actually a very good work of art, this. holds a lot of truth and holds up a mirror to reality, in a way that also provides amusement.
actually, the single best thing about that image is the emoticons in the fake-Starbucks logo. nice, absurd touch, if you think about it.
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Actually, I wanted to share because I honestly couldn't compute and no people in my IRL environment could share my pain. But I'm not hurt, I'll take the poor marks.
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offices are full of them. One raved about GITS movie with Johansson as Major after refusing to watch original anime.
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I enjoyed the movie, although it did feel like the watered-down version of something (even though I haven't watched the original. I'd like to, sometime, but similar content usually means finding and downloading stuff not easy to find).
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mindless copying of original images is what Hollywood remakes are known for-) GITS (1995) was new epoch for anime, new technologies (incl. 3D) to advance to the West, new topics and ideas (used in Matrix and blahblah), but more importantly it's still acute talented original piece, and it's right to hate its greedy mutilated descendants.
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I actually liked M. Night Shyamalan The Last Airbender movie.
Hate if you want. :P
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Haven't watched it, so I won't object. I've seen all the hate and am skeptical to watch, really.
The guy has never played AC, he just watched the movie and loved it.
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HnnnngggghghghgngngngngnnNOOOO WHYYY.
I refuse to believe you exist!
The unironic pebble dance! I just couldn't! That was what truly broke it for me.
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You seem to have gotten some attention.
I'll steal some of that to add: I like Blackhat, and i still have no idea what was wrong with it
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+1. My mom and I both liked Blackhat, and then I looked it up out of curiosity and went WTF.
I also go WTF every single time I look up Waterworld--I do it every so often out of disbelief--because it's one of my favorite movies and has been since I was a little kid, and I genuinely can't understand why people don't like it.
Incidentally, while I haven't watched Assassin's Creed, my mom has and she said she liked it. And I think she saw one of the Resident Evil movies and liked it too. And worst of all, she thought The Last Airbender wasn't bad. I was tempted to hogtie her and make her watch the series, but she'd probably end up hating it and I don't think I could deal with a double betrayal. :P
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I liked it too. :)
Liked Assassin's Creed as well.
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well that's a bummer, i like to talk about bad movies, but Assassin's Creed ain't got much going on, good or bad. Its a thing that exists :I
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Yes, exactly. Bad movies can be entertaining, AC the movie was just... not much. If you don't know the games you miss (absentmindedly) half the plot and if you know the games you miss (longingly) half the plot.
Solo was a bad movie that I enjoyed immensely, just watched it a few days ago.
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Well, movie adaptations aside, my sis works at EB Games in Aus, and apparently her entire crew legitimately judge people who come in looking only for Assassin's Creed, NBA, Fifa, and Call of Duty games...
So I don't know what to say :S
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Like this, jerk.
now back to read the actual post, brb
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Never watched it, just the first person scene on youtube. The movie itself seems pretty shitty though.
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Which of the 2 Hitman movies do you refer to ?
The one from 2007 was ok-ish, apart from Tim Olyphant looking far too young for the part. The 2015 film though...
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It makes the 2007 version look like a masterpiece. Fascinating.
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IKR? FWIW, I actually kind of enjoyed the 2007 one as well. Hardly a masterpiece, but let's face it: almost every video-game-based movie has been pretty bad. At least the Lara Croft movies had Angelina Jolie running around in them in her prime. And, they never pretended to be anything other than dumb, over-the-top adventure fun, which is what kind of made them work. Almost everything else has been pretty terrible.
I won't even watch the DOOM movie. I was an original purchaser of DOOM I, and I just can't sully that life-changing experience with a crappy movie. π
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I enjoyed Hitman with Olyphant. Not great, but enjoyable.
And I can't find any fault to the man after Justified.
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I'll just trust your word that's it's worse and not watch Max Payne anyway.
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the movie was awesome, better than replaying the same game over and over again with different numbers <3
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one movie
yet π
they still have time to turn into fast and furious xD
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what's so bad about playing the same game if you love the gameplay?
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^This
i stoped after #3 and still wait for the final game...right now there is nothing important happening for the main story... :(
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Did he ever state why? I mean, it was kind of a pretty movie. And while it made ZERO sense, its Animus was cool.
But...it had SO many problems. Acting, writing, fight choreography...characters making brainless decisions...
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He liked the story. And he admitted he knows nothing about the game, so I can't see what he got out of the movie story anyway!
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...sigh
Well, to each their own, but he needs exposure to better movies lol
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I didn't even know there was an Assassin's Creed movie. Is it the best film adaptation of a video game since Street Fighter?
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It's boring and a wasted opportunity. Not enough game content for the game lovers, not enough independent content to bring in new fans.
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It seems like some people aren't getting that it's a joke :P
Reminds me of when I met someone and they told me the first Kingsman movie sucked and reminded them to much of Austin Powers. So much of that was offensive to me xD
I did see the Assassins Creed movie in theaters though. I didn't expect much, but they could have at least made it mindless fun. It actually left me pretty bored though.
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I didn't like Kingsman, tbh, I found it a tad boring. Nothing like Austin Powers, really(which didn't age well, but I could see the appeal at its time).
