Just Play It

Just Play It comes riiiiippin' back into action with the Ripster herself and lucky for all of you, there is no 57 year wait for this one. James & Nick board the Sulaco and gear up for battle as they watch, breakdown, and review the "greatest sequel of all time", Aliens (1986) directed by James Cameron.

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We bust out our pens and start journaling our inner monologues as we watch a Gen Z childhood classic, Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It's Just Play It's first watch of this coming of age comedy and we ask the questions: What the heck is Greg's problem? Why is Rowley such a GOATed friend? And when is Loded Diper's next gig? Get your weed whacker ready and throw on your serape, because it's about to get nutty... or better yet, cheesy.

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The boys are tux'd and suited up for this one. We tuned in live to the 98th Academy Awards in our very first livestream ever. We made our picks of the winners for 10 categories during our 'Best Picture' episode and now we find out live who was right and who was wrong. See our instant reactions to the hits and misses as we watch our televisions of Hollywood's biggest night.

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One flew east, one flew west, and Just Play It flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Just like Michael Keaton said to Jack Nicholson in 1989's batman, "LET'S GET NUTS!" We get a little looney with our Oscar Movie of the Year. The mythical wheel landed on the 48th Academy Awards' Best Picture Winner - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, blessing us with a first watch and review. We also do our annual Blind Oscar Picks for the upcoming 98th Academy Awards this weekend. Tune into our livestream or catch the show afterwards for the results on our YouTube...

Did you know that this was Michael Mann's theatrical directorial debut? Did you know they had real cops and robbers in this film? Did you even know this film existed? Well neither did we, which is why just played it. This week, Nick & James crack open a film called Thief starring James Caan to see if it can steal our attention and get away clean with our praise.

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On this episode, the X-Men meet the JPI-Men in the clash of the millennium. It's the concession stand kids vs the black leather mutants. James & Nick tackle the original X-Men trilogy in 2026 leading up to their appearance in Avengers: Doomsday. We discuss little known fun facts, the Bryan Singer controversy, and how this movie kicked off a quarter century run for Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. As good of a jumping off point this film was for superhero flicks, we can't help but think how much better it would've looked in yellow spandex.

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A new season means a new franchise of the year, and that year is 2122. Welcome aboard the Nostromo where the boys of the Just Play It podcast run, hide, and fight for their lives watching a cinematic classic, Alien. We explain the origins of the movie, how it came to be made, and discuss how much this movie holds up. Get ready to grab your flamethrower and crack some eggs because Nick and James are back for Year 4.

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We've primed ourselves for this moment. Corndogs have been dipped, the kernels have been popped, the game has been preee'd. The epic stage is set for Just Play It to announce the winners for the 3rd annual Poppys & Cornys, to crown the biggest piece of crap fictional character, and to decide who is coming out on top of the 2nd annual cinematic crossover of characters combat tournament - the CINEDOME. Let's freaking go.

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The third movie in the Wrap Party Trilogy is here! We welcome you to our end of the year bash where we get to pregame before the finale with the ultimate quiz gauntlet, high stakes prizes, the annual logline AI image generator, and of course the Best Weapon and Best Fighter Tier Lists from all the movies we watched in the year 2025. A good old fashioned pregame is the only way to get ready for what comes next...

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Christmas has come early! We have quite the gift for you. Two gifts to be exact! First off, we watched our very first Hallmark Christmas movie, and by golly, what is there to say? No seriously! We're at a loss for words. To make up for these loss of words, we decided to treat you to a double duty episode where we get a head start on our end of the year wrap party. We discuss our final rerankings of movies, reflect on the films we watched for the year of 2025, and decide who belongs in the 3rd annual...

Great Scott! It's the end of the road Marty! Or I thought we didn't need roads... wait a minute, we're on a train track! Heading straight towards the end of season 3, with our franchise of the year. Doc and Marty are very much back, but this time in cowboy hats and Nee-Kays. Cap'n Pop and The Corndog watch the finale to the Back to the Future franchise and they discuss if it sticks the landing or if it's a fiery train crashing into the Eastwood Ravine.

