526 – Predator: Badlands, Why Don’t We Remake Bad Movies?, Frankenstein (2025)
Nov 14, 2025
Show notes
This week, Katey had to be out to see movies, but the boys return to the virtual war room to talk about Predator: Badlands (in theaters now!) and Frankenstein (on Netflix now!). David also asks why we only seem to remake movies that were okay to begin with. Slight spoilers for Badlands and Frankenstein sprinkled throughout, but nothing ruining as we’re just praising Badlands and talking about a Frankenstein story that is pretty well known at this point.
16:48- Intro – Welcome to Episode 526 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Reviews! E-mail!
16:48 – Tidbit – Predator: Badlands
39:48 – Mini-segment – Why don’t we remake bad movies?
53:48 – Segment 3 – Frankenstein on Netflix
1:13:23 – Outro
Live From The 48th Denver Film Festival
Nov 05, 2025
Show notes
This week, Patches and Katey flew out to Denver to join Da7e, Denver Film Festival Artistic Director Matthew Campbell, and Denver Film Festival CEO Kevin Smith to have a conversation about fighting about movies in front of a live audience. We haven’t done that in over a decade!
This week’s episode was recorded live, but the pauses when the audience was speaking that were not picked up by the mics were deleted.
525 – The Movies About Subjects That Scare Us Quell
Oct 30, 2025
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We didn’t say they were good movies.
It’s another Fighting in The War Room Quarter Quell! But the FIRST one since being named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Podcasts of All Time…
For this edition of a FITWR Quarter Quell, each host brought a movie about a subject that actually scares them. Katey confronts her fear that her kids might get hit by cars with 1989’s Pet Semetary, David is worried about gun violence in schools with 2003’s Elephant, Da7e is worried about his inner monsters with 1980’s The Shining, and Patches is concerned about colon cancer with 2011’s A Little Bit of Heaven.
If you would like to attend FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM LIVE AT THE DENVER FILM FESTIVAL on Tuesday November 4th at 3PM Mountain Time at The Tattered Cover on Colfax, get tickets here!
524.8 – Black Phone 2 and Roofman
Oct 24, 2025
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This week, Patches was tired and David hadn’t seen the movies, so Katey and Da7e DARE TO GO OFF FORMAT for this really-really-really last episode before next week’s Quarter Quell. For the first half of the show, David, Katey and Da7e announce FITWR’s next two weeks (Quarter Quell! Live Show in Denver!), read your reviews and answer an e-mail from Brazil. Then, David checks out to work on his book while Da7e and Katey talk Black Phone 2 and Roofman, two things you can see in theaters right now.
NOVEMBER 4th, 2025 – DENVER, CO – 3PM – The Tattered Cover Bookstore on Colfax – FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM LIVE PODCAST RECORDING! Stay tuned and keep an eye on FightingInTheWarRoom.com for details as they develop.
03:24 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 524.8 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Reviews! E-mail!
34:05 – Black Phone 2 (Spoilers for The Black Phone)
45:29 – Roofman
59:55 – Outro
524.7 – Mr. Scorsese, The Brady Bunch, Tron: Ares
Oct 15, 2025
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This week, Da7e was off seeing Black Phone 2 where Ethan Hawke stalks the snowbound dreams of Colorado teens, and the other co-hosts make fun of him for it. First, Katey wants to talk about one of her favorite TV shows of the year, the five-part series Mr. Scorsese on Apple TV Plus. Then, Patches has his kids watching The Brady Bunch – how do we feel about that? Finally, the boys ventured back to the grid for the third time in 43 years with Tron: Ares – did Nine Inch Nails make the outing worth it? They saw Tron: Ares so you didn’t have to (and – judging from the box office – didn’t).
NOVEMBER 4th, 2025 – DENVER, CO – FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM LIVE PODCAST RECORDING! Stay tuned and keep an eye on FightingInTheWarRoom.com for details as they develop.
02:14 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 524.7 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Reviews!
11:36 – Tidbit – Mr. Scorsese
22:38 – Mini-Segment – The Brady Bunch
32:15 – Segment 3 – Tron: Ares
54:07 – Outro
524.6 – Nightmare in Horror Films, K-Pop Demon BBQ, The Smashing Machine
Oct 10, 2025
Show notes
This week, Patches and Da7e have been watching the old Nightmare on Elm Street sequels on HBO Max and Patches wonders if we’re missing something in modern horror. Then, Patches and David got to meet the stars of K-Pop Demon Hunters in New York, did they earn more cred with their kids? Finally, Katey, David, and Da7e have seen The Smashing Machine and debate the movie’s high aspirations as a character piece with a puzzling execution.
02:24 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 524.6 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Reviews! E-mail!
14:13 – Tidbit – Nightmare in Horror Films
29:57 – Mini-Segment – K-Pop Demon BBQ
40:21 – Segment 3 – The Smashing Machine
58:52 – Outro
524.5 – Alien: Earth, Rod Patches Reports From the Sphere, One Battle After Another
Oct 02, 2025
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This week, everyone is back in the war room! The guys talk about Season 1 of Alien: Earth which has recently concluded on Hulu and it seems like they’re mostly positive on it. Then, we get a dispatch from Patches’ father who has seen The Wizard of Oz at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Finally, in a long segment that assumes you have also seen One Battle After Another, the hosts discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest. AGAIN – SPOILERS – SEE ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER FIRST IF YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT PLOT SPOILERS.
01:56 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 524.2 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Review! E-mail!
14:04 – Tidbit – Alien: Earth
34:17 – Mini-Segment – Rod Patches Reports From The Las Vegas Sphere
40:32 – Segment 3 – One Battle After Another (Spoilers)
1:25:49 – Outro
524.4 – Disney’s Panic, Predators, The Aggression Dichotomy
Sep 25, 2025
Show notes
This week, David’s solo-parenting attempt left him unable to podcast, so we decided to save our discussion of Alien: Earth and One Battle After Another until next week. Katey, Patches, and Da7e get together this week to discuss seemingly nonsense that quickly boils over. First, we attempt to talk about one studio’s panic in the face of the government and that quickly spirals out, then Katey’s seen the new documentary Predators, it’s about the old reality series To Catch A Predator and is about entrapment by the police (partially). Finally, Patches is playing a game that is aggressively annoying to play and loving it, he wants to know if there are other extremely aggressive movies that fail (HIM) or succeed (A Serbian Film? – just kidding, don’t subject yourself) – We’re calling it The Aggression Dichotomy – can you attract someone by media that is constantly daring them to walk away?
02:17 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 524.4 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Review! E-mail!
14:59 – Tidbit – Disney’s Panic
42:11 – Mini-Segment – Predators
50:45 – Segment 3 – The Aggression Dichotomy
1:11:07 – Outro
524.3 – Silksong, MegaDoc, Vulture Movie Draft and Festival Reactions
Sep 18, 2025
Show notes
This week, David’s coming in hot and is mad that Da7e saw HIM over doing this podcast. Katey listens as Patches and David inform her about the Hollow Knight sequel Silksong before talking about Megadoc, the Megalopolis documentary with David. Then, Everyone talks about the VULTURE MOVIE LEAGUE and what they’re picking this year. Sign up and join the FITWarriors!
02:13 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 524.3 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! Review!
09:54 – Tidbit – Silksong
22:16 – Mini-Segment – Megadoc
32:32 – Segment 3 – Vulture Movie Fantasy League
1:02:06 – Outro
524.2 – The Long Walk, Katey’s Covered TIFF, Is Paramount Buying Warner Bros?
Sep 12, 2025
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This week, Katey is still in Toronto, but the boys get together to talk about The Long Walk, this year’s third Stephen King movie, and discuss the breaking news that Paramount/Skydance is considering putting in a bid on Warner Bros. While the boys worry, Katey calls in with (her new fancy Tik Tok microphone that she went into the Criterion Closet with) a report from TIFF and how, yes, Hamnet rips out your soul (apparently).
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