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On 10/08/2019 at 21:22, Stoppy2000 said:

It's quite the opposite. Die hard fans can pick apart the factual inaccuracies. It's a Hollywood fluff piece. I was entertained by it mainly due to Rami. Annoyed that it is being treated as a factual representation. 

 

Hopefully this somehow gets made:

 

 

A work in progress

 

Game of the Year

A1.

A2.

A3.

A4.

A5.

 

Biggest Disappointment of the Year (game, hardware, or anything else)

Z1. Sekiro. (Not that I think it's bad but it's too reliant on mechanics that I am useless at performing consistently)

Z2.

Z3.

Z4.

Z5.

 

Sound Design of the Year

S1.

S2.

S3.

 

Visual Design of the Year

V1.

V2.

V3.

 

Writing of the Year

W1.

W2.

W3.

 

Gaming Format (System) of the Year

F1.

 

Publisher or Developer of the Year

P1.

 

Best Supported Game (released pre 2019) of the Year

B1. Rainbow 6 Siege 

 

Your game of the year that didn't come out this year (basically what is your favourite game you played this year that came out in 2018 or earlier)

X1.

 

Best game character of the year

C1.

C2.

C3.

 

 

And the big one:

 

Game of the Decade

 

D1. Dark Souls

D2. Portal 2

D3. Rainbow 6 Siege

D4. Dark Souls 3

D5. Bloodborne

D6. Breath of the Wild

D7. The Last of Us

D8. Red dead redemption

D9. Mass effect 2

D10. Bayonetta

12 minutes ago, Benny said:

The lack of Infernal Affairs saddens me. I bet you all end up voting for The Departed as well.

I've never seen it. Just added it on either Netflix or prime in the last few days. 

4 hours ago, Nick R said:

The Big Lebowski - 3.5/5

 

I ended up writing more than intended, so I've put my post in the blog thread instead:

 

 

Short version: I like it but its inflated online reputation still perplexes me.

You should watch it again another few times. It gets better with repeat viewing.

 

It's all daft wee things that make it so good. Things you might easily overlook. Like the line "careful, man, there's a beverage here." Which is a clunky and strangely worded thing to say in that situation but in a very real way, like it's something somebody might say but you can't imagine actually writing it for someone. Like at the end of Rocky when he's all beat up and Adrien comes into the ring and the first thing he says to her "hey, where's you hat?"

 

I thought it was just ok the first time I seen it. And every time I watched it since I've liked it a bit more. Same with Fargo. 

 

2000

1. Sexy Beast

2. Battle Royale

3. Requiem for a dream

 

Tough cuts: oh brother where art thou. Gladiator. 

 

2001

1. Freddy got fingered

2. Blow

3, the Royal Tenenbaums

 

Tough cuts: Shrek, Training Day, How High.

 

2002

1. City of God

2. 24 hour party people

3. Gangs of New York

 

Tough cuts: catch me of you can. 

 

2003

1. Old Boy

2. Kill Bill

3. Elf

No tough cuts. Bit of a stinker of a year. 

 

2004

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2. Anchorman

3. kill Bill 2

 

Tough cuts: Man on fire. Napoleon Dynamite. The life aquatic with Steve Zissou. Aviator. Shaun of the dead. 

Get yer lists out for the boys... And girls.

 

10. Freddy got fingered

9. WallE (this might have been number one if the second half had been nearly as good as the first half)

8. Anchorman

7. Django unchained 

6. Pans labrynth

5. Hunt for the wilder people

4. What we do in the shadows

3. Sorry to bother you (2019)

2. Once upon a time in Hollywood (2019)

1. Boy (2010)

 

Banged that out without giving it too much thought. Happy enough with it though. 

1 hour ago, JPL said:

How come they’ve put Sopranos at number 1, but none of you even have it in your top ten? I’ve just started watching it, for the first time, so please no spoilers.

I didn't put it in my top ten and judged entirely in and of itself I am happy enough to have omitted it (it probably would make my top twelve to fifteen). However I have no problem with anyone having it as number one on their list because it basically kicked off the golden age of television. The Wire, Deadwood and Game of Thrones all owe their existence to The Sopranos completely changing the perception of what TV could be. 

No Screen Wipe. Few years ago Charlie might have compiled this list for the Guardian his own self. Bet it would be a lot better than this one if he had. 

6 hours ago, Mr Combo Breaker said:

No Generation Kill? suck my diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick

 

6 hours ago, Cool Ben said:

 

One of the best TV shows, so underrated, no one even seems to know what it is.

I am guessing this is just the top 100 for this one particular journalist, I can't find the source anywhere.

 

I just bought it on DVD from cex. Delivered to my door for £2.50. A fucking bargain. 

 

If you haven't already i would highly recommend the book it's based on by Evan Wright. It's fantastic. 

Let's hear your top tens? Currently compiling my own. Let's just start with obvious shit though. 

10. Rome

9. Rick and Morty

8. Always Sunny

7. Breaking Bad

6. Planet Earth

5. Generation Kill

4. Deadwood

3. The Wire

2. Bojack Horseman

1. Chernoby.

No BoJack. Cunts.

 

 

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - 5/5

 

Second time going to see it and I liked it a lot more than I did the first time. Not perfect but close enough to warrant a 5 imo. 

