Episode 555: The Most Inept Movie Bad Guys

When you get five and half-a-hunna episodes into your podcast, including 12 Halloween Episodes, you can't always do "Best Villains"... sometimes you have to go the other way, and do the "Worst Villains", or more specifically, "The Most Incompetent Bad Guys" in films.

October birthday movies up first, as Blade Runner 2049 celebrates its 5th birthday, The Might Ducks has it's 30th birthday, and The Manchurian Candidate turns 60 (RIP Angela Lansbury!)

Guest of the night, Miss Independent himself Jeremy Burgess joins the show to fill us on on Dust on the VCR as well as the update on the upcoming film Don't Die.

Then, Mikey, Dave, #TwitterlessDrEarl, and Burgess give their own list of greatly terrible bad guys in film -- written well but played poorly, or the storyline they are given is terrible, or flashy but totally ineffective for any number of reasons.

Finally, MikeTober #9 commences, with Mikey giving his recap and ranking of "Speak No Evil", "Dog Soldiers", "The Vanishing" and some other movie I can't remember but he didn't like as much. 
 

Movies mentioned in the show, and where they are streaming at time of recording:

• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (TubiTV) 
• The Avengers (Disney+)
• The Dead Zone (HBO Max)
• Don't Worry Darling (In Theaters; for rental)
• The Great Mouse Detective (Disney+)
• Fantastic Four (1994) (unavailable) 
• Fargo (Starz)
• Glory Road (Disney+)
• Halloween Ends (Peacock; In Theaters)
• It's Alive (unavailable) 
• Karate Kid III (Showtime)
• Mars Attacks (for rental)
• The Princess Bride (Disney+)
• Signs (for rental)
• Slugs (TubiTV)
• Speak No Evil (Shudder)
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Disney+)
• Quantum of Solace (Netflix; Amazon Prime
• Robin Hood (Disney+)
• V/H/S (Hulu)
• V/H/S 2: Rewinding Boogaloo (Hulu; Chicken Soup For the Soul's Crackle)
• X-Men (Disney+; Hulu)

Episode 195: Underrated Villains

"I could be a friend to you..."

The All Saints Day is coming up!  This week we start our Halloween celebration with the first of two Halloween episodes... first up, our list of underrated villains.

But first, a sequeltastic round of Box Office Mojo, where d$ facepalms while Mikey, Pinky & the Terrance Malick Apologist himself, Dr Earl, limp and struggle through to name popular movies that were 2nd in a series (or had the #2 in the title).  Films like Toy Story 2 and Spiderman 2 make it, while The Amazing Spiderman 2 and Aliens don't...

...and don't hit your head too hard as you scream at the radio at all the obvious films that are not mentioned.  Seriously, it's embarrassing, with the new point system, and Producer Tommy with his new found buzzer.

Then, the villains we talk about all the time are those like Darth Vader and Hannibal Lecter and Scar from The Lion King... but what about Agent Smith?  Mr Joshua?  What about Killian?  The Kurgan? Or even The Sisters in Shawshank?   Those villains that don't get the proper amount of love in movie lore.

And join us next week for MikeTober and a retrospective on Wes Craven!!