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Last few months of games I've played: https://i.imgur.com/lAvc28Z.jpeg New Super Mario Bros. (2006) - I was pretty surprised how stripped down this was compared to other Mario games, but well I guess the name is kind of a hint. I like the addition of wall jumps and such, but at its core this is just...

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Hey maz, glad to see you again. Hope things have been generally going well for you and your family. I find myself sympathetic to your feelings here though. I've been following the Palestine stuff a little bit and while I'm not super glued in (And frankly I'm still ignorant about a lot of the history...

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Yeah minstrel shit in old film is unfortunate.

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I'd put the 90's over the 80's too, but I do think a lot of the 90's is just MORE of what was good in the 80's. More good blockbusters, more good low to mid-budget indie dramas continuing from trend started in 80's, someone like Lynch taking off even more than he did in 80's, more solid thrillers et...

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Hmm okay. I assumed Magic was just like other card games I've heard about where "power creep" meant new cards were just inherently better than old cards but this is all way more complicated than I was expecting.

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I knew these card games can get really collectible, but I'm a little surprised they're going for THAT much for single cards.

Like is this purely a rarity thing or do old cards still give you an advantage in the game?

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You have a lot of names on that list that I'm not familiar with. If I made such a list, it would probably include a couple more "mainstream" names such as Zemeckis. Zemeckis' new stuff may not be selling the world on fire, but BTTF trilogy + Roger Rabbit are some of the best of 80's Ameri...

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Just wanted to share something with you, guys. I finally made a list of my favourite directors of all time. There are 20 names on the list. Here it is: Wong Kar-wai Terrence Malick Stanley Kubrick Akira Kurosawa Martin Scorsese Andrei Tarkovsky Christopher Nolan Quentin Tarantino Hayao Miyazaki Joe...

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52. Vampyr (1932) 8/10 My fifth Dreyer film. Very good with decent story, but told with sublime cinematography. Haven't seen this in about 10 years. At time I didn't like it a lot IIRC, but its gotten better in my memory. I'd probably rank it highly now. 53. One Punch Man (Season 1) 9/10 Brilliant ...

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It's been such a long time since I watched the Austin Powers. I remember seeing Goldmember in theaters with my father...gosh, has it really been over 20 years now?

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Rax did you ever watch No Time To Die? I can't find a review from you for it. I did but it was after I stopped posting movie reviews. I mostly liked it overall. For whatever issues it has, I do respect them killing off Bond. Even if they somehow retcon this away in a new movie, I still think it wor...

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I remember having fun with the new Bill & Ted. Well I guess its not exactly "new" anymore...

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https://i.imgur.com/tPfwoacl.jpeg Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (2024) - The Elden Ring DLC is finally here and man is it excellent. The Lands Between is such a dense area, so many hidden little secrets and areas and sidequests, so many cool weapons and spells and such to unlock, and some very ...

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I don't think its better than GoldenEye, but I do think Tomorrow Never Dies is pretty underrated. Pryce is one of the better modern character actors out there.

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I think it makes sense to want to address those in the movie though. Bond as film franchise was over 30 years old by time GoldenEye came out and its not like some of the criticisms were particularly new even then. That's also the postmodern style that was pretty in vogue in the 90's (Think Tarantino...

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https://i.imgur.com/RputzWel.jpeg Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (2013 - Present) - I was initially never going to play this game. I had heard that this shared a lot of the same creative team as FF16 and well as you all may remember I hated FF16 so much to the point I had given up my goal since ...

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I haven't played Super Mario Land since I was a kid, but it was definitely a childhood favorite back on the original Game Boy. I also had a copy as a kid, but never got too far into it compared to Six Golden Coins. Not sure why, and now its hard to go back to playing on original hardware over roms ...

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Dalton's Bond and movies are underrated IMO.

I've heard that about Brosnan before but it makes me wonder why there were so many years between License to Kill and GoldenEye.

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Been a while since I've gotten an update in here. https://i.imgur.com/lIVtW7im.jpeg Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (2013) - The final game in Layton's prequel trilogy. This was...not my favorite Layton tbh, and honestly mostly because of how the story was structured. The Layton games not have...

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Four Swords is one of the very few only Zelda games I've never played. Just never had a chance to. Maybe now that they're adding GBA to Switch I'll have the chance some day. Dunno if you saw this, but they finally added GBA LTTP/Four Sword to NSO the other day. I did! I was really happy about that....

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He's always been a fairly underrated actor. RIP.

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Gendo wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 2:54 pm Four Swords is one of the very few only Zelda games I've never played. Just never had a chance to. Maybe now that they're adding GBA to Switch I'll have the chance some day.

Dunno if you saw this, but they finally added GBA LTTP/Four Sword to NSO the other day.

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Yeah I remember reading about that at the time.

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It's a shame Man With a Golden Gun isn't better because Bond vs. Christopher Lee should be a killer premise for a movie.

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It's a little sad to see a name of a former giant go, but the actual studio has long since been a shell of its former self. Any talent they had mostly went on to either Studio Khara (Anno and the EVA people) or Studio Trigger (Imaishi and the TTGL/Panty & Stocking people), while the last actual ...

