Street Fighter 2026 - 70%

 

The street fighter song was good. The bar fight before the tournament was pretty good.. The animation was the best part, wish the whole movie was animated. 

It was disappointing that they didn't show more of the tournament. Not a single fight of Joe. 

Chun-Li and Dhalsim were the best of the movie, with Blanka close behind.

Pretty funny that the back story of Akuma was born out of a mistranslation and a April Fools joke. 

Every fight was basically the same, the to be winner didn't really want to fight but after getting the crap beat out of them they turn and win.. 

Lincoln Lawyer - S2 - 95%

 

Another bad actor, Andrea Freeman seems more like a model who tried to turn to acting. 

Lisa Trammell was pretty good, like Lana Parrilla from Once Upon a Time. The love fling with a client was annoying and then the end was really a dumb "twist" basically just to get Lisa out of the show. 

Even with the poor acting, especially the chemistry, it was still as good as the first season. 

Beginning After End - S2 - 95%

Good progression. Arthur is OP, never has to struggle in any fight. The relationship between Arthur and Jasmine got a little awkward.. The pet dragon can suddenly talk and transform into a full size dragon?.. 

The mask got annoying too, not really doing a good job of hiding his identity. Kind of dumb how Arthur shared secrets of how to build a steam engine from his other life only when it suited him at the time. 

Still very interested in seeing where they go with this show. 

HC SSF L82 Earth - 100%

I am done for a while now. Made it all the way to 82! Exact same build. Finally started to use the recombinator... The biggest fail I made was I used my last lesser eldritch ichor and enchanted my 6 link armor with 10% physical damage from hits taken as chaos and I was sitting at -60% chaos... I was unable to find another eldritch ichor before I got killed on a T6 map rare.. Earthshatter is such a great hardcore build. 

 

Lincoln Lawyer - S1 - 95%

 

Had a long enough break from the end of Suits that we were ready for another courtroom drama. At first this was kind blah because the characters Lorna and Cisco are bad actors and have terrible chemistry. They made up for it with a pretty interesting case which spanned the entire season instead of being so episodic for the cases like Suits was. They did a good job keeping you guessing to the end if Trevor Elliott was guilty. The season cliff hanger caused to go right into the next season. 

Beginning After End - S1 - 98%

 

Surprisingly great anime. At first it felt like it might be yet another fantasy knockoff but it is the real deal. The reincarnation gives it an interesting story element, knowing everything from his past life and being in a completely different world with magic. Fast paced and crisp animation. Great character development and progression. Interesting to learn how the dragon seemed to know that he was reincarnated. Good introduction for the villain roll into season 2. 

You can see everything - 95%

 

What a movie! I had such high expectations going in and it didn't disappoint. The levels of mind blowing. 

I am not sure if any of it was real... had to be all staged. How much influence did Billy have? Was Elizabeth ever in control of anything? Or is she the genius truly behind it all? I have no idea. I do believe that Elizabeth is mentally sick and broken and I do want to feel bad for her. Nathan Fielder was amazing. This movie was 3 hours long but truly didn't feel like it. So many good scenes but my favorite was Nathan sitting with Amanda watching the real Elizabeth watching Amanda play Elizabeth in The Dropout. And especially how the very same part that Elizabeth disturbed her most was Amanda's favorite scene. 

The camara shots was amazing and so in the face for so close and long. The facial expressions of the real Elizabeth was so.. disturbing. 

I only dropped this movie to a 95% because they showed too much of Billy... But I get that it plays into his controlling narcissism. 

HC SSF L74 Earth - 100%

 

So I died in town... I was looking at menus on the ship thinking I couldn't die there.. And the Rite of Ruin killed me.. it causes 0.1% loss of life per rage per second.. Amazing to make it all the way to 74 and die like that... 

The build was super smooth. Got good drops, a 5 link in act 6. I was thinking I could push this pretty far.. It was fun.. The last HC SSF I did was a totem build years ago and I died at Kitava. So at least this was satisfying enough to get through a few maps. None of the act bosses gave me any trouble. I wasn't ready to die yet... lol.

And here was the link for my SSF HC Totems  . I can't believe that was 8 years ago!!!

My playtime for this build was only 12 hours compared to that SSF HC Totems build which was 18. 

P.S. Decided to haphazardly push a little further in SSF. I did the third Lab and few maps. Ran a rare map, the boss was OP on and died at level 76..

Brand New Day - 95%

 

Why did the Punisher have to have such a potty mouth?... I watched this with my kids and they said it hurt their stomach every time he said the worst words. Would have been a near perfect movie if not for that. 

The Black Widow in the bath scene felt like a weak attempt at comedy. I didn't see the past movies so I didn't even know who she was. 

The fight scenes were amazing, especially the Hand ninja fight. 

Amazing that I watched this so long after release and managed to avoid all the spoilers! I didn't even know Jean Gray was in it! 

Spider-Man

Primetime - 80%

 

There wasn't really anything else at the theatre to watch... The kids were with their grand parents for the night so the wife and I ended up at this movie. They dramatized things a lot and felt like they were trying to paint Chris Hansen as the villain. I don't believe that real life Chris Hansen was anything like that. Very politically charged. Trying to blur the lines between good and evil.  

2001 - Diablo 2 - 100%

 

Back in the year 2001 I made this account and sold the key on Ebay for ~$150. It was a long time ago but if I remember correctly, this was the account that the person I sold it to disputed that they had received it and the money was held in Escrow. I had to spend hours on the phone with them trying to get them to believe that I had actually made good on the sale.. Finally, I said that I couldn't believe one kid had caused me all this trouble and that was when the person at Escrow said, oh!? the buyer is under age? And next thing I knew.. I got the money.

