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Dracula-Adjacent (movies, TV, books)

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This time we just roundtable some other Dracula-adjacent material we’ve consumed. Consider it a DVD extra from our previous episode.

Works referenced (not exhaustive):

  • Van Helsing (movie)
  • Renfield (movie)
  • Love at First Bite (movie)
  • Dracula Untold (movie)
  • Dracula Daily (book/email subscription)
  • The Dracula Tape (book)
  • Blade (film series)
  • Underworld (film series)
  • The Strain (book and TV series)
  • The Passage (book)
  • The Lost Boys
  • Forever Knight
  • Morbius (movie)

TMTYR Episode #69: Silver-Clad Lady Fantasy Dream (Buck Rogers)

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armageddon2419adFor 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

Notes:
Rifftrax episode on Planet Outlaws:
https://www.rifftrax.com/planet-outlaws

UK Show Talking about the 1979 movie/series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeRpwJSMRlc

Radio Serial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K02T2eEaggg

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

TMTYR Episode #35: The Movie is Canon (Die Hard)

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For a special Christmas treat, this time the Pavement Pounders discuss Die Hard, adapted from Roderick Thorp’s Nothing Lasts Forever.diehardposter

Is it a Christmas movie? Is it science fiction? These questions and more considered.

Sprechen Sie talk? Eh?

Pounder Rankings!:

Colin/James/Seth:

  • movie
  • book

Notes:

Honest Action: Die Hard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnHKv2G0wCw

Tattoo fail ‘Nothing Last’s Forever’:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/adamdavis/examples-proving-we-need-to-be-more-careful-with-grammar#.jlJr7jnPRK

Stop calling Die Hard your favorite Christmas movie:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/here-is-an-opinion-that-is-not-as-clever-as-you-might-think

Why Die Hard is the Perfect Christmas movie:
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/24/die-hard-christmas-movie

TMTYR Episode #33: Bilateral Kidney Stones (Frankenstein)

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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!frankenstein_green

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.

Pounder Frankings, or Pounder Rankenstein!:

Colin:

  • 2004 miniseries
  • book
  • 1931 film

(though his favorite item was Young Frankenstein)

James:

  • Young Frankenstein über alles!

Seth:

  • book
  • 1931 film + Bride of Frankenstein
  • Young Frankenstein

Notes:

Read the book free!:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84

How Universal Re-Copyrighted Frankenstein’s Monster:
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2011/10/24/how-universal-re-copyrighted-frankensteins-monster/

Crash Course Literature: Frankeinstein
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyyrwoCec1k
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRDjmyEvmBI

Heart in a box:
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540861/transplant-surgeons-revive-hearts-after-death/

1910 Edison Company silent film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcLxsOJK9bs

Mary Shelley: Grandmother of Science Fiction (The Great Courses):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUr32Ji69g8

Discovery Channel’s “Great Books: Frankenstein”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uzHneTLuYE&spfreload=1

Legacy of Frankenstein: The Monster is the One in the White Lab Coat:
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/legacy-of-frankenstein-the-monster-is-the-one-in-the-white-lab-coat

Aldini’s grim demonstrations:
http://www.peashooter85.com/post/65399622846/the-real-dr-frankenstein-the-mad-science-of
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/oct/07/research.highereducation1

Seth’s review of Frankenstein:
http://seth.heasley.net/blog/2010/10/frankenstein-by-mary-shelley/

List of Frankenfilms:
http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/frankenstein.films.html