When I started the commentary on my iPhone on the drive home, it was somehow already in the middle of the podcast.  And I hadn't played it at all beforehand.

Some crazy voodoo at work here, I'm telling you.

Just finished the commentary.  Was really good.  One thing I wasn't such a fan of was how they glossed over River's moment just before she goes into her dance of death.

Every time I see that scene, heck, sometimes even when I just think about how she delivers the line "My turn" I get teary eyed.  Very poignant line, delivered perfectly.  Hits me right in the heartstrings.

Has anybody suggested Stardust yet?

Perhaps it's just my proximity to Boston/NYC, because I've honestly seen it on New Yorkers more than Bostonians.  It's just... I dunno, it seems like one of those Hot Topic shirts.  And when I shirt for a cool indie hits Hot Topic and I see it every other day, it seems to me the movie has jumped the shark (not proper use of the sentence, but the idea is there).

Now, on the other hand, the guy who walked into our store the other day with a THE BEETS: KILLER TOFU TOUR t-shirt gets applause in my book.  Now that's taking mainstream to obscure, rather than obscure to the mainstream.

Good suggestions.  I think what makes the Fast and the Furious so bad is that it's the exact same as Star Wars in one aspect, and it doesn't work.  The technobabble.  You can go on and on in Star Wars or Star Trek with the technobabble, but since there's nothing really to base it on, we buy it.  Or what is based on reality is researched enough to work.

But the Fast and the Furious doesn't hold up to me like that.  "Granny shifting, not double clutchin' like you should" is a line that I suppose sounds good on paper, but you'll not notice a single actor in the movie double clutching.  It's a horrible idea for racing, because double clutching is slow.  You actually push in the clutch, go out of gear and into neutral, feed out the clutch in neutral, then push the clutch in a second time, go into the next gear up, and clutch out one final time.  Truckers double clutch.  Cars from the 1920s double clutch because nobody had bothered to invent synchros yet.  And don't get me started about frying piston rings, overnighting parts from Japan, and what 200 shots of nitrous does to transmissions.

Okay, I suppose that's the end of my rant.  Maybe tomorrow I'll post up my credentials to rant and rave about car stuff in my introductory thread.  I have some pictures and videos of my autocrossing.  Think I have a shot of me at the awards dinner as well, in my jacket where I won my class.

Just finished this commentary up, and I do have some things to say.  A lot of times, it was mentioned that the commentators wanted a "grittier" Spiderman.  There actually is one that exists, one that is anchored in a more "this universe" feel.  And that's Spiderman Noir.  Set in the '30s, it's a great read, with villains who are more grounded in reality (if I recall, the Green Goblin is actually a crazy, hump-backed circus freak) and things of that nature.  I certainly recommend it; who knows, maybe that will be a good movie to make because, as was said earlier, it's the noir style movie and it's got a very gritty feel.