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Episode Ninety-Eight - Get Smart (2008)
Failure to Franchise - June 18, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour"Summer Sweeps" rolls right along, as we turn our attention to the cinematic adaptation of Get Smart, the popular 60s television spy-spoof from comic legends Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. For the movie version, Hollywood recruited heavy-hitters such as Steve Carrell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin, and ...
Episode Ninety-Seven - Miami Vice (2006)
Failure to Franchise - June 04, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour"Summer Sweeps" rolls on, with our look at Michael Mann's 2006 adaptation of his classic '80s detective series, Miami Vice. Coming back to the property that played a big part in making his Hollywood career, and doing so with a recently minted movie star in Colin Farrell and recent Academy Award ...
Episode Ninety-Six - The Mod Squad (1999)
Failure to Franchise - May 21, 2024 04:00 - 1 hourOur "Summers Sweep" look at failed movie adaptations of classic TV series continues, with one of the more "movies that time forgot" entries we've ever covered: the 1999 update of the late 60s/early 70s, "youth-delinquents-turned-undercover-cops" detective series, The Mod Squad. Despite an impres...
Episode Ninety-Five - The Avengers (1998)
Failure to Franchise - May 07, 2024 04:00 - 1 hourMay is here, and that means it's time for "Summer Sweeps," a five-episode look at failed cinematic adaptations of classic television series. First up, The Avengers. No, not those Avengers! We're talking about the 1998 attempted-blockbuster, starring Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, and Sean Connery, ...
Episode Ninety-Four - Evil Dead (2013)
Failure to Franchise - April 23, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour"Evil Easter" concludes, with a look at 2013's Evil Dead...uhhh, remake? Reboot? Re-imagining? Look, whatever you want to call it, it's another movie where a bunch of kids in a cabin get murdered by demonic forces, okay? The question is, without the franchise's beloved, iconic leading man, Bruce...
Episode Ninety-Three - Evilspeak (1981)
Failure to Franchise - April 09, 2024 04:00 - 1 hourOur "Evil Easter" month kicks off with Evilspeak, from 1981...or, uh, 1982. Look, we'll explain. All you need to know is this a Satanic Panic-fueled story of a bullied young cadet at a military academy who uses an Apple II computer to translate the Latin passages in a mysterious old book he find...
Episode Ninety-Two - Dragon Wars: D-War (2007)
Failure to Franchise - March 26, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour"Monster March Madness" concludes with our look at 2007's totally-normal-named Dragon Wars: D-War, the first South Korean film to receive a wide theatrical release in North America! Wow, with a fact like that, it must be something special, right? Well, yeah, sorta...just not in the way you might...
Episode Ninety-One - Godzilla (1998) w/ The Kaiju Transmissions Podcast
Failure to Franchise - March 12, 2024 04:00 - 1 hourWe're kicking off "Monster March Madness," a month dedicated to giant monster movies, with one of the biggest movies (literally) we've looked at yet, the first American attempt at adapting Godzilla as a Hollywood blockbuster. The Japanese Godzilla series is one of the longest-running, most succe...
Episode Ninety - A.X.L. (2018)
Failure to Franchise - February 27, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour"FRIENDruary" concludes, with our look at the 2018 robotic-dog movie that we swear actually exists! No, really! Based on a Kickstarter-funded short film, A.X.L. is yet another movie that combines robo-dogs with the gritty world of off-road motorbike racing. But even if you're sick of that old ch...
Episode Eighty-Nine - Mac and Me (1988)
Failure to Franchise - February 13, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourWe're kicking off "FRIENDruary" with a look at Paul Rudd's "favorite" movie, 1988's Mac & Me. Both a shameless rip-off of Steven Spielberg's E.T. AND a shameless fast-food commercial disguised as a movie, Mac & Me is that special sort of crazy that only Hollywood in the 80s could give us. Over t...
Episode Eighty-Eight - Punisher: War Zone (2008)
Failure to Franchise - January 30, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourThe "New Year's Punishment Party" concludes, with our look at 2008's Punisher: War Zone, Frank Castle's final big-screen adventure (to date). In the wake of 2004's Punisher film, attempts were made to create a sequel starring Thomas Jane, but over time the project evolved into a brand-new reboot...
Episode Eighty-Seven - The Punisher (2004)
Failure to Franchise - January 16, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourThe "New Year's Punishment Party" continues, as we take a look at the second big-screen Punisher adaptation, from 2004, starring Thomas Jane and John Travolta. Made as the character was enjoying a second-wave of popularity in the comics world, and produced right on the cusp of the incoming box-o...
Episode Eighty-Six - The Punisher (1989)
Failure to Franchise - January 02, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourFailure to Franchise is kicking off 2024 with our "New Year's Punishment Party!" No, it's not a weird S&M thing, ya freaks! Instead, we're spending January looking at not one, not two, but three failed attempts to start a movie franchise based on one of Marvel Comics most popular (and problemati...
Episode Eighty-Five - The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Failure to Franchise - December 19, 2023 05:00 - 1 hourThe third annual "Failure to Franchise Presents Trev and Chris-Mas" wraps up (see what I did there?) with a look at 1999's The Thomas Crown Affair, a remake of the 1968 classic heist movie starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. This time around, the titular main character is played by Pierce B...
