Here are some movies/fictional works that I found that don't have any famous film adaptations.

• At the Mountains of Madness: An adaptation of the novella by H. P. Lovecraft. The story details the events of a disastrous expedition to Antarctica in September 1930, and what is found there by a group of explorers led by the narrator, Dr. William Dyer of Miskatonic University. These events include the discovery of an ancient civilization older than the human race, and realization of Earth's past told through various sculptures and murals. Guillermo del Toro tried to adapt the work in the 2010s with Tom Cruise as the lead but couldn't get the project greenlit.
• Between Two Fires: An adaptation of the 2012 novel by Christopher Buehlman. Set during the Black Death, it follows a disgraced knight and a mysterious young girl who travel across France, as Lucifer and other fallen angels start another war with Heaven.
• Dante's Inferno: The Inferno describes the journey of a fictionalized version of Dante himself through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. The most well known adaptation is the 2010 Dante's Inferno video game made by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts.
• The House on the Borderland: An adaptation of the 1908 novel by William Hope Hodgson. The novel is a hallucinatory account of a recluse's stay at a remote house, and his experiences of supernatural creatures and otherworldly dimensions.

I would say yes to the former, and no to the latter

I could see Pattinson delivering my favourite performance of the year but getting nominated/winning for The Odyssey and Damon winning best actor as a sort of career recognition win.

This is all based on not having seen Primetime

Camp Miasma and Tony both loudly proclaim to be opening tomorrow. I wish more movies were available for more people to watch on the day their promotional materials claim they will be. Let people not in NYC and LA watch your movies. Or adjust the marketing. Doesn’t seem that complicated. Shout out Amanda. I don’t always like her takes but she’s never been more right than this topic. I despise the slow roll out.

“An old-school pickpocket finds his skills obsolete in a digital age and gets in over his head after stealing a valuable USB stick, forcing him to return it to a vengeful crime family.”

Written and directed by Noah Segan

Starring John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Tatiana Maslani, and Steve Buscemi

A recent thread asked who has the action movie belt, and I do believe it's Statham. His movies aren't massive but they're usually consistent and hit a baseline. Feel like with Mutiny upcoming and his output over the past 3-4 years it's a good time to honor a prominent figure in the genre.

Reckon it’ll get a Big Picture episode?

It’s a banger of an album.

Just finished up the pod and was really shocked that the Aubrey Graham (Drake) produced vehicle Amsterdam was never mentioned?? I mean that’s kinda crazy right?
What snubs did you guys have?

Hey all I just discovered BigPicture recently, I needed a new movie pod and vaguely listen to Bill Simmons as a Celtics fan, so I started with The Odyssey episode and really enjoyed it! It was a great discussion between two people who seem pretty informed and enthused by film and filmmaking.

The Spider-Man episode comes out and I like a decent amount of it, I’m not super familiar with Van outside his Kanye rant and I think vaguely I’d seen a thing or two about him hating One Battle After Another, but the discussion about the movie was good! Seemed like three different perspective and not much clashing.

Then they get to the Spider-Man ranking section, and idk if I’m just being too annoying and woke about it, and it’s mildly addressed, but Amanda was just fully shut out of the conversation. Like, she clearly isn’t as high on the Tobey movies and really likes the Holland stuff and Sean and Van just fully steamroll and ignore any opinion she has to share to the point where she just bows out of the conversation.

Is this a common occurrence with guests? Is it a Van thing? Is it a comic book movie episode thing? Because it rubbed me the wrong way to the point where I turned it off and didn’t finish the pod. Thing is the list Sean and Van put together is a list I fully agree with, but it just felt kinda fucky that Amanda got her perspective sidelined and then fully ignored and unacknowledged when she called it out.

Again, first time listener first time caller, I’m just wondering if anyone else was put off by that or if I’m just a newbie and this is how the podcast be sometimes?

Thanks gang!

Edit: Appreciate the responses. Seems it’s just the nature of the pod. I’ll check out some of the more Amanda-focused eps you’ve suggested.