Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-05 (Saturday)

On 4/6/25 12:25 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 4/6/2025 10:46 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 4/6/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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I finished "Reacher" season #3, watched a dumb movie off Tubi, and watched the "Who Shot EJ?" episode of DOOL, along with some golf:
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Zero Hour (Tubi) - There are *multiple movies* with this title, including the post-apocalyptic 1957 flick "Zero Hour!" with Dana Andrews...

 That's what I immediately thought of.  But are you sure it's "post- apocalyptic?" I only ever saw it once, years ago when I learned it was the basis for "Airplane."

You're right - I was confusing this film with 1962's "Panic in Year Zero!". The latter is the post-apocalyptic flick.

But this was a low-budget 2023 entry that clocks in at about
70 minutes.
    Even that was too long.
    I watched this mainly because it stars Mikaela Hoover - who is literally probably best known for being in 2 episodes of "Two Broke Girls" (so she's not a major actress!) - and Sarah Dumont (who, based on the name, I confused with *Emma* Dumont!).
    This was a one-man movie show: written, directed and co-starring Justin Groetsch (who?!) - well, it was actually him and his wife (or sister?), as she produced.
    Did Groetsch really think he was being clever with this flick?!
    He tries a "twist" at the end, but that lasts for all of about a minute, before he launches a "double-twist" ending which didn't work for me at all. And he keeps showing flashbacks to explain/justify these lame twists. This didn't work at all either.
    The only parts that work (very!) mildly are the parts in the middle with Hoover trying to escape late-night intruders into her office. But this flick takes too long to get going, isn't all that great in the middle, and pretty much falls apart at the end with the lame "twists".
    Bah!
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What did you watch?

  I watched:
  Final Destination (blu-ray)
 Final Destination 2 (blu-ray)
 Final Destination 3 (blu-ray)
 The Final Destination (3D blu-ray)

I'm fond of all of these films, but esp. "2" and "3" for starring J.J. Cook and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, respectively.