You Made Me Watch

Allyson tests the bounds of her marriage to Mike by forcing him to watch Beethoven, a surprisingly dark kids movie. Can the always wonderful Bonnie Hunt be enough to save this movie from going to the back of the kennel and being put down? Is this the put upon dad role Charles Grodin was always meant to play? Is John Hughes a weirdo hack writer who just happened to get lucky a couple of times? Join...

Allyson picks the next movie she's going to make Mike watch. It's the 1992 John Hughes scripted Beethoven. Mike recommends comedian Dave Ross ' album "The Only Man Who Has Ever Had Sex". Allyson recommends The Unsolved Mysteries podcast. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which mov...

Weird Science ties together so many movies that Mike and Allyson have watched on the podcast. Will it stand the test of time? Will it shine new light on the life of John Hughes? Will Allyson be offended? Join our Facebook group for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next. Logo by...

Mike is about to subject Allyson to a 1980's "classic" that may or may not stand the test of time. Next week they're going to watch Weird Science! Allyson recommends Taylor Tomlinson's new Netflix comedy special "Look at You". Mike recommends Neal Brennan's new Netflix comedy special "Blocks". Join our Facebook group for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on...

It's crazy to think that as recently as 2005 it was still considered a gamble to let Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris lead a movie, but New Line did that and struck gold! This helped launch both actors on their paths towards super stardom. Sure, the fat jokes won't land well with today's ultra sensitive audiences, but the concept of someone being stuck in the friendzone is so universal that this movie...

Who doesn't love Ryan Reynolds? His first starring role was 2002's Van Wilder, a couple years later he has a scene stealing part in BladeTrinity, which arguably saves the movie. The following year he returns to romantic comedies and lead roles with Just Friends. Will this fat suit farce prove to be problematic? Did Ryan Reynolds' timing allow him to dodge the bullet of cancellation? Or will Just F...

Dennis stops by Christmas day to talk Finland's greatest Christmas horror export, the movie Rare Exports. Dennis is a huge horror fan. Will he be as delighted by this movie as Mike and Allyson? YULE has to listen to find out. Also, the three of us go on many, many tangents. In order to keep up you'll have to immerse yourself in the Attitude era of WWE wrestling history, the Canadian comedy export...

In 1987 Shane Black changed the face of cinema by making action movies more than just testosterone fueled set pieces to showcase muscles and pyrotechnics. His screenplay debut Lethal Weapon blended humor, complicated characters with...well...muscles and pyrotechnics. Nine years later he got a chance to not only write Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, starring Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr, but to direct it a...

We're officially in the Christmas season as I type this. We're well into the Christmas season as this releases though! Strangely, Die Hard is often debated as to whether it's a Christmas movie or not. The Christmasness of Die Hard always felt wedged in to me. In my mind, Shane Black's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang clearly is a Christmas movie. More than that. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a Christmas Classic! Mike...

Jodie Foster considers this the second in an extremely personal trilogy of films she directed. Little Man Tate and The Beaver round out that trilogy. The always excellent Holly Hunt goes home to spend Thanksgiving with her very dysfunctional family. Robert Downey Jr. is insanely wonderful and wonderfully insane as her black sheep brother. Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning play the parents doing ev...

We're a little late for Thanksgiving, but Allyson recommends what has a chance of becoming a Thanksgiving classic in the Bobbitt household. It's Jodie Foster's Sophomore directorial film, Home for the Holidays. Mike recommends comedian Nick Leydorf's album "Free Consultation". Follow Nick here ! Allyson recommends Allie Brosh's book Hyperbole and a Half. Follow Allie online here ! Join our Faceboo...

1985 is the summer that kicked off the box office rivalry between action powerhouses Slyvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Stallone had Rambo: First Blood Part 2 and Arnold had the fun version of that movie, Commando! Commando costars Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, David Patrick Kelly, Bill Duke, and a very odd Dan Hedaya accent. This was a movie Mike loved to the point that a grease paint...

This episode drops like David Patrick Kelly the day before Allyson's birthday! Mike abducts Allyson from LAX and takes her to the Sherman Oaks Galleria to prepare her for a 1980s action classic. Next week, they're watching Commando! Allyson recommends Derry Girls on Netflix...while Mike does a terrible Irish accent. Mike recommends good cries while listening to the Heavyweight podcast. Join our Fa...

