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https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/marvel-lend-sony-mcu-characters-spiderman/

Clickbait?

Same, unless there's a Pro version available at launch.  Otherwise I guess it'll be a two year wait again.  It usually takes about that long for the interesting exclusives to start rolling out anyways.  

Perhaps the news of no third person cinematics is also an announcement that the ingame mirror reflections will be stunning. 

18 hours ago, Rodimus said:

This feels like a design via someone making a Steam Machine while jacked up on mountain dew.

I feel like that article might've downplayed the degree of poisonousness in a brown recluse bite just a tad 

Bruce Lee wasn't a legit fighter anyway, didn't anyone understand that scene in the new Tarantino movie?  

*indeed a joke, please nobody start debating the meaning of that scene because holy fuck is that debate cancer

Just now, AbsolutSurgen said:

V is also the Roman numeral for 5. 

correct, hence the "also" in my edited post

Is the v also an abbreviation for "ventilation" because that seems to be why it is there. 

Still the whole package: script, performances, visuals, music, sound design and iconic scenes and quotable dialogue throughout.  It's difficult to put into words how special Jurassic Park was when seeing it as a kid in theaters back in 93. There was palatable hype starting with screenshots in magazines, the marketing, action figures, trailers and so on.  Then to actually go and watch the movie and have it be as good as it was, exceeding all expectations, talking about it with everyone the next day...the levels of hype and enjoyment it evoked...it isn't something that happens frequently. I don't feel nostalgia very often, but that movie is probably an exception. 

Video games, internet, sleep, podcasts, Netflix, food that I definitely spend a bit too much on but don't care, collecting action figures and cudding with puppers

Symphony of the Night for sure

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/alien-40-anniverary-ridley-scott-1203223989/

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It’s difficult to imagine Ridley Scott’s sci-fi/horror classic “Alien” without the clear-minded, strong presence of Tom Skerritt as Dallas, the captain of the ill-fated Nostromo.

But originally, the actor turned down “Alien,” which celebrates its 40th anniversary on May 25, though he thought Dan O’Bannon’s script read well. “There was nobody involved at the time apparently,” said Skerritt. “I read it and thought, ‘it’s solid. It’s not a great script but it’s solid enough I can see it. But it was a $2 million budget! I thought, okay at 2 million bucks this might be an Ed Wood movie.”

 

As fate would have it, he went to see 1977’s “The Duelists,” for which Ridley Scott unanimously received the award for best first work at the Cannes Film Festival. “I was just blown over by ‘The Duelists,’” noted Skerritt.

 

“I thought, this is a masterpiece. It’s a painting. I thought I wanted to remember who this this guy is. Then I got a call from one of the producers of ‘Alien,’ Gordon Carroll, and he said “They’ve kicked up the budget and a guy named Ridley Scott is doing it. I said, ‘I’m sold.’ All I needed to know was Ridley was going to do this and he would make magic out of it.”

 

Scott wasn’t the first choice of the producers, which also include David Giler and Walter Hill, to make magic out of O’Bannon’s script — Ronald Shusett co-wrote the original story with O’Bannon.

 

“I was the fourth choice,” noted Scott, adding that Robert Altman had been offered the movie before him. “You don’t offer Bob ‘Alien,” he explained. “It’s not his thing, you know?”

 

Someone, he said, recommended the producers see “The Duelists.” Scott acknowledged he didn’t know how they connected a 19th century period drama to a sci-fi thriller about an alien creature running amok and killing off the members of a spaceship.

 

“They sent me a script and I read it,” said Scott. “I loved it. I was in Hollywood within 32 hours. Once I was there, they said ‘Look, the budget is hovering just under $4 million.’ I did ‘The Duelists” for $850,000, so the figures sounded right to me. I said, ‘Well, what I will do first is go back [to London], look at this carefully to see if there’s anything I need to adjust.”’

 

It took Scott three weeks to storyboard the film. “I was drawing all day. Then I flew back to L.A. with the boards, and they suddenly saw they had a different kind of movie. The boards told them that. So, that’s the power of being able to visualize. It went up to $8.2, I think. Then we went to $8.6 by the time we finished.”

