ChainsawAsh

Goddammit.

paja said:

(TV Shows)

cowboy bebop season II

I should get on this once I finish Firefly season 2.

Eh, I dunno. I’d either do 100% release order, or first do Solid Snake games, then do Big Boss games. Putting all three BB games between 3 and 4 means you lose even more momentum from 2 into 4 than you already do.

MGS1-4 are all very cutscene-heavy. If I remember right - yes, the final cutscene for 4 is around an hour long. I remember being late to work and almost getting fired because of that…

MGSV is far more focused on gameplay at the expense of story, therefore it’s not nearly as cutscene-heavy. Personally, I was not happy about that, but the gameplay is far and away the best of the series, so YMMV.

If you have the patience for them, the original Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake are included in every edition of Metal Gear Solid 3 from the “Subsistence” PS2 rerelease onward. So they’re included in the HD Collection and Legacy Collection, but you have to go start MGS3 and go into its extras menu to find them.

Note that you’ll almost certainly need a guide/walkthrough for them, especially for MG2:SS.

They’re not essential (and MGS1 is largely a remake of MG2:SS in 3D, though it is also a sequel and references the events of MG2:SS throughout), but I enjoyed them.

DuracellEnergizer said:

• Akira
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Princess Mononoke (maybe)
• Spirited Away

That’s about it.

Yes to Mononoke for sure. Also Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, which is a criminally underappreciated Miyazaki movie.

snooker said:

Keep in mind with Metal Gear that you need to play the games in order of release, not chronologically. It’s sort of a Star Wars prequels situation where the prequels spoil the sequels.

Here’s the proper order to play them in:

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - Peace Walker - V

Yes yes yes yes!

I’d argue that you can probably go 1 - 2 - 4 - 3 - Peace Walker - V (so, do the Solid Snake games first, then the Big Boss flashback games last), though 4 will spoil some of 3. But Peace Walker is very much a direct sequel to 3, so … *shrug*

(We don’t talk about Portable Ops.)

Oh, and it should go without saying that you play MGSV: Ground Zeroes before MGSV: The Phantom Pain, but you can buy both in one package now (both on the same disc), so that might now be moot point.

My problems with the sequels was how bloated they were due to them being one film stretched across two, since the Wachowskis wanted movie 2 to be a prequel and movie 3 to be the sole sequel. Instead, WB forced them to make both 2 and 3 into sequels, so their intended second movie got condensed into the Second Renaissance part of the Animatrix, and their intended third movie got expanded when their wasn’t enough story to support it.

Decoded was, for me, the closest edit I’ve seen to capturing what was likely the intended single sequel, and the only one I’ve seen that cuts out all that stupid forced cliffhanger filler that was the train station at the beginning of Revolutions.

It gets a little clunky with the way Neo’s blinding and Trinity surviving is handled, but it worked for me much, much better than the theatrical versions of both sequels, and far better than Dezionized or any other edits I’ve seen.

I rather liked one of the 2in1 fanedits of the sequels. Matrix Squared, I’m pretty sure. Nope, it was Decoded. If I remember right, the .info listing includes a Vimeo link to the whole thing.

It’s better than its reputation. And it introduces General Ross, who returned in Civil War.

paja said:

I think i just made this a DCEU Thread. Crap

Hey, I tried to bring it back on topic. *shrug*

“squeaky eye sinus thing”

iTunes uses QuickTime.

DuracellEnergizer said:

The “asshole” at the end did it for me.

Remember that time Republicans refused to confirm Bolton? Yeah…

“Play it again, 5am.”

Quarter to 5am here. Picked up a 12hr night shift for some extra OT, so I’m staying up until at least 6am (the time I’ll be getting off work on Sunday) to prepare.

Hasn’t been much of an issue until the last 15 minutes or so. This last hour and 15 is gonna be tough. Got almost all of my laundry done though, so I’ve got that going for me.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Dub Greedo in English but include subtitles for him anyway (either English or Rodian/Huttese/whatever language he speaks in the original film).

Better (worse): use the original on-set English dialogue (which is from the script before the Jabba scene was cut and the Greedo scene dialogue rewritten to convey the now-deleted exposition), but keep the theatrical subtitles.

Also, Skywalker wasn’t even the name until the movie started filming in 1976. It’s still Starkiller in the shooting script.

That last one is due to being used to pan and scan copies of the original. The first time I saw the OT in widescreen was the SE, and I didn’t see the OOT in widescreen until, like, 2004ish when I got the Dr. Gonzo set.

Creox said:

DrDre said:

Creox said:

Ms. Thrawn said:

I’m subscribed to a ton of reviewers and critics on YouTube whose opinions tend to vary from one another on a lot of things. But the only name I can think of off the top of my head who gave TLJ a glowing review would be Movie Bob. Doug Walker gave it a mostly positive, if I remember right?

