Movielife Crisis: Recent Episodes
Movielife Crisis
A re-watch show for movies that came out 30 years ago, from two guys who loved movies in 1992 and still do in 2022. Come along with us as we re-live the 90s one film at a time!
John Travolta month continues with Broken Arrow, where he faces/off (get it?) against Christian Slater over some thermonuclear warheads. John Woo (WOOOOO!) directs, featuring Samantha Mathis, Howie Long, Delroy Lindo, and some other folks.
Something like a phenomenon.....no, wait, that's different. This is John Travolta playing an angel. No, wait, that's another 1996 movie. THIS one is John Travolta as a super genius in a small town with Kyra Sedgwick and Forrest Whittaker and Robert Duvall.
Seriously it's kinda good.
Welcome to Earth! We've got the biggest movie of 1996, a cross between Top Gun, Alien, and Mad Max, featuring Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Mary McDonnell, Vivica A. Fox, and way more.
GIVE ME BACK MY SON!
Ok, Mel Gibson, we get it. Anyone else realize this and Payback are different movies?
Hey, you. Guy behind the guy? Get over here and talk about Swingers with us, because our baby's all growns up and he's all growns up.
What do you get when you combine Harold Ramis, Andie MacDowell, Eugene Levy, and four Michael Keatons? One of the most underrated and quotable comedies of the greatest comedy decade for movies. Or maybe that's just us. Also, did you know what Michael Keaton's real name is?
Welcome to The Rock!
An iconic 90s action movie from the maestro responsible for Bad Boys, Armageddon, Transformers: Michael Bay. With Nic Cage, Sean Connery, Ed Harris, and about a jillion other people.
Tim Burton and every 90s actor spoof 50s scifi films. Our host, zencastr, keeps eating these as I type them and now I'm too tired to make it interesting again.
Today we break down the most iconic 12 in fictional golf movies with writer/director Ron Shelton (Tin Cup, Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump). We learn how this is secretly a western, how Costner didn't want to do it, and how much of it is based on a real PGA pro who's actually in the movie!
Want to do heroin like a pro? Want to see lots of fecal matter flung about? Love thick scottish accents? THIS IS THE FILM FOR YOU.
The revolutionary and actually kinda amazingly well made movie is this week on Movielife Crisis. We don't know why either.
Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, with Hank Azaria and Calista Flockhart coming at you from The Birdcage.
A wildly fun 90s comedy from the comedy duo Nichols and May that is still shockingly relevant today. This description is short and not good because zencastr failed 3x so I've re-written it a bunch and now I'm tired.
It's '96's top dark comedy from some of the funniest people in Hollywood. Jim Carrey, Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, Jack Black, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Janeane Garofalo, David Cross, and more!
And yet it's mysteriously not that funny somehow. Come help us figure out how that happened!
An all-time underrated Rom Com from two of the greats: George "ER" Clooney and Michelle "Catwoman" Pfeiffer. This movie is beautifully written and directed and hits extra hard if you've got young kids, because those little a-holes will really jam up your free time. 😂
Geena Davis (Chefs do that!) with Samuel L. Jackson in the action/spy/thriller/comedy from Shane Black (Lethal Weapon) and Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2).
Incredible dialogue and soundtrack from this nearly forgotten 90s movie, plus a weirdly complicated plot.
Larry Miller, Jada Pinkett, and seven Eddie Murphys + the director of Ace Ventura equals the biggest comedy of 1996.
Sit down, Jerry Lewis, it's Eddie Murphy. Hercules, Hercules, Hercules!
Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, and an incredible ensemble cast including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cary Elwes, Alan Ruck, and more.
The movie that put flying CGI cows on the map, from the director of Speed (Jan De Bont). It's '96, let's go.
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Awards season is upon us. Best movies, top performances, most memorable music and quotes upon quotes. Plus ill-fitting sports jackets (video viewers know), and a quick '96 preview!
Happy holidays from Jeff and JT and congrats to us for five years of 90s movies!
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Goofy, Max, and Tevin Campbell help us close out 1995 movies with this 78 minute animated music video from Disney Animation.
Is it a timeless classic with incredible songs? I mean, nah. But it's still pretty fun. Plus announcements and '96 coming real soon!
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Remember when Gene Hackman, John Travolta, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, James Gandolfini, Delroy Lindo, and about 15 more great actors all got together with Barry Sonnenfeld directing and did a wildly fun gangster action comedy that was funny and meta as heck?
We didn't either. But here it is -- Get Shorty!
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Come see David Fincher film Brad Pitt as he transitions from outdoors long-haired Brad Pitt to gritty beat up indoors Brad Pitt. Pitt and Morgan Freeman do a terrible Lethal Weapon ripoff as detectives who are getting too old for this shit.
Also at the end Kevin Spacey masterminds the world's grossest unboxing video, featuring Gwyneth Paltrow.
But for real, it's Seven, and it's awesome and dark and weird as s***.
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Disney's 1995 animated musical: Pocahontas!
Is it historically accurate? No.
Is it entertaining? Meh.
But, does it at least have great songs????? Also no. Or maybe. You decide -- we can't agree.
One thing we can all agree it has is Mel Gibson, to our complete surprise. And if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll find things you never knew you never knew.
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Scorsese, De Niro, Pesci, Sharon Stone, Las Vegas + Mafia. If you like these things and have LOTS of time to spare, this is the movie for you! Stone gets an Oscar nod for this role, the soundtrack is incredible, the outfits are next level, and yet still I'm not sure about it.
