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  1. Szlia

    Good Anime Movies

    From the '90s there was a lesser known movie that I really enjoyed back then, but I don't remember it much, so maybe take it with a grain of salt:Venus Wars. Anyone saw that?
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    Soccer 2014 - 2015

    I notice this went unanswered: it's not about overturning the call, it's about making the ref' doubt he took the right decision in hope you will get a more lenient call the next time around or a harsher call for the opponents. Since they do it all the time on every call, it might not have much...
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    Calvary 2014

    It was shown at a festival I went to a few weeks back, but skipped it as it will be released in theater sometime soon. Everyone I know who saw it (6 people?) liked it very much.
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    Good Anime Movies

    Apparently it's more about taking a break to figure out what to do next:Studio Ghibli Is Not Dead Yet As for Castle of Cagliostro, I think it's a mix between not being a Ghibli movie (it started with Castle in the Sky) and not having some of the most obvious miyazakiesque themes and aesthetic...
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    The Wire: Greatest Show Ever Made

    I don't think Stringer was not smart, I think what he was naive. For him it's all about beating the odds, leaving the ghetto and make a life for himself and he probably did not expect that once out of the ghetto he would still remain 'the guy from the ghetto' and that things are just as crooked...
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    Good Anime Movies

    I have a bad news for you: Miyazaki is 73 and Takahata who did Graves and the recent Kaguya is 78. The future at Ghibli are Miyazaki's son Gor? (Earthsea, Poppy Hill) and Hiromasa Yonebayashi who directed Arrietty and the recent Marnie. Both in their '40s.
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    Good Anime Movies

    The Tale of Princess Kaguya cost $50m to make and grossed $25m in Japan. It's pretty crazy when you consider that in Japan: Earthsea $64m Ponyo $164m Arrietty $110m Poppy Hill $56m The Wind Rises $120m When Marnie Was There, the latest Ghibli movie, also does not look like it will draw...
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    The Synthwave Thread

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    Gauntlet, classic 80s dungeon crawler remade

    Does not really look like a remake, more like a reboot. Both the original and the '90s version were lame, so I don't see why this trend would change.
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    NBA 2014 Off-Season Thread

    On the up side, there are professional athletes that recovered from a tibia-fibula double fracture. Soccer player Djibril Ciss? comes to mind (took him 'only' 6 months to recover). In a way it's a 'cleaner' problem than stuff with ankles, knees, shoulder or spine that are very complex systems.
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    Good Anime Movies

    The Eden Of The East movies are not spin-offs, they are the end of the story that began in the TV show. Great show and great movies, but there is very little point in watching the movies by themselves.
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    The Wire: Greatest Show Ever Made

    Let's have this quote right: "You want it to be one way, but it's the other way." I too often think about it and even use it. It's a multi-purpose quote: it's philosophically powerful, about accepting the reality of things, but it's also a good smack down!
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    Good Anime Movies

    I just saw Starship Troopers: Invasion the other day and that's a CG movie by the same director and the same studio as the 2004 Appleseed movie, the recent Appleseed Alpha and the CG Captain Harlock. ST:I was so lame (even if you don't take the scenario and the voice acting into account) that it...
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    Good Anime Movies

    I'll assume Satael included those in "pretty much every Ghibli". While exceptional technical and artistic achievements, I must say I am not overly fond of those two.
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    Good Anime Movies

    Let me list some older and less slice-of-life'ish movies: Akira and Ghost in the Shell got mentioned already, so let me add: PatlaborandPatlabor 2: The first is a detective story of sorts and the second is a refection on war. Giant robots in both, but not exactly action packed. The...
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    Good Anime Movies

    That thread comes at an interesting time because I was considering starting a similar one. I saw several anime movies recently and realized I had not seen much in the past few years (and they are very rarely distributed in theater around here if they are not by Ghibli), so I made a list of 50ish...
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    Animaniacs: 20 years old...

    Official french version:
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    Virtual Reality

    attog's
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    Playstation Plus+

    I invite you to visit Proteus:
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I shilled Proteus when it was released, so I'll shill it again as a free PS+ game. It's flirting with non-game territory, but it's a magical and musical experience that everyone ought to try. It's important to note that there is definitely a progression (that relies on you doing something) and...
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    Virtual Reality

    The super oculus designed driving seat is missing a stand for the bucket, because I believe all the tests that have been made to make driving games using VR headsets result in massive nausea (one of the SCE honcho said as much when talking about Morpheus and the need to experiment and find what...
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    Space Station 76

    The premise is mouth watering, the trailer... not so much. It could be that the pace, tone and type of comedy used in the movie are not very trailer friendly though, so I'll be cautiously optimistic or at least not overly pessimistic.
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    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

    If you really wanted muscle and athletic abilities, the right answer was Gina Carano. For height and screen presence, I maintain that Gal Gadot is a good choice. Adrianne Palicki (who played the part for TV) or Blake Lively would also have been good fits for height and presence while being less...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    There is an episode of Homicide: Life on the Streets with a similar accident. Apparently, the people caught between the platform and the subway get twisted like a closed garbage bag and stay alive, but once unstuck, the garbage bag opens and they die within minutes. So very pleasant... It...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I think you are thinking of Richard Simmons?
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Some sort of Persimmon?
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    Ravvenn is the Megan Fox of Hooking

    Should post a picture of his feet, just to see what Silence's answer will be.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Why would anyone spend $350 on a quartz watch?
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    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    100% on Rotten Tomatoes does not mean a film is perfect, it means all the critics think it's worth seeing. For it to be the case that usually means the movie is pretty good though.
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    Tennis

    I have not seen it, but another 17 year old managed to win a couple matches at home as a wild card: Borna Coric in Umag (Croatia). Beat Roger-Vasselin in straight sets (more of a fast surface guy, but still a quality player) and then clay court specialist Zeballos in straight sets. He won the...
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    The Last of Us

    The only important fact: written by the game's writer.
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    Lucy with Scarlett Johannson (wholly crap)

    What about aFantastic Voyageremake?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Journey is a *must play* game, that's a given. I guess the only question is: if you have both a PS3 and PS4 and have yet to play Journey, should you wait for the PS4 version? I don't see how the PS4 version could be worse and it certainly will provide an influx of players which is a plus for the...
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    Under the Skin (2014)

    This movie is exceptional. I am not sure it's exceptional in a good way, but it certainly is. For me the strength of the movie, that can very well be perceived as a weakness by some, is that it almost totally discards the plot of the book. In the first two thirds of the film it becomes only...
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    Deftones bassist Chi Cheng dead at age 42

    These spam bots are getting good.
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    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    Whedon will probably do like Soderbergh, Nolan or Van Sant: alternate between big mainstream films and more personal projects.
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    Philip Seymour Hoffman Found Dead

    He did not make enough films in the US for him to get bankrupted by medical bills!
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    For reference, PS4 Exclusives released in the US: Basement Crawl (dl game, bomberman-like) Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition (dl game, top down omni-shooter) Infamous Second Son (disk game, AAA 3rd person action/adventure) Killzone Shadow Fall (disk game, AAA FPS) Knack (disk game, old...
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    Malaysian Airlines 777 Shot Down (?)

    A good thing russian media are packed with people like Anna Politkovskaya... oh wait...