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Jay G.
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Primer is intentionally obtuse. Where other movies will tend to put in some exposition, Primer only puts in hints and fragments of conversations. It's actually the opposite of some bad movies where the exposition is laid out in an overly obvious way, and I personally enjoyed teasing out the plot and characterization

There is more to it than that. The speech actually plays ironically in the movie.

Am I the only one who, when prompted of thinking of both Key and Peele and Neil Gaiman immediately think they'd be perfect for Anansi Boys?

It's maybe a bit of a spoiler, but if you really want to know… SPOILERS:

You don't really have to worry about the Kickstarter updates spoiling anything. I learned more about the movie reading reviews than I did from the Kickstarter updates.

Christopher Walken isn't a surprise because he's stated in interviews that he says yes to every role, provided he can fit it in his schedule. He feels any acting role is a learning experience.

I was hoping for a TV adaptation of Kuffs

As an aside, this news story prompted me to go look at Yahoo Screen again, and they've added commentary tracks for all of Community Season 6.

At least USA is a network with an actual history of producing TV shows and sold ad time for those sitcoms. With Yahoo Screen it was more like trying to simultaneously launch a new cable network AND several TV shows, then wondering why nobody's watching when only 2% of cable companies carry the channel.

Was that the Xbox 360 app? Because that worked great. The Android app on my phone, however, was shit.

The Xbox 360 App worked great, I watched Community and Other Space with it, with no commercials, since apparently they couldn't get ads to work on the 360 app. So yeah, not surprising they weren't able to generate much revenue.

Yeah, the actor contracts are all one-sided in the commitment: "If the show gets renewed, you have to come back and do it. We don't have to renew it though."

Ankai, your instincts were spot on for Lost; it wasn't until halfway through Season 2, when the show runners and ABC agreed on an end date, that it truly started moving forward, and then it turned out they ultimately didn't know what they were doing.

Another factor in the running times for these shows is that they're not necessarily shown on Netflix in other countries. House of Cards was broadcast on TV networks in Australia, New Zealand, and India. So the foreign market causes it to make sense to stick roughly to the standard episode lengths.

I had BMG for CDs back in the day; a huge amount of the first CDs I ever bought came from them. Later I got lazy about sending back the notice, but I also knew that I could just write "return to sender" on the package they sent and the post office would return in on their dime and I wouldn't get charged. BMG

In Reverse and Kimi Ga Suki are great, and Blue Sky on Mars ain't too shabby either. I haven't been able to get into his earlier or later stuff, although I think
Earth is probably half a good album.

Radio never had to pay recording artists any royalties. They only had to pay the songwriter a royalty, and it often worked out to much less per listener.

Don't worry, Gnash will be finished any day now.

Sometimes they're dealing with the lawyers at the studios, first sending them a letter threatening to sue, looking for a quick settlement. Then if those talks fall through, or are just dragging on, they formally sue them.