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BC March Madness 2025 - Day 14
🕑 Added 2025-03-14 18:00:12 +0000 UTCGoddamn, another nailbiter! Sony's Hot Monsters Who Fuck wins by only 3 votes. For the record, whoever commented this was correct. Venom IS technically a hot monster who fucks.
For today's matchup, it's time to mask up.
It's Predator vs. Alan Moore Adaptations.
With the Predator series, we'd cover six films (if the latest one comes out in time):
Predator (1987)
Predator 2 (1990)
Predators (2010)
The Predator (2018)
Prey (2022)
Predator: Badlands (2025)
With Alan Moore Adaptations, we'd cover four films that Alan Moore himself hates:
From Hell (2001)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
V For Vendetta (2005)
Watchmen (2009)
Who comes out on top—the Predator? Or Guy Fawkes?
Comments
Zach Bruno
Shaking my fist in the air as a silent protest. We all missed out on making our lives better.
Damimoon Sunbeam
Rather like when I voted against Brexit and assumed the rest of the country would, I wake up to find that Predator has been ditched 😂😩
John Halski
All good points, I’ll give you that!
Brendan Radigan
Oh, absolutely.. Lxg was one of my main reasons
John Dog
That's an excellent summary but I imagine each car crash would have its own many and varied wrinkles. Plus in terms of other talking points, just the actors alone: Depp, before the fall, Connery in "let's shoot this piece of shit" mode, Portman still finding her way, Weaving, Crudup, Wilson, Haley-Earle! You can never be sure, but this may be a hugely bit-rich environment!
Oliver Scott
They should really do Show Pieces and the Show for Alan Moore as a counterpoint to the films of his work he hates.
Good
Alan Moore is BORING!
ian
Surprising results. Are there really people that want to hear reactions to the filmed poop that is LXG?
Rad Rodge
Yeah that really would be a helluva dossier
Alexander Annand
Dossier on The Predator (2018) would be interesting but a bit grim as well I think. That movie is an absolute mess.
Adam Grzegorczyk
Predator 2 has some of the most metal imagery ever committed to film. Predators is great and under seen. Prey is straight up incredible. Meanwhile the Alan Moore series is one good film, one great film, and two absolute stinkers
Justin Hiltz
Disappointed in these results
heather
Isn't THER Predator by Shane Black?
David Ranallo
I really cannot overstate how extraordinarily boring and unwatchable LXG is and how extraordinarily dull and uninteresting commentaries of LXG are. HDTGM’s recent episode is a case in point
Anthony Strand
They should do the Justice League Unlimited episode of "For the Man Who Has Everything"
John Halski
The Alan Moore series would be *way* more slog and repetition than I think people here realize. “So the studios wanted to adapt it because it had this incredible reputation among comic book readers. Then they read the comic and freaked out because it’s unfilmable and full of content offensive to large swaths of America. So they watered it down to hell and Alan hates it and fans of the source material hated it and audiences were ‘meh’ and the finished product is perhaps watchable but mostly uninteresting.”
Matthew O'Reilly
Straight watch-through of all Watchmen content on Max
Matthew O'Reilly
ALAN MOORE ALL THE WAY BABY
Tom Lowery
Throw-in SWAMP THING for Moore…and you have a deal.
Isaac Maddock James
TECHNICALLY you guys should do the Killing Joke animated movie for Moore, but it is awful and not in a fun war so I understand.
Lola Lirola
Justice for Madame Web!
Liam
justice for morbius
Ben Burbank
guy who fawkes
Bradley Churton
Gonna be the 4 hour cut of Watchmen, right?
Rad Rodge
When LXG came up on the Temple of Doom episode, I had the same hallucination about that movie that I always have when I remember it exists: wasn’t Tom Sawyer played by Christian Slater in his early 20s? OF COURSE NOT that would’ve been a better movie and also Slater was like 35 at the time! Some part of my brain wants that movie to have existed anyway though
Hannah K. Garden
Alright hot monsters we did it!!
Brice
V for Vendetta is going to be so much fun lol
Michael Hashizume
Whoever wins...we win :)
David McCallum
Team predator!
Ryan Howard
Would really love for them to not do Moore because I have an ethical objection to watching Watchmen adaptations, considering that DC basically stole Watchmen from Moore/Gibbons outright and then spent the next 30 years portraying Moore as the villain in that exchange, somehow.
Les Chappell
After Terminator, Predator makes so much logical sense. I’m guessing people are voting for LXG commentary, but I feel the others are going to be more of a slog.
Dan W
So much wonderful fodder for the podcast with the Predator series, including some great flicks that are good for rewatch.
James Heath
Am I the only one who is not a fan of the adhoc "franchise" series. Predator is such a great franchise for the format.
Stephanie Lambrenos
Three votes!? Fellow blankies, only 42% of eligible voters cast a ballot in the last matchup. Come on now, we can do better!
Wyatt Gray
Let's take Predator all the way baaaby!
