Andrew POE!
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Just saw two more movies. I may have found something besides doing Platinum trophy hunting on PlayStation:
Carol (Netflix, since it's coming off the service next week) - Great movie and Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are absolutely gorgeous.
American Fiction - Just saw this in theaters. I loved the commentary and what the movie was trying to say. The ending did my head in. It can be compared to a Woody Allen movie minus the main character getting the girl. Jeffrey Wright's character is much better written than any characters from Woody Allen though.
SpoilerI do wonder if everything in the almost two hours leading to the ending didn't happen or what the truth actually is (did Monk make up everything about his family and his writing the book under a pseudoynm for the film or was is it all true? The film doesn't answer that)
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Just saw Drive-Away Dolls.
SpoilerHilarious but dark movie and basically a Coen Brothers movie in all but name. Margaret Qualley literally acted like Johnny Depp from Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas meets George Clooney from O Brother Where Art Thou? Short movie but sticks the landing. Pedro Pascal plays a severed head.
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Just saw The Zone of Interest.
SpoilerThe Zone of Interest was almost sleep inducing due to how it was presented (which I wonder if that was the point). What the movie was about was unnerving because of the sounds you hear in the distance and what the characters are seeing that you cannot see. The music was completely terrifying. I can recommend it in a sense, but the movie sticks with you after it's done. The ending scenes stick out in my mind.
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1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:
Couldn't they have explaned those things with a few lines of dialogue, or even a good old fashioned voiceover?
Why would they do that when they can make 'cinema' that people like Hideo Kojima love?
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So I watched quite a number of films this week:
Dune Part Two - Jesus Christ, this movie was dull. I was looking at my watch about an hour into the film.
SpoilerI dug the first 30 minutes with the overlapping voiceovers and the maneuvering around the Harkonnen enemies - very Kurosawa-esque with how that was set up. But the rest of the movie was boring and did little to explain ANYTHING and little to make you care about anything. The first movie did a better job of explaining the world - it showed you and it told you. This, I have no understanding of why Paul Atreides doesn't want to be the person of Fremen legend. He doesn't want it either. Then he takes a drink of sandworm blood, has a drug experience where he realizes things that aren't explained, and....all of sudden he wants to embrace his destiny?
Why did Chani seem to be for him doing it at the start, then seem against it, then is really against it and gets moody about it when Paul embraces his destiny? The last five minutes gave me whiplash - he tells Chani he will always love her....then asks for the hand of the Emperor's daughter in marriage. Chani should have walked up to Paul and slapped the shit outta him again for that. No wonder she was like 'f this, I'll ride a sandworm' at the end of the movie.
The Holdovers - '70s style movie with '80s style characters. After seeing Dune Part Two, this hit the spot and was better for me. Story, characters, character motivation, attention. There were moments that weren't that good (middle of the film was a bit ponderous).
Anatomy of a Fall - Slower paced movie but really well done. A lot of the complaints I read online were that it was 'boring,' which wasn't the case for me.
Mission: Impossible II - Holy shit 2000 was a strange time for movies. Unintentionally hilarious and just bad at times. I loved the first 30 minutes though and it was very stylish. Problem is it turns into "Tom Cruise shoots dudes, you never see him shoot them, you see a cut to them getting shot." And motorcycle jousting made me bust out laughing.
Repo Man - Bud wouldn't want Ethan Hunt in his car either. The movie doesn't offer any explanation as to the car or the purpose of it, which is the point.
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13 hours ago, odessasteps said:
Anything interest at the Xbox showcase? No Starfield news so I'm not sure I'm motivated to watch the whole thing.
The Sinking City 2 got announced and Persona 3 Reload will get DLC.
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On 3/4/2024 at 3:45 PM, AxB said:
per Fightful, Mike Santana is now gone from AEW. He's off the roster page and not because his name starts with The.
I wonder how things would be different if Mike Santana got out of his own damn way in AEW and patched things up with Ortiz. Maybe they've would had multiple tag title reigns.
Well, Mike Santana will do okay for awhile due to AEW connections then languish on the indies.
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12 hours ago, Steventon said:
If they really wanted to have Seth and Cody torch Rock all they would have to do is bring up how much of a flop Black Adam and the XFL were. But that may cut too close to the bone.
And mention overpriced tequila that The Rock owns, which if you have to watch Black Adam you'll need it.
The Rock is playing chess and Seth Rollins is playing checkers. Friday will be a massacre. Rollins' career will die the same year as CM Punk's did in the main event.
