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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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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In this very special year-end live extravaganza, we present the 1st Annual Golden Helicopter Awards—a completely serious, extremely prestigious live ceremony honoring the incredible achievements in Great Bad Film this year. There are surprise winners, devastating snubs, and at the end there can only be one Best Great Bad Movie (AKA the 70est Percent Movie.)
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Seattle Times writer Moira Macdonald and our good friend David Hallgren join us to talk about (Moira's pick!) Rampage, with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson… Moira was a mystery guest to Greg until the moment she arrives, orchestrated by David and Joe Sky-Tucker.
This week we learned 2018’s Rampage is an under-celebrated feat in cinema…. Potentially one of the most enjoyable movies in recent years. The Rock once again teams up with director Brad Peyton to make a movie David describes as “the seventy-est percent movie ever made.” (70% of course being our Rotten Tomato rating for every movie we watch.)
This was a surprisingly easy movie to write a love letter to, and an absolute blast for Greg and Joe to hang out with Moira and David.
It goes without saying… All four of us laughed a lot, and learned a little something about ourselves along the way 😀
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Surprise Guest #1
01:02 - Surprise Guest #2
07:16 - What makes Rampage a Great Bad Movie??
29:28 - Drinking Games
53:26 - Back of the Box
56:46 - Box Office and Critical Reception
01:03:15 - Signs you might be watching a Great Bad Movie
01:05:14 - Important Questions
01:32:10 - This has been great, but we need to go
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Is Skyfall the best Bond movie? Joe calls a last-minute audible so we can find out. It's time for us to write a love letter to another Great Bond Movie®. Wait.... Important question.... Did our Quantum of Solace episode deserve a sequel? 1000% yes.
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We've alluded to our love of this movie for a long time... It's time to look 2 minutes ahead, and talk about the incomparable NEXT.
Nicolas Cage stars as Shy, Socially Awkward Nicolas Cage. Usually that would work, for some reason it doesn't here. Director Lee Tamahori, who has proven himself as an incredibly talented director, also seems to be having an off day. Jessica Biel and Julianne Moore are there to raise the bar, but can't save this movie from itself.
It's a real mystery why this movie doesn't work and yet is one of the most enjoyable films in history. Greg and Joe can't stop watching and talking about it.... So where is the magic that makes this amazing? They find that one of their favorite editors, Christian Wagner, brought much of the magic. Cinematographer David Tattersall does some arresting work. Production designer William Sandell brings his A-Game. Writer Gary Goldman wrestled with tough source material, and brought some contemporary ideas to the script. Great people, above and below the line, make this a sneakily great movie, one that we will rewatch forever.
We do a lot of episodes for them. This one is for us.
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Greg & Joe receive a concerning JEEP alert, and in turn write a love letter to the new Kathryn Bigelow CLASSIC A House of Dynamite. It's a move that answers some questions, and seriously DOESN'T answer some others. The result? A new category of movie for this podcast!
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This week, a love letter to Tony Scott’s patriotic, time-twisting thriller Déjà Vu. Denzel Washington stars as ATF agent Doug Carlin, who investigates a New Orleans ferry explosion—and stumbles into a government surveillance program that somehow also doubles as a time machine with excellent satellite coverage.
It’s part detective story, part love story, 100 percent Tony Scott energy: orange filters, low flying helicopters, Val Kilmer squinting, and an SUV that literally drives into the past.
Greg and Joe learn something about themselves along the way.
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This week, on a very special episode, Greg picks a comedy. Great Bad Movies are usually accidentally funny. Game Night is just actually funny. Really, really funny. But you know what? Also a great action movie AND thriller. This movie literally has everything, Special thanks to the cast and crew of Game Night, a movie that holds up perfectly 7 years later.
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BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. In a very special episode of Great Bad Movies, our incredible editor Sam picks our movie, and then plants the idea in our dreams. So now we think it was our idea. (He did that by invoking our relationships with our fathers. It's a whole thing.)
While Greg and Joe both think this is one of Christopher Nolan's best movies, it is not without some asterisks. Hence: A perfect movie for Sam to pick for our show.
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On a very special episode "Joe's Pick" episode of Great Bad Movies, we grab our white-rimmed sunglasses and head to Tokyo for 2021's Kate, with the always amazing Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Woody Harrelson. There's a lot to say about his movie, but most importantly you should know that David Leitch produced it, and that's why it's immediately on our list 😀
Joe and Greg break it down, and learn something along the way.
On a very special "Joe's Pick" episode of Great Bad Movies, we grab our white-rimmed sunglasses and head to Tokyo for 2021's Kate, with the always amazing Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Woody Harrelson. There's a lot to say about his movie, but most importantly you should know that David Leitch produced it, and that's why it's immediately on our list 😀
Joe and Greg break it down, laugh a lot, and learn something about themselves along the way.
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To celebrate Isaac Slade of the Fray's new solo career (and Greg's opening spot at his first solo show,) Isaac joins Greg and Joe to discuss what he calls "one of the best movies he's ever seen." Which, it goes without saying, makes him the perfect guest for Great Bad Movies.
This episode has it all: Isaac hearing Bruce Willis' music for the first time, a henchman who looks exactly like Chris Martin of Coldplay, Kevin Smith rewriting scenes, a standoff between the movie studio and Bruce Willis, people who love this movie, people who question if it's really a Die Hard movie.... Plus, we create new drinking games and answer important questions about the 3rd best movie to take place during the 4th of July. Long story short, it's a lot of laughing and a great time.
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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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