The Pitters' Place

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Jimbo's review of FFIV has got me thinking about whether I should leap into this series... if only there weren't so many of them! Plus I still have to finish Horizon Zero Dawn (the gameplay in which has become quite addictive, despite its problems), Red Dead Redemption 2, Persona 5, Nier Automata, S...

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I flipped the coin and The Last of Us won. Started it yesterday. Opening was FUCKING INTENSE! Like, there's one general rule for movies that you don't kill animals and kids , and TLOU breaks it right off the bat. I love how it sets up the characters so economically and then just immediately thrusts...

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True, it's usually their average time plus/minus 15% for me. Still works as a good estimator, I think.

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Here's a random thought/question: anyone here play Fear Effect 1 and/or 2? I thought about picking them up a few times but never went through with it. I do know there's a remake of Fear Effect 1 in the works though. Hmmm, either or both you and maz need to play Deus Ex and/or Fear Effect and get ba...

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HAHAHA. I had no idea Judy Garland was Liza Minnelli's mother!!!!

No, I still have to see the 1976 and 2018 ones. Will go back to your posts when I do. :)

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224. A Star is Born (1954, Dir. George Cukor) - It feels weird to say this but this was only my second Judy Garland. I've seen Wizard of Oz so many times over the course of my life though that it sure doesn't feel like only my second one. Anyways I generally found this to be superior to the 1937 ve...

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90. Fruitvale Station - Man; very good, and very depressing. This was not an incident I knew anything about before watching this; though certainly familiar with the unfortunate trend of similar incidents more recently. The movie doesn't set out to paint Oscar as a perfect hero; but it does an amazi...

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I didn't care too much Hacksaw Ridge, Rax. I've always found pro-war movies to be offensive. Deadpool 2 was a snooze too. I had kinda enjoyed the first one. Maybe watching it on the airplane screen wasn't the 'right' way to experience it though. But then I also watched Black Panther like that and I ...

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Will get to the rest of this thread later, but dammit. Now Bertolucci passed away! Only seen The Conformist and Last Tango in Paris from him though, but I really liked both of them.

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Raxivace wrote:That first trailer just completely killed any interest I might have had in Cyperpunk. :/

As much as it pains me to say this, I know what you mean.

As an optimist, still hoping it ends up wowing me though.

maz89

It is called Cyberpunk!

I've said this before: it comes across as impressive in the trailers and I have high hopes from the developers after Witcher 3, but I really hope it's more than just a cool, shiny, futuristic GTA.

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RIP Nicholas Roeg.

I'm a bit late, I know.

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I started playing it the other day just to get an idea and I was really struggling to get used to just using a mouse for everything. Attacking felt super awkward and half the time didn't even seem to work. Like I'd click on an enemy and Geralt would just stand there. I'm also not liking how you hav...

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I don't remember the specifics, but I do remember finding it bittersweet and touching. Surprising how IAWL was relatively poorly received at the time of its release.

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About Mr. Smith- Capra's big thing is idealism and compassion triumphing over corruption. He wants to inspire people. It's not the most realistic of endings of course but Capra also isn't quite trying to be Rossellini or someone like that. You're right, of course. I shouldn't be complaining anyway,...

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A few thoughts on the films I've seen over the last two weeks. For Whom The Bell Tolls - If I had to sum it up: bland and overly long war propaganda. One critic noted that Cooper and Bergman were playing themselves, and I kind of agree with that. The whole romance was so overly done I became quite s...

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BTW, any of you guys notice any fun Easter Eggs in Witcher 3? Two I noticed was during the mission where you're investigating the ghost girl/tower for Kiera, you use a telephone-like device, and the character names were Alexander, Graham, and (Ana)Bell(e). The other was one of the books titled &quo...

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Ending question: did you tell the Emperor about Ciri? Rax did that and fucked up Ciri's life, and I've never forgiven him for it. I'm... not remembering this decision. I pretty much hated the Emperor so if it came to telling him anything about Ciri I probably didn't. The one decision I regret makin...

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Todd. TODD!

Damn, what happened there?! At least be consistently OTT, you know. It's like they suddenly became lazy and said fuck it, we can't think of anything else, let's just go with TODD.

maz89

Lol, thanks for clearing that up. I had forgotten all about Marvel Frozen (dafuq) until you reminded me. I wish you hadn't.

Still not convinced that Triss isn't the better of the two redheads. She's got better hair.

ykwim

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I wanted to comment on your last post, Rax. I really did. But I have no clue what you're talking about. So I finished Spider-Man. The ending was indeed powerful ( major spoilers ahead). I liked the twist that Otto knew Spidey's real identity the entire time. The unsaid thought during Otto's descent ...

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It's probably too late for this tip, but I'd recommend waiting until you get to the "Taskmaster" part of the game before you worry about collecting or crimes or anything else. The reason being is that by the time you get to Taskmaster you've pretty much unlocked everything there is to do ...

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Yeah, I loved those paralleled crane shots and the contrast between the first and second time they're deployed for that staircase. I like how you use "self-imposed imprisonment" as a meaning for the bars framing her character in that way.

Should check out his late French films.

