I recently rewatched the original, and though I still like it, I was shocked by how sparse and un-daring it was. It has so much potential for social commentary, but it's really lightly sketched. I really think a remake of the original film (hear me out, don't cut me), but with a better script and some subtext would be an excellent movie. It would, of course, do terribly at the box office though.

Still, they got a black astronaut into space before NASA did, so.

But yeah, the original would make for a really good "how could you improve this?" episode.

edit: the second film is quite, quite poor. i don't even know what they were trying to do, or thought they were trying to do. it's like someone started a sentence and then distracted you by pointing somewhere else, and then when you look back at them, they're just eating a sandwich.

I've been saying that for months. From what I've seen of the trailer, his London accent is shit, and only, like, 60% of that stuff actually happened.

Teague's tutorials claim another victim/student.

And yeah, I know this isn't anything y'all haven't seen before, but I tried searching and couldn't find an "i rotoscoped a lightsaber too!" thread

I do now realize the important of having a separate shot of a lightsaber switching on, 'cause trying to get the length right without a guide, while it moves towards/away from camera is tricky. But still, I'm amazed how easy this was. Gonna try doing something more complicated now. Cheers, Teague.

You sexy beast.

As someone who just spent the past two days simulating literally millions of phylogenetic trees, and looking up the latitude/longitude of 723 national parks, painstaking, repetitive tasks is definitely in my wheelhouse. I'm in.

edit:
P.S. Trey, thanks for giving the permission for Teague to post those videos
P.P.S. Teague, I will be holding you responsible for my priapism.

Holy shit, y'all are awesome

Zarban, if you write anything with a sex scene (so, presumably not the project with 11yo niece/nephew), I have a wah pedal, so that's pretty much the soundtrack sorted.

You know, taking that optimistically, that's a good point. I can live with that.

I don't know what this thread is about anymore, so I'm looking forward to The Intermission even more than I already was.

Edit: Okay. So.
Film criticism tends to be film analysis. Though plotholecriticism takes this critiquing literally.
It is ostensibly offered as 'comedy', though if that is the case then its level of success is up for debate, as it often veers towards needlessly petty and trivial.
Some people take this as it seems to be intended, as comedy.
Others take this as legitimate criticism, so perpetuating a kneejerk culture of "here are trivial problems that I can use to dismiss the film with so that I don't need to engage in intellectual criticism". This is neither ideal, nor healthy, though people are free to do/interpret as they wish.

We all seem to like movies. But we don't like it when people trivialize what it takes to like a movie.

Is that where we are with this?

Hey, just a heads-up for the American forumers (and the technologically capable but not American forumers... so, pretty much everyone):

Netflix now has the first 7 seasons of Columbo! Dunno how long it'll be up there for, so enjoy it while you can!

edited to add this: Columbo Drinking Game

I get that Fridge Logic / Plot Hole Critiquing / Whatever can come across as really inconsistent and hypocritical at times, but the way I see it, is that each movie has a set of scales. If a film does enough little things right (and at the right times. ebb and flow, rhythm and structure and all that) it can weigh down the scale one way, so that when something ridiculous comes along, it doesn't tip the scale back into "Noooope! I'm OUT."

If Karl had hunted McClane down by following his bloody footprints as soon as that flashbang cleared, bad guys win, end of movie. But Die Hard does almost everything else perfectly, so I don't care.
The ending of Edge of Tomorrow probably has serious issues, but I haven't questioned it yet, 'cause I walked out of the cinema with a smile on my face.
And you're right. People direct a lot of criticisms at Crystal Skull that can be aimed at other films (the raft in Temple of Doom is pretty much the same thing as the fridge, I agree). But! Crystal Skull is almost entirely devoid of all those little moments in the other movies that buy goodwill.
As for Dark Knight Rises, I never really heard people state that the plot holes were why they didn't like it. The other movies had plot holes too. I think the film (for me, anyway) just didn't buy enough goodwill (or would buy goodwill and then lose it) because thematically, it felt inconsistent and not clear about what it was saying.

That's the twist!
One of the few ways left to surprise book-readers is to just start removing crazy shit.