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What a bizarre mess this movie is.

Monster Hunter and Dynasty Warrior sales? On a side note, that guy in the teaser should be careful with his sword, he almost severed his friend's Achilles tendon @30.

Just saw two movies very difficult to rate: The first one was The Neon Demon that takes a cliché story (new girl in LA has the special something thats makes her a star - here in modeling) and twist it by bringing it to its (il)logical extreme. The end result is somehow something even more stupid...

In the realm of "let's take an old IP and put a fresh coat of paint on it", these prequels are among the best there are. The fact they are well shot, well written and well acted big productions with 0% of camp and not a joke in sight certainly does not hurt. It's not at Villeneuve's level of...

Ended up seeing it. Solid movie, especially because of its omnipresent "end of an era" theme. I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to westerns, but I feel that's it's a pretty common theme in classic westerns (the end of the wild west) that is here cleverly modernized. That being said, the...

Michael Chiklis was a huge fan of Fantastic Four. That did not help much!

A lot of Shutter Island with a bit of The Grand Budapest Hotel / Youth? Why not. I am a fan of Verbinski anyway. Also: set in Switzerland (the birth place of LSD!).

Wouldn't it be great if it ended up being a good movie? Finger crossed.

I'll preemptively ask rhinohelix to kindly spoiler the answer to that question.

Played on emulator through the Super Famicom remake of Dragon Quest III with the fan made english translation patch... A pleasant classic RPG romp with the always nice Dragon Quest flair. A notable thing in this game is a very neat character creation system where you answer some questions -...

I never was extremely enamored with them, possibly because I was not a child when I saw them first and also did not saw them at the time of their release, so, in a way, their impact got dulled by the fact I saw films/tv show/cartoons and read comics that got influenced by them before actually...

The prequels were aggressively bad. This film is just mediocre. I guess it performs its functions as a filler for a plot hole and as a cornucopia of references and easter eggs (other than the incomprehensible choice to have Darth Vader make a pun...), but I care very little about that, so this...

Ouch the encoding took a hit when the board transfer took place. Test test: éé èè àà çç ùù öö ää êê ââ ôô ûû îî ïï üü œ

I think the egyptian dark magic spell to summon a giant murder of crows was invented in 2345 BC......

@iannis By a number of metrics, such as alphabetization, life expectancy at birth, peasants ownership of the land they work, price of electricity, of telecommunications and of rents, the cuban revolution markedly and quickly made things better for the people of the island. On other fronts, such...

Reading this it sounds to me the Batista regime and american companies did a pretty good job at fleecing the cuban people and the american taxpayers!

Fun fact: This film is titled Vaiana in several european countries because Moana is a trade mark owned by a perfume company. HAH! Karma for the Mickey Mouse clause?

About investments... But the truth is that in our country it was not only the land that was the property of the agrarian monopolies. The largest and most important mines were also owned by those monopolies. Cuba produces, for example, a great deal of nickel. All of the nickel was exploited...

Since Lithose is about as verbose as Castro, we can have them argue with each other about the great benevolence of the US and how it improved the quality of life of cubans: We surely cannot be blamed if there were 600,000 unemployed in Cuba and 37.5 per cent of the population were illiterate...

Big Phoenix, Castro thinks you are deceiving yourself and are ridiculous :( The Cubans who fought for our independence and at that very moment were giving their blood and their lives believed in good faith in the joint resolution of the Congress of the United States of April 20, 1898, which...

For historical significance, I am currently reading a transcript of Castro's speech at the UN in 1960. After a dull start where he whines about the way his delegation had trouble with their accommodations, it gets more interesting when he makes a brief history of Cuba as a colony (of Spain and...

At the end of the day, Castro was a law student, who, in his early '30s, during the cold war, managed with less than 100 people to topple the US propped dictator of a banana republic (well... a sugar cane republic). Once in power, his government increased dramatically the alphabetization level...

Absence of proof, proof of absence, yadda, yadda.

Somehow I feel the same posters would be here saying "whine whine pay 2 win" if the PS4 Pro gave an advantage...

For reference, the best film of the year so far is, by a significant margin, Sieranevada (not sure if it was shown in the US outside of the Chicago International Film Festival). Honorable mentions: Chevalier, The Final Master and for blockbusters Amasal/Assassination. Guilty pleasure...

Well, the best performance in that film was by an asian actor, so there's that.... (Daniel Wu's Gul'dan).

I don't think the future on display is a dystopia. Not an utopia either. Just a future with its futuristic questions and problems.

Never read the manga, but seeing the movies and playing the game, I am left with the impression that Kusanagi is not unique in any way. She just so happen to be the main character of the story and have an identity crisis (as probably many other androids do). In fact, making her exceptional...

That's pretty crazy. I wonder what is the exposure time and how many photons we are talking about (as in: is there room for enhancement?)

The question is, did some of the white blue collar workers of the rust belt became republicans or did they just vote for the guy who talked about their issues? Remember that looking at the maps and demographics of the 2012 election, it looked like the only possible path for republicans to win...

Several of my friends saw it and they all rated it highly. Have not seen it yet, but I found it difficult to muster the motivation, as I have little interest in the setting and it looks like a sausage fest.

@Khane Assuming your girlfriend meant the Paul Haggis film of 2004, you should watch the David Cronenberg film of 1996 and start a very strange conversation with her (the Cronenberg film is an adaptation of a Ballard novel about a group of people who have a sexual fetish around car crashes)...

For reference: Valérian and Laureline - Wikipedia I remember reading some of those and enjoying them back in... I want to say the mid-'80s, maybe late '80s as a teen in a public library for children/teenagers. Needless to say that memory is pretty fuzzy. Thinking about it it's surprising that...

It stands to reason that someone feeling miserable because they are fundamentally at odds with their body could still feel at odds with it after transforming it. That does not mean the transformation was the wrong thing to do. That goes for transsexualism, but not only. When the body and mind...

Considering only a very few movie theaters are equipped to show movies in Dolby Atmos, how many home users have a setup for it?

The person I quoted (Palum) said "ever since they gave tried to compete with bullshit they have struggled", I am pretty sure that would include the not powerful and motion controlled Wii that was extremely successful. There is no doubt the Wii U is a disappointment for just about everyone and I...

Yeah they have been struggling so hard with the DS and the Wii... struggling to find storage space for their money that is.

:emoji_scream::emoji_scream::emoji_scream::emoji_scream: So many musicians triggered by your choice of words! I'll assume you meant "CD-quality licensed music." PS: The 3DO also had a good version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo and, for the japanese speakers, Policenauts, an adventure game...

Mmmmmh.... no? The CDTV, the CD-i, the Turbo Duo or the FM Towns Marty were all systems with built-in CD-Rom drive that were released before the 3DO. CD-Rom extensions like the Sega CD or the CD-RomRom for PC-Engine are even older (5 years older in the case of the CD-RomRom).

This will end up with a question about marblecake, but there is something pretty healthy about the process. Not sure what I would ask though.