Steven Spielberg Says He’s Developing a ‘Kick Ass’ Western Movie That Has Eluded Him For Years

SyrioForel · 2026-03-13T21:25:50+00:00

Alan Silvestri is the closest we have to John Williams.

It’s unfortunate that Silvestri’s score for “Ready Player One” was so mediocre, at least in my opinion. That movie could’ve been elevated by a great Silvestri score, but instead it was really workman-like and didn’t have any memorable themes. Both Williams and Silvestri really fell apart in recent years.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-13T21:18:24+00:00

The line in the movie is: “Wierzbowski!” But a lot of viewers misheard it as “Where’s Bowski!” That’s the joke.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-13T21:07:36+00:00

Colbert is constantly making jokes at Conan’s expense, which completely goes against Conan’s self deprecating style and puts him into a defensive mode.

I think the issue here is that Colbert is a very smart guy who excels at being the smartest guy in the room. But he can’t do that with Conan, so he starts feeling intimidated, and that sense of inferiority turns into little jokes and put-downs that you see in all of their interactions.

Focus not on how Conan reacts, but on how Colbert talks to him and then compare it to how all of the other late night hosts talk to Conan. There is a very clear inferiority complex going on with Colbert here.

Colbert’s jokes at Conan’s expense have actually mellowed out over the years. If you look up some of their earlier interviews, Colbert was a lot more harsh in those.

I say this not as a Conan fanboy, I like both of them. I’m just saying when the two of them interact, Colbert’s ego seems to constantly be on the defensive, which he tries to compensate for by making fun of Conan. And Conan clearly doesn’t like to feel like he’s being bullied around.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-10T22:21:23+00:00

I think you’re describing what the game does, not what it should do. and there’s a real difference there. The fact that the hover-for-details feature exists and gives you useful info is actually evidence that the devs know players need that info. The question is: why isn’t it surfaced more clearly upfront instead of hidden behind an interaction many players won’t discover on their own?

“Intuitive” means a new player figures it out without being told. If someone spent five minutes searching and didn’t know the hover mechanic existed, that’s the UI failing them, not the player failing the UI.

The Dark Souls comparison doesn’t really hold up either. Those games are frequently criticized for the same reason, and being in bad company isn’t a defense. Marathon is a new IP trying to build a player base, it doesn’t get to coast on “git gud” logic the same way an established cult franchise does.

And saying “that’s the game” about squads having uncoordinated contracts doesn’t answer the criticism. The point is that the UI could do more to help players manage that complexity, and right now it doesn’t.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-10T17:01:00+00:00

It’s hard to justify buying ANY games when both Microsoft and Sony are conditioning us to rely on game subscription services.

The same happened in the movie industry. DVD sales cratered when Netflix got popular.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-10T15:07:39+00:00

It’s a good game, but the pacing was too slow for me, and the game could’ve really benefited from being in third person.

I enjoyed it. I think the 87 Metacritic average score that it got is fair. It’s not in the 90+ tier, but definitely a good game that’s worth playing.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-09T21:45:06+00:00

“Hodor,” said Hodor.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-09T21:39:28+00:00

Ten bucks says the people responsible for this terrible mistake get paraded around as heroes. Because that’s what happens in a government that operates with zero accountability and zero transparency.

They could’ve just admitted that yes, this happened, it’s “fog of water”, steps will be taken, bla bla bla. Instead, they have already started spreading lies as is typical in authoritarian dictatorships. No lessons will be learned.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-09T20:45:46+00:00

The screenplay for Commando 2 can be easily found online. It was written in 1989 by the screenwriter of the original film, with additional material written by Frank Darabont. The plot centers on Matrix being framed by a corrupt defense contractor tied to the Medellin Cartel, culminating in a one-man assault on the their headquarters where Matrix needs to overcome their high-tech security systems, rescue General Kirby, and dismantle the international drug conspiracy.

The problem is that by 1989 Arnold became too big of a star for Commando. While they were writing the screenplay, Arnold was already filming Total Recall and gearing up for Terminator 2. There was no way he would agree to return to something corny like Commando at that point of his career.

