Marathon Me: A Movie Marathon Podcast

AMERICAN PIE MARATHON Fast forward a DECADE now please, to a time where our central characters are all middle aged, have lived lives beyond high school, and more spin-off films of the franchise have come out than mainline entries... Somehow, the love-life of Jim and Michelle has gotten stale, and they need to fix it, alongside attending their high school's (weirdly specific) 13-year reunion....

AMERICAN PIE MARATHON There's nothing more beautiful than a wedding. Picking up two years after the first sequel in the franchise, it's made abundantly clear that the gang aren't sex-crazed teenagers anymore. They're now sex-crazed adults. The antics don't slow down now that they're all growing up, the stakes only grow higher. Kane and Rhys remember this as their favo...

AMERICAN PIE MARATHON Welcome to college! And now we're no longer at college! In this entry, the gang come back together after their year at college to host the best party that the beach has ever seen. And that is about the entire plot of the film. We see Jim and Michelle's love develop as well - so that's cool. Rhys and Kane can relate to this film on some levels, but mostly not. T...

AMERICAN PIE MARATHON Marathon Me: Uncut (no, there was definitely a lot cut from this series). Rhys and Kane are back! With a franchise that despite aging quite terribly, shaped a lot of people's teenage-lives AND has shaped culture, in its own strange way. They aren't just half-assing this marathon either, they're doing all of the spinoffs as well baby. No American Pie stone will...

MARATHON ME UPDATE It's been a bit of a hiatus... and here is why. As upsetting as it is, sometimes life doesn't leave time for marathoning entire movie franchises, BUT it looks like life has opened back up again. In this episode, Kane and Rhys share what's been going on in their lives, as well as what the future holds for Marathon Me. Podcast Instagram: @marathonme_official Podcast...

ALIEN VS PREDATOR SPECIAL I can't see! I think I've gone bl... Oh no - it's just Alien VS Predator Requiem. The second part of the Marathon Me special, tackles discussion of the follow-up AVP film, and analyses the circumstances that has had a Xenomorph and Yautja cross-produce. And then finally, the two talk about what franchise is better, what the best/worst movies are from both f...

ALIEN VS PREDATOR SPECIAL What better way to finalise the boys' Alien and Predator marathons, than with two episodes focusing on the media phenomenon that is their rivalry. In this episode, the two begin with a discussion surrounding how Hollywood got to the point to crossover the two hulking creatures? Even tapping into the topic of crossovers as a whole, and why people love them. Then of co...

PREDATOR FRANCHISE MARATHON NON-SPOILER TIME 0:00 SPOILER TALK 39:30 The Predator. The Prey. And the Prequel. This Disney+ original takes the Predator franchise to a whole new place, travelling the story back-in-time to the 1700s, exploring a culture of Native Americans, in the most diverse entry in the franchise yet. Kane and Rhys had no idea what to expect with this one - the more recent entries...

PREDATOR FRANCHISE MARATHON Only four movies in and it's already time to do a ranking. Prepare for some surprises and some not-so-much... as Kane and Rhys tell you their ranking of the Predator franchise from Predator (1987) to THE Predator (2018). (PLEASE forgive us that Prey isn't in this ranking, but it wasn't out yet when we recorded. Prey will have its own separate episode next...

PREDATOR FRANCHISE MARATHON Didn't we already watch this one, and it had Arnold Schwarzenegger in it? OH, ' THE Predator'. A fairly modern take on the Predator franchise, that revolves all things suburbia, evolution, and autism. Even though we're not visiting a Jamaican Voodoo Cult, this still somehow proves to be the strangest story of them all. Rhys and Kane explore this grou...

PREDATOR FRANCHISE MARATHON After 20 years of waiting, and two terrible cross-over films, Predator finally gets another mainline series entry... and it's so much fun! The world of Predator begins to open-up, as we're no longer in Kansas anymore Toto... I don't know where we are Toto? OH MY GOD, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO EAT TOTO. Mystery, action and Topher Grace fill this next ent...

PREDATOR FRANCHISE MARATHON It's been one movie... and we've already hit the future. If anyone ever offered to watch a crime-film with Jamaican Voodoo Cults, Danny Glover, and aliens, all set in the distant future of 1997 - I would immediately take one up on their offer, but would never guess that it were the first sequel to ' Predator '. Kane and Rhys have an energy-filled con...