Erik Wacker
I love all the Predator movies but the Moore series is just way more interesting for discussion
Collin Lewis
Damn this has been the toughest one so far for me
Richard Rush
I know the timing is wrong but I think the 82 Swamp Thing belongs on the Moore list, entirely because fuck yeah Swamp Thing.
Andrew Cardinale
Yeah, I thought Griffin said that on the Podcast.
Harrison Cordle
Need more bits around the name “LXG”
Manish Agarwal
Predator 2 is proto-vaporwave 😎
Ryan Baker
How Did This Get Made just learned the folly of watching LXG.
David K
Moore is so in their sweet spot it’s crazy. Should win it all and I don’t give a shit about any of those films.
Lobo
🫡
Chris Radicone
Going Predator, it should be Watchmen the Extended Directors cut 4 hour version with the animated comic sequences. It's the one Zach Snyder movie I'll champion but I still think ZS was a coward for not including the Alien Squid.
David K
You’re in luck! https://pca.st/episode/140d7d5b-7e7c-4c3c-a3ce-a9488ff236f6
Adam Butterworth
Hot Monsters Who Fuck to go all the way! A reanimated Cinderella story.
Jess Kaplan
GET TO THE CHOPPAH
Ginger’s Boyfriend Matt
ALL the predator movies are fun. You fools!
Joel Pelanne
I will sing the Little Lulu song in his voice to this day, I have seen this episode on purpose exactly (once)
Regis L
Just ask yourself, you want good movies, or you want bad adaptations?
Doc Derwin
Predator please. Please Predator. I mean, come on. Predator, right? Like, it’s Predator. Just, you know, Predator.
Aric Yakel-Kuntz
Swamp Thing isn't specifically Moore's book or creation, he just hammd an EXCEPTIONAL run on it. Swampy was created by Len Wein and has an extremely rich history independent of Moore's run
Steve Runyon
Holy shit that was a close one! 3 votes!!!
Brandon Melling
You say that, but the Predator series actually has a lot more variety than you might think. I went through them all for the first time a few years ago and was genuinely surprised by just how radically different they all were from one another in terms of their tones and settings.
pastrick
Watchmen Babies in V for Vacation
Joel Pelanne
I believe the Alan Moore series should include the YouTube shorts video cut together from the bits of his Simpsons appearance that will never stop getting recommended to me for very obvious reasons and I'm not afraid to say it
Miles Lemaire
Alan Moore for the sheer variety.
Tom
Predator series would be a fun night, watching them.
Jake
3 votes my goodness
Anthony Strand
It isn't. In fact, the movie predates his run on the comic. The movie came out in February 1982, and DC relaunched the comic that same year to promote the movie. Alan Moore took over that series with issue #20 in 1984.
Anthony Regina
Unquestionably Predator, bb
Michael Curley
Prey is incredible. Everyone should watch it. Anyway, I voted for Moore.
Beardmask
It's the best worst introduction to classical literatary characters.
Spencer Pommier
Only voted for predator because I know they don't like v for vendetta and I don't want to hear them being wrong about a movie for 2 hours
Harry Kolmer
Pour one out for my Man Venom. We tried so hard
Beardmask
The Watchmen commentary alone would make a Moore series amazing.
Maricela Gonzalez
Exaaaaactly
Dads FM
Here for the League and Watchmen commies
Tobey
Bizarrely, this is my toughest choice of the whole bracket. I think I’m going to vote Moore, but I’d be totally happy if Predator wins the whole thing.
Literaltruth
Alan Moore is going to hate these episodes, want his name removed from them and he's going to tell everyone who will listen just how much they miss the point of his work
Rice
God the patreon choices are so much harder than main feed
Jordan Coleman
Honestly, Alan More should win it all.
Del Lorenson
DECADE OF (laser)BEAMS!
Charles
Never seen League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Seems like a good way to see it.
Hoot n Waddle
HDTGM just did LoEG and that’s really turned me off of the idea of doing the Moore series
Devin
No Constantine for Moore?
Damian Brown
Voting for Alan Moore mostly because I personally did my own Predator rewatch recently.
Zach Bruno
Predator is a 5 star movie and is better than all of the other movies combined. If it doesn't win we all lose.
Daryl
Glad I voted for Sony Hot Monsters Who Fuck in the last 17 minutes of the poll being open - right under the wire! Wooooo!
statue of liberty
Want From Hell, supremely underrated film, the Hughes Brothers colabs are AMAZING
Benjamin Ogden
It's the Decade of Dreams, guys! Predator brings us just Alien: Romulus away from finishing all Alien v. Predator films. Do it for us completists!
Joseph Maggio
Alan Moore!
Pat Walther
please god let alan moore sweep
Christian Scarbrough
I have seen LXG 50 times and I'm ready for one more!!
Jimmy Leavens
Why no swamp thing? Isn’t that based off his comic or no? I’ve not seen the movie to clarify
Anthony Strand
Give Alan Moore royalties for the episodes, tbh
