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  1. I love it, yes. It's not my favourite Kubrick movie (which is The Shining), nor my favourite Sci-Fi movie (which is Blade Runner), but there are not many movies I like more than it in general. But Funny Games is another movie I couldn't stand. If you put this in a subgenre with whatever Martyrs was, I do not like this subgenre in the slightest. And it's hard to make me dislike something so much with Naomi Watts in it. She's on that list of undefinably likeable actors from that thread in the True Detective thread for me. So that made me doubly hate Funny Games.
  2. I find it far more palatable when a movie tries to say nothing, than when a movie is full of shit. Not necessarily when I degree with a movie, but when it rings so hollow, or it can't figure out what it wants to say. I dunno. Some of them really don't. But the other 2 he mentioned, Halloween and Alien, hold up equally well. They're really good movies to watch, and elicit similar reactions today.
  3. I thought Martyrs was shit. For a ton of reasons. Mainly for their attempts at philosophical statements. I hate movies that are miserable for the sake of being miserable. I can enjoy horror on occasion, but this stuff, nah. I only watched this in the first place when someone suggested it was worth it.
  4. Didn't get a chance to watch the match personally. From what I understood, Hurtado played a good, complete offensive game yesterday. If I were to choose one of our guys to be our #1 shitty striker, I'd choose him over Mattocks.
  5. X-Men: Days of Future Past - 7.5/10 Thought the future storyline was ass, from the way the situation manifested itself, to just how it was physically represented. There was a massive and uninteresting leap it took, and I just felt left out of that supposed progression. The decent aspect of it being the sort of cameos you got from past actors actually acting out their previous roles. That itself was nice. I was initially pretty cold on the 70's storyline too, as I wasn't exactly hoping for a sequel to First Class, as much as I thought it was pretty decent. Though the movie won me over as it progressed. I think they tied together the convoluted present storyline well with the past one. Just the ultimate resolution of it all made this movie worth while. It set up the next sequel as best as it possibly could have. Just the idea of getting to see a proper follow up to X-2, more than a decade after everything became a mess... It's nice. I really, really liked X-2.
  6. Edge of Tomorrow - 9/10 Rating doesn't even reflect how much I loved this thing. I know most people wouldn't react the same to watching this as I have, but I'm already certain that this is one of my favourite Sci-Fi movies of all time. Maybe second next to Blade Runner even. Absolutely, Positively in love with this thing. Maybe an 8-8.5/10 in terms of actual quality, but a 10/10 in my <3.
  7. Fast and The Furious 6 - 3/10 Nope. Nope Nope Nope.
  8. I think Harvey is a serviceable player. I'd prefer upgrading on him, but this team has far deeper and more urgent problems on the roster that need improving before they even think about the fullbacks.
  9. Like fallout 1 and 2. Explore a post nuclear war America. Completing the main story quest while taking sidequests to see the world and help those that need it if that's how you want to play. You have a team of 4 with varying attributes and skills to tackle what's around them. Game is full of dialogue and story choices, with the claim of both immediate resolutions and long term impacts. Combat is turn based, and strategic (like fallout 1 & 2). Game was out on early access for a while but only was released completed only a couple of days ago. I would never pay for something before it was complete, but even after this final release, it still feels like a beta version. It's the kind of game I can't comment on without getting far into it, especially without verifying the depth of its claims on story choice.
  10. God, Wasteland's interface is incredibly rough around the edges. I don't expect a AAA game so much as I expect a game with intricate detail and loads of choices that matter, as they advertised (even on the back of the box), but a little bit of polish always goes a long way.
  11. Frank - WTF did I just watch/10 Seriously, I don't know what I watched. Though I'm almost certain it wasn't worth my time. Was advertised as a comedy, but that was a lie. It had something it wanted to say about the creative process, but it didn't resonate, even though that's what it spent it's entire time harping on. Themes on indulging your insanity for the sake of art, and art as a form of personal introspection rather than something made for someone else to observe. But it all felt so pointless. The movie bought into its own shit too much. I don't have a rating to offer, but I didn't like it.
