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Gay Jewish atheist weirdo who stays home every Saturday night pretending he’s at a drive-in. Post-production person. Sense of humor’s bad but it’s very present, good energy “Makes the Internet suck” -Seth Abramson
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The bad way is in how everyone talks like they're in a sitcom, and sometimes acts like it. There isn't a single character scene you believe. The most interesting thing is Arnold Schwarzenegger's continued career-long variations on this role, and he gets the best line ("DId you mate?")
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This is the absolute goofiest TERMINATOR sequel in a good way and a bad way. The good way is in being the kind of time travel story where everyone shows up on the Titanic at once, so complicated as it loops back on itself that there are scenes where the characters stand there trying to sort it out
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I had a lot of problems with it, it seemed about as close to nothing as you could get with Terminator stuff still happening in front of you
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We have it in 3D and I remember that aspect being done well enough, but don't remember it being vital and it's too hot to wear those things so here comes the flat version
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skipping SALVATION because that really is the pits, just awful. Got the Blu-ray sight unseen, saw the R-rated version first, and got rid of it. Cool long take but GENISYS is the kind of bad that doesn't get kicked out around here, let's gooooo
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strong headwinds after those last couple, probably. If that's the last one we get I don't think that's so bad, imagine GENISYS taking that crown
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Maybe just a loophole for different writers stepping up to provide another point of view, to make that the actual story, but on the other hand it's as grim to think about as the ending we do see and I kind of like it
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Found that interesting because it's based in what the T-800's mission was, and came from someone other than Connor at a different part of the future. Trying to preserve what they already had, but from a later point and already giving up on what we'd think was the big one
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But I love the soft reboot era, after this being so unthinkable even Jason movies twisted themselves in knots to resemble a linear saga. It feels like it allows more ideas in; I think it's a cool accepted standard to set. All it needs is ppl with the judgment to know EXORCIST: BELIEVER is a hard no
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I liked the way GENISYS dove into time travel and paradoxes, but could not believe the goofy-ass dialogue scenes unfolding before me. Mixed bag. SALVATION was not, agreed it's the worst. DARK FATE I really like, if you had to pick one timeline that'd be it
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Yeah this one's fine. None of these sequels are THE TERMINATOR (1984) but there's only one that's a total waste of time, and this isn't even runner-up
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But I think it’s a nifty excuse for another chapter, and it does find inventive things to throw into a car chase, and its ending is unexpected. Decent cast and the screenplay isn’t unfair to them. I don’t find it sacrilege to joke on scenes that were already scored by “Bad to the Bone”
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when I do or don’t like this movie, I’m realizing, it’s because of how much it bugs me that it has a visual style I don’t care about. It looks like a manual for correct lenses and exposure while employing the rule of thirds. This is too bad, after two movies with imagery to remember
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Was just brooding on that, there must be a piece out there somewhere about how this role is cursed
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side anecdote: I gave this movie a generous shot specifically because of Henry Rollins' IFC Channel show, where he reviewed this and was all "bah" and "Hollywood" and "soulless" and then sat there pretending he liked Michael Madsen's poetry, as big a phony as anyone
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my opinion of TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES vacillates wildly from year to year, let's see what it is today!
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the city keeps putting up these “Celebrating Black Music” cards at LinkNYC kiosks that are like “Little Richard!” and “Whitney Houston!” and all I can think is “why did the word ‘Musicians’ escape you, this is weird”
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*scratching off the other L* you brought this on yourself
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this sweat-induced acne is unacceptable, but I have told it that very politely and it will not leave
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hahahaha
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Definitely have not had the nerve to look up possible trips - I just subsist on those people who get like The Most Expensive One in the World and then YouTube it
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So the compactness of this kind of thing appeals to me, but having to pack up your bed to use the can in the middle of the night is just, what are we doing here. And traveling right in your bathroom is probably not awesome besides
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Nothing else to do on cable news. You can’t just show the interview for people who missed it like some kind of news service—if you do that, the same person won’t watch all night and ad value goes down
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Otherwise I like this one so much better than RETURN OF, though. “Write a new story instead of copying the last one beat for beat” is a bar it manages to clear, I’d recommend it more if it didn’t make you decide whether you can forgive that casting decision
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BOOOOO except yeah why not have the wife be an Asian actor too, what the hell was that
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Exactly! Want to do that full hotel-on-wheels version some time, it’s still out there
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pisses me off that people will believe someone who’s this bad at lying, like at least hold out for someone with a sense of the art
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doing this one little island of a workday between July 4 and the weekend, and it is absurd. Absurd!
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Again, not even getting into personalities, if your sources are so good where were you and they a year ago
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nice to get off the summer subway train sweatbox and realize it wasn’t me with the sour B.O. funk. The deodorant lives Try having a commute that emotional in a car, Eric Adams
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fuck this. People who need every fictional character to be someone you could sing “Wind Beneath My Wings” to are dull as dishwater
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There's actually one you can find in the game, but it's just the shape of the hallways/rooms as a tiny black illustration. It's not useless but is maddening
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It's just such a maze, if you don't find the next thing you needed you can wander around forever. And I only had a good idea of what to do in the first place because the manual on the Internet Archive had someone who wrote in the steps to win in the space provided at the end
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That's the magic. I'll get the ALIEN³ game's goat someday
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My childhood one actually works but the screen is similarly bad, I play these on a GBA
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He's the contemporary guy, I just like ones like this and have my little case of cartridges and a couple of favorite stores
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Amazing part of this video. This game had American and Japanese versions with very different doling out of lives etc., and there's this unconvincing quote in a video game mag about how it's just what the people want but...
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This seems that way; the levels are challenging in their own way but the real timesuck is how easily you get bopped back to square one, told yet again you killed humanity. One depleting life across multiple levels (with a mercy break in the middle), no power-ups. Whatever the case it's sadistic lol
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Ever since seeing this a few weeks ago, I can't forget that (allegedly) games would be made to be extra hard to complete in the U.S. because we had a rental market, and they didn't want you to be able to finish in one weekend
m.youtube.com/watch?v=O8AV...
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these are all screengrabs from a walkthrough video to be clear, I'm playing on a GBA where you can see the modest color scheme this had included. It's just, who wants to see phone photos of a non-backlit screen Actually beat it though, yay
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yay!
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In many cases, yeah. The brand name is a jumble of useless trinkets and intriguing utility and scarily anti-labor marketing and things that already existed
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
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"Independence from Britain" is the world's most celebrated holiday.
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Done it many times because I'm from New England so that was the Thanksgiving etc. trip, they go straight up. Never splurged on Acela though haha, guess that's the one that somewhat resembles the movies
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lol this got vetoed at our house this year though. I would cheerfully sit through aaaaall this but he has refused to spend any of this day watching MYRA BRECKINRIDGE, not when there's a new Godzilla movie out. Making him burgers anyway
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man I wish Amtrak had bacon. Although the awful cheeseburger is a singular treat, almost never miss it
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David Kuhne
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reskeet with a tweet you still think about
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reskeet with a tweet you still think about
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Being factually wrong is clearly not a problem for NYT Opinion, they don't even footnote you. But I figured they at least cared if it was your sincere opinion; that they don't is just wild. Give the section to a thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters, how could it be less useful
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depressing seeing this paper so blatantly choose deception. The dude voting didn't just make the hed inaccurate, it made chances approach 100% this column is just someone lying about their own opinion, like all his other ones were. Why is this iteration even still up?
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