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Mr 95% said:
Reminds of something.. Oh that’s right..I hate Minecraft! >:(
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I've never played it. I was briefly tempted when it occurred to me that it had an element of being like an unlimited box of Lego to build with. Used to love creating stuff with my limited amount of Lego as a kid. Would have felt like I'd gone to heaven if I'd somehow been given access to the Lego masters set back then.
 
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Alan79 said:
I've never played it. I was briefly tempted when it occurred to me that it had an element of being like an unlimited box of Lego to build with. Used to love creating stuff with my limited amount of Lego as a kid. Would have felt like I'd gone to heaven if I'd somehow been given access to the Lego masters set back then.
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Lego was, and is still, brilliant Al.. I just found Minecraft boring and visually annoying.
 
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Watched "The Deliverance" on Netflix. I thought it was good. Nothing new or amazing. Just a good, by the numbers horror movie. Glenn Close adds most of the interest in the movie. She plays a character so outside her normal comfort zone, and it's so interesting to watch.

The basics of it is that it's a horror movie based around a family that moves into a new house and it's immediately clear that the house is having an influence on them. But it gets a lot more complex due to weird factors.

The movie got bad reviews for mixed reasons. It is derivative. Took a lot from the exorcist and many other horror movies. It's also criticised because by the end of the movie, it effectively becomes a Christian movie, advertising that God will always prevail and atheists be damned. But it's a movie about demons possessing children, so the whole God the Hero thing is what is expected. Some people are just too sensitive.
 
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Hacky McAxe said:
Watched "The Deliverance" on Netflix. I thought it was good. Nothing new or amazing. Just a good, by the numbers horror movie. Glenn Close adds most of the interest in the movie. She plays a character so outside her normal comfort zone, and it's so interesting to watch.

The basics of it is that it's a horror movie based around a family that moves into a new house and it's immediately clear that the house is having an influence on them. But it gets a lot more complex due to weird factors.

The movie got bad reviews for mixed reasons. It is derivative. Took a lot from the exorcist and many other horror movies. It's also criticised because by the end of the movie, it effectively becomes a Christian movie, advertising that God will always prevail and atheists be damned. But it's a movie about demons possessing children, so the whole God the Hero thing is what is expected. Some people are just too sensitive.
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My religion knowledge is so limited these days but I was always frustrated as a kid in the 90s, the good guys or God never sent down someone to help in the horrors and action films to take on the demons. Where are all the angels and archangels.
 
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Berries said:
My religion knowledge is so limited these days but I was always frustrated as a kid in the 90s, the good guys or God never sent down someone to help in the horrors and action films to take on the demons. Where are all the angels and archangels.
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Yeah, they kind of address that in this movie. The whole, "where was God when...", and it's pretty dark shit. That part made me think that while it seems like it's trying to be a super pro-Christian movie, maybe don't advertise the part where God ignored a kid being raped, but suddenly God is willing to help fight evil at the end of the movie.
 
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Hacky McAxe said:
Yeah, they kind of address that in this movie. The whole, "where was God when...", and it's pretty dark shit. That part made me think that while it seems like it's trying to be a super pro-Christian movie, maybe don't advertise the part where God ignored a kid being raped, but suddenly God is willing to help fight evil at the end of the movie.
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It gets even funnier when it’s a movie like IT and all God can lend is the power of friendship. Kids getting destroyed for generations by a top 5 universal demon but here’s your power up, childhood friendship haha. Though the book does it explain it in depth more that the God (giant turtle) is dead in Kings Universe
 
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Berries said:
It gets even funnier when it’s a movie like IT and all God can lend is the power of friendship. Kids getting destroyed for generations by a top 5 universal demon but here’s your power up, childhood friendship haha. Though the book does it explain it in depth more that the God (giant turtle) is dead in Kings Universe
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Yeah. From memory, I think it was hinted that the Tuttle God lost most of his power and was thought dead, but secretly helped the kids with the power he had left.

But the book version also had a bunch of kids having a mass orgy because Stephen King has some serious issues.
 
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Yeah. From memory, I think it was hinted that the Tuttle God lost most of his power and was thought dead, but secretly helped the kids with the power he had left.

But the book version also had a bunch of kids having a mass orgy because Stephen King has some serious issues.
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I do find it amusing when celebs like himself (describing the penis size difference in that scene ) and Eminem (lyrics about raping his grand mother) for example call Trump looney haha. Where’s the mirror, America is cooked.
 
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For anyone that might be interested
Netflix is showing a five part series Monsters-Menendez brothers
First three today and the other two on Saturday
Very good
 
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The_Chimpster said:
Hope this doc is better than the prequel movie the many saint of Newark.

That was a massive let down
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Two episode documentary. The first 30 minutes are a bit slow and about creator David Chase's background but I thought from there it was interesting about how 'Sopranos' came about, putting it together, casting, the pop culture sensation it became, the impact on its actors and writers, the finale etc.
 
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Watched "Boy Kills World". It had an excellent trailer but terrible reviews. Watched it anyway and I think the reviews were unfair.

Its not an amazing film, but it is good. Has some good humour. A decent story. And ridiculous levels of hilarious violence. My only real issue is that it leans a bit too hard into the stormtrooper trope. All the bad guys have no aim whatsoever.
 
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