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Read it and Weep

Summary: Read it and Weep is a good podcast about bad books, movies, and TV. Each week 2.5 comedians and a guest make fun of things like Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, Dear John by Nicholas Sparks, Going Rogue by Sarah Palin, and anything Keanu Reeves has been in.

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 Darkest Hour Reviewed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:05

Life is a delicate thing. Even if you're bar-hopping around Russia, feeling great, invisible aliens could show up for no reason and explode you into glitter.At least that's the way the world is in the 2011 movie Darkest Hour. The aliens are invisible, except sometimes, and explode you, unless you're wearing a bunch of keys or are particularly important to the plot, except there isn't one. Also something about lightbulbs.This episode was sponsored by Jakub who hopes it helps his friend Deanna recover from surgery. Feel better, Deanna! Now I want surgery to get this out of my brain.

 Darkest Hour Reviewed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:05

Life is a delicate thing. Even if you're bar-hopping around Russia, feeling great, invisible aliens could show up for no reason and explode you into glitter.At least that's the way the world is in the 2011 movie Darkest Hour. The aliens are invisible, except sometimes, and explode you, unless you're wearing a bunch of keys or are particularly important to the plot, except there isn't one. Also something about lightbulbs.This episode was sponsored by Jakub who hopes it helps his friend Deanna recover from surgery. Feel better, Deanna! Now I want surgery to get this out of my brain.

 Catching Fire Movie Reviewed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:18

In the first Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen is a badass. She shoots things, saves people, and manipulates the system. For the second installment, Suzanne Collins opted to have her be oblivious to the plot, constantly need saving, and spend the climax passed out. And they filmed her nostrils for the close of the movie.Which is not to say it's a bad movie. It's pretty good, and that's a huge accomplishment since the book isn't that great. The costumes are terrific, Phillip Seymour Hoffman is delightful, and President Snow eats a cookie in a very menacing way.It's also got it's less good parts. It's too long yet still feels rushed. And the focus-group granddaughter they added is vomit-inducing.Overall, 8 thumbs up. You know, considering.What did you think? Let us know in the comments.

 Catching Fire Movie Reviewed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:18

In the first Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen is a badass. She shoots things, saves people, and manipulates the system. For the second installment, Suzanne Collins opted to have her be oblivious to the plot, constantly need saving, and spend the climax passed out. And they filmed her nostrils for the close of the movie.Which is not to say it's a bad movie. It's pretty good, and that's a huge accomplishment since the book isn't that great. The costumes are terrific, Phillip Seymour Hoffman is delightful, and President Snow eats a cookie in a very menacing way.It's also got it's less good parts. It's too long yet still feels rushed. And the focus-group granddaughter they added is vomit-inducing.Overall, 8 thumbs up. You know, considering.What did you think? Let us know in the comments.

 Catching Fire (Hunger Games p2) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:25

After the success of The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins knew exactly what to do. Put out the exact same book with a slightly different prologue. And that idea caught fire.Katniss Everdeen is a formerly bad ass woman from District 12, the lazily numbered region of Panam, the lazily named country controlled by The Capitol, the lazily named capitol. She's a former winner of The Hunger Games, a TV game show where kids fight to the death against their will. Surprise! Like all reality shows, there's an All Star's episode.Now Kat is thrown back into The Arena (the lazily named... you get the idea) and she has to once again compete in Kiddy Blood Sport for no reason at all. And without doing anything, she ends up the adorable mascot for The Revolution.Remember The Hunger Games? It's that again. And while Suzanne Collins is terrible at writing reasons for kids to battle to the death, she's great at writing about them battling to the death. So why not do that again?Also, we chat with Gabi Moskowitz about secret coded food, vomiting, and what to cook for your friends you're about to murder. Buy her new book about Pizza Dough right now!

