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Evil force ghost? Nice. Also Luke saying "we taught you..."... Obi-Wan confirmed?

I watched Thor Ragnarok last night on the old Netflix. I've come to the conclusion that is peak Marvel and the best MCU film. Everything about it is great. The score? Great. The humour? Great. The action? Great. It got rid of all the baggage of earlier Thor films, like Natalie Portman, the One Broke Girl, the Warriors Three, the goddamn fucking dutch tilts. Instead bringing in Val and Jeff Goldblum and the Hulk. Thor telling Bruce "sun's getting real low" over and over again just kills me. The use of colour is just great, the entire thing just looks awesome. Taika Watiti is the man. EDIT: I DIDN'T EVEN MENTION KORG! "Piss off, ghost!" is the best goddamn one liner in the MCU. Don't @ me.

Screenshot from Letterboxd.

I saw Captain Marvel on Friday. First, I have to say, it was my first time seeing a film in IMAX, which was cool as hell. Also, the movie was pretty darn good. I think it ranks among the upper echelon of Marvel origin films, with Black Panther. Brie and Samuel L were great. The de-aging on Mr. Jackson was incredible. Same with Coulson who I could have used more of, one of my few nitpicks. The Skrulls were awesome and it was so cool to see them on film. I can't wait to see her with the Avengers ...next month?! Anywho, as per tradition:

I watched Aquaman last night. I heard it was pretty good. It was not. It felt like 5 goddamn hours long and nothing really happened.

Bought this on the Switch on sale via the eStore. I liked the first well enough and this seems to be more of the same.

Good point, Dean. That makes it all the more cringe when they say "we need to experiment more" and then they put coins on a drum.

Think of it as $40 for the game and $20 for built in Funky DLC.

Let me rant about Bohemian Rhapsody. Spoilers ahead. It's not as bad as the Jimi Hendrix biopic but that's not saying much. I actually saw A Star Is Born recently too and I kind of wished I saw this first, it's blandness might have made me like ASIB more. The home version I saw also had the full Live Aid concert, which I don't really understand the point of, I guess if you've ever wanted to watch actors lip sync to Queen for 20 minutes than it was probably worthwhile. It failed to make Freddie a captivating, or even understandable character. Also, I don't feel like anyone who worked on this movie had ever played in a band or written a song because none of that stuff is portrayed naturally. The whole second/third act was about Freddie feeling held back by Queen, so he leaves the band and goes solo for awhile, then he fires the guy keeping them apart and they reunite for Live Aid. Live Aid was their first show in years! Except, Wikipedia mentions: "Queen never split up, so Live Aid was not a reunion. They released The Works in early 1984 and then toured worldwide. The last show of the tour was eight weeks before Live Aid." So, the whole crux of the movie was bullshit. There was other things too, like Freddie meeting his longtime girlfriend the day of Queen's first concert. Or Freddie finally getting together with his boyfriend and immediately introducing him (and coming out to) his family right before Live Aid. Obviously any biopic movie will move things around to make them more cinematic but this felt particularly obvious and egregious. As far as these large focus music biopics go, I think Walk The Line was way better. Smaller focus biopics like Love & Mercy or abstract ones like I'm Not There made much better movies and I think gave me a better understanding of Brian Wilson and Bob Dylan, respectively. Honestly, I can't believe this got a Best Picture nom. I mean I can. But it shouldn't have.

If you guys know anything about me, you know I've been wanting to play as Funky Kong since 1996.

New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe I beat the final boss but still have a ton of levels to finish. I tend to power through these games so I can get to the point where I can save whenever and then I get distracted and move on. Maybe Nintendo should just let us save from the get go. Still, I never even saw the final few worlds on Wii U, despite this being the best of the New series. It was even better on Switch. It was nice to play on the TV with the pro controller but also worked great handheld. Toadette/Peachette is the bomb and I'd take a whole game centred around her. WUPOTY (Wii U Port of the Year).

Mavis!!!

Are we going to form a PS4 posse or what? We'll call ourselves... the X PUSHERS!!!

So I take it you will NOT be playing co-op with me??

Nah but it was $35 so why not.

I'm excited to dive in. I've heard nothing but good things about this game!!

Red Dead Redemption 2 I have a lot to say about this game. And almost all of it is praise. I loved every minute of this story. There's a lot of layers and the way everything is tied together in the end makes not only a terrific game but also adds and compliments the original Red Dead Redemption. Arthur Morgan is my favourite video game character, period. From who is when he starts, to who he is at the end, is the best character growth I've seen in a game. This game does what The Last of Us set out to do but does it much better, IMHO. Not only Arthur but with side characters too, there was a handful of them that I got really invested in... mainly Sadie, Charles, Lenny, Hosea, John +fam. Seeing what the main antagonist does, slowly over time, made me absolutely hate them. Dutch's transformation, while you knew it was coming based off where he is in RDR1, is heartbreaking. He's charismatic in the beginning and you get the feeling he truly cares about his people. Or he's just really good at pretending he does. Then at the end... well, no need to drop spoilers but you can guess how that ends up. The epilogue stuff is PURE fanservice but in an 80ish hour campaign, I don't mind, at all, in fact, I LOVED IT. 10/10 GOTY.

Chapter 6 now. How are you not?!?! No, I need to cool it and do some more side stuff.

Wow chapter 5.... When Red Dead goes full I love it.

You could always stop playing the bad game to play the good game??

Check out that fucking double rainbow!

You guys know I don't like to just throw this around but...... this might be the game of the year.