Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-09 (Thursday)

On 1/10/2025 7:22 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 1/10/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 I was really, really out of it yesterday (with a fever), so not much, as I had pretty much no bandwidth for anything complex.
 I caught up on DOOL and Y&R, but I'm not even going to comment on them.
 I was so out of it that at one point I put "Sailor Moon" - in the original Japanese with English subtitles! - on via Pluto TV. The one thing you can say about "Sailor Moon" - it requires no bandwidth to understand!
 

I've never watched a single episode of Sailor Moon.  Is it any good? I'll actually be resuming my animation watch this weekend (or maybe tonight depending on mood) and next up will be more Japanese animation.

I still have a high fever this morning, but conversely I feel better (am much less tired), so I'm taking this as a hopeful sign.
 

Rest usually does the job of helping one feel better.

What did you watch?
    

I watched:
Creature Commandos (HBOMax) - "A Very Funny Monster" - Episode 7, and season finale.  The remaining Suicide Squad, I mean Creature Commandos, are still in Pokolistan trying to complete their mission to assassinate the princess.  Meanwhile Amanda Waller starts to peace together the truth.  We also get the backstory for Nina.  This was an excellent finale.  Also of note, James Gunn wrote every episode this season.
The Bear (Hulu) -  "Bolognese" - Season 2, episode 8.  In a series about a restaurant, there is still no restaurant.  So this episode focused on the team trying to pass an inspection so the restaurant can open.  I have to admit, the 10 second countdown to pass the inspection was intense.
"Omelette" - Season 2, episode 9.  The restaurant prepares for its soft opening.  By the end of the episode the restaurant finally opens for business.
Silo (AppleTV+) - "The Safeguard" - Season 2, episode 9.  The penultimate episode.  I was very annoyed that suddenly one episode from the end there were all of these new characters.  That being said, there was finally some significant movement of the plot forward.  While watching I was thinking this was the season finale, and there was no way they were going to get the show wrapped up.  I was very pleasantly surprised when I realized that there was one more episode to go, especially considering the massive cliffhanger this episode ended with.
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (theatrical)  SPOILERS for the *first* movie!
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In the first movie Gerad Butler played a LAPD sheriff who was trying to take down a crew of robbers masterminded by O'Shea Jackson Jr.  By the end of the first movie Butler's team has engaged in a bloody shoot out with O'Shea's crew with Bulter's team killing most of them, except O'Shea who has gotten away.  The first movie ends with O'Shea in Europe with the money he stole from the heist planning his next caper.
Part 2 opens with O'Shea still in Europe with a new crew doing a new heist.  Meanwhile back in the U.S. several years have passed and Butler is still thinking about the one who got away.  Because of the way O'Shea pulled off the U.S. heist, there's no evidence any money was stolen, and the government doesn't want any evidence coming to light so they tell Butler to let it go.  But when Butler hears about the latest heist in Europe he suspects O'Shea is behind it and defies orders to go to Europe and bring him back.  Butler quickly tracks down O'Shea and basically gives him an ultimatum, Butler gets to join the crew and take a piece of their latest heist or else.  On top of having to plan the latest heist, and deal with Butler, O'Shea also has to deal with the Italian mob who as it turns out O'Shea stole from and now, they want what he stole back, but he already fenced it.  There are a lot of moving parts and factions in this movie.  There are a couple of minor plot holes I don't want to get into to.  But overall, I liked it a lot.  The movie was written and directed by Christian Gudegast who also wrote and directed the first movie.  This one is a continuation of that first story that was clearly setting up a sequel.  With this one they got the team back together and told that story.  My main thing with a heist movie is the heist itself, and this movie has an excellent heist. You see everything from the planning of the heist, to the heist itself, to the aftermath of it.  As long as a heist movie has a good heist, I'm happy.  And the gratuitous violence doesn't hurt either.