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This, in short, is about two children coming to terms with the recent death of their father while living in foster care under a caregiver who engages in cult practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/89965b7d-7ff9-4220-bd26-dce7b0748d80/ems.jpg Blog - My Favorite Films of 2025 The Accountant was a surprise action-thriller back in 2016, and this sequel was another surprise that brought back the core of the original (Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal). This continues their story as they investigate a conspiracy stemming from the murder of the Director of the Department of Treasury’s FinCEN. It achieves what it sets out to do in providing action, thrills, and a unique mix of comedy from the two stars. 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Player-Generated Content Yoshi’s Island is a childhood favorite game of mine thanks to its music and art style. I’d do various things depending on the stage like letting Yoshi laze around, smell the flowers, take a swim in some water, and do trick shots with Yoshi eggs. I’d even take baby Mario to some enemies to intentionally make him cry to punish him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/6995eb01-986f-4c40-b338-709b7773ae13/artworks-000150085212-60va9s-t500x500.jpg Blog - Player-Generated Content The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker had vast oceans to explore, and I did tons of random imaginative playing around like living out a real vacation at the Private Oasis or throwing pigs at the kid who always had snot hanging from his nose. 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New Novel: The Disgraced Mage To briefly comment on that Kirkus Review, I balked at its initial sentence summary similarly as I did when receiving college rejection letters back in the day. 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This one I enjoyed for its focus on characters, mainly Rocket. It also features a genuinely dislikable (one may even say, perhaps, hate-worthy) villain. Just about everything about this was entertaining and I had no memorable gripes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/9f332469-45c1-43fa-8657-5908084dc22a/1317575.jpg Blog - My Favorite Films of 2023 - This lives up to its “Part One” mentioned in its title. Does that make it terrible? Nah. It’s not a standalone movie by any means, but it’s solid and remains engaging and fun despite that. The action you’d expect from a Tom Cruise movie is here, and it’s great. There are some rushed plot moments, but other plot elements more or less make up for them, namely the antagonist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/295dff76-d183-44b4-99c1-3ecb0a0a31e5/7bd4b36c.jpg Blog - My Favorite Films of 2023 - A horror movie that doesn’t apparently break its own rules and builds on them uniquely is great, which is what Talk to Me does. It has some great performances, particularly Sophie Wilde, and it has a nice real-world parallel in the way of the effects of substance use. Another noteworthy thing is the single-take of the opening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/75bf4d39-4ceb-4208-9f96-5bbf04f01eb2/Haunting+of+Venice+HERO.jpg Blog - My Favorite Films of 2023 - I’m a big fan of mystery. I’m also a big fan of original works—'original' being a relative term which here means not a reboot or remake. This can loosely be called a sequel, and it’s another adaptation of Agatha Christie’s books, but it works as a standalone. I very much enjoyed the weaving of supernatural, slight horror, and mystery in the tone. And Hercule Poirot is simply a character I always want to see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/84502085-8932-4667-ab85-b45364f558cb/81Jzb8Y9DAL._AC_UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg Blog - My Favorite Films of 2023 - Here at the top 2 is where I’d draw the line between my general “top” movies and those I consider truly good films. Or, as the Martin Scorsese meme would say, “This is cinema.” This was a great movie. Its theme is given wonderfully through the metaphor of the fantasy elements. And the animation, as usual with a Makoto Shinkai film, is lovely. It may not have my favorite soundtrack out of what RADWIMPS has given in the past, but it’s RADWIMPS so it’s still a great soundtrack. Something I regret not knowing going into this movie was having the knowledge of events that had happened in Japan, particularly in the year 2011. If I had, this would have been an even larger emotional journey. Anyway, I also have a fondness for the title being relevant to the story’s theme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/52995cd5-ef20-4d46-8cba-bc41dff58d54/oppenheimer-2023-and-mobile-wallpaper-v0-wr5m7i7ptwc91.jpg Blog - My Favorite Films of 2023 - This is an obvious choice, but I can’t argue that this film isn’t great. It is great. It’s what I’d call a masterpiece, even. Is it one I’d want to rewatch? A few times, yes. It’s long, yet when I watched it I didn’t feel like it was long. I didn’t understand while watching what the shifts in the color palette meant, but afterwards when I found out they signaled shifts in perspective it made sense and that was a cool feature. 