Allyson makes Mike watch the 1999 Kevin Bacon thriller Stir of Echoes. It's a creative ghost story based on the 1958 Richard Matheson novel of the same name. Unfortunately, the timing of this big screen adaptation likely got lost in the shadow of the hugely popular M Night Shyamalan hit The Sixth Sense. Still, Stir of Echoes has some great qualities, namely the outstanding supporting cast that inc...

Allyson recommends a Kevin Bacon movie to watch next week that Mike knows absolutely nothing about. Join us to watch Stir of Echoes. Allyson recommends the Michelle McNamara true crime book I'll Be Gone in the Dark. Find out more about the late McNamara's incredible career here: True Crime Diary Mike recommends the UK hardcore punk duo Bob Vylan. Their music is available online, but check out thei...

Mike and Allyson asked their friend Dennis Burdziak for something "fucked up" to watch for their Halloween episode. Dennis delivered with an absolutely trippy mindfuck of a heavy metal descent into madness starring Nicolas Cage. Mandy was written and directed by Panos Cosmatos. It not only serves as a bizarre love letter to all things dark and metal, but also the over-the-top action movies his fat...

Mike made a terrible mistake. This week he and Allyson watch the big screen adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, when in reality it was the Pirate Movie Mike meant for them to watch. Uh-oh! When life gives you lemons, make a murder podcast. Mike tries to salvage the episode by taking a deep dive into the complicated life and death of Penzance's Modern Major General George Ro...

Sharon Bobbitt joins Mike and Allyson for this special Halloween bonus episode of You Made Me Watch. Sharon, who I'll refer to as "my mom" here on out, read the Stephen King novel Salem's Lot when it first came out in the late 70s. She was disappointed by the made for television two-part event that premiered on CBS in 1979, but was eager to revisit it to see how it holds up. Mike has very vague re...

Allyson and Mike are hopefully (and foolishly) optimistic about Mike's pick for a movie next week, the adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. Mike drinks Allyson's murder podcast Kool-Aid and recommends a Dateline podcast called Killer Role . Allyson breaks her norm and recommends the amazingly hilarious comedy podcast Homerphilia — Planet Ant . Mike and Allyson also highly endo...

Allyson grew up on Steven Spielberg's sequel to Peter Pan and she absolutely adores it. Mike was already a cranky old man at 19 years old in 1991 when this was released, and he skipped it completely. It's another Robin Williams entry in the You Made Me Watch archives. Will Mike like this as much as Allyson and so many other people in their 30s, or will he side with Spielberg himself and give this...

It was once explained to me that what makes Tiger Woods such a good golfer isn't the fact that he's the best, but the fact that he's very consistent. That can be said for Steven Spielberg too. I can't think of any movie he's made that's bad. All of them are somewhere between great and really good. 1941 was a flop at the box office, but it's really no worse than any of the other cocaine fueled John...

Mike had a pretty good hunch Allyson was going to love this movie about a woman who just gets fed up with people being assholes all the time. I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is Jeremy Saulnier's main collaborator and best friend Macon Blair's dark comedy starring the always amazing Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood. Both are phenomenal and we can't wait to see them together in the next se...

I'm keeping the name of the next movie out of the title of the episodes going forward so you can find out the same time one of us does, which movie we're watching next week. Next week Mike makes Allyson watch writer/director/actor Macon Blair's 2017 Netflix original about a woman who just wants people to stop being assholes. Blair has said his film I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is the...

Rob Reiner had a pet project that he waited almost a decade to have enough pull in Hollywood that he could get this made. He wanted to adapt his friend Alan Zwiebel's novel North, about an exceptional kid in search of new parents, into a major motion picture. In spite of its pretty stellar cast including Elijah Wood, Jon Lovitz and Bruce Willis, the movie flopped hard. Will Mike agree with both Si...

Next week Allyson makes Mike watch the notorious Rob Reiner flop North. Mike knows very little about this other than the fact that Elijah Woods stars and the ad campaign featured his character walking on a giant globe. Will Mike agree with all the critics that this was a huge disappointment, or will he find this surprisingly charming? Mike recommends people, especially those in America who may onl...