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I haven't played Last of Us 2 btw.

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Eternals is out theaters already, and while I don't have any real interest in seeing it it has had a pretty mixed reception so far.

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Maz! It's great to see you here again!

You've missed a lot lol.

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It seems like you play a lot of these indie games.

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I'd have to rewatch The Seventh Seal to say for sure how I feel about it, but I really agree with you on L'Atalante. Never understood the fuss with that one.

Rules of the Game I really like. Its incredibly French but I think its a superbly constructed film and probably Renoir's best.

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Un Chien Andalou is real short btw, you can knock that out in like 20ish minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB7gd_t6WMQ EDIT: Huh that version doesn't have English subtitles. This version (Which is played at slightly higher speed I think) does but the picture doesn't look quite as nice to me. ...

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Anyways I dunno that I had a real point exactly with the 2012 list, but it is interesting to look at again. Does anything stand out at as too low to you, or too high? Or anything particularly interesting that stands out? Looking at it again I'm kind of surprised The Godfather isn't a bit higher cons...

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I'm only at 74 seen of that list, so I'm not quite as high as you. I planned to knock some of these off this year but never got around to it lol. What I haven't seen: Mirror (1975) Ordet (1955) In the Mood for Love (2000) Andrei Rublev (1966) Shoah (1985) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Br...

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Just to be clear I'm not like an expert on this stuff or anything, so take anything I have to say with a grain of salt.

The fisheye lens stuff didn't bother me as much as I couldn't parse why it was there, or what it was meant to achieve.

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131. Slumdog Millionaire (2008; Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan) A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?". This is a successful blend of Bollywood fantasy and harsh realities of poor people living in slum...

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I mean I might if I still find something interesting to talk about. I'll probably end up converting this thread from a general 2021 movie thread to something for just general posting like that, when the occasion strikes me anyways. The only real notable anime I've finished lately is Higurashi Sotsu ...

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Yeah. It makes me wonder why Godard thinks about Sturges these days. Like I'm sure during like his 70's Maoist period he didn't think so much of a film like Sullivan's Travels, but I'd be surprised if he wasn't more sympathetic now.

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...but its hard for me to really find the same passion for film inside myself anymore. I hope you still enjoy watching anime, playing videogames and reading books. I mean I do, and I still enjoy movies when I get around to watching them even. Its just hard to feel same drive to devour as many movie...

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117. American Graffiti (1973; George Lucas) A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college. A very good nostalgic film. It's a good movie though I'm surprised it isn't a little more prominent considering Lucas directed it. 119...

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108. The Last Picture Show (1971; Peter Bogdanovich) In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically. This was okay I guess. I liked the movie well enough, but not one of my favorite Bogdanovich m...

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Anyways this is probably a bittersweet time to announce this but I don't think I'll be regularly posting about every single movie I watch anymore. Honestly I've been mostly going on autopilot with these things since around the time the pandemic started anyways in a vain effort to keep myself from go...

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Poor conservatives. Even the most high-profile and respected "conservative" Hollywood guy they can point to and claim as their own is, at best, only ambiguously conservative. It must be tiring to keep losing the culture war so hard. Haha yeah. I do have to wonder if Eastwood would identif...

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77. The Wayward Cloud (2005, Dir. Tsai Ming-liang) I liked this one. Eva is a fan of this one too, and I remember he once said that this film highlights how musicals and porn films work on the same principle. What he exactly meant by that, unfortunately, I really don't know. Now I feel bad for taki...

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https://i.imgur.com/QE1NIBel.jpg Tales of Arise (2021) - This is a pretty good game that is a couple of revisions away from being a great one. The story here is pretty typical Tales fare- a group of asshole noble "Lords" from the planet Rena are vying for control over the planet Dahna in ...

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That's a lot.

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I'm a little behind on things, I'll get to them eventually.

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113. The Green Knight (2021, Dir. David Lowery) - This is probably one of the better of these A24 movies, but I still find it kind of weird. I really liked Sir Gawain and the Green Knight when I read it, but I feel like this adaptation tries to revert it into a schlockier tale in some ways. Like Gaw...

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96. Days of Heaven (1978; Terrence Malick) I saw this film 7 times before. It is still great. It is such a great combination of beautiful cinematography, haunting score by Morricone and evocative narration by Linda Manz. I read many analyses of the film. Some claimed that this is a philosophical fi...

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18. Perceval: The Story of the Grail (Sometime between 1180's and 1190's, Chrétien de Troyes) - The last of these Arthurian stories by de Troyes. This seems to be the model for the "Holy Grail" quest of later King Arthur stories would use, though interestingly the "Grail" of the ...

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https://i.imgur.com/PZJfJ2al.jpg Tales of Hearts R (2013) - It's me, the guy that played a Vita game in 2021. It's a bit of a shame this didn't at least get a Steam port or something, because while its standard Tales game in a lot ways, its executed competently in gameplay department (I.e. basic bu...

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https://i.imgur.com/IPgkjKx.jpg Spider-Man (2018) - Finally played this. I have to say this is a pretty solid game and almost certainly the best combat system I've seen in a Western game. I do think its pretty clearly a direct descendant from the Spider-Man games I played when I was younger (I.e. S...

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111. Your Name. (2016, Dir. Makoto Shinkai) – This was interesting to watch right after Reminiscence because despite ostensibly different genres (Sci-fi noir vs. uh, magical realism I guess), the approaches to what are both ostensibly love stories across time couldn’t be more different. Joy’s more c...

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Rebuild does assume you know the original series. Like a lot of the changes and recontextualizations of classic NGE elements only make sense with that in mind. I never really thought 1.11 was rushed though. If anything I think its a pretty economical film. And tbh I thought it was pretty easy to inf...

