Less Than 2000

We cap off Spooktober with a movie that deeply traumatized  Adam as a lad. (Chad was already desensitized by the time he was 13). The boys go deep into this 1993 alien horror film based on a TRUE story staring the liquid Terminator Robert Patrick.

Adam regales us with the deep research he did into Travis Walton and recounts his quest to parts of Arizona in search of THE TRUTH while intentionally trying to get abducted. Chad plays the cynic this episode and pretends he wasn’t terrified by THE SCENE towards the end of the film. Check out Patreon for the full story of Adam’s “close encounter!”

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Shrouded in mystique and tragedy, The Crow was a cursed production from the beginning – from a hurricane destroying the set to the horrible accident that killed Brandon Lee.  Based on a comic book and starring Ernie Hudson, with a killer soundtrack featuring The Cure and Nine Inch Nails, The Crow was the movie that gave the world “The Goth.”

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We continue our month-long journey into the spooky and the sublime by reviewing a movie we’ve never seen… Dan Aykroyd’s 1991 horror/comedy Nothing But Trouble… and boy is it a scary.  As in, scary how bad it is!

How does a movie with Chevy Chase, Demi Moore and John Candy, written and directed by the King of the Ghostbusters, fail so spectacularly?  At Less Than 2000, we strive to go deeper than to simply say “it sucks,” so we put on our film student and filmmaker hats to get into the nitty gritty of WHY it sucked so hard.  Chad doesn’t think it’s that bad and even his wife got into it.  Adam hates it with every fiber of his being but knows why it has some marginal appeal.  If nothing else, at least it had Digital Underground and gave us Tupac’s feature film debut!

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Batman (1989) was the first PG-13 movie the boys ever saw, and boy, was it a great one.  Directed by Tim Burton and staring Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Billy Dee Williams and Jack Palance, with music by Prince and Danny Elfman, it was a smash hit beyond Warner Bros.’ wildest dreams.

In 2022, it’s hard to imagine a world where super hero movies aren’t insanely popular, but before Batman came out it was expected to be a massive bomb.  All it did was become the biggest blockbuster of 1989 and usher in new paradigm of comic book movies with a unique and fresh take on the genre.

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From the Files of Police Squad! comes the best spoof comedy this side of a Mel Brooks film. In honor of passing of Queen Elizabeth, we’re covering a movie that centers around her.

Starring Leslie Nielsen as Lieutenant Frank Drebin, former wife of Elvis Priscilla Presley, Kahn from Star Trek II Ricardo Montalbán, academy award winner George Kennedy, and former football player possible wife murder O. J. Simpson!

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You can get with this, or you can get with that. I think you’ll go with this, because this podcast is kinda phat! Black Sheep was one of the most original and quirky hip hop acts of the early 90's. Hear about Adam and Chad doing a rap song for a 5th grade lip sync contest at their Midwest, Catholic school!

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Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start [or for those of us with friends, Select, Start!]  Grab a controller, a friend, and thirty lives to take on the evil Red Falcon alien army in the best two player simultaneous game on the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Due to technical difficulties, Adam’s audio isn’t as awesome as it normally is.  But at least we didn’t lose the whole thing!

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With Clerks 3 coming out, there’s no better time to dig into the original Clerks from 1994.  Kevin Smith had his pulse on the twenty-somethings of America and released his super low budget independent film at the Sundance Film Festival at the right place and right time.  Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson killed it as Dante and Randal Graves and Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith created iconic long-running characters.

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Adam and Chad are joined by the first girl to take pity on them and be their friend, junior high cool girl Bobbi Lawhorn. They spend a Saturday in detention together dishing about John Hughes movies, the Brat Pack, The Breakfast Club (1985), and their deepest, darkest secrets from high school.  Eat.  My. Shorts. And Don’t You Forget About Me!

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Some movies just aren’t as “good” as we remember; some are better. Some might be classified as “good, bad movies.” Which is exactly what Kuffs starring Christian Slater and Mila Jovovich is.

Kuffs is a very PG-13 “cop” movie about an immature boy who inherits a patrol specialist district in San Francisco and becomes a “man.” Simply put, they should have made a great R version instead.

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