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2 2016-12-01 18:37:21
Re: So, Mike was hit by a car. (248 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Thank you for posting this here.
Hi everyone! I went to dinner at the end of September 2014, and was hit by a car and pinned to the wall. I was in the hospital from then until October 2015, when I went to Rancho Los Amigos. It took a while to find this site, but now I am here and have read through this page.
I did not get any postcards from you guys, but they were probably removed before I could see them. Both STAR WARS: EPISODE 7 and GHOSTBUSTERS I saw at home and not in theaters. (Both would be good commentaries when we are ready for that.) Let me know what you want to do.
4 2014-09-23 02:02:15
Re: Spiders, Syfy & Lava, OH MY! (16 replies, posted in Off Topic)
But you better believe we're doing an episode on this bad boy once it airs (which is presumably only a few weeks away).
8 2014-09-14 19:42:29
Re: Last movie you watched (2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)
The 4-hour making of doc "The Furious Gods" is pretty great though. Watching it actually made me feel kind of excited about the film even though I already knew it was barrel-aged diarrhea. Lots of people giving Ridley backhanded compliments, pinning all the bad decisions on him by "crediting" his creativity.
13 2014-09-09 18:39:01
Re: Random Movie Talk That Probably Doesn't Deserve Its Own Thread (971 replies, posted in Movie Stuff)
We have "whoring" to thank for the Sistine Chapel, many of Shakespeare's plays and nearly all of his sonnets, WIZARD OF OZ, GONE WITH THE WIND, and much of the work of Sidney Lumet. Oh, and all those Marvel movies the kids love so much.
IMO the difference between a hack and an artist isn't why you took the gig, it's whether you bring your A-game once you've got it.
14 2014-08-27 18:56:24
Re: Noah (59 replies, posted in Episodes)
Noah doesn't hear anything, he's given visions he must interpret. But at no point is it a matter of interpretation or ambiguity that the Creator exists and is quite actively engaged in the process.
18 2014-08-14 17:37:11
Re: Will Somebody Please Explain This Shit? (17 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Yeah, though as I recall there's some weird corporate ouroboros going on where DNeg owns a chunk of Prime Focus' parent company, and Prime Focus is now a controlling shareholder in DNeg (or not? As I recall DNeg insisted they won't be controlling operations but I think just numerically they have a controlling interest).
I guess that's no different than an individual owning stock in the company they work for... but it's still a bit wonky.
19 2014-08-14 09:23:16
Re: Will Somebody Please Explain This Shit? (17 replies, posted in Off Topic)
20 2014-08-12 20:19:52
Re: My Favorite Martian (9 replies, posted in Episodes)
So I finally experienced listening to one of our commentaries not only without the film, but never having seen it at all. It really does work surprisingly well.
Anyway, cool stories bro. Really fun to listen to.
22 2014-08-09 18:15:42
Re: Will Somebody Please Explain This Shit? (17 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Oh, also, they're releasing this one in 3D -- and as far as I can tell, they shot it that way natively rather than converting. So I guess instead of doing two times the work, they're doing half the work twice.
23 2014-08-09 16:46:44
Re: Will Somebody Please Explain This Shit? (17 replies, posted in Off Topic)
First and foremost, I would guess that the sequel does have a significantly smaller budget. It's been nearly ten years since the original, which indicates that the studio wasn't exactly chomping at the bit to go back to that well, nor does Rodriguez exactly blow the doors off the box office when he puts out a film. I can't find any info on the budget but Google does show me press releases that the VFX for the sequel are being handled by Prime Focus -- who on the fast-cheap-good triangle have the reputation (and track record) of being squarely the fast-cheap choice.
Rodriguez's recent efforts are plagued by the fact that he was never a particularly good filmmaker to begin with -- the method and attitude with which he approached filmmaking were far more interesting than the final results -- compounded by the fact that since GRINDHOUSE he's discovered that there is an audience that enjoys deliberately cheesy shit like MACHETE, and he's riding a sweet spot of spending just enough to be a cut above ASYLUM films, but not so much his films are actually financially risky.
The first SIN CITY was made by a guy who was still growing as a filmmaker and trying to elevate the material artistically and bring it to life. This one is being made by a guy whose whole schtick has settled into deliberately targeting so-bad-it's-good absurdity. Why spend the money and time when his target audience doesn't care?
100% guessing, of course. No inside knowledge of production and I'm not the dude's therapist or anything.
25 2014-07-24 13:43:46
Re: Random Movie Talk That Probably Doesn't Deserve Its Own Thread (971 replies, posted in Movie Stuff)
I have to laugh at "defining chapter" just because the Battle of Five Armies is the part most people forget is in the book at all. If you read it as a kid you remember Riddles in the Dark, you remember Smaug, and then you re-read it as an adult and go "Whoa, there's a whole battle in here!"
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