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4 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
If Eddie Kingston decides to start using "Holy War" as his theme, it wouldn't be a bad idea.
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I saw pics of Sting's son in his American Sting gear from the '90s and I was amazed at how much his son looked like him during that time. I wouldn't say no to either of his sons continuing the Sting gimmick (El Hijo del Sting and Sting Jr. if you will) after getting trained somewhere or getting a lot more matches under their belt. If they're decent wrestlers, they would be perfect against Charlie Dempsey and Brogan Finlay in NXT or either of them against Dominik Mysterio in WWE for battle of second generation wrestlers.
4 minutes ago, hammerva said:In the medial scrum, apparently Darby Allin is planning on climbing Mt Everest at the end of March. The climbing part doesn't worry me one bit. It is how the fuck he is going to get off of it that worries me.
He'll just do a Coffin Drop off the mountain.
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5 minutes ago, SirSmUgly said:
I don't believe Nintendo hasn't ever done a mass layoff. They have cash reserves and I think - I'm not a Japanese labor lawyer - are somewhat constrained from doing so at their Japanese studios by Japanese law.
I agree about the definition of AA vs. AAA, but for me, I'm focused on games lower in budget and scope. I'll play anything that looks good, but trying to hit on big budget games with lots of scope creep is simply unsustainable financially. Sony lives off of those games and has multiple 10M+ and a few 20M+ sellers and can't even do it.
The closest Nintendo has done was reduce working hours and Iwata actually reduced his own salary so employees could keep getting paid during the last economic downturn. Some American CEOs would scoff at having to surrender their pay to help their employees and mumble about communism and refuse to do it.
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I also started on Helldivers II with playing with a buddy of mine last night. The game isn't easy at all.
I do want to go back and try to Platinum Helldivers on PS4 though.
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10 hours ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:
I rewatched the Rock's promo and I really don't like the over reliance on jokes about crack and meth. Maybe I'm just being sensitive but things like that don't strike me as cool. I know where I'm at in recovery and don't watch things that could trigger me because I'm relatively fresh off stuff. I donno, really not a big deal in the long run but I wasn't a fan.
Yeah, it was in poor taste. Problem is, there wasn't really a way for The Rock to be a heel since he would get cheered anyway. So the old standby of making fun of the town/the people in the town was used. What really got people booing was The Rock saying he's on the TKO board and for Seth Rollins to be careful otherwise 'he'll take the title from him and give it to someone else.' The Rock as Vince McMahon (in terms of the evil corporation, not the weird/gross/sexual shit) would get people to hate him.
The Rock saying he runs the WWE, not HHH, really got him booed. He should lean more into that than below the belt comments about the town they're in this week.
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11 minutes ago, jaedmc said:
I guess it depends on how you look at it.
Roman says Seth's title is Second Place, which one could say is true particularly when they unveiled it a year ago.
Seth says Roman's title reign is padded by Roman sitting at home for months on end, and when he does show up it's one fight with lots of interference from his cousins. Which is true, but it also similarly undermines the historic nature of Roman's title reign.
So it's almost a wash as both guys are trying to shit on the other to build up their own legacy.
HOWEVER.
One guy has shown up to work every week and defended his belt not just on Premium Live Events, but on TV. A year of Seth's Title Reign does not equal a Year of Roman's.
And for me that's the difference. Rock and Roman can shit on Seth, but Seth can always say - he's working every week until his body won't let him. And he can say they've built WWE to something special again and Rock is just trying to leech off of younger stars success. And he wouldn't be wrong.
Rock can say the suits at Netflix don't know who Rollins is. But are fans supposed to get excited about Ted Sarandos' favorite wrestlers instead? Seth Rollins and Cody Rhodes will most likely never ever ever be as famous as Dwayne The Rock Johnson. That's just reality. But I don't think that means folks should give up on them because they can't be transcendental generational ultra super mega stars.
That being said....
Rollins has been getting the worst barbs during every exchange. I feel like he's gotta be getting something out of this at some point. But wrestling history is littered with guys who didn't get theirs.
I agree.
The problem is....building up two of the most over faces in the company this way is almost insurmountable. Even if Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins win at WM40 and Rhodes wins against Reigns, how am I as a fan supposed to buy into it? Even a casual/lapsed fan won't see Rollins/Rhodes on the same level as The Rock. In a few months, The Rock will be away doing whatever and not on TV and it'll be back to Reigns pulling the football away for the next challenger to try to kick it. (Unless Rhodes finally win the titles at WM40, then it'll be something different)
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10 minutes ago, jaedmc said:
I don't think Seth has to get the win, when Drew Mac can be the spoiler, and siphon some of this heat for his match on Night 2.
