Sheek and Styles hated Eternal Sunshine

When we first started our show in November 2017, I immediately recognized that Sheek’s and my tastes were pretty much extremely polar opposite. He largely likes broad, people-pleasing comedies; I’m clearly a no-fun snob. He likes blood and guts and spectacle, I want story.

Over the 92 episodes we’ve done, there have obviously been times where we’ve crept over to one another’s sides (him, Almost Famous; me, Rambo, Django or T2), but also some of my favorite moments are when Sheek is like, I don’t get it, I don’t like it, I hated this shit, I hate you for even suggesting it.

Which brings us to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the movie we watched this week about the toxic relationship that Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey want to forget and then fight to just remember. Some people love it, but Sheek fucking hated it. And because he hated it so much, it makes for one of the most fascinating episodes we’ve had in a while.

But Styles I was surprised by. Styles will usually go along for the ride and find things he likes — especially when it comes to inventive filmmaking. But in this case, Styles’ take was, this is an incredibly white movie and all it needed was one (1) Black character to talk sense into them. “She left, she doesn’t want to hear from you, you have 30 minutes to cry, we’re going out to the club to meet someone new.”

Very valid!

Meanwhile, I think Eternal Sunshine hit for a lot of people of a certain age because that’s when Millennials were going through their first relationships and understanding the messiness that could come with it. (I went on a date to see this movie when it first came out. Gonna be honest: not a great date movie!)

(And if anyone is wondering what Jada would’ve thought, I’m just glad he enjoyed his vacation. Last night, while recording a new episode, Kiss was shitting on Eternal Sunshine without even having seen it. And it only came up because Sheek couldn’t let it go, which makes me think he really did like it.)

And speaking of next week, we sat down to review The Night Comes for Us, the Indonesian film that has been billed as the most violent movie ever. Here’s a quick clip of Styles P. and Johan C. demonstrating the fighting style used in the movie, later adopted by John Wick and others.

Here’s our updated calendar:

Eternal Sunshine is on YouTube for free; The Night Comes for Us is on Netflix and Good Will Hunting is on Pluto for free as well as Paramount+ and Roku.

Not related to anything, but just because Eric is playing it in the apartment right now:

And that’s it! That’s all I got for you this week © Don Don aka Sheek Louch.

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Until then, here’s the form to suggest movies.

A few suggestions this week! My favorite comment is “idk i’m on a Cher kick.” lololol. Related, I heard this Cher song on TikTok I hadn’t come across in approximately 35 years and brother, it’s a banger. A lot of good ideas here — I’m particularly drawn to doing 8 Mile, Fight Club, Stand By Me and Black Dynamite (for the reasons you two guys said). And I’m gonna watch Finding Forrester, which I’d never seen. Thank you for all these! Keep them coming!