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  1. Szlia

    Child 44 - Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman play Soviet investigators

    That's not always the case.
  2. Szlia

    Tennis

    We got our other semi: WAWRINKAserved extremely well against Nishikori, dropping serve only once at the start of the third set with a cluster of unforced errors. On the other side of the net, Nishikori was a bit flat and only managed to keep it close in the third. In the end he was pretty...
  3. Szlia

    Tennis

    1st semi final: BERDYCHscored a win over Nadal after a serie of 17 losses (a sad record he shares with Connors who lost 17 times to Lendl between '84 and '92). The spaniard made him a solid by playing very poorly, only getting his game going in the third set, but it was too little too late...
  4. Szlia

    Tennis

    I am looking forward to the interviews for that one, because a super nervous Berdych played his worst match of the tournament and that ended in 6-2 6-0 for him and it event looked like Nadal was about to retire and suddenly in the third set Nadal stopped making unforced errors, managed to return...
  5. Szlia

    Tennis

    Two quarters from the top of the draw: DJOKOVICmade life very difficult for Muller, by getting a lot of serves back in play, by serving extremely well himself and by having a machine-like efficiency once the rallies started, dispatching anything that dropped even remotely short and retrieving...
  6. Szlia

    Tennis

    There is a distinct possibility that Lopez is a god among men: he now saved match points in three out of four matches. He has not won the 5th set against Raonic just yet though.
  7. Szlia

    Oscars 2015

    Miles Teller also played a secondary but key part in Rabbit Hole and was very very good in it. And it's a pretty solid movie too.
  8. Szlia

    Tennis

    We have our two quarters for the bottom half of the draw: BERDYCHmade surprisingly light work of Tomic. He jumped out of the starting blocks for a 4-0 lead and then servers dominated until the end of the 2nd set. Berdych dominated the breaker and from a 2 sets to love lead, everything became...
  9. Szlia

    Tennis

    News of his death are greatly exaggerated: the guy played a shitty match no doubt, but those have been few and far between in the last 13 months, he fought hard (when a couple years ago it would feel like he did not care when he played poorly) and in the end he was 4 points away from winning the...
  10. Szlia

    Tennis

    The 3rd round in the bottom half of the draw saw just the single upset. Dimitrov was really tested by a very good Baghdatis, but the bulgarian managed to break early in the 5th to avoid a very tricky match ending. No such luck for Federer against Seppi as the swiss did not even reach the fifth...
  11. Szlia

    Tennis

    We have our 3rd round: Djokovic has been impressive so far. vs Verdasco made good on his 31st seed. Isner vs Muller upset 13th seed Bautista-Agut to get into this big serving duel. Lopez dodged a bullet in the 1st round and dodged a bullet in the 2nd as Mannarino retired sick when...
  12. Szlia

    Oscars 2015

    It would also make more sense to have done that if it was not filmed in 3 or 4 big blocks. There is so much difference with the kid after each ellipsis that it might as well have been another actor. The opposite in a way is Koreeda's Nobody Knows: it is filmed within a single year, but the...
  13. Szlia

    Tennis

    Querrey is not the most charismatic guy on a tennis court and his style of play is not exactly super exciting Seedicide watch after the first round: Raonic sector: - Benneteau [25] downed by Becker. Wawrinka sector: - Cuevas [27] downed by Bachinger. - Dolgopolov [21] downed by...
  14. Szlia

    Your Favorite TV Show Intro

    These old shows intro made me do some google-fu for an old favorite of mine: I'll add the obvious for all people who grew up in the '80s watching french TV:
  15. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Is she your example for "tons of make-up [...] very angular/old faces"?
  16. Szlia

    Tennis

    As the first points are being fought in Melbourne, let's do a quick run down of the draw: DJOKOVICbrings some question marks with him to the AO has he was sick last week and got ousted in the 3rd round in Doha against an inspired Karlovic (who ended up being the only one to break in the...
  17. Szlia

    NBA 2014 - 2015 Season Thread

    Cleveland fans were pissed-off because he left after reaching the final (wait... that was the eastern conference final and the year before leaving?). If he left after not making the play-offs, would they have ground for complaints?
  18. Szlia

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

    The answer is yes. It's not without flaws, but it's packed with very memorable moments, the antagonist remains one of the best acted video game character to date and the story is surprisingly great. At 15ish hours it is also not a huge time investment.
  19. Szlia

    Oscars 2015

    12 Years a Slave deservedly won last year, with a nomination for best actor, a win for best actress a nomination for best director and a win for best adaptation. I'll go ahead a suspect Selma is not as good, but it's true that the lead actor is supposed to do a great job. Maybe Sharpton wanted a...
  20. Szlia

    Oscars 2015

    Best movie as far as I am concerned. I guess Apes suffers from not being exceptional in any way, it's just a very solid big budget movie, but in this day and age that's sadly pretty exceptional. Edge of Tomorrow is not without its flaws, but that's one of the most refreshing sci-fi action movie...
  21. Szlia

    Oscars 2015

    Based on what I have seen this year, the big film that is missing for these lists is Edge of Tomorrow or even Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Both are superior to the somewhat gimmicky and ineffective Boyhood. Also, Lego or not Lego, anything other than Kaguya would be surprising.
  22. Szlia

    Oscars 2015

    I saw 3 out of the 5 foreign language films and the fourth just got released around my parts. Ida and Leviathan are two very good movies, but Timbuktu is very poorly written. Also the random Best Actress nomination for Cotillard in the Dardennes' brother movie is pretty surprising. She was ok...
  23. Szlia

    Twin Peaks

    Find a way to have Chris Isaak back please! Also Moira Kelly (Donna in Fire Walk With Me) > Lara Flynn Boyle (Donna in the show).
  24. Szlia

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

    Maybe he meant every word of that, but what else could he say? It is very important for the Oculus Rift that Morpheus does well, because if it's a bad product, it could very well poison the VR well. More: it's important that it sells well to boost publishers' enthusiasm for the tech. It's really...
  25. Szlia

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

    Obligatory 'Bully is very good and you should buy it' post. The european list is totally different though. I grabbed the Another World anniversary edition and Valiant Hearts from it.
  26. Szlia

    Chappie - Neill Blomkamp's new film

    Nice Appleseed hears on that robot. Let's call it homage...
  27. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Seeing all these old websites made me remember that I made a sad discovery the other day: not a single modern browser still supports <blink>. It's dead. I am not sure it will be missed, but it's a bit strange that some legacy html no longer works.
  28. Szlia

    Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 - 2019

    With the exception ofReal Sound: Kaze no Regreton Saturn since it's an audio adventure game designed specifically to be blind friendly!
  29. Szlia

    Squirting Is Just Peeing, Say Scientists

    A lot of girls think their shit don't stink, but for some it's the pee apparently...
  30. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    It's from Sia's music video for Elastic Heart, with the same child dancer as in Chandelier.
  31. Szlia

    The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power 2015

    Esm? 'Ros from Game of Throne' Bianco is in this.... and so is Rudger Hauer. Strange.
  32. Szlia

    Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 - 2019

    The Pokemon Blue run was pretty crazy because of the knowledge this community managed to gather on the inner workings of the game and how clever they are at using this knowledge. The run was like the Inception of glitch abuse to the point item quantities in the inventory become the world map...
  33. Szlia

    Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 - 2019

    The Punch Out thing requires frame perfect execution and memorizing pattern trees of a dozen enemies, because if you miss you have to be able to find your way through the tree to regain control of the fight. There was nothing frame perfect in these Yoshi levels and they are linear in their...
  34. Szlia

    Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 - 2019

    Not overly impressed by the Yoshi's Island blindfolded thing, because it's just about finding a route and memorizing it while the Zallard1 blindfolded Super Punch Out involved huge game knowledge to manipulate the enemies' A.I., a lot of super precise execution, memory and nerves of steel to...
  35. Szlia

    Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 - 2019

    The two runs of Tetris The Grand Master 3: Terror Instinct were insane. Seeing the guy accelerates to get out of tricky situations was mind blowing and that's coming from someone who completed TGM2 (not sure with what grade though, but I survived the credits). The crazy part also in TGM3 is how...
  36. Szlia

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

    Rename thread to Hairstation vs Cleanbone?
  37. Szlia

    Good Anime Movies

    Snow White and the Huntsman had its moments, but it was a mess and it was Rupert Sanders' first and only feature film. Maybe he'll surprise everyone, but that seems like very big shoes to fill. I am not sure who I would recommend for the job, but probably not Rithy Panh. He is an amazing...
  38. Szlia

    Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 - 2019

    PJ and MechaRichter are doing this odd game called Battleblock Theater with 2 devs in the room and the chat and banter is hilarious. Check it if you can.
  39. Szlia

    Good Anime Movies

    By the director of Snow White and the Huntsman! That's promising! In all fairness though the latest live action efforts by Oshii have been pretty bad, so even him doing the live action version of his anime would have been bad news. The music must be Kenji Kawai though or some serious heavyweight...