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When I left the theater I asked myself this: In this type of US-made action-adventure movies with a dash of comedy, when was the last time I have seen something as well made as this? Maybe the last good Pirates of the Caribbean so... At World's End in 2007? And even if for some reason you...

Delivers what's on the tin. Nothing more, nothing less. Not great, but his best film since Moonrise Kingdom.

There are also way more native spanish speakers than native english speakers.

Some puzzle games fit that bill... I played 31 hours of a game called LYNE waiting for it to stop being mundane but it never did, it just has thousands of puzzles. On the mindless and unrewarding I also spent waaaay too much time playing through several variations of Picross games.

Like the first, it's an ok stuntmen movie. They are missing the mark with the tracking shots though. A key element for those is the tension that comes with the idea the scene had to be performed in one continuous take, enhancing every camerawork or stunt bravado. But in these films, they make...

That's funny because, also from Switzerland, I get a rotation of 3 PSA about safe driving (I don't have a license), 1 ad for beer (I don't drink) and 1 for makeup featuring some french streamer I don't know (some men do, but I don't wear makeup). I don't think I have seen the Diablo one even...

These types of contracts also come with a number of clauses, like how many hours a week or a month you must stream. Since that 2 year deals is 35 million a year plus 30 million of conditional bonuses, the bonuses are probably related to hours of gambling streams or conversions of viewers to...

I was looking for a light show to binge watch so I went through all 5 seasons of this. Weird show. The first two seasons are not unpleasant, but they suffer from two things. First, the premise of the show, a guy in his late 40s becoming a rookie, goes nowhere fast. It's mainly fodder for a...

I suspect they face a conundrum when it comes to filling their schedule: they need to show new things but they also need to show popular things and these are not in infinite supply. Sure, there can be some breakthrough in the route of the main category of popular games that could justify...

Somehow, this found its way to a theater near me. Probably because the serie was very popular in the european countries that showed a lot of anime on TV in the '80s and '90s (Italy, Spain, France). You have to wonder what people are thinking when they create movies like this. When you dig out...

Poly Bridge 3 got released today so.... Poly Bridge 3! Some UI improvements and only some minor new gameplay things sofar (anchor points you can buy, placed elements as part of the levels), but I am not very far in the campaign.

That wuxia game, Phantom Blade Zero, looked interesting also.

I went and saw this movie and that is the first Marvel movie I have seen since the 2018 Ant man sequel.

I was about to mention that: we played a lot of 2nd ed. in the Forgotten Realms through the '90s and for some campain I played a drow priestess of Eilistraee. This got me rummaging through old stuff and found some rule books and some lore books (Mystara stuff for 2nd ed. and the wonderful...

Are we leaving the super hero era to enter the brand era? Behind the scenes with Air, Tetris, Blackberry and more product oriented with Barbie or Super Mario Bros... That's not a new thing per se, The Social Network comes to mind and weird things like Battleship happened... but I can't think of...

At some point, John Woo's production company option'ed or maybe even bought the movie rights for Metroid. That would have been a weird one. As far as doing a single protagonist movie, I feel like many horror and adventure movies, without even touching the more arty things, have huge chunks in...

Since we have a thread here about a french thriller, let me recommend one : Undercover / Enquête sur un scandale d'État (litteraly: Investigation on a State scandal). Not an action movie, more of a political / journalism thriller with two pillars of french cinema: Roschdy Zem (as a shady...

Always looking forward to a new Wes Anderson movie, but I think there is something to note: The screenplay and/or story of his films are always collaborative efforts and there are different co-writers. Owen Wilson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums), Noah Baumbach (The Life Aquatic...

Still very unique, but a mixed bag for me. Reeves is not getting younger and many of the choreographies feel labored and approximative now. In the earlier films, Wick survived because of his mastery allowing him to stay in control of messy situations, while here it sounds like he makes it...

This headline makes it sound like Twitch is suddenly losing money because of its policies, while it never made money. Also, Twitch is part of Amazon who just laid off 18k people with 9k more on the way, so it stands to reason that the brand new CEO of Twitch has to find a way to make a buck and...

Every year, five buddies and myself compile our 20 favorite movies of the previous year and compile the lists into a top 20 overall. For 2022, our lists had a record low number of american films (note that it's not in perfect synch with the Oscars because our thing is based on release date in...

Let me spoiler this off-topic "take it to DM" post. Just a bit of fact checking for '70s chilean politics...

Only in these parts can one call dictator a democratically elected president that got removed from office by a coup and replaced by a military junta for almost 2 decades (during which thousands of political opponents went "missing" - people still to this day are combing the Atacama desert...

Ok cast. Meh director. Bad screenplay writers. La Reine Margot this will not be. It probably will sell a lot of tickets though.

How is writing 70+ tv show episodes over a 20 years period not worthy of the veteran label in your book?

Two things: 1) The police has been known to be very bad when it comes to dealing with streamers being harrased. 2) When you have a gigantic community, it's unavoidable to have a number of nutjobs among the lot and that includes both nutjobs that will try to stalk you AND nutjobs that will go ham...

A part shocked me in that article : "Bloys hadn’t heard of the Naughty Dog/Sony PlayStation game — nor had his head of drama programming, Francesca Orsi — before TV writer Craig Mazin brought it in to them as a prospect." You would think people responsible for a fiction delivery service would...

By all accounts, Amy Hennig had absolutely nothing to do with The Last of Us. She was working on Uncharted 3 and then Uncharted 4 until her departure and that game was in part rewritten and then completed by Neil Druckmann, Josh Scherr and others. Note that both were on the writing team of...

@Rajaah maybe your confusion comes from the fact Ishin is not a new game, it's a re-release (somewhat remastered I think ?) of a game from 2014 that previously was available only in Japan. My understanding is that future mainline Like a Dragon games will go on with the RPG formula.

There was a big Kotaku article about it. It should be noted that while it uses the "new" moniker "Like A Dragon" the combat is action based like the previous Yakuza games (that were all titled "Like a Dragon" in Japan). I never played Ishin, but I played Kenzan, the previous samurai spin-off set...

Crystalis is very playable. I think one of two things are somewhat confusing in the progression, but as a whole it is pretty smooth. Kid Icarus is abominable as it is plagued by the dark side of early '80s japanese game design: cryptic stuff and dumb and imbalanced stuff just because it's...

I stand corrected, my sanity check was not thorough: when I tried to add the "straight" tag in Twitch the drop down menu proposed dozens of variations of it, but not this exact word with this exact spelling (I got fooled by "straíght"). I suspect the idea behind it is that "straight" is loaded...

Fake news. Actually not fake news.

I stand by my original take: in season 1 you have one character that is odd and speaks in a strange way and it works well, in season 2 everyone is odd ans speaks in a strange way and it does not work.

Saw that the other day as the resident Shyamalan apologist. I didn't read the book (wasn't aware it was one), so I can't comment on the changes he made when writing the screenplay. It's cleanly directed, but lacks the occasional moments of brilliance Shyamalan sometimes provide. It's competently...

Just saw Pathaan, a hindi blockbuster that just got a worldwide release. Long story short : the plot is a mess, de dialogues are extremely bad, the over the top action scenes are not as enjoyable as in some other indian films, but if you have some nostalgia for the Reagan-era hard bodies in...

You haven't played the games nor have you watched the show, but it's plain to see that knowing nothing does not prevent you from giving your opinion.

Since it's mostly a US thing, maybe it has more to do with people going from xbox to playstation?

The poor man's Mission: Impossible with a dash of Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent that goes nowhere. Also they should have left the McGuffin as an abstraction, because it both makes no sense and invites a number of questions that the film does not address. Still watchable, but not great.

Very surprised at the number of people who knew nothing about the game. I guess if you did not have a PlayStation 3 or 4 (and now 5) you were unlikely to know much about it.