Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-20 (Thursday)

On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:15:23 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 6/21/2024 9:24 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 6/21/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 
On the last workday of the (summer!) work week, I watched soaps and some
more movies!:
 
soaps: DOOL - This was mostly set up for the "prom" episode that will
come Friday. (Uh, it's mid- to late-June - Do HS's *anywhere* have prom
this late in the year?!!) Anyway, NuTate's date (can't remember her
name) overhears Tate and his friend (can't remember his name) talking
about prom, and realizes that Tate isn't interested in her and is just
using her to get close to Holly - later, Tate's date rats out their
scheme to NuTheresa! So they're going to get busted on Friday.
Meanwhile, Theresa has a disturbing dream about giving it all up for
Brady! Stefan forces EJ to reveal he's DA again to Nicole.
    GH - Finn's bosses refuse to let him back to work, and he takes it
about as well as expected. Spinelli gets the audio file of Carly's
incriminating confession that Jagger has been holding over Jason and
makes a copy for Sam, who beelines it to Carly.
    Y&R - I only saw a little bit of this - Victoria's younger daughter
still resents the insertion of Claire into their lives. Claire
commiserates with Kyle (I can't even figure it out - are they blood
relatives, or not?! I think they're not...).
 
Target: My Daughter (Tubi) - This was interesting - this 2017 thriller
felt too low-budget to be a Lifetime flick (IOW, even lower budget than
a Hybrid Films flick!), so it never made it to Lifetime.
    Also, I have a theory that Yancy Butler has been blackballed by
Lifetime

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I thought she was blacklisted by Hollywood in general.

Is it really a black list when your own actions with alcohol have lead
people to feel like she wouldn't be a reliable performer. Though she's
clearly gotten plenty of roles over the years. Nothing major but at
least she's been able to keep working. Though nothing in the last few
years.

(I think she appeared in a Lifetime film or two a decade or

more ago, but has not been in a Lifetime flick in at least a decade!),
so they probably wouldn't take a movie with her anyway...
    But it also stars Karis Cameron, c. 2017 - so between Cameron doing
"Open Heart" in 2015 and her first Lifetime flick (which was "Identity
Theft of a Cheerleader") in 2019 - back when Karis Cameron was still
young and beautiful (and before she put on the weight, post-2020 -
Cameron effectively hasn't worked since 2022).
    Anyway, in this, Cameron's character witnesses the murder of her
father (via cell phone), by a gangster (Aurelio Di Nunzio), and so she
and her mother (Butler) - who, of course, happens to be ex-special
forces or something - are put into witness protection (the original
title of this flick was "Witness Protection") in a coastal village
somewhere (this couldn't look more like British Columbia if they tried!!).
    And, of course, the gangster sends a hitman (hey! it's Sebastian
Spence!) after them.
    This was barely OK, but I enjoyed Butler's twitchy performance as
sort of crummy mom-type, and Karis Cameron has perhaps never looked
better than here.
 
Prowl (2010) (Tubi) - OK, I am about 95% sure I have seen this 2010
flick before, most likely on the Chiller channel back in the midish-2010s.
    This has an even more laughable crediting sitch' than the movies I
watched on Wednesday - the indisputable "star" of this 2010 horror flick
is Courtney Hope (before she f**ked up her looks and got gigs on B&B and
Y&R - Hope is naturally thin-lipped as you can see here, but in later
life she has refused to accept this fact...  :/  ) - anyway, Hope is
credited *third* in the film's primary end-credits, and *fifth*!! in the
film's cast list credits. Despite being the film's clear lead!! That's
ridic.

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She needs a better agent.

I only know her from her role in the game, CONTROL. She's great in
that game. Haven't seen Y&R in years since I only saw it when visiting
my parents.

    Anyway, Hope's character ropes in a bunch of friends (among them, a
young Perdita Weeks (after she did "The Tutors" but before "As Above, So
Below"), Ruta Gedmintas and Josh Bowman (from "Revenge")) to accompany
her to Chicago. For [reasons], they are eventually to be transported
there by a truck driver played by Bruce Payne - hint: if your driver is
played by Bruce Payne, he is up to no good.
    From this point, the film doesn't waste anytime in getting to
(improbable!) horror.
    This was about on part with Wed's flick "Underground" - it's a
decent "ride", once it gets started.
    P.S. In this one, Perdita Weeks has arguably the most horrific death
scene.  :/
 

 
What did you watch?
 

