YMMV / We Hate Movies

• Awesome Music: Starting around episode 109, the show has relied on a musical interlude from the band Hurrah! A Bolt of Light! for their theme music.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The Running Gag in their episode for She's All That is "Do not worry about Paul Walker!" After Walker's death, the gang acknowledged how cringe-worthy the joke has become and say that people can stop bringing it up already.
  • In the Deep Impact episode (recorded before Williams' death), they suggest that he might have been one of the elite few selected by the government to survive the asteroid in one of the underground caves for "comic relief," with one of the guys groaning "Good Lord. I'd commit suicide if I was locked in a cave with Robin Williams."
  • In the The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day episode, the guys riff on Troy Duffy's feud with Harvey Weinstein and strongly side with Weinstein, saying that while Duffy is an arrogant hack who makes too many Gay Panic jokes, Weinstein is just a mean studio exec who makes great movies. Weinstein would, a few years later, be accused of a spree of sexual assaults and other crimes, making him even more of a pariah than Duffy.
  • While reviewing Attack of the Clones, the guys joke that Jar-Jar Binks must have been elected into office because he had a reality show and said stupid things that voters thought were hilarious. The guys are obviously alluding to Donald Trump, who was campaigning for the United States presidency at the time but not yet taken very seriously. Fast forward 11 months, and Trump was, in fact, elected to office. Your mileage may vary on whether Trump is more or less qualified than Jar-Jar Binks.
  • In the Mortal Kombat: The Movie episode, while discussing the games, the gang muse on the bad timing of releasing a character like Kurtis Stryker around the time of the Rodney King riots prompting Andrew to joke that because of that, whenever he picked Stryker and a friend picked Jax, he'd try to make them switch to Cyrax instead. Later games in the series would reveal that Cyrax is Botswanan, with Mortal Kombat 9 devoting a full chapter to his pre-robotization self.
  • Pretty much every discussion of Bruce Willis from the crew in late 2021 and 2022 involved what they dubbed Willis' "Secret Movies", i.e. the enormous amount of extremely low budget, barely publicized and direct to streaming films Willis made during that period where he's usually only in for a scene or two and barely acts. The crew is mostly baffled as to why Willis would do these and wonder if he's simply getting old and lazy. In March 2022, Willis' family publicly stated Willis would retire due to suffering from aphasia, thus confirming a long-standing Open Secret that Willis is suffering from cognitive decline and these "secret movies" are pretty much the only roles he is still capable of physically and mentally performing.
  • In the Face/Off episode, the guys laugh at the seemingly random casting of Danny Masterson, best known as harmless stoner Steven Hyde on That '70s Show, as a would-be date rapist. In 2020, Masterson was arrested and charged with four counts of rape (and convicted and sentenced in 2023).
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • While ripping on The Matrix Revolutions, the guys say that Neo suddenly being able to control robots in the real world is as stupid as if Luke were to suddenly teleport in Return of the Jedi. Two years later, in The Last Jedi, Luke suddenly astral projects to another planet, a move that drew a mixed reaction from audiences.
  • In their The Day After Tomorrow episode, the gang imagines that old sitcoms will be brought back to life in the post-disaster world (but with Louie Anderson playing all roles, due to him being the sole surviving actor). One of those shows mentioned to be revived is Roseanne, which was revived in 2018.
  • In their discussion of the Captain America movies, they ask when Red Skull is coming back. Cut to Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
  • The crew's go to complaint about (bad) movies being too long is "It's longer than Star Wars!". Their Patreon exclusive episode on Star Wars is 45 minutes longer than Star Wars.
  • As a Running Gag, the guys will pretend that the CEOs of major companies have the same name as the company, like "Thomas Coke" and "Martin Cinemax III." President Donald Trump has done the same thing repeatedly, mistakenly addressing the CEO of Lockheed Martin, Marillyn Hewson, as "Marillyn Lockheed" and the CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, as "Tim Apple."
  • In the On-Screen episode reviewing Wonder Woman (2017), Andrew and his wife agree that a Transformers movie with a female lead would never be very good, at least not with Michael Bay directing. Two years later, Bumblebee, starring Hailee Steinfeld and directed by Travis Knight, earned a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.
  • Whenever The Karate Kid comes up, the gang shows itself to be fully on board with the "Daniel is the real villain" Alternate Character Interpretation. This interpretation would later heavily influence the film's official continuation series Cobra Kai.
  • On a mailbag episode, (go to 1:02:46) Andrew mentions that he doesn't know if Space Jam: A New Legacy will be an episode because he doesn't want to give the movie any more attention that it needs. Cut to January of 2022, where it becomes a Worst of The Year 2022 episode.
  • The gang predicts The Batman (2022).
• Questionable Casting: In the Pottersville ep, the crew is utterly baffled by the fact that someone had the idea of anchoring a lighthearted Christmas comedy around Michael Shannon, Ron Perlman and Ian McShane, three of the most intimidating looking character actors working today.
• Replacement Scrappy: Parodied. In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen episode, Steve, intending to plug his improv group, opens the episode with "Hey, everybody! Andrew's not dead!" This leads to a brief riff about regular listeners panicking and potentially driving off a cliff to their deaths at the mere sound of someone else's voice at the top of the show.
• Tear Jerker: The departure of Chris Cabin from the show at the end of Season 5. But fortunately The Bus Came Back!

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