The Pitters' Place

Yeah exactly 3 of us; we post about movies we've seen and games we've played.

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62. Fall (2022) - Surprisingly good. I was expecting an average cheap thriller, but it did a great job at building tension and suspense. Especially the climbing up scene; the whole part was great. The weird drama bit in the middle was unnecessary and easily the worst part. The bird stuff was a bit o...

61. Big Night (1996) - Mixed feelings on this. It had been one of my white wales for my DVD collection for a while now, because someone with selective tastes in movies had recommended it, and it was hard to find. So that hyped it up more than it should have been. The performances were great; definit...

59. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) - Pretty good. The best part really was just the many references to the games spread throughout. Jack Black was especially good. There was really nothing to the story, but that's probably ok. Not anything amazing or groundbreaking, but pretty good. R19. Super M...

58. Evil Dead Rise (2023) - It was good! I wasn't sure at first; started to get a little bored partway through. But things really ramped up in the final act, and it just became a lot of fun. The triple-merged person thingy was really creative. I wouldn't say it was very scary, but the franchise has ...

57. John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) - It was ok I guess. I mean, it was very well made. Beautiful to look at; great shots and impressive long takes. But the overall plot and characters was just a bit too much a mix of ridiculous and boring. The action is great, but we've seen it all before. And while it...

You gonna play Wonder and/or Mario RPG?

Yeah he really has this perfect "just barely holding it all together" thing throughout. 56. Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001) - Wow. This was so amazingly bad in the best way. It has this huge star-studded cast of all fairly prominent British actors (Simon Callow, Kate Winslet, Michael Gam...

54. Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) - Excellent dancing, cute story, and some funny moments. I hadn't seen Eleanor Powell in anything before, I don't think. Fred Astaire is always a joy to watch. R18. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Always great. Pretty much never gets old; deserves to be the classic ...

52. A Little Princess (1986) - Maybe my favorite of the 3 versions I've now seen. At least the most in-depth. Of course, it's a miniseries so that's to be expected. The film quality was terrible; but the actual production values were quite good. The story was much darker than either of the other ver...

50. Dolittle (2020) - About as bad as I expected. Mostly just boring; with various unfunny jokes. I thought the CG animals looked decent enough. R17. Braveheart (1995) - Man I love this movie. The cinematography is beautiful, but probably the best part is James Horner. I know I've said this before a...

Not immediately; since we have a pretty big backlog of both Switch games owned and not played and movies owned and not watched.

Oh yeah, that was definitely not in the movie. There is a fair amount of dialogue about his faith, but mostly he turns away and "loses his soul" as a result of bitterness and hopelessness from his time in prison, not from his quest for revent afterwards. There is a line he says when he fin...

With TOTK done; I'm actually watching movies! 47. The Kid (2000) - Cute enough for what it was. It got better as it went on; the start was kind of sloppy. Bruce Willis' character seemed like he was meant to be either a Scrooge or Phil Connors type character, but it's like they couldn't decide how fa...

After only 445 hours playing since May 12, 2023, we have finished Tears of the Kingdom! Shrines: 152/152 (With all chests from all shrines) Lightroots: 120/120 Towers: 15/15 Memories: 18/18 Korok Seeds: 1000/1000 Map percentage: 100% Wells: 58/58 Caves/Bubbul Gems: 147/147 (No guide used) Main Quest...

That is all

46. True Romance (1993) - Great, but perhaps overhyped. I've heard from so many people how this is one of their all-time favorites, and that was a high bar that had been set. The cast was amazing. So many big names in tiny parts. Gary Oldman really stole the whole thing, despite barely being in it. ...

I watched TC on Prime (though it left Prime at the end of September). I think physical media only put out the DC.

R16. Amadeus (1984) - Excellent; seen it a few times. Seems almost silly to point out how good the music is when the music was all written by basically the actual greatest musician of all time, but man is it good. F. Murray Abraham is also really fantastic. I watched theatrical cut, which actually i...

I played these through once about 16 years ago, on emulator. Was thinking about playing again with my wife now that they're available on the Switch. But that would require actually doing anything other than Tears of the Kingdom.

R15. Equilibrium (2002) - This mostly holds up, but not completely. It's commentary is laughably over-the-top, and it would benefit from some subtlety. The performances don't really sell the world; I don't believe that any characters aren't feeling. But it's a cool movie, and a lot of fun. The actio...

44. Love Is News (1937) - A bunch of amusing hijinks; nothing too special. 45. Brigadoon (1954) - Great sets and interesting shot compositions. Apparently they were using a new CinemaScope technology which forced their hand in certain ways. It was also weirdly noticeable when the camera would pan ar...

After having spend 280 hours playing TOTK (which could have been literally 100 movies instead...), I watched a movie! 43. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) - This was good, maybe even really good. But I don't think it quite lived up to the first 2. But that was a really high bar. This had a lot ...

Ok so time for my potentially long and rambling review of Tears of the Kingdom. No spoiler tags here because mostly the whole thing could be a spoiler; so don't read unless you're ok with spoilers. As a whole, good game. I mean, I'd like to think I wouldn't spend 280 hours beating a game that I didn...

