God Awful Movies - 3: GAM003 War Room
Episode Date: September 8, 2015War Room, the story of a magical black woman teaching someone how to overcome emotional abuse by talking to an invisible wizard in a closet. Not only is it the least interesting to ever contain the ...word “war” in the title; it’s also probably the least interesting movie about closets. If you'd like to hear more from guest masochist Keisha Zollar, you can find more of work at the following links. Keisha's podcast, The Soul Glo Project. Keisha's web series In Game Keisha's website KeishaZollar.com And, of course, if you enjoyed the music in this episode, you can hear more from the talented Ryan Slotnick here: Evil Giraffes on Mars
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He's a little mad. A little bit.
He's just like a little like, uh, you say you're going to be my slave, but I don't know.
It doesn't count if you want it.
But you can't like it.
Otherwise, it's not domestic abuse. Oh!
Never let me have this.
Not awful.
Movie. MOVIE! MOVIE! MOVIE!
Welcome back to the Gamcast, where each week we watch another selection from Christian cinema, because eventually we're all gonna die, and we want death to seem good compared to something.
Sitting to my immediate left is Heath N. Wright Heath. Welcome back.
Thank you, sir.
And sitting 989 miles to my right is Eli Bosnick.
Eli, glad to see that you survived another one.
That whole death thing sounds super appealing right now.
So that like, can I choose that?
I choose that.
Death.
Too late you already watched it.
And joining us for the first time is comedian, sketch actor,
writer, performer at the upright citizens brigade,
and people's improv theater, and special guest, massacres, Keisha Zoller.
Keisha, welcome to God Awful Movies.
Oh, well, thank you for having me.
So I feel like I have to have that tone because as a black woman, I have to be pleasing to
white men.
That's what this is.
She's already learned the lessons that this film wanted to know.
This is why we're here.
So before we get started, I'm dying to know.
Did Eli save you from a wolf once and you're doing this
to repay a life debt?
Was this a voluntary thing?
This was, I mean, I'm not in a basement right now.
I repeat, I'm not in a basement right now. I repeat, I'm not in a basement and Eli's not keeping me captive.
If I can just jump in here, it puts the lotion on its skin. Sorry.
I'm sorry.
Very amazing.
Are we saying some bear stocks?
All right, so before we get started, Heath, tell us what are we reviewing tonight? We are reviewing a movie called War Room, which is the story of a mother who learns from
an old lady, how to overcome a shitty husband, and a very distinct body odor problem, using
a serial killer type shrine to Jesus in her closet.
Not only is it easily the least exciting movie with the word war in the title, it's the
least exciting movie about closets, as far as I can tell.
I'd say that pretty much sums it up. Now, I'm going to ask everybody, but Keisha, your art guest, so I'm going to give you first crack at it. How bad was this movie?
Well, I mean, all I will say is thank goodness. White men finally explained how black women need to say black men. I mean,
I've been waiting my whole life and realizing I'm not saving enough men. That's true. I mean
that's true. You're like, Keisha, you're welcome. My identity's point. Yeah. I mean, I'm the half of white men everywhere. Thank you. Thank you. I mean, it's it's amazing because like it's you know black cinema really achieved something in this movie because a hundred years ago, they wouldn't have hired black actors.
And if you watch this movie, you'd think that is the only step we'd taken forward.
Um, listen, I mean, why do a minstrel show when you have free black puppets?
Also, at least I think I'm fair in saying a minstrel show much less offensive than this movie.
Yes, much, much less offensive than this movie.
I mean, there's definitely less God.
Yeah, well, yes, yes, exactly.
And I mean, the Negro spirituals are absolutely better, I think we can all agree on that.
Oh, no question.
Oh, in minstrel shows.
Right.
And I think it's, I mean, and again, I can't speak for you, but I think that now, now that so many black stories have been told in movies, like we've seen so many black protagonists, we've seen especially of black women and women of color, I think that like now we're finally ready to see other stories than the cut than that of women of color, because it's just like, all right, already we get it with black women and your stories and cinema like oh is it another Oscar where everyone who wins is black you know
what i'm saying Kishie you think yeah yeah thank you for mansplaining it like i couldn't have
said it better literally literally you could not have said it better that's why mansplaining it
i just read the book of Timothy you're not even allowed to say it better.
I know.
Timothy, the first man's player.
Yeah, right.
So he told me, how the hell did this happen, this movie?
Well, it feels like it literally got sold in an elevator.
Like some producers said, okay, pitch me in 30 seconds.
Guy says, all right, it's about a black family
and they, she could stop selling it, stop selling it. It 30 seconds. The guy says, all right, it's about a black family, and they, shh, you could stop selling it.
Stop selling it.
It's a done deal.
We're all on board.
Add Jesus, we have a go movie.
It's done.
You had me at it.
You're right.
There's so much cocaine in my bloodstream right now.
We're done.
And finally, Eli, complete the sentence if you would, sir.
Watching War Room was like blank.
Watching War Room was like bringing your casual acquaintance,
Keisha to a KKK rally without telling her about it.
That's what this movie experience was like for me.
This was like bringing Keisha to a horror movie.
Because everyone else in the theater that we were in was watching
a Christian movie and they were enjoying it and talking to each other about it.
But I was watching Keisha gasp and sigh in horror and despair while everyone else in the
movie clapped and cheered.
Now we're going to get into the breakdown of this flicking a minute and I'm sure we're
going to talk a lot about her but before we even get into that, I want to talk about Miss
Clara.
Okay, now this is the old lady that's sort of at the center of this movie, she's not
the star of the movie, but for some reason the filmmakers chose to cast an actress named
Karen Abercrombie, who is a Pennsylvania Yankee in her mid-40s to play this old Southern woman,
and if I'd learned in my research that she was also a white woman in blackface
I would not have been surprised so any thoughts on the Miss Clara accent. Do we approve?
It sounded accurate to me. I don't know. Oh Lord, I think it's a good ass accent.
It's show is relatable. Accurate like that. Yeah. And if you want some pie right now, I'm making pie.
And pray and to Jesus.
I think that by the way that that actress chose to play
that character, we really got the complexity of her journey.
You know what I'm saying?
I feel like it was, you know how subtle it is, like using
Daniel Day Lewis in my left foot like how limited he was
And just like the the subtle undertones of that. I feel like she was like that
But the opposite
Yes, yes, I think you might have
There I just but see I'm I'm convinced that the actress did not want to do that
They were she was just in the audition and the white directors and writers were going,
can you do it a little more?
Amos and Andy, can you give us more, you know?
Try it blacker.
Can you do it blacker?
I don't want to, I don't want to try to tell you how to do your job, but did not sound
very black.
Can you do it a little bit more?
I want old white man pictures of black women.
Right.
I want you to do this way in a way that people will
try to pour pancakes or a bad review after these days. Do you understand what I'm saying?
I'd love you to do this in a way that reminds me of my my my home, the woman who raised me.
I call a Mammy Jane. Like do it do it more like her more man me change now certainly a note in
there somewhere but now I will say that I watch this in a theater filled with old
southern black women and they were eating it up with a spoon apparently they
also think that they sound funny when parody to the point of overt racism who
knew well I mean the biggest thing I think for them is Tyler Perry didn't write all of it.
So they're thinking finally white people can relate. And I'm thinking finally. Finally, Tyler Perry didn't write this because if Tyler Perry did write this, you have to understand that the black woman would be shamed for earning more money at any point than her husband. movie. So there wasn't quite enough AIDS for everybody involved for this to be
a tire. At least something would have happened if somebody died of AIDS in this
damn thing. All right, well, obviously there's a plenty to get to. So we're gonna
take a quick break to gather supplies before we set across the desert of
drudgery that is war room. Gentlemen, thanks so much for coming in. Oh, thanks for
seeing us. No problem. Now guys, before we help you make
another movie, there's some issues I want to talk to about with you. All right, go ahead.
Well, see, here's the thing. Fireproof was incredibly misogynistic. It treats marriage
as some kind of holy relic that has to be upheld. It's racist, badly written, didn't
make any sense. And we really want to avoid that in this next movie.
We want to branch out.
Oh, we totally understand.
Okay, great, wonderful.
We're on the same page.
What have you got for me?
Okay, it's a story about an African-American family.
All right, I like that.
We haven't covered them yet.
I like it, go home.
Right, right, and this woman is in a terribly abusive
relationship with a man
who is stealing and selling drugs. Conflict, I like it, relatable. This is what I'm talking
about. Real stories. Go on, keep going. All right. And then she realizes what she needs to do
is stop being such a bitch and pray in a closet. I'm sorry what? Yes, so she meets this magic lady,
this old black magic lady.
And she is sassy!
So sassy!
And then the sassy magic black lady explains that the way you can get your husband to stop being cruel to
getting break in the law is to pray in your closet.
Pray in your closet. Pray, pray in your closet. Yeah, but here's the best part.
We end the movie with something black people love.
I want to point out I am literally afraid to ask.
It's gonna be a double-dutch tournament.
It is.
Guys, no, it's 2015.
We are not making a movie about stopping emotional abuse with prayer advice from a magic black lady that ends with a jump rope competition uh... we
didn't have this part of this movie will make a fifteen million dollars in
its opening week so we start filming monday monday good Monday good
good i don't have a thing on early but then i can we can start later
i think i got it. After supper.
All right, we're back to start to break down here.
And I find it damn interesting that this movie starts with the sound of helicopters and
explosions, as though it's trying to fool you into thinking something interesting will
eventually happen.
But it does not.
No.
Yeah.
So basically, this movie opens with a female Morgan Friedman, except the things that she's saying don't make any sense.
I think the general thesis of her first speech was, every war has a strategy, which is true.
That's not true, but it also doesn't make any fucking sense.
Just to clarify. every sentence has a period
yeah yeah basically my favorite line was victories don't come by accident of course
of course no victories come by pure accident I mean the studio execs who
greenlist this movie that was an accident but like no
Oh no, I said no well, we're all out of red stamps. All right fine
Isn't that the one that's super crazy racist? Yes, it is but we are out of red stamps. All right fine fine make the movie
Yeah, and I imagined like
GI Joe Jesus like
and covered in fatigues. I said I'd be back.
