Umm... that's a no brainer, Gwyneth of course!

To clarify, my funding their kickstarter had little to do with my understanding of the story being told (I was mainly interested in the lighting techniques they were talking about and got the lighting tutorial and plans as rewards). The interpretation I outlined previously was born out of watching all of the shorts and looking at the overall picture and themes. It seems like you were intent on trying to comprehend each short as an isolated story rather than a collection and that's maybe where you went wrong? Indeed, if you watch all the parts in order, things become clearer as you travel back in time.

Which I guess is a politer way of saying 'try harder'. 

I saw Kickass 2 at last. Wild tonal shifts (deadly dark to cartoon) made for a weird viewing experience, but it was fun.

I was a kickstarter on these actually and I have to disagree that they lack substance. You'll notice that the further back in time we go, the more human and civilised the underwater people were. The repetition of the ritual that transforms the human that falls into the water is a demonstration of the decline of their power, their civilisation and the widening of the chasm between the races, primarily in terms of technology. As we go through the ages even greater parts of the ritual are lost, to the extent that in the 'end', in our modern day, the underwater people are just scary and savage animals dressed in rags.

Well they should be rewarded for not cutting a million times like most movies...

I love how almost every movie you review has a score of either 6 or 7. 

Ooh! I'd love to join, I've got a whole list of SW games and opinions and stuff.

Talk about a god with an inflated view of himself!

Anyhow, this is how I picture heaven. Funny how all our imagination can conjur is "white".

And yet you "assume he could take care of the rest". So how do we know anything about this God at all? You can't have it both ways.

Eddie Izzard has another skit about how the flood wouldn't have affected any of the water borne species.
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Really? I thought the score by Vangelis is one of the best things about it! 'Drums of Guagamela' is a great track, as is the 'Titans' theme.

And China's on the moon.

The lander (top arrow) and Yutu (bottom arrow) cast shadows across the Lunar "soil"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25559061

Just seen this and thought it was really quite an interesting take. You may remember the fella also did one for Episode 1.

Just got back. I enjoyed it but was constantly saying to myself "this isn't needed, I'd cut this whole section out of my hypothetical 1 movie supercut". Specifically, the entire sequence with the dwarves inside Erebor where Smaug uselessly chasing them around. There's a whole damn movie coming, so don't expect us to believe that the dwarves are going to prevail in their plan! Especially when you heavily foreshadowing that Bard's remaining black arrow is going to do the killing... Meanwhile your big bad villain is looking weaker with every minute that goes by without a dead dwarf.

Smaug and Bilbo was utterly brilliant (and Smaug in general, truly amazing work done on him), and is the highlight, much the same as the Gollum scenes in the first.

I was baffled by some decisions though, they add so much junk into the story, including a love triangle that seems almost entirely for the benefit of broadening the film's appeal, but skim over the Beorn scenes in just a few minutes. I guess I was disappointed as I always remember that chapter fondly - and the way that Gandalf introduces the dwarves gradually in groups so as not to overwhelm Beorn. It would have been a really nice call back to their introduction to Bilbo as well.

Finally, my main complaints about the Hobbit continue sadly, way too much going on, way too many cartoon stunts, and absolutely no subtlety. Further, the writers don't trust the audience to get anything without somebody saying it (and Bilbo appears to be the main voice here). But goddamn it, I still like them - they're Tolkien.