Well...that’s all perfectly reasonable and understandable, and a much more positive “glass half full” approach than I can muster, so. Carry on, and enjoy the cinema :)

1: Cameron started working on this before Disney ever entered the picture. This is a passion project of his, that needs to make a couple billion dollars to even break even, so I’d say this is less “Disney/shareholders want it” and more like “Disney/shareholders anxiously hope this movie doesn’t flop”. Especially…

James...you made The Terminator. Titanic. Aliens. The Abyss. True Lies. Why, why do you have to hang your hat on this uninspired, boring franchise? You fuckin’ went into the Mariana Trench for fuck’s sake, and the thing you want to be remembered for is Avatar? 

Santos L. Halper?

Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Li’l Wayne, DaBaby...

Oh, I’m for sure going to watch the movie. I love Mario and I think the animation and world-building stuff looks phenomenal. I just roll my eyes every time someone implies that I can’t judge something until I’ve consumed it wholly. It kinda negates the art of trailers, if you ask me.

Nah. I don’t have to “see the whole thing” to pass judgment. That’s like, the whole reason a trailer exists: so I can judge whether or not the movie may be to my liking, without having to see the whole movie.

I’ll trade “Switch Pro” for “actual discounts on first-party Nintendo exclusives” please. I’m not spending $50+ for Mario Golf. Even games discounted to $42 is too rich for my blood.

For the life of me I can’t understand why Blade Runner 2049 is never streaming in 4K on any of these services. I had to rent the 4K version through Google Play. Worth it, in my opinion, as the “HD” version looks muddy. 

You know how on recipe websites they have all those giant walls of text for monetization and SEO-based purposes and they’re super annoying, but at the same time towards the top there’s that little “Jump to Recipe” button so you can skip all the other crap and just go straight to the details you need?

Alien Isolation?

Don’t even get me started on Lincoln’s birthday...

Sorry, Christmas isn’t “comforting” and “merry” for me, ever since my dad dressed up as Santa Claus and broke his neck climbing down our chimney. So thanks, Cameron, for the reminder!!!

Genuine question: can you hug your child in the game? Like is there a “press X to show affection for your son”? I just feel like more video game kids would grow up to be healthy members of video game society if their video game parents could press x to hug them.

Those aren’t his two top picks. Those are just two movies he recently said he liked, in separate interviews, completely unrelated to this podcast. The author is trying to draw a connection here and doing a lot of editorial hypothesizing. 

Those aren’t his two choices for great movies of this era. The author of this piece is taking unrelated pull-quotes from separate interviews and using those as a sort of “answer” to the statement he made in this podcast. A statement which, let’s be honest, is just kind of a flippant throway line at the top of the…

Laura Dern kicks all the ass. So does Jamie Lee Curtis.

Which is ironic since Jesus was famously given presents.

At one point he 1000% believed he could’ve been a professional baseball player, I’m sure of it.