Grumpy Nostalgia: Second Look Cinema

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This week we're looking back at those amazing stores, venues and restaurants that we thought would never go away but now somehow have simply turned into T-Mobile stores. While we suckle at the teet of Amazon now, some of remember going shopping, playing in arcades and eating at 6000 calorie steak buffets.

If you ever played Frogger for an hour on one quarter, shot a 178 at the local putt putt, or gagged on Showbiz pizza, this one should be right up your alley.

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Our summer retro series comes to a merciful close with the headliner from hell, FACE/OFF from 1997.  By now we're sure you're Nic Caged out but hang in there for one more last heave of a movie.  This is easily in our top 5 favorite episodes of all time.  Cage and Travolta battle in a never-ending struggle to see who can chew the most scenery in every frame of this John Woo epic. Spoiler alert, the both win.  The only losers here are us.

Famous for the first installment of our infamous episode-ending segment "You Just Made the List, Pal!

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It's easy to say Con Air is a terrible movie.  So we do.  We say it a lot of times.

Thankfully its so full of stereotypes, overused tropes, and bile it makes for a great podcast.  In this week's special re-issue episode you get to listen to the boys really struggle to comprehend how this movie got made (in a fun way).  The first podcast episode that required overtime in order to sort everything out.  Alabama Nic is in rare form and you got Malkovich doing a turn as a whacked out serial killer.  Pure delight, especially when Steve Buscemi shows up trying to eat a little girl.

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The words "number 2" have never been more appropriate as we welcome the next movie of our special summer homage to Nic Cage with 1996's The Rock. Add in some Connery and his wigged, disproportionally-sized stuntman and we got ourselves a classic 90s action hit, y'all.

For some reason Nic is named Stanley Goodspeed. And there's poisonous gas.  That's should be enough for any of you.

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We kick off our special summer series dedicated to America's greatest living actor, Nic Cage, with 2000's Gone in 60 Seconds. This movie features 63 songs in 119 minutes which is important because it helps to drown out the dialogue.  Memphis Raines and the gang boost 50 cars in one night and the bad guy falls into a coffin and we haven't even got to the implausible stuff yet.  But Angelina Jolie looks great at least.

Remember - We're featuring 4 of these in the next 2 weeks because that's what we think you deserve!

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We had to go all the way back to the 70s to find a movie where Superman was actually cool and, man oh superman, does this one deliver.  Who needs crappy-looking CGI villains when you have the horrifying Ned Beatty and an ascot-wearing Gene Hackman.  Throw in some pre-meltdown Margot Kidder and the perennial whacked out Marlon Brando and this one writes itself.  We loved this one as boys and couldn't find a reason not to like it still.  But we give it our best shot anyway.

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We can all agree that music is generally getting worse, but the technology used to bring it to us is better than ever. Only it isn't. In this episode, the gang looks back at the wonderful ways we got our music.  From scratchy AM/FM radios to glorious vinyl.  From bulky cassettes to green sharpie'd CDs.  Ultimately leading to the cold, soulless streaming services that murdered it all.  We have not come to bury our 8-tracks, but to honor them.  Even better, this time we get mega vinyl collector @aron_gagliardo to sit in with us to help us sound slightly educated for once.

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Machines come back from the future to change the course of history but completely ignore eradicating Ed Hardy, Post-Grunge rock, and TikTok.  Arnold's back for another go on the podcast and he has 14 lines. But he kills 39 people so we can understand his priorities.  Make sure to stick around for the end of this one where we get a chance to comment on a very pretentious "Overrated Movies" internet list that seemed to be an intentional attack on our very being.  We get a little fussy.

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If you ever wanted to see a Ghostbuster jump out of a plane with a cigar-smoking talking gorilla, this is the movie for you!

This ridiculously dumb movie celebrates its 30th birthday this week and we felt compelled to pay homage. We were only a little over a year into our podcast journey when we decided to tackle this one and we were completely unprepared. And we have have the PTSD to prove it.

Add a dash of Bruce Campbell, Joe Don Baker, Jimmy Buffet (really!), and enough crappy accents thrown around and you almost don't mind the entire convoluted premise of the movie.  Almost.

Originally aired on July 2022, this one has always been one of our favorite, and most referenced movies since.  Don't call it a re-run, its been here for years, rockin' its peers, puttin' suckas in fear,

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We're celebrating Father's Day by keeping up with the Jones boys. We got gondolas, Nazis, River Phoenix, sewer rats, and a wig-free Connery just for starters. A perfect ending for the Indiana Jones trilogy.  Luckily, Hollywood decided not to ruin the legacy by releasing additional cash-grab movies after this one.  Oh, wait.

Stick around till the end for this one.  We pay homage to our dads by taking a look at their favorite movies.  For a couple of grumpy jerks, we can be surprisingly genuine and sentimental when we want to be.