I haven't noticed the other threads of this kind. Do we have any horror fans around here? Most movies I watch are random terrible horror films on Netflix. I go into them looking for a laugh. Very rarely, the movie is good. So I recommend The Shrine; if you go in with sufficiently low expectations it might surprise you. (If this recommendation pushes your expectations too high and you're disappointed, I apologize.) It also helps if you don't speak Polish, as apparently the actors pretending to be Polish are quite terrible and what they're saying is frequently gibberish. I couldn't tell.

Yesterday was the season 2 premier of Game of Thrones on HBO, which I am a fan of (obviously..). If you haven't checked out the show or books, I highly recommend. The board game is also pretty great. (Diplomacy x Risk modulo dice).

Some new characters- Melisandre seemed more scheming than in the books. I had imagined her as more of a "True Believer" (tm). Davos Seaworth was underwhelming, but that may just be because he didn't have much of a role this ep.

I really liked the scene transitions, and not just in the way they used the comet as a unifier. The transitions also seemed to me like a play of opposites to highlight the extremes: Going from Dany in the barren heat, to Jon in the freezing snow, and going from a touching scene with Robb and his mother, straight to a confrontational scene between Joffrey and his mother really highlighted the differences.