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  1. Szlia

    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    I guess you now have to watch Forbidden Planet (apparently a disguised adaptation of The Tempest) and, of course, Prospero's Books! Most clips on youTube are NSFW and some probably even illegal in this day and age, but let me see if I can find something.... there I found one:
  2. Szlia

    Kong: Skull Island

    It would take some exceptional writing (good or bad) to have the spectators hate the humans with a cast like that!
  3. Szlia

    Soccer 2016-2017

    In the entire history of the C1 there has been 185 matches were a team lead 4-0 in the home match and precisely 0 failed to qualify after the away match... now there is one: the PSG! I think the craziest part is that it's not because the Barca played an amazing match, it's a mix of the PSG...
  4. Szlia

    Moonlight (2016)

    I have not seen the movie yet, but I read an interview of the director a few weeks back and he mentioned the deliberate effort to have an aesthetic that is not what you would expect for this type of story. I guess a similar idea can be found in Manchester By The Sea's choice of music: the film...
  5. Szlia

    John Wick: Chapter Two (2017)

    Unlike Adebisi I would posit that this sequel is better in just about every way. Much to my surprise, the whole 'secret society of assassins' stuff that I found to be very lame in the first movie managed to be not only entertaining but a decent engine for the plot and some of its twists. In...
  6. Szlia

    Split (2017)

    I don't think this movie is great, but Shyamalan managed to control McAvoy to good effect, his scenario works well enough and its core idea is pretty original (not the multiple personality disorder itself, but the story he decides to tell with a character that suffers from it). I was a bit...
  7. Szlia

    A Cure for Wellness (2017)

    Maybe it's because I read in many places that it's slow and too long, but it did not bother me. I feel this movie manages to do something pretty difficult: turn this kind of story into something else than one of the following three crappy scenario 1) It was all a dream! Hahaha that's why it made...
  8. Szlia

    Kedi (2016)

    @Campbell1oo4 I could paraphrase but I might as well just quote wikipedia:
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    Kedi (2016)

    On the up side, the making of this film probably* killed less kitten than The Adventures of Milo and Otis! *The allegations that kitten were killed during the filming of Koneko Monogatari (aka Chatran aka The Adventures of Milo and Otis) came from Australia and animal protection groups were...
  10. Szlia

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    I have to admit this Zelda game looks pretty cool. I might even buy a Wii U to play it!
  11. Szlia

    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    Playing once a week with a friend, after playing 40ish hours, we just reached chapter 13, so we will probably take a break until the end of march for the patch but.... this game is a bit like Assassin's Creed. Not the game: the movie. So terribad it's almost poetic. Almost.
  12. Szlia

    Train to Busan (2016)

    For the better part of a decade, the floor level for this kind of productions in korea has been significantly higher than the one of their hollywoodian counterparts. So, as expected, this movie is pretty solid, even if it is nothing extremely original. The same director released at about the...
  13. Szlia

    The Astronomy Thread

    I wonder if all these substantial planets bunched up in relatively close orbits does not result in some intense and weird tidal/tectonic effects.
  14. Szlia

    The Astronomy Thread

    @Qhue In that space telescope unfolding.... what is the purpose of the multilayered triangular "base" under the actual telescope?
  15. Szlia

    The Great Wall (2016)

    I find it more mysterious that John Cusack and Adrian Brody find themselves in Dragon Blade (a Jackie Chan vehicle directed by B list HK director Daniel Lee), than Matt Damon finding himself in a chinese blockbuster directed my Zhang Yimou, who has been internationally acclaimed since the early...
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    The Great Wall (2016)

    My take is that, if you are writing a review, everything that is in the exposition is fair game. That being said, the idea is to give a sense as to what the movie is about and here it seems to me some of the details are not really needed to achieve that. If you are writing a critique though...
  17. Szlia

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    @kudos If you did not have a PS3, Last of Us Remastered and Journey should be played too.
  18. Szlia

    Soccer 2016-2017

    To paraphrase the immortal words of Balotelli, Messi proved once again he is a magician by remaining invisible during the 94 minutes of the PSG vs Barca! 4-0 for Paris in Paris, winning just about every duel, conceeding almost no opportunities thanks to a constant collective effort and creating...
  19. Szlia

    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    La La Land - That movie left me lukewarm. The romantic comedy element of it is underdeveloped. The music is... well... let's just say Hurwitz is not Gershwin nor Bernstein (in all fairness the two songs nominated for an academy award are the one that is good - City of Stars - and the one that...
  20. Szlia

    Ghost in the Shell (2017)

