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Angel's Egg (1985) by Mamoru Oshii, aka the director of Ghost in the Shell. Artsy, bold, beautiful, rich...mind-numbingly slow, repetitive, and runs almost entirely on symbolism without any meaningful semblance of plot or characters. I actually nearly fell asleep while watching this several times, which never happens to me, and then something would actually happen for a second and I would jump awake. Actually, I think there was one part where I did fall asleep for a few minutes, but then a bloodcurdling scream woke me up. I don't know how I feel about it overall, guess I'm kind of ambivalent. I liked the aesthetic a lot, but I don't know, just not really my kind of film.

I can't sleep an iota, so why not? The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. I couldn't remember a single material word that majestic said about it besides something about the bees from the Wicker Man, so I figured now was an appropriate time - plus, I enjoyed his last film Pig. I have no idea if that was his last film, but I'm pretending it was. Also, that's no offense to @majestic's writing skill that I can't remember anything he said except for the bees and the fact that he really liked it, I'm just bad at absorbing information about things I don't immediately care about right this second - it's what helps make me resistant to the effects of most spoilers.

The fact that you didn't make note of any kind of silly nonsense going on between Cobra and Shella, unlike quite possibly literally every other named female character that you've mentioned thus far, means it has to be her. Or it could be literally anybody else and it just went unsaid this time. Or perhaps it went unsaid this time because you didn't want to draw attention to her...shadows within shadows here, you've got quite the devil's tongue!

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This was one of the things I mentioned that I knew should've annoyed me, because most of the action scenes...just aren't very good, in my opinion. But it's one of the very few cases where I actually turned off my brain and let the campy silliness of it all make it O.K. for me (and if it wasn't meant to be campy, it sure felt like it was to me because of how bad and silly it all was). Except for the scene that KP mentioned in reply in earlier to me - that was too much. Honestly that and probably like 30 more seconds of the film in other places felt like they were to arbitrarily raise the age rating on a film that could've otherwise been quite appropriate for much younger audiences, particularly with the messages that this film has. Same for a lot of the setting stuff - everything to do with the multiverse crap is precisely that, and I don't want to ever see it in any property at any time literally ever because of how atrociously stupid that garbage is, but for this particular one, again my brain just turned off and it was somehow okay...I was thankfully more focused on what they were trying to convey than the details. It doesn't happen often for me, but it did here, and I think that deserves special note.

Not sure it's a film I would want to watch right before bed...

Still can't tell if I like or hate the look of that show.

I'm pretty sure the Bible said something about we four Horsemen of the Apocalypse all liking the same thing being the ignition for the end times, so I'm personally hoping @majestic hates it. InsaneCommander can probably get by with enjoying it without the apocalypse starting, though.

@Sarex I'm not going to disagree with you, because I can't. But I can't because I am trying really, really hard to recall what you're talking about right now, but I can only remember all of about a minute or two of that movie, which makes it just about impossible to be reminded of it at any place or time...outside of other situations where I have general feelings of anguish, mental disconnect, and "oh my gosh won't this please end". So no, Everything Everywhere All at Once does not remind me of that film, .

@Sarex No. Also, holy crap, I knew Waymond reminded me of someone... @KP wants Blue Velvet I did see that, but I already forgot I saw that. This movie was, on the whole, slightly more enjoyable than The Northman to me, .

I don't want to oversell it, so maybe only read this after you've seen it:

Yeah, I don't normally go for wacky silly insane stuff, but Everything Everywhere at Once is an exception.

Well, instead of watching that, I watched Wizards (1977). It has magical dwarves and fairies, robots and nukes, Nazi wizards and German war propaganda (no, really, read the plot)...what more could you want? This Ralph Bakshi guy sure made some weird stuff in his day. P.S. Watch the Nicholas Cage film instead.

I have not see Paddington 1/2, which on top of not having see this film either, I really just don't have the right context to understand what you mean, . Nicholas Cage doesn't seem to be in either, so I'm struggling to see the connection...

Did they improve upon the design of the original where like...you could only play as Shinobi and maybe like one other class I can't remember right now because every other class made for terrible damage sponge gameplay?

It's on Amazon Prime, but at a cost. I've also heard good things about it, although it still doesn't exactly sound like my cup of tea.

I saw all the black actors, general style, the fact that it's horror...and couldn't help but immediately think "man, this really feels like a Jordan Peele film". I thought that having watched and enjoyed his Get Out and Us, and then oh look, it actually is a Jordan Peele movie. Feeling slightly racist, but at least I was right, .

This sounds like it's just a transparent excuse for having her fall and look "cute". Is that the case? @majestic Sorry to hear that, I'm sure they'll get back on track soon.

If you've played it, how does it compare to the first Nioh? The first game was one of the "worst" games I've ever played (it's not actually among the worst in an objective sense, but I thought it was a pretty shoddy 5/10-ish Dark Souls knockoff that did practically just about everything it tried to do somewhere between somewhat to much worse than Dark Souls...and a 5/10 game that you play all the way through to the end feels much worse when it's like a 60 hour long game compared to a 5/10 4 hour game). Your top two complaints sound like they didn't fundamentally change much about the design of the game, though.

I have Wolf Children bookmarked from when I looked at a whole pile of modern-ish "prestige" anime films way, way back when I was first starting to try out anime...which I got through probably like ten of and was like "holy crap these are all just the worst" and stopped, so I never got around to it. I think Your Name, which I watched much later because I burnt out on trying them, was the only one of that group that I even semi-liked. I really, really don't feel as though A Silent Voice can work for me - the film-making sensibilities of that film were so repulsive to me that I was instantly hoping for bad things to happen to the characters. It's possible I was in an extraordinarily terrible mood when I tried it, but I feel as though you're not supposed to turn into a raging psychopath within the first 5-10 minutes of a film like A Silent Voice if it's going to work for you.

Are you challenging me? Oh, well, carry on then.

Is Netflix ramping up for Halloween, or what? I didn't much like their teen drama Sabrina show, but a dark Addams family show centered specifically on Wednesday...could be either awful or good.

The only HoMM game I've played is Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff, and that's apparently just a remake of King's Bounty. It was entirely about the units and not the player/hero character. That game is a little terrible, but it's also kind of fun and I beat the entire game a few years back, so I can't complain too much.

My impression of the show is that they really want to give every character something to do, even if whatever that is is pretty worthless to the story or just plain annoying. I can only assume this is at least partly because of fan pressure and trying to please everyone by giving all the fan favorites X amount of time to do whatever. It doesn't help that the cast keeps growing so the different groups of characters are becoming too large to really effectively showcase everyone outside of the slowest moments (not that I am against when the show slows down!). I would have liked for them to kill off or even just drop a few characters.