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Hey Rorraro, I've noticed from quotes and references you two have made in the past that you're fans of The AV Club, The Onion's non-fiction media critiquing department. Which of their weekly or monthly features (maybe not necessarily the movie or TV based ones, since I guess there's a conflict of interest there) do you enjoy reading the most?

Hey Matt and (probably) Alex. I work in a cinema where we have name badges with a film title under our name. The idea is to have your favourite film, or one of them, on your badge (Mines is Alan - Lost In Translation) but some people use it to showcase a slightly more obscure film they like to try and spark up conversation about it, and some use it for comedy effect. For example, one guy had "What Women Want", and a gay guy I worked with had "The Queen" on his. Just wondering what film titles you guys would go for. THANKS

Hey guys,  
This isn't so much a question as a discussion topic.
 
I'm pretty sure both of you use Reddit, so I'm sure you know about this already. Recently somebody posted a TIL about a movie called Cry Baby Lane (sorry , I can't find the thread). It was a Nickelodeon film, released in 2001. It was a (children's) horror film, about a pair of adjoined twins who's mother sawed them in half after they died. One of the twins had been acting evil, and she buried the good twin in a proper graveyard, while the bad twin was buried in a quick grave down by a river or something. The rest of the movie involves the evil baby's spirit possessing people in the nearby town. This film was apparently a little too scary for kids, as after the debut on Nickelodeon, they had to stop airing it because of the immense volume of phone calls they received from angry parents. They even deny ever creating the film. 
 
Anyways, somebody on Reddit had a recording of the film on VHS, and with the help of some converting, they uploaded it to Youtube. I never saw the movie, because it was taken down by Viacom. But the download is available here: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/jicg6/cry_baby_lane/ 
  
According to comments on Reddit, it's kind of a let down - not scary at all, almost comedic even. But it just goes to show that the internet has no problem recovering a movie that was said to be gone for good.

Do you listen to music while writing your movie reviews, or do you prefer to let your thoughts flow without distraction? What kind of music if you do, and do you try to listen to the film's soundtrack while writing it, if possible?

Hey again guys,

As you didn't quite make it to my question in the last podcast, here's a copy/paste:

What's your favourite movie (or TV for that matter) scenes that rely heavily on music without being actual musical numbers?

So, not 500 Days of Summer, Magnolia or the musical episode of Buffy, but rather things like the scene in Jackie Brown where Robert Forster sees Pam Grier for the first time, or in Lost Highway when Balthazar Getty falls for Patricia Arquette? Non-romantic examples would be Face/Off's shootout scene with 'Over the Rainbow' or Miller's Crossing with 'Danny Boy' playing while Albert Finney tommygun's some hitmen. The music can be either diegetic or non-diegetic. I'm obviously quite partial to all 4 of these examples, but wanted to know if you had any other good ones that come to mind.

Keep up the great work!

Great work as always guys.

Slightly morbid question but can't think of a better way of asking the question.

If Tom Hanks was to die today, where would he sit in the pantheon of great Hollywood actors?

Hey guys, love the podcast etc, etc. 
 
What do you find more insufferable: American actors attempting English accents or English actors attempting American accents?

With Tranformers: Bark at the Moon now the 5th highest grossing moving of all time [link below], what does this say for the standard of movies going forward? I realize that going for the lowest common denominator is what most movies are striving for but just how low can we go?

P.S. - yes I did put "Bark at the Moon" in there on purpose. Imagine, an entire Michael Bay movie with nothing but cute puppies! You're welcome Rorie.

http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

Why has Final Destination continued to use the numbers instead of just coming up with catchy names like Final Destintion:The Crash? Also come up with stupid names now.

Hey Rorie, why did you want to become a English Major?  Why did you go to Gamespot and then to Obsidian instead of doing something that requires a English degree?
Also, what is your birthday ?

Is it OK for a person to see a Roman Polanski movie and think it is great?

I liked The Ghost Writer but the inevitable follow up is about the director leaves me scrambling as my mind attempts to find an answer this question.

Hey Guys,
 
 Do you ever watch the same films over and over purely for nostalgia's sake?  Especially during certain times of the year??   Example:  I always watch Heat in July and then watch Hitchcock's Rebecca in the fall because that's when my mother first showed it to me.  I watch Jaws every May/June and The English Patient in December because I remember first seeing it in theaters on Xmas when it was first released.  I could go on and on...  What about you?  Like songs, what do you think is the power of nostalgia in films if any and why?   To me, films made in certain eras do seem to capture a sense of their time regardless of the narratives setting.  Does it equate to film stock?  Time?   Popular style in given decade?  Love to hear your thoughts.

Hi Matt and Alex,

I just finished watching Taxi Driver for the first time. Based on the way in which people and other movies quote it regularly, I had always assumed the "Are you talkin' to me?" line was the product of Robert DeNiro being a badass, but it turns out it's the ramblings of Robert DeNiro being a crazy person.

My question is, can you think of other notable movie lines which are regularly taken out of context?

Hey guys, love the podcast. 
I've been wondering, when you review films do you take notes during/after the film or just go from memory?

Hey guys.
 
Having just read the 80's retrospective feature Alex did a while back, I was wondering how either of you might look back on a decade such as the 2000's and early 2010's a few years from now?

Dearest Screencastmen, 
 
How many movie anthologies are planned as a whole, as opposed to sequels being made due to box office success?

hey screencast!

question for alex; do you think community will logically end after 4 seasons (when the characters finish community college), or will they find some dumb contrivance to carry on the show? also, what are other shows you know which should have ended at some point, but were continued anyways with some dumb twist