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Alright guys, this one really really REALLLY started to piss me off after a while, and I seriously wish I could have been there to say something...not that you would have answered anyways.

Anyways, here's my beef. For the ENTIRETY of the commentary you are consistently underestimating the stupidity of the human race as tech hungry morons. Literally every other second one of you brings up "Well why isn't this like this??" or "Why don't they just be a (Insert random thing here)", or "Why is he drinking coffee as a surrogate?" etc etc. The entire thing felt like you weren't even trying to do the 'ol Dif "How do we fix this?" and instead simply resorted to mocking every conceivable thing your imaginations could come up with without any thought behind the concept or truthful analysis of anything. (Explanation follows)

Partially you are doing the exact same joke over and over  and over, and I expect better from you guys. But more so I definitely disagree with the entire argument you are trying to prove.

I'll use the specific example of the coffee thing. Surrogates were created as a cool toy for rich people, it has all this really cool technology behind it, but essentially it's just a toy. As someone brought up, The Sims for real life. A way for people to be themselves without having to be themselves, a way to transplant themselves wholly and fully into a separate body. So just because you don't HAVE to drink or eat or what have you when you are a surrogate, that doesn't mean that you are just going to give it up entirely. If you did that you would be ruining the experience. Consider the concept of role players, (lets go civil war reenanctors to stay on the more pg side of things), just stopping of the normal ever day life things that you do as a person, would be akin to reenactor suddenly busting out with some ACDC in camp. It completely ruins the mood of the game everyone is playing. Because literally that's what this entire world has devolved into, a giant game, and all the people are playing the game of humanity through their surrogates.

On a more techy level (I'm going to be reading into my interpretation of how the Surrogate tech works a little bit, but I think I'm on the right track), you guys keep bringing up this concept of turning into a pterodactyl or car or whatever the fuck or even the concept of why they still need video screens, etc etc. But the thing I always keep coming back to is, we are still fucking human, we have two arms, two legs, two eyes and we see/touch/experience life in that very very singular manner, that is the way our brains have developed to work from birth.  I'm sure you could probably throw my consciousness into a car, but my brain would freak the fuck out, I don't know how to do shit, every single visual/audial/sensory input I have is working in a completely different way then I am used to, I'm sure I would be in there, but I couldn't do anything. Avatar brought up the concept a touch where Jake doesn't know how to control his tail. Why? Because he's never had a tail before, his brain isn't wired to know how to control a tail. Of course he does eventually sort of learn, and I'm sure I could eventually learn to be a car. But in a world where everyone would rather lay at home only experiencing the world through a robot, do you think ANYONE will be willing to put in the time to learn how to be?

Or hell, even on a strictly business level, what business is going to manufacture a car surrogate, do all the R&D, manufacture testing, and spend all that cash, on a product that isn't going to sell. It's simple math.

Alright, I needed to get that out of my system. If this entire commentary was just another continuation of the joke and not a legitimate analysis of the movie, I apologize for that, but otherwise, what the fuck guys? Seriously.

(Please note, I am not defending the movie in any way, I am simply trying to point out, that just because it is a bad movie, does not instantly mean that every single thing in it is wrong and should be assumed so at face value.)
And if I'm the only one that felt this way, this is the last you'll hear of it, but it got to me, and it got to me bad.

EDIT: I should clarify, I'm only an hour and 20 into the commentary, so if anything is explained from this point I apologize. I just had a massive build up of hate towards DiF that needed to be expelled, which I have only ever experienced once before...   I don't enjoy it.

Awesome!

Was this email on the positive side of thins or on a more perhaps negative,pissed off, tone?

That is intensely intentional.

So continuing my ZombieThreadPocalypse...

Smurfs (With Neil Patrick Harris...why Neil??!?! I was in such love with you!!)

and

Yogi Bear

Fuck....me.

I'd be up.

Ooo, good point Teague. Movers worked for me, up til the ending, but knowing the backstory of the behind the scenes answered that one for me.

BTW Teague, are you pretty much in agreement with everyone else about all this?

Alright I think I need a case study for this one...

Firefly...

So we have this entirely new universe to play in. But we are never given any amount of explanation for the majority of that universe. Sure we understand the basic broad strokes, Alliance=big bad government, inner planets rich, outer worlds not so rich. But we never get an explanation (In series) for the whole Chinese thing or the mix of Western and Eastern influences, they are simply there in the background and we as the audience are expected to figure it out.

I wouldn't say any of that is necessary to understanding the ultimate point of the story, at least as far I understand it. We could easily have the story of this ragtag team of people surviving on the fringes of civilization without any of the Chinese stuff. So by your logic, all of that is a distraction. But obviously it isn't, so why not?

I guess another way to  put it is, where is the difference in building a universe to play in, and just having it be distractions for the audience? Is it simply a matter of execution?

PS. It's also ENTIRELY possible that I have been arguing this with myself for so long that am completely missing the point now.

Yeah I think it's just the angle.

Alright, in order:

Dorkman:

-There is actaully ALOT of blue light in the shot, the entire aquarium is being lit by blue light, except for a few yellow lights spread aloing the walkways. Although I think the textures might have been killing most of the blueness. So that's probably my bad.

-Yeah, the crisscrossing was a (failed) attempt to make it look like some sort of artificial light was involved. (A large part of this also links back to the backstory of this thing, which looking back was probably way to much of an abstract idea to get accross in such a short time with the resources I had available.)

-The lights coming "fromt the glass" are actually meant to be spotlights installed on the support beams pointing out lighting the God Whale/Kelp and etc.

-The God Rays were created with a caustics generator (Namely cause I couldn't figure out any way to generate them with after effects or Maya in any decent amount of time. So I didn't have alot of control over them, although I thought they looked alright, but maybe you're right.

-The music...yeah, just yeah, I know

-Foundation year refers to the Foundation course at Vancouver Film School, which basically amounts to my first year here. ALthough my first and second year are entirely seperate courses this is the introduction course to everything. Yeah it's kind of confusing.

Jeff:

-The grade...this was intentional, again it links back to the overarching backstory of what this entire complex is supposed to be, that just didn't come accross. If you guys want I can throw it all up on here and see what you think.

-I'm not really sure what you mean by a wide shot, the first shot of the aquarium is about as wide as I could get. Or do you mean a shot of the entire complex, like forest and aquarium and everything? (AGain, way to big of an idea, small amount of time)

-Yeah, this project was hit by maaaaaaasive time hits, and I know every project has that but mine was that to the extreme, by the end I probably lost at least a week and a half if not 2 weeks of solid work time. SO yes, I totally know what you mean.

Thanks guys, keep it comin.