You Made Me Watch

What other podcast could have episodes on Streets of Fire and My Neighbor Totoro?My Neighbor Totoro is the hit animated fairytale that almost didn't get made. It was a risky venture for Studio Gibli, but arguably it's the movie that made them an international powerhouse animation studio. Animation nerds love this movie. References to it have shown up in the Toy Story franchise and even Bob's Burgers. Will Allyson like My Neighbor Totoro as much as just about everyone else on the face of the planet?Of course she will! It's a movie about giant cat trolls!Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Mike thought Allyson was making him watch the Richard Linklater film Slacker, but instead they watch the college caper romantic comedy Slackers starring Devon Sawa. This is a who's who of actors who would go on to be comedy powerhouses from people like Rhetta to the Oscar winning duo of Nat Faxon and Jim Rasch. Let us know what you thought of Slackers.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Both Mike and Allyson's dad recommended Allyson watch the Terry Gilliam masterpiece The Fisher King. It stars Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges, but the supporting cast is also truly amazing. Let us know what you thought of The Fisher King.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Allyson womansplains "hiphop" to Mike while making him watch the interracial dance drama Save the Last Dance.Before she was teaming up with Jason Bourne, Julia Stiles was cutting rugs with Sean Patrick Thomas. Kerry Washington makes her big screen debut in 2001's Save the Last Dance. It's The Cutting Edge minus the ice. It's ballet plus hiphop. It's 90 minutes. Let us know what you thought of Save the Last Dance.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Allyson....come out to watch Warriorrrs!Allyson! Come out to watch Warrrriors!ALLYSON! Come out to watch Warriors!Mike makes Allyson watch the Walter Hill cult classic The Warriors! This was a brutal look at the gangs of New York, but isn't to be confused with the Gangs of New York, which was also a brutal look at the gangs of New York, but in a different century. Right before bodegas, luxury lofts and hipster coffee houses took over the mean streets of New York there were the Grammercy Riffs, the Baseball Furies and of course the Warriors!Join our Facebook group and let us know what you thought of The Warriors!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Allyson made Mike watch the 2001 mystery thriller Frailty starring Matthew McConaughey and the late great Bill Paxton. Writer Brent Hanley crafted a really sharp story that jumps back and forth decades. There's murder...lots of murder...or destroying demons, depending on how you look at it. Will Mike enjoy this nearly as much as his spooky wife does? Listen and find out!Join our Facebook group and let us know what you thought of Frailty.https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Mike and Allyson are back!After a long hiatus, the Bobbitts return to making each other watch a movie the other has never seen before. This week Mike makes Allyson watch Promising Young Woman.Before Saltburn, there was Promising Young Woman. Emerald Fennell's 2020 movie dissects the so-called "nice guy". It's one-part thriller, one-part revenge porn, and one-part romantic comedy. Those three parts make up one hell of a movie. It stars Carey Mulligan and Bo Burnham, and features more knockout performances from people like Sam Richardson, Laverne Cox, Jennifer Coolidge and Alison Brie. This movie was horribly underrated, but hopefully the success of Saltburn means people will go back and check out this pretty phenomenal picture.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Let's be honest. Allyson isn't exactly on a winning streak when it comes to picking movies to make Mike watch. Will this one be any different?Where The Heart is got lost in the Star Wars hoopla even though it stars Queen Amidala herself Natalie Portman. It's the dramatic tale of a young pregnant lady abandoned at a Wal-Mart by the baby's father. Stuck in the middle of Oklahoma she's challenged with building a life for herself and her child.A character piece set in America's heartland? This definitely seems like a surefire hit for Mike's taste. Oh! Stockard Channing and Keith David are in it too? It's going to be hard for this one to fail.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

It's Allyson's turn once again to pick the movie our dynamically betrothed duo will watch for the podcast. What on Earth will Mike think of the Natalie Portman starring independent slice of life comedy/drama Where The Heart Is? Well, one thing's for sure, even if he doesn't like it, he'd never abandon Allyson at a Wal-Mart.Allyson recommends the absolutely wonderful Canadian sketch comedy series Baroness Von Sketch Show.Mike recommends the surreal 60s Burt Lancaster starring fever dream of a movie about life or the American dream or maybe it's about machismo...who knows? It's called The Swimmer.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Mike makes Allyson watch the 1991 afterlife romantic comedy Defending Your Life. When Mike was a teenager, he found this to be a profoundly moving piece of cinema. Now that he's closer to the icy cold hand of the grim reaper readying his scythe to usher Mike to the other side, will this still be as gripping as it once was? What will Allyson think of this existential film that largely flew under the radar?Defending Your Life was written, directed and acted by Albert Brooks. It costars Meryl Streep, Rip Torn and Lee Grant. There's so much trivia about this, Mike doesn't even have time to mention that silent film star Maxine Elliott Hicks in a small role. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Death obsessed Mike has a rom-com about the afterlife for Allyson. Next week they're going to watch the critically acclaimed box office disappointment Defending Your Life.Allyson recommends the Jason Segel Apple TV + dramedy Shrinking.Mike recommends the weiner free video game reboot Saints Row.Then the show devolves into nipple talk and talking nipples!Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

