ASF

Primary character: Jeor Mormont Secondary character: Maester Aemon Tertiary character: Barristan Selmy

This season will be memorable.

One week to go! GoT marathon on SyFy over here. One season per day, until next Monday. Just re-watched the first episode.

30 days to go. Cannot fucking wait.

'The Proud Ones' For anyone that enjoys a good movie, and in particular, the Western genre, I recommend this one. 9/10 'Married to the Mob' 6/10

This show has taken a noise dive, in terms of quality, years ago. The likes of Rick, Maggie and Michonne leaving the show just accentuate this fact.

Amazed how they made a movie, about such an interesting subject, a complete borefest. Kudos to Gary Oldman though. He was great.

Re-watched Fight Club. 9/10 'BlacKkKlansman' It was decent, but nothing special. 7/10

Classic, that one. I love a good war movie. Don't know if you have seen these ones, but apart from the obvious classics (Casablanca, Dr.º Strangelove, Gone with the Wind), I would recommend Judgment at Nuremberg, The Battle of Algiers, Come and See and Rossellini's war trilogy. 'eXistenZ' 7/10 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' 7/10

Mel, I used to think that you were a decent poster, but perhaps I was wrong, because now you're looking like you're not a very smart guy. So let me put this to you, like I would to a 5 year-old. You don't need to make an assumption about the fact that I don't play video games anymore, because I said it clearly in my first post of January 12. First thing I need to point out is that you aren't very good at Maths. The best period in gaming history was between the mid 90's until 2007. 2007 was, in my opinion, the last great year in video games, with diversity and quality titles being launched for every platform. I never once said they milked everything in the late 90's, so you're talking out of your ass there. But I do think that the best innovations are long gone. Now is mostly copy and repeat of what has been previously done. Which has been a recurring phenom, not only in games, but in other areas of culture, art, etc. When I mentioned games being made for players I was talking about a product being made just for the player to have the most fun of it, not having to worry if he needs to pay something extra, apart from the game itself, to be able to advance in the game. I might be wrong here, but all these MMORPG's just seem a poor excuse to take a few more bucks from people. My definition of challenging is not snapping my controller in half. But it's also not having pointers of where to go, what to do all the time, treating me like a halfwit. I've played and have games like Gran Turismo, Devil May Cry, Burnout, so I know what a challenging, but not user friendly, game can and should be. Of course companies are in for the money as well. It would be stupid to think otherwise. But there's a reasonable limit and I think that one has been surpassed for quite a while now. I didn't come here after reading a news article. I still follow video games news and discuss it with people who are still gamers to this day. And they, the same as I, feel the same way I do. I'm sure there are a lot of people who want to play this high tech games that come out, but the magic is lost and nothing you say or think will make it come back. For someone that supposedly plays lots of games, you clearly don't understand this feeling. So please, feel free to write another post about how new games are amazeballs or how I'm not a gamer anymore, so my opinion means nothing. You come across as a fan boy, that can't take criticism about something he likes.

That's an overly optimistic view of the present gaming industry. Growing/being bigger doesn't mean being better. You only have to look at the cinema industry. It's bigger and making more money than in any other era before, and it's definitely not better than in the past. The quality has diminished and the same has happened with video games. What made games better 15/20 years ago was innovation, games being made for players, challenging games (not friendly user), lack of greed. You had quality releases in a monthly rate, sometimes even weekly, for all platforms. One game, newly released, was pricey, so quality was important. Obviously, there was crap being made like you always have, but you could feel the care developers had while making a new game. The end product mattered, because us, the players, mattered. Feel free to keep thinking things are better in the present. It has gotten worse and will only continue to do so, while people such as yourself keep buying and feeding the greedy companies, who will continue to shit on the players.

I thought it was a bit outdated. One of those movies that didn't aged well. Add the fact that I had already seen the same story portrayed in The Ten Commandments, and there you have why I didn't rate it so highly.

