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He looks like Baron Harkonnen looking to take back Arrakis from the Atreides family.

The weekend recap: -Jurassic Park (1993; dir. Steven Spielberg): 10/10 -Only God Forgives (2013; dir. Nicolas Winding Refn): 9/10 -Sin City: Recut, Extended and Unrated Edition (2005; dir. Robert Rodriguez/Frank Miller): 8/10 -The Northman (2022; dir. Robert Eggers): 7/10 -How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022; dir. Daniel Goldhaber): 8.5/10 -Past Lives (2023; dir. Celine Song): 7.5/10 -Dragon Ball Z: Movie 1 - Dead Zone (1989; dir. Daisuke Nishio): 7/10

If it's anything like the first game once the bugs are wiped out too the story and galaxy will reset with the alien races back to fight all over again. They may use this opportunity though to introduce the third alien race, the illithids or illuminates as they were called in the first game. The devs have been saying that should be coming at some point.

And that's a wrap on Curb Your Enthusiasm! Twenty five years, one special, and 12 seasons later and we're at the finish line. Overall, the series finale was solid, pretty indicative of good but not great late stage Curb Your Enthusiasm. It was nice that Larry David (and Jerry Seinfeld, who shows up here) got their do-over on the Seinfeld ending, and it was great having Jerry back, even if only for a bit as his energy with LD is very different from everyone else's since he's far more similar to LD. Some great cameos as usual and some fun fan service. It's sad to see the show go but I do think it's been well past time for it to officially end since things haven't been the same with the show since the big time jump gap (in real life) between season 8 (2011) and season 9 (2017). Larry David stopped solely writing every episode and the longer episodes later in the show's life were shabbier and less tightly edited than the previous seasons. That being said, I'm glad we got so much Curb Your Enthusiasm, there are so many things I'll remember from this show from pants tent to "13 unbelievable hours" of Jerry Seinfeld having sex with all of his female co-stars during Seinfeld.

X and Pearl were both really interesting, well done movies, I'm definitely in for this third one by Ti West.

Of course, I'm sure they'll make it work but being 20 vs. being 32 years old is a huge difference, especially when you have to look weary enough because of a 12 year genocidal space campaign on top of it all.

I see The Rock continues to get more entitled and obsessed with his brand as he gets older. A shame, when he was doing interesting work like The Rundown, Be Cool, Southland Tales, etc. I liked and rooted for him. He's pissed all that good will away in the intervening years.

The Marvels is ostensibly a sequel to Captain Marvel, WandaVision and Miss Marvel so if you didn't see that film and both shows you'll definitely be lost regarding who Monica Rambeau and Kamala Khan are, how they got their powers and what they are capable of. I didn't mind the musical planet or the cat sequence, the problem with having those sequences (and Fury making constant jokes in every scene he's in) in a very short one hour and 45 minutes means there's no time for an actual film with real characters and stakes. You can only waste so much time on non-sequitur sequences if your film is short. It's also super weird for a jokey film to massacre the entire musical planet off screen and never mention it again.

They are very good reads (dense of course) but as an adult you intake and understand so much more than when I first read them in my teens.

I remember living in Philly feeling the 2011 one. I was sleeping and the bed just started bouncing up and down on its own, was crazy.

But it was confirmed to be in the works? Unless I'm missing something. Front Mission 3 Remake Coming Alongside 1 & 2 Remakes - GameSpot WWW.GAMESPOT.COM Nintendo outlined a release cadence for the planned Front Mission remakes on Switch and confirmed a remake of 3 is also in the works.

