Old Millennials Remember Movies

On the swashbuckling finale of the Old Millennials Remember Movies SUMMER OF BRUCKHEIMER, co-hosts Tyler and Angela discuss the entirety of Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise. Yes, we know talking about Johnny Depp is a thorny issue these days, but thankfully, the charm, spectacle and weirdness of the "Pirates" franchise extends far beyond a single actor, and it's still fair to say the...

An asteroid the size of Texas that literally "roars" as it approaches Earth perfectly represents the over-the-top and punishing nature of Michael Bay's "Armageddon," a movie with about 1,000 action sequences, 10,000 one-liners and roughly 65 million cuts. No single shot lasts more than a second or so. It may not be a great movie, but it's definitely the MOST movie of the 1990s. "Armageddon" is a f...

Make a move and the bunny gets it! Holding a stuffed animal at gunpoint is just one of the many evil deeds committed by Cyrus the Virus in "Con Air," an R-rated action extravaganza that makes no sense but absolutely rules anyway. Cyrus the Virus is a swaggering supervillain played with gleeful panache by John Malkovich. Oh and did we mention a sweaty, long-haired, Southern drawlin' Nicolas Cage as...

"The Rock" asks the age-old question: Glass or plastic? Whether you want your VX-gas-riddled corpse stored in a glass jar or a plastic bag, Nicolas Cage's FBI science nerd Stanley Goodspeed will be there to analyze it. Sean Connery gets top-billing in Michael Bay's ridiculous, violent and super-fun action-adventure, but it's Cage's non-swearing accidental badass who steals "The Rock." Ed Harris is...

Maverick's ego is writing checks his body can't cash in "Top Gun," one of the most testosterone-fueled 80s movies of all-time. Guys with names like Cougar and Iceman and Merlin (Oh hai Tim Robbins) glare at each other and sweat a bunch. And the beach volleyball scene? Hoochie mama! Look at Tom Cruise rocking those jeans... in the sand! "Top Gun" is very much a Tony Scott movie with its yellow hues...

If you get room service delivered to your car while you're on a stakeout, chances are you're about to get a banana in your tailpipe. It's another masterful Eddie Murphy performance in the action-comedy "Beverly Hills Cop." Operating in a fairly standard cop procedural plot, Murphy elevates every scene as the impulsive, insubordinate and fast-talking Axel Foley. He's so awesome he gets his own kick...

Fire up the Sega Genesis and GET OVER HERE! It's "Mortal Kombat" from 1995, which is still better than 99 percent of all movies based on video games. What's the one percent that tops it, you ask? "Sonic the Hedgehog," obviously. Look, "Mortal Kombat" isn't spectacular by any stretch, and boy howdy, some of these performances would definitely qualify as career fatalities, but you've got to give dir...

Raptors speak! Kinda. "Jurassic Park III" gets a lot of grief for being silly, short and a little too far removed from the majesty and grandeur of the Steven Spielberg-directed efforts. But that's kinda why we like it! "Jurassic Park III" just wants to be a breezy thrill machine, and it will do whatever it takes to clock in at (almost) exactly 90 minutes. If that means we get a rushed, non-ending,...

If your friend gets sucked in a magical board game, keep playing. Don't make him live in a deadly jungle for 26 years. Long before The Rock got involved, "Jumanji" was a vehicle for the late, great Robin Williams at the peak of his movie stardom. Oddly, it takes a while for Williams to make an appearance here. We've got a scene in the 1800s, then an extended sequence in 1969. Then, when a grown Al...

Cage Match time. Abu the Monkey vs. Baloo the Bear. Slinky Dog vs. Bullseye. Flounder vs. Meeko. Timon vs. Pumba?! Such nerve-wrenching match-ups could happen in the 2021 edition of Old Millennials Remember Movies March Madness. Tyler and Angela work together to choose the BEST Disney Animation sidekick from the 80s, 90s and a pool of special "legacy" characters from older animation classics. The...

Mr. Anderson! It's the 100th episode of Old Millennials Remember Movies! For that special occasion, we're talking THREE movies... the groundbreaking science-fiction blockbuster, "The Matrix" from 1999 and its divisive sequels, "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions" from 2003. Old Millennials Tyler and Angela actually saw the sequels together back in 2003 (a first for this show - 100 ep...

Well would you look at this morose *expletive deleted* right here. Smells like someone *expletive deleted* in your cereal. It's important to remember just how well-received "Chasing Amy" was back in 1997. Writer/director Kevin Smith followed his breakthrough debut "Clerks" with the then-ignored "Mallrats." Smith scaled back for a relationship drama about Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck), a goober of a...

