The Pitters' Place

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I wasn't a huge fan of how the Super Mario Bros. movie Americanized those characters tbh. Like this is most obvious with the "girlboss" version of Peach being kinda whatever to me compared to version in the videogames that appears dainty on the surface before whacking you in the head with ...

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22. White Hunter Black Heart (1990; Clint Eastwood) 7/10 This film is superficially about making of John Huston's 'The African Queen', but it certainly veers off in some other, more interesting directions. Clint Eastwood was excellent in this. I saw this one a year and a half or so ago and also lik...

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Escaflowne is wonderful imo, one of the peaks of '90's anime as well as isekai as a genre as well as for Sunrise as a studio. Great OST too. Movie is worth giving a look too- the story isn't as good as the TV show's (It's just too much for 80 minute runtime or whatever it is), but its got very gorge...

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Just saw that KIlmer passed, huge bummer.

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I feel like the universe is sending you a sign not to move into this house tbh. Its probably going to end up being haunted or something, perhaps by goblins.

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That really deserves at least a blu-ray. Just beautiful movie to look at.

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Yeah on a whim I put that one on the other day and was surprised at how much I liked it. Devastating film tbh.

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Fallen Angels, Werckmeister Harmonies, and Nostalghia for me. I keep contemplating doing a Tarkovsky deep dive sooner rather than later, so maybe I'll get to that last one of these days...

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Hi guys! I was having some fun today and I made my top 30 of all time. What is interesting about this list is that I ranked them from my favourite to my least favourite. Definitely check out the list guys and I'm looking forward to your thoughts if you have some! 1. Apocalypse Now (1979; Francis Fo...

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14. El Camino (2019) - Good, but not as good as either of the shows from the same universe. Part of my problem is that I just preferred my own headcanon for what became of Jessie after he drives away at the end of Breaking Bad... even if it's far more unrealistic, I always imagined him just getting...

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RIP.

I wonder what happened. His wife and dog being found dead too is pretty bizarre.

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1. Casino (1995; Martin Scorsese) 10/10 Definitely one of my 3 favourite Scorsese films. I keep returning to this one, mostly because it is so entertaining. Just great cinematography, editing, excellent use of voice-overs, great performances. I really love James Woods in this, he just might be my f...

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RIP. Don't even know what to say to this one.

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I stay in contact with Jimbo. Dunno how much I can say really, but he's been pretty busy taking care of his parents last few years whose health have taken some serious turns recently.

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Friday the 13th at least got updated with an offline single player mode at some point IIRC, but yeah its one of the few unfortunate parts of modern gaming. A few gacha games I've played for example didn't even get to finish doling out their main stories before getting axed.

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This game's servers have officially gone offline. RIP.

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I quite liked Hail Caesar myself- not quite top tier Coens for me, but far above the likes of Ladykillers and such. It's been a while since I've seen French Connection but its not aged well in my memory. Kinda negative on Friedkin in general these days after how boneheaded his Caine Mutiny adaptatio...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnMIaFV4q6M Production: Studio Khara, Sunrise Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki Series Composition: Yoji Enokido Screenplay: Yoji Enokido, Hideaki Anno Character Design: bamboo Mechanical Design: Ikuto Yamashita Animation Character Design, Chief Character Animation Director...

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Missed responding to some of these a while back. 59. FLCL: Grunge (2023) 8/10 I was one of the few who really liked both Progressive and Alternative. This one was very good too: a story told from 3 different perspectives, some wacky gangster/yakuza stuff, characters dreaming of an escape. Really lov...

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Looking forward to Echoes of Wisdom; but it almost for sure won't be this year. With Switch 2 coming out next year and confirmed to be backwards compatible with Switch 1, it makes me wonder if recent games like Echoes of Wisdom will get any kind of performance boosts from new hardware (Some 1st yea...

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Been very depressed over politics last few days... https://i.imgur.com/RK4PcBKl.jpeg Silent Hill 2 (2024) - Really insanely good remake of the original SH2, honestly right up there with the remakes of RE2 and RE4. The combat is just so much better, and the voice acting isn't nearly as cheesy as well...

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https://i.imgur.com/UjNeQ9Kl.jpeg The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (2024) - I thought this was really cool. Its not only a nice way to have a game starring Zelda herself (CDi games never happened), and its not only nice way to have new uh "2D" style Zelda game (Though I guess somethi...

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I remember liking that okay years ago, but nothing specific about it. I have the sequel but never got around to watching it.

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Meant to get to writing this a few days ago, but I've been distracted by the new Zelda game. https://i.imgur.com/n1Q7NI8l.jpeg Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club (2024) - Famicom Detective Club got a brand new game out of nowhere this year and its really good! The visual style is complet...

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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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