finally picked it up

yeah, i think i found my fourth 10/10

please don't fuck this up, michigan

Really neat to pop in here after so long and look through all this amazing work

>"I am actually a guy"

knew it

Just heard the Gym leader theme on YouTube. Good lord does that song go from awsome to fucking unbearable quick.

the chanting only happens when the gym leader is on his or her last pokémon

i like it

have a safeword handy

If I'm being frank here, lovecraft sounds like a pretentious prick in that quotation. If I'm wrong, it's too bad he's not around to explain why I've known plenty of dogs that'll pester you to play fetch on their own accord or just look at you like a stump on some days when they don't feel like playing anything. Unless the only viable explanation is that lovecraft only ever met dumb dogs in his life.

i think it's funny (as someone who generally hate dogs, too)

but i mean, lovecraft also named his cat "Nigger Man," so there's that

I'm pretty sure magic is so shunned because in some instances it's plain broken with no fair counter. At least in the original dark souls, a dark bead sorcery build could oneshot 95% of players in pvp scenarios, and there was little to counter it. Various other wombo combos emerged throughout the games as well, although it seems like magic was tougher to utilize in III.

i've never really dabbled with magic before, but it's my understanding that magically-resistant armor is a thing, and that spells usually take a long time to charge up + they're susceptible to rolling anyway

i assume, if you're right, that those three counters just aren't good enough for some reason? which would be unfortunate, and i can sort of understand looking down on those who allow themselves to be carried by OP strategies

but at the same time, when it comes to pvp, i tend to have a very "anything goes" ethos, as long as you're not cheating

it sucks, but if anyone doesn't like it, they can play a game that's designed around pvp, like a fighting game or something

little by little, you are all starting to sound more like me

all according to plan

yeah, of course

Definitely something I wanna pick up, especially knowing it's only $40.

I wish creators had more to gain from this sort of thing, though, beyond a few people going "wow this is cool" and moving on with their lives. When it comes to this sort of thing, that's always been a major hang-up for me.

2020 most anticpated?

-Tenet

Can't say I've ever disliked a Nolan film, despite his occasional memery dialogue. I'm excited to see him return to Sci fi, and its always great seeing Pattinson appearing in more and more kino. He's pretty much reinvented himself after Twilight.

-Dune

Amazing cast and Villeneuve back at the helm. Curious to see how he's progressed from BR2049.

-The Many Saints of Newark

Bit worried about the director on this one but as a Sopranos fan I'm certainly not going to be avoiding it.

-Last Night in Soho

Not particularly that intrigued by the premise but it's Edgar Wright so I'll be giving it a watch nonetheless.

Soul
Pixar has been the pits over the past decade, and things don't really seem to be looking up with movies like Onward on the horizon. Soul doesn't look like it's going to end this slump either, but what piques my interest about it is the fact that they got my man Trent Reznor doing the score. Easiest way to get me into a theater.

Mank
Favorite director's making it.

Dune
I'd like to read the book first, so I can understand why so many of its fanboys seem to think it's unadaptable, and then I can assess the film based on that knowledge. Maybe I'll watch David Lynch's attempt going into it, as well. If there's one man who has a directorial eye for beloved sci-fi stories, it's Villeneuve, but it'll certainly be funny if he shits the bed.

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0
The final chapter of this series that I've become invested in.

Mulan
I'm just morbidly curious.

So the Irishman was the snub of the night, right?

It really should have gotten cinematography the more I think about it. I haven't seen 1917 but what from what I heard it's Oscar is somewhat undeserved given its whole gimmick is its editing and camerawork?

I mean take a look at this and tell me that's not Oscar worthy.
https://youtu.be/wHTXbzSz2lw

just scorsese things tbh

he's always had a tendency to drop his films in the most competitive years, and always gets burned for it

im curious, what's a 10/10 movie to you?

Fight Club
Requiem for a Dream
Goodfellas
The Godfather

a common theme you can draw from these four movies (apart from them all being these dark and cynical examinations of the seedier and less pleasant aspects of humanity) is that they're all extremely popular and easy for normies to get into, but not at the expense of the filmmaking, which is (imo) as good as you could possibly make a movie in virtually every facet, or at least the ones that i happen to care about

but more than just being masterfully crafted films, these are movies that had me in awe the first time i saw them, and the emotions i was made to feel during each lingered with me for days and days after

Fight Club in particular is my all-time favorite, and it's the first movie i saw that got me interested in film as an art form rather than just something to pass the time with

a lot of film nerds will give me shit for considering Fight Club as my favorite, just because it's kind of the stereotypical "baby's first mindfuck" kind of movie, but i genuinely can't help it—every aspect of this movie, from the extremely stylish cinematography, to the endlessly cool and quotable dialogue, to the gritty and badass soundtrack, and to the punk rock ethos and anti-consumerist themes, it all resonates with me to a level where i feel like it was made just for me

Goodfellas is a 10/10 in the most bread-and-butter way possible—it didn't fuck my brain, or anything, but it's one of the first movies i ever saw that made me think, "damn, i didn't even know it was possible to make a movie this good"—and i attribute that primarily to how successfully immersive it is, and how ceaselessly engaging the story is from a moment-to-moment basis—there's not a single scene in this movie where some cool shit isn't happening, even if that "cool shit" is a memorable line of dialogue, or even just a look on somebody's face

i'm making myself wanna watch all these again jesus christ

Requiem for a Dream is probably the best edited movie of all time—so fucking unique, so fucking stylish, but unpretentiously so, and not in any way that doesn't feel like it's actually contributing to the experience. given that it's about the horrors and destructive powers of addiction, and how weak and stupid human beings can be in their pursuit of happiness, it's pretty much up my alley, and the nature of the plot also tends to make it one of the most crushingly depressing movies you could ever see, which is my fetish. there's just no other movie like it

The Godfather is The Godfather, enough said really—if Citizen Kane is the best movie of the 20th century's first half, then The Godfather is probably the best of the second half, and i prefer The Godfather by an order of magnitude.

similar to Goodfellas, it's really just a movie that does everything that a great movie is supposed to do, and i just think it's one of the best stories ever put to screen, with some of the coolest characters ever written, played by the most world-class actors the industry ever knew at the time. it's an undeniable movie that you just kinda have to respect, even if you can't get into it

the closest a modern movie has come to getting my 5th 10/10 is probably Gone Girl from 2014, which is not to say that i think modern movies suck or anything—i just typically prefer to watch older movies, because there's a lot of great classics that i still need to catch up on, and it's relatively cheap and easy to watch old movies

modern movies are expensive as fuck for someone like me who's not okay with piracy, which makes them pretty tough to keep up with, so i'm sure there's still loads of 10/10s out there, waiting for me to discover them, and i'm very excited to go out and find them, whenever it is that i do

so, what are your 10/10s

i'm gonna go ahead and take credit for parasite's win

had i enjoyed it as much as i thought i would have, it almost certainly would've lost

1917 did not deserve best visual effects at all wtf

at least it didn't go to a bad movie