I watch every movie assuming I'll enjoy it on some level and try to take the movie on its own terms. I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than disappointed, so I try to avoid expecting much. My biggest disappointments come from hearing that a movie is getting great reviews and then finding it doesn't gel for me.

We just got started and already we're saying "We'll fix it in post"?

This is what happens when you don't allow enough time for preproduction. 

May 7?! I only have two weeks of preproduction to find a location, a driver, a cameraman, and a dialog coach?! Christ, my wardrobe won't arrive for 8-10 business days! (Thanks a lot, DIF merchandise store!)

I'll be in my trailer!

Ed Burns was on Filmspotting again a couple of weeks ago, talking about his latest $9,000* opus. (I think it's called The Little Wooden Boy Who Tried to Make Movies About Relationships). He said he used a Canon 5D, which was a little shocking. I know the panel has disparaged the Canons for shutter-mflaupnhsush or something. What up, Ed Burns?

* Not kidding on that figure. His last one cost $25,000.

Really fun and interesting episode. As an avid still photographer, I don't miss photochemical photography. I started out rolling my own film and developing and printing my own black & white photos, and there is a fascinating aspect to that, but I've got far more control in Photoshop. I switched over once 5 MP digital cameras became inexpensive, and I'm on my third DSLR.

I look forward to the day I can shoot indoors in natural light with a fast shutter with no noise, which is already possible with a high-end DSLR. And I want to be able to edit in a high dynamic range that at least approaches the human eye. Film has always been so much more limited than the human eye that snapshot photography has mostly been an exercise in frustration. I just want to shoot what I can see, and celluloid film chemistry is never going to give me that.

I just watched The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Sudden Death (1995). Error Flynn's romp in the woods was a fun popcorn movie in Old Hollywood style like few others. Wonderful and yet also missing some obvious opportunities that Michael Bay would have hit out of the park (like editing for best suspense and careful set-up or maximum payoff).

JCVD's Die-Hard-in-a-Hockey-Arena was fun and ridiculous and great, considering what we're talking about and the fact that I'm not really a JCVD fan.

EDIT: Also, yesterday, I watched Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, a late entry in the Hammer horror line. It was fun and very different from pretty much any other vampire picture. Very clever, altho a bit flat. The commentary echoed my sentiment that it was kind of amazing that it wasn't picked up as a TV show or even given a sequel.

I honestly hardly remember to even look at the chat, and when I do, the last post is usually hours old.

Pshh. A, hands down. I can labor over politics and economics. I can be haunted by my failure to form lasting relationships. And I can meditate over ham sandwiches, which are persistent forever in my mind.

Plus, I'll always have the existing movies, right? I get to keep the movies that I've already experienced?

1. Medium fast, medium loud

2. very thick Midwestern American with a trace of Chicago

3. Irritated and sarcastic and, as stated previously, I want to play twins who hate each other

4. I have access to several cars

5. I don't swear a lot, but I am good at it

6. The Goonies

I call dibs on being identical twins who hate each other.

It's hard to see where this person is coming from—unless he is Scott Charles Stewart—the director of Legion and Priest. Why complain about "Monday morning quarterbacking" unless you're the quarterback? Why complain that the panel is a bunch of nobodies unless you consider yourself to be a somebody? It has the feel of that ad Rob Schneider took out asking a critic what authority he had to say Deuce Bigalow 2 sucked... and then Roger Ebert responded HILARIOUSLY.

DIF's criticism practically always comes from a place of love for movies in general and genuine desire for every movie to be better. And I love Trey's True-Life Adventure® stories. Stop interrupting him! Trey is the sensitive one!

PS: I just noticed that the Calvin and Hobbes video banner thingy misspells "Calvin" as "Cavlin"