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Is Witcher 3 any good? (That's the one available on Switch I think)

About time! Genuinely shat me up as a youngster!

Ah I quite liked his show when I was younger. Fourth wall breaking was newish to me.

[AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER]

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

Was pretty enjoyable in IMAX 3D despite having plenty of stuff upfront that you can moan about and even more that you can nitpick.

If you liked Avatar (save the rainforest), you will almost certainly like this (save the whale). The fingerprints of Cameron's other films all over this.

Visually and technically it's a marvel... Genuinely looks like they just knocked a hole in the cinema wall through which I was watching Pandora. Was every special effects person in the world working on this? And Cameron can still do a superb action piece or two.

I actually liked that they ran with the kids/ young adult storylines... Though pretty trite, it stops it just being a retread of the first movie but with fish.

Slightly miffed that there is a lot of sequel seeding going on... Especially wrt the key villain who has proved pretty much no threat throughout.

But yeah, go see it on the biggest, brightest screen you can.

The beauty of the comics for me was that they weren't constrained by budgets or FX technology. Hence you got stuff like the Iron Legion. I reckon they could have a good go at this these days though.

Careful, you'll have John Cleese popping up moaning about being "cancelled".

Watched Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery as well and I am in full agreement with Jim, well worth your time maybe a little bit taking its time in the beginning.

Yeah, it definitely livens up once Andy gets going. Not to say there isn't lots to enjoy before that. Some of the celebrity cameos/name dropping dragged me out of it ever so slightly. I love the fact that it is also a two hour [spoiler]shitpost about Elon Musk[/spoiler]

Well without getting too much into spoilers, it became like that after the Europeans arrived [spoiler]making their lusts and wants the cause of the disease that destroys everything even the good/innocent settlers[/spoiler]. But I was only spitballing. I often think I should have paid more attention to the interpretation side of my English lessons.

Yeah, I've been to that bit. It's great!

Yeah - utterly fantastic stuff The English.

Spencer's almost monosyllabic performance is spot on... And when he does go verbal it's with good reason and has real emotional weight.

The reveal of "the villain/driving force" is also really well done. Like all good twists it's surprising yet logical. And is it also a metaphor for what happened to America?

I was going to say America has rarely looked so gorgeous but it was filmed in Spain.

Also, a FOALIUTPFW* worked with him on some charity stuff and said he was an absolutely top bloke.

* "Friend of a lad I used to play football with". A former marine commando who lost his leg in a bizarre car accident and then went on to do lots of charity rowing type stuff. The account of the car accident as told by the lad I used to play football with is hilarious though slightly different from the version we heard at work as part of a motivational speaker type thing.

He'd have been a great Superman if given the right material.

 Patty might be able to concentrate on Rogue Squadron now then. And hopefully in WW mode rather than WW84 mode.

[All Quiet on the Western Front]

Just watched the Netflix version of All Quiet on the Western Front.
It looks good but it would have been a much stronger film if it had been a more faithful adaptation of the original story.
The 1929 novel is a gut-punch of a book.

Can't say I've read the original novel but this version certainly packed a punch to me. Genuinely horrific stuff from the Heinrich's uniform opening to the futile final attack.

Yes... The[spoiler] things they were making in the prison[/spoiler]