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A fake kidnapping shouldn’t draw blood, but that’s exactly why Game Night hits so hard—and why we had a blast unpacking it. We jump into the film’s quicksilver humor, then follow the trail of red herrings, real danger, and one very weird neighbor who somehow steals the entire show with a pressed uniform and a dog named Bastion.

If you love tight writing, visual wit, and comedies that actually stick the landing, you’ll get a lot from this one. Hit play, then tell us your undefeated party game and your favorite gag from the film. Subscribe, drop a quick rating, and share this with a friend—what’s your top board-game pick for the perfect game night?

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SPEAKER_02:

Hello and welcome to the We Recommend Podcast, a movie podcast where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch, and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse. I'm Jason. You know, you don't have to do this, because I can just poop it out. Cause this week we recommend Game Knight. Hell yeah, bro. So, Jason, what'd you think of game night?

SPEAKER_00:

It was pretty funny. I liked it. It was entertaining.

SPEAKER_02:

It's got so this is the first time watching, right?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

It's kind of what did you ever hear of this movie before? No. Is that not a shame? It's like the last great R-rated studio comedy that came out, because otherwise, there hasn't been any that's made money or has been popular. Yeah, me and this movie's kind of like made for like me and my wife. We love board games and stuff. We love Jason Bateman. Um he's getting older, isn't he?

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

So is Matt Damon. He doesn't really like yeah, Matt Damon's starting to look at, but I feel like Jason Bateman, he's he's kind of holding it back well.

SPEAKER_00:

He just I think he seems younger to me because of his his charisma, maybe. I don't know. Yeah. Maybe just the way he is.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't know. It's just his sarcasm keeps him young.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Jason Bateman's. Looking forward to any Thanksgiving game nights?

SPEAKER_02:

No, we don't really do anything game night wise on Thanksgiving. I mean my family used to, like my on my mom's side, they used to play games, but now I guess all the kids got older, so no one of them really liked to play card games or anything. That's where I learned about like phase 10 and Skippo and games like that. They always had those. What's a what's a staple game night game for you and your family?

SPEAKER_00:

Growing up on my dad's side, we would always play poker for real money. Not oh, that's good. I got introduced to gambling super early. I loved it. Yeah. It's okay. I think this year we're gonna play um we always play scategories. Like a pass like I think it's scategories where you pa we pass around the handheld like things, got buttons and a timer on it, and gives you the it gives you like a prompt and then you have to like figure it out, something like that. Yeah. You you have to with but you're just talking, I guess. So you're trying to explain what you're the word you're seeing without saying the word.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

It's pretty fun.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, I think we played that over um actually on vacation. I think we like the house that we had just had like random that had like a closet full of board games. Yeah. None of them were interesting, really. But then there was like scatteries and we played it, and I was like, oh shit, this is fun.

SPEAKER_00:

We also bought like a cards against humanity thing, but it's for like families. Yeah. So it's kind of it's dialed back a little bit, but it's not it's not the same, but it's similar, very similar.

SPEAKER_02:

That's a game where I've kind of I played it so much that I'm like I don't really, I don't really find it funny anymore. It was really funny like the first, you know, like few years I played it. And then just kind of got to it. I'm like random, ha ha ha. And plus I'm like, I don't know how to make this funny. It's just too tame for you now. It's too tame. I need something crazier. Or it's like, I mean, I guess it's fun whenever like I'm around people I know that I'm like, oh, I know their sense of humor. I can do this and this will work. Then half the time I'm always just like, I don't have anything good, so I just like keep throwing my cards away. And then I'm like, I just don't think I know how to play this game very well. Right. Um, so I want to talk about Gary. Right? Yes, isn't all kind of like the best performance of the whole movie? He's so funny. Yeah, he's so weird. And that's Jesse Plemens who I like the first time I noticed him was in Breaking Bad. Did you ever where he was like the guy that looks like Matt Damon, like in the later seasons? Everybody's like, it's redheaded Matt Damon. And then it turns out this guy just becomes a great fucking actor, and he's like nominated every year for an Oscar and everything. But his oh man, I just love how's that profitable for Frito Lay. His dog Bastion.

SPEAKER_00:

It's so great. And we have So that's not Matt Damon. I really thought it was Matt Damon.

SPEAKER_02:

You thought that was Matt Damon? Is that why you're talking about Matt Damon? No, that's Jesse Plumens. He looks like Matt Damon.

SPEAKER_00:

I just thought maybe they just did his makeup weird and make him look kind of crazy. Oh, is this a little bit bigger, Matt Damon? Okay, that makes a lot more sense now. I feel really dumb.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, and he even almost kind of sometimes sounds like Matt Damon, which is the weird part as well. I should really look at the credits sometimes. But yeah, he's oh man, the first time I watched it, I was like, this guy goes. He's so hilarious. When he constantly walks around with his dog and he's in his cop outfit, even like in the pictures towards the end of the credits, he's like taking, he's like got pictures with Debbie, and he's like you could just tell you could see his blue little officer shirt, and he's like, Is that all he wears?

SPEAKER_00:

It's always pressed and like ironed and yeah. No, but when they come to his house and he he's like, Great, come on in. He doesn't even say come on in, he just walks back into the darkness.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, everybody's like, should we go in?

SPEAKER_02:

It's like I'm scared, I don't want to. Oh, it's so great. Um, and we have to talk about maybe probably my favorite bit of the whole movie, and that's with Lamorne Morris, who is uh Winnie the Bish and New Girl, and it starts off with like that's a strong glass table. And then this it happens again when they throw in the Fabrije egg, and it's like glass table's acting weird tonight.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, because it should have shattered three times.

SPEAKER_02:

It's like who fucking comes up with that? Is that like on the day like they come up with that, or is that just you know, someone is just like, what if we had a glass table that never broke? And yeah, and they're like, let's just have something clever about it.

SPEAKER_00:

That is really clever.

SPEAKER_02:

It's wild, it's great. So, who is your favorite character in the movie? Yeah, I think and why was it Bastion?

SPEAKER_00:

Maybe Gary. Oh, Bastion was pretty good. Gosh. He's so dumb.

SPEAKER_02:

He's such a little cute doggo. Just gets blood all over him, and he's like, let me wipe him off with something white. Uh oh. Oh, and then you got the the scene where they're like trying to cut out. It it always works when people like dry heave. So they're trying to cut out the bullets.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh dog, you're gonna make me it's always, always funny. You know, and Welcome to Dairy, they've they use a lot of puke, like throwing up. Oh, really? God, I gotta get on to that show.

SPEAKER_02:

I've only seen the first episode. I need to keep going.

SPEAKER_00:

I think that's what made it R-rated. What the all thing is. The drive.

SPEAKER_02:

I just think that for for this movie, scene to scene, um, one-liners, they're it's fantastic. I mean, the just the amount of jokes is in every scene is wild, and how likable all the characters are is great. Rachel McAdams, who's just like been in my life forever. She's amazing. Just in all the because I it feels like she's been in the ever since the 2000s, she's been in movies that are kind of directed towards my age group. I feel like so. As she's like gotten older, her movies have also like been pinpointed to me throughout like growing up. Interesting. Starting with like Mean Girls, high school stuff, and then like all the rom coms that I had to watch with like past girlfriends. Yeah. And then she's even in Dave, the TV show with little dick, little Dickie. Nice. And she like makes an appearance, she's hilarious in that. And then like game night, it's like, holy shit, she's hilarious. Um, I love how competitive she is. Yeah, so funny. Do you know anybody that's that competitive? No. Yeah. I usually um I'm not like too competitive with board games. I really want to win, and then if I'm really having fun, I'll start like fuck every time I like mess up or something bad happens to me, and I'll start yelling. It's like my favorite thing is when we play like the Jackbox games on our Nintendo Switch. There's like the murder trivia one. I really want to try those. And like every time, like it'll get to like where we'll play like four or five times, and I'm always like, I'm playing this till I win, and then we can quit playing this. Like it's so aggressive while playing those games. Like, God.

SPEAKER_00:

Did this movie ever make you feel like you're watching a board game? Like, cause whenever they would it looks like the uh drone shots, but it looks like miniatures.

SPEAKER_02:

Thank you, Jason, for bringing that up. Especially since it's my first factoid that I have. So the camera, the lens that they use is a tilt shift lens, is used to give several wide aerial shots the miniaturized look of the game of life board game.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, that was pretty cool. And then when they're running through the house, yes, it looks kind of like Clue. Yeah. Like the wealthy house.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. And so like throughout the game, uh throughout the movie, they do kind of uh, you know, um game-like things. Uh like they do charades. Yeah. And then you have um Jenga. When they're th when they're throwing like the egg that's a hot potato. Oh. And there's another one. I just can't think of it off the top of my head. But it was kind of like they're I mean, and the whole thing's pretty much clue, they're trying to figure out a mystery, essentially. Um so another thing, prior to filming, the cast members had their own game night so they could get to know one another and prepare for the film. They played Clue and Joking Hazard, which I've never heard of. Never heard of that one. What do you think about the game, Clue?

SPEAKER_00:

It used to be one of my favorites. I used to fucking love Clue.

SPEAKER_02:

I I'm either I'll win really fast or I will be completely off because I I pay attention to what other people are saying. Yeah. And like marking off, and I'll like I try to piece together. I'm like, all right, well, this thing's already been said a couple times. So they would already know that. And then it's like I just kind of start going by off what other people are doing. So I'll be either like pinpoint accurate or totally off.

SPEAKER_00:

And then I never get to guess. My brother always did. My older brother, he would always guess like almost right away. Really? So pissed.

SPEAKER_02:

You know what? That's somebody that's cheating at the game of clue, Jason.

SPEAKER_00:

Maybe he looked at the cards while you weren't looking. That and like the one what was the one? Who? Guess who? Guess who, yeah. Yeah, he would always want it.

SPEAKER_02:

That one's all that one was fun as a kid. I think maybe he was looking into like reflection of my glasses. They kind of have a it's almost kind of a new version of it. Um it's called code names. If you haven't played that, that's really fun. Do you just get like 50 cards and uh you have this little thing and you're you have your own words and you can only say like one word um that will help them guess that your available uh cards that you have. But there's like a bunch of cards and they all could be kind of related, so you have to pick your words carefully. And then you can be like times two if there's like two of them that go with that hint. It's a really fun game. That sounds cool. Like if you ever come over for a game night, we'll have to play that. It's one of my favorites.

SPEAKER_00:

I want to bring Camel Up.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Never heard of that one.

SPEAKER_00:

It's awesome. It's great for big like big parties of people. Really? Like Camel Up. I think we had 12 people. You gotta drink a lot of water.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, between rounds, you have to drink like an entire gallon of water.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. It's great.

SPEAKER_02:

Um, one of my favorite lines of this movie is when Max and Annie make a joke about child actors not amounting to much. Uh, and Bateman was a famous child actor. Oh shit. He's been in the business like for since he was a kid. Because he was on roles in Silverspoon and Valerie, among others. Never heard of him. Yeah, me neither. But he was he was in a show. I just can't remember what it's called. And he's also in Teen Wolf 2. Nice. Yeah. So Brooks is known for being unbeatable at games during the game night, right? Um, and uh during the name game scene, you can spot him actually cheating. When the group makes any guess, he immediately says it's correct, crumbles the paper, and tosses it behind him. No one ever knows if he was right. Man. He's the same. Yep, got me. Got him. Damn. It's great. Um, the house that Max, uh Bateman's uh or the house that Max's brother Brooks rents and the mystery begins is the same house where Michael Keaton's vulture lives in Spider-Man Homecoming. Game night was directed by the writers of Homecoming, John Francis Daly and Jonathan Goldstein. So yeah, they also wrote it and they're like, hey, we got this great house for you to use.

SPEAKER_00:

Hell yeah. Yeah. We've only got it for another 30 days. We s we can film a Spider-Man movie. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh when the Bulgarian, Michael C. Hall, Dexter Fame baby. Oh, the first time I watched it and he popped up, I was like, oh my God. Actually, not the first time I watched it. Notice that he acts pretty similar to Dexter, though. I just I think that's just because of that's his face. Well, so when he is revealed, there's a possible nod to Hall's previous and well-known character, psychopath Dexter Morgan from Dexter. In this scene, he takes Brooks captive and an asks asked by his accomplice if the other should live. He responds by saying they've done nothing wrong and points to Brooks' head and says playfully, only this one, in the same manner Dexter would often do this to his victims before he murdered him. Nice.

SPEAKER_00:

It was a good show. I just don't remember much of it.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Um it is the show's guy, you know. It's like whether it's good seasons, or's it's bad seasons. It really just fucking just just they did not know how to end the show. They're like and they still don't know how to end the show. They just keep doing more dexter stuff, and it's like, okay, they can kill forever. He can kill forever. It's like he kind of just has to die.

SPEAKER_00:

Now he has to train his son how to kill.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. It's like that would be wild. Which, you know, I think they did a sequel. I I've only watched like the main series when it was out, and I know they've done more, and I think there is a season where he has a kid and it's just like that's just uninteresting to me.

