Video Negative Podcast

We're kicking off 2019 by looking at the film you voted as the worst of last year, it's 2018's "Wikipedia page of a movie" Gotti! We're talking its inability to focus on plot points of any sort, incoherent flip-flopping timelines and the film's weird-as-hell portrayal of amoral murderer Gotti as a beloved folk hero.

Also featured: the film's aggro marketing tactics, what it's like in mobster heaven and the results of our mob movie cliche game Bada-bingo are finally revealed! Strap on your concrete shoes and take a trip to the greatest fuckin' city in the world, this one ain't no Godfather!

We're wrapping up the year by unwrapping a real lump of coal

with 1997's abominable comedy-horror Jack Frost! We're talking the flagrant

false advertising of the front cover, the protagonist's absolute idiot kid of a

son, THAT shower scene and all the bizarre "zany" music soundtracking

this snowman schlock-fest's death scenes.

Also, we reveal the ballot for our Worst of 2018 episode for

next year!

We take a trip into the seedy underbelly of 90s filmmaking

with the Z-grade trash of 1991's Samurai Cop. If you know, you know but for

those unfamiliar with the flick in question, it's 90 minutes of awful dialogue,

atrocious editing, sped up car chases and fight scenes and the worst wig you've

ever seen in a film!

We also touch on the Katana Gang's bad human resources

department, why the film seems to be made by 8 year olds, and the plot's

bizarre short-term memory, Memento-style case of amnesia.

We venture back into the mad world of erotic thrillers with the

dreadfully dull Madonna sex vehicle Body of Evidence! We're talking the film's

insistence on dreary courtroom scenes over nudity and intercourse, the

hilariously buttoned up depictions of kinky sex, shagging people to death and

beaucoup cocaine usage along the way!

In space, no one can hear you explain the plot of this film.

You wanted it, you got it! As voted for by the fans, the

dubious honour of this year's Halloween special goes to 1997's Event Horizon!

We're talking professor Sam Neill's Exposition 101 class, the blatant

cherry-picking from other/ better horror films, having to root for the film's

cast of unlikable characters, and we somehow end up discussing English

footballer Michael Owen and the fact he's only seen eight films in his

lifetime.

Narrow the bandwidth, go low-rent! We're jackin' in to the

campy 1995 tech thriller Johnny Mnemonic to talk about a future where sideburns

don't exist, the internet is a place you can visit and USB sticks seemingly

haven't been invented.

Also: more dated 90s tech speak, Henry Rollins' acting inability

and the John Wick crossover you never knew you didn't want!

We're going green this episode with the eco-friendly ego

trip of Comrade Seagal's directorial debut: 1994's On Deadly Ground! We talk

its heavy-handed environmentalism, Michael Caine's incredibly wobbly

"American" accent and unlock the mystery behind one of Pulp Fiction's

greatest mysteries in the process (yes, really!)

Also, Seagal behind the scenes and Vid Neg Literary Corner

returns, as Dan reads excerpts from the alt-right, anti-immigrant Deep State

novel penned by the man himself!

We're back, stepping up to the plate to take on the

absolutely criminal, no-joke baseball comedy ED! We're talking director Bill

Couterie's background in socio-political war documentaries, the film's obsession

with farting, shitting and other bodily functions, the strange placement of

race, masturbation and gay panic jokes in this supposed kids' film and a theory

that this whole mess actually takes place in an Inception-style dreamscape!

In this episode, we're rampaging all over Roland Emmerich's

snooze-fest monster remake, it's 1998's Godzilla! We touch on the film's

terrible soundtrack, the total lack of star power, Matthew

Broderick-as-leading-man (nope), and the laughable idea that a 300 foot lizard

could go missing.

Also, irritating comic relief from EVERYONE, and we get

flummoxed by the fact no one in New York seems to be all that bothered by a

marauding, nuclear-enhanced monster.

Calling all cars! We're back to talk through one of 1992's

most infamous shockers and Sylvester Stallone's self-appointed worst film, it's

the all-round Oedipal nightmare Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.

First at scene of the crime, we're discussing the highly

disobedient mother and her ever-increasing rap sheet, the creepiest line we've

ever heard on the show, one of the crappiest bad guys in film history, and the

story of how Arnie trolled Stallone into signing up to be in this whole mess of

a non-movie.

Also: an IMDB review reveals that the film's screenwriter

didn't even follow his own rules when he penned the script, and we reveal a

massive cinema stinker for the next episode!