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.
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Colin/James/Seth: book/movie
For Christmas 2021, the guys discuss Kevin Jakubowski’s hilarious 8-Bit Christmas and its 2021 HBO Max adaptation.
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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.
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For Christmas 2016, the Pavement Pounders discuss a film that came out on Christmas Day 2013 that also happens to be adapted from a short story which was also adapted into a 1947 Danny Kaye film that Seth just happened to grow up watching over and over.
It’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” by James Thurber, that is the subject of this episode, and you’re right in thinking it’s not Science Fiction. But it has Boris Karloff in it! And the 2013 film won a Saturn Award!
In any case, we have here some very entertaining entries without a dud in the mix. For evidence, check out the rankings (which were close in all cases).
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Notes:
Short Story:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1939/03/18/the-secret-life-of-walter-james-thurber
Seth on Original/Remake:
http://originalremake.podbean.com/e/ep-36-star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-and-star-trek-into-darkness/
Seth’s column on Liberty Street Geek:
https://www.libertystreetgeek.net/category/remake-room/
In Episode #5, the Pounders examine the recently-released but long delayed film Odd Thomas, based on the Dean Koontz book of the same title. Can it possibly live up to the book?
No. No, it can’t. But tune in for a few thoughts about what it did well and what could have been done better.
Pounder Rankings!
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Big thanks to Megan, Hal, and Amy, who sent us feedback about the book/movie.
