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Back when Play.com existed, they occasionally had sales on Ghibli movies at 3 for £15 and I managed to grab most of them up to Ponyo. I had a look at what ones I’ve missed since then and they’re all still going for over a tenner on eBay so I reckon I don’t care so much about owning them all when I can stream them for nowt.

The thread's moved on but I just feel like supporting Malbranque in that I also love Casino but I'm pretty indifferent to Goodfellas. 

The chicken strips episode of Community that plays on Goodfellas is excellent though and wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the film so there's that at least.

I watched 2049 for the second time in 3D and I'd say it added nothing over the 2D experience. I don't know if the addition of a moving seat would help with that but I imagine you'd end up getting sprayed with water A LOT.

It's a film full of subtlety and I'm not sure it lends itself well to 4DX but I'm intrigued enough to consider it and enjoyed it much, much more the second time around so it definitely holds up to repeat viewings. If it does that thing like they did in Star Wars where the seat wants you feel when someone gets stabbed/shot then I suspect that would get annoying. Maybe even moreso than getting sprayed with water.

I can see why Super wouldn't be to everyone's taste, but I thought it was pretty good. The guy who made it went on to do Guardians of the Galaxy so it must have gotten him noticed by the right people.

As for Ellen Page, she was in Inception right? Is there some circle jerk on hating that? Thought it was pretty well received.

I don't normally venture into this thread but I was listening to the new Vic Mensa record earlier and it hit all the right notes I want from a rap album so I thought I'd see if anyone had mentioned it. Seeing as no one has, I figured I might as well recommend it..It's very emotional and, unsurprisingly given it's called Autobiography, very personal.

The first song, Say I Didn't is pretty indicative of where the album's going but it was Wings with Pharrell Williams where I decided I really loved it.

I've just checked Dave's IMDB page and apart from a few minor roles (literally four films) before he established himself in 2012, he hasn't had any straight-to-DVD releases. Of the two that went to VOD as well as limited release, one had Robert DeNiro in and the other was the Kickboxer sequel with JCVD so they're not exactly low budget tripe. LA Slasher sounds like it was dogshit but it still got a theatre release.

I don't understand why we're even having this argument to begin with.

Let's not forget that amongst all the blockbusters, Rocky was also making nonsense like Faster and Snitch.

Edit: Empire State was also direct-to-DVD and that was only 2013.

On 10/6/2017 at 4:18 PM, Scott Malbranque said:

It’s way more subdued than what’s deemed “Zimmerrific” but there’s plenty of nods to Vangelis’ score throughout. It’s nothing outstanding or jaw dropping - I found, anyway - and there’s nothing that will linger long like some of his work on Inception and Interstellar, but it did exactly what it needed to do and it did it very well.

 

Would really like to hear Jóhann Jóhannsson’s rejected score as I absolutely adored his work on Sicario.

I thought the score was definitely the weakest part actually. I'm sure I read that Johansson didn't get that far but given he had to sign a non-disclosure, it's a shame we might never know. I'm more intrigued about whatever El P did for the trailer that got rejected. Zimmer seems a weird choice to me and although he definitely tried to do something different to what he'd usually do it stood out to me that it didn't quite fit the feel of the rest of the film.

I found it very hard managing my expectations for this one. Blade Runner is among my favourite films of all time, top two or three for sure, and Villeneuve has been my favourite contemporary director for quite some time. It was impossible to not go into this with very high hopes and I think that's unfortunately meant that although I really liked it; loved the story and the fact there were some absolutely jaw dropping and breath taking shots, I can't stop finding things I want to complain about.

Like, I loved it. But I thought Arrival had much better pacing. I thought Sicario had a better score. I thought it lacked some of the charm of the original, like the scenes with JF Sebastian. I saw someone say on Facebook that there isn't a wasted minute but after that first scene at the farm it definitely dragged for a bit until he went to find the orphanage.

But I know it's because I had no expectations for either Sicario or Arrival and conversely had high expectations that this would struggle to meet.

I'm going to watch the shorts tonight and then go watch it again on Wednesday. I strongly suspect my gripes about length and pacing might be lessened knowing what's coming up. And if not then it's still the most gorgeous, sumptuous film I've seen.

Drunk at a wedding and having a conversation about the oldest photos of ourselves on Facebook... I don't know why I feel compelled to post this but here's me, front and centre, in my first year of uni (circa 2000), clearly far too obsessed by Fight Club.

Answering my own question... I think. I still don't get it.

https://m.imgur.com/Lu1vxKq

I appear to be a bit out of the loop but can someone explain why Will Ospreay has started wearing cat face paint but then saying he's not a cat?

That sounds awesome @scratchdj!

I was just coming in here to mention a similar trip we took over the weekend but I wish we'd known about that in advance because that would have made a far better day.

It was my mates 36th birthday over the weekend and we'd heard about a place called Timewarp Arcade in Bridgwater, not far from Weston Super Mare.

It's fairly hidden away and is basically just a large garage filled with arcade machines but it's only £6.50 to get in and everything's on free play.

We were there for four hours but it just flew by and I reckon I could have easily spent the whole day there.

A fairly good selection of cabs, old and new. A whole bank of really old stuff; Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders. I mostly ignored these so not sure what was there in total.

