Old Millennials Remember Movies

YOU WANT MY BLOOD?! TAKE IT! TAKE MY BLOOD! Samuel L. Jackson delivers a bunch of great lines in "The Negotiator," one of the surprisingly few mainstream movies where the Man gets true top billing. Sam Jackson is a national treasure, and come to think of it, we'd love to see Nic Cage and Sammy J. run around a "National Treasure" sequel. In most ways, "The Negotiator" is a pretty standard hostage s...

Do you like kids on bikes doing sweet jumps!? What about Aunt Becky (pre-"Full House" and pre-pre college admissions scandal) performing THE quintessential prom dance/sl0-mo bicycle stunt/bicycle posing sequence of the 20th century? How about sassy kid sisters who tell jerkfaces to "GET OUTTA TOWN, JACK!"? Still not enough for you? Fine, then here's a stunt track featuring a giant cereal bowl of K...

Leeloo Dallas Multipass! Pack your bags for Fhloston Paradise and get ready for "The Fifth Element," a very weird, very French science-fiction adventure. It's endlessly re-watchable, thanks to its constantly evolving plot, strange side characters and Gary Oldman having an intense telephone conversation with a giant evil blob. Oh, did we mention his hair? And the "Texas" accent? Milla Jovovich righ...

Get ready for the youth soccer edition of Old Millennials Remember Movies! Okay, disclaimer: Hosts Angela and Tyler don't really like soccer, and they really don't know why they decided to watch these little-seen soccer movies from the 90s. "The Big Green" is your standard live-action Disney sports comedy - think "The Mighty Ducks" only less good. Steve Guttenberg is here as a small-town sheriff w...

Note to self: Resist the urge to start this post with "Hey, you guys!" Don't do it. That's so lame. Every podcast about "The Goonies" probably starts with "Hey, you guys!" Or at least the lame podcasts do. Ah, screw it. Hey, you guys! It's the Old Millennials Remember Movies episode on the 80s classic, "The Goonies." "The Goonies" is beloved by many Old Millennials. In fact, co-host Angela has a c...

The 80s-era John Cusack movie nobody talks about, "One Crazy Summer" is ONE. CRAZY. MOVIE. Something insane happens every minute of this 1986 screwball teen comedy, about a wannabe artist named Hoops McCann (he's actually bad at basketball) who heads to Nantucket for summer vacation with his friend George CALAMARI. Other names in this movie include Egg Stork, Ack-Ack, Squid, Cookie and Stain. I su...

By Grabthar's Hammer, what a savings! "Galaxy Quest" was well-reviewed back in 1999, but it only found moderate success at the box office. The PG rating suggested it was a kid's movie, but the humor spoke more to a generation that appreciated the world of "Star Trek" and retro science-fiction. Luckily, the following for "Galaxy Quest" has only grown over the years, with many now placing it alongsi...

Is there a better name in American cinema than Johnny Utah? No. In the 90s action classic, "Point Break," Keanu Reeves plays the legendary undercover FBI agent who is first described as "young, dumb and full of..." well, it's kinda gross honestly, but it's an accurate description. Johnny poses as a surfer to learn more about an elite squad of bank robbers (fellow cop Gary Busey figures out they're...

"Listen you little wiseacre. I'm smart; you're dumb. I'm big; you're little. I'm right; you're wrong. And there's nothing you can do about it." - Parents to their kids during the 2020 quarantine. Actually, that's a Danny DeVito rant from "Matilda," a charming movie adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's book. Most of the adults in this movie are just awful to poor little Matilda, an adorable six-...

Have you ever read "Stuart Little," the classic children's book by E.B. White? It's... not how you remember it. Let's just be honest here: "Charlotte's Web" is E.B. White's masterpiece. "Stuart Little" is weird. Old Millennials Remember Movies host Angela Yoshiko discusses reading the book to her children recently, and why the kids thought it was totally stupid. Truthfully, the Old Millennials don...

If a "wise" old Golden Retriever tells you to leave the ranch and venture into the wilderness, don't listen to him. He's stupid. "Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey" is a Disney remake of the 1963 animal adventure, itself based on a book. But who cares about all that? This one has Marty McFly voicing a rambunctious dog who spouts pop culture references with reckless abandon. Look, we love this...

If Disney remakes don't scare you, no evil thing will. Years before Disney went bananas with live-action remakes of their animated classics, the Mouse House recruited Glenn Close and a bunch of dogs to update the 1961 classic about a nice old lady who just wants to own a nice coat. Okay, so she wants the coat made out of dalmatian puppy fur, so doggy parents Pongo and Perdita must recruit a small...

