If we're going to do DARK KNIGHT, it's my opinion that we should do the whole franchise in order. Burton, Schumaker, Nolan. Even though the Nolans are a reboot. Trey worked on BATMAN RETURNS, for one thing. For another, I feel like TDK is something we won't be able to fully appreciate and discuss unless we've gone on the journey together.

In my totally unsolicited, not-worth-a-good-goddamn opinion, the best Down in Front episodes fall into two categories: There are the ones where the movie evokes some kind of really strong emotional reaction in the panel — positive or negative — and, well, "The Abyss." I've got that one off in a category by itself cause I can't think of another example like it, but I'm talking about the whole I-was-there-here's-how-it-was thing.

The episodes I find least entertaining — which is like talking about what kind of water I find least wet — are the ones where it all boils down to that old Chris Farley character: "Remember that movie? Yeah, that was awesome."

Just to pick a couple names at random off the above-reprinted list: I don't really know what anybody could say about "Top Gun" or "Iron Man." Both are very good movies, neither great-in-the-sense-of-historically-great. I don't think either is especially special, if you know what I mean.

I really enjoyed y'all's "Ghostbusters 2" ep, because of the "put right what went wrong" angle. You've done this before, I think, though I don't remember any other examples off the top of my head. But the way you guys workshopped a movie that by all reasonable accounts was not particularly successful was really fun to listen to.

All of this is to say that, with much love to Kyle, I can't think of a bigger waste of time than for you guys to do "The Room." I haven't watched the whole thing, just edited highlights. But seriously. What's there to say about that movie other than "Boy, this is really terrible?"

My platonic ideal of the best of all possible DiF episodes is one that ends with me thinking, "Wow, I never knew that/thought about that/saw it that way before." If we can laugh and learn and live and love! along the way, so much the better, but for me personally, "That was really neat" trumps "That was pretty funny" every time.

(Live events are conspicuously excepted from that rule. Only few times have I laughed so hard as when Dorkman leapt back over the couch to the mic during the "The Core" party.)

(Oh, and something I just thought of: What Steve brought up and you guys subsequently talked about regarding framing and camera angles in "The Fountain" is a perfect example of what I meant by "I never thought about that." I'd seen that movie over and over again, but I'd never consciously noticed the camera work, so I really dug that. Just a data point.)