Topic: Halp - Episode Reports

Let's use this thread for reports only, and leave discussion in the original/list thread.

Thank you guys so fucking much, I feel like I'm gushing, but it really is just a massive help.


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Teague Chrystie

I have a tendency to fix your typos.

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Already posted in the original thread:



Matt:

Constantine
2:02:53 - 2:03:21 Mike posits his opinion as to where to hide the Spear of Destiny.

Anodreth:

V for Vendetta
2:13:39 - 2:15:00 The Three C's of Britain

Pan's Labyrinth
1:53:30 - 1:54:02 Mike's Lassie "what are you trying to tell me, movie?!"

Fixed:

Star Trek VI
00:06:30 - 00:06:50. Trey - "I was an extra on ST."
00:51:37 - 00:52:01. Teague, Trey - "Leonard Nimoy the Labrador."
01:14:34 - 01:14:56. Ryan S, Teague - "Shatner the Hutt."

Starship Troopers
00:02:50 - 00:03:22 Trey's intro

Seth:

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
00:00:00 - 00:00:25 Teague fucks up the intro.

Invid:

Return of the Jedi
01:43:00 Trey on how to direct a guy in a Vader suit.

Nate:

Return of the Jedi
2:08:00 - 2:09:09 "This is your captain - what the fuck is that?

Teague Chrystie

I have a tendency to fix your typos.

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Hook
00:19:10 - 00:20:20. Trey - "I was there at the beginning of that previs thing."
01:40:01 - 01:40:15. Mike - "A kiss! And then they made skateboards".

Wild Wild West
00:05:34 - 00:05:41. Mike - "Lays a quip on you."
00:23:56 - 00:24:22. Trey - "Rodriguez would have smacked this bitch up."
00:38:49 - 00:39:10. Mike, Trey - "Another tiny gun."
00:59:10 - 00:59:40. Trey - "Phantom edit!"
00:59:48 - 01:01:12. Cast - "Giant spider problem and return on investment."
01:09:35 - 01:10:00. Teague - "Animating weight."
01:19:36 - 01:19:59. Trey - "Open season on fag jokes."
01:28:27 - 01:29:50. Teague - "Bringing it back, and the didn't go to film school confusion".
01:44:49 - 01:45:15. Cast - "... I knew I shouldn't have watched this film with you guys."

The Mask
00:34:55 - 00:35:41. Cast - "See what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?"
Mask? Not one of the better ones hmm

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And lo, this became my post, and all of my reports appeared within it.

Episode 1:

00:09:30 - 00:10:19. The "Huh?" reactions to the "taxation of outlying trade routes" line in the crawl.
00:16:56 - 00:17:36. The first-ever mention and discussion of magic beans.
00:34:04 - 00:34:42. "I was holding down my girlfriend while George Lucas raped her."

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Constantine

00:06:27 - 00:07:46
Trey - (paraphrasing) "Constantine embodies a lot of what we've been hammering on about here"

00:11:13 - 00:12:05
Insight into Spear of Destiny sub-plot.

00:15:02 - 00:16:31
Testing out the different symbols; anti-as-you-know scene.

00:55:25 - 00:58:05
Trey expounding on the Tippet method.

01:46:46 - 01:47:55
Trey & Mike on Christianity - "Why don't you kill yourself?"

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I've already done this homework for 75 movies, so I'm not taking a block. Here are my top picks.

Terminator Salvation
@0:15:26
"[McG] thinks that people don’t like the movie because his name is pretentious. … Your name could be Hitler McSodomy, for all that matters. [laughter] If you make a good f***in’ Terminator movie, people … wouldn’t dis the movie."

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
@1:51:45
"That dragon actually looks pretty decent. … It’s still right before they had the sub-surface scattering going on. … And you can see the wings feel kind of plasticky. Hey, your wings feel plasticky. Your mom’s wings are plasticky."

Legion
@0:02:16
"It’s really spectacular how you can pull this survival/zombie movie … with angels and God … and not even accidentally— [laughter] —hit some kind of point."

Alien 3
@0:06:00
"You like it? … I have a special place in my heart for it— [laughter] We should get you X-rayed right away."

Raiders of the Lost Ark
@1:21:10
"When he goes under the truck, that’s the clearest Yakima Canutt [homage]. … Trey represents the knowledge of this podcast. Well, just the old and cranky knowledge. [laughter] But isn’t that the best kind of knowledge?"

@0:55:00
"[re: Indy's later war service] Why didn’t Indiana Jones [say], ‘Okay, long story short: I know you guys have a box that melts Nazis. [Laughter] Just get that out of storage. We’ll end this real fast.’"

@0:04:40
"Once the Nazis get the Ark, if Indy went home, it would turn out the same way. … Now, if this was a Vin Diesel movie, he would kill all the Nazis and then he would punch God back into the box."

Hook
@1:31:15
"[as Hook] ‘When the time comes, do you want to be saved?’ Like, oh— This is actually really well done. … Are you admiring his brain-washing? Huh? Yes! [laughter] I have to say, it is impressive brain-washing."

The Truman Show
@1:12:33
"If there’s text, the audience will read it, and they use the sh*t out of that in this movie, geniusly. Already, in her room: ‘Free Truman’ rallies. … In the hands of maybe a less skilled film maker, they’d actually have to show the rallies."

@1:22:26
"Why cut transmission? … That’s captivating. People who hate the show would start watching it. Yeah. Like, if the Big Brother house caught fire, [laughter] I would run to the computer, and be like, ‘What?!’"

The Blob (1988)
@0:59:04
"[That's a] hand puppet trick. … No rigs, no nothing, just me and my hands. Okay, tell the truth, when you’re doing that, and you’re alone on set, are you going, “Yaahr!’ [laughter] Yep. Pretty much. ‘Uurr… I am the Blob!’" — Down in Front,

@1:01:30
"Boy, Kevin’s just smokin’ the hell out of that cigarette. … That cigarette knows it’s been smoked, man. … You know, this is, like, take 20, and they didn’t bring smoke machines into this forest. [laughter] It’s all Kevin."

The Matrix Reloaded
@1:11:51
"So here we have the orgasm cake. … If I went to a place that gave me an orgasm every time I took a bite of their cheesecake, I’d go back. I’d go back there a lot. Yeah, but nobody would take you."

@0:17:27
"Every time [Neo] walks into a room, you can say to yourself, in his voice, ‘I’m confused.‘ [laughter] And it’ll work every time, I guarantee you."

@0:10:38
"I really have a problem with Morpheus’ attitude. … ‘Don’t ask me for reasons, because you’ll find out I have none.’ … Morpheus is basically an analog for the Wachowskis. [long pause] Wow. Whoa."

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
@1:14:02
"I would love a bathtub that was shaped like a giant sink. Yeah. I would seriously love that. I would get drunk and panic."

The Fifth Element
@0:00:04
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Down in Front! Our movie this week is the gay, French Blade Runner. [laughter] It is! … You’ve crystallized The Fifth Element. It’s Blade Runner as done by Cirque du Soleil."

Star Wars 5: Empire Strikes Back
@1:02:23
"This became canon, the age thing, whereas he’s just pulling it out of his ass. [as Yoda] ‘No, he’s too old! No, I don’t like his face! Fine. I’ll do it.’ ‘He’s a size 11!’ ‘I got things on Saturday! I can’t do it!’"

