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Teague's different readings of What Are You Doing, Movie? on a recent episode led me to think on emphasis on words in statements. Here is a breakdown of how the podcast's title may be perceived in regards to different ways of saying it.

"WHAT are you doing, movie?" - implies that the movie may have an agenda, a goal, or an aim. This movie is up to no good or perhaps doesn't know what it is doing.

"What ARE you doing, movie?" - focuses more on what the movie is doing here and now rather than what it has done or will do. Indicates a sense of immediacy or urgency in what the movie IS doing presently.

"What are YOU doing, movie?" - isolates the movie from its fellow movies to ask of it and it alone what it is doing. Cares more about this particular movie than any other movie. May suggest the movie is exceeding or falling behind its peers in performance.

"What are you DOING, movie?" - pretty obvious, really. This query aims at determining the behavior of the movie. Is the movie being subversive, is it being predictable, is it ripping off Surrogates? This likely is the proper reading of the title in most cases.

"What are you doing, MOVIE?" - this is a tricky one. It is even somewhat philosophical as it seeks to determine the behavior of the movie qua movie. That is, how is this movie performing in so far as it is a movie. Compounding this question is the querent's relationship with the movie. Take for instance the questions "What are you doing, Doctor," or "What are you doing, Marine." Both questions may imply a level of trust or distrust. Is the behavior adequately medical or militaristic in each instance? How cinematic is the movie in so far as it is a movie? Has the movie virtue? In other words how well does it fulfill its role as a movie?

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I have a knack for naming stuff, having named a friend's podcast in fact. Some of these might be pretty stupid but I say you never know. Maybe one of the lesser names may inspire something. Brainstorming, you know. I haven't checked to see if any are already taken so if you like what you read best confirm before using.

Practical Effects
Four Friends in Your Head
Square Pegs Round Table
Son of Geekza
Bride of Geekza
Geekza Returns
Film Fixers
Movie Medics
Going to the Mansion
Teague and Friends
Pod Bay Doors
Screen Geeks
Get Reel
Finding the Plot
Screen Time
Red Carpet Slobs
3 2 1 Unpause
Special Features
Down in Front: the XXX Parody
Behind the Lens
Industry Insiders
Screenwriting is Easy
Film Fans
Egos and Microphones
The After Party
Wrapping Up
Geeks on Film
Movies Magic and More

That's all for now. Hope that gets some wheels turning.

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Positive unpopular opinions:
Movies I like: Robocop 3, Fantastic 4, Wolverine, Tropic Thunder, Beyond the Black Rainbow, The Stuff
TV I like: Dollhouse, the Night Rider reboot, Benny Hill, Star Trek Voyager (earlier episodes), Saturday Night Live, Russel T. Davies run on Doctor Who
Music I like: dub step, house

Negative unpopular opinions:
Movies I dislike: Prometheus, Abram's Star Trek, Red State, Last Action Hero, Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy 2, Dark Knight Rises, Memento, Fright Night remake, Trick 'r Treat, Maniac
TV I dislike: Angel, The Walking Dead, Stephen Moffit's run on Doctor Who

Overrated comedians: Daniel Tosh, Bill Hicks
Overrated video games: Halo, Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto 4
Overrated bands: U2, the Beatles, the Doors, Guns 'n' Roses

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I am a horror fan and so is Joss Whedon. Much of Cabin in the Woods is an homage to Evil Dead of which Joss is a fan. He has been interviewed on Evil Dead claiming as to why he prefers it to the sequel. Both Buffy and Angel pay homage to many horror genres and tropes. I very much doubt Joss intended to call out horror fans for enjoying the medium. I know many horror fans and for the most part they are kind, generous, and peaceful individuals who, well, just like something a little darker. Several friends have or are currently hosting horror themed podcasts and are the kindest, most gentlemanly people I know.

The odd thing about horror is those who are not fans can't quite comprehend what we fans like about the genre. Indeed it is difficult for a horror fan to define what it is about horror that appeals to them.

I suggest watching the documentary, Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue, that details the evolution of American horror with commentary of actors, actresses, directors and the like. Special Effects artist, Tom Savini, makes several appearances. He's a Vietnam veteran that applies his experience in the war to producing some of the most realistic gore ever filmed. The best part of the documentary, though, is how it juxtaposes what those in the industry feel about horror compared to what people who don't like horror feel. Horror fans are unfairly maligned as they are thought to be sadistic when really there is something else behind the motivation, usually an attraction to more visceral cinema. A point is made in that action films are violent in a jingoistic, chauvinistic fashion and that it is perfectly okay in this case to root for the good guys no matter how many baddies they kill. Horror takes violence to the next step showing just how devastating a gun shot or a knife to the stomach can be. This is something the action genre tends to avoid unless aiming for that degree of realism.

