CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: Merry Grinchmas!
The Important Cinema Club
Justin Decloux and Will Sloan
4.7 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we finally did it. Grinchmas is here. We went to go see The Grinch, started as a joke on the Baster Video podcast, and so I'm here today with Mark Hanson and special guest, Mike Wood. Hello, yes, it's the 25th anniversary of the Grinch. Isn't the Grinch the Scott Mosier recent one? And this is technically Dr. Zeus's How the Grinch stole Christmas. Oh, is that what it's called? |
| 0:20.3 | Yes, it's actually called Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. |
| 0:24.0 | That is the official title. Wow. I mean, spoiler alert. Jim Carries the Grinch says it in this movie, and it may be the biggest laugh of the entire experience. Now, because you applauded. I applauded And then that got the snap snap. And I did the |
| 0:38.8 | snap snap. Yeah. And that was a very exciting title drop. I didn't remember. Even though I |
| 0:43.3 | forgot they did that. I last saw this movie just 51 weeks ago. 51. That's how Mike |
| 0:48.8 | measures all the movie watching in weeks. Yeah. Now, I wanted to see this, not because I like this movie, but because Mark admitted Mark |
| 1:00.8 | answered the base reviewer podcast that he had not seen it since it was theatrically released. |
| 1:05.3 | Yep, that's true. |
| 1:06.9 | I like a lot of millennial children who grew up on The Grinch and Jim Carrey enthusiastically rolled out with our whole family opening weekend in December of 2000. |
| 1:17.7 | We did the same. |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah, me too. |
| 1:19.5 | Definitely opening weekend. |
| 1:20.6 | Almost everyone did at the time. |
| 1:22.8 | That was a huge hit. |
| 1:23.8 | Love the Grinch. |
| 1:24.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.1 | Love Jim Carrey. |
| 1:26.1 | Like what could go wrong? |
| 1:27.0 | This was like the best possible movie. I think we also at the Grinch. Yeah. Love Jim Carrey. Like, what could go wrong? This was like the best possible |
| 1:28.5 | movie. I think we also at the time only had like one big Christmas movie a year. And I don't mean |
| 1:34.6 | we my family. I mean we as a society. Okay, so we had Home Alone, Home Alone 2, the Santa Claus. |
| 1:39.5 | Yeah. Those were the big ones. I feel Jack Frost was 98. I was- Jack Frost was a little old for Jack Frost, I feel. |
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