After wandering around, I played Tekken 2 first. Had completely forgotten most of the moves but still managed to button mash my way quite far through with Law.

Switched to an old Street Fighter 2 cab and although I definitely hadn't forgotten the moves, really struggled to get it to recognise the inputs. So after getting soundly beaten, I jumped to a much newer Capcom vs SNK machine that was far more forgiving with my attempts to hit moves.

I think the most fun thing was when all completed X-Men on four player. My mates girlfriend had started playing my herself then I noticed and went and joined, then her boyfriend, then another mate. Felt really organic and just like being in an arcade as a kid. They also had TMNT but not set up for four players, sadly.

I moved on to the more interactive machines after that. Found out I really sucked at Lethal Enforcers but was significantly better at Virtua Cop 2 so put my earlier failure down to age of the machine. They also had a punching game there where you had to hit pads in the sequence they popped out that was a lot of fun. Turns out I'm awful at racing games though.

They had quite a few consoles set up too. On the website, they claimed to have PSVR which is something I'd been thinking of getting for a while but wanted to have a go at first but they didn't have it when we got there.

Spent quite a while playing Mario Kart 8 and resoundingly beating my mate and then moved onto playing SORII on an old portable 14" TV, which took me right be to childhood. Just got the end of stage 6 when my mates insisted we had to go and find food.

All in all, I'd highly recommend it. There's some significant games missing that I was really hoping to play but with so much else there it meant I didn't feel disappointed. 

5 minutes ago, Sergio Mendacious said:

Au nau 

Keith even said I was "a good looking man" last time I posted a photo of myself, too. Now I don't know what to think...

On 03/09/2017 at 0:30 AM, Keith Houchen said:

Fixed.

I think it's Shaun between Davey and Austin. I agree with it being Billy Gunn at the back. Not sure on the other guy though.

He won his season of NXT, it's not like they completely wasted him.

7 hours ago, clintthecrippler said:

You may be thinking of an incident in Puerto Rico a few years back involving Flash Flanagan. Having trouble posting at the moment bit search for him, he took a biel toss off a balcony and his leg barely clipped the table and most of his body went splat on the ground.

Yes! That's the one! Thanks mate.

Following a conversation following this video that's been floating around Twitter the last few days:

I'm trying to find a video from (I think) a Japanese promotion in 2015 where a guy gets thrown from the balcony of an arena and completely misses the table he's supposed to land on. I think he might have even gotten up afterwards but it looked awful. Anyone know what I'm on about or did I imagine it?

Popped into town on Saturday to see if I could pick up any of the games mentioned a couple of pages back cheap and got Sleeping Dogs for £1.99 which seemed like an absolute bargain.

I also picked up No Mans Sky after seeing the new update get praised on here. I always liked the premise but it definitely sounded unfinished. Game have now bumped the price of the preowned game up to £19.99 from £9.99 (the case still had a £9.99 sticker on it so after checking with the manager and confirming the price rise, the guy still discounted it for me) which I think is right cheeky because the developers aren't going to see any of that extra money from a pre-owned sale, it'll be going straight into Game's pocket.

On 15/08/2017 at 11:56 PM, Arch Stanton said:

I always thought WWE game publishers have missed a trick by not making a decent side-scrolling Beat 'Em Up, with WWE characters put into a cheesy storyline. WWF Betrayal for the Game Boy Colour is the only one they've ever done, to my knowledge?

There was a mode on one of the Gamecube games that was effectively a 3D beat-em up. I can't really remember what the point of it was, I just remember playing as Goldberg and beating up a load of guys on the roof of a building.

Good shout on the Arkham games, actually. That got really close to replicating that feel of melee combat. Should be more games like that!

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions of games to add to my ever expanding list of things I need to play! The missus is away this weekend so I reckon I'll go and raid CEX and see what I can pick up for cheap.

I've been meaning to pick up a Yakuza game after one of them (0, I think) was discussed earlier in this thread.

I'll make sure that's what I get next time I want to buy something! Thanks for the heads up.

More of a random thought than views on what I'm currently playing but I was feeling under the weather for a couple of days so spent them playing some retro games and something occurred to me; whatever happened to the side-scrolling beat em up?

A lot of my favourite games as a kid fell into that genre; Streets Of Rage, Final Fight, the Turtles games, etc.

The closest I can think of in the modern era is something like Dynasty Warriors. Maybe Assasins Creed, too. I played DW3 and 4 loads on PS2 but haven't kept up with it in years.

I thought it was weird that Koei haven't licenced the engine out to other developers to make different genre games based on that format but looking into it now and there has recently been a One Piece game released using the engine so at least someone else had the idea of doing it.

I miss that feeling of single handedly taking on wave after wave of enemies and it's surprising there isn't really a modern day equivalent.

a new Turtles or SOR game that could replicate that feeling using modern tech would be great.

Kerry was great but he didn't get much of a chance to show it whilst he was in the WWF.

If he could have kept his shit together, not lost his foot (or fucked it up after surgery if the dirt thread's to be believed) and not killed himself, he had the look and ability to have been at least the level of Lex Luger.

My favourite thing about this was Nick Jackson's response: