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oh

i guess i should try playing this game now

The final countdown

i was going to say please use the new topic so i can periodically bump this to save the writeups that i haven't read yet but lmao the topic is over anyway

save

save

wow you're a completionist eh?

looking over your 'plan to watch' list, i would only second the recommendation for the Ghibli and Kon films to prioritize for now but you've mentioned in the past about wanting to watch them chronologically already iirc.

Camden posted...

Speaking of which, mal recently added an option to display lists in English, so at least I now have a much better idea of what exactly my plan to watch list consists of.

can i see your mal?

new topic:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79761999

Camden posted...

Unless you count anime, in which case the backlog is just as bad but also immune to culling because I don't know what 90% of the things on my watch list even are without looking them up, which all of a sudden becomes a lot more work.

i randomly remembered this post because i am trying to finish off anime

tbh when i look over the list of stuff i've finished i could have done without watching most of them

Me

seen before (3/9):
Power Rangers
Pi
I'm Thinking of Ending Things

top 3:
Barry Lyndon
M
Big Fish

ok since i finally watched everything in the third batch, survey time if you've watched them too. which movies have you seen before and what were your top 3 among the new watches?

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
Pi
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Melancholia
Big Fish
M
Barry Lyndon
It's Such a Beautiful Day
Cut Throat City

wow i'm not familiar with anyone involved in that

just went through the horror films everybody listed so far and my watchrate is 11/35 (5 repeats)

which is more than i thought honestly

well you have like 45 minutes before i reveal the answer

it was time to finally watch a movie

which i am currently doing now

...seven hours?

SEVEN

HOURS?

it's time

is it time?

just noticed this guy's neck tattoo lmao

number 4 know you heard this before: never get high on your own supply

dere she is!

i'm 10 minutes into this movie

where's the girl

choice paralysis is so real

giving myself a soft deadline of the middle of December to finish everything

just realized i've had Pi sitting on my desktop for who knows how long

now i'm debating if i should leave it till the end since it's going to be a rewatch or just do that one first hmmm

i had no idea it was a thing until now.

...well then

i'm in danger

also if she comes and her art doesn't look good i think i would just quit lmao

Yankees posted...

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/771387388916269117/905129909515616627/20211102_161349.jpg

wait wtf

was TRE's post a reference to this

oh no

oh nooooooooooooooooooo

it's too soon aaaaaaaaa

Team Rocket Elite posted...

Saving up for Tanith?

i definitely should start. it would feel so good to be able to +10 her right off the bat if she drops. my wishlist has been in pretty good shape after Malice/Res. Raven. high prio wants now are base Tanith/alt Lucius, Kent, Niime and Cornelia (the only 3H i would care for at this point lol).

i'm now actually at the point where i have most of the units i want who are already in the game so i can more or less focus on saving up for new units who might drop without being tempted to spending orbs on every banner rerun. mostly just want like Nailah, F Berkut and Tibarn now for old units. at like 20 orbs now after going for Malice and Halloween L'Arachel (thankfully came pretty early) but i didn't get a 5 star after the spark on the Malice banner so just said fuck it and spent until I did. got Asc. Fjorm but the hoarder in me won't let myself use the item until i have like two more haha.

oh thank god Shamir is the TT unit so i don't have to spend orbs

thankfully i can just use the letterboxd/imdb genre tags although there were some discrepancies between the two. letterboxd lists Black Swan as Drama/Thriller/Horror but imdb doesn't include the horror tag. imdb has Under the Skin as Drama/Horror/Sci-Fi but letterboxd has it as Drama/Sci-Fi/Thriller.

those are two of my favorite movies but i've never actually thought of Black Swan as a 'horror' and Under the Skin is definitely more of a horror film than it. genre stuff can get pretty wonky in the long run whatever. My list actually ended up looking pretty fucking solid in that they're all film I really like and doesn't have films I only slightly like taking up spots just because of the 'horror' tag like I thought it would.

