It's a good thing that Neil Young has a basically uninterruptible stream of income from his early works, because it's pretty clear at this point that every "audiophile" hustler from here to Shenzen has his number.

It depends a lot on the encoder. Back in the heydey of napster/gnutella/kazaa/limewire, everyone was using the incredibly crappy old Xing mp3 encoder or something equally atrocious, and usually at a relatively low bitrate (128kbps), and you really could easily hear the encoding artifacts.

Seriously. Hell, DDS2 could have been six episodes, all focussed on the Punisher.

…another 13 episodes…

Actually thinking about the theological/metaphysical implications of any of the Indiana Jones films is pretty much guaranteed to lead to a fatal stroke. "Raiders" alone posits a universe where the omnipotent Abrahamic god of the old testament absolutely exists, that the story of the delivering of the Law to Moses is a…

Good luck to the man, and if these turn out to be good films I'll be happy to watch them.

He'd pretty much have to. "Under Pressure: The Making of The Abyss" remains the gold standard for completely insane production diaries, up to and including "Hearts of Darkness". I'm always impressed that any studio was ever willing to work with him again after that.

Star Wars? In retrospect, the impressive thing about the prequel trilogy is that it somehow didn't completely destroy the profitability of the franchise.

Hot, controversial take: Aliens is pretty fucking good.

I'm basically assuming they turned into Furries for Trump.

(And the sad thing is: I like The Abyss, weird plot lacunae and all. But man, that turned out to be a preview of all of Cameron's worst tendencies as a filmmaker. The dude is hugely talented, but maybe needs to hire an entire greek chorus to follow him around, singing about the dangers of hubris in iambic…

Maybe? It certainly was the first "3D" movie that proved it was possible to make a visually appealing and mostly non-headache-inducing film with the technology, but the ball was already rolling with considerable momentum by the time it came out: Hollywood was (and still is) desperate for a gimmick that will make…

I remember two lines and exactly two from that godawful movie. The first one was during one of Boring Australian Hero's interminable video logs, in which he looked pleadingly at the audience, squinted up his actin' muscles, and said "we don't have anything they want." Which… fuck. you. James. Cameron. You do not…

Beats cleaning toilets.

James Cameron: "Hey, remember that time I nearly killed a bunch of my cast and crew to make a 2.5 hour long remake of The Poseidon Adventure with the ending of 2001 tacked onto it, and barely anybody wanted to see it? Well hold my fucking beer…"

If I actually thought that the Wachowskis were that clever, (hoo boy are they not) I'd say it's a subtle satire on Potist/Maoist-style socialist revolutions: just one or two more mass famines and liquidations of the urban intelligentsia, and we'll have achieved the agrarian workers' paradise!

As much as I loved the film when it came out, I remember thinking even then: "well fuck, we're never going to get a proper adaptation of Neuromancer now." And sure enough, that project has stayed stuck in development hell ever since.

There was a throwaway line in Reloaded that suggested that the Merovingian had possibly been The One in a previous cycle, but like damn near every other interesting idea floated in that movie, they went precisely nowhere with it.

Now I want to know what your job is.

Oh man, F.E.A.R. Diminishing returns incarnate, but the first half of the first game is still pretty much Peak FPS.