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There are obviously examples of movies that manage to maintain a high comedy level throughout. Difficult =/= impossible.

I have not seen this new Ghostbusters, but what you are describing is pretty typical of american comedies. They have an idea for a funny starting situation, so the movie start with a lot of comedy elements and then they realize they have to resolve the situation to tell a story and the comedy...

The silence is weird. Both before and after the transaction.

No Federer until the end of the year :(

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McAvoy can be very good, but he can also overact a ton, especially in this kind of "I am going craaaaazy" part, like in Filth or Trance.

Three people credited for the story another three for the screenplay... not necessarily a great sign even with Tony Gilroy in the mix. Note: no chinese writer involved (not good or bad, just odd). On the chinese side, Zhang Yimou proved since Hero that he can direct epics and in the cast...

There is no thread for it, so I'll bump this one to let people know that the fourth episode of the marvelously experimental adventure gameKentucky Route Zerojust got released! The sneaky bastards! Downloading it now...

Mads Mikkelsen has been in 14 feature films and the main character in three seasons of a TV serie (Hannibal) since Casino Royal 10 years ago! He is getting work, but his career is split between Denmark (Valhalla Rising, The Hunt, A Royal Affair, Men & Chicken), France (The Age of Uprising, Coco...

Are you confusing Rachel McAdams with [G]illian Anderson? Anyway, I suffer from a serious case of licensed shit fatigue in general and super hero in particular, but the cast + the architectural manipulation make me optimistic.

Probably Jackal?

When you do a family action comedy blockbuster a huge portion of the audience does not read reviews. With social media these days though it's possible that I was low-balling it with my 20% guesstimation. That's why it would be interesting to have an actual survey: to not guesstimate!

If they surveyed the people who saw the movie I am pretty sure you'll learn 99% saw advertisements for it. What percentage knew there was a gender related polemic around the movies? 20%? What percentage read the tweets by Feig? 1%? If that. It's pretty rare that at the end of the day...

I believe the accelerometers in the Move are better than those in the Dual Shock 4? Also I believe most people have 2 hands!

I would trust the audience score of this movie a bit more if you had to show your ticket to be able to vote! Not that I expect it to be any good though. About comedies toping the box office, I had this conversation with a friend the other day as I was rather surprised to see a not so great...

Are the people who do not know Ice Climber too young to have owned a NES at the time or was it more famous in Europe? I think it was bundled with the console at some point and around here it was very often the demo game in toy stores.

It's fair to assume the list is heavily conditioned by who owns the rights of what more than some sort of curation.

copypasta from Nintendo via Kotaku. Balloon FightT BUBBLE BOBBLE CastlevaniaT Castlevania II: Simon's QuestT Donkey KongT Donkey Kong Jr. T DOUBLE DRAGON II: THE REVENGE Dr. MarioT ExcitebikeT FINAL FANTASY? GalagaT GHOSTS'N GOBLINS? GRADIUST Ice ClimberT Kid IcarusT Kirby's...

Apparently, it has save states too. I am not 100% sure who the target is though... 30 or 40 something nostalgic parents who want to replay the games of their youth with their children?

To really assess the format, one would need to check all the matches that have been played and rate how entertaining they were. My gut feeling is that the smaller teams did not necessarily make for less entertaining matches. If there is a problem currently, it may be more with the game itself...

I saw it at a film festival, but it's out on BluRay/DVD/VoD if Amazon is to be believed. I could not compare it to his XXth century film as I have seen none of them. I have a friend withthis ginormous box setso I might borrow it from him and binge through Chow's work.

Unsurprisingly, there is no small dose of hypocrisy in the application of this criteria when you consider one of the recent chinese blockbuster, Mojin, is about raiding for treasures in haunted tombs! Also are mermaids supernatural beings? Because the latest super hit in China is Stephen Chow's...

I find it a bit perplexing that when people question and analyze the content of video games and the impact it might have on the people who play them, people around the board are like "These are just games, just mindless fun, how can it have any impact on anyone?", but when we have an all female...

While I am at it with these very joyous late '60s collaborations between Jane Bikin and Serge Gainsbourg: Lyrics:

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It was in competition at theNIFFF(Neuchatel International Fantasy Film Festival) last week and it won the public prize, the international critics prize and a production design prize. Almost a sweep! It could not win the best european film category (obviously) and the international jury...

It's important to understand that the RT score is a strange beast. In your example, it just means there is 73% of reviewers that find Batman vs Superman below average, but it says nothing about how far below. The Room ends up with a higher RT score probably because it falls into the "so bad it's...

When you see the impact Eder had on the match with his ability to impose himself physically and act as an anchor point when not facing the goal you have to wonder why he only played a whopping 13 minutes before the final! That was incomprehensible even before he scored for the win! Anyway...

Pretty fun 2nd half, but still 0-0 (somehow!).

Oddly, Ronaldo's injury seems to have hurt the french team the most. They just shut down after he left, moving back, leaving the ball possession to their oponent and consequently turning the match into a pace-less odd thing. The kind of shitty match the portuguese team has been winning (or at...

After checking, this is indeed a pretty rare occurrence. At the Australian Open and the US Open, it happened for the last time in 2006 when Federer won (and the Big Four was not really a thing). At Wimbledon, it happened for Federer in 2009 (just after he won the French in the same fashion!)...

As expected, Murray was not troubled by Berdych. The other semi between Federer and Raonic was a less straight forward affair. Federer could not recover from an early break in the first set that he nicely gifted to Raonic with a double fault. Still, the swiss had half-chances in several return...

By nature a world record is highly unlikely in a marathon since they don't reset when they make mistakes and even opt for safer strategies to not have the run end prematurely. Except, as previously mentioned, for wacky categories or super odd games that have been created/picked up just for the...

I commiserate with Poochy.EXE who spent god knows how many hours learning a blindfolded run of that Sakura mode in TGM3 only to fail less than a minute away from the end without having another shot at it

I only got to see the fifth set of the Federer vs Cilic match. I am not too sure what happened before, but I was surprised to see how passive Federer was on the return games, happy to just stay in the rally and counter-punch or pass Cilic. Thanks to a good bit of help from Cilic, that was...

The czech guy will be Berdych. He broke early in the fifth, but Vesely managed to get the break back, but just when we thought the underdog had all the momentum (Berdych failed to convert 5 match points in the 4th set the day before and now let his advantage slip in the fifth?) he crapped the...

Doesn't that make the whole championship irrelevant until the inevitable Cavaliers vs Warriors final?

Just saw the two first sets of Federer vs Johnson and the aftershock I feared after the opening of the draw did not happen. Oddly, the elimination of Djokovic is a bit the tree that hides the forest, because there is only 3 of the top 8 seeds in the quarter finals! QUERREYwon in straight sets...

So... the safe bet sounds like a Germany vs Portugal final with a german victory or what? For some reason, my gut feeling is Portugal able to produce another two crap game they somehow win to lift the trophy.

I saw just about nothing and will maybe only catch an hour or two here and there during the weekGlad for Querrey who always sounded like a nice bloke to me and who often found himself in close matches against top players that he lost in the end. Not this time! That blows the draw wide open...