Episodes
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Listener Pick! Bullet Train
The listeners voted, and we’re boarding the Bullet Train. Brad Pitt tries to find inner peace while everyone around him tries to kill him. Along the way: the action comedies that actually work, why slow-motion cigarette flicks belong in every movie, and whether Stone Temple Pilots can explain a...
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Greg's Pick! Commando
This week, on The Greatest Guilty Pleasure in the History of Cinema: It's Greg's Pick®, and after a last-minute audible (sorry, Spy), he's gone with 1985's Commando. Joe gasped out loud when Greg texted him the poster. Why did Greg pick it? He doesn't have an answer... It was just time. Arnold...
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Bonus: Meet our editor, Sam Cunningham!
In a very special bonus episode, our editor Sam Cunningham drops by to review OUR review of his pick: The Amateur. Sam has edited just about every episode of this show, but you know what's crazy? After almost 2.5 years of hilarious and thoughtful emails/texts, we've never actually spoken to him.…
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Sam's Pick! The Amateur
Almost everybody in this movie is a professional. We're here to talk about the one guy who isn't. In a very special episode, our editor Sam picks a perfect movie for Great Bad Movies. We have many questions about this movie... Some involve pollen. Others concern the main character's voice and…
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Joe's Pick! Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Joe’s Pick® this year is EASILY one of the best movies of the 2020s, from Game Night directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. If you’re going to bring together the tones of Princess Bride, Monty Python, Lord of the Rings, the MCU, Indiana Jones, AND Oceans 11…. You’re probably going…
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Bonus: Atomic Blonde Hallgren Wager + Our Next Movie is Announced!
The follow-up to our Atomic Blonde episode that needed to happen... Our next movie is FINALLY ANNOUNCED and we find out who wins the Atomic Blonde Hallgren Wager!
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Atomic Blonde
"THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE BY ONE OF MY FAVORITE DIRECTORS." That's probably all you need to know before listening to this episode. One of the hosts says that. Is that a surprise? I doubt it. 2017's Atomic Blonde was shepherded to the screen by Charlize Theron, directed by David Leitch, contains 83...
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Bonus: Reactions to Safe House's "Great Great Movie" Honor, the Hallgren Wager®, and Our Next Movie is Announced!!
Greg and Joe react to last week's episode and the 3rd Great Great Movie honor this podcast has given. Also, the Hallgren Wager heats up AGAIN, IF THAT WAS EVEN POSSIBLE. Also.... Our next movie is announced! GET READY!!! If you’d like to advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail...
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Safe House
What if we had it all in 2012 and HAD NO IDEA?? That's the question Joe and Greg grapple with in this episode, while writing a love letter to one of the most entertaining movies of all time, 2012's SAFE HOUSE with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds. If you’d like to advertise with us or sponsor...
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Bonus: Demolition Man Hallgren Wager + Our Next Movie Announced!
In this fast-and-loose mini-sode, Greg and Joe address the one lingering question that Demolition Man left burning in everyone's soul. No, not how the seashells work—something far more critical. If you’d like to advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail [email protected] Subscribe...
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Demolition Man
The answer is CLASSIC SNIPES. Wait, what was your question again? It was just a matter of time before we got to 1993's Demolition Man, with an animated Wesley Snipes, a post 80's Sylvester Stallone, and a brand new Sandra Bullock, who obviously steals the movie in 2026. Greg and Joe act like…
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Bonus: The 355 Regretisode + Hallgren Wager + Our Next Film Announced AKA The Dawn of "CLASSIC SNIPES"
We cover our blatant omissions from our 355 conversation, including the unspoken "pulse check & double head-shake" move, Joe's personal fail-safe needs, and the best dinner to have at a table covered with maps, guns and bullets. We also answer potentially the MOST important question, and we...
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The 355
Jessica Chastain pitches Simon Kinberg an all-female Mission Impossible on the set of Dark Phoenix, and the result stars Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong’o, and Fan Bingbing chasing a drive that can hack anything on Earth (“like ghosts in a machine”). On paper: perfect. On...
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Bonus: Martian regrets, The Hallgren Wager® HEATS UP, and our next episode announced!
The Hallgren Wager gets even more intense this week, with David Hallgren IN-STUDIO to see the tension firsthand. You're not going to believe this: Joe and David bring the Martian discussion to a surprising place, and by that we mean they talk about the Gray Man some more. Also, our next episode’s...
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The Martian w/ David Hallgren!
To celebrate Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY, David Hallgren flies to the west coast to discuss Matt Damon's OG odyssey, THE MARTIAN, in person! It's an extremely easy love letter to write for some of us. Others... Might have some notes. If you’d like to advertise with us or sponsor us, please...
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Bonus: The Kingsman Hallgren Wager. Also: Our next movie is announced!
The most important question is finally answered... When was the last time David Hallgren watched Kingsman: The Secret Service??? The answer will shock you. Also, in collaboration with one of the biggest movies of the summer, we announce our next episode! If you’d like to advertise with us or...
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Kingsman: The Secret Service
It's finally time for manners to maketh Greg and Joe. It has somehow taken over two years for this show to cover Kingsman, but that just shows how many love letters the world of Great Bad Movies deserves. So pop the cork on a $250,000 bottle of Dalmore 62, and celebrate an emotionally mature new...
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Bonus: The Hallgren Wager®. Also, our next movie is announced!
Greg & Joe answer the most important question: When was the last time David Hallgren watched the Bourne Identity?? If Robert Ludlum wrote a book about their ongoing bet, it would be called The Hallgren Wager®. (We reserve the right to make a 9 part film series based on that.) Also, we announce…
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The Bourne Identity
It's finally time for us to dive into the Bourniverse. In what we assume was the inspiration for Letty in Furious 6, Matt Damon has amnesia so bad that when he remembers something, he winces in pain. Also, his superpowers include spotting a guy who is 215 pounds and knows how to handle himself,...
