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Great spy caper flick with Walter Matthau. I was charmed by this back in the day (1980), and it hasn't lost a step. Bill Murray should star in a remake.
Interesting interviews with character actors, but rather disjointed. There's not much of a flow and very little other than talking heads.
There's a funny moment in the middle where the talk about how all of them have done Star Trek, some several times.
I also rewatched The Hudsucker Proxy and Trading Places, both of which are terrific.
This is approaching Weird Al levels of production value. I'm trembling with excitement.
"Explodes with Atomic Laughter"
Boy, you don't hear that much anymore.
It's fascinating how it's apparently easier to teach good actors to play instruments convincingly than it is to teach good musicians to be convincing as actors. Why is that? I feel like I could learn to play a dramatic scene halfway-decent before I'll ever learn to to play a song on the piano, but apparently no...
Skill vs craft. Learning to play the right notes is a mechanical skill. Acting is a craft. Being able to write the material that does that is art.
On the other hand, some people are natural performers. You might well have developed some acting ability in the course of your regular life.
So far this week I've watched:
Some Like It Hot (love me some Jack Lemmon, and a damn hilarious movie);
The Third Man (finally got a Criterion bluray copy, so had to rewatch it - beautiful transfer and cinemetography, plus Orson Welles stealing the movie in basically one scene);
Miller's Crossing (my 3rd favorite Coen Bros film, and another one that's gorgeous to look at - love the dialogue and Gabriel Byrne's accent).
The only thing I found funny about Some Like It Hot was Tony Curtis spoofing Cary Grant. Everything else was pretty blah.
The Third Man is is amazing, tho. It made me want to write screenplays. It did NOT make me want to take up the zither....
TechNoir: The Machinist was surprisingly solid. It felt a bit like a feature length Twilight Zone episode or something.
IT SCHTINKS!
Paul Bales also wrote 2010: Moby Dick, so he clearly CAN do better, but this dog's dialog is dull and lifeless, and it's not at all helped by a story that requires protagonists who take an hour and ten minutes to take action.
The production values are surprisingly good, altho some of the visual effects are pretty wobbly. Acting and director are adequate but not inventive—even Jake Busey seems subdued. It really is let down by dialog that isn't stupid enough to be funny or sharp enough to be entertaining.
There is poo. Nobody told me there would be poo.
Came for this. Leaving satisfied.
Okay I've listened to this again. A couple of things occur to me.
1) This track is very Tom Lehrer-esque. I've said this before about some of the stuff in Sad Max. But this is approaching if not SURPASSING "Lobachevsky". Some of your stuff is Jonathan Coulton-esque. THESE THINGS ARE GIGANTIC COMPLIMENTS. I DO NOT SAY THEM LIGHTLY. I AM OFTEN KIND OF MEAN.
2) Pursuant to point 1, I'm not sure you realize it, but you are recording a comedy album. This may require tweaking the songs slightly to end verses with punchlines.
3) Pursuant to point 2, comedy albums must also be performed live. THIS CAN BE DAUNTING BUT ALSO VERY LUCRATIVE.
4) Pursuant to point 3, you will need patter to introduce each song in a live performance. This must also be funny. Don't underestimate the importance or difficulty of this. EVEN ELVIS WAS NOT VERY GOOD AT PATTER.
FOUR things. Four things occur to me.
Oh my god. Now I can't wait for this to, as the kids say, "drop".
Since Trey has just tried out Doctor Who by watching "Blink", I thought that he and anyone else considering getting into the show could use some help understanding it, since it has such a long and storied 50-year history.
Everybody probably knows the basics (time traveler, saves worlds, periodically regenerates into a different actor), so I put together some not-so-well-known facts.
His real name is Doctor Nigel Hough
He is a dentist, not a medical doctor
His blue box is called a TARDIS, which stands for "Glorious Spaceship of the Soviet Worker" in Russian (the BBC originally felt certain the Russians would win the space race)
He can travel thru time because he was bitten by a time traveler
He is of an alien race called "ruminants" who have four stomachs
Altho his various incarnations are different heights, for unexplained reasons he must keep his weight the same by means of heavier or lighter shoes
The 3rd Doctor smoked reefer now and then
One of the 4th Doctor's companions was Cher
He votes Tory
In a controversial 5th Doctor episode now lost, he raped a girl
The 6th Doctor accidentally killed the 2nd Doctor; how this was possible was never explained
He has a brother named Benny who occasionally mooches money off him
This was a great episode you guys, but I think you guys were greatly underselling the first episode of Black Orphan.