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OK, you've managed to pull me out of my Witcher 3 slave-state to post an update. I've finished the main game and Hearts of Stone, working through the Blood and Wine DLC now. I guess what's surprised me most is how I simply haven't gotten tired of this game, even after well over 200 hours of play. I...

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So how long did you really struggle against that evil boss for? I struggled to get gold in a stupid drone challenge in Spider-Man for two hours. TWO HOURS swinging and running up buildings for it. Easily the most annoying, frustrating, merciless "challenge" of the game. Can't count the num...

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Congratulations! Hope the mother and baby are doing fine. :)

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I'm surprised you got it. It's too mainstream for you. ;) Stan-Lee makes a cameo here too.

I have Horizon Zero Dawn and a replay of Last of Us lined up, after I complete Spider-Man, which I haven't played for the last few days. You still haven't played Last of Us, right?

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That was horrible.

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The use of Elvis music in the movie is interesting because the commentary about it I've read seems ambivalent. I see some critics present its popularity in Taiwan as tragic; that American imperialism has helped (But not solely, there's the history of Japan to consider too, the presence of samurai s...

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I watched ABSD a long time ago and I just have a vague recollection of it. Oddly, the part of the film that has stuck with me could be its least consequential, when one of the kids lip syncs to an Western tune (Elvis Presley?) on stage. Definitely going to see it again, and then read that Bordwell p...

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Well, given his polyamorous inclinations, let's hope he didn't try to answer that question with 'both'.

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Man, I don't remember that fight. Now I think I played Spider-Man 3 or The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Or something. The graphics were better in those and web swinging a lot of fun, even if the story itself was mediocre. I hope so too - he's disappeared for quite a while. I'm dying to know which way he we...

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Anyway, I saw Affliction a few days ago and thought it was a powerful, stirring, bleak drama. The final image of Nolte's character calmly sipping coffee on the kitchen table while the shed behind him, visible through the window, is crackling with fire is still something I can't shake off. This seems...

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So why isn't he sharing it with the rest of us? $$$?

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Probably Spider-Man 2.

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I've poured in about 15 hours into Spider-Man. Fun game, although I get a headache if I play for too long. I've played an older version of this game on the PS2 or PS3, I think, and I enjoyed it back then too. Of course, they've improved the variety of mission types since then. That being said, as a ...

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Raxivace wrote:Like for god's sake Orson has been dead for 30 years and still managed to put out a new movie this month.

To be fair, someone must have put it together for him, right?! Unless... unless... he too is living deliciously.

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Raxivace wrote:I've seen The Witch and didn't like it either tbh.

So clearly you would not like to live deliciously.

maz89

Wait, there are people who think Hereditary has an ambiguous plot? What? I agree about how the structure is troublesome - that was my problem in the first place. They were taking it in an interesting direction with the devastating death of her daughter giving rise to something truly ugly in the grie...

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Hereditary doing away with that ambiguity basically ruined the movie for me. The cult stuff was just so, so silly. I'm not familiar with First Reformed but I like Paul Schrader's work with Scorsese. He directed and wrote a movie in the 70's that I liked called Blue Collar too, with Harvey Keitel an...

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I've not been as forthcoming about the movies I've been watching lately (just don't have much to say), but I must stop to mention the latest one I saw: First Reformed. I went into this knowing only the broad outlines of the plot and that it starred Ethan Hawke, but I had no idea it was directed by t...

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I really liked Arrivals for that tone/atmosphere you refer to as well. Also, the score - so glad it introduced me to Richter's On the Nature of Daylight. I also like how the circularity aspect is built into the film's structure and visuals. Also, I think Amy Adams is a terrific actress. Much like Wa...

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The whole Bloody Baron storyline has been the best bit so far, with a really complex family dynamic with one of those characters who's both disgusting and, despite myself, sympathetic. Oh yeah the Baron questline owns a lot, and IMHO is the high point of the game. I didn't even realize the stuff in...

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Thanks for making the thread title relevant, Rax. [laugh] This game is horrible for my OCD. I've literally been getting about 5 hours of sleep the last several nights because I'm playing this game around bedtime and I keep telling myself "I'll just do this one more thing" and next thing I ...

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Not from a gameplay perspective, but a "cinematic" perspective. Even then I'm not sure that the cutscene direction is very different between BttF and TWD but admittedly its been a long time since I played through it. Hey, not my words - the creators said it. Unless they lied. They probabl...

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But... Naomi Watts is in the 2007 one. That changes everything.

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Btw, do you know a game that HR served as an inspiration for? Telltale's TWD. I'd be really surprised if this was the case since much of TWD's systems were already in place in Back to the Future which came out shortly after HR did. Not from a gameplay perspective, but a "cinematic" perspe...

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I also hoped that Yojimbo would like Bioshock more than he does! But fine, an 8.5 ain't too shabby, and maybe we should take the Deus Ex recommendation seriously. Good luck with the Witcher! I envy you. Regarding your question about how to get the best ending, I find it amusing that you're as obsess...

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I really liked the eerie tone/atmosphere in Funny Games, but I also walked away feeling kind of... empty. I mean, it was a smart intellectual exercise, but part of me hoped that Haneke would do something even more with that masterful tone.

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May he rest in peace.

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