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To infinity, and… back to 1995. Pixar changed the game forever with Toy Story, the first feature-length computer-animated movie, and somehow it still feels like magic. Toy Story wasn’t just a kids’ movie; it was a cultural reset. Join us as we dig into the nostalgia, the behind-the-scenes chaos, and the wild fact that none of us ever looked at our toys the same way again.
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Well, howdy partner, and welcome in to the review of Sam Raimi’s gloriously weird western, The Quick and the Dead. Sharon Stone struts into town in a leather duster and an I'm Batman speaking voice, Leonardo DiCaprio is playing “Kid” before he was The Kid, Gene Hackman is Lex Luthor in a duster, and Russell Crowe is inexplicably a pacifist preacher with a deadly draw.
This movie is part spaghetti western, part comic-book splash page, and all Raimi—complete with crash zooms, Dutch angles, and a camera shot that literally goes through a bullet hole. We’ll talk about how Sharon Stone hand-picked her co-stars (and gave DiCaprio his big break), why the duels feel like Mortal Kombat fatalities, and how this flick deserves way more love than it got back in the day.
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This week we dust off a time capsule that tried to sell McDonald’s as family therapy: Bye Bye Love. Paul Reiser, Matthew Modine, and Randy Quaid are three divorced dads trying to figure out how to date, parent, and survive suburbia in a world where every kid’s soccer practice ends in a Quarter Pounder. Also: Janeane Garofalo steals the whole movie in like 7 minutes.
How can a movie this good (to us) be this impossible to find in the modern internet, and can we do anything to bring it back?
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Another of those rare instances where Jeff and JT agree with the Academy of Motion Pictures, we're on Braveheart this episode. Mel Gibson swings a sword, makes speeches, and somehow wears both a kilt and face paint, in defiance of all actual historical records. We talk its big Best Picture Oscar win, James Horner’s score that still gives us goosebumps, questionable history, and battle scenes that absolutely still slap. Was it as good as we remembered, or were we just teenagers hopped up on bagpipes and adrenaline?
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Holy schnikes! The guys fire up the Callahan brake pad factory for a deep dive into Tommy Boy, the 1995 buddy comedy that made Chris Farley a legend and confirmed David Spade's status as the ultimate sarcastic friend.
How did this movie that shouldn't have happened and almost didn't end up being one of the most memorable and quotable 90s comedies? And where would Farley have ended up in the pantheon of SNL movie stars if he hadn't ODed at age 33? Brake pads not guaranteed, but laughs are.
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Hey folks, in this episode, we’re taking a trip back to 1995 with "Money Train," featuring the dynamic duo of Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. Remember those days of long-distance charges and calling cards? We sure do, and we're diving into all the nostalgia. Join us as we chat about the film's plot, the unforgettable scenes, and the unique world of transit cops. We’ll share some laughs, personal stories, and our take on why this movie is a classic in the buddy cop genre. So grab your popcorn and hop on board for a fun ride through 90s cinema!
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As if! We're heading back to 1995 Beverly Hills where the cell phones are worn on a gold chain, the outfits are iconic, and the teen slang is totally delightful. This week, we’re diving into Amy Heckerling’s genre-defining classic, Clueless. It's the film that gave us Paul Rudd as everyone's forever crush, taught us how to use “sporadically” in a sentence, and somehow made traffic school charming.
We break down Alicia Silverstone’s star turn as Cher Horowitz: high school queen, matchmaking hobbyist, and the most lovable airhead with a heart of gold since... well, ever. Also, step-sibling incest: cancel, or just weird? So dust off your plaid skirts, log off AOL, and roll with the homies—it's Clueless time.
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Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are on the case—and so are we. This week, we’re diving into the 1995 action-comedy that launched Will Smith and Martin Lawrence into blockbuster stardom and taught a generation the value of slow-motion explosions. We talk Bayhem before it had a name, buddy cop tropes at full volume, and the weirdly electric chemistry between two guys just yelling at each other for two straight hours. Plus: a very 90s soundtrack, Tea Leoni’s underrated performance, and the eternal question—what IS Mike Lowrey’s actual job?
Come for the nostalgia, stay for the hot takes, and remember: “That’s how you drive! That’s how you drive!”
Michael Bay's feature debut, Will Smith's intro to movie-stardom, and Simpson and Bruckheimer's golden hour run continues this week on Movielife Crisis.
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Veronica Vaughn, so hot. Want to touch the hiney!
Come with us as we determine if that was a brilliant quote or if we all just thought that because we were teenagers.
Adam Sandler, Bradley Whitford, Bridgette Wilson (not yet Sampras), and memorable bit parts from Norm MacDonald and Chris Farley.
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The weirdest, most fun Die Hard is also the highest grossing movie of 1995, and here we go.
Bruce Willis with Samuel L Jackson and Jeremy Irons as the best villain in ages.
Did you know this wasn't supposed to be a Die Hard movie?
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What we have here is a failure to communicate!
Damon Wayans' epic masterpiece of a military ensemble comedy is finally here, and our quotes section has been really gearing up for it.
Hillary Banks/Karyn Parsons is here as well + did you know this is a remake of a Charlton Heston movie from 1955?
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Is it yet another culk classic teen coming-of-age ensemble comedy with a great GenX soundtrack? Yes, it is.
Is it Rex Manning Day? Yes, it is.
Are Liv Tyler and Renee Zellwegger in it? Yes.
