For Christmas 2019, the Pavement Pounders discuss one of Colin’s favorites (and one of Seth’s least favorites), The Polar Express.
Rankings!:
Colin:
Last time Colin picked MOVIE and Seth picked BOOK was Frankenstein! Four years ago!
Notes:
C.S. Lewis’s XMas and Christmas: http://www.cslewisinstitute.org/Xmas_and_Christmas
Collider Crew fixing The Scorpion King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH1V6CHO1Jk
Merry Christmas! This time, the guys talk about It’s a Wonderful Life, and the christmas card (yes, it’s true) it was based on, “The Greatest Gift,”
Rankings (omitting audiobook references)!
Colin:
James:
Seth:
Notes:
Mental Floss “25 Wonderful Things about It’s a Wonderful Life”:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/60792/25-wonderful-facts-about-its-wonderful-life
Merry Christmas! For their fourth Holiday Special, the Pavement Pounders discuss A Christmas Story, the classic movie adapted from Jean Shepherd’s collected stories from In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and other volumes, and also discuss the live TV musical that recently aired on FOX.
Rankings!:
Colin:
James:
Seth:
Seth’s ridiculous Major Award, shipment #1:
Notes:
Review of the live special:
http://ew.com/tv/2017/12/18/christmas-story-live-ew-review/
How they handled the Chinese restaurant scene:
http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/christmas-story-live-chinese-restaurant-scene.html
Ralphie’s expressions in the TV special:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/christmas-story-live-recap-terrifying-descent-madness-160025885.html
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).
Pounder Rankings:
James:
Colin:
Seth:
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/
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
