I think we covered this when we were talking about Karen Gillan and Billie Piper. If I remember correctly, the conclusion we all came to was that some people are just wrong.

<Maul2 facepalms as he realizes this means he will actually have to watch Surrogates.>

I was entertained by it. It wasn't great, but it wasn't as bad as many other movies out there. Like "Max Payne". I'll admit that it may have been a decent movie, if you have no frame of reference, but they fucked up the actual story.

Hmm, i'm gonna have to watch Surrogates. Does it have Fichtner or space-dementia?

Good news: These nice people have a list that DiF should pick from.

Bad news: This belongs in off-topic but Satoshi Kon died a couple of days ago at 46. To me he was batting 1.000 as far as animé goes: the best part of Memories, Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers and Paprika which has very cool opening credits.

The TV series Paranoia Agent was the only thing of his that I can say I really enjoyed, and it was their commentary for the final episodes that taught me to assume most "meaning" in films isn't to be taken seriously. They admit having no ending when they started animating the first episodes, and intentionally cut any dialog that would tell the viewer what in fact was going on

So, next week's film (at the time of writing) is an 80s movie? Holy shit! The first one since Aliens

Empire Strikes back. Original Version or Lucas Masturbatory manipulated one? I have the original on laserdisc. Gotta get the revamp on Netflix....

Alright! It's really fun to pause the DIF commentary so I can flip the disc over. Gotta love Laserdisc.

I actually didn't read any of the T4 scripts. I know what Bale's demands were (that it be more character drama than VFX spectacle -- something you could "perform on a stage") but I don't know what it looked like before that.

I do talk about what I think they SHOULD have done -- for all I know, they were going to until he came aboard.

Do you have a link to where I can read the pre-Bale T4?

What are the legal ramifications of sharing screenplay drafts like this? I'm not asking 'cause I want Switch's post deleted or anything stupid like that; I was actually thinking of popping over to off-topic and starting a "post your favorite scripts" thread. I know at least some of us what frequent this forum like to read scripts, and at least some passing-around has been done in the past, but if it'd cause looks of disapproval, then I won't.

There really aren't any legal ramifications. A lot of produced screenplays are made freely available one way or another -- as long as it's after the movie's come out, the studios don't care. One of the few benefits of the studios having no real respect for the value of a screenplay.

Spec screenplays get passed around all over town anyway -- they WANT attention, after all -- so there's no problem getting ahold of those.

It's only when a movie is currently in development that they might want to keep it under wraps and prevent leaks, lest an uproar (like the one that happened over the leaked T4 draft) force their hand and require altering the film in some way.

The easy way to deal with sharing such leaks is to simply link to someone who is hosting it. Then if the studio comes down on the leak, you wind up with a dead link rather than a C&D. And then you just use email.

But again, unless it's a big tentpole film, the studios don't usually care enough to even worry about whether or not the script's been leaked, as the percentage of a non-tentpole audience that would bother to read the script is insignificant and it's not worth their time to even check if the bell's been rung, let alone try to unring it.

Share away.