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Does Kevin Costner's most-expensive-movie-of-all-time live up to the not-hype? It was panned upon release and needed huge international numbers to break even, but honestly it's gotten a bad rap. It's not great, but it is really interesting and even awesome in spots. Dennis Hopper and Jeanine Tripplehorn and even a quick appearance from young Jack Black.
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Who can forget that classic Sandra Bullock vehicle from '95, The Net. Where she's a hacker with a heart of gold who then goes on the run with the help of her friend/former lover/former therapist Dennis Miller while being chased by a dark and dangerous group who wants to secretly take over the world?
Yeah, that one. Did she or did she not have bangs throughout the movie, and why can't Jeff crank an outboard motor on an inflatable dinghy?
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Who is Keyser Soze?
Kevin Spacey (Academy Award win for this role), Gabriel Bryne, Benecio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Stephen Baldwin all work together while Chazz Palminteri tries to bust them. From director Bryan Singer and writer Christopher McQuarrie (Academy Award win for this script).
I mean, what do you say about this incredible heist thriller? It's an all timer.
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From the brilliant minds of young Ice Cube and DJ Pooh, this genre-establishing comedy about one single day in the hood of South Central LA is still wildly funny and relevant.
Introducing Chris Tucker, and with John Witherspoon, Regina King, Bernie Mac, Faison Love, and so many more.
Did this movie briefly conquer racism in 1995? Listen and find out.
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Did we predict 2020 in 1995? And we I mean Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Donald Sutherland.
Listen this week to find out! Plus, movie ticket inflation and where Friends is like Outbreak....
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We've entered the Joel Schumacher Bat-Era, featuring Val Kilmer's one and only turn as the Caped Crusader. Also Nicole Kidman, Jim Carrey and his real-life nemesis Tommy Lee Jones, plus Drew Barrymore and our first appearance from Robin, aka Chris O'Donnell.
Additionally, bat nipples.
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Snoochie bootchie, b****es! Off the indie success of Clerks, Universal (Gramercy, actually, a joint venture) gave Kevin Smith 6 million bucks to make his next movie. How'd that work out? Well, we loved it at least. Jason Lee, Jeremy London, Claire Forlani, Joey Lauren Adams, Shannon Doherty, Ben Affleck, and obviously featuring both Jay and Silent Bob.
Does anyone in their 20s now know what a mall even is?
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1995 Season is here and we're bringing the HEAT with Episode 1. Michael Mann's epic crime heist drama and action extravaganza with an all-star ensemble cast that you wouldn't believe us if we told you. Pacino. De Niro. Kilmer.
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Yeah, it is awards season on Movielife Crisis, here in the taint part of 2024. Our top performances, scores, movies, and more from our 1994 movie season!
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Take a bow, Madonna sings a song at the end of this movie. And who doesn't love Brendan Fraser and Joe Pesci together! With Moira Kelly, McDreamy, and that other dude from the thing?
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Run, Forrest, Run!
What is the 90s without this movie? This is one of the most quotable, most enjoyable, and most memorable movies of the entire decade, much less 1994.
It also made nearly 700 million dollars and basically swept the Oscars.
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Turns out Stephen King books don't all feature scary clowns. In fact this one has zero clowns, but instead has incredible performances by Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, and others as well.
Is it the best movie of 1994? The best King adaptation?
Tune in to find out, this week on Movielife Crisis!
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The classic Gen X movie for us middle-aged slackers everywhere, Reality Bites is finally here! Starring Ethan Hawke, Winona Ryder, Janeane Garofolo, Steve Zahn, and directed by Ben Stiller. Plus the soundtrack is great!
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Anyone else remember the '94 movie where Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson have sex in a moving car? This is it.
Also Henry Rollins, Josh Mostel, written and directed by Adam Rifkin.
It's entirely gone from the legal corners of the internet, so join us as we discuss!
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Tom Cruise, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas, and introducing Kirsten Dunst, in the 4th movie in the saga of Brad Pitt's long hair: Interview With The Vampire.
Based on the insanely popular Anne Rice book series and spanning nearly 200 years of "history", Jeff and JT struggle to figure out why this movie was popular. Maybe you can help us (please help us).
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What's James Cameron up to between Terminator 2 and Titanic, I wonder? Oh, right, this massive action-comedy hit with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Also Tom Arnold throwing heat as the funny sidekick, Charlton Heston with an eyepatch, and exploding helicopters everywhere!
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A Coen Brothers movie (Fargo, Big Lebowski, Oh Brother Where Are Thou?) starring Tim Robbins and Paul Newman -- is it the weirdest movie of the year or does Pulp Fiction take that title?
The important thing is that it's incredibly beautifully designed and shot, and also did we mention it's weird af?
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Double D Squad reporting for duty! Danny DeVito, Mark Wahlberg (in his first movie), Stacey Dash, Gregory Hines, in a Penny Marshall film. Also we get a chance to talk to the writer of the movie, Jim Burnstein, who tells us how Penny Marshall got involved, why he's scared of Danny DeVito, and why the movie didn't make more money.
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The long-awaited sequel to A River Runs Through It (🧢) is finally here. Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins teach us everything there is to know about how not to parent, and Jeff gets frustrated with life before AC and hair conditioner.
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Meg Ryan as Einstein's (fictional) niece, Tim Robbins as her mechanic-turned-fake-physicist suitor, and Walter Matthau as Einstein in this '94 RomCom.
Some memorable quotes, excellent performances, and Matthau-as-Einstein....