Episode Eighty-Four - The Nice Guys (2016)
Failure to Franchise - December 05, 2023 05:00 - 1 hourThe Third Annual "Failure to Franchise Presents: Trev & Chris-Tmas" kicks off with Trev's present for Chris - a critically acclaimed but audience-ignored neo-noir comic crime-thriller from a celebrated screenwriter and starring two beloved movie stars. So why the heck did The Nice Guys sink like...
Episode Eighty-Three - The Flash (2023)
Failure to Franchise - November 21, 2023 05:00 - 1 hourOur "DCPU" series concludes, with the most recent movie we have ever covered! That's right, we're going all the way back to, uh, earlier this year, for an in-depth look at the looong-in-the-works superhero epic, The Flash. Why are we already so confident this one will be a non-starter? Well, bet...
Episode Eighty-Two - Black Adam (2022)
Failure to Franchise - November 07, 2023 05:00 - 1 hourOver ten years in development. A narrative connection to a recently successful superhero franchise starter, Shazam. And a globally beloved megastar in the lead role. And yet none of that could keep 2022's Black Adam from becoming the next entry in our "DCPU" series. So what exactly went wrong wi...
Episode Eighty-One - Green Lantern (2011)
Failure to Franchise - October 24, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourHappy HALoween!! Light your GREEN jack-o-LANTERN, and join us for an extra spooky(?) episode, as we continue our trip through the "DCPU" with 2011's Green Lantern. That's right, the superhero debacle so infamous, even its own star still frequently mocks it today. But how did a comic book movie r...
Episode Eighty - Superman Returns (2006)
Failure to Franchise - October 10, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourOur look at the "DC-PU" continues, with Superman Returns, directed by...uhh, never mind. The film stars Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, and...uhhh...never mind about that, also. Look, clearly this isn't the easiest movie to talk about that we've ever done, for obvious reasons. But it IS, nonethele...
Episode Seventy-Nine - Steel (1997)
Failure to Franchise - September 26, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourWhen is a Superman movie not a Superman movie? Heck, when is a superhero movie barely a superhero movie? And, just because a superstar athlete is charismatic both on and off the court, does that mean they're ready for movie stardom? We ponder all these questions and more, as our look into the "D...
Episode Seventy-Eight - Supergirl (1984)
Failure to Franchise - September 12, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourYou've heard of the DCEU, but for the next three months, we're examining the "DC..P-U." That's right - we're looking at nearly 40 years' worth of failed DC superhero franchise starters. Kicking things off is 1984's Supergirl, a spin-off of the popular Christopher Reeve Superman series, but one s...
Episode Seventy-Seven - Artemis Fowl (2020)
Failure to Franchise - August 29, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour"Summer Surprise" concludes with what is, in some ways, our most unexpected episode yet. The randomizer has decided to send us back to a movie we both already watched together during COVID-19 quarantine, a movie neither of us were eager to visit again. It defeated us then...will it somehow defea...
Episode Seventy-Six - The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Failure to Franchise - August 15, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour"Summer Surprise" continues, with an unexpectedly relevant movie selection from the online randomizer! As Disney's recent Haunted Mansion reboot is currently bombing in theaters (most likely on its way to be covered on this show someday), we take a look back at the original cinematic take on the...
Episode Seventy-Five - Surf Ninjas (1993)
Failure to Franchise - August 01, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourAnd now, back to our regularly scheduled "Summer Surprise" programming. Travel back with us to the early nineties, a time when the world was still ninja-crazy, Leslie Nielsen's star-power was so on the rise that even a few minutes of screen-time seemed like it might boost a movie, and when Holly...
Episode Seventy-Four - Source Code (2011)
Failure to Franchise - July 18, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour"Jake JULYenhaal" concludes with a look at 2011's time-travel thriller, Source Code. But wait - was this legit hit actually meant to launch a franchise? We discuss the film's journey from spec script to movie to potential series starter, as well as diving into the movie itself. Do the story's lo...
Episode Seventy-Three - Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Failure to Franchise - July 04, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourWe interrupt your regularly scheduled "Summer Surprise" programming to instead bring you "Jake JULYenhaal," a month dedicated to the failed franchise starters of Jake Gyllenhaal. First up, the 2010 video-game adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, a rare example of Gyllenhaal trying his...
Episode Seventy-Two - Maximum Ride (2016)
Failure to Franchise - June 20, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour"Summer Surprise" continues with another YA lit adaptation, this time from one of the world's most successful authors. We're looking at Maximum Ride, the story of lab-created, winged teenagers on the run, based on the popular series by James Patterson. But this one has us in a new, confusing sit...
Episode Seventy-One - The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007)
Failure to Franchise - June 06, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourJune is here, so you (maybe) know what that means! That's right, it's time for the start of our annual "Summer Surprise," where we let an online randomizer choose which movies from our oh-so-long F2F list we'll be covering next. First up, it's back to the land of misguided YA adaptations trying ...
Episode Seventy - The Love Guru (2008)
Failure to Franchise - May 23, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour"Mike MAY-ers" concludes with our look at 2008's The Love Guru, Mike Myers' ill-fated attempt to kick-start another character-based franchise in the vein of Austin Powers. Instead, this movie essentially ended his days as a leading man. So just what the heck happened? Is the film's heart in the ...
Episode Sixty-Nine - The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Failure to Franchise - May 09, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourWe're kicking off "Mike May-ers," a month devoted to Canadian comic icon Mike Myers, with a look at his ill-fated Dr. Seuss adaptation, The Cat in the Hat. One of the more..., let's say, perplexing movies we've looked at, this one begs a lot of questions. Do adult jokes have a place in Seuss ada...
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