I mean I guess you could go either way on Night 1, but logic would dictate that the bad guys don't get pinned until Night 2. So Drew and the Bloodline fuck Cody and Seth on Night 1. The good guys couldn't get it done on Night 1 together, what hope do they have on Night 2? Tune in to find out.
On the other hand, I feel like there's got to be some kind of reward for Seth Rollins somewhere. Something more than beating Drew Mac(again). He's done a lot of great work recently on the microphone trying to make all of these stories work, and it feels like he's getting done dirty with this angle.
That's my point about it killing Seth Rollins being able to be over. Yes, Rollins is a 'fighting champion,' but as Roman Reigns points out, the title is a second place prize to his titles. The Rock completely destroyed his character last night. All of that should lead to a heel (Reigns/Rock) comeuppance and Rollins getting rewarded, but I'm not holding my breath.
What's to stop Rollins from going completely off script next week on Smackdown and say, "You know what? Fck this. Since you (Rock) said you'll give my title to someone else, here take it. I quit. I'll call Dean Ambrose and go to AEW."
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The Rock's promo essentially killed Seth Rollins and Cody Rhodes as far as being over and giving anyone a reason to want to watch WM40 this year. It came close to killing the always mediocre and boring Roman Reigns from being over too. I halfway expected a response to Reigns' "Rock acknowledge me" to be "Roman Reigns, I acknowledge you....as the biggest piece of monkey crap The Rock has ever seen!"Then The Rock telling Reigns that before Cody Rhodes wanted to 'finish his stupid story,' they were going to fight and The Rock wanted to be "the head of the table."
It's fine they went the way they did, but I have a hard time believing that Cody Rhodes & Seth Rollins will win at Night 1, much less Rhodes winning at Night 2.
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32 minutes ago, Raziel said:
It's funny that 45 years later, we're gonna get another crash, fueled by mostly the same reasons the first one happened (Inept, aloof, and delusional Executives squeezing every drop of blood from the stone, unrealistic dev cycles causing programmer burnout and poor games, and a market oversaturation and multiple variants of the same theme that hit once and everyone wants to recreate but missed what sold the first one). Only thing that this one won't have is the overabundance of physical media causing massive losses, but I guess that's being replaced with Dev costs increasing by orders of magnitude while MSRP's only barely shifted.
Yeah, if you look at the release calendar for the rest of this year, we have too many games coming out at once. It's borderline impossible to play them all. Due to the volume of games, some people (including me) are having to play catchup with releases from years ago (stretching back to PS3/Xbox 360/Wii generation and for some further than that to PS2/Xbox/GameCube generation). As a hobbyist, you end up not buying anything or becoming selective on what's bought. Another crash might be the only thing that can slow down the releases.
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It sadly just shows that game development (and video games in general) is not sustainable as an industry. Almost every company is poorly managed, poorly run companies. Except for maybe Nintendo at times. Although Nintendo has the bright idea of taking fan hobbyists to court over emulators and never allowing their back catalog to be playable if they have their way.
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8 minutes ago, Villanova Grad said:
Sony layoffs are no surprise if you paid attention to the last earning call. Sony’s gaming division has 123 million people logging into PlayStation Network and is reporting record revenue, but probability is as low as it’s been in at least a decade. Sony’s operating profit - basically, the amount of profit earned before taxes & interest - was 6 percent. Sony Interactive Entertainment/PlayStation Studios usually has an op around 12 percent. Several analysts thought Sony.’s operating profit would be closer to 20%. Nope. It’s getting damn expensive to make AA & AAA games and the longer your game is in development, the longer you have to wait to start making your investment back,
Additionally, the incoming president/ceo of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Hiroki Totoki, has made several subtle comments about SIE needing to streamline and become more efficient. I read his statement about the last earnings report and thought he was subtly hinting Jim Ryan wasn’t being frugal enough.
