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The Nextlander Watchcast 045: Judgment Night (1993)
🕑 Added 2023-05-15 22:17:44 +0000 UTCWe're smack-dab in the middle of our Some Guys Are Coming to Kill Us theme, and this week we talk at length about one of the greatest licensed soundtracks of all time in 1993's Judgment Night! And we talk about the movie too, if you're into that sort of thing.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate in versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:16) - Intro.
(00:01:18) - Our movie for this week: Judgment Night! It has at least one thing going for it.
(00:03:56) - Talking about the scared dudes of this movie vs. Trespass.
(00:09:25) - Denis is not such a menace.
(00:14:08) - Vinny reveals himself to be a Piven-head.
(00:16:20) - A little info on how this got made.
(00:22:06) - The story of the Judgment Night soundtrack.
(00:42:55) - Larger feelings about the rap rock genre in general.
(00:46:24) - Break!
(00:46:45) - We're back! And we should probably talk about the actual movie now.
(00:51:22) - Our protagonists, such as they are.
(00:56:50) - Dropping our suburban boys into the post-apocalypse.
(01:00:20) - Enter our crew of bad guys.
(01:06:06) - The train yard.
(01:08:58) - The blur of the next chunk of the movie.
(01:15:29) - The endless rooftop sequence (with a not bad payoff, to be fair).
(01:20:39) - Just what this movie was missing: a sewer level.
(01:28:16) - Winding toward our extremely long and limp conclusion.
(01:41:55) - Final thoughts.
(01:45:49) - Outro.
Comments
TrentAcidVisciousAndDel…iAintCallNaDudeDelicious
I own the album on Vinyl you can’t put Mike Patton, Ice-T, DeLaSoul and Slayer on a soundtrack and not expect little kid me to love it for 2 decades
Antisoda
I got the album solely because of Faith No More's participation. Loved it. I even got the Another Body Murdered single. It has a few nice remixes, but they are so censored, they're almost beyond enjoyable. I did like (most of) the rest of the album, tough. I didn't get around to watch the movie until many, many years later. I can't say I enjoyed it one percent of how much I enjoyed the soundtrack. It could – and should – have been a lot better. It had many of the "right" elements: A somewhat decent cast, it was well shot, and the storyline wasn't completely unbelievable. It might've been an ok movie if they just spent a few more minutes writing it. The soundtrack did not deserve this movie.
