The Pitters' Place

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I haven't had a chance to revisit the Raimi Spider-Men in a long time, but when I complain about MCU or whatever these movies are one of the main things I'm holding them up against (At least the first two. I remember liking the third Spider-Man when I was young but a lot of people hating it). Raimi ...

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78. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988, Dir. Dwight H. Little) 79. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989, Dir. Dominique Othein-Girard) – These both go together. 4 follows Michael Myers coming back once again to find his niece and kill her. She escapes, but maybe is becoming th...

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Hey my wages went up because of covid!!!!...Granted it took a year for that to happen, and my hazard pay is likely going to end soon. Still at least I got a couple of thousand out of this lol. Honestly though it is a little crazy to me that I made more extra money under Trump through all this than I...

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The lack of information on BotW2 didn't bother me at first, but the more I thought about it the more it did since we have little idea about what their takeaway from the response to the first game was. Like are they even going to have, say, the controversial weapon durability in BotW2? Its weird that...

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Yeah that was pretty whatever presentation. Really, a Tekken character in Smash?

At least Metroid Dread is still alive, against all odds.

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I'm hoping for Xenoblade 3 since there have been rumors of that recently, and the last two Smash characters. I'd be thrilled if an English localization for Tsukihime Remake was announced but that doesn't really seem like the kind of thing that gets revealed at E3. Not much else I'd be especially int...

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Gendo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 3:15 am Is that real? That can’t be real. No real trailer could use the word “chaos” that many times in 2.5 minutes.

CHAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS is real and that's why we need to kill him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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https://i.imgur.com/tZZZ71Ym.jpg Higurashi When They Cry Kai (AKA Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai, 2004-2006) This one is a bit hard for me to come to a conclusion on, because while solves some problems I had with the original Question Arcs (Club game scenes are severely reduced here and that's for t...

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You better be because we have to kill Chaos. We're going to kill Chaos. Won't be any Chaos left after we're done with him.

CHAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSss

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75. Halloween II (1981, Dir. Rick Rosenthal) – It’s kind of weird to me how this one seems to have generally lower reputation than Halloween 1 because I really don’t think there’s any kind of huge gulf in quality between them. If anything I have slight preference for this movie just because of how g...

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Coincidentally, I just watched this for the first time last weekend as part of my binge of Showa era Godzilla films inspired by the recent release of Godzilla vs Kong. Hell, I would have kept watching the more recent ones but HBO isn't carrying them. Did you notice how clumsy this incarnation of Go...

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Nope, have not seen Swiss Army Man.

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https://i.imgur.com/oymWFW0l.png Mega Man (1987) - Okay that boxart is still hilariously bad. Anyways Mega Man 1 I find to be a very frustrating game still. I actually played through most of it back when it released on the GameCube through the Anniversary Collection, but I just could not get throug...

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Napoleon Dynamite is another one that probably needs a rewatch from me. I remember absolutely hating it when it was new and being befuddled by its popularity.

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It's been 6-7 years since I last saw Mulholland Dr. so it really needs a rewatch from me (Maybe I'll get to it in a few days), but generally I think the movie is more of a character study on Carmilla/Rita. To me that's the point of putting the "puzzle" together (Why does dream play out way...

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71. Fahrenheit 451 (1966, Dir. Francois Truffaut) – I always thought Truffaut adapting F451 at all to begin with was kind of weird (Not really material that I think suits his sensibilities), and in English at that is kind of odd too. He sets the story in the U.K. and I’m not sure I buy the premise h...

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DA have you seen Paranoia Agent yet?

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69. What Time Is It There? (2001, Dir. Tsai Ming-liang) – The “slow cinema” movement is still something fairly new to me, so while I’m not entirely sure how to process these kinds of movies (Especially when they don’t have overt genre elements in play like in Tarkovsky’s Stalker), I still quite enjo...

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Nightcrawler was never one of my favorite X-Men so I just never saw his movie.

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64. Army of the Dead (2021, Dir. Zack Snyder) - I really enjoyed this. Combining Ocean's 11-esque heist film with zombies turned out to result in some good campy fun. Bautista needs to be the lead in more movies like this. This sounds awesome. I'll put it on my watchlist. I still haven't seen Snyde...

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65. Lupin the Third: The Italian Game (2016, Dir. Kazuhide Tomonaga & Yuichiro Yano) – Kind of meh unfortunately. Basically this takes some episodes from the Part IV series and combines them into a feature length film, stitching them together with new material that composes an overarching story ...

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17. Fahrenheit 451 (1953, Ray Bradbury) - Pretty interesting book. For a while now I've heard the debates about whether this is really a book about censorship (Stories about Bradbury insisting it isn't to a group of college students or something are common online), but having read the novel I sort o...

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Only one of those I've seen is Night of the Hunter. Great of course, and while I generally prefer Mitchum as an anti-hero he works really as the villain there.

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Honestly I'm kind of surprised we haven't had some kind of Lost reboot or movie yet. Its been well over a decade now since it finished and other than that dopey "New Man in Charge" epilogue there's been basically nothing. Like X-Files and Breaking Bad both got movies and a spin-off series....

