Damn, I'd never seen that clip. That choreography is actually really damn good considering how much scorn the fights on Star Trek normally get.

If you make mine "I Know Regular Expressions" I'll make a thread about DIF on the SomethingAwful movie forums

Well you know, they do have "secret" in the title.

Very nice recap, pretty much agree down the line with you guys on all of these.

I will re-iterate that you guys should really give Tin Tin a shot though, the trailers really do a bad job of selling how awesome the set pieces in the movie are. Its like a big apology for Indy IV, has the coolest long take sequence I've seen since probably Children of Men, and a pirate battle that kicks the shit out of anything in the Pirates of the Carribean movies. While it's definitely not great (the stakes are pretty weak, I'll agree, and it has a typically weak ending from Spielberg), it really succeeds on the strength of the action and the gorgeous animation (and Andy Serkis kills it like always, and Simon Pegg/Nick Frost are pretty good too).

Did any of you end up seeing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy? That movie is 2 hours of anti-climax, and I can't decide if that's the whole point and I should love it for it (kind of a Death Proof situation), or if it's just really fucking disappointing.

Judgement day is inevitable. No seriously, sentient AI will get invented at some point no matter what, resulting in either awesome technological progress/human immortality, or computers murdering us. Just like nuclear weapons, its an inevitable scientific discovery, so its useless to try to postpone it. I'd prefer we speed it up so I can live to find out what the aftermath will be.

I really want to learn how to build robots and Artificial Intelligence stuff, or at least try doing it and see if I like it.  That stuff's always fascinated me, so if I get a chance to work on a project in that area I'd jump at it.

Basically Teague, if I could build SkyNet it would be a dream come true (though I don't think science is pulling that off for at least 40-50 years, all existing AI models are basically incapable of adapting to problems they haven't been explicitly trained in).

1. The Last Airbender
2. Transformers 3
3. Dark Knight
4. Lethal Weapon
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
6. KickAss

To be fair, he had some books that broke the typical mold. The Great Train Robbery being my favorite example, and I'd say that's up there as one of his best novels.

YES!!!! I've been hoping you guys would shift to this kind of format for awhile now, the Intermission seemed like a really cool step in that direction. Really excited to hear you're doing this, I really think you guys can compete with and do a better weekly show than FilmJunk and SlashfilmCast. Also that LOTR cast sounds amazing, I've actually never watched the extended editions (and recently bought the blu-ray set), so I'll really have to hurry up and watch them now.

Good point about Tree of Life. And actually, I'm not super clear on who actually receives the award, but it would totally be worth Tree of Life winning if it meant Douglas Trumbull got an oscar (did he get one for 2001 or blade runner? I'm really confused trying to look this up).

The biggest problems seem to be issues with the source material, as you end up getting a really weirdly placed 20 minute epilogue for seemingly no reason, except that it plays into the sequels somehow I guess? If you were to just look at it as a standalone story though, the lawsuit at the start of the movie just seems like a reason to get Daniel Craig to want to take on this mystery (which is fine, as good a motivation as any), it seems extremely unnecessary to go back and tie off the lawsuit stuff 2 hours later in the movie (though it is still gorgeously shot). It'd be way cleaner if the file Christopher Plummer gives Craig actually has the stuff Craig needs, cut to the media report about his rival being arrested or whatever, and then lead into the current ending with Salander getting him the gift. Shaves 15 minutes out without anything important being lost, unless again, this stuff is super crucial for the next movie.

I enjoyed it a great deal while watching it, and I think its a pretty awesome detective story movie, but I agree that there's a real lack of any kind of "theme" to the movie. It's full of disturbing and violent things, but it doesn't seem to be saying anything about violence, or what causes it, or how to get over it. Its tough because its a very similar movie to Zodiac in many ways, and Zodiac happens to be a masterpiece, so this movie just being really damn good comes off as a bit underwhelming.

That being said, I dug the hell out of it, and it has the best use of Enya I've ever seen.