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new WATMM landing page methinks!
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The Look of Love - interesting biopic of the lavish seedy life of billionaire Soho/porn king Paul Raymond starring Steve Coogan who plays the role of the hedonistic coked up playboy quite well. The look of the film does well put you in another time where saucy innuendo and bad fashion were almost respectable. It does drag on a bit in places but it's no chore to watch. 7/10
Evil Dead 2013 - Better than I thought it would be with some good nods to the original without being a parody. Kinda falls flat at the end and this is where the original will remain a classic. Still nice and gorey and just on the right side of tongue and cheek. 7/10
Hell Comes to Frogtown - after WW3 Roddy Piper is one of the few fertile men left on earth who is sent in a big pink hotrod on a joint mission to rescue and breed with a rare group of fertile women who have been kidnapped buy some evil frog mutants in Frogtown. Fuck yeah/10
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I dunno guys but I'm not feeling it on this release, sounds too wooley with too much of the same style of bitcrushed/comb filtered textures and not enough percussion which is where a lot of Exai was going.
Had to listen to the Toronto 2001 set to clear out the cobwebs.
Maybe I need time for it to settle in like most AE stuff.
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Gave up on Metal Gear Rising, great game but either my controller is fucked or some of the moves require a little too much precision that's nigh on impossible.
Loving Dead Space 3 a the mo although there's a lot of running around and the weapons build thing gets a little tedious.
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[youtubehd]UKPkVSA9UhA[/youtubehd]
awesome!
not quite as awesome but gave me a giggle
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Franklyn - One decent stylish Dark City style thriller mixed with two other mundane films that's kinda spoiled by a Tim Burton ending. 6.5/10
Road to Perdition - even if I saw the ending coming a mile away it shows Hollywood can get it right once in a while especially when its this well shot. should have watched this ages ago/10
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To me, 2001 is all about the visuals and the sound (more or less), so, not having read the book, I don't know how that is supposed to work in a written form.
I love how there is no way to understand it (I don't only mean the ending), or at least I don't try or even would like to make sense of what is being shown.
Watching it I feel something I cannot describe, and that is one of the greatest things a film can do, at least for me.
The monolith feels more real and meaningful to me than 95 percent of the human characters in films out there. It makes me feel watched, admonished, asked, animated, … Comfortable and uncomfortable at the same time.
If it doesn't give you these emotions, I can fully understand that it isn't something you want to watch.
no. 2001 is all about the very subtle build up of suspense in the battle of wits between a man and a machine in the face of unspeakable danger.
i think this is lost on many people as these days films are much too overwrought and in your face with messages and meaning etc.
the visuals and the editing is just the icing on the cake, if that's really all you are taking away you're not paying attention.
Says she who only talks about the next to last episode, the battle between man and machine, as if nothing else happened in the film.
If it's all about the battle, why did Kubrick bother to add a few hours before and the brilliant episode after it?
The man looking at and becoming his own future, the floating fetus, all just icing on the cake?
Man vs. machine has been done before.
It really depends what point you think Hal goes insane at. The monolith is a machine too you muppet.
In 2010 you find out that HAL was told to lie and you can see the point where this happens in 2001 when he says "wait a minute, wait a minute" then makes up the faulty antenna, from then he goes haywire as Dave and Frank are therefore working against his new mission parameters and goes all Skynet on their asses.
The ending is explained a little bit better in the book but the limits of 60's sfx had already been pushed beyond their limits of the time so Kubrick too some artistic license but basically Dave Bowman is transformed into the next stage of evolution or 'Star Child' as it's referred too which connects to start of the with the film apes evolving to use weapons/tools after coming in contact with the first monolith hence becoming the dominant species on earth and so forth.
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Yeah that's great, you're right and I'm wrong. You can pat yourself on the back now.Eraserhead 8.5/10
Room 237 6/10
The Shining 10/10
2001: A Space Odyssey 7/10
Europa Report 8/10
The Bay 7/10
Yeah, see, that's why people always say to you: No, you're wrong.
One would think it was obvious that my remark was not serious.
Anyway, if you're interested in Kubrick and haven't seen it yet: watch A Clockwork Orange.
I saw it two weeks ago for the second time and I was a bit worried that my expectations from the first time I'd seen it (which was at least 4 years ago) were going to be too high because I'd always kept it at the back of my head as a brilliant film and one of his best, but it was even better than I had remembered it, 10/10.
You may not be disappointed with this one.
as a rule I find most Kubrick films get better the more you watch them especially now on blu-ray where you can really pick out the attention to detail with his steady pace.
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The Bling Ring - unrealistic concept with a boarderline satire on the state of shallow youth culture but just ended up making Spring Breakers look even better. 3.5/10
I suppose its viable that Paris Hilton would be dumb enough not to buy a decent security system.
