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There is a number of anti-consummerist movies in the '60s and '70s. Zabriskie Point comes to mind, or Network.

Oh? Examples?

I am extremely eclectic in my tastes and the opposite of a movie snob! There are 11 american movies in my 2015 top 20 (+ 2 iranian, 2 french, 1 hungarian, 1 spanish, 1 italian, 1 chinese and 1 japanese). Also, no black and white movie :p It just so happen that I find Stardust's idea of making a...

Most overrated: Stardust :p

He did indeed! Once again he had a slowish start, making a lot of errors and allowing Djokovic to almost run away with the first set. Almost, because as the swiss started to find his groove, he roped Djokovic back and forced a breaker. As a viewer that was a bit of a roller coaster of emotions...

The two semi finals tonight were a good case study to see the difference between a good competitor and a bad one. Monfils made a nervous start against Djokovic. Not serving well, unable to dominate the serb from the back of the court, the frenchman found himself in a 0-5 hole. At this point he...

I fail to see what's scandalous about selling a dlc that requires additional work. About the drive, I found that dumb at first, but in this day and age how is the dl/stream market vs the physical media market for movies? Maybe their due dilligence in marketing showed early adopters don't care...

WTA day: World N°1 Williams played a good match. Problem: Pliskova played a better match. The tall czech served very well (expected), dealt well with anything short (no surprise here), withstood the pace and weight of shots of her opponents (huh?) and read the game well enough to play some high...

What can be upgraded in The Witness considering it has a stylized aesthetic designed to be timeless? Maybe it will "only" be in the rendering?

Don't do drugs.

Remember that if you sit more than 7 feet away from a 55 inches screen, 4k is indistinguishable from 1080p. To get the full benefit of 4k you need to be 3 feet away from your 55 inches screen... On a side note, I have an increasingly difficult time seeing the value of increased graphic power...

The Nishikori vs Murray match was a strange match, made of many momentum switches seemingly coming out of nowhere and without much tactical sense or reason. I guess it was a question of who at any given moment was managing his game better. For Nishikori, it was about finding the right way to...

The two quarters of the top half got played... sorta. Tsonga did in fact self destruct, but not exactly in the way I thought he would not: he injured himself. A stern Djokovic was dominating proceedings when mid-way through the 2nd set Tsonga showed sign of discomfort when landing after his...

I only saw the night session today. In the afternoon, Del Potro beat Thiem (or more exactly lead Thiem by a set and break before the young austrian retired with a thigh injury), Wawrinka dominated Marchenko but was forced to play a fourth set after the ukrainian won the third in a breaker and...

I have this game in the backlog and my rationalization for not playing it is a potential remake... it would be nice if Rockstar could have a clear position on the subject.

They played the top half of the draw yesterday: Djokovic is fine... well... at least he was for two sets and then the discomfort he feels, apparently in his arm, came back or something and he became all somber and dejected but since Edmund is not the best competitor he courteously made 4...

Zapatta... didn't I have seen your name on a terrorist watch list?

I guess it's the US Open? I watched some of it during the first week but I thoug, heh, let's wait until the round of 16 :P DJOKOVIC [1] played a very strange opening match where he looked unconcerned and flat. It is known that he is not 100% healthy, but not much transpired about it. Luckily...

That was an ok movie, but when I started to read the title I expected I Love You Phillip Morris!

Pro Tip 1: When the guidelines blend in the color of the tablet, it's cooked! Pro Tip 2: You don't have to cook the tablet in one go, so you can tap your mouse until it's cooked with 0 risk of failure (sploit!) The "game" is very tedious though. About as fun as being a sumerian scribe I guess...

Ouch... the game got functional, feature complete and uploaded 2 minutes before the deadline! It's crap and untuned, but it's done. Yay I guess. You can try it here. (requires Mouse with wheel and flash compatible browser).