Yep, that happened.
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The sequel to our very first podcast episode (og City Slickers, from 1991) is finally here! The gang is back, but with Jon Lovitz. Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, with a script from Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel.
Does it hold up? Come and see. Also learn about inflation as it relates to Vegas buffets.
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Here we go! Biggest movie of the year and biggest animated film of all time (at the time of release)!
It's bambi with lions crossed with Hamlet. Y'all know the drill. We sing, we dance, after all, this is France.
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Pop quiz, hotshot -- what was the Oscar-nominated movie about quiz shows starring Ralph Fiennes and directed by Robert Redford?
Shoutout also to our man John Turturro, who is always great!
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How have we only done one Jean Claude Van Damme movie in 4 seasons?!
Also, can he still do the splits?
This and more on this episode....
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Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and Dennis Hopper coming at you in 1994's classic action movie about a bus that have to drive a certain speed or else...you know the joke.
Also Alan Ruck, Jeff Daniels, and Joe Morgan!
Is it the best action movie of the year? Decade? OUR LIVES?! Tune in and see.
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The inaugural Kevin Smith movie, the darling of Sundance, the indie film sensation, is finally upon us!
Clerks. And yes, your kids shouldn't listen to this episode.
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The final episode of Jim Carrey month is here, and it's our favorite movie of the 3 he released in 1994 -- Dumb and Dumber! Jeff Daniels, Lauren, Holly, the Farrelly brothers, and also the John Hughes connection we never knew about....
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Alllllllrighty then, it's movie 2 in Jim Carrey Month: Ace Ventura.
He's a pet detective. Hired to rescue the missing dolphin mascot of the Miami Dolphins. And Dan Marino is there.
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We begin Jim Carrey Month here at Movielife Crisis with the surprise hit, The Mask.
Other than wild FX and the first appearance on screen from Cameron Diaz, is there anything noteworthy about it?
Well, yeah! Richard Jeni!
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Shaq! Penny Hardaway! Nick Nolte! Or is it Gary Busey? We can never 100% tell.
From writer Ron Shelton (White Men Can't Jump and Bull Durham), we've got the classic college basketball recruiting movie. Does it still matter? Listen and find out!
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Tom Hanks in the performance that won him his first Best Actor Oscar, and the only movie in existence starring both Hanks and Denzel Washington. Directed by Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs), and also featuring Antonio Banderas and Mary Steenburgen.
Did it release in '93 or '94?
Is it still great or is it actually kinda boring?
These questions and more answered by Jeff and JT within!
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Welcome back to Major League baseball (kinda)! In the words of Bob Uecker movielifecrisis is best and so are baseball movies that may or may not be good still.
Spoiler alert: it is still good. Charlie Sheen's sleek, 90s apartment. Tom Berenger's gimp knee. Uncredited Randy Quaid stealing crowd scenes. Bob Uecker in the booth bringing heat. Omar Epps playing Wesley Snipes playing Willie Mays Hayes. And so, so, so much more!
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The film remake of the late 50s TV show (starring James Garner), Maverick is the comedy western tale of rakish gambler (Mel Gibson) and the cast of weirdos (Alfred Molina, Jodie Foster, James Garner) all racing towards a half million dollar poker tourney aboard a steamboat. Written by William Goldman and directed by Richard Donner, this thing is jam-packed with surprisingly good times.
Also Jeff and JT discuss whether poker is a sport.
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Quentin Tarantino's magnum opus, Samuel L. Jackson's and Ving Rhames and Uma Thurman's launching point, John Travolta and Bruce Willis' comeback movie: Pulp Fiction.
Yes, it's as good as you remember.
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Jeremy Piven, David Spade, Jon Favreau, and more in this now-impossible-to-find classic that was everywhere back in the day; PCU.
And if you can manage to find it kicking around the internet and/or the $5.50 bin, it is a delight!
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What were our best performances of the year? Favorite quotes? Biggest ratings disagreement? Biggest mistakes we made?
What are we really excited for in the 1994 season starting next week?
That and more is here for your holiday listening enjoyment!
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Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, back at it again but for the first time on our podcast.
There's something wonderful about the crotchety, cantankerous old coots slinging really dated insults at each other. Also Kevin Pollak, Darryl Hannah, and Ann Margret.
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Wayne and Garth in their first movie since the last movie. Get ready to cross all your Ts and dot all your....lower case Js.
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Hello! DUDE LOOKS LIKE A LADY!
Yes, it's the 2nd biggest movie of 1993, Robin Williams cross-dresses to take care of his own kids after being divorced by Sally Fields (based on a true story [🧢]).
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The timeless underdog story of Rudy Ruettiger, and the 90 minute infomercial for Notre Dame, is finally upon. But seriously, the movie and the score are fantastic, and with 25 years of Catholic school between Jeff and JT we got jokes.
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Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver star in this Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) comedy, which despite not being anywhere streaming was a big hit in 1993. Kevin Kline is a presidential impersonator who's pressed into service as the actual president suffers a stroke. Hilarity and personal growth ensues!
Written by Gary Ross (Big), and also starring Frank Langella, Frank Dunn, and an early Ving Rhames (along with Sir Ben Kingsley!).
This one is still absolutely masterful.
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Be well, John Spartan! Info assimilated, now have a joy joy day.
This absolute smash action flick is one of our all-time favorites. Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, and in her first leading role: Sandra Bullock! Also Denis Leary and Nigel Hawthorne.
Listen to find out finally what the 3 seashells do...
