The Pitters' Place

Eva Yojimbo

^ Good stuff on Kojima. I'll have to keep all that in mind as I progress. Also noted RE the CotM and RotN differences.

I'm probably going to restart Dark Souls tonight... finally, a night with nothing else to do and some free time!

Eva Yojimbo

I'll reiterate that by far the hardest part of the game will be early on where you're learning the mechanics and don't have (m)any buffs to work with. It's especially difficult when you encounter hordes of enemies that swarm you. Probably the hardest time I had in the game (minus the final boss in t...

Eva Yojimbo

I may have been mixing him up with some other character that was an entomologist, because the "predator" bit rings a bell too, but wasn't there something in Marnie about Mark being an amateur something-or-other having to do with animals? I forget the exact term, though. Looking at the int...

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I'll try and get to Ninja Gaiden at some point (And I probably should make a 2020 games thread too eventually). But yeah the few issues I had with SMB3 are pretty minor all things considered. I think part of what's hard about Death Stranding is that this is the first time in a very long time where ...

Eva Yojimbo

Gendo wrote:No Yojimbo?

Yojimbo's excellent but not among Kurosawa's very best, IMO. It's just a term that paired well with "Eva" (I'm "Eva Bodyguard"). :)

Eva Yojimbo

I think Rosemary's Baby was a bit more intimidating to me because it doesn't seem well-known among the general public at all (unlike other classic horror films like Psycho or The Exorcist), regular people don't talk about it much, but it seems universally well-regarded among cinephiles. So it's alm...

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I'll probably respond in full tomorrow, but did you check out Girlfriend Reviews review of Death Stranding? I'd be curious if you had any similar complaints about the gameplay or a similar conclusion about what it all meant.

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Yeah, I haven't dwelt too much on the horse thing either. My initial thought was that it might connect to Mark's job, but wasn't he more about insects or something? On second thought, it could just be symbolic of Marnie's whole psychology; here's this thing that she's spent so many years trying to ...

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I'm also excited about REmake3. Glad you loved SMB3 so much! I have to say, if I had to pick one game that made me into a hardcore gamer from my childhood that would probably be it. I mean, I remember liking games before that, as SMB1 was the first game I played, but SMB3 was the first game I rememb...

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1. What Lies Beneath (2000, Dir. Robert Zemeckis) I know I saw this back when it came out, but I remember literally nothing now other than the title... Yeah its just not all that memorable of a movie, unfortunately. Did you ever see that movie Personal Shopper? By that Olivier Assayas guy. That's k...

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Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) I liked this better than the original but I think I'm in the minority. I think what that review mentioned is precisely why I preferred it; these types of films are inherently ridiculous anyway, and one that leans into that ridiculousness imaginatively is far bette...

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I'm typically hit-and-miss with Kiarostami but this sounds interesting; perhaps similar to Hou's Cafe Lumiere, which he also made in Japan as a tribute to Ozu. I'll definitely make Hell or High Water a priority. I haven't seen Cafe Lumiere but I remember reading some review on IMDb that derisively ...

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I loved Y Tu Mama Tambien back when I saw it. I haven't seen it since but it's stuck with me. For sure one of my favorites of this century. So hard to make erotic films into masterpieces. Like, you can count how many there are on one hand and still have enough fingers left to go bowling. Rosemary's ...

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Back in my early-mid 20s I actually tried to keep and updated Excel document of my favorite 250-or-so films, basically everything I'd given a 9/10-or-better to. I quit updating a long time ago, probably around the time I did my Hitchcock marathon. I could post my old list, but it'd be pretty far off...

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RIP

I'd heard the name but had forgotten exactly who he was until I read your post and that link.

Eva Yojimbo

64. Do the Right Thing - Great, great film. Masterpiece, even. Shame it doesn't seem like Spike Lee ever came close to equaling it because even today it's a testament to such an original, visionary, cinematic voice both in terms of its visuals and story/character/narrative elements. R42. The Social...

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Well, it's about damn time! I don't know if even DA really has any idea just how much Rax and I have written about this series over the years. I had like 8k posts on EvaGeeks before I left, and Rax and I met on the IMDb NGE board. I wish we'd collected much of what we wrote in some digestible format...