Lapender's eyes.
Judas, you covering me? No, fuck you Judas. Every time. Seriously.
Good. Matthew is crazy eyes because he thought the world was in the end. He's like, come on, let me
Adam. See, now that again, more interesting action packed, I'd probably have a more favorable
review. I want to see. I Jesus is good. Shit. We might just have to, we might have to start
a kick starter to get down. I want to see. Jesus. Why do we have to start a kick starter?
Let's just go to Sony right now. Right?
They're taking anything. Right. Exactly. They don't have any more red stamps. Let me go in first so I can use
all the guilt and say, hey, won't you give me a movie? And they'll say, well, we have to carry Washington.
And that's all they'll know how to say. That's fair.
You can lure them in with your little ten racist voice.
And then I'll sneak it behind you and explain that I wrote the entire film.
And they'll be like, oh, okay, as long as a white guy wrote it, I don't want it.
And we don't want any black woman stories in here because they would probably tell you
how destructive religion has been to the community.
No.
No, can you imagine? They would probably tell you how destructive religion has been to the community. No. No.
Can you imagine?
Oh, let's make another movie about a white person who helps them.
Yeah.
But let's make sure they're magical because like black people have it hard.
So like the only thing that saves them is magic.
Literal, literal magic.
But not Gandalf magic.
Like, oh my god, I'm such a good person magic. Yeah, yeah exactly
exactly the weakest fucking miracles in the world too. Now we'll get to that but first we have to
meet our hero and Elizabeth who is a busy well-to-do real estate agent I do believe because they hand
that to you on a fucking platter like every other plot point in this movie. Yes.
She's a busy well-to-do real estate agent for whom.
And now listen, I don't know about your guy's house while it's growing up.
She is very lax with the grades for her child.
Her child has a C and she's just like, that's fine.
Don't worry about it.
A C is not acceptable.
And the very first thing she does in this movie, well first she takes off her shoes.
She takes off her shoes.
And I would say that the
the major theme of this film more than christianity god in prayer
is that this woman's feet
smell
terrible
and that that's hilarious and that everyone hates her for it
her shot this is the her relationship with her daughter opens with her daughter
being like your feet smell terrible you should kill yourself.
And I mean as we know women everything that comes out of them is like awful and
horrific so we should shame them for it. How dare your feet smell. I never smell
dads. I mean what are you gonna do bleed? I mean.
Fix your humors. What are you doing over there going on god damn
mom needs to be leeched again ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha representative or actually he's a drug dealer because he's black but we don't we don't learn that early until later. Exactly. It's a surprise that the black man
turns out to be a drug dealer. Yes, exactly. We were like, oh good, good, they're
not going to paint this guy as a drug dealer. Look, he's got a good job and a good
career. He's a criminal. Gotcha. Yeah, exactly. Well, but the difference is he's
like drug dealer who pays taxes, so it's fine. Yeah, it's totally. Well, but the difference is he's like drug dealer who pays taxes so it's fine
Yeah, it's totally fine as we'll learn later on it's totally fine and has no consequences
Yeah, right right exactly as long as Jesus is cool with it
Just just to give you the level that there is not a single character the husband is introduced by coming in
emotionally abusing his wife for wanting to financially help her
sister, which the conversation they have where they're just where he's like, did you move
money from my savings account into the checking and she was like, I tried to help my sister
and he's like, well don't do it. If any of us on this recording ever talk to our wife slash relationship partner in that way.
I would be talking like this because my balls would currently be deposited through one
of those little envelope slips into HSBC.
Right now HSBC she would have stuffed them in there and entered my instrument like well
now that's in our checking account.
Now your balls are in our checking account. Well, maybe you just don't get the female perspective on this.
And it's really like, you're right.
I'm a dumb woman who shouldn't touch or smell my camera.
Like, if I look at money, it's bad.
And like helping people is bad.
It'll burst if you look at money, it'll burst into flames.
Yeah.
And turn into tampons.
Well, no, I do want to come to the dad's defense a little bit here because if my wife took
$5,000 out of the bank account and didn't even mention it, and then I like didn't later
find out it was like something awesome for me or whatever. I'd be pissed.
I don't I would I would have come to her like you know, hey honey, um,
you know, but I would have been in the inside. I would have been just like Tony.
Oh sure. Yeah. We're all Tony on the inside, but you know,
the cop puts his knee in your back and then you stop saying that shit.
Everyone's Tony on the inside.
The difference between this movie and the rest of the universe is that everyone's like,
hey man, don't be fucking Tony, that's what terrible people do.
Also, I don't know where you live because it's so far, far, far away.
But I'm assuming your house ain't like that.
So 5G is probably not as hard for him.
Yeah, if Editt takes 36 dollars out of my savings,
I'm not like you need to talk to me first.
I'm like, did I buy more porn?
I think when does Mr. Skin expire?
I gotta put this in my calendar.
This is on me.
Oh, it's bang, bros. Bang, bros. Skin expire. I gotta put this in my calendar. This is on me. Oh, it's bang bros bang bros. Got it. Yeah, I was it
Never mind. Get 72 websites. Yeah, keep it relatable. You like
You have no idea how many people who listen to this were just like yeah bang bros
You tweeted Kisha you tweeted Kisha you tell her
You show her your brand loyalty
I will drown you in Twitter pornography
No, don't send her porn just send her just tell her you like bank. Don't actually don't do any of this
I'm so sorry. Oh God. I'm thunderfoot. I'm so sorry
I Oh God, I'm thunderfoot. I'm so sorry. What have I become? I just accidentally become the polylam of the podcasting world.
I was just trying to make a point that my joke was funny.
Oh God.
Peace or address info number. Why please stop?
please stop!
Woohoo! Alright, so yeah, so they have a terrible fight to which he goes in the gym and if we didn't think that this movie was going to apply racial stereotypes to everyone, he plays basketball with his friends and then does a backflip at their request. There's no more demeaning introduction
to an African-American character than a white guy going,
hey man, you gotta do a backflip for me
and him just being like, well okay, backflip.
Okay.
So he was like the actors of this movie
are almost certainly the largest group of black people
the writers ever met.
Oh, so he was like, they had the set and you know then somebody told them it got cast with a black family and they had no idea what to do.
So they took these like occasional stabs at changing stuff for no reason and it's usually something wildly offensive like,
oh he's gonna do a backflip and don't basket balls and have a crackhead sister in law.
Right.
Well, and I did find it funny that they stayed with the trope that they've
established the kentrick brothers and all there's other movies apparently even
in their black cast movie
the main character has to have an offensively stereotypical black friend
well and i i i would just like to point out
uh... thank goodness to me
only plays
basketball one-on-one with his black friend because
Let's never see black people playing basketball with white people just just taking orders. Yeah, I just just taking orders to do tricks
Tony you got a sit for me, bud. Okay. No roll over isn't this great?
but okay, no roll over, isn't this great? Uh, white men wrote this movie.
Well, but I was kind of hoping that they would go the other way, you know, maybe give him
a stereotypical white best friend named Skipper Ellsworth or something, you know, that
wore a bow tie the whole time.
Oh, a stereotypical Jewish friend, Moishi.
Oh, that big, that big.
I'm telling you, man, you can't let him move money out of your savings account. You'll go broke
I'm allergic to this. That's a bench. I'm allergic
In my mind mochi is wearing a juice for Jesus t-shirt
Just just so we know he's still passable his pants and in crucifixis right
that little process cut into the end of his crucifixis again better than the
movie we watched yes yes as would anything be now we get a quick shot here where
we see the family going to church and we see that Tony's such a dog he's I
fucking the lady in the next pew and I do want to say about the church. The church was like
I don't know I haven't been to a lot of churches but I've never seen one this
racially integrated so they can't play basketball together but they do sit in
the in the Puset. Oh almost every other one it's like white person black
but it's like when they make you sit boy girl boy girl that's what they
obviously did with the boy. Yeah, they were like listen we we had a whole big like white person black bread it's like when they make you sit boy girl boy girl that's what they obviously
the
we
we had a whole big thing because you know the first take they had
everyone's segregated
so they were like great so the white people on the right and the black and then
someone was like no we can't do that they were like really isn't that our
churches work no man that's not how
they don't sit in different chairs are you sure i'm pretty sure why they're
two watervans ones for kids man come on
I thought it was because they're taller
I mean there's you can't have racial harmony if it isn't visualized
I think is the the point is I, we put all the black people in
the front so it seems like the cool church and then in the back just to see a white people.
Right, exactly. Just all the people who got paid to be in the movie.
And then we go back to the house for more exciting kitchen table action and get used to
that, guys, we're going back to the kitchen table quite a bit in this move. This shot about 60 pages at this
kitchen table. And this of course has this was my of the many reactions. Listen I
can't recommend this movie to anybody who has eyes or ears or the ability to
you know do something more fun like open your ball sack and pour salt inside until it's just full.
But if you do get a chance to see this movie with Keisha, it is an experience to see because
this scene contains a line where she basically, he's like, oh, I've got to work this weekend.
And she says, when were you going to tell me?
And he says, I've got to work this weekend and she says when were you going to tell me and he says I just did and
He should went oh, it was just a sound of it was just pain
It's like watching a mother loser child and I really recommend if you ever want to watch someone in just genuine pain
Watch Keisha watch that that line interchange take place. It's really, it's really the depth of despair.
And if you didn't want to watch someone in pain, why the hell would you be listening to this
podcast anyway, right? Good point, good point. Yeah, I watched that scene and I remember
thinking. I was like, so everything's her fault. Okay. At the moment she tries to assert herself at all, it's like, no, you're wrong.
You're black and woman shut up.
And you think, you'd think because that's such a grotesque scene that later on, the movie
will revisit it and will be like, oh, that was a bad way to behave.
