Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-18 (Wednesday)

suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:

On 12/19/2024 1:39 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
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Finished grading the final for the first of my two sections, and then
did a little bit of finish up work on the lab class... With that, I got
through:
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What did you watch?

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Hey, thanks for asking!
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THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS on The Plex
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Howard Keel plays one of the few sighted people in a world of the blind
threatened by poison spitting mobile carnivorous plants. It held up a lot
better than I thought it would.
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They changed it a lot from the book which may have been for the better
because there aren’t really many answers either way. A mysterious meteor
shower leaves the world blind. Conspiracy theorists think it was some sort
of Russian weapon that went wrong and got everybody.
In the book, Triffids are known to the world and kept in pens for as I
recall their oil.  And their poison sacks are kept clipped. With the world
gone blind there’s nothing to keep them from escaping and wackiness
ensuing.  In the movie, they just appear out of nowhere after the meteor
shower. It’s hard to imagine these two events as being accidental and
unconnected. But there are no answers to be had just efforts to survive.
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Meanwhile, Janette Scott (yes, from Rocky Horror Picture Show) and her real
life husband who starred in together in CRACK IN THE WORLD, are trapped in
a lighthouse and besieged by the Triffids. At the end, he turns the fire
hose on them because he’s run out of things to throw, and it turns out that
seawater disintegrates them. Well, that was an easy fix!

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Yay, you got to watch something!

 iPhone, ear buds  :)