Sound of Music + Peter Pan= Bad. Hate-watch worthy. Strong Broadway supports propping up miscast leads.

I used to just call them "adventure games." They reminded me of "Shadowgate," "Deja Vu," and "The Uninvited" on the NES. Those had you exploring a building through a first person view. They were more challenging but often for the wrong reasons.

Cara was playing "angry and competent" but not "professional." She's a "government agent" but she kept rolling her eyes and snarking her lines like she was the mean girl in a teen soap.

The whole film is hit and miss. Laureline gets equal screen time and agency with Valerian in the story but she's condescended to for about half the film. I've seen other blockbusters do worse (Jurassic World's constant "shaming" of Jessica Chastain for example) but they could still do better.

Just got back from Valerian and the City of 1000 Planets. It's the Mass Effect: Andromeda of summer films.

Just saw this. It's the Mass Effect: Andromeda of summer films. Every time it does something good it undercuts itself with something so stupid I felt sorry for it.

Saw the musical Little Fish. (Not to be confused with Big Fish).

I approve. Nearly everything would be better with the strippers from Gypsy in it!

Just finished my Xenoblade replay. The final mechon dungeons were a slog of ugly metal corridors. The one thing I like, in comparison to FFXII, is that the characters kept having interesting conversations with each other. The cutscenes were so sparse in XII that everyone went silent for long stretches of time. The…

A brief tangent. I'm seeing lots of articles saying that folks should support films like Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets because of their pretty CGI visuals. Sure the plot, characters and performances are dull but look at the shiny!

Why did he assassinate his king and frame his brother for it?

I played the ios port of Sonic CD. It was pretty and ran smoothly but your thumbs covered the bottom of the screen making some of the late game races frustrating. Sonic's usually in the middle of the screen but in the races he's at the bottom. You can't see incoming obstacles if your thumbs are covering them.

I didn't understand the motivations of the various antagonists on a first playthrough. Several wiki's later the behavior of Gabranth still baffles me. In fact I wasn't sure till about 4/5ths in who the primary antagonist would be.

I've read that it was spec'd for older computers and couldn't handle modern video cards. I don't know if that's true. My copy ran at full speed but would regularly crash to the desktop without warning.

I've nearly finished my New Game + of Xenoblade Chronicles. The suffering heaped upon the party members ramps up to comical proportions. Sharla just lost her lover Gadolt for nonsensical reasons. "Let me shield you with my mech suit while staying inside my mech suit while ignoring the fact that my mech suit flies and…

I just wanted to give my dad unlimited wealth and power over the course of about two years so that once he had the resources to kill me I could kill him while saying 'I hate you dad!'
Only now I don't want to kill him while fighting alongside you because I HATE THAT YOU HAVE FRIENDS! I don't have friends and I don't…

I'm assuming this will be bad. Not in a hilarious train wreck way but in a "watch a few episodes, get bored, quit watching and forget it's still on" way. That's basically what I did during the original run. The old Will & Grace relied too often on the four leads repeating the same shtick while the guest stars played…

Comment: "If this was about a boy and a girl this film wouldn't have gotten all that Kickstarter money."
Me: If this was about a boy and a girl they wouldn't be risking their lives by expressing affection in a public school.

The trailer was adorable. The full piece was too but I'm impressed with how disturbing the heartbreak scene was allowed to be.

Randy Rainbow's song is up!