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"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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That's true; Intermission has gotten removed sometimes, but not that removed. So strike my suggestion and consider me in agreement with the Doctor.

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I'll agree with the original/now redacted suggestion.  I'd be curious about the guys backgrounds and how they came to be atheists.  Half of the experience of each episode is about the topic of discussion and the other half is who is actually being featured in the episode.  Their backgrounds are relevant and while I don't think that should necessarily take up an entire chunk of a movie commentary, that's what an intermission could be for.  Just the concept of Eddie mentioning being annoyed by "new atheists" in one commentary had me laughing for quite a while, because those 2 words painted a bigger picture than you can imagine.  The conversations don't lose my interest for the most part, whether or not I care about the topic or not and this is one I would be interested in anyway. Just saying.

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I should make it clear that I actually don't identify as atheist.  I do not believe in a God as a singular masculine consciousness, but I stop just shy of saying atheist.  The difference is largely semantical but as a Buddhist, I kinda have this view as Universe and it's contents = God.

Eddie Doty

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Oh, yeah, sorry, Eddie. Not too familiar with Buddhist philosophy.  neutral

I'd be up both for my original idea *and* Doc Sub's idea, maybe as a two-act episode?

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I think a conversation about religion in movies would really benefit from people who are actively religious (and respectful of those who aren't) being involved. The alternative is akin to a group of gents discussing issues which relate specifically to women. We can look in and empathise, but it's commentary one or two steps removed.

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I'd like a movie disasters intermission.  By that I mean the movies that went so far over their budgets they bankrupted studios and what happened that caused them to go over budget.  You've mentioned the end of United Artists being a certain film that I can't remember now.  I vaguely remember there being something about Waterworld's set partially sinking or some specific event that led to the production cost skyrocketing.  Examples like that, that don't necessarily merit doing a full Waterworld commentary to tell the story but something along those lines would be interesting.  As an extension, the near miss scenarios that got movies finished that should have been canned (like Heath Ledger's role being partially recast by Johnny Depp and Jude Law).

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God loves you!

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"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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Trey's on board. Just need 3 more smile

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Eddie Doty

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Well now I've got to see this flick. Pencil me in for the commentary.

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"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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Also, it has some of the worst looking greenscreen stuff I've ever seen.

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I thought the trailer for that looked pretty decent, but I never got round to seeing it. Is it really that bad?

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You know what everyone wants to see from a movie about vegas magicians? Blatantly CGI magic tricks of course!

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Yep.  I was hoping for a fun romp about what stage magicians can (and can't) do.  I was disappointed.  Repeatedly.

To recycle Mike's comment about Prometheus (I think?): if a movie about football got everything as wrong as this movie does about stage magic, "football" would be played on skates with bats.

PS And I didn't think the ending could possibly disappoint me even further... but it did.  Kind of an achievement, that.

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God loves you!

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23 (edited by Ewing 2013-11-01 17:46:37)

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"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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