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Posted 24 April 2018 - 08:52 PM

If you want to ruin some fond memories fire up the original MGS for the PSX, at the time I remember thinking the graphics were great, holy fuck they are not.

Game play is still ace though

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Posted 25 April 2018 - 09:57 PM

Watched 3 films on the flight.

Downsizing : relatively unfunny as a comedy, a few decent belly laughs. But as a film I found it quite engaging. Once the Vietnamese actress got on screen (don't know her name) the film lifted for me, she did an excellent job, especially towards the end.
Waltz was funny in it, Damon a mixed batch

Watched Thor Ragnarok again, as enjoyable as the first time.

3 Billboards outside Epping Missouri, just fucking brilliant, and really solid performances across the board.

Started Molly's Game, only halfway in

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Posted 25 April 2018 - 10:29 PM

Movie.
Think it got a few Oscar nods last year

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Posted 26 April 2018 - 12:09 PM

Finished Molly's Game

'based on a true story' always makes me want to dig in and see how accurate it is, but I don't have the time or inclination right now.

Watchable, I'll give it that and not much more

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Posted 26 April 2018 - 10:38 PM

Paramount really need to buy up some.new properties.

Their filming roster currently includes coming 2 America (really, 30 years on??) Top gun 2 (double the baby oil) terminator 6 and another dungeons and dragons film

Oh my

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 03:35 AM

Create massively oversized male characters then couple them with an impossibly fine boned female of the same species humanising her to cater to the weird male gaze of the gamer fans?

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 04:05 AM

Now that you guys have covered Warcraft I'd just like to say that Top Gun sucks.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 05:20 AM

Luv2B_Sassy, on 27 April 2018 - 04:05 AM, said:

... I'd just like to say that Top Gun sucks.

That might be the most unpatriotic thing I've ever seen you post here on the forums.

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 11:25 AM

Good god, Worry!

My sister teaches some media thingy course at the uni she lectures at. She was telling me that she had a section this semester on homoeroticism in 80s movies. She said her students didn't believe her so she had to pull out the Top Gun volleyball scene. They were totally on board after that

Burn rubber =/= warp speed

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 11:45 AM

Counterpoint: TOP GUN is amazing still after all these years.

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 11:57 AM

Another D&D film huh? Oh boy, how much alcohol am I going to need to get through this one?

Note: friend and I discovered the only way to enjoy the first godawful D&D film is to do so horrendously drunk. Jeremy Irons overacting is wonderful when you're extremely merry.

We didn't think our respective livers would stand up to attempting the second one!

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 12:24 PM

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 27 April 2018 - 11:57 AM, said:

Agreed. Jeremy Irons and a healthy amount of alcohol is the only way to watch the original D&D flick. Also see: ERAGON, also for Jeremy Irons.

Also, I will admit to convincing my friends at the time it came out to see it in the theatre, claiming it COULD be good....I was wrong, and I have still not lived it down all these years later.

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 12:41 PM

QuickTidal, on 27 April 2018 - 12:24 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 27 April 2018 - 11:57 AM, said:

You should buy beer for everyone every time you hang out, just to thank them for still being your friends after what you did.

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 12:47 PM

Morgoth, on 27 April 2018 - 12:41 PM, said:

You should buy beer for everyone every time you hang out, just to thank them for still being your friends after what you did.

Believe me, they have never let me forget. LOL

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 01:08 PM

I'm afraid I must concur with Morgoth ..... at least friend and I decided on our suffering mutually!

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 01:14 PM

You should go play the Steven seagal drinking game

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 01:53 PM

Luv2B_Sassy, on 27 April 2018 - 04:05 AM, said:

...I'd just like to say that Top Gun sucks.

You are henceforth dead to me.

QuickTidal, on 27 April 2018 - 11:45 AM, said:

Counterpoint: TOP GUN is amazing still after all these years.

Timeless classic.

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 27 April 2018 - 11:57 AM, said:

The second one stars Paris Hilton.

Let me restate to emphasize....
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS 2....
a film that should NEVER have seen the light of day after the debacle first mess...
STARS...
not features in the cast in a ballroom scene or humourous moment, but actually STARS....
Paris.
Hilton.

I'm pretty sure 90% of the people who watched the second one thought it was going to be a porno.

QuickTidal, on 27 April 2018 - 12:24 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 27 April 2018 - 11:57 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 27 April 2018 - 12:47 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 27 April 2018 - 12:41 PM, said:

You should buy beer for everyone every time you hang out, just to thank them for still being your friends after what you did.

Believe me, they have never let me forget. LOL

NOR SHOULD THEY.

It's not that a decent or even great DnD film is unthinkable... Joe (future Deathstroke/True Blood werewolf/Magic Mike's better looking buddy) Manganiello has his own script he's shopping around hollywood these days and Vin Diesel is a full blown vocal fan of the game, so there is some interest... it's just that it is so so very easy to get wrong. And then put blue lipstick on Jeremy Irons just to ice the shitcake.

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 02:05 PM

Abyss, on 27 April 2018 - 01:53 PM, said:

You know Abyss, there are things a person just doesn't need to know, because their sense of existential dread will go sky high once in possession of said knowledge.

I think you just found one of them

You are right though, it's not impossible to do well...... just previous experience teaches us it's unlikely. I always wondered about making an adaption of one of the FR game stories - Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate etc. - would serve, but then I guess just because you have your plot set doesn't mean you wouldn't run into other problems. Or indeed, still run into the blue lipstick on Jeremy Irons scenario....

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 03:06 PM

...am I the only one who is morbidly curious (like a train wreck, or true crime) about the sequel starring Hilton? Just me?

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Posted 27 April 2018 - 05:00 PM

Briar King, on 27 April 2018 - 03:15 PM, said:

I don’t even remember her in it honestly. I just remember blue lipstick.

Wasn't blue lipstick guy only in D&D 1?

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