Masters of the Universe: Night Stalker (1985)

MotU: Night Stalker (1985)

Evil Armored Battle Steed!

Nine Inch Nails: Tron: Ares (2025)

Tron: Ares. Music by Nine Inch Nails (2025)

I realised after making the Hesitation Marks (2013) post that I didn't want any of the really crap Nine Inch Nails releases on my main blog. That meant I didn't write anything about Not The Actual Events (2016), Add Violence (2017), Bad Witch (2018), or Ghosts V + VI (2020), all of which made me sigh for having dared hope they might take NIN back to its former glory.

Tron: Ares' first single, As Alive as You Need Me to Be, had a definite Fragile (1999) / With Teeth (2005) vibe, which gave me hope once again... but the end result was the same. I hoped. I bought. I sighed. [1]

But mostly I'm confused about why it even has the NIN moniker. With just a few exceptions, including As Alive as You Need Me to Be, it resembles a typical Reznor + Ross film score, which for me is something best summed up as lifeless, dull, musical enervation.

Robert Frost: Nothing Gold Can Stay (1923)

Nothing Gold Can Stay (1923)

by Robert Frost | 1923

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Textless Film Posters: Part Three

Textless Film Posters: Part One

Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts I-IV Images (2008)

Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts I-IV Images (2008)

Individual images are below the cut. A PDF is HERE (Mediafire) or HERE (MEGA).

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