Adaptive Difficulty

Come to root for your favorite, stay to see just how far Charlie and the Chocolate Factory can go against all odds.

The awards season heats up now that Adaptive Difficulty has weighed in! We crown winners and losers among our episodes, and christen the Best Adaptation for the year in a drag-out bracket brawl.

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Do not cite the podcast to me, Witch! I was there when it was recorded. Put on your giant fur coat and grab your Turkish delight to settle in for this wide-ranging discussion of C.S. Lewis's fairy tale turned theatrical sort-of-epic. Topics include the role of women in the book compared to the movie, Edmund's major character changes, and whether the movie tie-in video game is secretly an underrated classic.

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New Year! New Pod Plus. Some creative works are so inspiring and wonderful that people keep adapting it. New Pod Plus is our way of exploring those many adaptations. We thought it best to start this new string of shorter episodes with something truly worthy of discussion and consideration. That's right, it's Tom & Jerry & The Wizard of Oz, an "interesting" rendition of The Wizard of Oz.

Experience the whacky whimsy as Tom and Jerry go toe-to-toe with the Wicked Witch of the West. Dorthy's there too, I guess.

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Empire? I hardly know her. But seriously, who doesn't like The Empire Strikes Back? It's very close to a perfect movie, for the most part, but is the novel a perfect book? It has to be better than the last Star Wars book, right?

Join us as we celebrate the holiday season with our own Star Wars Holiday Special. This time we are diving into The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas's 1980 blockbuster sequel to Star Wars: A New Hope, and Donald F. Glut's 1980 novel of the same name, published one month before the movie.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that two men in possession of microphones must be in search of a podcast. And we found it.

Join us as we experience 2005's Pride and Prejudice, staring Keira Knightley based on Jane Austen's 1813 Pride and Prejudice.

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If I had a nickel for every time Jack Black starred in a movie based on a kid's beloved video game franchise that involved traveling to an alternate dimension through a portal hidden in an abandoned industrial sector, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Join as we explore 2023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

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What's the most you've ever lost on a coin toss? Does Chigurh vote? And who would he vote for? Is this podcast lucky, since it travelled all this way to your ears?

Join us as we ruthlessly chase down No Country for Old Men, the 2007 film based on the book of the same name by Cormac McCarthy.

Nothing is more alluring than a big hole in the earth. Anything could be inside: buried treasure, dangerous monsters, the friendship we made along the way. Those big holes call to us, and we answer the call.

Join us as we dig down deep into Holes, the 2003 movie adaptation starring Shia LaBeouf, based on Louis Sachar's 1998 novel of the same name. Make sure to fill up your canteen and thank Mr. Sir: the desert is a dry, lonely place.

Is it cheating if your AI girlfriend invites them into the bedroom? A question for the ages that this film offers but stubbornly refuses to answer. I guess it also explores questions of what it means to be alive and human. But mainly the first one.

Join us with what we're tentatively calling New Pod Plus for a return to the world of Blade Runner in this somewhat sequel, Blade Runner 2049.

Do you remember those robot dogs from the early 2000s? This is basically the same thing. With more violence, existential questions, and sexy robots, of course.

Join us as we explore Blade Runner (1982) based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? from 1968.