Me, when I'm borderline considering seeing the jiggling keys movie for baby infants due to it having my Pikpik carrot boys in it.

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"Donald Glover is Yoshi" is yet another one of those castings that are utterly incomprehensible today but in 5 years will seem so normalised that you forget a time when Childish Gambino wasn't Mario's dino steed. I don't know how Nintendo and Illumination do it.

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I've so enjoyed my 100% playthrough of Super Mario Galaxy for the first time in nearly 20 years. It's a perfect videogame that if released as a new product today would be crucified for not having 8000 post-game gobbidigoos to waste countless hours checking off. Wii graphics hold up in 4k.

Currently listening to my "I'm so fucking old" classics.

They've been surpassed by studios like Illumination and even DreamWorks for a while now. Though they all still struggle to turn out a worthwhile screenplay, for some reason.

The sheer drop-off of this once infallible animation studio needs to be studied.

This seems like less of a critique of Sony's console and more an indictment of console gaming in general. It's clear that handheld and PC are the future of gaming, and it is based SOLELY on customer preferences. Ergo, graphics/processing will plateau because people want to play on the toilet.

About 10 years ago I was forcing myself to clear my gaming backlog and spent an ungodly amount of time completing Rayman. I vowed to never play it again. The thought of someone playing 5 different versions of this actually makes me nauseous. The CD-ROM soundtrack WILL haunt your nightmares.

I was always a mark to get this Amiibo, but seeing how much they totally flubbed it made me preorder it immediately.

This coming from someone who 100%ed Tears of the Kingdom????
Bananza is one of the most pleasurable 100% completions I've done in a long time, huge improvement over Odyssey IMO.

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My hot take: the Switch 2s first year lineup is some of Nintendo's best output in decades. Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza and Metroid Prime 4 all have a purity of game design that is near extinct. People pine for the PS2/GameCube era because these very traits. Dont pass it by.

If only someone would ever get around to making a movie based on the classic novel Frankenstein.

I am so confused about how gravity works in the upside down...

I actually like the Sam Smith song the most out of all the Craig-era tracks, the best song for the worst film.
As much as I love Radiohead and Muse, their tracks don't feel like they were written to be compatible with an opening title sequence.

It's so funny (but also a tad frustrating) that home media distributors could quite easily just copy/paste the best promotional artwork of all time for their covers and be done but they instead decide to go with the most fuckass Instagram filter screenshot shit instead.

I watched two coworker recommended movies on the weekend.
One I'd seen before and was enjoyable to revisit. The other was one of the worst films I've ever seen.
It's going to cause a big rift when they ask me which one I liked more. There will be judgement.

The casting director of the Super Mario movies is such an unhinged individual, you kind of have to sit back and admire the untethered madness of the whole enterprise.

Nintendo have been unbudging on retaining the value of their first-party titles for some time; we are just now entered the final phase of their plan.

SPOOKY MOVIE #5 - CUCKOO

How was Dan Stevens the only person trying to make this boring movie interesting?

SPOOKY MOVIE #4 - ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES

AKA The Ballad of Debbie Jalinksy.

SPOOKY MOVIE #3 - POSSESSION

A once in a lifetime film. Tentacle porn, apocalyptic imagery, liminal spaces, doppelgangers aplenty. One hell of a date movie. Watch it on high volume so your neighbours think you've finally lost it.

Nothing prepared me for how much sharting is in The Exorcist novel.

SPOOKY MOVIE #2 - The Mist

The black and white directors cut is an unbelievable improvement. It's funny this being a throwback creature feature because the parallels to modern America are startling. Effects are still the weakest part, but easy to tolerate. Ending still slaps.

ITS SPOOKY SEASON. Time to watch a whole bunch of witches, ghouls, psychopaths, demons and draculas.

Film #1:
Wolf Man - 2025

What a terrible way to start the horror marathon. Jesus what a clunker.

I had actually started to forget that movies could be this good. Evokes an excellence I thought to be ancient history. Terminator 2 if you replaced Skynet with Trump. In-fucking-credible.

Best comedy film of the decade. Prove me wrong.

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I just my first ever playthrough of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Kojima will never beat the style over substance accusations. This has some of the worst stealth level design and the most boring boss fight mechanics I've ever played. Cool cutscenes though.

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WEAPONS is my film of the year so far. Hands down best ending I've seen in a long time. If anyone can finally crack Resident Evil in Hollywood, its going to be Cregger. Godspeed.

This is some wild Jodie Comer fanboy denial. She got cooked.

PREDICTION: You will go your whole life without ever meeting anyone who has seen this movie, but it will also be the 4th highest grossing animated movie of all time.