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The Boys - "Wisdom of the Ages" - I'm not even going to try and
summarizing it.  But I guess it was OK.

Is that episode 4? Haven't got to that just yet. The season is
definitely pushing the edges.

Evil (Paramount+) - "How To Fly an Airplane" - Team Evil investigate a
potentially holy artifact.  Meanwhile the most annoying TV kids ever
prove why they need a babysitter.
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Hose of the Dragon (HBO) - "A Son for a Son" - Season 2, episode 1.  I
don't know why HBO even bothered with that pathetic thing they called a
recap at the start of the episode.  I tracked down a slightly better
recap, but I was still lost.  I no longer know who is who!  Anyway, I
guess it was OK.
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Superman: Red Son (4K disc) 2020 Stand alone DC animated movie starting
in an alternate 1955 where Superman was raised in Soviet Russia by
Joseph Stalin.  In this world Lois Lane is married to Lex Luthor.  And
since it's the 50s everyone smokes. But it's OK because Lane smokes the
same brand of cigarettes as her doctor.  Anyway, Superman finds out that
Stalin isn't the nicest guy and decides to take him out and become the
new leader of the Soviet Union.  He then reunites Korea by force and
promises to bring his style of truth, justice, and the Soviet way to the
rest of the world.  The movie then goes on through the 80s showing what
the world would have been like with Superman a Russian and Lex Luthor
(who eventually becomes President) the protector of the U.S.  Batman is
also in this but in this version he is also a Russian, and out to defeat
Superman.  This was pretty good.  I almost skipped it.  I very glad I
decided to go ahead and watch it.

Yeah, it's a different spin on the story but I enjoyed it.

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Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (4K disc) 2020 Final movie in the
DCAMU.  When the movie started and the first thing on the screen was
rated "R" I knew it was going to be good!  And it was.  This is probably
the best movie in the entire DCAMU.
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The DCAMU started in 2013 with Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.
We all know the story, Flash goes back in time to save his mom and
instead creates a new timeline where everything is horrible.  At the end
of Flashpoint Flash thinks he resets the timeline, but doesn't.  There's
a post credit scene with a boomtube from Apokalyspe.  The next movie was
"Justice League: War" which had the individual members of the League
teaming up to fight an invasion from Apokalypse.  After that there were
over a dozen movies in the DCAU within this continuity.  There were
"Justice League" movies, "Teen Titan" movies, "Suicide Squad" movies, a
ton of "Batman" movies, and some "Dark" movies featuring Constantine.
"Justice League Dark: Apokolips War" brings everyone together for one
massive "Avengers: Infantry War" style movie.
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SPOILERS Follow!!!
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The movie opens with Superman assembling the League and the Titans (who
are still on Earth) and explaining the League is about to launch a full
assault on Apokalpsyse to handle Darkseid once and for all.  The Titans
will remain behind as back-up.  The League arrives and it's a trap.
Darkseid was ready for them.  Cut to 2 years later and Earth is shown in
ruins.  Darkseid has conquered Earth.  A depowered Superman and Raven go
into a bar to find a drunk Constantine and even drunker Etrigan trying
to drown their sorrows away.  From there Superman reveals the Earth is
being drained by Darkseid and only has about a week left before the
planet dies and what's left of the League and what's left of the Suicide
Squad is about to make a final stand against Darkseid on Apokalypse.
It's later revealed that those of the League that Darkseid didn't kill,
he twisted and corrupted into his loyal servants.  Except for Flash who
is literally running on a treadmill to power Apocalypse.  The movie is
basically a series of battles and final stands until a final epic
showdown on Apocalpyse.  But when all was said and done they
acknowledged all of this happened because of Flashpoint so Flash goes to
undo Flashpoint and essentially wipes out the DCAMU.  And that lead to
the Tomorrowverse.
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Like I said, this was basically Avengers: Infinity War with Darkseid in
the Thanos role, tearing through heroes as if they were made of butter.
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The Green Lanterns put up a good fight but were no match for Darkseid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ukFFyXSGw
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The Suicide Squad goes out with a bang:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fNxg7Q32gg
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