Makes sense, these days Premiere is basically FCP's step-sibling and that knee jerk reaction comes from before that was the case. Do they make Premiere for the Mac platform these days? So much of the industry runs on Macs and I doubt many people would migrate to Premiere if it meant switching out their hardware as well.

Welp, time to stop putting off learning Avid.

Except watch out for the crazies a little more, perhaps.

This documentary has been like a sadness virus spreading throughout our circle of friends. I think I was the last one infected, so I think it's up to me to pass it on to someone else.

Well, I just got back from a screening of Superman 2: The Donner Cut, which is the first time I'd ever seen it. And for the most part, storytelling wise, it's far superior to the theatrical version. But there's one bit towards the end that jumped out at me as really awkward ending.

After Superman has defeated Zod et. al. in the Fortress of Solitude, Lex Luthor instantly starts sniveling and brown nosing towards Superman. It literally cuts away from him mid sentence as he says: "I have a proposal for you - "

More baffling is the fact that the scene we cut to is Superman and Lois on the ice with the Fortress of Solitude on the horizon. Superman turns around and burns the place down with his heat vision. Lex Luthor is not with them. They are in the Arctic middle of nowhere. Where the hell did he go?

But, still, I'll take that over the cellophane "S" any day of the week.

The Necromongers have two competing, directly contradictory motivations:

1) "To kill or convert every being in the galaxy."
2) To get to a specific region of space so they can cross over into another region of space, presumably disappearing from the space that the action has been taking place in up until that point.

One is threatening, the other is not. Either they're space-Evangelicals trying to put their Ten Commandments on my lawn or they're space-Jews wandering through the galactic desert, minding their own business.

Ultimately, it's a problem of motivation. You could have ditched their need to get to the Spatial Nether Region and just made them religious Borg. Or you could have kept it and justified their pillaging pit stops any number of ways: they need to resupply and restaff their slave ranks, they need to gather as many converts as possible to make the Spatial Nether Region Negative Space Wedgie Transfer work, they need to be stopped before they get to the Nether Region because once they do, they'll come back with super powers and THEN kill or convert everybody in the galaxy. But the movie doesn't settle on any of these, so there are bits and pieces of each, none of which are guaranteed to make sense if you applied them to a random section of the movie.

Seriously, guys. It's fine to like bad movies. We all do.

But don't kid yourself about how good or bad it is. How much you enjoy a movie is a matter of subjective opinion. How well it tells its story is not.

I wish I was clever.

Excuse me, Michael. EVERYONE knows that Jaws The Revenge is Jaws 4.

*snort*

As soon as we can figure out how to pay film crews a tenth of what they get paid now, you'll get 50 more hours of Star Wars!

I'm sure I've go something laying around the hard drive. I'm not sure when I'll be able to sit down for a look though. When do you need it by?