101 Reply by Shackman

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aaaaand now that i'm listening to the Potter podcast..you pretty much covered wonderland/magic bean.

so that'll learn me for not listening as they come out.

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102 Reply by Shackman

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btw...nice write up.  you pretty much nailed my thoughts on it.

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103 Reply by Shackman

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awesome, thanks dorkman.   

that makes complete sense, looking at it from that perspective.  i think it took me about that long to finish them up as well... and good god katniss is annoying.   but to be fair, i'm not a 14 year old girl...

it should be interesting to see how they pull this off as a movie.

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104 Topic by Shackman

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I recently read the Hunger Games books, since i'd heard they were turning them into movies and figured i'd check it out.

Granted, maybe i wasn't paying attention.. but what exactly is going on in these books.  It's based in the real world, in the future..i believe in or around Colorado.   but all kinds of insane shit happens all the time... as i was reading it, i kept asking myself about 'the one magic bean' and i'm not entirely sure what it is.

it's in the future, so they have made technological advances, i'm down with that... however, i can't quite put my finger on it, but it feels like it's also fantasy.. some sort of hybrid.   

anywho, i'm envisioning this as a movie and not sure how they'll pull it off. 

thanks

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105 Reply by Shackman

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braedan51 wrote:

Oh, I forgot about that....ugh...It reminds me of when our main characters get locked on the roof or in a basement or are otherwise trapped, most of the time it leads to the dreaded CLIP SHOW....

that reminds me... Community did an awesome inversion of this last season where they had a clip of events that never happened. pretty funny

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106 Reply by Shackman

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Just finished watching Dead Man (Johnny Depp - directed by Jim Jarmusch).  Forgot how much i like that film.

The score is interesting too.. it's pretty minimal.  I'd heard that Neil Young watched the movie 2 times in a row, then on the 3rd, just started playing along with it.. it sorta feels off the cuff, but i love the tone and slight delay he uses on his guitar.

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107 Reply by Shackman

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Ya, my original thought was just having topics of your choosing...  basically, just getting into a little more detail about things that have been brought up during DIF's, but like as said above, gets re-railed by the actual movie.

my personal interests are definitely music in movies (scoring, specially), since that's my main area of interest.  editing is a close second.

Essentially, i just enjoy hearing you guys geek out about the things you love most...it comes through on the recordings as it is.

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108 Topic by Shackman

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It's not like DIF has enough going on or anything, but is there ever any chance of some one-off podcasts that are concept specific, instead of movie specific?

I'd love to hear an extended podcast with Eddie talking about editing, getting more specific about uses, movie examples, do's/don'ts

or Brian covering space, the universe and everything

or Trey talking about the studio system and his early relationship with Garbo, or his acid eating days with Grant (seriously, the dude loved the stuff).

good/bad CGI choices... etc.

Just a thought... I guess it'd be similar to some of the older Geekza podcasts, but with that new DIF smell.

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109 Reply by Shackman

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given that 'the amazing' was raised by wolves... i'd be quite surprised.

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110 Reply by Shackman

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I also love Hot Rod... but I also saw Rad more times than was healthy as a little kid.

no idea on what you do and don't know, but here's some (some classics, some randoms):


Young Frankenstein
Where the Buffalo Roam
Trading Places
Top Secret
Three Amigos
Repo Man
The Police Squad (TV show - pre Naked Gun movies)
Fish Called Wanda
Spinal Tap 
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (dated at this point, but still has some solid bits)
Brewster’s Millions

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111 Reply by Shackman

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just saw it last night.  it's...a movie.

my overall feeling is the same as the previous movies... just a bit too long. 

the movie itself is incredible looking, great sets, costumes, etc, but the story wasn't all that compelling.

and ya, the priest/mermaid thing was odd.

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112 Reply by Shackman

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just re listened to this commentary on a flight and was reminded of this awesome bit from funny or die... it's Drunk History (most are pretty funny), but this one is about Tesla vs. Edison (and about what a dick Edison was).

http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/3wv0

(it looks like i'm not bright enough to embed this....but i'm going to blame edison for that)

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113 Reply by Shackman

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Wait...how have i been listening this long and not realized that Teague has never watched the Simpsons?  Did i block it out? Was there a giant cover up and it just leaked on this commentary? 

How's this happen?  i thought we had rules about stuff...Simpsons being required viewing for all. 
i'm not that old..I mean,  I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.

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114 Reply by Shackman

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Agreed... Also Ween's White Pepper is a fantastic frickin' album, plus the production on it is outstanding.
Always love a good schizophrenic album.

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115 Reply by Shackman

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switch wrote:

ever thought of doing Moulin Rouge?  It's sorta a musical, with one of the strongest opening sequences I've ever seen.

funny, i've never seen the entire movie, but after my wife watched it, she forced me to sit down and watch the open 10-15 minutes... I have no idea what happens after that, but that opening is really cool

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116 Reply by Shackman

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I recently fell back into the 90s and have been listening to:

NIN - Downward Spiral
Sublime - Sublime
Soundgarden - Superunknown 

it'd been a while since i listened to any of those and had forgotten how great they are

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117 Reply by Shackman

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Pi is exactly 3

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118 Reply by Shackman

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Zardoz teaches such important life lessons..

"The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was, but the gun shoots death, and purifies the Earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth . . . and kill!"

that's just good science

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119 Reply by Shackman

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Zarban - I just rewatched the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and i think there's at least 2 out of 3 of those.  The drunk women who sleeps through the whole thing, the angry black captain... plus, it's got jerry stiller and walter matthau...good stuff

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120 Reply by Shackman

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*golf clap*

that's some good stuff.   hell, i'm a full fledged adult and waiting those 12 months between LOTR movies made it a way better experience.

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121 Reply by Shackman

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Oh man... that movie is gonna be such a train wreck (sorry, bad pun).

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122 Reply by Shackman

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jeremiah4226 wrote:

FWIW I listen to DiF while exercising every evening, so aside from curing Lupus, DiF is also making fat people thinner.

Just to add balance to the equation, I've been known to drink beer and eat burritos while listening to DIf...so you're also making skinny people fatter

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123 Reply by Shackman

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Kyle Monroe wrote:

How is it Mexican?

Burns: Get me Steven Spielberg!
Smithers: He's unavailable.
Burns: Then get me his non-union Mexican equivalent!

[later] Listen, Senor Spielbergo, I want you to do for me what Spielberg did for Oskar Schindler.

Spielbergo: Er, Schindler es bueno, Senor Burns es el diablo.

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124 Reply by Shackman

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re: HGTTG

When the scene in front of the bulldozer went down ("it was in a cellar"), i realized that the movie wasn't going to be the book and just accepted it as an adaptation.  That moment was so jarring from the original text that my suspension of disbelief turned into a suspension of novel belief and decided 'screw it, i'll just accept this movie for what it is'.

i'm sure that wasn't the intention of that scene, but that's what it did for me.

Basically it's the Mexican, non-union equivalent version of the story..if you will.

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125 Reply by Shackman

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TrowaGP02a wrote:

But seriously that shit mixed with pineapple juice is crack-juice. In a good way.

It's called a "Panty Ripper"... what else is there to say?

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