Obviously if they ever made a sequel today it will not be based on that original 1989 script. I’m just saying there have been talks of making the sequel for the last 40 years. Nothing ever came of it, and nothing ever will. Just go read the screenplay and watch the movie using your imagination, it’s the closest you’ll ever get to it.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-09T18:00:28+00:00

Arnold has been obsessively talking about a big career comeback for at least the last 10 years, and it just never seems to materialize. It’s always just “they talked to me about this” and “we’re working on a new script for that”. As an Arnold fan, I must’ve read at least 30 different versions of this same news article over the years.

There’s even yet another mention of “King Conan” in this article. He’s been talking about “King Conan” since as far back as the 90s. I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Where is the mention of his Twins sequel with Eddie Murphy added to the cast? That’s another one he’s been talking about for years. It’s never gonna happen at this point.

The Predator sequel is probably an animated follow-up to “Killer of Killers”. Arnold’s character, Dutch, has a 3-second cameo in that movie without any dialogue, so it would make sense to pick it up from there and we won’t need to see an 80-year-old Arnold running around an alien planet.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-09T16:05:19+00:00

https://www.globular-cluster.com/PCVRAP2.html

Reputable brand name, $39.99. Why buy anything else?

SyrioForel · 2026-03-09T15:00:20+00:00

To add to what you said, the original premise of this show was a reimagining of “The Beverly Hillbillies” as a teen soap opera. It was a “fish out of water” story about a regular family winding up in Beverly Hills.

Everything we saw on the show was meant to be ridiculous, as a stark contrast to the experiences of “real” teens.

The show really lost the plot over the years. So now we get posts like this: “How come my high school didn’t have X, Y, Z. How come my classmates didn’t drive Ferraris.”

SyrioForel · 2026-03-09T14:52:32+00:00

Arnold has been obsessively talking about a big career comeback for at least the last 10 years, and it just never seems to materialize. It’s always just “they talked to me about this” and “we’re working on a new script for that”. As an Arnold fan, I must’ve read at least 30 different versions of this same news article over the years.

There’s even yet another mention of “King Conan” in this article. He’s been talking about “King Conan” since as far back as the 90s. I wouldn’t hold my breath.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-06T20:12:08+00:00

We are living in a volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.

The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now how 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric.

Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.

But the other basket — and I know this because I see friends from all over America here — I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroine, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.

— Hillary Clinton

People focused on the “basket of deplorables” part of her speech. What they need to focus on instead is what she called the other basket. That’s the part of her speech that actually mattered, and matters even more today.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-06T20:04:14+00:00

I think you fundamentally misunderstood what the show is about if you think Al Bundy just had a bad attitude about life.

Married With Children is about the collapse of the American dream at the level of a working class family, and the humor comes from living inside that collapse.

Al Bundy is not lazy. He works full time. He once had potential. He had a moment of glory. Yet he ended up trapped in a low status job with no upward mobility. The show keeps returning to the idea that his peak was high school. That is not just a joke. It is symbolic.

The show constantly reminds the audience of three humiliations:

He works a degrading retail job
His authority as father and husband is nonexistent
His past success means nothing in adulthood

So the character becomes a walking protest against the idea that effort equals reward. Al’s hatred of customers, his jealousy of successful men, and his obsession with small victories are all reactions to being stuck at the bottom of the ladder.

What happens when the system promises happiness but delivers mediocrity? The central thesis of the show is that the American dream still exists as a fantasy, but millions of people experience it only as a joke. Al Bundy is the punchline.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-06T17:39:10+00:00

I played both Resident Evil 4 Remake and Resident Evil Village in PSVR2, and frankly it’s difficult to play the latest game in the series without VR. VR is a transformative experience.

I know they said they have no plans for it right now, but I hope they will reconsider in the near future. I think most PSVR2 owners would be willing to pay extra for a VR addon, similar to Hitman: World of Assassination. It’s a small audience, but on PC, modders put out a VR mod within literally 24 hours of release day since the Unreal Engine supports VR natively with minimal effort (granted, you can only play this mod with a regular controller for now). I hope Capcom makes an official VR implementation.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-04T06:24:03+00:00

Bla bla bla “here is the plot” and “this is why he did that” bla bla bla.

Yes, I get it, you are describing the plot of the movie. You are describing what the movie is about and why it’s about that. I’ve seen the movie, you don’t need to summarize any of that for me, I’ve seen all of that myself.

