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  1. Barely seen any films this year but saw police story too, thought it was good
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  2. Rewatched Seven Samurai (1954) on the BFI 4k that recently released. Never have you seen the very fake looking bald caps in such high definition, the level of detail allows you to see the elastic band straining against their foreheads Watched it in 2 sittings which I prefer not to do but the film is super long, 3.5 hours. I usually like to watch something in one sitting but I find it a challenge with this film cause there's some elements I don't have much patience for, like the comedy. I do not like Mifune in this. I like Kurosawa's other films better I think, partly I guess cause this film is so insanely influential and originates this type of action film that it feels very familiar and cliche. But the best parts of his films are the scene composition, and the way people move through a frame. Also the B&W photography with the rain and the mud during action scenes. The detail in which they go into the plan to defend the village, which is my favorite part. Flooding the fields after the harvest and creating openings to isolate and pick off the bandits one by one. I really like that kind of methodical stuff in a film. It's what makes it such an interesting action epic still, even if I don't love it enough to call it one of the greatest films ever made for me personally. More like I respect the fuck out of it, or something. This whole ending scene is 10/10 tho. Look at how it's composed like a triangle, the graves pointing downwards to the surviving samurai. The youngest guy on the right a little listless and indecisive, like he doesn't belong or is unsure of his place in this society or the other with the farmers. Fucking great stuff --- edit I also watched Police Story (1985) for the first time, my last film of the year. This film is nuts. It's an action comedy, but the action is so brutal and hilarious, and Jackie Chan almost died in some scenes (for real) I'll not say more, check out the action scenes on youtube or watch the film if you haven't.
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  3. Yeah that Uncivil War artwork isn't the best... as long as there's some good gore in there it's all good though. šŸ˜€ @Maryokutai
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  4. Yeah, I can see that. This game might just be catching me at the right time and itā€™s very different to anything else Iā€™ve played lately. I also donā€™t necessarily think the car museum is interesting, I just skipped through some to have a look. But I do think it has a very weird style to it which I kinda dig. Like the opening video I posted, itā€™s pretentious to the point of silly. Like the gameā€™s ā€œmain campaignā€ is basically a mission mode where you go to a car cafe and some picture of a guy called Luca gives you a restaurant style menu to some jazz background music and politely tells you what to do next to complete the menu. Then some other picture of I guess famous car people turn up and go ā€œis that your Renault? I made that by the way let me tell you a paragraph about itā€ Itā€™s so weird. But I dig weird. The actual racing is showing some cracks for me already. As said earlier the AI is very static (but Iā€™m only playing on medium difficulty so I dunno what happens if adjusted, also when looking at stuff on YT they might have added a new AI thing called Sophy? I dunno yet), the game seems to already be running out of tracks, and I know what you mean by the cars donā€™t actually turn, the camera is so fixed to the back end of the car, I think itā€™s why I find cornering hard. In the replays, though, it looks very nice Another thing which is holding my interest is having to actually learn the game. Itā€™s been ages since Iā€™ve played a racing game that has no rewind button and the 50% cash penalty for clean racing is making me not play it like bumper cars like I usually do. The game is already making me accept some corners just canā€™t be taken at 60mph. Which goes against everything in me but it is working out better Iā€™m having a great time with it so far. This game is nice
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  5. Made a start on this after getting it for m birthday. Man I miss this type of game. Thereā€™s something about getting these maps, ticking off rooms and doing stupid nonsense puzzles like gluing pieces together and playing a song in a jukebox to get a key. Makes no sense but I love it. Always loved this type of stuff ever since I first played RE on Saturn. Excellent sound design and smashing shit is fun too. Not gotten far yet. Just reached the apartments. But Iā€™m a big fan so far. Shame visually and performance wise itā€™s a bit rubbish at times though. The flickering which happens on shiney surfaces (& door handles for some reason) and fuzzy puddles especially are breaking me out of the immersion. On PS5.
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  6. Iā€™ve properly gotten into this recently. Completed on standard and itā€™s brilliant. The jump to hard is insane though! So many more bullet patterns to learn and extra enemies plus fewer lives. Thereā€™s a trophy for doing the city level on hard. I must have been at that shit for about an hour just trying to beat it. Fucking did it though!!
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  7. šŸ˜®ā€šŸ’Ø Ā£15 for Tetris Effect and itā€™s Steam Deck verified maybe one more game itā€™s not 2025 yet https://store.steampowered.com/app/1003590/Tetris_Effect_Connected/
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  8. Wasn't planning on getting more stuff this year but suddenly LRG creeps into my letterbox, 'Heeere's Johnny!' style. Though I did technically pay for it about half a year ago, so at least it doesn't cut into my December expenses.
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  9. Went shopping for trousers today and came home without new clothes but three books. Cat book is for my mum who recently told me she'd like to read some English stuff. The left one I only bought because of the funny format. Middle one sounds super interesting, I hope I'm smart enough to understand big water talk.
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