You Made Me Watch
by Joy Road Media
Comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt have an eleven year age gap between them. They both love entirely different kinds of movies. Each week one forced the other to watch a movie they love, but realize their partner may not.Allyson grew up with family friendly and endearing movies from the 80s and 90s, while Mike has a soft spot for questionable 80s and 90s horror/sci-fi and action.Mike is also a trivia nerd and dives deep into the background of each movie they discuss.
Episodes
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My Neighbor Totoro
What other podcast could have episodes on Streets of Fire and My Neighbor Totoro? My Neighbor Totoro is the hit animated fairytale that almost didn't get made. It was a risky venture for Studio Gibli, but arguably it's the movie that made them an international powerhouse animation studio.…
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Slackers
Mike thought Allyson was making him watch the Richard Linklater film Slacker, but instead they watch the college caper romantic comedy Slackers starring Devon Sawa. This is a who's who of actors who would go on to be comedy powerhouses from people like Rhetta to the Oscar winning duo of Nat Faxon...
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The Fisher King
Both Mike and Allyson's dad recommended Allyson watch the Terry Gilliam masterpiece The Fisher King. It stars Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges, but the supporting cast is also truly amazing. Let us know what you thought of The Fisher King. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!...
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Save the Last Dance
Allyson womansplains "hiphop" to Mike while making him watch the interracial dance drama Save the Last Dance. Before she was teaming up with Jason Bourne, Julia Stiles was cutting rugs with Sean Patrick Thomas. Kerry Washington makes her big screen debut in 2001's Save the Last Dance. It's The...
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The Warriors
Allyson....come out to watch Warriorrrs! Allyson! Come out to watch Warrrriors! ALLYSON! Come out to watch Warriors! Mike makes Allyson watch the Walter Hill cult classic The Warriors! This was a brutal look at the gangs of New York, but isn't to be confused with the Gangs of New York, which was...
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Frailty
Allyson made Mike watch the 2001 mystery thriller Frailty starring Matthew McConaughey and the late great Bill Paxton. Writer Brent Hanley crafted a really sharp story that jumps back and forth decades. There's murder...lots of murder...or destroying demons, depending on how you look at it. Will...
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Promising Young Woman
Mike and Allyson are back! After a long hiatus, the Bobbitts return to making each other watch a movie the other has never seen before. This week Mike makes Allyson watch Promising Young Woman. Before Saltburn, there was Promising Young Woman. Emerald Fennell's 2020 movie dissects the so-called...
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Where The Heart Is
Let's be honest. Allyson isn't exactly on a winning streak when it comes to picking movies to make Mike watch. Will this one be any different? Where The Heart is got lost in the Star Wars hoopla even though it stars Queen Amidala herself Natalie Portman. It's the dramatic tale of a young pregnant...
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Help Me Franklin Mott, You're My Only Hope
It's Allyson's turn once again to pick the movie our dynamically betrothed duo will watch for the podcast. What on Earth will Mike think of the Natalie Portman starring independent slice of life comedy/drama Where The Heart Is? Well, one thing's for sure, even if he doesn't like it, he'd never...
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Defending Your Life
Mike makes Allyson watch the 1991 afterlife romantic comedy Defending Your Life. When Mike was a teenager, he found this to be a profoundly moving piece of cinema. Now that he's closer to the icy cold hand of the grim reaper readying his scythe to usher Mike to the other side, will this still be…
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Fear Leads To Reincarnation
Death obsessed Mike has a rom-com about the afterlife for Allyson. Next week they're going to watch the critically acclaimed box office disappointment Defending Your Life. Allyson recommends the Jason Segel Apple TV + dramedy Shrinking. Mike recommends the weiner free video game reboot Saints…
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Notting Hill
1999 was a peculiar time for movies. It was a time when movies didn't exist solely because they were based on an existing IP. They existed because two bankable stars both had time in their schedule. How does the union of Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts hold up 24 years later when neither of them are...
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British Charm meets American Charisma
It's Allyson's turn to pick a movie for the podcast. This week she plucks something from the Richard Curtis filmography knowing how much Mike loves Love, Actually and About Time. This time it's Notting Hill. Mike recommends the television series Our Flag Means Death and Allyson recommends Abbott...
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Hackers
Our friends Meg and Gordon Widener...you know Gordon, we only mention how a young Oliver Platt looks like him literally every time we end up watching a movie featuring a young Oliver Platt...anyway...Meg and Gordon stop by and we make Allyson watch the Matthrew Lillard masterpiece Hackers! It's…
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Working Girl
Director Mike Nichols was part of the groundbreaking comedy duo Nichols & May alongside comedy legend Elaine May. Does that mean this 80s film championed as a feminist classic is in the right hands? Will Mike Nichols be the great white male hope in a movie ultimately about great white male hopes?...
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Work Hard or Die Trying Girl
Maybe there's a tower, somewhere up above Filled with shoulder pads and love Where dreams can fly hard But until we can live in that imaginary world We'll work hard or die trying, girl Mike is about to subject Allyson to not just Melanie Griffith's biggest hit of the 80s, but her only hit ever!...
