I mentioned deGraf/Wahrman in this episode, that's the company where I got into this whole crazy "computer graphics" business in 1988.  Michael Wahrman, the co-founder of that company, has an even longer and more jaded perspective on the industry than I do.   

He's got a blog where he opines about various things, including the CG business, and his post this morning has some relevance to the topic at hand.

Computer Graphics and the Doctrines of Original and Derivative Sin

When someone acts like an asshole in the first 10 minutes, I'm not going to listen to the rest of his opinion.

If you like listening to him, that's your business. Don't act like everybody really needs to listen to this guy's ignorant rants. Nobody owes Matthew a hearing out.

The dude who does SFDebris said (a few times) in his review for Stargate that Roland Emmerich worked with Kurt Russell before on Universal Soldier. You'd think he'd research that a bit more if he's doing a video, I assume he writes a script for it or at least has notes at hand while recording. Anyway, I do like some of his videos (I only watch the ones of stuff I have seen) and he's quite a smart and amusing guy at times. And, hey, we all make mistakes, right?

fireproof78 wrote:

I honestly would like to hear your thoughts, given you coming in cold, if you haven't posted in the Avengers thread already. 

I don't think I have anything insightful to add, really, because the reason I came into it cold is that popcorn movies like this aren't really my thing, either. I'd seen the first Iron Man movie once and enjoyed it and watched the majority of Thor before falling asleep. Twice. But because so many movies get a delayed release in Japan, by the time they come out over here, I'm over the hype and have usually lost interest. Hulk, Iron Man 2, and Captain America all passed me by unnoticed. In the end, I watched only The Avengers for the DiF commentary, which for some reason, I haven't actually listened to yet.

I didn't hate The Avengers, or anything like that, I just thought it was kind of boring. Except for the whole poor dead Agent Coulson pep talk scene. That shit was hilarious. But aside from Robert Downey, Jr. being his usual brilliant self, there wasn't much there for me to like.

bullet3 wrote:

  At least Ratner made Rush Hour 2, this guy literally doesn't have a single good credit to his name.

Rush Hour 2 is by far my favourite of that trilogy. Moore directed Behind Enemy Lines which I remember liking at the time. Haven't seen it in years, though.

The giveaway that it was a turkey was that there were no reviews before it opened, and even Bruce Willis couldn't summon much energy to be enthusiastic. Nevertheless, the Film Show here in Britain reported a 6th Die Hard has been greenlit.

http://www.slashfilm.com/monsters-unive … e-bonding/

Here's the first clip from the movie. Looks pretty funny to me. If they can capture the feeling of what college is like in an honest way, I think the movie will be really successful, and that trailer indicates to me that they will.

If your primary goal is to make people laugh, I'm gonna have to give you guys 5 gold stars or a thumbs up or whatever for this Intermission. I was highly entertained! 

Now, as a frequent listener of Confused Matthew, I had to overlook much of what you guys said about him specifically, since you admitted to knowing very little about him before placing him at the nadir of your film criticism spectrum. But I loved that idea that sometimes people have this gut feeling that something is wrong with a movie yet lack the tools and expertise to explain exactly what that something wrong is. Like fireproof78, I love the No Country for Old Men review by Confused Matthew because he perfectly articulates my own gut feeling that something about that movie was just off. And now, knowing what I know about where Confused Matthew is coming from with his reviews, I perfectly understand his rants against Cloud Atlas and the Avengers (and I agree heartily - Avengers was bo~ring). Those are not his most shining moments, however and make poor introductions for an unfamiliar listener.

Certainly, Confused Matthew can be a total asshat at times, and despite his fervent desire not to, he does box himself in quite a bit with his choices. But he's still capable of being very thoughtful and intelligent with regards to those aspects of a film that he's most interested in.

And since my intense rage over his review of Spirited Away (a film I don't even like) is directly responsible for me discovering DiF, I've learned to temper my feelings and accept the good with the bad. 

That was the end of S8. S10 is the most recent.

Unless you were referring to the last season of post Blood Gulch Freelancer.

Either way. Yeah. The fight scenes in S9/10 are freaking epic. The entire Falling Towards The Sky sequence gives me happy feelings all over.