Denis, buddy, 2049 was a better film than the original. By a country mile. You did good, man.

This is legit my favorite open-world game. Just a mind-boggling story, incredible robot designs, and delicious combat. I, too, was incentivized to get through every collectable and questline. I think I sank over 120 hours into the original game. I’d logged well over that amount into its sequel because I like upgrading…

I have to believe somebody, anybody, during the script-writing process was like “you know, this doesn’t make any sense whatsoever” and Christopher Nolan must have just been like “AWAY WITH YOU!”

I was just so flabbergasted in the theater. A perfectly hard-science movie takes a complete 180 into nonsense in the blink of an eye.

Yuuuup. The rest of the movie is terrible.

I spent most of my time with Tenant (Redbox) thinking “what the ever loving fuck is going on?” But what kind of ruined the experience for me was correctly predicting that the faceless villains in one early sequence at a storage facility were exactly who I figured they would be, with nothing but the foreknowledge of…

In this age of live-service games launching in Early Access form, I’m reluctant to completely dismiss any live-service game from the word go (recent exception: Suicide Squad) but the publisher has to be committed to heavy support. That’s the only reason Sea of Thieves and Destiny 2 became the powerhouses they did.

There’s a reason Ubi kept putting this off.

Has anyone here seen Ninja Kamui? Is it worth watching? I just finished Blue-Eye Samurai and still have the itch.

Weird, a game nobody asked for with a steady drip of troubling news stories about live-service bullshit forced into what might’ve been a fun game by out-of-touch publishers trying to chase Destiny 2 wasn’t massively successful.

It’d be great if Nimona won the Oscar, although Spider-Verse 2 is definitely deserving as well. But I love seeing non-Disney studios run away with animated feature.

Me too!

Crichton used to be my “bad sci-fi beach book” author. I think I got through a sizeable chunk of his bibliography. That characterization is correct: dude has great ideas but ain’t a good writer. He’s also weirdly anti-science; so many of his books are like “humanity shouldn’t mess with X.” I think his one really…

I will note that, having recently re-read it, Jurassic Park is a far better film than book. The Lost World is both a bad book and a boring movie.

Okay, we get it, you don’t like Gareth Edwards. Christ.

Totally fair!

NWR’s John Rairdin gives a nice summary of some questionable design decisions in the “remaster” portion of this game:

It’s right up there, for sure (original ending, please). I still like Phantasm more specifically for this shot/sequence:

Sting looks dope af

My wife told me that Jennifer’s Body was a great movie for years. I’d never seen it. We watched it last year.