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That's pretty much what the Daily Mail's rumour says when you read it, that Bond is pulled back in while no longer being 007.

Technically, it's a rumor sourced from the Daily Mail.

I thought it was good as well. The effects looked good on the big screen. The Male lead was weak, but hes the weakest character in the manga, so him being the weakest character in the movie worked for me

Its computer animated, but they're dropping the framerate on it (presumably so it mimics hand drawn animation or offset weight issues with 3D animation vs traditional animation).

I also thought he'd already passed away until I saw him on a birthday list a few weeks back (he turned 89 on June 27). RIP.

Please keep tv and streaming topics to the open thread for that topic.

Friends don't let friends watch MST3K.

That's not my profile. Mine already has a cover photo on it due to suparpowars.

Arte Johnson

The option when it is activated is called a "Cover Photo". If it is/were activated for you, you'll see it right next to the "EDIT PROFILE" button on your user profile (you can click on yourself in the upper right corner to get to your profile).

Please address the topics and not individual posters.

Forgot the link for reference - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Blaine_Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff_Sr.

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Predator, Predator 2, Predators and The Predator for those keeping score at home.

I actually liked Alien: Resurrection (aka Alien 4) although, to be fair, it stuffs up the ending. Also I saw it on a double bill with Mortal Kombat: Annihilation which might have adjusted my appreciation for it. IMO, Alien3 (aka Alien 3) is a messy film, and I think its disjointing how little it is a follow-up to Aliens (aka Alien 2). If you can get past that, there are a few things to like in the film. The two Alien vs Predator films are a very mixed bag - the first one is sloppy but feels right, the second one about midway through made me feel like the filmmakers were intentionally aiming to insult my intelligence. Prometheus is a mess that probably needed a few more passes at the script and Alien: Covenant (Alien 5? 6? 7? 8? Do we count the AVP and Prometheus films?) basically pulls an Alien3 and jettisons the stuff that was worth saving from Prometheus and tells a bad story (sorry, but I just don't care about David and it will never make sense that Shaw would rebuild his body after the events of Prometheus). There were better films to be made out of these ideas. I liked the first three Predator films, haven't seen the fourth (aka The Predator). Terminator and Terminator 2 are both good, but much like Alien and Aliens, I give the edge to the original film. Terminator 3 isn't very good IMO. Terminator: Salvation has some good ideas but basically pulls an Alien: Resurrection on the ending. Terminator: Genysis feels like its from an alternate universe. I enjoyed it but I can see why it may have felt too different for other fans. Also the trailers spoiled the big twist which probably didn't help things. Looking forward to the new one.

Original Mad Max is very different from The Road Warrior as society hasn't collapsed completely and Max is a cop on an increasingly brutal police force facing crooks who are becoming increasingly brutal and anarchic. Its a different kind of film, although if you didn't like The Road Warrior I'm not convinced you'd think Mad Max is any better. Also Beyond Thunderdome began life as a script without Mad Max in it; he was added later. Death Wish (the novel, 1972) had a sequel, Death Sentence (1975), that came out before Death Wish II (1982), the film sequel to Death Wish (1974). So its a bit like the Red Dragon/Manhunter - Silence of the Lambs/Silence of the Lambs situation. Death Sentence was written specifically because Brian Garfield was disappointed in the film version of Death Wish, though and this novel eventually received an adaption as a stand alone film in 2007 with Kevin Bacon and directed by James Wan. Death Wish II only took a small amount of inspiration from the sequel novel. Die Hard was based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever which was a sequel to an earlier novel, The Detective, both by Roderick Thorpe and featuring the character of John Leland. Similar to the use of On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers to make Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the sequel Die Hard 2 is based on the 1987 novel 58 Minutes by Walter Wager.

My memory is that MAGNUM FORCE was well received; not as well as DIRTY HARRY, but a positive critical reaction. Also what about ROCKY BALBOA on your ROCKY film list?

Death Wish 3 is hilarious. Bronson phoning it in (he wasn't happy with the script as I recall) only adds to its charms.

Just a few thoughts - What I was saying regarding locked content, is that several romances are written so that the character is only interesting if you romance them. This means that if there are 7 NPCs and 4 of them are romance options, than in a 4 NPC party you'll have the possibility of picking a party where only 1 NPC is interesting (because you romance one of them; the other 4's interstingness is locked in their romances). I'd argue that a relationship is more important than a lock-picking mini game. You can always abstract the lock-picking to just be a dice roll based on your statistics, the romance is always going to need the player's input excepting in situations where the story is built so that the romance is part of the narrative (as in many jRPGs). Fan mods can do a lot of things that developers run out of time to achieve. The end result if I'm a fan and I don't complete the mod I'm working on is that I wasted my time; not so for developers.

And apparently speaking the Five Nights at Freddie's demographic...

Implementing the romance can hurt the end user, if much of the character content of the NPC is locked behind the romance (note this doesn't hurt just the romance hater, but it effects all users presuming multiple romances Some can - and have - made the argument that a proper romance is beyond the scope of current games. However your argument here is a strawman, because you're abstracting a specific point of gameplay to the larger idea of the game itself. One only need to look at any game with a maligned minigame (which right now, Romances are treated as) and you can understand the idea. If you can't implement your lockpicking idea without it being frustrating to the end user, why implement it? They keep repeating it because Developers have made this point. people who aren't developers keep saying this point is invalid. I also find it charming that you think "writing a romance" as not being difficult, when its as difficult (or not) as any other thing you write. But as for resources, lets look at a theoretical implementation of a romance choice. Romance Option (RO) needs to be a fully fledged character whether you romance them or not This means RO needs to have two dialogue trees, one for the romance, one for not having the romance For RO to be a character (and not a puppet of the player), there needs to be conditions for a started romance to fail other than the player failing it. This means that some way of tracking this must be created and implemented Any reaction that RO has to story elements needs to have two reactions, one considering a non-romance option and one considering a reaction consistant with the progress of the romance The world itself needs to recognize the romance; what does the rest of the party think of the romance, if you stay at an inn, do you need a different rate because of a private 2 person room, do people recognize you as a couple. Should there be romance specific quests, what happens with these quests if the character doesn't romance RO? Does the scope of the game make a romance make sense? If you meet RO today, and the game only covers a week of life at best, is there enough time to develop a full romance? Should RO get mad if they are left out of the party? If you don't talk to them? Are they jealous of other ROs? Does the PC get affected by what happens to RO in combat and vice versa? Are there any systems that need to accommodate the romance? Probably much more to think through, but I hope this points out a romance is not a trivial thing tossed into a game at a whim with no cost to other parts of development. I don't believe anyone has been advocating that Romance = Sex. I have seen many people dismayed, in fact, with the lack of romance options that don't give a gratuitous sex scene before the climactic last fight, bioware style.

Baldur's Gate: 3 Gates of Baldur, no waiting; no Bhaalspawn either, but we got Illithids at each Baldur's Gates and boy if Baldur was around, he'd be unhappy about Illithids being all up in his Gates.