Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-29 (Wednesday)

On 5/30/2024 6:07 AM, shawn wrote:

On Thu, 30 May 2024 05:02:00 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:
 

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

I watched:
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You didn’t ask, which is OK because I didn’t watch anything.
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 Only thing I watched was TOP CHEF where Lara returned from the Last
Chance Kitchen and kicked butt. As usual some of the chefs had trouble
when they were asked to do something outside of their normal comfort
zone without restrictions. Some chefs shine when given freedom to do
what they will while others really like to have limitations placed on
what they can do. Seems to be something that has been true since the
very first season.
 What did you watch?

Over the past couple of days I watched:
Ghosts - "Isaac's Wedding" - Season 3 finale Isaac plans to get married but has second thoughts.  Meanwhile a vengeance ghost from the past makes a reappearance.
Inside Out (4K disc) 2015 Pixar movie that mostly takes place in a young girls head following her emotions (Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust).  Joy (Amy Poehler) pretty much runs things and bullies the other emotions into doing things her way.  She especially bullies Sadness (Phyllis Smith), to the point of at one point drawing a circle on the floor and telling Sadness to not leave the circle.  When the girl's family moves to a new city the tension between Joy who insists on forcing a positive spin on everything and Sadness reach a breaking point with the two emotions accidentally being expelled from the girl's head leaving Fear, Anger, and Disgust in charge while Joy and Sadness have to make their way back to headquarters.  The movie holds up very well.
Ratatouille (4K disc) 2007 Pixar movie about a rat that loves human food who teams up with a young man who works as a janitor at a famous restaurant but doesn't know how to cook.  With the rat's help (the rat can control the man by pulling his hair) the young man is able to create wonderful meals that puts the restaurant at the top.  However it also puts the restaurant on the radar of a tough food critic who previously destroyed the restaurant's reputation and would be happy to do it again.   I don't think I've watched this since seeing it originally in the theater.  It has been high on my watch list for a while and after enjoying "Inside Out" I was looking forward to watching this again. Unfortunately I didn't enjoy this nearly as much as I enjoyed "Inside Out."  The movie was perfectly fine.  It's not bad or anything, but it was just OK.  I remembered it being a lot better.