Grumpy Nostalgia: Second Look Cinema

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This movie is why your parents were laughing so hard in the other room.  Easily one of your hosts favorite comedies of all time.  This special revisit was a no-brainer (see what we did there?).  Nonstop jokes, ridiculous sight gags, and Wilder's performance all remind us that there was a time in American cinema where you could dare to cross a few lines to make people laugh. And we did. A lot. Take a shot every time there's a quotable line in this movie and you might end up telling your family what you really think of them. 

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After a brutal summer full of bombs, the gang gleefully review a great 90s thriller that exemplifies why our generation's movies were so much better. This neo film noir classic introduced an original script, laden with mystery and varied interpretations that would make a modern audience over-google themselves.  With unique characters, brutal violence, and a story that makes you work a little, these types of movies cant exist anymore and we're proud as hell to put this one on a pedestal this week.  In a pretentious and smug manner, we also wrap up this one with a list of movies with the most questions about their endings as determined by Google.  The results are both hilarious and horrific.

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GenX boys were strange little creatures (still are by all accounts). Back when you couldn't use the internet to fight your battles, some of us actually had to take matters into our own hands.  We personally were not these people, but Ed and Brad certainly were.  Criminally misunderstood in it's original run in theaters, this prophetic movie warned us where the world was heading and boy was it spot on.  Your hosts live vicariously through these iconic characters once again as they pine for the days when they could take their shirts off and throw down if needed. (Spoiler: They never needed).

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Headbangers Hamlet! Things go crazy this week as Mike's absence throws the Grumpy Nostalgia studios into disarray. But every crisis is also an opportunity. Therefore, the show's resident music expert @aron_gagliardo is called in to cover a movie we know Mike wouldn't touch even with a ten foot Gene Simmons tongue. The ABC Network gave the band KISS two hours of primetime TV in 1978 and the results are as surreal as you think they are.  Easily the greatest and worst TV Movie ever made all at the same time.

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Drop by the Double Deuce to see an amazing tale that somehow manages to be wonderful and vile all at the same time.  We could not get enough of this one the first time through and neither could our audience so we gladly put this stinky treasure back on the airwaves to help beat the summer heat. Never have ripped out throat scenes been more enjoyable. Oh, and Kelly Lynch! Hell yeah, y'all.

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We wrap up our brutal "Bombs Away" summer series with some real teeth.  We travel back to 1983 to revisit the gimmicky, yet somehow still boring, Jaws 3D. Besides the multitude of tiny shorts, trucker hats, and mustaches, there's all the 3D content the producers added in a desperate attempt to get us back in the theater to see another movie about an angry fish.  A coked-out Dennis Quaid and the guy from the TV show Manimal lead the charge so you know its good. 

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We swear we will cover a good movie eventually, but this week do not. But that doesn't mean for even a second that we didn't completely love revisiting this intergalactic pile of Psychlo Poo. Did we mention its bad? (Grumpy Nostalgia - always first with breaking news)

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Pirate songs and horrible puns litter this podcast as the boys get their peg legs stuck knee high into this infamous pile of poo.  When a movie loses $187 million dollars, there's more going on than just a bad script and thankfully we found a lot of it.  So hop aboard land lubbers, time to get seasick!

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Before Yellowstone made the gangster western cool, our cowboys from the 90s were shootin', drinkin' and acting all over the place.  We go back a few years to revisit one of our favorite episodes that never fully got the attention we truly feel it deserved. Stick around to the end where the boys talk about their favorite cowboys of all time. Its a rootin tootin rodeo of crap.

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If you love duck puns, bad special effects, and crimping irons we have the film for you. It's been 40 years since this turkey (not duck) graced our movie screens courtesy of George Lucas no less. We guess someone told him those annoying Star Wars movies were played out and to focus on an intergalactic duck instead.  Well played.  This gem kicks off our special summer series called Bombs Away! We my never truly recover. Quack.