PREDATOR FRANCHISE MARATHON Following up from the Alien franchise marathon, Kane and Rhys are hosting their own 'Alien VS Predator' game; pitting both franchises head-to-head and compare which SERIES is the best to marathon. To start off, of course, the boys take testosterone supplements and witness Arnold Schwarzenegger in the jungle, with the initial Predator film. As Kane and Rhys are...

ALIEN FRANCHISE MARATHON From last season's exploration of the open seas, Marathon Me expeditions to the openness of space! And what a journey that it has been. Six movies make up an impressive series that spans over 300 years of blood, philosophy and campiness. For the most part, it was a consistently smooth and enlightening ride. In this episode, the boys go through their own individual ran...

ALIEN FRANCHISE MARATHON Oh God... what have you done..? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? Alien Covenant is set between the events of Prometheus and the original 'Alien', and sees a crew of coupled individuals searching for a planet that can be inhabitable by human beings. It looks like that James Franco lit up one-too-many doobies and set himself on-fire, leaving the rest of the crew to be incompete...

ALIEN FRANCHISE MARATHON One this about Prometheus is that it's very... Alien to the franchise that is 'Alien'. Following a steep decline into campiness from the last few entries in the the 'Alien' canon, we are welcomed back to the franchise with a VERY serious tone. Explicit philosophy? Grand ideas about human existence? THIS is what you're getting in Prometheus - a...

ALIEN FRANCHISE MARATHON Ripley is ba... Is she? No. Introducing... Ripley 8. Once again, this franchise takes a WHOLE NEW DIRECTION; where because our central character of the franchise is dead, we are introduced to her... clone. (not a cop-out at all) This odd entry in the franchise sees a pseudo-Ripley attempting to prevent a ship full of intentionally-bred Xenomorphs to land on earth. Even tho...

ALIEN FRANCHISE MARATHON From the director of Fight Club, Se7en, and Gone Girl comes... the third Alien movie? Like the former, Alien 3 takes a new direction in the franchise, where it decides to not be very good. Balancing quite a lot, the film shapes part cult-movie, prison-flick, and trauma-show. But at least we get to explore more of that sweet sweet Xeno-universe! Kane and Rhys find themselve...

ALIEN FRANCHISE MARATHON Which is better? Alien or Aliens ? Well there's more in this one, so surely the sequel.... The Alien franchise takes a dive head-first into the action genre, leaving some of it's horror elements behind with it, as Ellen Ripley finds herself come out of her genetically frozen state to a world that is unfamiliar to her. Ripley knows that sh*t is going to go down wh...

ALIEN FRANCHISE MARATHON In space... no one can hear you scream. Besides the crew. And the alien. OH MY GOD there's an ALIEN ON THIS SHIP. Rhys and Kane dive back into horror by introducing the first installment of the Alien franchise. What better way to welcome back the genre of their roots both in terms of the podcast and their personal love-journeys with film. Before directing Harrison For...

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN FRANCHISE MARATHON A short but sweet way to cap off the rollercoaster that was this movie marathon. After 12 hours of solid Pirates of the Caribbean, Kane and Rhys' final thoughts have been consolidates and processed... and they are ready to be shared. Our two hosts rundown their summarised thoughts on each of the five films, and compare them in one DEFINITIVE (defini...

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN FRANCHISE MARATHON De-aging, fake feminism and guillotines. And the final entry to the marathon is here! Kane and Rhys finish their marathon on Dead Men Tell No Tale , which appears to revisit the mainline story of the franchise and take us back to the narrative of Will Turner and co. Penelope Cruz is traded for her real world husband, Javier Bardem, and we bare witness to...

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN FRANCHISE MARATHON A new phase of Pirates of the Caribbean begins! How could they possibly top the last one in scale? Well, in this one, there's mermaids, Black Beard, and Penelope Cruz. Captain Jack Sparrow seems to step into the limelight in this entry, taking on a true protagonist role, as he and his crew travel in search of The Fountain of Youth. Thankfully not as...

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN FRANCHISE MARATHON After a whole... 7 minutes or so between films, Rhys and Kane will finally be able to experience the epic conclusion to the Pirates trilogy, and see the results of the cliffhanger left by the end of Dead Man's Chest . Standing as the most expensive movie made at the time of release, there is no shortage of set piece within what appeared to finalise...

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN FRANCHISE MARATHON Welcome to Pirates of the Cannibal Holocaust. Rhys and Kane tackle the second installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, in this episode of the podcast; both in awe of the film's visual style and effective follow up to the first film. Rhys' heart is played with here, as the film reels him into the franchise, teasing love and attempt...