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Run 4/10 (the new movie, not the show from earlier this year)

I would love to give this like four stars but this film fails it's star Kiera Allen just about every step of the way which is a crying shame because she deserves every bit of positive attention she gets out of this star-making performance. The two major problems:

1) The writers of this film have a bit of an issue writing the antagonist, played by Sarah Paulson. Look, it's Sarah Paulson, I think she does the best she possibly could with this material, but it's basically a very by-the-numbers sociopath role that's played as one. People who inflict Munchausen by proxy... aren't that? Like, forego the moral ambiguities and whether they have sociopathic tendencies, the choice to make the character verbalize those tendencies so vigorously destroys any threat the character poses. This is masked by Allen acting the holy shit out of every moment the camera focuses on her, but when it doesn't... it's really tepid.

2) Which kind of leads to the second issue which I guess you could see in the prior films these folks made, Searching, which is sort of the Michael Bay of modern shot-through-the-internet -movies, but the journey there has an immediacy that suits that sort of style. This is sort of an occasionally slower-burn horror movie so when you apply that style over it it feels either like a Platinum Dunes movie from the mid 2000s or a slightly-less frenetic American Horror Story. Neither of these is good for a film trying to do medical and mental terror on this level.

I saw a QL of this pop up sometime last week but when I got around to watching it it was gone. Where is it? Was I simply seeing an omen of the future on my computer screen not unlike those swirls that have been forming in my coffee to tell me about great deals on prescription-free medicine?

I canceled my pre-order and will not purchase it at any point.

Ahem

Re-Mars-Ter

You do know that just the core development team and Bethesda's QA department alone constitute well over 250 people for just this particular game, right? Top that with the additional technical teams from outside companies and you're skirting closer to 350, and this is all without any voice actors or the people recording or motion capturing them.

Absolutely. They will break their previous rules for this. Possibly nullify them. I have zero doubt.

Hindsight is 20-20 but I can't help but feel the Kickstarter campaign for Clans of Caledonia deserved more money.

Oh, wait.

Alpha Protocol. Everything about Alpha Protocol deserved more attention. The level of narrative choice is immense.

The Wirecutter is great for these types of questions.

I've had them for like five. They are so good. Not the best for music but I listen to podcasts most of the time. The internal logic occasionally goes wonky, requiring a plug-in to a power outlet to reset it, but other than that, it is so comfortable.

@inevpatoria said:

You wouldn't have to but it would look better if you did.

And yes, all the 4K packs are optional downloads.

@skald said:

I struggled with it too having a similar background with the first one, but around the three-four hour mark it clicked for me. Towards the end my biggest worry was maintaining a supply of ammunition for the silenced pistol.