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Anyone in NYC looking to watch Van Helsing, we'll be showing it on Thursday (3/28) night at 8pm at The Hop Shop in Brooklyn. We've got a projection screen, quality sound system, free popcorn, and delicious beers and cocktails. Let Mike the bartender (that's me) know you're there to ask "How Did Van Helsing Get Made?" Happy Hour goes from 5 to 8, so show up a little early if you want to save a few bucks on drinks. If we get good turnout we'll continue showing HDTGM movies on Thursday nights, so make sure you come out if you'd like this to be a regular thing!

DEMI ADEJUYIGBE joins The Boys for The Masked Guest.

I WILL NOT BE CONTAINED!!!!!!!!!! I would've said Day After Tomorrow anyway but LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE CAMERON!

Is masks the new future of good podcasting? Recent evidence of good episodes sure suggests so! I kind of hope the next newest piece of earwolf merch is an HH inspired podcast mask so I can have hours of fun playing podcast at home!

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Pronouncing Harry Hole, two ball snowmen, and more on this week’s mini-sode! Paul opens up the Explanation Hope Line, goes through Corrections and Omissions for The Snowman, opens up the Mail Bag, and gives his Pick of the Week. Plus, find out which movie we will be watching next week! This episode is brought to you by Mercari (www.mercari.com) and Linkedin (www.linkedin.com/BONKERS). Subscribe to Unspooled with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson here: http://www.earwolf.com/show/unspooled/ Check out our new website over at www.hdtgminfo.com! Check out new HDTGM merch over at https://www.teepubli…wdidthisgetmade Where to Find Jason, June & Paul: @PaulScheer on Instagram & Twitter @Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on Twitter Jason is still not on Twitter (I hope no one minds I created this thread )

Ooh boy do I have some thoughts! First thank you again for hosting @Cinco DeNioI had SO much fun watching with you! On to my thinky thoughts! First off this family is FUCKED!! The kids are a hair's breadth away from being full on feral. DVD is an awful father. Those kids are entitled(yet woefully neglected )little shits. 1. What gives them the right to play in someone's place of business and 2. Of all the businesses to loiter in why the junk yard? 3. How dare they lose this guy a sale and declare that their dad will get them their favorite playscape? 4. Those kids are full of tetanus and are seconds away from blood poisoning setting in from frolicking in the scrap metal. I'm shocked they can even work their jaws. These children can't possibly be truant because they have never seen the inside of a school. Also this is a time of child workers so I feel like it's not unusual for kids to not be in school.just wondering around like bums yeah that's odd. But not being in school itself isn't.felt All in all this family is why CPS was invented. I don't remember it all but I know I came up with two really stupid (but fun at the time ) conspiracy theories about how 1. DVD's character is actually really Burt from Mary Poppins (this is a Sherman film). He is saddled with the children that came from a dalliance with Mary Poppins because we all know she doesn't want kids of her own and peaced the fuck out. He must hide because these children now posses her eldritch powers. Or 2. Mrs.DVD faked her death to get the fuck away from this bullshit. Or DVD killed her with an invention.

Everyone but Mercutio, that is. He’s neither Montague nor Capulet and the only person to see how ridiculous everyone is acting - and then is killed over their absurdity.

I think that a lot of the misconceptions about R&J come from a very basic, surface level reading of the play. Most people have only ever read the play when they were in Grade 9/Freshman year of High School. It is usually a week or two long and is taught not by someone trained in theater but in English (this isn't to dog on English teachers--I HAVE a degree in English Education in addition to a degree in theater). It is taught as basic lit i.e. "you need to have a basic understanding of Shakespeare" and the language is a big barrier for a lot of people. If they have seen a production, it is Baz's Romeo + Juliet, which is good but you believe that they are in love. I don't think I've seen a production that plays up the absurdity of the situation. If we removed the names "Romeo" and "Juliet", if we removed the classical setting, if we cast appropriately, people would say that this is a joke. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet isn't that two young lovers died (although it is tragic) but that EVERYONE was so stupid. The Prince's speech at the end is the crux of that.

