Have you heard us talk much about magic beans and "Wonderlands" in other commentaries?

Yup.

If I thought you guys were a bunch of hacks, I wouldn't have listened to about
40 or so of your commentaries. I agree with you guys most time, sometimes things
are said by one or more of you in a certain movies, of course.
But in this case I just dont agree. You can't say, "well, its OK if you have 2 magic beans if they
had just put the second magic bean as a surprise at the last minute when we learn the
the kid is the rainmaker, but to have the TK the whole movie, well that just ruins it"
now that is an opinion, which is different to when you guys say that they cant do something
then to when they shouldn't have.
So if you say they would have been more effective if we didnt know anything about the TK at all,
and blamo, this kid has it, in the last 20 min, and thats why he is the rainmaker, which is what
Trey says, I would totally 100 percent agree. Rian says that people would have flipped out
if they didn't put the TK in the beginning, and I disagree with that.
But that was his decision, or so he says, and that is that, you guys can disagree, I can disagree,
but to say that he totally messed upa big part of the plot, and it is a screenwriting no-no, ya,  I
don't buy that at all.

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And you're allowed to not buy it. They're guidelines. To the opinion of the panel, a story's focus and the audience's suspension of disbelief becomes strained when it's pulled in too many directions. Personally, it doesn't distract me. In a thematic way, in a movie about the reciprocal relationship between an individual, their environment, and their ability to change it, TK totally fits.

And speaking of opinions of how things are put together, your syntax and 100 character line breaks are pretty inscrutable. What gives? It's like you paste all your posts out of a hostile vim buffer.

No, ya,  I understand totally about fantasy plots and all, I just realized that I left that part
of my post in, I was going to say something else, and didnt, so I cut a part of the middl...

OK, lol, I'll just go and edit it out...

But see I disagree, and in turn you disagree with me, just as long as you are not saying that
what you are saying there is fact, and that someone MUST NOT write in this manner period,
or may they walk the plank, or get the Rack, perhaps thrown in the Pit of Despair... I think you know
where I am going here...

I think it goes without saying that this show is an expression of opinion about what works and what doesn't in a movie, and what a movie should or should not do in reference to whether we find it satisfying. In fact while I think it goes without saying we have nonetheless taken care to say so on quite a few occasions. You are welcome to disagree but I don't much care for being told how or whether we should express our tastes on our show.

Wait.... Someone, who hosts a podcast that sometimes tries to completely rewrite
award winning filmmakers' movies, can't listen/read opinions on how they should change???
Why is it that your posts always get so hostile, even your avatar looks mean, lol.
No one is saying how you should run your show. But it comes across, in this episode,
that what they did with this movies plot was not right, and it didn't sound like an opinion on this
episode.
But thats just me, and that is all I am saying.

Last edited by mkeithddc (2014-03-15 00:00:32)

Um... What are you talking about??? Who is saying this?
Who's posts are you reading?

Beans, Beans, the magical fruit!
The more you use, the more you toot!

I'm not sure that analogy "escalated," but it certainly did something quickly.

yebmv

LMAO!

I love the look of disappointment from the dude on the right.

"You're gonna take a picture of this, huh? Gonna have a good laugh about the elephant butt? I thought better of you."