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Watched Michel 'The Artist & OSS 117' Hazanavicius' latest: Le redoutable (Redoubtable is the english title). It's a comedy based on an auto-biographical book by Anne Wiazemsky about one year of her life with famous French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard. A modicum of knowledge of european...

James Franco's impersonation of Wiseau sounds pretty on point. Nice to see the man himself in the credits. Hopefully playing the part of a crazy James Franco!

The european model is suposed to be exactly the same as the american model except you get the superior design (matter of taste) and the superior controllers (unarguable).

@spronk Saw it in a film festival. Imdb's only european release date is for the UK at the end of November. @gauze The movie. I am not familiar with the manga/anime. I think fans of the source material were dubious about the possibility of representing the powers of the characters in a live...

A bit frustrating, because you can feel that with all these thematic and stylistic elements, with this narrative device (the main character is the storyteller), with these characters and the initial situation even, a much better movie could have been made. Still, there are several good scenes...

Copypasta from the 'recently watched' thread: Oh and Jojo is garbage.

When there is like 2 minutes left in the round and one of the guys is no longer able to lift his arm, you stop the fight.

They should stop the fight. No need for someone to get injured.

Mayweather waits three round and then starts to fight and Connor looks foolish.

Where is that instant chat when you need it?

It's all about odds manipulation to maximize the returns on Mayweather bets.

Obviously you need a free hand to light the sword on fire.

Yes. Both Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian are in the Raid 1 & 2.

Exaggeration much? Jackson will only turn 69 in December!

I saw it in theater at the time of release. I remember being disappointed with the movie, but that might have had a lot to do with my expectations: Singer's previous film was The Usual Suspect and McKellen was known to me for his part in Loncraine's Richard III a few years prior. Let's just say...

As much as I would like for them to do a spin-off season with the merry band venturing north, the whole plan is ridiculously dumb. If they show a single undead to Cersei, she'll just go "That's some great blood magic you guys used to create that one undead, and somehow I am to believe there is a...

If standard training regimen and standard competition in a sport is shown to result in a significant likeliness of irreversible brain damage, I am not sure why there is even a debate: the standards of said sport must be changed.

Oh and by the way, if Nadal had reached the semi final, he would have become World N°1. That might happen naturally next week though as Murray will not play in Cinci... unless, if my guestimation is correct, Federer bags too many points this week and the next!

So... this week is the Canadian ATP1000. In even years it takes place in Toronto and in odd years in Montréal. This year is definitely a very odd year. Before the start of the even we already knew it was a bit strange: Djokovic is officially out of commission until the end of the season to treat...

On the PS4 UI the Store is linked in about 25 different places though. I guess it's a minor offense, but still...

@Intrinsic Nah it was not me. The film was shown in several festivals though: Rotterdam, Tribeca (New York), Fantasia (Montreal). I saw it in Neuchâtel myself (where, I just learned, he won the main award!).

You asked me about this movie a while back? I really don't remember. In fact I don't even remember hearing anything about this movie before I saw it last month.

Saw that in a movie festival. Without entering spoiler territory, I would say there is an odd choice here in that the character with the most interesting arch is not the main character. That choice allows a bunch of tension/paranoia but I did not find it very satisfying. Still worth a watch I...

The follow up question is.... how could one even play the game when every shot at the goal could severely injure the goalkeeper? It took crazy people to be goalkeepers and psychopaths to be field players?

After a quick look: it is indeed pre-creased and glued and just flattened, but the people that chose the Famicom format box can't put the manual inside of it, no matter if they picked the english or japanese manual.

"Make the box yourself" seems a bit of an overstatement if they just sent it flattened. A bit annoying if it's also unglued and not pre-folded (pre-creased? Not sure what the proper word is) though.

Accountants and investors care little about quality, they care about numbers. Lucy's budget was a very small number compared to Lucy's revenue, so it was easy for Besson to gather money for the much more expensive Valerian and, according to the man himself, to have almost all of this budget...

This has already been made into a (not very good) movie decades ago. A fact that underlines another: the book is a classic, but it's also an anticipation book written in 1953. As is often the case for such books, some parts are eerily prophetic, but I fear some others are extremely dated. I have...

Holy cast Batman! Also never read a Jo Nesbo novel, but he is a very popular nordic author of crime novels.

Probably the smart people thought it could not realistically go further toward McGregor so they placed their bet.

Promoters sure know how to do their job. I overheard a conversation about the fight today between two guys. Both followed neither boxing nor MMA and were talking about how McGregor is younger and has a longer reach and how Mayweather is old, was certainly very very good, but is probably not as...

While the draw opened up nicely for him, he still had to play three guys that beat him in Grand Slam, two of them in Wimbledon! But it's true that both the draw and the way the final unfolded made that 19th Grand Slam title a tad underwhelming compared to the AO win over Nadal earlier in the...

The term, which stands for bourgeois-bohème, is actually also used in english but not as much as in french. Mainly in relation to this book: Bobos in Paradise - Wikipedia (note that the article says the author coined the term, but it exists in french since the '70s apparently but not exactly...

It's fitting that this whole affair starts with a comedy tour.

Bad news :( It did not ring a bell even if, at his latest count, he saw more than a thousand american westerns! (I hope it includes 15min silent ones!). He suspects though that it might be a scene from a european Western, a field in which he is a lot less knowledgeable (Spain and Italy produced...

@Gamma Rays I have no idea, but I forwarded the question to an acquaintance of mine who is an expert in the field of cowboy movies! That's a pretty big field though, even more so if you include the TV series / films that I assume it could have been?

Saw 20ish movies in a festival... I guess the stand outs were: Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, the second part of a super epic indian movie. It's so over the top and devoid of 2nd degree that it lands in a strange territory between "so bad it's good" and "contagious enthusiasm." Amusingly, the...

So let me get this straight.... when the game chosen are popular, it sucks because they always show the same games. When they are obscure, it sucks because who cares about those games. When the runs are long, it's boring, but when they are short it's lame because glitches are used. Also, since...

The best platformer of the last decade is Super Mario Maker, but I guess it can be argued that it is partly in spite of Nintendo!

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is probably the highest budget art game since Silent Hill 4: The Room. There are some dumb parts (it's kinda the point, but there is clever dumb and dumb dumb and sometimes it's the wrong kind), but there are many great memorable elements, in game design, story and...