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I would have preferred Lara not to call the subterranean indigenous humans "creatures" and at one point someone calls her out on that and it gets brushed off immediately Later she literally took the savior role from an indigenous character who had been preparing for her whole life, the character gets fridged in order for her to be a white savior. And then she was supposed to be sacrificed but she didn't for some dumb cosmic reason, oh well. Overall the story of shadow is a huge mess, fun game and the sequence of her becoming a cold blooded monster who destroys a whole army base is definitely an experience tho
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I feel its a series of really good and fun setpieces or ideas, that inconsistent writing lets down overall. Like the idea that the villain in 2's second in command was literally deliberately gaslit into madness by her so she could control him and the idea behind the Baba Yaga DLC and things like that were rather neat, even if the overall writing between setpieces is cumbersome and poorly thought ou6t.
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Part of the reason Shadow's story is a mess is because the writer of the first two games was replaced, and a bunch of ongoing plot threads were either brushed over or dropped entirely. (The leaders of Trinity - Rise's villains - die offscreen in a radio message.)
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Rise had some really fun character moments I thought due to leaning heavily on Lara being monstrous, like when the villain is trying to reason with her due to Lara being in a precarious position and the villain offering her a hand up and Lara just shoots at her and she realises "OH my god this girl is loving insane... She is going to kill me before the day is out..."
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The marketing for Shadow implied Lara is the reason for said apocalypse, was that a thing that is also overlooked or just a gimmick?
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Azubah posted:The marketing for Shadow implied Lara is the reason for said apocalypse, was that a thing that is also overlooked or just a gimmick? Sorta, she triggers it but if she didn't then the main villains would have anyway, and in a way where they would be able to see it through to the end.
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joylessdivision posted:He was fantastic in Twin Peaks the Return too Lillard is often great, it took me years to realize SLC Punk kinda sucks because there's a few good performances in there, his in particular
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nine billion!? jesus christ. That studio is practically dead. Bethesda went for only 7.5 and they actually make a lot of money!
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Judakel posted:nine billion!? jesus christ. That studio is practically dead. Bethesda went for only 7.5 and they actually make a lot of money! MGM has a shitload of films Bethesda has 8 rereleases of skyrim
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Neurolimal posted:MGM has a shitload of films Bethesda has 8 rereleases of skyrim Yeah there's a few IPs they'd get control of. The Bond IP is probably the biggest one. But I think this is all about the MGM back catalog.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Yeah there's a few IPs they'd get control of. The Bond IP is probably the biggest one. But I think this is all about the MGM back catalog. They sold most of that to Turner in ‘86.
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Maxwell Lord posted:They sold most of that to Turner in ‘86. Oh poo poo that's right. I have no fuckin idea then why they'd pay that much.
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There's speculation it won't go through due to the Broccoli stranglehold over key decision-making. It's still an absurd amount, but they may be trying to do a Bond Cinematic Universe with shows and movies for generations.
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May 24, 2021 01:23
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That’s what I was wondering, MGM don’t own Bond outright do they?
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Zachack posted:Sorta, she triggers it but if she didn't then the main villains would have anyway, and in a way where they would be able to see it through to the end. The villains might've triggered the final apocalypse but even in game they are flabbergasted that she just yoinks artifacts that explicitly say Don't Touch Me or doom will befall the world. A lot of brown lives are absolutely on her hands and she just does not care at allllll.
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Maxwell Lord posted:That’s what I was wondering, MGM don’t own Bond outright do they? I think so. Is that brand even strong enough to attempt something like that? I figured Universal was angling for something like that. It seemed kind of odd for them to buy distribution for the new film so I wondered they were hoping to leverage that into something bigger.
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Bond quits fighting evil billionaires to take on the real bad guys: union organisers.
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Bond is co-owned by Sony now iirc.
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Bond is co-owned by MGM and Eon. Eon is basically just two film producers in London.
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feedmyleg posted:There's speculation it won't go through due to the Broccoli stranglehold over key decision-making. It's still an absurd amount, but they may be trying to do a Bond Cinematic Universe with shows and movies for generations. What the broccoli family should worry about is making a green giant movie and then making a veggie cinematic universe
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The Klowner posted:Trying to make a list of "talentless movie/tv people with famous/well-connected parents" Jaden Smith -edit, whoops didn't notice I wasn't on the last page.
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Vegetable posted:Bond is co-owned by MGM and Eon. Eon is basically just two film producers in London. Eon is also the name of a Malaysian car company (now partly owned by the same Chinese company that owns Volvo) that bought Lotus and it's funny to think that they can can also own another of Britain's cultural legacy.
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https://twitter.com/IndieWire/status/1396535920590049283?s=19
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Bond is co-owned by Sony now iirc. No they just distributed the last few films.
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I was excited for a new Franco Nero movie but not anymore!
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His vacant doofy gaze in that pic is cracking me up
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[in extremely down tempo Lana del Rey voice] oooooooooompaaaaaaah.... looooooooooompaaaaaaaah... dooooooopityyyy dooooooooooo.... [triangle solo into synth overtones]
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May 24, 2021 16:59
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Yes because the remake totally wasn’t an abomination
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No thank you
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Forget origin stories, give us the Great Glass Elevator!
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I still say it oughta have the Oompa Loompas be the brains of the operation and Wonka is just the frontman.
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Bond quits fighting evil billionaires to take on the real bad guys: union organisers. Remember that in Quantum of Solace, Bond was fighting to save Evo Morales from a CIA-backed coup whose goal was to privatize the water supply. duz posted:Forget origin stories, give us the Great Glass Elevator! 
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Lordy. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kevin-spacey-to-return-as-sex-crime-detective-3r90wfzbv “The disgraced actor Kevin Spacey, who has spent four years in the professional wilderness after accusations of sexual misconduct, is preparing to return to the screen in the role of a detective investigating the case of a man wrongly suspected of paedophilia.”
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Phanatic posted:Lordy. 
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Chairman Capone posted:Remember that in Quantum of Solace This is a trick, nobody remembers Quantum of Solace.
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I'm glad cancel culture got cancelled so the sex pest could get work pretending to be another sex pest
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endocriminologist posted:I'm glad cancel culture got cancelled so the sex pest could get work pretending to be another sex pest Incorrect, he's pretending to be a detective investigating someone else cancelled for being a sex pest 
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Asterite34 posted:Incorrect, he's pretending to be a detective investigating someone else cancelled for being a sex pest oh my god that makes it so much worse lmfao
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duz posted:Forget origin stories, give us the Great Glass Elevator! This is the black list movie where Wonka is suffering from ptsd after fighting in WWI isn't it?
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