Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-01 (Tuesday)

Verily, in article <UBI20250701@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
deliver unto us this message:

 
I watched:
 
HOGAN'S HEROES:

That show confused me as a kid. I didn't understand why they were called
"prisoners" when they seemed to move around freely and do whatever they
wanted. :-)

I watched Jumanji. I didn't see it when it came out, because the
advertising made it look like they were all pulled into the game and
just had a dopey adventure.

It's a good movie. It explored some themes about trust and growing up,
and I liked Alan's realization that his "evil and abusive" father did
love him. Turns out it's a great family movie *and* a dopey adventure.

I'm not sure it was wise for the older two to go back to 1969. They get
another chance at their youths, but it's at the cost of the younger
two's existence. Things will go differently this time, so it's likely
they'll never be born. I'd have preferred it if they'd picked up and
gone on from where they were, as real life requires.

That's a minor point, though. It's a great movie overall.

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