Big Boys Don't Cry is a weekly podcast in which Paddy Johnston & Rob Gordon discuss a film (usually with romance in), as well as catching up about culture, politics, video games and nonsense.
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It’s finally time for us to get down with Wes Anderson, as we take a deep dive into the coast of the beautiful islands of his cult film Moonrise Kingdom. We also discuss motorsports, TOCA Touring Cars, Rebecca Black, and pay tribute to Tom Selleck, the greatest man who ever lived. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
How long could you survive on alone on a spaceship before becoming a weird creep? Hopefully longer than Chris Pratt in Passengers! We do a deep dive into this interesting and flawed film on this episode, and also discuss Silvio Berlusconi, Daft Punk, Jurassic World and James Gunn. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Neither of us can sleep in this heat, so we decided to watch Sleepless in Seattle! We come up with a new film idea, Opposite Day, celebrate Rob’s birthday, and also discuss DVD commentaries, Chumbawumba and Jona Lewie. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In a vain attempt to combat the ongoing UK heatwave, we decided to watch a film involving snow this week, so that’s how we ended up with Chalet Girl! We also discuss stripping wallpaper, 90s fashion, Danny Dyer’s future career, and dancing to Gregorian chant. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Stop all the clocks! It’s time to take a trip back to 1994, when the Super Nintendo was the best console, and Richard Curtis smashed the box office with Four Weddings and a Funeral. We discuss Paddy’s heat-related meanness, vanilla ice cream, ‘adequate food,’ angry owls, and have a long debate about the Harry Potter universe and whether wizards are actually bad people. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
This week’s episode is all about the trashy romantic comedy P.S. I Love You, a film which has given us the biggest difference between Rob and Paddy’s ratings in the history of this podcast. We also talk Irish stereotypes, thin-skinned billionaires, and TERFs. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We’re in love with The Shape of Water! Guillermo Del Toro’s Oscar-winning masterpiece is our film of choice this week, so we talk in-depth about romance between man and fish. We also discuss the chaos in the Tory party, the bigger chaos of the Brexit bin fire, and Paddy is forced once again to be a Sheeran apologist. Key Lime Pie is debated, as is Dog the Bounty Hunter. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
It’s time for another Netflix original this week, as we hit the recently uploaded romantic comedy Set it Up! We talk about how Netflix’s original comedies compare with their series and documentaries, bring back the Scooby Doo chat, talk about Love Island, and celebrate the joy of fake baseball player names from old Japanese video games. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
We return to podcast favourite Julia Stiles this week with a discussion of Save the Last Dance, a film neither of us had seen before and a classic MTV production. We also spend a lot of time discussing Elon Musk and The Wire, count down to Paddy’s birthday, and exploring our options for future podcast sponsorship. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Things can only get better this week, as we follow the lowest rated film in podcast history with a much better film: 21 Jump Street! We talk dumb action comedies, Ice Cube, pop music’s confusion around getting up and getting down, explosions, and doves. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hold on to your swimming trunks, romance fans…it’s the lowest rated film in podcast history this week, as we watch Baywatch (2017)! We discuss Rock The Dwayne Johnson and The Efronator at length, and also talk about body fascism, Love Island, entitled stans, the fucking World Cup, Rob’s Twitter fame, and what Jean-Luc Godard should be doing in the twilight of his career (hint: working with Justin Bieber). Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
Want to party like it’s 1999? Then don’t watch this movie! This week we’re disappointed by forgettable late 90s mediocrity bomb Never Been Kissed. We also talk Paul Dacre, SOLO: A Star Wars Story, Seinfeld, turning 30, how we can secretly stay in the EU after Brexit, and we give an update on the #CageChallenge prize. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Do you wanna go? Do you? We do! This week’s episode is all about bombastic, fake nonsense, as we discuss The Greatest Showman. We also talk about musicals in general, adapting from the stage to the screen, the Air Bud Cinematic Universe, and Rob has unpopular opinions about Baz Luhrmann. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Still hanging over from the Royal Wedding, this week it’s all about fakery as we discuss the underrated Ryan Gosling film Lars and the Real Girl. We also talk royalism, eating swans, creepypasta, Adam Sandlerisms, and Paddy’s somewhat harebrained theory that no film with the name of the central character in the title ever does as well as it should. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Just like the rest of the world, we’ve got Royal Wedding Fever, and what better way to scratch the itch than to watch a tacky made for TV movie about Meghan and Harry? We talk about Lifetime’s Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance and how it stacks up against its predecessor, William and Kate: The Movie, and also discuss gammon, Enya, the Air Bud Cinematic Universe, Lars von Trier, and geese. Happy Royal Wedding to you all! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Ac...