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Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, it's bobsled time!
Indeed it is, here for the 30th anniversary of Cool Runnings, the "based on a true story" account of the jamaican bobsled team. John Candy, Leon, with director Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure, 3 Ninjas), and a low key banger score by Hans Zimmer!
Yep, it's still awesome.
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Our first entree into the catalogue of Sylvester Stallone, here with John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, and a pretty deep ensemble cast. One of the top 10 box office movies of 1993, Stallone rock climbs in fingerless weightlifting gloves and fights John Lithgow on a helicopter.
A wild time, 1993 was.
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One of the two underrated Michael J. Fox movies that came out in '93, we wound up on this one over Life With Mikey just on pure chance.
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, Raising Arizona), and co-starring Gabriel Anwar (Scent of A Woman, Burn Notice), this is a tight 90 minutes full of quips and behind the scenes in a big hotel.
Unfortunately it doesn't exist digitally anywhere in 2023, so it's really hard to watch legally. But still, search the movie on youtube and you might get lucky!
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Tommy Lee Jones, in an Academy-award winning role. Harrison Ford, with a beard. Joe Pantoliano, aka Joey Pants, stealing scenes. Julianne Moore, mostly on the cutting room floor.
The third biggest movie of 1993, it's the Fugitive! Now let's have a hard target search of every doghouse henhouse barnhouse and outhouse in the next fifteen miles!
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Not only one of the finest frozen pizzas of our childhood, this classic western is both fairly historically accurate about the last chapter of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the OK Corral, and also a tour de force from Val Kilmer. Insanely quotable still today!
With a wild ensemble featuring Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Charlton Heston, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Priestley, Billy Zane, Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese from Terminator), and Michael Rooker (Yondu from GotG).
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The deep cut gritty college football flick from David S. Ward (Sleepless in Seattle, Major League), starring James Caan, Kristy Swanson, Craig Sheffer, Omar Epps, Halle Berry, Duane Davis, and Andrew Bryniarski is coming at you like Lattimer's head comes at a car window after he gets a starting job.
JT loves it, Jeff hasn't seen it -- how does it hold up?
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Rosenbagger!
This classic kids/sports comedy from Daniel Stern (director, brilliant comic sidekick) and starring Thomas Ian Nichols (American Pie) is an absolute blast. Especially if you're ages 5-13. Or if you were that age in 1993.
Join Jeff and JT as they break it all down, plus our annual check-in from intern Mike Jones.
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This bizarrely entertaining action-genre satire is one of the most fun movies we've ever done on the pod. Arnold Schwartzenegger stars, with cameos from Danny DeVito to Sharon Stone to Little Richard. Directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard, Predator), written by Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, A Long Kiss Goodnight, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), and scored by Michael Kamen (Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), this thing should've been huge.
It eventually found it's niche as a cult film, but it's an absolute delight!
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Jaws on land coming in hot as the biggest movie ever when it was released. From Spielberg and Michael Crichton, with help from ILM, John Williams, and Jeff Goldblum, this monstrosity of a monster movie made nearly a billion dollars in 1993, becoming the biggest movie of all time (until it was dethroned by a large boat in 1997).
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Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, and Nora Ephron team up for one of the best romantic comedies in history.
Does it feature Meg Ryan being super creepy towards Tom Hanks while wearing a trenchcoat? 100%.
Does it also feature Rob Reiner and Rosie O'Donnell as hilarious best friends to our respective leads? 100%.
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PICKLE! Listen up, you L7 weenies, it's finally time for the Sandlot.
Nothing like a cult classic ensemble comedy about pre-teens in 1962 playing baseball to get our nostalgia juices really flowing.
Man, do we love us some baseball movies!
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Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gary Busey, Wilford Brimley, and David Straitharn (+ Holly Hunter) all "star" in this John Grisham adaptation that ends up being the 5th biggest movie of 1993.
How did it happen? Is this the first movie Tom Cruise does the now famous Cruise run? These questions and more answered by Jeff and JT within the episode.
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The Richard Linklater cult classic coming of age comedy from 1993, here with us at long last.
Featuring Jason London, Anthony Rapp, Parker Posey, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Cole Hauser, and introducing Matthew McConaughey!
Stellar cast, incredible soundtrack, and a must watch for potheads of all ages.
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Before there was Shrek, Fat Bastard, or the Pentavarit, there was Stuart Mackenzie in So I Married An Ax Murderer.
Jeff and JT go back to the cult classic dark comedy that's highly quotable and also mildly watchable, because how could they not?
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Jeff and JT pulled out all the stops for this cult classic sequel to 1992's Sister Act.
There are exclusive interviews with not just Ryan Toby, who plays Ahmal (and destroys Oh Happy Day), but also the guy responsible for those timeless choir arrangements: 5-time Grammy winner Mervyn Warren!
Incredible never heard before stories from the making of Sister Act 2, yeah, that happened.
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Mel Brooks, the king of film parody, writes and directs this 1993 movie taking on Prince Of Thieves and just generally lampooning the Robin Hood mythology.
Cary Elwes (with an English accent!), Richard Lewis, Dave Chappelle (in his first ever movie), Tracy Ullman, and more round out the cast. Highly quotable but strangely slow, and Jeff and JT break it all down for you.
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The classic erotic thriller (that's not especially thrilling or erotic) featuring Robert Redford, Woody Harrelson, and Demi Moore.
Plus the always delightful Oliver Platt!