It did end but because it was cancelled. The end of season 4 indicated that season 5 was clearly going to be the final season/final story arc but the show was cancelled despite everyone getting paid anyway so it seemed stupid for HBO to cancel the show right at the end after supporting it for 4 seasons to begin with but here we are. 'Westworld' Cast Will Be Paid Despite Season 5 Cancellation COLLIDER.COM The series was abruptly cancelled on November 4. Before season 1 came out back in 2016, Jonathan Nolan and co. said they had a five season plan worked out, so it's particularly annoying to have had it cancelled with one season to go. However, they were apparently offered to get to do a season 5 but at a severely reduced budget so the showrunners balked and walked away. For the dozens of us that cared. Westworld Showrunners Planned at Least 5 Seasons for HBO COLLIDER.COM Though HBO's 'Westworld' has yet to debut, showrunners Jonathan and Lisa Joy Nolan have already planned out at least five seasons of the sci-fi series. Westworld Showrunners Turned Down Season 5 Plans With Lower Budget COMICBOOK.COM TV fans were stunned earlier this year when HBO announced that their once gold star series [...]

Yeah, having recently re-read the six Frank Herbert written novels the past few years, Dune Messiah does do a good job of wrapping up Paul's arc in many ways, but outside of that, it's very obvious there's a lot more story to tell as Dune Messiah sets up a lot of things that then play out in the much longer novel Children of Dune (Dune Messiah is like 200 pages by comparison to Children of Dune's 500-ish pages). I'm sure Denis Villenueve can find a way to make Dune Messiah end strongly enough but in no way do the books play out like it's some duology or trilogy. If you wanted a complete story of at least the current plotlines and the Atreides family arc, you'd have to adapt the first four novels, including God Emperor of Dune (my favorite one out of the book series but it is very obtuse, esoteric and philosophical). I think Denis VIllenueve says he won't come back but give it time and he'll one day say: "I see a way to crack Children of Dune in a two-part movie" after a few years, but we'll see (like Dune, Children of Dune is far too long to be adapted into one movie, honestly it could use three but I'll take two). Either way, none of the books after the six Frank Herbert ones matter. The prequels and sequels written by Frank Herbert's son Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson are fine but nothing special. They are typical sci-fi novels as opposed to the esoteric, centuries spanning stories of Frank Herbert's initial six novels. I tell most people not to waste their time past the initial six but be forewarned that Frank Herbert died soon after the sixth novel's release and he was clearly setting up new plotlines in that book. The new ones written by his son and Kevin J. Anderson do follow through in their sequels but it's not the same by a wide margin. But if you really need answers they are there in their books. The first four novels tell a complete story however and if you just read the first four novels and stopped you'd be completely satisfied. However, books 5 and 6 really are fascinating to read and well worth everyone's time but books 5+6 start a completely new story for the most part. But I imagine in terms of movies we probably would never get past adaptations of the first four books, if we even get that far. But man that'd be some wild sci-fi if we got to books 4, 5 and 6. Edit: I also really hope they don't call it Dune: Part Three because that's just confusing in terms of book to movie numbering. It's not a trilogy and Dune Messiah is the second book in the series, not the third book. Just call it Dune Messiah. Dune is a long novel, so it required two parts, let's move on, simple enough. I know they've threatened to do so but I hope they don't.

It's a shame they don't give you the original version of the game along with the remake since the original Front Mission 1 and 2 never saw a release outside of Japan. I'm grateful we're at least getting the remakes on PC day and date now with Switch, though Front Mission 3 is the remake I'm most looking forward to. I guess there was at least a western release of the DS port of Front Mission 1 which would have been nice to see included with the Front Mission 1 remake, but it was not. The OP thread title should probably be changed to reflect this is a thread about all three Front Mission remakes in one place.

Nice to see it confirmed even though Denis Villeneueve has been working on the script, with it almost being done since last December. I'm more curious how they'll deal with the 12 year time jump between Dune and Dune Messiah, especially given Timothee Chalamet's extremely youthful appearance. If Denis does Nuclear War: A Scenario first (he said he wants to take a break and do a "small" movie before coming back to Dune) that could buy at least enough time. Denis did joke about this recently. I'm not saying this is some insurmountable problem, Chalamet killed it, especially in Part Two, but he will have to sell a much older, harder, darker Paul Atreides in the sequel. Dune Messiah Keeping Timothée Chalamet Comes With One Small Problem - SlashFilm WWW.SLASHFILM.COM If Timothee Chalamet returns for Dune 3, aka Dune Messiah, it might be a problem. Here's why.