SPEAKER_00:

It's the it's Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. I was gonna try to do like an impression. I can't even remember a single thing. I watched that show so many times, and I've never seen it. I can't remember a single thing from it. Alright, Jason, I think we should uh get started. What you think? All right, let's do it. But before we do, I want you to think at home, what's the point of this movie? I mean, it's a comedy, so it's not like too deep, but um, think about what this movie's trying to say. And also, uh, you can tell us that by going in the link in the description, clicking that, and telling us what you think. But also tell us what your favorite board games are. Yeah. I would love to I will I love game nights, so tell me what your favorite thing is to play and something that maybe other people haven't ever heard of. Um I'm right now kind of obsessed with a game board game called Horrified. It's all it's got all the classic universal monsters, and you gotta play against them. That's really fun. It's a cooperative game, it's really great. Um, and if you can't click the link at the top of the description, go to the bottom, you can see our email. It's we recommend mailbag at gmail.com. All right, Jason, let's get into game night 2018. So, competitor gamer Max and Annie meet during trivia night at a bar.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, the guy she's dating.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Tinky. It's also a tinky winky meat cute. Never get a lot of Telotoby meat cutes, right? Uh they quickly fall in love and get married. Uh, you got um great transitions between uh like the scenes. Um there are they high-five says revolution at the time. They high-five Hitler. Um they're they're playing uh is it charades, I guess, and they're kind of they keep pointing at like this feel guy, and they're like, oh wait, single. Harry. This is like, all right, guys, come on. Um and then it can't keep a job. And then it ends with uh him asking her to marry her.

SPEAKER_00:

That was really cute.

SPEAKER_02:

And then they have a DDR wedding.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Which is great. I've tried playing DDR. I can't. I have no rhythm. I'm so bad at it. No rhythm. Well, that game is I don't even think that game is a rhythm game because it's just wild. Well, you have to like be able to do the beats that boop, boop, boop. I don't know what kind of rhythm you have to have to play that game. I don't have it.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh the one that white boys like me and you don't have.

SPEAKER_00:

No. They need a game where you just bite your bottom lip and stand on two squares.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Why are you biting your lip?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, you bite your bottom lip. That's how you do good movies when you really get into it.

SPEAKER_02:

And then you just you just have something like next to your head and you just bob your head, and that's what touches the arrows. Um, so they're trying to have a child, but their attempts are unsuccessful due to Max's stress surrounding his feelings and inadequacy when compared to his vastly more successful attractive brother Brooks, who is coming to town. Um the semen doctor, whatever you call him. And um, yeah, I'm not loving your semen. And then like they just keep kind of going on and on about like all the Jason Bateman's insecurities, and they're like, Are you a therapist or a doctor? Treat the whole person. Treat the whole pay and then eventually start asking about Brooks, and she's like, So is he like single? And it's like, I'm really looking to move on here. This is a horrible doctor, yeah. And then we do like the cut to the house, and this is where we get the great like miniature transitions of the house. This movie looks fucking fantastic. Yeah, it's a great action movie at the same time, and it's just like the cinematography is fucking wonderful, dude. It's amazing. Um, so they arrive home before their game night, but Gary comes outside just standing out there with the dogs, like just still as can be. And he's got like this monotone, creepy way of talking. Um so they don't they don't want to hang out with him. It's all hilarious. He asks about plans and they lie and say they aren't doing anything. It's very awkward. And um, as they're about to go inside and they lift up like three Tosino bags, he says, it's like, oh, having a game night. He's like, uh no. It's like three bags of chips. Like, oh, buy one, get two off. Um it's like three for one? How can that be profitable for Frito Lake? And I love at the end with all the credits because it they go and like he's like, you know, he has all the little knot notes like in his little basement office or whatever during the credit scene, and it's got three for one.

SPEAKER_00:

His marriage something's oh. Oh, wait, no, no, no. Yeah, with the strings tied to everything. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Um I was thinking about his room that got blood splattered.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. So Gary, he's humorless, awkward former police officer, or awkward police officer who stopped being regularly invited when his wife, a former friend of the couple, divorced him. They're like, Yeah, we didn't really like Gary. We liked his wife. Oh man.

SPEAKER_00:

That sucks for Gary.

SPEAKER_02:

Um, Max and Annie's friends start show up and start sneaking into the house. Ryan and his uh like his Instagram girlfriend, like he just like completely destroys like a plant they have in their windowsill. Ryan's hilarious. This guy crazy.

SPEAKER_00:

And then they come in the back window too. Yeah. Just use the door.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, they can't because they have to. Well, I guess they could use the back door, right?

SPEAKER_00:

He said to just use the sneak in the door.

SPEAKER_02:

Like so during Max and Annie's routine weekend, game night with their friends Ryan, uh, Kevin, and his wife Michelle. Ryan always brings models and they're not very bright girls. Um, Ryan brings up how rich people have fight clubs.

SPEAKER_00:

Sure, that won't come in later. Because yeah, he believes everything he reads on BuzzFeed.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh the friends talk up Brooks and kind of diss Max while doing so. Classic. And yes, he he he he can't have a baby because he thinks about his brother too much. Classic, you know. Brooks shows up and immediately shows up Max uh by arriving in a Corvette stingray and sharing an embarrassing childhood story during straight. Max tried to use bungee cords so he could try to blow himself and he gets stuck, and his mom finds him.

unknown:

Oh god.

SPEAKER_02:

So embarrassing. Um, just some of the lines in here. They Brooks calls Max Maxipad. It's like, ugh, fuck you, dude. Um, like when he goes to hug him, he's like, Hmm, oh, your hair smells good. Is that uh head and shoulders? And he's like, Why do you gotta think of that as the danger shampoo? And then uh Ryan, like after the whole uh bungee quartz story, he's like, So did you suck it? He's really interested. He's probably never tried it. Yeah, and uh so Brooks is good at charades uh quotation and shows up Max when uh Max chokes. Motherfucking Ed Norton. And it's funny, they were just talking about Fight Club. All you had to say is Fight Club.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, he could have said a lot of things, but it's just like he only focuses on his his wife, but not his other teammates, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And he um he show he chose the Hulk, the least memorable Hulk out of all of them, because nobody remembers Ed Norton as Hulk.

SPEAKER_00:

It was my favorite Hulk.

SPEAKER_02:

I know he's a good Hulk, too. It's good. He's probably like the best actor out of all the people that have played Hulk. Yeah, Mark Ruffalo is really good, but Edward Norton's just been crusher. So Annie also finds Brooks extremely obnoxious and decides to work together with Max to defeat him at the upcoming game night, which Brooks offers the host at his house. He's renting while visiting. This will be a game night to remember. And then they're kind of like when talking about how much they hate him, it's like she's kind of getting really fired up and they're like, yeah, we're gonna like beat the shit out of him. It's like, what made you change your mind about Brooks? Like, now he's messing with your balls. Um and on the way to game night, Gary surprises them outside. He brings up Debbie. I like to think she left the recipe for good. Uh, Will, but it was most likely an oversight. And then the dog starts licking him in the face. It's like, what? So weird. Um, and then like they're kind of driving to the to the game night house. Uh, and he says, A guy who rents a house this big must be making up for something pretty small. I say, Max, no, no, I've seen his dick. It's pretty great. Annie, well, I tried. It's like, just give her a win, man. Yeah. Uh so Max, uh, uh Rachel McAdams, Jason Bateman have just spectacular. Great story. Yeah. So when the guests arrive, including Ryan's new date, Sarah, Brooks says he initiated an interactive role-playing Mr. Graham, promising the winner his stingray. Um, it's like, yeah, here's my girl, say uh your girl Sarah. It's like, uh, you know she's smart because she's British. He's like, I'm not British, I'm Irish. It's like, well, same thing. It's like, no different island.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, so he's like, same island. It's like, no, not really.