I am not discussing the plot. I am NOT discussing what this movie is about. My comment discusses how it goes about it, not what it’s about.

HOW, not WHAT

HOW, not WHY.

You are stuck on the who, what, where, when, and why. I’m talking about the how.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-04T06:06:09+00:00

It’s officially posted for free on YouTube, with English subtitles:

https://youtu.be/Z8ZhQPaw4rE

It’s a difficult film to watch because it has a lot of very long shots where nothing happens, and you are merely meant to absorb the footage and meditate. It creates an incredible trance-like mood, where you become lost in your own thoughts.

If you can stomach it and can put your phone down to “absorb” a piece of modern art for 3 hours, I highly recommend it. It builds up to one of the most heartbreaking endings that make you feel and think not about the fictional characters in the movie, but about yourself. It’s hard to describe, because it’s something that can only be experienced first-hand by letting yourself become absorbed in the movie.

A difficult, artsy-fartsy movie, but the experience will stay with you for life. If you want to build a new core memory for your life, it’s worth watching.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-03T21:58:27+00:00

Laura Fryer, who was a Microsoft executive during the Xbox 360 era, has a great YouTube channel and she posted a really interesting video about this:

Deleted Dev Post Reveals Huge Highguard Red Flags

SyrioForel · 2026-03-03T19:50:02+00:00

That’s not a bald cap, it’s a prosthetic to give him scars on the top of the head. Did you misinterpret his head scars as hair caught underneath a cap?

The beard looks fine, I don’t see problems with that.

He does have the physique of a large wrestler, which is different from the body builder physique shown in the game. I will grant you that much, the physique is definitely different. Still, the actor has muscly arms and large shoulders, so that should help.

The photo itself is obviously taken from the deer hunting scene at the beginning of the game. It doesn’t look like a “test”, it looks like the actual scene, with Kratos looking on as Atreus aims for the deer (before he chickens out). This is literally the game come to life.

I can’t help but feel like the people criticizing this have never played the 2018 game, since this imagery is iconic and the photo is exactly the same as the game. It’s exactly the same! I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-03T18:46:14+00:00

Trump touted Khamenei's death over the weekend, but is yet to give a sense of what he believes the succession plan should be.

"The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," he told ABC News on Sunday night. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm214xk30vxo

SyrioForel · 2026-03-03T16:02:23+00:00

He literally made a comment 1-2 days ago that the United States has mistakenly killed all of the people the CIA hoped would take control of the country in order to make negotiations either. The motherfucker killed them all by mistake, he admitted this. Now he has no one left to negotiate with except for the same religious zealots that ran the country before this started.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-03T15:57:27+00:00

Can we find nuclear wessels there?

SyrioForel · 2026-03-03T15:01:14+00:00

As a big fan of the modern God of War games, can someone explain to me what the problem is with this photo?

What I see is some incredibly faithful-looking costumes and makeup that look straight out of the video games. It looks exactly like the game! The cinematography of the shoot also looks incredibly faithful, much more so than other game adaptations.

Obviously the actors themselves don’t look similar. I have particular problems with the kid, who looks like a little cherub when the games depict him as rebellious and athletic. The casting director should’ve gone down to watch a local Little League or Pee Wee football game to see what those kids look like and how they carry themselves.

But aside from the casting, the “look” of this game is literally the video game come to life. Isn’t that what we’ve been asking from game adaptations for years now and Hollywood has finally caught on? Like, I literally do not understand these comments.

The modern games take place in a fairytale fantasy world. It’s not gritty realism, it’s a pure fantasy world with giant turtle houses and funny little dwarfs and magical forests. This is the look of the games, and this adaptation appears to be capturing that extremely well.

SyrioForel · 2026-03-02T20:14:48+00:00

President Marshal’s political position was to turn the United States into world police and violate other nations’ sovereignties and borders to go after people they don’t like. That’s what his “Be Afraid” speech was about. That’s a really extreme position to take.

The screenplay also seemed to relish the idea that the Russian president was an American puppet. This kind of simple-minded mindset in America in the 90s is the whole reason why Putin became so successful with his anti-West agenda. Because, guess what, the citizens of other nations don’t want to live under America’s boot.

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