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83. Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021; Zack Snyder) Very good film which is certainly an improvement over shorter version released in 2017. Agreed. 84. Army of the Dead (2021; Zack Snyder) I agree with Rax on this one. It is a great entertainment from start to finish. Very underrated film. Yeah I ...

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72. A Brighter Summer Day (1991; Edward Yang) Rewatch. I saw it 5 years ago. It is a 4 hour film that I think is primarily concerned with how people of Taiwan struggled with their identity as individuals and as nation. That is why all those gang conflicts arose. It is a remarkable film, but I prefe...

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109. Reminiscence (2021, Dir. Lisa Joy) - If you've ever seen Strange Days this is like a mix of that and something like Chinatown. Unfortunately its not very good, and that's a huge bummer because I was down for the idea of sci-fi noir with Hugh Jackman, but it not only feels derivative, Joy has se...

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https://i.imgur.com/i9ZMfDXl.jpg Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir (1988/2021) - When I was young, I was really big into Super Smash Bros. Melee and loved reading about the various Trophies in that game. Really that's how I found about a lot of classic Nintendo games before I really knew how...

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https://i.imgur.com/AiudnoG.jpg Mega Man 2 (1988) - Yeah this is a huge step up from Mega Man 1. It really cuts down on a lot of more ridiculous bullshit that plagued the original- maybe not completely so (Some of the Wily stages are kind of whatever), but there's nothing as "C'mon guys what t...

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I just found out that all 4 parts are available on Prime so I’ll finally be seeing them hopefully very soon! The Anno documentary things on Prime are worth a watch too. "Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion" is a longer version of that Professional thing I mentioned a few posts...

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Gendo wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 3:15 pm Thanks. Looks like the set is sold out already so congrats on getting one! Can I have it?

No! It's mine!!!!

All 5000 copies sold out within hours it seems. I'm kind of surprised I was even able to nab one.

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108. Evangelion 3.0+1.01: Thrice Upon a Time (Rewatch, 2021, Dir. Hideaki Anno, Mahiro Maeda, Katsuichi Nakayama, & Kazuya Tsurumaki) - Honestly even after a second watch I can't figure out how to review this. I really loved the film and keep thinking back to it, about how Rebuild as a whole mus...

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Death & Rebirth was originally a weird recap of NGE (Death) and a preview of sorts of EoE which contained the first 30 minutes of that film (Rebirth). There's some minor differences in animation and such, but my understanding is that Rebirth and the equivalent footage in EoE are basically identi...

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https://i.imgur.com/s5nE8Rg.png Final Fantasy VII Remake: Episode Intermission (2021) - I was intrigued by idea of Yuffie DLC for FF7R, but I have to say I'm surprised at how they did it. The story actually takes place during the Midgar section of the game (Specifically around the time Tifa becomes...

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I ordered that ridiculous blu-ray set.

I do have to say its a bummer that "Fly Me to the Moon" is in so much of a rights tangle that they couldn't get it for the show again. I'll be keeping my Platinum DVD's as a result in addition to this new set.

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Gendo wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:29 pm Oh it exists, both as a physical card game and as a video game:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/159 ... iple-triad
https://www.square-enix.com/ffportal/na/index.html

Oh cool, I might download that digital version.

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https://i.imgur.com/zUnblB9.jpg NieR Replicant Ver.1.22474487139... (2010/2021) - So this is updated rerelease of action JRPG NieR. I mentioned the basic differences between the two versions of the original NieR Gestalt and NieR Replicant before , and yeah the general differences between the brothe...

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I played FF8 about a decade ago and didn't like much of it past the first disc. Wasn't really into how leveling worked either (Since it does the "enemies level alongside you" thing), or Junction in general. Triple Triad is pretty excellent minigame though, and frankly I'd buy a standalone ...

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I'm almost done with yet another RPG and also have FF7 Remake DLC which should be pretty quick, so there's more where that came from lol. I never played Scribblenauts, but I remember seeing YouTube videos years ago where people tried very hard to "beat" the original DS game's system by ima...

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https://i.imgur.com/At627mY.jpg The Song of Saya (AKA Saya no Uta, 2003) - This is a visual novel about some jackass named Fuminori who at some point in the past was in a car accident. His parents were killed and he was left with some horrifying neurological condition that causes him to see the wor...

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I remember when I used to watch movies. No idea what's happening this year with it. My goal was 100 new movies; and here I am at 34 in August. Yeah I've had a bit of the same thing, though perhaps taking a break from movies for some other hobby might help recharge you. I find I usually cycle betwee...

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Gonna speed through some of these, Lyndon-style. 90. Halloween: Resurrection (2002, Dir. Rick Rosenthal) – This feels like two films really. The first 20 minutes are a short film predicated on the most blatant, bullshit retcon I have ever seen in a film just so we can have Michael vs. Laurie again: ...

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Gendo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 09, 2021 3:55 pm Man this place is dead.

I will revive the forum. I have the power to do so.

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I don't really know who that is, but you any everyone else has my condolences.

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I went back and started watching this finally (Currently six episodes into Season 2) and while I expected I'd like it this writing really is quite good on both a dramatic level and honestly comedic one as well- the series is funny as hell. I think you're right on the money about how it humanizes the...

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83. Halloween (Director’s Cut, 2007, Dir. Rob Zombie) 84. Halloween II (Director’s, Cut, 2009, Dir. Rob Zombie) – I had never seen any of Rob Zombie’s movies before these two and didn’t really know what to expect from them, but I skipped ahead to these ahead of the main Halloween series on a bit of ...

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