Our movie night was a success! We decided to watch the 1977 Japanese Comedy/Horror Film “House”. It was one hell of an experience that taught me that even horror films have their super sentai moments. It’s about a young girl who travels with her friends to visit her Aunt’s house, and then things get really interesting. It was full of 1970’s campiness, and managed to hold anime/manga vibes. We had some good laughs watching it tonight! We also did some world building afterwards, and a bit more exploration. We found a dreamscape world that dances to music. The skybox even has audio visualizers, the trees and rocks dance in tune with the music and it’s just a whole vibe I can appreciate!
Movies
OMG Metal Gear Movie
It was recently announced that a Metal Gear movie was being planned. With no surprise I have mixed feelings on the subject, just as I did when Ghost in the Shell’s live adaptation hit theaters and completely fucked the story. I could be wrong, perhaps the movie will be a shining example of how to adapt a video game into a good movie as the Metal Gear series is cinematic in its own right going as far back as Metal Gear Solid. At the same time that presents another problem. Each game is like a movie on its own, how are you going to take elements from each title in the series and make something coherent? Dune the movie was based on the Dune book series, and it is known for being notoriously bad due to trying to cram as much of the series into one film, and if they’re not careful this title could meet a similar fate.
Despite that I do like the concept art that was released. It looks like they’re mostly referencing MGS3 and MGS with some MGSV thrown into the mix. This also makes me wonder who they’ll bring in to play what characters? and what characters will appear in the movie? I can only think of this particular character chart someone did:
If he were still alive it would have been fun to watch him play every single character, including the women. :meeseeks: At that point it wouldn’t even matter if it were a terrible movie, people would be talking about how he played every fucking character.
In all seriousness though, I can sum up my feelings like this: You know that one episode of Futurama where the Amazonian women sentenced all of the men to death by snoo snoo? and all of them switched between faces of happiness and absolute horror?
Yeah, that’s how I feel right now.