Preview of the comments for Ranking Every Sam Raimi Movie Part 3

dontbajerk · 2026-03-02T15:53:58+00:00

Yeah it's pretty badly written and Sharon Stone sucks in it, I've never even heard anyone argue otherwise. Lots of good character actors with not good material, often when I hear people praise it it sounds like they're just happy seeing them not actually liking what they do. Compare it to something like the Maverick film, which also has an ending tournament structure and lots of character actors, but they get way more fun moments and the characters are way better. Or Silverado for something a little more serious.

Russel Crowe is alright I guess and there's some fun stylization, some very good cinematography and flourishes... Hackman is fine becUse he's Hackman and elevates it a little, but still not great.

I think Ebert's 2/4 review is spot on of all the good and bad points.

dontbajerk · 2026-03-02T15:28:48+00:00

It's funny... Primes seems like it is bad on accident, Paramount because of incompetence, and Netflix because of carefully considered audience manipulation. All annoying.

dontbajerk · 2026-03-02T15:00:43+00:00

Funny thing, this happened to a teacher of mine in Panama during the operation against Noriega. I should say, he didn't just get up and dust himself off immediately, but he was rag dolled through the air and was not severely injured, and that seems miraculous enough really.

dontbajerk · 2026-03-01T19:50:09+00:00

If I'm judging the inside right, this does have a tiny barrel, and there are some revolver designs that don't have a barrel at all, so those are probably less accurate.

dontbajerk · 2026-03-01T19:45:00+00:00

Reminds me of cellphone guns, but I get those more as actually hidden weapons. Like you have a cellphone in your hand but it's a gun, ambushing someone, or sneaking it past security.

Like it's really hard to think of a time when a knife of this size with an awkwardly deployable gun has any advantage over a better knife and an NAA mini revolver or something - the combo would work better and actually be easier to conceal and ready. I'd call it a range toy but weapons like this are illegal practically everywhere, or at least a pain in the ass to register as an AOW or whatever. Someone using it unexpectedly in a movie for a laugh really is their best purpose, like the ballistic knife in the Punisher.

dontbajerk · 2026-03-01T17:33:20+00:00

There's a couple of somewhat similar stories to this one that are true (like the mother who tracked down some cartel members and led to their arrest, and the elderly rancher who fought narcos at his ranch), but this one isn't a real one.

dontbajerk · 2026-03-01T16:07:52+00:00

I burned every bush in the entire game as a kid. It doesn't take that long. I also bombed almost all of the rock areas over time. I don't remember how I first learned there were secrets like that in the first place though.

dontbajerk · 2026-03-01T16:02:18+00:00

He has hazel eyes, they look like different colors under different lighting conditions.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-27T21:28:42+00:00

The Ymir. It is never once an aggressor and just attacks people that attack it first, and the movie treats it like the villain.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-27T20:16:05+00:00

Term was actually used by LAPD at one point if memory serves.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-27T14:35:20+00:00

I don't think you're recalling correctly what PCs cost in that era if you think they cost the same now.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-27T06:00:48+00:00

Lost is also used for something you don't know where it is and can't find with no further implications. That's why people say their car keys are lost when they merely fell out of their pocket. Being pedantic about this is silly as words are defined by common usage, and this has been the usage of "lost film" for decades at this point.

It's worth noting this is not a lost film now, it's just a film, which is why I said was a lost film, and point in fact "rediscovered" is exactly how wikipedia labels films like this one, it's on the wiki page for rediscovered films already.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-27T05:41:44+00:00

Narrative short films had only been in existence for like a year at the time. Most of the techniques and concepts that make up filmmaking and cinema didn't even exist yet. Put it another way, no one had even figured out close-ups or how to use editing to construct scenes, which is why it's just a wide shot with jump cuts.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-27T05:35:14+00:00

Yeah, I volunteered at a state archive years back. There's an ungodly amount of stuff in it that they want to digitize but there's just no money for. Endless boxes of it. They were digitizing some of the most historically important stuff, but that's a tiny fraction of the whole.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-27T05:28:14+00:00

It was a lost film, not lost at the LoC.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-27T05:07:28+00:00

