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Barnestorming- Onward to Venus in Review, Homeland, Gameboy Advance, Edge of Tomorrow
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Too much Brass!
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I loved that movie so much. I don't think it'll make my top ten though
So many great moments and just tons of fun in that flick. As much as I want to hate on Tom Cruise, it's really hard when he plays this type of role so insanely well.
oh and Bill Paxton
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No, I'm not exaggerating.
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I don't know if I've played a Martin Wallace title that I've liked, but that could be because I shied away from him after not liking the first few.
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On FFVII, I agree with Josh. FFVII begat a whole, whole lot of video games bullshit. That was really the moment when game developers thought they were filmmakers all of a sudden. Thing is, they should have followed what Kojima was doing in that regard, not the FF series. The later games (well, up through like 10) aren't as egregious about it.
But you know, truth be told, I haven't played it in like 18 years. I'd check it out again, sure. But I remember feeling like it was really limited, contained and without much to actually do. Yet here I am enjoying Dragon Quest, which is simpler, so who knows, maybe there's something to rediscover there.
I actually didn't really like the Metroid games back in the 80s/90s. I remember playing Metroid when it came out and thinking "man, this game is about just jumping UP the whole time". Later on I came to appreciate the atmosphere and design...now, yeah, I'd rank it with Castlevania and Metal Gear, easily.
Literally all I want to do today is to get back to Metroid Fusion...Zero Mission isn't on virtual console, hopefully it will be sometime.
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The game itself is... okay.
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Saw it Saturday and I'm still thinking about it.
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I thought it was interesting too (and really kind of subtle) that Cage had used Rita's image as a recruitment tool...yet she hardly looks like a sexy, badass warrior or anything like that, she looks worn out and wounded- what a great bit of casting that was- and there's the implication that her battle prowess has more to do with her experience time-looping than the vaunted jacket technology that really doesn't seem to be all that useful on the battlefield.
THere's a lot more to that picture than I expected...I've been thinking about it a lot too, but not in the usual ways that SF films keeping you mulling over them. It's not the kind of SF film that beats you over the head with its ponderings and debates. It gets into finer, more human things like that relationship.
I also really liked how it started out almost as a Kafkan "wrong man" story...but then it's very much like a Heinlein or PKD story...and then there's all that video game and anime stuff in it too.
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And there's a metaphoric scene in the middle of the film when he steps out of the jacket that harkens back to a fundamental concept of all fiction, one particularly critical to science fiction -- when you boil it down it's about the people and the narrative, the science is just a catalyst to the story.
Very good writing. Old school science fiction. This is the kind of thing that you see in the authors Al is calling out in his blog, from a day when gee-whiz had to happen in text and you had to write it well instead of planning to have the graphics team handle it in post-production.
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I had an opportunity to get Onward for 10$ at a GeekAuction but I saw "Wallace" and passed on it. Unlike you, I ~can't~ generally palate buying a game that's still pink in the middle. Ironically, where you find Runebound bad, I find it smashing, and the one game he got right of all the games I've played.
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