SPEAKER_02:

He's like so dope. Yeah, compared to her, he's an idiot. And the whole time he's like, you see, I'm not, I don't have just one type. He just brought her just the just the it's like I can be with smart people.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, to try to win the game. Yeah. Does this remind you of the the movie The Game a little bit?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it actually does. Michael Douglas. That'd have been a great double feature. That will. Yeah, that's a fun movie. It's a little silly. Especially when it gets to the end and it's like, I would fucking when he tries to kill himself. I would start hitting people. I would just go through and punch every single person that was involved in this scenario. So we see people outside the house talking about kidnapping. Um, then uh um Jason Max's character, Max was in the bathroom, he comes out, and then like Brooks comes up and he has a knife at him like that. Like, and it gets like straight at his chest. He's like, Who holds a knife like that? It's an aggressive way to hold a knife. So uh during Never Have I Ever, um, because they're waiting for the guy to come up. Um, so there's like, we're gonna play a game or a drinking game. They're playing Never Have I Ever, and Michelle reveals that she slept with a celebrity, and they have been together since junior high. Uh but they did have a break for a little bit. So funny. You just can't let it go. Yeah, so then this is where like Kevin's like, I'm never letting this go. So after a while, an actor playing an FBI agent informs them of the narrative of the mystery, only for two masked men to break in and assault him. It's played by Jeffrey Wright, by the way. They said assault him and Brooks, the guest believing it's part of the game. I'd be watch.

SPEAKER_00:

He's getting his ass beat.

SPEAKER_02:

They're all like, Wow, this is really realistic. This is great.

SPEAKER_00:

And this is where we get like at any point he could have said, Hey, this this isn't supposed to happen. Yeah, well, I think physical violence.

SPEAKER_02:

Because he's supposed to get kidnapped, and they're just he's just like, wait, why are they fighting me so much?

SPEAKER_00:

He's like, I know you're meta, but yeah, kicking my door like that.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh yeah. And he gets beat up. They just watch uh this is where we get the table not breaking. He's like, that's a strong glass table.

SPEAKER_00:

Really is.

SPEAKER_02:

Um, and then uh when the FBI agent came in, um uh Ryan says, like, sunglasses at night. This is legit. Um, and then I love like they're while the fight's going and it's getting more intense, like I mean, they're just beating the shit out of each other everywhere. Um, Max is like, ooh, guys, did you have any of this cheese? You have to have some of the cheese. It's so good. But then after Brooks is dragged out of the house, the couples begin to solve the mystery using the clues left behind by the actors. Oh, and like the guy's laying on the ground. Ryan just starts kicking him. She's like, Man, he's a really good actor. So method. So uh so while Kevin and Michelle play the game fairly, Max and Annie track down Brooke by using his phone's GPS location while Ryan and Sarah track down the company in charge of managing the game, hoping to find the answer there. And bribe the answer out of here. Max thinks this is uh Max thinks this is a way for him, Brooks to humiliate him, though. So, uh oh yeah, and they're like, they're driving to the bar, and he's like, Yeah, we're gonna beat him, yeah, and we're gonna take him down, and then we're gonna make a baby. And he's like, Yeah, and then we're gonna make them watch. He's like, whoa, whoa, that's honestly that's too far. That's too far. I'm not into that. Um, and then uh Ryan locks Kevin and Michelle in a room, they just like push the thing in front of them. And then Kevin's like, You gotta you got a match room to burn the door down. He's like, All right, that's a little too far. It's funny. He's like, um Lamar and Morris, he's so good at just being overreacting to small situations. It's great. So Max and Annie track down Brooks down to a CD bar and see one of the kidnappers there. They discuss having kids. Uh, they see Brooke tied up in the back office of the bar, uh, using a pistol left behind by Brooks during the struggle, which they believe to be fake. They manage to take the keys to the storage closet where Brooks is being held.

SPEAKER_00:

And then so funny when they're passing the gun to each other, dropping it, holding it the wrong way.

SPEAKER_02:

And then we get to like the uh Rachel McAdams, her character does like the pulp fiction bit. Um, and then like they're kind of she's talking to uh the the bald guy, the one of the bald guys that are the uh kidnappers, and he's like, It's like all right, you bald bitch. Or like he's being really mean, and it's like uh then she's like, I'm sorry I called you a bald bitch.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, because does it Jason Vavan say something?

SPEAKER_02:

Like, yeah, don't be so mean. Yeah, it's like I'm sorry I called you a bald bitch. And then they're like, she they're trying to tell them how to get down. They're like, they're like, all right, put your hands in the air, and then put your head on the ground and your hand behind your head. It's like, wait, which what do you want us to do? And they're like, Have you ever seen the yoga pose chalapose? Then she gets down and it's like, all right, you should be filling in your lower back here. So great. So Kevin tries guessing the celebrity Michelle slept with. He guesses Tommy Lee Jones. She's like, ugh. Oh, yeah, gross. And then does, and then Denzel. Um, and she's like, no, not Denzel. And then he starts doing his Denzel impression, which Lamar Morris is really good at it, and it's great. Uh and like this whole time he's trying to escape, like through a sunroof in the house, and then it gets up, then it falls before getting busts the door through the door. Yeah. She's like, that doesn't look sturdy. My favorite thing is, uh, it is this. This is what this movie's so good at. I'm sure this is probably like an improv line. Like when he's falling, he falls and hits the ground. He's like, baby, I fell down. Yeah. It's like just small fucking stupid lines. Stupid lines like that just fucking kill me in this movie. Baby, I fell down. It's like, nah duh, nah duh, dude. Oh shit. Um, so Ryan and Sarah show up before the game was created where he reveals this wasn't an actual date. Um, when they go in, they think Chelsea Paretti is dead, but she was in makeup and sleeping. I love Chelsea Paretti. And then like they get up at, or she's like, she's like, yeah, I was a part of uh one of the murder mysteries. Like, why did they need a dead dead pregnant woman? It's like, oh no, I'm just actually pregnant. It's like, aww. It's so good. Um, so they asked for a clue, she won't give it, so they start giving her money. All right, let's change our mind. Slowly, slowly slides it. It's a$10 bill. She's like, no. It's like, all right, how about this? Slowly slides a$5 bill. Oh boy. And then a set a$1 bill, and then finally another$1 bill. And Sarah's like, it doesn't matter how slowly you slide the thing over. It's not gonna change anything. Then Chelsea Buretti's like, I'll take$100. And then he doesn't have any more money, cash. She's like, she has to give it to me.