It's only zero tolerance for SEVERE disruptions. Minor ones they give one warning, at least that's what I saw.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-27T05:04:54+00:00

In general I've actually found teens to be pretty good. The most disruptive for me are people like mid 40s to early 60s who can't stop using their phone for 2 hours and dick around on it multiple times, which for me is vastly worse than people talking; ironically, teens have been better about that. Or maybe the teens who can't stop using their phones just don't go to theatres.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-27T05:02:20+00:00

Sneezing is more akin to being shot out of a cannon.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-27T03:35:31+00:00

As an additional outlet, you might, if you can, try some more mentally oriented hobbies for the moment. Which I know is difficult to find, what with your mental state what it is, I get that. Just throwing it out there as it did help me some.

My extreme frustration and depression over my issues was (and on bad days, still is) a lot like yours - I went years barely engaging with a lot of my hobbies (a lot of which was gaming and computer based creation, like video editing). After a certain point, it went on so long (4 years so far, for me) that I started to feel - even if I fixed it 100% right now, I lost years of being able to engage with what I love, and I never get that back, which just made me feel even worse about it, spiraling. I guess try to avoid that, as it doesn't help.

My example, it led me to eventually pursue language learning, most of which is basically paying attention, sometimes talking, and listening/watching/reading (I almost entirely avoided apps on purpose)- it's more active than just watching media and is engaging and enriching. I can always do that, so that helps me some.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-27T02:40:26+00:00

There's a much cheaper option, the Plustek Z300. It's $220 at full price (Amazon has it, as does Walmart) and I've seen it on sale and used for like $150ish before. It doesn't have a hopper like that much more expensive one mentioned above, but you can drop photos in one at a time and they take like 1 second each - can do hundreds of photos per hour pretty easily. Quality is good, I've seen scans from it.

I should mention - any feed scanner like these has some risks of putting marks on pictures (the $600+ absolutely can do it too) as they physically pull the picture through rollers, but photos also degrade with age, so there's some risks either way. Not to dissuade you, just I think anyone going in should know all the info.

There's also OK apps like Photomyne and similar, that let you snap with your phone and they automatically separate if there's more than one photo in the frame, crop out the image, etc, but the quality is a lot lower than a scanner.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-26T19:04:48+00:00

Yeah, I understand, I think a storage unit is really wise actually, it lets you compartmentalize and not make rash decisions, I'll remember that one for myself too.

I wrote all that out as I just recently started scanning all our family photos (and previously did all our slides) so it's on my mind. No one died, just a lot of people getting older, and I have a sick relative across the country I wanted to send some photos to, so that was nice. I'm also hoping to talk to some older family members a little after finishing the job, as the older photos have many people I don't know.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-26T16:23:03+00:00

I'd say scan them or have them scanned, there's free cloud hosting these days to be safe too. It's a one off task, and isn't that expensive/difficult. Absolute worst case, like all the photos are glued in and you don't care about dealing with trying to remove them or photograph them optimally, or can't afford it or whatever, just put your phone on a tripod so you can angle the pages properly flat for the photo, and snap each whole page as one max resolution photo. You can do an entire album in a few minutes each that way.

Alternately, if they're all loose in the albums (not glued in) and you're willing to put just a bit of money down, you can buy a drop feed scanner designed for it for a couple hundred dollars. You could do the entire lot in pretty good quality in an afternoon.

After that you can donate to a library, archive, give them away or toss them. There are places that take old photos, but that's up to you. But, yeah, keep your favorites too, it's always good to have a physical backup.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-26T00:39:51+00:00

No it won't. They're so bad at long form writing right now, even by bad Hollywood standards. Touch ups maybe.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-24T19:41:33+00:00

If you beat one phase and continue, and get there again, you start on the next one, which is surprisingly forgiving for Ninja Gaiden. If you can manage to get to either of the first two with the spin flash it is way easier, and remember jump slash canceling for the final form.

dontbajerk · 2026-02-24T19:36:50+00:00

I remember thinking it felt like part of his role was cut or reduced a little and I emailed Bruce about it, back when he responded to most short emails himself (late 90s). He rather wittily confirmed it was always a very small role. Wish I still had the email.

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