Good Brews Bad Views

Good Brews Bad Views dips into animation for the first time with Sausage Party, the 2016 anthropomorphic food Disney/Pixar parody. Join Max, Ryan, and James as they find out if there is more to this movie than just low hanging fruit. Jump to 1:24:55 for the final thoughts on beer, culinary comedy, how far is too far, and some behind the scenes stories about Sausage Party's production. 

The GBBV Crew and returning guest Randy decide to Blind View the 2017 Russian superhero movie Guardians, the most recently made movie on Wikipedia's "The Worst Films Ever Made" list. Is it as bad as Russian Critics would have you believe, or is a machine gun bearing Werebear as awesome as it sounds? Jump to 1:26:15 for our final thoughts on some Russian Imperial Stouts, the faults of superhero exposition, a list of movies Amazon recommends because you watched Guardians, and our sequel ideas. Opening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops

While away from the basement GBBV tries some Icelandic candy from friend of the show Friðrik. The results are... interesting.

Max, Ryan, and James get kicked off their own podcast due to a local Girl Gang taking over (comprised of returning GBBV guests Claire, Stephanie, Katie, and Kayla) to watch Spice World, the movie about "the greatest girl group the world has ever known" the Spice Girls. Which is also a great piece of satire on popstardom and movie cliches!?! Jump to 1:28:20 for post-movie discussion on the fashion of the past, the nature of feminism in the 90s vs today, and how this movie surprisingly wraps up all its numerous plot lines.

Avid homebrewer and future podcast brother-in-law Ryan drops by the basement with several beer in hand to watch the Hardcore Henry with Max, James, and Regular Ryan. While not a video game movie per se the 96 minute first person insanity is certainly meant to invoke one. Jump to 1:36:50 for final thoughts on the beers, homebrewing, the majesty that is Jimmy, and a lengthy discussion on whether or not we think Henry should be able talk. Opening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops

The GBBV Crew and special guest Kyle enter The Grid, a digital frontier, to discover if Tron: Legacy, the sequel 28 years in the making to the original film is any good or if it's just a neat looking movie that tries to bank on 1980s nostalgia and a killer soundtrack. While drinking beer of course. Jump to 2:03:45 to hear our final thoughts before deresolution on how the Tron films have aged, and our thoughts on the pacing, visuals, acting, and soundtrack of this entry to the series. End of Line. Opening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops

The GBBV Guys fend off The Plague going around to get together to recount recent beer and whiskey based adventures and watch the Aaron Eckhart headed I, Frankenstein, a movie with a plot eerily similar to Van Helsing but with the most attractive Frankenstein's Monster ever put on screen. Jump to 1:38:00 for our final thoughts on this libertarian nonsense filled movie, why playing the middle ground is never the safe option, and a segment we like to call "Shaming Stuart Beattie." Opening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops

Given how most of the Netflix Marvel shows have already been cancelled, with the remaining ones slowly approaching the chopping block as the tricoteuse toil on, and how Ben Affleck is out of the superhero game (again), we figured this was a perfect time to revisit 2003's Daredevil, a movie that feels like a Batman film and looks like an Evanescence music video. We have a treat for you in the post movie discussion (1:40:50) with nearly an hour of Max, James, and Ryan digging deep on yearly beer releases, beer consistency, what they want from superhero movies moving forward, the lack of interesting villains, movies they made in high school, and the importance of Evanescence's "Bring Me to Life" beyond memes. Come out and see us at Nicolas UnCaged 6(66) on February 26th at 6PM @ The Planet Ant Theatre in Hamtramck! Opening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops

Nicolas Cage returns to the Good Brews Bad Views (and Earth) in the car focused supernatural revenge film Drive Angry! In 3D! Justin Hein, graphic artist for Frankenmuth Brewery and one of the organizers of the Nicolas UnCaged film festival stops by to drink some tasty beer from Michigan's Oldest brewery and talk all things Nick Cage. Jump to 1:43:40 for our final thoughts on Drive Angry, the Nicolas UnCaged film festival, where the movie lands in the filmography of Nicolas Cage, and our attempt to get Weston Cage to appear on the podcast, as that would be super cool. Opening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops

Somehow Sylvester Stallone and his movies have managed to avoid being the focus of Good Brews Bad Views after 60 some episodes, but all things come to an end. Racing enthusiast Dave Mariow drops by to watch Driven, a Stallone written, produced, and starred movie about Champ Racing that Stallone is on the record for regretting making. Buckle in, not only because racing at 200 mph is dangerous, but because somehow this movie manages to make it seem boring, but that's what the beer is for. Jump to 1:53:12 for our final thoughts on this odd Champ Racing movie, a wide variety of beer, and what we would do different in 2019 if we were remaking the movie. Opening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops

For the final episode of 2018, the GBBV Crew sit down to watch The Gingerdead Man, where the soul of Gary Busey possesses a cookie that creates havoc in a bakery that should have been shut down long ago for numerous FDA violations. Jump to 1:03:15 for our final thoughts and post movie discussion about Horror Movies leaning into being ridiculous, tropes, and our favorite movies from 2018. Opening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops

While it is still fresh in their minds, Ryan, James, and Max sit down to talk about the Peter Jackson World War One documentary They Shall Not Grow Old.

We continue our now yearly tradition of SupleXmas (wherein a professional wrestler portrays Santa Claus to varying degrees of entertainment) with the 1996 Hulk Hogan helmed, Santa with Muscles. After a case of Movie Amnesia the Hulkster becomes the Clauseter and has to save an orphanage from being closed on Christmas by Dickensian SoCal villains, because this is how kids Christmas movies work. Keep an eye out for numerous future That 70's Show stars and quality child acting in the "3rd worst Christmas movie ever" that is also part of the GBBV Cinematic Universe. Jump to 1:36:30 for the post movie wrap up, Christmas Ale discussion, and our epic recast of this movie for 2018.

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? Jump to 1:28:42 for our final thoughts and post-movie discussion about the cultural effect of transgressive adult animation, Tron Guy, 3d villains, using Nazis as antagonists in 2018, and our opinion on punching them (Spoilers: Yes). * Get Even and Master of Disguise were only earlier this year, but 2018 has been one hell of a long year.

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. Just here for the after-movie discussion? Jump to 1:29:39 to here discussion about the time investment of Westerns, the current drought of Cowboy movies, and our final thoughts on Gallowwalkers and the beers.

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. Opening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops Ending theme: Super Street Fighter II Continue and Game Over theme

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. Opening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops

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. Don't have time to watch the movie but want know about our final thoughts? Jump to the 2 hour mark for cider/mead reviews and extensive horror movie discussion. Opening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops

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? Opening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops

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. Opening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops