Old Millennials Remember Movies

In 1987, I was only four years old and Tyler was three -- join us in this Hellraiser Podcast to hear how we both first experienced this 1987 Horror flick. My parents are definitely guilty of raising millennials, but to give them credit, I did not see Hellraiser when I was four years old. It may have been at least a few years later.

Happy Halloween - Hellraiser Podcast

Hellraiser is an interesting movie to go back and re-watch (or as I like to introduce it - a "fun little flick"). Tyler and I definitely had some fun with this Hellraiser Podcast. You can cozy up to this movie to celebrate Halloween, or watch it any time of the year. For now, Hellraiser is available on Hulu!  We suggest watching it and then listening to this Hellraiser podcast if you have the time!

The Hellraiser trailer will pull you in immediately in this podcast episode!

"Somewhere, beyond the light and the dark, beyond our secret desires and deepest fears, lies the door beyond all our limits."

"We have such sights to show you..."

"Hellraiser - there are NO limits. Rated R."

We ask and discuss some questions like, What's up with the puzzle box? What's up with the lady being cool with killing people to help super gross Frank? Also, we talk about how the 80s are great for punishing women for being "sluts" ... as in, murdering them. That'll show them! 80s Sexism at its best!

If you hang on to the end of this episode, you'll get to enjoy a very deep conversation about acupuncture and the cultural impacts of Hellraiser on this alternative health practice. Also, will you agree with Tyler that I'm creating a narrative in our Old Millennials Remember Podcast that one of us is a hero and the other a villain? I think Tyler is a bit dramatic about it, but you decide.

Other Halloweeny Podcasts to Check Out

In addition to our Hellraiser Podcast, if you're in the mood for MORE Halloweeny podcasts, be sure to go back to some of our other Old Millennials Remember Movies Podcast Episodes:

The Monster Squad Podcast

Event Horizon Podcast

Teen Witch Podcast

Ernest Scared Stupid Podcast

Old Millennials are also Watching:

Fleabag (and I really botched my viewing experience on this one!)

Deadwood: The Movie

Toy Story 4

Thanks for listening! Let us know what YOU think, or what you'd like us to watch. Send us a message or leave a comment below!

Let's head back to 1991 for a memorable Halloween Movie from our childhood, in this Ernest Scared Stupid Podcast. One of us remembers loving this movie (spoiler - it's me, Angela) and Tyler doesn't remember much at all.

Happy Halloween - Ernest Scared Stupid Podcast

Tyler may not have remembered it as well or as fondly, but tune in to hear the details and see what YOU remember! The question we ask is, should you re-watch this? Should you watch it with your kids if you choose to re-watch it? Is there something "else" happening in this movie (is Ernest real? is this a dark allegory?).

Tyer and I discuss: the wildly impressive treehouse that could and SHOULD get featured on HGTV, the unusual relationship Ernest has with the children in town, incompetent parents, and how this movie might be the unknown inspiration of a famous movie writer and director (can you guess who?). In this Ernest Scared Stupid Podcast, we also highlight how the obesity of children is not a new concept from the last decade; kids have been fat (at least in movies) for a while - look at the evidence in Ernest Scared Stupid! It's not helpful to call kids fat, but what WAS it with the chubby kids always being the bullies in these 90s movies? We also discuss the "look" of the troll in Ernest Scared Stupid. I mean, look at him, I was eight years old and terrified!!

Tyler shares some fun facts, too - like where the pizza props came from in the pizza shooter. Hint: it's from one of his favorite movies!

Last Halloween, we shared some other favorites with you! If you're in a Halloweeny mood, be sure to go back and check out these Old Millennials Remember Movies Podcast episodes:

The Monster Squad Podcast

Event Horizon Podcast

Teen Witch Podcast

Old Millennials are also watching

Joker

Fleabag

It Came From Outerspace

Working Moms

We go back to 1985 for this Girls Just Want to have Fun Podcast. Did you watch and love it? Tyler and I never actually saw this back in the day, so this is our take on first viewing.

Girls Just Want to have Fun Podcast

Don't worry; we are talking about all the best parts of this movie, including Sarah Jessica Parker's amazingly beautiful thick eyebrows and Helen Hunt's badass hair clip and hat game. There are some amazing parts, like what a great friend Helen Hunt is, including her willingness to lie and help her friend out in all times of need. Also, she has such an impressive hair and hat game - from dinosaur clips to racoon hats, it's amazing. The 80s were such a fashionable time for good hats. Sadly, there are still plenty of awful things about this movie, like how mamby pamby Sarah Jessica Parker is. A few odd surprises are discussed as well, like how even though the title of the movie is Girls Just Want to Have Fun, and the song is featured in the film, it is NOT Cyndi Lauper singing. Really? Couldn't the movie get the real thing? Disappointing!

Old Millennials Also Discuss Other Movies and Shows

Between Two Ferns, the movie

Being There

In the Heat of the Night

American Beauty

Bring the Funny - NBC Reality Show

Old Millennials Remember Helen Hunt

This Girls Just Want to Have Fun Podcast isn't the first movie we Old Millennials returned to that featured Helen Hunt. We also went back to Twister back in Podcast Episode 1! How is it that Helen Hunt basically doesn't age between these two movies? It's incredible!

