Hmm... Well, I feel like there's a lot that I could learn from all of you guys, so I'll try to keep this brief. Here's the four Ss.

Teague - Songs
Brian - Space/Science
Dorkman - Screenwriting (could apply to anyone, but otherwise the mnemonic doesn't work as well.)
Trey - Stories!

Eddie - Editing/Fighting/Fight-deting
Ryan - Visual Effects (along with everyone else on the podcast, naturally)
Miki - Moar science.

Kiss Me Deadly?

/actually wasn't

Robin Hood: Men in Tights. And continuing in the "movies with colons in the titles" theme...

Alterants: The Direct Counterinsurgency of He Who Is Resigned

All too easy. But I'll wait my turn, 'tis only fair.

Uh, From the Earth to the Moon? I have no clue.

Okay then, here we go.

White House

Isn't industrial music what they call it when, after thirty years, the clanging noises in the factory where you work start to sound like beautiful music, and then you get distracted and a giant metal beam falls on you?

/ending this right now

Aaaaaaanyway...Strange Days is a movie that I'm actually torn on a little. I mean, it's pretty "good", but I don't think that it's "worth watching". Honestly, there is too much story for even a movie of this length to hold. Awesome camera stuff aside, I feel like this would have worked a lot better as a book, where we would have been able to spend a little more time with the characters and the world, and a little less time with the (quite frankly, uninteresting) "mystery" aspect. I guess that, because I wasn't all that invested in the characters, I didn't care too much about what had happened to them, what was going to, or why.

In fact, in a lot of ways, Strange Days feels as though it was adapted from a very long novel, and that a lot of stuff was cut out in order to serve the plot at its most simple levels. I'd like to read this imaginary "book", and see if it works any better than the movie.

You win! Well done.

Trey will know, I guarantee. So will Eddie, most likely.

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

The Erroneous Receive a Quality Resting Period

As you posted on Twitter, Abrams films are often full of fridge logic. And as I've been thinking more and more about it, I'm starting to agree. I don't care so much that the super 8 movie wasn't that important. Yeah, it wasn't sold that way, but it is what it is, and I don't have a problem with that. I did have a problem with the fact that the kids had so little bearing on the story. You could pretty much cut them out of the movie entirely and the plot wouldn't change. So why are they the protagonists again? I mean, Joe and Alice were fascinating characters, but it seemed like they were cut-and-pasted from a totally different story.

What I'm struggling with is this: so what? I mean, Thor had tons of fridge logic, and so did Transformers 2, and in both of those cases, it affected how "good" the film was in a meaningful way. Super 8 has fridge logic, but I don't think that that makes it any worse a film. I think that everything else about the film covers up for this comparitively minor flaw. Yes, plot and story are the most important aspects of film, but maybe not this film. This film was clearly more about tone and characters. And it nailed those. So, I still think that it was a pretty great film, despite the fact that it clearly has flaws.