TIMECOP. Sorry I’m getting ahead of myself. Basically we like the idea of doing a series of videos on movies that you didn’t realise were based on comic books. And in the first of four weeks we’re taking a look at peak JCVD (Jean-Claude Van Damme), Timecop. A movie about a man who’s both time and cop determined to stop financial criminality across the centuries whilst not really bothering with the actual ramifications. You can kill whomever in Timecop, it’s totally fine don’t worry about it. Hell of a movie though. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review.
Smallville did a hell of a job reinstablishing the origins of Clark Kent/Superman as well building it’s own law that’s become canon across other DC Universes including Superman in the DCU. Here we look at the pilot episode, a Christopher Reeve cameo episode plus the two hour series finale that wrapped up it’s incredible 10 season run. Plus we get into the freak of the week trope, the lack of an actual Superman costume or appearance, it’s continuation in the CW with Crisis on Infinite Earths, Season 11 and the potential upcoming animated series. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review.
The Superman extraveganzy bonanza continues with a look at Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman! Starting in 1993 and running for four seasons it achieved huge ratings over the majority of it’s time before its eventual cancellation. Starring Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain and bringing sci-fi, romance and adventure to the small screen (more…)
2025 is quickly becoming the year of Superman with the DCU reboot courtesy of James Gunn. So over the next three weeks we’re going to take a look at THREE classic Superman TV shows, starting with Adventures of Superman from 1952 starring George Reeves. It’s a hell of a show propelled the character to new (more…)
Just when we thought we was out, they pull us back in. To talk about Michael Crichton movies! This week it’s John McTiernan’s (director of Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October, Predator) The 13th Warrior. Considered one of the biggest box office bombs of all time this Antonio Banderas action flick is certainly not (more…)
It’s Timeline time everyone! Because we’re continuing our look at Michael Crichton’s movie adaptations that aren’t Jurassic Park. The year is 2003, Richard Donner (director of Superman: The Movie) decided to gather up Paul Walker, Gerry Butler, Frances O’Connor and Billy Connolly to do a big time travel to the year 1357 in order to (more…)
Ever heard of Jurassic Park? Michael Crichton’s greatest adaptation! Well get ready for another adaptation that’s not Congo, Sphere. A movie about aliens and time travel and Sphere’s and nightmares. Starring a young…ish Samuel L Jackson, Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone it sank like a bloody stone at the box office due to poor reception (more…)
Michael Crichton is probably most famous for penning the novel that would go on to became 1993’s Jurassic Park and the subsequent Park/World sequels. And in light of that a whole lot of different attempts have been made to adapt his work some before, like Westworld and some after like Westworld. Over the next three weeks we’re going to take a look at some of the lesser known and lesser successful adaptations, starting with 1995’s Congo. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review.
Jason Bourne (Extended)
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The Bourne Legacy (Extended)
The Bourne franchise was as good as finished upon the conclusion of 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum. But franchises never truly die if there’s profitablity at stake! So in 2012 Tony Gilroy of Andor fame returned to the series this time as director for The Bourne Legacy! Jeremy Renner steps into the universe as Adjacent Bourne aka Aaron Cross, a Blackbriar super soldier agent enhanced with pharmaceuticals forced to go on the ran because Jason Bourne can’t stop running around for just a god damn minute. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review
The Bourne Ultimatum (Extended)
We’ve reached the end of the road for Jason Bourne, wrapping up the Matt Damon led trilogy where everything finally falls into place. Old white guys at Treadstone LOOK OUT because Jason Bourne is going to come to your work when your not there and you’ll be like “hey man what the hell”. Anyways be sure to come back next week and also the week after for the continuing adventures of Jason Bourne and his best friend Aaron Cross.
The Bourne Supremacy (Extended)
Matt Damon as Jason Bourne is back in the first of many sequels! This time he has to try and remember all of his memories by tracking down another old man who made him do a Treadstone. It’s got action! A car chase! More things from the first movie! It also has Paul Greengrass taking over directorial duties with a script sort of from Andor’s Tony Gilroy. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review
The Bourne Identity (Extended)
Oh my goodness it’s Jason Bourne. That’s right we’re taking a look at all of the movies in the Jason Bourne-universe. Beginning with the Doug Liman directed Matt Damon starring action-espionage thriller The Bourne Identity. Set against a European backdrop and also featuring the likes of Franka Potente, Julia Stiles, Brian Cox, Clive Owen and Chris Cooper the story follows a man whom after being dredged out of the ocean with no memory must follow a series of clues to discover the truth behind his past. And it turns out he’s an assassin or whatever. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review
Uncharted (Extended)
Sorry there’s a delay to the video version! Hopefully ready for you tomorrow (Friday). By popular demand we’ve been forced into covering Uncharted 2021, an adaptation of some of the Naughty Dog video game series. Not the good one (The Last Of Us on HBO) but Uncharted 2021, a movie that mostly covers some of the ground seen in parts 3 and 4. With Tom Holland taking on the role as a young Nathan Drake and Mark Wahlberg playing that much beloved character, himself, this globe trotting adventure sets the bar for movies that feel like they come out in 2014. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review.
Wing Commander (Extended)
The video version is delayed a day sorry but here’s the extended audio early for big sandwich legends.