Assuming it’s similar to botw, getting all the koroks will not be the hardest / most grindy part. All map locations or all armor will be.

So a little over 3 months later, after 280 hours of playtime, we finished all main quests and beat the game. Also completed all shrines and lightroots. Not done with the game; now begins the hunt for 100%. Looks like we're missing over 35 sidequests, about 550 koroks, and who knows what else. Review...

Well we've finished all 4 temples now. 5 if you count Spirit. Getting close to completing all shrines. Clothing upgrades feel like they're going to be worse / more tedious compared to BOTW. So many things that we need a lot more of even though we've been playing for so long already. Not sure when we...

Comparing it to mine from last year:
1. Kill Bill
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. The Hateful Eight
4. Jackie Brown
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Django Unchained
8. Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood
9. Death Proof

Quite different; other than agreeing on Death Proof and Hollywood.

42. Bells Are Ringing (1960) - Another Vincente Minnelli musical. Loved it. Very catchy music, and lots of great characters.

39. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) - Pretty good. Fun music; including a couple songs I'd heard before but didn't know where they were from. Obviously Judy Garland is great. The overall story was interesting. 40. Knock at the Cabin (2023) - Good, though could have been better. Excellent performances, e...

37. Fifth Avenue Girl (1939) - Kind of weird, in a mostly good way. The weirdness made for some humorous moments, but a sort of awkward humor. Ginger Rogers never reacts to anything like a normal person, and it's not clear what they were even going for with her character. And then you had lots of we...

Watched some old comedies. 34. Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) - Hilarious. I really haven't seen Lucille Ball in much outside of a couple I Love Lucy episodes. Not much to say about it; it has a lot of tropes I've seen a bunch before, but does them well. 35. The Gazebo (1959) - A dark comedy remin...

This game had no staying power. That is to say, only 1 year later and I barely even remember playing it. You could point to various things that you did in the game, and I wouldn't be able to tell you if I did those last year in Origami King or a few years before that in Color Splash.

Yeah, Red is the one that I've heard the most about, I think. Haven't seen anything by Wong Kar-wai, though like I said not too long ago, my foreign film experience is generally greatly lacking. I did also pick up Jean de Florette + Manon des Sources to add to my foreign film collection, though. We ...

I have still yet to watch any movies in the past several months, except the couple random rewatches mentioned. I did however purchase a huge amount of stuff for my collection a couple days ago. Among them were included a couple films that I know nothing about other than have heard them repeatedly re...

Also, we've gotten the master sword and done all the tears/memories, so we've "found Zelda". It's kind of weird, because one of the main quests is to find Zelda, and we've done that as much as it makes sense to do so with the story we know, but that quest is still not complete. Also did al...

Not even close! Well, maybe close, haven't decided how much we'll do before beating it vs after beating it. But we've done all temples except for the Goron temple; haven't even visited Death Mountain or the Gorons yet. Have been doing a lot of the "bigger" sidequests such as saving Lurelin...

If you're talking about starting at Thunderhead Island (where it's foggy and always raining), then that's how we started. We had previously come across the construct factories underground but couldn't figure out anything to do with them (maybe you can't activate them until you've gotten the mask fro...

Well the crazy part of the spirit temple is that we didn’t know we were doing a temple until it was over. And we found it randomly before doing any of the 4 main areas; so we didn’t even know there were ____ temples in the game.

Rax finished the game over 2 weeks ago, but I'm here a month after release, with over 120 hours in the game, and have barely scratched the surface. 2 temples finished, or 3 if you count the spirit temple.

The sad fact is that I'm going to be watching almost nothing for a while due to Tears of the Kingdom. But still re-watching some stuff just while trying to fall asleep at night. R13. It Follows (2014) - A horror movie that works better than it should. The premise is really stupid. But it has some de...

I’ve only seen one of those, and I saw it for the first time a couple months ago.

Early game spoilers, only (like 12 hours in). Um, only read if you've talked to Purah and stuff. So having plenty of fun so far, and the size of the new world to explore is a bit mind-boggling and intimidating. As long as it took us to explore BOTW, it feels like this is just going to be 3 times as ...

Boy has it been a bad month for movie watching. A bad year, really. Free time had all been spent binging That '70s Show. At least it still counts as an unwatched thing I've gotten off my list. And now the next long amount of time will be spent on all Zelda. Anyway, I did rewatch a few things, though...

Assuming that we spend nearly as many hours on TotK as we did on BotW, thinking about anything “after” that is far too way distant future planning for me!

This video fully explains to my satisfaction my complaints about how Charlie died and why Claire didn't get rescued on the helicopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N6Tx_sAX7E.

Well I’ve only seen 8 of them. But it’s always been clear that I’m lacking in a lot of experience with a lot of foreign films.

Hey, approaching 2 years later, and right on track I have the urge to watch this again. Here we go!

Miyazaki is largely lacking in my collection. Just picked up Spirited Away a couple weeks ago. I either didn’t know or completely forgot that he did Castle of Cagliostro!

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