Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-22 (Sunday)

On 12/23/2024 9:57 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 12/23/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 Yesterday, I finally finished grading for the year (but I haven't submitted final grades yet, so I'm not totally done...), which meant leaving football on, mostly. I also watched more "Cross", and a couple of "X-Mas" movie off UP:
 A Bluegrass Christmas (UPtv (off the Spectrum app, so I could actually watch it at 1080, and not 480!!) - I only watched this 2024 TV flick because it stars Canuck actress-singer Amanda Jordan, and she is absolutely lovely - if you like finely-featured blondes who look almost exactly like what a blonde anime girl would look like if she was actually real and not animated!
    She's an OK singer as well, though this film obviously was country- music flavored and I don't care for that style.
    Anyway, Jordan is trying to save her horse sanctuary (if they said where this was supposed to be, I never heard - it was clearly filmed in snowy Canada!) by throwing a benefit concert, and she's helped out in this by a dude (David Pinard) who has come to town... as a developer(? I missed that part too). Meanwhile, Jordan's crotchety old granddad (Shaun Johnston) hasn't performed with his Bluegrass band since his wife died 20(?) years before, so you know where this part is going.
    Anyway, this was mostly a trifle, but Jordan is lovely to look at, so, why not?
 soaps: Y&R - Thur's ep. Nothing of substance happened - it was mostly Claire, Kyle, Jack and Diane stuff.
 football - The morning game was Rams-Jets which I only paid a little attention to - it took the Rams way too long to pull ahead of the Jets.
    The afternoon game was Vikings-Seahawks, with the Seahawks failing to pull it out. With loses by the Seahawks, 49ers and Cardinals, the Rams are now in control of the NFC West.  :/
    The evening game, which I only partially watched, was the Cowboys- Buccaneers, which the Buccaneers incompetently failed to put away, allowing the Cowboys to win.
 Cross (Prime) - Ep's #1.3 & 1.4. These were better as they focused almost entirely on the case(s) - the crazed serial killer fanboy dude, and whoever is "stalking" Cross (I think I know who it is!!).
    Cross and his partner make progress in these two episodes, figuring out there is a serial killer, tracking down his lair, getting the killer's "scrapbook", and then flushing out the killer's ex-cop accomplice. In the end, Cross's old partner(?), who now works for the FBI (Alona Tal), feeds Cross the identity of the killer. Now Cross is set up to face him...
    Meanwhile, Cross's stalker continues toying with him, and somewhat terrorizes his family. This ends with Cross "getting lucky"! (with some naked nudity!) - but I don't give his current girlfriend long-odds on surviving this season!
 North by North Pole: A Dial S Mystery (UPtv) - This was a triffle. I watched it because it stars Abby Ross. She plays a... well, that's never clear, but she's organizing the town's Christmas festival. She is partnered with an architect (Joe Scarpellino) who's there to... redevelop something in the town?... Anyway, someone is sabotaging the Christmas festival!! Can these two potential lovebirds solve the case, with the help of "real Santa" (Dax Belanger)?!... There's also a subplot with Abby Ross's (widowed?) mom potentially finding romance, but, meh...
 

This sounds like something I might get tricked into watching based on the title.  Thanks for the warning.  I'll avoid it.

What did you watch?
 

I watched:
Oliver! (4K disc) 1968 musical about a young Orphan who is living a hard knock life.  The plot involves a locket that reveals the truth about the orphan's parentage.  By the end of the movie, after the orphan's life is placed in danger by a criminal, the orphan winds up living the good life with rich people.
Annie (4K disc) 1982 musical about a young Orphan who is living a hard knock life.  The plot involves a locket that reveals the truth about the orphan's parentage.  By the end of the movie, after the orphan's life is placed in danger by a criminal, the orphan winds up living the good life with rich people.
One thing that bugged me about "Annie" when I was a kid, and I'm sure it was 100% due to watching it edited combined with viewing pan and scanned on a 13 inch TV screen, but I'm sure they edited to death the "let's go to the movies sequence and it cut off before the movie actually played. So, it didn't make any sense to me as a kid because they didn't actually go to the movies.
I still remember being confused as a kid and thinking was that song and dance show supposed to be what a movie was back then.  But watching it a large screen in the proper aspect ratio the sequence is so much better. And they actually show the movie.  I'm *positive* the movie itself was cut from the TV version!
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (4K disc) 2007 musical directed by Tim Burton.  The plot involves a young orphan living a good life with her rich guardian (Severus Snape, I mean Alan Rickman).  But as it turns out the orphan isn't an orphan.  Her father (Johnny Depp) is still alive and living the hard knock life after being falsely imprisoned by Snape.  Depp then teams up with Helena Bonham Carter to get revenge on Snape while also murdering anyone who gets in their way.
What If...? (Disney+) - "What If... the Hulk Fought the Mech Avengers?" - Season 3, episode 1. Based on the previews seeing the Avengers piloting giant mech robots, I was expecting this to be a good episode. But instead of "Pacific Rim" we got "Pacific Rim Uprising."  This episode was just a total mess.