In this Kindergarten Cop podcast, we share our memories of experiencing the deep acting range of Arnold Schwarzenegger (literally no sarcasm here), and we will let you know if this fun little comedy is appropriate for re-watching with your young kids (If you're unsure about this, you need to actually go back and re-watch Kindergarten Cop, because you forgot a BUNCH of stuff).

Old Millennials Also Discussed (until about the 27:00 mark):

The Dead Don’t Die 

Dark Phoenix

Hustlers

Ad Astra

Intersteller

The I-Land (Netflix)

Other Old Millennial Podcasts Featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger

Predator Podcast

Jingle All the Way Podcast

Would "Clueless" be as good without the star-making performance of Alicia Silverstone? As if! Amy Heckerling's teen comedy classic covers all the hard-hitting problems facing rich teenagers in the mid-90s: Big hats, suck-and-blow, adult-size overalls and freeway driving. It's a real Baldwin of a script, obviously, but Silverstone delivers one of the great comedic performances of the decade. No joke.

"Clueless" also takes on big issues like immigration (there's no RSVP on the Statue of Liberty), MeToo (pre-hashtag) and whether the dreamy Paul Rudd is an Immortal. The man doesn't age!

Bonus! Fallon Anderson is Rollin' with the Homies as a special guest on the podcast. She really loves the hats.

Also discussed on this episode:

Four Weddings and a Funeral (TV series, 2019)

Men in Black: International (2019)

The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)

Identity (2003)

Octopussy (1983)

A View to a Kill (1985)

It's not Steel Magnolias.

You may remember liking Kathy Bates in Fried Green Tomatoes, especially the scene where she teaches some bimbos proper parking etiquette. That's only a small part of this 1991 tearjerker, with most of the good stuff coming from the story of two, ahem, friends played by Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary-Louise Parker. They make good food together, and there's a food fight scene as a symbol of a romantic relationship the filmmakers didn't want to depict honestly... because 1991.

Anyway, the Old Millennials talk memories of seeing this movie as kids, the thematic elements that shaped one host's core beliefs, and the general mediocrity of the scenes between Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy. We also talk Chris O'Donnell and how this movie loves to milk train-related tragedies. Towanda Forever!

Also discussed in this episode:

The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)

Luce (2019)

Climax (2019)

Ready or Not (2019)

The Old Millennials spend episode 49 partying like it's episode 50. We talk about upcoming programming, bargain DVD hunting, music and movie mystery bags, and portions of several Old Millennials-qualifying titles. We'll talk Lindsay Lohan, Ebola monkeys, and the insanely underrated musical stylings of Rebel Red. Tyler and Angela also discuss whether or not to add an additional year into qualification. Our current movie list covers the years 1982-2002, but will there be a new year covered in the next 50 episodes? Listen and find out. Also, an epic throwdown on who decides the movie for episode 50.

Also discussed in this episode:

The Parent Trap (1998)

Freaky Friday (2003)

Outbreak (1995)

The Wicker Man (2006)

It's a whole movie starring a BABY! In 1994, Hollywood executives bet $50 million on a script by John Hughes that inserted an infant into the "Home Alone" outline. Nobody saw it. Well, except one of our Old Millennial hosts. He saw it on opening day.

"Baby's Day Out" follows Baby Boo on an adventure through the big city as he eludes three hapless kidnappers, including Joe Mantegna and Joe Pantoliano. Joey Pants even sings a more realistic version of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." These criminals fall off multiple buildings, get pummeled by a giant ape and have various atrocities committed to their crotches.

Come join the Old Millennials as they play "Spot the Robot Baby," and count all the times co-host Angela was forced to admit she laughed at some of high jinks in this criminally little-seen 90s classic. Okay, classic might be a strong word.

Also discussed in this episode:

The Farewell (2019)

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)

Apollo 11 (2019)

Serenity (2019)

Few movies hold such a sacred place in the hearts of Old Millennials quite like 1994's "The Lion King." It was Disney Animation at the peak of its second Renaissance - great songs, a vibrant color palette, inspired vocal performances and detailed animation working together to create memorable, relatable characters. Everything just works. We revisit the 1994 classic and talk about why it's so great, including the incomparable Jeremy Irons, JTT fever, and what the hell Matthew Broderick is doing here. Oh, and there's some spirited disagreement on Timon, Pumbaa and "Hakuna Matata." It means no worries, and Disney made sure we heard it a million times throughout the 1990s, and aren't we all just SO HAPPY it's back again in 2019?!

We also discuss the "photo-realistic" remake of "The Lion King." It's terrible and we'll tell you why (although if you love the original, then you can probably figure out what's wrong with the new one).

Also discussed in this episode:

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

Dumbo (2019)

The Lion King (2019)

Be sure to put on those lava-proof tires and snorkel exhaust pipes, because we're headed to "Dante's Peak," the second best place to live (population below 20,000) and the only volcano movie of 1997... oh, wait, damnit, Tommy Lee Jones made one too.

Anyway, the better (?) volcano movie stars a James Bond and a Sarah Connor and features a whole bunch of excellent practical effects, a pyroclastic cloud, and some of the dumbest movie characters of the 1990s. That includes Grandma Ruth and her fateful dip into an acid lake. Boy howdy, do we have some thoughts on that one.

Shaun Scott returns to the podcast to discuss his visit to the "Dante's Peak" set in Wallace, Idaho during production. He's a pretty big deal.

Also discussed in this episode:

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Midsommar (2019)

Future Man (TV series)

Married at First Sight (TV series)