Jesse
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Put The Matrix on tonight and god, that's still a fantastic movie. Obviously the effects look a bit ropier now than at the time but pretty much everyone is putting in a great performance to give each scene some weight, and everything about the presentation of Agent Smith is nailed to the point of making Hugo Weaving seem like prime-Teminator Arnie.
Suspect both my wife and housemate are slowly coming to the realisation that while I have a reputation for being some kind of arthouse-level film fanatic among our friendship group, really I just love action movies from before every bastard had a mask & cape. -
Bottoms was the movie of choice from my housemate with notoriously bad taste on a recent movie night (previous clangers include The Voyeurs, and Fall) so I was dreading it, but it won me over almost immediately. Devon's write-up is spot on, it just knows what it is and goes as far with that as it can without any of the self-conscious winks at the camera that tank a lot of other modern comedies. Marshawn Lynch's 'female solidarity' bit still has me cracking up now.
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Currently playing Like A Dragon: Ishin! since it's on Game Pass and it's not doing much for me. I've enjoyed all the other Yakuza games, but I'm on Act 3 of this and I'm not feeling it in the same way - the characters and settings are doing little for me and even the brawler combat feels stodgier than I'm used to.
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45 minutes ago, Onyx2 said:
Oh and @Jesse I really enjoyed the final setpiece, what didn't work for you? I've seen a few online reviews criticising it too.
SpoilerFor me it was lacking the punch that a bunch of the movie had. I didn't mind it structurally (I think it might have been a bolder move to end on the asylum scene, but I don't think it's out of place to do a big action setpiece and the way they get there works for me). Most of the movie felt up close & visceral in a way that felt 'pulled back' for a bunch of this - I don't have a great way of expressing it other than it's the part of the movie where I felt like I was just watching a movie rather than along for the ride, up until he's up in the rafters and back into the previous action style of the film.
I think ultimately, the film is operating in one mode that I was really into, and it switches into another mode for a bunch of the third act in a way that takes me out of it.
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I'm kind of the reverse of you Onyx, where I really enjoyed the fairly slow pace of the film. I'm a sucker for the 'Year One' style of a Batman not in his stride, figuring things out and being in position to be kind of a fuck-up. It was the final run that it didn't quite hold me for. Conceptually it was fine, but it was the part that made me miss Nolan as a director, the big, bombastic setpiece that he's known for would have given that some kick while under Reeves' direction it only really landed once it got in close again to end.
Seen it twice now and thought it was a blast each time though, even got my wife on board who normally can't stand superhero bollocks. -
Still somehow less embarassing than the BMF belt
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2 hours ago, gmoney said:
The Robocop game is out next week I think, and I'm hearing rumblings that it's pretty good!
Watched the Remap (ex-Waypoint) crew play a little bit of it and it looks cracking.
In other news, I had a dream last night that I was playing Spider-Man 2 and started checking PS5 prices when I woke up. Soon put that to bed though, bloody hell they're not cheap! I'll wait for PC. -
I haven't played in years but I do collect/paint. I don't drive, so transporting large amounts of models for playing sucks.
I'm currently working on a Kommandos Kill Team so I could maybe play some smaller games in the future.
The last model I got done painting was the big Mangler Squigs model that was a blast to put together -
6 minutes ago, Gay as FOOK said:
I need to give Forza another look in, especially if this one is back to the traditional format. I tried to play the last Horizon but the whole package of it where you constantly felt like you were in an extreeeeeeme energy drink commercial done my head in. I like than Gran Turismo style of the driving being great and everything else about the music, menus etc being pleasantly dull.
I'm the opposite, I'm playing the new one but it's just making me miss Horizon. It's fine though, a bit buggy - annoying to complete a series in 1st and have the game not recognise it so you need to replay them - and the supposedly reworked AI system is still wank (every car up to the first three are pointless and about half the races the car in 1st just races ahead with no way to catch them) but the racing itself is good and the online is fun.
