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Jingle All The Way - Old Millennials Remember Movies Podcast

Jingle All The Way – ep 27 – OMRM – 1996

There are bad Christmas movies, and then there’s “Jingle All the Way,” a movie worthy of its own awful category. “Normal guy” Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a lazy dad to the future Darth Vader, and comedian Sinbad plays a deranged terrorist. Ho Ho Hilarity ensues. Their kids want rare Turbo Man action figures for Christmas… well […]

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Home Alone – OMRM – ep 26 – 1990

Kevin McAllister is left Home Alone for Christmas, and the Old Millennials don’t think it was an accident. We know Uncle Frank is a creep, and that Kevin’s brother Buzz is headed for juvie, but let’s not forget about absentee father-of-the-year Peter McAllister (RIP John Heard) and the great Milking-of-Kevin’s-Airplane-Ticket Incident of 1990. He left Kevin there on purpose! “Home Alone” was a classic growing up, so we have a lot to discuss — Angels with Filthy Souls, Macaulay Culkin Fever, lazy Chicago cops, the John Hughes Canon, Wet Bandit logic, John Candy (RIP!) improv, deleted scenes and why the snotty pizza guy might be the MVP of the whole movie. Okay, that last one might be a stretch, but it’s Old Millennials Remember (Christmas) Movies!

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Serendipity – OMRM – ep 25 – 2001

Old Millennials Remember Movies, Podcasts / Angela Yoshiko / December 15, 2018

Two selfish dreamers make a series of terrible decisions based on “signs” because “fate.” But, hey, it’s romantic! There are a couple of warm, Christmas-set scenes, an idealized version of New York City, and John Cusack pushing that classic Cusack-Charm to its absolute limit. Look, it’s a bad movie, but maybe, just maybe, the world

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Scrooged – ep 24 – OMRM – 1988

Old Millennials Remember Movies, Podcasts / Angela Yoshiko / December 5, 2018

Bill Murray and Christmas. It should be a great fit. Heck, Bill Murray and anything is a great fit. So what happened with “Scrooged”? It’s a dark, comedic (?), very 1980s revival of “A Christmas Carol” with Murray firing ad libs with reckless abandon. There are a couple of iconic moments here, but also 90

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