Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-29 (Saturday)

On 3/30/2025 1:17 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

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

On 3/30/2025 9:54 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 3/30/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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Reacher (Prime) - Ep's #3.1 & 3.2. With the way the season premiere ep
started off, I thought for sure something was up... Sure enough, much of
it was staged, and Reacher was sent in, undercover, to investigate...
Anthony Michael Hall! And Reacher is sent in by a DEA agent played by
Sonya Cassidy - the good news is that she's not using her native British
accent! the bad news is that she is *not* pulling off a convincing
Boston accent either!! I don't know what accent that's supposed to be,
but I don't hear Boston!... Anyway, I kind of don't like this set up any
more than season #2's, as this isn't "Man Against Town" Reacher again
(see season #1), but Reacher working with a "team" (as Cassidy has two
other DEA types helping her). But it's better than S2 I guess, as
Reacher is doing most of the work solo, with the DEAs just providing
backup... In ep. #3.2, Reacher brutally murders a thug who knows too
much like it's nothing!!
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When that happened I was stunned.  At first I thought the guy was just
unconscious, then I though maybe it was accident.  I mean Reacher
wouldn't just murder a guy in cold blood would he?  Yeah, he would.
Then you hear the bones crunching as he's folding him up.
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 See, it was a mercy killing, think how much that would hurt if you were
still alive!
 

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What did you watch?
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I watched:
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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (Tubi) 1983 sci-fi movie
starring Peter Strauss as a bounty hunter who travels to a hostile
planet run by Michael Ironside to save three women from Earth who crash
landed there.  Strauss teams up with a young Molly Ringwald and Ernie
Hudson so save the day.  I haven't watched this since the 80s.  I was
shocked by how much of it came back to me as I watched, and how
surprisingly watchable it turned out to be.  I watched "Cherry 2000" on
Friday and the two movies have very similar plot lines of man being
guided through wasteland by woman or in this case a teenage girl.
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Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (blu-ray) 1983 sci-fi movie.  I
wasn't paying attention to the plot, I don't know, stuff happened I
guess.  This is another 80s flick I watched all the time on TV in the
80s, and I could never tell the difference between this one and
Spacehunter.

 L O L I am glad somebody else had that problem!
 

I was about 6 or 7 when these came out.  I used to watch them on TV, but I'm not sure if I ever realized they were two different movies.  It could have been Metalstorm: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone or Spacehunter: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, and I wouldn't have known the difference.  When I picked up Metalstorm a while back, I'm sure I thought I was buying Spacehunter.  When I watched Metalstorm it was only vaguely familiar, but when I watched Spacehunter yesterday, it was the movie I thought I was getting when I bought Metalstorm.

Now that I've watched them back to back, Spacehunter was

by far the better of the two movies.  I watched Metalstorm a few years
ago in 3D, and it was a horrible viewing experience.  This time I went
for the 2D option and the picture quality was fine, but I had already
made up my mind I wasn't going to pay attention to the movie.
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The Ice Pirates (blu-ray) 1984 sci-fi comedy starring Robert Ulich as a
space pirate who chases after a space princess while trying to avoid
catching space herpes.

 First date. We go to the multiplex and I let her pick the movie and she
picks ice pirates. She hated it. She hated it so much. She blamed me and
never went out with me again.
 I should have gone with her original suggestion, which was to hang around
her place and presumably fool around, but I was friends with her brothers,
and we didn’t know how long they’d be gone…
 

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Galaxy Quest (4K disc) 1999 sci-fi comedy starring Tim Allen, Alan
Rickman, Sam Rockwell, and Sigourney Weaver as actors on an old Sci-fi
TV show who along with several other castmates from their show get
recruited by aliens who think the show is real and want the actors to
engage in a real life Battle Beyond the Stars.  "By Grabthar's Hammer,
by the Suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!"

 The end with Tim Allen versus the rock monster was originally supposed to
be the end of Star Trek five but Paramount cut Shatner’s shooting days
short because of a threatened strike. It was fun to see it show up here,
but it makes me wonder how much better Star Trek five might have been with
that ending.
 

It definitely wouldn't have been worse.