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Pandoria - low budget fun. the sc-fi geek in me kinda made me forgive the ropey cinimatography and hammy acting however the concept was original, the sound design worked. The sharp editing made it watchable. 6.5/10
The Bling Ring - unrealistic concept with a boarderline satire on the state of shallow youth culture but just ended up making Spring Breakers look even better. 3.5/10
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Those knobs are lovely. Perfourmer?
yes indeedy :)
How does the perfourmer compare to a moog? haven't had the pleasure of playing with one myself.
As far as a warm vintage tone goes the Perfourmer has it nailed with very bassy VCO's although with no filter saturation or direct vco level the filter sounds more like a precise Roland than a grungy Moog. Probably one of the best and most well engineered analogues I've tried/owned where all knobs are very well calibrated and the digital/midi side sits subtly in the background but can seemlessly change parameters on the fly like midi channels, lfo sync ect. It gets really interesting when you start to cross mod VCO's in series with FM. A keeper for sure.
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Those knobs are lovely. Perfourmer?
yes indeedy :)
How does the perfourmer compare to a moog? haven't had the pleasure of playing with one myself.
As far as a warm vintage tone goes the Perfourmer has it nailed with very bassy VCO's although with no filter saturation or direct vco level the filter sounds more like a precise Roland than a grungy Moog. Probably one of the best and most well engineered analogues I've tried/owned where all knobs are very well calibrated and the digital/midi side sits subtly in the background but can seemlessly change parameters on the fly like midi channels, lfo sync ect. It gets really interesting when you start to cross mod VCO's in series with FM. A keeper for sure.
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I turned this film off after 30mins as it was like watching an episode of Most Haunted.I watched the conjuring, had some decently creepy moments. Since it's directed by James Wan it also featured some shitty moments and some terrible acting here and there. It seems that he is at least improving his formula as he keeps going. This is basically an insidious remake, with less silly bullshit, of course it all falls apart towards the end, but If you're into this sort of this sort of thing it isn't half bad. My main question coming out of the film was this: Why do people cast Patrick Wilson in anything? I have a soft spot for haunted house flicks and this is one of them/10
I do like my nasty shit tho.
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Filth - confusing at times and could have been a little sharper with the directing but McAvoy is excellent and Walsh's dark twisted humour had me laughing out loud several times. Would be interesting to watch again knowing the outcome. Not as good as Trainspotting but a decent comedy 7.8/10
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Those knobs are lovely. Perfourmer?
yes indeedy :)
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Hausu
Absurd and very fun old Japanese vacation-in-a-haunted-house film. Some great effects
HAUSSS
think i posted it before, but the trailer needs to be seen to be believed
really interesting background into the making of it also, a real gem.
Looks amazing! I'm on it ;)
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I've got a 160gb Cowon X7 and although its bulky and the UI is fiddly the sound enhancement features (BBE, parametric EQ ect) work really well at fine tuning headphones and bringing out more detail from lower bitrate mp3's, the battery lasts ages too. iPods don't compare even the 7th gen classic which is as good as it gets from Apple.
Although the S4 and HTC One have decentish dacs they still aren't on par with a decent dedicated media player.
When I bought my X7 micro SD cards were still quite pricey but if i was to buy another mp3 player it would be the J3 or the new D20 with a stash of 32gb micro SD's.
http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/about_us.php tend to have a good selection of current players however the after sales service isn't the best.
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I just got given a PS2.
Don't have a tv so am in the process of securing a 2nd hand monitor.
Recommend me some decent/classic PS2 games WATMM.
God of War 1&2 (best PS2 games made)
Rez
Gradius V
Black
Metal Gear 2&3
Wipeout Fusion
R-Type Final
Timesplitters 2
Castle of Shikigami 2
Burnout 3
GT4
Resident Evil 4 (different bonus levels to other platforms)
been told recently that the new headset for the PS4 is shit hot btw
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Fast & Furious 6 - well edited and choreographed action sequences that surprisingly beats most other action failings this year but expect the usual cheese, boring none car bits and silly ott moments. I preferred the finale to Fast5 but this is still watchable mindless fun 6.3/10
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hoping my Neca Gypsy Danger and Ed-209 pre orders come through before the paypal 45 day money back cover runs out
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L-event?
an event would be nice too
AAA - Ask Autechre Anything - Sean and Rob on WATMM!
in Autechre
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Sorry I'm late to the party and I will get through 59 pages eventually but if it hasn't already been asked what main bits of kit/software have been most influential in defining Autechre's sound over the years?
Also would you ever consider doing work with analogue synthesis?