Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-06 (Friday)

On 6/7/2025 9:35 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Fringe S4E07 'Wallflower'
 IMDb sez: "A manhunt begins for an invisible killer who steals human pigmentation."
Fox Publicity is a little more forthcoming: "When a man mysteriously dies by an invisible force, his body rapidly begins turning ghostly white. The Fringe team learns that this is not an isolated incident, and there's evidence that links the predator to someone who passed away with an unknown genetic disorder. Meanwhile, Olivia suffers from migraines."
 The glyphs for this episode spell out: DAVID
 Walter refers to the killing of albinos in east Africa and the using of body parts in rituals. This is not imaginary. To the present day an occasional news report from the region refers to the murder of an albino for such reasons.
 When Walter shows Olivia and Lincoln the octopus, he references the Beatles song: Octopus's Garden.
 Walter is using the same mouse maze that Faraday used in Lost. Both shows were created by J.J. Abrams.
 Dr. Bishop uses 'octopi' as a plural for octopus. Octopi is a plural using Latin pluralization. Octopus is Greek in origin, the plural being octopodes. English has its own pluralization rules, therefore, octopuses is the correct form in the English language.
 FBI Agent Tim: You're not my prisoner.
Peter Bishop: So, what, then? You're my bodyguard?
FBI Agent Tim: Maybe just imagine I'm a... friend.
Peter Bishop: Yeah, 'cause every 32-year-old man needs a friend to chaperone him while he's underwear shopping.
   What Did You Watch?
 

Sorry if duplicate.  I'm having problems with posting again.
This is a catch up post.  Over the last couple of days I watched:
Batman (4K disc) 1989 movie directed by Tim Burton and starring Mr. Mom as Batman and Jack Nicholson as The Joker.  Holds up great.
Batman Returns (4K disc) 1992 sequel directed by Tim Burton.  Mr. Mom returns to do battle with Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer) and The Penguin (Danny Devito).  Even better than the first one.
Batman Forever (4K disc) 1995 sequel directed by Joel Schumacher which finds Val Kilmer putting on the cape and cowl to do battle against Jim Carrey's Riddler and Tommy Lee Jones' Two-Face, with help from his sidekick Robin (Chris O'Donnell).
Batman and Robin (4K disc) 1997 sequel once again directed by Joel Schumacher and this time starring George Clooney as George Clooney.  I wish they could have found an actor to play Batman in this one, but whatever.  I was going to listen to the commentary track but after about 40 seconds of Schumacher blathering on, I turned off the commentary and decided to just suffer through the movie's dialogue.
Brightburn (4K disc) 2019 movie produced by James Gunn, about a spaceship that crash lands on a farm where a couple find a baby inside the spaceship and raise the orphaned child as their own.  Once the alien child becomes a young boy he develops super powers like flight, invulnerability, and heat vision.  The young superpowered boy then uses his super powers to brutally murder everyone around him.  What did you think he was going to do?  It's a pretty good movie, but I watched with a horrible commentary track.  A few minutes in, I could tell the commentary wasn't any good, but I decided to stick with it hoping it would get better, but it never did.  The director and friends on the commentary kept cracking unfunny jokes which they thought were hilarious, but became annoying real fast.  Anyway, the movie itself is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6eB0JT1DI4
Predator: Killer of Killers (Hulu) Animated movie set in the Predator universe directed by Dan Trachtenberg ("Prey" and the upcoming "Predator: Badlands).  The movie shows Predators coming to Earth during three distinct time periods in the past (ancient Vikings, feudal Japan, and WWII) to hunt the killer of killers.  I can't say more without getting into spoilers.  But overall, I liked it, and I especially liked the final shot.  I am now really looking forward to what's going to go down in Predator: Badlands.  Side note, Louis Ozawa Changchien, who played the Yakuza in "Predators" also voiced the main characters in the feudal Japan segment, playing his character's own ancestors.  And now that I think about it, it makes even more sense that the same people would be connected in those two movies.
Ballerina (theatrical) Latest movie in the John Wick franchise.  Ana de Armas stars as a young woman working for the same organization that raised and trained John Wick.  It fronts as a ballerina school run by Anjelica Huston, but they really train assassins.  Ana de Armas was brought to them as a young girl after by Winston (Ian McShane) following the murder of her parents.  Now an adult and trained killer herself she picks up the trail of the cult that murdered her father and sets out for revenge.  Is the movie any good?  Yes!!!   The movie is set during the events of John Wick 3 which allows for John Wick, Winston, and Charon (Lance Reddick in his final film role) to all make an appearance.  This movie is an absolute must for fans of the John Wick franchise, but Ana is not just a female John Wick.  She's her own character with her own motives.  Yes, she's a hit woman out for revenge, but I would not call her a John Wick clone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FSwsrFpkbw