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Why not an east Indian Doctor? Or a Māori Doctor? A Brazilian Doctor?
Let's not go nuts. Let's have an orangutan Doctor first. Then we'll talk about your crazy ideas.
For the record, I'm all for a female Doctor, a black Doctor, an older Doctor, and an orangutan Doctor, in that order.
That should take us to about 2024.
You'll all also be incredibly happy to know that "Road Trip" was on the same disk.
Goddammit, this is a conspiracy! SHYAMALAAAAAN! TRAVOLTAAAAA!
The only purpose of something like this is to have fun. If that's not happening, there's no point. Set it aside as lessons learned, I say. Start over when you've got the WHOLE THING scripted out, not just the first ep.
That said, the script is alright. And you're acting is terrific. The camera work needs to come up three notches to match.
Earlier in the week the BBC disguised the show in the TV listings, scheduling a fake ‘Celebrity Mastermind’ in the 7.30pm-8pm slot.
Dammit. I was looking forward to that rerun of Celebrity Mastermind.
I liked Dragnet a lot when I saw it in the theater back in nineteen dickety-two. The movie is just about justified solely by Hanks' delivery of "Thank God, it's Friday!"
I agree about Buckaroo Banzai. I liked this a lot as a kid, and revisiting it recently was fun, yet somehow it isn't quite fully realized.
I watched The Battleship Potemkin the other night. It had great cinematography, but the story was very silly communist propaganda. The pacing is quite good, especially as the tension ramps up at the climax, yet the storytelling is often clumsy in that it's not always very clear why something is happening. It's hard to believe that a lot of people in the 1950s (in the West, even) thought this was the greatest movie ever.
I think the movie is, generally, about all veterans of foreign wars and the survivor guilt they feel. "All these men—on both sides—died, some of them in the very act of saving my ass, and yet I survived. Do I deserve it?"
No. Nobody does.
I think we should also kidnap Alan Rickman and force them to do scenes together--
I MEAN THE PEOLPE IN THE MOVEIE SHULD DO THAT NOT REAL PEOPLE NNAMED US
I think the remarkable thing about Toy Story is that it successfully gets the audience to identify with a minor supporting character (Andy) instead of the heroes. This is even reinforced by, of all things, the merchandising campaign, which allows you to own duplicates of the heroes just like Andy.
So the message becomes "you never really stop loving your toys, even when you stop playing with them" rather than "sometimes our parents/god stop loving us".
Interesting perspective, tho.
Honestly, we've only just figured out that you don't all wear bowler hats and carry umbrellas everywhere. Next you'll be telling us you don't have tea and crumpets twice a day.
/tips cowboy hat, moseys away
BRUCE (tied to chair)
You're just fans? Not actually terrorists?
LEADER (smiling)
Who said we were terrorists?
BRUCE
STOP QUOTING THE MOVIE!
/zarban ain't 40, IIRC
Like Jack Benny, I never stopped being 39.
I've recorded Carl's dialog from "Dust" and posted it and sent AuralStimulation a PM.
I didn't see any recording settings information. I recorded at 44100 hz and output at 128kbps. Hope that works.
Zarban. Dude. Awesome job! Maybe I should just hand the keys to the channel over to you
I will most definitely be using you for a story.
Do you want to give Carl from "Dust" a shot? Have a look at the original post for a link to the SoundCloud excerpt and the story. I'll PM you the link to the Box.com folder I've set up.
Thanks! Do you mean you want me to try recording just Carl's dialog from the story at CreepyPasta? And then post it to the Box site?
I don't sound particularly old.
You probably want Zarban for that.
Why, I oughta...
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I could do some Photoshoppy work, but not video.
/still bitter about the radio star
Here is my audition. I improvised a story and set it to Kyle's track "Through the Wind Came the Sound of Bells" (extended slightly with more bells). I hope that's alright with Kyle.
It's a 3-minute sci-fi horror story called "Midnight in Space" and it's a bit cliche, but I think it works nicely with Kyle's piece.
