Recent content by jaketaz

I have always found the GTA series boring, tedious drudgery, thinly-written and badly characterized with weak graphics for the times they were released in. The current one has pretty up to date graphics, but as usual the combat is bad and the shooting is awful. Just chores over and over.

quite enjoyed this video. though I was hoping to see a movie version of the "Thrawn Trilogy" - I always thought those books rose above the level of "assembly-line fan fiction" and treated the material with respect while expanding on it.

The movie gives us far more time to look at scantily clad skinny hot chicks than it does time to look at the ugly terrible people enjoying their striptease. Call it what you want, pick it apart however you want, give these people the benefit of the doubt by calling it satire. These filmmakers...

Thanks I had no clue what this was about. But after reading it, I still don't in a way. I get the comic, just not why there's an issue. There's tons of screwed up violence, sexual and otherwise, in lots of games and movies, so who cares if there's one more? And who cares if some dude couldn't...

Well they can do what they want since it's their game... but I am still a little disappointed that they gave in. I don't understand what's wrong with using characters from a work of fiction as features in another work of fiction - Hollywood does it all the time. The Hindu religion has some...

Very well said, as was the rest of your post. What if Shakespeare or even Tarantino had been squashed because of their "tendency to 'tell'"? An abundance of dialogue has never bothered me personally, and I think it would be a disservice NOT to do so whenever a skilled director is working with...

Very well said, as was the rest of your post. What if Shakespeare or even Tarantino had been squashed because of their "tendency to 'tell'"? An abundance of dialogue has never bothered me personally, and I think it would be a disservice NOT to do so whenever a skilled director is working with...

My disagreements with you are only small nitpicky things. Really, none these flaws kept me from really enjoying the movie, and I do realize you didn't say anything about not enjoying it, just not "falling in love" with it. There are basic structure problems, sure, but as someone who has little...

Also, somebody pointed out to me that while this didn't have a villain like Joker, it was also a rare case of a Batman story where Batman was the most interesting thing! There was a ton going on with him through the whole movie, so it was fine that Bane wasn't as iconic as Joker.

None of it, that's what I meant exactly. Also I never said other opinions should be silenced.

I agree. And it's not Nolan's job to satisfy all the desires of every Batman fan, it's his job to challenge us as viewers, if not to challenge his fellow filmmakers! I had tears in my eyes at the end, which rarely happens to me in a movie period, much less a superhero one. And I'm going to...

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This is a weak argument. Just because there was more cogent discussion of nipples on the batsuit than about poor narrative structure, that doesn't mean that there also wasn't poor narrative structure in the movie. And I am 100% pro-gay, pro-equality, pro-gay rights and all of it, but your...

Why did you put "sophistication of humor" in quotes? Sophistication isn't the point of the article. It explains why the offended people were offended, and why that is well within reason. The discussion about sophistication is relevant because it demonstrates how to make something inoffensive...

I can see how he would say that, since Half Life 2 is an innovative trend-setting well-written well-scripted cutting-edge (for the time) emotional gripping action-packed creative well-reviewed model of great game design, and Duke Nukem Forever is a pile of shit with no redeeming qualities at...