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Back on Twitter, I started to post about some somewhat obscure films I love. At first it was just to pass the time until I started doing it every Sunday and realized it should've been a thread. So I'm just gonna continue that here but fix that one mistake.

You know television peaked in the '90s when even the commercials look incredible.

See this is why I can't take the opinion of Gamers(tm) seriously when it comes to cinema.

Took 3 friends and my little brother to see The Devils yesterday; They were initially surprised at how funny it was as they were expecting a horror film (though I let them know beforehand that it wasn't) and by the end, they were discombobulated by the sheer hysteria of the last act.

Happy birthday to Mamdani's mom. Y'all should watch her films.

That's cool and all but where's maddening?

The decline of American society can be traced back to the exact moment that Television not only started being respected but was thought to have usurped cinema. Even the MCU is TV on a large scale.

Shout out to the Criterion Channel for updating their app with a new layout and unlike every other app getting a face-lift, this one actually made it easier to navigate and faster. Though admittedly this is because the old one wasn't exactly the best but hey, a win is a win.

Got all the way through to the final boss in Sin & Punishment 2 on Hard and yeah I have throw in the towel. This shit is fucking impossible. Will have to restart on Medium now to actually finish the game. And yet it's so mindblowingly good that I'm barely irked by this.

Well, the early buzz coming out of Venice Film Festival and now TIFF indicates that Lee Chang Dong's new film, Possible Love, is another home run from him. Hopefully this isn't just festival hype getting to critics heads but considering Lee's output I'd imagine it isn't. The master is back baybee.

Thinking about Pauline Kael's quote on experimental cinema ("a creature of publicity and mutual congratulations on artistry") and how it basically fits the circle jerk that is the arcade gaming community.

Will this new 2D Metroid have actual world design or just some levels duck taped together? We will see in January.

They opened with a movie trailer! Fucking Playstation is washed.

Cleared Elevator Action's 1st loop. Fun game. Play Spelunky instead.

Well, time to see if this game is actually any good or if it's another "Yeah bro, this game was too cool for America, so I had to import it" game.

America probably would've been fixed by now if The Boondocks season 5 wasn't cancelled.

Okay I have to hand it to Elevator Action for this. Watching two enemies argue amongst themselves over who gets to control the elevator is some Looney Tunes shit.

It's much easier to laugh at or feel superior to a caricature than feel with a character. For isn't the essence, the defining quality of a caricature, that it tells us how to react? It's a character with the responses built in. (1962)

For as much as the missions in Xeno X can lead to memorable moments, I can't say they do a good job of integrating the open world. Too often they just tell you which zone to go to without specific direction & so you just rely on that tracking ball. In this regard, BOTW is/was a major step up.

Having seen how every Skell controls so differently in their vehicule form, it's crazy that its Xenoblade 1 that now has a racing mini-game but not X.

God damn it Ikuhara, make another show and I'll come out of anime retirement.

He's studied Great Filmmaking and the manner and style of Great filmmakers; and he's tried to boil it down to its essence without making films that make dudes spend a lot of time thinking about their feelings. There is no love in his films, it is only useful as a plot device.

Far along into Xenoblade X to realize that NLA is just the Colony 6 side quest from Xenoblade 1 expanded to a larger scale.

My mind has been so coked-up on De Palma films recently that I've come to the conclusion that the Hunter X Hunter episode that's entirely in slow-mo is the most De Palma thing not made by De Palma.

Playing Hitman and I can't stop looking at this painting and seeing the Grinch's face.