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My Wife and Friend Played a Movie Game Modeled After a Podcast in an Effort to Determine the Best Stephen King Adaptation (And I was the Engineer)

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 Last month I played a game based on the Incinerator Podcast, hosted by one Billy Ray Brewton, where a friend and I determined the best film from Woody Allen. I wrote a blog about it. (https://frombtoapodcast.blogspot.com/2022/05/my-friend-and-i-played-movie-game.html )  I got a lot of good feedback on the blog and my wife (Vanessa) and a mutual friend (Scott) decided they wanted to play the same game but with Stephen King adaptations.  Here is how the game works. The premise is two people make individual top twenty lists on any given topic (for instance vampire films). The host takes a look at the lists and sees what titles the two players have in common. Let's say the players have 8 in common picks. Each player must now pick 6 out of the 12 they did not have in common and submit those. That makes up a top twenty list. There is an engineer who adds five films that he/she feels are lacking from the list and that makes a top 25. The players then eliminate films one by one until only