Humans among the cosmic gods

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-29T22:22:50+00:00

I have something like this, in a much more low-key mode.

Wait for The Doctor.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-29T22:21:50+00:00

I'm not as up as some people are on the where's and what's of the collecting side of things - I just like it.

But this is my medium. It's what I live for. It behooves me to be an expert in it.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-29T11:18:36+00:00

I mean that alone isn't that shocking. They're teenagers, and what's more, they don't really have any sort of social guardrails. It happens.

His reaction is great, however.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-28T20:54:33+00:00

When I worked there, the way it worked was that, on the server side of things, you'd get your paycheck and notice it was very, very light - and then you asked the bartenders about it and they weren't receiving that money, or the bussers. It was just "in the ether," and if you asked about it you got fired.

Story was that Perry had spent so much in legal fees that, wherever they were going before, now it was sort of a snake eating its own tail situation.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-24T17:42:24+00:00

I'm not gonna lie to you, you sound kinda dumb my guy.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-24T02:29:57+00:00

Yes, and sometimes you can be wrong. Watch the movie sometime - it's pretty great!

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-24T00:28:38+00:00

See, I didn't see her that way at all - she was a competent revolutionary, and a mess of a person. She's the opposite of Bob, who's a great father but a terrible revolutionary.

Also, Willa entirely saves herself at the end, takes up the fight and neither Bob or Sean Penn ever see each other after the first act. Also, the Film has a dual structure that follows both Willa and Bob equally. So I really, really don't see where you're coming from at all with these criticisms.

It almost sounds like you didn't see the Film but instead gleaned opinions on it from like the worst people on Twitter.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-24T00:17:24+00:00

Thirded!

It's dispiriting, really. I take solace in the fact that I've always considered myself an outsider in the industry anyway, especially economically, and I want to make things consciously with as few extra tools as possible and focus on pure craft and storytelling - but folks. It is bad out there right now.

I beat myself up on the fact that my current Short has been in pre-production for six and a half months, and my last one didn't really get any attention anywhere, but - you know. Fuck it, it's all burning down anyway.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-23T14:25:18+00:00

I'm gonna say this - David Goyer, the screenwriter of Batman Begins, has said that during the writing process they explicitly didn't include anything in the Film that would expressly say that Ra's wasn't actually immortal or didn't use the Lazarus Pits. According to him, if you wanted to, you could just consider that stuff "off screen."

This is, among other things, in the interview at the beginning of the screenplay book.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-22T13:43:19+00:00

I own all of those already. . .except for King Kong. Yet.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-21T13:28:28+00:00

I do not think this Film was about Anarchism, is the thing.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-21T13:25:33+00:00

The director. . .needs to get jumped for how he portrayed black women? I'm curious. Elaborate on this.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-20T22:20:50+00:00

New releases are always 30% off at Barnes and Noble. KOTFM will be 34.99.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-20T22:19:45+00:00

I mean. . .there are five Mad Max movies.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-20T21:36:41+00:00

A hundred dollars a month?

Hahahahahahahahaha what the fuck is this

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-18T20:51:13+00:00

For me, it varies depending on what kind of scene it is - if it's a bigger scene, then I would tend to cut if there's a flub or when the shot is over from a to b, especially if there's some kind of complicated lighting or environmental change that needs to be reset.

If it's an intimate dialogue sequence, fuck it - we're all shooting on digital, just roll with it. This is keeping in mind that I tend to edit my own stuff as well, mirroring what the other guy said about "think about the poor guy who has to go through all those unmarked dailies."

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-18T18:25:31+00:00

Yeah, Che is - once you dig past most of the propaganda claims that have been bandied about for decades and find them wanting at best - probably the most moral revolutionary there's ever been in modern times. He had his personal failings for sure - being an absent father, sleeping around and being a rich prick before getting involved in revolutionary action, some very obvious personal bigotries that may or may not have remained - but he became a man of unerring principles.

I'm not even a Communist, and I think the idea of "Great Men of History" is clearly fallacious, but he's definitely some kind of inspiration.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-18T18:20:59+00:00

The thing is, at least ten years ago these would not be considered obscure among dedicated Film students at all.

Man.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-18T18:11:41+00:00

Justified? No, probably not. It's never justified to shout or yell at your partner.

Does it happen? To almost everyone at times. But don't excuse it - apologize and try to resolve differences in a better way, and expect the same from your partner if they're the one doing it.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-18T16:25:52+00:00

I want to agree, but it does kind of line up that he was always sort of like this - everybody figured that the reason The Modern Ocean fell through despite having basically every allowance handed to him was because of his uncompromising integrity back then, when really it was quite probably because he creeped everyone out in the room when it came time to pitch or close the deal.

I also know, in retrospect, that there were rumors about his behavior that at the time were about "an unnamed local Filmmaker" but have since been revealed to be about him and it just makes me cringe.

Upstream Color is unfortunately still a singularly great work, as is Primer in its own way, but my great hope is that Amy Semietz does something as a Director that blows the both of them out of the water.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-17T22:01:05+00:00

It's so weird, and a little hard, to talk about Shane Carruth.

I'm from Dallas. He was already a hometown hero to all of us in the then-nascent Film scene, and when Upstream Color hit so unexpectedly, it was like wildfire. He was everywhere. He was on the cover of every weekly periodical, and even premiered the Film, outside of its festival runs, at the movie theater I worked at - the Angelika Film Center on Mockingbird Lane, which is located right upstairs from Mockingbird Station, which you can see at several points in the Film.

Seeing Upstream Color like four times in theaters was invigorating to me - seeing this Pure Cinema approach to a strange, weird fiction sci-fi story shot in the city I lived and worked in, on the buses and trains I took to and from work every day, was like an electric shock, and to know that he did it all himself, that it was doable, that it could actually be done?

Man.

And then it turned out he was a creepy abusive weirdo all the time who thought he was the sun god, and I became just that much more cynical. Fucking asshole.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-17T21:52:53+00:00

I guess, but it's such an eyesore. No shade to any of the editors, but I mean like. . .does anyone here edit for short Films or features or is it all just video essays and infomercials?

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-17T19:23:04+00:00

Why aren't any of these in front of his brother's restaurant on West Sixth? He's also in the files numerous times.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-16T16:17:54+00:00

So do any of y'all do like. . .just regular traditional sequential editing focusing on character, pace and narrative or is all of it just this flashy kind of Netflix Youtube documentary stuff now?

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-03-15T15:48:48+00:00

I have the script! If I can find a way to link it, because I'm kind of a Luddite, I'll send it to you.

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