    Some key scenes and shots will be replicated but that's about all. The whole origin story that sounds like the one of Robocop has nothing to do with the original movie. I smell a massive treason brewing.
  21. Szlia

    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Cream of the crop of a bunch of movies I saw at a film festival this past week: Her love boils bathwater (Yu o Wakasu Hodo no Atsui Ai): a japanese dramedy about a women with terminal cancer trying to have her family in working order before she dies. To quote the guy that presented the movie...
  22. Szlia

    Tennis

    On my phone, so I'll be brief (for now): what an incredible scenario in this slam and in this final! Federer a break down early in the fifth and winning? Get out of here! What a disgusting lack of respect for the health of the fans! This final could have been one way traffic, but instead we got...
  23. Szlia

    The Wailing (2016)

    This film is also known as The Strangers. The guy who made this film made two others before that. One I did not see (The Yellow Sea aka The Murderer) and The Chaser which is an extremely good thriller. The Wailing is a well crafted film, but I must say the plot left me a little unsatisfied and I...
  24. Szlia

    Tennis

    Probably one of the strangest AO ever. Top seeds were falling left and right, it looked like we would get some new blood to lift the trophy and when the dust settled, the young blood was spilled and we ended up with Federer vs Nadal and Williams vs Williams in the finals, just like at the All...
  25. Szlia

    The Assignment (2017)

    I was not aware Walter Hill was still directing movies!
  26. Szlia

    Train to Busan (2016)

    It's supposed to be very good. It's been in my download folder for a couple weeks but I have yet to watch it. Sometime next week probably...
  27. Szlia

    Retro Gaming Thread

    @Tanoomba what's up with the big Batman Returns review without mentioning the amazing music! Some of it is reorchestrations of the Danny Elfman score for the movie, but I believe some of it is original like the crazy circus music that is played during a train level ( I have not played it since...
  28. Szlia

    Tennis

    In strange twist of fate only 2 of the top 8 seeds reached the quarter finals of the men's draw: Wawrinka and Raonic! Having Federer and Nadal out of the top 8 helps, but still! At this rate we'll get Misha Zverev vs David Goffin on Sunday! More likely: a Federer vs Raonic with a Raonic win.... :/
  29. Szlia

    Split (2017)

    I am a Shyamalapologist so take it with a grain of salt, but I loved Unbreakable and, while the discourse in Signs is atrocious, there is like a dozen amazingly directed scenes in that movie.
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    AssHat of 2016 Voting Round 1

    At least you did not lose to a dead guy!
  31. Szlia

    Tennis

    Nice Faille! I did not get to see much sofar and it's not looking that good ahead. Just a note on Istomin, he was ranked 30ish at his best and if there were such a thing as hardcourt ranking, he would have been a little higher even. It's a guy who, without a doubt, can play some very good...
  32. Szlia

    Untitled Werewolf: The Apocalypse video game

    I remember the magic system in Mage being extremely open ended and as such good players and a good storyteller were needed for it to work. That seems like something very difficult to do properly in a video game, so you are left with something that strays away from the main interest of the system...
  33. Szlia

    Rerolled bro's, I need your help.....

    Does he have a work laptop with him? Those can be tracked too... I have a friend who works for a major computer manufacturer and he told me that they have a pretty broad spectrum of tools when it comes to try and find stolen/lost laptops (including remotely activating the webcam and other chill...
  34. Szlia

    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Neruda, or what would happen if a poet-politician wrote his own biopic, half self-aggrandizing and half self-deprecating. A movie that manages to be supremely smart, beautiful and very often funny. My only problem with it is that the game of cat and mouse between the policeman and the communist...
  35. Szlia

    Awesome Games Done Quick 2017 (Jan 8-15)

    No Mario Maker this year. A team relay thing was entered just like the previous year, but it was not selected by the organizers, possibly because it was a bit more of the same and that it can easily go over estimate. They also have a Mystery Game relay race going at some point that kinda scratch...
  36. Szlia

    Awesome Games Done Quick 2017 (Jan 8-15)

    I recommend watching Grandpoobear's run of Super Dram World. It's a Super Mario World mod that is pretty clever and ridiculously hard.
  37. Szlia

    Awesome Games Done Quick 2017 (Jan 8-15)

    I missed the whole Contra block, but Metal Slug 3 was a pretty neat run. It's true though that the most interesting aspect for me was that it's much easier to see the insane amount of crazy detailed animations in the game when not playing it, something that a simple "let's play" also allows.
  38. Szlia

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    Somehow, no one killed for the GameCube...