The movie will instruct us that like he behaved badly. No, behave badly no no she needs to be such a nanny bitch. I feel like that is like that that would be the
character description it would be naggy bitch. That was on the casting listing. That's what they sent out on actor's access. Yeah.
And what's so hard, it's like, I'm somebody who considers myself feminist. So when I see
women portrayed as just like she was getting crapped upon and then like being punished for like,
same please don't like just stop.
If I saw her on the train, I would go, do you need help?
They're shelters.
You come here.
I can help you.
This isn't about Jesus.
This is about your personal safety.
You come on.
And I would I would liberate her. Well, I got to say this movie takes Jesus your personal safety, you come on. And I would liberate her.
Well, I gotta say this movie takes Jesus over personal safety quite a few times.
Oh, no question.
Yes.
Jesus would leave her on that train and be like,
yeah, go for a job.
Her job looks weak.
According to this movie, you gotta hit her body, man.
Cops can see black eyes.
Oh, crap. And just in case this movie wasn't racist enough, body man cops can see black eyes uh...
and just in case this movie wasn't racist enough quite yet this is where we get
to meet miss clara
whose house uh... apparently a lisabeth is is showing yes and the first
scene we ever see with miss clara she is making a white teenager uncomfortable
with how racist she is
yes paying in for mowing her lawn or something.
And but the way she speaks, you can see the actor or the character or probably both is just like,
you don't need to talk that way.
I don't know anyone who talks that way.
That's...
I'm uncomfortable.
Am I done in the movie?
I can go?
Okay.
Now I do want to point out one feature of the home that I found interesting apparently Miss Clara keeps an answered prayer board
And I was dying for them to walk into another room where she's got 7,000 unanswered prayer boards somewhere else
It all stacked up in the basement or something next her next to her prayer board. She had a picture of Martin Luther King. Yes
next to her prayer board she had a picture of Martin Luther King. Yes, just a further...
Because she was black, Eli, because black people have pictures of Martin Luther King.
I don't know.
Kisha, how many... you're in your home?
How many pictures of Martin Luther King can you see at this moment?
Well, you have to understand I'm doodling a picture of him right now, making...
...making out with Harriet Tubman. Well Malcolm X is punching white police officers
in the face and they're all eating tons of fried chicken, saying hope, I, I mean, it's like no big deal, but I just like started it like five minutes ago, but it's like, it's one of the like thousand in my bedroom. So like no big deal.
You have a beautiful mind of Martin Luther King and Matt, right?
Minasjay to Worry.
You don't understand how much work you just made for me
because now I'm gonna have to draw that doodle
as the image for this week's episode.
So, should be fun.
I hope nobody comes in and sees it.
I'll be charged with a hate crime,
but this movie was a hate crime.
I wanted, when she kept saying,
this isn't my favorite room.
I wanted so badly for her favorite room
to be a dildo dungeon.
Just, pangilette sex tub against the wall and fucking a sex swing and she just walks
her in there and she's like, have you ever seen someone get fucked by a machine?
Cause go get ready.
Now this is called a sippian.
God ain't saying nothing about machines.
My husband couldn't do this.
Every war has a strategy and sometimes you need a machine gun.
See, in my mind right now it it's Terminator 3, but her vagina.
And they're winning her vagina.
And it's a war against humanity or her orgasm.
Anyway, I'm writing that right now.
Ironically, still called judgment day.
And then there was this super quick scene that I have to bring up because there was just
so much sexism baked into this scene. Oh the um, I'm so excited
The Elizabeth at work scene. Yes. Yes. That's the show. Yeah
I just wanted I want to plant a flag her friends look like they rented two wax dummies of attractive women
But left them in a van in a hot van
For like eight to twelve hours and then when they pulled them out they're like,
oh, oh, you know what, it's fine. It's fine. We'll just shoot them anyways. They look like
these melted half-humans, but this is where we get the line. It's hard to submit to a man
like that sometime. Yes. And that that submit word is going to come up again. Yeah, well, that is explained to what that is quote unquote explained away when the woman says
Sometimes submitting is like God telling you to duck so he can hit your man
Yes, which if that was supposed to make me feel better. I mean, I'm not a woman so I can't speak for it
But Keisha did that make you feel like it was sort of uneven footing?
it but Keisha, did that make you feel like it was sort of uneven-funning? Yeah, well thank you for deferring to me, A, that goes against the movie.
B, it like there was just something where I think I audibly said, oh no.
And...
Oh god.
Like a horror movie. I was like submitting and like light BDSM or like oh no you mean God okay and no not okay and for the first time
I would be would have been okay if she had been like I don't know we've been playing with some pegging stuff
I would have been like oh my god she's just talking about sex
she's just talking about sex guys it's just talking about sex guys. It's all right. She was talking about like, or in disproportionate relationship
to a man or woman. She was just talking about him tying her up and fucking her. Oh,
thank god. Weirdest, weirdest girl talk moment I've ever seen. You know what I like to
do when I submit to rape? I pretend I won't submit for a few minutes. You mean you get raped?
No, no, no, no, I know.
I'm going to submit eventually.
I read it in Cosmo.
It's exciting for them.
Sex, tip number four.
Terrifying.
I feel like the deleted scene was, no, I'm worthless.
No, I'm worthless.
No, I'm worthless.
No, stop.
No, you stop. Someone should hit us. Oh boy.
They're women.
Then someone comes in and they're like, hey, Trisha, are you on your period? Oh, yeah, I am.
Get out of the village. You get out of the village for a week and a half. Sorry.
No one touched your around the way out there
wonders off into the desert we never see
Trisha again now we need a red half for god
damn it and they burn the office burn
her it's unclean
oh shit and then we get we go back to
Tony who is we we missed Veronica
earlier this he when we first meet Tony He's closing the big deal and there's this
this
Vixen that comes up to him and tries to pedal her wears. Oh you close the big deal. Oh, well
I like to close it now
And I would like to point out that the Vixen temptress character in this movie looks exactly like a shark
character in this movie looks exactly like a shark. She looks precisely like a shark in a wig. If I'd scanned the credits because I expected next to her character's name to
just see shark in a wig. Because that's what she looks like. A shark in a wig. She wasn't
as hot as Elizabeth. I don't know if I could go as far as shark in a wig. She looks like
a shark in a wig. You Google image her right now.
And you're gonna be like, oh, that's a Sharkin awake. And then you tweet.
You tweet it. Noah. And I don't care what you tweet it. No.
She didn't even get him whenever you want.
I mean, they definitely see for me though, I thought she had intensely curved eyebrows.
And all I could think was oh
because curved eyebrows like that mean you're a demon like you are a demon from
hell. Herb eyebrows. Otherwise known as horns. Yes. Demon from hell with a vagina.
Succubus but like sock that bus and by bus I mean bang bus bang my dick
See I brought it back in front of back full circle full circle holy shit tonight downing she does
I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I doubted you shark and a wigs. She does look like a shark and a wail
Thank you nail that shark and a wink. I want to see her movie
So then...
Finding Nemo 3.
There's only one way for us to find you.
And that's for me to seduce this pharmaceutical rep.
Alright, so then we go...
So yeah, now we're back at Miss Clarice.
Yeah, so...
Where she is desperately trying to get this woman
to talk about selling her house
But she is conducting a mild version of the Spanish Inquisition
No, whenever expects that you know
Yeah, yeah, this has got to be like the Realtors nightmare you go in you just want to get the fucking how much do you want for the house and shit
She's like how about some Jesus right exactly how's your Jesus is Jesus Jesus Jesus enough then she plays the little coffee prank on
her the analogy that she's trying to make here she asks how's your prayer
life and she says it's hot or cold and she says in between so she gives her
coffee that's in between hot and cold and so what I what I what I what has left me
wondering is does that make atheism the iced coffee of theism? Because I'm okay with that.
It's a liposetino.
It doesn't like iced coffee.
That's crazy.
Or coffee ice cream.
Let's go further.
Oh hellswee.
Yeah, because maybe agnostics are like iced coffee. If you're spiritual, it's kind of
lukewarm.
I mean, I don't have my thermometer, but I can take a temperature of the milk later.
Also, why did, so in the movie,
they all drank their coffee black,
and all I could think is,
so what is cream in this metaphor?
Why is there no cream or sugar?
These indulge me.
Oh shit.
Who knows?
Rationality, reason,
Pram, right exactly and sugar as joy, obvious another reason why because it's fun
It's expatism. It's fun. It's expensive and it makes you fat
Things that we all know are true
You've been reading conservative a pdf against right she asks at one point the actual question
Miss Clara asked is how is your prayer life now keep in mind that this Elizabeth character
has not said that she's Christian up to this point well first off it's the odd thing when
you were black that is an assumption that still is jarring to me. That's the thing of like, black, Christian, yeah.
Right.
Unless you're a jail in which case you're a Muslim.
Yeah.
Oh.
Welcome to it.
Welcome to being my nose and face structure.
People are just like, so you're Jewish, you know a good lawyer.
No.
Oh, it's the equivalent. So it's just like that, right? It's, you know a good lawyer. No. Oh.
It's the equivalent.
So it's just like that, right?
It's just like that.
Yeah, exactly.
Yes, equally hard to be a white Jew.
That's what I'm saying.
Guys, hear me out.
What I'm saying is that it's a Jew.
Male Jew, like being a white Jew.
Yeah, that's a quibbake.
We're a fucking third.
We're a fucking third every time I hear from you, sir.
And of course, this is also the scene
where we find out how the movie gets its name.
Because we've already teased the,
this is my third favorite room,
this is my fifth favorite room.
Now she's gonna show her her favorite room,
which is a closet with prayers in it.
And she says, I call this my war room.
She says, why?
She says, because schizophrenia closet
didn't do well with the test audiences.
We had to go some exciting sounding.
Delusion, so.
Delusion cupboard didn't play well.
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
So we went with war room.
I mean, I would call it my magical thinking closet.
Sure.
My magical thinking land.
