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1 hour ago, stepee said:

I actually did see one of these on the street and it’s even more ridiculous in person. It’s hard to imagine any normal person actually purchasing it and using it as their primary vehicle.

I also saw someone driving a cybertruck in person recently and it looked dumb as shit. 

On 4/19/2024 at 1:43 PM, Kal-El814 said:

Making Justice League 4 hours long and turning Wonder Woman into a murderer did not make it better.

No, but lots of other aspects of his cut did. The Wonder Woman scene was tonally off, no question, but not sure why we harp on that when Ant-Man's daughter is walking around barely acknowledging as millions of microscopic sentient creatures die around her in Ant-Man 3 or that John Cena joyously murders faceless thugs in cars while basically high fiving his 8-year old nephew (who is also excited and enjoying himself) in Fast X or when Blue Beetle's grandmother is mowing down people as a joke at the end of Blue Beetle, etc.

I don't watch trailers, but given this is its own thing unconnected to any other Transformers material, and is getting a theatrical release, I hope this movie does for Transformers what Spider-Verse did for Spider-Man and what Mutant Mayhem did for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, if we're lucky. It's directed by Josh Cooley, who directed Toy Story 4 (he also co-wrote Inside Out), so I'm pretty hopeful.

If they stick to eight episodes per season like they have with the first three seasons so far, I'm not sure how exactly they are going to adapt three books in just two seasons when it took them three seasons just to adapt four books when two of those books were just a bunch of short stories (and they skipped four short stories from those two books). Either way, probably good to set an end date now.

4 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

Both versions or just the series?

Both versions unfortunately. 

1 hour ago, Spork3245 said:

Finished the series last night. My biggest disappointment with the show was/is:

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no super mutants. 

  

 

Well, not yet. 

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On 4/18/2024 at 8:45 AM, Kamusha said:

His whole retiring after 10 movies thing is dumb. Also I'm not sure if he's counting both volumes of Kill Bill as one movie* or not counting Death Proof as a movie, because otherwise he has already released 10 movies.

I think "it can only be 10 movies" is dumb too, but Tarantino counts the Kill Bill films as one film, and he does count Death Proof as a film (the unrated, extended cut of Death Proof is definitely its own movie), which means he's currently at 9 films written/directed by that measure. His reasoning is he wants a perfect filmography and not one which starts to get rote or bad as a director gets too old or makes too many films.

The two written works Tarantino counts as being written by him (that he did not direct), True Romance (Tony Scott) and From Dusk till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez), do not count as part of the 10 films. Tarantino pretty much hates Natural Born Killers since Oliver Stone changed his screenplay so much, so that's never counted for anything. Obviously the episode he directed for ER and his two-parter for CSI don't count either. His guest directed scene for Sin City doesn't count either nor does his written/directed short that is part of the Four Rooms four short film anthology. His experimental unofficial first film, My Best Friend's Birthday, has been long lost to time and went unfinished so that also doesn't count. That covers everything.

On 4/18/2024 at 7:19 AM, TheLeon said:

He wasn’t above working in TV when he directed episodes of ER and CSI, although maybe he saw those more like gimmicks (what’s “stunt casting” for TV directors?) and not really working in TV. But it would be an easy workaround if he really wants to stop at 10 movies but keep working. 

I believe Tarantino is far more open to working in TV today than he used to be, but I believe he did those episodes of ER and CSI because he said he was a fan of the shows when each was airing. It seemed at one point he might make a DiCaprio as Rick Dalton TV series, but I don't think that will materialize now, but he seemed open to it if DiCaprio would ever do it. He did also release The Hateful Eight: Extended Edition on Netflix, which was a four-episode miniseries version of the theatrical release which feels like him dipping his toes into TV waters (if people recall Tarantino did release a "roadshow" version of The Hateful Eight in theaters as well which was 187 minutes, but the extended version is 210 minutes, even longer). Just as a side note, it will be leaving Netflix on April 24th (both versions of the film).

9 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

I think [Guy who's full of shit (according to some)] Jeff Grubb had the right idea. Riding off the high from BG3 it seems likely they would do some original thing so more people who are familiar with them from BG3 can start fresh with a new thing they can build off of and bring new people in.

I understand the thinking with this but you can pretty much jump into Divinity without prior knowledge. I started with Divinity: Original Sin 1 and Larian had already made four prior Divinity games yet I didn't feel lost at all playing that one or Divinity: Original Sin 2. That being said, if what Grubb says is true I doubt they meant Divinity: Original Sin 3 then.

They may not but I hope Larian does Divinity: Original Sin 3 next personally. 

Finally caught the first episode (of what looks like will be seven total episodes). This was a really strong start to a show I had very little idea what it was about going in but I come away wanting to watch more. Some of the broad comedy feels tonally misplaced but overall I really enjoyed an area of the Vietnam War that isn't often covered. Hard to believe it'll be 50 years next April since the Fall of Saigon. Chan-wook Park, who not only directs the first three episodes but co-writes all seven, brings all of his incredible skills to bear on the episode, so it is really well made and directed. Everyone should really check this out alongside other recent TV winners like The Gentlemen, Fallout, Tokyo Vice (season 2), Shogun, 3 Body Problem and Invincible (season 2) just to name some really recent stuff. The A.V. Club really enjoyed the first episode as well.

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1 minute ago, Mercury33 said:

Fuck general audiences. They get their hands held in enough stuff. This shit is for us haha

Even better, I want CHOAM and Bene Tleilax and everything mentioned then.   

Well that was an amazing and exhausting episode of television. It really doesn't get better than this for TV.

