Posts Tagged ‘Adaptation’
Movie of the Year: 2002 – Finale Part Three
Movie of the Year: 2002 Finale Part Three It is time to finish picking 2002’s Movie of the Year in our 2002 Finale Part Three! We work really hard on each of the seasons of this show. We do it because it means a lot to us and because that is what the movies deserve.…
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Movie of the Year: 2002 Finale Part Two It is time to continue picking 2002’s Movie of the Year in our 2002 Finale Part Two! As we discussed last time, fifteen great movies (and, yes, one stinkeroo) made their way into the sweet sixteen. And now it is time to take that number DOWN. To…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 2002 – Finale Part One
Movie of the Year: 2002 Finale Part One It is time to start picking 2002’s Movie of the Year in our 2002 Finale Part One! It seems like just yesterday we started the 2002 season, but as they say: time flies when your castin’ pods. This year we embraced just how many movies there are…
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Movie of the Year: 2002 2002 Avengers Draft We take some time away from picking the 2002 Movie of the Year to pick our 2002 heroes in a 2002 Avengers Draft! The podcast hosts start by discussing the overall quality of 2002 action properties. They highlight which stuff stood out as being particularly innovative or…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 2002 – Introduction, Part 2
Movie of the Year: 2002 Introduction, Part 2 The 2002 Movie of the Year Introduction Part 2 is here; what eight movies will make up this season? 2002! Oh, how I wish that were the number of movies we got to watch and not just year that will make up this season. But that wouldn’t…
Read MorePopular Opposites #008 – Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019)
Popular Opposites #008 Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019) On an all-new Popular Opposites, Taryn and Shannon battle it out over the television show Four Weddings and a Funeral! It’s Taryn’s turn to choose the war grounds, and she chose Four Weddings and a Funeral! Despite being a newer show, it has all of the classic tropes…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 – Ran
Movie of the Year: 1985 Ran The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s most epic movie, Ran! It’s the last movie of the 1985 bracket, and boy-howdy has this been a dandy of a season. Will Ran be another movie that blows the guys away? After all, it features a timeless story and amazing feats of filmcraft. Or…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 – State of the Franchise
Movie of the Year: 1985 State of the Franchise The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s franchises! 1985 had its fair share of franchises, not all of them great: looking at you, Rambo. Others had been the peak of cinema and yet had fallen to new lows: that’s you, Police Academy. But no matter how good or bad the…
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THE POP FILTER TOP TEN META MOVIES 10. AIRPLANE Aside from being perhaps the best comedy of all time, Airplane! is a “meta” masterpiece. A nun, reading an actual ‘Boys Life’ magazine is followed by a boy reading a fictional ‘Nuns Life’ magazine. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a basketball player in real life, plays the co-pilot, who…
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