Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-28 (Friday)

On 3/29/2025 8:50 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

After work and errands, I got home, and mostly played my video game, with March Madness on in the background. I almost got to a movie later, but got sidetracked and it didn't happen.
 So, really, yesterday all I got through was a soap:
 GH - Thur's ep. Which I hated so much I don't even want to summarize. They're absolutely ruining NuNuNuMolly again, as she's pukeworthily trying to bury the hatchet with awful NuKristina, which outrages me as the show's best storyline was when Molly was righteously hating Kristina. If that storyline is dead, I'm probably done with these characters. (Killing Kristina off could maybe salvage things.) Beyond that, the only noteworthy thing that happened was that Alexis intended to call a truce with Ric, but Ric beats her to the punch based on Cody's prompting. (When is NuNuNuMolly going to start bangin' Cody?!)
 Nothing noteworthy happened during the March Madness games either.
 The good news is - after being unwatchable this week 'cos it was running "true crime" flicks that I generally hate, LMN is done with these and should be watchable for background noise again.
 What did you watch?
 

I watched:
Reacher - "Unfinished Business" - Season 3 finale.  Team Reacher freely kill whoever they want (and they want a lot of people dead!) in order to save the day.
Cherry 2000 (blu-ray) 1987 sci-fi movie directed by Steve De Jarnatt and starring Melanie Griffith as a bounty hunter in the future who is hired by a man to take him into the wasteland to find a replacement sexbot (Pamela Gidley).  Apparently sexbots in the future are not waterproof. I think that may be a design flaw.  They even said as much on the commentary track.  The thing got a little damp and immediately blew a fuse! This was one of those always on HBO movies of the 80s and I don't think I've watched it since the 80s.  I watched with the director's commentary.  The director spent a good chunk of the commentary talking about his other movie, "Miracle Mile." I didn't realize it until he mentioned it on the commentary, but Cherry 2000 was a massive flop at the box office.  Apparently, it went up against RoboCop and as the director put it, "everyone went to see the other robot movie."
Miracle Mile (blu-ray) 1988 movie directed by Steve De Jarnatt.  Anthony Edwards stars as a man who answers a wrong number at a phone booth at a diner in LA, and the voice on the other end is trying to warn the caller's father that a nuclear war has begun and they only have about an hour left before the nukes land.  Denise Crosby costars as well connected woman in the diner at the time who is able verify parts of the story.  The rest of the movie is Edwards freaking out as he tells the people at the diner what he just heard and they all react to the news and they make their way to safety before word gets out.  This was background noise with the director's commentary.  Between the two commentary tracks it was clear the director wanted to make this movie first, but had to make "Cherry 2000" first instead, then when that movie bombed, it affected the financing and support for this one.
I was originally going to watch Miracle Mile first, then "Cherry 2000" either same night, or next day.  But I swapped my preferred watch order so I could watch in release order.  In hindsight, I should have watched Miracle Mile first.  "Cherry 2000" almost works like a sequel to "Miracle Mile" depicting life after the bombs dropped.  And the director spent half the "Cherry 2000" commentary talking about "Miracle Mile" anyway, I should have at least watched it first.