 

Besides Skerritt, the cast includes Sigourney Weaver in her featured role debut as Ripley, the warrant officer who goes mano-a-monster with the alien; Veronica Cartwright, as the emotional navigator Lambert; the iconic Harry Dean Stanton as the engineering tech Brett; John Hurt as executive officer Kane; Ian Holm as Ash, the science officer who actually is an android; and Yaphet Kotto as chief engineer Parker.

 

“Alien” made $105 million worldwide back in 1979 — the adjusted gross is $283.5 million — and spawned three sequels, two crossovers with the “Predator” franchise, and two prequels, 2012’s “Prometheus” and 2017’s “Alien: Covenant,” both directed by Scott. A third prequel, which he will direct, is in the script phase.

 

The tagline for “Alien” was “In space, no one can hear you scream.” Ironically, audiences couldn’t stop screaming. As soon as the baby alien lifeform bursts from Kane’s stomach in a shower of gore, “Alien” is a non-stop thrill ride.

 

“Nobody had ever done anything like that,” offered Cartwright.

 

Scott also followed the rule that the best horror and sci-fi films adhere to: Never reveal too much.

 

“You don’t show the monster too many times because you’ll get used to him and you never want to get used to him — ever. That’s always been my thesis. The best screening room in the world is the space between your ears, which is your brain. So, it’s learning to tap into the human brain to show just so much. Let the brain do a lot of the work. That’s where you start to tap into people’s anxieties.”

 

Michael Seymour’s Oscar-nominated production design added to the anxiety. “The Nostromo was one giant set on a stage at [Shepperton], all built together so that they could do those kinds of shots,” said screenwriter Scott Essman. “Where you’re going from room to room and you’re going down hallways and it’s underlit. It’s very suspenseful and you don’t know where the creature is from one moment to the next.”

 

Essman noted that “Alien” was one of the creepiest films ever made in terms of its distinctive look. “The cinematography, the lighting and mood and how Scott moves the camera around the ship is really haunting.”

 

“Additionally, H.R. Giger’s creature designs were deeply disturbing, decidedly erotic, and wholly unique in a genre film,” said Essman.

“Everything was very claustrophobic,” added Cartwright. “We had tons of smoke. It was so filthy.”

 

“Alien” was produced before CGI, so all of the creature effects were done practically on the set, including the terrifying, bloody “birth” of the alien baby.

 

Hurt, said Skerritt, was “laying down on a platform beneath the table and the t-shirt he’s got on has been sliced enough so that it will be pushing up through that t-shirt.”

While Hurt and the effects were being set up, the cast were in their dressing room for hours waiting.

 

“They had filled the chest with offal [and fake blood] and we retched as we walked in,” said Cartwright. “The whole place was wrapped in plastic. Everybody was in raincoats. We were like okay, what’s happening? They said I would get a little blood on me; little did I know I would be leaning directly into a blood jet. I got blasted in the face and then that ‘Oh god,’ came out. Those were all our first reactions in literally one take.”

 

“Alien” went on to win the Oscar for best visual effects.

 

Speaking of Hurt, actor Jon Finch (“Frenzy,” “Macbeth”) was originally cast as the doomed Kane, but an illness on set caused him to drop out, says Scott.

 

“I always operate on my films, so there’s only one camera,” said Scott. “So, I’m on camera, doing my first shot, first take, and I notice Jon has gone yellow. So, I walk over to him and he said, ‘I feel terrible. I’m a diabetic.’ I said, we better get you out of here. You need some insulin.”

 

They got him into an ambulance “and I never saw him again,” Scott said. He would eventually cast Finch in his 2005 epic, “Kingdom of Heaven.”

 

Later, Scott went to see Hurt, who had been in strong contention for the role. Over drinks at Hurt’s cottage, Scott offered him the job. “We had him in the office the next day, got him measured. I was shooting by just shortly after lunch.”

