Continuing our pairing of movies about burning down the institutions that failed us, and the idea of human lives being more important than said crappy institutions, Maddy and Mary Ellen follow up Thor: Ragnarok with Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Pe

Episode 45 - Crash (2004)

Mar 28th, 2019 2h 21m

Is it worse than Green Book, the movie with which it's paired? Yes. Is it even worse than The Departed? Again, yes. Could this be the worst film that Let's Watch 2 Movies' hosts have ever watched for this show? Yes, it is. The 2004 Oscar winner

Episode 44 - Green Book

Feb 21st, 2019 2h 34m

Green Book should not exist. And yet, it does, and it's nominated for a whole bunch of Oscars this year. You know what else got nominated for an Oscar and won it? Crash! These movies are supposed to be about overcoming racism but it turns out t

Episode 43 - Upgrade

Feb 7th, 2019 2h 17m

Compared to Venom, Upgrade is a downgrade. Maddy and Mary Ellen watch Logan Marshall-Green do his best Tom Hardy impression in this 2018 cyberpunk thriller full of twists and unfortunate anti-climaxes. This movie is a dark mirror of Venom, all

Episode 42 - Venom

Jan 31st, 2019 2h

Like a couple alien symbiotes crash-landing onto this lovely little planet, Maddy and Mary Ellen have returned to take over your mind, body, and soul with a new pairing: Venom and Upgrade. These are two 2018 movies about men overtaken by powerf

Episode 41 - Children Of Men

Oct 25th, 2018 2h 47m

Maddy and Mary Ellen enjoyed Logan, but it can't compare to Children Of Men. Okay, actually it can compare to Children Of Men, since comparing those two movies is exactly what we set out to do here, but suffice it to say that Children Of Men do

Episode 40 - Logan, with Paul F. Tompkins

Oct 4th, 2018 2h 51m

When you think of the 2017 movie Logan, you immediately also think of comedian and podcaster Paul F. Tompkins. Obviously! Maddy and Mary Ellen chose the pairing of Logan and Children of Men, and through the magic of the internet, they soon lear

Episode 38 - Thor: Ragnarok

Jul 5th, 2018 3h 2m

Maddy and Mary Ellen kick off their next pairing, Thor: Ragnarok and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, two big franchise tentpoles of late 2017 about colonialism, burning down the troubled trappings of an empire, and rebuilding anew with your collectio

Episode 37 - Q&A Extravaganza #3 (The Departed/Good Will Hunting)

Jun 7th, 2018 1h 4m

After pairing The Departed and Good Will Hunting, Maddy and Mary Ellen settle in for some emails from fans about those eps. But also, we're still catching up on our massive email backlog, so we kick off the ep by reading a thoughtful email from

Episode 36 - Good Will Hunting

May 17th, 2018 3h 2m

[This track got re-uploaded because Maddy messed up the audio spacing slightly before. If you have the other version, please delete it and listen to this one. Thanks/apologies!]After watching The Departed, we never believed we could fall in l

Episode 35 - The Departed

May 3rd, 2018 2h 56m

The Departed made Maddy and Mary Ellen cry, but not in a "wow, what a poignant fable of our times" type of way. More in like the "we've completely lost it now and we're laughing but we're also crying" way. Like the toy plane moment in the 50 Sh

Episode 34 - Q&A Extravaganza #2

Apr 12th, 2018 1h 11m

Maddy and Mary Ellen have been getting a lot of email from listeners since the show started in 2016, and we almost never read it. What if we actually... read it? Just, every now and then? And also shoot the shit about what we're watching?We'r

Episode 33 - Heathers

Mar 8th, 2018 3h

Compared to Heathers, Mean Girls had no bite. Maddy and Mary Ellen revisit the 1988 classic satire of high school politics and rediscover its timeless lessons about revenge, violence, and whether life can ever really feel "fair" when you're a t

Episode 32 - Mean Girls

Feb 22nd, 2018 2h 57m

Mean Girls remains a fixture and a fascination for Maddy and Mary Ellen's generation, but in the years since the movie came out, we've all come to love the so-called "mean girls." But the actual movie doesn't love them and instead encourages us

Episode 31 - Love Actually

Dec 28th, 2017 3h 12m

Love actually isn't all around, at least when it comes to how Mary Ellen and Maddy feel about this movie. Who knew that Die Hard would stack up so well in this Christmas-themed pairing? Listen to your intrepid co-hosts dissect one of the most i

Episode 30 - Die Hard

Dec 14th, 2017 2h 58m

Well, the weather outside is frightful, and Maddy and Mary Ellen have chosen two appropriately Christmas-y movies in honor of December: Die Hard and Love Actually!Our co-hosts managed to enjoy Die Hard even though we hate cops, which should s

Episode 29 - E.T.

Nov 16th, 2017 2h 16m

Maddy and Mary Ellen revisit their shared childhood nightmare, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a movie so popular that it demolished The Thing's chances at success. Maddy explains why the alt-universe 1982 version of herself would have preferred E.

Episode 28 - The Thing (1982)

Nov 2nd, 2017 2h 27m

Happy belated Halloween! Maddy and Mary Ellen celebrate the holiday by pairing two scary movies from the summer of 1982: The Thing and E.T., in that order. Now, you might be thinking, "Is E.T. scary?" Of course it is! What's more, E.T. may have

Preview Clip: X-Men (2000)

Oct 19th, 2017 2m 13s

This week, Mary Ellen guested on Maddy's other podcast, The Mutant Ages! We reviewed the X-Men movie along with our mutual friend and fellow Atomic Blue host, Ryan. We hope you'll check out the episode for some fun movie discussion: https://sou

Episode 27 - Obvious Child

Oct 5th, 2017 1h 42m

Maddy and Mary Ellen return, after a slightly longer wait than usual, to compare Obvious Child to The Big Sick! These two delightful romcoms both star comedians and share themes of communication and real-feeling experiences. But how realistic A

Episode 26 - The Big Sick

Sep 21st, 2017 2h 44m

Maddy and Mary Ellen return with a new pairing: two romcoms about two comedians, starting with The Big Sick this week and Obvious Child next week. We loved this movie, and we spend a long time telling you why in this episode, but we also point

Episode 25 - Q&A Extravaganza!

Aug 24th, 2017 2h 39m

For the first time in the history of this podcast, Maddy and Mary Ellen will NOT be discussing a movie (let alone two movies) in this week's episode. In honor of their 25th episode, they dive into a Q&A with the show's listeners, with one anoth

Episode 24 - The Final Girls

Aug 10th, 2017 2h 2m

After last week's foray through The Cabin In The Woods, Maddy and Mary Ellen settle in to compare it with The Final Girls, a 2015 meta horror movie that also features five increasingly self-aware teens... plus five other teens who are stock hor

Episode 23 - The Cabin in the Woods

Aug 3rd, 2017 2h 4m

Maddy and Mary Ellen watched The Cabin in the Woods, and they deem it to be... fine. The movie's got a couple funny bits, a couple scary bits, and a couple satirical bits, but not quite enough of each of these to make this movie a comedy, a hor

Episode 22 - Captain America: Civil War

Jul 13th, 2017 3h 17m

Much like Batman v Superman, Captain America: Civil War feels stuck in 2016. Remember a year ago, when Steve Rogers' mistrust of institutions made sense but it still seemed like he was taking it a bit too far? Now it's 2017, and Maddy and Mary