My pretending box.
My pretending box.
Yeah, that, I mean, that would sell a lot more.
Oh, yeah.
I also want to point out, this is the first
like relationship talk she has with Mith Clara,
where she gets the two worst pieces of advice
I could possibly imagine.
The first is she says, by husband is emotionally abusive
to which she responds, how often do you
pray for your husband?
Right.
Which is basically like being like, someone's really cruel to me. Yeah, have you ever tried casting a magic spell on him?
And then later she's like she's sitting there we cut to them sitting there and talking and she's venting
She's venting to someone who is she is taking as a friend. She's like, I don't know how to feel and sometimes
He's really cruel to me to which Miss Claire responds
Shut up and talk about my invisible friends some more
Oh, you've just she's like all you've done is sit there and complain
But how much magic spell have you tried to do have you even tried and guard him?
I
Don't see no golden smitch
I don't see no golden smitch. Well, and she also tells her that she needs a prayer strategy at this point.
And that, my brain really went with that one.
I'm thinking like, all right, we're going to send 50% of the prayers against the main
front and an auxiliary force of our father's bolstering, the Eastern flank will send
the force of elite birthday wishes in the night before to wreak havoc with their supply lines
We'll support it with air invocations
But the problem is there's no exit strategy in your idea
How are we gonna get out?
Like when all the prayers don't work at the end
We'll say that it's because China secretly fed soldiers into whatever we were praying about and then we just
Slowly back away and leave the country in ruins
Jesus is coming back any second. He's gonna take care of the exit
That's an exit strategy right there. You just said yeah, we have enough of a prayer strategy
We could get a whole hardcore history episode about it now. I'd like to imagine I like to imagine Britney
I like to imagine. I like to imagine Britney Spears praying Britney Spears and then then nothing happens. Again. Again. And so now here's kind of I guess we're the plot of the movie
kicks in because Miss Clara tells Elizabeth that she needs one hour a day to teach her to pray because Jesus magic is
seven and a half times harder than great abs, I guess. Right. Her advice is exactly, and I'm going
to say this quote without accent because because I should not say it with the accent.
Men don't like it when they's women trying to fix them.
it when these women trying to fix them. Well, that was more racist without the excess.
That is the word that white men wrote down for an African American woman to say.
Well, it's because the word it just doesn't test well.
I would love to be able to do just a quick control app for
uppity on the original script.
Right. 763 things.
But mostly in the descriptions of the characters.
But mostly in the descriptions of the characters.
So mildly inaccurate is what you're saying. These black accents mildly in her.
And she sends her home with the advice, love him, respect him, and pray for him.
Yeah, yeah, wish away your brother. That is the first and foremost moral of this story. Do not solve your problems
Wish to Jesus that they're already solved. That's the key piece
of advice this movie is giving. And then it's time for her battle plan montage, where
she reads the Bible and it's like they've got some hardcore rock and roll in the back
one where it's like good turn it down to Bible, she reading the Bible, she clears out her
claws and it's time for her to pray. I'll be honest that was the moment in the movie that took me out because I was like that's not what she would listen to
Drop a beat on it
I was like rap about Jesus. Don't rock out. Did you ever seen white people try to rap about Jesus?
It is the second most offensive thing I've ever seen. The first being this movie, this movie right here.
Well, and I love it because at first, you know, we have to, you know,
no montage is complete if she gets it too quickly.
So we have to show that she's not very good at praying now.
So her daughter comes in and she's like sitting in the closet, eating chips and drinking
a sprite.
Right.
But what I love about this, okay, so the daughter shows up
and while she's in the closet and acts like she just caught her
master beating with a butternut squash while choking herself
with a fucking necktie.
It was just this, like, oh my God, you're in a closet thing
moment where I guess we were supposed to feel like this
is a horribly embarrassing thing to have happen
Yeah, wasn't the fucking dildo dungeon. I mean it was embarrassing. She's a woman and she was eating for pleasure
Get out of here
You pick she should just open the closet door and been like you're a pig
Let's not forget that during the can't get it right montage what she can't get right is sitting in a chair
Right, tries a variety of chairs, which she sits in like she just grew legs out of a otherwise entirely torso body
And she's like wait till next to I did I fold into themselves do I just if I pull my nose in my mouth at the same time
And I blow will they fly off my body? I have no idea how to sit in the chair. So she ends up just eating chips
and terrifying the little white friend, by the way. We have a little white girlfriend in this movie
who will come into judge the African American woman throughout. That is this care. That little girl,
her entire character journey and her only direction was
You're upset and surprised by everything that that character does
Whatever she does it scares you. It scares you. She shouldn't be a doing it
So then they close the closet door and she screams I can have all the chips
I want the children as they run away like a monster
And one of the things that like helps to button the scene is they insult her foot odor as a
Problem. Oh, yes, uh
Because what is a woman if not stinky and eating alone?
Having no value. Stinking and eating alone the Eli Bosnick story
Can you eat it alone the Eli Bosnick story?
Listen, you're not a black woman you can't take that story. Oh, no, it's totally fine for me to be those things It's still my story, but it's fine. I get to fuck whoever I want and take a cab whenever I want it's amazing
I
Could fight a cop right now. I could run at a cop with
Nothing would happen to me. They'd ask me quietly to put them down it's amazing
oh boy
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god a little too loud at one of the jokes and other in there. So then we move on to another gym scene with the EMT buddy because every time they have
a fight we then have to see him working out his black man rage on just a couple of things.
Let me say, if we're going to talk about something good that happens in this movie, he is a very
attractive man and his body is very well maintained.
He's a sexy bastard.
I'm just saying that it was a moment I was just, because I remember sitting there, I was
just like, I wonder what workout they're doing.
Like he looks great.
He looks really good.
Oh, are you not into that?
I thought he looked really nice.
His arms were too big, but the abs, I was all about the abs.
Literally I thought about anything else.
I made myself gay, so I didn't have to think about
the plot of this movie.
I changed my sexuality.
Don't believe anything anyone's told you.
You can do it.
You just got to try hard enough.
I was gay for this movie, so I didn't have to think about
this woman exposing herself to emotional abuse.
Well, she wished super hard in her closet. That's a great synopsis of the film, okay?
We're done.
Well, no, I looked at the actor who played Tony's body and I went, that's like, like,
what are you hiding?
Why?
Like, where are you doing that? That's like
tiny little penis. That's a cutscene from the movie. And then we get to my favorite
scene in the whole fucking movie. This would be the the mugger scene. Yeah the
mugger. Where who again in the tradition of the of this movie they made white
racist. They were just like, listen we're not racist look we made the mugger white and he has a baseball cap on see see I
guarantee you have used called the Kendrick brothers today and we're like hey
you guys made a viciously racist movie they'd be like mm-hmm did you see the
mugger slam dunk click yeah so this mugger he sees an older black woman and he's like oh there's some money right there
So he runs up and tries to mug her while she's with Elizabeth and
Miss Clara defeats him
With pure Jesus sex good rebuking. Yes a good rebuking
Yes
As if this movie didn't have enough bad lessons in it for the people who watched it
They needed to throw in the fact that old women should refuse to give up the whatever money they have in their purses and get stabbed to death by
Yes, because Jesus will protect you
Wasn't enough bad information in this movie that they just if the if the next scene they had just shown Miss Clara sticking a fork into a socket
Being like this is totally fine.
What a great way to get things out when they're stuck in here.
I mean, I mean, there must have been part of her that was like, that's only a knife.
White people usually carry guns.
We cool.
Like, and also, it was a stabbing. We cool like
Like and also it was a stabbing my first thought is that's a knife. I can run. You can't do much like
Like just like like move like get out of the way
Yes true Miss Claire could juke him out and just break his ankles.
Just like, oh!
That would have been more interesting, that fight scene.
Oh my God.
And the muggers.
Oh, I wish Ms. Claire had used black cungs.
And then we go right back to Claire's house after, Ms. Claire's house after the mugging and
we get bet more
terrible shitty marinal advice about how you should ignore everything and
count on jesus
right what right down everything your husband's ever done wrong
no no no i'm not gonna look at that list even though it might have incredibly
valid complaints
i'm going to ignore you and tell you to do more magic thinking yes exactly and this is where we get the
Grace talk where she tells if she where she explains what an iridim and will piece a dog shit
We all are and how we deserve to choke to death on God's dingal berries for eternity
But he doesn't make us so how Luluya that's Christianity and a nutshell isn't it?
Well, I mean according to Miss Ms. Clare, it is.
I mean, it's different for women of her age and stature.
They get a different Bible, the Sancy Black Women's Bible.
I mean, that's the one that has rooms in it that are for secret prayin.
Oh, right, exactly. That's that one that has rooms in it that are for secret prayin
Strategy it's got a whole section on how to take a punch
Yeah, I mean this is basically a
conspiracy Movie that really removes the bail of how black people pray and it works and white people pray and it doesn't
That's why black people are so much better off
than white people.
It explains so much.
I knew there was a reason you guys had it so good.
The minute you've plagiarizing Bible verses
onto loose leaf paper is somehow both physically
and intellectually rigorous.
Yes, she's drinking raw eggs, she's sweating
with useless sweatpants, it's ridiculous.
Exactly.
There's a Bible verse with a chicken,
or chicken with a Bible verse written on it,
running around her backyard, she grants it,
she nails its head first into her wall.
Where are you?
Doesn't she go into shake at some point?
Like she just starts like shaken,
rocking herself, yeah. Yeah, rock in herself.
Yeah.
Okay.
Just just just making sure that that was the right time she was that wasn't a
nightmare.
Are you at?
Yeah.
No.
Um, I mean, I would shake when my husband made me feel emotionally unsafe.
But no, this is reasonable.
So you should write down everything your husband's done to make you feel unsafe.
So I can ignore it and tell you to pray and close your eyes and wish it better
yeah ignore it go in your closet
and speaking of emotional abuse this is also where we cut to uh... Tony having his date with aqua woman
and
uh... okay what are the odds of this there's supposed to be he's supposed to be out of town in a different fucking city and apparently one of
Elizabeth's friends sees Tony at the restaurant is like, hey, I think your man's fucking this
This shark lady. What do you think right and this this is where she has her breakdown?
slash conversation with the devil
Which is my favorite scene in the movie. So if you've ever been to a party
with a couple that needs to break up and so they have a screaming fight in front of everyone at
that party and you're everyone just holds perfectly still like like it's fucking Jurassic Park and
their vision is based on movement and you just watch these people have a screaming fight
that's what happens with this scene except it's her and absolutely fucking nobody
she just wanders around her house being like and you know what?
I haven't had an orgasm from you in two years
oh no don't you talk to me that way
don't I don't even want to hear it
I don't want to oh it's always, oh, it's always about my mother.
It's always about my mother.
And I just, I wanted so badly for the camera to pan over
to a fat white guy in a devil suit,
just like eating a bowl of mashed potatoes,
just like, woo!
What the fuck did I do, man?
Come on!
I wanted them to pan over, because I hope they had a pool in that house.
Like, and the devil would be on a floaty being like, hey girl, I'm just gonna stay in this pool for a little bit.
I can't talk to you when you're like this, I'm just gonna hang out in the pool.
Alright, alright. I'm just gonna hang out in the pool. All right, all right. But like the first mention of the devil in this film, I was like,
huh, devil seems relatable.
But by the time I see you were like yelling at him, I'm like,
poor devil.
What have you done to you?
I haven't seen anything.
Stop picking on this devil.
You know who you should yell at Tony right? By the way if you
think that Tony's ever going to get the yelling at that the devil does me you
are wrong. Nope she gets it out of her system there and it's not enough. Did she
wanders around her house screaming at an imaginary invisible monster? While her
daughter is upstairs she knows her daughter's upstairs. She then goes outside
And starts yelling just in case all of the neighbors didn't know about the schizophrenia yet
Oh, and again, I can't stress enough how much I want to watch a second movie about the neighbors of the main characters in this film
Hopefully to say if they could live in between the couple from fireproof
Hopefully this if they could live in between the couple from fireproof and the couple just that same couple that hates each other It's just like oh the black girls the black girls yelling. Is she yelling at us? Oh, no. Oh, no, it's the devil. It's fine
Yeah, it's fine. I was worried about a mental health crisis for a second
But it's just the devil that's okay
Let it go. I mean, mental health, whatever.
But devil, we can relate to. That's understandable.
Yeah, totally fine.
And by the way, speaking of the daughter,
the daughter comes down at some point
and is rightly terrified that her mother is screaming into space
and then just goes back upstairs to bed.
Yeah.
Just like, if I came downstairs at the ripe old age of eight
or average, all this girl is
and my dad was just on the front porch being like you listen to me
Mathuzela, I'm gonna get you to fuck a talk to me that way. I'll fuck you up right?
Man no, I ain't nothing between you and me but fear and atmosphere motherfucker
I'd be like oh okay time to call the doctor, but because it's this movie. They're just like yeah, whatever
I guess mommy's going through a thing
Speed smell bad
It's like the caveman's Valentine's like skits are for any I as told from the inside
Well, and there's a point where like if you were her daughter
Wouldn't you come downstairs and be like hey mom? Here's a journal you can get your thoughts out on
I'm trying to sleep. I's the first one. I'm trying to sleep.
I have things to do.
I'm eight.
I'm eight.
I'm eight.
I've got double-dutch practice in the morning
so you could get on some kind of anti-anxiety medication.
That would be so nice.
And then we learn that Elizabeth's prayers have been answered because Jesus has
smited her adulterous husband with the squirts. Right, but because she's
scared away the devil, it makes me think that the devil was preventing the
squirts. So that the devil, once she scares the devil out of her house, the devil,
she also scares the devil out of her house. The devil, she also scares the devil out of
brazeman and the devil is the devil what prevents diarrhea. Is the thesis of
this movie? Well of course once you get the devil out of your house but who
devils like blood holes. You do miss that part. God loves Uganda. Oh God. I mean, everything in time has shown us that God is in Uganda and in
God way. And South Africa. I could just crush it. So now the daughter, again, the comparisons of this
movie to do a horror movie, especially the shining, The scene, because the daughter wanders in, the next scene is the daughter wanders into
the prayer closet, and it is, it is shot for shot, finding all work and no play makes Jack
a dog like that.
Except instead of them going, oh, you're crazy.
Let me go hide in the freezer with this knife.
They're just like, can I do this too?
It's like if the shining had just, instead of that,
the kid had just been like, oh, fuck this tricycle.
All work and no play makes Danny a dog boy.
I love it.
Let's get her.
Listen, however you have to get your children
to buy in, you do. Now, if they had more axes in the shining, it would have to get your children to buy in you do. Now if they had more
axes in the shining it would have been a different movie.
So if they had a second mini-axe for Danny, right?
Yeah. Here's Johnny and Danny and also Danny.
Yeah and also Danny. It's bring my kid to go crazy day, sorry.
He's really enthusiastic.
It pops through the dog door at the bottom or something.
I love it.
Oh, that would be like a really cute the shining.
That'd be cute.
Like you mean cuter.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, sorry.
Sorry, you're right.
You're surfing out on the elevator blood.
That would be pretty sweet.
He's wearing Ray Bans.
Yeah.
But dinner out now.
And then of course we have to learn that we get another being Jesus E montage where we learn that that Elizabeth is now so
prayerful that she's falling asleep in her prayer room which gives us yet another opportunity to laugh at her body odor when the UPS guys shows up.
And physical appearance and hair.
I guess all the things that you could possibly
be racist about on an African-American woman.
And sexist about.
Oh, and sexist about.
We take a moment to have a white character be like,
oh, you look like garbage.
You look like hot wet garbage.
You're the worst.
You're the worst. I may vomit.
I may vomit at the sight of your natural hair. I may vomit and shit. I mean, I'm just
showing up here unannounced how dare you do not look fuckable at all times. Like all I
know is Beyonce and Rihanna. That's all I know. Beyond saying Rihanna is all I know.
So if I can't, don't want to put my dick in you,
you are not acceptable, you can fall down.
You gross.
You gross.
You gross, either UPS guy can dem you.
And then of course, Tony comes home
from his business trip where he finds Elizabeth list of his phone and sees that her friend
has busted him and taxed them about the check he was he was uh... flirting with
right exactly which
and to her knowledge he has cheated on her right she has not she did not get
feedback from saint didn't come back and be like there you happy
and you made a big scene and I gave him diarrhea, all right?
All right, this is what we were talking about with Dr. Glauber. You scream at me I do what you say and we get in a do a negative communication loop. You didn't even read who moved my cheese relationship edition did you?
I made it all the way through men of the mosque and women of the readers and I feel like I'm the only one who's working on this list
women with the fetus and I feel like I'm the only one who's working on this limit.
So then we get, and this was another one that really killed in the theater
where it's so he finds out he knows she knows and they go to eat dinner and
when she puts food on the table and then when she turns her back he switches
his food for her food and everyone in the audience goes, ha she's gonna murder
him with poison I get it.
Well, when you have all of those feelings inside
because you've been emotionally abused,
I think that's a fair conclusion.
I can't.
If she murdered him with poison, I would have been okay.
Yes, exactly.
If she had poison to him, I would have been like,
okay, movie, I'm on.
I'm with it.
Andrea, if all of a sudden she had turned around something in the prayer closet and it just been like how to make us and just a
Page cut out of the anarchist cookbook and she was she she'd just been making
Prussic acid in there. I'd be like that's why she needs a closet. I'm in it movie. She goes on a murder spree
Yes, oh no, no, and instead he finds out that she's been zombified with Jesus to which he says hooray my wife no longer exhibits signs of free will
Lucky me. Well, he's suspicious. Yes, suspicious of the fact that she's now going to Latin walk. He's like now when you say you're gonna
Let me treat you like shit. I get to treat you like shit. And she's like yeah, yeah
100% all the time and he's like, huh? I don't know if I'm to treat you like shit and she's like yeah, yeah 100% all the time and he's like
Huh, I don't know if I'm okay with you. I might still be mad at you for this
He's a little mad a little bit. He's just like a little like
You say you're gonna be my slave
Doesn't count if you want it
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when we meet tom now tom is the mean boss and also the element illegitimate
lovechild of william h mace and p we herman
and he's noticed that there was some problems with tony's inventory
this is rob riner if you went on like a juice fast
this character looks like me that oh see that yeah that you're talking about
Poor man's Billy Bob Thornton. Yeah, yeah, I was talking about the other guy in the bow ties
So yeah, that's basically you're talking about yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, basically you've got Rob Reiner on a juice fast on one side and you've got
Bill nice unfuckable cousin on the other yeah, he looks like the bad guy from every Nickelodeon TV.
Yes, yes, exactly.
You stole the formula for the bubble McGubble gun.
What are they gonna do?
What some kid gonna tell me?
Oh no, they filled my show with blue ink.
Now I'll have to be blue for the entire threat.
Again, that would have blue for the entire threat.
Again, that would have made for a better movie.
Like all other things, all other changes.
Now Tony pulls up in the garage here after learning that maybe there were some problems with
the inventory.
We can tell that it's going to be bad news because it's raining.
Right.
Well, and clearly she's not praying enough
or like washing her feet enough.
I mean, so basically she's a rancid, impure,
not holy enough woman.
So I'm gonna go stick my dick and stuff.
Uh,
and even the UPS guy won't fuck her.
Yeah.
She's in a big old house and UPS is like, no thank you.
I can do best.
No, pass.
You're garbage.
You're garbage.
Well, as much as I'd love to say that the movie ended here, it didn't.
So we've got more review yet to come.
But before we dive into the finale, we're going to take a well-earned break.
So let me very quickly give act three the hard sell
Will Tony find Jesus. Yes. Will Elizabeth start taking anti-psychotics. No. Will any movie level thing ever happen at any point in this motherfucker?
Find out the answer to these questions and more when we return for the tedious conclusion of War Room. Oh
No, the bow went out into the street.
I'll get it.
Hold on little buddy.
Jesus!
Where you about to run into the street to grab the ball, Tommy.
Uh-huh.
Well, let me give you both an important piece of advice before you do.
Okay.
Remember, and this is very important.
Before you go out into the street to get something you should always shun black people.
Sorry, what?
Say again?
Hang out with black people is called race mixing and it's specifically forbidden, Genesis 28 and Deuteronomy 7 and 32.
But my dad says they're all pink on the inside, so it doesn't matter.
And also, don't forget to revile the Jews like it says in John
8 and Matthew 27. My mommy says I can play with whoever I want. Yes, but your mother is a woman,
so what the hell does she know? Excuse me? Hold on a second. Are you sure you're not a Nazi?
Now come on, kids. If you're disobedient, I might just have to murder you with rocks as prescribed in Deuteronomy 21 and Proverbs 13.
You can't do that!
According to the Bible, I can. It also says I can hit you with a stick whenever I want.
I didn't know it said that in the Bible, G.I. Jesus.
Well, now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
What's the other half?
Talking to yourself in a closet.
Hmm.
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walks not in the light of the Lord.
And lo, they agreed, with what was being said, spoken or viewed, and so pressed their
tongues to the back of their throats and spake thee, and it was good.
For even though Miss Sherry's jam won the prize at church competition every year, she
only attended church on Easter and Christmas, so she was cast out.
And because it was heard that her husband had something on the side, and she knew about
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So don't hesitate, act now and unlock your magical sassy black woman powers today.
And we're back for yet more self-inflicted punishment.
Last we heard Tony had lost his job, but just in case getting fired isn't one of those universally
recognized bad things, the director chooses to reinforce that message with a quick nightmare sequence.
Yeah, where Tony has a kung fu fight with Tony.
Which was cliche when they did it
and Empire strikes back, by the way.
Right, yeah, exactly.
And I'm sure you were sad that Tony was wearing a shirt
in the fight scene.
I was, I was, in fact, if they had taken off
your shirt, and maybe Tony and Tony started to kiss
a little bit, like my first Tony doesn't want to kiss, but then big strong Tony grabs Tony as an
arm and he just presses his lips to his mouth and you just, you just watch Tony's knees
go weak.
Yeah, and what, and, uh, you'd edit all of that out.
I'm getting very nervous this year.
All right, cut.
Cut.
No, that's gonna be the teaser that starts the show right there. I like it
think is like and then all of a sudden like evil Tony goes no let it happen. And
Tony's like all right he's like you got a good body. I know I do. You got a
good body too. And then. And then the rest of this movie then there's 90
minutes of just condomless
bearback fucking
and you know what i would think to myself i would think wow the second half of
that movie was better than the first
that move
at least we now know it's going somewhere
alright i get this
so but instead no we go nowhere instead
Tony wakes up and he wanders around his house like a roaming spirit
clinging to the mortal realm and then he finds the the prayer room as well and I want to say I think I
Haven't on the math here, but I believe about 18% of this movie's runtime is people finding other people's prayer closets
Yeah, everybody has a walk-in closet. Yeah, what's up with that?
I don't have I couldn't walk into my closet and pray.
I could walk into my closet and hang myself,
but I didn't think it was praying in there.
Mine's not that big.
I'm gonna watch this movie.
Well, and earlier in the film,
he Tony insults her for not making enough money.
But the moral of the story is she,
if she's really submitting to her
husband, her husband should at least like do his damn job and work all the jobs like
right. She's the breadwinner who has to submit and get yelled at. Where is any woman in this
writer's room? I mean they mean- Oh I'm I'm sure, like, stdoling out the sandwiches
and pouring the coffee.
Who do you think they fed themselves during their writing?
No, I'm not.
No, they were just busy deleting their
Ashley Madison account.
All right.
I just, just carefully going through.
Those were the two women on Ashley Madison,
the wives, the authors, the two women on Ashley Madison the wives we found
them I've got to say what does it like to be married to a person who has made
at least two movies that we know of about how marriage is terrible and it's
miserable but you have to stick with it anyway otherwise the devil will eat
your balls or whatever I mean what does that say to these guys wives? Well, it says exactly what you just said, but they can't answer back because they're stupid
devil-in-it. Because he powdering shoes. Does it matter? It's not a conversation. It's a monologue,
so they can get their horror faces and stop being complaining.
That's true.
If they only had one side of the intelligence squared debate,
we'd have a pretty conclusive debate.
All right, here's William Lane Craig for three hours.
Oh, God.
Then he's going to look at a chair and act like Sam Harris
didn't show up.
Well, I guess Sam's got nothing to say about this. This is a drag-out knockdown punch.
And then we get another scene with him hanging out with his buddy, and I only bring it up because
we have to have the obligatory Women B Loving Day closets seen.
Oh, of course, the Women Day B Loving Day closets, and of course, there's the weird,
I'm so
envious of how much your wife pray and sing.
They talk about praying like it's anal.
They're like, oh, she just prays all the time.
Yeah, man.
She's constantly prays, bro.
Constantly, prayer on tap.
Yeah.
Do you ever like watch her when she prays and then you start praying?
Yeah, sometimes sometimes she'll be praying and I'll just start praying. I'll just start praying, bro
She doesn't even know but then our kid comes in and prays with us. It gets weird
The other night I woke up in the middle of the night she was just praying over me. Just praying over me in the middle of the night man.
So I prayed myself to sleep.
But we hadn't really mentioned the double Dutch undercurrent to this movie.
And I honestly thought that this was going to be kind of a cool twist to it because at first when we first learn out that the girls on a double Dutch team
Dad's like that isn't a sport that's bullshit and I thought at the very least that maybe you know like dad would learn that that really is a good
What any kind of does but they don't even really fuck with it
I just bring that up now because eventually that becomes the only part of this movie that matters
Right, yeah, no, we're gonna we're gonna close out on some serious doubleutch and if you're thinking that we're gonna see some like really high-end
Double dutching like some really impressive aerobic double dutching
No, we are not because double dutch is a limited in boring sports
I just want to point out by the way that double dutch is fucking awesome
But what you see in this movie is absolute shit. Okay. I apparently missed out on the great the greater sides
Maybe the Christian stuff the pros they're amazing like that like the really top quality double double
Dutch teams are
Unfuckin believable and it's really impressive shit and I thought when this movie's decided to end at a fucking double
Dutch competition
I thought oh at least we'll get something good here, but no we didn't it was really fucking lame
They got the kids at that particular Christian camp that were best at double Dutch, but we're getting ahead of ourselves there
Oh absolutely because I have so many thoughts on the sweet Double Dutch, but my screenwriter,
brain, had a realization that you'll understand. So the father ends up in the movie, as you were
saying, becoming a part of like the daughter's Double Dutch desire. and the thing I just realized that's why they had to show them doing a back flip
Yeah, to show that he can drop and dance and
Because it's a tight script that's why everything that's introduced
Like a multi-spot that racist thing out of nowhere was foreshadowing
Yeah, I call it Negro shadowing, but it's fun
Shadow shadowing if you will turn off the lights. Let me see your eyes
So then this is where they have after they come get the car
This is where she should rightly say hey, what the fuck did you do?
come get the car. This is where she should rightly say, hey, what the fuck did you do? But instead, she delivers a monologue about how because she loves Jesus so much, she loves him. And something
happened during this scene, did anyone else notice? A tear falls out of her eye and rolls down
her face directly into her open mouth. No, I miss that.
It's the most terrifying thing in the world.
It's just because her mouth is wide open from like crying
and the tear rolls directly down her cheek into her mouth
and she swallows it and I will never think about anything else ever again.
As God says, we not want not.
That's right.
Yeah, if it's salty swallow it, that's the other thing.
If you watch this movie, watch for the forgiveness scene.
She cries directly into her own mouth.
It's like a fucking Kafka-esque,
HP Lovecraft Knight Nairale.
Like, she's just a creature that comes
out of the body that constantly cries into its own mouth
just drowns its own tears
So it so then you know Tony like breaks down and says he wants to be more Jesusy and so
Elizabeth calls Miss Clara so we get to we get to watch Miss Clara celebrate and this is she goes buck wild
Oh my god like this is the moment I think where the whole
She goes buck wild. Oh my god like this is the moment I think where the whole
Miss Clara and Jumima thing absolutely froths over. Oh, this is where it peaked I stared at Kisha. I stared Kisha in the eye the entire time she danced which I don't I don't know if I'm wrong about this
Kisha correct me if I'm wrong blasted for
487 minutes
This woman's self. I just like oh
487 minutes this woman's self are just like
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racist dancing the thing that we're missing though is what did it say in the
screenplay yeah right how did you write it okay she dances not not
specific enough she dances enthusiastically right, let's get more specific. She does that jazz dancing that makes people want to celebrate.
All me, Joey. Yeah, that's a good sequence.
Pass.
I was so terrified in this moment.
Just asterisk. Shuck and jive.
No, I got so terrified at this moment in the movie because like she starts asking moment just asterisk shucking jive a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha They were all break out into song. I'm thinking fuck I only know the first 12 words of a man
Yeah, the entire audience like turned into a burn from scrubs right
Three little white girls swear to God right in front of us three little white girls talking back at the screen going
Testifying is glad it was really awkward. Oh horrifying. I would have just been like hey my brain am I crazy
Crop into the projection booth.'ll think we work here dear God
Keisha save yourself
No, I can blend I'm fine
You don't belong here You're like covered in zombie guts. Yeah
Covered in the blood of Christ. I love it. I just put on an old lady wig and they buy it. It's fine
I'm not the appropriate age but who cares? Who cares? Does not have to be who watched or made
this movie. So now we go to the the drug confession scene where this movie didn't I guarantee
you they finished this movie was supposed to just be credits after he apologized to his
daughter. Maybe they had planned on the double Dutch
tournament who the fuck knows but they were like nope we need 30 minutes yeah
well he's black so he hasn't dealt any drugs yet in the movie that's gonna have
to happen eventually right and this is this is the moment when I realized that
like he'd been selling the drugs because I thought oh you know maybe his numbers
were just off and this is when they were like oh no he's been stealing and selling the drugs that I realized, oh, you know, maybe his numbers were just off and this is when they were like, oh no, he's been stealing and selling the drugs.