Another companion piece for CITW is Behind the Mask: the Rise of Leslie Vernon, a faux documentary about an up and coming slasher in a world where Jason, Freddie, and Michael exist. A film crew follows Leslie as he plans for his massacre of several teenagers at a remote cabin in the woods. All the while he discusses the mythological and psychosexual meaning behind each step. He points out important tropes, even including the arrival of an obsessed psychologist that is hunting him down (played by Robert Englund). I think Leslie Vernon both honors and subverts the slasher better than CITW, though CITW bites off a much larger morsel.

In short I look at CITW as Whedon's and Goddard's string theory of horror movies. It is a system of thought to unite all horror films under the same formula. Whether it succeeds or fails is a matter of the latitude you afford it.

Also, personally, I think the cenobite should have been in the British complex as Hellraiser was originally a British film based on a British author's story. Then maybe like the movie the Americans bought the rights to it and the lament configuration.

See. Horror fan.

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5 Reply by insideoutcast

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Roll Hunter

Faux documentary following the Swedish Chef in his pursuit of the elusive but dangerous savory bread roll. Coming Thanksgiving 2012.

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6 Reply by insideoutcast

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1) Batman Returns (Trey worked on it)
2) My Favorite Martian (Trey worked on it)
3) The Wizard of Oz 
4) Unforgiven
5) Kick-Ass
6) Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

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Down in Front crew and other commentators,

We at the InsideOutcast have recently started doing our own film commentaries (ALIENS and a handful of horror films for October) and since we have man British listeners I upload two separate files. One is for NTSC format (23.976 Frames per Second) and the other is for PAL format (25 Frames per Second). After recording the commentary I use Audacity to change the tempo by %4.271.

I'm wondering if perhaps changing the tempo might increase the number of listeners in Europe. It's a bit more work but is a considerate gesture for any listeners across the pond. Granted not everyone actually watches the film with the commentary, but for those that do it would be nice to have the discussion sync with what is on screen at the time.

One issue with this, though, is Blu-ray. Now Blu-Rays in the states claim they are 24p. The question is is this true 24 fps or a shortcut way of referring to the 23.976 fps? With our purchasing more films on Blu-ray this will affect how we do commentaries in future.

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True Love by ThouShaltNot, perhaps the most eclectic band in the current gothic and dark wave scene. True Love is their foray into dark cabaret complete with swelling vocals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LKcjsRkgs0

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My friends over at Mike and Ike's All Star Summer Jamboree podcast are interviewing Barry Bostwick soon (Some Guy Who Kills People). I suggested they ask him how it was to work with Trey Stokes on 2010 Moby Dick.

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Sabrina is an awesome tune, though I'm partial to German experimentalism. Fun fact, kids. Einstürzende Neubauten often leave the stages they perform on damaged. I guess beating on railings and dragging metal bins about has that sort of effect.

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So Intermission is like the return of Geekza before Geekza did movie commentaries. m'kay.

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Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. Yes. I know. Obvious answer.

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Music for a German Tribe by former Bavarian DJ and dark electro pioneer :WUMPSCUT:

It's an EP of some early hits all performed auf Deutsch (in German) including Soylent Green, Die in Winter, and Tell Me Why. I like the variety of songs and the intensity of the performance. The EP was compiled with several other rarities in a two disc compilation titled, Preferential Tribe.

When I'm in the mood for some :\\//\\//: I'll listen to this EP above others.

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Loved Dorkman's rant.

That which is said of geeks can also be said of goths. The scene grows around the individuals, not the other way around. You can be an 80s action geek or a gamer geek or a Star Wars geek or a Star Trek geek. The geekdom is in the level of dedication and enjoyment of the particular subject, whether comics, movies, or games. The same is true of goths. There are goths that dig zombies, goths you like Victorian clothing, goths that are into cyberpunk. It's a big tent.

The stereotypical geek or goth is an amalgam of what appears to be the most common trends. I say appear as many geeks and goths are less overt in their appearance and attitude and therefore overlooked. Not all goths are mopey. Not all geeks are nitpicky.

You can not like Scott Pilgrim and still be a geek just as you can not like The Cure and still be a goth. As the russians say, in taste and color there are no equals. That is, Diff'rent Strokes for Diff'rent Folks.