 

Batman Knightfall P1 - 95%

 

Watched this cause I like Batman and overheard some people talking about it at breakfast. 

It was surprisingly good. The only glairing problem is that Robin and Alfred should have been killed by Bane... there was no reason for him to leave them alive except for the plot armor. 

Looking forward to seeing part 2 and 3 some day.. 

POE Luminary - 95%

 

End game build for sure... Having to basically equip 3 characters for one build is expensive.. The animated guardian, the mercenary, and yourself. 

I started out trying the manyshot but swapped to the kineticist when I learned the rathpith worked based on the player health instead of the merc which seems broken. 

Made some good money... I did a simulacrum just to see if I could and got two Voice clusters and sold them unidentified for 20 divines each! So I kept doing that and was able to average finding one every 30 minutes so 40 divines an hour is one of the best money makers I have ever played. Doing simulacrums over and over is pretty boring but better than it used to be. 

POE Winter Orb - 100%

 

Fantastic build. Started out as an Elementalist and swapped over to a Occultist after got the Ralakesh.

The whole build depends on the Ralakesh .. count as having max power charges. I knew the boots would drop in value but didn't expect it to be so quick... I got lucky got the divine drop allflame mod and bought the boots for 42 divines and when I got back from vacation they were only worth 200 chaos! 

By the end, this build was able to handle 100% delirum maps.

Fantastic timeless jewel:

Sheep Detective - 95%

 

Great kids movie. A few small things didn't add up but whatever. I like that it could be figured out but it was complicated enough for kids to catch them by the ending. 

A lot of CGI... watching the making of it on youtube was fun. 

Watched it with the family at home... I was the only one who hadn't seen it cause they went to the theatre for it.

Oppenheimer - 60%

 

Christopher Nolan does the worst movies. Especially dislike tension building sound that is so loud in every scene that I sometimes can't even hear the dialogue over it. 

Way longer than it needed it be.

Very confusing with multiple interviews and flashbacks. 

Watched this because I went to New Mexico.. 

Every Breath You Take - 85%

 

Psychological thriller.. But with a dumb ending. The whole point of this type of a movie is to leave you wondering... but this movie wraps everything up with a tidy "good" ending.. 

Acting was pretty bad and the story didn't make much sense.. 

Watched it cause it was on the TV at the hotel. 

Molly's Game - 75%

 

It was OK. Started out well but got boring. Kept thinking there would a little more of a twist but I didn't realize it was based on a true story. 

Just watched it because it was on the TV at the hotel.

Craft - 100%

 

https://www.youtube.com/@LatentDiffusion/videos

This is what the Minecraft movie should have been! 

Yea, I know it is AI but it is soo good. So true to Minecraft. 

Fantastic how there is almost no speaking! So many great scenes. The dog is cool. 

I have seen 8 episodes and I can't want for the next!

Minecraft Movie - 0%

 

Such a pathetic cash grab. Maybe the worst movie of all time. 

Nothing to do with anything Minecraft. No crafting of any kind. 

Even dumber ending. 

Awful movie. 

Can't believe I paid money to see this at the theatre/ 

Michael - 96%

 

Watched with the kids at home. Really good movie. The kids became obsessed with his music for a while. His life was such a tragedy. I wonder what the sequel will be like, seems like it will be even more sad. 

Running Man - 75%

 

Watched on the airplane on my trip to New Mexico. Almost forgot it so I guess it wasn't that good. 

Like an adult version of the Hunger Games. The runner was very lucky and should have died from all the injuries. The twist wasn't that great either but at least they tried. 

POE 2 - Martial Artist - 80%

 

Leveling was a pain. This build is very dependent on the ascendency points.. I messed up and took Hollow Focus first instead of Hollow Form so I was stuck on Ice Strike for far too long. Then I tried to take Hollow Focus again but should have taken Way of the Stone fists which transforms Lochtonial from this:

To this... Which is crazy OP and build making for any build due to the charges. 

Very gold starved until almost late game.. Had plenty of currency but not enough gold to buy anything... 

Not a fan of this and any build which makes it difficult to determine the real DPS. Who knows about numbers... stuff just dies. Also can't tell if elemental damage or physical is better to have on my weapon.. Also feels dumb to shape shift to get the Rend and Pounce. 

Still think POE 2 ascendancy is broken.. It takes too long to get so far and then die or run out of honour.. Even with the honour resistance still not enough. Almost rage quit because of dying at the final boss on level 4 to have to start all over again. Finally was able to get the last points at after hitting level 90. 

This biggest frustration this league that someone managed to hack a trade somehow to show that an body armor had 200 energy shield more in the trade window than it did in my inventory... At least I only lost two divines. 

The end game story system was very good. Good voice acting and cut scenes. Like the variety but... I ended up just boss rushing every map to get to where I needed to be on the map which ended up being pretty repetitive. Feel like the game forces that.. 

I still like POE 1 better.... 

Ranma 1/2 Netflix - 80%

 

Watching this with the wife out of boredom.. Apparently Netflix is paying to have this old anime remade. I only watched a couple of episodes of the original a very long time ago so I don't know if they changed anything other than updating the animation. 

The jokes and romance is funny enough. Fairly repetitive. Watched both season 1 and 2.