Episode 488: Top Summer Movies of 1995-99

07/07/21 • 101 min

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As Will Smith would tell us, it's truly summer summer summer time... and once again, it's time to sit back and unwind, especially with our list of summer films from 1995 to 1999!

And once again, the task it too big to take on with just Mikey and Dave (with #TwitterlessDrEarl still saving the lives of those beach goers, this time in the Cozumel sea), so returning to the show is the legend, the myth, the master, the Kwan, the e ching, the pride of Albany, GA, WRYFN radio Disc Jockey, Wolfman Ryfun!!

And the topic are those movies released between Memorial Day to Labor Day in each of 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999... and if you are Scotty Ryfun, you even stretch those rules a bit.

Some of the conversation includes Dennis Hopper bad guys... Gary Busey in general... Solo cups... Bowfinger... liking Attack of the Clones a lot... seeing Red Tails... Jim Carrey's dark turn... Ep I's stretching the rules... Nic Cage's holy triumvirate...

Blade (1998) - HBO Max
The Cable Guy (1996) - HBO Max
Clueless (1995) - HBO Max
Con Air (1997) - for rental
Hercules (1997) - Disney+
Independence Day (1996) - HBO Max
Indian in the Cupboard (1995) - Hulu; EPIX
Johnny Dangerously (1984) - for rental
Mission: Impossible (1996) - FX Now
Out of Sight (1998) - Starz
The Rock (1996) - for rental
Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Showtime
The Sixth Sense (1999) - for rental
Snake Eyes (1998) - HBO Max
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) - Disney+
Tin Cup (1996) - HBO Max
The Truman Show (1998) - for rental
Waterworld (1995) - Peacock Premium

As Will Smith would tell us, it's truly summer summer summer time... and once again, it's time to sit back and unwind, especially with our list of summer films from 1995 to 1999!

And the topic are those movies released between Memorial Day to Labor Day in each of 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999... and if you are Scotty Ryfun, you even stretch those rules a bit.

Blade (1998) - HBO Max
The Cable Guy (1996) - HBO Max
Clueless (1995) - HBO Max
Con Air (1997) - for rental
Hercules (1997) - Disney+
Independence Day (1996) - HBO Max
Indian in the Cupboard (1995) - Hulu; EPIX
Johnny Dangerously (1984) - for rental
Mission: Impossible (1996) - FX Now
Out of Sight (1998) - Starz
The Rock (1996) - for rental
Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Showtime
The Sixth Sense (1999) - for rental
Snake Eyes (1998) - HBO Max
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) - Disney+
Tin Cup (1996) - HBO Max
The Truman Show (1998) - for rental
Waterworld (1995) - Peacock Premium

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Episode 487: Top Summer Movies of 1990-94

The heat is hot, the years roll by, the summer movies pile up, and the list gets better and better? What does that all mean? Heck if we know... but we do know that after 486 episodes, it was time to have on local Ghostbusters expert and awesome southern boy Brock Parker, co-host of the Bama Geeks Podcast!

Brock joins Dave & Mikey (Dr Earl being away on medical missions... at the beach...) as they first do a little Box Office Mojo about money makers in the 1990s... then they move onto the Top Summer Films of 1990 to 1994, any movie released from Memorial Day to Labor Day in each of those years.

Amongst the random topics...

The South Alabama Brock/d$ connection... The video wars between Blu Ray and HDDVD... Howie Long's acting prowess... Brock's Little Mermaid story... The Jack Ryan multi-verse... who returns for Young Guns III... seeing movies on Troy's campus... the Forrest Gump soundtrack... the best Alan Rickman??... the best Ghostbuster song??... are Ghostbuster superfans looking forward to the new film... and Wolverine's F bomb...

And the infamous Mikey makes Ernie Hudson break down incident...

Movies discussed and where to find them at the time of podcast recording:

Back to the Future III (1990) - entire trilogy on Netflix
Broken Arrow (1996) - for rental
Cleaning Up the Town: Ghostbusters Remembered (2020) - Chicken Soup for the Soul's Crackle
Dead Again (1991) - for rental
Dick Tracy (1990) - for rental
Forrest Gump (1994) - for rental
The Fugitive (1993) - for rental
Hard Target (1993) - for rental
Jurassic Park (1993) - Peacock
Mo' Money (1992) - Amazon Prime
Patriot Games (1992) - Peacock Premium
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) - HBO Max; TubiTV
Sleepless in Seattle (1993) - Showtime
So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) - Starz
T2: Judgement Day (1991) - for rental
TOMBSTONE!!! (1993) - for rental
Wyatt Earp - who cares. watch Tombstone instead
Young Guns 2 - (1990) for rental

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Episode 489: Top Summer Movies of 2000-2004

The summer is half over, and the summer series is rounding the corner toward the homestretch (that's a baseball metaphor for you folks out there). Mikey and Dave, again sans #TwitterlessDrEarl, take up the mantle of more summer cinema, this time the best from Memorial Day to Labor Day of 2000 to 2004, and the guys bring back Miss Independent himself Jeremy Burgess to the show.

After catching up with The Burgeler (new reality show premiered this Fall on ABC), they play a little 2000s themed Rotten Tomatoes game, with the possible first time mention of "Shark Tale" ever on the podcast (and maybe the first time since the early 2000s anyone has thought of it), then onto the Top Five.

Nic Cage and Costner both make random appearances, and Spielberg films about airports and pre-cognitions also show up. Plus, the lower of the Mission Impossibles, Jamie Foxx and his Collateral, the beginning of the super hero era, Harry Potter shows up, Nicole Kidman's classics, Jay and Silent Bob go after their MoFo movie check, and the Black Pearl.

And Dougray Scott. Or Doogray, as it may be.

Movies mentioned, and where they are streaming at the time of our recording:

Collateral (2004) - for rental
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) - Amazon Prime
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) - for rental
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) - for rental
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) - HBO Max
Minority Report (2002) - Amazon Prime
Mission: Impossible II (2000) - FX Now; Paramount+
Open Range (2003) - Hulu
The Others (2001) - for rental
The Patriot (2000) - Netflix
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) - Disney+
Sexy Beast (2001) - for rental
Spider-Man 2 (2004) - Starz
The Terminal (2004) - Netflix; Amazon Prime; Chicken Soup for the Soul's Crackle
28 Days Later (2002) - Hulu; Paramount+ ; EPIX
X-Men (2000) - for rental
X2: X-Men United (2003) - Disney+