Greatoneshere

Indeed it is, and yet, I barely use all of its features as is. That's why I said I'm "still" on one. I'm too busy to use more of the features on my phone than I already do.

I'm still on a Samsung Galaxy S8+, love it but no real reason to upgrade yet. I'm sure I will eventually.

Interesting - definitely curious about Yellowstone. Yeah, Quarry was so good! Really was sad to see it end and cancelled.

Created and written by by Taylor Sheridan (great writer/director) - it's on my list, and I've heard good things. The wife and I just finished up Quarry, now moving on to The Outsider (still watching Cosmos: A SpaceTime Voyage as well).

That's why I included it you bastard! Pittsburgh's great. It's not Philly . . . but it deserves to be saved.

I'd like to keep Pittsburgh and resuscitate and keep Harrisburg (every new state needs a project, plus to help minorities) . . . the rest can go.

Hear hear!

Having seen both, go with the director's cut. Usually, it's what I'd go with anyway, but it's the better version of the movie in my opinion.

Yeah, this. I'm pretty sure the average person, American or not, is simply usually wrong, and probably stupid. Remember, technically speaking, 50% of the world's population is theoretically below average intelligence. And when you think the average is a low bar, there's really only one conclusion to reach about most of humanity.

Hah, I appreciate that. I'll try when it comes to your posts if/when I see them then.

I find discussing things anywhere in life (real life or not), message boards included, are a complete waste of time, so I'm resigned to becoming more and more of a lurker. As time goes on, in-depth discussions of real movies is long gone, it's quite clear, compared to when I started frequenting message boards 20 years ago when I was 14. I feel bad these days that I wasted so much of my time these past 20 years writing lengthy posts few read that are long lost to history now. I just have nothing to say anymore (or I try to hold myself back these days) because it has almost never benefited me. I wonder why I did it this long. I like Midsommar a lot, as weird as it was. That's the most that's probably worth saying.

It adds 23 minutes to the runtime and is director Ari Aster's preferred or director's cut of the film. It's better and more filled out so makes more sense - but is longer.

Yeah I know most people work this way. It is sad.

I'm not done yet - loving the game, but I think an 8.5/10 is a very good, and very well-earned score for Ghost of Tsushima.

Right now, Quarry and Cosmos: A SpaceTime Voyage, both with the wife. Both are excellent so far. Logan Marshall-Green is a fantastic actor in Quarry, and deserves more recognition than he gets after this, Upgrade, and When They See Us. I know he looks like Tom Hardy, but he's a great actor in his own right.

Yes my bad - I wish they would hit pause on MLB The Show and do a Mark of Kri game. Sorry for the mixup.

It's genuinely good! It's a game I think you'd particularly like! If the game ever comes out.

Yep, it does go a bit deeper. It helps, is all I'm saying.

Yeah I know, but I can dream . . . perhaps this second San Diego studio could do it. A real good B-team.

I think it got worse with Halo 4 onwards, but I feel (having just played through Halo 1 and Halo 2 Anniversary) that you absolutely need to know the books (at least the aforementioned ones in my previous post). They aren't required to enjoy those games of course (I didn't read the books, just played the games when they came out and yeah, I was confused), but if you just go from Halo 1 and where it ends right into Halo 2 without knowing anything about Halo: First Strike, a lot doesn't make sense given where Halo 1 ended. That's just as a for instance. This is even more apparent if you go right into Halo 3 from Halo 2 as well. At least it still felt that way to me when I did it recently (I went back and that's how I know about these books now in the first place).

I mean, as annoying as it is, Halo novels have always been a part of Halo's lifeblood. There were aspects of Halo 1 and a lot of aspects of Halo 2 that aren't filled out/don't make sense unless you read Eric Nylund's Halo: The Fall of Reach (to understand Halo 1 better) and Eric Nylund's Halo: First Strike, which really helps fill out Halo 2. Halo 3 and particularly Halo: Reach are made even better if you've read those two books as well as Eric Nylund's Halo: Ghosts of Onyx , Joseph Staten's Halo: Contact Harvest, and Tobias Buckell's Halo: The Cole Protocol. Halo Wars 1 also makes more sense if you've read Contact Harvest Hell, even the graphic novels/comic book series have always been important. To understand what happens between Halo 2 and Halo 3 better, you should read Brian Michael Bendis' Halo: Uprising. And if you want to understand Halo 3: ODST better, one should read Peter David's Halo: Helljumper. Halo Wars 1 additionally benefits from reading Brian Michael Bendis' Halo Wars: Genesis. And this is all under Bungie and Microsoft, before Microsoft and 343i took over the brand in 2010/2011 and that's when shit exploded in terms of novels, etc. But yeah, it's always been integral from the start. Again, that's if you cared about Halo's story, characters, backstory, and mythology in the first place. Which, I do, as a sci-fi and space opera fan, even though Halo has gone off the rails since Halo 4 in my opinion in terms of story. But I've always hated cross-media stuff. It should fill in small gaps and broaden the universe, not be necessary to understand the bigger picture of the main Halo trilogy story you're trying to tell (and then ODST and Reach). My suggestion? Read the Halopedia wiki recap summaries at this point and play the games as they each fit into the chronology.

I hadn't heard that - definitely interested in seeing this new studio open up. I also think they will join the fold - I've always been surprised they didn't in the past (similar to Insomniac). I am also similarly thrilled! As a huge fan of the original two Getaway games (from 2002 and 2004), I say do it! I haven't played it because I don't have VR (yet) but I've heard good things about the game. I've waited for SIE London Studio to make a sequel (or spiritual sequel, in this case) ever since and we finally got one. That it's the best reviewed of the three games makes it even more enticing. As much as I love God of War, I do wish SIE San Diego Studio would go back to The Mark of Kri - I really liked that game. I know a different company made a sequel, Rise of the Kasai, but it was a good bit worse since it wasn't made by SIE San Diego. At least we got Blood & Truth.

Clothes off was better.

Direct quotes? I mean, this was the news over the months and years as both BvS and then Justice League came out. This was the chatter, and this is how I remembered it. I don't care enough to go back and find links from years ago about WB's disappointment with this or that to prove anything to you, since I've never seen you admit you're wrong once you are entrenched with your position, and your poor writing skills continue to make it difficult to suss out your meaning in posts as well as your standoff-ish tone with your random ellipses and caps. Believe what you want, I don't really care enough to prove my point further, as I thought what I was saying was generally understood to be true. @TwinIon thinking the same things I do (to a degree) bears this out. I have better things to do than get into yet another pedantic fight with you about something you are convinced you already know, it's not worth the time it would take even if I did succeed in convincing you. So let's just agree to disagree, and I can move on with my life then.

WB execs and the world at large don't think BvS is a flop. I never said the word flop. I said it underperformed (which it did), which WB perceived as a failure, not a flop. You're being pedantic. to say: "it underperformed but wasn't a colossal failure". Okay, as I said, splitting hairs on verbiage. Point is it was a bad movie, a massive, colossal failure critically, and it underperformed commercially according to WB's projections as I recall at the time, and thus was considered not a flop but a failure by WB, hence their close oversight of Snyder on Justice League, which is clearly apparent was the case.