Marathon Me: A Movie Marathon Podcast Rhys Marks, Kane Murcott

MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHONIt's about time the Australian boys take on a franchise from their great nation. Time for a visit to the motherland. Warm your engines, because they're taking on Mad Max.The first Mad Max is not what most imagine when they picture pop culture's favourite rev-head, but it is the closest glimpse we've gotten so far of how the world turned into the wasteland. We see how Max actually became mad; and its an interesting tale nonetheless.Rhys, self-defined Mad-Max-maniac, r...

HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHONThe Hostel world-tour is complete and it's time to put it all into perspective. How do these films fare as a franchise?A quicky, but a goody; this trilogy of torture is taken from underground theatrical, to straight-to-DVD entertainment, taking a simple concept and creating a world and mythology in the long-run. Eli Roth may not have been there for all of the films, but Rhys and Kane sure were (for better and for worse). The pair band together to rank the trilogy...

HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHONWhat happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.A Hostel direct-to-DVD sequel - did not know this was going to happen. The Elite Hunting Club has expanded to the city of sin, and we follow a group of degenerate men on a bachelor's-weekend in Vegas, where they indulge in all of the vices, only to find themselves in vices by the end.Rhys and Kane explore if Eli Roth leaving the franchise, tears down the solid fabric of the series, or if this strange cousin of a movie may become a...

HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHONThis one's for the girls.A feminist masterpiece? Not quite. But this follow up is a nice counterpart to the heavily dude-oriented first film, with possibly a lot more to say: about female-focused objectification, uber-rich greed, and incel culture.'Hostel: Part II' sees us go back to Slovakia, with a trio of adventurous young women. Obviously, they have a trip full of friendship, fun and pictures of tourist destinations; and none of the women get tortured (spoiler ale...

HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHONMoving on from the spawn of Satan entering the world of the living, to the living entering a hell-on-earth: a new marathon is under way, and it's Hostel.Eli Roth's second major film, spawning from the wallet of Quentin Tarantino, this franchise sees the 'Elite Hunting Club' traffic human beings in Slovakia for the uber-rich to do with them as they will and explore the disgusting extremity of human objectification.Rhys and Kane try to hold in their lunch and not pass o...

THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHON6 films, touching 6 decades, with 6 takes on the anti-Christ (to varying degrees of quality)Some friends are only with you for a short time, and some are with you for life. Damien is one of the lifelong homies. After investigating and diving into the sometimes scary, sometimes wild world of The Omen, the boys have found another home amidst the religious imagery and anxieties of this cinematic universe.Rhys and Kane go through their individual rankings of the franchi...