SPEAKER_00:

How much do you have?$17. She takes it.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. It's so good. So back at the house, Kevin and Michelle learn that Brooks was kidnapped by the wrong people. Sarah and Ryan also learn this because uh Jeffrey Ride's character gets up and like the other kidnappers come in. They're like, huh, what the hell? Um, Annie dances to some music with the gun, thinking it's all fake. She's just like you pointing at their faces while dancing. Uh they get the keys and go to rescue Brooks after Annie mistakenly fires the gun and shoots Max in the arm, confirming the legitimacy of the danger. The three escape where Brooks admits that he actually makes his living buying and selling things on the black market, in particular a Faberge egg sought by a man who known only as the Bulgarian and is owned by a and is owned by a man using the alias Marlon Freeman. You shot me!

SPEAKER_00:

He just like keeps saying that. And then there's blood coming out. He's like, oh blood. Oh blood.

SPEAKER_02:

So with his captors in pursuit, Brooks exit the moving car to guarantee Max and Annie's escape. Um so yeah, they have like this great like uh chase scene. And like when that happened, I was like, damn, this movie like has pretty good action in it. Like this is pretty good chase. I mean, just for like a random like studio R-rated comedy, I was like, oh, this this movie like legit has some good action. By the second one, I was like, okay, this is great.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it really does, especially uh the airplane scene.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Uh and they start talking um about his arm and how he needs like a doctor. He's like, we should go to a mob doctor. Yeah, do you know one of the doctors? Do you know one of those? It's like, all right, maybe we should go to like a veterinarian that like helps the mob. It's like, why do you keep going to the mob? Do you know any of these? So Max and Annie that go to like a convenience store to bandage Max's arm. She gets stuff to bandage the wound, like champagne and a squeaky toy. Probably not, dude. He's gonna lose that arm by the end of this movie. But I love that he gets a little squeaky toy. Yeah, put you on. And then he gets a magazine, it's like, oh, I found a great chowder recipe. And I know you love chowder, and he's like, Oh, yeah, that does sound nice.

SPEAKER_00:

Um with him squeaky, like biting the squeaky toy. That was great.

SPEAKER_02:

Then she likes they're gonna cut into the arm. He's like, make a small cut. He immediately cuts a giant hole in his arm. It's like, what are you doing? That's too big. Uh and then like Max starts gagging, and then so does Annie. And then like she's like, Oh, I think I feel it and starts tapping. It's like, ooh, what is that? It's like, oh, that's not the bullet, that's your bone.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, that would hurt. Or like you feel it jar up your arm. Oh man.

SPEAKER_02:

Yikes. Um, and then Annie realizes like there's another hole. And she's like, Have you been shot twice? It's like, nope, went through his arm. So good. Such a funny scene. So eventually the others learn that what have they become involved in, avoiding police on one of Brooks' warnings. They meet up at Max's, trying to determine the identities of the Bulgarian and Marlon Freeman, they go to Gary's house under the false pretense of a game night in order to use his computer. Um, and it's like Ryan's idea. He's like, oh, he had a good idea. Um, Gary, who is very happy they came over and slowly disappears into his house. Creepily. Oh, yeah, always holding his dog. It's great. They start with Jenga. Gary has a framed photo of all of them from the game night. Yeah, doesn't everyone have? Well, they're closest friends, and he's like, they're like, yikes. Uh Mask asks, Max asks to use the bathroom next to um uh asks to use the bathroom, and then Gary's like, oh yeah, it's next to mine and Deb um my room. And it's like, God, I don't know. Is this worth it? Maybe we just get out of here.

SPEAKER_00:

Psycho.

SPEAKER_02:

So and then Max goes into his office and sees a shrine to uh Gary's former marriage.

SPEAKER_00:

I love how they're trying to talk to Gary outside to keep him busy.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Sarah asks, like, tell me about Debbie. And he's like, What? Sits down. It's like it's like, let me tell you about the greatest woman that ever existed.

SPEAKER_00:

Then the other guy's like, oh, right, she died.

SPEAKER_02:

So uh Max finds out that Marlon Freeman is named Donald Anderton, played by Danny Houston, and learns of his address, though cannot find information on the Bulgaring. As he is gonna leave the office, Max realizes that he's bleeding everywhere, even on Gary's dog, Bastion.

SPEAKER_00:

He's licking it up. Yeah. Oh god. Um everything's white in there.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, and this is where uh Gary's he'll hears Max yell. So he um Sarah asks Gary to talk about Debbie. It's like, where do I begin? Max tries to clean Bastion with water, but it's making it way worse. Even uses shirt with Debbie's face on it. And the best part, it's something you don't like see in these movies enough where it's just it's like a total real reaction when it's like there's just blood everywhere. The dog shakes and gets blood even further. And then it's Jason Bateman in like just what he does best, like, okay, fuck this. Just walks out and it's like perfect, perfect reaction. It's like, you know, just get out of the house as fast as possible. We'll just deal with this situation later. We have to fight my brother first.

SPEAKER_00:

So it's like when you go to your friend's house and clog up the toilet.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, oh man, I gotta get out of here. It's just like, or if like you go into is in high school, uh, went to like kind of this like party, and everybody was watching a movie and it was getting to like the scariest part of the movie, and the girlfriend had at the time and like gets really scared, and it's all of a sudden I was like, I'm gonna crap my brains out. And she's just like, Don't go, don't go. And it's like she was really mad at me after I left. And I was like, dude, I have to use the bathroom. I was they had no air spray, air spray or anything. And I was just like, oh god. Then I go out and like immediately I couple the movie immediately ends, like a few people I gotta go to the bathroom. I was like, oh god, what do I do? I was like, hey, you think we should go? It's like, yeah, it's probably time for us to go. And I was like, oh thank God. And we all like bied before they went in the bathroom. And I was like, hell yes. Hell yes. I have an upset stomach all of a sudden and I'm out of here. I was like, wow, that worked out perfectly.

SPEAKER_00:

All through a guy's house after I we were drinking. I jumped out of the pool, landed on a piece of rebar, it went through my foot. Ah. And then I was so hammered.

SPEAKER_02:

She's just like, I'm gonna walk through the house with a hole in my foot.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, basically. I walked all through his house up to the bedroom and went, got in the bed with a bloody ass foot. You didn't go to the doctor? I did the next morning.

SPEAKER_02:

You're like, oh shit, I still have a hole in my foot. Good thing he didn't like bleed out. Jesus.

SPEAKER_00:

Bleeds so much.

SPEAKER_02:

Golly. The adventures in Jason's life. That was horrible. Another crazy story just dropped in on his head a hole in his foot for a while and fell asleep during it.

SPEAKER_00:

Bloody footprints all through the white carpet, through the house, everything. Did you leave for everybody woke up? Uh no. We just didn't say anything.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it's like, bye guys.

SPEAKER_00:

They're like, yeah, see ya.

SPEAKER_02:

Somebody, somebody's leaving bloody footprints, by the way. We'll see y'all later. Oh, and it was his parents' house. Yikes. Did you ever go over there again? No. Yep, didn't think so. So the group leaves Gary's house and get an anonymous phone call saying if they don't get the egg, they will kill Brooks. Max and Annie say that they should go alone, but their friends love them and are gonna help. It's like, it's the best part of the our week. And they're like, and the Ryan guy's like, I have so many plans over the weekends. I choose to come and do this.

