2 Dads 1 Movie
by Steve Paulo & Nic Briana
TV & FilmE · Explicit
Latest episode
Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Grumpy Old Men (1993)
About this podcast
2 Dads 1 Movie is a podcast where two middle-aged dads sit around and shoot the shit about the movies of the '80s and '90s. One each episode.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 86 episodes
- Grumpy Old Men (1993) · 1 h 1 min · Episode 86Two cranky old neighbors in Minnesota, a lifetime of pranks, and Ann-Margret showing up across the street on a snowmobile at two in the morning. That’s Grumpy Old Men (1993), and…
- Scream (1996) · 1 h 13 min · Episode 85Steve’s sleep paralysis demon looks exactly like Drew Barrymore, so the opening of Scream is less a horror movie for him and more a nature documentary. He picked it anyway. Wes…
- The Fly (1986) · 1 h 2 min · Episode 84A scientist teleports a baboon inside out, and somehow that’s the thing that gets the romance going. Welcome to David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986), the third stop on…
- Se7en (1995) · 1 h 14 min · Episode 83It’s not technically a horror movie, but as Steve says right out of the gate, it’s scary as fuck in so many ways. That’s Se7en, David Fincher’s 1995 trip through a rain-soaked…
- The 'Burbs (1989) · 1 h 1 min · Episode 82Tom Hanks has a week off work, a new neighbor who drives his garbage to the end of the driveway, and a firm plan to stay home and drink "a couple hundred beers." That's The…
- Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) · 1 h 18 min · Episode 81What if a hitman went to his 10-year high school reunion? That's the entire pitch for George Armitage's 1997 action-rom-com Grosse Pointe Blank, and Steve thinks it's so perfect…
- Breakdown (1997) · 1 h 9 min · Episode 80A guy's Jeep dies in the Arizona desert, his wife hops in a friendly trucker's cab to go call a tow, and then she just never comes back. That's Breakdown (1997), Jonathan…
- The Princess Bride (1987) · 1 h 19 min · Episode 79Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride (1987) is Steve's pick, and for him it's less a movie than a load-bearing wall. He caught it on TV before he was ten, spent high school and…
- Do the Right Thing (1989) · 1 h 38 min · Episode 78Seventy-eight episodes into a show about '80s and '90s movies, Nic realized they had never once done a Spike Lee. Then a buddy of his (white guy, mid-forties, Seattle) mentioned…
- Mallrats (1995) · 1 h 4 min · Episode 77Kevin Smith followed Clerks with actual Miramax money, a whole mall, and Stan Lee, and thirty years later the result still splits every room it enters. Mallrats (1995) is Steve's…
- A Few Good Men (1992) · 1 h 28 min · Episode 76Nic's wife Jeanie has seen A Few Good Men at least ten times all the way through, and she stops for it every single time it turns up on television, so when she leaned on Nic to…
- So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993) · 1 h 18 min · Episode 75Steve didn't fall in love with So I Married an Axe Murderer so much as marry into it. He caught the 1993 Mike Myers comedy in high school, thought "that wasn't bad," and moved…
- Bloodsport (1988) · 1 h 14 min · Episode 74Every kid who ever fed quarters into a Street Fighter II cabinet owes something to Bloodsport (1988), a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie made for $1.5 million that pulled in $63.5…
- Summer Rental (1985) · 1 h 5 min · Episode 73There's a certain kind of movie you watched a thousand times as a kid on a VHS tape you personally wore out, and then discovered nobody else on earth remembers. For Steve, that's…
- The Fifth Element (1997) · 1 h 17 min · Episode 72In 1997, Luc Besson spent $90 million on a movie about a New York cab driver, a supreme being in thermal bandages, and four elemental stones that spend the entire runtime in the…
- The Big Lebowski (1998) · 1 h 34 min · Episode 71In 1998 the Coen Brothers spent $15 million on a shaggy detective story where almost nothing happens, a rug gets peed on, and a middle-aged stoner named the Dude drinks nine…
- First Blood (1982) · 1 h 3 min · Episode 70In 1982, a drifter walks into a small Washington town looking for lunch and leaves it looking like a war zone. That's the setup for First Blood, Nic's pick this week, and the…
- The Birdcage (1996) · 1 h 5 min · Episode 69The Birdcage is Steve's pick, and it's not close: this is a movie he and his wife Heather have been quoting to each since they first met, Steve having fallen in love with it as a…
- Troop Beverly Hills (1989) · 1 h 6 min · Episode 68Shelley Long struts through 1989's Troop Beverly Hills in a fur coat, a cigarette holder, and a Rolls-Royce convertible, playing a soon-to-be-divorced socialite who takes over…
- Tombstone (1993) · 1 h 24 min · Episode 67Tombstone (1993) is thirty-three years old, R-rated, and apparently the rare nineties western that's stayed alive the old-fashioned way, through pure word-of-mouth quotability…
