Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-12 (Thursday)

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 19:20:48 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 12/13/2024 6:39 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 12/13/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 
Yesterday was my last half-day workday of the year (and possibly the
last day I ever work my second job - we'll see...), but all I got
through were soaps and a Lifetime movie:
 

What did you watch?
 
 

 
 
I watched:
 
Creature Commandos (HBOMax) - "Cheers to the Tin Man" - Episode 3 of the
very "R" rated DC universe animated series.  Picking up where it left
off the Suicide Squad, I mean Creature Commandos, continue to try and
protect Princess Ilana from Circe.  The episode also has lots of
flashbacks to give G.I. Robot's back story.  This was a great episode
and had the Line of the night, "Oh boy, Nazis."  Watching what G.I.
Robot did next was just the best.
 
 
Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+) - "Fissure Quest" - The promos for
this season featured a scene with multiple Harry Kims from across the
multiverse.  I have been waiting for that episode, and finally this was
it. This episode shifted focus from the regular crew to Boimler's
transporter accident created duplicate.  This Boimler works for a top
secret Starfleet organization (I'm guessing section 31) and has been
sent on a mission to stop a ship that is traveling the multiverse
punching holes in different universes and destabilizing them as a
result.  This was a pretty good episode and had a lot of cameos, cameos
I won't spoil, but were *very* surprising.
 
 
Silo (AppleTV+) - "Descent" - The show continues to split the focus
between Juliette in Silo 17 working on a way home and Silo 18 where
there is a ton of fallout from the spoilery events from last episode.  A
war is definitely coming, but my question is does Juliette show up just
in time to stop it, or light the match to start it.
 
 
Kraven the Hunter (theatrical) Sony's latest entry in their
Spider-Manless Spiderverse.  This one stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as
"Kraven," a kick-ass hunter who hunts criminals, yet for some reason has
a fear of spiders.  This movie shoe-horns in so many Spider-man
villains, you'd think they were making a sinister 6 movie.  They might
as well have just bit the bullet and had Kraven fight the sinister 6.
Don't get me wrong, none of the other already established Sony
Spider-man villains make an appearance in this flick.  But is "Kraven" a
good movie?  Well, it's better than "Madame Web."  But is *Kraven* a
good movie?  I'd say it's better than "Morbius."  So it's got that going
for it too.  Taking a page out of "Madame Web" you can't help but think
this movie has been redited and overdubbed while watching.  And what you
do get is a disconnected series of scenes featuring Kraven running,
jumping, or hitting something, with some blood splatter added in to
ensure an "R" rating.  At over two hours, they could have easily trimmed
out 15 minutes by cutting the unnecessary childhood backstory of how
Kraven got his powers.  And now that I think about it, this movie might
have actually worked had it been Kraven going after established
Sonyverse villains.  Throw him up against Vulture, Morbius, and Venom,
and see what happens.
 
 

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What Spider-Man villains do show up?
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And didn’t he just get his powers by swallowing a potion?

Maybe in the comics but going by the trailer I've seen he gets
attacked by a lion and ends up having some of the lion's blood get
mixed with his. I don't know if the lion was special or not but that's
what they showed in the trailer I saw.