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  6. Grand Theft Auto V

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    You don't know what you're missing!

     

    Red Dead Redemption is one of the greatest games ever made. Right there with TLOU (or even better...?)

     

    One of the only reasons why I am still keeping my X360.

  9. Movie Discussion Thread

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    Yes.

     

    Silence of the lambs

    Mystic river

    Prisoners

    I Saw the devil

    Cape Fear

    No country for old man

    Fargo

    ....

     

     

    Gyllenhaal, so, yes, obviously worth watching. PmApHvW.gif

     

    Watch all his movies. Nightcrawler is excellent.

     

    Checkout:

    • Panic Room
    • Copycat
    • Lucky Number Slevin
    • Mr. Brooks
    • Frailty

     

     

    Thanks guys! :)

  14. Movie Discussion Thread

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    Posted · Edited by The Panda

    I do like watching thought provoking films but I don't look for a thought provoking script in a friggin comic book movie. While it may be good to have in a superhero movie, it's not necessary.

    Look for too much logic and obviously you won't enjoy movies.

    Not every movie needs to have hidden meaning and symbolism.

     

    Okay. DCEU is not for you.

  15. Movie Discussion Thread

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    It's not Marvel brainwashing, it's common sense brah. I liked Batman vs superman as well because I wasn't looking for the hidden meaning of life in the script. In fact i want a full on entertainment value when I spend 300+ on a movie ticket. To look for hidden logic i have various other places at work or in general life. How is marvel responsible for that? -_-

     

    So you don't like watching films with hidden messages and symbolism? You only like mindless entertainment junk? No love for thought-provoking films?

     

    Okay. Good for you.

  17. Movie Discussion Thread

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    Posted · Edited by The Panda

    Only an utter idiot goes looking for the secrets of life in a comic book based movie.

     

    It may apply only to the forgettable mindless junk Marvel puts out every month, but definitely not where films like Watchmen and The Dark Knight exist. Saying you should not look for such things in a comic based movies shows how deep Marvel has brainwashed you. It's a new low level.

     

    I pity you.

  18. Movie Discussion Thread

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    The trivializing has grabbed such hold that when a genuine pop artist like Zack Snyder deepens comics lore into visionary, moral art (the profound Man of Steel and Batman v Superman), many fanboys, and critics, react with anger, resentment — and ignorance.

     

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  21. Movie Discussion Thread

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    The Trashing of a Generation

     

    Despite the supergeeks’ arguing either against working for the restrictive capitalist government or for their own sense of doing right and correcting injustice, the fact is, nothing here has gravitas. Civil War is politics as adolescents misperceive social/global crisis. This has been going on for so long (ever since Hollywood realized the bounty to be had in cajoling comic-book culture’s ready audience; since, say, the 1978 Superman film, then 1989’s Batman) that, by now, the brainwashing is complete. The trivializing has grabbed such hold that when a genuine pop artist like Zack Snyder deepens comics lore into visionary, moral art (the profound Man of Steel and Batman v Superman), many fanboys, and critics, react with anger, resentment — and ignorance.

     

    To praise Civil War as entertainment is to accept its puerile conflicts. This is the moral reduction that has happened to American youth culture in the wake of the generational dissents of the Vietnam War. Movies as violent as the Marvel flicks are not pacifist but are proof of anti-military sentiment — such as became evident in the confused Ferguson protestations about “militarized police,” a foolish, redundant term exploited by manipulative media outlets and politicians. Civil War furbishes aggression simply to excite viewers who are as programmed as poor Bucky.

     

    In a similar sense, Civil War exploits recent political trends such as Black Lives Matter. Black actress Alfre Woodard (whose portrayal of a comically psychotic wench was the only convincing characterization in 12 Years a Slave) appears as a grieving mother who blames Stark — standing in for the Military Industrial Complex — for the death of her child, a promising youth with a 3.6 grade-point average. Woodard’s “Who’s going to avenge my son?” shamelessly taps the illusion of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Tamir Rice as Boy Scouts and potential Rhodes scholars. That’s way out of bounds. Cap and the Man: Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr.

     

    This pandering passes for political relevance among non-thinking viewers. So does the film’s multiracial superhero team, especially new inductee Chadwick Boseman (superb as Jackie Robinson in 42 and James Brown in Get On Up) as the offensively named Black Panther, a pseudo-African potentate who possesses suspiciously feline/feminine powers of vengeance. Black comics fans are an immediate target of Marvel Studios’ exploitation. Note the scene where Black Widow, played by the white, ultra-sexy Johansson, is confronted by Black Panther’s aide, a Nubian queen with fore and aft protrusions and powerful swagger. She threatens Black Widow: “Move or you will be moved!”

     

    No wonder Civil War’s big blow-out — half the superheroes pointlessly battling the other half in a Leipzig airport — becomes repetitious and calamitous. It’s the most pointless, decadent scene of the year so far. Directing team Anthony and Joe Russo work by-the-numbers, staging blurry, undecipherable action and rounding up extraneous Marvel characters Ant Man (Paul Rudd) and Spider Man (Tom Holland) for comic relief. It’s rebooting on top of rebooting simply because fanboys love a reboot; that’s how pathetically indoctrinated we’ve become. The Russos’ Iron Man versus Captain America competition appeals to comics fans’ sophomoric cynicism, but the head-banging among invincible beings amounts to nothing; it lacks the magnitude of Batman v Superman’s soulful contemplation of wounded people who are torn and fighting against themselves.

     

    Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435036/captain-america-superheroes-dumbed-down?target=author&tid=1152026

     

  24. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

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    Performance analysis.

     

    For those who don't want to watch the video.

     

     

    solid gunplay and sound design from what I see. everything looks better and improved including the visuals.

    all in all, seems to be a fun-tastic game. now, time to start developing the last of us 2.

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