Wing Commander is a bad movie that came out in 1999. Sure it’s based on a much beloved computer game series (that features the likes of Mark Hamill) and stars both Freddie Prinze Jr and Matthew Lillard. Plus it was directed by Chris Roberts who not only created the original series but also the upcoming Star Citizen video game which is going to change the way you do video games. All in all though it was a horrible experience. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review
Street Fighter The Movie (Extended)
In 1994 the Street Fighter name was riding high off the back of Street Fighter II, an arcade classic. This meant it was the perfect time to release a movie adaptation and who better to play the role of Guile than Jean-Claude Van Damme at the height of his fame. Much maligned at the time it’s become somewhat of a cult classic despite being more GI Joe than Street Fighter. But at least some of the actors look like some of the video game characters. Plus it has Australia’s own Kylie Minogue and an incredible performance from Raul Julia. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review
Double Dragon (Extended)
With the release of both The Minecraft movie and The Last of Us Season 2 we thought we’d revisit some classic video game adaptations. So we’re kicking things off with 1994’s Double Dragon! A bad movie that came out at the wrong time. Martial arts, action set pieces, humor, this has all of that but none of it is very good. Thanks for checking out our Caravan Of Garbage review
Punisher: War Zone (Extended)
It’s time for peak The Punisher everyone. In 2008 under the Marvel Knights brand Lionsgate attempted another Punisher rebooted with Ray Stevenson stepping into the role of Frank Castle. It wasn’t received well at the time nor did it perform well at the box office despite, in hindsight, it being an incredible fun and gory time at the movies. Director Lexi Alexander managed to craft what feels like the truest on screen adaptation of the character we’ve ever seen and even manages to include the likes of Jigsaw, with a suitably unhinged performance from Dominic West. Great stuff. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review
The Punisher 2004 (Extended)
Bit of a delay on this week’s video version for Caravan of Garbage due to some late in the day editing switches. But don’t worry, everyone is living their best life. Not even The Punisher can stop us releasing this extended audio edition for bigsandwich.co though.
In 2004 Marvel took another shot at making a Punisher live action adaptation after the success of Spider-Man, X-Men & Daredevil (I guess?), the Thomas Jane in the lead role. Also acting as his Year One original story it pits him against John Travolta and a family of mobsters who had his entire extended family un-alived (that’s for YouTube censorship) after Frank Castle acted out a truly bizarre undercover pantomime drug deal. It’s fairly melodramatic and drawn out but it does boast one of the greatest scenes in cinematic history. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review
Punisher 1989 (Extended)
The first cinematic adaptation of The Punisher happened to be a little known action film from the late 80’s staring Dolph Lundgren. Sure he was missing the signature white skull, black jumpsuit and white boots (disgraceful omission) but there’s a lot of core elements that have held up pretty well despite the limitations of the era. SO COME WITH US as we journey through all the films in the Punisher’s repertoire and thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review
Elektra (Extended)
Daredevil may not have gotten the sequel it probably I guess deserved but it did get a spin-off. ELEKTRA. 2005. Brought back to life using magic or a wish or something after being killed in Daredevil, Jennifer Garner returns to the role where this time she’s an assassin who can sometimes see the future sometimes. This time she has to face The Hand and a bunch of henchpeople who are probably mutants including a man who’s tattoo’s come to life and also his name is Tattoo. All in all it’s not very good. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review!
Daredevil 2003 (Extended)
Daredevil 2003 came in the a wave of Marvel comic book success stories like Blade, Spider-Man and X-Men. Ben Affleck’s Matt Murdoch however didn’t manage to reach those same heights despite being a pretty solid action movie. For the time. How could it not with Michael Clarke Duncan as Kingpin, Colin Farrell in his first comic book villain role as Bullseye and Jennifer Garner as Elektra who recently returned in Deadpool & Wolverine. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review
Captain America: Civil War (Extended)
Captain America is back and this time he wants to beat up Iron Man! In wrapping up our look at the Steve Rogers Captain America trilogy we take a look at the biggest entry, Civil War. After Tony Stark again begins to feel bad about being a bad bloke he backs the General Ross drafted Sokovia Accords which means more regulations for any enhanced beings. This acts as the introduction of both Spider-Man and Black Panther and divides The Avengers into two distinct teams who beat each other up in an airport among other physical activities. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Extended)
We’ve reached what many consider to be the pinnacle of the MCU, 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Taking place after the events of The Avengers we again see Steve Rogers adjusting to the modern world and delves into the grey area surrounding his work in the modern day. Also Hydra is back! And a mysterious assassin wearing a mask with a metal arm who may have ties to Captain America’s past! Also Nick Fury does some really cool stuff for what is probably the last time. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review
Captain America: The First Avenger (Extended)
We’re back with the first Caravan Of Garbage for 2025, Captain America: The First Avenger. In the lead up to Brave New World we take a look back at the first in the trilogy and the introduction of Chris Evan’s portrayal of Steve Rogers. Acting as a prequel in the MCU timeline it takes us back to his battles with the Red Skull and Hydra during the events of World War II. Directed by The Rocketeer’s Joe Johnston and also starring Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes and Stanley Tucci as Dr. Abraham Erskine it managed to lay the groundwork for future installments on top of being an absolutely cracking adventure movie in its own right. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review!