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Followed by if we were animals, what kind would we be.
I seem to remember someone asking that in the top 5 topic. Ah, top 5 i miss you...
I'd bring the Hyperion Omnibus (the first 2 Hyperion books). Love that story.
Hmm, i'm gonna have to watch Surrogates. Does it have Fichtner or space-dementia?
Good news: These nice people have a list that DiF should pick from.
Bad news: This belongs in off-topic but Satoshi Kon died a couple of days ago at 46. To me he was batting 1.000 as far as animé goes: the best part of Memories, Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers and Paprika which has very cool opening credits.
That was fun. It's tough to hear 4 peeps excitedly talk over each other, and yeah Teague was feeling good for most of it but so what, i was kinda loaded myself listening to it. I LOLed when Jake said "At this point anything could happen."
From the bits i saw i always hated this movie. When Criterion did Armageddon i wanted to understand what they saw in it but as soon as i saw the dumb as a stump story and slow-motion flag stuff i thought 'my God, Criterion's being ironic!' We went from the deadly serious early '80s action movies i love to Terminator 2's tongue in cheek "bad to the bone" to this technically brilliant shit. Dumb was the new smart.
Well i finally watched the whole thing with the sound off and the visuals held my attention. In fact the shuttle take offs were beautiful.
To Michael Bay et al i say: Too bad you made The Poseidon Adventure instead of something profound. For 50yrs people have been saying Stanley Kubrick's a genius and he got death threats when A Clockwork Orange came out. Now we say Michael Bay's an idiot and he gets $70m for Transformers. It's a crazy world, kids. G'night.
/speed kills
I'd lurv to hear Eddie and the gang do Heat. Get Shorty's good but it's a shame about that ending.
I've just been polled!
Sadly missing from list: Casablanca, Get Carter, Mad Maxes, Outland, Videodrome, Dune, Raw Deal, 12 Monkeys, Narc, ...
That was beautiful. What didn't work? Very, very nice.
I love Blender. I can't believe they give that app away for free.
http://www.starwarsuncut.com/watch
It's a fan film where everyone does a 15sec chunk. I couldn't stop smiling.
I'd like to apologize for my presence on this episode. I start off pleasantly buzzed, and eventually become totally wrecked and pass out.
Hehe, i hate this movie very much but i can't wait to hear the show.
I haven't seen it in a while, but i remember finding the party scene confusing/boring. However you feel about the story you have to admire the guy for making such an original movie on such a teeny-tiny budget. On actual film no less. Nice end credits too, black on a grey BG if i remember right. Why can't other filmmakers think outside the box like that.
I can't wait for the first theatrical-release movie to come out filmed entirely on a cell phone.
Glad i listened to this if only for the Press Your Luck reference. I used to watch that show high. If anyone needs me, i'll be watching YouTube clips for the next 6hrs.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
A very long, very funny movie.
Another good one, guys. I'm weird, i usually try not to watch the movie with the commentary or else i might switch you off and watch the movie like i did a couple of times here.
Henry Fonda bombs New York!
And soylent green is made of people. People! But yeah, the scene where the president yells at the pilots to turn around and they won't listen is awesome.
The world was balanced on the head of a pin, and we all knew it.
Damn man, you're like one of the fucking Hyperion pilgrims. (That's meant as a compliment. 
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*sigh*
Don't make us liberate America just to watch this thing.
That was great! Hehe, space computer... It was freaky to hear your voices. I smiled at the ship interior set, very nice.
I know this is the wrong topic but just to ad to my comments above: i've finally watched the work print version of Blade Runner and it'd be my favorite of all 5 versions except that - grr! - it has mostly temp music. The ending is the best one, he picks up Rachel very quickly and it ends at the elevator.
Someone just needs to edit it right with the Vangelis music.
And don't forget the cast posing in the end credits. The coolest thing of all time (after bacon sandwiches). Not still images. They're... posing.
Okay, no, but seriously. If you guys decide to do a show with the three of you, pick something you love. Anything. Something obscure as hell, somebody everybody else hates, whatever. If you dig it, your enthusiasm will come through.
I second the motion.
Or do Dune. I'd love to hear why Cloe allegedly likes it.
Or do Arnold's Raw Deal, as long as you realize that the actors are better than the movie, and keep an ear out for the director saying "don't over-act" in the warehouse scene after the actor says "now my time is worth as much as yours".
Personally, i prefer the original version. Sure the voice over's a little goofy, but so is Harrison Ford. The happy ending doesn't match the rest of the movie's tone at all but i like it anyway.
Gaff has this origami fetish. Cool. So at the end he leaves a unicorn for Deckard because he found out that Rachael is special, no 4yr life span. She's unique, like a unicorn. He knows Deckard and Rachael are going to make a run for it and he lets them. End of story. To me there's no need to add all this 'it's from Deckard's dreams' crap.
BTW, did you know Ridley Scott shot this commercial in 1979 using music by... Vangelis.
Narc. Good movie. And it only took about 30 producers to make it.
I just signed Aronofsky's guestbook and said there was a nice fan commentary and discussion here, and maybe he'd like to leave a comment here. Wouldn't that be something.
No, no no no. If the astronauts in question could conceivably meet cavemen, then their ship has artificial gravity.
I read them well over a half dozen times as a teen, until I literally OD'd on the suckers and could no longer look at the pages.
Yeah, i'm like that with some movies. I was too young to see Blade Runner when it came out in theatres, but watched the shit out of it on vhs. I still have the director's cut laserdisc from '92. Saw it in a repertory theatre about 10yrs ago, which was awesome. Today i can't really watch it unless i get wasted first.
... the notion of Bilbo just sitting on it all those years, and ultimately handing it over with little more than a pout, loses all credibility. ...
He's a packrat. It was just a pretty ring. Even Galdalf didn't know what it was. The "sleeping" ring trickle-charged evil into Bilbo for years, so we shouldn't underestimate what he did.
... how Gollum could merely become insane rather than trying to take over the world.
I'd say Gollum 'didn't count' for Tolkien. He was sub-human. He'll betray you in the end, garranteed.
It's Sam.
Don't forget Bilbo. Gandalf had to talk him into it but Bilbo also got rid of it of his own free will.
Yeah, I didn't bother to transcribe the next paragraph down. Tolkein talks about how ultimately it's Sam's "hobbit-sense" that saves him, that he one small garden is all a gardener needs, not a whole kingdom. It's about humility in the face of blind ambition and lust for power.
Humility. Most people think they'll come off as losers if they ever act humble. I like sports but it's tough to root for individuals cause they're so cocky. That's probably why people turn so viciously on people like Tiger Woods. And that LeBron James TV thing last week was ridiculous.
Uh, so yeah LotR.
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