SPEAKER_00:

And I was like, Oh, sweet. No, that was really cool. Makes me want to have one.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Makes us want to have friends that like us.

unknown:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

So they arrive at Anders Anderton's address where he is hosting an underground fight club. This is great because Ryan walks in and he's like, I knew it. And then uh Kevin, he's like, Oh man, this is some Django Unchained shit. It really is. That is immediately what I thought too, because we just recently watched Django Unchained. It's like, oh well. So they decide to split up. Kevin and Michelle go together, and Michelle finally tells him that she met Denzel at a gas station. Yeah, and it's like it obviously doesn't look like Denzel. Uh and apparently they went to a club and hit it off and uh where she offered to pay for all the drinks and he allowed her, and she thought that was cool. He allowed her.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And then they went to his uh condo and uh had sex. Oh man. Uh Kevin doesn't believe him, hurt, and she doesn't, and she shows him a pick, and it's definitely not Denzel. When you zoom in on the nose, it gives it away, right? That's awesome. And Kevin keeps doing the Denzel impression.

SPEAKER_00:

Would you be a little bummed out? I think I would. I would I would be less r relieved if it was. A part of me be like, damn, you kind of dumb.

SPEAKER_02:

You don't know what I mean.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I guess I think I would be more relieved if it really was Denzel Washington.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, be like, damn, that's like a story you can tell your kids, tell our kids one day. They'll be like, man, mom, you're so cool. Why you would that?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, you just leave out the whole part about it not being so Max and Annie are searching and they bring up kids again.

SPEAKER_02:

Max is worried that having a kin will kid will mess up his life and his chance to become successful. Turns out Max wants to be Brooks. And Annie's like, Are you fucking serious, dude? Now you're saying this. Yeah, Brooks is cool to hell. Which is probably the whole reason that they're actually not having kids because he doesn't actually want to have kids and that's dressing him out, maybe. I know. As the others search a house, Ryan spots the egg in a safe on the wall that's inside the fight club room. Um and then he goes and he's like, Hey, I'm just gonna walk over there and try to steal it. And of course, someone gets knocked out right as he's stealing it, falls right out of his head. And they're all like, Who is this guy? And it's like, I have a lot of money. I I'm the CEO of this organization or whatever.

SPEAKER_00:

It's like this is he acts like he's got a bunch of these fabrics.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it's like, oh, this is actually kind of ugly compared to my other ones. And then he's just like, everybody's like, All right, somebody get him. He's like, Everyone, hold on a goddamn second, runs away. Such a good bit. So they all try to escape and play hot potato with the egg around. Uh, it's a lot of back and forth. You got great shots. Oh, it's so fun. It's all one, it's a wonder. So, like the camera doesn't cut, and it's just like, holy shit, this is just in comedy. Why is it this good? Um, so Sarah's about to get tackled, but Ryan saves her by tackling a guy into a glass table, but it doesn't break. Man, glass tables are acting weird tonight. My favorite line in the whole movie that or the poop line.

SPEAKER_00:

Like, whenever he he jumps and then like he jumps and saves the egg. And then have you seen that video of the guy who catches the baseball at the stadium? He like he has his he has a beer in one hand, he's holding his child, he drops the child for a split second, catches it, and then catches the kid without spilling his beer, and that's what he was he was happy about. It's like the greatest catch ever played.

SPEAKER_02:

Such a dad thing. It's like it's okay. I'm a dad, I'm drunk at a sports game. I'm gonna be the greatest athlete with a kid in my hand ever. It's like wild. Um, so the group escapes with the egg. Sarah and Ryan, Ryan are falling for each other. It's like, it's like, oh, you're actually falling for me, aren't you? And Sarah's like, no. And then he's like, Are you falling for me? And he's like, Well, I don't know. It's like, oh, you are? That's embarrassing. No, that's awful. Um, they accidentally break the egg by breaking too hard, though. I survived all that. Just breaks it. So funny. They discover the egg is a worthless fake, but end up finding a list of names that was stored inside of it, realizing this is what the Bulgarian wanted. Maybe that and there's like, oh, this is made in China. Ryan, maybe the sticker was made in China.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes.

SPEAKER_02:

That's so ridiculous. So ridiculous. It's like, do you think someone wrote that or was that like improv? I don't know. It's like if you write that, you're you're one of the you're one of the best comedy writers.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, they could have been you know. He's kind of predictable in that way.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

So the group finds Brooks and his captors on an under construction bridge and move in to rescue him. Facing execution, Brooks reveals to Max his own insecurities throughout the years as a reason for his life of crime and only wanted to be as successful as Max. Aww. Big brother actually looked up to Little Brother, and little brother thought that he should be looking up to Big Brother. Before the group gets killed, they are rescued by Gary, though, who is shot in the chest. Max and Annie, who have repeatedly rebuffed his request to join them in a game night, try to encourage him to pull through by promising to invite him to every future game. Yeah. And so Gary then reveals that he faked the entire scenario with the two captors. Oh man. Fellon 2. Yeah, it's like Felons who agreed to help in exchange for a shortened parole, trying to trick them into letting him join game night again. Honestly, though, I'd be like, all right, Gary, this is pretty fucking cool, dude. This was wild. We were really scared all night and thought we were gonna die. But only half of what everything happened tonight was set up. So he is, however, unaware about the egg or Brooks involvement in it, and they are immediately attacked by the real bargarian. They shoot Gary and they take Brooks after he swallows the list, revealed to people in the witness protection program to keep it out of his hands. Um, and he it's uh Michael Seahulk. And he lets everybody go. Um paper. And what I love about this, I think they could have just because they're like Jason Bateman, Max is like, hey, we'll give you this paper, and that's it. Everything will be fine, and you can let us go. And the the Bulgarians, like, okay.

SPEAKER_00:

He would have killed them all, right?

SPEAKER_02:

I don't think he would he definitely would, I don't think he would maybe only have killed Brooks. Because he seems like he was fine with letting the other people go.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't know. But I I feel like a person like a bad guy like both the Bulgarian, like anybody who sees him. But he does let them go though. I know, but isn't that crazy?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, he's just like, I don't fucking care about these guys.

SPEAKER_00:

What are they gonna do?

SPEAKER_02:

I think maybe he would have let them all go. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00:

He's still gonna have a movie.

