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The "advantage in the game" thing is a very complicated question in Magic, because Magic games are all about the format you're playing. There's what's known as "kitchen table Magic", in which case you can use whatever cards you and your friends agree to use. In those cases, yeah...

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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? It is a combination of rarity and the cards being also extremely powerful. Some/mo...

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So back in the '90's, I was into Magic the Gathering just as it was beginning to blow up. I knew that some of the early cards were broken and worth a ton of money, but I assumed that the stuff I was buying at the time would never really be "collectible" in the sense of me making money off ...

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61. Live and Let Die (1973) - I quite enjoyed this overall. This was the first Bond film I ever saw, at a drive in when I was a kid. I had never heard of Bond by this point and had zero expectations, but I was blown away and instantly became a fanatic Bond fan. I don't know if you've covered The Ma...

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72. The Green Knight (2021) - Absolutely stunning visuals. Every bit of cinematography was great, and the overall scenery was beautiful. Great performances from everyone. As with Take Shelter, it's a movie with a somewhat ambiguous plot that's all about the theme. There's a lot of stuff I didn't ge...

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When you're done with Lost I'd highly recommend Yellowjackets, which is similar (and much better, in my opinion).

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13. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984, Dir. Hayao Miyazaki) - Yeah I dunno what happened here. It took me an entire week to slog through this nonsense about how it's good for ugly insects to have overrun the world because, uh environmentalism or something. Even as a preachy allegory for the ...

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66. Upstream Color. . .I missed so much about the actual plot and just not understanding what was happening. But after reading a couple plot summaries, I just want to watch it knowing what I now know. Loved this movie. Everything does come together pretty well on a second viewing. I personally appr...

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65. Jonah Hex (2010; Jimmy Hayward) I wanted to see something with Megan Fox in it. I decided to see this comic-book western. That was a good decision, because it was very entertaining. Josh Brolin was great as Jonah Hex, and Megan Fox is always a treat to watch (you know why). Ever see her in &quo...

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R29. Kill Bill - In honor of Tarantino, I watched this as a single film and am writing it up as a single film. The only one of all his movies that I've seen multiple times before this (though never both parts all at once like this). And for good reason; this is easily one of my favorite movies. Eve...

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Gendo wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 6:39 pm . The only comic book movie I could compare it to maybe is Sin City, which I surprisingly haven't heard people compare it to.

I hadn't thought of that, but this comparison is spot on!

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R5. Triangle - Man I love this movie. One of the best psychological thriller/horror movies out there; and that's my favorite genre. Its twists are great, even upon multiple viewings. The overall atmosphere is set so well, and there is real emotion behind it. I think you were the one to originally r...

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Season two begins, and I'm already loving it. Glad that they are giving more focus to the rival team this time. Their coach is amazing. It will be fascinating to see how the show handles the double tragedy which struck the team since the first season back in late 2019: COVID, which cancelled the com...

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Gendo wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:22 pm Lol 15 new accounts now.

It's quiet around here; other people are able to post normally, right?

For the first time in quite a while, I can access the forum through my home PC, so this is great!

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59. The Big Short - Excellent! An interesting true story, and very well told. Carell and Bale were both excellent as always. Some parts of the economic/financial dialogue was hard to follow; even when it seemed like they were trying to specifically dumb it down for the audience. But also it seemed ...

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Raxivace wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 4:37 pm I played Persona 5 back in 2017 and posted about it here several times, not really sure why search wasn't picking anything up for you. Never got around to writing any kind of big review for it though IIRC.

What were your thoughts at the time?

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Why is there not a thread or a mention of Persona5? I mean it is basically Japanese Anime--The Video Game , right up everyone's ally but mine. (Maybe it is out there but I ran a search and came up empty.) I ask because it showed up on sale for $8.99 on the Sony Playstation store recently and I said ...

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Can you tell me the name of the software that's blocking it? They might have a reporting system to fix things like this. Should be McAfee Livesafe. On Windows 7 (old computer, was advised not to attempt updating to 10). Doubly weird that this issue would have gradually escalated over a few weeks, t...

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Huh, what URL is your bookmark pointed to? If you go to http://forum.pittersplace.com/ then it should be set up to auto-redirect you to http://pittersplace.com/forum/, which is the real URL that the site works from. If the redirect isn't working for you for some reason, then make sure your bookmark...

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So do we sometimes but one thing he and I agree on is that anime is of the Devil. My thing is that I'm really into the craft of acting, and there isn't an animator on earth who can bring all the subtlety to face and gestures that an even half rate actor can. I don't even need to see the anime versi...

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Also I wonder if the Cowboy Bebop (The anime version, not the shitty live action Netflix series) episode called "Pierrot le Fou" was named after the Godard movie? I've been watching the live action Netflix Cowboy Bebop and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Then again, I know nothing about the o...

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maz89 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 10:44 pm Curious, given that you saw it coming, why didn't you like it (other than for the obvious reason that you don't like watching innocent people get murdered)?

In context, her actions no longer made any sense for her character.

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There you go. Let the judging commence. It's much shorter - it went from 69 to 32 - and much less distinguished, but also less insecure. This was an odyssey of self-discovery and I have come through it a better, stronger man. Thank you, everyone, for going on this journey with me. And thank YOU for...

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Synecdoche, New York - I get the feeling that everything this movie is saying about life, I would agree with, if I could actually suss out wtf it's saying. It's honestly severely unpleasant for me to sit through, and not in the "oh yeah, it's certainly depressing" way, the "holy fuck...

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And of course this movie is all about subverting expectations and stereotypes. You go in assuming Vincent is a suave and competent hitman, because that's the archetype, but it turns out he's a whiny panicky incompetent piece of shit who dies like a bitch (which the movie doesn't truly reveal until ...

