/wwttp...

This week, the guys are joined by Jason MacLeod to talk about Copperhead, a movie that Brendan got to be an extra in about 10 years ago! They talk all about the "fine people on both sides" style of writing, all the war sequences that we only hear about, Angus Macfayden's wild performance and much more. Plus: lots of stories from the set including the original lead actor that was fired, meeting a v...

There are five Thursdays this month and that means that it's time for a "Small-Screen Shameful." This time, the victim is the Danny Trejo vehicle, The Legend of La Llorona. After the guys figure out which La Llorona movie they are supposed to watch (there are so, so many, you guys!), they discuss the stereotypical accents that are heightened beyond believability, the ridiculous cartel subplot, And...