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*Also, bad.
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The conversation that needed to happen about the most important, great* movies, with Greg Swinehart & Joe Sky-Tucker. Learn more at https://greatbadmovies.com/
*Also, bad.
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This week on Really Entertaining A-list B-movies:
Bob Odenkirk (w/ Resting Chuck Norris Face) is an unremarkable family man—or so everyone thinks. After a home invasion leaves him humiliated, his buried skills as a lethal former government operative resurface with a vengeance. What follows is a bone-crunching, darkly funny rampage through the criminal underworld, featuring stolen kitty bracelets, bus fights that feel like a stuntman’s dream, and a finale that turns suburban booby traps into mobster catchers. Directed by Ilya Naishuller, with Christopher Lloyd stealing scenes as Hutch’s gun-happy dad, this is an overly efficient action flick that asks: what if John Wick had a mortgage?
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Keanu Reeves (“Jeff,” from Paula Abdul’s Rush Rush video) stars in Point Break, a film masquerading as action cinema but in truth a haunting meditation on identity, lawlessness, and the futility of resisting the ocean’s will. (Or at least we assume Werner Herzog would describe it that way.) Johnny Utah, a former quarterback now shackled to bureaucracy, descends into the chaotic underworld of surfers who rob banks not for money, but for meaning. At their center is Bodhi—part surfer, part philosopher, part doomed Icarus—whose search for the perfect wave mirrors mankind’s eternal desire to conquer nature, only to be obliterated by it.
We speak of masks—both literal and existential. Of skydiving as an act of metaphysical surrender. Of meatball sandwiches, consumed with the desperation of men who know the void. You may think this is merely a buddy-cop thriller. You are mistaken. This is about the death of the self.
Also, Gary Busey is in it.
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Rule #1: Reconnect with a long-lost friend by watching Great Bad Movies.
Rule #2: Record your conversations as a podcast (and maybe create some drinking games.)
Rule #3: Never look at the package.
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What happens when you give $70M to incredibly thoughtful people who want to make a big action movie? One host says something almost entirely great. The other has… Some thoughts 🙂. It's time for Joe and Greg to have the conversation that needed to happen about The Old Guard.
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Stuffed with whatever you call the opposite of explanation, Tenet is one of the biggest and best movies of our time by one of our biggest and best filmmakers alive. Is it kind of heartless? Does Sir Michael Caine forget his usual Nolan exposition duties? Is it great and bad? Now is the time for this conversation.
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Greg & Joe scrap their episode plans to immediately react to the 8th Mission:Impossible movie. It's the conversation that needed to happen about a movie 1.5 weeks old... That's about 30 years newer than the typical Great Bad Movie® 😀
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The very conversation that needed a 2nd part, Greg & Joe's discussion of the 7th Mission:Impossible film might be considered treason. Nothing could be more exciting than a new Mission:Impossible movie coming out this week, so it was time to do a deep dive on the previous film, Dead Reckoning Part 1.
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Greg & Joe dive deep into the 7th Mission:Impossible film to prepare for the 8th movie, AKA the most exciting thing in 2025.
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What if Jason Bourne was also TurboTax? Ben Affleck is an autistic math savant who moonlights as a lethal assassin and part-time financial consultant for warlords. And you know what? One of the hosts of this show loves this movie.
Secret trailer arsenals? Check. Hidden identities? Double check. Anna Kendrick showing up to save the movie? Triple check with a spreadsheet.
This is peak Great Bad Movie material: it’s serious about being serious, but somewhere deep in its Excel-loving soul, it knows it’s kind of ridiculous.
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30 years later, it hasn't aged a day! (Just kidding.)
If you can get past Janice to join us for this episode, and that’s a BIG if… Greg and Joe’s conversation will feel a lot like your missions in Cairo: A cake walk, thanks to the training. So hop on your horse, walk it into an elevator, and get on our level 😀
It’s time for you to start lying to your spouse, and then tell them the truth, so that they can join you in your secret life. In the end, and this is important, you’ll probably dress up and dance the tango together, because that’s adorable. True Lies is 30 years old, so it’s finally time for the conversation that needed to be had.
