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I have not read any China Mi?ville nor do I completely agree with his following quote, but I came across it as a kind of frontispiece to a french fantasy book I read recently (Wastburg) and thought it fit in the current discussion: Full quote When they met the goblin king, it seemed the guy...

I have never seen Baraka and only saw the first of the "qatsi" on VHS (a hint that it was not yesterday!). That said, there is absolutely no doubt that the cinematography in those films is stellar and that Ron Fricke is a grandmaster at his craft. There are some super smooth flying time-lapses...

So clich? of me! But year, chocolate in particular, but sugar in general...

Damn... I have seen all Tarentino movies (except Django who is not out yet around here) so you leave me with an unpleasant alternative! I'll go with another option though: I presented my point with unnecessary venom because I let myself be trolled (after all the claims I was rebuking were that...

I have not played it, but we have some Dragon Dogma fans around here I believe.

I was not and, unlike you, did not even sneak beers into the theater! Still, you should not have been drunk already during the opening: not a single line of dialogue, a great economy of shots and still everything is clear, potent, well framed and well paced. I found McQuarrie not as comfortable...

For me the movie found the right balance between willingly using clich?s and spicing things up with originality. The film knows full well that we all saw a billion cop shows and "who done it?" movies, so it can go very fast in its opening act where we see the crime, its preparation and the...

I never saw or played the 6 people version, but with the 28 you go all the way through no matter what, so it took maybe 20ish minutes? It's too long ago for me to remember the game mechanics though... pretty sure you get an individual grade/score in the end and that you can take damage (I...

I actually played the 28 players version of that in some Namco amusement park / super-arcade center outside Tokyo in 1995. Players were on a circular platform and surrounded by a 360? screen, but the kicker was that the whole room (or at least the platform) was on hydraulic pistons that faked...

I more in the camp of those who think Tarantino can't even come close to making a movie as good as the 25th Hour with his little video store clerk montages, but ok.

Google-Fu gives me: Gunblade N.Y or L.A. Machine Guns. Both by Sega and both available on a single disc for... the Wii!

He better have considering this is a remake (reinvention really) of a spaghetti western.

The director of Samsara was the cinematographer of Koyaanisqatsi but not of its two sequels. Koyaanisqatsi also was boosted to a quasi mystic experience by Phillip Glass' score.

There is an episode earlier in season 4 that is for me the best of the whole show. It's been a while so I don't remember exactly how it goes, but it's the one where Trinity opens up to Dexter a bit and sort of take him under his wing. The tension between the two characters is brilliant the whole...

Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln, The Master and Django will all be 2013 around here :/ I still have some movies to see to make my 2012 list though.

50 director credits with 20 of those being theatre released feature films does not qualify as prolific or does the word not mean what you think it means?

I really liked Doakes right before his death. They introduced some of the military past of the character in relation to Cuba and that sounded very interesting and could have added a lot of depth to the character and even to the show as a whole... but then he croaked.

I am talking about the SNES version. Not that the arcade version is much better, but I doubt even you would defend the SNES version.

For dummies indeed...

What about Taiwan? I have a japanese friend who is a big fan, but I am not sure if he went to the cities or the more rural areas (or both).

Elisany da Cruz Silva, 17, measures an unbelievable 6ft 8in tall

The RM thing is just a power struggle between some of the players and Mourinho. I have a hard time seeing Mourinho losing at that game or walking away. It would have to last a long while and translate into some more defeats for the club to drop Mourinho.

What's the point of having an arcade cabinet if it's to play a game that can be played just as well on a PC or console? I would go for a Soulblade Alpha or a Police 24/7 with its vertical screen and movement tracking tech.

I was about to post that "horrible musical" is a pleonasm, but then I remembered South Park: The Movie. Oh... and West Side Story.

I saw it yesterday and I think it suffers from a double lose-lose situation. The first lose-lose situation comes from the total lack of info given on the images you see. That forces them into two categories: the "oh, that again" and the "huh? what is that?". There are some brutal offenders in...

As opposed to the extremely intricate trash mob combat in most FF: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A *victory music*

I played 8 at the time of its release and never played it since, but I am certain I barely played the card game and I don't remember having to grind anything or draw stuff for ages. I guess the game is what you make of it.

Need some more info... is it a platformer? A shooter? A beat'em all? Was that 1-A 2-C thing branching paths or were levels just divided in areas? The setting makes it sound like Kung Fu or a Ninja Gaiden...

I don't get to play much two players games (other than the very occasional war games / miniature games), but a good two player entry point is probably some non-collectible card games, but I don't have one to recommend in particular. To be a little more helpful, I found youa list of games that...

I'll probably go see it sometime soon, but let's just say that based on the trailer it looks beautiful but stupidly simplistic in its discourse ("oh look how the western world is an empty shell of all-destroying consumerism while Asia is this magnificent realm of spirituality and culture!").

The only way Holy Motors can end up on a top 10 list is if you rate movies based on their greatest moment (Holy Motors does have some great moments - especially a melancholic singing scene with Kylie Minogue in her best Jean Seberg impersonation) or if you rate the concept rather the execution...

I am surprised this company lasted as long as it did. For me THQ is synonymous to a number of atrocious SNES games during the '90s.. Family Dog, Home Alone, The Lawnmower Man, Pitfighter... I guess when your average customer is a parent who does not care or a retarded teenager, it's a viable...

? just rememberedSpace Alertis a very short and very original game that is cooperative. I would say the drawback for a family setting would be that it's stressful, because it requires on the fly teamplay and good communication in a timed setting (the game is played at the set pace of a CD track...

Can you see the theme here? Slight deviation: two videos from some french house/eurodance crew that had the strangest and most brilliantly "fetishisty" idea. NSFW

Sayat Nova really is a UFO, but's interesting to see how its powerful imagery contaminated the work of many current directors. Mark Romanek and Tarsem come to mind. Gadjo Dilo is as energetic and full of life as her main actress Rona Hartner. It was a breakthrough performance, but as far as I...

"a few years ago"

You have to admit it tookironyballs to call this thing R.O.B.

I think one of the unwritten rules of Homeland is that the POTUS is not part of the fiction.

I played a number of games of Twilight Imperium with 6 (8?) players and I would say the biggest problem of the game is that you cannot interact with everybody. So you play 8 hours, but because of something that happened at the other end of the board, a guy is winning and you can't do jack about...