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I enjoyed the first game. Alas, my plans to play the others were thwarted when Apple dropped 32-bit support. So it goes.

Does this mean Hamlet and Horatio are gay because it seems to me that he’s way more interested in spending time with his servant buddy than Ophelia?

Despite what Mackie said, regardless of Casarosa’s intent, if you viewed Luca as a queer allegory—and, in doing so, it enriched your understanding of the Pixar film, and maybe even the way you look back on your own coming-of-age story—embrace that. You didn’t view the movie, or the series, or the piece of art wrong;

He probably could’ve phrased it better, but I agree with the underlying sentiment 100%. It’s absurd that every male friendship gets distorted into a potential gay relationship, even when there’s no evidence beyond the relationship being just a male friendship. Happens with female friendships, too (see, e.g.,

I loved Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The sequel was disappointing despite some fun ideas and abilities. And their Tomb Raider sequel had the best tombs of the new trilogy, even if the story was prone to heavyosity.

The sad thing is, she’s still an extremely good writer, and arguably a good critic, but only when she “gets it”, and surprisingly often, she just doesn’t “get it”. Reading her wikipedia entry I see this is actually not an uncommon criticism of her, apparently I’m not alone in thinking this.

He also made Absolute Power, which randomly I watched for the first time this week. (Boredom+Tubi)

That might be the lowest moment of Clints career and I’m not even joking

Richard Jewell had a lot of good acting but that stuff with Kathy Scruggs was really sleazy. Also I couldn’t help but notice the whole narrative of innocent man framed by media and FBI and the actual crazy right wing bomber isn’t really discussed. I’m not dumb Clint I know what your doing.

On a purely dramatic level, Clint Eastwood’s Chris Kyle is a perfectly compelling character. But given that American Sniper is a depiction that celebrates Kyle as a war hero and shows us his funeral, the movie fully snipes itself in the foot by lionizing a shitty guy.

Late Eastwood movies only seem to be popular or talked about when they’re very bad. Whenever he makes something genuinely interesting or good, it gets largely ignored. American Sniper is embarassingly terrible and it was a huge hit. I’ll never understand it.

The only thing audacious about 15:17 To Paris is how bad it is.

Dirty Harry is definitely a reactionary movie, although you could easily point to Magnum Force to say Dirty Harry the character is not.

...that’s the most pretentious fucking title I’ve ever heard.

I still remember that scene in 15:17 where Pam from the Office said I trust god more then math. What a mess of a film.

One of my favourite critics, who has a big Eastwood soft spot, suggested that Eastwood added a touch of subversion\cynicism to the film...

Should we get the arguing about whether American Sniper is right-wing propaganda out of the way now, or wait for next week?

It’s hard to guess where his vision was compromised in a game about...apocalyptic Amazon workers with fetal ghost detectors? But who knows.

Of course her works extrapolate wildly from her own experiences and her intuitions of what must be true - it’s all she’s been trained to do.

The framing here seems a little unlikely: how can a studio that is virtually defined by its aversion to risk challenge itself? It won’t. It will continue to absorb elements of other popular genres and declare them to be risks, and we’ll all seem commenters everywhere repeat every word.