The Pitters' Place

Eva Yojimbo

BruceSmith78 wrote:I love the BTTF trilogy and the first two Terminators, but I think the best film I've seen involving time travel is 12 Monkeys.

12 Monkeys is a "remake" of La Jetee, FWIW. I like 12 Monkeys too but I don't think it's in the same league as Terminators and BTTF.

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Back to the Future is great; but Back to the Future 2 is better. Fight me. I think all three films are about equal in overall quality but with different strengths and weaknesses. I think 1 is the most perfectly paced, written, and edited, but they don't do much with the 50s setting outside of the t...

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My issue with Fury Road was only that it wasn't more than "pure exuberant fun" but that people were talking about it like it was some artistic masterpiece. I liked it just fine as a piece of pure action-entertainment. Though I do think BTTF is better as entertainment, if only because it a...

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I decided to play Batman: Arkham Asylum since I figured it would be a good change of pace. Seems like a short game too as I just started it a couple of days ago and according to the IGN guide it looks like I'm already near the end. It's a solid game so far whose biggest flaw is that it's inferior in...

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Just a few quick things before I have to go eat/workout, then probably spend the rest of the day on gaming/music: There's a board game? [gonemad] Yes, and it's pretty damn expensive: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Souls-The-Board-Game/dp/B01MXLB67B There's also like a dozen expansion sets that are $30-...

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I thought a lot of the incest humor was strange and off-putting. At least it was strange that I was expected to find it so funny, when a woman being so horny (and wow she was so horny) for her own son is always creepy and gross, even in an unknowing time travel context. I think the idea is that it'...

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Back to the Future is great; but Back to the Future 2 is better. Fight me. I think all three films are about equal in overall quality but with different strengths and weaknesses. I think 1 is the most perfectly paced, written, and edited, but they don't do much with the 50s setting outside of the t...

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Any advice on what to start next? The list of games I own on PSN is stupidly long now because even during my gaming hiatus I kept buying stuff as they had sales and even got a lot of games for free. I'm actually keeping an Excel list of games I have now and it's at 284, but that's also me listing ev...

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Finished Dark Souls. Before I do the review, I'll just say that Manus and Gwyn were a bit disappointing after Artorias and Kalameet. I beat both on the first try by mostly just tanking them. I assume Gwyn was really designed to be tackled before the DLCs, so it's a bit understandable he was on the e...

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Y'all crazy. Maybe some of my appreciation is colored by loving it so much as a kid, but plenty of childhood favorites didn't really hold up for me as an adult while BTTF really does. I saw it as an adult, so that might be part of the reason. I recently went back to the first Indiana Jones film, wh...

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Lots to catch up here too. American Beauty (1999) I rewatched this after 20 years. I liked it. It was funny. City of God (2002) Another rewatch. I think there are three reasons why I and everyone else liked it: 1) It is a very entertaining gangster film. 2) Its unique setting; favelas of Rio de Jane...

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39. The Great Gatsby (2013) - Pretty good. I like that it did its own thing and didn't just feel like a remake of the older one. Fun and interesting visuals, of course. I really liked DiCaprio's version of Gatsby; he brought an extra vulnerability that wasn't in Redford's. Really showed a man who w...

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I don't know what's more unbelievable: that you haven't seen this film until now, or that you thought it was "just okay" and "standard 80s cheese." [gonemad] BTTF is pretty much perfect for what it is, and what it is certainly wasn't "standard" in the 80s, or any time ...

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Well, yesterday made me feel pretty dumb. Wasted some time going back to Demon Ruins to farm the Demon's Greataxe and Demon's Machete only to find I already had the former in my inventory. Luckily, I didn't waste too much time as I'm always carrying 10 souls around and put on the Helm of Avarice to ...

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Like, the Royal Wood just seems like a blander version of Darkroot Forest. Well, it helps that they're literally the same location lol. Anyways yeah Sanctuary Guardian is not too bad, but yeah Artorias is pretty tough if you fight him legit. Funnily enough, there's a setup that can one-shot Arty us...

