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Bungie has confirmed that several “under-utilised” weapons have been buffed in the latest update for Destiny 2. Announcing the upgrades in the latest This Week At Bungie newsletter, an associate designer on the Sandbox team explained that “we moved a good bit of the balance changes from Season 18 forward to the mid-Season patch of Season 17, so this will be a bit lighter of a weapons-Sandbox TWAB than usual. That being said, there are still some changes we’re really excited about.” Both high-impact auto rifles and…

via Disney/Paramount One person’s trash is almost always somebody else’s treasure, and when it comes to movies that were panned by critics, shunned by audiences, and cast into the fiery bowels of cinematic hell, virtually every single one of them is going to have at least a handful of staunch supporters. There’s no shame in having guilty pleasures, even if your friends have grown tired of listening to you bang on about the underrated and overlooked aspects of a film that the majority of people are immovably…

via 20th Century Fox As has been the way of the blockbuster world since Steven Spielberg effectively invented the summer popcorn flick with Jaws, sequels are apparently obligated to get bigger in almost every single way. The budget, scale, scope, spectacle, amount of effects both practical and visual, cast members, set pieces, explosions, the list goes on and on. Name one element of a successful opening chapter, and the chances are exceedingly high that any future installments will continue upping the ante for…

Image via Lucasarts If you look at a film or TV show very closely, you’d notice that they tend to follow similar plot beats. And sometimes, moviegoers are sick of them because they’re predictable. It’s technically the same story but with a different label. However, some film and TV clichés aren’t inherently bad, and get people excited if executed right. A recent spate of social media posts shows movie fans on Twitter are figuring out just what those moments are. Twitter user @downwithlcc asked people which plot…

Film and television are among the most beloved forms of escapism; after a long day of hacking away at work, sometimes you just want to get lost in a good story, some hearty laughs, or some chilling scares with your favorite Hollywood stars. But as long as the medium has existed, suspension of disbelief is at least partially required to enjoy it to its fullest. But where there’s a finger to be pointed, there’s a Reddit thread ready to pounce on it. Subsequently, the topic of today’s venture into r/AskReddit is the…

No filmmaker in the history of cinema boasts a 100 percent critical and commercial success rate, because that would indicate complete and utter cinematic perfection on each and every occasion the talent in question has stepped behind a camera, which is impossible to accomplish for innumerable reasons. That being said, heavy hitters like Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Alfonso Cuarón, Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, and others have very high batting averages, but nobody…

via Paramount When handled correctly, a shocking twist is unquestionably one of the most effective things in cinema. On the other hand, when it’s either signposted from a mile away or arrives without any buildup to act as a shock just for the sake of it, then audiences are only going to be left rolling their eyes. Very few features have managed to pull off narrative sleight of hand that’s been effective and popular enough to go down as truly iconic, but that doesn’t mean some deep cuts aren’t being thrown into…

Credit: Blumhouse Productions Fresh off the back of a big movie return in Top Gun: Maverick, another Miles Teller movie has seen a huge boon in film buff circles, as fans flock to a film which saw a supporting actor win an Academy Award. Whiplash has come back with a vengeance on Letterboxd, with the home of the most insufferable film fans rediscovering one of the finest films of the 2010s. Whiplash received adoration on release in 2014, with significant praise going towards star J.K. Simmons and his violently…

Bungie has made some new tweaks to Destiny 2, including a significant overhaul to the Solar Warlock and Solar Titan. Bungie states in its This Week At Bungie blog post: “As we’ve said in the past through TWABs, socials, and other dev updates, we’d much rather ship something a little too spicy than something bland that makes a bad first impression. I think with Solar 3.0, we landed somewhere in the middle, and the team feels very passionately that this is the wrong place to be.” The statement continues: “To that end,…

Naoki Yoshida, producer and director of Final Fantasy 14, has apologised for buffs made to the black mage class in a recent update. Following the introduction of new PvP area Crystalline Conflict, Square Enix released the Patch 6.11a, which included an assortment of balance adjustments. However, the update gave the black mage class some serious buffs leading to a bunch of memes, especially when it was revealed that class was Yoshida’s go to. “What should have been minor changes were released as major changes, which…