On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:41:00 -0600, super70s
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super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
On 2024-11-12 14:39:58 +0000, Arthur Lipscomb said:
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On 11/12/2024 6:17 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
On 11/12/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
Despite the fact that I had more time yesterday evening/night and could
have watched a movie, I just didn't feel like it - instead I came home
and listened to music, and put "Baywatch" on Tubi (it was the epie
where Parker Stevenson starts to drool over April Giminski! who can
blame him!!) on as background noise before I went to bed. So all I got
through was a couple of soaps:
And that was it.
What did you watch?
I watched:
Alexander (blu-ray) 2004 historical epic movie written and directed by
Oliver Stone starring Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great. The movie
jumps around in time chronicling Alexander's conquest of the then known
world as well as following his various love affairs. This was the
"Revisited: The Final Cut" which put back in every last frame of film
and the kitchen sink pushing the run time to just under 4 hours.
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4 hours, yikes! I have the DVD and according to my database it's 175
min. (easily enough to get me antsy).
Sheesh, that's a long time to dedicate to one movie.
I read a review that complained about the movie being incomprehensible
and the added run time doesn't help. I recalled liking the movie from
past viewings, and watching it again, I still liked it. I really didn't
have any problem following the plot, even with the jumping around in
time, it all made perfect sense to me.
Gladiator (4K disc) 2000 historical epic movie directed by Ridley
Scott and starring Russell Crowe as the general who became a slave, the
slave who became a gladiator, and the gladiator who defied an empire.
Joaquin Phoenix costars as the emperor who became vexed. The movie
holds up great.
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Yes it does, I have the DVD. Incidentally I heard scholarly types
spotted at least one serious blooper in the new Gladiator II that's
coming out -- a Roman general is shown reading a newspaper 1,200 years
before the invention of the printing press. lol.
A good movie that I haven't re-watched in years.
Black Hawk Down (4K disc) 2001 movie directed by Ridley Scoot which
follows the real life downing of an American Black Hawk during the
Somalian civil war in the 90s. I wasn't always giving the movie my
full attention, but when I was, the movie looked great in 4K and was
pretty much nonstop action. I couldn't help but notice that the score
sounded a *lot* like the score from Gladiator. I checked and sure
enough Hans Zimmer did the score for this too.
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Ridley Scott has done some great stuff -- I own 9 of his movies -- but
this one I'm not fond of. I wound up selling it on eBay (nice fold-out
2-disc package though). Seems like I remember it was just too much
"Bang!" "Pow!" "Bang!" all the time, even for a war movie.
I haven't gotten around to watching this one even though it is on the
list.
As for myself I got in a few things over the past few days.
The latest episode of FROM where in things are getting stranger with
more people seeing/experiencing things that aren't there. Boyd and
his son trying to protect Fatima from the consequences of her
murdering someone. Donna freaking out when Boyd tells her about Fatima
being the killer and not Sarah, as everyone is thinking.
Julie experiencing some time slippage as she is freaking out when
she's trapped in the dungeon like place. What's even stranger is she
sees the guy trapped on the wall. Who asks her to toss the rope into
the well. The same well where we can hear Boyd calling out just like
he did when he was trapped in the well.
Oh and we have the young guy from the bus seeing more pictures from
his Polaroid that have him collecting his blood. Then trapping Fatima
down in the root cellar where I guess he is going to force feed her
the blood. Supposedly to keep the child that Fatima isn't carrying
alive or something. Like you do with fetuses that don't really exist.
I also watched TRACKER where in we had hillbilly types capturing a
young girl with healing powers. Apparently because their dad was sick
and modern medicine hadn't helped. Of course these guys were also
heavily into meth production and selling so lots of weapons. Luckily
Tracker was there to find them, spot and rescue the girl with only a
few people dying.
Lastly I got in the latest episodes of NCIS, NCIS OLD MENS ORIGIN.
Where in we got to see the NCIS ORIGINs female agent dealing with the
boys locker room behavior while trying to work a case and it's
consequences on her life in and out of the service. On NCIS we got a
retired soldier experiencing mental decline that leads to an even
stranger discovery when he starts speaking Finnish and seems to be
lost in his memories of the 70s when he was working as Russian Spy in
the American military. Things go off the rails when it turns out the
CIA was involved and knew he was working with the Russians.
I also started a movie, GEOSTORM, but didn't get very far. The basics
is that the world was experiencing ever worsening weather and so the
nations of the world have come together to control the weather with a
complex world wide system. After some years of it working great there
are apparently break downs in the system with some strange weather
occurring like people freezing to death in the middle of a hot desert.
Though it turns out there's apparently someone/some group using the
system to cause these attacks. That was about as far as I got.
What did you watch?
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