Old Millennials Remember Movies

"Willow" definitely contributed to Angela's love of magic and the supernatural. She remembers many, many great moments from watching "Willow" as a kid. Meanwhile, Tyler kinda remembers a sledding scene. Maybe? This Willow podcast touches on ALL the memorable things from the somewhat-underappreciated Ron Howard fantasy adventure, including baby vomit, Brownies (not the delicious kind) and dirty Val...

Old Millennials Remember Movies celebrates the debut of Disney+ by watching the most popular and talked about movie on the entire platform: 1994's "Blank Check." Fun fact: This Blank Check podcast was always intended to be one of our first shows. It's a movie fondly remembered from both Tyler and Angela's childhood, and it's totally insane to watch as an adult. Why did we wait until episode 59? Be...

In this Dark Crystal Podcast, Old Millennials Remember Movies travels to the magical world of Gobblyglee... or Blabbitybloo to watch a story of an elf guy going on an epic adventure to fix a big purple crystal and stop some creepy, reptile ostrich doodads. Okay, so that's not exactly it, but if you didn't watch this movie as a kid, then it all could be a little overwhelming. Regardless, "The Dark...

In the second installment of the immensely successful  film series, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley must solve a mystery and not die, and they have to do it all with limited help from their ever-resourceful friend, Hermione Granger. Wait, what? A movie where Hermione has almost nothing to do? What the hell, J.K. Rowling?! Last November, Old Millennials Remember Movies covered the first "Harry Potter"...

In this Phantoms podcast, you'll definitely hear how Tyler loves Ben Affleck. And if you haven't heard, according to Jay from Jay and Silent Bob, Affleck was the BOMB in Phantoms, YO! Phantoms is a movie few people have seen. It bombed at the box office, despite the studio using the Oscar push for "Good Will Hunting" to sell Affleck and this cheesy monster flick from the mind of Dean Koontz, aka "...

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...

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...

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 gam...

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...

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 jok...

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 sce...

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 qualificat...

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 Pantolia...

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...

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 cl...

Most Samuel L. Jackson highlight reels lean hard on "Pulp Fiction" and his other Quentin Tarantino collaborations. But Jackson may deliver the most quips-per-frame in "The Long Kiss Goodnight," thanks in part to a Shane Black script and a stoic co-star in the form of Geena Davis. She plays a suburban mom with amnesia. Then she remembers she was a ruthless assassin. Ice, knives and a baby doll that...

Underground worm monsters and Kevin Bacon. Obviously, "Tremors" is awesome. The humor-horror combination is attempted often but rarely replicated. So how does it work so well? Practical effects, hilarious reaction shots and the discipline to never let the movie go TOO BIG with antics. Angela and Tyler discuss a classic, as well as how so many inferior movies try to be "Tremors" and "Ghostbusters"...

"Congo" is what our daughter's second grade teacher calls a "beautiful oops." Yes, it's totally wrong by every conceivable measure, but it's also spectacularly bizarre. This movie has EVERYTHING. Hungry hippos, heat-seeking missiles, hot air balloons, an erupting volcano, Michael Crichton terror-science, Bruce Campbell screaming, a Ghostbuster doing an Indiana Jones impression but with a British (...

Nobody who likes Godzilla likes "Godzilla," the mega-budget Hollywood monstrosity that made more money from its soundtrack than from box office returns. The guys behind "Independence Day" traded all their audience goodwill for a "fresh" new take on the famous movie titan, and by "fresh," we mean borrowing cool parts from "Jurassic Park" and making them infinitely shittier. More than 20 years later...

Fast cars. Cocky hotshots. A grizzled mentor. Flagrant sexual harassment. Mellow Yellow. The only things this manly, man's-man movie needs are Tim "the Tool Man" Taylor grunts and a literal pissing match (though there are plenty of figurative ones). Tom Cruise is Cole Trickle, a Racing God who doesn't know anything about cars. Nicole Kidman is playing an actual Australian, Robert Duvall speaks onl...

In 1985, Michael J. Fox became a huge movie star with "Back to the Future," which is seriously one of the greatest movies of all time. But we're not here to talk about that, no sir, not when something like "Teen Wolf" came out the same year! The movie needs little explanation... a werewolf plays on a high school basketball team. Really, do you need anything else in a movie? Are you not entertained...

"Small Soldiers" was going to be the next big thing... or that's what Burger King thought when they decided to do a big product tie-in with this humans vs. action figures comedy adventure. It was supposed to be "Gremlins" for the next generation, and they even hired Joe Dante to direct just to make sure that happened. It didn't happen. "Small Soldiers" is randomly violent but far too silly to be e...

I can show you a world that's shining, shimmering and splendid. A world where Disney already made a pretty good movie about Aladdin back in the early 1990s. Robin Williams voiced the Genie in an iconic role, and Disney Animation was showing (a few) signs of cultural and gender diversity. Okay, so it was still 1992, and "Aladdin" has some problematic messaging, but come on! It's a movie with 4 (FOU...

Am I the meanest? Am I the prettiest? Am I the baddest mofo low down around this town? Sho'Nuff! "The Last Dragon" is a dream of a movie - an absurd martial arts battle between the Shogun of Harlem (Sho Nuff!) and Leroy, a peace-seeking Bruce Lee fanatic in search of "The Glow." If that's not enough for you, then add a pop star in need of protection, a sassy little brother, a fortune cookie factor...

Imagine that you get a substandard haircut, and your imaginary friend says, "Got a stupid haircut! Ooh, look at my horrible stupid haircut! Looks just like her mother! Another little mega-bitch!" Or what about when you wear a cute purple dress, but your imaginary friend says, "It looks like a big BRUISE." If any of this sounds familiar, then you're probably Phoebe Cates in 1991's "Drop Dead Fred,"...