Under the Skin - absolutely my favorite for the time being. knowing how it was actually filmed and how it comes across in the performances is my favorite aspect of it.
American Psycho - i love how every comment on the youtube video for "It's Hip to Be Square" is just an American Psycho reference
Thirst - favorite vampire film
One Cut of the Dead - i couldn't believe how good this was when i watched it. would have loved to recommend this too for the topic at some point.
Funny Games - fuck
Jennifer's Body - iconic
Alien - it's Alien
Psycho - it's Psycho
mother!
Shaun of the Dead

i will cheat and say in case of alternates/genre wonkiness i could also see Climax, House or Frankenhooker in that list as well

i'm not really a horror movie person but i guess i'll ask here

top 5 or 10 favorite horror films?

i'm going to look through my lists in a bit to see which ones could be considered horror

wow the like/dislike ratio lmao

i am glad i ended up liking it overall though because for a while i was thinking 'oh damn am i going to be one of those people who say shit like 'i can't watch old movies'

yeah it's definitely one where i felt would have been better as a show since the characters were the most interesting part

bring da muthafuckin ruckussss

Oh really

I guess the only ones I've been sparking on were the ones where you could do it multiple times or something because I thought I always remembered the counter continuing to go up

Can you only spark once on the ascended banner? Did my first 40 and kept going but noticed my counter was not going up

As cool as it would have been to start with Mother and end with Mommy, I think this one fits well too. I do wish we would have gotten to all of them though. Still recommend people to check the other ones on your own time

next movie is The Tribe (2014) directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi.

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Camden posted...

It's getting to the point where, like I seem to do every once in a while, I'm going to have to go through my lists and start the culling.

i've been through this so many times and i just spend more time thinking about what to watch/play rather than actually watching/playing it. i do have things divided into a top/secondary priority but sometimes i'll see something while browsing a streaming site and be like 'yeah i could watch that now'

Vote for all movies you would be interested in seeing for the next week (~Oct. 22nd NA). Rank your choices. If you do not intend to vote for whatever reason, please reply with "No Vote" so there is as little of a waiting period as possible. Please vote by Friday Oct 22nd, 3:00 A.M EST./12 A.M. PST (midnight). This is the final vote for the topic.

Secret Sunshine (2007)
Mommy (2014)
The Tribe (2014)

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well it is time to vote for the next movie. i was honestly hoping i'd be more caught up by the time it came around to my turn which is why i moved myself back but that didn't happen. reminder that THIS WILL BE THE LAST VOTE for the topic. 3 noms from me this time. Providing minimal descriptions and I would recommend going into any of these without looking up anything more.

Secret Sunshine (2007) - Lee Chang-dong: This is a South Korean film by the same director as Burning (2018) about a widow who moves to her husband's small hometown. Features one of the strongest performances by a lead (Jeon Do-yeon) I've ever seen. Available for streaming on Criterion Channel.

Mommy (2014) - Xavier Dolan: This is a French-Canadian film about a mother and her troublesome (to put it lightly) son. The film is shot in a 1:1 aspect ratio. Currently available for streaming on Hulu.

The Tribe (2014) - Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi: This is a Ukranian film about a boy who goes to a deaf boarding school and what he gets up to. The entire film is in Ukranian sign language with no subtitles. Currently available for streaming on kanopy and tubi.

Cut Throat City

I was pretty interested in the premise which is why I initially voted for it over the other choices. Unfortunately it ended up feeling quite lackluster in multiple areas.

I think one of my biggest issue is that for a story with such a specific setting of post-Katrina New Orleans, theres no sense of it aside from them directly mentioning hey were in New Orleans and it makes it feel like another generic crime story. Similarly, theres not too much shown concerning any of the struggles the characters go through besides them simply talking about how broke they are. Theres no particular details to latch on to make it memorable in any way and the characters, while potentially interesting, feel more underdeveloped than anything. Theres actually so many of them that the story becomes convoluted and starts falling apart by the end. T.I. was fun though.

I did not think the acting by the lead actor Moore was great either. Ive actually seen other movies hes been in and iirc he came off a lot better in that so I was a bit disappointed that he came off as having an actually distractingly poor performance to me. Like they make sure to tell us that Andre is his best friend multiple times and when hes killed, his reactions just felt so underwhelming. Not that I think he should be crying all over the place or that its impossible for people to bottle their emotions up similarly to how we are supposed to infer I guess.

Overall its a bit frustrating because of the potential. 5/10 though I could actually see it going down to 4 .

i did pick up some new stuff huehue

apparent criterion flash sale tomorrow starting at noon est

hopefully things will still be in stock by the time i get back