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You know I couldn't have even told you that was from a James Bond movie. :(

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I see my assassins have failed to take out Jimbo once again... I've been mostly playing video games myself (Nothing anyone here would seem to care about, except for maybe Final Fantasy 6 and BioShock 2), and I haven't seen too many movies lately. I've been watching all of the various King Kong movie...

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Remakes are common place these days; why is this one a big deal? Remakes have always been common. It's not some new phenomenon. This can't be emphasized enough. The beginning years of narrative film are littered with remakes, adaptations etc. No different than now. This just means you should put fo...

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Also if we actually wanted to proactively do something maybe we could start by taking in some of their MOTHERFUCKING REFUGEES. That's the part that really gets me. We shamefully turned down the refugees and then, on a fucking whim, Trump just launches missiles upon their country. Even if Assad is r...

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It came off more to me like they were saying that Pepsi could be enjoyed by anyone- both protestor and cop alike.

I dunno, it's certainly a bit of a tone-deaf commercial at any rate.

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The Wii U never had enough exclusives for me to be interested, and the Switch doesn't look to be any different.

I heard Breath of the Wild was quite good though, so I'm sure you'll enjoy it. 2017 has been a pretty great year for games so far.

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I dunno, BoaN being more overt made it much easier to talk about and confront even in 1915 (Though that obviously wasn't enough to stop the Klan from returning). LotR being more coded and "timeless" and generalized in some ways makes it too easy to project onto- hence people like Rick Sant...

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I've never really liked any of the LOTR movies, though its been a long time since I last saw them. They have good production values but Tolkien seemed to advocate a disgustingly black and white worldview with that saga (If Jackson's movies are any indication), and looking back that's the last thing ...

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Severe lack of The Godfather: Part II in this topic.

I'd also add TRON: Legacy.

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My own unpopular TV opinion is that TV criticism in general is god awful and only isn't the worst form of art criticism because video game criticism exists. That's an unpopular opinion? [biggrin] It is if the number of people that think I should care about what Alan Sepinwall has to say is any indi...

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Amateurish is way overselling the comparison but I personally have enjoyed Better Call Saul more, and I thought Breaking Bad was fantastic to begin with. My own unpopular TV opinion is that TV criticism in general is god awful and only isn't the worst form of art criticism because video game critici...

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As Rose got older she probably began to idealize Jack in her mind, as people often do with first loves and the like.

IOW I found that part fairly believable.

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Happy birthday! :)

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So someone on Reddit noticed something a little odd in Rear Window . Here's a screengrab of the moment in particular. I can't say I've ever noticed that room flashing up like that before. I think this whole theory of a second voyeur in the narrative is a bit of a stretch, though I dunno what to mak...

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But apparently, I should be playing the first one... You'll be missing some quality of life improvements Dark Souls 2 introduced but Dark Souls 1 still has a lot going for it. On Resident Evil, I thought the RE7 trailer signaled a pleasant and perhaps much required return to the eerie survival root...

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I figure podcasts resemble audiobooks and therefore literature more than they do music, so this is probably the forum for it. Anyways the people behind This American Life and the mega-podcast hit Serial released every episode of their new series S-Town yesterday. Several years ago a man named John c...

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While there's stuff I nitpick about it, RE7 does more right than it does wrong. I still ended up playing through the main game 4 entire times in the week it came out. If you're already interested in it I would recommend checking it out when the chance presents itself.

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Any ways as far as RE7 goes I really like it a lot, though I wouldn't call it one of my favorites in the series. It does a lot of things I like, and in a lot of ways I feel like its a step back even from RE1 on the PSX. Then again I'm also one of those people that really liked RE5 and RE6 as much as...

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I haven't actually played Dark Souls 3 yet either, for similar reasons. In about a period of a year and a half I played through Dark Souls 2 and one of its "cousin" games Bloodborne (As well as having perviously played Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 to completion) and it just kind of made ...

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http://www.hobbyconsolas.com/sites/hobbyconsolas.com/public/styles/main_element/public/media/image/2016/11/avance-resident-evil-7-biohazard_0.jpg?itok=_jSOgykA Anyone else been playing this? I've been trying to clear the DLC before Persona 5 came out and have been currently banging my head against ...

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Your choices should carry over to season 3 fine if you're on the same system. If you're jumping, say, from season 2 on the PS3 to season 3 on the PS4 there's a bit of a convoluted process you need to go through to carry your choices over. Nothing from Michonne carries over btw. As far as Jane goes e...

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Yeah that bit at the end was super rough. I ended up saving Kenny. The thing with AJ was just too far for me, and made me question if Jane would ever do something like that again to Clem and him. Kenny, for all of his faults, would never purposefully endanger the children. My playthrough ended up gi...

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Also one thing I never mentioned as a positive between all seasons is that I love a lot of the folkish/country music they use at the end of episodes. It kind of fits with the zombie post-apocalyptic setting really well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K51MK9IvDo8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k9l...

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I love how season 2 handles Kenny. Even though I kind of hated him at times in season 1 I was glad to finally see him again and couldn't remember why I ever was mad at him. Then like 20 minutes later when he starts immediately losing it again I was like "Oh yeah, that's why". Looking forwa...

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Season 2 is more popular among fans and "television critics" because of course it fucking is. There are good things about it but it just feels like such a let down to me. I would still recommend season 1 to people because it works as a solid standalone miniseries, but season 2 feels desig...

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I love how Fox News still goes after these people just because the word "Satan" is involved.

Everything I've heard about them makes them sound remarkably chill, and this billboard seems cool and good.

