DreamerKnightX: ... and plan on playing "Assault on Dark Athena" if I manage to get my hands on it, which is tough right now.

cose_vecchie: Really? I looked for it recently and it wasn't that hard to find at a decent price, I think. The real problem is that it comes with the TAGES DRM, which requires online activation:
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Riddick:_Assault_on_Dark_Athena

(BTW I remember watching Pitch Black many years ago. It happened almost by chance and I didn't have any prior expectations. I think I liked it, I still remember some quotes and scenes, wouldn't mind a re-watch at some point).

andysheets1975: I quite like the Riddick movies. Even the much-criticized second movie. The first movie is very Traveller RPG, the second is sort of a space Conan in an old school space opera, the third is like a Tarzan story on another planet. David Twohy is a very underrated filmmaker who never quite got the huge, James Cameron-level hit he needed to break through as an A-list guy.

72_hour_Richard: Don't Look Up (2021)

It started out promising but then I feel it got increasingly boring.

Isn't satire supposed to be funny ... you know ... humorous? to me that element was missing or simply not done well enough in this film. It's as if the writer wanted to make a point more than to actually entertain. A good satire needs both I think.

My definition of a good satirical movie is something like Dr. Strangelove, Life of Brian, Brazil, Kung Fu Hustle, Hot Fuzz, etc. Movies where you can't help but laugh or marvel at the absurdity that is presented to you.

I feel that the movie in question did not go absurd enough, that it tries to keep things reigned-in, that it tries to be more realistic or serious than it should be. What I see in this movie feels like everyday US news media to me. So the fantasy element is lost to a large extent.

I can't fault the acting or directing, It's the writing that feels incomplete or downright lazy, the writer just drops the bomb but then does nothing with it: "boom, here's the absurd thing! ... now enjoy the remaining 100 minutes of the film where nothing really happens".

DavidOrion93: Joker
I quite enjoyed this movie. An interesting take on Joker.
This Joker started quite humbly scratching out a living (as a clown) while taking care of his mother. He suffers from mental illness where uncontrollable laughter starts when highly emotional/or stressed. The laughter's a bit hard to watch at times. Things slowly goes downhill when bad things happens. I found surreal the semi-dance? Joker did after killing 3 Wayne Co. bullies.
Highly recommended.

sanscript: I've just watched Assassins Creed (2016).

Gotta say, I was surprised to see it was better than I expected as it was a game-movie, and not coming from the games themselves seems to have been in my favour as I see some people are pretty harsh, especially when it comes to the story. Really love historical conflicts, and compared to movies like Welcome to the Jungle, Free Guy and Doom etc., I agree the AC games deserved better. I understand the movie uses more time in modern age compared to the games where most of the story is in the past, and it did get a bit confusing sometimes.

At the same time, a movie obviously can't deliver the same impact as a 10+ hour game, but it did leave my mouth drooling for much more. A bit shameful to write that these games have largely gone unnoticed on my radar until earlier this year when I tumbled upon a let's play of the 3. one, so I'm definitely going to start playing them. As soon as I've managed to deride which one of them I actually should start with, that is... :D

Kurzel did a good job in creating the atmosphere in the different scenes (despite the rushed scene where the main assassin where enlisted in the past) and the acting from Fassbender and Iron was impactful. There is something about Jeremy Irons acting that I really love in these kinds of darker(?) movies.

I liked it so much that I'm going to have it on my favorite game-movie list for now. That might change as more I play the games, but I'll cross that bridge when that happens. ;)

sanscript: I've just watched Assassins Creed (2016).

Gotta say, I was surprised to see it was better than I expected as it was a game-movie, and not coming from the games themselves seems to have been in my favour as I see some people are pretty harsh, especially when it comes to the story. Really love historical conflicts, and compared to movies like Welcome to the Jungle, Free Guy and Doom etc., I agree the AC games deserved better. I understand the movie uses more time in modern age compared to the games where most of the story is in the past, and it did get a bit confusing sometimes.

At the same time, a movie obviously can't deliver the same impact as a 10+ hour game, but it did leave my mouth drooling for much more. A bit shameful to write that these games have largely gone unnoticed on my radar until earlier this year when I tumbled upon a let's play of the 3. one, so I'm definitely going to start playing them. As soon as I've managed to deride which one of them I actually should start with, that is... :D

Kurzel did a good job in creating the atmosphere in the different scenes (despite the rushed scene where the main assassin where enlisted in the past) and the acting from Fassbender and Iron was impactful. There is something about Jeremy Irons acting that I really love in these kinds of darker(?) movies.

I liked it so much that I'm going to have it on my favorite game-movie list for now. That might change as more I play the games, but I'll cross that bridge when that happens. ;)

Tokyo_Bunny_8990: I agree. Its not a good movie but not terrible. It suffers from the same issue as the games though with too much modern focus and too little ancient focus. Having just a quick modern scene to explain the VR and a tiny scene at the end to tease a sequel would have been enough with the focus of the story being on the assassin in the past.

LegoDnD: Why can't we just have only a historical setting? Abstergo and their damned Animus have never added anything of worth to the franchise except founding the entire premise on trash science. Every Asscreed game every made would be so much better if A) Desmond never existed and B) there was no meaningless "computer code" polluting the screen half the time. Whenever I start one of these games, I turn the TV off and do literally anything else for a few minutes while characters prattle on about "genetic memory" and whatever it is Abstergo wants to do, but then there's still future gameplay to endure in between what I'm really here for and I'm here for sneaky-stabbing in the past.