I liked Timecrimes a lot. I loved that the director's name is "Nacho". His newest movie looks cool as well. He was previously attached to some bigger project, but I don't see it on his IMDB page. His name popped up in some article about some US produced flick that I can't remember. The only reason I remember that it was him was cause his name is Nacho.

"Hello. My name is Nacho. How are you, today?"

I can't go into the TV section at Best Buy anymore cause they play the latest blurays with that crap turned on to show off how awesome the TVs are. I wanna go through and turn smoothing off every single one of them every time I go there.

Yeah, I'd previously been handed down a couple of film SLR cameras and went through several rolls on each of them before I was able to start taking pictures that were consistently in focus and not blown out or too dark. Some of the older cameras especially have some weird quirks to them. I think some photographers prefer film just because they love the personality that older cameras seem to have.

That said, I've got a DSLR now (It only shoots stills  ) and shooting with it is a hell of a lot easier and much more fun. Not to mention the fact that since it's already digital, you can skip like 5 steps and save time and money and go right into touching them up or color correction, and if you've got a laptop on you while you're shooting, you can literally do that as soon as you've taken the photos.

However, I love looking at photos taken with grainy high ISO B&W film on crappy old cameras. Getting a digital camera to mimic that sort of look can be really hard. They shoot too well, sometimes.

Talking about film companies like Kodak and what they could do:

Produce and sell inexpensive digital camera backs or something that would fit inside a typical 35mm camera body. Instead of film, it uses a digital sensor to capture the image, and instead of a canister to store the film, there's electronic bits and somewhere to stick an SD card.

They would sell a bajillion of them, cause you could buy one and use it in any camera made prior to the digital revolution. The 35mm format has been around for, what, 80 years? That's a lot of cameras. I collect cameras like that, but shooting with them is getting awfully expensive. I would love to get my hands on some digital augmentation for them.

I never paid much attention to act structures and I don't remember if any of the books I've read on story focused on that sort of story structure stuff. Like Brian, I tend to think of stories as just "start here, go there and end here".

You could say that most movies fit both the three and five act structures because you're basically writing the same thing in a different way. With a three act structure you're looking for a catalyzing event that begins to build tension for the duration of the movie, and then a final moment where that tension is released. The acts are the bits before, after and between these two moments

From my understanding (which is just me guessing based on my own attempts to figure out what the hell people were talking about when talking about 'acts' and 'structure' and 'writing' and 'movies'), a five act structure is just an elaborate way of describing a three act structure, where the end of the second act is broken up by a couple of specific moments that describe the climax of the protagonist's arc and the climax of the main story arc. From what I've discovered, it's not the acts themselves that matter, it's those moments that separate the acts that you have to pay attention to.

But I've come up with my own way of defining how and when those acts begin and end as well, and I dunno how close to 'real' story telling theory I am. Probably quite a ways off, honestly, since according to my rules the first act of Revenge of the Fallen is nearly an hour long... unless Megatron's supposed to be the protagonist...

That was awesome, thank's for posting. That dude articulated something that a lot of people wanting to make original content on the web have probably thought about.

That ghostbusters photo is awesome. It would be so much fun to build a miniature set that huge. It would probably be even more fun to put the suit on and stomp around in it like Godzilla.

In reality it's probably horrifying to know that you'll have to fix the model for every take and the suit probably gets up to 130 degrees with all those lights on it.