Oddity (review)

 This was said to have been the "scariest movie of 2024" At least that's what all the articles I read told me. 

It turned out to be one of the most boring movies I've ever seen, with hardly anything to be "scared" of. It was so lame, that even my wife stayed for the entire movie (and she hates scary movies) But boring ones like these she was fine with. 

Horrible waste of time. I'm really striking out on trying newer movies this year. 

Romancing the Stone (review)

 On a podcast last month I spoke about my favorite Michael Douglas movies and I wondered if this was as good as I remembered, so I decided to watch it again. 

It wasn't. 

The story is about a romance author who is caught up in a scheme that threatens her sister in Columbia. So she goes on an adventure similar to her character in the books and meets Douglas, who isn't what she expects at first but later turns into the romance she's always dreamed about in her novels. 

It came out with a sequel but I'm not bothering to watch it. This movie was slow and lacked any adventure and was rare and dated on its humor. Sadly, not worth watching ever again, but at least now I know.  

The Office UK (Review)

 As I'm making my way through the US version of the show I decided to start off with the original one first. 

I'm glad I did. Good cast of characters and stories that made me laugh. The US version does copy jokes from the first episode, but it appears (so far) the US version does there own thing after that. Though the characters share similarities too. 

The UK version is a fun glimpse into the past at the turn of the century, what life was like in an office. I know Australia is gearing up for their own version of the show, but I can't imagine it even touching the levels of the previous two shows that came before it. 

I'm still watching the US version, but will give my review of it when I'm done.  

Bonus Purge (5)

 

Another game that featured a rondel which I enjoyed. But the game is way too tedious to play. I felt I never got that much done each time it was over. Plus the color scheme made it hard to tell the difference between the dark brown and dark blue tiles. 

I traded the entire collection. It rarely came out and overall I hated there wasn't enough "heart" cards to live long enough to see the last round (much less the 2nd to last round) Plus, some of the expansions began to make the game cumbersome. 

My gaming group bought the game. Therefore it won't be played again at game night. This was a heavy Euro I was shocked even stayed in my collection this long but kudos to it. Now it's gone, making room for other games to come to the table. The was a 6 hour game and time like that time is usually reserved for Twilight Imperium only. Now it'll be that case again. 

Bonus Purge (4)

 

This is another shock to me how flat this game was after several plays. Putting the books together (with the help of all the tiles) was way too easy. Making no challenge to play. When I noticed that, I knew this game had to leave.

Ah... hello Feld! Goodbye! This is what turned me off of Queen Games. Sure I still have many in my collection and even have a new game I LOVE that I recently purchased, but this one just doesn't offer the "umph" I wanted. 

Poor Uwe Rosenberg. It looks like the only game of his I'll ever keep in my collection is Merkator. 

I hate I had to let this game go but after the last time we played it, my entire group hated it and asked we never play it again. That was a bullet to the head for this game. If no one will play it with me, it's can't stay in the collection. 

Bonus Purge (3)

 The game was getting repetitive. Everytime I found myself going for the same exact strategy each time. It mainly became a chore relying soley on the luck of the dice. Not enough for me to keep it in my collection. 

Bye bye Feld! Even he is fallible when it comes to the purge! It's a nice game but was getting old playing. Feld is good, but I'm finding more and more that not everything he makes is "gold". 

Giant rondel. What can you not love about that? But in the end I found EVERYONE playing the same exact style game. No variety between plays. Very disappointing. I thought this game had more to offer. It didn't. 

I wanted to love this game. But the awful artwork and sloppy ahlf hazard was the put the game togther made me dump it. Age of Empires is the way more superior game!

Bonus Purge (2)

 Now that I have X-Men United, I discovered I'd never play these ever again. 

I have better painting game with just as good artwork as featured in this one. Fun game, but I've grown out of playing it now. 

Fun game but really not getting to the table at all these days. Even on my 'Vintage" list, I could feel it slipping down so I parted ways with it. 

Ooh.. this was a hard one. I loved this game. But NO ONE will play with me anymore. My gaming group either has it, hates it, and my nephews have even gotten bored playing it so I knew it was only going to gather dust on my shelves. Sad, but hard cuts like these had to be made for future incoming games!