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Mrs. Doubtfire
The Robin Williams classic Mrs. Doubtfire is deservingly well loved, yet somehow Mike managed to miss it completely. How hard is he going to kick himself for taking so long to watch one of the best films in the Williams' library and maybe one of the best films of the 1990s? It's no Pixels, but it...
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Them Titties on Fire, Girl
Once again Allyson finds another beloved classic that Mike has somehow missed and/or avoided. She's going to make him watch the critically acclaimed Robin Williams film Mrs. Doubtfire. Will he love it as much as the rest of the world or will it be one of those situations where if you didn't...
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I Know That Voice
Allyson is a giant animation nerd, so Mike is pretty sure she's going to enjoy this John DiMaggio produced documentary about off camera actors titled I Know That Voice. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram…
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In a World Where Married Podcasters Recommend Stuff....
Mike recommends the John DiMaggio documentary I Know That Voice, which provides an insider look at the world of voice actors. Allyson recommends the Netflix docuseries Flint Town about the hardships the city of Flint, Michigan endures. The Mike doubles up on his extracurricular recommendations by...
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The Third Annual Watchies Awards
Coinciding with the Oscars, Mike and Allyson go through the movies they were made to watch in the past year and pass out their own awards! Join our Facebook group for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which...
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Frances Ha
Premiering in 2012, the same year as the HBO series Girls, it was difficult to not draw comparisons with Noah Baumbach's film Frances Ha. Heck, 11 years later it's still easy to connect the two. Both are about the post college lives of a female New Yorker trying to figure out her place in the…
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A Manic Pixie Dreamgirl Friendship
For next week, Allyson recommends The Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig collaboration Frances Ha. It's a movie that's been in Mike's Netflix queue for sometime, so hopefully he'll enjoy it as much as Allyson does. Mike recommends the short lived Netflix series Brews Brothers. Allyson recommends the...
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Cujo
Inspired by the dirty St. Bernard scene in Beethoven, Mike makes Allyson watch the Stephen King adaptation of Cujo starring Dee Wallace Stone and a very young Danny Pintauro. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram...
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Beethoven's Slightly Less Upsetting Cousin
Hot off the heels of the stinking pile of dog poop that was Beethoven, Mike recommends a less upsetting movie about a St. Bernard. Next week Mike and Allyson are going to watch the 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's Cujo! Allyson recommends Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and Mike recommends the...
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Beethoven
Allyson tests the bounds of her marriage to Mike by forcing him to watch Beethoven, a surprisingly dark kids movie. Can the always wonderful Bonnie Hunt be enough to save this movie from going to the back of the kennel and being put down? Is this the put upon dad role Charles Grodin was always...
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Dog Slobber, and not the sexy kind
Allyson picks the next movie she's going to make Mike watch. It's the 1992 John Hughes scripted Beethoven. Mike recommends comedian Dave Ross' album "The Only Man Who Has Ever Had Sex". Allyson recommends The Unsolved Mysteries podcast. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!...
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Weird Science
Weird Science ties together so many movies that Mike and Allyson have watched on the podcast. Will it stand the test of time? Will it shine new light on the life of John Hughes? Will Allyson be offended? Join our Facebook group for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch...
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Wearing Bras on Our Heads
Mike is about to subject Allyson to a 1980's "classic" that may or may not stand the test of time. Next week they're going to watch Weird Science! Allyson recommends Taylor Tomlinson's new Netflix comedy special "Look at You". Mike recommends Neal Brennan's new Netflix comedy special "Blocks".…
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Just Friends
It's crazy to think that as recently as 2005 it was still considered a gamble to let Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris lead a movie, but New Line did that and struck gold! This helped launch both actors on their paths towards super stardom. Sure, the fat jokes won't land well with today's ultra...
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Stuck in the Friendzone + Recommendations
Who doesn't love Ryan Reynolds? His first starring role was 2002's Van Wilder, a couple years later he has a scene stealing part in BladeTrinity, which arguably saves the movie. The following year he returns to romantic comedies and lead roles with Just Friends. Will this fat suit farce prove to…
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Rare Exports - Our Christmas Bonus with Dennis Burdziak
Dennis stops by Christmas day to talk Finland's greatest Christmas horror export, the movie Rare Exports. Dennis is a huge horror fan. Will he be as delighted by this movie as Mike and Allyson? YULE has to listen to find out. Also, the three of us go on many, many tangents. In order to keep up...
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
In 1987 Shane Black changed the face of cinema by making action movies more than just testosterone fueled set pieces to showcase muscles and pyrotechnics. His screenplay debut Lethal Weapon blended humor, complicated characters with...well...muscles and pyrotechnics. Nine years later he got a...
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Honeypot Shoot-em-Up preview and recommendations
We're officially in the Christmas season as I type this. We're well into the Christmas season as this releases though! Strangely, Die Hard is often debated as to whether it's a Christmas movie or not. The Christmasness of Die Hard always felt wedged in to me. In my mind, Shane Black's Kiss Kiss...
