Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-31 (Monday)

On 4/1/2025 7:33 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 4/1/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 My longest workday of the week, and when I got home I mostly wanted to play my video game, so when I got home, all I watched was DOOL.
 soaps: DOOL - Most concerning trying to take EJ down - Rafe plants a bug in the mansion, and separately Jada sends Belle in with a wire to try to get EJ to incriminate himself. Also, drama with Jada and Shawn - Jada decides to tell Rafe the truth about her affair with Shawn (let's see if she actually gets the words out next epie!!).
  What did you watch?
  

I watched:
Cube Zero (blu-ray) 2004 Canadian sci-fi movie and prequel to "Cube." Both "Cube" and "Cube Zero" (although the details aren't revealed until the prequel) are set in a futuristic totalitarian society that wipes people's memories then throws them into in a giant cube made up of smaller cube shaped rooms. Some of the rooms are safe to enter, but many others contain elaborate deathtraps.  The prequel has a group of random people being put in the cube and trying to solve its' puzzles so they can escape, but it also shows the inner workings of the people behind the scenes running the cube, with a focus on two button pushers observing the people inside the cube.
Cube (blu-ray) 1997 Canadian sci-fi movie about a group of random people including a pre-Stargate David Hewelett and a pre-Star Trek Nicole de Boer who wake up in a giant cube and no memory of how they got there. They must try to move from room to room within the cube to escape, but some of the rooms contain hidden death traps.
Escape Room (blu-ray) 2019 movie about a group of random people who think they are entering a contest involving solving an escape room, but they quickly learn the escape room is really a series of different death traps they need to solve in order to move to the next death trap.
SPOILERS
The movie ends with two of the people surviving and escaping to safety. The movie then flash forwards six months with one of them saying she's located the headquarters of the people behind the escape room and vowing to go there to put an end to it all.  But it's quickly revealed the escape room people are well aware of these plans and are ready for them.
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (blu-ray) 2021 sequel which picks up where the first movie ended with the two survivors trying to track down the evil Escape Room company.  But the escape room people are ready for them and put them in a new escape situation along with other people who previously beat the escape room.  I hadn't watched this since seeing it in the theater and didn't remember it all that well.  The disc had two options, theatrical cut and extended cut.  I went for the extended cut, which I assumed would just be a few longer scenes.  As it turns out this was a completely reedited movie.  The extended cut adds two new characters, not in the theatrical cut, a totally different beginning and a totally different ending.  And by a different ending, I mean about 20 minutes of totally different footage.  The ending was completely reshot for the theatrical release.
Watson - "A Variant of Unknown Significance" - It's the usual suspects when Irene Adler walks in and asks Team Watson to cure the child she says she had with Sherlock.