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1. What Lies Beneath (2000, Dir. Robert Zemeckis) I know I saw this back when it came out, but I remember literally nothing now other than the title... 2. Marnie (Rewatch, 1964, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) - I think you know I feel this is a flat-out masterpiece. I currently have it as my 3rd favorite H...

Eva Yojimbo

BTW Rax, in case you miss it, check the music thread out if you get a chance. In my last post there I remembered to tell you something I forgot when I was talking about Tool.

Eva Yojimbo

I'm guessing Goldeneye probably hasn't aged well and I wouldn't even enjoy it as much as something like the modern Wolfenstein, but back in the day it was a blast. Yeah that's why even though my post was fairly negative ("Review" seems too generous a word to describe what I write here), I...

Eva Yojimbo

You guys seem confused. This thread is about Midsommar now. Hold my beer. Superhero movies are specifically "childish" in the sense their stories are absurd, simplistic power fantasies...appealing primarily to children because children are powerless and lack a sophisticated understanding ...

Eva Yojimbo

From those I haven't seen, is there any you'd highly recommend? You might want to check out Kiarostami's 'Like Someone in Love'. What's interesting about this film is that it actually isn't an Iranian film. It is a Japanese film, made in Japan with Japanese cast. It is a pretty sold art-film. Defin...

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The only thing I know about this series is that the only guy I'm still in touch with from EvaGeeks just had me buy a bunch of VOTOMS blu-rays for him. He's in Finland (no, it's not Xard!) and RightStuff doesn't ship there, so I'm basically his mule. Finally, after a year of making VOTOMS posts here...

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This post will be a little scattershot, so pardon the randomness. *** First, to Rax, I forgot when mentioning Tool that you might dig this song as I know you've mentioned the Fibonacci sequence before and this makes use of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7JG63IuaWs See if you can spot where it ...

Eva Yojimbo

^ I think it's hard for me to connect with your review because we played it at two completely different points in both our lives and history. Similar to what I was saying about SF1, I just don't remember any truly great FPS before Goldeneye. Unlike with SF1 there were FPS and some of them were prett...

Eva Yojimbo

That kind of "connectedness" you mention...I don't think I've ever felt that once before. I guess that's why I've always been kind of a loner. I've always been a loner too, but it's not really a kind of individual connection, more like a cosmic one. The kind of thing people report when th...

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Girlfriend Reviews did a review of this that actually inspired me to buy it:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK1YlRtIUnk&t=446s[/youtube]
Haven't played it yet, but it sure sounds interesting!

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Coincidence that Jimbo talked about going to a concert because I was just dropping by here to talk about a concert experience of mine too. I went to the Pitchfork Music Festival in Paris yesterday and saw Aurora perform live. It was magic. Very cool to hear about this. I saw Guns n' Roses and Tool ...

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Okay, I figured modern mics were probably like that but I have basically no experience with them myself. I'm not aware who this "Tool" is but I hope you have fun at your concert! I had my first of several dentist appointments over the next several weeks yesterday, so while listening to th...

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To c/p the first part of what I said in DA's thread: "To me, the only real problem with what Scorsese said is that he's essentially making a subjective assessment via what is an objective, semantic classification. "Cinema" shouldn't be synonymous with "art-cinema," "cin...

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Taxi Driver - spurred by current events, I watched this movie, my first "classic" Scorsese. I thought it was pretty good. That's my professional opinion. It's hard to believe this was a mainstream movie in the 70s; it's much more subtle and ambiguous than mainstream movies today. It has a...

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48. Open Your Eyes (Abre los ojos) - Good. I've seen Vanilla Sky a few times before; so I knew everything going into it. There weren't as many differences as I was hoping for, at least not at first. Things seemed to diverge more as it went on. I don't think I can say which is better; they're both g...

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I saw some new films and I rewatched some films. New films: Hellboy (2004) Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) Jurassic World (2015) Hell or High Water (2016) A Chinese Odyssey: Part One - Pandora's Box (1995) A Chinese Odyssey: Part Two - Cinderella (1995) A Chinese Ghost Story (2011) Zhongkui: Sno...