That I realized that the message of this movie was to tell young black women that their
abusive drug dealer husbands would stop being abusive drug dealers if they just prayed
about it.
Well, and shut up and shut up.
Yes. if they just prayed about it. Well, and shut up, and shut up. Yes, shut up.
And left him alone.
Yes, shut up and pray.
And your life, like drug dealer,
your drug dealing has been goes away.
And he loves you again.
And he doesn't, and he rubs your feet.
And he fucking buys you ice cream and shit.
And just all that fucking horrible.
And all of a sudden, it just, that in that moment,
this movie crashed down on me like really hard
So during this scene it was weird because I was on a very different emotional plane than everyone else
Everyone else was like oh what's gonna happen? I was just like oh what a horrible lie
What a horrible so I'm just over in the corner rocking back and forth being like no you got to get out of those situations
So then Tony brings the drugs that he still has
that he hasn't sold yet back to poor man's
Billy Bob Thornton and Alfred E. Newman's dad.
And they can't decide whether they want to prosecute him.
So sling blade buys him a couple extra days
while they think about it.
But he has to do it because dammit
that's the right thing to do and Jesus Jesus.
Right, and he does.
The the the bow tie character Tony, I think his name is.
The one who, Tom, Tom, who is the bad guy?
Tom is right and I just want to take this movie plays Tom as like a meany face, but he
is committed pharmaceutical fraud, which is a huge fucking deal.
And no one in the movie ever acknowledges when Tom's like, oh no, he stole a bunch of drugs for a pharmaceutical company.
Yeah, this puts all of us at risk, this put patience at risk, this put everyone he sold the drugs to at risk.
Well, yes.
But I mean, my thoughts are though, like one of the things that I'm missing piece of information and maybe my
brain was glazed over from the movie they never said what kind of drugs are they schedule one narcotics like what are we talking to about
schedule two narcotics or are we talking about insulin? I sell insulin to black people because
insulin. I sell insulin to black people because insulin is expensive and people are losing limbs. Like, there could be like a Robin Hood effect, but like what drugs is he selling?
Right. And when he opens it up, it looks like little eye droppers. So like, what the fuck
could that even be? He does mention to the doctor that it's about the heart, because he says
I read your paper about heart arrhythmia. and I think you'd be interested in pranks and Mac pranks
and Mac or Prangham Panties. Yeah, nobody's getting high on that. So I'll get high on that.
I grew up a white kid in the suburbs. Don't tell me how to live my journey. My people
been getting high on everything within a 45 mile radius since time began.
And just getting away with it, I'm so sorry, you were right.
So, I need to judge.
We can ask the cop for a light.
It's amazing.
Our people put poop and jugs and smell it for fun, okay?
We can get high off anything including barracks a pan so
that we get another musical montage of them being a good Jesusy family and I
only bring it up because I mean there's like five of these in the movie but I
bring this one up particularly because the name of the song that is playing in
the background is crazy faith and it sounds exactly like you think a song called crazy faith sounds.
This is like this bumpkin country song playing over the top of this black family going to church.
And they might dare not to believe in Jesus but fuck them, they're all a bunch of Jews.
Kill them? 9-11 were started by the Jews, Jeff Fudon burned that heart! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha other than that he nailed it yeah and then uh... billy bob thorton comes to see him and i guess he's so impressed that that tony brought the drugs back
that he decides not to prosecute
uh...
right which is a craze no shut up it's not a crazy moment guys
it's a magical white man moment
i was wrong i'm sorry this movie is magical
thank you magical white man for saying it's okay
Give us back that money because you were given out heart medicine to people you know
Selling heart medicine to people who probably have bad heart and
drugs
So you steal samples so people can live. Stop it, black man. I'm magic. Listen to me.
Yeah.
But I'm, and in this he says, I have never, I have never seen a man take total responsibility
for his actions in the way you did. And I was like, never Never met anyone who's like, oh, sorry man my bad
Everyone in that man's life up until Tony's been like nope. Don't know who backed in you
I've no idea yeah, and then he just poofs off into the distance just oh how much was stolen
$19,000 worth of life-saving heart medication
What are we gonna do about it? Who the fuck knows? Who cares?
This white horse to him and says Tony that was God's grace and I'm thinking no that was
Billy Bob Thornton stunt double, but sure why the fuck not yeah, that's a miracle. Yeah fuck
Fuck thin rob Reiner man. He comes in and he's like I've you know
I've really thought about this and I want to give you a second chance
And she's just like thank you god and he's like oh actually that was me. Thank you god
All right, I'll see myself out and indeed he does just wanders out into the night
I'm just saying as far as white squad that ranks below the latest toast appearance and if you thought hey
Well, you know what now everything's been resolved the movie the movie can end. You were wrong because things are going so wrong.
So wrong.
Because now we get back to Miss Clara's house because if you'll remember, 875 minutes ago,
we were selling her house, who knows why, where we have to totally mystifying things happen.
So they come in to the house, she's showing this couple around, and the husband,
who is a preacher, can smell that someone's been praying in the closet. And he says, someone's been
praying in this closet, to which I wrote the Eli Bosnik story. But the way we learned this is that he walks into the closet and then he backs
out and walks in like nine fucking times. Like a wind up thing that broke. Like he's
sniffing around like a bloodhound and the escaped fugitive walked in and out of this closet
several times. Right. Yeah. Right. It smells like the prayer is baked in. That was the
life. Yeah. I think it's time for the James Randy million dollar closet sniffing challenge for the sky right exactly now
someone's been praying someone is praying in one of these eight closets if you
can tell us 14 times in a row on stage what Jamie and switch stairs at you
then you get a million dollars but if you can't we're gonna we're gonna
videotape it put it on the internet fun of your ass. I didn't come out until I was in 1995.
That's a problem.
We should all acknowledge.
I want to know, because I'm curious about all of you.
What is baked in prayer smell?
Like what does that smell like?
Probably chicken.
Bad feet perhaps?
Yeah, I'm gonna go with it.
It smells like tears.
Like if you've ever cried into your own mouth over and over again like a crazy
Deep C.H.P. Lovecraftian nightmare monster
It's probably what the inside of that monster's mouth smells like yes
I was I was about to say the same thing, but Eli beat me to it. Yeah, we finish each other
And then of course we have to get
the obligatory scene where Elizabeth thanks, Ms. Claire, for being all intrusive in
Jesus' and this is a key scene in every Christian movie because they have to send the message,
no, I know it seems like you're just annoying the fuck out of them, but eventually they'll
thank you. Right. Well, but that's how you get a husband in these
movies. So, of course, stop annoying me stop annoying me final Mary you now it's
Not legally raping some states
Let's be real it's not legally raping all states you know what I'm saying
You know what I'm saying? There's a huge God's law. Exactly. We allow that kind of thing to happen all the time. Am I right? Am I right?
Yes, you are right. So
So then they go to the double dust tournament?
Yes, they jump rope. Well, but now along the way they have to come across
Alfred E. Newman's dad again and his his car is broke as his cars not even broken down the guy's got a flat fucking tire
and he's got a spare tire in a jack there is the mean guy who looks like a
sneech from dr. sus right yes yes orville redden bockers illegitimate son is
over here and he can't any cuck on his phone is like well god damn it who's
gonna change this fucking tire that i have sitting right here next to this jack
and uh... and tony shows up and changes it for him.
So yes, this movie has now become an LDS commercial.
But he changes it in silence.
Like no more dark change.
He changes it in silence.
And like the whole time I'm just like someone talk.
Someone say something.
Hey man, thanks for it.
No, I just wanted to. Don't ruin it. It was horrifying. Also
there was that terrifying moment where he pulls the tire iron out of the back of the
car and I was like is this movie gonna have Tony like beat up the guy who wanted to
prosecute him for pharmaceutical fraud. Is that are we going to get is that our day new mall for this character
is him being assaulted to sleep on the side of a
ron again would have made a much better movie but now he just changes the
tire and then we get along to the uh to the double Dutch meat
which apparently is one of those you know how we have those athletic
competitions where grown fucking men competing against eight-year-old girls it's one of those
it starts with a Caitlyn Jenner and now full grown men compete with eight-year-old
girls they were right my cock-a-bee was right oh I feel like an eight-year-old girl
and now Tony the Adonis is just
creaming his way across the double dot circuit.
We were warned.
We were warned.
And now we get the money shot of the movie I guess,
which is Tony doing sort of a side flippy thing
into the jump ropes,
which they break it down into slow motion.
And I just wanna point out that he actually didn't get it because the way
that you're supposed to do this is to fall, you know, into the jump rope while the
jump rope is still going, but he couldn't do that.
So they didn't do that.
They just had him do a flip that had nothing to do with anything and then
start doing jump rope next to a jump rope.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of weird.
Just someone doing a back flip next to the jump rope.
Also, this was really mediocre double Dutch. Yeah, apparently I'm told that double Dutch can be incredibly impressive
This was not if you have fat kids doing the stunts in your double Dutch movie
It's not going well. There was a kid there who was like my weight who just like had sweat pouring down his face and like half a cheeto sticking out of his mouth
They have not brought your double Dutch a-game if one of your kids is like
they didn't say we were gonna be jumping rope
I mean there was a certain point I was like where the defibrillators on this
Like where's the safety come on
These people are not athletically prone.
By the way, citywide double-dutch tournament filled filled with people
850,000 people watching this citywide double-dutch tournament
I did not know that double-dutch tournaments existed. I wasn't a hundred percent sure on what double-dutch was until I saw
Someone doing it, but apparently a citywide tournament
Outsells the LCS Eastern Cup finals. Yes. Yes, it does. Yes, it does
Also, like why is he competing like in instance?
