Less Than 2000

Does Willow on Disney Plus make you weep for humanity? Did the 2022 Willow TV series send you to the hospital with life threatening gas? If so, reclaim your childhood memories and rediscover w hy you loved the original on our debut episode of Season 4! Written and produced by George Lucas and directed by Ron Howard, starring Val Kilmer and Warwick Davis, Willow (1988) had a lot going for it. Adam...

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas! Thank you for joining us on our season (series??) finale. We give thanks to our guests, listeners and corporate overlords, then break down the best Christmas movie at all time staring Chevy Chase and Randy Quaid. Towards the end, join us for our first ever State of the Show where we make the decision whether or not to do Season 4 in 2023. You’ll be on the ed...

We cross you over like MJ by doing a joint podcast with friend and fellow podcaster, Chris Wolfe.  We joined his podcast and he joined ours for a dope collab about Grosse Pointe Blank, the John Cusack and Minnie Driver film from 1997.  With great performances by Dan Akroyd and Alan Arkin and a killer 80’s soundtrack, this coming-of-age action/romantic comedy is better than the movie poster would h...

In 1989, Konami released one of the most tubular four player beat-em-up ever to hit arcades.  It was totally radical!  Adam and Chad get into the comic books, the original NES game, the cartoon, the censorship in Europe, the NES arcade port, the 1990 movie, Pizza Hut product placement, and Chad playing with his action figures well into his late teens! Join us for this bodacious episode and please...

Special guest Andrew Kenney joins the show to talk about the best band in the entire universe: RUSH!  Because the Canadian rock band’s career spans five decades, we decided to focus on one glorious period: the 1980’s. The 80’s gave Rush their greatest successes, including The Spirit of Radio and Tom Sawyer, and witnessed the biggest change in their sound, going from 70’s prog rock to 80’s new wave...

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 t...

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.” < ’00 | an Art House Empire Production | a proud memb...

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 t...

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...

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...

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! < ’00 | an Art House Empire Production | a proud member of the HyperX podcast Networ...

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...

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...

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! < ’00 | an Art House Empire Production | a proud mem...

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. < ’00 | a...

In August 1994, the most important music festival of a generation took place on the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock.  Unlike the wretched 1999 version, Woodstock ’94 was three glorious days of peace, love and music.  You know it was a success when the worst thing that happened was just a lot of rain and mud!  Adam and Chad discuss how excited they were about the music festival that defi...

Youth speaker Mike Donahue joins the show to rap about Eminem – the highly polarizing and controversial figure who debuted in the late 90’s.  Was it all an act or was Marshall Mathers “keepin’ it real?”  Adam has some strong opinions.  Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? < ’00 | an Art House Empire Production | a proud member of the HyperX podcast Network | #LessThan2000 Support the show

Hey! Doesn’t twelve CDs for a penny sound like a good deal?!  It is until you have to buy a ton of albums at the “regular retail price” of almost twenty bucks, and if you don’t send ‘em back in time you get hit with late fees and lawsuits!  Adam and Chad discuss whether the BMG and Columbia House Music Clubs were a great way to build your music collection or a great way to ruin your credit. < ’...

Saddle up!  It’s time to go all the way back to 1974 to experience the landmark western satire by Mel Brooks and starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. < ’00 | an Art House Empire Production | a proud member of the HyperX podcast Network | #LessThan2000 Support the show

Prince made the second comeback of his illustrious career in the early 90’s with Diamonds & Pearls and the “Love Symbol” album.  With mega hits like Cream, Gett Off, Money Don’t Matter 2 Night, Sexy M.F., and 7, Prince reinvented and revitalized his career for a new generation… a New Power Generation!  There will never be another artist quite like the Artist Formerly Known as Prince. < ’00...

The boys kick off Season 3.5 by covering another new movie based on old I.P.!  Nothing says the early 90’s quite like Beavis & Butt-Head when Mike Judge’s creation took MTV and the world by storm.  They haven’t put out a feature film since 1996… so how does the new movie play in 2022?  Does it rule or does it suck??  Find out in this spoiler free review!   Go to Patreon for a longer discussion...

How about a bonus episode to kick off the summer?!  Adam and Chad give you the straight dope about whether you should go out and see Top Gun: Maverick.  Previous guest of the show Darren Deffley joins to add his thoughts.  Don’t worry, we won’t spoil it for ya!  Check us out FOR FREE on Patreon to hear this extended special episode complete WITH SPOILERS! Chad worked on this from the road and it w...

In the final episode before our summer hiatus, Adam’s Dad joins the show to analyze the crap out of the original Top Gun.  See where Adam gets his signature cynicism and trademark communication style!  Starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis and Val Kilmer, and directed by Tony Scott and co-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, with an iconic 80’s soundtrack with songs by Kenny Loggins and Berlin, there’s no...

In the early 90’s, Aerosmith embarked on their second comeback of their career.  Their new album, Get a Grip, was dead on arrival until they released a series of videos featuring future Clueless star Alicia Silverstone.  Then Steven Tyler took it to the next level by putting his daughter Liv on the pole!   Adam and Chad analyze Aerosmith’s “Alicia Silverstone Music Video Trilogy” with their film t...

This is the true story… of three people… picked to discuss a show… and have their conversation taped… to find out what happens… when peopled stop being polite… and start getting REAL. Reality TV fan Abbie Witherbee joins the show to discuss the first four seasons of MTV’s The Real World and how it changed entertainment forever. < ’00 | an Art House Empire Production | a proud member of the Hype...