 Catching Fire (Hunger Games p2) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:25

After the success of The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins knew exactly what to do. Put out the exact same book with a slightly different prologue. And that idea caught fire.Katniss Everdeen is a formerly bad ass woman from District 12, the lazily numbered region of Panam, the lazily named country controlled by The Capitol, the lazily named capitol. She's a former winner of The Hunger Games, a TV game show where kids fight to the death against their will. Surprise! Like all reality shows, there's an All Star's episode.Now Kat is thrown back into The Arena (the lazily named... you get the idea) and she has to once again compete in Kiddy Blood Sport for no reason at all. And without doing anything, she ends up the adorable mascot for The Revolution.Remember The Hunger Games? It's that again. And while Suzanne Collins is terrible at writing reasons for kids to battle to the death, she's great at writing about them battling to the death. So why not do that again?Also, we chat with Gabi Moskowitz about secret coded food, vomiting, and what to cook for your friends you're about to murder. Buy her new book about Pizza Dough right now!

 Ender's Game Reviewed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:35

Next time you're playing a space training simulator game, maybe don't genocide the aliens too well. You may have to feel bad about that later.That's what happens to Ender, anyway. The 6 to 12-year-old at the heart of Ender's Game. He's been selected to go to space camp and play laser tag because some giant ants attacked earth a while back and for reasons, only a kid can lead a space army. But when Ender learns along the way is... sometimes things matter? I'm not sure what he learned, the movie is so compressed.Even though we liked the Ender's Game book, we've since been forced to confront the fact that the author is a total dick bag. Fortunately, he doesn't make any money from the film, and the other thing we had a huge problem with--the redicilous message-board coup that Ender's brother stages--is taken out for pacing reasons. All in all, not a bad adaptation.

 Ender's Game Reviewed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:35

Next time you're playing a space training simulator game, maybe don't genocide the aliens too well. You may have to feel bad about that later.That's what happens to Ender, anyway. The 6 to 12-year-old at the heart of Ender's Game. He's been selected to go to space camp and play laser tag because some giant ants attacked earth a while back and for reasons, only a kid can lead a space army. But when Ender learns along the way is... sometimes things matter? I'm not sure what he learned, the movie is so compressed.Even though we liked the Ender's Game book, we've since been forced to confront the fact that the author is a total dick bag. Fortunately, he doesn't make any money from the film, and the other thing we had a huge problem with--the redicilous message-board coup that Ender's brother stages--is taken out for pacing reasons. All in all, not a bad adaptation.

 Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace Reviewed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:45

A long time ago in director's head that is far far away from where it should be, George Lucas permanently marred his masterwork by adding the first of three unbelievably awful movies to the beginning of it. It was a sad, sad day.Episode 1 starts with a trade federation dispute (exciting!). Two jedis are sent to sit in a conference room because apparently they are a cheap resource. Some ridiculous antics later we're introduced to the two most annoying characters in movie history: Jar Jar Binks and Anakin Skywalker. Although Jar Jar is credited with ruining the franchise, Anakin is at least as annoying and everything else in the movie sucks too.Blah blah blah queen votes for no confidence, jedis stop the droid invasion, WHOA A DOUBLE SIDED LIGHTSABER, and then something about the kid being a jedi because of a genetic condition. This movie is so bad my brain is melting.PODCRAWL 2013!This is not a trilogy we could suffer alone, so we enlisted the help of our 2nd and 3rd favorite bad-movie podcasts (behind ourselves). Finish the podcrawl:Episode II as reviewed by Flophouse (featuring RiaW guest Dan McCoy).Week of November 18: Episode III as reviewed by Proudly Resents (featuring RiaW guest Adam Spiegleman)

 Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace Reviewed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:45

A long time ago in director's head that is far far away from where it should be, George Lucas permanently marred his masterwork by adding the first of three unbelievably awful movies to the beginning of it. It was a sad, sad day.Episode 1 starts with a trade federation dispute (exciting!). Two jedis are sent to sit in a conference room because apparently they are a cheap resource. Some ridiculous antics later we're introduced to the two most annoying characters in movie history: Jar Jar Binks and Anakin Skywalker. Although Jar Jar is credited with ruining the franchise, Anakin is at least as annoying and everything else in the movie sucks too.Blah blah blah queen votes for no confidence, jedis stop the droid invasion, WHOA A DOUBLE SIDED LIGHTSABER, and then something about the kid being a jedi because of a genetic condition. This movie is so bad my brain is melting.PODCRAWL 2013!This is not a trilogy we could suffer alone, so we enlisted the help of our 2nd and 3rd favorite bad-movie podcasts (behind ourselves). Finish the podcrawl:Episode II as reviewed by Flophouse (featuring RiaW guest Dan McCoy).Week of November 18: Episode III as reviewed by Proudly Resents (featuring RiaW guest Adam Spiegleman)