I agree with everyone else's sentiments here, this was very entertaining. Kind of like a modern day Downton Abbey but with crime and Guy Ritchie-esque dark humor. This most reminded me of Ritchie's underappreciated movie Revolver, where this had more formalism and classiness to its filmmaking, music and cinematography than Ritchie's more gonzo cartoon style of filmmaking (and less humor but more posh class). It is a bit over the top as you have to accept cops basically don't exist but within the unique world they've built it's incredibly fun - everyone acts great in this too but the business relationship between Theo James and Kaya Scodelario is the reason I kept watching. Everyone should check this out!

Again, they weren't trying to make a terrible sequel, I also think they resent what the Matrix trilogy is to some degree to the studio and to fans. It's like the ending to Hideaki Anno's fourth Rebuild of Evangelion film, where he basically goes and tells otaku/anime die hards to stop caring about the minutia of Evangelion and go touch grass. This is similar in that it's trying to be like, stop watching these movies wanting a certain kind of thing (action scenes) because there are more important things/ideas to explore in film (like the first 45 minutes with Keanu and the computer game company, as an example). Basically, they wanted to be a metafictional sequel commenting on itself while disapproving of the fan service audiences wanted. I haven't said their films aren't divisive, I have. Again, I think you guys are missing what I'm saying: they weren't trying to make a terrible sequel, they were trying to make an idiosyncratic one. I was just saying the action is so-so because she didn't care about the action. That doesn't mean I think that outside of that she was trying to make a bad movie. I think she was trying to make a good, different kind of movie than previous Matrix movies and people didn't respond well to it, whether it was done well or not. I mean, in the opening scene they recreate the opening of the original film but it's all fake looking and shitty and poorly done, which is one of many scenes where they are commenting on simply remaking/rebooting the same thing just to do the same thing over again. I'm sure Lana Wachowski hoped people would respond to the film, so the film failed in that regard, all I'm saying is there is intentionality to the film, even if it isn't successful. I'm not trying to glamorize anything, the evidence is in the scenes, the film comments on itself regularly. I think a lot of audience members, like with a lot of divisive films, viscerally reacted negatively to something that seemed to rail against its own existence, and I think it's indicative of Lana Wachowski's head space when making the film. At no point have I said that this makes the film a 10/10 or something, just that the movie is more interesting than people have given it credit for. I'm not at all disputing their lack of success but I don't care about that, just the art itself.

That was a great season finale! Everyone is great on the show but the actor playing Tozawa fucking killed it in this episode. They do wrap up and "soft" end a number of plotlines but it's pretty clear the show wants to do another season, which I hope they get. Really well done stuff, and ended on a great and funny note with the meditation scene. We also finally found out who sent Jake that tape in season one. The real Jake Adelstein who wrote the book this is based on has written a couple of other books about Japan and crime, etc. so they do have more stories to tell if they get a chance to.

Season finale was pretty good, taking time to cover a lot of the fallout with Angstrom Levy. I was a little disappointed in their confrontation given Levy's power and intelligence and the time he had to create a plan to take down Mark but there didn't really seem to be a plan, especially given how things end up. The episode didn't really feel like a season finale in some ways, it just felt like another episode of the show but clearly we're in the middle of a larger arc. I thoroughly enjoyed the season and look forward to season 3.

I mean, I was probably one of the few who was looking forward to the final season to see everything wrapped up before it got cancelled so I'm definitely down to see it end properly but it seems like it would be hard to line up all the actors' schedules that they'd need etc. I hope it happens.