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I respect your opinion but im glad you agree that its nothing like Austin Powers. I dont see how they got to that conclusion lol
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Now you know how it feels when book readers hear how much people love the movies.
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I suffer from this all the time lol but it's not surprising, books are a medium that can extent way past what is feasible for a movie. I think the only movie based on a book that I thought was actually good (even being familiar with the book) was "the name of the rose" and even then, it was missing the best "scene" from the book: the dream.
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That's true, I suppose the good thing is sometimes it draws people to actually go read the books after seeing the movie. I remember or could be mis-remembering one good movie adaption was The Black Stallion that I read and watched in my teens.
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I'm a passionate book reader and I don't always care whether a movie adaptation is good, unless it literally butchers the original. I see them as different mediums.
I see them as different mediums, and an opportunity to come across content you'd otherwise miss. I mean, we can't read everything. :-) And sometimes movies can bring in new readers, which is always a win. :-) For example, the Handmaiden, I don't think I'd ever invest the time to add the novel in my reading list, but I did watch and like the movie.
HOWEVER, I kinda judge people who have the attitude "don't read the book, watch the movie. it's the same and you can claim you've read the book" and don't read at all, ever.
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^^^ Yep, that last part. ;)
I honestly think that there are good book adaptations that make me love the book even more, and that appreciating each medium for what it is (and not what it is not) has a lot of value. For instance, I really enjoyed the Lord of the Rings movies. A lot of people didn't. Peter Jackson took liberties, but I think that most (but not all) of them were to try to make something so epic fit into a 3-hour time frame. I think that the movies turned out about as well as we could have hoped. But, the books still hold a superior space because they are open to my mind's interpretation of the incredible fantasy world outlined there, not to mention being able to provide inner dialog and the like that almost never works in a movie format.
But yeah, people that don't read...I just have a hard time connecting. Are they just not curious? Lazy? Not sure, and maybe I'm being unfair, but I have to intentionally stop myself from judging non-readers to give them a chance to prove to me that they have other redeeming qualities. ππ
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just because someone is a pleb doesn't mean they are necessarily a bad person. it just means you cannot rely on their movie or game taste being good. like if in the future he says "this movie/game was awesome!" then you probably need a second opinion.
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One of the people I love the most just adores bad horror movies. Though I do as well, so... :D Knowing objective quality, but still owning up to one's own tastes is a very important trait in my opinion. Miracleofsound Gavin also said that he like the AC games because they are amazing historical city sightseeing games with some story, while he knows that they aren't really the best games out there - and he is a really awesome person in general. :)
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you might also want to add that there's little actual history in the cities depicted lol
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I was amazed by the first 4 games, thinking "wow, look what they did with the languages etc" and then I played ACR (I'm Greek) and "glass shattered". :-)
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(He gaped when I said I play games and actually uttered "but you are a girl", so I feel kinda justified for making fun of him, but yes to what you said :-) ).
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lol such a pity you weren't recording that reaction on your phone, you would have won the interwebs :p
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It was an enjoyable movie.
It's a good starting point for discussing the games, and perhaps getting him to play them.
Oh, and isn't it great saying 'new guy at work', with the implication that you have a job? :)
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Yes, it feels great. :-)
He said he's only played a bit of CoD online some years ago, not really his cup of tea (games in general). But he had that "but you are a girl" reaction when I mentioned games, so....
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You're a girl??!
Just kidding.
I never liked CoD, or any realistic shooters for that matter. He might like some other games. Then again, it's not your task to make a gamer out of him.
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He asked what I was doing for the weekend, I said "Not much, I'll try to finish Assassin's Creed IV" (honest answer, I was kinda busy and truth came out instead of office non-answers) he said "What is it?" I said it's a game, he said "Ah, I've seen the movie, I loved it" and the conversation went downhill from there. :-)
I only liked (OK, loved) Medal of Honor, I can't get into any other shooter since then.
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a movie goer is a movie goer
remember, they didn't know anything
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I'll dare say movie quality has been declining steadily in general.
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I didn't like the movie, but I liked Michael Fassbender very much ( Ν‘Β° ΝΚ Ν‘Β°)
You can judge me in 1 second.
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I like a nice set of abs on my screen, thankyouverymuch. :-)
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It will come for you, too. It took me more than a year. It was actually a job I wasn't very optimistic about at first, but it turned out to be a great opportunity and just what I needed! Don't give up!
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You'll like the movie if you've never played the game, esp the Ezio arc...of if you have an open mind
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I think it missed a spark or two, it felt a bit flat, not bad really, just boring. It's true I can't judge it as just a movie, especially since I watched it after essentially playing from ACI up to ACIII in less than a year (yep, I was a bit late).
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The main problem I've got with this movie is the sheer number of truly awesome actors either playing horribly or just being furniture. I actually wish the cast had been replaced with generic nonames, I wouldn't have bothered to watch it then.
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Could be worse.
He could've been the single fan of Street Fighter: The legend of Chun-li
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I'm weirdly tempted to watch it, it seems like entertaining garbage.
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We have a new guy at work.
He stated he loved Assassin's Creed..............................
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The movie.
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