P.S. - This movie's Easter Eggs went crazy, and as...

Just Play It lives out the dream going trick or treating on Elm Street, but little did we know, we got a burn victim running around in an ugly Christmas sweater! Nick & James join an angry mob of gasoline toting parents and head straight to the boiler room for this one. We watched for the first time Wes Craven's 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'. We share thoughts, reactions, reveal inspirations for the movie and go behind the scenes of how movie magic brought Freddy Krueger to your nightmares. It's the finale of POPTOBER. Happy Halloween!

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Have we seen this movie? Nope! But did we like it? Yup! The Just Play It crew avoid eye contact with a hungry-hungry UAP in this genre morphing horror-western! The ghoulish fool and the spookie dookie take a wild trip to the Burbank Fry's Electronics to check out Jordan Peele's blockbuster movie, Nope. We get into the details of this film that make it so cool. We can't tell what would be scarier, the Star Lasso Experience or missing out on this spooky episode.

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James & Nick 'trick or trick' in the wrong neighborhood. This one being Santa Carla, the murder capital of the world. But weirdly enough it looks like the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (BOARDWALK!). The JPI boys vamp it up this week jumping off a foggy bridge into a first watch of The Lost Boys.

Music by these extremely talented artists:
"Spooky Swing (Electro Swing Mix)" - Captain Matt & Electro Swing Thing
"Halloween Theme (Electro Swing Mix)" - Betty Booom
"Danger" - Odd Chap
"Nightmare Cure" - DanyloM & Electro Swing Thing
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IT'S MORBIN' TIME! Time for us to Morb out to the places we will be Morb. Can you you feel it Morbin' in the air tonight? Oh MORB!

Halloween season kicks off here at the Just Play It Podcast and boy howdy it is a banger. To start the great month of October, we watched Morbius and during our first-watch reaction & movie-review breakdown episode, you will witness the very first Hotcorn Challenge. A new spooky season brings us a new pipin' hot tradition which involves crunching down popcorn that has been tossed and sauced with The Last...

Steven Seagal is here to blow up the Alaskan landscape with oil, fire, shell casings and explosives. In order to save the environment, you gotta play a little dirty! James & Nick hop on a snowmobile to the last frontier of Hollywood, also known as, 1990s martial arts(?) movies! After a first watch, we share our reactions and thoughts on the only movie Steven Seagal ever directed.

In this monumental episode, we have our very first GUEST on the podcast. Our special guest for this one is a film industry professional who's been in the business for over 30...

Just Play It watched 3 Fantastic movies so far this year, so why not make it a Fantastic 4th trip to the Baxter Building to round out 2025. This time though, we had to search the corners of the internet to find this hidden, no buried, gem of Roger Corman's unreleased Fantastic Four movie from 1994. Or as the Chief Corndog himself would call it, The Fantastic 199FOUR. We get into the complicated origins of this project, the story on and off the screen, our reactions, our breakdown, and ultimately it's lasting legend in the underworld of Hollywood. Get ready kernels, it's...

Halloween comes early this year as James and Nick return to the annual tradition of watching a Disney Channel Original Movie. This year our trusty wheel gave us a bit of a scare landing on the fourth installment of a beloved DCOM classic franchise, Return to Halloweentown. A movie that's just a bit past our time, with a recast main character and leans on post-Potter influence, what can go wrong? Just Play It is gonna make the call - spooky or dookie!

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We herald a Galactus size episode to fully get into The Fantastic Four: First Steps.  James' in theaters pick of the year is the latest MCU project featuring the live-action Incredibles. We get immersed into conversation completely breaking down this movie and discussing how well it captures Marvel's first family. Strap in for a complete review, the latest in movie news, and if this movie was worth the hype.

