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526 – Predator: Badlands, Why Don’t We Remake Bad Movies?, Frankenstein (2025)
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.
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FORMAT
00:00 – Lightning Round: How Long, Running Man?
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
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Live From The 48th Denver Film Festival
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.
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525 – The Movies About Subjects That Scare Us Quell
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!
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Format
0:00 – Welcome and Da7e Attempts an Intro
05:19 – Katey – Pet Semetary (1989)
23:47 – David – Elephant (2003)
50:32 – Da7e – The Shining (1980)
1:09:43 – Patches – A Little Bit of Heaven (2011)
Previous Quarter Quells:
- OpKino Classic: First Quarter Quell (August 26th 2011)
- OpKino Classic: The 2nd Quarter Quell (Feb. 22nd 2012)
- OpKino Classic: Storytelling Quarter Quell (Aug 10th 2012)
- OpKino Classic: Family Interview Full Quell (Feb 8th, 2013)
- FITWR 025 – The Filmmaking Quarter Quell (June 3rd, 2014)
- FITWR 050 – QQ2: Movies for the Moment (Dec. 2nd 2014)
- FITWR 075 – QQ3: Movies We Wanted To Be When We Grew Up.
- FITWR 100 – Significant Other Full Quell
- FITWR 125 – Movies We Want to Show (Our) Children
- FITWR 150 – Movies That Represent What We Want For America
- FITWR 175 – Revisiting Previous Infamous Discussions
- FITWR 200 – Foriegn Netflix Quell
- FITWR 225 – The Lifelong Evolving Obsession Quell
- FITWR 250 – The New York Movie Quell
- FITWR 275 – Movie of the Decade Quell
- FITWR 300 – The Call-In Show
- FITWR 325 – The Exceeded Expectations Quell
- FITWR 350 – The Summer Movie Quell
- FITWR 375 – The Anniversary Quell
- FITWR 400 – Call in Show 2
- FITWR 425 – The Date Quell
- FITWR 450 – The “Not For You On Paper” Quell
- FITWR 475 – The Elder Millennial Canon Quell
- FITWR 500 – Call in Show 3
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524.8 – Black Phone 2 and Roofman
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.
Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us, follow on BlueSky! Follow the show (@fitwr.bsky.social), Katey (@kateyrich.bsky.social), Da7e (@da7e.bsky.social), Patches (@misterpatches.bsky.social), and David (@davidehrlich.bsky.social).
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FORMAT
00:00 – Lightning Round: Spooky Movie
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
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