976 Topic by Dorkman

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I'm gonna come out and say that I don't think remakes are necessarily a bad thing. Three of my favorite films -- THE THING, THE FLY, and BODY SNATCHERS '79 -- are remakes, and improve upon the original in significant ways.

A lot of remakes are unnecessary, but what movie -- recent or not -- do you think could benefit from a remake, not just to make a quick buck but because there's unmined potential there of some kind? And, as a corollary (or maybe the whole reason to have it remade) -- who do you want to see do it?

Be prepared to make your case. If you say GHOSTBUSTERS you'd better have a damn fine argument and a hell of a director in mind.

Me, I'd like to see a new version of MORTAL KOMBAT, with either Prachya Pinkaew or Tony Jaa (the ONG BAK guys) at the helm. Give the flick some Eastern, contemplative flavor, while still getting a violence-riddled film befitting the original violent video game. Hook them up with an experienced VFX supervisor to help them get their bearings with the CG and I bet we'd see shit with Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Goro that'd blow our goddamn minds.

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977 Reply by Dorkman

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And when we try to stay on topic with the movie and not let conversations wander, other listeners complain because we're stifling interesting conversation that they want to hear more about.

For my part, I think it's usually ideal to bring the conversation back to the film, if there's something to be said in particular about that film at that moment; but at the same time we've all been trying lately not to interrupt each other as much as before because folks in the forum were complaining about that, too.

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978 Reply by Dorkman

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I didn't miss the connection, I just don't actually do Ghostbusters references. I figure, if you know Ghostbusters, the reference goes without saying. And if you don't, we can't be friends.

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979 Reply by Dorkman

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iJim wrote:

I wanted to edit on FCP because they edited Episode 1 on FCP, man!

...What? No they didn't. Version 1 of Final Cut Pro was released in April 1999 -- they didn't cut the movie in the month before its release (though it would explain a lot).

The prequels were done on Avid. The first major motion picture to be cut on FCP was COLD MOUNTAIN in 2003.

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980 Reply by Dorkman

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The back of your hand.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--fvDsFe7_RE/TaI_Y8vypXI/AAAAAAAALBw/sIul6baNIL4/s400/BEAT_INJURED_RAGE_MAN+WOMAN+SLAP.jpg

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981 Reply by Dorkman

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Hanel linked me to this clip from the sad, sad infomercial where David Carradine tries to sell you a stick.

The link below is the one I mentioned in the show (won't embed for some reason). His dog becomes too ashamed to be a part of it at 0:55.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q85cV3GOM

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982 Reply by Dorkman

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johnpavlich wrote:

Back to Kill Bill: Volume 2. I don't know if this is true, but I read/heard somewhere that Pei Mei is voiced by Quentin. I don't think it sounds like him, but the audio could have been tweaked to hide it. Maybe those of you more familiar with Gordon Liu's voice than I can tell me for certain if that's the case or not.

Tarantino originally intended to play Pai Mei himself, then Gordon Liu asked to do it so he naturally said yes, but planned to re-dub it with his voice, in English, deliberately poorly as in the classic kung fu movies. But ultimately he let Liu use his own voice and went with subtitles.

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983 Reply by Dorkman

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In PIRATES 2, whenever the guy with the hermit crab head starts speaking in Cantonese, the subtitles declare it "gibberish."

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984 Reply by Dorkman

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Of course he is. Because he's a person, not a Movie Hero, and people in crazy situations can act stupid and panicky and aren't going to always make smart choices in the moment. He's doing his best without having any idea what to do because he's never had to be a hero before and didn't even intend to start now. Which ultimately is what, IMO, makes him heroic. Not that he's good at it, but he never abandons trying when he realizes no one else is going to do it.

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985 Reply by Dorkman

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The plot of the movie is dinosaurs running amok in the park, clearly unsupervised. So within the world of the film the Dinosaur Supervisor is not doing his job.

/explain-o-tron

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986 Reply by Dorkman

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Oh, come on. I think a group devoted to trying to save the human race might have a little sense of the value of a human being and treat her and the most important baby on Earth with some compassion and, you know, humanity.

Yeah, they're going to have to draw blood and run tests, but they're not going to turn her into a faceless lab rat screaming futilely in a white room. Science/tests != evil.

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987 Reply by Dorkman

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Shit, I say we do all three. At that point if we lose a commentary, we're doing it on purpose.

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988 Reply by Dorkman

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The issue is that the actual recording here stops right after Trey said "She's too young." The Justin.tv feed is the only record we have of the next few moments with her actually speaking into the mic, etc. So if we want to include that in the show, we have to extract it from the Justin.tv feed.

If you have the full video, that's the best for us to have so I can make sure the reconstructed audio file is synced.

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989 Reply by Dorkman

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Just to let everyone know, I've managed to find amid the Audacity temp files (which I got from Teague), and am starting to piece together, what we got of the KICK-ASS commentary. This will still happen.

