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NEW 'LORD OF THE RINGS' MOVIE
Stephen Colbert is co-writing "The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past" (working title), which will go into production after "The Hunt for Gollum."

The synopsis: "Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo - Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began.

Colbert is co-writing the script with his son, Peter McGee, and franchise veteran Philippa Boyens."


View: https://x.com/Variety/status/2036657053733695924?s=20


View: https://x.com/TolkienWorldG/status/2036660647140929642?s=20
 
Habspatrol said:
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die was enjoyable. I'm sure it's not for everyone, but I liked it. Hoping it was successful enough for them to do a sequel.
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I watched it over the last few nights.

Funny as hell by times, weird as hell by times.

Would I watch it again? Maybe.

That's how I rate movies/shows. etc. Damn right, yes, maybe, no, hell no.
 
Had to watch Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die for Rockwell's performance, but was pleasantly surprised by the whole cast.

Classic streaming sci-fi, decent enough story and special effects. Had a real Douglas Adams feel to the story.
 
BG said:
Had to watch Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die for Rockwell's performance, but was pleasantly surprised by the whole cast.

Classic streaming sci-fi, decent enough story and special effects. Had a real Douglas Adams feel to the story.
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Yeah, his performance was what kept me watching mostly.
 
BG said:
Had to watch Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die for Rockwell's performance, but was pleasantly surprised by the whole cast.

Classic streaming sci-fi, decent enough story and special effects. Had a real Douglas Adams feel to the story.
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alright, i have to move it to the top of my list now.
 
I cannot give higher marks to my new jellyfin server and think everyone should have one. I've been in guadalajara all week and had zero issues with accessing everything. Streaming my music at the gym, while wife watches movies on the tablet, all running fine over hotel wifi. Between than and ublock it's replaced our netflix and disney+ subs, as well as my youtube premium and her spotify subs.
 
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MindzEye said:
I cannot give higher marks to my new jellyfin server and think everyone should have one. I've been in guadalajara all week and had zero issues with accessing everything. Streaming my music at the gym, while wife watches movies on the tablet, all running fine over hotel wifi. Between than and ublock it's replaced our netflix and disney+ subs, as well as my youtube premium and her spotify subs.
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I have an IPTV sub running on my Nvidia Sheild. I have no idea what Jellyfin is... what do I need to know to do the Jellyfin?
 
Habspatrol said:
what do I need to know to do the Jellyfin?
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There's not a lot of technical knowledge you need to run a jellyfin server. Download the software on your PC, install and point jellyfin to your media folders and you're functional on that end. Download and install the jellyfin app on your streaming devices (roku, firestick, shield, whatever), your tablets, phones and they all have access to your personal media library anywhere that they're connected to your home network.

If you want to be able to do what I'm doing and stream while away from your home network (and it literally doesn't matter from where, as mentioned I'm in GDL right now and have access to all of my media, as long as you have internet access where you are and your server is running, you're good), you need a peer to peer mesh vpn software installed and configured (sounds more complicated than it is in practice and setup). That creates the secure "tunnel" for you to connect to your home network to from outside of it. I use a vpn app called Tailscale for that. But if you only ever watch or listen to your stuff at home, that's an extra step you don't need.

The only other thing you need to know is how to acquire, store, and organize your own media. Whether you prefer doing that on the high seas or just digitize your own library of physical media, that's up to you. You're not limited to just movies and shows either. It streams music as well and also has an e reader built in so if you have a library of ebooks, just point jelly fin at the folder and you can access your library on any device.

The knocks on it are 1) the acquisition piece. You have to actually have the media on the PC you've installed jellyfin on...by whatever means you're comfortable with & 2) the storage required to have a large library. I'm running on a 6tb external HD for now, but I definitely see how that won't be enough forever as my family starts to use it more and the diversity of content on the server forces it to have more and more content for everyone to be happy 3) Your PC is off? Well, so is your media server. So "up time" becomes a part of your vocabulary. Now...multiple instances of jellyfin on multiple PC's can be strung together seemlessly to add redundancy if you care about those types of things. Eventually I might, currently I don't. The spec requirements to run this is actually pretty minimal as well, so building a full time server from left over components or some rando cheap PC bought off of marketplace, shoving it in a closet and leaving it on forever is completely viable as well.

Fwiw, I tried IPTV for a bit, but other than live sports it was a pretty meh experience. I prefer the streaming model to the schedule TV with a billion channels model. I want to watch what I want, when I want to watch it. Not what's available to me at 8pm according to a broadcast schedule.

This is the easiest/best way to replace streaming subscriptions though, control the content you have access to, and run everything (movies, shows, music, books) off of one central app.
 
CH1 said:
I think I’ll just hand Netflix that extra loonie
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Yeah if you're just a one service guy, just keep the one service. If I could get what I wanted for 20 bucks a month I wouldn't do this. But we've erased closer to 80 a month in subscriptions and all using hardware I already own.

Shit, even when I expand the hard drive capacity of this, if I don't mind taking up a few USB ports, I have a few 2 TB externals sitting in a box in the garage. I have spare components laying around to build a dedicated pc for it as well. Ymmv.
 
The Pitt is having itself a very strong second season thus far.

I also look forward to dipping into S4 of Invincible this week, but i almost always completely forget what happened previously and ask myself, who is/are/what this?
 
MindzEye said:
Yeah if you're just a one service guy, just keep the one service. If I could get what I wanted for 20 bucks a month I wouldn't do this.
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Yeah, when I do the math, I'm at 35/mo. More when the NFL is happening.

I don't get all the content but then I don't need (or necessarily want) all the content out there.
 
CH1 said:
Yeah, when I do the math, I'm at 35/mo. More when the NFL is happening.

I don't get all the content but then I don't need (or necessarily want) all the content out there.
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I dig that mine is a curated experience that doesn't take scrolling for 20 minutes to find something I want to watch. I don't need my feed cluttered with dozens of made for Netflix crap and romcoms

But yeah, I get that its not for everyone.
 
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