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Though–spoiler–the siblings don't make any progress on the topic, check out this daily dose on women flirting and the movie SINGLES.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is story important to making a quotable movie? Or is it just elevated nerd-speak? Which is the most quotable between JURASSIC PARK, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, THE PRINCESS BRIDE, and DIE HARD?  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can you guess the movies described by these IMDb-style synopses? Hint: they're all of movies the siblings have covered at orwhatevermovies.com or wherever you get podcasts. Iris gets about 8 out of 12 for the record.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hug your mom, follow the Nine Steps, and dance like everyone is watching while listening to this week's episode of LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, where there's a little bit of something for everybody, unexpectedly. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does shielding children from spooky content only leave them unprepared for the real world's darkness? This and other movie-adjacent debates in today's daily dose of whatever.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's businesses first, tax write-offs second, and art third when it comes to BATGIRL and the forthcoming  COYOTE VS. ACME.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The siblings debate which celebrity would best survive a zombie apocalypse in today's daily dose of whatever.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Following his retirement announcement, let's take a moment in today's daily-dose of whatever to celebrate Clint Eastwood's prolific, take-risks career… because #YOLO. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iris recaps her Goonies-themed summer roadtrip to Astoria, Oregon with a shoutout to the Blue Scorcher Bakery. Check out the siblings' discussion of THE GOONIES at www.orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE blurs the line between what's real and imagined, past and present, safety and paranoia, when to wear shoes and when to go barefoot. Find out why this chilling slow burn leaves you wondering whether anyone ever truly escapes. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes succumbs to CG-animal fatigue, arguing filmmakers should' ve used real or practically trained animals instead in this summer's blockbusters. Contains spoilers.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why does language add a “Y” to the journeys of Odysseus, the Jabberwork, and Professor Nag? Where does the quote "no questions, just drive" come from? One of these questions is answered in today's daily-dose. Thanks for listening.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes and Iris discuss the box office rivalry between AVATAR and AVENGERS, including James Cameron's playful notes to Marvel and the upcoming re-release of ENDGAME ahead of DOOMSDAY. Genuine box office power play or just Doomsday storyline retconning? Contains spoilers.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Come play the magic button game with Wes and Iris and decide if you'd watch these alternate reality Eric Stoltz, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Jeremy Sisto movies. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How are movies like a California roll? The answer to this riddle and a shining sibling example of agreeing to disagree in today's daily-dose of whatever. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Westley and Iris tackle Rob Reiner's beloved fairy tale classic, THE PRINCESS BRIDE, including albino villain tropes, Peter Falk's fake eye, and whether Fred Savage is secretly the greatest actor of the '90s. Complete with Andre the Giant impressions. Inconceivable? No. Just Thursday at OR WHATEVER MOVIES. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Come back to PROJECT HAIL MARY in today's daily-dose of whatever! Implausible plot moments aside, this movie about trust, connection, and sameness is worth the revisit. Contains spoilers! Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 ⁠⁠orwhatevermovies@gmail.com⁠⁠ ⁠⁠www.orwhatevermovies.com⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The first superfan interview-style appreciates a super villain–the late, great Alan Rickman. Which of his infamous characters should be in the George Washington spot of Mount Rickman? Find out! Contains spoilers!  818-835-0473 ⁠orwhatevermovies@gmail.com⁠ ⁠www.orwhatevermovies.com⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Int Style | Six Degrees of Whatever | 121 Can Wesley perform under the bright lights and pressure of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? Can you connect these four actors before he does? Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who plays Lieutenant Dan's fiancee in FOREST GUMP? The siblings know. Who plays the InGen worker on Isla Nublar in JURASSIC PARK? They don't know! So help OR WHATEVER MOVIES out! 818-835-0473, orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have any truly great, rewatchable, quotable movies been made in the last 10 years? Join the siblings for a cocktail of nostalgia and existential dread in today's daily dose. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ALMOST FAMOUS, CAMERON CROWE'S MONTH'S big finale, unpacks Penny Lane's tragic orbit, Russell Hammond's ongoing bad decisions, William Miller's impossible innocence, and why this honest, earnest time capsule feels both timeless and completely impossible to make today. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening! orwhatevermovies.com @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While traditional Hollywood is contracting, streaming continues and YouTube-style creators boom. How else should the siblings face the bleak landscape — editors driving Uber, documentary arms shutting down, and teams disappearing — except with dark humor? Thanks for supporting indie podcasts!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The siblings debate which movie holds the record for the highest on-screen death toll, considering SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, the Marvel Snap, and recent Best Picture nominees. Contains spoilers! Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes points out a JURASSIC PARK (1993) continuity gaffe that has haunted him for years. Not to put too fine a point on it, but it will now haunt you too. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To prove he truly absorbs movies even when not glued to the screen, Wes submits to a blind quiz on–surprise–NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. Does Iris prove her point, even if Wes's overall knowledge is impressively deep? CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's almost spoiler-free daily dose, Wes reveals his dream of doing an ALIEN-themed Bathroom of Terror — complete with black trash bags, KY Jelly, lasers, and alien eggS, though when (or if) it'll happen remains unconfirmed. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes and Iris turn the mic on themselves, cataloguing each other's most annoying audio habits in this daily-dose of whatever. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CAMERON CROWE MONTH is all about Crowe's most adult movie, VANILLA SKY. Does its Hollywood polish justify the remake's Life Extension? Find out at www.orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's almost spoiler free daily-does Wes and Iris debate whether kids in movies are lazy plot devices or a necessary storytelling tools. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes cites, of all movies, the SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT movie to argue that movies teach kids what parents don't have time to say, urging listeners to watch movies intentionally before the next generation is lost to YouTube. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes makes a passionate case for film editors as the unsung heroes of cinema, highlighting legendary editors like Thelma Schoonmaker and Sally Menke who shaped the visions of Scorsese and Tarantino respectively. Editors are just like the unsung music producers of Pearl Jam and Creed.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes and Iris dig deeper into The Devil Wears Prada 2, unpacking the strategic genius behind the cafeteria ambush scene and arguing that the real protagonist is Nigel — the quiet puppet master whose arc from the first film finally gets its triumphant resolution. The episode ends with Wes posing the movie's most pressing unanswered question — what exactly is wrong with Andy's eyebrows — and Iris delivering her verdict: as long as they're clean and shapely, they're sufficient. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do banned books make good movies? TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE COLOR PURPLE, and LORD OF THE FLIES seems to suggest so. Find out why great stories survive the movie game of telephone? 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OR WHATEVER MOVIES dons a flannel in honor of CAMERON CROWE MONTH's discussion of SINGLES, a happy-crappy love story featuring a lot of music and the world's most upsetting rotten salad. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  orwhatevermovies.com @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Which of the highest-grossing films of the 1980s does OR WHATEVER MOVIES cover in its 400+ episodes? Help the siblings find their blind spots! Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes confronts Iris about a growing preoccupation with mortality in today's daily dose of truly whatever.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OR WHATEVER MOVIES podcast's “superpower” is its ability to inspire people to watch more movies, which enables them to listen to more podcasts, which enables the siblings to watch more movies and make more episodes!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What makes a onesheet or movie poster work? Can it really make or break a movie opening? Shoutout to the late, great Drew Struzan, the man behind some of the best art in the biz.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iris remains skeptical while Wes justifies watching movies everyday via his dubious “controversial naked diagram theory.”  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes and Iris hoist their boomboxes to Cameron Crowe's heartfelt classic about one of cinema's all-time good guys, SAY ANYTHING. Lloyd Dobler, all right. Find out why this endlessly quotable coming-of-age romance still hits harder than a kickboxing match at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iris remains skeptical while Wes justifies watching movies everyday via his dubious “controversial naked diagram theory.”  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The siblings have genuine food enthusiasm, real recommendations, and some movie tourism tips in today's daily dose of whatever. Thanks for listening!  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do celebrities like Anne Hathaway, Keanu Reeves, and Jared Leto navigate the shifting tides of popularity and ride the waves back to prominence? @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The sibs define the “punchable face” in today's daily dose of whatever, working through a list of actors and dissecting what makes their faces “punchable.” OR WHATEVER MOVIES does not condone actually dissecting or punching faces.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What are you nostalgic for? The simpler era of STAND BY ME? The pre-tech era of SINGLES? Or the pure 90s cluelessness of CLUELESS?   @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CAMERON CROWE MONTH kicks off with the Cameron Crowe-written, “based on his book,” high school classic, CLUELESS precursor, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH. Cue the Nic Cage trivia. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  www.orwhatevermovies.com. @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether CGI was ahead of its time, ushered us into the future, or both, it sure did work for movies like JURASSIC PARK, SPACEBALLS, TOY STORY, FOREST GUMP, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN and STARSHIP TROOERS. Contains spoilers!  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did THE HANGOVER ruin Vegas like JAWS ruined sharks? The siblings discuss movies' world-changing impact on culture.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are movie characters that deserve to die and then there are those that don't AND their deaths do NOT advance the plot. Contains an impromptu quiz and HEAVY SPOILERS. Thanks for listening!  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is a “time and place” movie in OR WHATEVER MOVIES parlance? A movie with enormous cultural impact at the time of its release that may seem dated or unremarkable to younger viewers today. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices