Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-11 (Monday)

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:
 soaps: DOOL - Frankly, pass - I think all the happened is that Chad got Cat sprung from prison so Clyde can take his revenge on her. Oh, and Brady guilted Kristen into giving the serum to Sarah and Xander.
    GH - Anna tries to get info out of Jason on the rescue of Sasha, but like an asshole he tells her nothing. Holly begs Brennan's help to leave town to escape her debts. Felicia advises Sasha to bury the hatchet with Holly, but it's seemingly too late. Brennan warns Jason not to help Anna find Valentin. A distraught (and tedious!) NuKristina gets in a car wreck with Natalia, so Natalia calls Sonny in. Michael again catches Drew with Willow, and I think he's going to sandbag Willow with a surprise divorce! (You go, dude!!)
 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.  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.
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.