For our next viewing session (and subsequent recording session), we’ll be checking out Ib Melchior’s The Racer, the basis for both Death Race 2000 and the Jason Statham remake from 2008.

This marks the first time, for me, that I hadn’t read the story or seen any of the films prior to embarking on the podcast.  Totally stoked!

As always, we’d be grateful to receive any thoughts on the story or films that you want to pass along.  Comment here or on the Facebook page, or use the Contact Us! page.  If your comments are awesome enough, they may get read out on the show.

And by the way, how awesome is that movie poster?

For Episode #6 (#5 is recorded and in editing, and by in editing I mean I haven’t looked at it since we recorded it), we’re going with a listener request and doing Michael Crichton’s Timeline and the sub-stellar film adaptation it spawned.  Maybe we’ll find something good to say about it.

The problem is that we asked for feedback on it in that not-yet-posted Episode #5 and we’ll be recording again probably before it goes up.

Which brings us to you.  Have you seen the film?  Read the book?

I’m particularly interested in comments from any non-readers out there, because neither James, nor Colin, nor I can look at the movie with unstained eyes, as we’ve all read the book.  So I’m curious if anyone honestly likes the film on its own merits.

Drop us a line here or on Facebook, or shoot us a note on our Contact Us page.   Or fill out the poll below:

You can listen to our next podcast or start eating this trash can!

You’ll totally get that joke if you read Eight O’Clock in the Morning and watch They Live!.  Well, okay, the story won’t get you anywhere, but it takes like five minutes to read and is entirely awesome, and the movie is one of the cheesy classics of the 80s, or so I’m told.  And it has the trash can reference, not to mention a killer line about bubblegum.

Read it.  Watch it.  Send us some feedback (maybe using that Contact Us! link?  No?  How about a nice email link?  Fine!  Hit us up on Facebook or  Twitter!  Or just leave us a comment here.  Seriously, we’re lonely.)

One of the less-than-awesome tasks we have is getting the three of us to agree on what to do next.  To that end, I thought we’d poll our legions (somewhere in the high 1’s) of fans.

For Episode #3, we’ll be checking in with The Fly from 1986, also hitting the 1958 film and the short story on which they’re both based.

Will this be the first time James ranks a movie ahead of the book?  Tune in a couple of weeks from now and find out.

In the meantime, feel free to let us now if you’ve seen either film or read the story.  This early on, any feedback we get might just influence how our discussions go.