It's the million dollars. Kickstarter runs on goodwill and she was shown a lot of goodwill, people would like to see some of that returned. This has nothing to do with Kickstarter itself and everything to do with human interaction. It's a question of decency. Was is wrong? Legally, no. Socially, possibly, someone certainly thought so and then the internet happened.

I think some of it can be attributed to the tone and wording on her call out for musicians. Also I wouldn't be surprised if this had been a none-issue had it been a reward, as you suggest, and framed as a privilege instead of a plea.

Unforgiven didn't do much for me, but this could warrant a rewatch-along when it's released. I haven't seen much japanese film outside of Kurosawa, they don't seem to have a movie making presence in the rest of the world besides their celebrated animation and ridiculed kaiju movies. I've heard somewhere that their movies generally aren't very good, but this certainly looks promising.

I've been waiting for an excuse to sit down with this. The lighting is brutal, Redford is probably too old and in my opinion there's one too many "Ya falla"s, but the movie is damn good.

It's ironically refreshing that Lonnegan never catches on to them for a reversal. And it works. The tension of the entire movie hinges on Shaw's incredible performance, even if it never happenes, you believe he at anytime could figure it out and then proceed to do unspeakable things to them. Instead we see a man blinded and eventually consumed by his own greed. The pokergame is one of the most tense and enjoyable scenes I've seen in a long time. Awesome.

I would definetly watch a word for word, scene by scene remake of this if they did it properly. I'm not a big fan of the movie's throwback aesthetics as is, the lighting, the sets, the music and the sometimes overstated acting. With more sensual photography and production in general this could be one of my favourites.

Let me pitch a little movie called "Ravenous". I get the feeling it passed under the radar for a lot of people, but it's a really interesting genre movie, it does a lot of things...weirdly. If anyone here hasn't seen it I implore you to. It's got Guy Pierce and Robert Carlyle in the leads, with a host of character actors and a collaboration between Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman on the score, it's an odd duck on all sides.

Unfortunately Jeffrey Jones had to go full pervert but his role isn't that meaty, and you managed getting through Howard the Duck without much incident so that won't be a problem I would think.

Great having you guys back, feels like this was something of a stress reliever, everyone's in a palpably great mood!

Well, I'll echo most of the sentiments here, the movie's not very good, and I personally think the conceit of it is quite dumb. But I actually think you could make it work. I believe you guys hit upon the main problem right out of the gate, tone is THE issue. Having all these monsters bumping shoulders is ridiculous by deafult, going from the high concept this should have been a flat out campfest, the more contrived the plot the better. I think the James Bond shtick is great and I think Wenham, Roxburgh and the redhead are in the right movie. If everybody else had followed suit this could have been a lot of fun. I mean, the movie is half of a full on crazy C-movie already, but with ALL the money. How glorious wouldn't it be if it had gone for ALL C-movie too?

A Van Helsing series of movies where he takes on a different monster in each installment would be great though. I'm all on board for that.

Speaking of monster hunters, has anyone seen the Solomon Kane movie? It's good, the climax is wanting, but the movie is good up until that point. It's even got the british Hugh Jackman in the lead, in addition to appearances by Max Von Sydow and the late Pete Postlethwaite.

Now, Del Toro. Of the four movies I've seen, the two Hellboys, Pan and Mimic, I'm not particularly enamoured. I put him in the same category as Gilliam and Burton, it's always interesting to see what they're up to but they never quite seem to nail it. Then again, I hear Devil's Backbone is his best. As for Hellboy 2, it felt to me like a parade of pretty stages, the first movie was better, though not great. Hellboy himself is a big problem, he's not a good character, the guy is invincible, and that's just not interesting.

Catching up is bitch.