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20 September 2005
Worst would-be cult-leader ever! Intense eyes: check.
Speaking slowly so they hang on your every word: check.
Ponytail: check.
Charisma, ideas: ...
My beingness thanks you, interrobang... and resonates with the pure, true nature of the knowing... and the being. And recognizes the profoundly whole and authentic reflection of the realness of the being. And the knowing.
The odd thing is, I enjoyed scene doubly, since not only did I hate Robbins' character, I've actually never cottoned to Robbins much. Plus it was my main man Jack Black helping to administer the beating.
Except the beating was a fantasy, he actually choked and stood there with a stupid look on his face until Robbins smirked and left.
I liked how the production company has this ridiculously long logo sequence to show how proud they are of the thing, then it transitions to titles you can't read because, y'know, black on black is a little low contrast, followed by a crappy pan shot of an audience in a community college lecture hall or airport Holiday Inn, and then the dissolve to the great man pretty obviously not shot in the same place A) because the camera was right in front of him which would have been a little hard on the audience, and B) the ambient sound didn't indicate he was mic'd for PA which he would need to be if he's going to ease out his words like like a guy sneaking out an SBD.