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And now for our 2nd match-up of the day (we're doing two per day if you couldn't tell)...

Playing "Cinematic" Video Games As Someone Who Cares About Cinema (submitted by Jacob Geller)

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The Recent Renaissance of Big Budget Musicals (submitted by Tim Bates)

I used to play a decent amount of video games, but pretty much stopped about ten years ago when I got too busy with making videos. And in that time games have evolved and become increasingly cinematic. So for this, I would actually play some of these games (like The Last of Us) and look at how they work as storytelling mediums. What are the pros and cons of long interactive movies? Would these stories be more effective just being movies? Are the ultra-realistic graphics too deep in the uncanny valley? And...how much will gamers yell at me for my dumb opinions?

And then we have the "recent renaissance" of big-budget musicals. It's up for debate which movies qualify here, and how big the budget actually has to be, but these are MY interpretations of the topics, and for this one I say the video would be about the entire 21st century revival of the movie musical, starting with Moulin Rouge!, going through Chicago (and the many other Rob Marshall movies), the few original musicals like La La Land and Greatest Showman, up through Spielberg's West Side Story.

And don't forget to vote in today's other match-up: Godzilla vs. Animals Playing Sports!