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Layman question as the news I saw were not very clear about what Crowdstrike does exactly: is it fair to put that in the big "digital protection being more damaging than what it is supposed to protect you against" pile?

I understand this is the TV House and people focus on the TV series in this thread, but since the schedule also includes anime movies, I guess it makes sense to address them here also. I checked the other days these two oddities that are Kurayukaba and Kuramerukagari, two 1 hour long films...

Manhunt (2017) was very very bad... I mean the editor going "How the fuck are we supposed to make a film out of this garbage" bad. Silent Night (2023) was not good, but at least watchable. Not very optimistic about this one, but, who knows?

This is pretty good, but don't expect wall to wall action. There is a solid dose of it (mainly split in two long sequences that bookend the film), but the core of the movie is a love letter to a time and place: Kowloon Walled City in the '80s. Depicted as a kind of social utopia where everyone...

Maybe I expected too much, but this good looking, decently acted film is marred by a shockingly weak script. It still kinda works, because even a terribly written investigation plays on our curiosity, our fundamental thirst for truth in the face of mystery.

Seeing this tomorrow night. Very positive word of mouth from people who already saw it earlier in the week.

I have a screening of this scheduled for Saturday night. It will be weather dependent though because it's in an Open Air :D

A Terminator mini serie by Production I.G. ? Color me curious.

A bit late to the party, but I just saw this. Interesting show. I was surprised to read in this thread a season 2 has been in the work for years though, especially since a new season will have to be very different from the first. Potentially interesting also, but very different.

Relevant to this thread, BarbarousKing's review of the DLC: After beating it with a Strength-Faith build, the madman immediately went at it again with a level 1 character. Last night he was at the final boss of the DLC and he is posting the boss fights on his you Tube. In those you really get...

Spoilers I guess, but it's not exactly what is shown. The initial members of the club are a diverse group of... I guess one could say misfits. Some have regular jobs and families, but they just happen to have this calling for a sort of alternate way of life, a certain sense of freedom. They are...

Saw it and was not overly thrilled. More than anything, it's a portrait of an era and of a sub-culture. There are some interesting elements to it, like how motorcycle club culture drifts from a certain idea of a marginalised life style to criminal activity, but that's not the core of the film. I...

The two parties involved are legally bound to silence and absolutely able to sue anyone not abiding to it, so anyone yapping about what happened is talking out of their ass, extremely stupid or both. Most likely both.

Some interesting ideas in this, but they certainly are not gracefully implemented in the scenario. It feels like the characters never figure out anything by themselves. They always need some other character or some document to do chunks of exposition that move the plot forward. Very lame. To be...

Uwe Boll plays a bit part has himself in one of the best films of 2023: Radu Jude's Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.

One of the best film I have seen in 2024 sofar. Very thematically rich movie and extremely free and uncompromising form. If a discussion between two characters is worth lasting 15 minutes, it lasts 15 minutes. Deal with it. There is also a very healthy dose of dark humor in it which certainly...

Like... Furiosa?

I guess it was not crystal clear the way I worded it before or I am confused. Let me try again: Civil War, the movie this thread is about, is written and directed by Alex "Ex Machina" Garland, *not* by Neil "The Descent" Marshall.

@Dr.Retarded The Descent was directed by Neil Marshall (who also directed Dog Soldiers). Alex Garland is the director of Ex Machina and Annihilation as well as the writer of 28 Days/Weeks later, Sunshine and Dredd.

Ice hockey layman here. I have a question: what is the balance of forces in a shootout? In soccer, the strikers score something like 90% of the time, so any miss or save is momentous. Is it more balanced in ice hockey or is it expected for the keeper to block most shots? :emoji_thinking:

The whole point is that you don't understand what is going on and that everything is ambiguous. While a very different movie, Annihilation kinda worked on the same principle.

We live in a world with Sonic games on Nintendo consoles, so I must confess I am unfazed by an empty shell buying another empty shell. Atari is now a french company, as the french developper Infogrames bought the brand and changed its name to it, and the Intellivision brand has been sold by...

On the other way around, I had the misfortune of seeing the second of these movies (To the swordsmith village) without seeing the show and that must take the cake of the most obscene cash grab in the universe. These movies are the last two episode of a season and the first of the next put back...

It must be very tiresome to be the communication manager at one of Elon Musk's companies... if these positions exist.

They have very little in common except they are both about a boy who lost his mother during WWII. One is about the struggle to survive and the other is about finding a magical land near a mansion in the countryside!

Fanfic.... somehow an 80+ director, that has not made a movie in more than a decade and whose last few films have been mixed bags at best, had trouble to finance an ambitious movie. Shocking! That said, he attracted a bunch of big names for his cast, so it's still a bit surprising that he had to...

That article about the Rock reads from top to bottom as "Some mysterious insiders told us something terrible and when we asked for confirmation we were told it didn't happen".

Because it is? This is from an AI powered fake trailer. Media literacy will be a whole new cattle of fish when AI will be able to generate videos that are not longer distinguishable from man made ones. At this point that sounds like a question of "when" not a question of "if" and the answer...

Obviously it is better if you have seen the show and the previous movies, but can it be seen as a stand alone movie? I recently saw Cucuruz Doan's Island and Hathaway that both fit in a longer continuity but both also work as stand alones.

Not unpleasant but not great. Does not have much in common with the original show. Comedy is mildly amusing but you will not find yourself rolling on the floor. It is supposed to be an ode of sorts to stuntmen, but that aspect takes second fiddle to the mystery. On that topic I would recommend...

Oh! I see what you mean. I am not sure that will do it though. Considering he had to produce the movie himself, I doubt that distributors are more excited than the production companies were. Maybe it will get a broader release if it does well at the Cannes Film Festival though (be it winning...

Somehow these armchair historians who just want "credibility" never complain about the use of modern English language, just about the use of modern English people.

It's based on a book serie by Anthony Horowitz who seems to be a pretty competent and prolific author. He wrote a couple Sherlock Holmes novels with the benediction of the Conan Doyle Estate, so there is that. I recently read from him The Word is Murder, which was okay I guess. Its main...

You are saying this like there are not many movies that are wildly different from the norm constantly being made. Now, some are easier to have access to than others. I was going to mention Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, but apparently it can be seen on Amazon Prime Video!

Maybe you do not realize that PirateSoftware alone reaches several hundred of thousands of people.

The game ended up being a huge hit, but when Sony put the money on the table for the game to get made, it was certainly not a foregone conclusion. It's not exactly surprising that they contractually demanded things that could extract the most value out the project, like having to link a PSN...

This is not good. The initial idea, if well executed, could have lead to a pretty ok film, but here it fails. Let me explain: Having all the protagonists do a horoscope/Tarot reading at the start of the movie could be a fun thing to underline their archetypes and then play with them. Having the...

Been watching Twin Peaks The Return

There is a Lucas Pope game and a Bennett Foddy game on this thing. I like these dudes and I am curious about their games, but not $205 curious (Foddy's game comes with the system, Pope's is $6).

I am not sure there is a coherent "canon" timeline for the Godzilla films, but at the very least this one is set before the events of the first film (toward the end of WWII and a little after VS contemporary to the first film release, so 1954). Why not Zero? Maybe they wanted to leave some room...