Ilandar

Only very basic Korean, in addition to my native English. I have studied four languages (Mandarin Chinese, Italian, German and Spanish) but I've forgotten pretty much all of it because I haven't been able to use it in the real world like I can with Korean. I don't think I'll ever bother with learning another language. Getting my Korean up to a proper conversational level would be a big achievement so I'll aim for that instead.

And I get it, the internet is fueled by clicks and engagement which are fueled by anger

You could've just stopped there, to be honest. The entertainment industry has always been guilty of manufacturing outrage for interaction. My unsolicited advice for everyone is to just get back to enjoying your hobbies, whether they be film, video games, music or anything else, and stop caring about the associated noise online. There is a fake controversy about everything these days and so many people seem to get emotionally manipulated into actually thinking any of it is real or relevant and end up spending more of their time absorbed in the fake drama than they do actually enjoying the original hobby.

Of the games I've played, I'd pick Majora's Mask. The reduced size and linearity combines well with the time mechanic and forced repetition. I don't agree that the BotW/TotK map was too large, though. The "emptiness" was kind of the point of those games. The space allows you to appreciate the little things like grass swaying in the wind or the distant sounds of animals.

Here's a non-AI generated version of this story back from 2010 when it was actually news.

I watched the 'Melchior the Apothecary' trilogy over three nights. I was surprised at how great the sets, costumes and sound design were. It seems like they shot these films within a relatively short period and on a reasonably low budget, but I thought they looked and sounded great and that helped connect me to the world and the characters which, again somewhat surprisingly, really paid off in the final film. All three are around the 90 minute mark, but don't feel rushed (although I think they all could have benefitted from a slight extension to the runtime). The mysteries are passable but nothing special - actually I'd say they're probably one of the weaker aspects of the films. However, if you enjoy historical dramas or medieval settings then I think you'd really enjoy these three films like I did. I'd like to read the novels they are based on, but unfortunately it doesn't seem like many have been translated from the original Estonian to English.

And I’d call it creepy rather than scary.

I found the first portion of the film set in Transylvania very scary. Honestly I think it peaked around then and the rest of the film, although still good, never got close to reaching those heights.

I don't tolerate it at all, to be honest. I think it's a complete joke how acceptable blatant phone addiction has become in society; a third of my sessions at the cinema have people using phones during the film now. There is no such thing as "watching in the background" - you're either watching it or you're not watching it. You can put a film on in the background but don't tell me you watched it, because you didn't. It's such a widespread problem now that there has even been debate about whether some modern writers are instructed to dumb down their dialogue so that people who refuse to look up from their dopanime injector can follow the basic plot.

if you watch it, don’t doomscroll at the same time.

It's sad that you actually felt the need to tell people this in a movies community. What a time we live in.

I guess I will need to rewatch 2049 again (I've only seen it once, in the cinema at release). I've watched the original quite a few times since though and I'm increasingly of the opinion that it's quite overrated and gets heavily carried by the visuals and the soundtrack, so I could see a case being made for the sequel being better.

I made it a bit further but also gave up. I guess I wasn't particularly interested in a Nolan biographical feature to begin with (I feel he is better suited to fiction), but it definitely felt like one of his most self-fellating efforts yet. Sort of just confrationally different for the sake of being different. I bet his fanboys ate it up, though.

I've watched Simon Roper's YouTube channel for many years, so the idea of cinema in a language I don't fully understand isn't as intimidating to me as maybe it is to others. It's an interesting challenge that I'd definitely be up for, as I have an underlying interest in linguistics and old languages. The great thing about working in the horror genre is that you generally don't need to rely on a scipt to tell your audience. It's a genre that relies heavily on visual storytelling.

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