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Also...and I say this as someone who has worked on The Real World, the Real World house is NOT permanently on set.  The Los Angeles season of the real world was on a hollywood lot, and that was part of the show, they always acknowledged that it would be there.  Every other season has been in a real house in whatever city they are in.  In the Hawaii season, I lived about 15 minutes from where they taught, and worked down the street from where they worked.

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Enjoying the commentary so far guys but one quick distinction.

In the idea that this predated Reality TV as a phenomena, that's really only partially true.  MTV's The Real World had been on the air for 6 years by the time this movie came out, and PBS "An American Family," predates this by about 25 years. 

And while a large portion of Reality TV is quite sensationalistic and trashy, at its best reality tv has some merit.  Keep in mind, An American Family was the the first time an openly gay character was on television, which is even crazier considering it wasn't a "character," at all but a real person.

Also, while this was Jim Carrey's first real dramatic role, 1996's "The Cable Guy," was a fairly dark comedy, and stretched his talents a bit.  Also per Steven's comment that Jim might have had a fucked up childhood...not really.  While his family struggled a bit financially, he was very close with his whole family, especially his father.  Instead of watching a lot of TV, the family put on little shows in the living room.  That's where a lot of his performance instincts come from.

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I've been made.

Good to see this online finally.

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Heard of it, meant to check it out, haven't yet.

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Slight tangent, I loved the hell out of Supreme because you had Alan Moore writing a character that was essentially his view of Superman, and you had Rob fucking LIEFELD drawing it.  Meaning, you had fascinatingly insane writing drawn by an artist who cannot draw hands or feet and every face is scrunched up or flashing teeth.

^This reminds me of a line from "Garth Merenghi's DARKPLACE," where Garth says, "I"ve actually written more books than I've read."

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Do not even get me fucking started on the Spawn movie.

The animated series did about as best as you could do with that source material.

Joss Whedon and Paul Thomas Anderson are my favorite commentar...ians..? because they really do a good job of walking you through their thought process and can reference their influences with a lot of candor and do it in a concise manner.

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Bruce did fight a guy in his school in order to teach white students.  This is true.  The fight was NOTHING like the movie though and the guy did not take a cheap shot and paralize Bruce.  Bruce was trying to power squat too much and hurt his back, and while he was healing (only a matter of weeks) he wrote the bulk of The Tao of Jeet Kune Do.  On the set of The Big Boss, a local Thai Boxer did challenge Bruce, and Bruce beat the shit out of him.  It wasn't the same guy from the challenge though, as the movie states. 

And while Bruce's influence cannot be overstated, lets not be hasty and say he created Modern MMA.  You can argue he set the stage for it, but the Gracie family of Brazil is singularly responsible for creating the UFC and pitting styles against styles.  Bruce Lee's overarching philosophy of utilizing what works and abandoning what doesn't was ultimately proven in the UFC.  In other words, Bruce created a hypothesis and 25 years later the experiment that was the UFC proved him right.  I can tell you that I have been personally affected by the works of both Bruce Lee and the Gracie family equally. 

BTW, why no one has made a movie about the life of Helio Gracie is beyond me.

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One of my (super hot and crazy-pregnant) wife's favorite things to do is play Super Mario for Wii on the couch with me.

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Someone had brought up doing Documentaries, and its something I've nudged for before.  Teague has had a (totally reasonable) objection to doing them, but I would still be interested.  I come from a docu background, as my student Doc got a DVD release about 10 years ago.  I am a huge doc fan, and the Doc section of my DVD/Blurry collection eqauls roughly 1/4. 

My short list would be

1)  American Movie
2)  Dark Days
3)  This Move is Not Yet Rated
4)  Mr. Death
5)  Dogtown and Z-Boys
6)  E-Dreams
7)  Overnight
8)  Capturing the Friedmans
9)  When We Were Kings
10) The War Room

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1) We have to do it.  My favorite Pixar movie for a lot of reasons.
2) Would love to hear that.  Huge Python fan.
3) I'm almost positive it will happen.
4) Meh. 
5) Um....yeah.

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Totally love the movie.  Commentary was fun but again...comic books are a medium, not a genre.  I wouldn't place this or Watchmen as the greatest *air quote*  Comic Book movie adaptation, though.

Also, forget that Bruce Lee curse, shit.  Shannon Lee and Linda Lee Caldwell are alive and well.

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• Cloverfield
• Titanic -  Like a great deal
• Avatar - I totally like this, but don't hold it to be a miracle.  Just a fun movie.
• Dune - Sentimentally I like it.
• Gladiator - Never got really into it. 
• AI - Hate hate HATE, giant bolt gun of hate.
• Alien 3 - Makes me sad.
• Dead Man's Chest and At World's End - DMC is fun, AWE is just bizarre.

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Aguirre is great.  I totally dig most of Herzog's stuff.  You can see his influence in Erroll Morris early stuff like Vernon, Florida.

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I would never pay more than a hundred dollars for a piece of art to hang on my wall, but I am in no way surprised people pay literally millions to do so.  I recognize that I may not be able to see what they see, and Im not the guy to stare at a piece of art for hours in a museum like some do.  But I understand the compulsion to do so.

Any time you spend money on entertainment, its a gamble.  This is nothing new.  How many movies do you pay for that you regret paying for?  Tons.  The value of a piece of entertainment is relative to your experiences with it.  I spent 50 bucks on Final Fantasy 7 when it came out.  My experiences  with it are literally clocking 120 hours on it, with 3 other guys in my dorm as we were completists and would not rest until we found every unlockable before we beat the game.  Those times remain vivid as a great college memory.  That same year, I also spent 3 dollars renting "Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi" for PS1, and spent roughly 15 minutes on it before I said, "This sucks," and returned it.

Under Teague's logic, the 3 dollars spent on SW:MoTK is a more sensible cost than the 50 I spent on FF7.  I just don't believe you can quantify value that way.

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My boy Phill Gonzalez is one of the artists on that game.  He designed most of the Terran buildings.

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If you need to do it Sunday, you Jake and Cloe would be an interesting combo.  I am availble Monday night if you wanted to do it then.

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Overnight (Boondock Saints)
Killing Priscilla (Eye of the Beholder)
Lost in La Mancha (Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote)
Hearts of Darkness (Apocalypse Now)

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