This Amuses Us: "Don't Let Them Tell You Less is More."

I'm not sure how we got there, conversationally, but recently we were all sitting around talking about movies while Tom supplied trivia by looking up imdb info (worst website redesign ever, by the way).

At one point we wound up talking about director/writer Stephen Sommers. The Mummy was his first and best movie (which we all enjoyed quite a bit, actually) but it's been all downhill from there, sliding eventually into his most recent release, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

As Rose regaled us with the many laughable extremes found in GI Joe, Tom came upon two pieces of trivia that not only illustrated the point but that could stand on their own. In fact, they have now become standard catch phrases in the HC home.

1 - this personal quote
"Don't let them tell you less is more. More is more."

2 - Industrial Light & Magic's Stephen Sommers Scale, jokingly created to measure the extent of digital effects used in a given movie scene. The four parts of the scale, from lowest to highest, are:

1. What The Shot Needs
2. What The Computers Can Handle
3. Oh My God, The Computers Are About To Crash
4. What Stephen Wants