Don't be muscling in on my Nigerian prince deal, man. I'm about to sell him my car just as soon as I can wire the shipping and handling fee to his chosen shipping company.

Damn, you're smooth. Do you have to be wearing a smoking jacket to deliver a line like that?

A terrible camera phone?

Oh right, right, right. Anything that's been optioned and not produced needs to come down. But the article specifically says they're targeting all scripts they own, not just unproduced ones.

Fox has been stupid about stuff like this for a long time, tho. I got a cease and desist letter in 1996 because I had a website with, among other things, one page each that had Simpsons and X-Files wallpaper and icons that I created. Paramount, on the other hand was apparently unconcerned about my Indiana Jones page. And likewise the BBC about my Blackadder page—with fan script.

Speaking of which, I've got to get back to my latest Asylum spec work—5 Faces of Death: Sharktahedron!

I've made some changes that I'll try out for a while. I think I still want a page that lists all titles somewhere, but now the front page features an alpha index and the most recent commentaries, with posters.

Thanks for the feedback! The site is almost 3 years old now, so it's no surprise that it's due for an overhaul.

It's not practical for me to classify commentaries by style or video format, since people don't self-report consistently. It wouldn't be too hard to separate iRiffs and Rifftrax from others, tho, which might be helpful.

I think making the front page a gateway to commentaries by first letter of the movie title is a practical way of simplifying it. I've been thinking of ways to do that for a while now.

I'm not a huge fan of tag clouds myslef, but it is a compact and common way to list the most popular entries by type. Maybe I overestimated people's interest in Tim Burton movies vs John Hughes movies vs Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. I could just leave them for the All Tags page and keep only the commentators, turned into a bulleted list of top commentators by output.

This gets me thinking. Thanks!

In a jungle, it's called jungle fever. And in the ocean, it's called ocean notion.

Just helping out.

/currently contemplating recording an ocean notion for my nearly-finished Asylum screenplay called 10 Tentacles for Sister Sarah *

* It's neo-western sea monster nunsploitation

Chinese restaurant, right? Isn't that where those people go on Christmas?

WoOz didn't actually need the frame story, because the twister explains the travel to a magical land where anything goes. I hate movies where it's all a dream anyway; if it's only my point of view that's skewed, then there's no point to the story. It's like making a movie about an optical illusion. "Oh, the lines really ARE the same length."

However, your idea of a lost script is 100% better than QT's no attempt at explaning or even foreshadowing at all. Personally, I would prefer some sci fi explanation, like Pitt and crew stumbling across a scientist who explains that the Germans just exploded a "probability bomb" or something in hopes of changing their chances of winning the war. "Says here that without the in-- indoosed time anom-- anom-a-lee, the Allies would win the war in 1945 and Hitler would shoot himself in his bunker in Berlin. Jesus, the fuckin' Nazzis blew up the FUTURE! You know what this means, boys? We gotta win this war any way we can!"

/Suddenly contemplating a new Asylum screenplay for 10 Vainglorious Bastards.

I love all the scenes not featuring Brad Pitt. It's not that I don't like Brad Pitt, but--and I know I've said this here before--he's in a Sergeant Rock comic book movie, and Sergeant Rock was mostly pretty stupid. However, the bar scene could have used a trim.

Regarding art, you've got yer high art, yer pop art, and yer commercial trade. What fits where is largely subjective, but I guarantee there are plenty of film makers happy to tell you that they do not make art. They make commercial films, and that's fine. For the most part, I don't need to be more enlightened about the human condition.

/Well along into my new screenplay for 911: Dial M for Mega Snake

Jeffery's rewrite is great, but he's also right that you absolutely need Shia to be integral to the story. Gregory's take on who is what is slightly better. No kid would want robot toys that transform into a locomotive, a turbine generator, an ICBM, or the Large Hadron Collider, but we might need some other alternatives to the Pentagon and the Utah Jazz. We obviously need an iPhone and a PS3 and whatever else kids think is cool. Jet boots or something. Electric toothbrush, maybe. Kids still think that's cool, right?

But if the Autobots are hiding from the big bad Decepticons, why would the Autobots kick ass when the Decepticons arrive? Maybe... the Allspark has been carried to earth by Bumblebee and Shia has found it and befriended Bumblebee, bringing Shia into the story and giving the Autobots the advantage they lacked in the prolog.

And Megan Fox is still the superhot chick. Only this time she isn't orange, okay? Seriously. Can we address this?

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It's important to note that I was 19 when Transformers (and GI Joe and also Australian rules football) was on TV, and I only watched it one time when I was sick and hopped up on four cold medicines.