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We Are Not Young Anymore
by Drew Mackie
We looked at the overcrowded world of pop culture podcasts and said, "Hey, why not us too?" Together we revisit the films that blew our minds as dumb kids and reflect on them with our mid-thirties brains. Are they as good as we remember, or were we just too young to know they were bad?
Episodes
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Episode 21: Hairspray (with Gwynedd Stuart)
John Waters' first PG-rated feature opened quietly in 1988 but never really left pop culture. Thirty years later (and three re-interpretations down the line), Chris and Drew re-watch this glossy, dippy movie about big hair, big dances and big racism, and Gwynedd Stuart joins them to ask if this...
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Episode 20: The Wedding Singer (with Grae Drake)
Adam Sandler celebrated Valentine's Day 1998 with an unusual follow-up to Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison: a date movie that showcased his considerable chemistry with Drew Barrymore. The Wedding Singer and its soundtrack helped kickstart a love for '80s nostalgia that still hasn't died, but does…
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Episode 19: Spice World (with David Russell)
Who actually remembers Spice World? Well, in our first episode of 2018, we'll tell you that David Russell, pop music expert and manager to Sia, saw it opening weekend, and he's happy to discuss the film as it was received back in the day — as well as Madonna, Bananarama and Cathy Dennis. Is this…
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Bonus Episode: Welcome to Season Two
And... we're back! Before we jump headlong into our lineup for season two of We Are Not Young Anymore, Chris and Drew talk about their top picks from 1983, 1988, 1993 and 1998 — the years all this season's movies will be hitting major milestone anniversaries. Some of these will get whole episodes...
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Episode 18: Titanic (with Louis Virtel)
Twenty years ago this week, a three-hour tour turned into one of the biggest movie events of all time. Since, Titanic has remained in the public consciousness, but does it deserve its success (and boatloads of billions)? Writer and comedian Louis Virtel joins Chris and Drew to talk about Leonardo...
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Episode Seventeen: Scream 2
Twenty years before Laurie Metcalf started getting Oscar buzz, she played Scream 2's Mrs. Loomis, the kookoo-bananas matriarch of one of horror's great murder families. But does the slasher sequel hold up? Ira Madison III — writer and totally not a pundit — joins Drew and Chris for a discussion…
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Episode Sixteen: Three Men and a Baby
This is a movie about three men — heterosexual but cohabitating — who raise an abandoned baby while fending off a drug cartel. Three Men and a Baby was also the highest-grossing movie of 1987, and while critics and audiences loved it, Chris and Drew are hard-pressed to think of a single reason…
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Episode Fifteen: Aladdin
It only took Disney 55 years to animate a story about non-European characters, and we celebrate Aladdin's 25th anniversary by asking how well the House of Mouse handled characters who were slightly tan. The answer? It's a mixed bag, as far as racial stereotypes and gender roles are concerned, and...
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Episode Fourteen: I Know What You Did Last Summer
Journalist Katherine Spiers joins Chris and Drew for a discussion of the best fish-themed thriller of 1997, when the success of Scream led producers to say "Hey, let's put that other actress from Party of Five in a horror movie." (No, not Lacey Chabert.) And while I Know What You Did Last Summer...
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Episode Thirteen: Return to Oz
Ask anyone who saw 1985's Return to Oz when they were a kid, and they'll probably remember it being scary. It *is* scary. (Princess Mombi is basically perfect nightmare fuel.) But in this episode, Chris, Drew and guest host Glen Lakin talk about how it's also a better movie that its reputation...
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Episode Twelve: Fatal Attraction
That poor bunny got tossed onto the stove 30 years ago this week, and Chris and Drew are observing the anniversary with special guest Roth Cornet, talking about all the ways the American conversation about sex, gender and mental health has changed and hasn't changed. But can we all agree that…
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Episode Eleven: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
What is there to say about the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie in light of the cult favorite TV series that followed it? Drew and Chris attempt to pick out what's still notable about Buffy 1.0, with special guest Heather Wixson, self-described horror chick and unabashed Luke Perry fangirl....
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Episode Ten: The Brave Little Toaster
The unsung Disney classic The Brave Little Toaster recently turned 30, and Drew and Chris exhume it to sing its praises. Did it really help bring about Toy Story? Is it the saddest Disney animated epic ever? And does guest host Nikol Hasler have the most depressing memories of watching and...
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Episode Nine: Death Becomes Her
Chris and Drew celebrate the 25th anniversary of a movie that can only be described as What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? meets The Evil Dead. But a quarter century later, do we remember Death Becomes Her for its incisive critique of the cult of beauty? Or do we just remember Meryl Streep's head...
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Episode Eight: A League of Their Own
Twenty-five years later, A League of Their Own isn't just the movie that introduced the world to Rosie O'Donnell. It's also a still-rare example of a women's sports flick, it's a smash hit that was directed by a woman, and it's the one good movie Madonna has ever made. Special guest Michelle Lanz...
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Episode Seven: Batman & Robin
Twenty years after it farted up up theaters, Batman & Robin has been dragged through the mud again and again. And it's a flawed film, sure, but a lot of criticism of this movie (and of director Joel Schumacher) whiffs of homophobia. At least Uma Thurman's performance is kinda good, right?
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Episode Six: Batman Returns
Drew and Chris discuss Tim Burton's second Batman outing, beloved by diehards and gay Catwoman fans alike. However, Batman Returns wasn't the financial success you might have thought. And although Michelle Pfeiffer's Selena Kyle might be the best-ever on the big screen, it's not without some...
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Episode Five: Willow
In 1988, George Lucas and Ron Howard attempted to launch a medieval fantasy franchise to rival Star Wars and Indiana Jones. It... didn't work, but that's not to say that Willow was a disaster. Drew and Chris talk about the film's highs and lows, how it's a secretly feminist flick and how it's...
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Episode Four: Twister
Does Helen Hunt's 1996 weather-based action movie hold up all these years later? No. It sucks. Please don't watch it. It deserves no more of anyone's money.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We looked at the overcrowded world of pop culture podcasts and said, "Hey, why not us too?" Together we revisit the films that blew our minds as dumb kids and reflect on them with our mid-thirties brains. Are they as good as we remember, or were we just too young to know they were bad?
HOSTED BY
Drew Mackie
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We looked at the overcrowded world of pop culture podcasts and said, "Hey, why not us too?" Together we revisit the films that blew our minds as dumb kids and reflect on them with our mid-thirties brains. Are they as good as we remember, or were we just too young to know they were bad?
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