The actual recording died just after Trey said "She's too young, she's fine," and I think it was somehow my doing when I leaned back to take my niece from my sister, so literally you'll want to download and archive this specific moment right here, and the audio can go crappy for about 30 seconds in the middle of the commentary with the Justin.tv audio, and we can pick it up in the second-half recording whenever we do that.

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990 Reply by Dorkman

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We'll address a lot of this tomorrow, and here there be spoilers, but:

Doctor Submarine wrote:

Here's an easy fix: Just say that the Source Code pulls from the brains of everyone on board the train, or maybe just everyone in that car. They can only put Colter into one body, so they choose Sean because science science science blah.

Uh, they DO say this. They built the simulation from the collective memories of everyone on the train. They put him into Sean because they're physically similar so that's easier for whatever reason.

Doctor Submarine wrote:

Then you have a space constructed from the shared experiences of all of those people, and since one of them is the bomber, Colter can find the bomb.

This actually wouldnt solve the problem because the bomber didn't die in the attack, and therefore his memories wouldn't be in the pool of victims from which Source Code draws.

Of course, the whole punchline is that it's not a simulation at all, it's a full-on alternate reality and the folks who built the machine have no idea. They think they built the Matrix, they actually built a hybrid Sliders portal/Quantum Leap machine (it ain't random casting that Scott Bakula is the voice of his dad). So the memories thing is ultimately a red herring.

Doctor Submarine wrote:

EDIT: Also, did they ever explain why it's necessary for the person entering the Source Code to be inches from death? I remember them saying that they could replace Colter with "someone with similar injuries to yours," but why? Why can't anyone just go in?

Because they have to cut open your head and wire it directly into your brain, presumably permanently. No one's going to volunteer for that, but apparently they can legally be conscripted if they're as good as dead.

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991 Reply by Dorkman

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It has both. I saw the original and I borrowed your copy to do it.

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992 Reply by Dorkman

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You don't understand -- the internet turned to look at me like the flaming vag-eye of Sauron and they all wanted me to know that SOLDIER took place in the BLADE RUNNER universe. It might not even be true but I was sure told the hell out of it.

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993 Reply by Dorkman

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Squiggly_P wrote:

I think it's safe to also assume that Kill Bill and Death Proof exist in the same universe, as the cop and his son show up in both.

That actually makes these characters even more hilarious, because imagine the ludicrous shit they must be dealing with every day to be so calm whenever we see them in the aftermath of complete madness.

Squiggly_P wrote:

He uses the same brand names in his movies. Personally, I like the idea a lot, so until he comes out and says it's not so, or he does something that would definitely prevent that theory from working I'm gonna just go along with the notion that this is all one big universe and he's just showing us all how fucking awesome the universe in his head is.

I can get with this idea if the universe is openly a movie universe -- like if he makes movies in the hyper-archetyped Movie World of LAST ACTION HERO. That would explain the way his movies can seem to stumble from one genre into another, occasionally to the surprise of the characters (as we discuss in Vol. 2).

It's not unlike Stephen King's writing (who in turn was inspired by Lovecraft) which largely takes place in some fashion in connected universes, if not always the same one. Many of his early novels have references to each other in some way, several mid-career novels took place in the fictional town of Castle Rock and quite a few of his later ones are explicitly tied to the Dark Tower.

OH MY GOD TARANTINO SHOULD MAKE THE DARK TOWER

Invid wrote:

The idea of unrelated movies existing in the same fictional universe is a fun one.

As I learned from several people when Wil Wheaton retweeted a comment I made about BLADE RUNNER a couple weeks ago, the Kurt Russell movie SOLDIER apparently takes place in the same fictional universe as BR.

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994 Reply by Dorkman

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[obligatory Nedry quote]

[obligatory Nedry squeal]

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995 Reply by Dorkman

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Ewing wrote:

1:37:52 - 1:38:24: BOTH - A covert stealth mission in the forest? Bring along the noisy robots!

Oh man, this one is especially great and would probably sync well with the movie itself to boot.

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996 Reply by Dorkman

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I'll do Children of Men as well.

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997 Reply by Dorkman

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Aw, lookit LOST WORLD all alone up there. It's giving me the sad eyes, I'll take the little guy home.

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998 Reply by Dorkman

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Just as a note, while it'll be great to have timecodes for funny bits, make sure to take note of especially interesting/insightful moments of commentary. Part of what this video is for is to show at a glance how we're different from something like Rifftrax, and the main difference is that we actually engage with (most) movies rather than just cracking jokes.

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999 Reply by Dorkman

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I think my favorite recent insight is Brian talking about the purpose of telling a story, and how some movies you can't tell what that purpose is. Specifically the example he gives "I could give you a three hour lecture on the importance of credibility -- or I can tell you the three-minute story of the boy who cried wolf and get the same point across, and probably more clearly." Or words to that effect. I don't remember the first commentary he mentioned that in, and it actually might not even have been released yet...

I liked FixedR6's suggestion. We've got probably, what, 20 consistent regulars here? Everyone take 5 commentaries, we can do this in a week.

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1,000 Reply by Dorkman

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It was CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS, and unfortunately that conversation occurred during the intro, before we started the movie, so wouldn't work for the purposes of this video.

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