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That's right, woodchuck chuckers, it's GROUNDHOG DAY! This episode Jeff and JT take on one of the all-time best comedies of the modern era. And, just when you thought it couldn't get any better, they also get to sit down with Ned Ryerson himself, actor Stephen Tobolowsky!
Stephen breaks down reading with Harold Ramis for his audition, improv with Bill Murray, and tons more! We also have the entire Stephen Tobolowsky interview where he goes even deeper on his acting history and Groundhog Day, going up on our patreon (link below!).
And remember: don't drive angry.
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"I should've done more," says the incomparable Liam Neeson in Schinder's List, to Sir Ben Kingsley.
"Man, I sure can drive this boat!" says Bruce Willis to Sarah Jessica Parker in Striking Distance, probably.
This episode we tackle a two-fer, two historically vital movies from 1993.
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1993 movies are here! Kicking off season 3 with the Tony Scott/Tarantino film True Romance, starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette.
Is it a Bonnie and Clyde for the 90s? Is there any better scene in a movie this year than Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper in this one?
Also killer performances from Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Michael Rappaport, and Gary Oldman. Oh and Val Kilmer plays Elvis.
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If you're like us, you're asking yourself "What in the deuces exactly was going on in nineteen hundred and ninety-three?"
Welp, we've got you covered. From Waco to apartheid to Zima to I Will Always Love You, it's here.
Plus, Jeff has a vignette we've entitled Friday Night At Pizza Hut that you may enjoy.
First movie coming at you next week!
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Jeff and JT break down their top movies, performances, quotes, and a lot of nerdy data from this year's podcast movies. The best of MLC 1992 films are all here on the docket, if you're traveling for the holidays and are bored!
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We finish our 1992 season with the Aaron Sorkin/Rob Reiner/Jack Nicholson/Tom Cruise/Demi Moore/Kevin Bacon/Kiefer Sutherland/Kevin Pollak masterpiece, A Few Good Men.
We want the truth, and yet....
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First prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.
This star-studded character study that Ed Harris referred to as Death of A F$*&ing Salesman is wall to wall great dialogue and outstanding performances. 4 Oscar winners and 2 Oscar nominees make up the 6 person cast.
Alec Baldwin's coffee is for closers speech is iconic, and it's in the first 20 minutes of this movie. Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, and Ed Harris round out the cast.
Jeff and JT try to accurately capture how much they enjoyed this movie without dropping as many f-bombs as the film itself did. Don't worry, we bleeped all of ours out.
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Kevin Costner stars as a dour, stoic law enforcement-type dude (way against type for him) who's protecting a pop princess in Whitney Houston (also playing way against type, obvs), in this MASSIVELY HUGE SMASH HIT SOUNDTRACK erm I mean MOVIE!
Written by Lawrence Kasdan (Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Big Chill, Raiders of the Lost Ark), soooooooo yeah.
I mean Whitney sings a lot, so Jeff and JT undoubtedly love that.
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The first, and possibly only, movie that spun off a professional sports franchise: this week Jeff and JT take on Disney's The Mighty Ducks.
They're joined by guest Steve Kamb, the head nerd at nerdfitness.com, to help explain hockey to them.
And whatever happened to Emilio Estevez?
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Joss Whedon's first attempt at creating the buffy-verse in this '92 film, starring Kristy Swanson, Luke Perry, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, Paul Reubens, David Arquette, and Hilary Swank (and more!).
The dialogue is snappy, the action is nice, and the cast list is miles deep. Join Jeff and JT as they relive this classic in time for Halloween .
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In the immortal words of Christina Aguilera: sweet, sugar, candyman.
Except rather than the horn-driven big band pop tune we're talking about the 1992 horror movie where a spirit comes through the mirror when you say his name and murderlizes people.
Also we brought in a horror correspondent, Shawn, since JT is terrified of horror movies. But never fear, our discussion is as goofy and weird as always!
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The 9th biggest movie of 1992, with Gary Oldman as Dracula, Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Something-or-other, the English barrister.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppolla, this movie made 219 million bucks and won 3 oscars!
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The biggest movie of 1992, the animated Disney musical starring Robin Williams (and our favorite Gilbert Gottfried), ALADDIN!
Oh man, it's so clear why this movie made 500 million bucks. Hear our favorite songs, best lines, and how close this plot was to the original folk tale.
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Mel Gibson and Danny Glover come back for the 3rd installment of the Lethal Weapon franchise, directed by Richard Donner (Superman, Goonies), and created by Shane Black.
Murtaugh is still too old for this shit, and also Rene Russo and Joe Pesci are there. Product placement, how bullets really work, and sax solos are all on tap for this episode.
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Short excerpt from our 2nd patreon release, PRETTY WOMAN! Available now to all patreon supporters. Back next week with Lethal Weapon 3 on this feed :)
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Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Randall Batinkoff, and Anthony Rapp star in this prep school tale of every doesn't like the new Jewish QB (Fraser).
Also how Fats Domino was the father of modern Reggae music and how humans and lobsters share DNA.
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Our first foray into Clint "One Take" Eastwood in this Oscar-winning (best picture, best director, best supporting actor Gene Hackman) Western.
Also with Morgan Freeman and a lot of exterior scenes. Maybe two takes wouldn't be the worst idea.
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BONUS CONTENT!
Here's a short teaser of our first S1: BC content, out today on Patreon!
