dabe

Another excellent job once again and I appreciate the read. Thanks for this!

Do as many side quests as you can. Don't worry about spending days between story missions to complete them. Get the infinite ammo weapons as quickly as you can find them and don't watch Twin Peaks first.

@thabigred: Settle down lad, have a cold shower or something.

As to your point, I disagree, that wasn't what I felt the point of the film was. We're all different and have lovely, vibrant and wholly unique opinions and stances on things. I personally felt Looper floundered as a pastiche of tired filmic archetypes of 90s action films stitched together by stilted dialogue and unconvincing contrivance. Also, I was expecting more directorial flair from Rian Johnson given his work in Brick (though The Brothers Bloom didn't excite me).

Also, I'd personally say a spectacle shouldn't hold itself to the standards you appreciate, if indeed Looper was classed as a spectacle.

I prefer EDGE to most of the shite that is written in the video game space. Their Time Extend features are excellent.

Every year has many bad films. Every year has many good films. Every year has films. Films are everywhere.

Nanako. She conveys human emotions.

@Daneian said:

It was the telekinesis that brings that movie down for me. It's a conceit created solely to justify a single character having enough power to bring down all the Loopers and felt tacked onto an already fantastical plot.

Yup. This and the hackneyed romance sent my opinion of Looper into a tail spin.

Le Havre - 3/5, a weird pastiche of 60's televisual entertainment and Aki Kaurismaki's bare, austere Finnish comedy. Certainly watchable, though it left me wanting a bit more tangible emphasis on the main characters.

Bottle Rocket - 4/5, possibly the best Wes Anderson film I've seen, though I do like The Royal Tennenbaums this much as well. As ever, Owen Wilson impresses me.

Paths of Glory - 5/5, The absurdity of mans devilry and war in general is something Kubrick explores in several films, see Dr. Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket, though I think none of these or other directors films capture the injustices of a soldiers own men quite as effectively. Brilliant stuff. Enjoyable Kirk Douglas.

Elephant - 4/5, Unecessary homosexual exploration scene aside (I mean it was unecessary in the context of the film, not wrong et al, also this is something Van Sant seems to do), this is a superbly directed and frightful imagining of the Columbine massacre. It makes it a tad more relevant given recent events too.

Ghost Dog - 10/5, having seen this film multiple times and coming back to it recently, Jarmusch is truly a master of his craft. The luxurious music/driving sequences are there, the Samurai ethics, nods to Rashomon and gangster incompetence make this one of my favourite films.

Ikiru, 5/5, another film I've watched multiple times and is truly Kurosawa at his best, harshest and most humanistic. If you've only watched the Seven Samurai or if you haven't seen a Akira Kurosawa film, I suggest this, Rashomon, Red Beard and Kagemusha for starters.

War of The Roses, Endless Space and Crusader Kings II for me.

@PlasmaBeam44 said:

@dabe said:

I think the majority of games are rubbish, stupid, puerile tosh that only idiots or children without cultured sensibilities would endorse. See Ass Creed, Infamous, Killzone, Gears of War, God of War, FFXIII, Dishonoured, Fallout 3, Portal 2, Limbo, Bastion, Metroid, Smash Bros, Mario, Sonic, LA Noire, Borderlands, Diablo as a random cobbled together list of examples.

So do you even plays games at all then?

Haha, of course, many. My current 2012 top ten includes Dark Souls, Hotline Miami, Journey, Skyrim, Deus Ex: HR, Pro Cycling Manager 2012, Crusader Kings II, Tokyo Jungle, Catherine and Binary Domain, with Saints Row 3, Faster Than Light, Walking Dead, Stanley Parable, Super Hexagon, Legend of Grimrock, Tron: Evolution, War of The Roses, Planetside 2 among the ones that missed out.

Given that I can play the ones listed above and many more unlisted ones this year shows the brevity and spectacle of video games.