Good Brews Bad Views

While we watch a lot of "bad" movies here on the podcast we haven't done anything offensively bad in quite some time*. So we figured what better time to travel down into a cinematic hell-hole of bad lighting, and subpar puppetry than the Holidays with the 1990 straight to VHS movie Elves.  Kayla mistakenly returns for a Blind View of this god awful head-scratching film, but at least there is tasty Christmas Beer?

The GBBV Crew moseys on over to the their trusty couch to watch Gallowwalkers, a Wesley Snipes led Weird West film that has some great shots, cool costumes, and interesting concepts but ultimately never informs the audience too much about what is really going on. This leaves our hosts armed with a much too good of a beer for the podcast to try and figure that out for themselves.

Max, James, Ryan, and Stephanie settle in with some saison to watch Street Fighter, a movie that features surprisingly little fighting in the streets. While Jean Claude Van Damme finds himself on the podcast yet again as the patriotic flexing Colonel Guile, the real star is Raúl Juliá as the power mad dictator M. Bison in what would be his final role.

John Constantine: Dabbler of the occult, chain smoker extraordinaire, blond, British... wait that's Keanu Reeves, who is only half of those things in this movie! What's going on here? The GBBV crew try to get to the bottom of this while maintaining ownership of their souls and fending off the forces of Heaven and Hell in the 2005 adaptation of the Hellblazer comic series in the aptly named Constantine.

While drinking several ciders and meads from Cellarmen's the GBBV Crew takes a look at the 2006 adaptation of Silent Hill. Is the survival horror series put to film as bad as it's reputation would have you believe or is it just a bunch of pedantic purists? By setting aside any reservations or attachements they may have to the video game series Ryan, James, and Max will try to find out.

Fabled member of the Tucci Gang Claire returns to Good Brews Bad Views to discover just how many scientists have to be sacrificed to save the world when the magnetic core stops spinning in 2003's aptly named The Core. You can tell from their perpetual chain smoking, short sensible haircuts, pictures of their family, and flaming peach diorama (that is actually an apple), that these scientists mean business and that a whole bunch of them are going to die on their mission. But 4 people willingly watched this movie twice in a few days, so really, who suffered more?

Calling in from far-off Philadelphia, Russ Johnson guest stars for RoboCop 3. GBBV's Terrible Trilogy series continues with RoboCop's theme of the man/machine dichotomy but with a decidedly lighter tone.  In this movie we find the answers to questions such as "What if RoboCop fought RoboNinjas, had a gun-hand, a jetpack, and drove a pimp-mobile?" while also cramming in every character actor the movie could get a hold of.

If you ask people what freaks them out more than a few will probably say spiders, and returning guest of the show Jordan is one of those people. Putting his fear to the test Jordan has graciously agreed to come back to Good Brews Bad Views to watch Arachnophobia for his own personal Good Brews Blind Views as we record this episode to entertain you the listener (and us the podcast hosts) with pure unfiltered reactions to this campy early 90s creature feature.

Leaving Indianapolis with substantially lighter wallets, Max, James, and Randy recount their favorite moments from Gen Con 2018.

Frankly, it was only a matter of time before the Dana Carvey helmed The Master of Disguise made it's way on to Good Brews Bad Views. Even so, we are blaming this episode entirely on James' sister Summer who joins in on this episode as the GBBV Crew is assaulted by numerous Dana Carvey impersonations and disguises, leaving them to try and focus on the tasty cider they are drinking instead.