1999 was a peculiar time for movies. It was a time when movies didn't exist solely because they were based on an existing IP. They existed because two bankable stars both had time in their schedule. How does the union of Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts hold up 24 years later when neither of them are still the box office darlings they once were? Can the great Richard Curtis write something tender that also happens to be a by the numbers rom-com surefire hit? Will Mike fall in love with Notting Hill like Allyson did at the impressionable age of 17?Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

It's Allyson's turn to pick a movie for the podcast. This week she plucks something from the Richard Curtis filmography knowing how much Mike loves Love, Actually and About Time. This time it's Notting Hill.Mike recommends the television series Our Flag Means Death and Allyson recommends Abbott Elementary. Yes. We have small children and are sleep deprived and outside of watching movies for the podcast, these days we have 30 minutes of television watching in us each night. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Our friends Meg and Gordon Widener...you know Gordon, we only mention how a young Oliver Platt looks like him literally every time we end up watching a movie featuring a young Oliver Platt...anyway...Meg and Gordon stop by and we make Allyson watch the Matthrew Lillard masterpiece Hackers!It's not necessarily a masterpiece, and Matthew Lillard is probably only fourth or fifth on the call sheet behind Johnny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, and Fisher Stevens.Meg recommends Zetus Lepetus: A Mammoth Club Original Podcast.Gordon recommends the video game Like a Dragon: Ishin.Mike recommends the horror movie Men.Allyson recommends the Netflix docuseries Waco: American Apocalypse.Toddlers make noise in the background. 66 minutes of recording gets edited down to 39 minutes...which in all fairness was partially toddler noises and mostly Mike going on and on about how obsessed he is with the Alex Garland Movie "Men".Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Director Mike Nichols was part of the groundbreaking comedy duo Nichols & May alongside comedy legend Elaine May. Does that mean this 80s film championed as a feminist classic is in the right hands? Will Mike Nichols be the great white male hope in a movie ultimately about great white male hopes? Nah?Working Girl stars Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack and lots and lots of hairspray and shoulder pads.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Maybe there's a tower, somewhere up aboveFilled with shoulder pads and loveWhere dreams can fly hardBut until we can live in that imaginary worldWe'll work hard or die trying, girlMike is about to subject Allyson to not just Melanie Griffith's biggest hit of the 80s, but her only hit ever! It's Working Girl, directed by the comedy legend Mike Nichols. Will this empowering tale stand the test of time? Tune in next week and find out!Allyson recommends the Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal on Netflix.Mike recommends the NPR podcast Life Kit.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

The Robin Williams classic Mrs. Doubtfire is deservingly well loved, yet somehow Mike managed to miss it completely. How hard is he going to kick himself for taking so long to watch one of the best films in the Williams' library and maybe one of the best films of the 1990s? It's no Pixels, but it may be the most important film Chris Columbus ever directed. Although, how cool would it be to find out that Pixels is also a mature essay on divorce disguised as a family film just like Mrs. Doubtfire is?Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Once again Allyson finds another beloved classic that Mike has somehow missed and/or avoided. She's going to make him watch the critically acclaimed Robin Williams film Mrs. Doubtfire.Will he love it as much as the rest of the world or will it be one of those situations where if you didn't experience it first run, you probably won't have a sweet spot in your heart for it. Tune in next week to find out!Mike recommends the surreal satire Sorry To Bother You.Allyson recommends the docuseries Trainwreck: Woodstock 99.If you have a movie you'd like us to watch, let us know!Join our Facebook group!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Allyson is a giant animation nerd, so Mike is pretty sure she's going to enjoy this John DiMaggio produced documentary about off camera actors titled I Know That Voice.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Mike recommends the John DiMaggio documentary I Know That Voice, which provides an insider look at the world of voice actors.Allyson recommends the Netflix docuseries Flint Town about the hardships the city of Flint, Michigan endures.The Mike doubles up on his extracurricular recommendations by recommending the website and app Letterboxd through talking about their friend Johnny Mocny's excellent podcast We Are Movies. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim