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I feel the problem is one of branding. Labeling GeoForce Now as a game streaming service where you can play any game you own or get was just asking publishers to put the proverbial kibosh on it. The whole idea for publishers is that they get new and duplicate sales on new platforms and get paid...

@Seananigans there is a social component to tabletop gaming. You don't always play your personal favorite game (I am not sure I even have one... Space Alert ? Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective ? Doom ? Tales of the Arabian Nights ?). Also, an overrated game can still be enjoyable.

I have been playing this game regularly for while now. We beat the the original campaign doing as much side quests as we could and are now in the process of playing the extension. For me there are two main issues with the game that are making me look forward to the day we are done with it. 1)...

Not really, but that sounds pretty much in the wheelhouse of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival where I usually go during the summer. If they show it I'll maybe go see it !

Considering that memory / flash back explains why Pitt's character can't get work with that particular stunt director and establishes his character's badassness that is later on display in the story, I don't see why it would be a fantasy and what purpose it would have then. Brando must be...

@Lithose The way you read the ending makes sense. If you take it as an exorcism through ridicule, it's rational, out of respect, to not have the actual victim involved. Also, if you read it as something clever, I can see how that can be satisfying as a spectator. I must say it's difficult for...

@Lithose The problem is not the gory over the top violence of the conclusion, which is expected - anticipated even - during the movie. The problem is that the build up, some of the foreshadowing, the place where you know the action will take place and Tarantino's brand of cinephilia conjures...

There are two main problems with this movie. The first is that the "performer becoming increasingly irrelevant" line is not very original and has been done way better before (The Wrestler, Crazy Heart, etc). The second is that he builds this tension with the Manson Family through the movie and...

I have one thing to say: SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS

In the Shadow of the Moon : it was in a "the films you missed in 2019" list that had some films I really liked (One Cut of the Dead !). The zero spoiler review is that it starts pretty well and has potential but then it gets increasingly dumber by the minute. Just to elaborate :

By the way the two movies mentioned in that article to help identify the actors are very different but very good. 1987 : When The Day Comes is a political historical thriller of sorts that shows the event leading to a popular uprising against the autocratic governance of the time (spoiler alert...

In the Supermodel turned actress category, it's a bit of a shame we never get to see more parts given to Gemma Ward. She had a leading part in an aussie coming of age / dramedy called Black Balloon (2008) and she was really good in it (not to mention impossibly cute). After that Hollwood cast...

What is the world coming to ? Wasn't that Detective Pikachu thing also ok ?

Go home @Fucker , you're drunk.

My feeling is that it's all well and good to have a zany side character that is very popular, but that does not mean people want to see that character become a main character for a whole movie. I mean it's always cool to have Ol' Dirty Bastard drop some verses for a Wu-Tang Clan song, but...

I never put much thoughts into it but, wouldn't there be a lot of buddhists in Japan that do not eat animal products ? Or is that only a small sub-set of buddhists that do not kill animals ?

@Kuro The old Dune game was redone and rebalanced in the Twlight Imperium universe a few years back. Is this new Dune game the same rules at the original or a reskin of the updated Twilight Imperium version of the game. Because no so long ago we played the original Dune game and it's pretty...

Spoiler ahead but.... If you want to talk about unrealistic things, the whole plot is about bringing a guy to Mars so he can broadcast a message to his father day after day, because apparently, somewhere in the near future, humanity lost the abilities to record the human voice and to transfer...

Not sure if it's the stupidest or coolest of ideas : linking 8 midi keyboards to a SNES so you can perform game music live using the actual sound hardware. Warning : the begining is a bit rough. I assume it's because using three channels to do a reverb effect is all well and good when you...

As mentioned before, I recommend the animated companion piece to this film called Seoul Station. If you are interested in more korean zombie films, I can think of two. The first is Rampant, which is a big budget costume action drama with zombies. Not a great movie but an interesting mix I guess...

