Comments on: The Spider House Rules

By: Del

Del — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:16:33 +0000

great! audio/visual/story fits perfectly.

By: Matthew Belinkie

Matthew Belinkie — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:52:25 +0000

For the record, I’ve never thought Pete’s feedback was “mean,” and I hope he doesn’t start feeling guilty about it. He’s like Simon Cowell. Sure, he’s tough. But he’s also right most of the time. I always go to Pete with my ideas because I know he’ll give it to me straight, and tell me if it needs work.

By: fenzel

fenzel — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:46:13 +0000

Yeah, I was pretty clearly excessively mean to Belinkie in this post for no reason.

If anything, you can see this as a window into the emails I send Belinkie when he asks for my feedback on things.

In retrospect, those emails of mine were excessively mean for no reason.

By: Stokes

Stokes — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:09:50 +0000

Re: isolating the dialogue track.
I read a little essay about this somewhere a few years back, I think around when the Grey Album dropped. Apparently it’s relatively easy to *remove* the human voice from an audio clip (which is you sometimes see stereos with an auto-karaoke feature), but the opposite is usually very hard. There’s no particular reason why this should be so – theoretically, if you take the waveform of the original sample and then subtract the “karaoke” version, what’s left should be the voice alone – but in practice, unless you have the unmixed vocal track, you have the option of A) living with those random oboe notes in the background or B) having everyone sound like they’re talking through a cheap walkie-talkie.

By: Gab

Gab — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:44:11 +0000

To those that commented: I really don’t think his goal was to have a seamless, perfect, authentic movie trailer, people. Comments like, “Fix the audio,” and such seem irrelevant.

But, then again, this site *is* called “OVERthinkingit.com.” So maybe y’all are doing exactly the right thing.

Anyhoo, to Matthew: I was truly giggling the whole time, and I guffawed in a few spots, too. I get it, most definitely– for yes, I have seen “Cider House Rules,” so I appreciate it marvelous much.

By: fenzel

fenzel — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:01:11 +0000

that should say spoof. But it works

By: fenzel

fenzel — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:00:49 +0000

I’m pretty much a tongue-in-cheek spook of a film critic by nature, so your assessment wasn’t quite off the mark ;-)

At one point, I tried out as a theatre reviewer for one of our college newspapers. I did one review, and they asked me not to come back, ostensibly because I gave the show too much credit for trying.

By: Matthew Belinkie

Matthew Belinkie — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:07:40 +0000

I definitely watched Get Carter. But there actually isn’t a great shot of him pointing a gun right at the camera, in a way that matches up well with the shot of Uncle Ben lying on the ground. Plus, Caine’s so young in that, you almost doing recognize him.

By: B

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:27:38 +0000

I like the title “The Spider House Rules.” I say keep it.

I mistook Fenzel’s first comment to be a toung-in-cheek spoof of a film critic write up. Anyway, like the vid. I got a pretty good laugh out of it.

By: Professor Coldheart

Professor Coldheart — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:38:18 +0000

I don’t really expect it to get watched that much, since The Cider House Rules isn’t that well-known.

Ha ha, shows what you know! I’m telling EVERYBODY.

I will not have sat through the terrible 1992 Michael Caine thriller Blue Ice in vain (I needed him holding a gun).

The original “Get Carter” wasn’t available?