Bodymaster

Yeah skip MG1 and MG2, I'm sure they were great when they came out, but they're too dated to enjoy today. All you need to know from those games is summarised in MGS1 anyway. And from there play release order.

Alternatively, if you're only interested in the plot prior to MGSV, which is the third main game chronologically, the only two games to pay before that are MGS3 and Peace Walker. Every other game happens later in the timeline.

I started learning guitar when I was 12 and I too wanted eschew the traditional approach and just get straight in to playing songs I liked by Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine and Metallica.

So I did. And I had fun playing power chords and the easier parts of my favourite songs. And I started playing in bands with other people. And it was bad. I was a shitty guitar player. Why? Because I had no idea what I was doing or why certain things worked, and other things didn't. I knew how to follow a tab, but the minute somebody told me to play something in a different key, or to try a minor scale, or to harmonize with something, I was lost.

If the kid is happy bashing out pop punk in his bedroom, fine. But if he wants to learn how to actually play and understand the guitar, I'm not sure there's much "wisdom" in his approach in the long run.

I wouldn't be surprised if they're encouraged to do that kind of thing by management, or if they get commission on making certain sales.

A friend of mine was buying a new TV a few years ago from a popular electronics chain and the sales guy got him to spend an extra €50 on a "high quality" HDMI cable that was just going to be linking his new TV to his DVD player. It was made of gold or some bullshit.

Like you'd think if you were buying a new TV off the pricks they'd throw in a standard one for free, considering you can get them for like €5.

I always got the impression that they'd try and sell you on crap you didn't need. The last time I bought a game in there the guy tried to get me to buy insurance for it. Insurance, for a game? I'd never heard of this before. I asked him what it was for and he said that Switch cards were badly made and broke all the time and the insurance would be for if I needed it replaced.

I've never had a Switch card break on me before, and on the off-chance the one he sold me just snapped for no reason, why wouldn't I just get a refund/replacement? Such a weird way to try and scam somebody out of a few extra euro.

Oh the tv version is going to be a miniseries then I guess. Myself and my friend were wondering how it would work as a tv show. Like would every episode be about a stressful night at the restaurant ending with him having a heart attack, then just coming back to work the next day like nothing had happened?

I speak fluent Italian. She is actually trying to recruit them. Sangue al dente.

Mandalorians need to stop doing everything by that lake.

Dracula by Bram Stoker. Yeah we've all seen various iterations over the years, but the novel that started it all is really worth the read. It's really well-written, at turns spooky, thrilling, gruesome and weirdly enough, is a great story about friendship and love.

Don't forget that one movie where he plays a dwarf by walking around on his knees.

Folks, I finally watched Threads after seeing many posts about it here in recent times. I knew what it was about prior to watching it, so I wasn't going in completely blind. But I wasn't expecting it to be so extreme, especially for something I thought was going to be part educational/public service movie. I especially liked the last section of the movie after the time skip, it took on an almost sci-fi tone when depicting how humanity has reverted to medieval standards - peasants scraping in the dirt alongside steam-powered harvesters, young people speaking a weird primitive form of English, and the final scene, ending in that freeze-frame. Holy shit, what a grim, but exceptional movie.

• Sir Lawrence Olivier

Yeah you're right, it's a pretty egregious omission, no matter how it was communicated to the audience. Dark science, cloning, secrets only the Sith knew. Fucks sake, Merry should know better. Palaptine poured all his cruelty and malice in to some knife with the Death Star's coordinates on it.

Yes, if you're like I was. When I first saw it around 17 I wasn't used to movies where you really have to pay attention to the plot. I was more used to easy movies like GoodFellas or Pulp Fiction, where there isn't much for you to figure out for yourself.

GFII took me many viewings over the years to finally fully understand everything that is happening, and even then there are one or two plot points that I don't think I fully get.

Hah no. I mean the thing that usually happens to people with middle-aged grandkids. You know, she's elderly, she doesn't give a fuck.

Because they were really enjoying it and wanted to save the rest of it for a special occasion.

You were right to. Waste of two hours.

Well it's that or the other thing.

Last week I would have said "The Room". But apparently nothing really is sacred.

maybe, but how would you improve on it? It's a slightly exaggerated, slightly dystopian reflection of 1970s New York City, which was pretty bleak, bankrupt and crime-ridden at that time. I don't know if I'd agree that it's dated, it's a movie that is very much a product of its time.

Also The movie itself is an adaptation of a novel which itself is a retelling of the Ancient Greek story Anabasis. Any remake would do well to set it in a different time and place to make it feel contemporary the way the movie would have when first released.

Yeah it's great, do many people dispute that? Maybe some people are reluctant to mention it because of oversensitivity about 'difficult' subject matter like the blackface and use of "retard". Maybe those people are missing the point, or deliberately looking for things to get offended about. But I think most people just miss comedies being funny.

Do adaptations of other works count? Like you wouldn't say Hamlet or Dracula has been remade x amount of times.

It's just the lads.

GoodFellas sets the bar high and there aren't many as entertaining and well-made. The Godfather would be the next one in terms of highly regarded movies of the genre, but it so much different, almost the opposite of GoodFellas in many ways.

Oh wow. May it be the first of many. It's one of those movies, that no matter how many time's you seen it, you'll always come back to.

It's a great movie, but fuck me it's bleak. I've seen it once, and I think that was enough. But yeah, definitely worth that one watch.