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

On 7/2/2025 9:01 AM, Melissa Hollingsworth wrote:

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

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I watched:
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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. :-)
 

That never occurred to me.  I got the joke even as a kid.  But what used to confuse me was in "Transformers: The Movie" there is a scene where characters are on trial and the judge is asked "guilty" or "Innocent" and when the verdict is "Innocent" the sentence is death.  As a kid I used to wonder if they are innocent then why are they being sentenced to death.  Now I realize the villains were so evil that they were sentencing innocent people to death, but as a kid it went over my head.

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.

Did you catch the same actor played both the father and the big-game hunter?
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 don't think that's ever occurred to me before now.
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.
 

I like Jumangi now a lot more than I did when it first came out.  But I still think the sequel, "Zathura: A Space Adventure" is better.  It's basically a rehash of Jumangi, except set in outer space.