I think I’m the only person on earth who does not care for Cyberpunk 2077. For me the aesthetic is worn out and generic, and I feel gameplay wise it’s just going to be GTA with a sci-fi overlay and ‘great writing’ and ‘meaningful choices’ without all the winking mayhem of that series. I’ll give them credit, Witcher 3…

Anxiety regarding some upcoming projects got the better of me, and so I found myself crafting settlements in Fallout 4 for the better part of a (my) Sunday afternoon. In terms of an anxiety anesthesia, there’s nothing better than carefully placing crops and turrets and power cables to make a little slice of fortress…

Great call on Pattinson in Good Time. Could not believe how well he disappeared into that role. Could have been the typical awkward attempt at trying to replicate your everyday on the street millennial but he ended up creating one of the most authentic portrayals I’ve yet seen. Carried the film on his shoulders.

Got into this through the Nintendo streak of Tri, 4 and Generations, so quite bummed that this is going to take forever to come to PC. I doubt it’ll be the same because my best memories of MH are four friends with 3DSs gathered at someone’s house sitting around a hot pot, downing beers and monsters in equal measure.

Yeah, honestly I regret the wording of my post. I kind of wanted to emphasize that Japanese theatres are quiet so it was easy to pick up the laughing, not that Japanese people in general would laugh at Rey. I think it was just a strange mix of people at the screening.

Tangential, I caught The Last Jedi on premiere day in Japan, and the audience was typically (for Japan) silent when it came to any jokes within the movie - which could be attributed to the translation, but even the visual jokes inspired crickets.

Oh I know my comment is veering close to that but I’d wager that Win Butler, even compared to other middle class white families, had it pretty good.

God, I always found James Murphy to be absolutely insufferable and emblemic of that era of sneering Pitchforkist music criticism. Ironically I always found him to be just as offputting as the hipsters he’d denounce, and don’t get me started on that whole ‘retirement’ Madison Square garden thing. Their music was often…

Man, I always thought Arcade Fire were smug and obnoxious, and only do I feel their first two records manage to overcome it. I dropped out after ‘The Suburbs’, because despite the obvious quality of the songwriting, I just cannot bare listening to a middle class white man talking about a ‘war’ in his town that he’d…

I always found the real tragedy of Tree of Life was that that innocent boy would grow up to one day become Sean Penn.

Haha! I’ll accept it. I was searching every crevice of my brain for the right words to describe that moment and for some reason that one stuck. Maybe it was awe-inspiring? breath catching? spine tingling? I don’t know.

I’m pushing my twenties but I felt the same way. There was something very bittersweet about that last scene trying to induce hope but it didn’t quite connect with me the way it would have even in my teens. I guess that was Johnson’s mission statement in a way. Whatever we thought of and were bound to hate in this…

Fair enough! I guess (as I stated below) I would have figured from Poe’s standpoint he’d be less likely to mutiny if the plan was ‘Retreat and call in reinforcements’ rather than ‘Wait here and twiddle our thumbs until we die’. But what do I know! I’ve never even shot a womp rat.

Well, Rose is in an ICU right now, but yeah, it was fairly contrived. But I bought it! I got teary.

Ah, I didn’t rewatch TFA and completely forgot about that point! Well argued. I guess for me I imagined that Poe would’ve accepted and being less likely to go rogue over Holdo’s plan of ‘stealth bomber outta here and call in reinforcements’ more than ‘wait around and twiddle our fingers before dying’, but as Ignatiy…

Precisely why I loved it! I think it was even bolder not to kill him off. Being the middle chapter, I felt one of the three mains were going to be killed off and Finn felt the most natural, but it was an even more natural part of Rose’s story to intervene. Her sister died in a similarly heroic fashion but what did…

I was simultaneously disappointed and absolutely in love with this entry.

Star Wars and The Legend of Zelda were my two absolute loves as a child, and so on the way to seeing The Last Jedi today I put some time into Breath of the Wild. Despite wildly different mediums, and excuse me if I’m stretching, it was interesting for me to compare the two, as both franchises now (unless Episode IX has…

Yeah, the majority of mainstream cinema doesn’t make it out of the confines. Miike is an interesting example because I think the majority of his batshit ouevre has made it overseas but not the staid stuff he farts out in his sleep. Most Japanese movies follow that trend I think.

Here in Japan I honestly avoid walking into the theatre until the trailers have stopped playing if only because the ones cut for Japan are absolutely ridiculously spoiler heavy.