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I hope thy don't add too many new features, to be honest... I've already got precious few unbound keys on my keyboard in Arma 2...

Yeah, I bet he pees in this one, too. Possibly trying to make it his hallmark? Arnold's got "I'll be back", Johnny Depp has cornered the market on weirdo-but-likable characters, Shia has legal ownership of the word "no" in several states. Fassbender pees on camera.

yeah, it's nice to see a film maker say "You know what's creepier than robots that look like people but show no emotion? Robots that look like people and DO show emotion, but in a weird, inhuman way."

Perhaps you could list some of the other good threads we've had, in case I've missed some of them?

LOL I double post.

I have to address this, cause I love this post.

1) Wings of Honnamise is a great film and is criminally unknown even in anime circles. Love that movie and how it handles the themes going on.
2) The same guy who did Voices of a Distant Star ended up starting his own studio, hiring some people and making a couple more movies (and probably more since it's been several years since the last that I'm aware of). First was "5cm/sec" which is a collection of three shorts about a guy's long-distance relationship with a girl at three different points in his life. I completely love the first of the three and consider it the best thing he's ever done. The second one is pretty good as well. The third is... not...

He then made a movie called "The Place Promised In Our Early Days" which is a feature film and is pretty damn good despite the way it uses the standard anime trope of going completely batshit insane in the last act.

3) Yes. Though Porco Rosso is my favorite of his movies, the manga of Nausicaa is one of the greatest fantasy stories ever told. The movie version is only about half the story told in a condensed way. I'd love to see someone actually do the whole series as a film trilogy or something. It is the definition of epic and I highly recommend the books.

4) Plague Dogs, by the same people who made Watership Down, is also quite good. I think Watership goes back and forth between being a silly kid's film and being a horrifyingly dark adult film. Plague Dogs is 100% pitch black adult film that only occasionally does something lighthearted or whimsical.

5) I have no comment on Batman.

I will make recommendation for you! If you've not seen them, check out:

1) Perfect Blue. "It's what Hitchcock and Walt Disney would make if they worked together" says idiot US film critic! It's a Kon film, so you've probably already seen it.

2) Now and Then, Here and There. Miniseries of - I think - 12 episodes, each an hour or so long. It starts out kinda goofy, with a kid who's sorta happy-go-lucky who meets a weird girl named "La La Lu" and then people riding giant robotic dragon pokemons show up to kidnap her. However, after a couple of episodes you realize where it's going, and then you eventually get to some of the climactic moments of the series and just... It's one of the better examples of character development / arcs and overall themes I've seen in anime. DO NOT watch the dubbed version. Dear god they brutalized a few of the characters in the dub.

3) Paranoia Agent. Dozen episodes. Most of the episodes focus on a different character, though there's more overlap to the stories in the second half of the series. It tackles a lot of different subjects, but deals mostly with people who are unable to cope with some serious problem they have and how they avoid dealing with it. This one, again, veers into batshit crazy territory in the last couple of episodes, but it's worth a watch.

4) Tekkonkinkreet. Batshit pretty much all the way through it, but has a lot going on under all the crazy.

5) Mindgames. Batshit doesn't even come close to describing what this is.

Sorry, I just don't often talk about anime. I usually avoid it like the plague cause I've found most of it to be really dumb or too obviously trying to be smart or whatever, and then they end with some Deus Ex Machina metaphysical BS. I stopped watching them because I'd get all invested in the characters and story and everything would build and swell into a climactic moment, and then it would anticlimax and I'd get narrative blueballs.

Also, Persepolis was a pretty good foreign animated flick.

To be fair, the videogame magazine business went that way all at once, not just VG&CE. A LOT of magazines did that around the same time and paid the price. RIP Next Generation, tho EDGE lives on and is still pretty decent. Not as good as it used to be, tho. There were a few teams who basically said "no, we don't want to make an EGM or PC Gamer clone, we want to keep doing this our way", and those people got their magazines outright cancelled. It was more of a publisher thing than an editorial one.

I agree with Teague. Princess Bride is a special case, cause I honestly don't like it that much, but if you've never seen it then watch it, because you can't truly understand about 40% of the internet unless you have.

For foreign movies, I will add:

Seven Samurai / Sanjuro / Yojimbo / Ran / Ikiru / High and Low / Red Beard
(Just about anything Kurosawa ever made, really...)
Hana-Bi / Sonatine / Brother (or Outrage, tho it's not at the same level, really...)
Twilight Samurai / The Hidden Blade / Love And Honor
(Anything Yôji Yamada has done since Twilight Samurai, really...)
13 Assassins
The Chaser
Delicatessen / City Of Lost Children
Let The Right One In (The US version is close-but-no-cigar in my opinion)
Life Is Beautiful / Johnny Steccino (aka Johnny Toothpick)
Hard Boiled
La Strada

For more US / English flicks:

Fargo
Ronin
Heat
Cop Land
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill
The Terminator / Terminator 2
First Blood
Die Hard
Lethal Weapon

To be continued by another person...

Movie based on kid's show spawned from set of movies rebooting the franchise. The animated movie was better than the franchise reboot that spawned it.

Mask of the Phantasm is the third best batman movie ever made, until Rises comes out, at least...

pffft...  whatever. I used to like that avatar guy when he first started posting, but the more I see him post, the more I've realized that he's got some serious problems. People just like him cause it's the popular thing to do. Now Trey's all "avatar's all smart, you should listen to him" and whatever... Fuck that shit. I don't need Trey to tell me who I like or what comments to listen to.

avatar sucks.
Just kidding. I hope no one needs hidden text to get that I'm kidding, but it's here in case I need to point it out. I'm kidding. Seriously. This is a joke post.

Balls of solid steel:

Jump from a mile up with a wingsuit instead of a parachute. Landed on cardboard boxes.

Described landing as "comfortable" and "soft".

Huh. Well, maybe if Dorkman works fast enough they can get it in theaters by December.

In other news, the guy who directed Chronicle is going to be directing a film adaptation of Shadow of the Colossus. He's also trying to get a Fantastic Four reboot off the ground and is working on an adaptation of the comic "The Red Star".