Yeah, just wing it. Do a freeform discussion, comment on a tv episode or two, watch Megashark vs Giant Squid, whatever. This does answer my question as to how far ahead you guys are, and if you're recording two movies at a time do you record every week....

A fascinating book my dad had on the shelf (next to the chess, Tom Swift, and Hornblower books) was The Third World War: August 1985 by Sir John Hackett. Written in 1978, it tried to give a realistic reason for and waging of World War III. The war starts out conventionally and only a couple nukes are used, so it's an optimistic tale trying to say the West should continue the conventional arms build up started by Carter as we CAN win that way. He did a 1982 rewrite called The Untold Story to account for all the changes in the last couple years (for example, he had Carter serving two terms and the war starting because the Soviets wanted to test the new untried Republican President)

Then again, even many of the Japanese Godzilla movies suck so it's hard to get the balance right. It'll really depend on the director.
(Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla was the only one of the last batch I bothered buying)

I actually haven't, to be honest, mostly because after a first listen while watching the film I'm more likely to listen to DIF at work or on my evening walk. Visuals would just get in the way there With a Rifftrax you can only listen to those with both the video and the original movie soundtrack.

Well, you could go in and play with the file to keep it in sync (inserting a second or two where needed), but that can be a pain and they are doing this for free. If I was to make DVDs with DIF audio files it wouldn't be too hard to match audio with video using Garage Band. I do that with Rifftrax, and at least twice have had audio files that kept losing sync and had to delete or add to the soundtrack.

Well, remember, more people saw Alien 4 in theaters then probably ever saw Buffy on TV (minor hit on a minor network). Reminds me of when what most people would have known Frank Miller from was his writing Robocop 2.

I found the comment that Ridley Scott had never been asked to do another film interesting. There's an old story that after Aliens Cameron was asked to do the third film, and his condition was he'd do it if Scott did part 4. Needless to say that was the deal breaker, so what didn't FOX like about Scott?

I'm finding this thread fun, as everyone is coming down on one side of the split our two local reviewers gave the film. The free weekly Artvoice praised the sucker, while Jeff Simon of the Buffalo News who I trust (well, at least I know well his tastes) gave it two and a half stars. My favorite comments:

"There are, to be frank, critics going around calling this nonsense a visionary masterpiece and thank heaven for every one of them. Here, at last, is a movie that ordinary skeptical citizens of moviegoing America can use to figure out what critics and friends they can truly trust.

Please feel free to reject it if you choose, but my personal advice is to be wary in the future of anyone's judgment and/or veracity who tells you "Inception" is a work of visionary genius. They've taken a leap of faith into pure B.S., and Lord only knows if they'll ever emerge. (Be kind. It's a familiar American location. Of such things are our modern wars usually made.)"

It's very possible he's now just too old a senile