 

Cartwright say Scott worked in a “really interesting way. He hardly ever talked to us. He was a workaholic. He could go for hours and hours and not sleep. He had such a vision of what it as going to be like.”

 

As to why “Alien” quickly entered the pop culture landscape and still endures four decades later, Scott said, “I think ‘Alien’ captured our most primordial fears. It’s particularly special because it’s not gilded with any characterization other than what you see is what you get — minute by minute with these people. That’s really why a lot of people were scared to death. It’s because they are living in it, minute by minute, and eventually, second by second.”

 

That nine minute game awards trailer...if that was a clip from a live action movie it would be just as amazing, which is something you can't say often about video games.  Hopefully the upcoming reveal will show in depth what the gameplay is like.

My mother, alive or not, is a pretty ridiculous person, so it's not like it would be an unreasonable take.  I don't think parents should be respected just because they are parents.

  http://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2019/05/20/an-ending/  

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The last night, the last show. After eight epic seasons, HBO’s GAME OF THRONES series has come to an end.

It is hard to believe it is over, if truth be told. The years have gone past in the blink of an eye. Can it really have been more than a decade since my manager Vince Gerardis set up a meeting at the Palm in LA, and I sat down for the first time with David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for a lunch that lasted well past dinner? I asked them if they knew who Jon Snow’s mother was. Fortunately, they did.

That was how it started. It ended last night.

I had no clue, that afternoon at the Palm, that I was about to embark on a journey that would change my life. I had optioned books and stories for television and film before. Some had even been made There was no way to know that this one was going to be different, that this pilot would not only be shot, but would go on to become the most successful show in the history of HBO, win a record number of Emmy Awards, become the most popular (and most pirated) show in the world, and transform a group of talented but largely unknown actors into major celebrities and stars. Even less did I imagine that I would somehow become a celebrity as well… and if truth be told, I’m still not sure how that happened.

It has been a wild ride, to say the least.

I want to thank people, but there are so many. There were forty-two cast members at the season eight premiere in New York City, and that wasn’t even all of them. And the crew, though less visible than the cast, were no less important. We had some amazing people working on this show, as all those Emmys bear witness. David & Dan assembled a championship team. The directors were incredible as well. I should start naming names, but then I’d miss someone, there were so many. But I do need to mention David Benioff, Dan Weiss, Bryan Cogman (the third head of the dragon, as I said in the recent VANITY FAIR piece about him), and of course the great team at HBO, headed by Richard Plepler. Any other network, and GAME OF THRONES would not have been what it became. Most other networks, this series never gets made at all.

I could go on and on… and have, as I’ve been writing this post in my head… but there’s really too much to say. Parting is such sweet sorrow, the Bard wrote. In the weeks and months to come, I may post about some of my favorite moments from the making of this show… now and again, when I am feeling nostalgic… but just now, there are so many memories, and no time to do them all justice.

Let me say this much — last night was an ending, but it was also a beginning. Nobody is retiring any time soon. David and Dan are going on to STAR WARS and other projects beyond that. Amazon scooped up Bryan Cogman, and put him to work on developing shows of his own, as well as helping out on their big Tolkien project. Our brilliant cast has scattered to the four winds, but you’ll be seeing a lot of them in the years to come, in all manner of television shows and movies. Our directors are keeping busy as well. I suspect that you have not seen the last of Westeros on your television sets either, but I guess that all depends on how some of these successor shows turn out.

And me? I’m still here, and I’m still busy. As a producer, I’ve got five shows in development at HBO (some having nothing whatsoever to do with the world of Westeros), two at Hulu, one on the History Channel. I’m involved with a number of feature projects, some based upon my own stories and books, some on material created by others. There are these short films I am hoping to make, adaptations of classic stories by one of the most brilliant, quirky, and original writers our genre has ever produced. I’ve consulted on a video game out of Japan. And then there’s Meow Wolf…

And I’m writing. Winter is coming, I told you, long ago… and so it is. THE WINDS OF WINTER is very late, I know, I know, but it will be done. I won’t say when, I’ve tried that before, only to burn you all and jinx myself… but I will finish it, and then will come A DREAM OF SPRING.