People change, their parents died, that's why Lilly said she didn't want to do it. If you've seen their alternate ending in the game The Matrix: Path of Neo they have already trolled their own franchise before. They've transitioned since they made the trilogy. The projects they've chosen to make since the trilogy also indicate changes to their filmmaking being made. I don't know what to tell you, don't believe it if you don't want, but I've provided the reasons how it could be deliberate, especially given the messaging in the movie itself. And I don't believe they're trying to replicate the success of the first Matrix. Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas, and Sense8 don't really scream trying to replicate the same success in terms of project choices. I'm not saying Lana Wachowski made a deliberately bad movie, she made a deliberate choice with Resurrections to make a point of de-glamorizing the action and violence by barely caring about a) putting action the movie (there isn't a lot) and b) not getting Yuen Woo-Ping or the John Wick stunt team or anyone to make the action scenes good. Not sure how you interpret all that but I interpret it as someone who doesn't particularly care about indulging the audience for what the Matrix had been known for. The movie comments on the original trilogy constantly, clearly indicating how Lana Wachowski feels about the original films, especially with the co-workers at the computer game company giving reasons as to "what makes The Matrix the Matrix". I'm not going to get into another debate after years of doing so with people over the quality of the Matrix sequels - it has fans (like me), and lots of people who don't like them (like you). They are divisive films that people are still debating to this day and I think that staying power says something and that's enough for me. And yes, I believe the Wachowski's are very torn in real life about wanting to protect their property and letting it go for others to potentially twist/ruin. The Wachowski's have made it clear time and time again in their work they hate power and authority, in Speed Racer the scene with the villain about stocks vs. Speed's love of racing says it all. That entire film could be about filmmaking, just replace the racing. So yes, it is strange and I imagine they are torn about it. And my point about The Last Jedi and The Last of Us Part 2 is the same as you're saying, Resurrections subverted expectations by not being a traditional Matrix sequel in the same way that audiences reacted strongly/poorly to that in the same way that they reacted strongly/poorly to the subverted aspects of The Last Jedi and TLOU2. Saying they are well made and well crafted and Resurrections is not is simply you endorsing the subverting audience expectations in the latter two examples but not the former, which is fine but at that point liking or not liking the subversion is gonna be person to person specific. I didn't love but I did like the subversions in Resurrections, well crafted or not. I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. I'm comparing it to Marvel/DC in terms of I'd want more blockbuster films trying to be more rather than blockbuster films that aren't even good at what they are trying to be (as you said, popcorn entertainment). If your movie is going to fail, fail big I say. Resurrections isn't a great movie but at least it's swinging for the fences. You call it "pretentious" and that it "pretends" to be deeper than it is but not sure how it's pretending anything, the movie is straight forward. Over the years you've indicated this inherent distaste for certain kinds of art house or indie cinema (you called Alan Wake II pretentious in a negative way as well) and I think that says more about you than it does the film. I can agree with people saying it feels longer but why is it uncomfortable to sit through? It's a rave party and a sex scene? Seems normal.

Sure, I'm just saying you can't automatically presume it would be like 7R's combat specifically. As I said, it certainly could, but it's not a given. And again, as others have pointed out, FF6 would work well in FF7R's combat system theoretically.

I'm not disagreeing with you that the purpose is arguably unneeded in this movie, but there are plenty of (bad) movies with actually purposeless scenes so my only point was that by comparison the Wachowskis were at least trying to actually do something with that scene, successful or not. Again, it's less than 5 minutes long, but people clearly had a problem with the scene. I never thought about it one way or another until audiences en masse came out complaining about it to the point an SNL skit was made to make fun of it. I think there are other issues with the sequels to focus on by comparison if one wanted to that are more endemic to the issues with the films. I still really enjoy them, even with their issues.

That's sort of the point of its function (to stop the movie), and it obviously serves a purpose (celebrating humanity), whether it succeeds in either seems to be that no, it doesn't.

There's no reason to assume an FF6 remake would adopt the same combat system as the FF7 remake. It could, but I don't think that's a given. Either way an FF6 remake probably isn't happening.