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My Favorite Films of 2022 - I was surprised what I heard about this film when it came out. Not that it was another Marvel movie, since that much was obvious, but that it was somehow worse than other Marvel movies. Even compared to the other Marvel films of this year, after seeing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Thor 4 had more going for it. This is largely thanks to the arc of the villain, which I thought many people criticized Marvel for lacking. I guess, for some reason, they completely ignored this guy. Many of the other characters and story are standard Marvel fare (yes, I do share the opinion that this is “just another Marvel movie”), though there is the additional unique subplot of Jane Foster battling cancer which is complemented by the villain’s arc. I don’t think I’ve seen effective complementary arcs between heroes and villains in Marvel aside from Thanos and maybe Wilson Fisk, so that’s pretty neat. The visuals are also pretty neat. I’ll reiterate that, yes, this is “just another Marvel movie,” though knowing that it’s still solid for what it does and it is the best of its kind this year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/67a3154e-ddca-479d-811b-18550681d022/518d2efc-7cde-4878-85ff-b8dd13a83a2b.jpg Blog - My Favorite Films of 2022 - I’m sort of a sucker for mysteries. For one thing, they’re so few and far between. For another thing, I think they get too much hate from people who want to appear smart and criticize the genre for not hiding the mystery well enough or, if done well enough, not hiding it the way the critic wanted. For me, I suspend my disbelief for mysteries the same way I suspend it for fantasies. I don’t necessarily need to see entirely consistent magic or whatnot in fantasy, nor motivation or whatnot in mystery (so long as it’s not very noticeable or distracting). I realize this preface is much larger than my actual thoughts on Death on the Nile, though I felt the need to get it out there. Personally, I preferred Murder on the Orient Express. But, this film did its job of providing a solid mystery. You may’ve noticed that this is almost the same positive thoughts I had for Thor 4 as well, and that’s because I think it’s one of the highest praises you can give a film. If it does what it sets out to do and does it solidly, that’s great. I don’t have many thoughts on the cast, only that Kenneth Branagh is still entertaining as Hercule Poirot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/4d03d8e6-cd02-40c9-a1fd-3fc448789b7b/MV5BMDdmMTBiNTYtMDIzNi00NGVlLWIzMDYtZTk3MTQ3NGQxZGEwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzMwOTU5MDk%40._V1_.jpg Blog - My Favorite Films of 2022 - I’m a big fan of atmosphere, and this film oozes it. Atmosphere is pretty much its own character in this film. Couple that with an actual crime-solve-y plot (i.e., mystery), and I’m pretty much sold. One of the few things I can really demerit this film on is its runtime, though I can largely forgive its slow moments since I like to revel in the puzzle-solving and thinking alongside the characters. Another thing I felt unnecessary was the interaction between The Riddler and who is very likely The Joker. It felt like it took something away from The Riddler who did his job just fine. And the last thing I can think to mention that was just a bit not perfect was the soundtrack. I dug the main theme for The Batman, but it came up a lot and felt a touch too repetitive. Those minor complaints aside, this film is great. I don’t really consider it a comic-book film like Marvel’s films with the heroes fighting the villains and there’s all the boom boom punch punch actiony action because it felt so different from that sort of thing. But, when the action came, it was impressive and thoroughly entertaining. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/37c27d57-ea7f-4581-ba82-5c6230c3681d/merlin_207080559_d302b636-070e-4293-8150-3426e34db3fa-articleLarge.jpg Blog - My Favorite Films of 2022 - So, I’ve never seen the original Top Gun. I still haven’t. From what I’ve heard from others, this is an incredibly successful sequel. From my perspective, this is just an incredibly entertaining film. I imagine knowing Goose and Iceman’s characters beforehand may’ve elevated the emotional beats in this movie, though I thought they still played off effectively. And the action, oh boy, the action. That’s what I wanted to see and this film delivered. You could say some events in the final sequence don’t play out realistically, but I don’t give a crap. Fun things are fun, and this was very fun. The main theme, too, is really good. DUHHH BWOW BWOOOOW DUN DUN DUN DUN DUUUN DUUUUUUN! I don’t really have anything negative to say, it’s just fun. Also, I love that in the introduction of Jennifer Connelly’s character we got a David Bowie song playing in the background. Perfection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/d47983ac-610e-4406-b9b7-ff73c4a8f166/MV5BYTdiOTIyZTQtNmQ1OS00NjZlLWIyMTgtYzk5Y2M3ZDVmMDk1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTAzMDg4NzU0._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg Blog - My Favorite Films of 2022 - In terms of being all around solid, I’d say Top Gun: Maverick may be #1. In terms of taking risks and for the most part beautifully succeeding, this for sure is my favorite. While its themes and messages are somewhat the same as Daniels’ Swiss Army Man only more commercialized for a wider audience, they’re still great. Its visuals are also crazy. I don’t know how they did most of the stuff they captured in this film. It’s great to see Ke Huy Quan returning after what I last remember him from in Indiana Jones. He probably played my favorite character, both with an impressive action sequence and several touching bits of dialogue. I think the soundtrack was also pretty solid, though I don’t remember it standing out. In any case, I have to go back and rewatch this. https://www.torion.us/blog/2022-12-22-game-rant-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild monthly 0.5 2022-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/7f605a50-834c-4bf5-a68d-4e783e6a18af/BOTW-Share_icon.jpg Blog - Game Rant - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/9ea357b6-c1fe-4301-94ca-61a21863d582/Lynel.jpg Blog - Game Rant - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/390c72e3-ee81-4a50-b41c-88c8d3d6ecb8/zelda_gambling_0002_Layer_2.jpg Blog - Game Rant - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Durability of weapons is an obvious grievance, and its impact left any and all weapons feeling unremarkable. Even rarer weapons like the elemental ones weren’t exciting. Whenever I found a new weapon all I thought was This is going to break and not Oh cool, new weapon! This hit hardest when acquiring the champions’ weapons, especially because they were worse than weapons I already had. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/8a0bba5d-f2c4-4ec0-9052-6c3a5eb09dd7/Zelda-Breath-of-the-Wild-Armor-Sets-And-Outifts-Zora-Flamebreaker-Snowquill-Rubber.jpg Blog - Game Rant - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Armor did a bit of a better job since the different sets were unique and gave particular abilities. Armor also didn’t break, which was fantastic, and it could be upgraded. If weapons could get such treatment, like the Gilded Sword in Majora’s Mask or the various item upgrades in Skyward Sword, the sequel to BotW could be something truly special. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/dff9ca70-5c05-474b-a2e8-b1a93f990d52/BotW-Champions.jpg Blog - Game Rant - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/ef275b5a-bc3f-42c7-8f53-1a310c405617/6dce6097903acfaab1165db155619082.jpg Blog - Game Rant - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/4a9ff57a-c379-48b3-87db-c26091d7bf7d/98db4637eaee728b8d6b7f673751e9ee.jpg Blog - Game Rant - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - On the topic of sameness, I’ve already touched on why the same enemies and the same items make the game feel stale. This contributes to the overall feeling of exploration. When you know what enemy you’re going to be facing wherever you go, there’s less of a thrill. Likewise when you know what weapons, shrines, and Koroks you’re going to come across. This turns the thrill of exploration into something along the lines of a feeling like you’re doing a job—well, that’s a bit too harsh, maybe it’s more of something like a routine. Enjoyable, but largely expected. This then leaves the thrill of at least progressing the story…if only there was enough story through which to progress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/011e38bd-bd66-42ad-8d8a-75d793fb48ce/zelda_sheikah_slate_breath_of_the_wild_1.jpg Blog - Game Rant - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - If you’ve read this far you may be peeved at me because I’ve neglected to mention the Sheikah Slate and Paraglider as unique and progression items. True, the Sheikah Slate provides a variety of cool abilities that does help with progression, and so does the Paraglider. Only, both of these items you get at the very beginning of the game. These aren’t items you unlock later and have a sense of achievement for obtaining. The game from the get-go gave away the sole items that were worthy of actively seeking out in the world, to discover, and to explore for. I think it’s somewhat unfair to compare games, but it’d be disappointing if Wind Waker not only gave the sail after the opening but also every other key item needed (eg, bombs, the Hookshot, the Grappling Hook, etc.). What purpose, then, would there be to go to Dragon Roost or Forest Haven or any of the other dungeons? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a254fc367114720d208ee7/bcf49e67-0e92-42ca-916d-d8965c775be2/1_3f_uhw4ttvL6ruJxr62HOQ.jpg Blog - Game Rant - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - I liken exploration to the carrot-and-stick metaphor minus the stick. When you take the carrot away, there’s not much incentive to do much of anything or go anywhere. Past Zelda games did it wonderfully. This one, not so much. 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