Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-15 (Friday)

On 3/16/2024 10:25 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

I had an afternoon meeting, and then errands, so when I got home, I was bushed. I thought about maybe watching a movie off streaming in the evening, but I ended up being too tired (and basically went to bed early).
 So all I got through was a soap, and a LMN flick:
 soaps: GH - Thur's ep. Mostly hemming and hawing about Jason. Though I did like Jagger pretty much sticking it to Carly about Jason's disapperance. However, this made no sense with the "big reveal" at the end... That Jason is apparently working for Jagger, to take this conspiracy down from the inside (so Jagger actually knows what is up with Jason - so why is he taunting Carly?!). Well, either that, or Jagger is actually the "Big Bad" behind the scenes, and he's driving the assassinations of the mob bosses!
 Killing All of My Sisters (recorded off LMN the night before) - This was OK. Isabella Carlsen plays Emily, a prissy freshman who rushes a sorority with her tennis star bestie, Jenna (tiny cutie Muguet Del Toro, whose name is spelled with a typo in the end credits!). The sorority is run by Brittany, (Grace Patterson, playing against type as the quasi-villain here), with her second (Key Symone) being nearly as sinister!!
    Well, after some hazing, prissy Emily has had enough, but Jenna, who sticks it out with the sorority, goes missing, after a dalliance with Brittany's scuzzy ex. We know that Brittany and the other sorority sisters are behind it, but Emily can't be sure if Brittany, the sorority's second (Symone) or the scuzzy boyfriend is behind Jenna's disappearance. And is Jenna alive or dead?!
    Some other malarkey happens along the way, like a dead sorority sister, and another pledge getting attacked, etc.
    I will give them mild credit - they don't go for the most obvious candidate as the perp. Just the second most obvious.
    Anyway, this was OK.
  What did you watch?

I watched:
We Have a Ghost (Netlflix) 2023 comedy starring David Harbour as a ghost haunting a house Anthony Mackie buys and moves into with his family.  At first Harbour tries to scare the family's teenage son, but the kid is too full of teenage angst to be afraid.  The teen eventually befriends the ghost.  However, soon the rest of the family find out there is a ghost living in their attic and it can be recorded on their cellphones. With the provable existence of an afterlife, word gets out and all Mackie can see are dollar signs as he hopes to exploit the ghost for profit.  Meanwhile the teen wants to protect his new friend from his father's exploitation and the government which has also taken an interest in the ghost.  A bit long, but otherwise I guess it was OK.
The Frighteners (blu-ray) 1996 horror comedy directed by Peter Jackson and starring Michael J. Fox as a conman who uses his ability to see and talk to ghosts to con people until he stumbles upon the ghost of a serial killer who hasn't let being dead slow him down.
Halo (Paramount+) - "Thermopylae" - Penultimate episode.  I forgot to mention I watched this the other day. In this week's episode something almost happened!  In fact I was so sure something was going to happen that I even stood up to focus my attention on the screen just as the show ended and the credits rolled.  In next week's finale, something is sure to happen.