Hah! I just put 2 and 2 together, and realized that if I was still at my previous job (as an art director and designer at a big interactive shop) that I would have been working on Movielink.com, the ill-fated attempt by Hollywood to deliver movies over the Internet. Funny! And now that I know the connection, it all makes sense why the back-end production blows real hard.

My previous theory was that it was purposely done shoddily, as a sort of fodder for the movie industry to give a quick “see, we tried, and it didn’t work, thus don’t need to go any further” excuse. Now I’m not so sure…