Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-28 (Friday)

On 3/1/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

Yesterday, I was actually not so tired, and actually got through movies when I got home, along with a Y&R ep:
soaps: Y&R - Tue's ep. [sigh...] An episode that was almost 100% Sharon.   :|  Yeah, Filis[sic!] is in this episode later too, but, like, the first 5-10 minutes was just Sharon. Oh, how I despise this character!! Anyway, Sharon and Filis[sic!] find themselves trapped inside a room at a shutdown sanitarium. They try to figure out who took them (it will almost certainly turn out to be Ian Ward) and what their abductor(s?) want from them.
Nosferatu "Extended Cut" (2024) (Peacock) - Finally got around to watching this. In glorious 4k, so you can see every vein in Lily-Rose Depp's pained and manic face!!
    I have no idea what is in the "extended cut" - the theatrical version is 2 hrs 12 mins, while the "extended cut" is 2 hrs 16 mins: so 4 extra minutes.
    I liked the way this was filmed, esp. early on - there are some really beautiful shots. What I can't figure out is how much of this is "real-world shot" stuff, and how much of this is "greenscreen trickery" - I suspect my favorite shot in the thing is the latter, unfortunately.
    This film discombobulates me by using none of the names from "Dracula" - so no Van Helsing, no Renfeld, no Mina. I did not realize before watching this and looking into it that the original 1922 German "Nosferatu" film was an "unauthorized adaptation" of the 1897 Bram Stoker novel, and thus uses different (specifically German) character names. I have not seen the original - I will now put it on my list, and it's on one of the streamers right now.
    It takes a while for Willem Dafoe to show up (as, basically, Van Helsing), but he's a welcome addition when he does.
    A friend of my niece praised Depp's physical performance here, and it is quite good. (Is she a former dancer?...) Surprisingly, this had much, much less nudity than I was expecting, considering we know that Depp is always up for nudity (if not outright demanding it?!...).
    Ha! Nicholas Hoult has now starred in two different "Dracula" flicks - he needs to go for the trifecta!
    Really?! Bill Skarsgård plays the Count?! Really?!! Is there any supernatural film made these days in which Skarsgård is not the main villain?!!!
    Anyway, while this is perhaps a tad too long, I did enjoy this, and it looks great.
We Kill Them All (Tubi) - A 2025 thriller flick.
    The lead villain's accent gives this one away - it's clearly a Canadian film, and the end credits confirm as it was filmed in Saskatchewan(!).
    Gist: Two cute lesbians (Chloe McClay and Emma Newton, neither of whom I am familiar with) - well, the redhead (McKay) would be cute without all the tattoos - travel to a distant lodge (the film doesn't indicate where, but it's Elk Ridge Resort in Elk Ridge, Saskatchewan) to see the father of the redhead. But when they get there a group of thugs has already killed him looking for some old purloined loot kept by the redhead's old man. Before being killed, the old man takes one of the thugs out, leaving the thug's leader (Leo Fafard, with the obvious Canadian accent) and two underlings to search for the purloined loot.
    The young women drive into this without knowing what they're getting into - so this ends up being two cute lesbians fighting for their lives (and one of the two gets worked over by the head thug pretty bad!) against the three thugs.
    I'll give you one guess as to who comes out on top!
    This took a little too long to get going, but at least didn't take half the film to get going like something else I watched off Tubi recently!
    Anyway, this flick wasn't deep, but it did manage to pass 90 minutes.
What did you watch?