34 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

I suppose the way I was thinking about it is that everything in that first 3/4’s of Messiah is the exact kind of stuff that was left out of Villeneuve’s adaptations. The movies don’t get bogged down in explanations of mentats or the politics of CHOAM or the specifics of Imperium or Fremen customs, and those kinds of things dominate the early pages of Messiah.

While I definitely don't want these movies to get bogged down in world building, it would be nice for general audiences to get more exposure to these things and terms, whereas the first few movies kept the weird to the edges of the narrative.

1 minute ago, atom631 said:

you just reminded me ive been meaning to check out Twisted Metal. I feel like that came and went with a whisper. 

Yeah, the show did pretty well for Peacock even thought it felt like it came and went. Season 2 has been announced. We tried to drum up some talk in the thread for it if you want to see what some of us thought of it. Basically, it comes off like Zomebieland for Twisted Metal, not that far off from Fallout's tone but more juvenile. But I thought it was a good adaptation worth not forgetting about.

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2 hours ago, TwinIon said:

Even though I've loved Dune for a long time and read the book multiple times, I've never read any further in the series. I finally decided to pick up Messiah and it was very much not what I expected.

 

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With all the talk of Paul's villainy and Herbert wanting to "correct" Dune from being a straightforward hero's journey, I expected something quite different. I thought I'd be reading about how Paul had chosen the jihad over some much more peaceful version of the future. While his choices are difficult, I don't think it's made clear to readers that he's making evil choices.

 

I also felt like basically nothing happens in the first 3/4 of this book. There's a big climax at the end, after which I could probably reverse engineer a movie arc, but in my mind it would need to diverge significantly from the book, at least in where it spends time.

 

One big problem is that Paul spends the entire book perseverating over a choice that we don't really understand at all until the end. There's a lot of that in Dune as well, but it's at least partially mitigated by Paul not really having the information himself. So he's getting flashes and we're a bit clued in to know that he doesn't really want to start a war. In Messiah he knows much more and the audience knows much less. Some of that works in service to the final reveal, but I think the film would probably need to give us more context.

 

Given how well Part 1 and 2 turned out, I'm excited by the idea of Villenuve's Messiah, but the book is far less cinematic than the first.

 

There's an incredible amount of scheming and world building in the first 3/4's of Dune Messiah that I don't think should be ignored, but yes it's not an action adventure yarn but something quite different. I think there are a lot of interesting angles one could take with the adaptation, so long as the core story (and reveals) remain.

This was a great adaptation of the game, the series stayed strong through until the end of the season. If we're making comparisons though, if we count Arcane does that mean animation counts in terms of ranking/comparing purposes? Because if so I'd put Castlevania and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners up there (among others). But, if we're limiting ourselves to just TV (and not film adaptations) and just to live-action, ignoring anime and animation in general, The Last of Us is probably the only competition but that and Fallout are doing different things which makes them hard to compare. This is easily better than Halo and Resident Evil. I'm not sure Gangs of London counts though that is based on the The Getaway/Black Monday/Gangs of London trilogy of games by Sony London Studio back in the day, but it is a great show. That just leaves Twisted Metal which, like Fallout, is a post-apocalyptic wasteland black comedy (with a very different tone even with the similarities) and I actually felt that Twisted Metal did a pretty good job adapting its games as well. Fallout is the better show, but Twisted Metal did good and is better than Halo and Resident Evil as well. 

I don't know if they count as "new game plus" as opposed to "game makes you do multiple playthroughs of some or all of the game again for more story" but of the two, I only really care about the latter. In those cases, some immediate examples I enjoyed that come to mind are Nier Replicant, Nier Automata, Triangle Strategy and Armored Core VI (which is on the list). As much as I enjoyed Alan Wake II, there wasn't that much worthwhile added to New Game Plus in terms of story - a 13 minute Youtube video covers every single new thing so it's not worth a second playthrough just for a bunch of small story bits I think. Not sure what Dead Space remake or RE4 remake new game plus modes offer, I beat each game on hard difficulty, I don't think you get more story at least on subsequent playthroughs.

This shit just got even better. 

24 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

At IGN there was also a user that went by TheGreatOne and you're Greatoneshere so there can only be one, you're clearly the pretender!

I do remember that user as well - that takes me back. 

29 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

What would you change it to if you changed or had a new name?

I'd probably switch it to the handle I use everywhere else most likely. Maybe a new one entirely but I don't think so.

I should have made clear earlier it's always been the same screenname since I registered in April 2001. I don't like the screenname very much (I didn't come up with it) and I use a different one everywhere else but since it's been the same community here since the IGN days I've kept up with this screenname here.

1 hour ago, HardAct said:

DS1 Remake was/is a FANTASTIC remake of a Fantastic game period. I don't understand what make the remake a "Success" but I was under the impression that it did very well. They couldn't have thought it would have better sales than the original could they?

With EA it's certainly possible.

9 hours ago, Xbob42 said:

I tried the demo for this and it was probably the worst gaming experience I've ever had. A completely and utterly incomprehensible "narrative," literal clipart for world map stuff, voice acting so abysmal it'd make Chaos Wars jealous, combat that's super zoomed in so you can never actually read what's going on, even when attacking enemies. Just a total clusterfuck of garbage on every level, with a godawful mobile UI to boot. What a huge piece of shit.

Every single one of these fucking Youtube videos has 10 times the polish and total budget of the game itself. The fucking thumbnails have more effort than the entirety of the plot.

Out of curiosity, have you played any of the previous SaGa games? If so, what's your take on them?

3 hours ago, TUFKAK said:

I think I joined the boards in 03 and got sponsored, remember that shit, in like 04. Don’t remember when I found the CEB/got active but guess during the Bush administration in like 09/10.

But Obama was in office starting in 2009.  

The show is great so far, nails the black satire of the games well, I'm 3 episodes in.