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We’re celebrating our 1st anniversary with the turbo-charged, melodrama-soaked, gravity-defying classic that redefined what a Great Bad Movie truly is. Fast Five is the Citizen Kane of car-based heist movies.
We saved this one for a special occasion, because Fast Five isn’t just any movie — it’s a beautifully chaotic mix of telenovela-level emotional showdowns, dialogue that sounds philosophical but means almost nothing, and incredible action sequences with things you've never seen before. Is it absurd? Absolutely. Is it brilliant? Unquestionably. Is it a little bad? Ummmmmm, all we can say is we love every second of it.
Come celebrate with us as we toast to one year of great cinematic achievements, and honor the film that somehow made dragging a vault through Rio with two Dodge Chargers look cooler than it has any right to.
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We are joined by our inaugural guest, the hilarious Scott Erickson to discuss a fake movie about a billionaire who uses his money to pursue his selfish goals. Not really a thing that happens IRL. We’ll dive into the real questions: What ice cream does Joe spare no expense on? Should Neapolitan ice cream be equally chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry? How has Jeff Goldblum somehow made sweaty chaos theory sexy? There’s obviously a LOT to talk about.
Also, we get to the real MVPs: Timmy, the trolling younger brother, Newman’s Barbasol can, Samuel L. Jackson’s off-screen demise(?), and that poor lawyer who just wanted a quiet moment on the toilet. From velociraptors who learn how to open doors to a T-Rex that follows no rules of physics, we’re covering all the glorious nonsense that makes Jurassic Park a high-budget disasterpiece. So grab a flare, hold onto your butts, and let’s see if life, uh, finds a way… to make this episode worth your time.
Scott chose this movie because he talks about the Jurassic Park series in his hilarious book and show called Say Yes: A Liturgy of Not Giving Up On Yourself.
You can also learn more about Scott, buy his art, and generally get on his level at https://www.scottericksonart.com
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Dev Patel woke up and chose absolute (heartbreaking) chaos, directing himself in a revenge thriller that's basically "John Wick meets Indian mythology but more SAD and ANGRY." This masterpiece has Patel literally wearing a gorilla mask to get repeatedly beaten in underground fight clubs for money before transforming into a one-man apocalypse against corrupt elites.
But what makes this cinematic sledgehammer truly magnificent is how it's simultaneously the most visceral action debut since The Raid AND a scathing political allegory about class warfare that features Dev Patel's character learning knife skills from an outcast Indian communtiy. The movie swings wildly between heartbreaking cultural commentary and scenes where our hero gets his face literally set on fire while fighting in a burning kitchen.
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It’s time to celebrate the heroes at the Bio-Cover Unit, and make fun of families who bizarrely graze each other’s faces with their fingers.
Joe decides if loving this movie is wrong, he doesn’t want to be right. Greg has divisive, controversial takes on John Travolta and Boat Chases, and an unfettered love of loud fabrics and BOOM SHOES.
This episode is dedicated in loving memory to Anderson, Montgomery, Berkely, Pinkus, Gianelli, and Winters.
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Tom Cruise refuses to age or stop being the main character of reality itself. He can’t stop, because he has to train a bunch of beautiful people to fly into a weirdly specific trench run that's totally not the Death Star. This is cinema at its most perfectly ridiculous and ridiculously perfect.
What elevation is the hard deck right now? Is that the biggest American flag ever made in their staff room? Is Ed O’Neal in this movie?? We don’t shy away from the difficult conversations on this one. Does Joe think this movie deserves a Best Picture nomination? (He doesn’t.) Can Greg watch a Top Gun movie without thinking of a Hot Shots movies? (He can’t.) What elevation is the hard deck NOW? Has it changed?? Don’t tell Jon Hamm, who is currently looking out his window while speaking to you.
