Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-11 (Saturday)

On 5/12/24 8:17 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
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What did you watch?

  I'm going to get to meet Fairuza Balk in person in a few weeks so I decided to revisit some of her movies.  I watched:
 Return to Oz (blu-ray) - 1985 sequel to "The Wizard of Oz"...
  The Craft (4K disc) 1996 movie starring Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True and three would-be witches who come into real power when Robin Tunney moves into town and completes their coven.
  The Craft Legacy (blu-ray) 2020 sequel which picks up with a new generation of young witches who come into power once a fourth moves into town.  I think this was my second or third time watching the movie, and I think I liked it a bit more on this viewing.  Sure it hits a lot of the same beats, but it's not a total rehash of the first movie there are a couple of twists and turns in it.  Although I would have like it more had the original cast returned in a prominent role.

I still have never seen this. It has literally never come to a streamer at the time that I had that streamer. I think it has been locked up by Starz (nobody gets Starz!!) this entire time.
So I still have never seen it.

As an aside, I caught "Funny Girl" on stage.  I couldn't help but constantly compare it to the movie.  There were obviously lots of similarities with scenes and bits of dialogue that were identical in both.  But to my surprise the stage version had Fanny's mother and Fanny's friend who helped her get her first job as major characters throughout.  While they were afterthoughts at best in the movie.  And the lady who played the role on stage knocked it out of the park.  She was better than Streisand in the movie IMO.

Is it hard to be better than Streisand?!!  ;p