#Source Flimmaker

[moonrot08]

What happens when the people you rely on the most, just don't seem to answer the phone anymore...

[theviceenforcer]

Silent Hill 3 (SFM) - End of Small Sanctuary

Heather: I'm going to Silent Hill.

[icefir-windbreaker]

He has a lot of issues. (What he is saying is on the right of this post)

[running-in-blind]

Lets play a game,

I'll call it "Guess what the fuck I was gonna do with this unfinished piece" part 1

This one was simply named "2 n 4 n 6 n 8"

This absolute mad lad is "All around the talkie table"

"Awan box boi" Honestly im at a loss at what I was going with here.

"Bedic n bngineer" I Would love to know what the hell was going on here.

and this one here is "BLU CHRIS"... I think I had something going on here at one point. dont ask what the hell happened to the models, cause I dunno

[knightscanfeeltoo]

Oscar VS The Pursuer

(i still wish that oscar’s weapons is in dark souls 2  to properly cosplay as him while fighting pursuer but its not in that game and i don’t play dark souls and from software/hidetaka miyazaki games anyway so that doesn’t matter now...)

[ratanak45]

[fruztal]

I had a Blast playing A Hat in Time, finished the Story Mode and still playing it because of the Workshop levels and new DLC.

Seriously, Thanks Gears for Breakfast such a Incredible Game~

No font/Wallpaper: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wacnf1smgtqsxzs/AHiTcakent.png?dl=0

[movienotesbyzawmer]

The Empire Strikes Back

December 15: The Empire Strikes Back

(previous notes: Star Wars)

Source: Limited Edition DVD, original 1980 edit (Same deal as for Star Wars. The only difference is that with this one, the back of the box actually does mention the fact that it includes the original theatrical cut, in small print.)

Worth noting that this is the Star Wars movie I've seen most recently. A couple of months ago I saw it at Orchestra Hall, with the score performed live by the Minnesota Orchestra. This score is fantastic and that was a great way to experience it. It was the "Special Edition", though. And in January, so 11 months ago, I saw Star Wars the same way.

So this is many Star Wars fans' favorite of the movies. Worth noting that this is probably the least tampered-with of the oft-adjusted original trilogy. I guess with this one it was like "whoa, if it ain't broke don't fix it". I was 9 when it came out and I went to see it numerous times in the theater back then. So the darker vibe was definitely not a problem for me as a child. But when people say that this is the best of the Star Wars movies, my haughty response is to point out that it had an advantage that the first one didn't have in that it had hardly any burden of exposition. But whatevzies, let's press play and take another look at how this unspooled in 1980.

The credits now begin with the Fox logo… then a "Lucasfilm Limited" card. Movin' up in the world, ain't ya George

The first scene is about the probe droids. God damn I love those probe droids. That sound.

But then we cut to Luke on a tauntaun. And then he gets attacked by basically The Abominable Snowman. Again I observe the importance of creature and vehicle design, on display early on in almost all the movies. Although maybe that Wampa isn't all that creative.

Yeah, that Wampa stuff I think got punched up significantly in the re-releases, and seeing the original one now, I guess there just really isn't much there.

Tauntaun freezes to death. Hey, tauntauns, you need to evolve your weak asses if you're going to be on a super cold ice planet. But I've still always liked that stop-motion animation of it dying. Did that stay in the re-releases?

And I VERY much retain the vivid memory of Han slicing open the tauntaun carcass. It was "gory". Watching it now, seems like they actually left a lot to the imagination.

0:19:40 - Cut to Destroyers, and the mama ship which dwarfs them in size. And in the background the Imperial March, first time that's been heard. (I often have to point out that that famous theme was written for Empire, not the first movie.) The back of Vader's head with space backdrop. It's just good cinema, yo.

The Destroyer getting sizzed while the transport gets past it, that's not a very good effect. I'm a bit disappointed.

But more good cinematic introductions… the walkers, first spotted through binoculars! Then a cool shot of a bunch of them approaching! Is good! Then a POV shot of a rebel ship flying through the legs of one of them, looks great! Harpoon trap is very satisfying too.

