While at one point GTA was my favorite series and I was absolutely hyped for GTA V, I’m not for this one. I kind of feel like I’m getting a little old for GTA.

Maybe I’ll change my mind after it releases and there’s a good chance I’ll play it anyway, but right now… meh.

Really only Once Upon a Time in Hollywood comes to mind, but it’s not Scarface level popular.

Saw X. A lot of people say it’s their favorite after the original, but I’m not sure I agree. The opening trap that made the poster being a dream sequence felt off, and the final act (where Saw films are usually strongest) felt underwhelming. Also, Amanda was quite visibly older despite this being a prequel to a 20 year old movie, which I found distracting.

It’s still a good 7/10 for having some of the more brutal and memorable traps in the series.

Shit, I can’t get Windows to print on my network printer. Have to uninstall it, reinstall it, manually set the IP, restart Windows, and then it’ll work for like one session and then not work again. Windows won’t even throw an error, it’ll just tell me it printed while my printer sits silent.

On linux it works every time. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even try to print in Windows anymore, I just forward all documents to my laptop and print in linux.

All of Nolan’s Batman movies were heavily pro-cop. Watch TDK again: the day is saved by illegal surveillance, and Batman faces no consequences for using it.

Assassins Creed

For the uninitiated, this is based on a game series with the premise of people in the modern day using a simulation to relive the memories of their ancestors. And in every day, the modern day is the frame story that sucks and the real, cool story is the simulation.

So of course they made the crappy frame story like 90% of the movie and it sucked. Obviously it’s hard to capture the entire feel of a game on film, but what they could have done is had the entire movie in the past and actually focused on telling a good story, and then revealed it was a simulation right before the credits. Heck, they could have just stolen the ending from Assassins Creed 2 and then cut to modern day Callum with a setup for a sequel.

Instead we got an entirely forgettable film.

Should they go back to adapting books, plays, short stories, poems, tv shows, board games, tabletop games, songs, toy lines, children’s games, other movies, or an older version of the same movie instead?

Tale of Two Wastelands for Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

One day later:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/21/hp_ditches_15_minute_wait_time_call_centers/

First, no one cares about the MCU at this point, let alone the B-grade youth squad.

Second, this looks like AI generated nonsense with a few human edits.

Third, the superior Kate is obviously Kate Lethbridge-Stewart.

Yes. That’s not shocking for a 7 year old film series.

A Quiet Place: Day One. Actually really good: big step up from the second movie.

Donnie Darko - makes it look like a horror movie

Godzilla (2014) - made it look like Bryan Cranston was the star (right off the heels of Breaking Bad)

Downsizing - made it look good

Invasion of the Astro-Monster (1965)

It was decent, but definitely not as strong as the first few Godzilla movies. Godzilla certainly fell a long way from unstoppable killing machine to dancing a jig after punching Ghidorah. The Planet X plot was pretty good and the aliens were cool at the start, but became pretty predictable by mid-film. Otherwise, the monster battle was just a retread of the last film, but without Mothra.

Speaking to Variety‘s Angelique Jackson on the Marvel press line at Comic-Con last year year, Ford wisecracked about the motion capture process required to turn him into the Red Hulk by saying: “What did it take? It took not caring. It took being an idiot for money, which I’ve done before.”

I always love Ford interviews. The guy doesn’t mince words.

As someone who subs to Disney, they really only have franchise content. If you’re not into Marvel or Star Wars then you’re basically just subbing for their backlog.

Whereas Netflix and HBO are actually putting out standalone originals. Stranger Things, Squid Game, Money Heist, House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Grace and Frankie are/were all their own things without just being some movie franchise’s licensed tv spinoffs. Even HBO gives a mix of DC content with their original shows.

There really isn’t much in the way of series created for TV for Disney itself. Even after buying FOX, there’s not any real original new content to compete with Netflix.

The bots are there to sell things to humans, collect data on humans, or persuade humans to do things. You want money, power, or to manipulate people into voting against their own self-interests? That’s what bots are for.

Someone went through a list of upcoming releases and picked titles they think might get a trailer.

Saved you a click.

Yeah, that one was great. The outtake at the end where he caught the pencil made it obvious just how hard it was.

A lot of the falls in that film looked brutal, even as stunt falls they looked like they hurt. And they went through so much breakaway glass lol.

Police Story

It was a bit disjointed and silly for my taste, but Jackie Chan is always fun and the stunts were insane. Will likely watch the sequels.