I like the idea of discussing particular folks... hm.

Hey, happy first post!

In the past two Intermissions, you guys have referenced the "Bake-Off" when talking about Special Effects awards. Would there be enough content there to discuss for an episode?

bake-off season is coming up again right now, though - might be well worth an intermission to discuss this year's entries when the time comes.

Might I suggest an intermission on SOPA? Is the Stop Online Piracy Act really inevitably going to kill the internet and ruin the lives of millions of young people who would be sued for said acts piracy and put millions of dollars in debt?

Listening to the BTTF comm, I have an idea.  Instead of doing comms for certain films, why not just devote an Intermission on them? For example, if you don't want to do the rest of the Star Trek films or the other two BTTF films or any other sequels you have yet to do just talk about them for half an hour. Of course, this may alienate people who only listen to the Intermission (who does that?) but it may cause folk to listen to a commentary they may not have listened to already. Than again, I may just be talking out of my arse. Or typing out of my arse....nah, that doesn't work as well.

Not a great idea, granted but it would save you time on doing all the Star Trek films especially.

Great idea, Mushroomer!

I Love This Film is Not Yet Rated and I'd love to hear these guys talk about the MPAA.

"Life is about movies; anything else is a bonus!"- Me   

An episode on video game adaptations could be a good idea; why they tend to fail and what you would have to do to make them work. You could pick a particular game or series of games and workshop how to make it work as a movie (my suggestion being, The Legend of Zelda series).

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I watched The Hurt Locker for the first time today and followed it up listening to the DIF commentary and a lot of the things you guys said towards the end really hit the nail on the head for me, in terms of how you feel about the movie when comparing it to other Best Picture winners. I think the idea of how your opinion on a movie can change (due to hype, acclaim, etc) could make for a good Intermission episode.

No! I'm all for it. As long as it's good. It's all an illusion anyway.

I’ve just listened to Professor Sir Christopher Frayling’s commentary on The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and out of the dozens of OFFICIAL commentary tracks I’ve heard, it’s got to be one of the best. Have you heard it?
As the biographer of Sergio Leone, he relates hundreds of interesting behind-the-scenes info on the making of all those great Spaghetti Westerns. I’d hold that up as THE template by which informative film commentaries should look up to.
But it’s not as fun as what you guys do. And I hope that one day, a studio picks up DIF for an additional commentary track to stick on a DVD or Blu-Ray, either for a new release or an old restored classic.

So the idea of an Intermission episode relating to what you guys do… commentary tracks, struck me as worth listening to.

1.    What are the best commentary tracks you guys have heard?
2.    Who are the directors you like to hear speak (Fincher, Scott, Cameron, Jackson?)
3.    Who are the directors you WOULD LIKE to hear speak but won’t (Spielberg?) or can’t (because they’re dead e.g. Kubrick).
4.    Any other non-director commentaries you like (actors, crew, film critics, historians, etc)
5.    What are your favourite fan commentaries (Rifftrax, Red Letter Media, etc?)
6.    What are some waste-of-time commentary tracks?

I haven’t heard all your commentaries but of the 30-40 I have heard, I would nominate The Abyss as one of DIF’s best due to the insider knowledge and highlighting the enormous effort that went into that oft-overlooked film.

So there you go – just an idea – an INTERMISSION on audio commentaries.

Cheers from London

I've got two more ideas when it comes to do for a possible future intermission.  The ideas are:

TV Movie - It can cover the overall thing.  Standalone ones, ones that are based of off of a show/video game/book/etc. and ones that are done as a possible backdoor pilot for a possible show.

Mini Series - What could be the advantages and disadvantages in doing a series that'll run for a  predetermined amount of time?  Another part can be what kind of genre that works better in the mini series format.

How about an Intermission on Awards

Are there too many award shows?
Are there too many or too few categories? e.g. What's with the Best Song?
Why is the acting category segregated out between men and women? We don't do that for directing or composing or any other category. We don't have old/young black/white first timers/veteran categories for acting. Why can't women compete equally with men in acting just like any other category? It's not sports.
Are the Oscars rigged? How much politics is involved?
Greatest snubbs? Hurt Locker over Avatar, Paltrow over Blanchett, etc
Greatest undeserved Oscars? e.g. for retrospective roles, as in 'it was his turn'
Is it fair what in some years it's a weak field and some years it's a strong field?
Should there be awards for fan commentaries? 

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