SPEAKER_02:

Though I guess maybe not, because yeah, I mean it makes no sense, but I think it's just supposed to be kind of like a nod to Dexter and kind of funny. Um, but yeah, and he's like, all right, just give me the list, I'll let all y'all go. And then like Brooks immediately goes and eats it, and he's like, You fucking idiot. Because and with that line, I'm like, I think he was gonna let them all go, actually. He got what he wants. That is the thing, like in bad guy plots, and I guess just in general, it's always just like they end they just kill so many people that like it. And it's like, why is this guy stop killing everybody? Don't give a fuck. This is like there's no reason, it just makes more blood trails, right?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, but no, there's no one just to pick you out out of a lineup.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. But like, I mean, if nobody, they don't eat the police don't even have a picture of him. And like, what are they gonna do? It's like, hey, you draw this guy and be like, Have you seen Dexter? He looks like that guy. So Max and Annie use Brooks's Corvette. Brooks having secretly put up the keys in Max's coat pocket to show where they're gonna be. He had keys in his pocket. I guess he was just too busy to put his hands in his pockets. Yes. Um, they drive it to the airport and stop the Bulgarian from taking off with Brooks and his jet. Um, Brooks on the jet tries to save himself. You know, you don't have to do this because I can just poop it out. It's like that's we're not gonna sift through your poop.

SPEAKER_00:

We're gonna cut a hole in your stomach. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Max and Eddie show up to save Brooks. They're gonna try to crash into the plane to stop it, like in taking three.

SPEAKER_00:

He misses.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, the first time he misses, uh, but then gets it the second time stopping the plane. He's like, well, at least I got to drive this for a few seconds.

SPEAKER_00:

Ten minutes or something.

SPEAKER_02:

And then a goon gets out to kill him. Max is stuck inside the car while Annie runs and hides behind like a conveyor. Like she makes bird noises to get the goon's attention. And then Max uses terraids to get Annie to drop a cargo box on the goon's head. Sorry. And I love it that he's like, this is some uh uh cute full circle bullshit here. Alex goes so slow. Yeah. Just steps away. It's like this belt's just going so fucking slow. Guys steps out of the way, but then Annie with a fire extinguisher boost knocks the shit out of him. And then uh Max is like, all right, I'm gonna get on the plane and I'm gonna get the drop on him and surprise him. So he tries to sneak on the plane, but he's so loud. And then he falls and like falls to the ground. He's like, not good at that at all.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, because the uh Bulgarian just kind of like looks up and he steps back.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, waiting for him to fall. And then like he throws the knife at Max and hits up, he's like, oh, ride my bullet hole.

SPEAKER_01:

Ride my hole.

SPEAKER_02:

And then uh Annie gets cornered by a goon and the guy gets uh sucked into the airplane engine. That was awesome. And I love it when he like gets the jump on her. He's like, wait, I have kids. He's like, not with an ass like that. And she's like, Oh, thank you. You're welcome. But then yeah, he gets sucked in the air, and she's like, Yeah. Oh and then uh Annie does gets ends up actually getting the drop on him because she's completely better at everything than Max. Knocks him out and then uh Max ties him up with a bungee or like a some rope in court. And then Brooks is like, wow, you immediately immediately go to the sex thing, huh? You get some bungees in your hands, you immediately try to make someone blow themselves. Max, now with some perspective, agrees to have kids. They say their baby will be better than all other baby. Brooks say that they have learned every lesson he wanted them to and pretends that it's all fake. It's like, all right, get up. He's like, oh no, just kidding. It's like, Brooks, I got shot in my arm. If this was all fake, that's ridiculous. That's a badass game. Um, so then a few months later go by, Brooks under house arrest for his crime, still manages to sell the list for three million dollars, though also earning another 20,000 from each person on the list to let them know that they've been tipped off. And Annally finally becomes pregnant and reveals it by they're playing charades and has a bun and it's in the oven.

SPEAKER_00:

He's like, I knew it. So the sword drawing it. Yeah, it's like this is obvious.

SPEAKER_02:

Um, while the group, including an inept Gary, are continuing their game night, men with guns get ready to storm the building. Um, and then you got Gary. He's drawing himself crying in a chair. They're all like trying to guess what it is, and he's like the green mile.

SPEAKER_00:

It's like that's why everybody cried at the green mile.

SPEAKER_02:

This is me crying while watching the green mile in a regal cinematic. It's like, did everybody not do this? And then we get a sequence during the closing credits, reveal a diagram and models of the portion of the night that Gary had planned. In a post-credit sequence, Kenny, a man whom Miss Sheld mistook for Denzel Washington, meets Debbie at a gas station. And they have like, so at the beginning, when Max and Annie meet, they have like this like close-up smile where they're smiling at each other. Yeah. And then they do it at the end with the uh the guy that looks like Denzel and Debbie, but Debbie smiles like she has like a weird smile. It's great. That's gotta be honest. And that's game night. Jason, what's the point of game night?

SPEAKER_00:

I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02:

I think it's don't focus on what other people have and focus on what you have. Max has a perfect damn life and he's trying and he's too worried about his asshole brother.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, that sucks.

SPEAKER_02:

That's pretty much it. It's like, hey, don't worry about your family, dog. Just be yourself. Can't leave up to them.

SPEAKER_00:

Have your like have your own idea of what success is for you, not what others do.

SPEAKER_02:

And I guess like, you know, people have secrets.

unknown:

Okay?

SPEAKER_02:

Everybody has a secret. All right, so we'll move on to our next category. The good, the bad, the ugly. It's where we talk about something we liked, the good, could be a scene, actor, whatever. The bad, something we didn't like, the ugly, something that didn't age well. The fine, something that did age well. Um for the good, I put the damn cast is perfect. They're all 100% hilarious.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, they're amazing. Uh I put I think I'm gonna do uh just the moment to moment, how funny it is. And surprising. It's just very entertaining. Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_02:

It's like I don't know. I mean, it's such a basic like studio comedy idea. It's like, what if a game night became like a real actual crime event? And it's like, oh yeah. And it's like, we'll make it funny. And if like anybody else, I think, touched this movie, I think it would have been terrible. And apparently Jason Bateman was set to direct this movie. Uh, but the people who ended up directing it, they came in, they were asked to do some rewrites with it, and they're like, We'll only do it if you let us direct it, and then they let him direct it. Nice. Yeah. So the bad, I put truly nothing. It's like for a comedy, R-rated com studio comedy, it's kind of a perfect movie, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it was pretty hilarious. Although I guess what bad is then I I couldn't tell the difference between Matt David and Yeah, I guess I mean that's how I kind of was when I first saw Jesse Clemens in Breaking Bad.

SPEAKER_02:

I was like, what the fuck? Does Matt Damon have a son? Yeah, uh, you should watch uh just pretty much anything that Jesse Clemens is in. He's in Civil War, uh, The Power of Dog. Um I don't know, he's in a shit ton of stuff. Uh, did you ever watch um Judas and the Black Messiah? No. He's he he's good in in that. I don't know, he's good in everything. He kind of just became like a guy that looked like Matt Damon and then a guy that was kind of funny in some movies, to like, oh shit, he's a really good actor.

SPEAKER_00:

It's funny that he looks like Matt Damon.

SPEAKER_02:

I know, it's so weird. And there are like interviews with Matt Damon and Jesse Plemens like separately that they kind of talk about, like, hey, y'all know that y'all look alike?