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Here's my idea for Iron Man 3 (like that matters much wink

Act I
We begin with Tony cleaning up, destroying a number of facilities that are basing weapons of war on his design. He avoids killing too many people, trying to maintain his hero status.

ACT II
He finds trouble balancing his Iron Man activities with running Stark Industries and consulting for The Avengers. To reduce his workload he designs a remote Iron Man installing Jarvis as the control system. This improves the Iron Man design as there is no longer the human element to take into consideration. Meanwhile Tony focuses on the business and build the Mandroids for S.H.I.E.L.D.

ACT III
Jarvis goes all HAL, destroying the Mandroids based on the data that they are copies of Stark's designs. Jarvis goes rogue. TOny must build another, improved suit with limited resources. Jarvis has access to the web and Tony must accept help (Reed Richards maybe?) to build a MK VI or whatever. He has to face Jarvis toe to toe in an epic Iron Man on Iron Man battle. Tony then must reconfigure Jarvis.

Wudya think?

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A few notes on vampires from your resident goth.

Now I'm no apologist for the Twilight films. I really don't feel either way about the series. However, the claim that they are not true vampires because they can go out into the sun is false. It was the film, Nosferatu, that introduced that foible into the vampire mythos. A vampire could be killed by the temptation of a maiden at cock's crow. The ending is grossly different than the novel, Dracula, upon which it was based. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, the count can go out during the day but, as Eddie Izzard points out, becomes a low powered vampire.

Earlier accounts of the vampire in the novel, Varney the Vampire and I believe in Palidori's novel based on Lord Byron, vampires go out during the day. The hopping corpse of Chinese mythology on the other hand is destroyed by sunlight as sunlight is pure yang energy. Much of the Chinese and the European ideas about vampires have been confused over the years.

Sparkling, though weird, is just another interpretation. Vampires of old were just walking dead that carried plague with them to cover their kills. The vampires of New England are vengeful ghosts that prey on the life force of surviving family. The mythos is quite broad in scope with few traits shared. Living off the life force of others is one of the few.

Sexuality has been intermixed with vampire literature from the very start. An early German poem about a vampire features a dead woman returning from the grave to seduce her former love. Penetration, fluid exchange, seduction, nocturnal activities. Vampires, like werewolves, are an allegory of sexual desires.

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It may not be a commentary, but my friends over at The Black Dog Podcast are revisiting Die Hard for their Christmas special. It will feature as their rose tinted specs segment where they look back on the notable films of our past. Lee and Darren are extraordinarily funny, so it should prove entertaining. Lee is a 3D animator for Cartoon Network so in my mind is not far removed from the Down in Front crew.

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Characters? Not cast members? Eeks.

1) Sir Galahad
2) Bicycle Repair Man
3) The Dentist/Spy
4) The Bishop
5) Brian

Next, Top 5 war cries.

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Yo. Don't be frontin' G with your hoodie all up in my grill. Some other brothers gots hoodies too, ya dig?

Oh, dear. What came over me? Hey, if Airplane! can do it...

And, yes, the hoodies are very warm. Utah winter proven.

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20 Reply by insideoutcast

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That is disappointing.

It reminds me of when we missed KMFDM with Angelspit after they got snowed out in Denver.

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They're playing at Club Sound in Salt Lake City tonight (Nov 22). They're touring with Dommin (awesome gothic metal band with doo wop sensibilities) and Aural Vampire (from Japan). Sorry. They played Anaheim on the 14th. Still, it isn't unknown for bands to cycle back and hit Cali a second time.

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maul2 wrote:
ShadowDuelist wrote:

Also, are we just doing the top 5 of whatever we want now?

I blame insideoutcast.

Yes! Blame me. Crucify me. I am Goth Jesus.

Imagine how weird it would be if Jesus wore a crucifix.

Top 5 ghost movies.
1) The Legend of Hell House
2) The Shining
3) The Haunting (original)
4) The Sixth Sense
5) The Changeling

Might as well be the top 5 movies starting with "the"

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23 Reply by insideoutcast

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Aslo I received my Down in Front hoodie in the mail today. I may just wear it to The Birthday Massacre concert tonight. }:[

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I sent in a review of the podcast and in so doing got one of the podcasters to subscribe to the show. That mash-up Ryan made is like the free sample dealers push on the public.

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I enjoyed the one live chat I attended. It's one of the few instances wherein the listener can contribute to the commentary. On the other hand, it is difficult to carry tone across in text. One can be taken more seriously than intended.

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