Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-24 (Saturday)

On 5/25/2025 2:36 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 5/25/2025 2:18 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

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What did you watch?
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A marathon of the first three John Wick movies on Syfy.  #4 will be on this evening.
 

SyFy isn't even trying.  I guess Wick is better than wrestling.  At least they are good movies.
I watched:
Doctor Who (Disney+) "Wish World" - The penultimate episode, which follows John Smith, who works for Unified National Insurance Team, and is happily married to his wife Belinda.  The two are raising their daughter Poppy.  But they begin to have doubts about the reality of it all when a strange woman named Ruby knocks on the door and asks if they ever question their reality.  But there's no reason to have doubts about anything, especially when there is a nice man on TV who reads stories about someone who calls himself "Doctor Who."  The nice man on TV says everything will be OK.  And it's very bad to have any doubts about what the nice man on the TV says.  If you do meet someone who has any doubts about what the man on TV says, there's a number you can call to have the authorities take that person away.  This episode wasn't as epic as some of the other penultimate episodes, but it had lots of good build up and a solid cliffhanger leaving me wondering what's going to happen next. And where is a certain character who made a cameo in last week's episode?
Pee-Wee as Himself Part One (HBO) This is an excellent documentary about Paul Reubens.  Reubens started filming it before he died, then the filmmakers finished it posthumously.  The movie has lots of really funny interviews of Reubens, and it details his life from before he became Pee-Wee Herman and had a lot of information about him that I wasn't aware of or just never thought about.  For example, while I was generally aware of the fact that the character of Pee-Wee Herman predates the 1985 movie, "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure," my awareness was pretty much limited to knowing he had the HBO special.  What I wasn't aware of was Pee-Wee Herman was well established as a character well before the movie.  Obviously, that's why they made the movie, but it never really registered that the character was already famous and predated the movie by several years.  Also interested was Paul talking about being bitter and jealous after the success of the movie that it was all attributed to Tim Burton, when he (and Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol) are the ones who wrote the movie.  It said written by Paul Reuben in the credits, but he had spent years making sure no one in the general public knew who Paul Reubens was, so all the notoriety went to Burton instead.  And when he said that I realized that I too for all these years considered "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" a Tim Burton movie, and it never crossed my mind that Paul Reubens originated the character and wrote the script.  And he picked Burton to direct the movie once the script was finished.  There's at least one more part.  I'm looking forward to finishing the rest of the documentary once I get a chance.