Nearly three decades after Tom Cruise first dangled from the ceiling in that iconic vault scene, we're diving deep into the original Mission Impossible film to answer one burning question: does this 90s action thriller still hold up in 2025?

This mission, should you choose to accept it, is to join us in determining whether the original Mission Impossible still deserves its place in the action movie hall of fame, or if this message should self-destruct.

Watch the "Alan Silvestri" version of the train scene here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL02MuItMXI

📖 CHAPTERS 📖

00:00 Intro

01:03 The dissection begins...

38:50 Cool vs Nostalgia Results

The eternal struggle is fought here between what is genuinely cool and timeless for every generation versus those things that are pure nostalgia and only seem great because of your childhood memories. Whether it’s Ghostbusters, Star Wars, James Bond, Super Mario, Star Trek, or Marvel Comics vs DC, we cover all our favorite things from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s. After each of us present an item related to the episode’s topic, the group votes to decide whether it is still Cool or Just Nostalgic.

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30 years later, is Pierce Brosnan's debut as James Bond still as explosive as that iconic tank chase through St. Petersburg? In this episode, we're putting GoldenEye under the microscope to determine if this 90s action classic holds up in 2025 or if we're just blinded by nostalgia.

It's been a while since our last episode, but we're back and with a new format! Let us know what you think of it.

📖 CHAPTERS 📖

00:00 Welcome back!

01:06 The dissection begins...

35:04 Cool vs Nostalgia Results

The eternal struggle is fought here between what is genuinely cool and timeless for every generation versus those things that are pure nostalgia and only seem great because of your childhood memories. Whether it’s Ghostbusters, Star Wars, James Bond, Super Mario, Star Trek, or Marvel Comics vs DC, we cover all our favorite things from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s. After each of us present an item related to the episode’s topic, the group votes to decide whether it is still Cool or Just Nostalgic.

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TAGS: Nostalgia Critic, Detective Comics, Best things from our childhood, Best Movies of the 1970s, Best Movies of the 1980s, Best Movies of the 1990s, Best TV Shows of the 1970s, Best TV Shows of the 1980s, Best TV Shows of the 1990s, Vintage Toys, Retro, Classics Cinema, Throwback

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Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Robots with Guns

This week, we cover some movie sequels from the 80’s and 90’s to see how they standup to the original and do they still hold up as a good movie today?

The eternal struggle is fought here between what is genuinely cool and timeless for every generation versus those things that are pure nostalgia and only seem great because of your childhood memories. Whether it’s Ghostbusters, Star Wars, James Bond, Super Mario, Star Trek, or Marvel Comics vs DC, we cover all our favorite things from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s. After each of us present an item related to the episode’s topic, the group votes to decide whether it is still Cool or Just Nostalgic.

Every two weeks we’ll bring a theme to the episode that Jeffrey, Michael, Andy, and Mike will have to present a topic for voting related to that theme. We will state our case on things like Nintendo, Retro Arcades, Throwback Songs of the 70s, 80, 90s, and early 2000s, or even cars from film and television. Will we sway to others to believe our topic is still cool? Or will they vote that our love for it is simply nostalgia?

TAGS: Nostalgia Critic, Detective Comics, Best things from our childhood, Best Movies of the 1970s, Best Movies of the 1980s, Best Movies of the 1990s, Best TV Shows of the 1970s, Best TV Shows of the 1980s, Best TV Shows of the 1990s, Vintage Toys, Retro, Classics Cinema, Throwback, Movie Reboot, TV Show Reboot, TV Series Reboot, Television Reboot, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Last Crusade, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Dial of Destiny, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, George Lucas, A New Hope, Return of the Jedi, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6, Episode IV, Episode V, Episode VI, Star Wars Trilogy, Mark Hamill, Irvin Kershner, Phil Tippett, Peter Weller, Paul Verhoeven, Starship Troopers, James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, T-800, T-1000, Time travel