No business grows forever. Growth and shrinkage are generally cyclical. Personally, I feel like the industry peaked creatively 10 years ago or more and we’re just now seeing the fallout from that. Games are getting prettier and more complex, not necessarily better. It seems fairly obvious that development costs and the time it takes to developed a finished product are getting out of hand. My professional self is also kinda put off by the idea that want bankrolled for five years or more without minimal oversight, then don’t expect to shoulder the blame if the finished product is a bad game that doesn’t sell. A lot can happen in the 5+ years you’re working on a game. The Rocksteady Studios that finished Suicide Squad wasn’t the same studio that made the Arkham Games, or even the same studio that started work on Suicide Squad. When the going got tough, the studio’s founders left the company. A lot of the key staff followed them when their contracts expired. lol, that’s another argument against very long development cycles.
Also doesn’t help that development costs are 10-30 times (or more) what they were years ago, but the price of a game hasn’t rises in 40 years or whatever. We should probably be paying $100 for Triple A titles by now. But, yeah, studios are gouging us when they ask for a $5 price increase.Yeah, we're going to have a scenario where we are paying $100+ for a single title AND there won't be physical copies. Based on the staff cuts and low operating profit, I think we're going to see Microsoft buying PlayStation + all their studios in the next few years. PlayStation will still make PlayStations, but it'll be under Microsoft's direction. PSN and Xbox Marketplace will still be there....but going into the same bucket at Microsoft. I've been saying that for awhile but it's hard not to read the tea leaves and seeing it happen.
The Last of Us Part III will be the last PlayStation Studios published game.
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On 2/8/2024 at 1:22 PM, NoFistsJustFlips said:
It's being reported that the reason is Damore was constantly butting heads with the CEO because he wanted an increase in the budget to go after bigger stars and continue the growth.
If that's true straight up Fuck TNA. That man literally dragged your corpse out of the grave with his vision. He grew TNA back into being a talked about relevant brand for the first time since Anthem bought it.
The Man just drew the biggest gate and biggest buy rate in a decade. His vision was working you cheap fucks. Now they put in a stooge 2020s Jim Herd. And they will fall all the way back into that grave.
At least lolTNA will be a thing again.
My guess: Anthem is gearing for a tax writeoff of TNA in the next few years. Next year will be 10 years since they purchased the company. They aren't interested in growing TNA as a business or even care about drawing a gate or a buy rate, they just want to maintain a holding pattern until that time comes. Not sure why they are doing this while saying publicly they want to 'bring TNA closer to Anthem.'
If that's the case, they'll sell the tape library/brand/company to AEW or WWE/TKO and recoup or take a loss in the sale.
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3 hours ago, The Natural said:
Keep Tony Khan away from Twitter. WON Reader Awards 2023 spoilers:
WWE wins Promotion of the Year for the first time since 2000 stopping AEW winning four in a row. Triple H win for Booker of the Year and Nick Khan the Promoter of the Year. Tony Khan had won the former three years running and the latter four.
Also keep Tony away from DVDVR and hope he doesn't reactive his account to respond.
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9 hours ago, The Natural said:
Alvarez on Adam Page:
He has to have it looked at and (it) could be a broken ankle. But it does appear to be a serious ankle injury.
Sometimes we have people getting injured and we don't know anything about it, they don't say anything, but this guy is fighting for the world title in a little over a week so if he's got a broken ankle, I think we're going to hear about it real quick because they're going to have to come up with something.
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Come up with something is the obvious, Samoa Joe vs. Swerve Strickland.
Fightful Select says angle.
Jerry Lynn is flipping out on Twitter about "that's ruining a cliffhanger" to ask if it's an injury or not. I don't get why they're doing that the last Dynamite before the PPV. But whatever, I just caught Dynamite the one week I could watch it on TBS.
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27 minutes ago, DreamBroken said:
Very much look forward to Danielson/Akiyama.
It's nuts that this match is being put on a Saturday show a week or so before a PPV. Why Tony Khan didn't decide to pull back on it and save it for the last show before the PPV on Dynamite I don't know.
This build up for the AEW PPV hasn't been that enticing to watch.
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45 minutes ago, SovietShooter said:
That was all on Madison Rayne. Purrazzo was doing a basic leg sweep/flat liner, and Rayne took it like a DDT. Rayne looked awful the entire match before that too, honestly. Not sure how she is one of the coaches...
Yeah, Madison Rayne looked really awful and wrestled like she was underwater. Which caused Purrazzo to have to slow down too.
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2024 MOVIES DISCUSSION THREAD
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Posted · Edited by Andrew POE!
Now watching The Banshees of Inisherin and planning on watching Love Simon, Get On Up, Savages and Please Stand By after that.