Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-20 (Friday)

On 6/21/2025 12:34 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

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

On 6/21/2025 6:56 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

I watched:
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Nothing.
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What did you watch?

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Hey, thanks for asking!
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I’ve been watching some old episodes of various incarnations of TO TELL THE
TRUTH if they have an interesting guest. Like Chuck Norris when he was a
baby. They had a special effects guy from the THE TOWERING INFERNO, which
made me realize I had never seen that movie except bits and pieces here and
there.

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I'm not sure if I've ever seen it before either.
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Well, at least now I’ve seen it. I recently watched an even worse Irwin
Allen Paul Newman movie WHEN TIME RAN OUT.

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I don't think I've seen this before.

 I tagged you on the Facebook with the information for an upcoming 4K disc
of EARTHQUAKE
 

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I do sometimes blind buy movies, but this is not one I've ever had much interest in.

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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (4K disc) 2023 movie set in the DCEU
starring Jason Momoa as Lobo, I mean Aquaman.  Aquaman drives around on
his motorcycle and does the haka dance.  Are we sure he's not playing
Lobo?  Anyway, Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) returns to try and
kill Aquaman which forces Lobo, I mean Aquaman to team up with his half
brother Orm (Patrick Wilson) to save the day.  The movie has issues, but
it's watchable.  It's just annoying going in and being aware of all the
behind the scenes issues.  For example, the movie originally had Batman,
all the scenes were filmed, then they decided to edit him out of the
movie.  And as far as I can tell, they replaced Batman with a CGI
octopus.  And I just noticed WB released 4 DCEU movies in the same year,
then had the nerve to complain about low box office returns.
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 Who played the Batman?
  

It's unclear.  Both Keaton and Affleck are referenced as filming scenes.   This is part of the behind the scenes nonsense that was taking place where WB couldn't make up their mind if they wanted to go forward with Keaton or Affleck.  They filmed an entire Batgirl movie using Keaton, then scrapped it.  My guess is it would have been Keaton.  Don't even ask about the ending of The Flash and how that affects who would be Batman going forward.  The whole thing was a mess being played out in front of the audience.  Even now, the Batman shuffle is still having ripple affects with it being up in the air if Robert Pattinson's Batman will be the new Batman in Gunn's rebooted universe or not.  As of now, it's not Pattinson, but Gunn has also said he's open to the idea.