Seth was under the weather after returning from doing the Cotswold Way hike in England, so to protect the other guys from germs, this was recorded on his backyard patio, so please forgive the neighbor dog’s squeaky toy accompaniment.
Rankings!
Post-credits scenes for this episode include some discussion of the Cotswold Way hike and meeting up with a friend of the podcast.
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:
http://thescifichristian.com/2023/08/episode-1107-criterion-completion/
SF 101 episode about the OMSI Science Fiction Film Festival:
https://101sf.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-festival-of-sci-fi-bonus-episode-of.html
Rankings!:
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):
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:
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
For a special Christmas treat, this time the Pavement Pounders discuss Die Hard, adapted from Roderick Thorp’s Nothing Lasts Forever.
Is it a Christmas movie? Is it science fiction? These questions and more considered.
Sprechen Sie talk? Eh?
Pounder Rankings!:
Colin/James/Seth:
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
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.
Pounder Frankings, or Pounder Rankenstein!:
Colin:
(though his favorite item was Young Frankenstein)
James:
Seth:
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
