To peel back the curtain a bit...

We do have a master matrix of films that was polled by you, our community, from this very thread.  The four prime DiF'ers choose which ones they HAVE to be on, are indifferent to, and don't want to be on, which allows regular sub's like myself and Ryan our appearances.  Usually Teague sends out an email to whoever is going to be doing commentaries by Wednesday, though sometimes its been a week or two in advance. There is usually some discussion about which two films to watch in a taping.  Sometimes its very easy to decide, sometimes it takes some discussion, but usually by Friday everyone knows what and when.  Often, Teague will invite people over to his place Friday night to catch up on it.

One time we were going to do the Patriot, because I suggested it and there are some legit awesome scenes in it.  Brian, Teague, and I sat down.....and PLODDED through it.  We realized how long it was, and how little to say of it we had at the time, and that night pulled a pinch hitter.  SO it's not an exact science by any means.

Over halfway there, we are in our final push.  HALP.

I brought it up a lot on the Iron Man 2 commentary because I don't buy Favreau's excuse about Iron Man 2's shortcomings being all the Avengers fault.  Same sorta story problems I saw in IM2 I saw in C&A.

YUP.  I don't think my ex is in any of those clips, but she is in the "battle" scene featured in Brad's "editing" "reel."

Eh, you're timeline is a bit off.

They liked the spec script, which was people on an island.  They brought in JJ Abrams, THEN he decided to dd spooky shit.  He introduced a couple things without knowing any of the backstory.  He was just thinking purely from a perspective of what would be cool for a pilot.  He brought in Damon Lindelof and they brainstormed the backstory together.  Then he promptly dropped it in Lindelof's lap, who then brought in Carlton Cuse to be his creative partner.

Star Trek is the thing with Ewoks, right?

Christ almighty, the Meat Beard is in full effect in that photo.

For the record, some of us did our semi regular "Help me make this make sense," story sessions last night.  Afterwards we got into a discussion of interviews gone bad.  Much laughing occurred.