  12. For me, it was just that the more I thought about the movie, the less I liked it. I was surprised by just how bored I was during the second time I watched it. I think getting caught up in the hype was awesome, and helped me get into the movie when I first watched it. After that, the problems I had with it just became more apparent. The movie just takes itself way too seriously. It tries to make some political statements without the self-awareness of how ham-fisted what it's saying is. The one about Batman trying to use that cellphone machine to get a better visual, and Morgan Freeman taking some massive moral stance against it? Made me lol and cringe at the same time. For all the genericness of these newer super hero movies that keep coming out, at least they're self aware that they're about a guy in tights fighting some cartoon character who wants to take over the world. I don't think that's present in the Dark Knight. It's slightly more present in The Dark Knight Rises, but that movie has it's own problems. I said when I first reviewed it in this thread that I liked it more than The Dark Knight, but like The Dark Knight, with more time to think about it, the flaws become more obvious. A lot of it worked, but I feel that Bane could possibly be my least favourite character that I've seen in a movie. I just could not get into anything he said. That, plus the Talia al Ghul story/revelation was weak sauce, But I really loved parts of The Dark Knight all the same. What was done with the Joker was a lot of brilliance. If I don't think too hard about it, I can enjoy the movie, as I do almost every super hero movie that has come out. Would rather watch Batman Begins over those two any day though.
  13. Wasteland 2 shipped to me today, but I've yet to open it. I've got a stack of games I need to start tackling if I ever want to get them done, lol. I haven't even touched Divinity Original Sin properly yet. So I dunno how it's going to overlap with 2 of almost the exact same game being at the top of my list to play (B/W Divinty and Wasteland). One of them will probably win out.
  14. Not much other than the first time I watched it. Wouldn't re-watch it if I could avoid so.
  15. I though Insomnia was pretty good. One of Christopher Nolan's movies that I wouldn't mind watching again. List pretty for me pretty much goes everything Batman Begins and earlier, with nothing after it.
  16. Watched only the finale. Stupid, boring match, with an even worse ending. Who wrote that shit? Lol. It's like if you took the remade the match from Summerslam, made it no decision, and took away the statement that it made. All you have left is a bad match with too many finishers. I mean, they couldn't even have Rollins cash in? Getting broken up by Cena before the bell rang? One of the 2 guys he had to have knocked out getting up after a few seconds?.... Just lol.
  17. He'll be getting a second year, almost surely. The thing will be whether he initiates a serious roster turnover during the off season, while moving away from what seems to be a culture of heavy favourites and doghouses. That will be the difference. As for now, what i hate is the overbearing sense of stagnation and inability to adjust. I don't know how aware he is of his faults, and how he's set up the team. I don't see how the complete inability to bring in another fresh face, even a cheap one, would not be his fault. We didn't even need a good striker. Just a striker that is not one of the ones we already had.
  18. Yeah, I'm not a big fan. Though it was an alright movie. Doesn't belong anywhere near that list. Like most things on it. I agree with the whole Shawshank thing as well. Nowhere near number 1. Though when you see The Dark Knight at number 4, you get a good idea of how this list works, and which people dictate t.
  19. Lol. The best 27 films of all time, my ass. 1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 9.2 RATE 2. The Godfather (1972) 9.2 RATE 3. The Godfather: Part II (1974) 9.0 RATE 4. The Dark Knight (2008) 8.9 RATE 5. Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.9 RATE 6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) 8.9 RATE 7. Schindler's List (1993) 8.9 RATE 8. 12 Angry Men (1957) 8.9 RATE 9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 8.9 RATE 10. Fight Club (1999) 8.8 RATE 11. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.8 RATE 12. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.8 RATE 13. Inception (2010) 8.7 RATE 14. Forrest Gump (1994) 8.7 RATE 15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.7 RATE 16. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 8.7 RATE 17. Goodfellas (1990) 8.7 RATE 18. The Matrix (1999) 8.7 RATE 19. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 8.7 RATE 20. Seven Samurai (1954) 8.7 RATE 21. City of God (2002) 8.7 RATE 22. Se7en (1995) 8.6 RATE 23. The Usual Suspects (1995) 8.6 RATE 24. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 8.6 RATE 25. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.6 RATE 26. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 8.6 RATE 27. Léon (1994) 8.6 RATE
  20. Not really. I had a friend who was overly obsessed with this movie, and he hyped me up to go watch the thing. I did, and it was ok. Wouldn't watch it again though. Was a fairly good movie, crazy overrated but pretty good. Just wasn't my movie. And I couldn't even begin to get started on the IMDB top 250 list. Seems to have actually gotten significantly worse as time went on.
  21. The only Luc Besson movie I've truly enjoyed is The Fifth Element, and even that took watching a few times over before I really began to even like it.
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