Shaun of the Dead should be good, I think it's pretty much a perfect movie, and Edgar Wright's best work (Hot Fuzz is all over the place, with a few brilliant moments, and DIF have already pointed out all the flaws with Scott Pilgrim).

Planet Terror I have no love for though. I kind of hate this entire wave of "fake" grindhouse movies, full of shitty green-screen and cgi bullshit and purposefully winking all over themselves.
I vastly prefer Death Proof, which while flawed, feels like an actual movie from the time period (bad pacing and all) and that has characters and a point. You can have a crazy movie that goes all over the place, but the characters have to feel like they believe in the universe they exist in (perfect example being Big Trouble in Little China), and not like actors having fun winking at the camera.

Honestly, I kind of feel like El Mariachi and Desperado were flukes, cause I've pretty much totally disliked everything Rodriguez has done since then (except for From Dusk Till Dawn, and Tarantino's half of that movie is vastly better than Rodriguez's). For a guy that's all about old school genre movies, he uses green-screens and CGI almost as much as George Lucas.

I can't believe I missed this, Shaun of the Dead is one of my favorite movies.

I wanted to bring that up, especially because of your comments in the chat, which didn't go unnoticed. (That all sounds more ominous than I mean, I'm just saying I wanted to hash that out with you because I was a seein' what you were a sayin.')

I might have the wrong brain in my head for what we should call a commentary, but they've never really been...commentary-commentaries, in my mind, they've never been truly meant to be listened along with the movie. At least not for a while, not since the early teen episodes, where we learned nobody actually did that. It's been conversation on a theme - the movie of the week - and usually tangents on that theme as well. So when we go off on a conversation about what Planet Terror is and how it succeeds, and what Death Proof is and how it does or doesn't, that seems to me just as interesting and related, and not to mention semi-required context building for other comments we'll make about the movie itself.

Now, if this was a commentary-commentary, that kind of thing would be ridiculous, but as the show is almost always a podcast for 99% of the audience, it works for me and I let it go that way if the tangent is interesting. Theory talk, abstract talk, what IS Planet Terror DOING, and what else has done that.

I guess me question is...no? Not this? In your opinion?

Weird, I feel the opposite generally in response to both of y'all.

For the most part, when an off topic conversation is happening, it's our way of keeping a conversation going when we don't have anything to say about the movie at that particular point.

There's one that Dorkman says a lot, "it's the sort of thing where." Usually followed by "like," usually followed by something about pedophilia.