I gotta say it, while Season 5 has been my favorite up until this point, I thought this final cliffhanger episode in particular was super inconsistent and disappointing. Lots of character motivations that don't make sense, and suddenly the show is using time-lapse like crazy and jumping super quickly through pretty important details.

Teague, if you want a thrilling hacker culture non-fiction book, I highly, highly recommend Underground:
http://suelette.home.xs4all.nl/undergro … ground.pdf

Julian Assange is lead researcher on the nonfiction book, which basically chronicles the early days of underground hacker culture in the late 80s, and quickly spirals into a paranoia/conspiracy thriller with
basically young hacker kids stumbling on top-secret government plans, as well as millions of dollars in
debit card accounts and going on the run from the police, feds, and beyond.

The story is absolutely nuts and some of the most engrossing non-fiction I've ever read. I recommend jumping to chapter 3 if you want to get to the coolest stuff, though it can be a bit overwhelming.

Reminds me of

Ya, I wanna watch that just to get a feel for what he might do with Robocop. I've been cautiously optimistic about that remake, but Drew Mcweeny read the script and basically tore it apart on Twitter and said it was horrible, so who knows. Don't think anyone can top Verhoeven.

The problem with that approach is it's focused on an "individual" person's donation. Individually, I doubt most people would donate more than 5-20 bucks, what's cool about a pool of movie commentary ideas is that multiple people will chip in money to see a particular movie done. For some especially popular requests, I could see a given movie pool going up to several hundred dollars, maybe even more. And it doesn't have ot immediately get done, some movies can sit around in there and slowly grow pledges, gaining more and more value. Then the DIF crew can look at the options and weigh which ones they want to hit "Is it worth our time to do a commentary for X movie for Y dollars". Obviously this wouldn't be the approach for ALL future DIFs, but this kind of sustained market-place would create competition between movie suggestions and drive donations up.

One option that's been working really well for the filmjunk podcast is they still release their normal weekly shows, but every couple of weeks they'll release a "premium" podcast, which they will charge a minimum of 99 cents for via BandCamp. Examples in their case have been things like doing the Back to the Future trilogy, Batman movies, Star Wars, etc.
Kind of trickier in your case cause you've already hit all the "biggest" movies, but occasional "premium" DIFs like this could be an option.

However, avatar's idea is even better in my opinion. You have a pool of pre-funded DIF movie suggestions to choose from, so you aren't obligated to do a particular movie you don't want to, but if you do do it, you'll get that money amount from DIF members. I can definitely see people getting together and throwing significant money to get you guys to do particular movies.

Holy crap, I gotta track that down and watch it. How did I never hear of Cynthia Rothrock?
Was I just too young, being a child of the 90s?

Whoever played Nikita in La Femme Nikita

Dorkman, I've actually been saying that exact thing about Minority Report for years.
The movie fails for me because Lamar supposedly set Tom Cruise up, but he doesn't practically do anything to actually set him up, so the murder is essentially self-generated, which doesn't make sense.

I agree with your fix too, I really wish they'd done exactly that.

I'm still holding out hope that the remake never happens, it's one of the most profoundly pointless ideas I've ever heard. They can't top it in the action department, and the story is intentionally super basic and simplistic, why the fuck would you remake it?

And yes, Gareth Evans is currently working on the sequel, Berandal, which should be even more crazy.
Also, the dude has Once Upon a Time in the West as his Twitter background, and if you follow him, the dude is damn-near Tarantino-ish in his knowledge of the action genre. He's the real deal.

Ya, there's so many different ways you could go with the story. Another reason this was such a criminally missed opportunity. They could have totally started it out like the Arnie version, then have some crazy mind-fuck twist/subversion a third of the way through, and go off into a completely different story.

The only thing I've seen of Richard Kelly's is The Box, and I'm not going within a mile of any of his movies after that.