I actually kinda liked Cloverfield if that means anything.

Welcome to the forums, sir.

Never having been to New York, I didn't even notice the geography.

But last night I was watching an episode of "The West Wing" — I think I mentioned I've been on a DVD binge lately — and Josh and Hoynes were out jogging on the Memorial Bridge here in DC. Josh makes a big dramatic speech, as he's wont to do, and smugly walks away, ostensibly back to the White House … away from the Lincoln and towards Virginia.

I had this idea in my head that like ten frames after the cut, he walked back across the frame sheepishly and said, "I gotta go that way."

Geography in movies is one of those things, like the amount of wine in glasses and the lengths of cigarettes, that I try my best just to ignore. The story is more important than continuity of incidental props, or of geography. And whoever it was that directed that episode I watched didn't give a good goddamn — rightly! — about where Virginia was relative to the characters. He wanted to compose the shot with the Lincoln Memorial in the background, and if you don't actually live here and pass that Memorial on the way to work every day, you'd never know it was anything other than a nicely composed and all-around gorgeous shot.

Plus back in the early years of the last decade I wrote a novel, and when faced with a conflict between real-world geography and the needs of my plot, I went with plot every time. It'd be hypocritical to whine about it when others do the same.

EDIT: I guess I should make a token attempt to stay on-topic. I forget which commentary it was — Constantine probably — where you guys talked about "Legion," and the consensus was that nobody, like anywhere, had seen it. Well I rented it on the strength of that, and I think you should do that one. Assuming you guys don't care for it — and I think that's a very safe assumption — I'd love to hear what you think about where and how it went wrong.

Plus Adrianne Palicki and Paul Bettany are in it, so there's some rowr-factor for people of all tastes.

(Edited a second time 'cause verbs are cool. Stay in verbs, kids.)

Last edited by Jeffery Harrell (2010-05-29 11:44:40)

Oh, leave me alone. I drank a lot of coffee today, that's all.

Thank you very much! It is a pleasure to be here!

Yes on one, no on two.

Gasp! You've already recorded one?

The Patriot is entertaining in the same way as Braveheart, but they butcher history. I could go on but I'll...  stop before I pop.

Yuck. Patriot is just Sugar Tits Gibson bashing us twatty Brits. Yes, we oppressed him, but he deserved it for being anti Semitic.

I saw an ad for some big budget movie about someone entering dreams and immediately thought, "that's it, Down in Front should do Dreamscape!"

I totally dig The Patriot.  It has its flaws and gets a bit formulaic towards the end, but some good characters all around and it doesn't play it safe, to be sure.

Another bunch of ideas:

- Xanadu: who doesn't love Olivia Newton-John?
- Bicentennial Man: Robin Williams is an android (or something) and tries to be a human (or something);
- Frankenstein with De Niro;
- Casper: 1995 not-really-for-kids version;
- Supergirl.