Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-11 (Tuesday)

On 2/12/2025 5:52 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 2/12/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 Despite yesterday being one of my "light" workdays, I only got through soaps, and a movie I saw off one of the Showtimes:
 soaps: DOOL - Well, they are finally killing the soap-within-a-soap storyline (none too soon, I'd say!) - after all the mayhem, Kate and Abe decide to pull the plug on the show, and tell the cast and crew. But they bury the lede! - the "network" bought the show back from them! So the show is saved! But the network wants to move filming back to L.A. This will allow DOOL to write out a bunch of people - Hattie will definitely go to L.A. Bonnie is thinking about it (will the show really write out Bonnie and Justin?!). And of course Joy wants to go, but Alex does not, despite her pressuring him to go. On this score, Joy is acting all strange and clingy with Alex, but doesn't tell him she knows about him and Stephanie until the end of the epie. Anyway, I guess they're going to quickly write out Joy(?). But Johnny is almost certainly not going, instead staying is Salem. And while I thought a break from Leo Stark would be good for the show, but Leo is definitely not going to L.A. - the network fired him!
    GH - Mon's ep. Nina wears her down and gets Carly to agree to conspire with Nina to break Willow and Drew up; later Nina sends Carly to get Tracy to back down so that they can get Drew out of the picture. Martin tries to get Willow to be aggressive in the custody fight, but then Nina shows up and talks Willow out of that, confusing Martin! Ava almost blows it by kidnapping her daughter back, but Ric (and Lizzie) show up just in time, and Ric prevents Ava from blowing her custody case; Ava is furious, but then she and Ric "give into passion"! [roll] Josslyn throws Cyrus for a loop when she "apologizes" to him (it's a fake apology, Joss is still after him). And Felicia tries to get Cody and Sasha to bury the hatchet; but later when Jason shows up, Cody loses it and makes another scene.
 Killshot (Showtime Extreme) - This had a really good cast - Diane Lane, Thomas Jane, Mickey Rourke, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Rosario Dawson. Heck, even Hal Holbrook appears! Also, so does Canuck Tom McCamus! (Mason Eckhart from "Mutant X"!!).
    Too bad I thought the movie was perfunctory, breaking absolutely no new ground. It might have something to do with the fact that this is based on an Elmore Leonard novel, and I am not a fan of Leonard's works.
    Gist: Rourke plays Blackbird, a partially Native American mob hitter. Blackbird eventually crosses paths with Richie (Gordon-Levitt) a volatile psychopath and petty crook, whose girlfriend is a simpleton played by Rosario Dawson. Richie has an extortion scheme that he's working on a real estate agent - Blackbird and Richie go to the real estate office to collect, but run across an estranged married couple, Wayne and Carmen Coulson (Jane and Lane - ha!), instead. Wayne runs Richie off pretty good, and they both see Blackbird's face. This means the Coulsons have to die.
    Eventually, the FBI (McCamus) gets involved, and put the Coulsons into witness protection. But that won't stop Blackbird and Richie!
    This all heads to a showdown.
    While I liked Jane and Lane here, as I said, this is nothing we haven't seen before, and done better before. This gets a 6.0/10 on IMDb, and I wouldn't rate it nearly that high, despite the performances.
 

I saw this when it first came out, but I don't remember it.

What did you watch?

I watched:
Babylon 5 (blu-ray) - "The Fall of Centauri Prime" - Centauri Prime falls.  Wayne Alexander returns to play yet another alien.  I wonder, does he hold the record on this show?
"The Wheel of Fire" - Garibaldi's alcoholism finally catches up to him. The Luker's Guide said this was a must watch episode.  But it was actually skippable.
"Objects in Motion" - G'Kar leaves B5 and takes Lyta with him.  Good riddance.  Not to G'Kar, the other one!
"Objects at Rest" - Penultimate episode -  As the show continues to wind down Sheridan leaves for Minbar and Lennier just watches as Sheridan almost dies.  I remember when this episode first came out Bill Mumy said he strongly disagreed with what his character was being written to do.
Babylon 5: The Road Home (4K disc) 2023 direct to video Animated movie set between the events of "Objects at Rest" and the season finale, "Sleeping in the Light."  Upon arriving on Minbar to take up his new duties as President of the Alliance, Sheridan becomes unstuck in time and "Lost in Space."  The general plot has Sheridan popping into various points in B5's history and alternate history.  Some of the timelines he visits are better than others.  It's the alternate history timelines where the writers have the most fun.  I guess it was OK.  It relies a little too much on nostalgia and not nearly enough on telling a new story.  All the surviving actors (Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Peter Jurasik, Bill Mumy, Tracy Scoggins, and Patricia Tallman) return to voice their roles. There's a commentary track on the disc.  I'll be sure to watch it again soon so I can listen to the commentary.