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72. Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964, Dir. Ishiro Honda) – I guess King Kong beating his ass wasn’t enough, because now Mothra is on the action here. I was actually kind of surprised she died, but then her Mothra babies beating the absolute shit out of Godzilla was honestly hilarious. This always continue...

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Let The Right One In - I put this on my favorites list a long time ago probably because I felt that this was the type of movie I was "supposed" to like, not that I actually liked it. It's very crisp and beautiful and appropriately moody, but kind of meaningless and boring as hell. I had a...

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Derived Absurdity wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 2:03 am Yeah everything he's made after RotK has been mostly crap. Except They Shall Not Grow Old, I guess, though I haven't seen it.

Forgot about that--it was pretty good.

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King Kong (2005) . . . I will give this movie credit; it was roughly three hours long and my attention only drifted a few times, and that was always at the beginning. The fact that it's basically three different movies smashed into one probably helped with that. But it only has one good act and one...

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Heavenly Creatures - Just watched it for a second time and my opinion is unchanged. I think it's really great. I have nothing to add to what I already said. I may have mentioned this already in another thread, but did you know that one of the two girls in real life grew up to be a best selling crim...

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I honestly think Rax is the only person on the internet, and perhaps even the entire world, who doesn't hate Season 8 of Game of Thrones. Seriously if there's one thing in the world that unites everyone online it's the opinion that Season 8 of Game of Thrones sucked. I'm another who didn't hate sea...

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Heavenly Creatures - Just watched it for a second time and my opinion is unchanged. I think it's really great. I have nothing to add to what I already said. I need to watch this one again. The key, as you say several times, is the empathy the film has, the way it just completely embraces the mental...

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Saw The Mole Agent (one of the documentaries nominated). Pretty good and very moving, but the central conceit was ultimately pointless. They could have made it a more traditional documentary instead of attempting to spice it up. Is this the one people are saying is mostly staged? Probably, but I th...

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Saw The Mole Agent (one of the documentaries nominated). Pretty good and very moving, but the central conceit was ultimately pointless. They could have made it a more traditional documentary instead of attempting to spice it up.

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Of course Ben Mankiewicz doesn't have a problem with the movie bolstering his grandfather's accomplishments. He's already been doing that himself whenever they play Kane on TCM for years and years now even though the last literal 50 years of scholarship on the matter shows it to be wrong. It's inte...

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One last positive note I should add about Mank is that I think the casting is fine for the most part, with the problem with the characters being entirely with how they're written. I don't think I really buy Gary Oldman as 40 year old Mank but performance itself is fine. Amanda Seyfried is good as D...

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Blah. God dammit, now I have to actually watch fucking Mank. I really liked Mank but it kind of had a "Aren't we all such delightful cinephiles or what?!" thing going going on which I'm guessing got on some folks' nerves and might strike you that way, too. I didn't mind, I liked that this...

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R18. Avengers: Age of Ultron - This movie has flaws, but I like it a lot more than most people seem to; I think it holds up as a decent sequel. The flaws... near the beginning; there's some really bad CG used in the action scene. I felt like the Twins' changing sides was somewhat forced and sudden;...

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Gendo wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:19 am Also, a great soundtrack by Trent Reznor... I didn't even realize he did movie scores; but apparently he's done several good ones.

Dude, where have you been? He and his creative partner have an Oscar under their belt and as a team they are one of the best soundtrack composers working today!

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Gendo wrote:Ha, worov. There's a name I haven't heard since....

Yeah worov was a regular on the Religion forum which was the ancestor of The Pitters' Place. We pretty much all hated him.

I barely remember him but thought I liked him. What did he say that made everyone hate him?

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Bridge to Terabithia (2007) - I read someone describe this as "baby's first Pan's Labyrinth". I guess that's fair, although this movie is a lot more viscerally sad. This movie destroyed me when I first watched it when I was fourteen or whatever. I was a complete mess, and I'm not ashamed ...

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3. La La Land (2016; Damien Chazelle) I decided to give this one another go. I'm glad I did because I absolutely loved it. I'm going to say things that are completely contrary to what I said when I tried to watch it the last time. It is, indeed, VERY romantic and even magical. Some people compared ...

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Maybe it's just me enjoying clichéd horror twists; but I found myself wanting more concrete explanations of the events in both films. Especially Resolution; where you really have to watch The Endless in order to know what happened. I think Resolution could have even gone as far as showing the start...

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I missed that when you mentioned it originally; so hadn't even heard of Resolution. Luckily, the blu-ray was a reasonable price on Amazon (unlike The Endless, which is why it sat on my wish list until I got it as a gift), so I just ordered it. So I never knew The Endless and Resolution were set in ...

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Jesus, hope you and your wife ride this out okay.

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51. The Song of Roland (Audiobook, Between 1040 and 1115, Author Unknown) - The oldest surviving major work of French literature, this is an epic poem about Charlemagne's paladin Roland (Called "Orlando" in future tales of these goobers) fighting to his death at the Battle of Roncevaux Pa...

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I've tried to get into anime, especially with you guys writing about it all the time, but I just can't. The only one's I ever made it through are Akira back in the day and Paprika, and I thought they were both just okay. (Ducks.)

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Damn, Jerry, the guy everyone loved from this show, was earlier this week accused of sexual harassment of a minor, and just yesterday was arrested for child porn.

2020, you suck and you can't be over with fast enough.

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Cassius Clay wrote:1) Michael Brooks' "Nation-of-Islam-Obama" and "Bernie-or-bust-Bill-Clinton" are two of the funniest character-impressions I've ever scene.

Don't forget right wing Mandela!

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Based on the documentary I saw about the case, I'm pretty sure she's innocent and the guy who ended up serving time for the murder is the actual perp.

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