With almost the entire world under some form of quarantine, the people watched "Tiger King." The insane Netflix documentary series inspired the Old Millennials to seek out the craziest BIG CAT movie of all time - the little-seen adventure film, "ROAR" from 1981. The movie, directed by and starring a crazy guy named Noel Marshall, didn't get an official release in the United States until Drafthouse...

The real March Madness 2020 got cancelled, so the Old Millennials Remember Movies crew is pitting 32 sports (and sorta-sports) movies from the 80s, 90s and early 00s against each other! Tyler and Angela make their bracket picks and try to predict each other's Final Four. We were both in for a few surprises. The competition began with four brackets of eight films each. Bracket #1 - Past episodes of...

There are many things you could say about James Cameron, but there's one thing we keep thinking - That dude is crazy. "The Abyss" is a monumental achievement in live-action adventure filmmaking. Filled with one stunning underwater sequence after another, the film remains a landmark in physical stunt work and the kinds of things that can be achieved "in-camera." Oddly enough, "The Abyss" is also ci...

Take a portal to the other side of the universe with the Old Millennials gang as they try to remember "Stargate," a forgettable wannabe blockbuster that technically inspired the far-more-popular TV series. Join James Spader as SCIENCE NERD and Kurt Russell as TOUGH GUY as they discover the secrets of a mysterious alien wormhole. The Stargate traverses the known universe, connecting Egypt on Earth...

Hey Mr. Wilson! This 90s update of the popular comic/cartoon isn't half bad! Writer John Hughes continued to draw from the "Home Alone" well with more kid vs. bad guy pranks. Yes, "Dennis the Menace" has a bad guy that isn't neighbor-next-door George Wilson. This movie has "Switchblade Sam," a totally creepy and marginally inappropriate bad guy for a PG-kids movie, but he's played by the always co...

Whatcha gonna do? Watch all three "Bad Boys" movies, that's what. What a long, strange road it's been for Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett, two Miami detectives who trade barbs, look cool in slow-motion and kill piles and piles of bad guys. They also kill a bunch of innocent poor people with a humvee in "Bad Boys II," because ACTION! In 1995, director Michael Bay wasn't yet known for his Bayhem, and...

Everybody else in the movie world talked about their favorite movies from 2019, so why not the crew from Old Millennials Remember Movies? We’re not just experts in 80s and 90s movies, we’re experts in liking many of the movies other people liked this year! Tyler has been making Top 10 lists for most of his adult life. Angela doesn’t like ranking things, but she’s committed to the cause. She create...

The 1994 version of “Little Women” is a perfectly competent adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott classic story. Winona Ryder headlines a solid cast as Jo March, and Christian Bale proves he was a solid dreamboat in his formative years. Eric Stoltz a little less so, but hey, he’s trying. Yes, 1994 “Little Women” is just dandy, but then Greta Gerwig decided to make a GD masterpiece with her 2019 vers...

What else could possibly be said about "Star Wars" that hasn't been said before? The answer is: Probably nothing! But Tyler and Angela will try in a discussion on "Return of the Jedi" and how it connects to the most recent "Star Wars" installment, "The Rise of Skywalker." Look, "Star Wars" movies have been messy for a long time now, and "Return of the Jedi" proves just how hard it can be to bring...

Join us in this "While You Were Sleeping" podcast and have yourself a Sandy New Year! America’s Sweetheart Sandra Bullock stars in “While You Were Sleeping” as a lonely woman who saves a handsome stranger from getting hit by a train, then pretends to be engaged to the guy after he falls into a coma. That’s creepy! But it’s Sandy Bullock, so it’s also charming and adorable. “While You Were Sleeping...

Merry Christmas ya filthy animal! Again! Yes, "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" retreads almost every memorable thing from the original holiday classic, just in a different location. Plus Tim Curry! The McCallister family is back again, including Cheapskate Uncle Frank, future felon Buzz and, of course, Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister. Rather than being left home alone, Kevin follows the wrong...

Sad Affleck. Mad Affleck. Ice cold, chilly Affleck. Affleck in a cowboy hat (again). Affleck Butt. Santa Affleck. In "Reindeer Games," Ben Affleck is many things, and it's all totally baffling. You'd be forgiven for forgetting all about "Reindeer Games," the Christmas-set thriller that released in theaters in February (!) 2000. It's directed by a legendary filmmaker, John Frankenheimer, at the tai...

It's Christmas Time with MORE POWER! Grunt, grunt, grunt! Back in 1994, before he became the voice of Buzz Lightyear, Tim Allen was a comedian and star of one of the most popular sitcoms of all time, "Last Man Stand..." err "Home Improvement." "The Santa Clause" propelled Allen into an even bigger spotlight, becoming one of Disney's go-to personalities. Movies like "Jungle 2 Jungle" and "The Shagg...