2,001 Topic by Teague

(123 replies, posted in Episodes)

This was fun.

For some reason, it's not showing up on the front page right now, but this link works.

holden

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2,002 Reply by Teague

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I'll have everyone know that I hate my life.

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2,003 Reply by Teague

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Oh well, doesn't hurt to place a bet. Haven't looked at that betting site, and haven't seen this one anywhere else, but.

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I've got Walt killing Hank in the first episode.

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2,004 Reply by Teague

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Sort of, and it might work if you flipped the order of them, but it's a forest-trees sort of thing.

Like, you make a movie about hundreds of thousands of soldiers dying from their wounds in an oppressive war-is-hell context, and the ending is they figure out how to make better stitches.

"Well. Okay, thank you, but that wasn't really the bigger problem here."

If the setting of Elysium was everyone on earth is dying, Max bringing back the medical technology would be a fitting ending. But the setting is that everyone on Earth is poor and the divide between the rich and the poor is unbelievable, so the ending being "also humans still get sick sometimes and we sorta fixed that" doesn't exactly make for a water-tight throughline.

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2,005 Reply by Teague

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Sorry about the last line, Holden.

I thought of another way to put it, by the way.

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The problem with Elysium is that it sets up the problem of inequality in society, and pays off the problem of sometimes people get sick.

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2,006 Topic by Teague

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If you liked District 9, you'll like Elysium.

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1. Call me a pansy, but the "us vs. them," "99%" thing was screaming this project in the face, and I don't feel like they capitalized on it at all. The absurd lack of social commentary in this one - moreover, social point making - bugged me.

2. Once Jodie dies, I have no idea what Sharlto wants. His stated goal was to get re-enlisted, and it was an off the books deal with her. Once she dies, I have no idea why he does anything at all, much less become evil Robocop. (I had figured, by mid-act-one, that he'd end up on Max's team and they'd take down Elysium together.) (Because Max would have by-then discovered and articulated the basic inhumanity of the system and explained it in a way that our children would be reciting, because this movie was screaming for that to happen.) (Did not.)

3. Fucking gorgeous. Holy shit, guys. Crazy, next-level props to the teams behind the photography and VFX.

4. This was oddly predictable. Not just formulaic, it had its diversions. Just oddly predictable.

5. Neill made the same movie twice. All the "problems" with District 9 happen again here. Two acts of heady setup, third act is Die-Hard-with-a- ____ .  (In D9, it's Die Hard With A Cockroach. In this, it's Die Hard With A Mech Suit.)

All in all, I liked it. As we're fond of saying, if this were the new bar for summer movies, I'll fucking take it.

But in terms of the promise of the writer/director? I don't feel like any meaningful progress has been made since D9. Yet another great idea for a sci-fi movie, yet another "very-exciting-but-flawed" execution. It would take a monumental fuck-up on Blomkamp's part for me to not be in his corner, and he hasn't come close to a monumental fuck-up with this. But I'm less excited for his third movie than I was for his second, and that's kind of bumming me out.

Note: this movie is great. It's just not outstanding, and apparently I'm an entitled asshole. An entitled, spoiled asshole. What should happen to spoiled, entitled people like me - and why - is what should have been evident in Elysium. Sadly, apparently at the end of the day

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all of the not-entitled people just end up getting medical treatment and going back to their hovels.

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2,007 Reply by Teague

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2,008 Reply by Teague

(469 replies, posted in Episodes)

*looks at figure*

JESUS how bad are your nails?!?!?

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2,009 Reply by Teague

(469 replies, posted in Episodes)

Wow, extortion works like gangbusters.

Drink more! Sleep more! Chrystie 2016!

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2,010 Reply by Teague

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I appreciate all the headses upses about the missing episodes, but for the record, I'm pretty sure they've all been reported. At this point, the issue is me being a lazy piece of shit.

They're offline because our arrangement with the trademark holder of [redacted] is that we can't have 'em up until they've been edited to include the "The "What Are you Doing, Movie" Archive" stinger on 'em, and I either haven't edited in that stinger or haven't updated the iTunes picture to be WAYDM or haven't uploaded 'em or haven't updated the database yet.

So, known issue, gonna resolve it shortly, I suck.

That said, if y'all wanna make a deal for funsies, there's some equipment that needs replacin' on the production side of things. (One microphone arm, plus I think Brian's headphones are about to spontaneously combust, plus some other stuff.) If we get a hundred bucks in donations by the weekend, I'll slot out time and knock 'em all out before the new episode comes out.

I now feel like a piece of shit, but hey, I ain't makin' up the need for some upkeep. So. Whatevs. If not, it's still something on my to-do list, so I'm not holding 'em ransom or anything.

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2,011 Reply by Teague

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I approve of "Teague's Constant" so hard.

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2,012 Topic by Teague

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Sigh.

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2,013 Topic by Teague

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Roar!

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2,014 Reply by Teague

(670 replies, posted in Creations)

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2,015 Reply by Teague

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YouTube channel works.

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2,016 Reply by Teague

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No, we're trying to keep the podcast a secret.


smile Of course it's coo. And credit me as "Teague Chrystie," I guess.

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2,017 Reply by Teague

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That's Ian Hubert (banner, Dynamo, fame) and Paulou (banner, that bicycle thing, fame) and me.

We jammed for a minute, wrote some lyrics, then this.

Here's the text from the "about" on this video:

So my friend Ian (guitar) was in town, and we were jamming and being idiots. Then he played a chord progression we thought was cool, and songwriting spontaneously began. I ended up writing the chords and melody you see here, as well as the first verse lyrics. Ian wrote the second verse lyrics. Paul wrote the third. Then we recorded it, with me on vocals and piano, Ian on guitar, and Paul on bass. ... The first time we actually played through this song with instrument parts, we were recording, and this brings us to the present. Total time elapsed: three hours, eighteen minutes.

All three of us (Ian least of all) kinda screwed up this performance. But whatever.

The moral of the song is "be happy with what you have." The moral of this story is "have talented goddamned friends who like making random shit as much as you do."

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2,018 Reply by Teague

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There it is.

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2,019 Reply by Teague

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I'd be happy to write one, if everyone's cool with that. First dibs on self-casting, though.

How long are we thinking?

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2,020 Reply by Teague

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Yeah, I can do that. Maybe not today, but as soon as I can.

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2,021 Reply by Teague

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Here's what I came up with. Sixty seconds, loops. Sixty megs or so.

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2,022 Topic by Teague

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I hate these first posts.

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2,023 Reply by Teague

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Hey, if you wanted to keep it classy, you could just plagiarize us.

But making WAYDM required curriculum doesn't bother my ass one bit.

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2,024 Reply by Teague

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Damn, sellew, showing up and bringing the thunder. You're gonna fit right in.

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2,025 Reply by Teague

(255 replies, posted in Creations)

I'll see if I can do something with it today.

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