As of today: 1) The Butterfly Effect 2) Millennium 3) Ladyhawk 4) Mercury Rising 5) The Cloverfield Paradoxes

Yeah, R&J is just a mess of dysfunction. I’ve never really taken them to be “in love” either. Not only was Romeo hung up on Rosalind, but Juliet was being forced to marry the much older Paris. Juliet serves as a rebound for Romeo, and Romeo is an “out” for Juliet. Like, I think they were attracted to each other, but the only way their love would ever actually be “eternal” is through death. I always quietly chuckle when people hold R&J up as romantic ideals. Like I said previously, I think it’s more about squandered youth - dying young - over something stupid (e.g. a family feud, a gang rivalry) I think WSS sells Tony and Maria’s love a little better, to be honest. Sure, they’re being a bit naive, but I think that’s okay when you are first falling in love - or at least it should be. Cutting out the Rosalind character also helps sell the audience on Tony’s feelings for Maria; and Chino never really feels like as much of an issue for Maria as Paris does for Juliet.

I haven't read Romeo & Juliet since I was in high school, maybe middle school, but reading this thread, I realized I'm unclear how people view Romeo & Juliet - i.e. are they actually in love. Somewhere along the way I transitioned from thinking it's a love story (plus other stuff) to thinking, "oh, those two were never in love, they were just really highly, emotional, melodramatic teenagers." And coincidentally at the time, I was reading other people's posts, basically saying, "yeah, and Shakespeare dropped cues in the play to convey that." Googling, I noticed people often cite the parts about Romeo professing to be so madly in love with Rosaline, that he would die without her, right before he meets the next love of his life that he would also die without, Juliet. This both portrays him both as someone who loves being in love, and one astute take I saw, playing up the Italian stereotype of being overly passionate, setting the stage that he would be someone who could kill himself later, mostly on an impulse. I also haven't seen WSS since middle school or high school, and don't think I'll be able to make time for revisiting it now, but I don't remember any situations that might have been commentary on the silliness (or I guess stupidity) of the impetuousness of the drama of youth romance, since, no literal suicides. But I also haven't seen it since an age when I probably would have missed it if it was there.

I dunno but number one has to be Rockula Also wouldn't mind if they dove into some old Lifetime Movie Network ones, like the classic cheese ones from the '90s like Mother May I Sleep With Danger or Friends 'Til The End Oh I once watched a Spanish Fast and the Furious ripoff called Combustion which was pretty terrible if they want to branch out into foreign films. that would be a good one

Can *I* say Queen of the Dammed? Because it must be talked about! I don't really have a top five but I do have a number one and that is Showgirls. I find new movies I want them to cover every so often but Showgirls has been my constant. WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THIS BONKERS FILM!

Here’s a question we haven’t asked in a long awhile: what are the top five movies you hope HDTGM will cover in the future? I think they’ve done a bunch of mine, so I’ll have to think about it myself... (Taylor’s not allowed to say Queen of the Damned )

I've been a lurker here for awhile, not sure If i ever posted before this. I loved this episode, I thought Erin's voice was just fine. I thought she was really funny with her excitement. There wasn't any more yelling that I heard from most episodes. Maybe there was some more crosstalk then usual. Still havent watched the movie yet but this ep makes me want to watch it. I really can't believe there are people who will complain about a podcast because they don't like woman, I guess I really shouldn't be surprised should I? It's so simple if you aren't entertained by the show don't listen to it.

U guyz...

The release date makes more sense now. As for other release dates throughout the year, I love how now apparently April is in the summer movie season, when only a decade ago the season started in June. This though is also do to so many attempts at tentpole movies being released the same time as one another. There were a number of articles a few years ago that discussed how 2017 and 18 were going to be huge moments of big movies cannibalizing each other's box offices, which happened in some instances, leading to some more visible spreading out. And speaking of Jordan Peele, if you haven't seen Us yet, do so because it is FUCKING AMAZING.

Well, based on the feedback I've seen from posting an opinion on the episode that didn't go over well, my infrequent enjoyment of this forum went to zero. I thought it was a pretty welcoming place previously.

HAHAHA. I love whenever Conan and Timothy are together. They're always hilarious, especially those "ads". I want to get bike guards now ^^

For the sake of your ego, Conan! Do NOT go head to head with Gourley when it comes to drawing!

I feel like June would really enjoy this. For that reason alone, Bump.

I was in love with this movie. It played all the time on cable around the same time that Girls Just Want to Have Fun was on a constant loop. I watched this on YouTube a while back. Well some of it, I couldn't get through it.

So looking forward to this ep! "PEACHES, PEACHES, WHATDAYA KNOW? PEACHES, PEACHES, EVERYBODY GO!" Wait, not that Peaches?

I think I kept getting this mixed up with "Vision Quest" or something. Lots of mid-80s flicks that centered on sports that didn't catch on so much in the way that "Karate Kid" did. I'd say that "Gymkata" had the edge, what with all the murder and stuff.