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Dare Daniel Podcast

Dare Daniel Podcast

Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell do your dirty work by reviewing the worst movies you can imagine. Send Daniel and Corky your most sadistic movie dares at daredaniel.com, and look for a new episode every other Tuesday.
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Dare Daniel Podcast - “Hocus Pocus” Podcast Movie Review
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10/18/22 • 77 min

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Hocus Pocus – Scare Daniel Podcast Episode 121

“Max likes your yabbos.”

Daniel and Corky light a Febreze to clear the air after reviewing Bette Midler in the inexplicably beloved Hocus Pocus. This sloppily written, egregiously unfunny Halloween comedy about three Stooges-esque witches somehow became a beloved holiday tradition.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss circus movie fetishes, powdered wig lechery and inconsistent zap magic.

HOCUS POCUS FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical debut: July 16, 1993

Critics scores: 39 on Rotten Tomatoes; 43 on Metacritic

This week’s darer: Allison Kinnear

Allison’s dare: “I watched it for the first time this year and yikes. I know it is a beloved film for many, but since you guys ruined Love Actually for me, I figure you can ruin this streaming turd for others.”

IMDB synopsis: “A curious youngster moves to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century.”

This week’s referenced movies: Newsies; High School Musical movies; Michael Jackson’s This Is It; The Wedding Planner; Company Business; The Princess Switch; The Boondock Saints; The Greatest Show on Earth; Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace; Caddyshack; E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial; Ghost World; American Beauty; Eyes Wide Shut; Barry Lyndon; The Shape of Water; Hellboy; Pan’s Labyrinth; The Wizard of Oz; The Goonies; The Iron Giant; The Big Sleep; Top Gun: Maverick; Spider-Man; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Village of the Damned; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Theatrical trailer for Hocus Pocus

“I Put a Spell on You”

Max vs. Jay & Ice

“Come Little Children”

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Dare Daniel Podcast - “Fateful Findings” Best of Dare Daniel Podcast
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01/10/23 • 79 min

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Fateful Findings – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 9

“I can’t believe we’re revisiting Fateful Findings.”

Daniel and Corky uncover the cosmic conspiracy behind Best of Dare Daniel by listlessly pecking at random keys on five broken laptops.

New Dare Daniel episodes will resume in the Spring!

FATEFUL FINDINGS FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. festival premiere: Dec. 8, 2012

This week’s darer: Gunnar Pearson

Gunnar’s dare: “You guys talk about bad movies and every show or podcast that talks about bad movies must at one point review a film by true American auteur Neil Breen. Fateful Findings is a romantic drama . . . I guess? Breen is the writer, director, lead actor, editor, set dresser and about a hundred other things, and he is awful at all of them.”

IMDB synopsis: “A computer-scientist/novelist reunites with his childhood friend, hacks into government databases, and faces the dire and fateful consequences of the mystical actions he obtained as a child.”

This week’s referenced movies: Deadly Attraction; Old Fashioned; The Room; Love on a Leash; Dangerous Men; Rebel without a Cause; Skullduggery; The Goonies; The Long Goodbye; Rawhead Rex; Memento; Fast Times at Ridgemont High; Jeremiah Johnson; The Godfather Part II; JFK

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Trailer for Fateful Findings

How not to drink coffee

The WTF ending

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Dare Daniel Podcast - “Ultraviolet” – Best of Dare Daniel Podcast
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01/24/23 • 56 min

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Ultraviolet (2006; Kurt Wimmer) – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 10

Daniel and Corky bravely subject their mind’s eyes to the memory of Milla Jovovich in the retina-shredding Ultraviolet.

ULTRAVIOLET FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: March 3, 2006

Domestic box office: $18.5 million (production budget: $30 million)

Critic scores: 9 on Rotten Tomatoes; 18 on Metacritic

This week’s Darer: Marco Cabodi

Why did Marco dare Daniel and Corky to watch Ultraviolet? “Nonsensical Milla Jovovich action vehicle that alternates between incredibly ambitious and incomprehensibly stupid. It’s an amazing mix of everything being almost not as awful as it is. It’s admirably unwatchable.”

IMDB synopsis: “A beautiful hæmophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hæmophages.”

This week’s referenced movies: Cutthroat Island; Birth; Equilibrium; Sphere; The Recruit; Law Abiding Citizen; Salt; Total Recall (2012); Point Break (2015); The Matrix franchise; Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion; 16 Blocks; Eight Below; Captain Marvel; A Clockwork Orange; Sin City; Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow; Spy Kids franchise; The Spirit; 300; Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse; Fargo; I Am Legend; Ronin; Sleepaway Camp; Heat; the Blade franchise; Kill Bill: Vol. 1; Little Shop of Horrors (1986); Gotti; the Resident Evil franchise; The Messenger; Dazed and Confused

Ratings for Ultraviolet: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Original theatrical trailer for Ultraviolet

A typically unwatchable fight scene

The unusually unwatchable motorcycle chase scene

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Dare Daniel Podcast - “Heart Condition” Podcast Movie Review
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02/12/19 • 44 min

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Heart Condition (1990; James D. Parriott) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 32

“We’re about 15 to 20 minutes into the movie. We have seen Denzel and Bob Hoskins at various times hit women, abuse animals and commit hate crimes. These are the heroes of the film.”

