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Post by WickedCrustacean on Feb 11, 2020 10:48:03 GMT -5
The 1982 one. Haven't seen the new one yet. Hope Cyberpunk 2077 can capture the atmosphere for sure.
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Post by Tig on Feb 11, 2020 21:26:16 GMT -5
I think it did. Yeah the original is not Ridley Scott's best work.
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Post by Tig on Feb 15, 2020 18:47:19 GMT -5
Watching the last Terminator movie. It is beyond stupid. Convenient story bending, 80's style combat where no one aims, guns have unlimited ammo, just dumb. The acting is atrocious. Linda Hamilton is either on pain pills or has been kicked in the head too many times but she stumbles through her lines like a doped mental patient. Save your money.
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Post by fantasiawht on Feb 18, 2020 17:42:52 GMT -5
Wife and I binging on Locke and Key on Netflix. Psychological thriller where a family whose father was murdered moves cross-country into an ancestral family home. The home turns out to have all kinds of keys hidden with various magical powers, like opening a door to anywhere you have been before or traveling into your own subconscious. Some very clever ideas going on.
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Post by WickedCrustacean on Feb 18, 2020 20:59:26 GMT -5
Enjoying Narcos: Mexico 2nd Season on Netflix. These shows are pretty interesting, the first one was about Colombia (Pablo Escobar and the rival Cali cartel), this one is about the guy who put together the first Mexican cartel confederation (the currently notorious El Chapo was a small fish back then, working for this guy) in the 1980s.
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Post by Tig on Feb 22, 2020 18:14:36 GMT -5
Just started Locke and Key with Fant's recommendation. Like it so far. I'm picking up a strong adventure game vibe, where the story and clues are slowly introduced based on the actions of the antagonist.
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Post by Taibi on Feb 23, 2020 1:06:08 GMT -5
We are still watching The Wire and really digging it. Finished season 4 on Thursday.
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Post by fantasiawht on Feb 25, 2020 9:11:35 GMT -5
Tig, I felt that too. Actually it reminded me a lot of a shortish adventure game I played in the last couple years called Oxenfree. Likeable characters stumble on supernatural mystery, explore, reveal secret story of the past.
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Post by Tig on Feb 25, 2020 20:04:20 GMT -5
Wife and I were super disappointed in the ending. Very bland non-explanations and resolutions. Overall good series tho.
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Post by fantasiawht on Feb 26, 2020 8:33:37 GMT -5
YES! We thought the same thing. It was just kind of "oh, that's it? Meh." Thought the same thing of Umbrella Academy. And of course I hated the end of the SW saga. And GoT was absolutely miserable towards the end. Is this a thing now? Can the supposedly "best" writers in the world just not figure out how to end long-running visual stories anymore?
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Post by Tig on Feb 26, 2020 10:23:36 GMT -5
It's just the way of series. By the end, all the executives have their $0.02 in the writing and it comes out a mess. To me, Lost is the most epic failure. Seven seasons of puzzles and mysteries and they concluded the series saying none of that matters. Battlestar Galactica had issues as well with out of character behavior in the last 20 minutes and a non-answer conclusion to Starbuck, evolution, and the archaeological record. Final episodes historically suck. It's like a tradition I guess.
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Post by fantasiawht on Feb 27, 2020 8:13:21 GMT -5
Yeah Lost is a famous example. Really obvious they had some really neat ideas and clearly no clue what to do with it in the end.
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Post by Tig on Feb 27, 2020 17:24:48 GMT -5
Altered Carbon season 2 starts tonight. Gorgeous, deep cyberpunk series.
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Post by fantasiawht on Feb 28, 2020 8:54:53 GMT -5
The first season of that didnt' capture my interest, gave it up after 3 episodes.
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Post by Taibi on Feb 28, 2020 16:08:22 GMT -5
The Wire is in the books.
Not sure were to go from here. Probably something more uplifting... perhaps in the fantasy genre.
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