Watched Fellowship of the Ring yesterday with a friend and man, these movies just age so well. I have the extended edition boxset, so the movie is like almost four hours but it’s just so damn good. There’s going to be an orchestra in February playing all of LOTR and i think I’m gonna to there.
There also will be one for Zelda in April and Witcher in November.
My 10 favorite films of 2025…can NOT believe 3 of them are in the horror category, which I usually hate
10: The Running Man
9: Fantastic 4: First Steps
8: Zootopia 2
7: Superman
6: Wake Up Dead Man
5: The Thunderbolts
4: Sinners
3: Frankenstein
2: Weapons
1: One Battle After Another
Still have not seen Sisu: Road to Revenge and Predator: Badlands which could both prove to have belonged here
I watched Avatar Fire and Ash a couple weekends ago. Man, I think I secretly love that James Cameron keeps getting away with these movies that really, really don’t need to be 3+ hours longs. This one especially felt like nothing happened. Even though I’m pretty sure more happened than in the Way of Water. Also, it was so dramatic. Fire and Ash felt like 3 hours of filler, but I’m kinda a sucker for filler. Sitting in the cinema watching it felt kinda cozy. Would’ve been nice if I could’ve had a full meal and laid down (like in bed).
The thing I surprisingly enjoyed the most - even though it was kinda dumb - was the entire dynamic between Quaritch and Spider. Immediately, when Quaritch has a chance to capture Jack rescuing Spider takes priority, and that happens several times in the movie. And he’s like… super kosher during those times. Like he doesn’t betray everyone while they’re sleeping or use openings like that. He’s also really proud of Spider. I feel like in most similar situations he’d be really angry at Jake for turning his son against him or whatever, but no. He legit says that Jake and Neytiri did a great job raising him. It gets to the point where I’m like, why is he even an antagonist. When Spider is in danger (any time he’s in danger) Jake and Quaritch just lock in and completely sync up. I feel like it’s supposed to mean something but it really just came off as hilarious to me. But in those three hours they never really progress Quaritch’s character. I mean that’s what I really mean by filler. The movie didn’t feel like filler in the sense that it was a slower slice of life vibe; it felt like filler in the sense that after 3 hours there was barely any character or plot progression. I’d say the most when Jake’s living son. Otherwise stuff just kinda happened and people were vibing. It feels like the same with the last movie. I swear the actual character and plot development happens off screen.
Anyway final thoughts: this could’ve been an email 
! (or seriously like a Disney+ series)
Bloody hell, just watched 3 episodes of Alien Earth, it’s as gud as u could as for, brilliant.
Only one gripe, but might be a spoiler so zipped lips
I have Apple TV for a couple of month - watched Severance S1 (S2 to follow), Pluribus and Monarch (Godzilla fan so had to try it). Given time limited any suggestions along the sci-fi road of what else to watch before sub expires? Thanks,
Isn’t Raised by Wolves on there too?
For All Mankind
Dark Matter & Foundation.
Not sure but managed to see that when I had Sky Tv in - great concept/show.
Thanks added - looks right up my street.
Added also
In the US that mediocre series was on HBO Max before David Zaslav released it along with dozens of other series to cut costs. It was worth more as a tax write-off than it was as a content draw.
Great Series:
There are handful of movies on there that I haven’t watch (yet). But from what I have, definitely give the first 3 a watch.
Great Movies:
So-so popcorn flicks (brain off):
Slow Horses is great, but not exactly sci-fi…more spy-guy
Yeah, I wasn’t sticking to the sci-fi aspect, just sharing what was worth a watch. Can’t always go from sci-fi to sci-fi, so a change of genre can be useful in-between.
The rule of Jenny Pen
A psychological thriller with mild horror elements and it stars Jon Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush and they nail it. I didn’t watch a trailer beforehand because I feel those often just give away too much. Aside from some admittedly farfetched things(nothing supernatural )i really, really liked this one!
A quite refreshing, unusual setting too, we don’t often see this.
Slow Horses is one of my favorite shows of the last decade, it’s fantastic - currently reading the books now, as well.
On a completely separate thought, I just watched V for Vendetta and Children of men on HD-DVD, for the first time in years (yeah, I’ve had them this long), and I’ve gotta say, I’m really tired of watching decades old movies about dystopian futures where fascism has taken over and seeing too many parallels to our current timeline (without any of the cool shit, mind you - not that any amount of ‘cool’ could supersede the awful in that regard).
Just finished Predator: Badlands and time to change my top 10 films of 2025. Between that and Prey, this Dan Trachtenberg can really make the FUCK out of a Predator flick!
10: Fantastic Four: First Steps
9: Zootopia 2
8: Superman
7: Wake Up Dead Man
6: The Thunderbolts
5: Sinners
4: Frankenstein
3: Predator: Badlands
2: Weapons
1: One Battle After Another
Bugonia
I missed that in the cinema unfortunately, thought it would be meh. Man i was wrong.
Yes, it’s bizarre but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Jesse Plemons easily gave his best acting performance yet.
Finished Dark Matter and loved it - I think the music score adds so much too.
The episodes exploring the different worlds with Amanda and their relationship were the best peaking at episode 7 when she decides to live in a world she found and leave him to his search.
Yeah, they definitely went to some interesting places with the story. Can’t wait for season 2.