^re: The Shining - you're using the 2h24min version, rather than the 1hr59min one, right ?! - apparently Europe got the shorter version (why, I don't know).

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Great fun on Slither and The Shining! Thanks!

Yeah I learned a lot about writing, I hope it helps me overcome my "write one sentence then give up" thing I have been doing forever.

I kind of like the advice to new writers given, I think, by Larry Niven: If something is keeping you from writing... let it.

didn't record a back up for last weekend's movies... Sorry, family was in town. 

I don't recall hearing much of this, but I was wondering if you all could talk more about the role of psychology in storytelling.  At least in regards to how it dictates the decisions one makes as a storyteller when putting the story together. 

I recently listened to the phantom editor's commentaries for the Phantom Edit and Attack of the Phantom, and I was struck by how involved some of the decisions he made were.  He talked extensively about psychology dictating his cuts.

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What's on the slate this weekend, DiF? Depending on what it is, I think I'd like to trope again, if that's cool.

Saturday. Ah, damn. Gonna have to sit this one out. Someone else can trope. At least I got to do The Shining (which was difficult, but fun) and Slither (which I suspected would be fun, and ended up being a blast. The second that one's available, I'm putting it on a DVD like I did for Jaws).

Looks like you'll be unPavlich'd tomorrow. I know it's going to be tough, but try to go on.

I don't trope, I will end up being on the website all day.

Oh, Priest. That should be a fun listen

And Body Snatchers '78, yay!

Hee hee. Our schedule right now goes in order of recording.

Shaun tomorrow, then Planet Terror, then The Shining, then Slither, then Body Snatchers. After that it's back to the regularly unscheduled crapshoot, but I like the Priest commentary quite a bit and it's sure to come up soon.

Not to say I won't get a wild hair and post a secret link to it sometime before then. It's happened before.

when will we be getting source code?  also, when do you all think you'll finish kick-ass?

Watching Body Snatchers '78 on Justin.tv now and really wishing I could have been in the chat for it. Great fun.

"That's not a skeptic. That's an idiot." LOL

Kevin McCarthy looks a lot like Kiefer Sutherland.... Like suspiciously a lot.

Whether or not to invite Will Smith over for dinner. "He wants to talk about Scientology...." LOL

[turning gay] "That's not how that works. Good job, the '70s." LOL

"Now THIS is pod-racing." "Go to your room." LOL

"He's gone from watching basketball to watching pressure gauges. I'm not sure which one is the more pointless activity." LOL

"Leonard Nimoy and Jeff Goldblum are in a room together...." LOL

"He's like a full-size Peter Dinklage!" LOL

"The Transamerica Building to HIM is the hive of the evil pod people." LOL

"Considering San Francisco is a city made of Dutch angles, what better place to shoot it?" LOL

I agree with Mike that The 6th Day is kind of an interesting movie, but actually Schwarzenegger had a pretty good eye for scripts. Total Recall, Running Man, the Terminator movies, and even The Last Action Hero all had some interesting themes running thru them.

The funny thing about the communist scare aspect underlying the concept is that a pod people communist state would be AWESOME.

"The problem with modern movies is that there are no characters, so when you reduce it to just two people in a room there's nothing there." ... "The director is banging two pieces of cardboard together." LOL

[Von Neumann probes] "Dude, what do you call broccoli?" LOL

"I'm gonna go around going 'I'm a health inspector' and punching people in the face" LOL

Monk was great for the first couple of seasons. Then they started screwing around with the bottle and the lightning got out.

"Amazing Grace" on bagpipes became a huge thing after this for a while....
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
    Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
    Postmortem (1998)
    Highlander II (1991)
    LA Story (1991)
    Tommy Boy (1995)

The Last Samurai was almost awesome because Tom Cruise joined the doomed samurai assault against the Western weapons he came to sell the Japanese... and then somehow he survived anyway, and the movie was stupid.

Before you call Philip Kaufman a "master craftsman"... have you ever seen Fearless Frank? Holy SHIT, that's an awful movie.