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I have not checked the article linked earlier in the thread, but, as a general rule, the fact that some footage / scenes were shot and did not end up in the movie does not mean the director wished they were in it. Sometimes things that work on the page do not work once shot, or some brilliant...

The main problem is that Uncharted is a lot better than the movies it imitates (at least those made currently), so making a movie out of Uncharted is almost doomed to fail. Going for some sort of origin story would be a decent enough idea, but the youth of Nathan has already been decently...

Went to see this the other day. As expected, all the whining about 007 as a black woman is utterly irrelevant. It's a classic "the old and the young gauging each other and finding some mutual respect" storyline and it's barely a storyline at all. The movie does have two big problems : the...

In case you guys missed how movie the movie business works, the initial ticket sales have almost nothing to do with the quality of the movie. Even bad professional reviews and bad early audience reviews have little impact when compared to the weight of the marketing (to use a general term that...

Analog sticks send an X and a Y value to the console. No idea what the actual value is for a PS5 controller, but let's say it's 0 to 255 or -127 to 127. That's a lot of values for not that big a range, so if the stick does not centers perfectly you will have a residual 1 or 2 that will be sent...

Am I missing something or did you just khorum'ed all over yourself by linking to a news story that disproves the point you were trying to make ?

In your fantasy, is the chinese corporation ByteDance a front for Microsoft ?

It must be The Guilty season, because there is actually a play adaptation of the movie that just opened in Paris. All the action happening in one location obviously made it a prime candidate for a stage production.

Koichi Sugiyama, the composer of all the DQ games, just died. He was 90 (he was already in his 50s when he started working for Enix).

Jeff Bezos thanks you for your kindness !

Three horror comedies : One Cut of the Dead : amazingly ballsy Japanese zombie movie. Endure the rough beginning to get to see one of the funniest and most clever film ever. Housebound : New Zealand seems to have a knack for the horror-comedy genre. This very effective entry is mostly notable...

It's a remake of a 2018 danish film of the same name. The original was ok, but I am not exactly sure why it warrants a remake especially in the Netfilx age, when foreign films and shows with subtitles can enjoy a lot of success. Making it that much more odd that Netflix is producing this.

Do you think The Blair Witch Project is a documentary ? :lumie:

The Gom Jabbar scene is one of the few I prefer in Lynch's version,

I am not talking about the actors, I am talking about the character, as he is seen in the movies. The action of the James Bond films are not outside of time : the cold war disappeared, internet, cell phones and smart phones appeared. The action of the Bond film takes place in the "present times"...

My understanding is that her character was added in the script by the director. I read something to that effect in an interview of Armas.

I would guess it has more to do with the fact Bond has been an active agent for 70 years (in Dr. No he is no newbie even if its the first mission we see).

Back in the import community in the mid '90s many people had Super Famicom copiers and there was a whole black market of copied floppies from people who knew a guy who knew a guy who ran a BBS or something. From that era there were for me several very memorable unknown games that I only saw in...

It's being made by Illumination, the studio that makes the Despicable Me and the Secret Life of Pets films. Probably better news than having a 3D film made in Japan though. In any case, Pratt or not Pratt, live action or 3D, the real question is.... who gives a rat's ass about a Mario story ...

In a typical Villeneuve way, the answer to the question "When is serious time?" is "All the time." It makes the film both monumental and a bit draining. I guess it's in part due to Villeneuve's style and also possibly the constraint of adapting for the screen a sprawling novel : all the low...

There is really nothing generic about Actraiser 2. It has one of the most complex control scheme ever devised for a 2D action game. If I am counting right, the character has 7 different sword attacks and you can charge your attack which leads to 6 or 7 different spells, not moving and not...

Half of me want to support the IP and see the new content, the other half wonders why "updated" visuals have to look so bad compared to the original. PS : It's also on PlayStation, PC... iOS and Android?

I was about to say "They just made a Macbeth movie already!", but the Macbeth with Fassbender was 6 years ago... @spronk about Denzel, he has been a doing a movie a year for the past 20ish years, so I am not sure what you mean.

Damn, Paul Shrader. What a blast from the past ! He wrote four scenarios for Scorsese, but he is very good as a director also. Mishima : A Life in Four Chapters is a masterpiece with an insane score by Philip Glass and a timeless performance by Ken Ogata. I remember Affliction being great also...

What 'breathtakingly beautiful' means for a fictional character does not conjure the same image for book reader Aldarion and film director Denis Villeneuve. News at 11 !

You know films are influential when people are writing fan fictions about the production process....

A title is a title is a title. You can only beat the people that are on the other side of the net and it's futile to try and estimate how unfavorable or unfavorable circumstances were. A draw that opens up can mean facing a journeyman on a hot streak and also comes with an added burden of...

Saw some streamer play it with some friends online and that seemed pretty fun. Tip : Be sure that the person with a flamethrower has a cool head and don't run in front of that person ! :D

If you want to feel even worse BarbarousKing beat the game the other day in bloodmoon difficulty and torchless. Needless to say it took time and many attempts !

Legend of Zelda maker is probably a false good idea. The genius of Mario Maker is the many ways items, enemies and the player can interact with each other. There really is none of that in Zelda. But maybe they will explore new territories...

That creates a balance issue : not having the baliset makes it more costly to fake the residual poison !

On planet Earth, Joaquin Phoenix got nominated for 6 Golden Globes over the years and won one. As for Academy Awards, he got nominated 4 times and got one. His collection of 47 awards also include a BAFTA, a Grammy, and a Best Actor award from the Cannes Film Festival. On planet Earth, Joaquin...

Never played it, but Daughters of Ash is supposed to be a very good Dark Souls mod.

Played through 11S recently and also did everything in it except the secret post-final trial in Pang Tang. I am pretty happy with the way I dealt with the post game boss (Timewyrm) as I used minimal cheese compared to what I have seen on youTube, so it was a long struggle with a couple...

Saw this a few months back. Not the greatest movie ever, but the pacing is pretty good so it's a pleasant watch. I wondered the whole way through why they picked an actor with almost no screen presence in the lead and was surprised to learn he is actually famous for the TV Show The Good Doctor...

The citation is already in my post : the pdf linked is the official list of controlled substances published by the Narcotics Control Departement of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare where you can see methylphenidate is a controlled substance of the class "Psychotropics". The...

Because apparently I have nothing else to do : https://www.ncd.mhlw.go.jp/en/application.html https://www.ncd.mhlw.go.jp/dl_data/keitai/list.pdf My understanding : - Adderall is a cocktail of amphetamines it is 100% banned in Japan. - Ritalin is a brand name for methylphenidate which is a...

Absolutely awesome men double quarter final about to begin in Badminton between a japanese and a taiwanese pair. Check it if you can ! EDIT: And it's over ! Some great rallies and shots but the japanese were a bit too nervous so there was little doubt as to what the result would be. A bit sad...

I am probably the greatest Shyamalan apologist on these boards. Did not like this movie. Here and there Shyamalan reminds us he is a great director (some shot compositions, the matches in the cave scene, the back and forth lateral travelling in the fire scene, etc) but it's too few and far...