The Pitters' Place

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It seems the Lost writer's room may uh, not have been the greatest place to work.

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https://i.imgur.com/pzq5c89l.jpg The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023) - I was surprised by how much I liked this. I liked Breath of the Wild well enough but didn't love it, and I was pretty skeptical going into TotK since a lot of the pre-release footage focused on constructing vehicles...

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Stray Dog is wonderful film, though I never understood the people that called it the first "buddy cop" film since Shimura and Mifune seem to have more of a master/apprentice relationship in the movie IMO.

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https://i.imgur.com/vxX10PJ.jpg Final Fantasy IV (1991/2011) - It took me a while but I managed to knock this out finally (I started sometime last year I think) before TotK came out. I just couldn't get engaged by this game at all. SNES RPG's are in a weird place for me now where their stories and ...

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I know some people put hundreds of hours into BotW, but I probably only put 40 to 50ish between the main game and the DLC. TotK will probably be similar for me.

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https://i.imgur.com/wM8rfy1l.jpg Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht (2002) - Well now that I'm done with the Xenoblades time to go through the Xenosagas... This game is definitely closer to spirit in Xenogears to than the Xenoblade trilogy. There's definitely more emphasis on somewhat obscuran...

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I haven't watched the video but I just assume its another continuity error or changed plan for the show.

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Seems pretty good. I haven't seen everything on that list but its mostly stuff I like.

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I think I have slight preference for theatrical cut but the multiple versions sort of add to the mystique of Apocalypse Now for me anyways. Some version of AN is usually around my top 10 and I think probably the best thing to come out of New Hollywood. Brando gets all the love for his performance an...

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I think I saw the Tomb Raiders when they were new but I don't really remember them. Never played the games much either.

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Yeah I really liked that final boss; definitely one of the best in the game. The cycle reward is great IF you rush to do the quest as early as you can in a play-through which I did last time I played it. But if you save it for the very last thing, then I guess no reward would actually be worth it. ...

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https://i.imgur.com/6sUy3egl.jpg Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed (2023) - Oh hey this DLC finally came out. I generally liked this much more than base game XB3. The character progression being tied to exploration and finding items in the overworld is a really nice touch, and I generally lik...

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It's been too long since I've seen Cagliostro to really talk about but I remember not liking it much. I largely prefer the episodes of the 1971 Lupin III series that he and Takahata co-directed and they're probably my favorite thing from both of them. I've seen most of Miyazaki's films at this point...

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https://i.imgur.com/5XX5sYZl.jpg Resident Evil 4 (2023) - This game fucking rules. It modernizes RE4 so well, most noticeably I think in pacing. I thought the original game dragged a bit by time you got to the island section, but the Remake streamlines things so well that the game constantly feels ...

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It has one good sequence with the pig's blood or whatever but its mostly pretty shallow revenge porn IMO.

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I like his Mission: Impossible and that's about it.

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I haven't seen all the Coppolas, but I personally liked Dracula more than The Conversation.

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I thought Daniel Kaluuya was actually kinda bad in Nope tbh, something I never though I'd say about one of his performances before watching. His mumbling and moping and such was completely unconvincing to me.

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Gendo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 11:06 pm I watched and reviewed all The Thin Man movies a couple years ago.

The Thin Man sequel I remember best is the one with the young James Stewart. So bizarre seeing him play the villain.

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I've seen all those movies and also liked them. EDIT: Wait I goofed, Duck Soup is not one of the Marx Brothers films I've seen. D'oh! 34. Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (2022– ) Decided to check out season 1 because of the huge hype surrounding it. It was very good. Some really epic and bloody batt...

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Adventure might be my pick for most underrated NES game tbh. Its fairly late for the NES but its honestly impressive what they were able to do on it.

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https://i.imgur.com/7zFPTMP.jpg Kirby's Dream Land 2 (1995) - This was the first game I remember playing and owning as a child. I really loved playing Kirby on my blue Game Boy Pocket (And in retrospect I wonder if such a formative gaming experience for me being done and that little old black &...

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https://i.imgur.com/XXG7QDM.jpg Resident Evil 4 "Chainsaw Demo" (2023) - The demo for the RE4 remake has been out for a few days now and it rules. I really like the changes they've made here based on the opening village section- Leon might not be quite as overpowered as he was in the OG R...

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Interesting observations about Godard, Scorsese, history of film and possible future. But I remembered something. Eva Yojimbo once said that Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is doing something interesting with film as medium, something different from others. You should definitely check out ...

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I didn't think Danny Boyle completists existed tbh. I mean I don't hate the guy or anything but I've never known anyone to care about watching his stuff as much as you.

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Also if I remember right I think this is the first GameCube release I've reviewed since joining this forum (Well even if it is a glorified port of N64 games). That's a little surprising to me tbh, since the GameCube had a huge impact on me growing up but we don't really talk about many of its titles...

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https://i.imgur.com/A3X1YCUl.jpg The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest (1998/2002) - It took me 20 years but I finally beat this. And I mean that literally. I actually started out replaying this from the beginning, but I had forgotten just how much of Master Quest really draws things ou...

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I'm looking at De Niro's filmography and this is really impressive. Just look at some of the films he's been in: Mean Streets The Godfather Part II Taxi Driver The Deer Hunter Raging Bull The King of Comedy Once Upon a Time in America Brazil The Untouchables Goodfellas Awakenings Cape Fear Casino H...

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Did you notice that Scorsese uses a music track from Godard's Contempt in it? No, I didn't actually. But interesting that you mentioned Godard... I was just thinking how, when I was younger, Godard was way ahead of Scorsese on my list of favourite directors. But times change and people change. Now ...

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Since we got the GBA version of SMB3 already, I'd be surprised if we don't get the GBA LTTP/Four Swords pak as well. That would almost certainly be the definitive way to play Four Swords.

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https://i.imgur.com/f600PzWl.jpg The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991) - Yeah this is one of those games that does what it wants to do so perfectly its almost hard to talk about. I had played a bit of the GBA version when I was younger but I never got too far into it for some reason. Maybe...

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I've only really played a randomizer for Resident Evil 2 Remake and I think I turned one on for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night once, but they're pretty neat. Really adds back some sense of discovery and some neat challenge to a game you know really well.

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I haven't been watching the HBO series but it seems to be fairly popular. Apparently its been making some changes to the story of the game.

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I like Casino a lot, and feel its fairly distinct from GoodFellas. Did you notice that Scorsese uses a music track from Godard's Contempt in it?

Die Hard rocks.

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I'll be playing what looks to be a much better Zelda game next:

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https://i.imgur.com/NYi94HV.jpg Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1987) - Yeeaaaahhhh this might be my pick for the worst Zelda. I didn't get why it had a bad reputation at first (And was hoping most of the outrage was just fanboys that couldn't handle a franchise entry being different), because the...

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Yeah Big O is great, though it needs a rewatch for me. What did you make of that ending? If I understood it correctly, they were all living in a kind of simulation. I think the point was that the main character, Roger Smith, realized that in the end. And despite the fact that he was aware that they...

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BTW where are you on Malick's Tree of Life? I haven't seen it in like ten years, but I remember thinking it was almost a masterpiece, except that the cosmic framing device with the dinosaurs and such didn't really work for me. Rest was very good though.

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Progressive and Alternative get a bad rap because they're not as good as the original FLCL (How could they be?), but taken on their own terms I thought they were decent little shows. That one fake-out episode in Alternative in particular strikes me as very sad. Yeah Devilman Crybaby is something. I ...

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Where does it fall in your queue? Would be great to get your thoughts on it. Last of Us 2 is on sale on PSN right now for ten dollars. I ended up buying and might just play it at some point this year now. I gotta be honest, I don't expect I'll actually like it much but for that cheap a price it mig...

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Logan Lucky is probably the last Soderbergh I liked. I think its the first time Craig really tried that Southern accent too that he's really put to use in Knives Out and Glass Onion.

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Yeah as much as I loved Rebuild, I haven't been able to really see the same degree of thematic depth. As cathartic as the last movie was to watch, it hasn't really called to me the same way as something like EoE did. Buy yeah, even matching EoE is such a high bar for me that I'm not sure any movie i...

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Cool that you finally saw Rebuild, Lyndon. What do you mean make of it as an overall series?

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BTW does anyone know what the deal with Fallout 76 is supposed to be? It's the last of these modern Fallout games I've yet to play, and while it seems to have a very low reputation from people I'm not exactly sure why that is.

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Catching up on the last few games I played in 2022... https://i.imgur.com/GC8Ogmjl.png Battle Arena Toshinden 2 (1995) – Another pretty meh early 3D fighter. Pretty laggy to get back up after being knocked down particularly. Weapon system doesn’t feel as good as something Soul Calibur either. Its fu...

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Five Easy Pieces is one of the films that really made me realize that Nicholson's star persona was very different pre-The Shining. Before that film, he very much had this "lost man, American masculinity is in crisis and I'm sad and mad and don't know what to do" thing going that you see ve...

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Yeah all three of those are great. I think you're sort of right about Seven Samurai- I think its certainly about an end of an era (It's kind of telling the that the four samurai that die in the movie are all killed by bullets and not blades), but its the end of an era that was also kind of built on ...

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Lyndon man I hope you keep pushing on through- you seem to have the strength for it. We would all be very sad here if you just upped and vanished forever one day.

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"Deteriorating mental condition"? Lyndon man, are you okay?

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I remember you once said that Devilman manga was a huge inspiration on Evangelion. Yeah. There's even some Anno quote out there where he says that Evangelion is basically just Devilman plus Space Runaway Ideon. I think he's being a bit glib with that line but that man is hugely influenced by the th...

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