It’s summer, and Shark Week, so the guys take on Steve Alten’s 1997 novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror and its 2018 action movie spectacle starring Jason Statham.
Rankings!
Colin: Movie/Book
James: Audiobook/Movie
Seth: Movie/Book
This time, the guys consider Isaac Asimov’s excellent short story / novelette “Nightfall,” adapted to pretty dreadful movies in 1988 and 2000.
Rankings!
Colin: story/1988 movie
James: story/2000 movie/1988 movie
Seth: story/2000 movie/1988 movie
This time, the guys hop in the way back machine to 1909 and William Hope Hodgson’s short story “A Voice in the Night” and its small screen adaptation (Suspicion S1.E24) and big screen Japanese adaptation (Matango, or Attack of the Mushroom People!).
We neglected to rank them, which is surprising.
Maybe we were distracted by Kathy’s amazing dessert mushrooms!
The story is available to read for free here:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Voice_in_the_Night
And the Suspicion episode is here:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Voice_in_the_Night
And Matango is available on Tubi: (we could not find any version available that wasn’t dubbed)
https://tubitv.com/movies/454502/attack-of-the-mushroom-people
The guys break down the tamed-down version of the true story that is Cocaine Bear.
This time, we hit 1994’s Timecop, based on the Dark Horse Presents character from the August, September, and October 1992 issues of Dark Horse Comics. There are splits, and messy time travel logic, and awesome performances from Bruce McGill and Ron Silver.
Rankings!:
Colin/James/Seth:
Notes:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/02/is-knock-at-the-cabin-good-for-the-gays
Picking up a dangling thread from last year, the guys discuss a few more adaptations (or “adaptations”) of “The Most Dangerous Game.”
Covered this time are A Game of Death from 1945, Hard Target from 1993, Surviving the Game from 1994, and The Hunt, from 2020.
No rankings this time. But we all liked The Hunt best.
Colin/James/Seth:
We’ve got two follow-up movies this year, A Christmas Story Christmas on HBO Max and Spirited! on Apple TV+. Opinions differed on the quality of the movies.
This time, the guys discuss the classic 1924 Richard Connell short story “The Most Dangerous Game” and several adaptations sharing the name (or at least 90% of the name).
This is Part One of at least a two-part series covering the many, many adaptations of this story.
Rankings!
Colin/James/Seth:
