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This was not good. I am on board with the whole beginning. It's heavy handed and clumsy at times with the meta commentary, but there is still something pleasant in this fictional ouroboros, inventing a "reality" that could inspire a fiction made of the events of the first three films. Having the...

That new trailer moved me from pragmatically pessimistic to cautiously optimistic. It might not be a great Uncharted film, but may be a good adventure film. The flying ships part feels like something out of a Gore Verbinski movie and I am always on board for that!

In the World Championship against Caruana, the common wisdom was that if it came to faster time control, Carlsen would win and that's exactly what happened. In this World Championship, my layman's take is that Nepomniachtchi could have caused trouble in the faster time controls, but surviving 14...

The funny part is that he watched that baby shark video just to show how another kid video with a billion views was a blatent rip-off of it !

I watch a fair bit of Ludwig. Very witty and articulated guy and there is something pretty wholesome and genuine about him and the clique he has around him. He made a pretty nice explanation video about why he ended up going to youTube.

The original score of this film is composed by the brilliant Alexandre Desplat, but this particular piece is by another masterful french compositor : George Delerue. He scored films for 4 decades, from the '50s to his death in the '90s. He most notably worked for some key figures of the French...

I guess the question is : will he Prometheus it or not ? This particular fictional universe can certainly be explored further though.

Often amusing, rarely funny. More importantly, I feel his later efforts have been a bit dry. For me Wes Anderson is at his best when he manages to convey a strange kind of very human nostalgic sadness in spite of the extreme stylization. You need a particular kind of story and particular kind of...

I am not exactly sure why people are surprised that changes are made when adapting a 30 years old book. I guess you can argue that if core tenets of a book did not age well, you should just not adapt it. Or, more reasonably, that if changes are being made they should make some sense. On that...

People who want more Cowboy Bebop might want to check older shows that use similar tropes (most notably this type of main character that is super cool and super competent one second and clumsy and goofy the next). With the sci-fi but without the team : Cobra. Without the sci-fi but with the team...

"Come see the first part of this multi part movie that might not be completed if not enough people come to see it" does not sound like the best marketing idea ever.

First Class Trouble is a social deduction game released on the 2nd of November, but the little gameplay they shown one hour ago in Sony's State of Play made me think there is no voice communication, making it instantly a "nope". (EDIT : well... maybe you can use the PlayStation voice chat when...

@jayrebb I am starting to get the distinct feeling that your hobby is to invent unsubstantiated conspirational bullshit and then throw it at the forum to see if some stick.

My mother read Bilbo the Hobbit to my brother and I, but we were a lot younger than 13 I am sure. Maybe father and son read on their own, but they talk about what they read after every chapter or something ?

In not so dark corners of the internet you can find torrents for some very obscure films (I mean just the other week I put my hand of a bunch of brit' movies of the '90s - the Sharpe serie with Sean Bean) and in no obscure places at all (like subscene.com ) you can find subtitles for many...

To be fair "Chinese 'Dune' poster removes unknown actress in side character to make room for a big name in the HK-Taiwan-China film industries and an actor people might recognize from american blockbusters. Also, explosions !"

I have not checked the article linked earlier in the thread, but, as a general rule, the fact that some footage / scenes were shot and did not end up in the movie does not mean the director wished they were in it. Sometimes things that work on the page do not work once shot, or some brilliant...

The main problem is that Uncharted is a lot better than the movies it imitates (at least those made currently), so making a movie out of Uncharted is almost doomed to fail. Going for some sort of origin story would be a decent enough idea, but the youth of Nathan has already been decently...

Went to see this the other day. As expected, all the whining about 007 as a black woman is utterly irrelevant. It's a classic "the old and the young gauging each other and finding some mutual respect" storyline and it's barely a storyline at all. The movie does have two big problems : the...

In case you guys missed how movie the movie business works, the initial ticket sales have almost nothing to do with the quality of the movie. Even bad professional reviews and bad early audience reviews have little impact when compared to the weight of the marketing (to use a general term that...

Analog sticks send an X and a Y value to the console. No idea what the actual value is for a PS5 controller, but let's say it's 0 to 255 or -127 to 127. That's a lot of values for not that big a range, so if the stick does not centers perfectly you will have a residual 1 or 2 that will be sent...

Am I missing something or did you just khorum'ed all over yourself by linking to a news story that disproves the point you were trying to make ?

In your fantasy, is the chinese corporation ByteDance a front for Microsoft ?

It must be The Guilty season, because there is actually a play adaptation of the movie that just opened in Paris. All the action happening in one location obviously made it a prime candidate for a stage production.

Koichi Sugiyama, the composer of all the DQ games, just died. He was 90 (he was already in his 50s when he started working for Enix).

Jeff Bezos thanks you for your kindness !

Three horror comedies : One Cut of the Dead : amazingly ballsy Japanese zombie movie. Endure the rough beginning to get to see one of the funniest and most clever film ever. Housebound : New Zealand seems to have a knack for the horror-comedy genre. This very effective entry is mostly notable...

It's a remake of a 2018 danish film of the same name. The original was ok, but I am not exactly sure why it warrants a remake especially in the Netfilx age, when foreign films and shows with subtitles can enjoy a lot of success. Making it that much more odd that Netflix is producing this.

Do you think The Blair Witch Project is a documentary ? :lumie:

The Gom Jabbar scene is one of the few I prefer in Lynch's version,

I am not talking about the actors, I am talking about the character, as he is seen in the movies. The action of the James Bond films are not outside of time : the cold war disappeared, internet, cell phones and smart phones appeared. The action of the Bond film takes place in the "present times"...

My understanding is that her character was added in the script by the director. I read something to that effect in an interview of Armas.

I would guess it has more to do with the fact Bond has been an active agent for 70 years (in Dr. No he is no newbie even if its the first mission we see).

Back in the import community in the mid '90s many people had Super Famicom copiers and there was a whole black market of copied floppies from people who knew a guy who knew a guy who ran a BBS or something. From that era there were for me several very memorable unknown games that I only saw in...

It's being made by Illumination, the studio that makes the Despicable Me and the Secret Life of Pets films. Probably better news than having a 3D film made in Japan though. In any case, Pratt or not Pratt, live action or 3D, the real question is.... who gives a rat's ass about a Mario story ...

In a typical Villeneuve way, the answer to the question "When is serious time?" is "All the time." It makes the film both monumental and a bit draining. I guess it's in part due to Villeneuve's style and also possibly the constraint of adapting for the screen a sprawling novel : all the low...

There is really nothing generic about Actraiser 2. It has one of the most complex control scheme ever devised for a 2D action game. If I am counting right, the character has 7 different sword attacks and you can charge your attack which leads to 6 or 7 different spells, not moving and not...

Half of me want to support the IP and see the new content, the other half wonders why "updated" visuals have to look so bad compared to the original. PS : It's also on PlayStation, PC... iOS and Android?

I was about to say "They just made a Macbeth movie already!", but the Macbeth with Fassbender was 6 years ago... @spronk about Denzel, he has been a doing a movie a year for the past 20ish years, so I am not sure what you mean.

Damn, Paul Shrader. What a blast from the past ! He wrote four scenarios for Scorsese, but he is very good as a director also. Mishima : A Life in Four Chapters is a masterpiece with an insane score by Philip Glass and a timeless performance by Ken Ogata. I remember Affliction being great also...