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Ridiculous.  David Bowe has dangly detached earlobes, Eddies are attached.

God, it's like you don't even stare at the guy.

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I think we're all waiting for the Trey/Lowell fanfic, safe to say.

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I think every one of them is an inhuman monster and I just can't wait for them to get bored of this stupid project so I can get back to eating and sleeping and staring at my computer screen in utter solitude and silence.

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Yeah, well, I saw Legally Blonde II in theaters, too.  The things I do and do not do tend to annoy the cultured.

I can't answer Teague's, by the way, because the only independent movies I know are independent movies are Clerks, SAW, and The Room, and if we expand it to "small, intimate movies" I'd just put Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson in every single spot.

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vidina wrote:

Oh and Kyle: Nice list. I'm happy you chose the 60's batmobile over the tumbler, but I'm surprised the DeLorean isn't in there.

The DeLorean isn't in there because...

Well, I haven't ever actually seen Back to the Future.

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Indie performances of what?

157

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You're Trey Stokes.  You don't adhere to the script, the script adheres to you.

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1) The 60's Batmobile.  If you disagree you have a vagina.  Not a pink little lipstick lesbian sorority vagina, a vagina that looks like a man's hairy taint cut in half.

http://www.carrentals.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/batmobile.jpg


2) I don't need to explain this.

http://uneasysilence.com/media/2007/01/ghostbuster-car.jpg

3)  Death Proof.  C'mon.  You know you want this car.

http://site.mishimoto.com/quentin-tarantino-presents-death-proof-20070323053724645-000.jpg

4)  The '64 Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger.

http://www.speeduptraffic.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/06-aston-martin-db5.jpg

5)  Yeah, feel bad you didn't think of this one.

http://www.camaro5.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=65414&stc=1&d=1256268196


Top five fights between fictional or real persons that you would pay a fortune to see.

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I also just realized I may have just used two words ending in "gue" in succession for the first time in my life.

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Take a movie that doesn't warrant a serious discussion (or one that you did a serious discussion for but could have just made fun of the entire time), and either script or semiscript an episode with the intent of funny.

I really want to see you guys take on The Room, and I want to hear Finifter pretend to be Tommy Wiseu the ENTIRE time.   And in every episode of DIFTrax, Trey will talk about how he was heavily involved in the production of the movie and tell stories about it.

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People who don't listen to every DIF the minute it comes out (and harangue Teague when he puts it up late), and then fall asleep to that episode every night that until the next one comes out, aren't real fans and don't deserve a god damn fancy schmancy fruity booty wishy washy sashaying french princess power pussy color coding system.

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If you guys don't start DIFTrax in the next six months, I'm going to buy some microphones and do it myself.

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This isn't really a justification but since I have a group of Tolkien-literate people all in one spot and I just watched Return of the King, I want to toss out something that occurred to me.

When the Black Captain falls to our blonde heroine, why doesn't anyone think to snatch up his INCREDIBLY FUCKING POWERFUL RING OF POWER that is just laying there on the battlefield?  I mean, he definitely, definitely has one.  And I can't think of a reason he WOULDN'T be wearing it.  And even if you aren't going to pick it up and USE the damn thing, it seems wholly irresponsible to just leave it there, which is what appears to happen.  I'm racking my brains and I'm pretty sure this wasn't addressed in the book either.  I mean, I give the hobbit and Eowyn the benefit of the doubt for not immediately snatching that shit, but when Gandalf saw it or heard about it you'd think that would be kind of a big deal to him.

Obviously nothing came of it, but it seems out of character for Gandalf to let a ring go unaccounted for like that, especially given the circumstances.

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A fucking Kindle, we live in the future.

Barring that, the biggest cookbook I can find.

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Sure, I get that.  I'm just saying, they send out four hobbits, a ranger, an elf, a dwarf, a human soldier, and the second most powerful wizard alive to Mordor.  And when two of the hobbits go missing with the one artifact that could save all sentient beings in Middle Earth, the three most combat hardened remaining in the fellowship decide to go after the two dumbass hobbits who contributed NOTHING to the mission and don't matter at ALL when it comes to the fate of the world.  And they let the two fucking midgets pat eachother on the ass the whole way to Mordor instead of going after THEM and saying "one does not simply walk into Mordor when you could walk into Mordor with a posse."

And while I'm with you on the Skywalker thing, Jeff, I'm not sure Vader would have just walked up and gone Voldemort on the moisture farm.  He'd have taken the kid.  But if they were serious about his sister surviving, they wouldn't have put her under the protection of a murderous DA and given Luke one of the most badass Jedi ever as a protector.

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I think docking any points from a movie called Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure on the basis of less than perfect plot structure seems to be missing a large chunk of the concept. 

