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When Saturday Night Live decided to debut some of its characters on the big screen, one of the first adaptations to get the green light was Coneheads. Despite a weak box office and less than stellar reviews, it worked its way into the popular culture of the 90s through cable TV and VHS rentals. Now we're taking a second look at this flop to find what's worth celebrating!Join the Be

Part man, part machine, all remake. Critics and audiences alike were dismissive of the 2014 remake of RoboCop, but this week we take a second look at the sleek reboot to find what the movie does well. The stacked cast includes Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, and Samuel L. Jackson, and the action has stood the test of time. Dead or alive, we're hashtag PP.Join the Best of the Rest disc

The Day The Earth Stood Still is a bonafide classic of the sci-fi genre, so there was understandably much hesitation from movie buffs when it was announced there would be a remake in 2008 starring Keanu Reeves. Although a moderate financial success, the new version did not win over critics or supplant the original in many people's eyes. This week we take a second look to find what

Many cried fowl at the very idea of remaking the Paul Verhoeven sci-fi classic, and when Total Recall released in 2012, not many people changed their minds. Today we're taking a second look at the Colin Farrell would-be blockbuster and searching for what works here!Join the Best of the Rest discord: https://discord.gg/86P7jJXNPb Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/botrcast Email:

How do you remake a classic film with one of the most famous sci-fi twist endings ever and still win over critics and audiences? You don't. But that's not stopping us from diving into Tim Burton's star studded remake of Planet of the Apes and finding everything it does well! Join the Best of the Rest discord: https://discord.gg/86P7jJXNPb Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/botrc

Video game adaptations don't have the best reputation when it comes to their critical reception, but none may be as infamous as Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, which holds just a 4% on Rotten Tomatoes. We're revisiting the infamous sequel to find what is worth celebrating in this film. Bring it on.Join the Best of the Rest discord: https://discord.gg/86P7jJXNPb Merch: https://www.teep

Just a few years after Resident Evil hit theaters, Silent Hill got an adaptation of its own. Although it stayed closer to the tone of its source material, critics were not impressed. This week however we are diving into everything this movie does right! Creepy atmosphere, crazy monsters, whole body degloving, there's a lot to discuss...Join the Best of the Rest discord: https://dis

This week we are presenting a debate from our appearance on the Great Game Debate Podcast! What is the best year for movies: 1957 or 1999? Listen to the Great Game Debate wherever you get your podcasts, and watch the video version of the debate here!Join the Best of the Rest discord: https://discord.gg/86P7jJXNPb Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/botrcast Email: bestoftherestpo

One of Capcom's biggest franchises got its own big screen adaptation in 2002 with Resident Evil, directed by the same man that brought us Mortal Kombat in 1995: Paul W. S. Anderson. Critics were not kind, as is the case with most video game movies, but the movie found its audience and spawned numerous sequels. One of us loves the RE games, the other has never picked one up. Will th

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has had a very successful, if not uneven run in Hollywood. Rampage seemed to please casual movie goers well enough, even if it did not win over critics. We are kicking off Video Game Month II with one of the more bizarre adaptations made so far. Does the monster mayhem satisfy? Is Jeffrey Dean Morgan criminally underrated? Is the world ready for another Sh