Star Wars 4: A New Hope
@0:47:30
"We’ve got a more recent visual effects blockbuster with a tried-and-true story that is not really hailed for its story-telling abilities. So why is Star Wars better than Avatar? Well, there’s a difference between a form and a formula."

Independence Day
@0:16:17
"Does Jeff Goldblum always play a rock star scientist?! Is that what he does? Yes. Yes, he does. … [as Goldblum] Uh, chaotician. Chaotician."

The Fly
@0:26:46
"We had video taps even in ’85. You could have shot directly out of the movie camera. … But how did you make movies without electricity? Well, we just rubbed two sticks together until Jeff Goldblum caught fire."

Watchmen
@0:56:46
"It is kind of this absurdist take on it. … Life is chaos. It’s random. It’s absolutely absurd the things that go on, but … underneath that absurdity, you can find beauty. And I think this is absurdism without the beauty."
Avatar

Avatar
@1:55:12
"We don’t get exposition in the world. … ‘Here’s an animal. And here’s another animal. And these animals glow. And this tree is big.’ And that’s the exposition that we get."

Star Trek
@0:02:52
This movie exists in a quantum state. [laughter] … As long as you don’t look at it directly, it seems to be working fine. But … once you actually start observing it directly, it starts doing all of these erratic things."

Transformers
@0:15:56
"There’s a comparison to be drawn between Michael Bay and Stanley Kubrick. I think they’re both about conveying an experience and not about telling a story."

Men in Black
@1:32:30
"He swallowed Tommy Lee Jones whole. … Don’t you want to savor the taste of a Tommy Lee Jones?"

Ghostbusters 2
@0:06:44
"It’s gonna be like domestic abuse. I’m gonna be slapping this movie around, telling it I love it, but it kind of deserves it. … ‘Why do you make me do this to you?!’ ‘You think I like hurting you like this, Ghostbusters 2?!’"

Gremlins
@1:05:50
"I think it’s completely irresponsible for a store to sell gremlins in the first place. … We were trying open negotiations with China, so we had lax import restrictions on gremlins at the time."

Monsters, Inc.
@0:40:28
"I wonder how genetics and procreation works in this universe. … Each time you get in a new relationship, it’s like, ‘I don’t know what to put in where! We’re gonna discover this together. It’s an adventure!’"

Jurassic Park
@0:54:58
"This thing doesn’t have to do much. … But this is … a damn good puppet. It’s not a puppet, Trey. It’s a triceratops. Yeah. Shut-up your mouth." — Down in Front,

@0:49:43
"Theme park design is like slaughterhouse design. Don’t give the cows any room to do anything wrong, because they will. … What do you need the steering wheel for if [the vehicle is] on a track?"

The Mist
@0:42:08
"Not to get all high-brow here, but the villain is really human nature. [grumbling] You mean this movie is about ideas? … Why can’t it be like a Michael Bay film?"

Spider-Man
@0:19:32
"The thing about casting Willem Dafoe— … He doesn’t have to be scary to be scary. Right. … The part about it that I don’t buy? I don’t buy that this character was ever not insane."

The Abyss
@2:42:34
"[This is] the kind of heavy-handed scene where he’s like, ‘They were going to destroy us because we’re mean. But … we’ve got a second chance.’ … Well, thank you, 1980s, for giving us that moment and Superman 4."

Jaws
@2:11:44
"If we wanted to wave our special edition magic wands—if we fixed about five shark shots, I think we’d be done. … Just cleaned up a couple seams, or whatever. … And maybe do something with Murray Hamilton’s jacket."

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There's also some really good stuff in the first anniversary show and Ryan's mashup, (maybe while the DIF logo, recording room, or end credits are showing).

@0:11:24
"One of your talents, I've noticed over this last year, is that you can articulate failure in a beautiful way...."

@0:25:43
Discussion of humility and how the forum helps and Trey learning that if he says something authority, the rest of the panel buys it.

@0:29:50
Michael talks about Adam Bertocci's observation about Ghostbusters 2, which he wishes he'd come up with.

@0:52:30
Eddie explains that we're lucky to have The Prestige with its flaws (and Brian observes, "'Cause you could've gotten Transformers 2, people.") Then Eddie encapsulates The Prestige and its problems really nicely.

@1:02:45
Trey talks about how Dennis Muren only comes out of hiding for the Oscars, and you get 6 more weeks of Transformers if he sees his shadow. And then he complains hilariously about how all visual effects are done with computers.

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I just want to have sex with you sometimes, is all. Nothing major. Just a little sex with you. Hard.

Teague Chrystie

I have a tendency to fix your typos.

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Flatterer.
http://www.tysto.com/articles09/pics/prince-wendy-panorama.jpg

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Private B reporting for duty SIIIIIIIRRRR!

Dawn of the Dead (78)
19:20-20:03- The exploding head
23:21-23:47- A black hero
32:18- 33:04- Helicopter Zombie/talk about race
35:32-35:52- Zombie toddlers
39:06- 39:29- Mall= prison

The Blob
36:22-37:17- How the Blob fell from the ceiling
42:25-43:17- Talk about Trey's first shot
55:10-55:40  Ballsy female character
58:38-58:58- Trey's two fists
1.01:30-1.01:52- Smokin' the hell out of that cigarette
1.35:27-1.36:00- Trey getting hosed

Cloudy With a Chance Of Meatballs
13:46-14:37- Speaking the subtext
20:58-21:16- Mr T
50:24-50:50- This movie even pays off your shit

It was a bit hard getting short clips of Trey's great stories in the Blob as they go a bit long but I hope these selections are useful for now.

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Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (12)
00:17:20 - 00:17:30  "Every character has to have angst" "Tell that to Christopher Walken."
00:28:08 - 00:28:11  "Can my part of this commentary just be me going Ungngngnghhhh"
00:53:08 - 00:53:25   Dorkman on the "Across the Stars Theme" by John Williams
02:17:58 - 02:18:12   Yoda shitting his intestines out

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Team America (Fuck Yeah) #25
01.53 "You're not worthy to listen to DIF" -Trey
32.25 "Better than a job"
36.00   Conservatives miss the humor by agreeing with the sentiment
39.30   Not every day...puppet explode
48.15   "Not spoiling anything"
52.32   "Not looking for a Dick Story"  -Teague
60.40   Exploding Micheal Moore puppet
65.40 Dicks, pussies & assholes...vomiting
68ish   Hand up Liv Tyler's dress
72.30   RC motorbike eats shit
75.00  Mory(sp?) grosses out Trey Parker
80.00   Puppeteer Terry story
82.50   child abuse because they wont remember..."Don't do that."
84.20   North Korea won't listen to DIF
94.50   Kneepads...(Trey)...White house interns (Teague)
98.00   Brian calls Star Trek chapter & verse
104.40   Bunraku puppet story
107.45   Racist/Puppetist equivalence
112.ish   Teague went to clown college
114.00   Callback to "boob" joke (murder of crows::Boob of bamboo sticks)

(UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)

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Fight Club

42:28-43:48 Flying bottle discussion, and Brian making up themes.
1:02:54-1:03:39 A stunningly racist joke.
1:09:47-1:10:39 Why Fincher’s allowed his indulgent editing.
1:58:23-1:58:42 Fincher’s relationship with Fox.
2:20:09-2:21:28 A lovely lesson on efficient suicide.

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I just checked, and I cracked myself fucking up with said "Racist Joke" from Fight Club.

It's mine.

It is really racist. (Admittedly, it's very evidently a joke, but I think this was the zenith of my various attempts to make everyone uncomfortable.) Definitely not going in the montage, but lulz.

