$10k a copy? Jesus. *raises glass* Long live Blender and those like it.

I read (well, listened to the audiobook anyway) the first one and liked it pretty well. I'll probably keep going.

A simple thing that gets screwed up more often than it should. On Ghost in the Shell 2 there's no english dub, which is ok, but the only english subtitles are for the deaf, so there's always text with 'whir' or 'buzz' onscreen. Annoying. And not a cheap dvd either.

It's easy to make fun of this movie but i still love it. The idea that every time i type on the keyboard, i'm interacting with a guy in a church in the speeded-up electronic world who thinks i'm a god is an awesome concept in a 1982 kids movie.

Just the unique, labour-intensive 70mm vfx alone are an amazing story. If you've never heard the dvd commentary (which is actually from the 20yr old laserdisc), you should check it out.

Speaking of amazing, thanks for the chapters and links Matt.

I love Bit! I hope Tron: Legacy is all about Bit.

Sark's brain bits also have clock parts, and got the film a PG rating. For a nice exploration the story of Abraham read The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Maybe Avatar's a little too cynical to be looked upon fondly 30years from now.

End of line.

Christmas is coming, time to do Solaris. *sigh*

The actual movie's a little meh but i love Nick & Nora. (Oh, Myrna Loy, i have thought of many pleasures...)

Someone needs to digitally replace Anakin & Padmé with Nick & Nora in the prequels. They'd be so much better. And replace Jar Jar with Buster Keaton while you're at it, and run him over with a train a few times.

I wouldn't want all movies to be like this but i wish there were more of them. It's well made and well acted. To me, nothing about it is slipshod and 'mixtape' talk is a little unfair. It's more original than that.

It doesn't have the flow of some earlier stuff because it's more European, which is ok. The milk farmer scene's slow on purpose. Not like the end of Pulp Fiction where it's full of tension because Jules explains his philosophy, it's just plain slow at the beginning cuz it wants to be the opposite of Transformers 2.  I enjoyed the performances of Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger and Mélanie Laurent in a different way than Sam Jackson, Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman but just as much.

The revenge ending is too fucked up for me. Not a huge fan of Death Proof because of the revenge angle also. I disagree Zarban, there is no "why." This is an alternate universe story. The American solders are weird because they've never existed like this, and in what-if-Jews-shot-Hitler-in-the-face world that nazi doesn't get to live a cushy life in Long Island without Jewish Brad Pitt carving a swastika on his forehead first.

I've always thought of movies as either art (like Alien) or not art (like Aliens). Not art isn't necessarily a bad thing, in fact i usually prefer to watch Aliens. One of the reasons I like Basterds is because it's art. The Hurt Locker didn't deserve to sweep best picture/director/orig screenplay over this.

Martin Scorsese sez: "[Stanley Kubrick's] films were initially misunderstood. Then, after five or ten years came the realisation that 2001 or Barry Lyndon or The Shining [or Eyes Wide Shut] was like nothing else before or since." QT isn't Kubrick, but he has an original vision and that counts for a lot.

I'm not worthy either but here it is anyway.

1 - Rocky. When he runs up the steps during his jog he's being followed by the inventor of the steadycam. It's nothing now but at the time that was pretty slick. Compare it to Chinatown 2yrs earlier, in the scene were they find Mulray's body, the POV moves up a little hill which had to be hidden by 2 cops walking in front of the camera.

2 - The Passenger. At the end they dismantled a breakaway wall to let the camera (apparently) go right through a window.

3 - Contact. I know it's CG but when the girl runs to the medicine cabinet, etc.

4 - Raging Bull. When we follow De Niro into the ring the steadycam guy follows then sits on a crane and gets lifted. It's one of those things were you go 'big deal' after you hear how it was done but it was clever for the time.

5 - The Matrix. Say what you will about the 'bullet time' thing, it's creative.

edit: Aaand Eddie beat me by 4min.

No! I never... just that one time... only if there's an 'R' in the month.

And it works now, weird. Shh, i'm reading.

Squig have you heard Contact, where they do really funny Ted Levine and fruit bat impressions? Now that's entertainment.

"Fine technician. Good shipmate. That's a good epitaph for any man."

I remember reading Abraxas and the Earthman by Rick Veitch years ago in Epic Illustrated (I have the whole run if someone wants to buy it). A very good, very weird Moby Dick in space story.

This thread has CRASHED INTO THE MOUNTAIN!

Dude. *in the voice of Jerry Seinfeld* Not that there's anything wrong with that.