If you want to hear more movies from us, we've got one 1990 release every month on patreon for as little as $5/month, plus you can help us pay for our hosting and recording costs while directly supporting the arts :)
- TMNT
- Pretty Woman
- Tremors
- Dick Tracy
- Total Recall
- House Party
- Days Of Thunder
Main feed will remain on 1992 movies and $0.00 as always.
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This Academy Award-winning coming of age story, directed by podcast favorite Robert Redford, talks a lot about fishing and Presbyterianism in the early 1900s in Montana.
Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer, and Tom Skerrit star, and introducing a young Joseph Gordon Levitt!
Lastly, patreon launch announcement and intern Mike stops by!http://www.patreon.com/movielifecrisis
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Eddie Murphy. Martin Lawrence. David Alan Grier. Robin Givens. Halle Berry. Eartha Kitt. Grace Jones.
This absolute star-studded cast comes through with the #18 movie of 1992, the Eddie Murphy vehicle, Boomerang. Also the movie that launched Boyz II Men's smash hit, End Of The Road.
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Woody Harrelson. Wesley Snipes. Rosie Perez.
One of the three best basketball movies ever made. You're listening, but you're not hearing.
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There's no crying in baseball!
Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, Jon Lovitz, Rosie O'Donnell, Lori Petty, with Penny Marshall at the helm in this all-time sports movie, all-time comedy, complete with an all-time Hans Zimmer score.
Did Dottie drop the ball on purpose? Jeff and JT break it down.
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This episode Jeff and JT cover the Star Wars movie we never saw, where Han Solo, Mace Windu, and Darth Vader all team up to stop Boromir from terrorizing the United States.
Kinda. But Harrison Ford does star in this huge R-rated hit from 1992 alongside Samuel L. Jackson, James Earl Jones, and Sean Bean.
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Brendan Fraser (the GOAT), Pauly Shore (great value Janis Joplin), and Sean Astin (Rudy) all get together in this fish out of water teen comedy from 1992, where Brendan Fraser is an unfrozen caveman who learns english from Pauly Shore (bud--dy). Why?
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Robert Altman's iconic satire of Hollywood, starring Tim Robbins, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Lyle Lovett, and about nine thousand other people.
People love this movie! Why? Jeff and JT do their best to try and figure that out.
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Today Jeff and JT tackle the second Tim Burton/Michael Keaton Batman movie, Batman Returns. With Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, Danny DeVito as Penguin, and Christopher Walken and evil rich businessman/Great Value Doc Brown, stuff happens. Spoiler alert: batman wins.
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Always stand clear of the ladder, boss.
Jeff and JT revisit the nautical "comedy" Captain Ron, featuring Kurt Russell and Martin Short. This is the first movie we've covered that lost money, and the guys disagree about why that is.
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Toe pick! Moira Kelly and D.B. Sweeney this week in one of the classic 90s romantic comedies, where an odd couple partners up to figure skate in the Olympics.
Oh man. This one is not to be missed, as Jeff and JT break down figure skating, why D.B. Sweeney didn't have a way bigger career, and lighting sparklers indoors.
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This week, JT and Jeff learn about roulette from Wesley Snipes (always bet on black!) in Passenger 57.
Watch as Snipes spin kicks people in Louisiana while wearing a turtleneck, button-down shirt, and fly-ass leather jacket with dress shoes.
Also a villain who never blinks hijacks an airplane by firing wildly at anything that moves, with his girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley.
Basically it's a good time.
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No more secrets, Marty. This episode covers the unbelievably prescient movie from the writers of Wargames and the director of Field of Dreams, where security consultant Martin Bishop gets pulled into a dangerous situation with a black box that everyone in the world is willing to kill for.
Starring:
- Robert Redford
- Sir Sidney Poitier
- Sir Ben Kingsley
- Dan Akroyd
- Mary McDonnell
- Timothy Busfield
- River Phoenix
- David Starthairn, and
- James Earl Jones
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Coming to you live, from Wayne's Mom's basement, is the hit new podcast (sha, right!) Movielife Crisis, sponsored by Noah's Arcade.
Party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth.
ps -- this release date is 30 years to the day from the theatrical release, so that's pretty bitchin'.
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I'm just a cook, says the star of this movie, who definitely looks as though he knows a LOT about food.
It's our one and only foray into the work of Steven Seagal, here with his biggest and best ever movie.
Also featuring Great Value Nick Nolte (also known as Gary Busey), Tommy Lee Jones, and Erika Eleniak as Ms. July '89.
Why do we do this to ourselves?
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This week, the two utes (two what?) are looking back at one of 1992's funniest and most quotable movies, My Cousin Vinny.
Featuring an Oscar-winning performance from Marisa Tomei, and Oscar-worthy performances from basically everyone else, this thing is wall to wall amazingness.
Jeff and JT are joined by guest Jeny Batten (@jenybatts on IG and twitter), who's a TV writer and producer, here to both educated and entertain!
Yeah, you blend.
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Season 2 is here!We kick it off with a banger, the Whoopi Goldberg lounge-singer-turned-nun comedy, Sister Act.
Not just the setup for Sister Act 2, this is a huge movie in '92 and way funnier than we remembered.
Here's the best scene, with 25 million youtube views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctjG4MjJwEA
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WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS HAPPENING IN 1992?!
We're bored, and we're back, to give you the highlights of 1992. Very little movie talk in this bonus ep, but you will hear about the proper spelling of "potato" and Hurricane Andy knocking over deck furniture.
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Jeff and JT had so much fun this year, they couldn't quit recording.
