Video Negative Podcast

Surf's up on the wild wild west coast! It's 2013, and anyone

caught doing anything remotely fun is exiled to a run down Los Angeles where

they're forced to listen to bad nu metal. Yes, it's John Carpenter's 1996

sequel Escape from LA, the final part in the Great Directors, Bad Films

trilogy. It's gang warfare on this instalment of the Video Negative podcast, as

Tim faces off against Dan and Ol over two very differing opinions of this much

maligned/deservedly hated (whichever way you look at it) sci-fi yarn. Also

featured: the gang run down the top 5 worst special effects out of the films

they've looked at, Ol details why he loves John Carpenter so much, and plenty

more inductees into the Vid Neg hall of shame. Plenty of mass debating on this

one! 

We land on barren fields in the Arizona plains, as the three

teenagers from Mars (neither of those are true) take on Tim Burton's

surprisingly rubbish sci-fi/disaster parody/homage/rush job Mars Attacks, the

second in the Great Directors, Bad Films season. Why does it take forever for

things to get going? Why is such a talented cast misused so badly? Just how

scared of this film was Ol as a child and which all time classic film does he

hate? All this and more on the latest episode of the Indescribable!

Unbelievable! Indestructible! Video Negative Podcast.

https://soundcloud.com/video-negative/mars-attacks-episode-17

The first in Video Negative's series of "Great

Directors, Bad Films" sees Dan pick one of Roger Ebert's most beloved

films, Rob Reiner's 1994 honker North. The gang take apart the film that

seemingly ended Reiner's streak of incredible run of great cinema, and enter a

slump he's not left since. The crew are aghast at the god-awful humour - none

of which finds its mark - the misuse of a huge, talented cast, and all the

horrendous ethnic stereotyping on display. Plus, Tim reveals a very revolting

alternative definition of an Eskimo Pie.

The Vid Neg crew's first film requested by a fan, and the

inaugural choice is a big, bad one - the infamous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

3: Turtles In Time. From the paper thin plot all the way down (and it's a long

way down), it's a long list of terrible writing, awful characters and woeful

special effects. Just how bad can a pop culture reference get? Who has the best

hairstyle in this film? Which famous film star do the turtles' accents remind Ol of? What film does Dan pick for the next choice (it's a biggie). Find out

all this and more by tuning in...

https://soundcloud.com/video-negative/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-3-episode-15

The boys are back in town after a long break and what a

shocker they've returned for. The first time the crew watch the film together,

it's 1996's The Stupids directed by John Landis, the John Landis that brought

you Blues Brothers 2000 rather than the guy who helmed Animal House. Why is the

plot so boring? Since when did stupid people not named Forrest Gump become

sympathetic? What is the film's obsession with putting famed directors in

pointless cameos? You'd be stupid to miss this episode!

https://soundcloud.com/video-negative/the-stupids-episode-14

Who's afraid of the big black bat? The Video Negative

Podcast aren't, but what they are afraid of is Jim Carrey's teeth-grindingly

annoying performance as the Riddler, Tommy Lee Jones' awful turn as Two-Face

and the Riddler's poorly explained mind control device. The gang return to

whence they came, taking a look at Joel Schumacher's 1995 first caped crusader

foray, Batman Forever. Where is the Riddler getting all his outfits from? Why

does Robin do his laundry like that? Who decided that 'Intruder Alert' klaxon was acceptable? Also featured: Dan

gives the others his tell-all account of when he met Val Kilmer at a film

premiere. Plenty of bile rising in this one, don't miss out.

https://soundcloud.com/video-negative/batman-forever-episode-13/download.mp3

The concluding part of the first Video Negative two parter

sees the crew the take on Troy Duffy's 1999 honker The Boondock Saints.

"Pulp Fiction with soul" this ain't. It doesn't take long for the

crew to lose it, with Ol reaching breaking point numerous times throughout.

Also featured: Ol and Tim reveal their respective screenplays they wrote when

they were eighteen (both of which feature names of existing films), Dan

channels Fozzy Bear, the gang discuss what might've happened had Duffy's film

been a success, and the air turns brown towards the end of the episode. The

saints are marching in, and Video Negative tramples them, don't miss this one!

https://soundcloud.com/video-negative/the-boondock-saints-episode-12/download.mp3

Join the Video Negative crew as they discuss Overnight - the

story of how Troy Duffy duffed up the chance of a lifetime in making his 1999

opus The Boondock Saints. Part one of a two part special, with our critique of

the Boondock Saints itself coming later in the month. Also featured: A peak

into Mark Wahlberg's internal monologue, what do the Beatles sound like when

mashed up with Alice in Chains, Ol and Dan atone for a past transgression at

Tim's expense and much much more. Don't miss this one!

https://soundcloud.com/video-negative/overnight-episode-11

A long time ago in a galaxy blah, blah, blah. The Vid Neg

crew are back to review one of the 90s most upsetting films - Star Wars Episode

One: The Phantom Menace, and boy, are the gang riled up. Topics of talk include

who exactly is the Phantom Menace, the ancient Jedi method of holding one's

breath and the beaucoup racism the film seems to be obsessed with. Also Booker

T commentates on a pod race, Sam Jackson tries to talk his way into The Force

Awakens and the IMDB reviews offer up the most bizarre entry yet. Be sure to

catch Roy Macmillan, of the Moving The Needle Podcast, dropping by to astrally

project his thoughts into your brain. Sit back, relax and set phasers to thrill

(whoops, wrong franchise).

https://soundcloud.com/video-negative/star-wars-episode-one-the-phantom-menace

Vid Neg's first episode of the new year sees a standoff

between your three hosts and one of the most infamous misfires of the 90s: Wild

Wild West starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh and Salma Hayek. Luckily

Vid Neg are quick on the draw, taking potshots at crummy writing, woeful

performances, sterile action and just about everything else in this far from

rootin', tootin' varmint of a film. Be aghast at the film's tasteless race

jokes, let your jaw hang open at the discussion of breast texture, shield your

ears from how exactly one pronounces Kenneth Branagh's name, and be let down

when Ol spoils Dan's big reveal for the tenth episode! Lots of good, bad and

ugly film talk in this one, yee-haw!

Hope you don't mind the length of this one either!

https://soundcloud.com/video-negative/wild-wild-west-episode-9