Air Force One (1997)

This April…one podcast will refuse to abandon its standards…for Action!All April long Apocalypse Video is celebrating the best of high flying, show stopping thrills from the 90s! Everything from Air Force One to Con Air! Political thrillers to sky diving escapades! All the action you could want from the decade that excelled in lighting up the skies!For the inaugural flight of Airpril, Apocalypse Video welcomes you to the most secure airplane on the planet, as Gary Oldman and his fanaticial Russian cohorts hijack President Harrison Ford’s plane and force him to release a genocidal General from prison or they will execute hostages in Wolfgang Peterson’s political thriller…Air Force One. Strap in and hold on…for the ride of your life!I’m your host and Captain, Dave, and joining me on this flight is my co-pilot and fellow cinephile, Mike.Topics of discussion in this episode include how Air Force One plays like a Conservative’s action fueled wet dream; we marvel at the film’s amazing sound design as it tests the limits of our home theater’s speaker system; and finally, we analyze the film’s controversial use of terrible CGI in its climax and whether or not it’s better or worse than The Scorpion King’s infamous third act appearance in The Mummy Returns.Be sure to rate, review and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can also Like Us on Facebook, Follow Us on Instagram, or shoot us an email at [email protected] will do it for the first leg of our Airpril flight through 90’s action. When we return, we’ll catch a connecting flight at Lerner Air Field as Nicholas Cage kicks ass and flaunts his amazing gif-able hairdo in 1997’s Con Air. Until then, GET OFF OUR PLANE!!!