@RELeon: I don't know why these gaming websites are all saying, “Unlike the original, you can explore by motorboat!” It's like, guys, you could explore by motorboat in the original. There's even a merchant inaccesible without an optional boat ride.
@psych32: When I said he sided with China, you countered with, “He said he didnt know enough”. You lied. James didn't say he (James) didn't know enough to comment. He said effectively the opposite. He said “Free Hong Kong” was uneducated, i.e. wrong. Right out of his own mouth. On camera. So it turns out he did comment. He sided with Xi. And what's more, several NBA players are still calling him out on it.
If you want to stick with your story of, James-saved-the-NBA-from-being-kidnapped-by-the-president-of-China you're convincing no-one, and that's pretty hilarious, and really just shows how you're too weak to face reality. It's a sign of never having grown up.
@mooglestar: It's really close for me between the first and third. it's so hard to say which I prefer, because they're really different films. Possibly I'd give the edge to the first.
The third is great because it's the definition of epic. Everything about it is just more, bigger, higher stakes. Everyone's there. Everyone's fighting. Anyone could die at any second. Lots of people do die. Centuries of work get destroyed. Almost everyone goes to their lowest point, and highest point. The men are fighting. The orcs are fighting. The elves are fighting. Hobbits are fighting. The horses are fighting. Trolls are fighting. Olyphants are fighting. Ghosts are fighting. Pirates are fighting. Fell beasts are fighting. Eagles are fighting. King of Rohan is fighting. King of Gondor is fighting. King of the Ghosts is fighting. Witch King is fighting. Shelob is fighting. You really get the sense that the world itself is pulling everything together that it can for one final push to determine its fate. Frodo travels thousands of miles to get within a few feet of his goal, only to fail, then he doesn't, then he does but it costs him his life, then it doesn't, then it does, then it doesn't. It's so intense that the relief at the end is enough to bring tears to your eyes by itself. I love the “My friends! You bow to no one.” scene. Makes me tear up every time. I found out later it's also Jackon's favourite. The only criticism I can levy against it —and it's really not a fair one— is that because it's such a rollercoaster, it can feel slightly “film-y” and therefore slightly harder to connect with emotionally than the first, and even then you've spent so many hours with these characters that it's nearly impossible not to feel for them.
The first is great because it has the transition, from what life was before, to what it must become now. You get to see how the failures of the ancient past loom over and begin to devour the present like an immortal curse. You really feel an evil spirit growing stronger and creeping across the land. The hobbits have to tear themselves away from the still-peaceful and idyllic Shire, as the temptation to just bury their heads in the sand, and pretend none of this is happening, becomes almost overwhelming. A very strong emotional connection that everyone can empathise with, because everyone knows the feeling of impending suffering for past mistakes. It's the film where you go from just a few hobbits to almost the entire cast of the trilogy. From a tiny corner of middle-earth to a scale encompassing everything and everyone, making the thrust into the unknown almost as dizzying as it is terrifying. Offhand I can't even think of another film where the protagonist seems so small and ineffectual in the world he's pushed into. As soon as he leaves the Shire, the world itself feels like a malevolent God, ancient, hostile, and boundless, and all he can do is run. Run and run forever on his tiny hobbit legs as his friends die one-by-one around him.
There's that one shot I absolutely love in the first film, when the fellowship are coming out of Moria in the morning, having just lost Gandalf to the chasm, and Aragorn calls to Frodo, who doesn't turn around at first, then he calls again, and he stops, and when Frodo turns around, the expression on his face is so powerful. He looks like a child that's just watched his family die to save him. He's lost all hope and feels like it's his fault the world is doomed. This journey has already cost him almost everything, and it's barely started.
Didn't need a remake. Not necessary. Same as the first game.
A shame that the people pretending they won't buy it for the above reasons, don't drive the price down for everyone else. I don't think I've ever been more hyped for a Resident Evil game. It looks amazing.
I wonder if in the remake, every time you look up Ashley's skirt, you have to wait for 7 minutes while she calls Leon's HR department, you're docked points at the end of the game, and Leon stops being a playable character in The Mercenaries.
@psych32: lol, a second ago you just said he didn't side with Xi. Now you're saying he did side with Xi, but only to save all the NBA players in China from being kidapped by the president, for what someone else said. Wow. Anything else you'd like you throw in there? Maybe Oct 15 is opposite day in Hong Kong?
Next time maybe use a lie that covers the fact that James still hasn't taken it back in the nearly 4 years since. Cause your current lie is lacking in that department.
@oddshroom: He just wants Xi's money in his pocket despite already being one of the richest athletes in history, and if he has to oppress the people of Hong Kong to get it, that's fine by him. He's a gross human being.
@oddshroom: . I'm remixing the quote to make it clear what he's saying. Because in the quote itself, he's deliberately saying as little as possible, to be more slippery for any media reporting on him.
The exact quote (and there's many; this is just one) is, “He wasn't educated, and he spoke.”
The “he” is referring to Daryl Moray. The “lack of education” is referring to thinking Hong Kong deserves to be “free” of CCP oppression, or that the CCP is indeed oppressing Hong Kong at all.
So yeah, he's saying the sentiment that Hong Kong should have liberty, is a take that's born of lack of education. i.e. “Free Hong Kong” is an uneducated take.
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