Sounds great. Are you just into experimentation at this point? I'm working on a short film project that's coming up, not sure when, possibly November or early December time, and I don't think we've got anybody on music.

Best one yet I reckon. Really good listening to this. I'm the same as Trey and Brian - hopeless at the vomit draft and I also spend a lot of time in the conception phase making notes.

I wouldn't quite agree with the idea that the first draft should come before you start thinking about the important stuff such as character spines, why you're telling the story and its themes - though I might have misunderstood this part - since the first draft might end up being something that you can't really use at all.

It's a popular theory that Deckard is a replicant, but it doesn't make much sense. You'd think that a replicant model sent after rogue replicants would have been given mental and physical 'upgrades' to help him, but no, even the pleasure model is able to completely wipe the floor with him. That's a practical reason why he's not a replicant.

Storywise and thematically, part of the story is that the replicants are in many ways more human than the humans. Their desire to live and their group dynamic in that shared goal is a stark contrast to the almost robotic way the humans behave and live, all in isolation in lifeless buildings, apartments or penthouses. Having Deckard be a replicant just undercuts it all. The story would thus become a muddled affair where it's most powerful dramatic angle, that of a guy hunting down his own kind unawares, is missed in favour of one ambigous shot.

In terms of the film's crew, Scott and I believe one of the producers have  come out and said that he's replicant, whilst the screenwriter and Ford himself have said that he's not.

Most definitely. Watching the HD-DVD of The Searchers was a totally different experience. I had at last watched one of my favourite films in a way that people would have enjoyed it in theatres.

I always hated the comp shot of Mace Windu in the tunnel just before he emerges into the Geonosis arena. It's painfully obvious that he's just walking towards a green scree. Might as well be Cool World.

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In fact, quite a few of the Geonosis battle shots look a little 'stuck on'.

So that would make David Warner the hero? I love it.

Agree completely on ROTS, but my admittedly irrational hatred for AOTC makes it hard for me to accept that it shares any genes with the OT... for example, the danger and terror of Luke in the rancor pit becomes the slapstick and completely ridiculous antics of the monster arena.

The Footloose remake makes me want to vomit into my own mouth. This is one of my favourite films and from the trailer it looks like they've turned it into another one of those craptastic Step Up flicks.

I'm going to agree with John on this one, sometimes I really want to learn your thoughts on a movie but then the commentary seems to talk more around the movie than about it. I find this tends to happen more on the good movies - when it's not so good it ends up being a discussion on the merits of the movie and so is more on topic. For example, I think your commentaries for the prequels are much better than those of the original trilogy.

Ooh, a double bill of zombie movies just when I'm in a major zombie mood? Perfect!

I disagree, she gives the role (and the movie) a surpising amount of heart, and her chemistry with Keanu and the other actors on the bus is arguably what makes the film more than just the sum of its simple concept.  I can't think of any other actress at that time that could have pulled off the role, and for me this will always be the role that I most associate her with.

And I think that's arguably what this thread is about, the match between the actor and character being so effective that it's the first role that pops into your head whenever you think or see the actor.

I've loved Uma Thurman since she showed me her boobies in Dangerous Liaisons.