How will it all end? I hear people asking. The same ending as the show? Different?

Well… yes. And no. And yes. And no. And yes. And no. And yes.

I am working in a very different medium than David and Dan, never forget. They had eight hours for this final season. I expect these last two books of mine will fill 3000 manuscript pages between them before I’m done… and if more pages and chapters and scenes are needed, I’ll add them. And of course the butterfly effect will be at work as well; those of you who follow this Not A Blog will know that I’ve been talking about that since season one. There are characters who never made it onto the screen at all, and others who died in the show but still live in the books… so if nothing else, the readers will learn what happened to Jeyne Poole, Lady Stoneheart, Penny and her pig, Skahaz Shavepate, Arianne Martell, Darkstar, Victarion Greyjoy, Ser Garlan the Gallant, Aegon VI, and a myriad of other characters both great and small that viewers of the show never had the chance to meet. And yes, there will be unicorns… of a sort…

Book or show, which will be the “real” ending? It’s a silly question. How many children did Scarlett O’Hara have?

How about this? I’ll write it. You read it. Then everyone can make up their own mind, and argue about it on the internet.

 

- Daenerys' character arc is one that would make my conservative grandparents quite happy "So much for the tolerant left!" etc

- The scene of the fucking dragon realizing how evil the throne/an authoritarian monarchy was before any of the smartest human characters on the show. C'mon now 

- It almost felt like Tyrion while forming the council at any second was gonna say, "...but at what cost?  Has anyone truly won, in this game of thrones?"

- It got a bit dusty during the Brianne writing about Jamie scene, Arya and Jon saying goodbye and the Jon, Tormund and Ghost reunion scene.

- I'm really, really happy things ended as well as they did for Tyrion. Maybe a little too well, but I honestly don't care.

- I can't wait to wait a couple years and re-watch the show knowing how it ends so I can pick up on the tons of foreshadowing in earlier seasons. 

40 minutes ago, Emblazon said:

Fuck yes. Hopefully that "three worlds" doesn't mean only three episodes. 

Three episodes, unfortunately:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/black-mirror-season-5-cast-premiere-date-trailer-1210653

Anyone have a list going of games that are pretty much finished instead of works in progress? (takes more than a couple hours to finish, etc)? Something like Marbelous, for example.

On 5/15/2019 at 8:14 PM, 2user1cup said:

What's a chiset man? Man right? Not min? men, mon, mun?

On 5/15/2019 at 7:44 PM, NeoJoe said:

I don't understand what that second tweet means. 

Cisgender, Hererosexual. Sounds like the account making that tweet might be trolling though 

23 minutes ago, crispy4000 said:

 

I’m open for a discussion on it.

 

I’ve admittedly said the same thing several times now about the death toll / cognitive dissonance issue. I don’t think there’s much interest.  Still think it’s the elephant in the room here.

I'm not!

But mainly because of your despicably insensitive opinions on fat people in this thread (or LBGT - large big guys in t-shirts - to use the preferred nomenclature).  How DARE you, sir. All of your opinions are hereby void because of that 

1 minute ago, crispy4000 said:

 

This solution is still inadequate considering you’d still be killing hundreds of cleft lip horror monsters.  This idea that a few good guy npcs with it could change the tone of all that slaughter is naive.

 

If the goal is to be culturally sensitive, the only real option is to take it out.  Also, all traits a person with a disfigurement, disability or marginalized trait could be offended by if portrayed as horror.

 

At that point, I doubt such monsters would have many humanized traits at all.

 

 

 

If you say so, fella.

Welp.

However while it's possible jgerighty's tweet was intended as a joke it could've still been tweeted to see how much potential interest there is in a new Splinter Cell game 

There's already a trilogy of trilogies about Skywalkers as well as possibly a trilogy or more of side stories taking place during that time.  It's a big ass galaxy, there will be plenty more stories to tell.