The two parallel lines on the left side wall being indicated as at a right angle to each other breaks my brain.

I don't know why this is making the rounds today as a big bombshell. Spielberg has openly hated the aliens aspect in every interview since before they even shot the thing. It's why it took almost 20 years to make the film -- Lucas said it was aliens or nothing, so Spielberg said it would be nothing. Until, for some reason, he gave in.

The actual, stunning news here is that Spielberg is responsible for the fridge.

You've posted this in the wrong thread; therefore Kubrick is a genius.

Confused Matthew thinks CRYSTAL SKULL is a good movie. His argument is invalid.

I'm more inclined to think that he did that because if they were in a real location, the hotel lights would be tungsten and the light coming in from the windows would be daylight, so he had the lights in the hotel area be tungsten and the lights coming in from the windows be daylight so that it felt like moving through a real location and not a set.

I'll go so far as to grant that this could very well have been a deliberate choice to make the movie more creepy in the sense that making the hotel feel like a real place in the real world makes the horror more relatable and more effective. But I'm not willing to go so far as to think there's some "using the subliminal discomfort of non-complementary color palattes" senior thesis type justification behind it. That tastes like Kool-Aid to me.

Just about every podcast I listen to these days has a Skype component. The FXGuide/phd/RedCentre guys are all over the world and interview people spread about likewise, The Skeptics Gude to the Universe is all done over Skype... There was a time when Skype was ganky and unreliable, but that was years ago.

That being said, we can barely manage to keep any given episode from imploding technologically with everyone present in one room, so I can understand the reticence toward trying to add a remote contributor to DIF. But maybe we could experiment for the Intermission.

KUNG FU HUSTLE is one of my absolute favorite films. (I know I say that about a lot of movies. I have a lot of favorites. But I loathe a lot of movies, too, so the net energy of the universe remains zero.) But I don't expect we'll do a DIF of it. I think it might be a wee bit esoteric.

Don't let the door hit you, princess.

Anyway, actually on the topic, an addendum I wanted to make in the following ep but didn't get around to is that when I say it's a big no-no to give your script to someone if you know it has problems, I mean to say that if you're giving it to someone and you know it has problems that you could fix, and have just chosen not to before giving it to them, that's lazy and shitty and you ought to be caned in the street.

On the other hand, if you know the script has problems and you can't figure out how to fix them, and the point of giving it to that person is to get a new perspective and maybe some new ideas for solutions, then of course that's perfectly valid and a great reason to seek a second pair of eyes.