re: selecting the weekends films

Do you wake up Sat morning and think wouldn't it be cool to do these ones, or do you have a big list of to-dos and are working your way through them ?

I ask because (for me) between the Saturday "we're doing this" reveal and the Sunday "welcome welcome to DIF..." there isn't much time to locate and watch/rewatch the films. So, if there is a big list, have you considered releasing it so forthcoming movies could be watched in the preceding week ? Even if this list is a "coming sometime" one rather than an etched in stone diary type of affair, it would be handy - watching things a few weeks in advance preferable to cramming 2 in on Saturday and falling asleep during the next days analysis.

They have a large list of movies they want to do, which occasionally gets posted here in this thread, and it's a matter of who's around that weekend and what they want to do. As for releasing a long range recording schedule, remember the live streaming is just a bonus they're doing as a favor to us. I'd rather get a week's notice on what's being released for the podcast then for the weekend recording.

It's been brought up before, but among other things not only do they have a large backlog of movies to get to, but Dorkman is the type to want to ALL of a series once it's started. So, unless it's something short best not to go there

Switching to people meters WAS one of the improvements they've made recently.  Nielsen's constantly refining their methodology, just like any good science.   Admittedly statistics isn't a "hard" science like, say, chemistry,  and the most stringently-gathered data is still no more than a "best guess".   But we base a lot of our lives on those best guesses, it's not just for tv shows.

Also in the past few years, numerous competing methods that measure media consumption have arrived on the scene, many of which are more detailed than the Nielsens.   To the point where the refrain of "why don't they measure ____ instead" has become fairly common.  Again, that's why it might make a good intermission topic - to get into why some of those alternate measurements don't matter, and why others are counted, but aren't considered as important as the Nielsen numbers, why still others suggest that the Nielsens are most likely accurate, etc.

I don't want to get into any more detail here, since maybe this is enough to put the topic on the Intermission schedule. 

We did it.

I like "Blow Out" a lot myself, it definitely falls into the category of "They don't make movies like THAT anymore."  It had extra  relevance at the time for me personally - 1981 was my third year of film school, and Travolta's character was using the exact same equipment I was.  So that was cool.   

I'd be surprised if any other DiF regulars have even seen it, tho...

Blow Out is great. It's my favourite Travolta film. Well, after Face/Off

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