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Yikes, so much stuff I love won't win a single match.

I personally liked the new Hulu original Appendage a whole lot more than No One Will Save You. Not as much hype around it, lesser scores across the board, but I think it's very worth the watch.

So far the 31 films for 31 days is going well. I'll probably only post thoughts in like groups of 3 to avoid my massive list of films being posted 30+ times. We watched Hulu's new original, Appendage, last night. Tonight we are watching There's Something Wrong With the Children.

Jimmy trying to make me like him. This must stop.

I think the issue was that the writers/producers were so afraid of legal issues from Disney that they went out of their way to make sure that no one could get it confused with Disney's HAW that it made it borderline unrecognizable.

The 80's one is a classic despite some of the campy moments; I was very excited for the remake a couple of years ago and it left me feeling disappointed. I think the best thing about the original is that most of the actors just felt better fit for their roles than the newer ones did. John Lithgow is a great actor and everything, but how can you fill the shoes of Fred Gwynne in this role? Hard to accomplish.

We watched No One Can Save You last night. Posted my thoughts in the main horror topic... yeah, I didn't love it unfortunately.

S Tier:

1. Scream VI
2. M3GAN
3. Talk to Me
4. Saw X
5. Evil Dead Rise

A Tier:

6. Re/Member
7. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
8. A Haunting in Venice
9. Satanic Hispanics
10. Beau is Afraid
11. The Blackening
12. She Came From the Woods
13. Knock at the Cabin
14. Bunker
15. Birth/Rebirth
16. Cocaine Bear
17. Insidious: The Red Door
18. Final Cut
19. It Lives Inside
20. Haunted Mansion
21. Renfield
22. 65

B Tier

23. The Boogeyman
24. The Last Voyage of the Demeter
25. The Pope's Exorcist
26. Infinity Pool
27. Cobweb
28. Stalker
29. From Black
30. Inside
31. Nefarious
32. The Nun II
33. Natty Knocks
34. The Ghost Within
35. Til Death Do Us Part
36. Malum
37. They Wait in the Dark

C Tier

38. Bird Box Barcelona
39. Meg 2: The Trench
40. Kids vs. Aliens
41. Enys Men
42. You're Killing Me
43. Run Rabbit Run
44. The Strays
45. Consecration
46. No One Can Save You
47. Trinket Box
48. Spoonful of Sugar
49. Unwelcome
50. Hunt Her, Kill Her
51. Don't Look Away
52. The Black Demon

D Tier

53. Leave
54. The Headmistress
55. Children of the Corn
56. Fear
57. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

F Tier

58. The Outwaters
59. Skinamarink

So we ended up watching No One Can Save You last night because I wanted to try and watch 31 films for the 31 days in October. No clue whether or not that's feasible yet. We certainly won't run out of movies to watch, but the time constraints may not allow for it. We'll just have to see I guess.

Honestly... I didn't love this one. I was hoping to, but I think it's just one of those "not for me" films, perhaps. I'll focus on the positives first; the monster design was great as was the sound direction. Really, there's nothing wrong with the movie other than the writing I thought. I knew going in there we be almost no dialogue to speak of, and if it's done well I don't think that would be a huge problem. My issue resides with how dumb the aliens are. They seemingly are able to never have trouble except with this one random, skinny white girl who enjoys kicking their asses and foiling their schemes. Brynn never comes across like she's Ellen Ripley or anything but still manages to be the alien slayer she is; it's just weird to see. Once they do finally capture her, things get a bit ambiguous for me. They leave her uninfected, either because the entire town hated her and maybe they feel sorry for her or that they perceive no threat now that she can be at peace with herself... despite the fact she's clearly capable of kicking their asses.

I don't know. I was a good bit disappointed with it. C tier for me.

I remember missing out on Hellraiser and Prey last year.

Like I mentioned in the base horror topic, I recently picked up a Hulu subscription with Disney+ and one of the main factors was the things I was hearing about No One Will Save You. Excited to check it out, probably going to be Monday night.