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I stopped watching WWE, then I stopped watching wrestling altogether, until AEW brought me back during the lockdown era. I've slowly lost interest in regularly watching that again to the point I basically don't watch any wrestling beyond gifs on Twitter and reading opinions on here.
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God, mentioning a marquee brought back vivid memories of an awful day doing some fair around Wigan for GPW. A bunch of us had slept in the old FutureShock gym the night before rather than get a hotel so woke up freezing my bollocks off after a horrendous night of sleep to go do an open air fair in the pissing rain. Not the life of glamour I'd hoped for after watching WWE on the telly.
My two lasting memories of that day are every single wrestler that tried to climb the turnbuckles falling on their arse because it was so wet, and riding the ghost train with Joey Hayes.
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See this is the problem with AEW, putting everything on social media. He should be on Dynamite saying this stuff.
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It's paid but I got a lot out of Scrivener when I had less marketing-driven writing dreams. Found it's approach to structuring and note-taking a lot better than sitting there at the start of a story with a blank page and scattered notes around me or in other Google Docs
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Reckon I could make a tidy sum travelling to locker rooms around the UK with a Wallet Inspector badge
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BadRhino have been a lifesaver for me. Pricier than I'd love, but given Primark no longer covers me I've gotten used to it. Not had any problems with them, and the only time I've returned something (I ordered a couple of sizes to try out) I could just drop it to a local Yours rather than needing to post it back.
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1 hour ago, Cousin Jim Bob said:
@Jesse and all Yakuza fans. Gaiden has been announced as day one on Game Pass. Ishin to be on Game Pass before the end of 2023 as well.
You're a beautiful fella
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2 minutes ago, Cousin Jim Bob said:
Ishin is 40% of at the moment in the Xbox store sale, down to £32.99. If you fancy buying.
We just did a long distance move so I'm on enforced no spending until someone other than me in this house is working. Just need that lottery win to come in so I can clean out my Steam wishlist.
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1 hour ago, TildeGuy~! said:
So… This looks outstanding
I'm holding out hope for a Game Pass release, I still have the Ishin and Gaiden spin-offs to buy
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I think there's a lot to like about Resurrections, especially reading its through the lens (rumoured or otherwise) that Lana Wachowski felt compelled to come back to this bcause if she didn't they'd have done it without her.
It definitely didn't hit as hard for me though, when I saw the originals I was barely a teen and all of this was new and exciting. Now I'm in my mid-30's and much more into cinema, apart from a couple of scenes it didn't wow me in the way I was hoping for. Maybe an unfair expectation but I didn't enjoy the action anywhere near as much as I have from directors like Takahashi Miike, Gareth Evans & Chad Stahelski -
13 minutes ago, Fanny Pack said:
Tony Khan saying he felt "his life was in danger" seems to be a bit of stretch for me.
Hes made the right decision getting rid of Punk but saying that makes him sound like a right tit.
2 fellas have had a scuffle. No ones life was in danger. Seems he has snorted so much snowflake hes eventually become one.
From the sounds of it it wasn't just 2 fellas having a scuffle. It's one bloke losing his shit, throwing punches and choking out a co-worker and then physically going after his boss in front of a bunch of company employees and venue staff. Very few jobs in the world where that doesn't end up with you out on your arse.
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I do love when people get up in arms about him giving good ratings to the wrestlers he likes doing the kind of matches he likes. Surely that's the point of his ratings, to tell you how much he liked the match?
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1 hour ago, wordsfromlee said:
Possessor - Loved it. Quite mad and trippy at times but not enough that you lose whats going on. Lots of gore but without veering properly into horror.
Really enjoyed Possessor, though my wife wasn't so keen on the gory moments. Turned out when she agreed to watch it with me she'd got it mixed up with a much older, tamer horror movie.
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Hasn't he stated that his contract runs through to the end of September? Surely that would stop him rocking up to Wembley given it's still August
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I thought I might go for the 100% given the relatively shorter nature of it but a combination of Shogi & Pocket Circuit have beaten me and now I reckon I might just blast through the end of the game instead.