Stalker, based on Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky (with guest Ben DeBono)
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Ben DeBono from The Sci-Fi Christian joins us once again to discuss a slow science fiction movie and the book that inspired it. It’s Roadside Picnic, by the Strugatsky Brothers, adapted by Andrei Tarkovsky into Stalker.
SFC episode about Ben catching up with the Criteron Collection:
TMTYR Episode #69: Silver-Clad Lady Fantasy Dream (Buck Rogers)
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For a very groovy episode 69 (not deliberate, but appropriate), the Pavement Pounders discuss Armageddon 2419 AD by Philip Francis Nowlan, basis for several adaptations, including Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979 movie/series) and Planet Outlaws (1953 edit of the original 30s movie serial).
Rankings!:
Colin/James/Seth:
1979 movie/series
novella
Planet Outlaws
Over the next year, we’re going to try to hit the following titles from the anthology Reel Future. Let us know which you’d like to see first:
Empire of the Ants (1977), based on The Empire of the Ants, by HG Wells Re-Animator (1986), based on Herbert West–Re-Animator, by HP Lovecraft This Island Earth (1955), based on This Island Earth, by Raymond F. Jones The Illustrated Man (1969), based on The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury The Tenth Victim (1965), based on The Seventh Victim, by Robert Sheckley Damnation Alley (1977), based on Damnation Alley, by Roger Zelazny Millennium (1990), based on Air Raid, by John Varley
Seth’s son, Ethan, swimming the 400m Freestyle almost a minute faster than Buster Crabbe’s Gold Medal time from the 1932 Olympics (Ethan took the bronze at the Junior Pan Pacifics in Fiji): https://youtu.be/4RQuh5gmayc?t=44s
All things being equal, this episode would’ve been released for Halloween 2015. But 20th Century Fox decided to push Victor Frankenstein to Thanksgiving Weekend, so it’s Franksgiving, or Thankenstein from the Pavement Pounders!
Under consideration this time are the classic 1818 novel Frankenstein, its equally classic 1931 adaptation, 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein, Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein, a couple of other adaptations, and the new film Victor Frankenstein.
For a very groovy episode 69 (not deliberate, but appropriate), the Pavement Pounders discuss Armageddon 2419 AD by Philip Francis Nowlan, basis for several adaptations, including Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979 movie/series) and Planet Outlaws (1953 edit of the original 30s movie serial).