'The Prince of Egypt' 5/10 'Insyriated' 4/10 'The Quiet American' 7/10

If you think that the gaming industry is as good or even better than 15/20 years ago, you're kidding yourself. But each to their own.

There aren't really top games from famous franchises anymore, except perhaps for the Mario games. MSG should have ended with Guns of Patriots. I read that the last one involves another dimension and zombies (what??). FF went from the classic RPG game play to an action game with FFXV, shitting on the series legacy. The last Gran Turismo was a flop. Even God of War seems to have toned down from it's gore. I'm sure, to please the PC cult of today. The industry has no ideas and proof of that is the countless of remastered versions, of past classics. The only thing the gaming industry does today, apart from fleecing money with nonsense out of the players, is launching remastered versions, first for the PS3/360, then for the PS4/XBO. They can fuck right off.

'Bitter Moon' 7.5/10 'The Eagle has Landed' 7.5/10 'Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi' I cried of laughter watching this one. Funniest movie I've seen in a while. 8/10. Just because of the entertainment value.

It's been a good six years, since I last played a video game. The last one I played was Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Since then, I got disconnected from them. I decided to read some of the threads in this section, to see what kind of games people were playing nowadays, and, I must say, I'm saddened by the actual state of video gaming. What happened to just buy a game, for 50/60 Euros, and be able to play that game to it's full, without having to spend another cent in bullshit, like DLC? Microtransactions? What the fuck is this? Playing video games was an important part of my youth. I spent countless of hours playing true classics like Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo or Final Fantasy X. Watching the actual state of affairs, I'm kind of glad I left the video gaming world. I prefer to keep the good memories I have of it, rather than participate in a business where the customer/player is not the main target anymore, instead, the main goal is just feeding the pure greed of the producers.

Two brilliant movies right there. I, Daniel Blake is heartbreaking. Napoleon Dynamite is proper shite. One of the most annoying movies, with one of the most annoying characters ever.

Happy new year, mate.

'The Parallax View' 8/10 'Wonder' 7.5/10 'Scarecrow' 6/10 'Pacific Rim: Uprising' 3/10 'Thinner' 5/10 'Broken Flowers' 4/10 'Footloose' 5/10 'La Notte (The night)' 6.5/10 'Wonder Woman' Gets extra points because of Gal Gadot. Other than her, this is quite average. 5/10 'Lady Bird' 7/10 'Ossessione' 7.5/10

Merry Christmas everyone.

'Pi' I usually like Aronofsky's films, but this one is my least favorite of him. 6/10 'Phantom Thread' DDL was, as always, phenomenal, but the movie suffers from a very, very slow pace. 6.5/10 'The Shape of Water' One of the worst Best Picture winners. 2/10 'Baby Driver' 7.5/10 'Pet Sematary' 5/10 'Alien: Covenant' 1/10 'City Hall' 7.5/10 'The Florida Project' Dross. The little girl was a complete brat and ruined the film. Some of the adults were fools, especially, Willem Dafoe. -/10 'The Wonderful Country' 7/10

Christmas classic. After watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ECwhB21Pnk., I've decided to change my rating of The Last Jedi to -/10.

'Justice League' Better than I thought it would be. 6/10 'The Big Sick' 7/10 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' A decent movie, but nothing special. 7/10 'Black Panther' Awful. One of the worst Marvel movies. 2/10 'Star Wars: Episode VIII' 2/10 '3:10 to Yuma (1957)' 8/10 'Spider-man: Homecoming' 7/10 'Django' Awesome. Franco Nero nails the role perfectly. 9/10 'Despicable Me 3' 6/10 'Kongens Nei (The king's choice)' 7/10 'Clueless' 8/10

Watched this one as well. Had some good laughs in it. Decent to waste a few hours. 'Coco' 8/10 'Blade Runner 2049' The time passes by you, while you're watching this one. However, I felt it was a bit 'empty'. Could have been more. 7/10 'The Post' 7/10 'Vera Cruz' Has Gary Cooper, so automatically the movie gets extra points. 8.5/10