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  1. Szlia

    Will Smith n Oscar Town

    There is a musical in the nominations. You do know what it means.
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    What's this movie?

    Good thing you figured it out, because your description would not have helped :D
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    Playstation 5

    I guess I missed something here. I thought the problem was a mix of drought in Taiwan for an industry that requires a lot of water and covid protocols impacting productivity?
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    Playstation 5

    Is this semiconductor manufacturing thing still going on or is something else at play ? It's more than a bit crazy that 14 months after release, you still need to queue to get a PS5 like it's bread in the USSR.
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    Clean (2022)

    Not to be confused with the poignant 2004 film of the same title by Olivier Assayas in which Maggie Cheung tries to leave drugs behind to be able to reunite with her son.
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    The Expanse

    I kinda liked how that last chat between Naomi and James encapsulates the way this season played out : many things lie ahead, but for now let's enjoy the fact that something got concluded.
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    The Expanse

    It's a bit strange to have several plot lines and plot elements setting the stage for what comes next when, for all we know, nothing will come next. I guess they were in a bit of a conundrum : they are adapting a book serie that is done so what do you do ? Find another end point and discard...
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    Licorice Pizza (2021)

    The movie is a bit aimless (but Haim-full! *ba-dum-tss*) in a slice of life kind of way, with both characters trying to find themselves and each other. Bradley Cooper, Tom Waits and Sean Penn are hilarious in their small parts. Hoffman and Haim are great. I enjoyed it but it's a weird brand of...
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    Don't Look Up (2021)

    Many movies are long without them justifying such length. On that we can agree. From there you go and make one of the dumbest statement ever written on this board. All types of stories can be great and not all stories work best in all media.
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    Obscure TV Shows

    How obscure was Wiseguy and Dream On in the US ? Also, Parker Lewis Can't Lose. EDIT: Oh! It was a mini serie but : Wild Palms. Best beginning of anything ever.
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    The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

    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...
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    Uncharted (2022)

    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!
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    Chess

    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...
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    Twitch.tv

    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 !
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    Twitch.tv

    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.
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

    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...
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    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

    I guess the question is : will he Prometheus it or not ? This particular fictional universe can certainly be explored further though.
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    The French Dispatch (2020)

    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...
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    Wheel of Time

    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...
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    Cowboy Bebop

    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...
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    Dune (2020)

    "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.
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    Playstation 5

    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...
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    Twitch.tv

    @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.
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    Dune (2020)

    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 ?
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    The Fifth Seal (1976)

    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...
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    Dune (2020)

    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 !"
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    Dune (2020)

    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...
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    Uncharted (2022)

    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...
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    No Time to Die (007 Bond)

    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...
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    No Time to Die (007 Bond)

    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...
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    Playstation 5

    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...
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    Twitch.tv

    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 ?
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    Twitch.tv

    In your fantasy, is the chinese corporation ByteDance a front for Microsoft ?
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    The Guilty (2021)

    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.
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    Dragon Quest: The Definitive Thread

    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).
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    Twitch.tv

    Jeff Bezos thanks you for your kindness !
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    Horror Movie Suggestion/Discussion Thread

    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...
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    The Guilty (2021)

    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.
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    Snow on tha Bluff (2011)

    Do you think The Blair Witch Project is a documentary ? :lumie:
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    Dune (2020)

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