Which is a bit like saying "Who would spend money on a forklift when you can get a cheap van off Craigslist?" Because even if the van runs great, it can't do what a forklift does. And a $10k forklift is better than none at all.

Boujou isn't the only name in the game these days, though. It was the first big one so it's synonymous with matchmoving, but honestly whenever I've used it, I've hated it. I've gotten better results, and faster, with SynthEyes and/or the new hotness, PFMatchIt. Which goes to Matt's point about how far we've come, since both programs sell for under a grand.

Maya used to cost like $16,000 for a one-year license, too.

/disagree

The apostrophe and the Ns don't match. The other letters would look the same in a number of sans serif block fonts.

Bwahaha.

We're going to want to set the date a few months in advance so we can figure out schedules and hype it up, and anyone who wants to read the books to prepare (I probably will do so) will have ample warning.

I see the point re: length on the one hand, but on the other hand if we expect that we'll be doing the movies eventually anyway, one way or another we're going to wind up talking about the movies for 12+ hours. I just think the potential for the ensuing of hijinks is greater when we give the ultimate epic movies the ultimate epic commentary.

Yes, I've seen Kevin Smith do his bit about the movies, too. I don't find it an accurate characterization of them, though.

I'm trying to talk the folks into doing a marathon live show of all three LOTRs in one day, with each part to be released as its own commentary. So after the big day, LOTR would roll out over six weeks. My thought is we'd have pretty much all the substitute panelists on hand too, so we could tag-team out, and do it on a holiday weekend so even people who don't normally join the live chats could set aside a few hours to join the fun.

But I have encountered some probably sensible resistance to the idea and we may just do them piecemeal like our other franchise entries.

No. I like a number of scenes and some characters, but I feel like this particular mixtape didn't have the flow of some of QT's prior work. I don't have a boiling hatred for it but I could probably go the rest of my life without watching it again (although I'm sure I won't, since sooner or later we're sure to DIF it).

It's not available on Netflix Instant, which as I understand it means it doesn't exist.

I can't speak for the whole series, but for the episode I worked on, we did indeed have an entire directory of severed limbs among the various explosion and bloodburst elements.

I didn't work on any shots that used them, but they were there.

The grammar works fine, but in context the definition doesn't.

It's the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons.

Really, if everyone made a habit of reading ALL my posts with his voice, there'd probably be a lot less misunderstanding.

I am thoroughly enjoying this.

Excuse me, the neologism "cromulent," in the context in which it was coined, clearly means something along the lines of "valid" or "acceptable," and not "straightforward" as you have used it here.