Every month, fearless Cinema 52 Lab Rats Ben Katz and Philip Hobby select a popular or critically acclaimed film that neither of them have seen before and watch it up to the exact halfway point. Then they pause it and try to predict how it's all going to end. These are their adventures.
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Half Flick: Life is Beautiful
All Lab Rats Ben and Phil know about the critically acclaimed foreign film Life is Beautiful is that Roberto Benigni flipped out at the Oscars, so they watch the first half and predict how it ends.
Half Flick: Pretty Woman
Romantic comedies are so predictable, right? Lab Rats Ben and Phil find out firsthand as they watch half of Pretty Woman and try to guess how it ends.
Half Flick: Friday the 13th
Lab Rats Ben and Phil have never seen Friday the 13th, so they watched the first half and tried to guess who remains unslashed, who's doing the slashing, and why there are sequels.
Half Flick: Murder on the Orient Express
Ben and Phil pause Sidney Lumet's film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express at the halfway point and try to guess whichpersonupandkilledtheguy.
Half Flick: Pitch Perfect
Ugh, movies about competitions are so predictable, right? Lab Rats Ben and Phil prove it by watching Pitch Perfect to the halfway point and then guess who wins at life, love, and pop songs.
Half Flick: Patton
Lab Rats Ben and Phil have never seen Patton, so they watch the first half and see if they can figure out who wins World War II. Oh, also, if hard-ass warrior poet General Patton ever changes his tune.
Half Flick: How to Train Your Dragon
Lab Rats Ben and Phil have never seen How to Train Your Dragon, so they watched the first half and tried to guess how it ends. Does being a movie for kids make it extra predictable? Find out.
Half Flick: Ghost
Lab Rats Ben and Phil have never seen Ghost, so join them as they watch the first half and guess how its overabundance of plot threads tie up. Is this Best Screenplay winner entirely predictable?
Half Flick: Network
Network may have predicted the state of the media today, but can Lab Rats Phil and Ben use their mad prophet skills to predict how the film ends by watching just the first half?
Half Flick: The Notebook
Labs Rats Phil and Ben have never seen The Notebook, the greatest love story of our time (if "our time" refers specifically to June of 2004). Can they predict how it ends by watching just the first half?
Half Flick: RoboCop
With that fancy new-fangled RoboCop in theaters, Lab Rats Phil and Ben realized neither of them have seen the original. Can they predict how it ends by watching just the first half?
Half Flick: The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption was a smash hit upon its home video release, but Phil and Ben never got around to seeing it. Can they predict how it ends by watching just the first half?
What's This?
We watched movies we hate, once a week, for an entire year. Click here to learn more about our experiment!
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