Fight Club

42:28-43:48 Flying bottle discussion, and Brian making up themes.
1:02:54-1:03:39 A stunningly racist joke.
1:09:47-1:10:39 Why Fincher’s allowed his indulgent editing.
1:58:23-1:58:42 Fincher’s relationship with Fox.
2:20:09-2:21:28 A lovely lesson on efficient suicide.

When I first started listening, I started with movies I knew backwards and forwards. So, when you started commenting on the bottle in Fight Club - the one Tyler Durden throws, that flies forever and stays at the edge of frame - it brought my attention to something that had always confused me. Around 42:30, going until Brian rambles about nothing and you're all impressed.

Also! The rant in Galaxy Quest (near the 25-min mark) where Tim Allen says, "I need to be at a place in a quarter of an hour," and you guys say, "...Then... what are you doing here, man?"

(Oh, and just a personal great, from the same, but later -- Teague asks, "Brian, is this what Shatner and Takei are doing right now?" And Brian answers, "I hope so. But just those two.")

Anyway. I'll keep thinking.

Oooh, shiny. Thanks!

I feel like all this talk of moose piss has deftly encapsulated exactly what David Lynch was trying to convey with Mulholland Drive.

The great mark of a Star Trek episode was a thinly-veiled moral, some sign of deep thought as a commentary on the current social scene. The episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (the halfblack, half-white faced dudes) was all about a relavent cultural issue. Star Trek VI (which DiF has already covered) is about the fall of Soviet Russia and racism.

Star Trek IV is about... not pushing humpback whales to extinction, or else an alien probe will punish us? Time travel? Spock learning to swear?

Even Enterprise has its meaningful plotlines. T'Pal with her Vulcan AIDS, etc.

It's a silly movie. Its main goal is to make the audience laugh.

That doesn't make it a Star Trek movie.

Interesting trivia! The punk on the bus was Kirk Thatcher, puppeteer/producer for the Muppets and creature technician for Star Wars and Gremlins. (I don't know why I know these things.)

I think at that point they had all accepted that they weren't getting out of these roles in their careers. And they took it out on the fans.

I didn't say they had to be nice to it.