 

It (2017) 2/5

 

A charmless and equally scary (which is to say not at all) Stranger Things.

 

 

Went and seen it again and liked it even more this time. Think it might be second best to Pulp Fiction. 

On 17/08/2019 at 18:58, Camel said:

Fuck me, Urban's accent is so distracting.

Bad accents are currently ruining everything for me. 

 

Idris Elba doing a shit southern American accent in Prometheus despite being able to do a solid Baltimore accent, not that the characters Americanness was at all important to the character. The two Australians in Pacific Rim (this might be the worst one ever), urban from this was pretty bad, but much much much worse was Simon Pegg's American accent I wanted to his myself a kick in the balls every time he opened his mouth. 

 

Show is unwatchable because of it. 

 

I don't get why casting people do this. Just get someone else to do the part or have them do the part in either their own accent or any other they can do passably well. 

4 minutes ago, Boothjan said:

Surrounded

 

Saw this on Netflix.  There was a picture of a fierce looking shark on the thumbnail, so that was me sold.  

 

This is APPALLING.   But it's so catastrophically bad, it's very hard to turn it off.  Seriously hilarious, but unintentionally so.  The acting is dreadful, the CGI makes it look like a bad GCSE project, the plot... well, that must have got lost somewhere.  A few quite golden lines ("We had a raft.... but the sharks ate it...")

 

It has big sharks which growl and eat anything and everything, and are cunning etc etc.  That's the best thing I can say about it.

 

0/5 

This sounds awesome. Gonna watch it later 5/5 based on your synopsis. 

The Dark Knight Rises 3/5

 

I turned this off after fifteen minutes years ago and I have no idea why, it was very acceptable. 

 

Solomon Kane 2/5

 

Like a shitty but enjoyable enough Willow. Would have gave it a three but for the fact that it's a fantasy film set in England with Christians and real witches and other demon's and whatnot. Something about that just struck me as unseemly. I'm not even sure why exactly, a similar vampire films wouldn't annoy me at all, or it was like some hammer horror shit it wouldn't annoy me nearly as much.

On 04/09/2019 at 08:00, Wickedkitten said:

plenty of time to read Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi then  still one of the best books I’ve ever read about the case and was written by the guy that actually prosecuted the Manson Family.

 

There's a new book out that shits all over Bugliosi and Helter Skelter. Chaos by Tom O'Neill. I haven't read it but I heard the guy on a podcast (fitzdog radio) it sounds very interesting and based on the podcast I heard it isn't a daft conspiracy book (though it does brush up against all that mad sixties shit) the guy is a legit journalist and all his claims in the book are all well documented apparently. 

 

It's top of my reading list. 

Dawn of the Dead (2004) 2/5

 

First half hour was great and then if went completely to shit.

 

 

Prometheus 3/5

 

I remember how much I was looking forward to this before it came out and then it came out and I heard it was shit and didn't watch it cause I couldn't face the disappointment, and by waiting so long to watch it I have somehow multiplied the disappointment.

 

I was prepared now for it to just be shit, but it isn't, they had the makings of a worthy prequel to Alien in there and they fucked it. Tighten the script up a bit, cut down on the fake accents (my current major bugbear with TV and films), cut a few of the dafter bits, and undo the dumbdown at least once and this could have been great. As it is: meh. 

 

Edit: bumping this from a 2 to 3. 

The Crow 3/5

 

Was just ok. Is this where Gothism came from? Do goths still exist? Haven't seen one in years. 

5 hours ago, Freeman said:

 

 

The Godfather Part 3 was decent too.

LOL.

53 minutes ago, yakumo said:

Dolores Clairborne

 

Fuck me this is easily 5/5, never hear this film being mentioned but easily one of the best King's adaption. 

 

Don't think I've ever seen it. One of my favorite SK books too. Will have to check it out. 

 

 

 

Pacific Rim three big robots out of a possible five big robots. 

 

I really liked it and but for a few minor but very annoying flaws it would have scored higher. 

 

I took one big robot off because the control interface of the big robots was terrible. Overcomplicated as fuck. Should have basically been like the power loader from Aliens.

 

I took another big robot off for those terrible fake Australian accents. Film budget probably over a hundred million. And you can't just find two Australian actors or alternatively just have the characters not be Australian. 

 

Was tempted to take another big robot off for this guy:

 

Worst actor ever. 

5 hours ago, DukeOfEarlsfield said:

Mad Max Fury Road

 

21 hours ago, Commander Jameson said:

 

Blade Runner 2049?

 

Ok then.

 

This will definitely still be shit though. 

2 hours ago, Gambit said:

I don't think a third entry in a series when the last movie was 16 years ago is beating a dead horse. Its not exactly Die Hard levels of abuse. 

 

I'm excited for it anyway. 4 life yo. 

 

Well, the comment was more general than specific to this franchise. But let's look at this franchise:

 

"The last movie was 16 years ago"... Yeah, sisxteen  years ago... And dog shit. The very definition of a dead horse. 

 

(Can anyone think of a good sequel that came out a similarly long time after its original?)

 

They made a good film twenty odd years ago and are now gonna try to squeeze a bit more out of it with a sequel that will just piss on the memory of the one good film. 

 

Sequels, remakes and franchises. This is far and away the worst time in my life for films. Absolute fucking dog shit. 

Hollywood creative strategy: