Also, practical effects can go wrong and challenge a director. Ford was sick one day and said “why don’t I just shoot the guy with the sword?” and we got a character defining moment instead of a stand in doing the fight and CGing it to look like Ford. And the mechanical Jaws was constantly breaking, which largely led to the first person (first shark?) view of the sharks hunts which made Jaws more suspensful. (Would “Da–na…Da-na da-na, da-na” be as famous?)

And for me, practical effects impress me more. I know the actor didn’t do them, but if I know every effect is a practical one, some stunt guy is doing some impressive work.

the wachowskis have done the same thing Lucas did, the made one successful film and created a name for them selfs. All they are known for is the matrix and bullet time which sent us in to a new era of film making(trendy camera work) . lucas fluked star wars and over time set up a visual effects company, thats all he is known for. Every other movie they have both made in the last 10 years has been horrible. In fact go back and watch the matrix know and listen to the dialogue.

Sex and the City is gonna drop like a rock next weekend. I saw it last night and it just drags on and on forever. The plot is stupid as hell, Miranda is even more annoying in the movie than in the TV show(and I honestly didn’t think that was possible), and I found myself getting bored by all of the contrived “drama” going on. I honestly wish that they had just left well enough alone. The finale to the show was a lovely send-off. This movie was just…depressing, truth be told. They couldn’t stop crying! If they make a sequel, I won’t see it. They had no business making this thing as long as it was. This isn’t some epic like LOTR. It’s Sex and the friggin City. The dialogue snaps, crackles, and pops in a television format, but stretching it out for two and half hours was a terrible idea.

I’ve had to deal with the whole “making excuses” thing, from both sides. I recently watched Scarface for the first time, and loved it, while my friend hated it. Violent shit is usually right up his alley, but he detested this film,a nd I couldn’t for the life of me understand why he hated it so much. I have friends who LOVED Across The Universe when they saw it. I was literally counting the tiles on the ceiling of the theater while I watched that movie. It was abysmal, but I catch so much shit when I say that I hate it. “You don’t GET it!” “But you love musicals! Why can’t you love this one?!” and my favorite, “What? You hated it? What’s wrong with you?” Nothing’s fucking wrong with me. Something’s wrong with this piece of shit movie.

That was one of your best shows for a while guys; very funny, especially the MTV stuff, thank you.

For the record, i really hate ‘The Fifth Element’ and i know so many people who really love that movie. I’ve tried to even just like it but i can’t. I think it’s friggin terrible.