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doesn't it depend on what type of pie?  hating it I mean...?

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No. Pie is like dogs. Some pies are better than others, but all pies are good.

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Maybe you should do Raw Deal.

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You're a raw deal.

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I read the forum on my phone. All the names are cropped off the left side of the screen. I have no idea who any of you people are.

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You guys should do Cloverfield.

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

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DoctorSubmarine wrote:

You guys should do Cloverfield.

I thought Cloverfield was the best episode of Felicity, ever.

Eddie Doty

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Astroninja Studios wrote:

I thought Cloverfield was the best episode of Felicity, ever.

Interesting choice. I would have gone a different direction. "Cloverfield is the best viral marketing that I've ever seen. Abercrombie and Fitch should be proud."

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

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A question and two suggestions:

Did you guys decide not to do Bladerunner because you figured you wouldn't have much to say during the commentary?

And the suggestions:  Since you all want to do classic movies your second year, how about the Godfather?

Or, you haven't done a western yet so how about The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly?

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Half the cast does not like Godfather.  I f'n love Godfather, and I think Trey does too.  I'd love to do a commentary for it.

Eddie Doty

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We should do Godfather. But that would mean I'd have to try to watch it again to give it another chance. And then watch it again for the show. And I'm not enthusiastic about that.

Teague Chrystie

I have a tendency to fix your typos.

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I second The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.

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

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Would doing the original and the remake the same day work, by any chance? I'm thinking Seven Samurai/The Magnificent Seven, or Yojimbo/A Fist Full of Dollars.

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I wouldn't mind doing a BLADE RUNNER commentary so someone can explain to me what's any good about it -- without discussing the art direction or visual effects.

I'm very aware and appreciative that it's an important film, but like DAWN OF THE DEAD and TRON, I don't know what people are talking about when they say it's a good film.

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I can only speak for myself, but I love the characters, and the tone of the world.  Not visual tone (although that's fancy too) but just the mood of this bleak and dying world.  I think Sci Fi and noir should be blended together more often, and in a day when that happens, I'm sure we'll get better films than Blade Runner, but until then it remains a unique and unlikely favorite of mine.

Eddie Doty

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DorkmanScott wrote:

I wouldn't mind doing a BLADE RUNNER commentary so someone can explain to me what's any good about it -- without discussing the art direction or visual effects.

For that film it would be like removing the music from a Metalica song and then asking why anyone considers Metalica to be good. Some movies are just more about mood and visuals then plot and characters. There's nothing wrong with thinking in this case that's not enough, naturally.

I'm very aware and appreciative that it's an important film, but like DAWN OF THE DEAD and TRON, I don't know what people are talking about when they say it's a good film.

I like Dawn of the Dead, and am damned interested to hear you guys talk about it.

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DorkmanScott wrote:

I wouldn't mind doing a BLADE RUNNER commentary so someone can explain to me what's any good about it -- without discussing the art direction or visual effects.

The film is about mankind coming to grips with the fact that we can create something genuinely greater than ourselves—perhaps even deserving of supplanting us. Its form is a film noir—where no one is entirely innocent—which allows its hero to fail and its villain to gain redemption without destroying the story. Great, great movie.

Except for the fucking unicorn. The unicorn is evidence that Ridley Scott is some kind of retard.

Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.

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It's funny to me how people who love the movie take exception to the unicorn -- that's the only part that actually makes any kind of setup-payoff sense to me.

Invid wrote:

I like Dawn of the Dead, and am damned interested to hear you guys talk about it.

I found on iTunes U a podcast series with a professor of literature who does a whole course on zombies and their relevance to the culture and what they represent and why they're popular. I think we should just link to those instead. Comparatively we might have dropped the ball.

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I don't really care about the zombies in the movie, to be honest. It's more the survival aspect I find interesting. I remember when I rented the tape years ago, my father watched it while I was away. He commented in a disapproving way that it was just a lot of pointless killing, to which I replied "And it didn't do the characters any good in the end, did it?" He was a little startled and hadn't considered that the violence had a point. Maybe it doesn't, but that's why I'm interested in hearing your views smile That and your takes on low budget film making. I get a kick out of how Romero planned it out, filming in order of importance so that once the money runs out (and it will) there's to guaranteed to be enough in the can to edit into a useable story.

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Invid wrote:

For that film it would be like removing the music from a Metalica song and then asking why anyone considers Metalica to be good.

Well said. But... Metalica? I think people are just sick of hearing about how great the VFX are. (But they are.)

Zarban wrote:

The film is about mankind coming to grips with the fact that we can create something genuinely greater than ourselves—perhaps even deserving of supplanting us. Its form is a film noir—where no one is entirely innocent—which allows its hero to fail and its villain to gain redemption without destroying the story. Great, great movie.

Except for the fucking unicorn. The unicorn is evidence that Ridley Scott is some kind of retard.

The replicants aren't great, they're slaves. Creating them was evil. It's the result of a total lack of empathy.

The unicorn is cool. Ridley insisting that it means Deckard's a replicant is retarded.

2 things bug me about that movie.
1, the editing: no VO, lose old Joanna Cassidy's CG face replacement, keep Batty's "father" line, use the quicker scene at Deckard's apt at the end from the work print, and keep the happy ending.
2, the acting style: I don't know anything about acting so can't really explain it but Ford's goofy exaggerated smiles are... wrong. Hauer's theatrical evilness is just right. The love scene is wrong. Ridley's previous movie, Alien, had this weird ultra realistic acting where the actors sometimes even flubbed the dialogue on purpose and it worked perfectly. But not here. Ford's perfect when he's running around, but his acting is hardboiled and cartoony at the same time and it don't work for me. Except when he tells Rachel she's a skinjob, that's a beautiful scene.

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DorkmanScott wrote:

I'm very aware and appreciative that it's an important film, but like DAWN OF THE DEAD and TRON, I don't know what people are talking about when they say it's a good film.

Do people say they're good films? Some of my favorite movies are bad films. Jean 'Moebius' Giraud (who i met once) worked on Tron and said he was extremely disappointed when he saw it but some of the computer world stuff had a grandeur. That's how i feel, i tolerate the real world stuff. And i like Jeff Bridges. And Cindy Morgan was hot as fuck. And that helicopter scene at the end is the scariest thing i've ever seen.

/sleepy time

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TRON is great just because of David Warner, who I can watch in just about anything. Hell, he makes Wing Commander worth watching. End of line.

Scary thought, we're only 9 years away from the Blade Runner version of the future.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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The whole unicorn thing in Blade Runner is a suggestion that Deckard is also a replicant, which if you watch the other movies based on Philip K. Dick stories,  questioning reality is a common theme:

Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) - is Deckard really a replicant?
Total Recall (We Can Remember It for You Wholesale) - did Quaid really dream the whole thing?
Screamers (Second Variety) - if screamers can look like humans, who is really human?
Impostor - is Spencer Olham the alien weapon everyone believes him to be?

We see Deckard's dream of a unicorn, and later Gaff leaves him an origami unicorn, suggesting Gaff (or Bryant) has an understanding of the memories Deckard has been implanted with, just as Deckard has an understanding of Rachael's implanted memories.

Honestly I'd like to understand the where the title Blade Runner came from, but I guess it works better than Replicant Hunter.

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I've never bought into the possibility that Deckard is a Replicant, purely because it doesn't make much sense. Given that even a pleasure model can kick his arse, I'm not sure he makes for a very effective replicant hunter.

What thing I didn't know until last week when I watched a documentary on the making of Blade Runner was that there was an idea to have Tyrell as a replicant.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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