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Whoa. Who is this Dan Trachtenberg guy? Does he have a movie commentary podcast and a cool forum?
/fickle
I would suggest trying to keep to comments that go well with the scene happening at that moment.
Have you been half asleep
and have you heard voices?
I've heard them calling my name.
Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors?
The voice might be one and the same.
I still so want to hate Demi Moore.
And I still sooo want her.
And we women disguised as religious scholars feel the same way about Yentl.
/shhh
//squashes boobs down a bit more
Pfft on your public health care system. I still pine for the days of private fire insurance. If you didn't have insurance, the fire brigade would come, but they wouldn't put out the fire. Survival of the fittest was the rule of the land!
Oh, the fun we had, rolling hoops with sticks past the poor children just getting off work at the textile mill.....
I've said it before, so this may sound like a broken record*.... The site needs a central catalog that is easily browsed, with nice, big pictures and a log line for each.
As for the front page, I don't think anyone has it really figured out yet—not other commentary sites, not Rifftrax, not Hulu, not YouTube.... Ideally, I think listeners would best be served by a Recent Releases section of images (posters or frames from the movies) with the movie title and a snarky log line. Then a Fan Favorites section below that would have the most popular entries, like the Star Wars stuff.
Then maybe the whole other half of the front page should have an embedded video with short clips from various movies (fair use for parody) with your audio quotes over the top, mocking or explaining. That would give new visitors a really good idea of what to expect and would only need to be updated every month or so with a fresh clip stuck at the beginning.
* There used to be these things called "records", which were analog audio disks. When they got badly scratched, the playback device would hop when it hit the scratch, often causing the same few seconds to play over and over again.
This shit again? For an old-timey, anti-labor, rabid anti-communist, Walt Disney was a pretty good guy.
Other than the fact that I have no idea what the hell this is about, I think it's great.
However, I second Teague's skepticism of Zack's acting. And Scarlett doesn't look like she's been wandering the desert for more than about seven minutes.
The merchant guy tho, he can act.
"Mal" as a woman's name is usually short for "Malory" or "Malinda". I couldn't figure out why Leo wasn't Anglicizing the pronunciation to rhyme with "pal" and "shall" in his American twang. He certainly wouldn't have corrected her if she had pronounced his name—Dom—as "dome" rather than "dahm". That's what accents are: the way you pronounce stuff.
Dumb name. But Teague is right.
I liked BR when I first saw it, but I thought of it as a pretty standard noir picture set in a futuristic world. I can understand why some set designers and artists went ga-ga, but the fact that it looks like sci-fi is SUPPOSED to look like doesn't impress me. The fact that it and Alien were the FIRST to do that is historically interesting, but doesn't change my impression of the story.
Recently, I've come to more or less love it, except for the unicorn BS. I wish film makers would stop making Philip K Dick stories into movies without ditching his dumb maybe-it's-a-dream twists. They're in every fucking PKD story.
Hey, director— You're telling a lie in the first place. Why would I give a shit whether or not a guy who never existed is experiencing a "true" lie or a "fake" lie?
Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Tegway.
/been there, done that
I don't know shit about VFX, but storytelling-wise, we're very close on the hatch during landing but then tilt down from it before it opens to reveal anything. And we're too close to see the landing gear touchdown, so that shot doesn't make sense to me.
Overall, this has a great Sergio Leone feel. And Ron Selmour is amazing. Good get.
I'm kind of on the fence. I've had the same feeling as Teague—especially with 24 and Lost. But I gave in on Fringe and recently just finished the first season—15 hours later it's getting good.
But I also think that movies are often hampered by the fact that they're trying to cover an awful lot of ground in two hours—making you understand and like all the characters, follow the action, and so on. It's not at all easy. With TV shows, I think we should all WANT them to take their time revealing the characters and unraveling the mysteries. It keeps the shows from being Gilligan's Island: here are seven people from all social strata stranded on an island; enjoy a hundred identical episodes.
Still a TV show needs to really PULL you in with the first two or three episodes. That's its JOB. Set up the characters—leave some mysterious for now, but intriguing. Set up some conflict that isn't going to get resolved immediately.
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