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Right now I'm really digging "Nine Types of Light" by TV on the Radio.

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(57 replies, posted in Episodes)

My thoughts the instant this commentary was over:

"Wait, did they just get me to not like a movie that was on my list of the best of 2010? DAMN YOU DIF."

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It doesn't surprise me that people don't like some characters in this film. What DOES surprise me is that the character that most of those people DO like is Knives? Really? I liked the movie, but I found her shrill and annoying. If there was one character I truly hated in the movie, it was her. It just baffles me that people liked her for any other reason than pity.

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(57 replies, posted in Episodes)

I'm not sure I fully understand your problems with the magic bean. He lives in a video game. This is the story. I agree to some extent about the characters, but the jokes hit for me enough that I ended up liking it.

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My feelings on the Pirates franchise match up pretty well with my feelings on the Matrix franchise. The first one was great, the second one was okay, but unnecessary and certainly inferior, and the third one was a hideously bad waste of celluloid.

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This is now streaming on Netflix, by the way. Which is awesome if you're like me and it's been lingering in your queue for months, forgotten because you have the tendency to get way too excited about something you see and immediately move it to the top.

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/2010- … height1236

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(1,019 replies, posted in Episodes)

No recording? That means I'll have to...READ A BOOK! WHY?

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You're WAY better than Pete Conrad. Or wait, is that the other one?

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(17 replies, posted in Episodes)

Actually, Humma Kaluva was created by Douglas Adams especially for the movie. So there.

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I'm gonna miss this one as well. I didn't get a chance to catch up with either movie anyhow. Can't wait for the releases!

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(43 replies, posted in Episodes)

Anyone see Coraline? That was stop-mo, and I loved the hell out of it.

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Constantine is always in there, but you can already listen to DiF talk about it, and they make every point that I usually do. And everyone from "serious film critics" to people who don't even know what a Kurosawa is hate me when they hear that I like Titanic. Again, listen to DiF.

But as I said in the previous thread, I love Cloverfield, and I don't care who knows. Yeah, the characters may not be fully developed, but I don't think that they have to be. It's a monster movie, you want to see them run from the monster. And Cloverfield delivers in that regard.

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I share a birthday with Rembrandt, Terry O'Quinn, and Forest Whitaker.

Dorkman, I'll see your birthday-share with Joseph Campbell and raise you that Anton Chekhov died on mine.

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fcw wrote:

Would you be surprised if, in the mysterious future, fans of commentaries will make movies that go with whatever you are talking about in each episode?

On that note, I'd like to mention that, should I ever someday win an Oscar, you guys are definitely getting a thank-you in my acceptance speech. I've learned so much indelible information from you guys that not to do so would be a travesty.

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Have your views on a film ever shifted dramatically long after recording a commentary? And on a related note, are there any commentaries that you wish you could do over? (Armageddon, etc.)

Are there any panelists that constantly beg to do films that no one else wants to?

What are your ground rules for picking films to comment on?

What is the official snack food/drink of DiF?

I'm guessing that most of you actually listen to DiF. What are your favorite episodes that you aren't on?

Does anyone else have every episode on their MP3 device, or is it just me?

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Consider yourselves lucky. At least Mulholland Drive has some semblance of logic to it. Not here. David Lynch's "Rabbits" is where logic goes to die.

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I love Cloverfield, although I don't think most people would call it "bad". Of course, a lot of people have really strong negative opinions, so I think that it fits into this category.

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Landporpus wrote:

Maybe I'm totally out in left field, but with no characters, story, or ideas at all to work with how are we suppose to direct

Bingo! The point of the exercise was to create all of those things with the materials given. Learning how to do that is very important when it comes to directing, even though you'll have those things most of the time.

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Lou Perryman (Poltergeist)

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fcw wrote:

Wesley Snipes (Demolition Man)

The first name has to start with an S, not the last.

Steve Austin (The Expendables)

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(26 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Sharon Stone (Total Recall)

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Paul Rudd

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Goal for tomorrow: Drop the word 'Finifterian' into normal conversation and refuse to explain it.

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Two left. They're splitting the last book into 2 movies. I get that it makes financial sense, but having read the book, there isn't nearly enough story to justify it.

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Correct. On to you.