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I don't feel like creating threads for them so: Hostiles: (previously mentioned in this thread) post-cavalry movie with Bale, as a veterant who fought indians all of his adult life, tasked to escort a dying captive indian chief and old nemesis to his home land. If you take each scene...

@spronk To be fair, with a shorter run time, the movie would feel rushed if you want to structure the story the way it is. Basically it goes character exposition -> meddling in the spy game -> formation as a sparrow . This takes about an hour and then you still have to make your spy vs spy...

Something very noteworthy in this game is the super badass music done with an instrumentation of pipe organ, harpsichord and violins (well... at least their MIDI version in the SNES chipset!). That being said, since I played it very recently I'll pass this time again. I wish everyone good luck...

This film is basically horror-comedy with a political/historical twist. There is a good dose of poetic licence (compression of the timeline, alteration of some events) but that's to be expected. Oddly, the main flaw of this movie is an abundance of riches. It's so packed full of themes, great...

You have been traumatized by the 3D mazes as a kid, but they are ridiculously tiny and only have one entrance and one exit. Other than that they are totally empty (with the exception of the hidden hp thing in the first maze that I found by accident the first time around). If it can make you feel...

In the PAL version the bullets of the gun go through walls so... yeah... it's easier!

Well... since the NES was hot, I also played through Fester's Quest. This top down exploration shooter game uses the Addams Family licence. I am not familiar with the Addams Family, but I don't think this story of alien invasion is exactly canon... anyway, you control the slow and 4 direction...

Buddy gaming Thursday remained retro the last two weeks. As my friend is a big fan of Metal Gear Solid, we played a game neither of us played before: Metal Gear on NES! Note that I did not say the original Metal Gear, because the NES version is a rushed port of the original that was released on...

Warning: YouTube video in 4k 60fps! Contains a (un)healthy dose of Tim Rogers!

There is a small thread about Celeste already. So small in fact that I can quote it all here:

I am interested in playing Betrayal at Krondor, but for the sake of getting the list going I'll add the first retro game that is on a pile by me: Minna no Golf aka Everybody's Golf aka Hot Shots Golf on PS1!

They are doing a pretty good job at keeping the game fresh with new cosmetic stuff, changes in the map, temporary game modes, thematic changes, new items/weapons, etc. It's a bit hit & miss but they don't need to only have hits to keep people interested.

It's not horrible, but it's nothing special really. Somewhat by-the-numbers plot (apparently mostly a recombination of elements seen in the recent two games with a good serving of daddy issues on top) that keep things moving, not so hot dialogues, the action and puzzle solving set pieces are not...

Yeah the defender forgot where he was for a moment. He was like "I am going to grab that guy and .... oh shit! No! No! No!"

I have no problem with the unlikely or the coincidence, it's a narrative device that has its merits at times, but characters acting without any kind of discernible motivation? I have a problem with that.

I enjoyed the movie but I find it surprising you can get an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay with stuff like

Wait... there are people playing the single player mode? EDIT: About the matchmaking though, there is a swedish guy who is N°1 or around that in duo called Ettnix who is convinced there is matchmaking taking place because the quality of the opposition is much higher when he plays with his usual...

They'll release it on Netflix in a few days, but I am not 100% sure that it means it will not be released in theaters at all.

I platinum'ed this game on PS4 and the more I played it the least I felt like I could recommend it. The problem is that the harder it gets the more obvious and infuriating the control and level design flaws become. The core game is mostly fine, but that's like 20% of the game and there is even...

It took a lot of Thursdays but a friend and I finally beat Earthbound today! There are games that are labeled as cult classics that make you go mmmmmmmh when you play them (because they did not age well or were just not very good in the first place but simply rare, obscure or original in a bad...

On this occasion he posted a follow-up.

Nah... It is a key aspect of this group that we have different tastes. We are all reasonably curious and ok to see movies that potentially fall outside our core interests and, more importantly, we are always willing to debate with each others, hear what someone else saw in a movie we did not...

Amusingly, the only film I did not see in the best foreign language film category is the one that won :p That being said, I had the opportunity to see it and did not and it is supposed to be pretty good.

I read a pretty cool and long article by a former promoter about that Wilder vs Ortiz fight with a pretty good explanation, from a promoter standpoint, as to why the fight happened, why Ortiz would lose, and why Joshua would win against Wilder down the road. If you think this stuff is not almost...

Hey! I remember that Resolution film. I saw it in a film festival back in 2012 and it was garbage! Sorry! EDIT: That being said, people who made bad movies can also make good ones!

I do not. I maybe have 10 games on PSP and it's not one of them.

I have not played it, but I saw it played and it felt a little tedious (as in solving the puzzle takes 3 sec and then you have to build the solution for 5 mins to get to the next puzzle... that you also solve in 3 sec, etc).

Never mind the fact I don't like the game (which did not prevent me from playing through the whole thing back in the days), I don't seem to have it anymore! Back in the days I traded some games so maybe it's a victim of that. The other option is that I played the EU version and all those games...

@Khane Knowing the guy who put it on his list (at N°5!), I guess he enjoyed it a lot because it is a peculiar object, where you know every single element has been carefully weighted, taking into account representation, the canon, the nostalgia of some of the fans, the lack of nostalgia of some...

Thor: Ragnarok (as previously mentioned), John Wick: Chapter 2, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and American Made made their way into some of our lists. I have American Made at N°12. I found the movie very funny and was extremely surprised by the quality of the editing and cinematography.

Does the Blu Ray have as an extra the super long takes of Gosling doing the mental stability tests?

@spronk You will be pleased to know that the two people who saw Thor: Ragnarok ranked it 6th and 11th. It almost made it in the final Top 20. Wind River did not get released around our parts (note that unreleased movies can enter our lists if at least 3 people saw it, which I think was the case...

Hey! About half the films were not in my personal Top 20! :p

Like we have been doing every year for more than 10 years, five of my friends and me met in late February in a restaurant, each of us with a list of our 20 favorite movies released in the previous year. We then talked and ate and combined all our lists to form the Top 20 movies of the year: the...

He is one of the very skilled player at the game. As you know, skill level and viewership are not directly related, it's a whole package. The little I have seen of Ninja does not make me feel he is my cup of tea, but I watch a good deal of High Distortion and also some Svennoss. He is a dutch...

Help! There is still some time to save us from the game that killed 2D Castlevania by being the poor man's Metroid! Get these votes in!

I am not 100% sure I have a working Master System, but I have a Golden Axe Warrior cartridge and it's supposed to be a pretty good Zelda clone.

I can pour the content of a blender into a cup :(

I have exactly one US Saturn game: Enemy Zero :) I tried to play it back in the days without much success!

Heh... that was the game I was about to submit, though I have the significantly cheaper japanese version (bought $20 - I think you need to add at least one zero for a US version and maybe at least three for a EU version?). EDIT: Now that I think of it, playing a Saturn game might prove tricky...