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Eraserhead- complete shit.

District 9- it's actually pretty good.

Flip those around and you might have the right of it.

Really enjoying this  :

https://youtu.be/M6M9-oFEKpk?list=PLl6BRvEJ-auZ5aYPHj1B3pKJ_pLjg9qNU

I don't have the money or inclination to buy into the game, but the universe is fantastic.

I'd argue these games are still great. Most C64 titles aren't — many of them have aged terribly. But Paradroid still has what it takes for me, even today.

I still play a few regularly (well, occasionally)(more than never at least ), including Armalyte, Creatures 1&2, Paradroid, Buggy Boy, and many others. I also enjoy browsing my Zzap!'s and diving into games I could never afford, or that were disk only. Finding one of those that stands up without the nostalgia scaffold is a rare, rare treat. And of course, there are plenty of new C64 games to buy for pennies if you're into that kind of thing. All in all, still loving the 64.

Wizball was one of my favourites, but we used to play it on a b&w TV so guessing the exact colour of the paint drops from the shade of grey made it even trickier!

Ditto. In fact I never really played C64 games in colour until I bought one on eBay.

Wizball on the C64, what an awesome game:

Wow, kindred spirit.

[Project Power]

This thread has inspired Mrs. Wedgeski and I to make Friday night "film we haven't seen night". We were getting into a rut with just watching stuff off our shelf. With cinemas closed for a year, we've barely been watching anything new at all.

Last week was Project Power (Netflix). I have little to say about this. It's a dictionary definition 3-star action film with the occasional novel idea. You should watch it if you literally cannot think of anything else to watch.

Last night was Hotel Artemis (Prime). Here's one we missed on its way past a couple of years ago. We were browsing options for the evening and as soon as Goldblum appeared Mrs. Wedgeski's decision was made. I expected it to be excellent and wasn't disappointed--a kind of post-John Wick criminal mythology setting with great performances from everyone. I'm sure her brokenness was supposed to be mirrored in the rioting-LA-of-the-future but if the film has a weakness it's that the setting outside the walls of the hotel wasn't ever used to its potential, and the idea of a bank-vault-secure criminal hospital as a last refuge for the underworld was played secondary to the plot manipulations needed for the nurse to have her character arc. Nevertheless, we enjoyed every second, and it's nice and short, which in action movies is always a plus in my book.

The regulars on this forum have a truly fatalistic attitude to new TV. :-|

Do we not remember Watchmen, which was supposed to end all TV as we know it, yet was possibly the best show of the year?

If it's bad, too bad. It's not the end of the world. If sorry-ass comic-to-movie conversions really bothered us, we'd have all quit 2000AD in 1995.

I can't say enough good things about The Expanse. I haven't been this invested in a show since B5's original run.

Such awful news. The tragic losses of the B5 cast seem endless.

Well, fuck.

Here's one that intersected with me recently: making bad choices and repenting for them seems to be more valued in our society than simply not making those bad choices in the first place.

True Lies - James Cameron does Bond, and does it a lot better than the majority of actual Bond Movies as he takes the super-spy and injects enough humour, and edge of your seat action that it makes the long running time fly by. Some lovely, comic moments from Bill Paxton and Jamie-lee Curtis, who steal the movie and even Tom Arnold is sufferable for the most part. That soundtrack is a bit bloody good as well.

We re-watched that over the weekend! It's one we go back to often, just an absurdly entertaining film with both Arnie and Bill Paxton on top form. Act 2 is weird and kind of problematic, but it also has all the best lines.

I didn't quite buy Nog's transformation into Starfleet paragon, but boy was his PTSD storyline good.

For me and and the reason I didn't take to "Wesley" as a character was the perception that it was jobs for the boys. Yes he was smarter than your average bear but just because his mum was the ships Doctor shouldn't have allowed that kind of access to the Captain/ bridge regulations and all that.

It was the Traveller who convinced Picard that Wesley should be treated differently.

It's fair to say that viewer dislike of Wesley translated unfairly to Wheaton and he's lived with it ever since. Considering how badly he was apparently treated on set and the mess that his home life was, I'm amazed he isn't a complete write-off.

The hunt for Red October. I forgot how great that movie is.

God yes, it's very high on my re-watchability list. Alec Baldwin's self-sure, all-in, take-no-prisoners Ryan is still the best depiction of that character IMO, and with that supporting cast...perfection!

I may be wrong but I think, quite a while ago, Spielberg said that he wouldn't do the family stuff in CE3K the same.

I would hope not!

CE3K is too entrenched in my movie history for me to analyse effectively, and I must have watched it 50 times by now. It's my "go back to a simpler time" escape hatch. Even as a kid I could see that Roy wasn't entirely sympathetic.