Teague Chrystie

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right, made it through one movie, now time to turn in, I'll get through at least one tomorrow, possibly more.
I know a lot of what were going for is a bit shorter funny things, but I was listening for both that and hopefully incite full moments.

Aladin:
0:06:00 - 0:07:25
Racism & censoring of song lyrics

0:12:50 - 0:14:36
Racism vs stakes into traditional vs CGanimation vs Stop-motion

0:17:12 - 0:19:30
Robin Williams insanity, theme of imprisonment in place vs original story

0:20:50 - 0:21:25
Morality plays of Disney features

0:22:30 - 0:23:02
Dinosaurs in Disney

0:24:10 - 0:25:05
What does brad pit sound like & deaf joke

0:27:10 - 0:27:50
Grass is greener

0:29:10 - 0:31:25
Artwork, design and color theory crash and burn

0:32:20 - 0:34:50
Disney script quality vs Pixar script “mastery”, the pre & post prequel theory

0:35:25 - 0:37:50
Carpet as character and 2d vs 3d, with slight offshoot in middle

0:40:20 - 0:41:10
nonmusical @ disney & Emperors new groove

0:41:10 - 0:41:50
Genies fuck you hard, foustian pact

0:42:35 - 0:43:45
Musical plot/song structure

0:45:30 - 0:47:12
magic bean and hanging lantern on rules

0:48:19 - 0:49:20
supernatural elements and explinations, zombies & ark

0:50:50 - 0:51:20
snaggletooth 12 year old

0:52:15 - 0:54:30
sinister wish granting & faustian bargain description

0:57:00 - 0:57:40
Fit in

0:58:55 - 1:01:45
Disney Princesses “I would fuck the shit out of her”

1:03:00 - 1:04:15
Alan Menkin songs

1:05:00 - 1:05:30
Sphinx’s nose

1:06:30 - 1:07:20
Extraordinary Claims Extraordinary Evidence

1:09:00 - 1:09:40
Unstuck in Time

1:09:45 - 1:12:45
Fantasmic & disney culture

1:14:00 - 1:14:55
“I wanna blow Jack Sparrow”

1:17:00 - 1:17:55
Teague can’t remember Gargoyles, and thinks its every other disney tv show

1:18:20 - 1:18:50
“Lose grip on Reality”

1:20:10 - 1:21:05
Think it through please

1:22:00 - 1:22:30
wait what? I cant do that

1:25:20 - 1:26:10
Disney & killing off parents

1:26:35 - 1:27:09
stuck in the lamp from a bet, not the rules

1:28:21 - 1:29:05
Genie Fuck Bracelets (tm)

1:30:00 - 1:30:33
Stoning Jasmine

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Re-listened to Team America today and loved the rant about the inappropriate marionette and child memories at 1:22min, laughed hard enough to rewind and listen again.
the 2 Treys at 40min and Sean Penn bitching at 56min was also pretty memorable. sorry if the time codes aren't exact or i missed some other cool moments as i listened to this at work today.

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Dawn of the Dead ('04)
9:08-9:45- Updated cat scare
17:50-18:24- Credit talk
22:12-22:49- Character shorthand
30:37-31:10 Zack Snyder's Roadhouse
32;25-33:50 Character arcs
1.04:11-1.04:31 Andy and the Teague rule of sympathy
1.12:35-1.13:42- Do Zombies eat dogs?

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The Silence of the Lambs
12:14-12.58  Not a mystery
13:01-14:12 Point of view shots
16:11-17:05 Showing restraint with some of the gore
21:16-22:10 Wouldn't want to be the focus puller
23:10-24:06 Faking Jodie's accent
26:08-26:41 Casting Anthony Hopkins
34:13-34:42 Hannibal Lector- Action hero!
35:41-36:29 Adapting the book
37:52-38:56 Setting up the victim/sympathetic character
1.07:53-1.08:48 Oh shit, he has a pen!
1.14:19-1.15:19- Throwing Clarice a bone
1.17:46-1.18:23 Welcome to Down In Front!
1.30:07-1.30:31 Chris Issak/Colour helps

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The Prestige
00:12:30 - 00:13:45 Eddie on Christian Bale's fine acting.
00:44:30 - 00:44:58 Eddie praises the editing. Teague on "not killing the bird". Brian mentions "Save the cat".
00:52:05 - 00:53:09 Brian on his big problem with the movie, regarding the "magic bean". SPOILER!
01:01:39 - 01:02:36 Brian expands on his "magic bean" issue, leading to "Hollywood vs. Indie". SPOILER!
01:06:09 - 01:07:16 Trey on the importance of "The Pitch". SPOILER!
01:10:39 - 01:11:23 Trey and Eddie heart the art direction. "Meanwhile, the sun went nova outside".
01:13:50 - 01:14:28 Teague on the consistent quality of Nolan's work. Eddie brings up "Mise en scene".
01:35:08 - 01:37:26 Brian's "magic bean" argument reaches its apex.
01:55:03 - 01:56:19 Teague attempts to define what a Director's work says about them as a person.

Alien Resurrection
00:13:52 - 00:16:29 "Wonky Movie Science" regarding cloning and why re-introducing Ripley is a bad idea.
00:29:14 - 00:29:49 Mike attempts an impression of the French director, but it comes out German.
00:36:31 - 00:37:52 Eddie yells at the movie for being obvious, while Matt reveals Sigourney's 3 objectives for Ripley.
00:43:46 - 00:44:31 Eddie wishes this was Firefly. Teague compares it to a Michael Bay film, unsuccessfully.
00:53:14 - 00:55:29 Teague asks how to fix the movie's unsympathetic characters. Mike brings up "save the cat". Eddie recalls the earned sympathy of the previous films. SPOILER!
00:59:25 - 00:59:46 Mike declares if Santa Claus showed up, the movie would become interesting and gain a much-needed protagonist.
01:18:15 - 01:19:20 Eddie is a Relentless Hate Machine.
01:21:31 - 01:22:02 Eddie rants about a random spider onscreen.
01:23:26 - 01:24:22 "Oh by the way, I bleed milk". SPOILER!
01:36:16 - 01:36:47 "This is so fucking stupid!!!"

Twilight
00:16:51 - 00:18:13 Mike points out the protagonist is also the damsel in distress. Teague points out "Baby Edward Norton".
00:21:49 - 00:22:24 Mike replaces Edward with a mop.
00:27:47 - 00:28:57 Book Bella vs. Movie Bella. Eddie calls her a cunt.
00:30:36 - 00:31:07 Mike is frustrated by Bella's stupidity when it comes to Edward's danger factor.
00:39:03 - 00:40:30 A page of Twilight inked on to a human back.
00:50:35 - 00:52:12 The Mary Sue (or, The Bella Swan).
01:22:04 - 01:23:23 Eddie talks about how the vampire mythos has been whitewashed.
01:25:48 - 01:26:29 "Dawson's Creek would have been so much better if Joey was a fucking vampire!"
01:40:03 - 01:41:06 Teague mistakes a gay guy covered in glitter as a Twilight fanatic.
01:53:11 - 01:53:40 "I'm gonna rape the rape out of her!"

