What do you mean? The trailer just DID tell you the story: Boy meets upside down girl. Boy loses girl because of police and gravity. Boy goes after girl. Police and gravity go after boy.

The only thing in question is whether the final shot in the trailer depicts a final, tragic loss or [gasp!] the final obstacle to overcome before their miraculous reunion for—I'm gonna say "jet pack fucking"

Plus there's some kind of "falling" metaphor, I think. I don't know what that's about.

I think I've been ticketed for speeding at least 30 times, the top being 91 in a 65, I think. That can't be average.

I PREDICT THIS WILL NOT SURPRISE TEAGUE

Most famous or favorite celebrity encounter?

This is so weird.

I came out of the Bank of America on Sunset and Vine once to find a homeless woman bent over the trashcan rummaging through food.  She was wearing short terri cloth shorts, and lets just say her figure wasn't flattering to begin with, especially since half of her ass crack was visible.  The part of me that still is a 12 year old shit head trying to impress the awful kids in his school screamed loud enough to echo inside my skull, "PANTS HER!"

And I DID, and she was so shocked she dropped 40 bucks. And I was like, "CRACK KILLS!" and high tailed it back to my office, 40 smackers richer.

What's the most unusual thing you've ever owned?

That movie was brutal. I had to stop it from time to time to gather the patience to go on. I'm sure it had some kind of point, but wow was it lost on me.

I like most of Charlie Kaufman's other stuff, tho.

1) Every movie is a crap shoot. The only thing you can do to shift the odds is to start with proven material and hire proven cast and crew. Disney is doing that.

2) Hollywood in general is desperately trying to give you people exactly what you want as fast as they can, as well as they can.

You liked the superhero stuff? Here—have a dozen more. You didn't like Hulk? We'll MAKE IT OVER AGAIN. You like cerebral sci fi like Philip K Dick? Here's Inception, Looper, Total Recall, Chronicle, In Time, Source Code, The Adjustment Bureau, and whatever the fuck Charlie Kaufman does.

You're nostalgic for the '80s? How about remakes of everything that was popular only with big budgets? Plus, we'll keep the old franchises alive with new entries. You like books? We'll do all the Harry Potter, Twilight, Hunger Games... whatever sold over a million copies.

You want original stuff? WE GOT STUFF WE CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN: Drive, Splice, The Fountain, Cloud Atlas, Cabin in the Woods, Abraham Lincoln as a vampire killer, joke trailers turned into action movies, military stroke jobs, martial arts movies with big budgets, cowboys and aliens together, remakes of successful European and Asian movies you didn't watch because you won't watch anything with subtitles.... YOU NAME IT.

ANYTHING and ANYBODY you like, we'll do more of that. And we'll hire directors who know what they're doing, and we'll give them big budgets and total control. You didn't like the Star Wars prequels? We'll pay billions for the franchise and give it to somebody who SEEMS to know what he's doing. WHAT MORE CAN YOU ASK FOR?!

I have my personal doubts about new Star Wars, but everybody seems to be trying make good movies these days, Battleship aside.

It's Dredd, man. He hit one perfecta, and now he's on a gambler's high. He's playing every race and betting on the genre movies.

I hear A Good Day to Die Hard is a mudder, Mike. Could fare well in the wet. Remember your old pal Zarban if she pays out for ya.

/pops a lemon drop

Just watched Quick Change with Bill Murray (who co-directed) and Geena Davis because I remembered that the beginning was a lot of fun even tho I couldn't remember much else. Turns out there's a reason for that.

The whole rest of the movie is about their attempts to get away with their loot, and thing after thing happens to delay them. The problem with a plot like that is that every scene is just random complication after random complication. And since all they're trying to do is get to the airport, it feels very contrived.

The music is good, Murray and Davis are wonderful. Jason Robards is great as the cop on their case. Randy Quaid isn't completely horrible. There's some character development along the way. And the ending is quite clever. But overall, it just falls short a bit because the plotting is so random.

Well, some of those are obviously not big surprises but a couple of things struck me. One, Americans don't typically speak more than English, so it rarely occurs to us that others do unless they have thick accents. And two, Hollywood very rarely makes use of the fact that many actors speak other languages. How awesome would it be to see Sandra Bullock and Kim Cattrall yelling at each other in German in a movie?

Yeah. Here's how music copyright works (as far as I can tell from my research).

You write a song: your estate owns the copyright to the words and music for 70 years after your death.

You record that song: your estate owns the copyright to that recording for 70 years after your death.

If Teague wants to cover your song, he gets a mechanical license (about $15; he doesn't need your permission; it's compulsory). He owns the copyright to that recording. He gets the profits from sales but must pay you, the songwriter, a standard royalty (about 10¢ per copy distributed).

If, when he's recording his cover, Teague creates a new arrangement of your song (changing rhythm, tempo, melody, backing, lyrics, etc.), YOU OWN IT, not Teague (unless Teague gets you to agree to a special deal).

If Paulou licenses the song from you (for $15) to do a cover, he can do it with Teague's arrangement with no extra compensation or acknowledgement to Teague. Palou owns the copyright on his recording; you still get your songwriting dime.

The only exception is parody. If Paulou's version is mocking you or your song or people who like your song or music in general or society in general, he doesn't need a license or permission and doesn't pay royalties. Weird Al Yankovic DOES pay some royalties to avoid any hard feelings or lawsuits.

Not acknowledging Jonny C was very uncool of Glee, but who ever said Glee was cool?

(Edited for clarity)

Invoking Star Trek as a point FOR Abrams?