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The Leftovers Season 2 - lol. [laugh] [laugh] [laugh] That bad, huh? It's not terrible but boy does it shit away most of what I liked about season 1. Season 1 was primarily a character driven story that was relatively grounded except for the central premise of people disappearing- there was other s...

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The Leftovers Season 2 - lol.

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So I've been reading the NGE manga lately and it sure is different. Sadamoto sure changes the story in some ways, a few of which are surprising. The Sachiel battle for example doesn't have the flashback structure, which actually makes it resemble Rebuild 1.11 more than the equivalent TV episodes. No...

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Y'all had a big party in my own thread without me. [sad] I thought you wanted this place to be a rebirth of General Chat, no? No better spot than in your (aka, our patron's) thread. :) I'm cool with taking the thread in that kind of super broad direction if everyone else is, I just don't want to fe...

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TYOOL 2017 and somebody is actually excited for a rerelease of Downhill?

I guess if these last few months have shown us anything its that nothing is impossible.

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Jimbo ain't got no time for a 100 episode plus/six season show. Ain't it the truth. For whatever reason I've been far more into literature and music for the past ~6 months and I'm not tired of it yet... but I always come back around to film and TV. I always find it difficult, though, to invest that...

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Y'all had a big party in my own thread without me. [sad] BTW, have you seen Fargo (the TV show)? The first season is a'ight, the second is goddamn addictive. I saw the first episode of the first season and didn't have any strong reaction to it. Never got around to finishing the rest. It reminded me ...

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I thought it was one of the best mainstream films that year. :/ It had zero humanity or soul. There was no meaning to it, no point, no nothing. It was awful. I think "It has no point!" is a bit of a silly thing to say when even on a surface level its a fairly straightforward "Man is ...

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As a fan (and long-time apologist) for Lost, a show that with all of its flaws (and occasional lapses into trite melodrama) is still one I hold dear for its well-developed characters (thanks to those admittedly overused, hit-and-miss flashbacks/flash-forwards) and dense mythology, I'm convinced I h...

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So I watched the first season of Damon Lindelof's The Leftovers . I was one of those people who got burned out by his work on Lost and thought that the scripts to the movies he worked on were at best flawed ( Cowboys & Aliens , Prometheus , World War Z , Star Trek Into Darkness , Tomorrowland )....

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Joseph McBride wrote a nice article about his time on the film and what Welles was attempting stylistically. One of the most interesting things about The Other Side of the Wind was that it sounds like Welles wasn't interested in expanding on his more famous classical stylings, but pushing the techn...

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31. The Informer - John Ford is mostly known for his wonderful westerns, but that's not all he could do. Back in the mid-30's he did this proto-noir, and boy is it fucking stylish in a way that I did not expect from ol' Pappy. http://i.imgur.com/hwwLDv4.jpg http://i.imgur.com/5n31TOw.jpg The film is...

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I finally watched Star Trek Beyond and the word that comes to mind is disappointment. Why hire an actor the caliber of Idris Elba and then give him a part that could have been played by any random actor? Were they banking on name recognition? Elba was in like none of the promotional material that I...

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Can't say I thought much about Spotlight . Formally I find it very drab, dramatically I find it kind of hollow (Despite the best efforts of all the many good actors involved there isn't much of anything to any of their characters), and thematically I find it fairly toothless (Even the Catholic Churc...

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Some new releases were just announced so I figured I might as well get a thread going for these and the future ones. June 2017 Releases: Straw Dogs They Live By Night The Marseille Trilogy The Lodger & Downhill Ugetsu I'm not too fond of the two silent Hitchcock's though I'm willing to give The ...

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Considering the prevalence of the internet and social media compared to when the original Matrix came out, an update to the basic story actually makes some amount of sense.

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I would have expected Criterion myself, especially with all of the Welles releases they've been doing within the last year or so. I seem to recall rumors of Netflix being interested in TOSOTW, though why exactly I've never understood. They can't expect something like that to bring in a bunch of new ...

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http://www.wellesnet.com/other-side-of- ... lles-film/

About damn time. Pretty mind boggling to think he has a new film coming out this century. Glad to see Netflix pulling through here.

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I ended up finding that PDF. It's nearly half a gig, though it looks like a good read. I gotta get back to Ozu eventually- Tokyo Story has been the next on my list for months now but I've been putting it off for whatever reason. I've been loosely working backwards on the Best Picture winners myself....

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I tend to come back to them whenever my passion for film takes an uptick. I've read Film Art, Poetics, Narration, and Figures cover-to-cover and regularly use History (and Film Art) for references. I've also read his books on Ozu and Dreyer. Post-Theory would probably be better read after History o...

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28. Jerry Maguire - So recently I picked up a book about Hollywood (From about 1960-2005ish. The Way Hollywood Tells It by David Bordwell) Thanks for reminding me of all the other Bordwells I need to get around to reading. :/ They're worth finding the time for. Whenever I feel like I'm slipping a b...

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28. Jerry Maguire - So recently I picked up a book about Hollywood (From about 1960-2005ish. The Way Hollywood Tells It by David Bordwell), and the first chapter talks a bit about Jerry Maguire so I figured it would be worth giving a watch. The book mentions director Cameron Crowe being influenced b...

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Yeah I think we did discuss this back at IMDb but I don't mind talking about it again, particularly once you play seasons 2 and 3. What kind of gets me is that Crawford in season 1 probably was the best spin on the idea in the games (And the way it plays into the big choice about Ben at the end of e...

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The insecurity some people (Mainly other white dudes) feel at the existence of things like International Women's Day or Black History Month is something that I've just never been able to understand.

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