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Should be seeing it soonish. I am a big fan of the Romanian New Wave, even if Mungiu is not my favorite of the bunch. I enjoyed his previous two films though, Graduation and R.M.N. .

A 90s cult classic I have never played which is a blend of scifi and psychological horror is "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream". I had to mention it because it's such a great title! It's co-directed by author Harlan Ellison who wrote the short story it's based on.

Just played through a fan made demake of Metroid Prime called Metroid Prime Origins. It takes the Game Cube game and somehow makes a classic 2D Metroid out of it while managing to maintain by and large the structure and the power ups of the game. It's Windows PC only. I played it on controller...

Saw this one on VHS in the '90s, so it can only be an improvement! From Kobayashi I think I only saw the well known films which are this one, Harakiri, Samurai Rebellion and the Human Condition trilogy (which is a single film split in three for theater release more than a trilogy). Human...

@Tmac A coop multplayer game that seemed very cool to me is Deep Rock Galactic.

I was ready to bet my house that the link with Bad Lieutenant was only because of the way they translated the title. I would have been homeless because the guy who produced the Abel Ferrara film also produced the Herzog film and a few years back he decided to use the Bad Lieutenant IP to produce...

The words you are looking for are "I would like it to be [...]". The only thing it is supposed to be is what its author wants. If Nolan wants to strip the film of the "When you go oldie, go Limey" trope and use mundane modern language instead of poetic elevated language to make the tale more...

Fun anecdotal fact: I was considering checking this film in Imax in a nearby city and the original version (as in: not dubbed) in Imax at 1pm on Tuesday had only seats left on the front row or the edges of the theater...

Saw that at the NIFFF also. Good looking movie with some nice moments, but it did not grab me. It also uses a catalogue of tropes I am not a fan of.

There is a difference between a translation and an adaptation. In his adaptation Nolan is using the source material but culled things, added things and transformed things both to have the story connect with a modern audience and to emphasize the themes he wanted the movie to be about. The work...

Saw it a few weeks back at the NIFFF. It's not horrible but it's not good either. I felt like there was a lack of tension because, to stay vague, the film does not do great job at showing that the obvious solution to the problem that the main character has to resolve once the horror element...

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Isn't Waterworld's budget massively inflated by the fact the whole set got destroyed multiple times? Still, the point stand. A big blockbuster for 100 millions is probably not a thing. Project Hail Mary is at 200, Galadiator 2 (to use a similar film) a bit more.

I see what you did here! Oh... wait... that was an accident wasn't it?

Watched the 5th season. I feel this show is pretty good at making the logical next step based on its premise and exploring the challenges of that next step. So it makes sense to explore what happens to a space colony when it goes beyond a certain critical mass, making it a society. It is true...

Nerd game alert: I started to play The Message from Deep Space. It's a game about communicating with aliens except you start from absolute scratch and little by little you develop a communication system. It is arid and some affinity with math, logic, programming and/or linguistics is required...

It's very difficult to use actual teenagers for teenagers parts because they might change a lot over a several months shoot (some movies do it and have this change as a part of the movie, like Nobody Knows). That's why you hire adults to play teenagers and for that the only criteria is how they...

NBA All Star game level defense in the match for 3rd place.... some cool goals though.

Undeniable like Chicago over Gangs of New York? The members of the Academy are in it for life. The median age is in the mid-60s so they don't need help to shit themselves and don't care about diversity. I mean they don't even care about watching the movies they vote for!

That's something special. Almost non stop action with some very original fight choreographies. A must see for those who enjoy this type of films.

The funny part is that if Paredes did not get a yellow after Embolo's dive, the VAR could not have gotten involved. That plus the fact it's very unlikely a star player in a big team would have gotten a 2nd yellow for something like that leaves a bit of a sour aftertaste. Instead of having...

You mean Switzerland, right? :D

I have been watching soccer on and off for more years than I want to admit and I still don't get how defenders can somehow lose track of where the dude who scores 90% of the opposing team's goals is. (Brazil not accounting for Haaland on a cross and then putting 0 pressure on him while he is...

The sensor in the ball said it touched... how reliable that is, I don't know. Did it break the record of overtime length though? WTF was that.

You know you are very good when you miss your first touch and it turns into a goal ! (Haaland)

After Paraguay missed the penalty kicks 4 and 5 I was sure they were going out!

Platt was also amazing in The West Wing as the White House legal consult. A small part in 8 episodes, but a memorable one. He did most of his TV work in Huff, The Big C and Chicago Med... any of those worth checking?

This is very very bad. Absolutely nothing makes sense if you stop 3 seconds to think about it and all of it is built on a completely idiotic premise. I guess you can save a shot here and there and Blunt is giving a very energetic performance, but that's about it. That best thing by far was...

I have seen all 5 seasons of the original french show (The Bureau aka Le bureau des légendes). Is it worth seeing both?

Spain vs Cabo-Verde maybe?

Patlabor??? Ghost in the Shell?? Sure.

Maybe you see it as a straw man because my point was not clear: I am not equating Homer and Tolkien, I am not equating "not having read" with "not having heard of", I am saying we don't give a damn about what actors know or don't know about the source material, because it has no correlation with...

Since when do we care whether or not actors know about the source material of the film adaptations they act in? Half the cast of Lord of the Rings had not read the books, somehow I don't remember an uproar about that.

The gamut is so wide with Nicolas Widing Refn that it's impossible to know if it will be a masterpiece or absolute garbage. His last two efforts (that I have seen) are not a source of optimism though since both The Neon Demon and the mini-serie Too Old to Die Young have their moments but are...

I saw Tenet in theater and had no issue at all with the sound mixing, so I suspect the issue comes from having a mix that is highly sensitive to bad audio setups in theaters. I guess you still kinda can blame Nolan for that because he made choices knowing that watching the movie in bad theaters...

Instead of saying random things, you could also check the actual academy award website: Representation and Inclusion Standards | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences If you have a woman as casting director, an asian guy as VFX director and the marketing departement hires a...

Man... I was about to brag that I own Fighting Street, which is considered the first CD Rom game ever released (a very bad port of Street Fighter 1 on PC-Engine CD-Rom released on the 4th of December 1988), but while I was 99% sure to own it, I actually don't... I'll have to limit my bragging...

For those who were into gaming at the time of its release, the 7th Guest was known, since it's one of the first few CD-Rom games for Windows PC (there are a lot of earlier CD Rom games on different japanese systems, mainly PC-Engine aka TurboGrafx-16 since 1988, but also on Mega CD aka Sega CD...

If anything, the fact Elden Ring does not have a straight forward narrative, but is a fleshed out world that has a lot of lore and history, make it more likely that the story they will choose to tell will be good. They are given a setting and can tell anything that they feel would work well for...

Oh... I saw this. It's nothing much, but it is somewhat entertaining. I have not seen the previous movies of the director, but if I have to very unfairly put him in a category based on a single film, it would be "very enthousiastic film lover who might not be the brightest". A category he would...