Like it's the thing that I kept coming back to where I was like nobody's thinking a most of the double Dutch teams
Leemed white. Why is this very muscular black man?
Scaring our judges.
I want to see those kids all the bus ride home,
who got a third place just being like,
so that was weird, right, with that other team?
Why was it weird about it?
Oh, you know, they had that like really full-grown muscular
athlete grown up on their team. Like a donnis. He was and he was a donnis. But there were also
some eight-year-old girls on the team so it was perfectly natural. Right. Exactly. Yeah and we all
know girls are stupid. So stupid. Get your periods thinking. Rose, wash your feet.
Dress up for the mailman.
And now the movie's over, right?
Nope.
Nope.
No, we need the rise up my lesion section of this,
which is, let me tell you, the ending of this movie,
which is I think maybe somewhat happy for the people
who were watching it is the
beginning of a scary movie for me. Right. Because her last monologue she's just
like, bring up that there. You can listen to them. I'm not gonna do it. But she
does a whole thing and then we have a picture of a guy reading a bible on a
tract on. A school full of Christians. Christian cop, a, a, a, and on duty Christian cop.
Yes.
And on duty Christian cop, a Christian baby,
prayer in a classroom,
and then what I can only assume is the anti-prite,
anti-Christ blocking out the sun with clouds of blood.
Because the final shot of this movie
is just a white man with his hand held out as the
sun descends into a sea of blood. Now I want to point this out because this was just so bizarre
to me. Okay. This movie ends with, you know, prayer in school and people just crowding, then
they just churches are so packed because all the people are going in and praying this movie actually quotes Matthew chapter 6 verse 5
Here it is for you if you if you're not familiar and when you pray do not be like the hypocrites for they love to pray
Standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others this movie quotes that line
That's why the ladies inter clause at praying and at the end of this fucking movie
They show the public hypocrite praying massage what the ever lasting fuck they've they've they've they've
they don't they don't they're not even watching their own movie to be fair
those people are not praying at the end of the movie they're gearing up to kill
all the Jews and all the muskets oh oh they're they're just closing their eyes to
sort of catch their breath I don't know if you like when you're super setting and
you got to get that last 15 reps in that just there they've all got guns and knives just out of frame. That cop's going to go murder
someone. That's it. You know, I'll just click to it. It just clicked with me. I get it now.
That and now and now the movie has closure. Oh, so good. Finally. So I have a two part question
for everybody. What were we supposed to learn from this movie and or what
did we learn from this movie? Well me is women be loving closets. Am I right?
Yeah, it's gonna settle for humor in this movie. So they've done cop sitting at a
kitchen table, firemen sitting at a kitchen table, football coach sitting at a
kitchen table, and real estate agent sitting at a kitchen table. So what do you think table football coach sitting at a kitchen table and real estate agent sitting at a kitchen table
so what do you think is up next for the Kendrick brothers what would you like to
see out of them now maybe maybe move on to a to a breakfast knulker something
try something different so I mean that they've taken on all of the heroic
professions now and they're slowly moving down the line so I think the next
movie we should see from them should be rabbi sitting in a kitchen table i now hear me out here here's what
it is it's this is a movie right but written by the Kendrick brothers about a
Jewish couple all right and her name is ester yeah of course yeah and her
husband's name is moishi and moishi dropped a penny in the street 44
years ago and he's
never home because he's always searching for it but she realizes that she's
unclean when she goes on her period so she starts bathing herself in water and
leaving the town for the time that she's on her period and when she does that her
husband comes home and shaves off his beard and wears
clothes that aren't black all the time and does some sit-ups and loves her. And their
three in-bred, super skinny, campy, haven't toy-store children all learn to behave and get
a real education from a public school instead of a crazy secret Hebrew school education
where they only learn how to read pages out of a spell book and it's called
Jew Fly Don't Bother Me.
Oh, should I hope they watch summer 2016?
Fantastic.
So Kisha, we try to steer clear of thumbs up thumbs down type clichés.
So rather than asking you how many stars you would give this movie or anything like that,
I'm going to ask you this.
What is the dullest implement that you could chop one of your own fingers off with while
still having more fun than you had watching this movie?
Not to get meta with it, the dullest thing and it's not dull, but I would take the feminine
mystique and as a book I would begin sowing off my limb because clearly women need to know their place and only through female mutilation
with feminist tools will I truly understand that feminism is the reason I'm bleeding out
slowly. You have no one to blame but yourself. That's what happened to Charlize Theron and Mad Max.
It makes so much sense now.
I mean, I want to just take this moment
and the podcast to apologize for being so uppity.
And...
All this speaking and hopeless.
Let her talk, go ahead, get it out.
No, I'm sorry, I've done too much.
I'm so sorry.
I have to go serve my husband. I get it.
I'm going to go beat up my girlfriend
with a Bell Hooks collection.
Rush.
Please, please do, please do.
It's for her.
It's for her.
She has to know that intersectionality is just as terrible too, so I don't know what that means
Well, it's like when you're like two things. Oh God. I've said to you
Oh, so boy, so boy, I can't teach you on something now. That's against the Bible too. I read me some Timothy today
I'm all fired up. All right. Now he don't want to give you kind of the same question. I'm gonna switch it around though
All right, what is the sharpest implement that you could insert
into one of your orifice as well,
having more fun than you had watching a war room,
and please specify the orifice.
Okay, I'll say a trombone tuned at A445.
That's pretty sharp.
Covered in aluminum foil and shoved into my root canal area
that just got opened up.
Oh, sounds like fun.
That's a good one.
And finally, Eli, what is the most uncomfortable conversation
that you would rather have with your mother
than give War Room another viewing?
I would rather my mother accidentally attend a performance
of me in Blackface, and then that backstage conversation
where she's like, you said you were in a show but you
didn't say this I would rather that than this because basically that's what I
did to Keisha what I did to Keisha is I brought her to a black face show I was
in and I was like you want to talk about it afterwards so Keisha from all of us
here at the God awful movies podcast are deepest deepest to pop a show very sorry terribly terribly sorry well thank you for i mean this is
been a journey so i want to thank you for showing me a movie that shows me
while at why everything i've been doing is wrong
uh...
important that's important now i know my place uh...
good i'm gonna go service my husband right now and
I'm sorry America
Yeah, so so thank you for thank you white men for teaching me how to be the black woman I should be
If I had a nickel. So, Keisha, if our listeners wanted to hear more from you or see more of you, where should
they go?
So, I have a podcast called The Soul Glow Project.
It's different in tone.
It's about, I'm sorry guys, it's about celebrating
diversity and comedy. Boo! I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Boo! John Stewart was the best! I heard, I heard diversity, I don't like it.
Yeah, no, you're right, I'm wrong, it's stupid. So, I mean, you could go to the slow so glow project calm no w
you can also
Find me doing shows all over New York. I have a web series called in-game
that is pretty funny. It's about live-action role players
and
You can go to in-game the series calm and find that there and
and you can go to ingame the series.com and find that there and
Yeah, kushazollar.com. I like put stuff there not all the time But like sometimes so like do that awesome
And of course we'll have all of that linked in the description box for this show
Thank you one more time for joining us tonight
Thank you
And of course that does it for our review of War Room
But that's not gonna do it for the show just yet because before before we close it out, we're going to dedicate a few minutes
to our next cinematic stillbirth.
So Eli, what's on deck?
The original Kirk Cameron starring left behind the movie.
Finally, some Kirk Cameron.
I know, I've missed him.
Now, it's worth noting that we already watched the remake of this one with Nicholas Cage So we're actually gonna be watching a movie that is so bad
They upgraded it by adding Nick Cage. Yeah, exactly. You know you know that this is a bad movie when they were like
Oh, what can make this movie better? I don't know what about the crazy guy from bad lieutenant. Yeah him
Let's throw him in there. You know what's not you know what was what's not crazy enough this movie
No, kid now I will say though based on the preview this one looks a hell of a lot more exploding
Yeah, exactly this movie looks like it's trying to trick you into thinking it's not a religious movie
It's very much like if you were to tell me that this wasn't based on left behind
But this was just called the missing I'd be like, I don't know, looks okay.
Looks okay.
Yeah.
At every point in this preview,
it just seems like it's going to be about
searching for missing people.
You get a smidge in of Jesus with the black guy
being like, I knew your word.
But I don't know.
I don't know.
That could just be like aliens or something.
I feel like I would have walked into this movie in the 80s
and been like, I hear it's really good.
They're trying to figure out where oh my god what happened
Now can you believe this movie was made in 2000? Oh, no
Yeah, it sure looks like 80s from the preview that so does the every Christian movie we see looks like it was made
50 years before it was made
Well, not only that but also the the attitudes that are being expressed seems about 50 to years
out of date, too.
Yeah, exactly.
And I'll tell you what, I think if I'm not mistaken,
in virtually every scene they show in the preview,
Kurt Cameron is on screen.
Like, even if he's just standing next
to whoever's talking on the preview,
it's like they really want to reinforce.
There's someone in this that you recognize.
Yeah, this is also OG, crazy Kurt Cameron,
so I definitely recommend it.
Now he sort of looks like a strung out,
meth addict, like, oh, okay, meth's been with him for a while.
But this is like, if you ever had a buddy,
you had a Coke problem, this is like very early on
in the Coke problem where you're like,
I don't know, he seems like he's got a lot of energies
doing really well, he's dating that girl now.
This is that face, before we see religion turn
Kurt Cameron into smegel. This is where we get to see him where he's just like oh I guess he went
crazy but it maybe it's not hurting him and I hope as we watch these three movies
to watch him go further and further down the rabbit hole of madness yeah yeah
exactly the beginning of the end and yes that's right we're doing the whole
fucking trilogy three straight weeks of Kirk and the Atheist say there's no hell
Witness me
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