It’s time to shoot at sunset/sunrise, paint on some sweat, and play football with uncomfortable clothing. That’s right, it’s time for TOP GUN: MAVERICK.
Play along with drinking games and trope lightning rounds as Greg and Joe have the only conversation that needed to happen. Meta drinking game every time we confuse Ed Harris and Ed O’Neal.
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Can we have fun? David Leitch says YESSSS. Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham spend two hours trading kindergarten-level insults about each other's height and baldness while saving the world from a techno-virus and Super Smart Idris Elba. Being a Fast & Furious movie, we obviously have FAMILY with Venessa Kirby and Helen Mirren… So we’re now up to 5 perfect people to cast in a movie. Sprinkle in Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Hart, Rob Delaney, Cliff Curtis, Eiza González. I mean, you had us at David Leitch. But the cast of this thing is everyone we want to hang out with for two hours. So… That means it’s time for a new Great Bad Movies episode.
Greg and Joe discuss how their perception of this movie has changed in the last 5 years, explain “Hobbs & Shaw Travel Logic,” and where Death Race would fit in the Fast & Furious Power Rankings. As always, they create drinking games for the film and answer the most important questions.
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We’re celebrating John-uary with a puppy-avenging assassin who’s also the emotional victim of car theft. Keanu Reaves has to return to a luxury murder hotel to drop some gold coins (Chuck E. Cheese-style) again. Keanu called his favorite stunt guys, David Leitch and Chad Stahelski, who say they’ll only do the stunts if they can also direct for the first time. You know what all that makes? A game-changing new era of Great Bad Movies.
Keanu Reeves delivers the most emotionally devastating "Yeah" in cinema history, and funniest line in this movie is “Oh.” Twice.
So it’s time to start Dafoe-ing and check in with Joe and Greg, who have the conversation that needed to happen about a movie that slowly but thoroughly changed the lives of everyone in the GBU (Great Bad Universe.) They ask the important questions, create unique drinking games… Basically everything you’d need to live a better life. Let’s get to the show!
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A heartwarming story about redemption and drapery, with great performances, direction, story, action, and um.... Did you know there was a 6th Terminator movie? A lot of people don't. It was a proper sequel to T2, and it was incredible. 5 years ago, critics and audiences alike praised this movie, but... It doesn't seem to exist anymore. That all changes here and now.
Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes and Gabriel Luna are quite good at the core of the story, and then Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger show up to create a best case legacy sequel. It's time for us to finally have the conversation that needed to happen about Terminator: Dark Fate.
Before we go on, where do you stand on bad guys that can turn their hands into swordy things? If that sounds like something, this is the movie for you.
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Joe and Greg laugh harder than they ever have discussing a basically perfect movie: Incredible action scenes, fantastic performances, and maybe no script? This is the shortest and potentially most entertaining James Bond movie, except for the other ones that are much, much better.
And listen… Sometimes the conversation that needs to be had takes a while. In this case 40 minutes longer than the actual film. But after you listen to this episode you, dear listener, will know everything that you need to know. Play along with our drinking games and important questions and just enjoy the ride…
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Celebrate the season with the second best Christmas movie, where parking tickets are a slippery slope to fighting terrorists. Die Hard 2 confirms John McClane only fights crime on holidays, and it has everything you could possibly need: A great (constantly yelling) cast, bad guys and good guys who don’t want John McClane around, a brief one-on-one with someone named Telford, louder than normal gunshots, and a brand new game called Borrow, Steal, Kill. Do you want to see 47 shots of snowmobiles? We have great news for you. Were you hoping for some kind of grunt/whimper acting? You're in luck. Do you miss movies edited for TBS? We've got you.
So grab elderly woman’s taser, head over to the skywalk annex, and get ready to party with Mister Falcon in an adventure that will blow you sky high.
Greg and Joe remember how Bruce Willis could do no wrong in their eyes back in the day, answer important questions, create new drinking games, and somehow find a weird excuse to add another Limp Bizkit song to our playlist. We don't feel great about it.
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