chim
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A new saints row game was coming out and I was watching a trailer for it. It started with the question, what about a saints row game with teleportation? It was set many years in the future. On the poster was earth as one big giant metropolis, and the logo read Saints Row: Django the Darkface. The trailer moved into this poster and descended down into this beastly earth. It was a hodgepodge of futuristic urban sprawls, parks and deserts. Passing by streets filled with UFO's and hoverbikes and all assortments of b-movie sci fi elements, it ended up in an area looking like Las Vegas, urban but surrounded by a small desert. Nicolas Cage was directing a film, and he starred in two different roles. One as a blonde, slightly balding mafioso with a rough attitude. The other as a black-haired film director, yelling out directions from his chair. He was trying to do something ironic Tarantino-esque, obviously. Someone was on the run from Mafioso Nicholas Cage's posse, and this was Django. Your job, as someone looking eerily like CJ, was to rescue Django by finding him and teleporting him away. I wondered why the game was called Django the Darkface and assumed that otherwise, gangster kids wouldn't buy this game from the look of the poster alone. But they couldn't call him Blackface, because that would have been racist. To do this, you were given a cadillac with a mounted minigun. The developers commentary came in here and explained that the gun shot slower than earlier games for aesthetic purposes. I got to try the game out, and the demo part involved this scene of driving around in the desert, escaping from Nicholas Cage's car of a similar build. Naturally, I did everything I could not to follow the plot because it made no sense to me, but instead to try and escape the boundaries of the demo area. This lead to many instances driving into invisible walls, driving over cliffs with no content. The desert grew bigger, and while the map indicated that there were locations nearby, there was no way to get there and verify whether they existed because of surrounding mountains. Upon further exploration, there was a tunnel in one of the mountains, but driving through it I dove into another empty free fall. At this time the demo ended, but the developer commentary came in again and explained that this was just the showcase of the driving, now they were going to show the new melee combat mechanics. I was taken back into the center of the city where everybody's flesh was turning inside out and they became some kind of zombie. I was given a machete. Sadly, the dream ended here.
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Platoon is a great fucking war film. Something's wrong with you guys.
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Come and see - HOLY FUCK! Disturbing, fucked up, brilliant. 10/10
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Zero Dark Thirty - I honestly didn't know what to expect of this. But it was really good. Really, really good. Not as good as the hurt locker, but still.
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Nice one!
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I thought it was gonna be called bull wallet?
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Apocalypse Now is not only the best war movie ever made, it is the best movie ever made, period. Fact.
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This movie will not age in the least in a very, very long time. My sentiments exactly.
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Argo - Great film! Really well-paced.
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A Better Tomorrow - The first half is a cavalcade of gay innuendo, bloody action and confusing plot scenes (I seriously had to look up the wiki page to figure out who was who). The second half is a great story about betrayal and redemption. Great action scenes for its age, but that shouldn't be surprising considering the director. His most obvious trait is born here, which isn't the dove thing, but that everyone has a 9mm Baretta with infinite ammo.
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Brilliant.
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It was substanceless in a pornographic sense, so I kinda like your statement. It was too damn gorgeous for its own good because it wasn't good at all. Still, it was fun to look at and listen to. I think I'd have enjoyed it even more without the asinine over-the-top violence. Maybe that's what I was trying to convey. I fell in love with some shots, and the music. And then I asked myself, what's this movie about really? I don't know if the extreme violence spoiled the feel of the film, or if the hipster music video shots ruined what was supposed to be an action movie. It's just that the gangster segments felt so out of place and rhythm with everything else. Yes, it's one of those things that wants to be cool but somewhere along the line it falls kinda flat. Except this movie never really does. It doesn't fall flat, but it's never really as cool as it would like to think it is. I never liked Josh. But Bruce is good, and I enjoyed the jewish guy/morgan freeman dynamic.
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Drive - this movie is too damn gorgeous for its own good.
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New Police Story - A very strange film. The advent of online gaming in hong kong sets the stage for extreme violent crimes and anti-cop sentiments amongst rich youths. Jackie Chan, more of a superstar than ever, doesn't seem to know if he's a patriarchal, authoritarian posterboy for the PRC or a renegade supercop just doing what's right. Nevertheless, he needs to set some young un's straight in order to restore traditional chinese values. To justify the violence and prevent the movie from becoming fascist, he gets to suffer alot. I never took him for a dramatic actor, but he has his moments. So what we end up with is a strange collision when the terror of anarchic capitalism, and its corruption of youth, is fought against by means plagiarized from US action films. The police force is absolutely right, but there's still a stupid chief (or several? I have no idea how the HK police force works). Of course the punishment is wrought with a gentleness typical of Jackie, strangely absent in real life China. The director has never come near a videogame in his life. Some good stunts.
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Donnie Darko was a great film. That is all.
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Lincoln - Daniel Day-Lewis is beyond perfect in the role. But I would have enjoyed this alot more if it didn't remind me of that movie Mel Gibson screened in the old simpsons episode.
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Papa was a rolling stone...
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I thought this only happened in the movies.
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*shower *apply water to face *apply this: Fuck you and the shaving gel/electric razor you rode in on.
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Seven Psychopaths - Better than expected. Sam Rockwell completely steals the show.
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Django Unchained - Best tarantino since kill bill. Stunning return to form.
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I watched it the day before yesterday and was ready to agree with you until the disco scene came up.
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Yeah you probably need to warm up with baraka, then perhaps koyaanisqatsi. I was watching it with my 10 year old niece and didn't expect it to be so dark, and the sex doll scene was kind of awkward. But it was fucking glorious.
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Samsara - 10/10 I am so grateful that this film exists.
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Okay, I get it that you're going through the newly in love phase and your hormones are turning your brain into mush, but 3 months is nothing. It's impossible for you to have any idea what might be around the corner. Those three months can easily turn into a 2 year hell hole. Everything is super for a while, but then real life, and all those dark bits that you have managed to hide from eachother, start infecting your relationship. You start noticing that she's trying to manipulate you, even though she said she doesn't believe in doing that, and you find yourself doing the same to her. You realize she knows you too well and you find yourself almost too vulnerable to be comfortable. You realize that all that love you feel can turn into the coldest ice dagger if something goes wrong. Then either one of two things happens; you start fighting together to keep it up or the relationship turns into complete shit. I'm just trying to scare you. Don't worry too much, the inevitable will happen with time. Either you are compatible, or you aren't after a certain point, and then you should be glad the less time & energy you have wasted. Relationships kind of steer themselves but people like to imagine they are in control. The one long-term thing you should be concerned about is that if you get in over your head and get your heart broken, you might find it difficult to trust someone who actually deserves it. But that usually takes a few shit relationships to happen. Have fun and try to appreciate the good bits.
