464: Strange Days

I Hate It But I Love It

Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're talking about the Y2K classic (?) Strange Days! We talk about wigs (and plots) that bum Kat out, question whether James Cameron was the right person to tell this story, and praise Angela Bassett.

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0:00.0	I hate it!
0:02.0	I hate it! but I love it!
0:25.9	I hi-Bile, everybody.
0:27.4	I hi-bye, I want to know.
0:28.5	Welcome to I hate it, but I love it.
0:29.7	I'm Jocelyn Getty.
0:30.6	I am Kat Angus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously.
0:34.8	This week we are talking about 1995's Strange Days, which is a movie
0:38.3	I haven't thought about in so long. I know. It's one of those ones that really kind of
0:42.9	skates under the radar of James Cameron's career for sure because he wrote it, but you know,
0:48.1	didn't actually do it. And then Catherine Bigelow's career, because it was a massive flop when it
0:51.9	first came out. But I think this movie is pretty
0:55.2	great in a lot of points. Like there are ways in which it's muddled, but at the time to be
1:04.2	confronting the issues that it did with the openness that it did, I think it was pretty
1:10.2	revolutionary in a bunch of ways.
1:13.1	There are aspects of it that I think are very difficult to watch and I understand why it's not like,
1:18.5	it's not a crowd pleaser by any stretch of the imagination. But it's one of those movies that I feel
1:25.2	like maybe deserves a little bit more respect thrown on its name
1:28.2	because in the cyberpunk genre that we keep trying to advance and never quite makes it forward,
1:35.6	it might be one of the most successful entries other than like The Matrix.
1:39.3	Right, right.
1:40.8	I think I liked it less than you did.
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