Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-04 (Friday - The 4th of July!!)

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

On 7/5/2025 11:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

I guess I should do one of these before it's too late.
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What did you watch?

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Hey, thanks for asking.
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I finally finished Ironheart. It wasn’t easy. I kept falling asleep and the
Disney+ app which has turned to total shit would restart in the wrong place
or the wrong episode and showed episode three with the video and audio and
closed captioning, all completely out of sync.
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How bad was it? Well it’s still better than Marvels

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I liked "The Marvels."  The musical number may have been a bit too
jokey, along with some of the stuff at the end, but otherwise it was an
OK movie.

 Sorry, I booted the name.
 I meant Ms. Marvel the TV show on Disney+.
 As awful as Ironheart was, I made it through to the end (granted Disney+
screwing up meant I only had to watch about 2/3 of it). I didn’t make it
past the second episode of Ms. Marvel.
  

but it’s Stargate

Origins SGO (the “O” stands for: Origins!) bad.
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Since I think I am the only one that sat all the way through SGO you might
ask “how bad is that?“
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Really really really really really really really really bad. Try to picture
the sound made by a sheep exploding. It’s Ssss BOOM baaah bad.
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And the end was absolutely the worst part of it.
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Without significant spoilers, let me say I’m completely perplexed that this
little idiot doesn’t just call for help. Like Doctor Strange or somebody.
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Why would Dr. Strange come and save The Hood from Ironheart?  Oh, did
you mean, the supervillain known as Ironheart should have called Dr.
Strange?  They already explained why that wouldn't work when another
character asked and Ironheart listed all the evil deeds that she had
been doing.  I'm pretty sure this series is a villain origin story.

 Yeah. Again beyond her working in the garage, no resemblance to the comic.
 Did anybody ever say why the hell MIT didn’t send someone after the suit?
Like war machine?  It was built on Stark’s dime.
 The one thing I found interesting in the whole mess was that she not only
knew who Dormammu is, she had a drawing of him. Has anyone but Doctor
Strange ever seen him?
 They should never have made the bad guy Mephisto. He would have won in the
end. Surely there must be some minor demon they could’ve invoked.
 

LOL.  Especially since, and I didn't notice this myself, but others have
said that there is a brief shot where Vebaurneg vf jrnevat gur ubbq'f
pybnx bire ure Vebaurneg fhvg.

 V’z fher vg’f n tbbq svg.
 

This is a multi-day catch up.  Over the last few days I watched:
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Independence Day (4K disc) 1996 sci-fi movie where Will Smith and Jeff
Goldblum save the Earth from aliens by giving them a cold.  Holds up
very well (more or less). And I still love the speech Bill Pullman gives
at the end.

 And he stopped the aliens with an apple computer.