I don't know if this is a justification problem or not, but this always bothered me.  In the Lord of the Rings movies, everyone keeps saying that the ring needs to be destroyed because its power corrupts and they don't want Sauron to have to come after them to find it.  So instead they go ahead with several battles in open warfare with the guy and his forces to buy time for ONE HOBBIT with no special skills whatsoever to take the ring to Mordor.

It just seems completely asinine.  For one- WHY exactly don't you want Sauron to march his forces all the way across Middle Earth and come to you?  That seems like exactly what you want to have happen.  They're going to move really fucking slowly, you have time to gather ALL your allies and you can probably hit them from all sides on their way over.  AND it would leave Mordor completely unguarded.  Secondly, why the hell are you trusting the little farm midget with the ring?  Aragorn is a RANGER.  He knows other RANGERS.  These are Middle Earth Spetsnaz, man.  I'm going to leave alone the "eagles take the damn thing" argument as it's been given a compelling counter argument, but allowing the hobbits to do it doesn't seem like a good idea outwardly, and they definitely almost failed several times due to incompetence.   I know that it's a story, and the whole POINT is that these two little hobbits save the world, but the setup involves making several very unwise decisions.

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Eddie's wife is way hotter than I thought.

Also, the commentary for Talledega Nights is considerably funnier than the movie.

The absolute best commentators are Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright.  Their commentaries for Shaun and Fuzz have me in absolute stitches every time I listen to them (which pre-DIF was... often, and we'll leave it at that). 

Kev Smith and crew are always fun to listen to, the Clerks II cast commentary is very funny.

Carpenter and Russell do a pretty good one for Big Trouble in Little China, IIRC.

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I love At World's End as much or maybe even slightly more than Dead Man's Chest (both of which are superior to Curse of the Black Pearl because they have Davy Jones).  All of Dorkman's criticisms are valid, but those do not occur to me when I'm too busy masturbating openly to the idea of living in this world and doing the things these characters are doing.

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Well, no, not really.  Because colorized movies are in color.  You can't say you made a 3D movie when the only thing that looks to be at a slightly different depth than the rest of the screen is the text you throw on the bottom of the frame.

Also, I've seen some really crazy IMAX stuff in the last ten years that was 3D.  One Nascar documentary in particular was fucking crazy in 3D, and I don't even watch Nascar or have any interest in it.  But even as a 10 year old kid watching that kind of stuff I KNEW why they didn't do it in real movies- because it was dumb, and gimmicky as shit.

I saw Avatar (blue cats) not-in-3D, and thought everything looked extremely CG and extremely dumb- and was told that was because I saw it in the oh-so-outdated 2D.  So now I go and see a movie that IS dumb, but from trailers appears to have very cool visuals that should look awesome in 3D, and I think it actually made it look worse.

I know Avatar was shot for 3D and Airbender wasn't, but between the two experiences I'm kind of soured on 3D movies.

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There's two ways to read Tolkien, and both are valid.  His work is very slippery.  You can start into a paragraph with the best intentions and by the end your eyes are sliding across it and only picking up the most important vowels and nouns so you can progress through the story.  This is like skiing down a mountain- you will see the shit that you should see, quickly, and could probably recount the slope to a friend once you're at the bottom, and will have had a good time.  The other way is to MAKE yourself register and understand every word, every sentence, and how every word and sentence and paragraph ties into and enhances the other.  This is like climbing an icy mountain with ropes and ice picks and spikey shoes- it sucks, and it's cold, and it's hard work, and you will be INTIMATELY familiar with the aesthetics of every single foot of the mountain.  And you'll be sick of every single foot until you reach the top, at which point you will feel a great sense of accomplishment.  And though you'll be exhausted and may never want to climb that mountain again, or at least for a very long time, you will feel a kinship with that mountain from that day forth.  And you'll feel as though you and the mountain understand eachother.

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IT WASN'T IN FUCKING 3D.

Listen.  Fuck you for the terrible plotting.  Fuck you for the terrible casting.  Fuck you for the terrible dialogue.  Fuck you for allowing the terrible, unwatchable acting.  But when I pay an extra 3.50 for the first time to see what this stupid new 3D nonsense is all about AND THE ONLY THING IN 3D IS THE MOTHERFUCKING TITLE CARDS, YOU CAN SUCK MY STUBBY WHITE DICK.

I'm going to give the series a shot now, because DESPITE everyone involved making their best attempt at ruining everything about not only the source material but CINEMA IN GENERAL, I could see some interesting concepts that could only come from the source material.  But I'm just so glad I had no previous exposure to the series and was not emotionally invested in it, or I might have gone on a murderous rampage after seeing this thing.

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Girls are allowed to be Astronauts.

Girls aren't allowed to be cavemen.

I think this debate is over.

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Yeah, if you like monster movies, I URGE you to get your hands on some Kaiju Big Battel (not a typo).  The concept is that you take the monsters that would usually be destroying cities, and you make them settle it... IN THE RING.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJc8m1VY … re=related

Genuinely fun stuff.