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I'll try to catch up tomorrow, but I did finally get back to Dark Souls and started the DLC. Must say, I'm already enjoying this DLC more than the last few sections of the main game that were really tedious. The Sanctuary Guardian, though not a difficult fight for my build, was certainly a way to in...

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I just finished this puppy--so much for its reputation for consuming a billion hours! Sure, I left a bunch of quests uncompleted since I had no idea the main story was about to wind down, but I'm only level 35--I was thinking the end would come when I was nearing 100. Anyway, a very good game and d...

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That was a pretty good review. The Evil Dead (1981) - yeah it was pretty good. I forgot how fucking boring the first forty minutes or whatever are, but it's good after that. I also forgot how fucking obnoxious all the monsters are. Like, they just did not shut the fuck up for a second. That is all....

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Catching up: LOL, I think we talked about our love of game shows before. Still, I don't think you'd like them as much if they were the only thing on TV and robotic host disintegrated the losers who weren't there by choice! Anyways I'm joking slightly and I do remember those conversations about game ...

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Neverending Story is great, but it nearly traumatized me as a kid. The death of the horse, especially how it's edited (that scene seems to last forever), was a lot to take! Ghost didn't do much for me as a kid, tbh. I don't like it much better now. The best part of that film is Whoopi's character.

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I always assumed it was Rose's...

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I won't stand for this slander of people who watch gameshows and reality shows! [angry] Match Game '78 alone justifies the entire genre. LOL, I think we talked about our love of game shows before. Still, I don't think you'd like them as much if they were the only thing on TV and robotic host disint...

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I'll try to fully catch up tomorrow (or at least in a few days), but I did finish S1 of Doctor Who. I think beyond what I said in my last post about its positive/negative qualities, I also got to thinking how long-form (multi-season) TV seems more suitable for this kind of serial/episodic storytelli...

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Any thoughts on Deadwood yet? Not much so far, just that its a bit of a shame to lose Wild Bill Hickock so early into the series even if it was inevitable. I do feel the swearing is a bit much though for a western tbh. EDIT: BTW Jimbo have you heard from Lyndon lately? Seems like its been a while s...

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That's really disappointing to read about REmake 3. I was really looking forward to that one, though perhaps it won't bother me as much given that I barely remember the original RE3. Cuphead may well be the next game I play when I get back to gaming and finish Dark Souls (it will happen eventually!).

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Well, the last several days were sucky. Hot water heater went out on Friday and we couldn't get anyone out until Monday, which meant three days of no workouts and no showers. I hate missing showers because I hate feeling gross, and I hate missing workouts because I just feel irritable and tired. So ...

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34. Straight Outta Compton - Great. I knew nothing at all about NWA before this, other than knowing a couple of their songs. I knew a couple of Eazy-E songs as well, but didn't even know he was dead. Not that the movie needed to be longer, but I would have liked to seen some more of the pre-NWA liv...

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Someone posted that on IMDb the other day and I gave it a listen. It is indeed a "pretty mysterious hodgepodge," and it's odd for Dylan because his "mysterious hodgepodges" tend to be "visionary" stuff influenced by Blake, Ginsberg, etc., but when he's dealt with RL soc...

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I basically agree with everything you said about The Social Network, though I didn't know jack about the RL Zuckerberg when I saw the film (still don't, really), so I just approached and appreciated it as pure fiction. That's one film I actually reviewed for Cinelogue back in the day. Here's what I ...

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Working a 9-to-5 even after you die is the most horrific idea that is even capable of entering my brain. I think there might be something very Japanese about that idea. I remember an old EvaGeeks thread where Tomino (the guy who created Gundam) said something like art should inspire people to "...

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Finished S3 of Deadwood and the film. If the highlights of S1 and S2 of Deadwood was the direction and dialogue, the highlight of S3 was probably the drama/conflict. With the arrival of George Hearst, the town finally has a legit BBEG to contend with. Though he's not as charismatic or engaging as Sw...

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I personally had no issues with Keyleth's death (mainly because that is a VERY Keyleth way to die and in a way is an odd application of Rule of Cool that trumps RAW). I have a couple of RAW issues to the Dust of Deliciousness trick but again Rule of Cool trumps that. And the Hag could overcome the ...

