Episode #794: The Judge
Added 2025-04-15 04:00:11 +0000 UTC“This movie takes its time, like an old man getting into a bathtub.” - Eric
On this week’s episode, this one’s a long time coming as Chris Cabin gets his wish and we chat about David Dobkin’s The Judge! Was a comedy director right for this project? Was this script right for this project? How great is Vincent D’Onofrio in literally anything, including this? What’s with that lame waterfall back drop at the diner? And couldn’t we have skipped that bathroom scene? PLUS: Look out for The Judge 2: The Appeal!
The Judge stars Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Billy Bob Thornton, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jeremy Strong, Dax Shepard, Ken Howard, Emma Tremblay, Balthazar Getty, David Krumholtz, Grace Zabriskie, Denis O’Hare, and Leighton Meester as Carla; directed by David Dobkin.
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
Honestly, the shower scene gutted me. I had to take care of my grandpa after a similar incident. Elder care is fucking rough.
Laura Coleman
2025-05-02 13:40:11 +0000 UTClol duuuude such a rough film! This game is not like the room but in a way if you play like a drinking game to it. You might actually pay attention and laugh occasionally.
Holt Rowley
2025-04-22 17:54:30 +0000 UTCSuch a forgettable film. I was thirty minutes in and was like? Oh yeah, I saw that in theatres.
William Durham
2025-04-18 10:13:24 +0000 UTCI love the idea of "Why not just give up?" as a movie tagline LMAOOOO
Emily B
2025-04-17 20:06:57 +0000 UTCRDJ just does it for me. I could watch him watch TV for 90 minutes. Don't care.
Brandon
2025-04-17 14:32:42 +0000 UTCOnly a true hack would end their film with RDJ holding the gavel, beating us over the head with the message that "maybe HE was The Judge all along!" Stay in your own lane of shitty comedies Dobkin.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2025-04-17 03:17:39 +0000 UTCEvan Williams is NOT garbage - not my fave sipper, but it's solid in a cocktail, a great value, and I'm never mad when I see it in the well at a bar. In any case, I feel like I have to watch The Judge now - thanks, gents!
Justin Warren
2025-04-17 01:21:37 +0000 UTCYou have no idea how much I would've preferred being at Yankee Stadium watching Judge hold court! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-04-16 16:23:26 +0000 UTCThe man was in Days of Thunder. Give him his flowers.
MarkNM
2025-04-16 15:36:23 +0000 UTCInstead of watching The judge, the guys could've just watched Aaron Judge hit some dingers in The Bronx while drinking 10, 15 beers and eating chicken tenders out of a baseball helmet.
Jason
2025-04-16 14:35:59 +0000 UTCHe said dicks, don't tell me it didn't happen. It has happened. I saw it happen. - Eric
We Hate Movies
2025-04-16 13:40:38 +0000 UTCI'm often always right. - Steve
We Hate Movies
2025-04-16 13:33:29 +0000 UTCcall The Judge and get some fudge
Alex Murica
2025-04-16 11:13:10 +0000 UTCFrench ST-icks????
David
2025-04-16 05:52:47 +0000 UTC"Tremblay": Stephen had the right pronunciation
Jean-Marie David
2025-04-16 01:03:00 +0000 UTCIs there a tier for a round of Sportsmans at Levee?
Infinite Terror
2025-04-15 22:24:16 +0000 UTCWatched this movie several months ago, but couldn't remember 95% of the film until listening to this episode
Daniel Hood
2025-04-15 21:27:16 +0000 UTCI like how the Duvall impressions occasionally waver in and out of being Bernie Sanders impressions. Great episode, I was cackling on my commute.
Tim O'
2025-04-15 20:46:56 +0000 UTCDid the fellas Duvall impression remind anyone else of Wurster’s character The Gorch from The Best Show? I mean that as the highest of compliments, btw.
Liam Carroll
2025-04-15 20:12:40 +0000 UTCWait I just now finished the episode and heard the bit about the screenwriter doing the mule, Gran torino, Etc... I'm not doing the dive, but dya think was this ever supposed to be a Clint Eastwood joint with Clint as the titular poop shooter?
MarkNM
2025-04-15 16:44:35 +0000 UTCPoop juice > cum cake
Eren Keskin
2025-04-15 16:42:41 +0000 UTCWho among us wouldn't wipe Robert Duvall's ass, tbh? It's the least we can do. My tiny hands can get into all sorts of crevices.
Eren Keskin
2025-04-15 16:41:07 +0000 UTCEric enjoying poop juice and talking passionately about it made my day! 💩
Watch_N_Rewatch
2025-04-15 16:38:15 +0000 UTCI feel like you guys could do a whole ep. Interviewing the prop master about how they got the shit consistency just right.
Daryl Williams
2025-04-15 16:29:33 +0000 UTCThis movie could have been the length of an episode of Law and Order and salvaged a lot of entertainment value. But we're lucky it wasn't made now, because it would have been a 9 episode secret Apple series. With essentially the same cast.
MarkNM
2025-04-15 14:51:32 +0000 UTCBest memory of this movie was when it came out on DVD my mom bought it. I went to work she watched it. I asked if she liked it she goes "no". Years later I hear Cabin saying someone shit themselves. I then ask again . " do you remember someone shitting in the movie. Was it iron man?" She again looks at me "I really didn't like it"
Paterick Caddery
2025-04-15 14:35:28 +0000 UTCIf I had a nickel everytime Leighton Meester plays a character who commits incest in a movie, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Justine Prudhomme
2025-04-15 14:34:26 +0000 UTC“Poop juice droplets” is great
Aaron Dowler
2025-04-15 14:32:57 +0000 UTCA 70s/80s "Channel 9 at 4pm" staple.
MarkNM
2025-04-15 14:30:30 +0000 UTCMayne y'all are too young to remember Ken Howard in The White Shadow
James C Harris
2025-04-15 14:12:32 +0000 UTCFew movies have hit for the cycle.
MarkNM
2025-04-15 13:50:21 +0000 UTCIt just dawned on me that this movie was only cum short of a bodily fluid perfect combo: we got pee, we got poo, we got puke, we got tears, we got blood and we got spit. So close!
Felipe Sobreiro
2025-04-15 13:29:01 +0000 UTCSo Southern Indiana is quite hilly. But Ive never seen a waterfall like the diner one there. If you want to see an excellent movie actually filmed in Indiana I suggest Breaking Away, which I've submitted for LRM WLM in the past.
Scott Plackemeier
2025-04-15 13:19:55 +0000 UTCI feel like the guy who plays Julien on trailer park boys is a tremblay
Purple Roundy
2025-04-15 12:57:27 +0000 UTCTo quote Robert Duvall in Network when I first saw the bathroom scene: A BIG-TITTED SHIT!
Z
2025-04-15 10:32:33 +0000 UTCSaw this at the theater with a group of friends. The plan was to grab dinner at this cool new place then catch the movie. The "cool new place" had an hour and a half wait so we ate at Buffalo Wild Wings adjacent to the theater. The theme of the night was disappointment apparently.
Scott Plackemeier
2025-04-15 10:10:37 +0000 UTCWith the unreasonable runtime of the movie, I ended up spending a lot of time thinking about other things - such as how Grace Zabriskie is in this movie and RDJ's character's daughter is named Lauren Palmer (I've had Twin Peaks on the brain so I definitely read it as Laura at first). And I have legal experience with my work, so I spent a lot of time asking how and why RDJ is even representing his dad. He's an attorney in Illinois and has a license to practice law in Illinois, not Indiana. And since he never visits there, I assume he does just have an Indiana law license just laying around collecting dust. This whole situation is a serious no-no and only someone like me would even care to notice it, lol.
Busiris
2025-04-15 07:09:45 +0000 UTC“It’s ok to like a movie” Eric Szyszka
Luke Gordnier
2025-04-15 06:44:57 +0000 UTCTremblay is a mega-French Canadian name. It is indeed pronounced "Traum-blay."
Darcy MacDonald
2025-04-15 06:41:22 +0000 UTCThe real answer is you're backing up one direction either way so who gives a shit, but do not say that to people who have a strong opinion one way or the other
Calvin Lindfors
2025-04-15 04:53:06 +0000 UTCI live in rural Illinois and whether you back your truck into the driveway/garage or pull it in is 100% something dudes get angry and argue over, so that's not actually inaccurate.
Calvin Lindfors
2025-04-15 04:51:07 +0000 UTCFree on YouTube where I can watch it on triple speed. It's my lucky day today.
Chris Chippendale
2025-04-15 04:47:22 +0000 UTCNot gonna lie, I like this movie
Ramon R. Vasquez
2025-04-15 04:37:02 +0000 UTCI randomly streamed this somewhere in the last year and wasn't sure quite what the hell to make of it. Interested to hear the guy's takes.
johnny stocker
2025-04-15 04:06:38 +0000 UTC
