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  1. In Topic: Ye Big Movie thread

    06 November 2025 - 03:22 PM

    View PostTsundoku, on 05 November 2025 - 08:13 PM, said:

    View PostQuickTidal, on 05 November 2025 - 03:47 PM, said:

    I sat down and watched Wim Wenders' UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (1991)...it's criterion directors cut runtime is about 10min short of FIVE hours...I watched all of them.

    I have hated some movies in my day for wasting my time, for being too gross or too bizarre, or too PoMo....but this is the first time I've hated a movie for being JUST SO ENTIRELY aimless. Like with a nearly 5hr runtime, it should TRY to be pacey or engaging, and it simply isn't.

    It's messy, disjointed, and just slow as hell. And I don't even MIND slow movies if they have goal or a point...this one really doesn't. It's like someone made a road movie (which is Wenders bread and butter), and spent 3+ hours of on that, and then took the broad concept from STRANGE DAYS (addiction to future tech that allows people to live in a sort of dream world of memories...except in this case it's dreams) and mashed that into the end...the beginning has an interesting noirish vibe that it abandons after like hour 2...there is an impending global disaster apparently...but there is ZERO narrative urgency about it...most of the actors (other than William Hurt and Sam Neil) are non-native English speakers forced by Wenders script to speak in English so the acting comes across as stilted and bad..FFS parts of it take place in Beijing and Tokyo and both places feel like a poor mans version of like Chungking Express....it never quite gels. The denouement of the story is deeply stupid.

    Man, I hated that.

    EDIT: I had heard it was similar to STRANGE DAYS (a movie I love)....it is not...beyond there being an addictive tech device...no....AND I heard it was William Gibson-like...and also no...like you MIGHT be able to sell the first hour with its noirish vibes that way....but the rest of the film, absolutely not. Just ugh...


    Yeah, I think I watched the theatrical cut way back in the early 90s and the only thing I remember is thinking "WTF was the point of that?"


    Same same. meandering without direction or purpose, occasional moments that suggest it could almost have been a much better film.

  2. In Topic: The Canada Politics Thread

    05 November 2025 - 07:31 PM

    View PostQuickTidal, on 05 November 2025 - 05:16 PM, said:

    ...and now we have a Con (Chris D'entremont) crossing the floor to the Liberals as he was unhappy with PP's leadership style...
    ...
    So Carney would literally have to ask/make concessions to the single Green to pass his budget.

    There is also talk from D'entremont that there are a few other Con MPs unhappy with PP who might cross...only two more need to do so and the Liberals would have a majority.

    ...


    Kind of surprised they aren't (unless they are) trying to convince some of the NDP to shift sides. It would seem like a logical move for any of them, moreso than Cons or Bloc.

  3. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    05 November 2025 - 03:30 PM

    View PostTiste Simeon, on 05 November 2025 - 09:02 AM, said:

    I finished the audiobook of The Devils by Abercrombie and you guys were spot on, this book was fantastic!...


    So glad you enjoyed, agree w all your points. JA's character work w DEVILS is leaps and bounds advanced from TFL. He took everything he learned writing those books, up'd the humour, lowered the grimdark, and just proceeded to have a blast.

  4. In Topic: Abyss is WILLING very very WILLING

    05 November 2025 - 03:27 PM

    View Postchamp, on 05 November 2025 - 01:50 PM, said:

    View PostAbyss, on 24 October 2025 - 05:06 PM, said:

    "How was i supposed to know all Pallid wanted was a bath?"


    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAAAheeeeee i love her so so much.




    I've said it 1000 times but I fucking love her.

    That line had me in absolute stitches, the entire chapter is peak writing.

    Finished my reread now and I'll be starting No Life Forsaken tonight.



    Enjoy - i Just Finished, it was great.

  5. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    04 November 2025 - 08:34 PM

    View PostAbyss, on 02 November 2025 - 04:34 AM, said:

    View Postpat5150, on 01 November 2025 - 03:50 PM, said:

    It's great to be back in Seven Cities! My only complaint is that, once again, basically every single character is uber powerful.


    Bornu would like a word.


    Just finished, comments to follow in the ded-thread, but... are you reading the same book i just did?

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    Tsundoku 

    11 Aug 2019 - 09:32
    Thanks for getting me to 1000. *sniff* lots of pollen around here ...
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    Savannah 

    31 Jan 2019 - 15:19
    Unbound Worlds now redirects to the PRH website, so that Top 100 fantasy link no longer works. Here's a very similar one though: https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/best-fantasy-series
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    Abyss 

    31 May 2016 - 03:21
    Because some mobile browsers don't resize and it makes the thread unreadable.
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    Terez 

    30 May 2016 - 18:50
    Just out of curiosity, why is it necessary to spoiler big pics on this forum? They go off the page and don't cause the text to unwrap, and they get resized in mobile browsers. I don't mind doing it; just asking.
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    Shinrei 

    27 Dec 2013 - 12:11
    Merry Nonsensicus!
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    Abyss 

    20 Sep 2013 - 13:20
    And yet you cannot tear your eyes away from it.
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    Mrs Savagely Wishy Washy 

    20 Sep 2013 - 12:23
    There is a word to describe that pic, I just found one in the depths of my convulsing brain. It's DISTURBING but in a funny way.
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    Terez 

    10 Apr 2013 - 17:44
    If you're keeping score, I think my conversation (in a WoT thread, I think) with that one noob-troll about how to get banned from Malazan is worth a few. (i.e. "I recommend telling Malaclypse he's a douchebag.")
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    Abyss 

    18 Dec 2012 - 19:27
    When the new order rises, lazy posters will be among the first to be purged.
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    Whisperzzzzzzz 

    18 Dec 2012 - 19:18
    Good call with the spoilers tags. I didn't want to add them because it makes it extra work to read posts :D
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    Bantato 

    21 Nov 2012 - 17:31
    HELLO
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    Macros 

    15 Nov 2012 - 20:08
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCadcBR95oU
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    Abyss 

    14 Jun 2012 - 17:04
    That's CAThulhu.
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    The dancing game 

    14 Jun 2012 - 16:54
    ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!!
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    Oddball 

    30 Mar 2012 - 16:46
    Thanks for setting me up in PEN!
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