Looks pretty good to me :P

S Tier:

1. Scream VI
2. M3GAN
3. Talk to Me
4. Saw X
5. Evil Dead Rise

A Tier:

6. Re/Member
7. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
8. A Haunting in Venice
9. Satanic Hispanics
10. Beau is Afraid
11. The Blackening
12. She Came From the Woods
13. Knock at the Cabin
14. Bunker
15. Birth/Rebirth
16. Cocaine Bear
17. Insidious: The Red Door
18. Final Cut
19. It Lives Inside
20. Haunted Mansion
21. Renfield
22. 65

B Tier

23. The Boogeyman
24. The Last Voyage of the Demeter
25. The Pope's Exorcist
26. Infinity Pool
27. Cobweb
28. Stalker
29. From Black
30. Inside
31. Nefarious
32. The Nun II
33. Natty Knocks
34. The Ghost Within
35. Til Death Do Us Part
36. Malum
37. They Wait in the Dark

C Tier

38. Bird Box Barcelona
39. Meg 2: The Trench
40. Kids vs. Aliens
41. Enys Men
42. You're Killing Me
43. Run Rabbit Run
44. The Strays
45. Consecration
46. Trinket Box
47. Spoonful of Sugar
48. Unwelcome
49. Hunt Her, Kill Her
50. Don't Look Away
51. The Black Demon

D Tier

52. Leave
53. The Headmistress
54. Children of the Corn
55. Fear
56. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

F Tier

57. The Outwaters
58. Skinamarink

It turns out the way to make a good Saw film is, unsurprisingly, not have John Kramer dead. Probably the best film in the entire franchise (in my opinion, II and Spiral are close), it's an undoubted return to form for the main franchise itself. Even at over 80 now, Tobin Bell puts on a masterful performance as Kramer and like most of the other films in the franchise, puts the role of what is typically seen as the "villain" into a sympathetic light as more of the antihero protagonist. This one is particularly more personal because it focuses on Jigsaw's fight with his brain tumor as he searches for some means of survival. He is personally duped by an intricate scheme to con him out of a quarter of a million dollars so seeing him personally take revenge on a group of people so heinous and despicable was a lot of fun. It is also probably one of the goriest films of the franchise too; several times I did recoil from the mess on the screen, and I'm not a particularly squeamish person when it comes to gore. It's done extremely well for the most part.

I wouldn't consider myself much of a fan of the franchise, but this film really makes me wish they were able to continue to plot of Saw without the poor decisions they made in III. It was nice to see both John and Amanda back here. There were so many really clever twists that I did not see coming, and though cheering on Jigsaw might feel weird, it's probably the most justified doing so ever has been.

Saw X starts in 30 minutes.

High praise early for this one, so we'll see. I really liked Spiral so I hope this one is more story driven the way that one was. I also recently subscribed to Disney+, and by extension Hulu. Probably will be checking out their exclusives here in a bit as well.

Oh yeah, 4 way works a bit different in the final. You choose them in reverse order of the way you'd like to see them finish. Basically, I think in the old days when we ran gauntlets as a group we'd take a poll on who to vote out. I guess it's like elimination style, not sure what the thinking of doing that it that way was about.

He doesn't look that old if you look up the picture itself, I think the shading and reducing the image size to 150x150 might not do it justice much. I like Edgar too much to make him suffer with an Amano art. There are a few characters I had to leave that way though.

No problem, glad you spent a lot of time with it! I was going to say those win totals seem very low for a double elimination gauntlet, but I guess if you used the Burn feature it probably evens out. I just sort of like the chaos it brings when you play it straight out, would have been nice to see those results even if you didn't like them. I would say only about half of the characters who placed in my gauntlet would be in my actual top 10, but the other half were fine enough and I wasn't super upset that any of them made it that far either.

But yeah, it did take a lot of effort (just to get the FF portion of it running like it is now), so I appreciate everyone who's played it so far. Probably got more people than I was initially expecting, glad you all liked it.

It does allow you to reset the matches by using the back feature, but where's the fun in that?

Yeah didn't we all MAKE one of these before? I guess it doesn't seem weird to me because I've never stopped using the program for years now, even when everyone else probably did.

I'm not great at tech support. Uh... once you unpack the file, you should have a folder that says VideoGameCharacters. Make sure that folder has no spaces in it. I'd suggest just unpacking it directly to your desktop to remove any troubles. After that, you open the folder and keep clicking until you get to the where you see a set of folders and files. Then you should just be able to click the one that says "GauntletApplication"; it's JAR file with a java icon.

Pokewars posted...

I don't understand gauntlets and winzip and shit anymore. Just seems to be giving me the runaround.

I'd suggest just using WinRAR. Just be pretty easy once you extract it.

@VeryInsane

Can you post a picture of what your folder looks like before you click on the Application file?

All I can figure is you unzipped it in an unexpected way.

LiquidOshawott posted...

I remember doing this too and still got a error, which was error 3

unless I didnt extract it correctly

Might be selecting the wrong one. It's the JAR file that says GauntletApplication

LiquidOshawott posted...

So uh, was trying to figure this out yesterday and maybe Im just dumb, but how are people loading that gauntlet thing when most browsers dont support Java applets anymore? Do I need to find a old version of IE?

It's self contained. No browser needed. Launch the gauntlet app itself from inside the folder.

WotV's art style definitely invoked that Ivalice feel when I saw it.

TheArkOfTurus posted...

Ah yes, my second favorite Final Fantasy character *checks notes.* Lu'cia.

I played Brave Exvius, and I'm still surprised how many Brave Exvius characters there were.

I don't think anyone was more surprised than me when I went to add all of them. I already had done some of them here and there, but the extent of my knowledge of the game was pretty small. I knew of the main cast, and of course Dangerous Ariana because of this contest.

Lopen posted...

Finally got around to finishing it. That took a bit! I knew most of the Brave Exvius characters which probably made it take longer. Edward and Fighter kinda snuck in (not terrible picks though) but otherwise don't hate the top 10. Sephiroth murdered most of the snubs like Rikku Sabin and Vanille-- I should have let him win. Not sure why I went with Genesis with the swerve win I just felt like he was fighting harder opponents than X-Death who was mostly just eating fodder. But yeah it was fun. Honestly think the 8 that didn't sneak in are probably actually in the top 10.

It's time to nominate Genesis back and get Charon in as well for VI. Then the dream of Genny and I competing in SMFFFC will be realized.

Xuxon posted...

I guess Kefka is now only my fourth favorite FFVI character. And Ultros fifth. Terra for SMFFFCXXVI champ!

Of the 4 of these that have been completed so far, Tidus is in every single one of them. I guess for some reason I didn't think Tidus was your #1?

Oh and I'm sure it's been noticed, but I did use high quality level fanart for some of the characters. This was moreso for characters from IX and back due to how ugly those graphics look in general. Unless they appeared in Dissidia, basically all there is in Amano artwork. Which is... yeah. The most famous artist I know of with awful looking work. Sometimes Mobius would have something, or that trading card game, but in some cases fanart was the best route for me to go. Another SMFFFC entrant I don't have in Burmecian Soldier Dan because well, there's just no good shots of him in game and no one cared enough to do very good fanart. Someone did cosplay for him though, for some reason. But yeah, the list might not be infallible so if anyone notices something missing feel free to mention it here or send me a message. I'm always happy to add stuff. For XIV, which I haven't played because I'm already and invested WoW player, I tried my best to add what seemed critical and popular. It would be impossible to add every character from XIV, much like WoW.

So I wanted to have this ready before SMFFFC ended, but I guess this will do. Some people probably know what a Gauntlet is, it's sort of a relic from the past at this point. But I do actually keep one of these gauntlets up to date, and it's the video game character one. I figured it might be fun to share it and my own results, and see if anyone else maybe wanted to play it:

https://i.imgur.com/OyVkYgy.jpg

Essentially, a "gauntlet" is just running a program that pits 2 (or 4) characters against one another. You choose the one you like more and they move on. The program randomly selects more characters and you keep picking the ones you like until there are no more characters left. I decided to put in the work and update all the images for Final Fantasy characters I wasn't personally happy with. I also tried to add in anything that was missing from the gauntlet too, which included adding the entirety of Brave Exvius (which was a huge chore).

https://www.mediafire.com/file/8d55dbs7035o2hi/VideoGameCharacters.rar/file

Basically you just download the file and unzip it; it's a pretty big file because it contains over 38,000 video game characters. Just a few things to note about it. I didn't create the program, I just curate the content. You will need to use a "tag" to run it, the tag for Final Fantasy is just "ff" without the quotations. You will also need to know the exact number of characters that I've tagged with that, which is 1307. So yeah, obviously this is a very inclusive list! You will indeed find Stamp and ?????? here. For the purposes of SMFFFC, the only stuff that isn't going to be there is anything that never appeared in a video game. So no Dad of Light, and no Aki Ross. Square must either not have the rights to do it or don't want to be reminded of the time they lost that much money, because she never even appeared in Record Keeper or Brave Exvius.

Anyway, hopefully someone enjoys this. Like I said, despite gauntlets being dead I keep this one relatively up to date (it's current through June of this year right now). I mostly continue to maintain it because it keeps me up to date on games I don't have time to play anymore.

No, once he was booted because I was holding my save and refreshing, but I didn't notice a new page had appeared and I continued to not notice for like a couple of minutes. I had a save ready for him but I was being greedy, and that was one of his many boots.

Chan Chan... Ai Chiki Chiki Ban Ban

andylt posted...

I'd be down for it, though my favs are likely too divisive to do well there!

Also I notice Martin is saving Locke, despite Vanille being on his pyramid at one point. Is this merely to remove an obstacle from Aeris' path next year, or does he no longer like Vanille!

I mean, he's not obligated to save a character he said he likes more... you know, that sounds familiar!

S Tier:

1. Scream VI
2. M3GAN
3. Talk to Me
4. Evil Dead Rise

A Tier:

5. Re/Member
6. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
7. A Haunting in Venice
8. Satanic Hispanics
9. Beau is Afraid
10. The Blackening
11. She Came From the Woods
12. Knock at the Cabin
13. Bunker
14. Birth/Rebirth
15. Cocaine Bear
16. Insidious: The Red Door
17. Final Cut
18. It Lives Inside
19. Haunted Mansion
20. Renfield
21. 65

B Tier

22. The Boogeyman
23. The Last Voyage of the Demeter
24. The Pope's Exorcist
25. Infinity Pool
26. Cobweb
27. Stalker
28. From Black
29. Inside
30. Nefarious
31. The Nun II
32. Natty Knocks
33. The Ghost Within
34. Til Death Do Us Part
35. Malum
36. They Wait in the Dark

C Tier

37. Bird Box Barcelona
38. Meg 2: The Trench
39. Kids vs. Aliens
40. Enys Men
41. You're Killing Me
42. Run Rabbit Run
43. The Strays
44. Consecration
45. Trinket Box
46. Spoonful of Sugar
47. Unwelcome
48. Hunt Her, Kill Her
49. Don't Look Away
50. The Black Demon

D Tier

51. Leave
52. The Headmistress
53. Children of the Corn
54. Fear
55. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

F Tier

56. The Outwaters
57. Skinamarink

Pretty good one. Wonderful monster design. It reminds me of The Boogeyman a little bit, just the film setup in general. Great monster, does the best it can do with a PG-13 rating. I think this one has a bit more in the way of actual scares and terror than Boogeyman was able to offer but just a little bit, hence why it got up into the A tier. I really liked learning about Indian mythology a bit here, since it isn't that common to see (at least for me) an Indian based horror title even though there are so many great stories to pull from in the culture. I was a little bummed that the only person who died on screen was the poor little white guy but eh, I still really enjoyed my time with it.

Locke 10

Locke 9

Locke 8

Locke 7

#JusticeForMukki

This guy has been available to nominate for a bit now, why is there a sudden interest in him? He was even on Martin's ridiculous list from a while back; I thought he was talking about Aranea Highwind and had simply misspelled it at first (though I'd be equally curious why people would keep nominating her back as well).

Locke 6

Locke 5

Locke 4

Locke 3

Locke 2

Locke 1

Locke

Off to see It Lives Inside!

Locke

Grimlyn posted...

Vaan can get under Gabranth if he deds before Day 4

that's actually probably easier than the reverse, which is getting Gabranth to survive 28 Days

That will be the contest pj makes every round and is the first save.