Other than that, my subscription updates and recommendations have been inundated with negative reviews since the movie came out. YouTube has a kind of cynical culture going to it anyway, but I’ve never seen the hate bandwagon toward a work of fiction reach “Look What This Cuh-raaazy SJW Feminist Did On Campus” levels until now. I’m pretty sure there’s what amounts to a zombie horde of angry fans waiting to rip Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson to shreds at the first opportunity, if the comments on a lot of those videos are any hint.

TLJ is just OK in my opinion, and I don’t rush to its defense. That said, if you want to call the backlash against it a little bit ridiculous, then you might have something there.

The informed and rational detractors of the film get washed up in the wave of hysteria you mention in your last sentence. That being said I find it puzzling why someone would spend so much time posting on a film they don’t like. I am talking to people like Dre who is obviously taking the time and feels passionately about his thoughts on the film. He makes good points but is unswayed so…why continue talking about it? IMO he feels (like many do in his position) that we will finally see the light and agree with him. Disney is not going to change their film.

That is a pretty crass assumption. Why should you not want to discuss something you feel passionate about? Do you think it gives me discomfort? Why do I need to be swayed, and why should I desire others to see the light? Why can’t it just be about exchanging ideas? Should this forum just be an echo chamber for positive opinions?

And yes, it makes more sense to me to continue to talk about a film you like then one you dislike simply because most people are not bothered to keep engaged in activities they dislike. If I don’t like a book I stop reading, If I don’t like a song on the radio I switch stations etc. But if I DO like that song I listen to it a lot and tell other people about it.

There are whole sections in this forum devoted to stuff many people don’t like: the Special Editions, and the PT. These films and versions have existed for decades, and people are still discussing them, more often than not in a negative light. So, why should I not be discussing TLJ after just three months?

Remember: the greatest teacher failure is, and in my view TLJ is a failure, and there’s a lot to learn from this particular failure in terms of my own appreciation of the Star Wars universe and works of fiction in general.

I don’t think it’s crass at all. I get speaking your mind on a flick that bugs you, disappoints you…but to talk about it for months? That I don’t get. How many times do the same talking points have to be brought up before it gets old?

If you feel passionately about this film then I am truly puzzled because your posts are mostly quite critical.

I am more perplexed about your posts then angry…

He feels passionately about Star Wars. The Last Jedi is a part of Star Wars. It’s not just a movie he was disappointed in.

DuracellEnergizer said:

dahmage said:

The revival was sad indeed. I didn’t even bother with this last season.

Out of the entire revival, there’re only five episodes I consider rewatchable. That’s less than the number from Season 7, which I formerly considered the show’s worst season. A sad effort indeed.

You like season 9 more than season 7? Bold statement.

For my money:

3
4
2
5
1
8
6
7
9

I guess 10 would be at the bottom, and I don’t know where I’d place 11 since I haven’t seen the last 3-4 episodes.

Creox said:

Ms. Thrawn said:

I’m subscribed to a ton of reviewers and critics on YouTube whose opinions tend to vary from one another on a lot of things. But the only name I can think of off the top of my head who gave TLJ a glowing review would be Movie Bob. Doug Walker gave it a mostly positive, if I remember right?

Other than that, my subscription updates and recommendations have been inundated with negative reviews since the movie came out. YouTube has a kind of cynical culture going to it anyway, but I’ve never seen the hate bandwagon toward a work of fiction reach “Look What This Cuh-raaazy SJW Feminist Did On Campus” levels until now. I’m pretty sure there’s what amounts to a zombie horde of angry fans waiting to rip Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson to shreds at the first opportunity, if the comments on a lot of those videos are any hint.

TLJ is just OK in my opinion, and I don’t rush to its defense. That said, if you want to call the backlash against it a little bit ridiculous, then you might have something there.

The informed and rational detractors of the film get washed up in the wave of hysteria you mention in your last sentence. That being said I find it puzzling why someone would spend so much time posting on a film they don’t like. I am talking to people like Dre who is obviously taking the time and feels passionately about his thoughts on the film. He makes good points but is unswayed so…why continue talking about it? IMO he feels (like many do in his position) that we will finally see the light and agree with him. Disney is not going to change their film.

And yes, it makes more sense to me to continue to talk about a film you like then one you dislike simply because most people are not bothered to keep engaged in activities they dislike. If I don’t like a book I stop reading, If I don’t like a song on the radio I switch stations etc. But if I DO like that song I listen to it a lot and tell other people about it.

If this was an original film not based on anything or part of a franchise, I’d agree with you. But it’s part of something larger, and if you are a fan of the rest of the franchise, why wouldn’t you want to talk about a part of it that disappointed you?

Transformers are giant robots fighting other giant robots.

Pacific Rim is giant machines piloted by people fighting giant monsters.

Totally different things.

Wow, that’s pretty damn good! God, I wish we somehow had a shot of the saber falling at Luke’s feet…