In a Dare Daniel Podcast episode that will haunt your ass forever, hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell review James D. Parriott’s 1990 supernatural race relations dramedy Heart Condition, starring Bob Hoskins and Denzel Washington.

A casually racist murder-mystery (minus the mystery) that was rejected by both audiences and critics due to its chaotic tone, insipid comedy beats and clunky action scenes set to slap-bass and scat-singing, the incompetence of Heart Condition is made worse by the extreme competence of the slumming lead actors.

Hoskins plays Moony, a maniac cop and Kurt Rambis superfan who unwittingly receives a heart transplant from his recently murdered rival, the bitch-slapping black lawyer Stone (Washington). After the transplant, Moony starts seeing and interacting with Stone’s ghost, who is eager to solve his own murder.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Daniel and Corky “Have a Heart” by discussing alcoholic cats, spectral fanny packs, hip-hop bowling alleys, baby hostages and bathroom flossers, while bemoaning a makeover montage that will never stop.

HEART CONDITION (1990) FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: February 2, 1990

Box office: $4.1 million

Critic scores: 0 on Rotten Tomatoes (34 Audience Score)

This week’s Darer: Gav from the Films on Trial podcast

Why did Gav dare Daniel and Corky to watch Heart Condition? “I’ve been watching a lot of Denzel films recently, and I’ve just discovered this hidden gem. Our mate Denz plays a lawyer who dies. His heart is given to racist cop Bob Hoskins. But it’s not just his heart he receives, as he gets his GHOST as well. The two of them try to work out their racial tensions and attempt to discover who killed Denz. Hilarity ensues, supposedly. This film is painfully awful, but it does feature something that you just don’t get enough of these days in Hollywood: a comedy setpiece featuring a 10-inch dildo!”

IMDB synopsis: “A racist cop receives a heart transplant from a black lawyer he hates, who returns as a ghost to ask the cop to help take down the men who murdered him.”

This week’s referenced movies: Groundhog’s Day; Glory; Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Collision Course; The Island of Dr. Moreau; Happy Gilmore; Roxanne; The Long Good Friday; Mona Lisa

Ratings for Heart Condition: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Original theatrical trailer for Heart Condition

Racist cop Jack Moony stumbles into action

Chub’s death in Happy Gilmore

Music video for Bonnie Raitt’s “Have a Heart”

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Dare Daniel Podcast - Dare Daniel: Cage Match Introduction
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07/11/23 • 30 min

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Dare Daniel Season 2/Episode 0 – Dare Daniel: Cage Match mini-episode

“Their grandkids’ grandkids’ grandkids are gonna think this show is the bee’s knees!”

Dinosaur trafficker Daniel and Holy Grail enthusiast Corky switch faces to preview their upcoming season, Dare Daniel: Cage Match. A deep dive into the terrifying nooks and disturbing crannies of the prolific and singular Nicolas Cage, Dare Daniel: Cage Match begins on Tuesday, July 25, with a review of Vampire’s Kiss. In this mini-episode, Daniel and Corky offer their favorite and least favorite Cage performances, and discuss his life, career and acting style.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss future flappers, Nouveau Shamanic acting and haunted house investments.

RELATED CLIPS

Cage freakout montage

Abed overdoses on Cage

Nicolas Cage Japanese TV spots

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Dare Daniel Podcast - “The Monuments Men” Podcast Movie Review
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11/13/18 • 51 min

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The Monuments Men (2014; George Clooney) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 26

“This movie is proselytizing in the most shallow and empty way–it’s a movie of other movies.”

Hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell wade into the moral cesspool known as Hollywood for their review of George Clooney’s pious, pretentious and vapid WWII art history lecture The Monuments Men.

Once again turning a powerful real-life story into a wacky genre picture a la Suburbicon, Clooney speeches and preaches nonstop throughout The Monuments Men (art = good; Nazis = bad), turning off even hardcore Clooney fanboy Corky.

Daniel and Corky navigate through the complete chaos of the story to discuss Michelangelo’s MacGuffin and Child, celebrate a very Balaban Christmas, and dream about sharing a bagel with old Sid Melman.

THE MONUMENTS MEN FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: February 7, 2014

Critic scores: 31 on Rotten Tomatoes; 52 on Metacritic

Box office performance: $78 million domestic gross (production budget: $70 million)

This week’s craft beer: Almanac Beer Co.’s Forbidden Lager (5.5% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Seth Katz

Why did Seth dare Daniel and Corky to watch The Monuments Men? “It’s rare for a cast this good to be wasted so badly. Clooney’s track record as a director was, if not highly esteemed, was at least solid until this turd.”

IMDB synopsis: “An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.”

This week’s referenced movies: Suburbicon; Aloha; Ocean’s 11; Weird Science; Return of the Jedi; the Bourne films; Shining Through; Fifty Shades of Grey; Little Shop of Horrors; Inglourious Basterds; the Indiana Jones films; Saving Private Ryan; The Train

Ratings for The Monuments Men: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original theatrical trailer for The Monuments Men

“John Wayne”

Shooting blanks

Bill Paxton transforms in Weird Science

The True Story of the Monuments Men

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Dare Daniel Podcast - “Holiday Engagement” Podcast Movie Review
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12/22/20 • 69 min

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Holiday Engagement – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 79

“Everyone’s losing their shit about Gav.”

The Park Post Herald star reporters Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell get the scoop on Hallmark Channel Christmas with help from Gav of Films on Trial. Holiday Engagement pairs witless “journalist” Hillary with unemployed sign-spinner David in the most pointless holiday ruse possible. Comedy professionals like Shelley Long and Sam McMurray are powerless against the film’s flat tone and bland presentation.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss sand enthusiasts, ankle collections, silent orgasms, and fake baptisms.

HOLIDAY ENGAGEMENT FACTS AND FIGURES

Hallmark Channel premiere: Nov. 28, 2011

This week’s darer: Vanessa McNetflix, heiress to the McNetflix fortune

IMDB synopsis: “Afraid to tell her family she’s been dumped, Hillary hires an actor to play her fiancé during a four-day Thanksgiving weekend at her parents’ house.”

Why did Vanessa dare Daniel and Corky to watch “any Hallmark or Netflix Christmas movie”? “I’ve been subjected to sitting through three of these turds over the past few weeks and – boom! – now I’m a diabetic. Pick one. Any one.”

This week’s referenced movies: Love Actually; Remember the Night; Christmas in Connecticut; Christmas with the Kranks; Inception; The Godfather; Ordinary People; Single White Female; Secrets & Lies; Of Mice and Men; Frozen Assets; Home Alone: The Holiday Heist; the Klumps movies

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Holiday Engagement trailer

Calling “Gloria in Excelsis Deo”

George shoots Lenny

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Dare Daniel Podcast - “Love on a Leash” Podcast Movie Review
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02/18/20 • 70 min

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Love on a Leash – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 57

“My name is Alvin Flang.”

Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell meet ineptitude with ineptitude in this technical issue-laden episode. This week, the hosts review Fen Tian’s unfathomably incompetent romantic comedy Love on a Leash. Fitting with a film that features myriad sound issues, Daniel and Corky bungled the audio on this one. However, it weirdly harmonizes with a movie that is essentially one bonkers nonsequitur after another.

A movie so dangerous that it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page, Love on a Leash is a truly unusual experience. Tian makes some of the most confounding, insane and possibly brilliant (but definitely insane) directorial decisions you could imagine. There is no musical score, but there is a credited composer. This light-hearted rom-com fantasy gives us scenes of attempted suicide and attempted rape, not to mention a tacit approval of bestiality. Also, the villain is a pond.

Technically, Love on a Leash is the highest-rated film of all-time on IMDB (thanks, internet!). But is it fake news, or is it the real deal?

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss pointless ducks, Judge Reinhold high-fives, Ace bandage bras and pizza-faced cinderblocks.

LOVE ON A LEASH FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. DVD release date: Aug. 19, 2013

Critic scores: n/a

This week’s craft beer: Lead Dog Brewing‘s The Dankster Double IPA (8.8% ABV)

This week’s darer: Erica Shultz, host of the Customers Also Watched podcast

Why did Erica dare Daniel and Corky to watch Love on a Leash? “This movie is a triumph of ineptitude. There is no score or soundtrack, nothing makes sense, characters are color-coded, and everything is just hilariously bad. It’s a train wreck from which you can’t look away.”

IMDB synopsis: “Love takes a furry twist in this slice of romantic comedy. A young woman falls for a stray dog with a secret: by night, it becomes a man. Follow the journey of the golden retriever and the friend who gives him a home.”

