Atomic Blonde

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 film. Stay to the end, where someone has put a Thomas the Tank Engine sticker on Greg’s forehead and he wants answers.If you’d like to advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail [email protected] to Great Bad Movies wherever you listen to podcastsMore Great Bad Movies online:InstagramGreat Bad Movies WebsiteYouTubeEmail us at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Schwarzenegger is John Matrix, a retired Special Forces colonel who has to rescue his daughter (Alyssa Milano) from his former unit. Rae Dawn Chong is the flight attendant who gets dragged along, Vernon Wells is Bennett (and his chain-mail vest), and Bill Duke is in it, which is more than enough. Mark Lester directs a script from Steven E. de Souza.This one is personal. Joe first saw it on VHS in West Virginia, and Greg wonders whether this is where Great Bad Movies actually began: two kids watching one man take on an entire army and deciding that was the best thing they'd ever seen. Does it hold up? Not by today's standards, but the nostalgia is real."It's not good. At all. And yet, if you asked me to watch it RIGHT NOW, I wouldn't hesitate to say yes."- Joe Sky-Tucker, 2026 If you’d like to advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail [email protected] to Great Bad Movies wherever you listen to podcastsMore Great Bad Movies online:InstagramGreat Bad Movies WebsiteYouTubeEmail us at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. So this is a one-of-a-kind episode, where all of our assumptions were proven true... He is exactly the kind of person you'd want to spend some time with, talking about Great Bad Movies. It's Sam Cunningham, everybody. And he's seriously the best.If you’d like to advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail [email protected] to Great Bad Movies wherever you listen to podcastsMore Great Bad Movies online:InstagramGreat Bad Movies WebsiteYouTubeEmail us at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 face. Joe may or may not call an actor in this movie "a modern Willem Dafoe." If you’d like to advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail [email protected] to Great Bad Movies wherever you listen to podcastsMore Great Bad Movies online:InstagramGreat Bad Movies WebsiteYouTubeEmail us at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 to make one of the best movies of all time. Wait, is Hugh Grant in it? He is, so we’re good. When you smoosh all that together, this is probably the easiest Great Great Movie award we’ve ever handed out. So grab some overly hot tea and join us for a discussion about DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES. Hold on… Is Jarnathan here? Let’s wait for Jarnathan, obviously.If you’d like to advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail [email protected] to Great Bad Movies wherever you listen to podcastsMore Great Bad Movies online:InstagramGreat Bad Movies WebsiteYouTubeEmail us at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"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 plot twists, and a cast better than any other movie you've ever seen. Is someone punched with a toaster? Listen, we can't spoil everything. But yes.It also features: A single-take(ish) 10 minute stairwell fight and car chase. A massive perfect ice cube budget. Pants-incurious people. So much more. If you’d like to advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail [email protected] to Great Bad Movies wherever you listen to podcastsMore Great Bad Movies online:InstagramGreat Bad Movies WebsiteYouTubeEmail us at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 [email protected] to Great Bad Movies wherever you listen to podcastsMore Great Bad Movies online:InstagramGreat Bad Movies WebsiteYouTubeEmail us at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 us, please e-mail [email protected] to Great Bad Movies wherever you listen to podcastsMore Great Bad Movies online:InstagramGreat Bad Movies WebsiteYouTubeEmail us at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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] to Great Bad Movies wherever you listen to podcastsMore Great Bad Movies online:InstagramGreat Bad Movies WebsiteYouTubeEmail us at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.