Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-26 (Wednesday) & 2025-03-27 (Thursday)

On 3/28/2025 5:46 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Sorry - yesterday was my "work-from-home" day, and I didn't feel like posting one of these yesterday morning... So this will be a two-day catch-up.
 As usual, I haven't watched anything since soaps. I'm starting to create another backlog of streaming shows to watch, but I don't really have the time to binge through them right now - I may try to start "School Spirits" this weekend... So soaps it is:
 soaps: DOOL - Wed's & Thur's ep's. More fallout from Tate ratting out Doug III as the thief to Julie... Of course now Holly The Brat wants to dump Tate - her motive of wanting to dump Tate in order to boff Doug is transparent! - Holly is as bad as her mom!! When NuSophia hears the news from Doug that Holly may be dumping Tate, she virtually drools. (Really wish the old Sophia actress was still playing the role.) And Melinda Trask claims to have sold the stolen necklace to JJ (who should have arrested her!)... Meanwhile, after overhearing Philip and Stephanie talk, Xander is convinced they're having an affair - Sarah tries to talk Xander out of doing anything about it, but he confronts Philip and Alex overhears. Meanwhile, outrageously, Sarah wants Stephanie to play along with the idea to Alex - if Stephanie does, she's as dumb as a box of rocks, and for once deserves the romantic disaster that will befall her! Thur's ep instead ends with Stephanie seemingly ready to tell Alex the truth - that Philip is a fraud!
    GH - Wed's ep. Lulu and Brook Lynn continue to clash and Brook Lynn basically calls Lulu and EVOL! bitch! and later Lulu wonders to Cody if Brook Lynn is right about that (she is!!). As I predicted, dumb Kristina walked in before Ava could let Sonny righteously die from a heart attack, so Kristina orders Ava to leave and saves Sonny. Later, Ava tells Ric that something is seriously wrong (physically) with Sonny... The new city councilman character played by Daniel Cosgrove (he goes all the way back to BH, 90210!) continues to agitate against Laura and Jordan. Drew is outraged that Curtis seems to be working with Tracy against him.
 I also put "Jupiter Ascending" on in the background yesterday - I had no idea that a young Vanessa Kirby was in this playing Mila Kunis' scantily-clad roommate. Nor that Eddie Redmayne was in this as the main villain... This is one movie that would definitely benefit from 4k, though I was watching it off an HBO cable channel, so no such luck.
 

It looks great in 3D.  I'm one of the few who really likes the movie.

What did you watch?
 

The only thing I watched worth mentioning is:
A Working Man (theatrical) New action movie written by Sylvester Stallone, directed by David Ayer, and starring Jason Statham.  Statham stars as (checks notes) a working Man. He works for a construction company run by Michael Peña.  Michael Peña's adult daughter also works there, and one day she gets herself kidnapped by Russian sex traffickers.  These Russians are straight out of the "John Wick" / "Equalizer" central casting office.  Peña knows his friend Stathan has a particular set of skills.  Skills that would make him a nightmare for the people who took his daughter, so he asks Statham to rescue her. Statham then sets off to kill his way through Russians.  He even occasionally remembers to ask where the girl is at.  But he's mostly killing Russians and in spite of doing the bare minimalist interrogation, he somehow keeps stumbling his way up the chain of traffickers.  At times this movie was so over the top that it almost felt like a parody of action movies.  Between the two, how in the world is "The Beekeeper" the more grounded and realistic movie?  At one point Statham strapped a gun to his back that was so big that I immediately thought of the buddy cop parody movie, "Hot Fuzz."
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This movie is basically "Taken" but set in the John Wick universe.  They really weren't trying to hide it.  But if you want to see Statham shoot Russians for 2 hours with increasingly larger weapons, then this is the movie for you.
But I do have one question.  If you are setting out to rescue someone who has been kidnapped, why would you bring with you *multiple* grenades?  Where in the thought process do you say to yourself, I'm gonna need a few grenades for this job.  Not that I'm complaining, seeing as how it turns out he was right.