This week’s referenced movies: Forbidden Kiss; Look Who’s Talking Now; Theodore Rex; Like Father, Like Son; Vice Versa; Love Actually; Psycho (1960); Fargo; Goodfellas; 1917; Teen Wolf (1985); The Room; The Social Network; The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Trailer for Love on a Leash

Ralph the Movie Maker reacts to “I’m a Dog”

Interview with actor Robert Lanza (aka Frank)

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Dare Daniel Podcast - Dare Daniel Podcast: All Dares Episode 2
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02/04/20 • 60 min

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Dare Daniel Podcast – All Dares Episode 2

“Gold chains for all!”

Super-producer Johnny Flores is gone, but the show goes on. On this very special episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell read a bumper crop of bad movie dares. Daniel and Corky also offer their thoughts on the best and worst films of 2019. Finally, they look back at some recent episodes, while also looking ahead to 2020.

FACTS AND FIGURES

This week’s craft beer: Revision Brewing‘s Hazy Life NE IPA (7.75% ABV)

This week’s Dares: The Velocipastor (dared by Jaylen Mason); Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (Robert Berry); The Face of Love (Rosemary Barnes); any Hallmark or Netflix Christmas movie (Vanessa McNetflix); Pokémon Detective Pikachu (David Paul); Dune (1984) (Jaina Sinclair); Left Behind: Vanished – Next Generation (Mrs. Buck Williams); Thankskilling 3 (Mr. Positivity Wolfie T); Think Big (Mike Dub); Caligula (Marco Cabodi)

Other referenced movies: Groundhog Day; Love Actually; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; God’s Not Dead 2; Legal Eagles; Knives Out; The Irishman; Uncut Gems; Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; 1917; The Rise of Skywalker; Parasite; Pain & Glory; Assassins; Rolling Thunder Revue; Renaldo & Clara; Marriage Story; In Fabric; The Duke of Burgundy; Midsommar; Peterloo; Mr. Turner; Topsy-Turvy; Avengers: Endgame; Us; Hustlers; God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness; Glass; Aladdin; All Is True; Yesterday; Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; Somewhere in Time; Titanic; Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Heaven’s Gate; Ishtar; Eraserhead; An American Werewolf in Paris; Thankskilling; Norbit; Over the Top; Odd Jobs; Plan 9 from Outer Space; Myra Breckenridge; Leonard Part 6

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Daniel’s Top Ten Films of 2019

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Dare Daniel Podcast - “Norbit” Podcast Movie Review
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03/16/20 • 62 min

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Norbit – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 59

“Everything in this movie is so pathologically unclever.”

In this week’s episode, Daniel and Corky disappear into the roles of white, middle-aged podcast hosts with their review of the outrageously unfunny Norbit.

Eddie Murphy co-wrote and co-produced this series of fart and poop jokes, making Norbit one of the weirdest passion projects ever. He also plays three roles, including the lifelong loser title character and Rasputia, his abusive wife. Rasputia is fat, mean and destructive, essentially a human version of the boulder from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Her monstrousness is the film’s one joke, offered in endless non-variations.

The two saving graces to Norbit are Murphy’s go-for-broke performance, and the Oscar-nominated makeup work by Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji. Otherwise, it’s a nonstop series of sloppily constructed comedy bits peopled with racist and misogynist caricatures. Norbit is a movie designed for children that no child should ever be allowed to watch.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss turkey ass, fart snores, power tap teachers and pimp-licious makeovers.

NEW DARES

Evan Almighty (Ben Parker)

Backdraft 2 (The Ghost of Bull McCaffrey)

NORBIT FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: Feb. 9, 2007

Domestic box office: $95.7 million (production budget: $60 million)

Critic scores: 9 on Rotten Tomatoes; 27 on Metacritic

This week’s craft coffee: Chapman Crafted Coffee’s First Roast (Single-Origin Guatemala)

This week’s darer: Mr. Positivity Wolfie T

Why did Wolfie T dare Daniel and Corky to watch Norbit? “Norbit is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen, but I only know about five people who have actually seen it. When I saw it in the theatre, my friend and I were the only ones there. When I mention it to people, I get eye rolls, groans, sarcastic laughs, and the most common comment is, “That movie sucks...I haven’t seen it.” No other movie podcast would dare touch this one, not even the one I co-host!”

IMDB synopsis: “A mild-mannered guy, who is married to a monstrous woman, meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.”

This week’s referenced movies: The VelociPastor; Love on a Leash; Angels & Demons; Inferno; Fight Club; Bruce Almighty; Backdraft; Top Gun; the Nutty Professor movies; Boomerang; Harlem Nights; Ready to Rumble; Meet Dave; A Thousand Words; the Star Wars prequels; I Know Who Killed Me; Dreamgirls; the Madea movies; Coming to America; Forrest Gump; the Harry Potter movies; National Lampoon’s Animal House; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Road House (1989); My Name Is Dolemite

Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare

RELATED CLIPS

Original theatrical trailer for Norbit

Boxing argument from Coming to America

This is our town, and don’t you forget it.”

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