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VOTOMS stuff The only thing I know about this series is that the only guy I'm still in touch with from EvaGeeks just had me buy a bunch of VOTOMS blu-rays for him. He's in Finland (no, it's not Xard!) and RightStuff doesn't ship there, so I'm basically his mule. That being said, I'm sorry but havin...

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^ If she's lip-synching (I really don't think she is here), she's doing it off a re-recorded track as it sounds nothing like the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BjZmE2gtdo As for the volume not changing when she moves away, that would depend on the audio compression being used. Basically,...

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[laugh] Seriously though, you can't blame this on Swift. Football royally fucks up my schedule in general as that's like 15-20 hours of my week gone and it's hard rearranging everything. Like, I was playing games and listening to music plenty before the season started, but now I'm constantly having ...

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After taking last week off from gaming I started back up again this week, though going much slower now that I'm splitting my time between a lot of other activities. Still, I finished Ash Lake, The Catacombs, ad Tomb of Giants, took care of Pinwheel and Nito, managed both on my first try, though Nito...

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BTW, I tried to look up what the instrument being used on It's Nice to Have a Friend was because it was driving me nuts. I've heard it before but couldn't place it. I was thinking Eastern but turns out I was wrong; it's a steelpan from Trinidad. Here's a video of someone playing one: https://www.you...

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Not to "compare all the girls who are killin' it," but the girls are indeed killin' it this year... first Carly, then Taylor, then Lana. You go girls! Haha, I don't know if we'd count as her "craziest fans" since we seem to enjoy the music more than the celebrity stuff. There are...

Eva Yojimbo

So, uhhh, happy Video Games day, I guess... apparently that's a thing, and it's September 12th.

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What I'm getting out of this is that you would have played more Dark Souls instead if one of the NPC's of the game was one of these pop stars you're into. Let's be honest, Dark Souls would be a better game with a pop star character. Heh, concert wasn't a pop concert! But, yes, everything is better ...

Eva Yojimbo

LMAO, these are becoming a bizarre addiction for me:

I mean, seriously, how the fuck does this black magic work? He must've been high (hiiiiiiiiiiiiigha!)

Eva Yojimbo

I've heard before that the Fleming novels were quite different than the films, but that's not terribly unusual for book-to-film adaptations. I haven't had any chance to play more Souls the last several days, mostly a combination of watching football with my dad and then there was the concert on Sund...

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Saw Jinjer last night at a small club just up the street from me. I probably wouldn't have bothered but tickets were only $20 and the place was only a 6-minute drive away. As with most shows like this, there's a really cool intimacy with the audience and the bands. I actually met/talked to a lot of...

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Are you taking these rankings directly from my head or something? [razz] Enjoyed reading the review! ... [biggrin] Thanks Seems we don't have any real major disagreements; biggest gap between our rankings is 7 four times: You Need to Calm Down (Me: 4, You: 11), It's Nice to Have a Friend (Me: 5, Yo...

Eva Yojimbo

Saw Jinjer last night at a small club just up the street from me. I probably wouldn't have bothered but tickets were only $20 and the place was only a 6-minute drive away. As with most shows like this, there's a really cool intimacy with the audience and the bands. I actually met/talked to a lot of ...

Eva Yojimbo

^ Pretty cool excerpt. Even back when I was really into James Bond (when I was like 12) I never bothered to check out the Fleming novels. That does have a very MGS-vibe to it. Of course, Bond was wrong that The Devil had no book; William Blake would've said that John Milton wrote it (Paradise Lost),...

Eva Yojimbo

And this seems strangely appropriate given that both artists just released new albums:

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BTW, if I'm ranking the album tracks, this is my (rather tentative) ranking as of now: 1. Cornelia Street 2. The Man 3. The Archer 4. You Need to Calm Down 5. It's Nice to Have a Friend 6. I Think He Knows 7. Lover 8. Soon You'll Get Better 9. Paper Rings 10. Cruel Summer 11. Death by a Thousand Cut...

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Makes sense that it would've been a test level that they worked into the game given that it's literally another world you have to step into. Very cool either way. So far I can't tell that there is much of a story or characters. Most all the story was contained in the opening cutscene and all the cha...

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