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Home for the Holidays
Jodie Foster considers this the second in an extremely personal trilogy of films she directed. Little Man Tate and The Beaver round out that trilogy. The always excellent Holly Hunt goes home to spend Thanksgiving with her very dysfunctional family. Robert Downey Jr. is insanely wonderful and...
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Stuff It, Turkey! (Preview and Recommendations)
We're a little late for Thanksgiving, but Allyson recommends what has a chance of becoming a Thanksgiving classic in the Bobbitt household. It's Jodie Foster's Sophomore directorial film, Home for the Holidays. Mike recommends comedian Nick Leydorf's album "Free Consultation". Follow Nick here!...
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Commando
1985 is the summer that kicked off the box office rivalry between action powerhouses Slyvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Stallone had Rambo: First Blood Part 2 and Arnold had the fun version of that movie, Commando! Commando costars Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, David Patrick Kelly…
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Crotchet Me a Vest
This episode drops like David Patrick Kelly the day before Allyson's birthday! Mike abducts Allyson from LAX and takes her to the Sherman Oaks Galleria to prepare her for a 1980s action classic. Next week, they're watching Commando! Allyson recommends Derry Girls on Netflix...while Mike does a...
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Stir of Echoes
Allyson makes Mike watch the 1999 Kevin Bacon thriller Stir of Echoes. It's a creative ghost story based on the 1958 Richard Matheson novel of the same name. Unfortunately, the timing of this big screen adaptation likely got lost in the shadow of the hugely popular M Night Shyamalan hit The Sixth...
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Six six six degrees of Kevin Bacon and Recommendations
Allyson recommends a Kevin Bacon movie to watch next week that Mike knows absolutely nothing about. Join us to watch Stir of Echoes. Allyson recommends the Michelle McNamara true crime book I'll Be Gone in the Dark. Find out more about the late McNamara's incredible career here: True Crime Diary...
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Mandy
Mike and Allyson asked their friend Dennis Burdziak for something "fucked up" to watch for their Halloween episode. Dennis delivered with an absolutely trippy mindfuck of a heavy metal descent into madness starring Nicolas Cage. Mandy was written and directed by Panos Cosmatos. It not only serves...
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Pirates of Penzance and the George Rose Murder
Mike made a terrible mistake. This week he and Allyson watch the big screen adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, when in reality it was the Pirate Movie Mike meant for them to watch. Uh-oh! When life gives you lemons, make a murder podcast. Mike tries to salvage the episode by...
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Salem's Lot
Sharon Bobbitt joins Mike and Allyson for this special Halloween bonus episode of You Made Me Watch. Sharon, who I'll refer to as "my mom" here on out, read the Stephen King novel Salem's Lot when it first came out in the late 70s. She was disappointed by the made for television two-part event…
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A Pirates Plunder of Recommendations, as well as a preview
Allyson and Mike are hopefully (and foolishly) optimistic about Mike's pick for a movie next week, the adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. Mike drinks Allyson's murder podcast Kool-Aid and recommends a Dateline podcast called Killer Role. Allyson breaks her norm and…
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Hook
Allyson grew up on Steven Spielberg's sequel to Peter Pan and she absolutely adores it. Mike was already a cranky old man at 19 years old in 1991 when this was released, and he skipped it completely. It's another Robin Williams entry in the You Made Me Watch archives. Will Mike like this as much…
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Spielberg's Second Box Office Disappointment and Recommendations
It was once explained to me that what makes Tiger Woods such a good golfer isn't the fact that he's the best, but the fact that he's very consistent. That can be said for Steven Spielberg too. I can't think of any movie he's made that's bad. All of them are somewhere between great and really…
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I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Mike had a pretty good hunch Allyson was going to love this movie about a woman who just gets fed up with people being assholes all the time. I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is Jeremy Saulnier's main collaborator and best friend Macon Blair's dark comedy starring the always amazing...
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Macon Blair's revenge fantasy preview + recommendations
I'm keeping the name of the next movie out of the title of the episodes going forward so you can find out the same time one of us does, which movie we're watching next week. Next week Mike makes Allyson watch writer/director/actor Macon Blair's 2017 Netflix original about a woman who just wants...
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North
Rob Reiner had a pet project that he waited almost a decade to have enough pull in Hollywood that he could get this made. He wanted to adapt his friend Alan Zwiebel's novel North, about an exceptional kid in search of new parents, into a major motion picture. In spite of its pretty stellar cast...
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North Preview and Recommendations
Next week Allyson makes Mike watch the notorious Rob Reiner flop North. Mike knows very little about this other than the fact that Elijah Woods stars and the ad campaign featured his character walking on a giant globe. Will Mike agree with all the critics that this was a huge disappointment, or...
About this show
Comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt have an eleven year age gap between them. They both love entirely different kinds of movies. Each week one forced the other to watch a movie they love, but realize their partner may not.Allyson grew up with family friendly and endearing movies from the 80s and 90s, while Mike has a soft spot for questionable 80s and 90s horror/sci-fi and action.Mike is also a trivia nerd and dives deep into the background of each movie they discuss.
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