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Oh, agreed about OHMSS, another of my faves.   Diana Rigg, mmmmmm.   She's the only Avenger _I_ give a damn about.  smile

Also, George Lazenby - I still dunno if it's really him, but I hope so - is a wonderfully demented Twitterer, well worth following.

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I blame society.

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Damn right I do.   

/five

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I would have worked on the original but they refused to hire me because I hadn't been born yet.   Age discrimination was a big issue in Hollywood even in those days.

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I'm a big fan of having the key content of a site on the main page, whatever site that might be, so that consumers don't have to look hard to find what they came for.   So I agree with keeping the list of available commentaries most prominent on the front page, because (I assume) that's what most people will be looking for when they go to zarban.com.   

That said, an alphabetical click-thru is probably a good idea, because the list of commentaries is so long.    A random person might come to the site thinking "i wonder if there's a commentary for Wuthering Heights?" and hitting the W link will probably get them an answer faster than scrolling.

I also think, while we're on the topic, that that functionality is sorely lacking on DIF's page.   The archive section is far from ideal - unless you can recognize the tiny thumbnail of a movie's poster, it's very difficult to tell what commentaries are available here.   There aren't even <IMG> tags to pop up the movie title on mouse rollover.   Hell, I know what movies we've done and I have a hard time finding a particular one when I want to.  So it'd be nice to have an alphabetical text list option available here as well.

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See, at the beginning of the marathon, we'd have, like a fellowship, but then over time the fellowship would fracture and diverge - but then at the very end we'd all come back together, and jump up and down on the couch in celebration.   And then I'll take the boat into the west.

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I've advocated Lethal Weapon more than once, I think it's a true classic.  But some of these kids I work with haven't even seen it.  ptui.

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One of the areas where my movie-making knowledge is lacking is the topic of lenses.   I happily lean on the DP to deal with that, I just say stuff like "let's go wider" and they do something with pieces of glass that makes the picture embiggenate.  This is clearly some kind of dark wizardry and it frightens me.

So if you're looking for an answer like "we used the Canon Wogambo kit with a custom spleetch extender" then I can't help you.  Unless what I just said sounded like it could be true, in which case we'll go with that.   

But if you were looking for a more general answer, then I can say it looked to me like the same kinda lens package that I've seen being used on other shoots. So once or twice during the shoot I would get sneaky and say something like "let's try this with a 50" as if I knew what the hell that meant.   If I didn't like the result, then I would say "hmm, nah, let's go wider".  It seemed to work, and I recommend this clever trick to all directors.

Also, the lenses were all kept in a gray metal box with some writing on it, if that helps?

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The only "Warner" connection I'm aware of is that Asylum movies almost always end up on Time-Warner/Comcast PPV, there's even an internal "Time Warner deadline" for every film, that's when it gets submitted to TW for review and, hopefully, acceptance.

So maybe they've got some kind of distribution arrangement with Warner for other markets like iTunes as well, but I'm just guessin'.

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My answer is a conditional yes.   

There's a lot I like about what the Asylum does, and the best thing is that they make movies.  I've got three potential "real" projects that have all been mired in months of negotiations now.  It'll be a great day if any of them actually happen, but the waiting is maddening, and they may never happen at all.    But in the case of Moby (and most Asylum projects), it's "we're shooting a movie next Monday, you wanna direct it?"  and boom, done.   And my favorite part of the process is being on set, no matter how bad and desperate and crazy it gets.   Post-production is just the necessary evil that comes afterward.  So if that call came again tomorrow, I might indeed say yes again.   

That being said, an even better scenario would be if I wrote the movie myself, because then I'd know what the heck I was making and have a chance to give it some thought beforehand.  And now that I know  the Asylum post-pipeline, I could shape the project from the ground up, so the post was more manageable.   And finally, it'd be nice to get some say in the crewing - while the vast majority of the Moby crew were great, there were a few weak links that were in over their heads and that cost us time.

Assuming Asylum would ever allow any of those things, or ask me to direct again anyway, of which I know not of their plans.  smile

But the paycheck alone would not be a draw.   I've actually been doing freelance fx work for the Asylum lately - 'twas just my luck that Moby was the last project they did with a two-person fx team, now they've tripled the in-house personnel and even farm out additional shots to folks like me - and being an Asylum fx contractor pays better than directing.  smile

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Could have done all five with just Jim Carrey, but to play fair:

1.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Jim Carrey)
2.  Requiem for a Dream (Marlon Wayans)
3.  Hollywood Shuffle (Kim Wayans)
4.  Quiz Show (Kelly Coffield)
5.  Beverly Hills Cop (Damon Wayans)

Next:  Top Five awful performances by great actors

Well, I think we've all learned a little something today.    Now who wants pie?

/annnnd scene
/seriously, Next Generation was terrible