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Bonus: Regrets about Enemy of the State! Also: When did David Hallgren watch it last??
Joe and Greg finally have the chance to air their regrets about their Enemy of the State episode. They also clean up some unfinished business regarding one of their most important questions: When was the last time David Hallgren watched this movie? And finally, it’s time to announce what next...
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Enemy of the State
Listen, Will Smith was just trying to buy Christmas presents for his wife and son. But then Jon Voight murdered a senator and a guy studying geese accidentally gave him the tape and now the entire NSA is tracking him with satellites. I don't know if you really need to know more than that, but…
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Bonus: 2026 Mission:Impossible Power Rankings!
Joe surprises Greg with his official Mission:Impossible Power Rankings® and Greg is here to listen, mostly agree, and gently push back on the crimes being committed against Ghost Protocol. In this bonus episode, they attempt to settle the only debate that matters in 2026: What is the best...
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Mission:Impossible III
This week Greg and Joe celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Mission Impossible movie that saved the Mission Impossible universe from itself. The episode opens with a startlingly stressful countdown that threatens Joe with a potentially dangerous beer run. Much like the movie, this episode is...
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Bonus: We have regrets about Super Smart Sharks
Greg admits to Joe that he often regrets not talking about a few funny things when they're done with an episode... This bonus episode is a safe place for him to finally get those regrets out proactively! Also, a double bonus: Joe and Greg reveal what movie they'll cover next week! If you’d like…
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Super Smart Sharks (Deep Blue Sea!)
In 1999, Renny Harlin made a shark movie on the same soundstages as Titanic, cast Samuel L. Jackson and LL Cool J, and then blew the whole set up when he was done. The result is a movie that has absolutely no business being this entertaining — and yet... Here we are. Greg and Joe travel back to a...
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The Rock
Our most-requested movie is celebrating its 30th anniversary! It's the kind of movie where a cable car inextricably flies straight up into air out of nowhere... A scene so amazing that Isaac Slade calls in to premiere a sequel to his Fray hit "Over My Head (Cable Car)" right here on this episode!...
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Program Note: New episode coming this week!
A brand new episode on 1996's The Rock(!!!) is coming later this week, with some very special appearances from David Hallgren and Isaac Slade.
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Furious 6: Our 2nd Anniversary!
Tanks, the longest runway ever, and one perfect (albeit pants optional) trilogy. We’re celebrating our 2nd anniversary with what might just be the greatest bad movie we’ve ever covered. That’s right — after Fast and Furious got us started two years ago, and Fast Five blew our minds at our 1-year...
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The Gray Man w/ David Hallgren
This week on White Pants, Trash-Staches and Leaning Lloyd®: Greg and Joe are joined by special guest David Hallgren (a true Gray Man expert who's seen this movie 11 times) to dive into the Russo Brothers' 2022 action spectacular — a $200 million Netflix gamble that continues to pay out for…
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Oscars! F1: The Movie
In celebration of the Oscars and Best Picture nominees of 2025, Greg and Joe buckle up for Joseph Kosinski's F1 — a movie that Greg saw three times and loved every second of, while Joe wanted to "bang his head into a wall to erase the memory of watching it." Brad Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, an...
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The Hitman's Bodyguard
This week on Exploding Cars, Singing Nuns and Quipping Killers: Greg and Joe tackle 2017's The Hitman's Bodyguard, a movie that asks the age-old question: What if Deadpool and Nick Fury had to road trip together while everyone tried to kill them? Ryan Reynolds plays Michael Bryce, a once-elite...
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Audience Pick: Air Force One
It's the episode you literally voted for, so this week democracy wins. We hesitantly got on peak dad-hero Harrison Ford's Air Force One (and he seemed a little grumpy about it, tbh.) It feels a lot like The Fugitive, but with more neck-snapping, and the delightfully unhinged Gary Oldman as a...
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Salt
What if your entire life was a lie, but also you're really good at parkour? Salt is a movie four years ahead of its time and about eleven different cuts ahead of Greg and Joe truly understanding it. They discuss how this spy thriller delivers John Wick-level action sequences but with a plot that...
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John Wick: Chapter 2
John-uary returns!! This year we're celebrating with the sequel that asks: "What if EVERYONE in New York City was secretly an assassin?" Chapter 2 expands the Wickiverse in every direction—more gold coins, more secret rules, more secret rooms behind secret rooms, and a hotel staff that has seen...
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1st Annual Golden Helicopter Awards
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...
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Rampage w/ Moira Macdonald (Seattle Times) and David Hallgren
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…
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Skyfall
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. Subscribe to Great Bad Movies wherever you…
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Next
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…
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A House of Dynamite
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 movie that answers some questions, and seriously DOESN'T answer others. The result? A new category of movie for this podcast! Subscribe to Great Bad Movies...
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Deja Vu
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...
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Greg's Pick: Game Night
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. Greg and Joe roll the dice on 2018’s Game Night, the sharp, fast, and...
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Sam's Pick: Inception
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...
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Joe's Pick: Kate
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...
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Live Free or Die Hard w/ Isaac Slade (The Fray)
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...
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Nobody
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...
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Point Break
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.)…
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The Transporter
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. Subscribe to Great Bad Movies wherever you listen to podcasts More Great Bad Movies online…
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The Old Guard
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. Subscribe to Great…
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TENET
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...
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Mission:Impossible - The Final Reckoning
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® 😀 Subscribe to Great Bad Movies wherever you listen to podcasts...