3 Friends And A Movie

Just in time for Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice we watch a film that has the caped crusader and the man of steel working together against the very real threat of gas lighting. It also happens to be oddly prophetic in showing what the United States would look like if a millionaire business man were to win the Presidency. Best of all there is also an Asteroid made of Kryptonite that needs to be stopped before it destroys mankind so you know that Aerosmith is going to be sung eventually

It's Mike's birthday so we let him pick the movie and he went with this seminal Dan Akroyd and Tom Hanks gem. Make sure you stay till the end because that's when the most amazing thing ever happens!

In honour of Will going to Australia we watched Kangaroo Jack so he wouldn't have to! The viewing is mostly peppered with us asking two very distinct and important questions. Who is this movie for? and Did Mike actually write the script?

We sit down to make good on our promise to force Nicki to rematch the nineties classic. Thrill as Devon says all of the lines mere seconds before they happen in the film, assuming you're properly synced up! Gasp in horror as Sam Rockwell plays the bad guy. Prepare to be amazed by all of the knowledge that the friends possess about the film and play along at home as they try to identify when all of the guys who are in the suits appear out of the suits in weird cameos. It's guaranteed to be better than that Michael Bay one from 2014...

Its a Just the Sequels week as we strap ourselves in for the sequel to 1997's Men in Black. Let's just pause for reflection on the fact that Will Smith was in Independence Day in 1996 a hyper serious film with aliens and then decided to follow that up with Men in Black... Of course none of that matters because we are watching the sequel, you know the one that inexplicably features Johnny Knoxville inexplicably! Next time a much better movie, hopefully....

We're not sure if it was Mike or Nicki who decides to watch Big Trouble in Little China, but we are 99.9% sure that Patrick Swayze isn't actually in it. Pretty sure it's Kurt Russell. For damn sure isn't Andrew McCarthy, no matter how much of a role Kim Cattrall does or doesn't have in this fine John Carpenter film.

Going way back to the third episode of our sister series "2 Friends on a Couch" we talked to Jeremiah about Brother Bear 2 and that we would one day force him to watch it. This is that day. To say more would ruin all of your potential enjoyment so strap on in and check out Brother Bear 2 with guest friend Jeremiah

Tom Cruise in all his messed up toothed glory and Ferris Bueller's future girlfriend (Mia Sara yells Devon's father from the background) are like Adam and Eve and Tim Curry is a horny bastard trying to tempt and corrupt them in a film that makes all 3 Friends first question who Billy Barty is and then his filmography! Perhaps the best bit is that Devon does his best to do a dramatic reading of the opening crawl, but you'll see how that turns out if you take the time to listen along. No wait, wait the best part is that we watched the original version with all of the beautiful synth music by Tangerine Dream!

Nicki still hates Christmas movies, thus it is decided that we will not be watching any Christmas movies next year. With that in mind, we picked a real doozy of a film to finish on with the Martin Freeman neoclassical Christmas gem "Saving Santa" It's about Time Travel you guys and Tim Curry is there, just watch it...

As much as we all love Jonathan Taylor Thomas on the couch (and legitimately we all do in fact LOVE Jonathan Taylor Thomas) this film takes all of the worst parts of Christmas and sprinkles in a sizable amount of questionable behavior. Even the fact that there is a lithe black Santa from the nation of Kenya wasn't enough to salvage this film for Devon and we all know that sort of thing is right in his wheelhouse. Still we have a good time making fun of some of the ridiculousness and if you need a new ringtone of a girl groaning in discontent then Nicki has got you covered!