Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-05 (Friday)

On 4/7/2024 6:28 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 4/6/2024 11:26 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 4/6/2024 5:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

In article <uurujd$26es8$1@dont-email.me>,
"Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
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On 4/6/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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Yesterday, I got through a soap, and a Tubi movie!

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I saw GHOSTBUSTERS in the theater. It was okay. I think I'd have liked
it more without the kids. Why does Hollywood feel it's necessary to
insert either kids or a love story into every movie?
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Except for the increasingly terrible fantastic, four movies, which have a
built-in 16-year-old that they insist on casting with obnoxious actors, a
decade too old.
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What movie is this?

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Any of the Fantastic Four movies.

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Johnny Storm is 16 in the comics?  I'm pretty sure he wasn't 16 in any
of the animated series either.  He was a robot once, but not 16.  ;-)
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 He was when the story starts, and four out of five fantastic four movies
are origin stories. In fact, I’d place him at younger, except that he
tinkered with hot rods, and Was barely old enough to drive. His older
sister was pretty much jailbait herself.  Johnny was a high school student
and a contemporary of Peter Parker.
 OK research can be fun. :-) Ian‘s Wikipedia article flat out says Johnny
was 16 when he got his powers although they don’t have a cite for it.
Several articles confirm he’s the same age as Peter Parker. He and Parker
both checked out Empire State University at the same time but Johnny put
off college because he was busy saving the world all the time. He ended up
going at least briefly to a couple colleges, one at the same time as Jean
Gray of the X-Men.
 But he was never actually shown graduating high school. It’s assumed he did
since he eventually went to college. It’s also assumed he missed graduation
because of that being busy saving the world pesky stuff.
 It’s surmised that the missed high school graduation occurs somewhere
between issues 35 and 41.
 https://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/fantastic-four
 This appropriately covers dragon man in calamity on the campus, a couple
attacks by the frightful four and a trip off world, and then losing their
powers and daredevil helping them fight Dr. doom. That was an extremely
cool crossover because they actually had daredevil artist, Wally Wood come
in and draw just the daredevil character within a book otherwise drawn by
Jack Kirby. I’m not really sure why the boundary of that ends with 41 and
not 43 which is the conclusion of that storyline.
 Anyway, yeah, he was sort of busy.
 

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It’s amazing that they keep making them, and they keep making them worse.
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Joseph Quinn is 30
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Who *is* this guy?!?  I go to a lot of conventions and for about a year
now I would *constantly* see people on Facebook and Twitter asking for
him to make convention appearances.  I thought it was a running joke or
something.  I never heard of him before.  I googled him and confirmed he
was a real person, but it still felt like a running joke.  Then he gets
cast as Johnny Storm.

 I never heard of him. Isn’t he the guy who took over for Daniel Jackson
while Jackson was dead?
 

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Michael B. Jordan was 28
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Chris Evans was 24 and then 26
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Jay Underwood was 26
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I got to meet Jay Underwood at last year's Vegas Star Trek convention.
I completely forgot he was in Voyager.  Although I wanted a "Fantastic
Four" picture autographed.  Second choice would have been "The Boy Who
Could Fly."  I was surprised he didn't have any "Not Quite Human" photos
on his table.  I forgot to ask about that.  I asked him about "Star
Command" and he shocked anyone remembered it.
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 L O L I never heard of this guy either outside of that FF movie and I had
to look up his name for that.
 

It must be a generational thing.  I was a child of the 80s and in 1986 he starred in "The Boy Who Could Fly."  I was just taking a look at the Wiki page and I see the movie flopped.  Now, I would have sworn it was a hit movie.  But, like many flops of the 80s it went straight to cable and was on constant rotation!  So I must have watched it a zillion times on TV when I was a kid.  Then in 1987 he stared in "Not Quite Human," a made TV (Disney) movie.  He played an android built by Alan Thicke.  Now that was definitely a huge hit because they made 2 sequels.  But these were Disney movies aimed at kids so if you were older than 12 they probably weren't on your radar.  But Star Command, I distinctly remember this (or maybe rec.arts.sftv) talking a lot about it at the time.  It was a sci-fi movie and potential pilot that aired on UPN in 1996.  It starred Underwood and Morgan Fairchild.  It was very divisive with I think most people hating it, but I liked it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo0yLvoiK3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJJAkGRGVkg