Alex (Level 23)

I completely forgot I even wrote that.

Because I really enjoyed it? It was cute and weird and enjoyably bizarre?

I dunno. It's all there in the review, dude.

The AV Club is one of my favorite sites on the web, but the PodMass segment is never one that's quite clicked with me. Occasionally they're on point, but usually I get the impression they're looking for entirely different things out of podcasts than what I like. I don't think the dude is necessarily wrong about the Bombcast--I'm sure there are many people who would share the same viewpoint--but his viewpoint just doesn't lineup with mine. I like the nonsensical nature of it. I'm not looking for something more substantive.

Weirdly, I find that tends to be the case with most of the contributors on that segment. It is, again, weirdly the only part of that site I tend to just ignore.

It's traditional in Chinese and Korean (and other Asian cultures as well) to present the last name first. That's why you see Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Ziyi, and Park Chan-wook, rather than the reverse. The only time they're reversed is when American companies market the pictures.

The exception typically is when an Asian person has a Western first name. A Johnny To or Michelle Yeoh or Jackie Chan, for example, wouldn't reverse the names, since they've already taken on a Western name. Michelle Yeoh's birthname, for instance, is Yeoh Choo-Kheng. Jackie Chan's is Chan Kong-sang.

It's like half written on my desktop. I'll post it this week sometime. Life just, you know, keeps getting in the way.

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Greatest goddamn thing ever.

Die Hard.

It suffers purely on comparison to the otherworldly awesome experience that is the first film. Ghostbusters 2 is merely a very funny comedy, which would be fine, were it not part of such a revered lineage.

FWIW, I still love the shit out of GB2.

Hey everyone!

Here's a little experiment for all of you. We obviously don't do a ton of interviews around here, but I'd really like to be doing more. However, I'm also a fairly novice interviewer when it comes to the realm of film, and while I certainly can come up with a decent number of questions for a filmmaker or actor, I also feel like there are a LOT of really dedicated folk in our community who would have some great stuff to conjure up as well.

So with that, I present to you the following: What would you like to ask Nicolas Winding Refn? I'm interviewing him later today as he promotes his latest film, Drive, and I'd love to get a few community questions put together to ask him. So, for the next few hours, hit me with any potential questions you might have for the filmmaker, and I'll take the best few with me to the interview! Go nuts!

That...that's not Doug Bradley.

I have a way higher tolerance for the direction this series has gone in than most (I actually enjoyed parts of Hellraiser IV), but holy shit, that is legitimately one of the most incompetent things I've ever seen.

The movie's kind of a mess, but it does have a distinct and cool look to it. Albeit one that looks a little like what would happen if Hipstamatic made a video application.

That shit was really good, too. The tamarind in the sauce gave it an awesome bit of tang.

Right now it's a tossup between Peter, Bjorn and John's "Second Chance," Cut/Copy's "Hanging onto Every Heartbeat," and Starfucker's "Bury Us Alive"

First post? Cool story, bro. Good luck with that.

As Rorie has said before, we're test-driving some new folks to see how their output is. It's less to do with me moving than it is a general desire to come up with new, interesting features for the site, and also getting some fresh perspectives around here. That doesn't mean we'll be keeping everyone on, nor does it mean that what they've written thus far is all they're capable of. They're testing the waters and trying some new things. That will sometimes lead to stuff that might not be in the exact same style you're accustomed to from myself, Rorie and the other, older contributors.

That said, we're certainly taking people's feedback on these articles into account in figuring out where to take things beyond this initial, probationary period. I'd only ask that you'd keep that feedback civil and explain what you do and don't like purely in terms of how you think the content fits the site.

Also, to address the notion of the theme weeks, we started doing these mostly as a way to help focus ourselves when it came to concepts for features and videos. One of my biggest problems is putting a focus on what kind of work I want to be doing, because my mind tends to dart in about a million different directions. Having these loose themes around what kind of content we want to be focusing on helps a ton in getting me off my butt to work on stuff, because I have a more specific, focused vision of what I should be working on. Also, we just think it's fun to be able to do these features as a way to build up to big, new releases. Doing that Fast and the Furious video certainly got me in a good mindset to go see Fast Five, that's for sure.

Hope that explains our current plan a little bit better. As I said, feedback is welcomed, but please do give some of these folks a chance. They're trying new things, just as we are, and as such, there is always room for improvement.

Thanks.

Due to Rorie's absence, Joey's extreme business, my inability to schedule Skype guests, and the fact that last weekend was terrible for movies, we're gonna skip the podcast this week. Your questions from this week shall carry over to the next episode. Apologies for the inconvenience, but trust me when I say we're better off regrouping next time around.

I don't get the impression you actually hated saying that.

Also, don't forget to ask your questions about NETWORK for the classic movie discussion! You know, like how I forgot to even mention it during the podcast! >:-(

This is a pretty rad honor, especially considering a number of those other movie podcasts are pretty effing awesome. Just gratified that people dig what we do. =)

Yay! Thanks guys! LOVE YOUR FACES.