This week’s episode is a huge disaster! Not because we aren’t on our usual great form, but because we discuss James Cameron’s highly influential and lengthy disaster-romance, Titanic. We also discuss gardening, gnomes, incels, firm tofu, Vanilla Ice, Nickelback, pan pipes, the profound effect The Scorpion King had on impressionable teenage Paddy, and launch our campaign to provide #Justice4Fabrizio, the character who gets crushed by the ship in Titanic and whose poorly written characterisation n...
Happy Birthday to us! We’ve been podcasting for a whole year, and to celebrate we watched the 1984 Prince vehicle Purple Rain. We also discuss local council elections, no-platforming, GG Allin, David Bowie, Chocolate Rain, the terrible nonsense of Morrissey and Kanye, and the majesty of Miami Connection. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
It’s an extra special week as, for the first time, one of us awards a film full marks! But which one of us gives the accolade to Alex Garland’s Ex Machina? Listen in to find out! We also discuss playing songs backwards to discover Satanic messages, the redemption of Michael Bay (Michael Bae?) and doing the right thing. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
We’ve somehow made it to 50 episodes, and what better way to celebrate than by watching something completely different to our usual fare and discussing the beautiful garbage that is Jupiter Ascending? Witness the majesty of this insane film as we take you on a journey through space and time, and discuss gammon, punching fascists, star signs and much more! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Life Partners can come in many different forms. Like a podcast with two lovely dudes, or an enjoyable and underrated indie comedy film! We discuss the film in this episode, along with a highly effective alternative to the sugar tax, the new centrist party, Will Ferrell and wrestling in the House of Lords. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
This week we try to make Fetch happen as we watch the major pop cultural gem Mean Girls! We also discuss Easter chocolate, political correctness, Twitter outrage, whether film trailers are actually all bad, and return to our takedown of anti-intellectual intellectual Jordan Peterson. We also announce the much anticipated winner of the #CageChallenge! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
It’s a Disney special this week, as we argue about the live action Cinderall vs the live action Beauty and the Beast! We also discuss sports video games, Metallica, whether geese can drive or not, and come up with an amazing amount of ideas for new Disney and Star Wars films. Enough that Disney will be sending us a cheque soon. Unfortunately there’s a crackle on Rob’s audio that starts about 40 minutes in that can’t be edited out. Sorry about that. We’ll be back to normal next week. Support this...
The time has come to honour our spiritual king, Nicolas Cage! As well as discussing the boring and droopy Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, we also discuss some current films including Black Panther, The Shape of Water, Tomb Raider and Paddington 2, and give Liam Neeson a telling off. But most importantly, this episode sees the launch of the #CageChallenge! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
It’s time to weep, as we watched devastating speculative romance-drama Never Let Me Go this week, and cried some real tears. We also discuss how to soundcheck properly, gig etiquette, music festivals, good novels and spleens, and there’s follow-up on salty dog-man Winston Churchill. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Don’t go wasting your emotion, listen to this podcast! With a lot of love for Pierce Brosnan, we talked about Mamma Mia! for this week’s episode. There’s also some Oscars chat, some Brexit chat as usual, and we discuss the British institution that is Take Me Out. This episode also contains a bumper crop of ideas for new films and jukebox musicals. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
If you don’t know this week’s film, you’re a greenhorn! It’s another sixties outing this week, as we watched the Audrey Hepburn & Cary Grant classic Charade. Paddy also comes down with the affliction of a curious inability to pronounce Alfred Hitchcock’s name, and we discuss stupid people’s smart people, Cloverfield, Tayto crisps and Dave Benson Philips’ inevitable entry into the House of Lords in the future. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See ...
We paid a visit to Yorkshire this week, or as it’s called in film, God’s Own Country! Last year’s excellent movie of the same name is discussed, along with sheep’s cheese, hedgehog crisps, marmite, and lots of other glorious crap your hosts were eating back in the 90s. We also declare that Winston Churchill was ‘tangy like a good Cheddar.’ There’s more poetry in that line than in the whole of Darkest Hour. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...
On this episode we discuss the wedding film of the century, Table 19. But what happened on the other 18 tables? Listen in to find out! We also discuss hamsters, watching films on planes, gammon (as in middle-aged men), the Cleveland baseball team, Disney songs, TV shows about doctors, and how all fans are bad. Stop liking things. Stop it. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
It’s our 40th episode, and to celebrate, we’re giving the people what they want and discussing fan request Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (or The Very Thought of You). We also discuss TED Talks for mice, have a long chat about Pokémon, get philosophical about the future of storytelling, and pay tribute to Ursula Le Guin. The song at the end of the episode is the new single by our band, Palomino Club! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acas...
What would you do if the world was going to end in 21 days? Hopefully not end up in a forced and boring romance! We discuss the 2012 slightly below-the-radar film Seeking a Friend for the End of the World in this episode, and we also argue about mumbling pixie dream boy Michael Cera, diss Damien Hirst, and make a plan to drive around insulting people we don’t like in the shadow of the apocalypse, starting with Jacob Rees-Mogg (aka Walter from the Beano). There’s also an all-important update on o...
