Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-08 (Sunday)

On 6/9/2025 11:03 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

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

On 6/9/2025 7:28 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Fringe S4E12 'Welcome to Westfield'
IMDb sez: "Peter, Olivia and Walter come face to face with a mysterious
and terrifying Fringe event as they get trapped in a town that there's
no escaping."
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The glyphs for this episode spell out: OLIVE

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Are the glyphs just related the episode or is there an overall meaning
when you put them all together?
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snip

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What Did You Watch?
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I watched:
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Wonder Woman (4K disc) 2017 movie directed by Patty Jenkins and starring
Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.  Set during a World War, Wonder Woman is the
first Avenger, I mean Justice Leager.

 How come all these people get first avenger billing when Thor’s been around
for thousands of years?
 

Thor wasn't on the U.S. government payroll?

She puts on a star-spangled

costume, wields a shield, and along with an American Captain (Chris
Pine), and the Howling Commandos, fights Germans. They must do battle
with one German in particular who has enhanced strength thanks to taking
a super soldier serum.  The movie ends with the American Captain saving
the day by capturing and flying off in an enemy airplane full of weapons
of mass destruction.  I just love original ideas in movies.
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 Hee hee
 

Wonder Woman 1984 (4K disc) 2020 sequel set in 1984, directed by Patty
Jenkins, which has Wonder Woman trying to stop Maxwell Lord (Pedro
Pascal) from using a magic rock to grant everyone's wishes; wishes that
have a monkey's paw affect that Lord twists to his advantage.  Wonder
Woman must also do battle against Cheetah (Kristen Wiig) who thanks to a
wish is now able to go up against Wonder Woman.  The American Captain
also turns up again because reasons.

 This was such a mess. It may be wonder if somebody else really directed the
first one or if they sat on the Director in the first one and let her do
what she wanted this time. If so, it was a mistake.
 

I think I heard something about Jenkins and the studio having a falling out when she was pitching her idea for Wonder Woman 3, and it included Chris Pine again.  The studio execs were bewildered how he be would be back for a third movie.
Is she still doing a Star Wars movie or what?

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Man of Steel (4K disc) 2013 movie written by Christopher Nolan and David
Goyer and directed by Zack Snyder.   Henry Cavill stars as the man of
Steel who after secretly living on Earth for 33 years discovers he's not
alone in the universe and his people, lead by General Zod (Michael
Shannon), plan to destroy the Earth so they can rebuild Krypton.
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 Just like in THE INVADERS TV show.
 

I think that was also pretty much the plot of "First Wave" too.

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (4K disc) 2016 sequel which picks up
where "Man of Steel" ended with Batman (Ben Affleck) out for revenge
against Superman (Henry Cavill)  for the destruction caused in the
previous movie.  Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) also shows up to lend a hand
when the two frenemies finally come to their senses and team up against
a greater threat.  This was the "R" rated extended version.  If I'm
going to watch Batman fight Superman, it might as well be an "R" rated
fight.

 I assume there isn’t any naked nudity so is there excessive gore or what?

I only noticed some swearing and some blood splatter when Batman knocked a henchman against a wall.

  I guess in general I do like the movie.  But there are so many

things about the movie that bug me to no end.  Setting aside Jesse
Eisenberg portraying the worst Luthor ever.

 Between him and the flash, it’s like they were trying to set new low end
goals.
 None of he characters in

this movie have *any* motivation to do half the things they do.  Why
exactly does Luthor want Batman and Superman to fight each other?
What's his end goal there?  When Superman does eventually confront
Batman, he *knows* it's a setup, yet for no reason I can figure out,
Superman proceeds to toss Batman around like a rag doll while
halfheartedly saying they need to talk.  Then he's surprised when Batman
won't listen.  Why would Batman listen to him we he's knocking him
around?  At least the action scenes are good.
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 Is this the one where they bond because both their mothers were named
Martha?
  

Yes.  I forgot to mention, I definitely heard "Martha Kent" in the 1978 Superman movie.  I don't recall ever hearing "Martha Wayne" in any of the Batman movies.