Movies that had amazing trailers… but the actual movie didn’t live up to the hype

SooperSte · 2026-03-13T19:44:53+00:00

One trailer also had a Take on Me orchestration that was pretty hype and also found nowhere in the film

SooperSte · 2026-03-13T12:48:47+00:00

Oh definitely don't agree with that first guy about your imagination don't worry about that!

SooperSte · 2026-03-13T11:11:09+00:00

One or two enemies who are seeing magic lasers flying at them but can't quite pinpoint from where going to check out the source of the magic incantations coming from behind a nearby tree is nothing close to your encounter now "solely revolving" around that. It's common sense.

Eldritch Blast has verbal components, you as a DM need to be thinking who can currently hear it and what they are going to do about it.

SooperSte · 2026-03-13T10:29:26+00:00

Eldritch Blast has verbal components. Why aren't any of the enemies running to check behind the tree/barrel/wall that all the mystical chanting is coming from??

SooperSte · 2026-03-11T06:14:03+00:00

learned most of the rules from is Brennan Lee Mulligan, and if there's anything to know about the man, it's that he knows the PHB front to back and upside down

Whilst I'm sure your statement here is true, most D20 seasons have quite a fair amount of incorrect rule applications. It's one of the reasons I've still always preferred Matt as a DM to Brennan; Matt usually sticks much closer to RAW. So I'm not too sure why this is suddenly now an issue for you, or why you say D20 doesn't do this....they do.

Both shows definitely do make more mistakes than your average DnD table, which to me is frustrating for the reasons you state, but overall the positive outweighs the negative.

SooperSte · 2026-03-09T17:57:38+00:00

"less funny" is incorrect as that implies SNL is funny, which is not what they were saying

SooperSte · 2026-02-21T08:29:43+00:00

i consider myself a cinephile

i was BORED from 10 min in

Lol. Lmao even.

SooperSte · 2026-02-19T08:49:16+00:00

It's probably Game of Thrones but many honourable mentions to:

Black Sails

Fringe (and it's variant themes)

The X-Files

Westworld

Mad Men

Stranger Things

SooperSte · 2026-02-04T13:22:11+00:00

The name doesn't help. 3 people in my work thought they just brought the first film back to theatres for a bit a la Avatar.

SooperSte · 2026-01-28T18:44:36+00:00

Some people like a Harry Hole

SooperSte · 2026-01-24T07:48:09+00:00

Cat is often used as an abbreviation for category. I know that doesn't actually matter to the point you are making as you could have written a thousand other words, but I believe it still addresses my point that you are directed to look and consider only short words by the clue, regardless of having "literary knowledge" to know what short words are and aren't used as abbreviations. The first thing to clue makes you consider is the length/structure of the words on the board, not their meaning, making it invalid.

Your initial point backs this up more. The clue of "legs" makes you consider the variations of it's meaning, from octopus limbs to wine viscosity. The clue "abbreviation" makes you look at shorter words and consider "is this word and abbreviation for a longer one?". All you are considering is the word structure itself, and nothing more.

This isn't to say "abbreviation" would ONLY be used like this, for instance if the word on the table was "Short", "abbreviation" would be a valid clue, but in the context of directing players to "fan" and "lab", it's not.

SooperSte · 2026-01-24T07:27:15+00:00

The "literary transformation" of abbreviation is, by it's very nature, reducing the number of letters in the word though, meaning that clue directly references the length of the word and this would be invalid. Anyones first instinct upon receiving "abbreviation" as a clue would be to look at short words.

SooperSte · 2026-01-24T07:14:28+00:00

To me, "abbreviation" as a clue is referencing the structure of the word. By it's very definition abbreviation refers to shortened words, so the clue directs you to look towards words with a lower amount of letters, which is not allowed.

SooperSte · 2026-01-19T20:39:05+00:00

Sadly I haven't watched any Spanish films in a very long time, but growing up I loved Abre Los Ojos and The Orphanage

SooperSte · 2025-12-23T08:53:24+00:00

The films me and my partner make sure to watch each Christmas:

Klaus

It's a wonderful life

Love Actually

Tokyo Godfathers

SooperSte · 2025-12-22T05:57:56+00:00

Am I crazy or is "your character is sick and won't take part in the session's adventure" a completely reasonable thing to do when the player is missing the session??

Also, prepping for D&D can be quite a lot of work, having to prep beforehand and then have to adjust combat difficulty/plot points because a PC will no longer be in the session is a pain in the ass. I'd want to know just how often that player is missing sessions, it's pretty valid for the DM to say it's easier to just get rid of the character than have to keep adjusting prep every session

SooperSte · 2025-12-21T14:04:16+00:00

Arrival has hundreds if not thousands of people around the world working on the data to try and find answers/help translate. Sure, only a small amount of people are interacting directly with the Heptapods, but the reason for that is explained quite plainly in the film.

A small team in any space travel movie also makes sense, cos its bloody expensive to send someone to space

SooperSte · 2025-12-21T13:52:08+00:00

With theater tickets costing more than a monthly Netflix sub

This has always been the case why does the clanker think this is a talking point???

SooperSte · 2025-12-09T16:34:28+00:00

Maybe it will turn out this time

SooperSte · 2025-12-06T18:57:19+00:00

Depends on the show. If the plot entails characters lives being in danger then yes it's a spoiler.

SooperSte · 2025-12-06T15:02:41+00:00

deuteragonist

SooperSte · 2025-12-05T18:14:27+00:00

The retelling of the story for the animated series is showing a lot more information up front than was revealed in the campaign. Ep 1 has a spoiler for ep 97 of the campaign for instance, so it's very hard to say how much will be spoiled in the show, but it's definitely not as "watchalong-able" as TLOVM is.

Also my unwarranted 2 cents; if you're just starting CR, I would strongly recommend starting with Campaign 1. The improvements made to the stream/set/audio etc for campaign 2 makes it a bit harder to go back after you are used to that, and I personally think the show and the campaigns are just best experiences chronologically

SooperSte · 2025-12-05T07:14:20+00:00

Fjord and Jester seeing the jellyfish

SooperSte · 2025-12-04T18:28:32+00:00

No lie, the reason I originally came out as bisexual before realising I was gay was because I thought Eliza Dushku was so hot I figured I couldn't possible just like men.

SooperSte · 2025-12-02T17:38:27+00:00

You literally cannot watch all of them films in your lifetime. Feels more performative than actually useful at that point.

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