We return to Percy Jackson and the Mystifying Adaptations with Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, the 2013 movie based on The Sea of Monsters, by Rick Riordan.
Will this movie right the ship and kick of the remaining three movies into a successful and beloved quintilogy? (It will not.)
We’ll reconvene next month for the Disney+ adaptation, which has a better chance of going the distance.
Rankings:
Colin/James/Seth: book/movie
The guys are joined by Colin’s son, Peter Kuskie, to discuss Max Brooks’s excellent 2006 novel World War Z, and the movie of the same name from 2013.
Rankings:
Peter/James/Colin/Seth:
This time, for a very late November episode, the Pavement Pounders discuss PD James’s The Children of Men and its 2006 adaptation, Children of Men.
The movie and book were not universally loved by all of us, but it spurred a great conversation.
Thanks so much to Dominic Coddington for suggesting the topic!
Rankings:
Colin/James/Seth/Dominic:
Notes:
Nerdwriter1: “Children of Men: Don’t Ignore the Background”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-woNlmVcdjc
Iconic Long-shot scene was an accident:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-iconic-scene-from-children-of-men-was-actually-an-840211730
Francis Fukuyama on why Children of Men is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03SrMeLmOUc
Long Takes (feat. Alfred Hitchcock commentary – some NSFW language):
https://nofilmschool.com/2016/03/long-takes-awesome-have-their-limitations
Review of the film from The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2007/04/the-movie-review-children-of-men/69243/
The relevance of this movie today:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161215-why-children-of-men-has-never-been-as-shocking-as-it-is-now
Sincast Best of 2006 (language…lots of it):
https://soundcloud.com/cinemasins/sincast-episode-45-were-f-cked
