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Month: November 2017

  • Bound

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    I remember being interested in this game when it originally came out, but I never got around to playing it. It’s one of the games on offer as part of this month’s PlayStation Plus free games, which was the push I needed, and what a joy it was to play. I played it in two…

  • Assassin’s Creed Origins

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    Here’s the background on where I find myself with the series: I fell in love with the series with the Ezio trilogy, which were the high points for me, then enjoyed III mostly because of the setting, but was already starting to feel AC fatigue, and by the time Black Flag came out, as much I…

  • Super Mario Odyssey

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    I love this game so fucking much. I was so excited to play it that, like I did for Breath of the Wild, I took the day off from work on its day of release to play it. That day, I started playing at around 8am, and played until 2am (with a few breaks here…

  • Destiny 2

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    I guess I have a long and weird relationship with Destiny — and interestingly, I’m writing this after just finishing to read the chapter on the making of Destiny in the excellent Blood, Sweat, and Pixels book. I remember being excited for it before it came out, and enjoying that first Alpha. Then the game came…

  • Full Metal Jacket

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    This is still and amazing film. This is the point in the 80s where we get a lot of movies about Vietnam (Platoon in ’86, and for ’87 you also have Good Morning, Vietnam and Hamburger Hill), and this is probably my favorite. It still feels like you have two films here, the first half…

  • The Running Man

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    The funniest thing about watching this is that it starts out in the futuristic year of… 2017 (at the start of the film, and then it jumps to 2019). This film is filled with an ungodly amount of cheese, and it’s still and absolute joy to watch. From the genius casting of Richard Dawson —…

  • Some Kind of Wonderful

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    It’s not my favorite of the Hughes films (and he produced/wrote this, didn’t direct it), but it’s still a film I enjoyed re-watching. Sure, everything in this movie is telegraphed a mile ahead, but hey, the music is good, and I like seeing these actors together, and at that age. Mary Stuart Masterson was especially…

  • Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

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    Visually, I think this movie is outstanding — just like with Besson’s The 5th Element, I love seeing a sci-fi world that is just so inventive and fun, and inspired by European comics. I wasn’t a big fan of the original comic when I was a kid — I think it was a bit too…