Dov: "You see Macedonia belongs in this portion, while Bulgaria is here"

Average 90 year old local grandma:

Reminded of this, and it is still a high-level notorious crime against the region. @dov.bsky.social wouldn't be able to leave these parts alive with all the pitchforks and torches chasing him.

I'm sure you know but don't go near the theatrical cut--completely different movie (highly derogatory)

I will even defend Bloom's awful acting because his character is broken, lost, unable to find God and it kind of works in context.

Duelists alongside Master and Commander are easily the two greatest Napoleonic films ever made (there isn't much good competition though)

For all the flaws, I have a massive soft spot for Kingdom of Heaven.

He's always been a massive ego-driven dickhead that loves drama and complaining ever since the 70s.

I say this with no joy since Alien and Blade Runner are two of the greatest things created by humanity.

Never pass up the opportunity to share my favorite meme on that whole thing

Another remaster is coming early next year and........yeah [screeches into pillow]

Its wild how much characters, tone, soundtrack and an epic ending carry ME2. The story is often contrived gibberish that breaks the world into a thousand pieces if you think about it for more than two seconds.

Kinda bugs me what they did with the lighting on Eden Prime for the ME1 Legendary Edition.

It's supposed to be really dark, a scary descent into hell and the uknown. Why they decided on making it a really bright and pleasant day for the remaster is beyond me.

On the other hand, really impressive how much better the combat is (though there is way too much combat in ME3 because everything else is so stripped down)

Sad they had to rush ME3 so hard. The most to suffer was the overall visual direction, imo. Almost all conversations lack any creative or stylish camera angles/dramatic lighting.

People are going to force me to re-read them out of spite due to these takes (its been some years).

George is not a nihilist; he loves characters that are good and noble, he doesn't indulge in random murder of his protagonists for cheap shock value. These are just stereotypes that people started believing during the run of the show.

The average popular perception of ASOIAF as just some kind of Machiavellian exercise of violence between families to attain absolute power is an embarrassing interpretation.