Hurrah

I only got to catch parts of it, but I really enjoyed the conversation that was going on when I did get a chance to watch.

I'll be watching the archive this weekend for my full impressions, but I really enjoyed what I saw.

Looking forward to more discussions like this!

@Rorie: I think that yes you should have prepared questions beforehand , to make things a lot more smoothly , but overall I liked it , perhaps a bit more time too. You barely even mentioned the Village :( , I wuz prepared at the chat to defend it. I do think that it should be aimed at disscussing directors , in the chat some one mentioned that it would be cool to make one for David Lynch. And having a Whiskey staff member helping you out like Dave did was awesome.

Thanks for answering my question, Rorie.

I think it's a great idea for a segment, I'm just not much of a Shyamalanllamaman watcher. Haven't seen Lady in the Water or really any of his stuff other than Sixth Sense (which I did enjoy). A segment on someone else might end up being more personally interesting, but I dunno how large an audience there would be for a segment on my favorite actor (Bruce Campbell, the ham master). But then again I don't usually look for things like artistic merit or quality when I come to movies with him either, so maybe that isn't such a great idea for a segment. Unless you want to talk about chins...

Dave has a great voice and lots of interesting ideas so I'm always in support of getting him in on as many things as he is willing to do. The call-in nature of the live stuff is a bummer because I'm usually at work when it goes on and I can't very well call in from there, but that's not really anyone's fault.

That all aside. It might end up better as a podcast (or maybe if there was an audio version to DL for later), because I do have tons of drive time that I need to kill. Which would be perfect for this kind of discussion.

Given the working relationship between Gary and Shyalmalan, I initially thought he'd actually be on the show. When I realized that wasn't the case I lost interest pretty fast.

I was really looking forward to being involved and calling up, but I was exhausted and I just had to go to bed.

I think questions beforehand is a good idea but questions born out of the discussions you have will be infinitely better just because people might not have read the source material and might not know the direction of your discussion. Having that knowledge should improve the pertinence of the questions.

Unfortunately the way to solve that isn't simple. You could break the discussion up to allow people to get the sense of the discussion/book and then ask questions to be answered a short time after. You could maybe have more questions from the chat? Or you could bring in another whiskey member who hasn't read the book or is perhaps less knowledgeable about the chosen director/whatever, because whiskey guys generally ask good questions of each other.

I love the video on Whiskey sites but I don't necessarily need it if it's just guys sat down so I'd be fine with a podcast version or a video livestream from the podcast room. If it makes production easier then perhaps it would be easier to implement my suggestion of breaking up the discussion, and any load off the production team is good because they work so damn hard! If you show clips and stills then I'd like to see video.

I haven't actually watched it yet so I'll come back when I have if I have anything else to add!

Thanks guys I will watch this tomorrow at work.

Great! I missed the live show but I really like this idea. I'll watch Lady in the Water tomorrow and then watch this.

I kinda like Lady in the Water too :P

You know, after watching this, I can't help but seeing a lot of comparisons to Kevin Smith as well, so maybe it's a journey a number of filmmakers go through. Granted, Smith's films are often love it or hate it affairs with many people, but he makes his name with dick and fart jokes (Like M. with his twist endings), then does Jersey Girl which is a fairly large departure and gets slammed completely, so he goes back to the dick and fart well, then he seemingly puts 100 percent of himself into Zack and Miri Make a Porno, a film that after screenings and testing he honestly thought would be his first mega hit, only to have it bomb. After that, he does his first movie which he only directs and doesn't write, but we all saw how Cop Out turned out, and finally he rages against the system and tries out a whole new thing with Res State.

Haven't seen any Shyabible movies post The Village which I found really boring (loved Unbreakable, enjoyed Sixth Sense, liked Signs in a B kind of way), but I'm fascinated with the idea of going and watching the rest in foreign languages with subtitles. Thinking of movies like The Fall or The Secret in their Eyes or Cache which I enjoyed a lot and have a similar vibe to his films (I think) makes me wish he were a director of non English language movies.

This could be fun.

I really enjoyed it. Some nice mellow content.

I was the Florida dude. Sorry about my mic quality.

Cant wait to watch this.

waaaaaaa, i am totally gunna watch this...later. I really need a way to keep track of Whiskey stuff in general.

May not be avoidable but the mics are kind of distracting in the sense that they block you guys and especially your lip movement.

I knew it! Thats the Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany in the background. Also, what the Magic Kingdom was based off of. ALSO, used in Brad's GOTY. Anywho http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle