Ruining Our Childhood

Its the 2nd week of our RomCom-tastic Valentine's Day Celebration...yes Ryan named this one as well. This week we rewatch 2005's Fever Pitch starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon. Ashley recalls the horrific tale of seeing this movie in theaters.  We discuss how its still weird that the wardrobe from this movie could look dated (why so many layers Jimmy?) because this movie is not that old, oh wait, it's 15 YEARS OLD?  We make a lot of comparisons to last week's movie The Wedding Planner and question how Lindsey (Barrymore) had never heard of the Curse of the Bambino. As always, we hand out our coveted awards to the best and worst and decide if this romcom holds up.

We are back after surviving the plague with a brand new episode. This week we rewatch the romantic comedy classic, The Wedding Planner starring Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey.  One of Ashley's picks for our Valentine's Day celebration because to a 14 year old Ashley, Jennifer Lopez was everything.  We discuss how this movie breaks a couple of the romcom rules and whether we believe Dr. Steve when he said that he "just liked going to movies."  We disagree during the award segment (not a lot, but Ryan did demand that Ashley change her award at one point.) Of course, we answer the question Does this movie hold up to our adult standards?  Listen now to find out!

This week was supposed to be a film that we loved in our youth, Homeward Bound. We were once again tricked by Disney Plus and this childhood classic is not available until May. So we decided to start our celebration of Valentine's Day early with the comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall.  We discuss all the cameos of funny people we forgot were in the movie.  We talk about some of the late 2000 references including a once favorite reality show.  As always we award our best and worst and decide if this film holds up to our adult standards.

To celebrate Christmas we rewatch the original Die Hard in all its glory.  The action cult classic that is up for endless debate of whether it is an actual Christmas movie.  We name all our favorite cameos from the film and do our best (but horrible) Snape as Hans Gruber impressions. We discuss the number one douchebag Ellis and talk about John McClane's wondering eye.   As always we award our best and worst actors and decide if this film holds up to our adult standards.  Don't forget to go check out our Instagram for our Holiday contest where you could win a t shirt. Happy Holidays friends!

It's a week before Christmas, so we thought we would do a football movie?  We both decided that we rewatch too many Christmas "classics" every year to fairly judge them for this podcast. So this week we decided to watch a one of the best 90's teen sports films (because honestly there really isn't a lot of choices.)  Ryan discusses how the Coach's behavior in this film is horrible, but slightly accurate to real coach's before in the past.  We discuss the toxic relationship between the fathers and sons depicted in this film and we cringe with everything that comes with the character of Tweeter.  As always we decide if this film holds up to our adult standards.

This week we rewatch another childhood "classic" that is actually available on Disney Plus (unlike last week).  The 1989 film that apparently was a huge success for Disney. We reminisce about all the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids attractions at DisneyWorld that no longer exist.  We discuss how the movies use of sets instead of all green screen was definitely a good call. We also chat about our favorite Christmas movie traditions. Also we announce our choice of movie to celebrate Ruining Our Childhood's first Christmas episode!  As always we award the best and the worst and decide if Honey, I Shrunk the Kids holds up to our adult standards.

In celebration of Disney Plus launching, we decided to watch the 1995 classic, The Big Green. A movie that we thought was available on the new app. To our disappointment, The Big Green is one of the many titles that will not be available on Disney Plus until sometime next year.  So we had to rent it, because we are stubborn and didn't want to change the movie.  In this episode we discuss how depressing this movie is at times and why kids loved Pizza Hut so much.  We also give our two cents on even more celebrities trying to blame superhero movies for the current state of the movie industry.  As always we award or worst and best for this 90's film and decide if it holds up to our adult standards!

This week we hit the action genre again with none other than a James Bond film.  The 1999 "classic" The World Is Not Enough starring Pierce Brosnan.  We discuss who we think is the best Bond and speculate on the future of the franchise. We get excited about some of the "Well Hello There" cameos in this film and not just because a Ruining Our Childhood favorite makes another appearance. (If you have listened to our Gone in 60 Seconds episode, you will know this one!)  As always we hand out the awards for the best and brightest of this film along with our worst and dimmest and decide if this Bond film holds up to our adult standards.  While you're reading this, why not check out our social media, and let us know who you think the best Bond is and who could be the future of Bond films after Daniel Craig.

To celebrate Ryan's birthday, we rewatch one of his all time childhood faves, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. This 1994 "classic" starring Jim Carrey and Courtney Cox.  Ryan talks about his VHS copy of the movie and we get on a tangent about other movies we watched this past week. We question the logistics of Ray Finkle's career as a police officer and how Ace never got in trouble for hitting two police officers with his car.  As always, we award our favorites and not so favorites and decide if this comedy holds up to our adult standards.

On this very special episode of Ruining Our Childhood,  Ashley's brother and sister in law join in on our rewatch of 2002's Orange County.  Listen as we struggle to record with only two mics and four people! (Have fun adjusting your volume guys!)  In this episode we reminisce about the concept of video stores and all the California bands that are jammed into this film's soundtrack. We list some amazing cameos in our "Well Hello There" category and Rupert chimes in because there is never enough background noise in this podcast!  As always we award our favorites and not so favorites and decide if this early 2000's "classic" holds up to our adult standards.