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Trey wrote:

...it looked to me like the same kinda lens package that I've seen being used on other shoots. So once or twice during the shoot I would get sneaky and say something like "let's try this with a 50" as if I knew what the hell that meant.   If I didn't like the result, then I would say "hmm, nah, let's go wider".  It seemed to work, and I recommend this clever trick to all directors.

Also, the lenses were all kept in a gray metal box with some writing on it, if that helps?


Sorry; just writing this down. "Gray... metal.... box". Got it.

/gaining confidence about my screenplay for 1066: The Norman Invasion vs Sharkasaurus.

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The box was actually white.

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White?! Trey knows nothing of directoring!

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Brian Finifter wrote:

The box was actually white.

No kidding?  I guess it looked gray to me because it was usually in a dark corner, away from the... whadda ya call 'em... glowy things that make seeing better.

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Trey wrote:

... away from the... whadda ya call 'em... glowy things that make seeing better.

Whisky bottles?

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I love how this thread is more popular than TPM big_smile

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To be fair, there was no forum when the first episode came out (or at least few of us were here) and we don't bother going back to comment on old episodes. Now, the fact everyone is ignoring the Reservoir Dogs thread in favor of this... smile

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So I got a little something in the mail today...

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg616/scaled.php?tn=0&server=616&filename=ecvt.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

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A big fuckin' TV? pimp

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I have a tendency to fix your typos.

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A terrible camera phone? pimp

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1. Big enough, 46" I believe.  Not mine.  Surround sound too, so yay!
2. Yeah, getting a camera phone to expose a t.v. properly is a bitch, even with help from the Photoshop app.  I love how they've figured out focus lock on camera phones, but not exposure lock.

We lost power shortly after starting the main feature, but I got to see the behind the scenes and bloopers.  Looked like a fun shoot, lots of jazz hands.

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http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/2010_Mo … height1547

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I think this guy wants to capture some of that Red Letter Media vibe, with less than perfect success... but I love that he used 2010 Moby Dick as his subject.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLZdNwKwJgU

I give extra bonus points for being yet another review that says it's the best movie Asylum has ever made....

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Wow, he actually called the fact that the Rachel is a setup without a payoff. Good for him.

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His ability to simultaneously high-five himself and jerk off about his own amazing "jokes," while noteworthy for its physical improbability, did not endear him to me.

Congrats on the sweepingly positive comments though.

And I did like his point that, of all the things one could use to search for a rogue submarine and/or whale, a helicopter is well over on the "less effective" end of the scale.

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FYI, the fan-of-all-things-Asylum "Committed" blog has come up with a fun little diversion he's calling the Looney awards, with nominees in various categories selected from all of Asylum's 2010 releases.   

Moby got a few nominations (tho not as many as others... Shane Van Dyke was on FIRE this year. smile) and the final voting is to be done by blog readers sending their votes via email. 

To recap:   Looney Awards.  Moby nominated.  Anyone can vote.

Just sayin'.

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And I did like his point that, of all the things one could use to search for a rogue submarine and/or whale, a helicopter is well over on the "less effective" end of the scale.

Not actually, aircraft are used in various ways with various tools to help hunt submarines. They can drop payloads like depth charges, sonar buoys, and torpedoes (as in Hunt For Red October) and also have sensors like magnetic anomaly detectors and surface mapping radar that can detect submarines. There's also the not inconsequential possibility of just spotting the fucker with a bird's eye view if it's at periscope depth and conditions aren't too bad.

There's also aircraft specifically designed to hunt submarines, like the P-3 Orion, which is like a regular airplane, just with a big ol' dick to slap submarines with.

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DorkmanScott wrote:

And I did like his point that, of all the things one could use to search for a rogue submarine and/or whale, a helicopter is well over on the "less effective" end of the scale.

As shown, yes, but iirc dropping a sonar buoy from a helicopter is a traditional way to find subs. You just don't do it at top speed smile

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Well, hey, the helicopter could've been moving from one search grid to another at the moment the movie cut to it.

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I blame the editor for not making that clear.

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I blame the director for not giving the actors the freedom to improv and thus bring full versmillitude to the Navy-Seahawk-helicopter-hunting-a-Virginia-class-submarine experience.

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I blame society.

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I blame the Jews.

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Wait, so the Jews killed Moby Dick too?!?

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I blame the Navy Seahawk helicopter co-pilot's Navy submarine helmsman twin brother for not calling him and explaining everything.

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