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    Films II : The Filminator

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    I watched The Killer, the new David Fincher assassin "thriller".

    I really enjoyed this. I was a little on the fence with it after watching it, but I've been chewing it over in my head for a few days now and for me it's top 5 Fincher, really good. It feels like something that is going to produce some interesting video essays on the state of consumerism or something like that. It looked gorgeous, but it's Fincher so no great shock there. I liked the slow mundane pace, with brief moments of low key, fairly realistic action and violence. Pretty much all the narration could be put on motivational posters, which is pretty funny and I think probably deliberate. I'm going to watch it again soon, I think a second viewing my throw up some underlying stuff missed on first viewing.

     

    I also saw Wish today at the cinema with the kids. It was odd and didn't quite work. I didn't enjoy it as much as Encanto or Moana. If you're a Disney or animation nerd it's cool as it incorporates loads of early Disney animation styles and tropes, mainly like Easter Eggs, it was fun spotting them though. I didn't like the animation style, it was 3d, sort of cell shaded characters, but with the old fashioned painted backgrounds, with any animals or objects animated like original hand drawn Disney films. It was a little jarring and gave it a bit of a JRPG cut scene aesthetic. Also I missed a chunk in the middle as my youngest got scared so I had to sit outside with him, I don't think I missed much in any sense of the word though

     

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    Fantasy Critic 2024

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    18 hours ago, Nag said:

    Apparently it's a technical mess... I have no idea who even made it tbf...

    It's saying something that it has done more damage to my score than my terrible counter picks did.

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    Marvel Cinematic Universe

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    27 minutes ago, OCH said:

    But that was always going to be a Disney problem (points to Star Wars

    I'd actually argue that what they've done with Star Wars regarding the shows has led to the best Star Wars content for some considerable time. It doesn't feel like it has been over saturated like the MCU does, and at least 75% of those shows have been good to great (Obi Wan and Book of Boba, I'm looking at you), and it generally feels like a good course correct for what they're doing with the Star Wars universe. I think a lot of that is down to Dave Filoni.

     

    With regards to MCU, I think it was also going to struggle post Endgame as it was so big and managed to land a pretty satisfying conclusion to a decade long movie saga, which is a pretty amazing feat really. That being said, I didn't expect the quality of content post Endgame to be this all over the shop. Very few of the films have been that good, most pretty average and some just bad (hello Eternals) and the TV show quality has also fluctuated wildly as well, but worst of all, just been a bit dull as well, none of it has been as good as MCU at its peak.

     

    I'm not really sure what they can do moving forward, all the multiverse stuff is pretty exhausting and reeks of them trying to integrate as many characters and IPs as possible, it doesn't have a neat through line like you got with the infinity stones. Kang could be great, but as said above, is currently over shadowed by claims against the actor (side point, they should probably just digitally bulk up the actors in post, hasn't it been speculated with a few MCU actors that they are juicing to get bulked up for roles, which comes with side effects), it's all just a bit of a mess.

     

    That being said, I'm quite looking forward to Marvel's. We just wrapped up Ms Marvel the other night and both me and my wife really enjoyed it, probably one of our favourite MCU shows. It helps that my wife is Pakistani Muslim, so all the cultural references just landed so well.

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    Books

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    3 hours ago, Metroid66 said:

    The restaurant at the end of the universe

    Is that the second book? I read all of them back when I was at uni, but they do drop off in quality IMO after the second, maybe even after the first if memory serves

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    Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1

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    3 hours ago, one-armed dwarf said:

    Now that these are out, people are finding out that it actually runs at 720p native on everything, upscaled to 1080p. Which leads to bad visual quality, worse than if it was just 720 without upscaling

     

    MGS1 doesn't have true analog support, it translates the analog inputs to 8 way digital (so snake controls poorly on stick, in other words)

     

    Sounds like a very low effort, but not surprising with Konami

    Nah man it's a meta commentary on capitalism and the state of modern gaming

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    The Hot Topic Returns

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    I've picked my favourite for each Nintendo console I've owned. I've left out the GBA as the only Nintendo titles I owned where remakes of snes titles, the others I played emulated.

     

    SNES: Super Mario All-Stars

    N64: Super Mario 64

    Game Cube: Super Mario Kart: Double Dash

    Wii: Super Mario Galaxy

    Switch: Super Mario Odyssey

    Game Boy: Links Awakening/Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (genuinely can't pick between those)

    DS: Animal Crossing (Wide World?)

    3DS: Super Mario 3D Land

     

    Favourite of the bunch, hard to say really. I've got a lot of nostalgia love for Mario64, but it hasn't aged well, I return to Mario Odyssey and I think that is probably my favourite 3D Mario title, Links Awakening felt like nothing I'd ever played before when it came out, I poured hundreds of hours into the Animal Crossing on the DS, se with Double Dash playing multi at uni. I'm not going to pick just one

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    Forza Motorsport

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    How are people getting on with this? I'm not sure if it's because I've not played a track racer properly for a long time (Forza 3 on the 360) or I'm just to used to the Horizon games, but I'm finding it a little bit of a chore. I'll keep going with it for the time being, as I've got Game Pass until January, but I'm not enjoying it as much as I'd hoped I would.

     

    I can't really put my finger on why, it feels like the Forza I remember, I quite like the game play loop of choose a tournament, get a car for it, level that car up as you go through and come out the other side with something better, but I think it might be a bit dull. Maybe I just enjoy the Horizon games more these days.

     

    I'm playing in performance mode on the Series S, oh boy it does not look good. I'm not a bit graphics guy but it looks very "last gen", but runs at 60fps though. Not tried it in visual mode (I can't remember the correct term) as I can't handle the switch back to 30fps once I'm at 60.

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