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I have not, but I'd stress it's being made in a very different context compared to the original Evil Dead. Once you have films/filmmakers that have shown you can take schlocky sources and make great films out of them, then there's always that template for others to copy from or build upon. In fact, ...

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Repulsion (1965) - It was well-made. As the kids say, there was a lot of psychology there. What a feminist, that Roman Polanski. Shame (2011) - Steve McQueen's movie about a sex addict. You know, these mid-budget festival arthouse-type movies are often almost as formulaic and rote as your standard ...

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There's nothing bad about Evil Dead. https://i.imgur.com/UWpik52.gif I just mean films that are generally self-aware of the typically shlocky traditions of the genre films they're borrowing from, but end up executing them at an extremely high level so that they're actually good. If you remove Raimi...

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I personally had no issues with Keyleth's death (mainly because that is a VERY Keyleth way to die and in a way is an odd application of Rule of Cool that trumps RAW). I have a couple of RAW issues to the Dust of Deliciousness trick but again Rule of Cool trumps that. And the Hag could overcome the ...

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Finished S2 of Deadwood. Again I'd say it was solid with good solid world/character development overall. I'd say the major things that marked this season was the introduction of the political machinations about what state was going to annex the Deadwood camp that is set-off against the more personal...

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I remember hating Australia. I think it's a good example of where camp/cheese just doesn't work when it's also not very well made. Tremors is one of those good bad-movies, kinda like Evil Dead, though not quite on that level. Emperer's New Groove I haven't seen since it came out. I remember liking i...

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Who's your DM? If they're a good one you can probably plan on getting attacked by Gareth and some of his hired hands in the future. Good story, anyway. If I was going to tell any D&D stories it would probably just be stuff that happened on Critical Role. Keyleth's Goldfish and Jester's Dust of D...

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Well that sucks. Luckily it seems pretty harmless against people who aren't old or who don't have any underlying conditions, so let's hope he doesn't! Not true. Many of the victims so far have been young and seemingly healthy. Death rates spike with underlying conditions and as age increases: https...

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Fished S1 of Deadwood. I don't think I have a lot of substance to say on it yet beyond the fact that it's a really solid drama (with surprisingly dark humor elements). Perhaps the thing that stands out to me the most is just the level of richness and detail they put into the setting and how the styl...

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No Steam account as I haven't needed to buy anything from them yet. If I get Cuphead I'll probably go that route, though. Well if you ever do get on Steam remind me so I can add you as a Friend on there. Will do. Glad to hear REmake 3 seems to be on par with the previous REmakes, though I would've ...

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I'll try to pick up the Lost discussion tomorrow, but I do think I've decided to take a short break before I rewatch it. I decided to watch Deadwood first, which is only 36 eps. plus a movie, so it'll probably only take me 1-2 weeks to finish it.

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No Steam account as I haven't needed to buy anything from them yet. If I get Cuphead I'll probably go that route, though.

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Well, that's good to know. I may check it out more sooner than later then.

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I think most modern games on PC work with the PS4 controller btw (Hell it even worked with Lost: Via Domus, and that game came out over one hundred and eight years ago), so I would be surprised if it didn't work with Cuphead. My only real concern with the controller is that modern games tend to be ...

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OK, I haven't even played any of the Half-Lifes but I was LOL'ing so hard at this review:

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All I know about Cuphead is the awesome art-design and that people complain about it being hard as fuck (I enjoyed watching the Critical Role guys playing it, failing, and proceeding to curse at each other the whole time). It seems extremely old-school in its gaming aspects, almost like if Contra wa...

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I think I gave my general thoughts on Patton in the long movies thread. It's solid, but nothing special beyond Scott's performance. Moulin Rouge! is a fun film, and I tend to like films that embrace their campiness if they're well-executed, and Moulin Rouge! is, especially visually.

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So if Jacob and MIB aren't really good and evil, what other dichotomies could they be? One that comes to mind is order/chaos. There is a truth to the idea that the order created by societies and the "purpose" that creates is often blindly accepted by people, often to the point of an unque...

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