 Hocus Pocus Reviewed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:18

Happy Halloween, everybody. What is that? Trick or treat? How about a treat, our favorite Halloween-themed Disney movie from the early 90s starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and a talking cat!Hocus Pocus is the 1993 feature film (promoted from straight-to-Disney-channel at the last minute) that defined Halloween for many of our childhoods. It's basically a witchy take on the Three Stooges and no effort whatsover is taken to have a logical plot.The witches could win at any moment by simply USING YOUR SUPER POWER, IDIOTS! But we're lucky they didn't because instead they created a creepy 300-year-old cat with a human brain. Oh the possibilities (we go into great detail).It would take a special kind of sour puss to hate this movie, so we don't bother.

 Hocus Pocus Reviewed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:18

Happy Halloween, everybody. What is that? Trick or treat? How about a treat, our favorite Halloween-themed Disney movie from the early 90s starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and a talking cat!Hocus Pocus is the 1993 feature film (promoted from straight-to-Disney-channel at the last minute) that defined Halloween for many of our childhoods. It's basically a witchy take on the Three Stooges and no effort whatsover is taken to have a logical plot.The witches could win at any moment by simply USING YOUR SUPER POWER, IDIOTS! But we're lucky they didn't because instead they created a creepy 300-year-old cat with a human brain. Oh the possibilities (we go into great detail).It would take a special kind of sour puss to hate this movie, so we don't bother.

 The Bone Season Reviewed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:38

Just when you thought it was safe to assume a book called Bone Season would be about sex, Samantha Shannon shows up and disappoints you.Not that The Bone Season is bad as such, it's just really not what you'd expect from the title alone. And if you've read any young adult fantasy recently, it's exactly what you'd expect. Girl, magic powers, hot but emotionally distant man, clumsy for no reason, extremely complicated future. It's all of those, but surprisingly readable.The first book in what will surely be a 1,000 book series, follows Paige, a "dream walker" (clairvoyant who can pass out and tickle your subconscious at the same time) as she gets taken to clairvoyant prison. Her captor is ghost/angel/zombie who feeds on her blood but generally treats her well. His fiance is a jerk and wants to murder Paige. Eventually she sortof escapes but simultaneously creates 200 plots to be solved later.If you're in the mood for not very much boning, but you love the idea of a tarot card reader in battle, then you should read The Bone Season.

 The Bone Season Reviewed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:38

Just when you thought it was safe to assume a book called Bone Season would be about sex, Samantha Shannon shows up and disappoints you.Not that The Bone Season is bad as such, it's just really not what you'd expect from the title alone. And if you've read any young adult fantasy recently, it's exactly what you'd expect. Girl, magic powers, hot but emotionally distant man, clumsy for no reason, extremely complicated future. It's all of those, but surprisingly readable.The first book in what will surely be a 1,000 book series, follows Paige, a "dream walker" (clairvoyant who can pass out and tickle your subconscious at the same time) as she gets taken to clairvoyant prison. Her captor is ghost/angel/zombie who feeds on her blood but generally treats her well. His fiance is a jerk and wants to murder Paige. Eventually she sortof escapes but simultaneously creates 200 plots to be solved later.If you're in the mood for not very much boning, but you love the idea of a tarot card reader in battle, then you should read The Bone Season.

 Dads, The Crazy Ones, and The Michael J. Fox Show Reviewed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 47:25

Welcome to sitcom pilot season! You might want to put on a coat. It's raining shit.First up it's Dads from two Family Guy writers. It stars Seth Green, Giovanni Ribisieaeioeae and a bunch of racist jokes. It's so bad, you guys. All I can say is ugh.The Michael J. Fox Show (in comparison) is quite awesome. It's not super funny, but Fox is still a charming dude.Robin Williams is also a tad charming in The Crazy Ones but he's also desperate and sad seeming. Every one of these shows has people we've liked in other places, but these are not their best vehicles. I know retiring on top is hard, but the alternative is being in Dads.

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