The Penguin on Max has been fun 4 episodes in. I am no fan of superheros or comic franchises. Fortunately for me so far Bat Man has only been mentioned once and not seen. The writing has been terrific. The players are all flawless. The real standout obviously is the astounding metamorphosis of Collin Ferrell.
(OK so I misspelled the guy’s name. If he is a member of this forum, which I highly doubt, I apologize.)
Wouldn’t that be Colin Farrell?
Wouldn’t that be Colon Feral?
A feral colon is known for its many polyps.
I finally watched “D&D: Honor Among Thieves”, and I did so with my D&D group, of which only one had seen the movie so far.
And Holy Crap! I really enjoyed it. A LOT. When I had audibly gasped for the ~15th time in 20 minutes (because of all the references and easter eggs that I as a Dungeon Master immediately spotted but were lost to most of my players because they are more casual) my best buddy paused the movie and said: “OK, you have to tell us or you will combust”. All laughed and then listened to me telling them about the cool things I spotted for a few minutes before we continued.
(They know me well, we have been friends for many years).
They paused the movie twice more while we got drinks and snacks and I explained the things that were easy to miss.
They also recognized some things in the movie, like character classes, places that our D&D party had been to which were mentioned, and of course some monsters that they knew. But the movie is chock full of stuff that is even obscure for many D&D fans. Details. Lots of details. You can absolutely tell that who made that movie is a D&D fan.
We all had a great time, and continued the discussion about the movie and D&D afterwards.
Now I am kinda glad that I didn’t watch it in the cinema. I would have been the weird person that screams random words or something. 
In all honesty it is probably a 6/10 or 7/10 movie for most people, but as a D&D nerd it is a 10/10. Just awesome!
As someone with the barest of D&D knowledge, I will say the movie was a solid decent film with nothing amazing whatsoever.
I picked up a few things here and there, like the map, were references, but by and large it could have been made up for the film and I wouldn’t know.
I didn’t see it when it came out and I’m glad, it was ok as a pick one night on a free streaming channel but that was all.
Pretty much. It is clearly made for fans. As a standalone fantasy movie it is mediocre, maybe just above average.
“Guardians of the Galaxy, medieval fantasy edition” basically.
But this was me in damn near every scene:
OK, I’m so glad it wasn’t just me.
Me also. Loved, loved, loved the movie. Even my wife, who knows NOTHING of D&D beyond its existence, had a great time.
Season 2 has just started.
Speaking of which… This is one of the four movies I watched during my two long haul trips between Kenya and France.
I had never seen it before and it was absolutely glorious. I knew a lot of the behind the scene but never seen it.
I absolutely loved it. The tension is handled in a masterful way and increased in measured steps just until halfway when it all starts feeling like the watcher is losing grip on reality- just as the characters are.
Another movie I watched was Furiosa and it was a a definite 9/10.
I love the director, I loved the characters (even if it meant hating them, really 
) and it sits, in my personal list among the highest rating Mad Max movies, even if not exactly a Mad Max movie proper.
The bad thing is that I know I watched two other movies… But can’t remember which ones.
Apparently they didn’t leave any lasting impressions even if I think I sorta liked them?
I’ll try to squeeze my brain a bit.
EDIT: ARGH! I TAKE IT Back! The third movie
I watched was the fourth of the new “Planet of the Apes” movie and again, like the previous three, I liked it A LOT.
Truth be told i never saw the original one (I mean, I did see it but alas I was too young to remember much beside some astronauts crash landing, one gets a brain-ectomy, one makes a female ape sorta fall in love with him and then there’s the Statue of Liberty broken apart in the beach) but I wasn’t amazed by the Tim Burton one.
This new series is, instead, an absolute must watch. All four of them. Brilliant, engaging, masterfully CGI’d, great cast and characters, and they all truly shine - each for a different reason.
Only one movie left to remember…
I liked The Shining until I read the book.
After that I seriously question whether Kubrick didn’t understand the book, or if he did and just didn’t like it. But then I disagree.
Anyway. It is a good movie. Making a movie based on a book is hard.
Had a discussion about it at work and many suggested to read the book too.
I absolutely will.
Despite my ever growing backlog of books, beside videogames! 
Another thing I did was in fact buy an almost complete anthology of John Scalzi books.
I have read almost all of them and he just write what I want to read.
I LOVE every single one of his books - except maybe a not-actually-a-proper-book called “Your hate mail will be graded”.
All the others? Brilliant, smart, funny, and engaging.
I really liked The Shining too.
I even liked the “Shining sequel” Dr Sleep, even if it is in many ways different. At first watching it felt too distant to the original. But I found myself re-watching it and liking it more when taking it as an independent movie. It has good acting and good enough story.
Oh I just found out there’s a 1997 miniseries too based on “Shining”… Anyone saw it?
If we are talking about the same thing (I am not sure actually 
) then it is really good and scary, at least in my memory. The lady in 217 almost made me ■■■■ myself.
Not my proudest memory, but I was ~13 at the time I think, and shouldn’t have watched that movie.
Edit: I looked it up and apparently it is really a product of King himself, who doesn’t like Kubricks version either.
It has mixed reviews. The problem probably being that people who saw Kubricks version first usually don’t like it because it is quits different and yes, Kubrick added some stuff that is really good.
So YMMV.
Are you sure? 
(Kubrick changed it, both King and the TV version have it as 217 and that number has significance in King’s work).
The story goes like this:
When King wrote the book he was in a hotel, in room 217, which was reported to be spooky. King reportedly didn’t meet any ghosts, but he used the room number for the book and based the hotel in the book on the hotel he was staying in.
That real life hotel had quite some influx of people wanting to stay in that room afterwards.
Then Kubrick shot the movie in a completely different hotel. The hotel manager wanted to have that effect, too. But that hotel doesn’t have a room 217.
So Kubrick changed it to 237. He considered other numbers, but that one is significant to Kubrick because it was the number for the computer in Dr. Strangelove.
King naturally hated that change.
The 217 plays a further role in at least one other book of King’s.
