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I've a suspicion that many have seen Spirited Away. I am sad to say despite efforts on the contrary its my only Ghibli film I've seen (in whole) to date. @Mister JackJack I assume that's not a prequel to Birdman. In other news my three week run of films continues. Pacific Rim: Uprising It's actually quite a surprising film. Some unexpected turns. It's the usual silliness just ramped up a ton. John Boyega continues to kill it and happily does much of the heavy lifting. Some old favourites show up (as long as they're not nuked in the first). There is a bit near the end than runs counter to some of the lore of the first in order to set up the finale but you can ignore that. Also just ignore that for some reason they ramped up production of Jaegers and pilot training despite it being a decade after the war ended (on a shoe string).

So Agent Coulson and Ronan the Accuser (and Korath the Pursuer...."who?") will be in the Captain Marvel film. Neat.

https://www.pcgamer.com/making-deus-ex-mankind-divideds-best-level-the-palisade-bank/?utm_content=buffer7c998&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer-pcgamertw A break down of the creation of the Palisade Bank level, if you're into that kind of thing.

Sam Worthington, that guy from Clash of the Titans and that film where he goes to another planet and becomes an alien will star in The Titan, a film where he (might) go to another planet and become an alien.

Found Hawkeye

Got Mirror's Edge Catalyst cos it's £4 in Amazon Easter sale. Also picked up Codenames last week too.

Also this is kinda cheating I feel by virtue of mixing in actual pokemon battle music Otherwise I've been listening to "bad" music today according to my younger sister. She wanted me to change it to the UK Top 50 so I think I'll stick with my Hall n Oates.

Tomb Raider Not brilliant, but far exceeding initial expectations. A pretty solid screen adaptation of the newer games, and I think if you've played the newer games you'll get a fair kick out of it (though it's significantly shorter story wise). It maybe could do with been a bit shorter at the front of the film, easily could have had much of it removed to make more room for more stuff on the island. Alicia Vikander is pretty good choice and it's kinda cool that they do portray quite well the sort of 'avoiding destiny living in the city' type girl to ...well Lara Croft. She gets the pickaxe fairly late on, in fact after the bow and arrow and after she's scaled a cliff. So it's a bit arse backwards in that regard. Though it's kind of amusing that the pickaxe is focused on in a kind of "my name is Khan" way; where it'd seem a bit odd to anyone who isn't aware of preceding material. They did curse themselves by setting themselves up with the Trinity stuff for a sequel. Oh it has Nick Frost in it too. Only a small role but a fun surprise. Even if it's clear no one involved in that scene has ever used a pawnshop before (maybe the semi-shady ones selling dual-wielded guns don't do receipts like the high street pawn shops?) I think the big thing it'll struggle against is most people I've seen about have mainly compared it to the Angelina Jolie films rather than to the newer games which are quite far apart in style. edit: Also it's fucking weird seeing meter tall "Square Enix" logo at the start of a live action film.

It's a 31hr marathon. I've seen some news that some cinemas are doing it leading up to Infinity War, and that surely has to be the worst way to see that film. Sleep deprived, in a room of people that'll absolutely stink, yourself included. I'd say you can probably skip most of Phase 1 given Thanos intro is with Avengers Assemble. Can probably skip any film that doesn't have an explicit Infinity Stone in it (most Iron Mans, Captain America 2/3, Spider-Man, Thor 1, Ant-Man...quite a few actually). I'm just probably gonna watch a "refresher" video beforehand, surely many YT channels will be cranking out dat content.

For queen and country! Just not your queen and country.

"US test audiences hated it, lets make it a Netflix film for the rest of the world" strikes me as particularly stupid decision. I wonder if something is up with Paramount, given they also did same with Cloverfield. Especially with this where they've kinda fucked over future deals with a whole host of directors who'll be like "so I'm making a film for cinema and you're just gonna throw it up on TV...yeah I'll spend my next two years with another studio". At least likes of Bright n Mute it was known going in it'd be a Netflix only thing.

TIL oranges can be made combustible.

It didn't do "badly in cinemas" (well it might have but it's not the point). Paramount sold global distribution rights to Netflix. US n China are the only two countries with a cinema release. Sort of what happened with Cloverfield Paradox (also Paramount). Main thing being that there was a two week release delay between US and global release. Does mean if you've a VPN or what not you can probably give it a watch on int'l Netflix (is Hola or whatever still a thing?)

Watching S2 of Jessica Jones atm is reminding me how much I want Carrie Ann-Moss in John Wick 3. Also maybe Sandra Bullock on the High Table. Annihilation Watched this the other day. It's a pretty dang trippy film. The pace is a little bit weird, but I'd imagine it draws from being a book (though I've heard it's only 'loosley' based on the book). Also (Prey spoilers) Oh that bear is still popping into my head now n then. Also the intestines. n the tree people.

Okay I want to see it just for the "I'm offering you $100,000,000 ".

"it could have been a lot worse" A lot worse how?

So I've noticed of late that the Bundle thing is mightily messed up, but means it might be worth checking the various bundles before picking up a game "standalone" if it's the only one not in your collection.

I am currently playing World of Final Fantasy. Super fun and cute game. Not exactly a difficult game, but certainly something great to put on and chill out with. Only major issue for me has been it has an old-fashioned save point system which means playing to a certain point to save, and also early in-game trying to head to a save point and triggering new cutscenes n what not I then have to sit through n don't want to skip cos I don't want to miss bits. Otherwise it's just a load of goofy fun. Runs great on Steam Link too.

Star Wars Rebels has now finished. I dunno what I can or cannot chat about. Also somewhat unsure how I feel on it, and how it ties in with the other bits and bobs. Certainly pretty end. Anyone else watching?

Ehhhh... I'd go with the "not real" thing, at least not something put together by that poster since he had a bot 'watch' Saw films, and it outputted a script that was formatted in the same way a script would be. So at best it was fed a bunch of Saw scripts. I think someone linked the bot-written Harry Potter before but if not: http://botnik.org/content/harry-potter.html There are still a bunch of things written by bots. I believe quite a lot of sport reports are bot written given as long as you have the relevant stats a bot can competently put together much of the rest. There's services for bot written reports as well. This is what Associated Press use: https://automatedinsights.com/case-studies/associated-press Here's Washington Post bot written sport report: https://www.washingtonpost.com/allmetsports/2017-fall/games/football/87055/?utm_term=.c0d1fda74c6a

Short clip of Doug Jones. Certainly an extremely prolific actor. Great he's getting a lot of recognition of late.

Power of a strong Matriarch?

Death of Stalin Basically apart from Jason Isaacs it wasn't hugely funny, and I guess I'm also not great at following subterfuge films (I had issues following Tinker Tailor too). Also maybe I need to know more about Stalinist Russia.

It's on sale atm. I also got the Humble Monthly so there's all that too.