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Now Playing: Movies / Re: Bill & Ted 3 (2013)
« on: September 13, 2012, 09:03:41 pm »
Exactly.

I have no idea who would be the new Rufus (notice he never actually said "my name is Rufus" in the first one?) but I like the idea that the population of this clean, great future are all played by raunchy comedians, so maybe a Sarah Silverman or Patton Oswalt.

And given that the movie will deal with multiple realities, now Missy can finally ACTUALLY be married to everyone!

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The Best TV Shows on the Internet / Re: Revision3
« on: September 13, 2012, 09:01:26 pm »
My day hasn't officially started until I watch my Totally Rad Show (and Film State on Tuesdays and Fridays).  I do miss me some Diggnation though, but I can understand why that finally ended.  It was interesting to see that evolve from a videotaped low-res show to the point where we got an HD show in front of a cheering crowd direct to our TVs.

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Hardware / Re: Wish List
« on: September 13, 2012, 08:53:52 pm »
My wish list at the moment is a 1TB iPod Classic.

Oh, those don't exist?

Someone should get on that.

And if Kristen Bell would want to keep me company in the meantime... well, I'd send her Chip's way.  Because I'm not greedy.

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Hardware / Re: Transfer VHS Tapes To Your Computer
« on: September 13, 2012, 08:51:32 pm »
I have an EyeTV but the quality has never really won me over.  I prefer to copy over the VHS to DVD and then, if need be, use Handbrake to rip the video to the computer.  The quality is far better (and more controllable) than EyeTV.  You still have to deal with the wait time (it's 1:1 after all, recording while playing).

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Books / Re: Stan Lee's How To Draw Comics - Stan Lee (2010)
« on: September 13, 2012, 08:44:30 pm »
That DVD **** me up because it just felt like the artist didn't want to be there at all!  He just kept bruskly answering and trying to get everything done as soon as possible, like he had other work to do and wasn't being paid to be there.

Stan Lee:  "Now we're gonna show you how to draw a MIGHTY MARVEL hero with epic proportions, the kind of fantastical figures who populate our books!  Now it sounds like it'll be difficult but it's so easy to get started!"
John Romita:  (in one breath)  "Okay, what you do is you draw a stick figure then you put tubes around the stick figure then you add details to the tubes then you erase the stick figure."

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: The Hold List
« on: September 13, 2012, 08:39:12 pm »
Exactly.  And HD over the air isn't as good as HD off a disc.

And now I have a rule:  I'll only watch ONE HBO season of one show at a time, otherwise it gets a little muddly in my mind.

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: The Green Hornet (2011)
« on: September 13, 2012, 08:37:25 pm »
Well, I don't want to say the Green Hornet was always the secondary character, but everyone remembers Bruce Lee and who can expect to outshine Bruce Lee?  And it is kind of enviable that this makes the main character in this high-concept hihg-budget an unknown ASIAN actor we hadn't seen in movies before in the West.

I like Rogen too and I kinda like the idea of him in this role just because he's so unqualified to do it, my problem was more that he was treating everyone in the movie like ****.  It made it hard to like him.

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The Drive-In Theater / Re: Cool Opening/Closing Credits
« on: September 13, 2012, 08:32:35 pm »
The motion tracked Zombieland titles reminds me of the opening for Watchmen for some reason.  That was an opening that blew me away when I saw it.

I posted this link in the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo thread, it's a retrospective of David Fincher's opening sequences  I quite like his idea of the opening being a prologue and data dump, setting up everything you need to know without wasting the audience's time.

And while it doesn't accomplish that task, IMO, the opening for Casino Royale with the cards... I dug that.  And I dug the music too, felt like a fresh injection of life into a musty old franchise (that I honestly wasn't that connected to).

It's been more than a few years since I saw "Ultraviolet" but I remember thinking "if they remade Mallrats, THAT"S how they opening should be done."  Although I still have a problem with the stuck-in-the-6os superhero four-colour motif that comics are stuck in when they're shown on screen.  MEANWHILE... the opening for Sin City, with the comic panels with the actors' names, I like the idea but it was just not visually interesting.   I know Rob-Rod's a fast worker but there could be so many interesting things to do the second time around, maybe a take-off of Hitchcock/Saul Bass pastiche.  The trick would be making it look different from the rest of the movie.

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: The Princess Bride (1987)
« on: September 13, 2012, 08:22:29 pm »
The problem now is that so many fairy tales want to BE "The Princess Bride" (see "Tangled") and they never reach the same lofty heights.

A couple years ago I visited my dad and my step-brother John had this flick on his DVR so I turned it on.  My dad had never seen it, so we watched the whole thing and I kept checking my dad's expression and, outside of recognizing all the British actors like Mel Smith and so on, didn't really react.  Then the movie ended and he turned to me and just said "that was great."  His wife came in a minute or so later and he made us watch it again, and this dude never watches ANYTHING twice.  He really did love it.

Okay, a couple years ago The Rock was in this movie called "The Tooth Fairy" and the ONE watchable scene (outside of Seth McFarlane's odd cameo as a black market fairy dust pusher) as Billy Crystal, and give him credit, they clearly wanted him to be Miracle Max but he did it differently, he was sort of the "Q" character and he spoke a mile a minute and it's just a chucklefest for a few minutes.  At least for me.

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
« on: September 13, 2012, 08:13:28 pm »
I went NUTS when I saw the opening sequence.  David Fincher does great openings (see this great retrospective of David Fincher openings) but this one that's just black and oily and ****-up... it kinda reminded me of James Bond openings but with pierced balls... and I mean that as a great compliment.

One thing that got me was the **** scene.  Not that it was rough and crazy (it was... particularly the end) but I had written a **** scene in a book I'm doing and just thought "that's what *I* was gonna do (except for the tattoo), I gotta change that now!"

The Red Camera style actually had a nice bit of fridge brilliance to it because it made it look like the Social Network, two movies where computers play a big important part.  I'm now starting to associate that look with that style, if I want to write a long moody dialogue-heavy script I keep thinking now "gotta be shot on Red!"  He set a style.

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: Detention (2011)
« on: September 13, 2012, 08:07:18 pm »
Well, I didn't see a video tag to put around the URL.  But again, it's best sight unseen.

And I'm not a big horror fan, I'm just a fan of GOOD and different product, no matter the genre.  As long as it's different and keeps my interest.  And I don't scare easily either.

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: The Hunger Games (2012)
« on: September 13, 2012, 08:05:16 pm »
There were just so many instances of "I would have done this differently" in this movie I started writing them all down and have a really screwed up version now... actually close to the fake trailer made by Kevin Tanchareon concept trailer.   There was just so much, I don't want to say style without substance but things that didn't work for me.  Did anyone else think the Capitol looked too much like Equilibrium instead of some decadent palace city like Dubai?  And the guy running the games just had the worst sort-of old fashioned villain look to him, like he should have been tying a woman to a train track.  I kept thinking the guy in charge of the show should have been someone like a Bob Balaban, a regular guy whose job is televising killing people, a whole "evil that mundane people can do."

And I had a big problem with the design of the games itself once the Muttations and the wall of flame came into play.  Keeping with that "evil that regular people do," I would have had the Capitol keep their hands clean: "hey, you all agreed to this, WE didn't kill your kids, they kill each other.  We trained them to defend themselves, too.  Want to be mad at someone, be mad at the other districts!" (Because part of the point of the games is to keep the Districts from uniting, isn't it?)

I remember someone saying on Twitter "imagine Paul Verhoeven directing Hunger Games."  Once that thought's put in your head, how can this movie come close?

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: The Hold List
« on: September 13, 2012, 07:55:48 pm »
I always have 400+ DVDs on my Netflix queue... I'm such an addict, but it beats buying.  Lot of it is TV shows, since I don't get HBO it's the only way I can see Game of Thrones or BoardWalk Empire (just finished the first seasons of both and loved them... and I have such a crush on Kelly MacDonald).

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: The Girl Next Door (2004)
« on: September 13, 2012, 07:53:32 pm »
I still haven't "gotten" Timothy Olyphant yet.  I didn't like him in Die Hard, I thought he looked like a beige frog in Hitman, I don't remember what he did in this movie... though I didn't see his show, I'm sure that's what'll turn things around for me.

BTW, I haven't seen "Ruby Sparks" yet but when I saw the preview I just thought "Paul Dano is turning into James Spader.  And I think I'm okay with that."

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Detention (2011)
« on: September 13, 2012, 07:49:52 pm »
(Not sure how to post videos so I can't post the trailer, but honestly, I would warn people not to watch it before seeing the movie)


I cann't believe no one else put a thread up for this flick.  It's not a well known movie but it just came out on DVD and Blu-Ray a few months ago.  It's an indy film from the director of Torque, and it's probably the most meta post-modern flick I've ever seen.  It should make a good double-feature with Cabin In The Woods.

All the characters are protagonists in their own movies (one's a Ferris Bueller, one's an Angela Chase, one's a Mean Girls, one's a Donnie Darko, one's Spider-Man/The Fly etc) and they're all being offed by a Scream-like horror villain, but there are HUGE amounts of time where you just forget about that because the flick is so full of everything else.

Has anyone else here seen this?

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