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Little Shop of Horrors – (The Musical) VERSUS Little Shop of Horrors – (The Movie Musical)

March 27, 20192GTAllYouCanEat, Versus Machine - A Comparison of Great Things"Skid Row (Downtown)", "Somewhere That's Green", "Suddenly, 1960, 1982, 1986, Alan Menken, Audrey II, bill murray, black comedy, blood, Christopher Guest, composer, David Geffen, directed, doo-wop, early 1960s rock and roll, early Motown, Ellen Greene, film, film adaptation, flesh, Frank Oz, hapless florist shop worker, horror comedy rock musical, Howard Ashman, human, Jim Belushi, John Candy, Levi Stubbs, Little Shop of Horrors, low budget, Off-Off-Broadway, Orpheum Theatre Off-Broadway, plant, rick moranis, roger corman, Seymour", Steve Martin, The Geffen Company, The Little Shop of Horrors, Venus flytrap, Vincent Gardenia, Warner Bros., writerNick Hearne

They’ve both got a green plant, they’ve both got vibrant characters, but just what ARE the differences between Little Shop of Horrors when we compare – The Musical (1982) VERSUS Little Shop of Horrors The Movie Musical (1986)? Versus Machine podcasters Joseph Burge and Ryan Stephens put both entries squarely into the Machine and hit … Continue reading Little Shop of Horrors – (The Musical) VERSUS Little Shop of Horrors – (The Movie Musical) →

The Fault In Our Stars – (The Book) VERSUS The Fault In Our Stars – (The 2014 Movie)

February 14, 20192GTAllYouCanEat, Versus Machine - A Comparison of Great Things17-year-old, a 16-year-old girl, Act 1, amputee, Amsterdam, Ansel Elgort, Augustus Waters, author, blockbuster, box office, cancer, directed, ex-basketball player, falls in love, Hazel Grace Lancaster, January 2012, John Green, Josh Boone, Julius Caesar, June 2014, Laura Dern, Nat Wolff, novel, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, romantic tragedy, Sam Trammell, Scene 2, Shailene Woodley, Shakespeare's play, support group, The Fault in Our Stars, The Netherlands, Willem DafoeNick Hearne

The book was a sensation – the movie? A BLOCKBUSTER. Teen angst isn’t just a magnetic property, it is the gravity well for a movie that takes cancer, high school hormones, and nationwide audiences to a level of excitement and awareness that hasn’t really yet been harnessed. Enjoy our very special look at The Fault … Continue reading The Fault In Our Stars – (The Book) VERSUS The Fault In Our Stars – (The 2014 Movie) →

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – (The Book) VERSUS The Adventures of Huck Finn – (The 1993 Movie)

January 24, 20192GTAllYouCanEat, Versus Machine - A Comparison of Great Things1884, 1885, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Buena Vista Pictures, characterized, Courtney B. Vance, December, Detective, directed, distributed, Elijah Wood, entrenched attitudes, February, Great American Novels, Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, Jason Robards, local color regionalism, Mark Twain, Mississippi River, novel, racism, Robbie Coltrane, scathing satire, Southern antebellum society, Stephen Sommers, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer Abroad, United Kingdom, United States, vernacular English, Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesNick Hearne

Children have a very different environment surrounding them now compared to the time period of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, of this we’re certain. But what liberties were taken with the classic Mark Twain tale, “The Adventures of Huck Finn” as it was translated to a major 1993 Disney motion picture? We take it all … Continue reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – (The Book) VERSUS The Adventures of Huck Finn – (The 1993 Movie) →

A Christmas Carol (The Book) VERSUS A Christmas Carol (The 1999 Patrick Stewart Version)

December 21, 20182GTAllYouCanEat, Versus Machine - A Comparison of Great Things1843, 1844, 1999, A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, Bob Cratchit, British-American, Chapman & Hall, Charles Dickens, Christmas trees, David Jones, December, directed, Douglas Jerrold, Ebenezer Scrooge, Field Lane Ragged school, film adaptation, ghosts, Ghosts of Christmas Past, illustrated, Jacob Marley, John Leech, kinder, London, made-for-television, mid-Victorian, miser, novella, Patrick Stewart, Present, Richard E. Grant, TNT, traditions, Washington Irving, Yet to Come, zeitgeistNick Hearne

It’s another holiday-dipped in holiday spirit, courtesy of The Versus Machine! We put Christmas inside the crosshairs of this episode with the true, festive emotional roller coaster ride of “A Christmas Carol!” We put two greats into opposing ends of the Versus Machine and let them go! In this corner, note Charles Dicken’s A Christmas … Continue reading A Christmas Carol (The Book) VERSUS A Christmas Carol (The 1999 Patrick Stewart Version) →

Skipping Christmas – (The 2001 Book) VERSUS Christmas With The Kranks – (The 2004 Movie)

December 10, 20182GTAllYouCanEat, Versus Machine - A Comparison of Great Things#1, adapted, Chris Columbus, Christmas With The Kranks, comedy novel, directed, Doubleday, Frosty, Jamie Lee Curtis, Joe Roth, John Grisham, November 2001, produced, Santa, skip Christmas, Skipping Christmas, snow, snowman, The New York Times Best-Seller List, Tim Allen, Tom Poston, winter, writtenNick Hearne

The Versus Machine takes aim at a modern holiday “classic” just for YOU! We’re in for a pulse-pounding, suspense thrill ride with John Grisham (yep, THAT John Grisham) and his yuletide comedy novel going up against the film adaptation starring Tim Allen (yep, THAT Tim Allen)! The book has been pulled off the shelf and … Continue reading Skipping Christmas – (The 2001 Book) VERSUS Christmas With The Kranks – (The 2004 Movie) →

Watchmen (The Graphic Novel) VERSUS Watchmen (The 2009 Movie)

September 24, 20182GTAllYouCanEat, Versus Machine - A Comparison of Great Things1986, 1987, 2009, Alan Moore, alternate history, artist, Billy Crudup, British, Carla Gugino, Charlton Comics, colorist, comic book, contemporary anxieties, dark satirical, Dave Gibbons, DC comics, deconstruct and satirize, Dick Giordano, directed, dystopian, freelance costumed vigilantes, graphic novel, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, John Higgins, limited series, Malin Åkerman, managing editor, Matthew Goode, outlawed, Patrick Wilson, published, superhero characters, superhero concept, superhero film, Watchmen, writer, Zack SnyderNick Hearne

Graphic novels and graphic novel movies have been a staple of American culture since the golden age of comics. They have steadily become the most interesting and hotly debated of cinematic exploits. To talk about a time when movies made us feel like we knew superheroes is to talk about a time when cinema ruled … Continue reading Watchmen (The Graphic Novel) VERSUS Watchmen (The 2009 Movie) →