If the fan knows less than you about some franchise, then they're not really a fan, have no taste, behind the times, not cool, just a civilian, noob, ignorant, etc.
If the fan knows more than you, then that fan lives in his mother's basement, can't pull a chick, trolls forums, has no life, etc.

Dan Maas did some spectacular animations for JPL for the MER rovers back in 2003. Instead of the crane, you got the bouncing on the surface.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tijyybrm … embedded#!

So the '7 minutes of terror' is not new PR. In any case, this Mars stuff should sell itself, without PR pushing our emotional buttons. Because in reality, it's 10 years of getting your PhD, 10 years of designing/building/testing the rover, and a 10 year mission, most of which is excruciatingly slow movements on Mars. And that's just the successful exciting missions.

Just knocked this one over. Teague's normally the one eager to wrap things up, but, goddamn, they had to practically wrestle the microphone out of his hands. I could see the cane advancing from the curtains.

So which archress(?) would you most like to go on a date with: Hanna, Pevensie, Everdeen, or Hawkeye?

Not to mention that it's possible to like films for just one aspect e.g. the FX, cinematography, score, acting, script, 1st Act, etc. Some people can appreciate the technical craft which recognizing that the narrative is lame.

The attack on Zion from Matrix Revolutions is an awesome FX sequence, but the movie itself is deeply flawed.

So not only is ranking movies subjective, but so is how you weight which aspect is important.

Therefore it makes slightly more sense to have a Top #250 for a specific aspect e.g. action scenes or finales or lighting or stunts or sequels, etc as then you're forcing everyone to adopt the similar criteria. But even so, everyone's list will be different.

Are you telling us you don't want to see Finger of God in Manhattan? Tampa?

Premium content - I like that idea. I would donate $50 towards a 'marathon', (defined as at least 3 x 2 hour movies or 2 x 3 hour movies, etc). Star Trek, Potter, Bond, Pirates, etc.

Also, there are still a few gaps in the big tentpole genre series to fill in (e.g. Transformers 3). And coming up in 2012 are some big ones to knock over: Prometheus, Avengers, TDKR, etc.

Or old genre classics (e.g. Total Recall 1990 - perhaps doubled with the 2012 version).  Or overlooked left-field movies e.g. Mr Nobody. Or TV episodes. Or shit movies for fun sneering e.g. AvP. Personally I'd like some historical epics be given the DiF treatment.

So there should be lots of Venn Diagram overlaps between DiF and  the forum, so that no one feels pressured commentating on or paying for stuff they're not interested in.

Just to put my cards on the table and some figures...

For individual movies, I would say $10 is a reasonable price. I'd pay $10 towards commentaries for King Kong 2005, Benjamin Button, Troy (Extended), Kingdom of Heaven (Extended), Gladiator, Alexander.

I'd pay $50 towards a 3 x King Kong treatment, Millennium Trilogy (extended), Pirates 2,3,4 and maybe even the Underworld series. There's probably many more options - I'd have to think about it if some business model became more concrete.

Does anyone else like the concept of original & remake as a double-feature?

I contributed to the LOTR marathon - I'd do the same for a Pirates of the Caribbean marathon or Potter marathon or Bond marathon. Or historical epics like Gladiator/Troy/Alexander/Kingdom of Heaven.
Or a marathon could be thematic e.g. all three King Kongs for a great compare & contrast.

Or alternatively, DiF could nominate what they'd do for $x. Crowdsourcing. Transformers 3 or Underworld movies might attract a higher price because they're more painful than something fun like Avengers or a Nolan film.  And it's up to us forum members to meet that target.

So there are two alternatives: push or pull. We the forum member push certain movies and DiF choose or DiF nominate and forum members choose.

The drunk gay simpleton is back...

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/mov … 24oks.html

Very sad to hear.
Top Gun (released when I was in my late teens) still holds the record for the movie I've seen the most number of times in the cinema. And Crimson Tide was a brilliant tense taut thriller with rare intelligence from a Hollywood movie.

After 8 months flight-time, and 7 minutes of terror, come 2 weeks of boring checks. Hopefully we'll get some proper driving in the 3rd or 4th week. I was surprised to learn its rolling speed is the same as the MER Spirit and Opportunity rovers. So we won't get much more than 100M a day out of them.
The good news is that its RTG powersource can last for at least 14 years.