Topics & Themes
Great Bad Movies celebrates specific types of action cinema. Here are our episodes organized by theme and style.
Spy Thrillers
Episodes featuring spies, secret agents, and espionage
7 episodes
Episode 4: Mission: Impossible II
Episode 29: Mission:Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Pt. 1
Mission: Impossible - The Final ReckoningEpisode 29: Mission:Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Pt. 2
Mission: Impossible - The Final ReckoningEpisode 30: Mission:Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Behind the scenes of Mission: Impossible - The Final ReckoningEpisode 55: Mission: Impossible III
Episode 57: The Bourne Identity
Episode 58: Kingsman: The Secret Service
Heist & Crew Movies
Movies about teams pulling off impossible jobs
4 episodes
Episode 2: Fast & Furious
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & ShawEpisode 21: Hobbs & Shaw
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & ShawEpisode 26: Fast Five: Our 1-Year Anniversary!
Episode 52: Furious 6: Our 2-Year Anniversary!
One-Person Army
Solo action heroes taking on entire armies
6 episodes
Episode 3: Man on Fire
Episode 6: Taken
Episode 20: John Wick
Episode 35: Nobody
Episode 37: Joe’s Pick: Kate
Episode 46: John Wick: Chapter 2
High Concept Sci-Fi Action
Action movies with mind-bending sci-fi concepts
5 episodes
Episode 9: Edge of Tomorrow
Episode 19: Terminator: Dark Fate
Episode 31: TENET
TenetEpisode 38: Sam’s Pick: Inception
Episode 42: Next
Aviation Action
Action movies set in the sky
3 episodes
Episode 16: Plane
Episode 22: Top Gun: Maverick
Episode 48: Audience Pick: Air Force One
Tony Scott Films
The kinetic, visceral style of Tony Scott
4 episodes
Episode 3: Man on Fire
Episode 14: Unstoppable
Episode 40: Deja Vu
Déjà VuEpisode 56: Enemy of the State
Christopher McQuarrie Films
The Mission Impossible maestro
2 episodes
Episode 29: Mission:Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Pt. 1
Mission: Impossible - The Final ReckoningEpisode 29: Mission:Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Pt. 2
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning