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Basically saying his only motivation to stop wars was to get the peace prize. No wonder he's been so tough with Ukraine, pushing them to sign a bad deal - trying to find the easiest way out.

I agree with everything here. For me, hobbits have nothing to do in a show about the second age, and the whole mystery box plotline with the Wizard was just as needless. Another big weaknesses of the show is that they feel the need to ape after PJ's Lord of the Rings. From trying to invoke the same "feels", to borrowing Howard Shore for the intro theme, to literally buying the design of the Balrog and alike. I actually quite like some of the original designs they have, like Numenor, and their version of the Grey Havens.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Really enjoying it. I wish there were more games like this.

One Battle After Another What an absolute priviledge and joy to watch. Easily the best film I've watched in 2025. Johnny Greenwood deserves an oscar for that soundtrack, and I can't believe a film managed to make a car chase exciting again. A rare 10/10 from me.

Norwegian election coming up. Hoping my guy Jonas wins

Played a few hours of NWN2. Man that game did not age well (or was not very good in the first place). The ai, ui and camera are all pretty ass. Almost impossible to play after BG3.

If that was the case, then why don't all the weaker members just leave the union? (Genuinely curious, I don't have an opinion either way).

Super short reviews of three recent films, using the nationally famous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_throw_(review) Sinners - Intriguing up until a certain point. There was potential there to be a great film, but for me the last part was rather generic and uninteresting. 4/6 28 years later - Surprisingly good. There's tension there, and heart. It looks great and sounds great, with a good dose of weird too. I liked it. 5/6 Fantastic Four - Competent and coherent, but uninspired? I was never bored, but also never surprised or feeling any excitement. Much better than the other F4 films of course, but it felt very "comittee made" and followed the moviemaking playbook. I liked the guy who played the Human torch. 3/6

The entire Palestinean team behind this documentary has now been killed, according to its (non-Palestinean) director: "The team we worked with in Gaza for @prayingforarmageddon have all been killed. All of them. Such young brilliant brave and talented filmmakers with dreams and high ambitions for the future. They were trapped, directly targeted and slaughtered by the Israeli bombs, and their office at Ain Media was leveled with the ground. They leave behind babies, toddlers, wifes and so many broken hearts."

Finally got around to watching Andor. It was almost as good as the hype said. I especially liked season 1. Season 2 I felt was a bit uneven, but still great. Hope the showrunner/writer does more Star Wars stuff.

Trump being congratulated by Orban afterwards, of course.

Yeah it was a breath of fresh air after what has to be one of the most outright boring episodes of GoT/HotD history.

Fallout was much better than I expected. Really enjoyed it, especially the mid-season episodes. 3 Body Problem - promising start. Only watched one episode yet. Shogun - really, really looking forward to this. Probably gonna wait until I'm home alone for a weekend or something like that.

Not only anti-vax, he's also quite clearly pro-russia. Anyone voting for him instead of Biden is a loony. His backers want Trump as President. A vote for him is a vote that favours Trump over Biden.

Watched Barbie - I expected it to be overhyped, but I didn't expect it to be this bad. It's not funny, and it's not clever. Not a good combo for a film that tries to be both.

Should probably be in the "funny stuff" thread.

The naive policies of Sweden are starting to send waves of crime to their neighbours. But it's not in the character of a Swede to admit they were wrong. Ask any Norwegian or Dane. (I still love you though, Sweden).

Watched the D&D movie, which I liked more than I expected to. Fun adventure film with lots of heart. More similar to something like Princess Bride or Stardust than Lord of the Rings.

Elephant Man has been on my watchlist so for so long, pretty much the only thing I haven't seen by David Lynch yet. I really, really enjoyed Twin Peaks season 3. Far more than I believed I would. One of few films/tv-shows I really want to watch again.

Because they are the ones most deserving of criticism/disapproval. Why let them off the hook?

It baffles me that anyone's focus in this war is consistently criticising anyone but Russia.

Avatar. Way too long, with a pretty damn average script - but the stunning visuals makes it worth it.

I think rather the war in Ukraine is the reason. Turkey is more important to NATO and the EU than ever.

https://variety.com/lists/best-martin-scorsese-movies-ranked/ Controversial pick for #1, but it really is a phenomenal film.

Elrond (and his friendship with Durin) is the best part about the show I think. They nailed the "kind as summer" Elrond from the books, unlike Hugo Weaving who is nothing like the character. People like his Elrond because they like Hugo Weaving...who's just being himself. He also looks just as much an elf as bloody Hugo Weaving with his receding hairline did. --- As for the show. The hate and unreasonable criticism it's getting is so over the top. I've read all of Tolkien' writings (including the obscure stuff) a gazillion times and the feel I'm getting is that these guys know Tolkien better than Peter Jackson did. While the showmakers take liberties at times, and invent stuff left and right they kind of have to as there are so many blank spots to fill in, in the second age. The dialogue for the most part is Tolkienian (more so than PJ - "let's hunt some orc!"), and he even had so much dialogue to pick from the books. I'd rate it a decent 7/10, with the expectation that things will get even better now that they've sat things in motion. Big kudos to them that they manage so much with so little to go from, AND with big constraints put on them in terms of where these characters have to end up. I especially loved the dwarven stuff, and the orcs looked better than ever. The dialogue was at times beautiful, and some scenes were much better than they could be expected to be (like the intense back-and-forth with the two Durins).