Pulp Fiction
00:13:09 - 00:15:01 Saving the cat without actually having to "save the cat".
00:23:44 - 00:24:33 Trey talks about "The McGuffin".
00:34:44 - 00:35:10 "This is Panda from Mexico. You are SO on drugs."
00:38:28 - 00:40:16 "Tokes n' Stokes!"
01:13:27 - 01:14:24 Bruce Willis and the importance of the watch.
01:27:21 - 01:27:40 "There are many ways to save the cat, and the cat likes that one the best".
01:27:57 - 01:28:34 The start of the Bruce Willis Penis Meme.
01:30:37 - 01:32:50 The rest of it.
01:37:19 - 01:37:24 "John Pavlich is gonna tell us a story."
01:37:57 - 01:38:28 The story. My favorite part, for obvious reasons. smile
01:45:13 - 01:45:55 Pulp Fiction/Harry Potter crossover fan fiction.
02:03:00 - 02:03:57 Trey talking about how the structure creates unpredictable tension.
02:09:37 - 02:10:20 The reality of California traffic and geography.
02:18:42 - 02:19:21 "I don't know anyone in The Valley, except four friends in my head!" SPOILER!

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
00:11:53 - 00:12:11 Alfred Molina and the Orgy of Spiders.
00:17:39 - 00:18:21 George Lucas and the Brown Guides of Peru.
00:29:50 - 00:30:11 Marian Ravenwood and the Spoiler of Death.
00:34:05 - 00:34:27 John Landis and the Dangers of Cocaine.
00:37:45 - 00:39:03 Mike Scott and the Structure of Serials.
00:48:03 - 00:49:09 Harrison Ford and the Inflammation of the Colon.
01:00:23 - 01:01:29 Brian Finifter and the Power of the Hat.
01:05:30 - 01:07:12 Trey Stokes and the God of the Machine.
01:19:01 - 01:20:19 Steven Spielberg and the Expense of the Action.
01:31:21 - 01:32:29 Sean Connery and the Death of the Film Career.
01:49:09 - 01:50:10 Teague Chrystie and the Fly in the Mouth.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
00:10:28 - 00:10:43 American films vs. European films.
00:19:49 - 00:21:37 Fifties sensibilities.
00:32:21 - 00:32:40 Fifties sensibilites, the revenge.
00:59:42 - 01:00:42 "That's a well-behaved Pod."
01:09:37 - 01:10:10 Trey on what film school can do to a person.
01:14:11 - 01:15:00 Punchable doors.
01:26:25 - 01:27:18 "Pod people don't believe in mobbing." SPOILER!

The Frighteners: Director's Cut
00:16:43 - 00:17:55 The one Gothic element and the struggle with tone.
00:31:30 - 00:33:34 "Fuck you, Rick Baker!"
00:45:37 - 00:46:18 "B-word fat."
00:59:40 - 01:00:50 Using crazy to sell exposition and Trey does Obi-Wan.
01:05:45 - 01:06:18 "Damn, we're funny!"
01:16:55 - 01:17:22 Trey on pacing issues with the Director's Cut.
01:44:22 - 01:44:57 Serial killing as an art form. SPOILER!
01:48:42 - 01:48:59 "Movies talk to you?" SPOILER!
01:58:25 - 01:59:15 The opacity of Jake Busey and missing Brian Finifter. SPOILER!

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
00:19:27 - 00:22:44 Trey Stokes vs. The Waveform.
00:38:30 - 00:39:10 Mike Scott vs. The Dating Thing.
00:45:48 - 00:47:50 Brian Finifter vs. The Wonderland.
00:57:50 - 01:00:11 Teague Chrystie vs. Popular Opinion.
01:02:55 - 01:04:12 Brian Finifter vs. The Metaphor.
01:04:29 - 01:05:41 Down In Front vs. The Chat Room.
01:08:16 - 01:10:07 Mike Scott vs. The Plot vs. The Story.
01:15:20 - 01:16:35 Brian Finifter vs. The Details.
01:21:21 - 01:23:23 Trey Stokes vs. The Ocarina of Time.
01:46:05 - 01:47:21 Mike Scott vs. The Mind Control Chip. SPOILER!
02:01:00 - 02:02:59 Mike Scott vs. Selection Bias. SPOILER!
02:08:00 - 02:10:08 Mike Scott vs. Geek Culture. My favorite part. smile

Pitch Black: Director's Cut
00:08:58 - 00:11:14 "Trey's got a girlfriend."
00:26:51 - 00:27:25 Perverted save the cat?
00:31:38 - 00:32:28 Vin Diesel Meme.
00:44:14 - 00:44:49 "Richard B. Riddick, Attorney At Law."
00:55:55 - 00:56:57 Vin Diesel's real name.
01:13:05 - 01:14:35 "It's an animal thing."
01:16:00 - 01:17:26 Pitching Pitch Black.
01:24:46 - 01:25:53 Quibbling.
01:31:00 - 01:32:01 Danny Trejo.
01:45:32 - 01:46:00 "Richard B. Riddick, Ph. D."

Kill Bill: Volume One
00:04:00 - 00:04:19 Comparing Tarantino's films to specific drugs.
00:10:56 - 00:11:22 Black and white vs. color.
00:13:20 - 00:14:39 Tarantino's earnestness and "spice".
00:17:20 - 00:19:17 Zoe Bell and stunts.
00:19:46 - 00:22:25 "Chaos Cinema"
00:24:45 - 00:26:30 Movies Brian hates, re: non-linear structure.
00:30:58 - 00:32:36 Trey defines, "save the cat". Also, "Teague's law of sympathy".
00:36:07 - 00:36:40 Trope: "Convenient Coma".
00:43:50 - 00:45:20 "It's about characters".
01:02:54 - 01:06:59 Slicing a baseball and catching an arrow, re: Mythbusters.
01:08:44 - 01:10:15 Lucy Liu, and the symmetry of eyes and faces.
01:13:27 - 01:14:19 Trope: "Gratuitous English".
01:25:08 - 01:26:37 "Quentin never lets you forget you're watching a movie!"
01:43:03 - 01:44:36 "Kill Billy" and different kinds of action.
01:47:52 - 01:48:21 "Best trip to Okinawa EVER!" SPOILER!

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RETURN OF THE JEDI
0:08:09 - 0:09:37: BOTH - The issue of rebuilding the Death Star.
0:10:22 - 0:10:25: HUMOR - "On that note, let's get choked up... while Carrie Fisher's coked up."
0:10:48 - 0:11:38: INSIGHT - Trey reminisces about seeing the movies and the opening titles in theater.
0:13:21 - 0:14:20: INSIGHT - Sequel directors "getting" it and the scale of the productions.
0:14:20 - 0:18:27: INSIGHT - Lucas dropping out of the DGA and his directing style.
0:18:33 - 0:20:22: INSIGHT - How would Kershner approach Return Of The Jedi?
0:20:33 - 0:21:33: BOTH - Teague, the racist, dismisses African dialect. Brian corrects him.
0:22:00 - 0:22:35: INSIGHT - Directors in Star Wars.
0:23:19 - 0:23:37: HUMOR - Teague spots a titty.
0:24:55 - 0:25:21: HUMOR - Dorkman loves Sour Patch Kids.
0:25:21 - 0:26:47: INSIGHT - Trey discusses Phil Tippett's work on the movie.
0:28:14 - 0:30:00: BOTH - Star Wars merchandising, Ewoks over Wookies.
0:32:18 - 0:35:19: BOTH - Mark Hamill's post Star Wars career.
0:37:00 - 0:39:43: BOTH - The Rancor Keeper.
0:40:41 - 0:40:50: HUMOR - Teague spots a vagina pit and a shithead.
0:41:15 - 0:43:00: HUMOR - The absurdity of the escape plan.
0:43:39 - 0:44:34: HUMOR - Jabba's death and sexual deviancy.
0:48:46 - 0:48:59: INSIGHT - The Emperor's eye slugs.
0:53:18 - 0:53:30: HUMOR - Yoda's last requests.
0:54:41 - 0:55:34: BOTH - The original internet message board debates.
0:55:35 - 0:58:43: BOTH - From a certain point of view... these Jedi are full of shit.
1:01:34 - 1:03:08: INSIGHT - The story of the full size Falcon set.
1:10:43 - 1:11:45: INSIGHT - David Fincher's contributions to Star Wars.
1:12:58 - 1:16:54: INSIGHT - Trey obliterates the prequel's use of Jedi.
1:18:58 - 1:19:38: INSIGHT - Trey continues his crusade against the prequels.
1:22:14 - 1:25:03: INSIGHT - The problem with Ewoks.
1:29:04 - 1:30:55: BOTH - Leia remembers being born.
1:37:52 - 1:38:24: BOTH - A covert stealth mission in the forest? Bring along the noisy robots!
1:45:46 - 1:49:58: INSIGHT - Luke's motivation; morality in Star Wars; Trey's conquest over the prequels.
1:52:58 - 1:53:15: BOTH - The dead Ewok.
1:53:24 - 1:53:47: INSIGHT - Trey dominates again.
1:57:05 - 1:57:26: INSIGHT - The best stop motion animation ever.
2:06:20 - 2:07:07: INSIGHT - Vader's face turn.
2:07:31 - 2:07:53: INSIGHT - Insane camera techniques in the Death Star.
2:07:53 - 2:09:03: HUMOR - The pilot doesn't know.
2:09:41 - 2:11:08: HUMOR - Luke dragging Vader.
2:13:54 - 2:14:03: BOTH - Star Wars supports terrorism.
2:22:26 - 2:23:15: HUMOR - Teague speculates about the existence of homemade Ewok porn.

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Ewing wrote:

1:37:52 - 1:38:24: BOTH - A covert stealth mission in the forest? Bring along the noisy robots!

Oh man, this one is especially great and would probably sync well with the movie itself to boot.

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Starship Troopers:

00:07:22 - 00:08:12: It's a satire! Includes talk about how the Bush years have helped us understand how funny the movie really is.

00:13:48 - 00:13:59: Rue McClanahan or Rick Astley?

00:29:56 - 00:30:49: Trey talks about the censored cow-mutilation scene, and how there is no uncensored version, regardless of whatever the internet says.

Little Shop of Horrors:

00:12:00 - 00:12:42: The trio of girls as Greek Chorus, and how that sold Frank Oz on the film.

00:16:03 - 00:16:50: The rather silly idea of a flower shop on skid row.

00:44:46 - 00:46:05: Trey talks about puppet lip-sync (and takes a moment to take one last swing at Phantom Menace).

01:18:50 - 01:19:09: Dorkman and Brian talk about how an Audrey II moment feels like it was improvised. Trey mentions how puppets can't improvise, and how a rig was built for all of those little moments.

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Iron Man:
Wow, this was a bit to much of a love fest, more of a “this is cool” so not quite as many “humorous” moments

00:00 - 00:12
Brian doing UFO & Transformer sounds

11:05 - 11:24
Stark Torpedo in Moby Dick

14:30 - 14:50
pulling in moments from large history as callbacks

17:13 - 17:35
Way to go Her

17:34 - 18:50
English computer butler

22:10 - 22:45
ABC’ing of Tony Stark, and amazing sequences

26:10 - 27:00
how do magnets work?

28:10 - 30:05
Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark, into ad-libbing on features

31:55 - 32:40
rooted in reality

32:50 - 33:45
the one magic bean

37:30 - 37:40
villainous face

38:40 - 40:01
Studios are stupid

41:35 - 42:30
magic bean garden

45:20 - 46:25
Face or no face in costume

46:55 - 47:13
Carlin & Flamethrowers

48:30 - 48:35
“Im loving this commentary I can just chil”
49:15 - 53:10
what would FOX have done?

53:10 - 54:20
gweneth paltros character & actress

55:06 - 56:50
scarcity of magic bean & blue shirt white collar hypothosis

58:01 - 58:30
pull off the goatee

59:01 - 59:45
levels of tech

1:00:35 - 1:03:03
Rhodey casting & character change

1:04:27 - 1:05:25
Jake paraphrasing Dorkman, most important thing & becoming more important to being

1:06:50 - 1:07:10
boner for bridges

1:08:04 - 1:08:45 & 1:19:15 - 1:10:10
amount of effects vs practical

1:13:55 - 1:14:30
things that Jake hates

1:27:25 - 1:27:55
Army of One

1:29:25 - 1:29:55
Your Just a Tracer

1:34:25 - 1:35:15
Magic Bean Suit

1:35:25 - 1:36:25
I Love that Part & Your Mom

1:36:25 - 1:37:00 & 1:37:30 - 1:37:00
Teague doesn’t now Quantum Leap

1:38:40 - 1:40:00
Movie OS’s & Sector rant

1:40:05 - 1:41:08
Copperfield getting mugged
1:41:10 - 1:41:48
Bridges amazing beard

1:51:20 - 1:51:40
Teague hates acronyms

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A Few Good Men

  • 0:01:31 - 0:02:37 "Aaron Sorkin...every nut and bolt...mechanical...for the idiots...like a cog"
    This actually fragments into three pieces that could be interleaved with others as a short, recurring joke

  • 0:11:45 - 0:13:20 All about rifle slinging, including the Queen Anne

  • 0:17:50 - 0:18:50 "Have we talked about keel hauling before?"

  • 0:24:45 - 0:25:00 Trey: "You can't handle the Sorkin"

  • 0:25:36 - 0:27:55 The Unbearable Flatness of Kiefer

  • 0:29:33 - 0:30:13 Recruiting for foxholes

  • 0:30:14 - 0:32:45 Atheistsinfoxholes dot com

  • 0:33:17 - 0:35:01 Alternative paths to officerdom

  • 0:35:10 - 0:36:00 How a location scout became an actor/teacher

  • 0:38:45 - 0:39:07 Tips on playing Six degrees of Kevin Bacon

  • 0:39:40 - 0:40:06  (After Teague explains his quietness.) "Does it have anything to do with what Eddie did to you last night?" "Well, you did give him a Code Red."

  • 0:40:06 - 0:40:30 How to tell if you have a kidney stone

  • 0:40:34 - 0:42:10 Aunt Jenny's influence on Tom Cruise's attitude

  • 0:42:10 - 0:43:35 Ugly babies

  • 0:45:35 - 0:48:18 Gitmo 101

  • 0:48:18 - 0:50:39 War-size dicks

  • 0:50:39 - 0:52:35 The influence of unseen characters

  • 0:52:36 - 0:53:02 Teague is out

  • 0:53:04 - 0:53:58 I got your fight, right here

  • 0:57:21 - 0:57:49 The Knight Templar trope

  • 0:58:20 - 0:59:40 "Cruise is Kirk, Demi is McCoy and Pollack is Spock"

  • 0:59:41 - 1:01:52 Neil deGrasse Tyson: "Law is a pre-scientific art form"

  • 1:03:14 - 1:05:03 DiF on the evolution of sport

  • 1:05:39 - 1:06:09 "Look at that young Aaron Sorkin...90% chance he was on coke at that time"

  • 1:06:30 - 1:08:07 Military jury selection

  • 1:08:07 - 1:09:35 My captain outranks your captain

  • 1:10:22 - 1:13:42 DiF discusses the best courtroom dramas in cinema, including...

  • 1:12:42 - 1:13:15 Brian recommends Twelve Angry Men

  • 1:13:15 - 1:13:42 Eddie recommends The Pawnbroker

  • 1:16:20 - 1:23:50 Framing the narrative, including Trey on the Manson lawyer's books

  • 1:23:51 - 1:24:02 "Christopher Guest, wearing a sign saying 'Rob Reiner directed this!'"

  • 1:26:57 - 1:27:30 Skills needed to be a trial attorney

  • 1:29:04 - 1:30:19 "Navy has eleven uniforms...if you want to look FAH-bulous!, then Navy is for you"

  • 1:33:40 - 1:34:35 How to have a squared-away military gait

  • 1:37:51 - 1:39:04 Snyder/Tropes: False High, Whiff of Death, All is Lost, Dark Night of the Soul

  • 1:39:15 - 1:40:28 "Now we have stakes personally for Cruise -- if you accuse an officer without evidence, you will go to jail"

  • 1:40:34 - 1:41:00 The Kiefer Sutherland mini-Boss, with three major powers...

  • 1:42:49 - 1:43:19 Military sartorial offences: "...putting your hands in your uniform pockets is a big no-no"

  • 1:45:28 - 1:46:09 "The military is a benevolent socialist monarchy that defends democracy"

  • 1:47:51 - 1:48:26 Eddie Izzard's Guide to World Domination

  • 1:49:05 - 1:50:26 "It's hard to act dumb"

  • 1:50:26 - 1:50:51 "Nic Cage filmed himself getting drunk"

  • 1:51:17 - 1:51:54 Trey on acting drunk: "look at everything with your whole head"

  • 1:54:03 - 1:58:20 "Rob Reiner colours in layers..." leading into a discussion of Ron Howard

  • 2:00:53 - 2:01:18 DING! goes the light bulb over Cruise's head

  • 2:02:00 - 2:03:25 How Goldman's rewrite of the script affected Sorkin's original stage play

  • 2:03:31 - 2:04:23 Eastwood versus Costner

  • 2:04:24 - 2:04:38 Fincher shadowing Eastwood until he explodes

  • 2:08:14 - 2:08:29 "He's pushin' the Cruise button!"

  • 2:08:36 - 2:09:00 Gestures we learned in Debate School

  • 2:09:00 - 2:09:32 Bob Dole's hand

  • 2:10:02 - 2:12:16 How Nicholson weaponizes his actory thing

  • 2:14:54 - 2:15:39 The trope of Villainous Breakdown "...I love their third album...with the cellos...and the ballet dancer"

  • 2:15:39 - 2:16:02 YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

  • 2:17:00 - 2:17:40 "Hey, the movie just climaxed without anything exploding"

  • 2:19:24 - 2:20:21 How Obama met a dog with razor-tooth implants

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TRON:
0:10:04 - 0:11:05
What happens inside the tv, and a good cold open, into story structure

0:11:47 - 0:12:50
Great setup & buildup, to a … boring premise (corporate espionage)

0:15:40 - 0:16:07
Making sure still on Eisners side

0:16:15 - 0:16:48
getting attached to file structure

0:23:05 - 0:24:25
Spiders, random pacing & effects showing off

0:24:25 - 0:25:05
Lasers are the root of everything

0:25:10 - 0:26:05
Schluby leads, and who is the lead

0:29:27 - 0:30:05
naked calikovision

0:34:40 - 0:35:30
laying out the stakes early

0:37:05 - 0:38:30
stupid vr interfaces, and bad dating movie choices

0:39:16 - 0:40:05
digitizing our consciousness, and oranges

0:43:33 - 0:45:20
escape movie with no tension, and discussion

0:50:28 - 0:51:50
daydream movie

0:53:08 - 0:56:00
OMG Effects, and the effort behind

1:03:40 - 1:04:10
Jeff Bridges is Neo, but better

1:05:40 - 1:05:55
Christianity, just following the fad

1:07:35 - 1:08:30
first cg character

1:09:25 - 1:10:35
is the Matrix Tron?

1:12:00 - 1:13:05
“Dorkman fix Tron”

1:15:32 - 1:19:25
3 out of 4 and derivative production design

1:19:25 - 1:20:10
scarcity of environment, and Family Ties porn

1:24:37 - 1:26:53
“anointed one” stepping aside to let others be hero

1:28:26 - 1:29:11
what is technology?

1:32:52 - 1:34:20
great fight reactions, and the digi-viscera

1:36:55 - 1:38:00
validity of sacrifice

1:38:01 - 1:39:10
high burden of proof to resolve plot

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Some of these will probably be a few seconds early/late as I took a few seconds to look at the timecode and then rounded back 5 or 10 seconds as I thought necessary.

Transformers:

14:45 - "When did you become aware of Michael Bay?"
16:00 - Comparison of Bay and Kubrick revisited
17:30 - Discussion of Rigging and the rumor that it actually works on the robots in Transformers
18:00 - Trey discusses the time when he built a full-sized transformer
22:53 - Trey tells the Michael Bay Memo story
25:50 - Volkswagen/Germans and violence/Bernie Mac kills himself
28:55 - Michael Bay telling a joke/ bickering
30:15 - Define Michael Bay's style (don't use the word "gradient")
32:10 - Dorkman explains Anamorphic lenses
38:20 - Debating Megan Fox's attractiveness
43:08 - Trey/Mamet on Circus on Film
49:15 - TvTropes "Conservation of Detail"/discussion of the film's screenwriters
53:40 - They actually asked the military what they would do if robot aliens attacked, and this is it.
58:05 - "Michael Bay is a step beyond vaudeville. This is Circus and Blackface."
1:00:40 - "I've never been more aware I'm being marketed to."
1:04:35 - Comparing Bay, Gondry, Fincher, and McG
1:06:52 - Transformers as a Perfect Movie
1:15:00 - What makes an actor good at acting against CG?
1:17:18 - Objectives in Transformers vs. the Prequels/a firsthand account of Bay's directing style
1:20:17 - Shia and the Dad riffing/how to direct actors/improvisation
1:24:35 - "If you can get her to leave the room, you get the part"
1:26:45 - David Mamet's theory from "On Directing"
1:31:35 - "3 Goldblums to the wind before he gets out of bed in the morning"
1:35:30 - Directors personalities revealed through humor ("James Cameron thinks True Lies is a comedy")
1:37:15 - "How much pee do you want?"
1:48:55 - Still welding/"All life is essentially crazy"
1:53:52 - Trey explains shoe leather scenes
1:55:50 - Dorkman explains mass shifting
2:02:10 - Reason Bay shot fight scenes in close up (apparently there was a reason)
2:03:10 - F-22s canceled in midair
2:03:40 - Why do they go to the only populated area to fight?
2:06:52 - Imagine this girl's demo reel
2:08:21 - Would this be considered a bad movie?
2:09:58 - Trey's Shit Sandcastle analogy
2:14:17 - What is Michael Bay good at?
2:20:27 - "Lasers. Airplane. Explode."
2:21:06 - The Michael Bay gradient filter
2:24:35 - "That's their solution?!" "Dump him in ocean."
2:25:54 - "Just give me an objective!"
2:26:14 - Teague doesn't know what a coda is

Aliens:

3:30 - Alien/Aliens as Steve Jobs/Bill Gates
7:00 - Cameron contacting Fox about how to expand the Alien franchise
7:52 - "That's just a camera crane with a laser on it."
10:10 - You don't want to watch the Star Wars Holiday Special. Even ironically.
11:35 - The future business suit is just "flip the collar up"
12:15 - Cameron using dream sequences for exposition
15:25 - Cameron and blue collar heroes
16:35 - "The Nostromo cost 42 million dollars?!"
21:26 - "This guy waited 20 years for his big scene to hit the screen."/ Spiderman 2 story
23:20 - Newt's SE introduction vs her original introduction
24:45 - terraforming as a cost-cutting measure
29:25 - Ripley's motivation
30:19 - Cameron being impressed with Sigourney Weaver's script research
31:35 - "Which would you rather watch, Alien or Aliens?"
34:38 - Eddie on women in the military
36:37 - "Speaking of Eddie's Mom..." [laughter] "No, I was actually making a segway"
38:25 - Cameron and feisty latinas
40:45 - Goldman story "What if we make them all women?"
41:35 - how the Power Loader works
43:10 - Eddie explains what some of the guns are
44:43 - Non-uniform uniforms
54:37 - Callback to the hunt for the Alien from the first movie, but surely they can handle it this time!
59:33 - Bishop's Asimovian arc and defining an Asimovian arc
1:03:31 - Gollum references
1:05:32 - "Cigarette burn. Cigarette burn. Cigarette burn. Lunch..."
1:08:10 - Not a lot of daylight between saying no to candy and slaughtered family
1:09:00 - Groundwork for red herring with Bishop
1:10:10 - "If she dies, what have we really lost?"
1:13:27 - Slow build/dots being scary
1:15:50 - "Paxton is very lucky he was friends with James Cameron"
1:17:32 - "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my rag-time gal!"
1:21:45 - Conceptions of the future throughout the 20th century
1:30:19 - "Game over, man!" in harmony
1:33:30 - "33 days without a robot massacre! Oh, wait. Flip it back to 0."
1:54:45 - "Good thing she's a smoker." "This time smoking saves lives"
1:56:45 - The bad guy is really the Weyland-Yutani company
1:59:14 - Act 3: Hard Red Combat Lighting
2:03:28 - Burke's death vs. Giovanni Ribisi's survival in Avatar
2:05:15 - Cameron on NTIs vs aliens
2:13:18 - "Still haven't found that bra, Ripley?"..."Suffrage."
2:19:20 - Trey explains the Alien Queen
2:24:32 - Meltdown as callback to Nostromo/"It's because I'm programmed to love you so much, baby"
2:26:40 - "She got up in the wheel well, like an illegal alien." "NO TREY! NO!"
2:28:20 - Fakeout ending
2:31:23 - Trey explains the final fight
2:32:54 - Nike product placement
2:40:40 - "Movies were invented so that James Cameron could make them"
2:41:35 - "I bought the 4 disk set, and deliberately left the last 2 in NJ."

2001:A Space Odyssey:

4:00 - Kubrick and Bay
12:22 - Planetary alignment theme
13:00 - Trey explains reason for overtures in old movies
14:23 - Explanation of why the book is based on the movie
15:25 - Chewie/the apes are vegetarians
16:25 - "Is that a leopard attacking a guy in an ape suit?" "Yes, welcome to show business."
17:20 - explaining front projection
18:20 - this is where most people found out about Stanley Kubrick
19:04 - "that's a painted dead horse, by the way"
19:30 - Teague compares Kubrick films
21:10 - Monilith/"What does this mean, and why is it here?"
24:30 - "For those who aren't watching along, he's looking at bones and going 'Oh, shit!'"
25:05 - Explaining the difference between humans and other animals
27:00 - "We cannot allow North Korea to gain bone technology!"
28:22 - Here's *the* shot (bone match cut)
29:30 - Explaining special effects/"Alright guys, how did they do this?"
31:37 - "This movie is older than us actually walking on the moon, and it looks great."
33:20 - Docking details explained
34:22 - The first dialogue of the film!
35:00 - "Is this the first example of photo-real modelwork?"
35:35 - Teague asks what Kubrick's M.O. was in making 2001
36:29 - Space travel as commonplace
37:42 - Increasingly lived-in visions of the future
38:49 - Realistic gravity
40:13 - The Sherlock Holmes cartoon
40:52 - Soviet/US relations
45:40 - The Zero Gravity Toilet
46:43 - Trey explains the moon landing sequence
47:35 - Moon Base the same as the one in Space:1999
48:42 - Dedication to accuracy
53:55 - 99% of the dialogue doesn't matter (and Teague asks why)
58:28 - Teague doesn't understand Stanley Kubrick, others try to explain
1:00:52 - "Kubrick is a perfect example of ' Art is whatever you can get away with.'"
1:01:45 - Trey's Bertolucci story
1:03:29 - Lack of awe
1:04:37 - The Discovery
1:05:55 - explaining and criticizing the circular room shots
1:07:50 - iPads
1:08:50 - Hidden as-you-know scene
1:09:40 - HAL
1:13:40 - "Most movies show you what you're not doing, this movie shows you what you are."
1:14:00 - The FUTURE
1:17:38 - People are losing the importance of "not knowing" something
1:19:35 - The difference between Lockwood and Delay
1:21:55 - The frequency of world-changing events
1:25:15 - Serge makes points about the vastness of space
1:27:57 - Hal made a mistake, and that scares the crap out of us.
1:30:15 - What they explain in 2010
1:33:25 - "HAL could not go crazy because HAL is ones and zeroes!"/neural networks
1:36:49 - Intermission/Teague complains that this isn't a killer robot movie
1:40:40 - The closest thing to an action scene in 2001
1:42:50 - Slow pace/"I'm on a rescue mission! I'm almost out of the garage!"
1:46:55 - Stunt Man/"Ow! If I wasn't dead I am now!"
1:47:37 - "Lay out its [2001's] genius for me."
1:49:20 - "There are very few movies that need their dialogue less than 2001."
1:52:20 - The first time we see emotion
1:52:50 - The horror of non-native environments
1:55:20 - "Not every movie ever made has to be the Hero's Journey"
1:56:12 - Kubrick and Michael Cimino
1:56:34 - "You're right, I forgot it was 2001: A Space Odyssey. We still have 15 minutes."
1:57:48 - No helmet spacewalk/"Oh, fuck this is gonna suck!"
1:59:37 - Why Dave is wearing a helmet while deactivating HAL.
2:01:03 - Portal
2:02:41 - HAL has self-preservation only in order to complete the mission
2:05:00 - "HAL's last act before he completely quote/unquote 'dies'"
2:06:25 - "Is this 3 distinct short films?"
2:07:45 - Jupiter's Galilean moons
2:08:40 - Teague 'gets' 2001/"This movie wants to tell you something that you already have no problem accepting."
2:10:47 - Trey explains slit-scan photography
2:12:25 - Serge explains what it all means
2:16:10 - Trey explains how going to movies was different in the 1960s
2:20:12 - The hotel
2:21:00 - "What is the most generally accepted explanation for this?"
2:22:24 - "There is a rich, weird guy with this room."
2:22:47 - Discussion of the old age makeup
2:23:57 - Skipping through this guys life through POV
2:24:55 - "I wanna stay in a hotel like this"
2:27:16 - "Thanks, we've finished our experiment..."
2:27:45 - Star Child
2:28:16 - "No, no, no Brian. Stop that"