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Yeah the more I've sit on that over the years the more I don't really understand what they were going for with that. If you just want an excuse for Bond to have an adventure in Japan there are much easier ways to do that, but that whole pretend angle is so strange.

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Thunderball is where I think the Connery era kinda falls off, though its interesting that it lead to that weird legal nonsense that lead to the movie being remade more or less as Never Say Never Again.

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Wow this thread is old now. It's like I blinked and years and years passed... Yeah the EVA connection is one of those things that's very bizarre once you first learn about it. Though curiously, all the Bond films that Anno cites as an influence on himself are from the Roger Moore era and not the Con...

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Yeah I've even owned Heat on blu-ray for a longass time now (Got it the same day I got Snowpiercer on bluray, ironically enough), but for some reason I just have not got around to it. I'll probably love the movie too, just haven't quite found the right time/motivation for it. Usual Suspects I got sp...

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I think I'm finishing a list of my favourite films of all time, guys. There are currently 145 films on the list. I would certainly be interested to hear your comments, guys, or at least how many have you seen. Here is the list: Fallen Angels (1995) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) The New Worl...

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I need to rewatch Naked Lunch. The one time I watched it was in an internet chatroom which was just not the best circumstance for that film, I think.

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Glad to see you around again Lyndon. 27. Howl's Moving Castle (2004) 9/10 Rewatch. It is a powerful anti-war statement and a tender love story. Wonderful film. I really like this one and almost consider it as good as Spirited Away, but there are several moments in the last 25 minutes or so where I f...

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https://i.imgur.com/Jm1PdMMm.jpeg The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (2001) - Got around to finishing this finally. Overall this is still a solid Zelda entry I think, though I don't think its quite as strong as Seasons. There wasn't any fatal flaws in the game or anything, but just a few too many ...

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https://i.imgur.com/TQWrpFXl.jpeg Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024) - Yeah this game is excellent. It basically takes everything that was good in FF7 Remake and improves upon on it wholesale. The combat is given more depth not only with additional party members, generally expanded movesets for retur...

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Wow its really coming along.

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Yeah I also hated Poor Things and was confused by the praise. I'm really glad you specified that ugly aesthetic too because it really reminded me of like bad AI-generated art I've been seeing in recent debates about that. It's like aesthetically the movie was trying to be some kind of Tim Burton thi...

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Yeah Cabin in the Woods is one I enjoyed at the time but the meta-horror movie stuff hasn't aged well in my memory. Like since I've last seen the movie, I've watched every Evil Dead film and its kinda bizarre to me now that something as already untethered as Raimi's series is at the center of Cabin ...

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Oh wow I totally missed that. Interesting.

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The Platform isn't one I've seen yet, no. Exam is one I've seen though and liked well enough.

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I might need to rewatch Napoleon Dynamite. Never really got its sense of humor at the time and haven't thought about the movie too much since then. Idk which Funny Games I'd say is better but both are bad films IMHO. Cube I like okay, but I hear ya on it being kind of hard to find stuff in that &quo...

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Thanks. It really is a different experience in theaters too. Like having to look up at the screen and take in everything from action scenes to insane Anno montages really is something else. The soundtrack and the screams blasting from the speakers. It really was like watching the film for the first ...

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I mean holy fuck. Holy shit. Wow.

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I've been really enjoying FF7 Rebirth lately, but I haven't played much the last few days since I've been rewatching NGE so I can see EOE in theaters in a few days. Meanwhile I did beat another game I've been playing on the side. https://i.imgur.com/4fhBuHB.jpeg Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright (2015) ...

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Yeah I mostly agree with that (Really part about the Gnostics is what I take biggest issue with, but ancient theology is a bit beside the point here) though I personally wouldn't frame it Campbellian terms. This is partly because I haven't actually trudged my way through Hero With a Thousand Faces y...

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19. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) I still think it's one of ten greatest films of all time. Amazing achievement in directing. I just bought 4K of this a few days ago, funnily enough. Might try and rewatch at some point this year. 21. The Matrix (1999) 22. The Matrix Reloaded (2003) 23. The ...

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I have an unopened promotional DVD for Steamboy from the Suncoast Video where I grew up still lol. Never got around to watching the movie though.

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Played through a bunch of stuff recently to try and (mostly) clear my slate before FF7 Rebirth. Some of these games again really deserve more than I've written about them here (Particularly Y0), so maybe I'll come back and edit more thoughts in here at some point. https://i.imgur.com/84yHY3Tl.jpeg Y...

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Gendo wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:52 pm 19. Seven Samurai (1954) - That's right, I finally watched this. Best movie ever made?

Yeah, probably. Certainly one of the major contenders. There's only a handful I'd put on its level.

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Oh wow I didn't realize I passed 5000. A lot of those are video games and TV shows, so its not like my actual film count is at 5000 (Which is closer to 3780, if my Letterboxd is to be believed).

Seems my 5000th rating was for the visual novel Kanon, which was not one of my favorite games lol.

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Yeah I'd have to watch again to say for sure but I'm not sure I buy that idea tbh.

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