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Dare I say whatever came of the pirates 2 commentary.  Was it...lost in davy jone's locker.  heh.

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1. American Beauty
2. The Dark Knight
3. Super 8
4. Close Encounters
5. Wizard of Oz
6. Batman Returns (Trey worked on it)

Last year I was looking at the VG10, and decided to hold off until I had the money for it.  I am just about ready to invest in a new cam now and notice that the reviews for the updated VG20 are less than stellar.  Missing features, awkward functionality.

Has anyone used either of these cameras?  Would it be worth it to get the VG10 instead, or maybe wait until the VG20 gets some firmware upgrades?

$2000 is really the most I can afford, and I have no desire to purchase a DSLR, so it looks like I would have to buy something in this family.  I am just not sure what the right move is at this point.

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Carrie. 

Love the set pieces, am oddly bothered by the way some of it unfolds...especially at the very end.

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Coming from a jersey resident, teague, that accent is pisspoor.

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Ooh, I eagerly await then

EDIT: Battle: SD is actually genius.

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Hmmm, you might be right.  I still kind of feel though that in most of those cases, all the human conflict rises out of HOW we all overcome the force of nature.  Who here should be the leader?  What's the best way to defeat the aliens?  Character conflicts play out, but at the end of the day everything that is going on is subservient to our hero(s) overcoming the nature and getting out alive.

Sometimes I guess the force of nature is just a catalyst (like in any other story) for forcing characters to work out their already-growing problems.  Jeff Goldblum confronting his ex-wife, Alan Grant learning how to work with children.  There's always other things in play.  But at the end of the day, Goldblum and co. are just trying to stop the aliens, and Grant is just trying to escape the dinosaurs. 

I feel like if you make the clear distinction of the good guys, and the bad guys they have to stop from hurting the dinosaurs...we lose a bit of focus.  What is the overarching objective here?  To survive the dinosaurs or to stop the others from capturing them? 

Again, I still haven't finished listening to this commentary yet, so I may be missing something.  But I think there's a problem in "focusing" the plot on the hunters and making it clear that stopping them is what our heroes need to do.

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I haven't listened to the full commentary yet, so I don't know if this is addressed or not.  But I feel like the problem with Teague's cleaned-up, save-the-animals version is that the dinosaurs essentially no longer become a threat. 

Sure, in JP 1, the dinosaurs weren't evil and didn't want to eat you because it was fun.  But we certainly weren't rooting for them either.  They were the antagonist, and it was a simple man vs. nature story.  Now granted, as with most man v. nature tales, a lesson was learned and we realize we never should have tampered with nature in the first place.  But this was all more conceptual, and not a physical series of actions throughout the film of people intending to capture/control the dinosaurs.

If we place all this focus on the hunters in Lost World, it becomes less clear who our antagonist is.  The only way to really do it would be to completely eliminate the dinosaurs as a threat, and make it just about stopping the "bad guys."  But then you completely eliminate the reason people go to see a Jurassic Park movie.

And then if you throw both in, it becomes a man vs. nature vs. man? story.  It's like making a movie where our hero tries to stop poachers from harming panda bears.  Oh yeah, and the panda bears also EAT YOU!!!

EDIT: Better example.  Jaws 5!!  Chief Brody has to stop the bad men from hurting the shark.

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yes!! you are a saint.  now i dont have to listen to johnny depp and gore verbinski mumble for 2.5 hrs

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NOT releasing the pirates commentary tonight broke my heart sad

i needed something to keep me occupied until on stranger tides

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inturresting policy, i kinda likes it.

gzarra, call me gerard if you desire.  i'm a film student at nyu, i love you guys and have been listening from the beginning but just made an account now. 

i was dvdcdr over at tfn, sort of a semi-semi-regular back in the day tongue