Jumanji. Jumanji works. But then it is not a port of a specific game, but instead is riffing on game tropes in general.

looks just as miscast as fucking game of thrones eyebrow girl in terminator.

I called Gemma Arterton a long time ago. She hung up on me, but I’d still like her to play Lara Croft.

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces

Should have been Tatyana Maslany.

I feel like Hollywood is never going to realize that video games don’t make good movies.  Let them be their own thing.  

Oh thank god, I love being drunk.

I uh...

I think the Angelina Jolie movies might actually be better than this.

Dotsum was a former Communist general, who was known to conduct mass executions by lining up victims and running them over with tanks (saved on bullets). His time as Vice-President was fairly inconsequential, given a lot of bad blood between him and President Karzai—Karzai was part of the anti-Soviet mujahideen, and…

If there were an actual nuclear missile headed toward you, there’s not much you can do once that warning goes off, but it’s just enough time to clear your browser history (in case your computer outsurvives you).

Guess they didn’t want to go out like that guy in Pompeii.

So, wait, porn viewing went down when people were told that a big, long, hard rod was going to explode all over everything?

I actually worked on this film. We had the ODA guys with us the whole way. And had actual US military advisers, which is a rarity, since the liaison office consists of... five people.  

Half of me wants to see the movie and half of me doesn’t. I worked on a project that recreated this ODA’s movements from insertion all the way to the fight for Qual-I-Jangi prison and them being told about John Walker Lindh by Robert Young Pelton and and it was the stuff of movies. Watching the Hollywood version may…

A theory I have myself frequently entertained.

It turns out we’ve all been dead this whole time and are actually in the bad place.

THE AV CLUB

The American forces win like always, and then we leave and are regarded as heroes and liberators for the rest of Afghanistan’s history.

January Jingoism... I like it. It fits nicely in the larger category of Fuck You It’s January films.

VR has finally hit it’s true potential, immersing the viewer in the intricacies of government bureaucracy.