Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-02 (Sunday)

On 6/3/2024 9:27 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

Sunday, I focused on movies, though I also finished up soaps for the
week, and finished the Canadian Open:
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What did you watch?

 Hey, thanks for asking!
 I watched the two most recent episodes of DARK MATTER, which is quickly
turning into sliders and becoming impossible to follow as well as full of
big stupid
 

I keep forgetting about this.  I need to watch it.

Caught up on a couple more episodes of THE FALL GUY.
  The Plex is offering me the new THE FALL GUY movie so I’ll probably give
that a shot today.  I also added ATLAS to my watchlist so I could laugh
along with everybody else. MYSTERY ON MONSTER ISLAND. THE BLUE ANGELS.  THE
FINAL PROGRAMME.  And THE PRISONER, which looks absolutely beautiful.
  FANTASY ISLAND 1998
Reboot with Malcolm McDowell
I sampled about half of the dozen or so episodes they made mostly based on
guest stars. A lot more magic than the real series!

I enjoyed it and was upset when it was cancelled.
I watched:
Apt Pupil (blu-ray) 1998 movie directed by Bryan Singer and starring Brad Renfro as a high school teenager who discovers that one of his neighbors (Ian McKellen) is a former Nazi who ran a concentration camp. McKellen is currently in hiding under a fake identity.  Renfro blackmails McKellen into wearing a Nazi uniform and telling him stories of being a Nazi murderer.  However, as their lives become intertwined McKellen gets the upper hand and forces Renfro to do what he wants instead.
Bully (blu-ray) 2001 movie based on real events, directed by Larry Clark, and starring Brad Renfro as a bullied teen who along with several friends plot the murder of his best friend and bully (Nick Stahl). These idiot teens openly plot the murder and once they pull it off, they can't stop talking about it.  It's a good movie but would have benefited from someone other than Larry Clark directing it.
Alpha Dog (blu-ray) 2006 movie based on real events, directed by Nick Cassavetes, starring Ben Foster as a low level criminal who owes money to another criminal played by Emile Hirsch.  The two of them go back and forth at each other for a while until finally Hirsch gets the bright idea have his friends played by Shawn Hatosy and Justin Timberlake kidnap Foster's young brother played by Anton Yelchin.  At first Yelchin goes along with the kidnapping and treats his kidnappers like friends taking him on an adventure.  They don't particularly hide the kidnapping taking him out in public and telling lots of people what they are doing.   But with Yelchnin's parents (including Sharon Stone as his mother) call the cops.  Plus Foster knows who obviously kidnapped his younger brother and starts making death threats.  With all this heat on him Hirsh decides to end the kidnapping by extreme measures.  Bruce Willis also costars as Hirsh's shady father.  Good movie.  It's very similar to "Bully" but without the Larry Clark sleaze factor.
Body Heat (TCM) 1981 - After going through and deleted a bunch of movies on my DVR I finally settled on watching this one.  It's a 1981 crime movie starring William Hurt as a lawyer who falls for Kathleen Turner in her film debut.  Turner talks Hurt into murdering her husband but all isn't as it seems.  I'm about 90% sure I've never watched this movie before now.  I guess it was OK.  But Hurt should have had a better motivation for agreeing to murder a guy beyond Turner sleeping with him.   But I guess in the real world that sort of thing and motivation does happen all the time.
Interview with the Vampire (AMC) - "I Want You More Than Anything in the World" - I just have one question.  How in the world is Claudia still alive and when are the other vampires going to kill her?  Anyway OK episode.