Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-10 (Thursday)

On 7/11/25 1:59 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

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

On 7/11/25 10:26 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
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After an arduous workout, 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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As I no longer have DVR service at night (thanks Cox) I’m slogging through
a lot of stuff I recorded from the TCM mythology marathon, which they
apparently are running every Wednesday night this month.
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Clash of the Titans

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The Harry Hamlin version?! Not the "Release the Kraken!!" version?

 That’s the same version. Lawrence Olivier says “release the Kraken“

Really?!
I rewatched that version, within the last decade I want to say, but I don't remember that. But I may have rewatched before I watched the Liam Neeson version for the first time, and so didn't notice it.

But yes, the Ray Harryhausen original.

Please tell me there are stop-motion skeleton warriors!!  :)

Jason and the Argonauts
My Son, the Hero
The Minotaur
Atlantis the Lost Continent
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Also, they showed.
The Last of Sheila
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Of course I can’t watch any of this when my DVR service goes out overnight
so I turned to the fire stick
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Last night, I watched ALIENS. Everything said it had the extended cut but
everything lied especially Hulu. The running time shows that they are all
just playing the regular cut.
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I also tried to watch some stuff on PRIME that they were advertising on the
fire stick as free. They lie like the big dogs they are.
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The Avengers (the old British spy show)
The fire stick says it’s free but when you go there, it turns out that only
the last worst season with Tara King is free.
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Then it tried to get me to watch SHERLOCK.
While it assures me Sherlock is free, only the first season is.

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It's this kind of thing that is going to get me to drop Prime (Video).
My yearly subscription is up in August, and I will be cancelling.

 It’s hard to blame you
 

I guess I will just get Prime Video for random months here and there
when stuff like new seasons of "Reacher" drop.
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This is pretty much the same bait and switch crap that DoorDash is pulling.
If I didn’t get Amazon for the shipping, I would dump the service.
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Also, I tried to switch my inter-web service to T-Mobile and failed
spectacularly.