Uhh, the correct title of the show is "Webster".
Oh, it's getting good reviews? Porno version in 3... 2... 1....
/"Pacific Rim Job" writes itself
From 2012-07-31 11:36:56...
If there's enough interest in the notion we should start a separate thread, but with a year of lead time, why can't we organize the first annual "International SDCC DIF Field Trip"?
Count me in.
I promise I will go near Comic Con again next year.
As will I. I'm already looking at Beach Houses for next year, in the Coronado area.
It's possible I may go to SDCC next year, so I'm down for a meetup.
One year there may have to be a "Pink Five" booth so we might have to make a showing for that
Jesus, that was a year ago? We have GOT to get our shit together, people.
Steve Buscemi pronounces his name /boo-SEM-ee/.
Hooray! Trey agrees with me about "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality".
I think once you divorce Mike's story fom the Star Wars universe, especially if he intends to reframe it as fantasy instead of sci fi, other changes will follow organically. Obviously, Mike is free to base his empire on ancient Rome, but he's best off staying away from the SWEU otherwise.
And if it's fantasy, the sabers can be metal instead of plasma. Or the wizards can wield magic right out of their hands or something. Just don't use wands, obviously.
Cool. Episode 1 needs Padme, tho. That makes the romance more gradual and provides 1 with a decent female role.
Okay, seriously, just 50 Shades of Grey that shit, man. You've already changed all the events. Now just change the names and write it.
GALACTIC BATTLES SAGA
EPISODE ONE
THE SPECTRAL HAZARD
A mysterious fleet of ships carries out a campaign of attacks against planets on the Outer Rim of the Galactic Allegiance. They appear out of nowhere, decimate the planet and then vanish once more into the black. The Athan monk BROTHER TOBIN is drawn into the conflict, dispatched from the Athan Temple on the jungle planet Yithian to investigate the mystery.
Pretty cool. It's like a stylish JCVD or Seagal movie. It's a bit underwritten, but the action is great and Soderbergh called in all his favors to fill out the cast. I'd happily see the next Gina Carano movie, altho she's probably best used in a supporting role.
Haven't seen the movie and am not likely to anytime soon - but I was surprised to find out it was directed by John Putch.
That's part 2, yeah. Part one was directed by Paul Johannson, who did a lot of TV acting, particularly One Tree Hill. Part 2 has a whole different cast also. I don't think there's a single carry over. Weird.
My stepmother asked me to watch this and explain why it's terrible. That shouldn't be hard.
I was surprised by it, because the reviews made it sound dull, threadbare, and poorly acted. But I found that the low budget was used very effectively, and the acting was terrific. It ain't easy to make dull, lifeless, selfish, ideology-spewing characters likeable, after all. The movie IS dull, certainly. It's all about how the head of a railroad and a head of a steel company get together to sort out how they can keep their companies from going under or being ruined by the government.
Both the economics and the politics are hilariously illogical. Ayn Rand was born and educated in Russia and lived a very difficult young life before illegally immigrating to the United States. She clearly was mixing up Soviet politics with American. In her mind, businessmen who cozy up to politicians do the bidding of the politicians. And the politicians want to limit business because... you know... they want people to be equal or something. It's all very mushy and full of fantasy and misunderstanding of how the world works.
Oh, and Quark was in it, spewing anti-capitalist nonsense about how a better steel alloy is dangerous to society because it makes one company better than another.
Primer is an interesting time travel film to me primarily because it's about time travel.
I know what you mean, but I'd argue that it's really a character drama about a friendship that deteriorates. The science fiction events that occur are very secondary to the way the characters react to them. The film maker is so uninterested in the time travel, that he barely explains what's even going on.
It IS interesting to see a realistic depiction of a garage-based start-up that drives that fractured relationship, tho.
Buster Keaton was the greatest.
It's 45 minutes long. It's on Netflix, Amazon Instant, YouTube, and Vimeo. Go watch it now.
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Then I would correct your grammar.
Day 3!
This ones for you Fire...among others
"I was really busy in high school."
I hear ya, man. Dungeons & Dragons every single— I MEAN" GIRLFIRNDS!!
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