Grumpy Nostalgia: Second Look Cinema

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It's double O hell no this week as the boys make their first pass at Bond movies.  We're not entirely sure what happened here, but like always, there's a supervillian bent on world domination, two Bond girls, and a crap ton of gadgets designed to kill people in original ways.  Not to mention waves and waves of easily accessible ladies along the way.
Endlessly fun throughout, but the sheer amount of camp and cheese left us very shaken (not stirred). 

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Happy New Year, y'all.  We're starting 25 with lots of chomp by reviewing one of the big 'uns, the OG Jurassic Park. Over 30 years old and not even a scratch on it.  Stick around til the end where the gang lovingly discuss things in Hollywood they wish would go extinct. Fun!
#jurassicpark #dino #1993 #blockbusters #trex #goldblum #podcast #nostalgia #mst3k 

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We're wrapping up 2024 with a very special movie picked by our new guest contributor @kevin_the_movie_guy.  Better yet, Kevin's sitting in for this one too!
We decided Santa could just go to hell for the time being because we wanna talk about 1996's From Dusk Til Dawn. It's a subtle little understated character study of a criminal and his sex predator brother fighting evil vampire strippers in a Mexican roadhouse.  Pass the eggnog!
Stick around til the end when we do a multigenerational review of the top movies from 2024, 1994, and 1984.  

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You're gonna like these apples for sure.  This week the boys are going back to 1997 to revisit this amazing take on the "troubled genius" theme that Hollywood loves so wicked much.  Watching hurts a little more this time knowing Williams isnt with us anymore, but luckily the Southie accents more than make up for it.
Spoiler!  The boys liked this one a lot and were really at a loss for words which, we suppose, is not very good for a podcast. Listen anyways, ya Barneys.

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We're looking back at a  Christmas movie that even our snarky GenX personalities cannot diminish.  Quotable, hilarious, and tolerantly sappy, Will Ferrel's portrayal as the 6'3" elf alone to his own devices in the Big Apple is a favorite among the Grumpy Nostalgia offices.  Plus Jimmy Caan. Plus Peter Dinklage. Plus the insufferably cute Zoey Deschanel. Grab your syrup and join us.  

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Gobble Gobble, y'all. 
We're so caught up in the holiday excitement preamble, we are using our precious studio time to wrap gifts and browse thru the Sears Christmas catalog making our lists for Big Red.
In the meanwhile, please revisit this lost episode that no one really bothered listening to the first time.  We really never got over that.  Please give this one a listen and be our Holiday miracle. Then we could walk like the other podcasters!

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This week, we're diving into the 1990 Dick Tracy movie. Remember this one?  Of course you dont.

Imagine Tim Burton’s Gotham got hit with a color filter that only understands primary colors and then added... a whole lot of questionable choices.

Warren Beatty is no Michael Keaton (sorry, buddy), but he does give it his best shot. And Pacino? Well, let’s just say he was definitely a more over-the-top villain than Jack Nicholson's Joker—if you replaced menace with ham. 

Hit the link in bio to listen now (and let’s just say, we had a lot of feelings). 

#DickTracy #Batman1989 #90sMovies #PodcastReview #ComedyPodcast #MovieReview #WarrenBeatty #Madonna #PopCultureThrowback #Nostalgia #SuperheroMovies #FunnyPodcasts #mst3k 

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We dare you admit you didn't watch this on HBO at every pizza-fueled sleepover in the 80s. It's a fun mix of horror, comedy, and well-meant gratuitous gore and nudity, just like the eighties.  Your gang had a blast checking this one out again.
To end both the 4th season and their month long horror spectacular, the boys finally reveal their favorite horror films after spending the last two episodes making fun of everybody else's.  Spoiler Alert: Your hosts are sissies.

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Our final trip down memory lane is last year's retrospective of Wes Craven's original A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Creative, original, and generally icky, just like your hosts.
Stick around to the end where the gang talks about their favorite (and least liked) Halloween candy.

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Back in the 70s, most things were designed to ruin children. Jarts, doctors smoking in the exam room, steel playgrounds, and television movies about kids getting killed. So naturally, we decided to review the most egregious of these, Salem's Lot. Mostly tame by today's standards, this Stephen King vampire classic broke our little brains and we're pretty bitter about it.
Stick around to the end when we measure ourselves up against Elle Magazine's top 25 Halloween movies.  The horror.