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13. Works and Days (700ish B.C.E., Hesiod) - Hesiod's account of basically how his brother is a lazy asshole that doesn't work. The whole thing really is Hesiod trying to convince this guy of the virtues of farming, how to farm, how contributing to his community who contributes to him helps everyone...

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Is Collateral really underrated? Like its a fantastic movie but I thought people generally liked it.

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Man I have fallen way behind on posting again. Gonna try and play catch up, and hopefully get back to regularly posting/responding to things. 57. Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower (Rewatch, 2017, Dir. Tomonori Sudo) 58. Fate/stay Night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly (Rewatch, 2019,...

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I'll read the book you wrote on Fury Road tomorrow, but it skimming it now it seems like you hit a lot of good stuff in the movie.

Gendo wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 4:53 am It was ok. It's no Avengers End Game though.

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BTW where do you live exactly Lyndon? I thought before you said you were from India, and if so I hope you're keeping safe with the rising covid cases there.

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54. Bob le Flambeur (1956; Jean-Pierre Melville) Very good film from Melville which successfully subverts what you usually expect from such heist films. Ending was brilliant. I've had this one downloaded for a while now but have yet to watch it for some reason. One day I need to power through it. T...

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What if one of them just swallowed the Ring? Like is Sauron going to really still want it then if its covered in Hobbit feces.

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Well that was underwhelming. 'Like just from a production standpoint there were some baffling decisions- who approved that "In Memoriam" segment being so rapid? Why not on end on Best Picture? I didn't hate Nomadland but didn't really like it much either- not what should have won Best Pict...

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So I got a PS5 and played some PS5 games. https://i.imgur.com/F4fdyg8m.jpg Astro's Playroom (2020) - This comes with the PS5 (I can't remembered if it was pre-installed or a download though). Basically its one of those games that's ostensibly supposed to teach you how your controller works, and in t...

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Ladykillers seemed really mean-spirited in an unfunny way to me. One of the weakest Coens IMHO.

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I've never watched the movie because I don't have my own dragon to train. Sounds like I might need to correct that.

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55. Godzilla vs. Kong (2021, Dir. Adam Wingard) - Uh its Godzilla fighting King Kong. I generally like this movie though I kind of would have preferred more of a straight "versus" movie instead of the third act revolving around both teaming up to fight Mechagodzilla . Probably my least fav...

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10. Helen (412 B.C.E., Euripides) – I thought this have more information on Euripides’ weird take on Helen of Troy (What with the weird ghostly crisis actor thing), but it doesn’t really. Basically, this play features Helen as a prisoner in Egypt, her husband Menelaus happens to crash land there, an...

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I decided to rewatch all Harry Potter films after reading Derived Absurdity's excellent review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. When I saw them last time 2 years ago, I didn't particularly enjoy them. But now... I really, really enjoyed them. Similar thing happened this year with my La La...

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Yeah I figured being a Sorkin project the movie was watered down from history, though the judge in the film is presented as a pretty awful asshole (Though whether the movie makes him being an asshole an example of just one of a few "bad eggs" or an example of a larger institutional flaw co...

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I'm just going to assume people are aware of the gist of these because of their general prominence in Awards season stuff. 53. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020, Dir. Aaron Sorkin) - Pretty standard trial movie, though I enjoy those well enough. I think the script is pretty standard Sorkin (I.e. fast...

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Faustus we should gather the rest of us that didn't hate S8 and form a rock band or something.

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You know I forgot that particular Sansa stuff started that early so I'll amend my comment to say its really only season 1 Sansa I find frustrating (Which is by design I suppose). I think after season 5ish she becomes something of a mix of her mother and Littlefinger- though whether that's ultimately...

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Like most geniuses I'm doomed not to be appreciated in my own time... Actually I think Maz and...Bruce, IIRC, were generally fine with season 8 as well. There might have been a fourth among us. I think Sansa got interesting eventually but some of that early stuff (Particularly season 1 where she's a...

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This took me too long to write. I did end up getting my first vaccination shot several days ago though so that's some good news. 51. Konosuba! God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World – Legend of Crimson (2019, Dir. Takaomi Kanasaki) – So the main KonoSuba anime series was something of a comedic sendu...

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I didn't find season 8 to be particularly bad tbh or any of the character arcs to have particularly unreasonable conclusions. I do think the White Walker stuff was written in a weak a way ultimately since the Night King is only a character on like a technicality but fixing that isn't really a season...

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Haven't seen it, but I'm sure its one some piracy site somewhere.

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Faustus5 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:59 am Saw The Mole Agent (one of the documentaries nominated). Pretty good and very moving, but the central conceit was ultimately pointless. They could have made it a more traditional documentary instead of attempting to spice it up.

Is this the one people are saying is mostly staged?

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I remember this film because Tommy Lee Jones won an Oscar for it, but most people thought Ralph Fiennes more than deserved it for Schindler's List (1993). Man it is bizarre to think of those two performances competing against each other. You win, Rax. I've seen only 5 Ozu films. What's funny is tha...

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That having been said, I don't know anything about the actual politics of the real folks depicted in the film and don't much care. I saw it as a fun movie, not a documentary. Its fine not to care- like I said earlier I'm coming at this from admittedly hypocritical position since its not like simila...

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