These spaceports always have ceiling-mounted suction hose things that seem to be exclusively designed to lower R2 units into spaceships. Not much utility is all I'm saying.

0:37:35 - The sound of jump-to-lightspeed fail has become instantly recognizable.

The music here is great, this new asteroid field theme, followed by, at 0:40:00, the super-beautiful, under-appreciated "Han Solo and the Princess" theme making its first appearance.

0:44:25 - This was exciting when I was a kid, the shot of Vader's helmet being lowered onto his head. Mysterious! Kinda gross!

But also gross to me as a kid was how Han & Leia interacted. I was baffled that they ended up together after how dumb he acted to her, like just now when he was aggressive about her sitting on his lap.

0:53:00 - First appearance of The Emperor since the prequels, but this is the original theatrical release so it's a different actor. Actually close enough, though.

Yoda as a Muppet character works remarkably well. Perfectly integrated into this environment. So much definition. Such personality.

Love this bit where the cave they're in is actually a giant serpent monster. They were walking around in its squishy fleshy innards hahaha

Pretty memorable scene now, this one where Luke goes into a dark-side-of-the-force cave and there's frame rate shenanigans and a Darth Vader. Luke has only seen Vader that one time when he sort-of killed Obi-Wan, right? But that's enough for him to be the subject of Nightmare Cave.

"You want the impossible." "I don't believe it." Luke has always been a very flawed person. Childish and impatient. I mean that in a good way as a movie critic; he's not a "model hero".

Kinda interesting where we're at with the two concurrent subplots. Luke is learning to be a Jedi from a charismatic little puppet, while Han, Leia, and the rest are just on the run trying to deal with their busted ship while being very closely pursued by huge Imperial Destroyers.

Boba Fett! Such a cool looking dude.

Cloud city. Pretty, and a welcome change. But, and maybe I'm being a snob here, I find myself longing a bit for blemish-free HD filling my screen.

The light play going on when Luke departs in his X-Wing and Yoda has his "no, there is another" exchange with Ghost-y-Wan, unique and vivid and I like it.

Shit be getting dark now. That scene where Chewy turns C3PO back on is creepy, then Han is getting straight tortured.

And now THIS, the carbon freeze scene! Spooked me but good as a kid. But the look of this chamber is great, and hey we get that awesome Han/Princess music back. "I love you" "I know". And now he's a block of ice. The slab thuds down and it's morbid.

We've returned to that chamber now with Luke facing Vader, and between their light sabers and the blue-red contrast of the lighting in there, it's nice to look at.

1:48:10 - Leia and Lando got away but Luke is still there, just kind of stuck fighting without any purpose. Except of course to lose his hand (dark!) and find out who his daddy is (Darth!).

Do you think when they cast Mark Hamill in the first movie, they realized how valuable his prodigious frown-mouth-face-shape would be in this second movie?

Getting Luke off that weather vane or whatever and into the Falcon, they don't really show how that got done. Feels like some flimmaking sloppiness.

A final swelling arrangement of Han/Princess and it's over without much resolution. This whole movie is like a second act. It begins with problems starting up, and it ends with things just about as bad as they can get. That's the textbook definition of the second act of a screenplay. I think ending it that way could have left people feeling unsatisfied, but instead we're all like "ooh, this one is dark, no happy ending, I dig it."

(next: Return of the Jedi)

[amechyofsorts]

So APPARENTLY this goofy fella is a Finnish character in a visual novel aimed at ladies. He doesn’t really look the part, but that’s alright since it’s still an incredible source of hilarity to me because in the all the likelyhood has a Finnish accent, which has been scientifically proven to be the least sexy accent in worldwide linguistic history.

Also he shares a name with a flimmaker that worked on Leningrad Cowboys. Good on him.

[moonrot08]

Flower crowns

[running-in-blind]

So all the shitposts I posted earlier was leading up to this, have fun.

[ratanak45]

The lieutenants when Kiryu "killed" someone

[nova2127u]

[moonrot08]

Oh snipes you should have seen the look on his face! blah blah blah blah....

[running-in-blind]

[[I made this because @raccoonpatriotism inspired me to do a piece with soldier, like they literally did nothing but exist and I made this.]]