Got your back on this one - I wouldn't say I've studied it, but I'm fascinated by the history of the White House and how it's changed over the years.  That was my favorite part of the John Adams miniseres, for example.

So is there really a Steam Pipe Trunk Distribution Venue?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkaNWkgrfxQ

No, YOU get with the times and watch The Core!

aaaand scene.

In general, I support this policy too.    I don't feel any need for DIF to be completist with movie series, or all of a given director's movies, just because they exist.   If they're all worth talking about then fine.   

Not that suggestions are unwelcome - Constantine and Sunshine were bumped up because they were repeatedly mentioned in the suggestion thread and we wanted to do them anyway.   On the other hand, I don't feel any urgency to do the oft-suggested BTTF series.  They're classics, sure, but what the heck is left to say about them?

But The Core?  Yeah, there's plenty to say about that.   And in the end, that's what makes a good candidate for a DIF episode.

Is Willem Dafoe... me?

Or the American Muslims that were harassed for no particular reason after 9/11, and the thousands of foreign Muslims who were bombed and imprisoned but hadn't committed any actual crimes.

Or how the Japanese committed atrocities on Koreans and Chinese and prisoners of war.    Or the way the Germans and Soviets heaped atrocities upon each other's civilian populations. And apparently there was some unpleasantness with the Jews as well.

And so on ad infinitem for all of human history.

Again, that's the point.   Humans will unite against the "other", though that "other" can change over time, even from one day to the next.     

Give all of humanity an "other" and thus unite them all, that was Ozy's plan.

Jie-mon Hahn-soo is how Francis Lawrence pronounces the name in the official commentary, and I figger he oughta know, so I'm sticking by it.

And I often misunderstand what Fig says, so these things often go unresolved.

I'm gonna say... three times?   

L.L. Cool J. admitted that Rollerball was awful and he only promoted at the time because he had to.    I sorta recall Clooney - or maybe Soderbergh - admitting that Ocean's Twelve was maybe not so hot.   And was it Ewan MacGregor who's made a few negative references to the prequels? 

But those plus Shia are the only examples I can think of.  Out of all the bad movies that get made, that's a pretty low number.   (And if there's a Hugh Jackman interview where he trashes Wolverine, I'd love to see that. )

Admitting the flaws in some prior project  when said project is decades in the past... sure, that happens.    But an actor saying that about a movie he made just a few years earlier still seems pretty unusual to me.    Especially when it's as bluntly put as Shia's comment.   I still say it was pretty ballsy of him.

I like Shia in Constantine just fine.  In fact I like Shia in most of the movies he's done, even if I didn't like the actual movies.

Speaking of which, Shia's in the news today for admitting Indy 4 wasn't very good.   Whether you like the guy or not,  ya gotta give him points for that.

If he'd gone on to say "And those Transformer things are just car commercials for morons - you knew that, right?"  then he would have been my hero for life.

well, as was just demonstrated - in a most unsettling fashion - even when one attempts a lame joke about a comic character, it will actually turn out to be freakin' true according to  some issue or other.

I hereby dub this the  The Stokes-Doty Everything Becomes Canonical Eventually Hypothesis

Sort of like the way Vegemite combines the best aspects of mud and yeast.

Yup.    X-Men also fits most of those criteria...