This was one of the happiest music discoveries I had last year! Really enjoyed several of their albums, but had somehow missed this track.

For what it is worth, I found it thrilling as a snot nosed teen who watched it in class for some reason or another. It suffers a little from its reputation as “the greatest film ever made”, but, it remains a very good character drama. Interest in the history of film and filmmaking will also go a long way towards making the movie compelling.

Honestly makes sense. I work with a population that is often hard hard of hearing, and therefore they’ve got their speakerphones on full tilt. Sometimes, I’ll call and hear myself through their phone with a minor delay. The effect is not unlike having my brain temporarily scrambled.

Oh thank goodness for the banana. Now I have proper scale.

Demolition Man was such a treat for me when I finally got around to watching it during the pandemic. So much fun.

Absolutely horrifying illustration…I love it and crave sprite now. Can we get this in front of whatever ad agency Sony hired to produce this?

I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but it’s a drum worth beating; if you live somewhere with a public library, there is a very good chance that they have a collection of cookbooks that are available to check out for free. Alternatively, no one has ever batted an eye at me making copies of the specific recipes I want to try right there at the library. I have to pay $0.10 a copy, but it’s worth it. Especially since I know how I cook, and this keeps the library’s books out of harm’s way. My local library has stuff ranging from the latest James Beard winners, to tried and true standbys like The Joy of Cooking, as well as stuff with a local focus (either ingredients, or historical).

Definite improvement! It has so much more dimension, not to mention character. Great job!

Oh buddy. You’re one of today’s (un)lucky 10,000.

Content warning: child abuse. This is Lisa, one of the most abhorrent, warped, and borderline psychotic examples of fundamentalist evangelism I’ve ever come across. All of Chick’s work is to greater or lesser degrees reprehensible, but at least when the subject matter is a gross misrepresentation of something like DnD, there is comedy to be mined. Not so, here.

Good eye, sniper! I suppose it’s possible the artist was just painting off the cuff, but your photo is a very compelling argument for their inspiration.

That’s a very pretty landscape!

I agree, Event Horizon is the best Anderson movie I’ve seen, with the caveat that I haven’t seen his post-Resident Evil stuff, nor Soldier, and I’ve got a big soft spot for Kurt Russell. However, I am slightly more lukewarm on Event Horizon than a lot of folks. I haven’t watched it in some time, but I recall being underwhelmed. To some extent, I think it was over hyped to me, as my dad raved that it was terrifying when he saw it in the theater. I did not find that to be the case, but, in so far as haunted house movies go, it’s a decent one of those (IN SPAAAAAACE). My letterboxd says I gave it 3.5 stars and that still feels correct to me.

The thing that holds it back is that I think, in a different director’s hands, there is a legitimately terrifying movie to be made using most of the same ingredients. I’m by no means equivocating these movies, but an interesting point of comparison is the Solaris remake that Soderbergh and Clooney did in the early 00s. They share the conceit of “there is a mysterious entity in space which keeps showing one of the characters visions of his dead-by-suicide wife to disastrous effect” (insert weird-that-it-happened-twice.gif).

By all accounts, the Solaris remake is not an exceptional movie (in fact, EH is rated slightly higher with a 3.3 vs Solaris’ 3.2, for whatever that’s worth). Also, Solaris is very much a character drama first and foremost, but there are a few sequences which I found legitimately unsettling in ways that EH mostly failed to evoke, despite covering similar beats.

In fact, I think I’ve talked myself into doing this as a double feature. Solaris I saw on television probably close to 20 years ago, and Event Horizon I watched on a laptop in Afghanistan, so I could stand to revisit both of them. I’m curious if watching them together will enhance the experience in any way, or if it will just give me tonal whiplash lol

Admittedly I don’t remember a tremendous amount of it, but my recollection is mildly positive. If the 1995 movie is 2.5 stars outta 5 (in my personal rubric, that equates to ‘I like it, but acknowledge it’s not good’, and also happens to be where all of Paul W.S. Anderson’s films live), I’d give the 2021 version 3 stars.

It benefits from making use of the R rating, and having better fight choreography and stunt performances. I think those are much more important to get right than characterization or plot, at least in a Mortal Kombat movie.

For what it’s worth, idgaf about the lore of the franchise, so a fan of the games may take issue with that take, but my perspective is one of a fan of martial arts movies, not necessarily an MK fan.

Good News sounds interesting. I am curious at how well I’d be able to read the comedy in the performances. I’m no stranger to Asian cinema, but typically more of the straight action variety.

How are both Firefox and Timber Cub (right side, grey fur, blue shirt) both giving me side eye? That seems difficult to do in a fur suit, unless the eyes just sorta follow you round the room …

I assume your tongue is fairly firmly in your cheek, but I can’t think of a better example for “mediocre movie” than Mortal Kombat. Lots of stuff to like about it (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Robin Shou’s hair, Goro, several of the sets, etc), mixed in with mostly underwhelming martial arts and cinematography, with characters whose depth reflects their origins. Don’t get me wrong, I like it, but I’m not crusading to convince people of Paul W.S. Anderson’s misunderstood genius lol

I checked out their FAQ, and it seems like the HoMM3 version of the fheroes2 project (or maybe vice versa, I’m not sure which came first).

I noticed that one of the features of VCMI was a totally reworked AI. Do you have insight into how that feels vs base game AI? A minor concern I have about these sort of fan projects is that the contributors tend to be among the most passionate and knowledgeable fans of the base game around, and their tweaks are balanced around that level of game knowledge.

Y’know, I’m sure the intent of the comment is in the vein of, “I persist because fuck them”, but there’s a reading of this that implies you’ve a list, and you’re checking it twice…

I agree. That’s why I felt compelled to write this post. The gameplay is far better than its wrapper makes it appear.

Was Xeen the M&M setting with the explicit science-fantasy inclination? I’ve never played any of the straight RPGs, but I’ve trundled through enough wikis to discover some bonkers concepts in those games. Like, one ends with your party fighting through a dungeon only to discover that the dungeon is actually a buried space ship or something like that?