Greatoneshere

All six books are excellent (the ones written by Frank Herbert). If you liked the first two books, I think they only get better (but more dense/esoteric). Yes, read it. Why, you got better books waiting in the wings? And yes, agreed, Scytale and Hayt rule, they better nail them (and the entire counter-Paul council) in the movie adaptation.

Agreed, but it's a pretty unfulfilling ending in broad terms, to me at least. Even assuming what happens to Paul is vague (a good ending though), it takes Children of Dune to confirm it. I dunno, maybe I'm too biased and am too much of a Dune fan but I'd be pretty disappointed if we stopped at Dune Messiah when more could be done. On the other hand, I never thought I'd even get a good Dune adaptation, so I'm also grateful for anything at this point.

Yeah, just get Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach to write the screenplay and get Gerwig to direct and then you're good. Robbie producing and starring in something will be meaningless without good writers and directors. I guess Ridley Scott's version of this announced ages ago is out then (though one can just watch All the Money in the World for his take on Monopoly).

Agreed, but I think no one will disagree that even if you don't like the director's cut version, his director's cuts are universally better than his theatrical cuts, so that's something.

Agreed, but it's in no way a complete story of Dune in general. When I finished Dune Messiah I did not feel like: "ah, yes, this is like Return of the King, the story is over" because it just isn't. Finishing one main story arc does not mean it ends everything on a complete note. The ending to Dune Messiah is really good for the end of Paul's arc, but Dune is bigger than Paul and I don't feel the movies make him bigger than that, it's still about the overall story, which Paul plays a part in. Paul is a cog in a much larger story, reframing a movie adaptation to simply be about him is short sighted I think. It's like Aragorn is obviously a main character in LOTR but LOTR is bigger than Aragorn.

I'm not saying you can't end it after Dune Messiah, but you really think Dune Messiah ends on a complete note? There are tons of open ended plot threads left unaddressed when it ends. Hell, even with Paul it's not clear until Children of Dune.

Yeah, I know he's been trotting this around and I'd be interested in seeing it! But the guy should probably make better deals with studios ahead of time.

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Well what the fuck. I knew they were working on Iron Man and just got added to Battlefield support but I figured Dead Space 2 remake would come after those. I thought the first remake did really well?

I'm referring to broad spectrum hate, not individual hate, but you have been heard.

We're hating on Kiss now? Why? No one is claiming they are one of the great bands, but fun? Hell yeah. And unlike a lot of artists they know exactly what they are. New York Groove (for example) is not exactly Kiss (and I know it's a cover but Ace Frehley killed it), but c'mon, this is good shit. My appreciation for Kiss rose dramatically after seeing the excellent comedy Role Models for the best description of Kiss ever. "They're these Jewish guys who grew up in New York and they put on guitars and make up to get girls. And all their songs are about fucking. This song is called "Love Gun" and it's about Paul Stanley's dick."

My brother lives in San Diego so I have been decently often and this was great, I believe it's so easy to tell. Also next time I go will try Swami's Cafe! I get the sense real marines aren't frequently gun nuts? I have no idea, am I way off base?

I think the first thing I always notice with gun nuts is how slovenly and unkempt most of them look. I know most Americans don't really have style or take care of themselves but this is next level in the Midwest and South. Like, I'm not talking about just being in shape. I'm talking mismatched clothes, terrible hair styles, etc.

It may be doable but Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (the excellent anime film) is based on Amano's character designs and that tried hard to emulate it (and it looks beautiful) but I imagine the cost was astronomical. That was back in 2000 and that was an anime film, not a game, but I imagine a game would be even harder to do. Are you saying to do so from an isometric perspective? That'd probably be more possible at least.

I more or less agree with your system. Unduly harsh with some of your examples compared to what I'd score them but broadly, on point.

