Episode 23: Armageddon

Ladies and gentleman, we are floating in space. The Vid Neg crew blast off into unknown territory, taking on the 1998 film Armageddon film, directed by visionary cineaste and explosion fetishist Michael Bay. America is the world, and the gang have several bees in their bonnets about the chest-beating patriotism on display, why nobody seems to be taking a Texas-sized asteroid seriously and Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler's horrendous chemistry. Another actor is inducted into the Hall of Shame, also we discuss Michael Bay-as-auteur, his storied public speaking and a fracas he had with ravenous Hong Kongese cannibals. That last thing only kind of happened.

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Episode 18 - Escape From LA

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!