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Can't find the old thread. But I finally did another Short Story for the Idle Thumbs writing Jam: https://twmac.medium.com/for-you-not-them-973eef06fcdc

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I did, I thought it was super fun! We have now completed a series of other movie marathons since I posted this. We did all of the Underworld movies, and by the 4th film I was told to shut up and stop laughing. We watched all of the Conjuring series and I was surprised by how cohesive all of the films were. The weakest in the lot is the first Anabelle film and even that isn't that bad. James Wan is a bit of whizz with the camera. We've also done Fast & Furious and it was a delight to see my girlfriend become infuriated with Tokyo Drift.

Funny that this gets quoted and is the first thing I see after logging in three years later. Yeah, I am a mug because the trailers for The Northman make me want to watch it even though it is the same bloody director again. Stop making films that seem really interesting! I just watched Everything Everywhere All at Once and it is just a phenomenally good film. Part Sci-fi, part Wong Kar Wai drama, part martial arts movie - the film has so many moving parts that it feels like it should get lost in all of the things it is throwing at the screen. Really though, it has a laser focus on a broader theme. The trauma that kids inherit from their parents. Instead of going the Bojak Horseman way, instead the film is heartburstingly positive and there is a warmth and care that I just wasn't expecting. The film almost made me cry at the end. Everyone, everywhere should go and see it. Also, I just quit Twitter after realising that I hate it. So I came back here to see if anyone was posting.

That is, except for me? 2020 has kind of sucked so I got sucked into buying the Xbox Series X under the logic that I wanted something cool to look forward to. There are only two games that look truly next gen (Dirt 5 and some FPS game), and all the reports just make them both sound like they are on fire in terms of rolling out features. I am just curious if anyone else is buying them, and why. But also, if you are not buying one, is there something impeding you (other than you don't want one)?

I wrote a long piece on my changing view on Heavy Rain and its legacy: https://medium.com/@twmac/heavy-rain-a-retrospective-9a2d797dc9a6

He is barely in Rumble Fish so I wouldn't have recommended it. Red Rock West was on the docket - but then Colour out of Space took over. I really need to rewatch Bringing out the Dead.

Yeah, impossible to find at the moment.

I think she has a deep seated hatred for both those films and Cage is the central focus of her ire. I found out that Captain Correlli's Mandolin was the favourite film of one of her exes too, which sounds like a bad time.

Bad Lieutenant was on the list as was Leaving Las Vegas. Leaving Las Vegas doesn't seem to be on digital stores, and I couldn't find a local copy of it on DVD or Blu Ray. I guess he isn't an arsehole in Con Air?

She actually thought Donald was kind of an asshole too. He says things, or asks things that make Charlie feel even worse, and he seems to do it deliberately.

So, my girlfriend had only watched 2 Nicolas Cage movies before she met me and they were Captain Correlli's Mandolin and National Treasure. So, it made her think that he was basically terrible and not worth watching. I didn't know this and on our first non-going out date a year ago, we watched Mandy, which she loved. We then watched Mom & Dad, which she also liked. Basically, very accommodating on my love of Nic Cage. Well, after much talking we went on a 5 movie marathon: Face/Off Adaptation Primal Color out of Space Lord of War Adaptation she liked and thought he was fun, but the film was 30 minutes too long, which seems to be the point of the film, but also she is not wrong. She got very sad when Lord of War was also well received, but mainly because she liked Jared Leto, as she finds a lot of films based on grim real life stories piss her off. Face/Off went down like a fire work in a John Woo movie. I love this film in both an ironic and unironic fashion, and she was super into it, but like she dug the acting in a genuine way with the two actors mimicking each other and she loved Travolta's Cage impersonation. Primal was not great. Famke Jansen's plastic surgery is really saddening. Anyway, pretty dumb film that was entertaining but didn't live up to the promise of the premise (Snakes on a Plane, meets Under Siege, meets Nic Cage). Color out of Space really pretty, creepy film, and Nic Cage is kind of perfect. My girlfriend then noted that Nic Cage almost seems incapable of playing a non asshole. Anyway, this was just an excuse to talk about movie marathons and this forum is pretty dead right now, so I figured I'd post. If anyone has fond movie marathons through a genre or actor's collection, please post here!

Hey, sorry, it isn't on a platform I can play it on.

I just read this thread from the beginning and it is super depressing. I poked Chris on Twitter to ask if this affected the announced platforms when they first came under Valve's umbrella, I was assuming it was going to go PC only. I too was not pessimistic enough.

Cool, I look forward to it, probably on Project Scarlett now, given how little time there is now.