You Made Me Watch

Allyson was made to watch the 1987 sci-fi action rom-com Cherry 2000. Will she have the same love/hate relationship with it that star Melanie Griffith has or will she want to ask Mike for a Pepsi while stranding him in the desert? Mike sings the praises of Tim Thomerson, an even better "every man" action hero than Bruce Willis! Steve De Jarnatt, who wrote the cult comedy classic Strange Brew, dire...

Mike springs on Allyson a harsh truth; next week they're watching the Melanie Griffith sci-fi classic Cherry 2000! Allyson recommends the true crime podcast - YOUR OWN BACKYARD (yourownbackyardpodcast.com) Mike recommends the brilliant new Beavis and Butt-Head series on Paramount+ Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head - Comedy Central - Watch on Paramount Plus Cherry 2000 is currently streaming for fr...

Allyson has fond memories of seeing Flubber with two of her friends in high school. Will Mike make new fond memories or will he try to ruin the nostalgia Allyson has for this 1997 Robin Williams starring remake of The Nutty Professor? Mike also pitches Ted Levine as the new voice of Garfield and his idea for a horror movie about a haunted horny toaster. Did you know that Mike costarred in a short...

Allyson really disliked The World According to Garp. Granted, pregnancy hormones may have factored into that a bit. So this week she prepares Mike for Robin Williams in Flubber, not because she thinks it's a good movie, but because she wants sweet revenge. Surprise, surprise, she also recommends a true crime podcast. This time it's The Dropout. This ABC produced show follows the fall of tech scamm...

Mike loved the movie and watching it for the podcast inspired him to finally read the book. Will Allyson find this John Irving adaptation as insightful and moving as Mike? Mike read the 40-year anniversary edition of the book where Irving laments about how he hoped this investigation of the imbalance of genders would be a thing of the past, but it is unfortunately as relevant today as it was then....

Mike springs on Allyson a very underrated Robin Williams gem from the early 80s. Allyson recommends the Down The Hill: The Delphi Murders Podcast , salad making via TikTok and The Black Phone. Mike recommends the band The Sloppy Boys and the Apple Tv series Afterparty. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch...

Allyson makes Mike watch the 1995 Robin Williams led action film Jumanji. He enjoyed the first sequel, but will he enjoy the original as much? Mike finds a way to reference the softcore comedy porn Flesh Gordon yet again and discusses the planned sequels written by Adam Rifkin. Could Bonnie Hunt be any more delightful? Why don't we get to see her that often anymore? Does Kirsten Dunst have a Doria...

Allyson prepares Mike to watch the original Jumanji. He's only seen the sequel with Kevin Hart, so this will likely end up feeling like a Robin Williams prequel to him! Allyson sings the praises of the Channing Tatum/Sandra Bullock joint The Lost City. Mike recommends Vin Diesel's self-produced calling card short film Multi-Facial. Allyson promotes an obscure podcast called Last Podcast on the Lef...

Allyson finally watches Son of Rambow and learns a little about childhood Mike. Will she agree with him that this movie successfully captures the feeling of those early meaningful friendships or will the generation and gender gap not make it relatable at all. Mike schools us on ADR and the history of the Hammer & Tongs producing team. Will Allyson agree that right out of the gate in his film d...

Next week Mike and Allyson watch the final Hammer and Tongs collaboration Son of Rambow. Allyson watches Below Deck because "sometimes it's okay to watch trash". She's also listening to the Somewhere Underneath podcast. Mike watches the Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers movie and listens to Films to be Buried With with Brett Goldstei n podcast. And as a bonus recommendation, check out our friend John...

This is where it all began! Mike has never seen any of The Fast and the Furious movies. Will the chemistry between Vin Diesel and Paul Walker make him a fan right out of the gate, or will the franchise sputter out before it has a chance? Allyson lives her life a quarter mile at a time and has seen a quarter of these movies. Will this be as good as she remembers? Who's the big dick in the Rock vs V...

Mike somehow missed every Fast and the Furious movie. Allyson has seen a few. Next week, she's going to make him watch the first one. Is this going to take the podcast in a whole new direction? Could this become, what certainly couldn't be the first, Vin Diesel fancast? Allyson also spills Mike's dark secret about his relationship with Scientology. And take these a quarter recommendation at a time...

The character of John Rambo become the personification of rightwing machismo, but he didn't start off that way. Much like using the song Born in the USA to rally behind, the Rambo character is a broken man, a dehumanized killing machine, a Frankenstein monster created by the US government. The franchise suffers from the laws of diminishing returns, but will Allyson find enough there at the beginni...