This short bonus episode breaks down the best and worst of the movies covered on season one of Movielife Crisis.
Which movie was your #1?
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I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle.Biggest movie of the year to close out season 1, 1991, HERE WE GO!
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Today we venture headlong into a tale as old as time, tackling our first animated movie AND our first musical.
What does a director do for an animated movie?
Why can't we be friends with Jerry Orbach?
And the story of Howard Ashman, the man behind the music of A Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin.
As a specimen yes he's intimidating.
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VAYA CON DIOS!
This week we look back at one of modern film's great love stories: Bodhi and Johnny Utah.
Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, Gary Busey, and our other daughter, Dottie's sister, Lori Petty.
Get your jeans ready for some beach football, cause here we come.
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"Gig for Bean!"
This episode, we revisit Cadence, a passion project developed, directed by, and starring Martin Sheen. Alongside Charlie Sheen, Ramon Estevez (another Sheen brother), and Laurence Fishburn (as Larry Fishburn).
We sincerely think this is our best episode, and it's about one of our favorite movies.
Dedicated to our man, Chris Brown, gone but not forgotten.
4k upscale version of the movie on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxW7M58dt30
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1991 Ep. 107
Robin Williams! Dustin Hoffman! Steven Spielberg! Julia Roberts! The story of grown up Peter Pan on an epic scale coming to you this week, including:
- Mermaids, why?
- Tink being weird/creepy
- John Williams with one of his best scores ever
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1991, Ep. 6
Albert Brooks writes, directs, and stars in this movie about what happens after you die. Spoiler alert: you have to defend your life to a room of super-smart afterlife lawyers, who decide if you passed.
The food is amazing, though, and you get to hang out with young, hot, and very chill Meryl Streep!
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1991, Ep. 5
BLOW THE WHISTLE, BLOW THE WHISTLE!
This week we're looking back at the TRUE STORY (totally not true at all) of the Texas State Armadillos, captained by aging-but-still-eligible QB Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap).
Featuring our very first guest, Marvin Solomon (Cook It With Marvin: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC65-MEnovWennm2yvokiuyg)
- Rob Scheider peaks as a pop culture force at age 18
- Robert Loggia and his Oscar-worthy locker room speech
- Scott Bakula's timeless Canadian tuxedos
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1991, Ep. 4
This week Jeff and JT are breaking down the epic Kevin Costner blockbuster, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
We Cover:
- Greater travesty: Costner's hair or his accent?
- Alan Rickman, the boy who lived
- Azeem's Wookie life debt
- How prevalent were haybales in the 1100s?
Also Christian Slater was there.
And a time capsule on the history of the tale of Robin Hood.
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1991, Ep. 3
Jeff, did you get the audio pulled from Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead so we can include it?
I'm right on top of that, Rose!
Yes, yes you are. Today we're on the cult classic Christina Applegate (not to be confused with Christina Aguilera) vehicle Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead. Co-starring the former Knox Overstreet, Josh Charles, and with a sneaky early career David Duchovny (complete with Binaca spray and Miami vice sports coat), this cornball comedy is surprisingly fun and sweet still today.
We cover:
- Christina Applegate vs. Christina Aguilera
- Computers: here to stay? (comes with LotusNotes)
- And why no one smokes in movies anymore
Links
- Don't Tell Mom... the Babysitters Dead Movie Trailer 1991
- Kenny played by Keith Coogan
Where to Watch:
- HBO Max/Hulu/Amazon Prime with premium subscription
- YouTube/Apple TV from $2.99
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1991, Ep. 2
This week, Jeff and JT tackle the classic (and oddly creepy) Michael J. Fox fish-out-of-water movie, Doc Hollywood. Co-starring Julie Warner, Woody Harrelson, and Bridget Fonda, and set in the fictional small town of Grady, South Carolina, this movie has some memorable performances and fantastic quotes.
On the pod:
- Woody Harrelson's plan to sell earthquake insurance!
- Jeff and JT recount their early teen experience of watching a nude scene with their parents in the room
- DON'T PUSH YOUR VEGAN AGENDA ON ME
Mentioned in the Podcast:
- YouTube link: Doc Hollywood - Original Theatrical Trailer
- YouTube link: 24 Reasons Doc Hollywood & Cars Are Different
Where to Watch:
- Youtube/Apple TV/Amazon Prime from $2.99
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1991, Ep. 1
Join hosts Jeff and JT as they embark upon an epic re-watch podcast of movies that came out 30 years ago, starting with the timeless masterpiece that is City Slickers.
Starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, and featuring Oscar-winner Jack Palance, this comedy western is positively delightful, even 30 years after its release.
We Cover:
- Jack Palance doing one-armed pushups at the Oscars
- Billy Crystal's real story of delivering a baby calf on set
- Cucos in the Hammond Square Mall, home of the chimi-dogs
- Daniel Stern's calculator watch, the pivot point of this film
Links:
- YouTube link: City Slickers (1991) - Official Trailer
- YouTube link: CITY SLICKERS (1991) - Marc Shaiman - Soundtrack Score Suite
- YouTube link: Where Did My Heart Go? · James Ingram
Where to Watch:
- HBO Max/Hulu/Amazon Prime (subscribers only)
- YouTube/Apple TV for $14.99
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Here's a 90 second sample of episode 1, where we talk about the 1991 classic, City Slickers.
Jack Palance does one-armed pushups in a tuxedo at the Oscars while Whoopi Goldberg looks on. That's a thing that happened.
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