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Saw it! Solid film but a bit of a strange one. I guess the tropes you could expect in this type of movie are not there. It's not about the talented but lazy actor, it's not about finding you passion, it's not about reaching fame through hard work, it's not a film about the rivalry between two...

Technically, it's kind of a Troy sequel. The events take place just after the Trojan war.

That was more or less my playthrough also. It was funny to liberate towns and have heroes that otherwise would join your army tell you to fuck off. And the ending was basically "a tyrant falls, another tyrant takes his place". Sorry game! It was too tedious to play a different way for my teenage...

There is a fan remaster of Zelda 2 that is a standalone PC game. It keeps the 8 bit esthetic, but it's in a wide screen format and everything is adjusted / changed. I never played it but it's supposedly very good if you want a Zelda 2 fix : ZIIAOL by HoverBat As for the remaster thing, the game...

Watched The Secret Agent the other day. It is also a pretty serious contender. In the meta category that is the "Big political film of the year" it beats Eddington and One Battle After Another handily in my book. Probably because it goes about its themes in a different way, toning down the humor...

It's been in theaters nearby for several weeks and on the days I was motivated to go, the schedule did not fit and on days I could have gone, I was not motivated :( That's the problem with 3 hours long movies. It's tough to schedule for theaters and spectators alike. Not all hope is lost though...

Polio no necessarily will, but certainly can.

Saw that in 2023. A very good starting point, but a start does not make a whole movie and sadly the creators had no idea where to go with this one so it feels more like a missed opportunity than anything. Meh.

Does leftist scum remind you it's the justices appointed by Reagan and the two Bushes that voted for it, while those appointed by Clinton, Obama and Ford(!) voted against it?

I have not seen this Dracula, but it should be noted that Radu Jude is one of the important director of the romanian new wave that provided us with great films in the past two decades. Like Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr. Lazarescu , Sieranevada or Malmkrog , Corneliu Porumboiu's Police...

I am going to ask, because an acquaintance of mine believed that much to my befuddlement: do you think actors in movies actually have sex during sex scenes?

For me it's darker than that, because the changing of the guard when it comes to drug dealers goes from people doing it originally to escape their condition and who are part of the community (your Avon, Stringer Bell, Prop' Joe) to a nihilistic anti-social pit of darkness in Marlo Stanfield.

Kim, Lee and Park make out 45% of the surnames in South Korea.

I don't get why people are surprised that people whose job it is to watch movies have relatively obscure things on their "bests of the year" list. Unless these surprised people work on the very flawed assumption that if something is good, then it must be widely distributed, well known and...

I jumped in the thread to mention sevral indies I played recently and ended up writting a too long review of Haven... meh. In the past month I also played: Donut Country: Comedy game in the spirit of Katamcy Damacy but less mechanically interesting. Amusing and short still. A Short Hike: A...