Mike hides out in the woods with mud and dirt smeared all of his face and ambushes Allyson with First Blood, the first in a long series of John Rambo movies starring Slyvester Stallone. Allyson recommends a true crime podcast, to the surprise of no one who knows her: The Springfield Three: A Small-Town Disappearance | Podcast on Spotify She also watches the Netflix mini-series Inventing Anna. Mike...

I have looked into the eyes of evil and they were the eyes of Martin Short as a ten-year-old boy named Clifford. Allyson turns the sweet loving marriage she had with Mike into an abusive relationship as she makes him watch Clifford, starring Martin Short and the late Charles Grodin. It is, as Mike posted on Facebook, the most upsetting movie he's watched about a boy since The Boy in the Striped Pa...

Allyson springs it on Mike that they're going to watch the Martin Short film Clifford. Mike is less than thrilled. It's a movie he's actively avoided for years. Allyson also recommends the True Crime Podcast called The Clearing. Mike is really into the album Misfits Meet the Nutley Brass. If you want to let us know what you thought about Clifford, or you have a movie you think we should watch, let...

Find out what Allyson thought of 1987's The Running Man. And while you're at it, see if it lives up to the fond memories Mike had. Mike and Allyson also fantasy cast the upcoming Edgar Wright remake of the Running Man. William Harper Jackson as Ben Richards? Mike discusses the differences between the movie and the Richard Bachman (shhh...it's the worst kept secret in publishing) Stephen King's nov...

Mike prepares Allyson to watch the Arnold Schwarzenegger "classic" The Running Man next week. Allyson praises the Wondery Plus podcast The Wonderland Murders which dives deep into the story behind the porn legend John Holmes association with the brutal crime. Mike memorializes the late great Gilbert Gottfried and urges you to listen to Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, as well as the i...

After a year of making one another sit through movies, it's time for Mike and Allyson to award the other's picks! It's the only award show where In the Heat of the Night and Frankenhooker are eligible to win back-to-back awards! Will Allyson pick the Pimpbot from Ice Pirates as her favorite character or maybe the cannibals and the Viggo as having best chemistry? Maybe Mike will honor Julia Roberts...

My old high school friend Ted Craig stops by to watch Ice Pirates with us! Ice Pirates is pretty much the nail in the 1980s sci-fi adventure films. It just made it under the radar in 1984, making its budget back. A year later, it's likely to have been a PG-13 film and because of that, a huge flop. Ice Pirates' budget was cut in half during production and rewritten as a comedy. It stars the late gr...

Narcistic Julia Roberts tries to sabotage her best friend's wedding because she decides she wants what she can't have. Rupert Everett plays the prototype of the cliche gay best friend. Dermot Mulroney is kind of a creep. Cameron Diaz is actually pretty solid as the flighty fiancee. I guess it's pretty obvious based on that description what Mike thought of My Best Friend's Wedding. But can he convi...

Is it a teen stoner comedy or is it actually a pretty honest look at teenage sexuality disguised as a high school comedy? Allyson is pleasantly surprised to find Fast Times is more than just Sean Penn's Spicoli and Phoebe Cate's red bikini. Mike discusses the differences between the movie and the Cameron Crowe Fast Times at Ridgemont High novel. It's the Amy Heckerling debut that launched more tha...

Allyson reveals her schoolgirl crush on Joshua Jackson. Mike reveals his schoolboy crush on Jessica Tandy. The enduring awesomeness of Ryan Phillippe is uncovered. Sarah Michelle Gellar changes more than just her hair color. Mike and Allyson discuss 1999's Cruel Intentions. Allyson enjoyed it when she was in high school, Mike knew next to nothing about it. What will they think? If you want to let...

Allyson is a huge fan of the Last Podcast on the Left, where cohost Henry Zebrowski often speaks about satanism. So, Mike knew this 2019 documentary about The Satanic Temple would be right up Allyson's alley. Penny Lane's documentary follows The Satanic Temple's efforts to use activism and ingenuity to expose the severe lack of separation of church and state within the United States. It also shows...

In 1996, Baz Luhrman followed up his critically acclaimed Australian ballroom picture with his American blockbuster debut, a modernized adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. This is full of so many people who were on the cusp of breaking out into stardom like Leonardo DiCaprio, who up until this point was mostly known for gritty roles in independent movies like Basketball Diaries and...