District 9:

1:50: "It's still sitting there being a great movie, so we're gonna talk about it."
2:30: UCLA definition of science fiction
4:05: Trey's definition of science fiction
7:20 - "Viral" marketing
8:43 - Old man story
10:09 - The White Man and his relationship with The Savage
11:53 - "Talk about who you hate, and pretend they're aliens"
12:40 - The switch from documentary to narrative
13:48 - Prawns as a derogatory term
14:21 - Wikus Van de Merwe
16:25 - Bad-ass Tom Hanks
17:19 - Couldn't afford his own company
19:20 - "This is the beginning of their Trail of Tears"
21:45 - Alternate history
23:00 - Flipping the trope
24:00 - "Look at how happy he is to be murdering babies."
24:31 - Believable Dehumanization
25:45 - Why the aliens don't just shoot everybody up
27:08 - Why the aliens are easily distinguishable
28:00 - Transition to narrative/As-you-know scene
30:00 - 2nd Magic Bean
32:15 - different story
35:45 - Stanford Prison Experiment
37:45 - Milgram Experiment
41:25 - Moral Relativity
42:15 - Some group of college kids is surely objecting to this
43:20 - "Really, really, really scary"
45:05 - How large is your "tribe"?
46:50 - Sharlto Copley
47:30 - Does this fit Wikus' character arc?
49:25 - Why kill the golden goose?
51:30 - Why don't they ask "How'd this happen to this guy?"
53:20 - Corporations are beings that live forever and eat money
57:49 - Mexican butcher shop
58:50 - When the aliens come, they'll wanna fuck our women
59:40 - Trey explains being a white guy in Japan
1:03:30 - How many "Why"s do you have to address in a film like this?
1:06:55 - Alien-to-human converter machines
1:08:07 - Teague says it doesn't take imagination to be this negative
1:10:37 - Roberto Benini "Life is Beautiful" prawn
1:13:45 - African voodoo
1:16:00 - The siege scene
1:17:27 - Premise vs Plot/White Man's Guilt
1:19:18 - PJ O'Rourke Apartheid article/South Africa is America
1:21:05 - "What would the fair version of this society be?"
1:24:20 - Teague thinks humans did the right thing in this situation
1:26:00 - Trey posits that there might be some species or societies that can't cohabitate
1:27:50 - Appoint a council to try diplomacy with Velociraptors
1:30:47 - Wikus' transformation is dictated by the story
1:32:20 - Effortless Special Effects
1:33:05 - Mythbusters magnet bullet test/Blomkamp's confidence with special effects
1:34:40 - What is Christopher Johnson?
1:36:05 - "Can we get a movie without a damned Transformer in it?"
1:37:20 - The problem with Mechs
1:38:00 - Trey explains Active Compliance systems
1:39:26 - More violent = indie movie
1:40:56 - Trey explains that Science Fiction isn't a type of movie
1:43:30 - No theory that supports anti-gravity
1:44:55 - "How did they put that smoke in front of that guy?!"
1:45:55 - Trey would rather see Wikus die than become a prawn
1:48:10 - "The ship is gone but the prawns are still here. Is this better?"
1:49:10 - People standing on squares
1:50:50 - And then John was a prawn.

The Fountain:

6:55: Visual patterns & circles
7:20 - All the camera angles are straight-on
8:00 - "Trust me, this dude thought about this shit."
9:17 - Removing the casual experience
10:00 - The Evolution of the Audience
10:40 - Line crossing
11:20 - Dorkman would do that anyway
11:40 - Steve's Comic-con story
13:15 - Batman Begins story
14:35 - Steve's theory
15:10 - Dorkman's theory
15:58 - Connecting the timelines
16:35 - "Great idea for a shot"
17:06 - The star field
17:25 - Microscopic photography
18:15 - The backstory of the film
19:35 - Tattoos/"Tattooine doesn't have rings!"
20:25 - Directions/golden lights
21:00 - The simpler the symbols, the stronger the work
21:50 - "You want Transformers to have circles in it?!"
22:35 - Subconscious symbols
24:15 - "That was a great reveal"
24:50 - Dialogue very micromanaged
25:40 - Writer/actor effort
26:40 - "What does the bird mean!""...It's gold..."
27:00 - "I didn't realize how much I loved Hugh Jackman..."
27:20 - Starlight
27:50 "This is like, straight-up douchey talk."
28:00 - White/gold light
28:55 - "That was him doing something"
29:38 - "How do you make this happen, Dorkman?"
31:25 - "The fact that I'm making that up startles and amazes me!"
32:18 - The 80s sex scene/"He just fucked up his phone."
33:20 - "Wow, that shot's going on for quite some time!"
33:55 - The Comic Book
34:50 - The trailer/repeating shots
36:30 - The creation of trailers/the marketing of the film
38:45 - Pixar's marketing genius
39:45 - "Cancer motif!"
40:30 - "The sense of 'what just happened?' was palpable"
41:25 - Saving 1 Million dollars with a sound effect
42:05 - The Inquisitor is right
42:45 - "They said death is a good thing... that's retarded."
43:20 - Gnosticism and the Material World
45:25 - "You always want to call somebody on their bullshit, but there it is!"
46:25 - I Spy/The Fountain drinking game
47:20 - Decoder scene
48:20 - Eastern/Western views of immortality
49:25 - Neil Degrasse Tyson
51:05 - Don't feed Hugh Jackman after midnight
51:55 - Decoding the meaning of life religiously, biologically, scientifically...
52:40 - Chakras
53:20 - "That's what childrens is!"
54:20 - Teague can't believe the gold and white theme
55:08 - Pi
55:50 - Directors showing off
56:00 - Sound design
56:55 - "I could make a normal movie if I wanted to."
58:40 - Relatable angles
5918 - "Ahhh, my ring's gone. I'm gonna break stuff!"
1:00:40 - We're gonna need weirdness in our movies
1:02:15 - "It's a FOUNTAIN pen!"
1:03:40 - Not much camera movement
1:06:40 - Low-budget advantage to still shots
1:08:30 - Decoder in the stars
1:09:32 - Aronofsky respects our time
1:11:52 - Art is contrast
1:14:00 - When he looks at the guy dying
1:15:00 - Light!/"Live you bitch!"
1:15:40 - Selfish love
1:16:25 - "That was a brilliant transition!"
1:17:15 - "He's about to go rant about how Obi-Wan doesn't respect him..."
1:18:17 - This is the epitome of crazy
1:19:10 - "Some guy really poked himself in the finger there."
1:21:05 - Match.com commercial
1:21:30 - "Creo means belief"
1:22:05 - All the assistants think he's crazy.
1:22:48 - "God-Vag"
1:23:55 - The first time Tom admitted he's afraid.
1:24:48 - Elusiveness is elusive
1:25:35 - "In spanish, Izzy Creo means 'Yes, I do believe'"
1:27:50 - Chakra bubbles/Clint Mansell
1:28:20 - Serif subtitles!
1:29:05 - "I think you'll be able to tell when the authorship of that book switched hands!"
1:30:20 - Nerd Fight!
1:31:00 - Tree Cum
1:32:40 - "Collect more data before human trials"
1:34:45 - "I give up. I ran out of steam."
1:35:30 - "If you make people feel something, they'll forgive you."
1:37:23 - "This is the kind of movie Down in Front exists for."

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