Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-05 (Saturday)

On 4/6/25 12:25 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
 

 On 4/6/2025 10:46 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

 On 4/6/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

 What did you watch?

 
 I finished "Reacher" season #3, watched a dumb movie off Tubi, and
 watched the "Who Shot EJ?" episode of DOOL, along with some golf:
 
 [snip]
 
 Zero Hour (Tubi) - There are *multiple movies* with this title,
 including the post-apocalyptic 1957 flick "Zero Hour!" with Dana
 Andrews...

 
 That's what I immediately thought of.  But are you sure it's "post-
 apocalyptic?" I only ever saw it once, years ago when I learned it was
 the basis for "Airplane."

 
You're right - I was confusing this film with 1962's "Panic in Year
Zero!". The latter is the post-apocalyptic flick.
 

 But this was a low-budget 2023 entry that clocks in at about
 70 minutes.
     Even that was too long.
     I watched this mainly because it stars Mikaela Hoover - who is
 literally probably best known for being in 2 episodes of "Two Broke
 Girls" (so she's not a major actress!) - and Sarah Dumont (who, based
 on the name, I confused with *Emma* Dumont!).
     This was a one-man movie show: written, directed and co-starring
 Justin Groetsch (who?!) - well, it was actually him and his wife (or
 sister?), as she produced.
     Did Groetsch really think he was being clever with this flick?!
     He tries a "twist" at the end, but that lasts for all of about a
 minute, before he launches a "double-twist" ending which didn't work
 for me at all. And he keeps showing flashbacks to explain/justify
 these lame twists. This didn't work at all either.
     The only parts that work (very!) mildly are the parts in the
 middle with Hoover trying to escape late-night intruders into her
 office. But this flick takes too long to get going, isn't all that
 great in the middle, and pretty much falls apart at the end with the
 lame "twists".
     Bah!
 
 What did you watch?

 
 
 I watched:
 
 
 Final Destination (blu-ray)
 
 Final Destination 2 (blu-ray)
 
 Final Destination 3 (blu-ray)
 
 The Final Destination (3D blu-ray)

 
I'm fond of all of these films, but esp. "2" and "3" for starring J.J.
Cook and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, respectively.