A comment on a page at Zarban.com prompted me to check the links to the download pages.
Aladdin is still missing.
Back to the Future is missing its cover (the blurry image is there, but not the icon).
The Crow is missing.
Dark City is missing. Someday, you should do a commentary on that one.
The Explorers is still missing.
The Fifth Element is still missing.
Full Metal Jacket is still missing.
Galaxy Quest is still missing.
Ghostbusters 2 is still missing.
Then I stopped.
Note to self: restart at page 3.
Owen, you have inspired me to start a war.
Come at me, Belgium!
This one sounds like a downer. It had better not be a downer. I'm still angry at Pink about Missundaztood.
/one. fucking. party. song. Pink?
It occurs to me that Pacific Rim could have been a lot better with some minor changes. A couple of brief scenes here and there could better humanize our heroes. Here are two I think would help.
To Trey's point about Mako suddenly being okay between attempt 1 and attempt 2, they could have had this scene in between (like when Mako mistakes Raleigh's door for her own).
RALEIGH
We just haven't fully made the connection we need. There's still a lot of tension here.
MAKO
(looking up at him now)
How should we fix it?
RALEIGH
Let's go.
MAKO
Where are we going?
RALEIGH
We're going to do some more fighting.
MAKO
(standing her ground)
No. No more fighting.
She touches his face and gazes into his eyes, then PULLS him into her quarters, which is elaborately decorated in traditional Chinese style.
RALEIGH
Wow. This is NICE.
The door CLOSES behind them.
And this scene between Idris Elba and Robert Kazinsky regarding Stacker becoming Chuck's partner.
CHUCK
Not YOU.
STACKER
I need the Striker Eureka out there, and that means I need you. And THAT means you need a partner.
CHUCK
I've lost my partner. There's no one I'm compatible with. I'm BARELY compatible with my father.
HERC
That's a fact.
STACKER
When I drift, I bring no baggage. There's no rank. There's no emotion but determination. You know anybody else like that?
[Chuck looks away. Then Max the bulldog catches his eye. His eyes light up.]
CHUCK
Yeah. I DO.
STACKER
You cannot drift with a dog!
CHUCK
Why not? He's my best friend!
[Stacker walks away.]
STACKER (OS)
We don't have a suit that fits him.
I also think it would help if the characters actually said each other's names more often or more clearly. During the movie, I could remember Mako's name, but by the end I could only remember that Hercules Hansen identified himself clearly in his final announcement, and I couldn't name a single other character. It was weird.
Last, it just wasn't clear what was going on in the fights enough. Not only were they all shot at night in the rain or underwater, they were all framed very tightly. Loosening up that a little and adding some voiceover about what the plan was would allow the audience to understand better when the plan went awry, and they'd feel more for the characters.
Everything Trey said.
Also: next time, lead with the chest rockets and plasma cannon. Follow up with the punching as necessary.
Also also: I so wanted them to suit up that bulldog and have him control half of a jaeger. Who better to fight tenaciously and have a perfect mental connection with than man's best friend? Next time, del Toro!
A funny script with sharp dialog is a little let down by pedestrian execution. Can you imagine making a Tom Hanks movie after this and not putting Tom Hanks on the poster?
I'm going to have to go with the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies.
Then you need to get out more. There's a whole world of wonderful weirdness that you're missing out on, but it's mixed in with a lot of schlock.
Almighty Thor, from The Asylum, was just a miserable exercise in capitalizing on the Marvel Thor movie. It made no sense, starred an abysmal actor, featured Richard Grieco shot separately doing nothing.... Just awful.
Plan 9 From Outer Space really is stupendously bad. Bizarrely written and laughably acted; cobbled together from various leftover footage and stock footage. Complete nonsense, but so inept as to be vaguely interesting.
Also, most of everything I've watched from Something Weird Video. Those guys have cornered the market on 1960s schlock.
Nope. The list is here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Guy.. … That_Thing
I will say, Željko Ivanek, it's your own damned fault that no one knows your name. "Jeff Ivan" not good enough for you?
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