strangelingo

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  1. Posted

    I'd like to see more "traditional," deeper experiences on my phone.

    Not so much in terms of action titles (which, if you wind up having to go to an onscreen dpad generall isn't going to pan out particularly well), but adventure and turn based strategy & rpg. The device is certainly capable of it as there are decent titles of those types, but they're way outnumbered by all the physics based puzzlers.

    Sorry for an answer to something so old, but OH MY GOD KING OF THE DRAGON PASS. Seriously, if you like turn based strategy a la 90s you won't be disappointed.

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    I've also recently begun, after a couple of false starts since its release.

    I agree that the story seems to be a bit unexplained, but I suspect that since Geralt is supposed to have amnesia, all the important bits will eventually be explained. The developers may have also been operating under the assumption that most people who bought the game would already be familiar with the books, which may or may not be a bad thing.

    Nay, at the time Witcher was published the relevant books weren't even in English. That was just conscious decision not to dumb story down.

    btw: People, try playing it with original (Polish) voiceovers. I heard many good things from the people who did try this.

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    I believe Tarkovsky's version is generally just called Solaris, like the others and the book. It just depends on how you want to represent the Russian name. My dvd says Solaris in any case.

    Yep, it's Solaris and Solyaris is just bad translation back from Russian title.

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    Are they drastically different, or are they both good, or would you say that the movie pales massively to the book?

    Yes, yes and yes.

    Book is a whole different thing. It's a very intricate jewel of writing, where you've got themes ranging from Voltaire, through Conan Doyle to One Thousand and One Nights with religious debate, Aristotle and medieval setting overlayed on top of everything. (Like other Eco's books it's very postmodern in that aspect)

    Therefore it isn't surprising that movie didn't have too big ambition of being the book but just focused on the gust of the story and was very competent in that regard. But that's precisely why someone who did love the book might hate the adaptation. I didn't. I did enjoy both, although on entirely different levels.

    You should definitely read the book.

    @Chris:

    Did you read Baudolino? It's Nameoftheroseish in many aspects and I guess you're going to like it. I've read it back in high school and ever since I wanted to pick it up again.

    @vimes:

    Eco is Italian and from what I recall all his books are too.

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    I saw BRONSON yesterday. That was something rather special. Check the trailer. I don't know if it's already out (I saw a screener from a film festival), but I'd definitely recommend it.

    I saw it a few days ago and I'm still unsure about whether it was good or just average. However, Tom Hardy was really, really good in that role. And since it's just about him, the whole movie is well worth watching.

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    They put 'em back in, at least for the "Enhanced Edition" that's on Steam right now (not that it was very hard to do it yourself).

    Yeah, I know, but you had something like two years of Countdown to Boobs, while we got our boobs instantly.

    Mine were still hot when I bought 'em.

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    All the golden guns I'm finding are the AK-47s (or whatever automatic rifle, I can't tell the difference between guns), are there supposed to be any others?

    I think there's something like four golden AK-47's to find and that's it.

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    I saw the Center of the World, Frost/Nixon and Shattered Glass over the Christmas.

    First one is a drama that reminds me of Closer. I ran into it by accident while skipping the channels at night and it was really captivating. It has quite low rating on imdb but I believe it's because inclusion of sensitive material, even though erotic scenes are done without usual accompanying goofiness.

    Also, if you're going to have a stripper/prostitute in your movie and it isn't something like 'Pretty Woman' (in fact movie is more of an antithesis of it) people are going to be unhappy.

    Frost/Nixon most of you have probably seen. I won't deny that it's a good movie but basic premise is quite flawed, as it offers quite distorted view of reality, at least from what Wikipedia tells me. But Langella as Nixon + Sheen, Rockwell and others make up for that.

    Shattered Glass is about 'the New Republic' journalist who... well, I don't want to spoil it. If you're going to watch it you will probably know what's going on but I didn't and quite enjoyed it. Although I concede that it might not appeal to everyone: in short it's just two hour film about journalism and ethics. Things to notice: Hayden Christiansen in performance that isn't shit.

    edit: If anyone has any recommendations for movies in similar vein to any of above three, I'd be happy to hear them.

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    Well, the website it's being sold at allows you to select any country in the world. It doesn't tell you until you click next whether it will ship to your country or not. So it'd have to be trial an error.

    If you can help at all, it would be a Merry Christmas indeed!

    I live in Cracow so I figure there is a hope. However, I am too lazy to check if they fancy sending it to Poland, as I can't read cyrillic ;]

  25. Posted

    Hello, does anyone here live in Russia and maybe would be willing to have me ship Samarost 2 to your house and then pay you to ship it to me in the United States? I think it also works with surrounding European Countries.

    http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/4182855/

    Ozon won't ship to the US, even after I went through all that work with Google translate.

    I also can't seem to persuade anyone, including the publisher or creator to ship me the Russian DVD Box set. I would really just like to get my hands on that sketchbook this release comes with. From talking to the creator at Amanita, it seems to only exist in the Russian version.

    Sad times. ;(

    Did you check which Eastern European countries they can ship to?