Well... they have some phenomenal visual designs and some interesting, if far-out, ideas for things. And the difference between Pitch Black and Chronicles is, if you'll forgive the expression, like night and day.

Yea, I really wish Chronicles had been... better. It had so much potential in the sense of world building (galaxy-building?) details and imagery, but it just didn't work from a narrative standpoint, and overreached in some story elements (I REALLY could have done without the whole Prophesied Savior from a now-extinct…

I LOVE that fact. When one of the guy's biggest complaints about working on set is that it's hard to find people to play D&D with, I can't help but love him just a little bit.

Agreed, the prequels weren't particularly good films, but I do still *like* them. I don't *love* them, though I think they got progressively better. Episode 1 is the weakest of the six, but I'd probably put Episode 3 at about the same level as Ep. 6; more or less tied for the third-best. Neither was perfect, but…

I could see a scenario in which Dolphins' echolocation turns out to be the perfect pitch/wavelength to cause the alien's neural tissues to dissolve. Basically an aquatic version of the yodeling in Mars Attacks! ;-)

Honestly, I'm surprised that Cameron can't get ANYTHING made these days. I'd have thought that at this point he could insist on a huge-budget NC-17 super-villain epic and studios would just trust him to make a billion dollars with it.

From what I recall it was sort of a bit of both—it acknowledges the events of Chronicles, but is more of a small-focus, single-planet kind of thing supposed to be more in the style/feel of Pitch Black.

Can't we do both? Because frankly I'd find that more satisfying than just bitching and being eternally irritated by it. Let go of your hate! ;-)

I'm so sorry to hear that.

Seriously? You got "that sounds terrible" from the almost complete lack of details up there? I mean, the only real information in that tidbit is "there are some big set pieces" and "I didn't do any cutesy/snarky dialogue."

Drugs are all chemistry, man. Biochemistry, in fact, once they're in a body; plain-vanilla chemistry while they're being synthesized.

Best. Explanation. Ever.

Amen. That's right up there with the felt/soft-sculpture "Bella's womb" from the previous set of godawful Twilight related stuff.

Yeah, I got it on DVD a while back; I don't really find the blu-ray collection compelling, though. I'm pretty sure the originals weren't shot in HD anyway, so there's no real advantage—these would basically just be upscaled, like any blu-ray player could do anyway with DVD's.

Dude, there are tens of thousands of them. try checking out crime statistics for any decent-sized city... you put tens of thousands of people anywhere, and some of them will be assheads.

Do you honestly think the economy and job market would be in a better state now if the banks hadn't been bailed out? When every depression in history has been precipitated by a wide-scale bank failure?

"I guarantee more people in America think like Frank, than think like Cyriaque (and that's a good thing.) "

I love me some Farscape, but even I have to admit that some of the earlier episodes aren't really worth bothering with. I kinda' think it didn't really "get good" until about halfway through season 1.

Hell, now I refuse to read it out of fear that the theory just won't live up to the name "sparkledammerung." :-D

Why would you fear someone who doesn't place you in immediate danger?