I might end up with a lame but functional compo. It's more about shaking the rust and having "something" done, because while reasonably original (it's a test of cuneiform script tentatively called Sumer Game), it will be ugly and lame!

After seeing Tanoomba casually dealing with so many NES games, I must counter-brag and say I just reached (once again) the credits of Tetris 2 + Bombliss on NES playing Tetris B mode in speed 29 height 5... (I have a save that lets me directly attempt it and it still took a while an many tries...

Nintendo Entertainment System.

I am cursed with terrible flexibility :( I am pretty disciplined with my stretching exercises too, but touching my toes with straight legs and feet together is probably never going to happen.

99% chance that you are talking about Race Drivin' Commiserations...

Just played through that. These guys need to find a couple people to add to their staff who are able to write a somewhat coherent and satisfying story and who are able to point at the moments where the puzzle design does not mesh well with the story world. If they find these two people, they...

La tour Montparnasse infernale (2001): 4/10. French comedy film written and performed by a duo of stand-up comedians (Eric & Ramzy). A sort of Die Hard spoof, except the heroes are two very dumb window washers (and the hostage takers about as dumb as them). A lot of not very funny improv', but a...

Well... while 4.2 light years away is not exactly close 1) We will never find an earth-ish exoplanet closer to us 2) It's at a distance that is at least conceivable. I mean, we can devise a contraption able to cover that distance in a non-geological time frame without requiring some breakthrough...

There is an athletism meeting in my city tomorrow and guess who I bumped into at the gym (figuratively speaking)? Valerie Adams the very impressive twice Olympic Gold winner in shot put (and she would have won a third gold last week if an american athlete did not decide to shatter her personal...

I think I mentioned it before, but in a film festival where jury members where asked to name a cult comedy film from their country of origin to make a little world comedy section, a canadian guy chose Slap Shot or, more precisely, Lancé Frappé, the french-canadian dub of the film which...

This is difficult because the best comedies are not necessarily the funniest movies, so some super slick screwball comedies like His Girl Friday or the very smart and themes-rich french political comedy The Names of Love do not necessarily score very high on the laugh-o-meter. So, using laughter...

When you say "Defender style gameplay" do you mean a game with horizontal scrolling, or do you mean horizontal scrolling with the ability to flip the ship and control the left/right direction of the scrolling (along with a minimap with objectives/enemies on it). If it's the first, my first...

Side effect of the Olympics, a tired bunch showed up in Cinci (or, in the case of Djokovic, didn't) and only three of the top 8 seeds reached the quarter finals! In the bottom half it's Cilic that benefited from the seedicide, but he contributed as he beat Berdych for the right to face Coric...

The brazilians must be pretty satisfied, they won in men's association football (penalty shootout against Germany), in men's volleyball (three very tight sets against Italy) and in men's beach volleyball (two reasonably tight sets against Italy). The women did not fare as well as they got...

Doesn't NBC offer on their website a number of live feeds? Beijing was the best Olympics ever on that front as there was an official site with like a dozen life feeds covering just about all the events. This stuff was gone for London and now Rio, but the national TV station that has the right...

Honestly, when the brazillian public boos athletes that were caught for using PEDs, I am with them. When they boo tennis super star Nadal because he does not have the self-conscience and restraint to not over-celebrate his points when facing a local underdog, I am with them. But when they...

Re-watched with a friend who never saw it The Castle of Sand (Suna no utsuwa - 9/10), a japanese police procedural from 1974. There are two brilliant ideas in the structure of this film, the first is that from the get go we know how the murder happened, but the police and the viewers have no...

If you want to go old school Trier why not go pre-Dogma and pick Europa or The Element of Crime?

Who needs Voight-Kampff tests when you have Namida no Renrakusen (The Ferryboat of Tears). Easy: if you don't cry, you are a replicant (even if you don't know it's about a woman who cries alone every night as she waits on the harbor for the ferryboat that, once again, does not bring back the one...