Well it's Groundhog Day... again. The Old Millennials tackle a genuine classic. The quintessential time loop movie features a never better Bill Murray as arrogant jerkstore weatherman Phil Connors, a man forced to relive the same day in Punxsutawney, Penn. He also becomes smitten with co-worker Andie MacDowell and... oh, what are we doing? Everybody knows the plot of "Groundhog Day," and everybody...

Hey quarantiners! It's been about a year (ish) since the Old Millennials stopped going to movie theaters, and it lines up with our annual tradition of recapping our favorite movies of the past year. Tyler managed to see about as many new movies as he usually does, but Angela couldn't keep pace while still fitting in full season binges of "Supernatural" and "INSERT SPOOKY MAGIC SERIES HERE." And so...

It's Sandy New Year! We continue a January tradition of viewing an Old Millennials-era Sandra Bullock movie. For 2021, we're putting on our best pageant gowns for "Miss Congeniality," the comedy where a dorky FBI agent must go undercover at a Miss America-style beauty pageant in order to stop a terrorist attack. Terrorists blowing up young women... apparently hilarious! Sandy Bullock is a good age...

Nature vs. nurture. Eddie Murphy vs. the establishment. Jamie Lee Curtis vs. shirts. "Trading Places," from John Landis, is one of the defining Murphy comedies of the 80s. Plus Dan Aykroyd is there doing a "rich" accent! You know the story: Two evil rich guys (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) orchestrate a bet in which down-on-his-luck Murphy gets thrust into an extravagant lifestyle. Meanwhile, Aykr...

Fa la la la la, la la la casual racism. Aside from the slight blemish at the end of the film, "A Christmas Story" remains a certifiable holiday classic, thanks in no small part to the film's annual Christmas Day marathon on TBS. The story of Ralphie and his quest to obtain a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas is filled with setbacks and failures. Every adult thinks he'll shoot his eye out, and, after...

We break all the rules with this holiday episode of Old Millennials Remember Movies. The beloved television special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" isn't a movie, and it didn't come out in the 80s or 90s. Nevertheless, the Rankin/Bass stop-motion animated special was a formative experience for children of many generations. It still gets played every year, and one Old Millennials host can't go a C...

Here's an idea: Have a point! It makes it so much more interesting for the listener. Those famous, cruel words in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" aren't always taken to heart on a typical episode of Old Millennials Remember Movies, but for the sake of this John Hughes comedy classic, we'll give it a try this time. While there aren't many "Thanksgiving classics" out there, "Planes, Trains and Auto...

Expecto patronum! Expelliarmus! Exfoliate-ess! Journey back to Hogwarts and the early stages of puberty with "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," the third installment in the J.K. Rowling-inspired movie franchise. It's time to get SERIOUS in Harry Land thanks to director Alfonso Cuaron, hot off that other popular children's franchise, "Y Tu Mama, Tambien." Yes, the future multi-Oscar winner...

This is Halloween... or this is Christmas... or when are we supposed to watch "The Nightmare Before Christmas" every year? The short answer, of course, is anytime, as the Henry Selick-directed stop-motion animated musical has become a certifiable classic. People love this movie, especially people who buy all their clothes at Hot Topic. It's a pretty great story about how a ghoul (Jack Skellington)...

So many heads roll in "Sleepy Hollow," Tim Burton's gory, uber-Gothic blockbuster based on the classic Washington Irving story. This movie goes big with cartoonish spurts of blood, spinal stumps, a bombastic Danny Elfman score and an undead ax murderer in search of Christopher Walken's head. Travel all the way back to a time when an unusual Johnny Depp performance would be a box office asset and m...

"They do what they wanna do, say what they wanna say, live how they wanna live, play what they wanna play, dance how they wanna dance, kick and they slap a friend, The Addams Family!" Yes, MC Hammer provides the soundtrack to the live-action, big screen update of "The Addams Family." If anything, it's Cousin Itt's go-to jam while rolling around in that sweet ITT-Mobile. The 1991 film, directed by...

Yikes. There's no way to justify all that's wrong with the Josie Grossie - Alias Afterthought student-teacher relationship in this Drew Barrymore "romance."

Life moves pretty fast. Just not the middle section of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Okay, so that was a bit of a cheap shot. By many accounts, this John Hughes classic deserves its place as one of the most enduring comedies of the 1980s, despite a few questionable narrative pit stops in the movie's middle-act travelogue of Chicago. Matthew Broderick's character is in the title, but he may actually...