Recent content by Ogoid

That's the channel where all former Escapist content creators went? They had Mr. Fucking Sterling Son (or whatever the hell it is he's calling himself these days) on; that's really all I care to know about it, to be quite honest.

The Unknown Man of Shandigor (1967) I will admit, even I was skeptic going into this one. A black-and-white Swiss spy film from the 60's? Could that possibly be good? Turns out it could, and then some. Imagine (if you can) a bizarre, unholy union between an Austin Powers movie and some boring...

People did it all the time back in the day - at least, here in thirdworldia. I know I played a lot of burned disks on my Xbox. As I recall (it's been longer than I care to think about), you had to mod it so it would work; I remember having to take it to some skeevy electronics repair shop to...

Oh yeah, these are always fun...

I certainly don't hate it, but I do have to say it was a bit of a letdown, as a kid, to discover it wasn't a port of the arcade version. But on topic... Doom 3 was actually a pretty good game, and the whole "it's too dark to see" thing was blown way out of proportion.

Well, me, I've been unable to take a word he's said seriously ever since way back with Gamergate and his little friend, Zoe Quinn. You know, the moment one of his personal friends in the incestuous journalist/indie dev clique turned out to be engaging in some seriously shady behavior, and...

I'm more partial to Invitation to a Beheading, as far as Nabokov goes.

Me, I'd say go with Zelazny. Even though I've yet to read anything of his (he's one of those names in my list I never seem to get around to) and in my experience Tolkien always holds up, I tend to favor new stuff over re-reads.

It really was. I've recently re-watched it as well, and I honestly felt like slapping my 19-year old self, who would've told you something along the lines of "yeah, it's alright I guess, but there's better anime out there" in the face. It's one of the best pieces of narrative art I have ever...

A surprising number of them are actually on Youtube. Here are Flic (it's split in two parts, but the whole film's there), Akran, Split, and Lo que Vendrá (albeit without subtitles). Friendship's Death I think I watched on some Russian streaming site, like ok.ru/video or vk.com.

Guess I might as well add my contribution of the weird, pretentious and boring films no one has ever heard of I've been watching lately: フリック / Flic (2005) A police detective who has been sleepwalking his way through life, away from the job since the death of his wife, is called back by his...

I've seen it come up a few times in the "weird movies" lists I find myself trawling through on Mubi, Letterboxd and IMDB these days, but I always figured "that sounds too weird even for my current tastes"... seems I wasn't wrong in that assessment.

Well, as long as this thread is on the first page again... Anyone else watch The Northman (2022)? From what I'd heard I expected something quite a bit weirder, but I really enjoyed it nonetheless. I thought it was a visually gorgeous and consistently entertaining film. I've also been hearing...

I suppose if there's one thing the greatest piece of storytelling in human history proves, is that they can be done right... as long as there are actual stakes involved, and not just pointless, gratuitous pyrotechnics.

I'll be honest, my expectations for this one were so abysmally low, I went in fully prepared to hate it... ...Which is why I found myself rather surprised when I actually didn't. I agree that the beginning was the strongest part. From the trailers, I thought they might be going full David...