Punisher: War Zone

I like double meat palace quite a lot.  One of the better Season 6 episodes.

I've seen the split black belt as well as a checkerboard pattern belt.  It's all mostly horseshit. 

I got my black sash when I walked in the door one day and my Sifu threw it at me and said "Don't fuck it up."  I'm a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and got that belt the same way.  Muay Thai has no belts, so I never had to bother with that noise.

I generally like Ebert and worship at the feet of Murch, but yeah, this thing seems a bit trumped up.

Yeah, he made two of my favorite scores: Midnight Cowboy and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

When it comes to narrative editing, it's also knowing which elements of which takes to use as to craft an actor's performance as well.  Just because the director yells, "Print!" after a take, in no way is that to be set in stone.  Throwing shots out of sync, even using elements of a take that are before an actor even knows the camera is rolling, are things editors use to define the scene.

I come from a documentary background, and one trick I would always do is start rolling before an On The Fly interview, but still act as if I was setting something up with the camera (turning the tally light off was integral for this).  The subject would usually tune me out until I started asking questions, and sometimes you could get some very expressive looks out of them.

Editors are problem solvers.  If you see a film with no major problems, chances are the Editor is responsible for fixing a few of them.

Blade = 1998

*drops mic, walks out*

Again, I love my boy.  But Spider Man 2 is like some kind of hidden trigger film that unlocks his secret government training and turns him into an unreasonable hate engine.

Dude, your forehead must have a huge bruise from repeated smackings of the back of your hand while breathlessly screaming, "Mr. Beauregaurd, I do not underSTAND!"

People like weird shit.  Sometimes a bunch of people like weird shit.  Case closed.  Twilight.  Dances With Wolves.  Kesha.  It usually doesn't last long.  Let it go, my son.

I say all this with mad love for Brian.  It just tickles me to no end to see one of the most even tempered people I know get all mad and lose his shit over...Spider Man 2?  I get the hate for Prequels and Matrix sequels, because there's a huge sense of letdown and opportunism, but Spider Man 2 is a fart in the night.  You wake up with sheets smelling, but by the time you get out of the shower and air it out, it's gone.

I love video games, I love fighting, I love Edgar Wright, and I'd HATE to watch just the fights back to back.