Yes, if someone plays a sequel to the same gameplay loop as the previous game and instead believes the race is completely gone in the sequel game (to the degree it "pisses them off") then that's stupid. I said nothing about needing to have played the previous game to know this, you can just look it up online. I'm not angry about anything, I'm simply stating a fact that having clicked the article (and seen others online) that it's clickbait because there's no controversy here. And you exaggerate. Finding out the race isn't permanently gone isn't doing an oral history, it takes a second to find out, it's not work. I know enough of the mechanics of a game that they aren't going to perma-delete an entire race that's part of the gameplay loop. And me knowing/not knowing the offline/online aspect of Helldivers 1 isn't causing me to come to incomplete or incorrect conclusions about the sequel since I'm not disputing or criticizing what the game is doing with that mechanic or feature. So yes, I'm going to call someone stupid if they truly believe "race is gone permanently from sequel game" because one would assume something, anything else first since that's an incredibly stupid conclusion to come to. You don't need to even know the gameplay loop to assume how stupid that is to believe.

I mean, that's most movies. Almost every movie I watch ranks between a 6 to a 7.5. A movie being below that is usually abysmal, and a film being above that is a must watch. It's very rare for any film I watch to break that range of score (mostly because I know the bad movies to avoid so I don't end up watching them to begin with and great movies are hard to come by). That being said, it's still at least worth scoring and giving maybe a one sentence blurb about to let others know. But I agree, most movies just kind of come and go. I mean, I love discussing films, but most here just talk about the big, obvious, straightforward stuff like comic book films, etc. There's nothing to really talk about there, so I would love to get into better/stranger/more interesting films with someone more. Like discussing how How to Blow Up a Pipeline is basically a realistic, live-action Final Fantasy VII? That's a conversation worth having.

They fucking nailed the seppuku scene from the book. Goddamn.

The hyper capitalist/crony capitalist system we now live in is absolutely fucked. Any merit the economic system had in breeding competition and meritocracy is long gone. Almost everyone I know is either obsessed with being famous, rich, powerful, highly influential, etc. Everyone is obsessed with money and wealth at the expense of just living and growing as a person.

I'm not sure about the first game being played offline, I only ever played it online. But if your defense is that casuals are stupid, don't know they are playing a sequel, don't understand how the gameplay loop works even if there was a first game to go off of first, etc. you won't find any sympathy here. Their ignorance isn't a criticism of the developer, it's a criticism of casual gamers. I do think if you're just "jumping on the bandwagon now" that being surprised is unreasonable, that's my entire argument. The slightest amount of research (like with anything) would elucidate this for them. If most people playing this game don't understand the gameplay loop, the articles are still stupid for not informing them better/more clearly rather than trying to drum up clickbait. I don't disagree with you that most Helldivers 2 players, like most people in general, are idiots, but idiots making stupid "jump to conclusions mat" Office Space style are to be chastised and educated, not justified.

You're actually a really good film watcher! I've noticed you're always watching (or know of) even the smaller stuff like Nyad, etc. I get not bothering but you should participate more! I wish @Zeluge was around more too.

Yeah watching the Jurassic Park movies out of order was my younger brother's fault. And yeah, definitely some stinkers in there trying to catch my younger brother up on some franchises he fell behind on. A good number of rewatches in the posts but new films as well. And yeah I did start doing it recently, I used to be far more thorough and write reviews wayyyy back but didn't seem like worth the work. But a simple rating seems easy enough. If someone is genuinely curious about a film or a rating I gave they can always follow up and I can elaborate at that point.

Why would it piss anyone off? The first game did the exact same thing over and over. That'd be weird to be upset by a mechanic people have known this game would have since the first has had it for a decade.

I'm glad someone's reading the posts! Because I have to keep up with anime, games, movies, TV, books/manga/comics, politics, sports, working out, etc. I live a pretty regimented life so I don't fall behind on anything and I get as much done as possible per week so I do try to get at least four-five movies every weekend (usually don't do movies on weekdays, that's for TV, etc.).