Your theory is interesting @Fucker , but I don't find particularly surprising that an actress who did 3 movies a year when she was in her early 20s works at a slower pace in her late 20s (and is a millionaire). In 2019 she only was in a supporting part in Dark Phoenix, but also got married. She...

I feel it is worth watching as there are many good scenes and good ideas in the film, it's just that they do not coalesce properly and are used to poorly tell a dumb story.

It's a bit surprising that Parasite can be nominated in both the best film and the best foreign film categories... though I think it did happen before ? The title is Pain and Glory and, considering it's a Spanish film, your little tirade is a bit silly. I have not seen the film yet, but I know...

That Mushihimesama Futari run was absurdly tense by the end because he was running out of resources (lives and the bombs that come with them). Clutching it and the reciting a Bukowski poeme as celebration was pretty epic !

Favorite is a strong word, but a memorable opening is the one of Birth. A fascinating film that I am not sure to really like, but what a prologue !

@Sevens Not my favorite, but when it comes to long shot opening the classic reference is Touch of Evil :

It might be because you have the OP ( Pasteton ) on ignore.

Just saw Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It's a french film that was released around here 4 months ago and that will be released in the US in a month or so. The genius of the film is that anyone who saw its trailer or heard its pitch (18th century woman painter goes to a remote island where she has...

@Mist To reuse a comparison I made for the pretty flawed The Tree of Life : Perfectly jumping over a chair is less impressive than attempting to jump over the moon and almost making it. That said, I much prefer the Martian over Interstellar. And I also prefer The Tree of Life over both so my...

@Xadion that one chick is Claudia Gerini and she stars it a pretty bad italian erotic horror thriller titled Tulsa. I found this homage to giallo (a type of italian films mostly produced in the '70s based on the type of stories found in cheap paperback novels - giallo means yellow in italian and...

This movie is bad on many levels. The main offenders for me are: - Most characters are very poorly written. On one hand you have a bunch of uninteresting, unfunny caricatures, on the other you have that undefined mess that is Craig's character. - The core of the plot should have been the nurse...

Too tough. Even if I break things into categories, I can't decide. Is the best comedy The Death of Stalin, The Names of Love, Pee Mak or One Cut of the Dead ? Is the bloated pop-corn flick of the decade Baahubali, Battleship Island, The Taking of Tiger Mountain or Assassination ? Is the best...

I went to see it somewhat reluctantly because Norton's character seemed a bit silly, but I was pleasantly surprised. It's nothing very original for this type of story, but it works well and several key scenes are very well delivered (Baldwin for best supporting actor ?). Also we don't get to see...

@Caliane I have not played Edith Finch, but I can tell you Outer Wilds has almost nothing to do with Firewatch. Also, unless it somehow shows up as some twist in the end, there is no pretentious meta-narration of any kind. This game will be studied and replicated for things like content density...

@Dandai that's the part where I have to make sure you are talking about Outer Wilds (a game about exploring a strange solar system about to die that has very little randomness and no equipment or leveling of any sort other than knowledge - so not really a rogue-like ?) and not The Outer Worlds...

Just a bump and an update : we are not done yet (probably another couple Thursdays needed), but I feel it is a milestone game. A game that might not find the huge audience it deserves but will be played by just about every game developer worth their salt and influence their work.

Just played through Breath of Fire (US version on the Switch's official SNES emulator). I played the japanese version at the time of its release so... a little more than 26 years ago. Meh. I did not have clear memories of the game so I was curious to check it again in english to be able to have...

Played some Outer Wilds today. It's a single player space exploration game packed full of strange ideas, Many exploration games are a huge quantity of nothing with a little mysterious something sprinkled over it, and I guess it works ok in a semi-contemplative way. Here though, it's like the...

Aren't these just factorization exercises ? Like 72 / 4 = n * 9 is (9 * 4 * 2) / 4 = n * 9 so you can remove the 9s on both sides and remove the 4s on the left and you get 2 = n ?

Trolling in musical form by Aphex Twin back in the '90s. All together insufferable, insane and hilarious. Don't play it too loud headphone users!