SPEAKER_00:

And they're like, we hear that all the time. Do you do they go out and get the same haircut right before the interview?

SPEAKER_02:

What they do is when they see each other on the street, they're like, Matt Damon. And then Matt Damon points, Matt Damon. And they just yell Matt Damon at each other.

SPEAKER_00:

From uh World Police.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it's the best. So, um The Ugly, something that didn't age well. I saw I put um this is pretty much the death of R-rated comedies. Yeah. Not a lot after this. I I can really remember off the top of my head. I mean, the w the movie that I'm doing as a double feature came out the same year, and that was also R-rated comedy.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I mean, would something like Rush Hour be considered a comedy? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, yeah, but I mean like since this was in 2018, it's like that we d I haven't really had a lot more like that since and if it is they just aren't Well, they're just all streaming now. This is like one of the few that was in the theater, I feel like, at this point, and that people actually went to go see. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

I think uh I don't really have anything for ugly, but I think I'll I don't know if the Dexter is what's his name? Michael Seagall. Michael Seagall. I don't think he did like a great job, but I would like to see more uh stuff for him like that.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm gonna I'm gonna like s ran wrap him to a table. Yeah, the thing I will say about that is Michael C. Hall is a really funny actor, but if he's uh like he's in Documentary Now, I don't know if you ever heard of that, and it's where they kind of like parody a bunch of documentaries. It's Bill Hader and like all like the SNL from that era, like uh kind of work together. I'm blanking on his name. I can't remember his name. Fred Armiston, he's also in it. Um Tim Robinson's in some of them. It's it's really great if you've seen the documentaries that they're making fun of. Um but if even if not, like it's so funny. But Michael C. Hall has some comedy chap uh chops and they didn't really use them as well as I feel like they could have. But I think they wanted to make him not a comedic villain. They're like, here's the villain. Okay. But I think it would have been nice if he was a little funny sometimes. Yeah. He could have been. Yeah. So the fine, I put Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams comedy or chemistry. Uh they've been also just been great in everything they've done together. And I will say the the witty dialogue in the movie just looks amazing. It just looks great.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Uh I can't wait to see more from Jason Bateman. I think almost anything he's in. She watched The Gift. The Gift.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, he directed it. I think it's like his first movie he directed. Um it's he's like funny in it, of course, because he's like sarcastic, but it's a very stressful movie. Oh no. It's so good. We watch it in theaters and like my wife loves it, and it's pretty fucked up ending, man. Pretty fucked up ending. It's great. Um yeah, you should just anything, Jason Bay, man. Just watch it. I mean, rest of development. God dang. I could just watch that on repeat every day.

SPEAKER_00:

You still need to watch the fourth season of that or third season, is it? I'm not sure. I don't know. The latest season.

SPEAKER_02:

Everything after everything after like the original version. It's like, it's fine. It's fine, it's not as good, but it's fine. Um, alright, so we're gonna hit up our next category, double features, where we recommend a movie to go alongside this movie. What you got, Jason?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, there's the Steve Carell date night movie. That was a pretty fun one. Mark Wahlberg's in it. Yeah. I love it. Kill shot. Kill shot. He's like, hey, should we have uh uh sex together, all of us? And she says something like uh not with him because he's weak. He's weak.

SPEAKER_02:

Um yeah, I've seen that once. I thought it was actually pretty funny because it's Tina Faye, Steve Carill, Mark Wahlberg's hands. Mark Wahlberg's part's definitely my favorite part. It's the part I remember the most. Um I chose the 2018 movie Blockers. It's actually cock blockers, but you know, they can't they can't say that. Really? And uh and it's like the tagline's like parents can be such cock blockers. So three parents try to stop their daughters from losing their virginity on prom night. It's got John Cena, um, Ike Barenholtz, and Leslie Mann, and they're fucking hilarious.

SPEAKER_00:

John Cena's a decent actor. Yeah, this is crazy.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it's wow that out of all the wrestlers well yeah, it's just weird watching wrestling growing up and seeing all these wrestlers try to become movie stars and stuff like that. And of course The Rock was the most successful at it, but um was never really the best actor. Right. And then it turns out John Cena and Dave Batista, two people I thought were kind of bad promo. Well, like Batista didn't have wasn't the most charismatic in wrestling, uh like on the mic. John Cena was, but like it was just so boring and like wooden. And then you put them in movies and they're great, and they're like some of my favorite actors now, which is wild. But yeah, this movie's hilarious. Uh John Cena fucking rules, Ike Baronholt's Leslie Mann are always solid in comedies, and you guys check it out. Um I am noticing that like it's got decent critic reviews, but like uh audience reviews aren't the best. And I'm like, Why? Come on. Alright. That is our conclusion of game night. Next week, we're gonna be doing a banger. I just want a nice Thanksgiving. Hell yeah, I'm recording a movie I really like.

SPEAKER_00:

Get your Coronas.

SPEAKER_02:

So just you know, on Thanksgiving, I want you to sit on the couch with your favorite family, whether they're actually family or just friends. I want you to pop open a corona, maybe have a barbecue outside. I don't know. And then like pull up your car, put the e-brake on, and then cover it, because we're gonna be doing the Fast and the Furious, baby. I just I can't believe we're almost like three years into this shit, and I still have not done Fast and the Furious, and I've talked about it on the podcast a few times.

SPEAKER_00:

We only we do our podcast a quarter mile at a time, a quarter mile at a time.

SPEAKER_02:

So it takes a while, and it hasn't been on streaming. Every time I think of it, I'm like, it's not on anything. God damn it. So get ready. Uh, we're gonna be laughing a lot. We're gonna be. I have a feeling Jason is gonna be making fun of this movie constantly, and I'm gonna be telling him his bad opinions. So if you can't wait for that, I can't wait. Well, you have to wait a week from now, baby. So yeah, join us for that. It's probably the best Fast and the Furious, uh, still today. Um, this is where when cars go fast, it's light speed. So hell yeah, baby. And some people only live a quarter mile at a time. So join us next week for that. This has been whoop um Hey, leave us some feedback, baby. Give us some reviews. You know how. If you're listening to podcasts, you're probably good at listening to podcasts. So wherever there's a rating on whatever you're listening to us, or a like button, just do it. Slam it, smash that some bitch. Yeah. Then take a screenshot of you doing it and send it to us. Yeah. So yeah, do that. Leave us some fan mail. Come on, baby. Last week, you know, when I did my top five underrated comedies, I also said some YouTube comments on it. So if you do some YouTube comments, I'll be saying them on the podcast and you'll be rich and famous. So whopping 100 or more people. So yeah, um, thank you for listening. Thank you, Joey Prosser, for our intro and outro music. You can follow them on X at Mr. Joey Prosser. Um, yeah, let's land this plane before Jason Bateman kills us. Crashes back into us. Um, so yeah, this has been the We Recommend Podcast. I'm Jesse. I'm Jason. Man, podcasts be acting crazy these days. Bye.

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