Failurepiece Theater

In this week's first episode of a two-part titanic Twilight breakdown, your co-hosts discuss what they've been watching and get down to some early discussion of Twilight's role in setting the stage for the YA film adaptation revolution before being taken down by some super-not-fun recording issues. We will have to save the rest for next time! 

This week, your intrepid co-hosts get ready to burn alive in the fiery furnace of Danny Boyle's box-office failure Sunshine. A great "hard" sci-fi film populated by actors you'll recognize from Marvel and DC movies, it's a real looker that wonders how we might use a bunch of nukes to restart the sun and the gruesome effects on someone who lives alone in a spaceship for seven years. Take a listen, won't you?

Here's the link to Katherine's detailed breakdown of Sunshine's mythical underpinnings on Medium:

Up on the block this week is a personal fave (for both of us) and perhaps one of the biggest box office bombs of all time--David Lynch's adaptation of Dune. It's packed with messy storytelling, incredible production design, and some undefinable special quality that makes us both love it unreasonably. Come along as we take a verbal stroll through Frank Herbert's incredibly dense world of monsters, madmen, and superbeings, won't you?

Up this week is Ang Lee's Hulk (2003)- the Hulk movie that Marvel would probably prefer you forget. More character drama than smashy-smashy comic book movie, it's a surprisingly deep and complex story about a large green rage monster and the woman who loves him. Join cohosts Tim and Katherine as they bust through some walls to better understand this misunderstood piece of cinematic superhero history. 

This week Tim and Katherine tackle a video game adaptation--a film genre rife with potential failurepieces--and try to uncover what works and doesn't with Cristophe Gans' visually sumptuous but scriptually disasterous Silent Hill. It's a two-parter! Listen along, won't you?

This week Tim and Katherine tackle a video game adaptation--a film genre rife with potential failurepieces--and try to uncover what works and doesn't with Cristophe Gans' visually sumptuous but scriptually disasterous Silent Hill. It's a two-parter! Listen along, won't you? 

This week, your intrepid co-hosts tackle Paul WS Anderson's contribution to the early 2000s obsession with the comic-book-style crossover. We go under the ice for some Alien and Predator action, wonder where the "S" in VS went,  and wonder just how much failure one director can experience in a career. In the end, we will see if this film, like the rest, is a failure or failurepiece. Join us, won't you?

This week, in our inaugural episode (and first shot at recording a podcast), Tim and Katherine discuss John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, the 2001 film that would have been an Escape film, but instead we got Ice Cube and Natasha Henstridge on Mars kicking all kinds of butt. Join us for a deep dive discussion on whether or not this film is a failure or a failurepiece, won't you?