Berri's Couch

We are finally at the end of this long descent into mediocrity and disrespect. I could be as lazy as this movie and just put buzzwords that don't connect but I can't manage that level of H&M clothes in scenes that don't belong. We drag this movie through this mud, rank the movies seen and a brief look into the process of what this month has done to us as viewers.

We're in the bad place people, we finally hit the beginning of the descend into "gritty realism" Robins. The accents are missing, the film gratuitous and the plot a mangled mess wishing for death. Why does this fail so bad as a Robin Hood join us through the prolonged torture and why this style does not suit this story at all.

Now we visit what is most people's first Robin Hood, what did Disney keep? What did they change? How does it compare to Errol Flynn? We continue how look through the pop culture Robin Hood to see how he went from random dude in the woods to what he is now.

To begin our walk through Sherwood forest we start at the beginning with the movie that codified our modern perception of Robin Hood. The swashbuckling rogue portrayed by Errol Flynn and by extension the stories that begat the movie.

*Bee starting wistfully out the window* This is my Eragon, my Artemis Fowl, my Last Airbender by Shyamalan* Look this isn't the worst Tekken movie ever but if the best one can describe it as, as predictable, ugly and at best an unfun 4kids adaptation of a video game should we settle? Hear us out and listen to the rage as we enter the final round of this month with Tekken: Bloodlines. Bee: #NotmyTe...

Get ready. Fight! *cheesy 90's techno starts* In an event that was foretold by the bullshit tacked on prophecy we are looking at the Mortal Kombat movies (only the first ones because Annihilation is well.... terrible) both of their might will be tested. Will one have a flawless victory? Or will they both suffer fatalities?

We now wash our mouths of the disgusting toothpaste and orange juice feeling of Assassin's Creed and our palate cleanser is the 2001 hit(?) Lara Croft. Surprise it's fun, campy goodness that should be appreciated by everyone.

Please beware of Bee yelling and she refuses to change this title. Now we try and discuss the multitude of bad decision making that lead to the 2016 Assassin's Creed movie, and whether or not it succeeds as an adaptation.

We finally end the month of opinions and takes by taking on the behemoth in a CGI riddled fight that you can barely see. Did we say we were going to talk about gay stuff. Yes. Did we? Nope. If you're desperate we do have other episodes about that explicitly but for now other things about movies.

Television gets its turn in our now technically serialised content about our takes on media. There is no construction here, we aren't tradies and all criticism is just that.

These are things we feel can be skipped in the playlist of music these days. Some are kinder than others, Bee awoke and chose violence prior to this recording and she will not be stopped.

We've been doing this long enough that it's time to empty our tanks of opinions. We dive into literature from both an audience and creator perspective and what we feel needs to be said about reading.

At the end of the day musical movies are at best vastly different from the stage show that they are based on. So through many reasons we visit some stage musicals that don't have movies and why we hope they NEVER get one. Before eventually trailing off to chase why musical movies are still being done when a cheaper more profitable option is available.

Yes we of course are talking about the quintessential musical and why it is IMPOSSIBLE to actually adapt it to film. We base our knowledge on the 1998 film (?) and what we have found from filmed live performances comparing it to the Hooperian nightmare that was allowed to be released in cinema.

NICHE!!! The word of the day regarding the few times a musical movie gets made with o stage adaptation prior or even made into one. We discuss the 2 major camps that this happens to and why perhaps this has occurred at all.

A movie that is not a musical to a musical stage show and now to musical movie, a story as old as.......at least 2 decades. The pitfalls of this form to create musical movies, using a couple of failure and successes, and the most recent venture with Matilda.

The adaptation of a beloved stage musical to screen more often than not is a barbaric butchering of source material. Why is that? Surely having another live medium makes an easy transfer? NOPE. The mediums are different and we're going to map it out where and why they fail or succeed adaptationally.

*TW* Talks of S.A to children and adults, fire, the Victorian mental health plan. Finally we address the rare (and arguably) only well done adult adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. We delve into American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns and what makes it a stand out visually and as an adaptation.

There be a lot of rambling in this one, it's very hard to discuss a ballet interpretation of a classic children's story that then became movies and tv shows and is now a ballet. We do our best to surmise why one should see this and why audience etiquette must be taught. Please forgive audio we've gotten a new device and are trying to make it work.

It's a Disney fight off between Victorian women and their adaptational choices. We have angry stimming, a series of decisions that shouldn't have been made and an almost good movie hidden in some grim yoghurt-y garbage.

Look the books exist and we have YET to see an actually accurate adaptation of either. We discuss what actually gets from the book to media adaptations, why there has never/will never be a wholly accurate adaptation, and what the benefits of the book to a child audience.

Australians like goon and that surprises no one. To finalise the month we look at the last and by far oddest addition to the Don Bluth collection. The sci-fi movie Titan A.E along with all it's warts and where we feel it should have expanded itself.

These are not just seemingly cheap knock-offs, they are expensive not knock-offs. We look at two of Don Bluth movies that are oft unfairly compared to their Disney contemporaries and why we feel that is an unfair comparison.

Thank you for using levitating penguins, mate or death. No there is no explanation on that you will have to listen to us to get. We look at The Pebble and Penguin and discuss this and Troll, as to why we can't say these are bad movies and where they sit in the Bluth collection of films.

Don Bluth's worst movie... probably, a banger villain who deserved a better movie... ABSOLUTELY. After subjecting Jerri to their first watch of A Troll in Central Park and alcohol imbibed during the process we discuss the infamous movie and why it failed/succeeds in areas that it mayhaps shouldn't.