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The Fantastic Four: First Steps is good! Continuing the trend from Thunderbolts* (in that it's actually about characters doing character stuff), it's essentially a family drama/disaster movie, except the looming disaster is Galactus. Strangely (and this is not a bad thing!),

Spoiler - click to showthere aren't really any big fight scenes in it? There's one big fight/chase sequence at the end of Act one, and then the Big One At The End, but most of the "action" is, like… problem-solving science stuff, international diplomacy, and interpersonal drama.

I liked it!

Posted in +1 Thread of Tabletop Roleplaying

At long last, I've assembled enough people for The One Ring!

We've only done session zero yet, but characters are built, rules are explained, and it's looking like a good party - Elf, Ranger, Dwarf, and Hobbit all represented, and they've naturally fallen on a decent spread of skills. I'm now in the process of massively overthinking the campaign to follow, but first up is going to be the Star of the Mist landmark from the core book.

There are a couple of bits and pieces that I think I can use to hook into other plot threads from the other books, so fingers crossed!

Posted in World of Final Warcraft Scrolls of the Rings

I have an account, but got locked out of it after losing my authenticator in a phone swap. You only get online support if you're a subscriber, and I haven't gotten around to phoning them to get it sorted.

Posted in Moving Pictures

It's the start of the new DC Universe movie project, so has no homework requirement. It's set in a world that (not a spoiler, it's literally the first thing on screen) has had superheroes running around for 300 years, so there are a bunch of metahumans and monsters bouncing around with little to no explanation, however.

Weirdly, they spend about 10 minutes of exposition on
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but literally nothing about
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(Not major spoilers if you've seen the trailers, but just in case anyone's trying to avoid everything)

Posted in Moving Pictures

Saw Superman. Liked it.

It's extremely comic book-y - the plot is a load of gonzo sci-fi nonsense - but David Corenswet is a fantastic Superman, helped even more by the fact that he has some folks to play off and act as foils to his aw-golly-shucks goofball schtick. It has a ton of characters, some real deep cuts, but doesn't ever really feel overstuffed; most of them have two or three scenes - one to introduce them, one to set up their relationship to The Whole Deal, and one where they can just cut loose - and it's really effective, even if you can kind of see the formula at work.

The cons: it's very on the nose with its SYMBOLISM, and someof the dialogue is very clunky, particularly in the first half hour, where there's rather too much, "as you know, EXPOSITION"; but overall it moves at a decent clip, and despite its heart-on-sleeve earnestness, never takes itself more seriously than it needs to.

Recommended.