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Justin Time-berlake stars in the 2011 sci-fi, Andrew Niccol directed movie, In Time. Just in time for Nick's birthday (close enough), we celebrate with his movie pick (#NicksPick) of year 3 for Just Play It. Does 'In Time' stand the test of time? Is it a forgotten gem? We take a timeout to breakdown this movie in full and discuss. Times up! Cuz you're on JPI's time.

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We're so Back to the Future, Marty! It's Part II, Marty! MARTY! Wake up it's time to fast forward the clock, garbage-up Mr. Fusion, and tell Griff to BEAT IT! James and Nick get back into the DeLorean after a stint in a suspended animation kennel to revisit and rewind the clock in the franchise of the year.

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It's Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man and Cap'n Pop and the Corndog himself! Here on a whacky 90s adventure. Crank your hog into the not so distant future of 1996 to drop some Crystal Dream, mack on some macho man cheese, and see Daniel Baldwin in a Japanese Kevlar trench coat. Just Play It gives its review after a first watch of this Mickey Rourke meets Don Johnson ride.

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Before they brought you Sharknado, the guys at The Asylum decided to become 'The Quick and the Angry' with a knock off Paul Walker, an acidic Doc Hudson, the most corrupt small time parole officer ever and MICKEY F***IN' STYLES. James and Nick go straight to video this week reusing cars and passing by in a red Taurus 3 times. They couldn't BUST the BLOCK, so they said "well then we MUST MOCK". Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a mockbuster ride.

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Nick and James wandered into a store just looking for some Old E, instead they found themselves as accomplices to movie snackin' and a car jackin'. We give Menace II Society a first watch, review, and what we took away from the ending. Get ready, it's going to be a ruthless ride, you strapped?

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Happy Star Wars week, part III! Just Play It goes Rogue and watches the best Star Wars Story LucasFilm has to offer. We discuss if it can go head-to-head against Empire and what makes this movie stand out.

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Ronin De Niro has got one more score to settle before he hits his angry dad phase in his career. Just Play It discovers this little known action movie with a killer cast, excellent stunt driving, and good ole fashioned twists.

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Baby Mac, Big Mac, Mac Daddy, Mickey Deez, don't matter, this movie DELIVERS not quality, but content. What started as an idea to bring the late 80s its "own version" of a classic Steven Spielberg story, ends in a fiery explosion caused by tasteless misfires, bad effects, and a priceless 'so bad that it's good' experience. James, Nick, and Ronald McDonald invite you to the McParty as we review the epic movie, Mac and Me (1988).

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What do you get when you combine Tupac, Janet Jackson, and the United States Postal Service? You get road trip featuring romance, fighting, and a very confusing route from Los Angeles to Oakland.

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Surfs up! It's CLOBBERIN' time as Nick and James got some serious double duty this episode. We take a look at Tim Story's two Fantastic Four movies from the 2000s to highlight their triumphs and study their missteps. We also reveal the results from the blind Oscar's predictions and check in with our multiversal-selves. Another pair of textbook "NCU" movies to add to the collection for JPI. This is gonna be FANTASTIC.......say that again.

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Oscars Week is here! As we prepare for the 97th Academy Awards this weekend, we do our annual tradition of a Best Picture review. Our Wheel-o-Best-Pictures landed on the 78th Academy Awards, which means we watched, reviewed, and totally broke down Crash. We were not ready for this kind of content. Get ready for a crash-course on a car-crash of a movie trying(?) to tackle a topic for some not-so-good reasons. Time to smack into an airbag as Nick and James are here to question the Academy's choices and draggg Paul Haggis. All that and our blind Oscar picks...

You'll never guess that there's a huge problem in the small Chinese area of San Francisco. Good thing ole Jack Burton is here to do absolutely nothing, and ask 'what the hell?'. James, Nick, Wang, and Egg Shen are here to actually do something about it. A fresh look, a deep dive, and a full review that's all in the reflexes is here!

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We are so BACK for 2025 as we jump in Doc Brown's DeLorean to head back in time 40 YEARS to look at the wildly successful, impossibly produced, and absolute masterpiece, Back to the Future. This is our franchise of year for twenty-twenty five so squeeze in as we hit the road. But ya know, eventually we won't need roads, amirite?

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We've primed ourselves for this moment. Corndogs have been dipped, the kernels have been popped, the game has been preee'd. The epic stage is set for Just Play It to announce the winners for the 2nd annual Poppys & Cornys, to crown the biggest piece of crap fictional character via a divisional bracket, and to decide who is coming out on top of the first ever cinematic crossover of characters combat tournament - the CINEDOME. We cap off the night with the wheel of franchises to unlock our fate for what is the northern star franchise to follow in the...

Merry Christmas you filthy corndogs. You get one more present to unWRAP. Our end of the year, end of the season bash is here and lucky all of us, we get it in two parts. We welcome you to pregame with us where we do the ultimate quiz gauntlet with high prize stakes, the logline AI image generator is back, we jump into the Bargain Bin to finalize a few questionable movies review scores, and we do not one, but TWO tier lists. Get ready for the ultimate party as we rank the best weapon and the best fighter...

Jack is BACK for Just Play It. Upon Nick's confusion from last year of which late 90s Jack Frost movie we were watching, it's official - the chiller killer's time has come. We discuss Michael Cooney's wacky, campy Christmas killer snowman movie after a first watch. It flopped with critics, went straight to video, and is giving us the holiday fear almost 30 years later. The only question is, you like your carrots shaved or raw?

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Nick & James be hoppin' trains, planes, and switchin' lanes as we head towards the end of the year at 78 miles per hour in a burnt Chrysler. #HOBOlife. It's a first watch for Jimmy Crack Corn & a first watch (in about 15 years) for ole Nickers. Come along and join the trip, we got a seat saved for ya in Doobby's Taxiola. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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Nick and James reach their destiny this week. It's the end of the franchise of the year as it is also the end for Indy, or is it? No it probably is. We dive into Dial on a first watch, discuss its place in the franchise and determine if this movie is really as bad as they say. Hop in an old airplane with us and take a plunge back in time as we take a look back at the entire franchise we enjoyed this past year.

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James & Nick drive Uncle Ben's Oldsmobile Delta 88 into the creepy woods to find themselves at the end of the road for spooky szn. What lies ahead is evil, it is dead, and it is downright hilariously messed up. Slap a chainsaw to your arm & call me George of the Jungle, because we gotta watch out for that tree!

Music by these extremely talented artists:
"Spooky Swing (Electro Swing Mix)" - Captain Matt & Electro Swing Thing
"Halloween Theme (Electro Swing Mix)" - Betty Booom
"Danger" - Odd Chap
"Nightmare Cure" - DanyloM & Electro Swing...

Killer Klowns attacked us where it hurt, at the concession stand. We won't stand for weaponizing popcorn around these parts. And by these parts we mean NOT Capitola. James & Nick get cotton-candied by Killer Klowns during a first watch and a first REWATCH of the late 80s cult classic movie. Strap in, it's gonna be a sticky ride.

Music by these extremely talented artists:
"Spooky Swing (Electro Swing Mix)" - Captain Matt & Electro Swing Thing
"Halloween Theme (Electro Swing Mix)" - Betty Booom
"Danger" - Odd Chap
"Nightmare Cure" - DanyloM & Electro Swing...

Just Play It hits a climax of scary season in the middle of October as the the spooky times ramp up with a real freakish thinker. We go all in! Answer all questions. Explore all avenues of theories and deep dive the instant classic movie, It Follows. Come along and follow us as James & Nick get followed this week by a freaky ahh monster. The bad part is that we didn't even get to smash anyone in the process.

Music by these extremely talented artists:
"Spooky Swing (Electro Swing Mix)" - Captain Matt & Electro Swing Thing<...