Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-25 (Thursday)

On 4/26/24 11:49 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

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

On 4/26/2024 5:51 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 4/26/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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I had to finish a pestiferous online training yesterday, so I only got
through two things on TV:
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Fallout (Prime) - "The Trap" (ep. #1.6). No Norm or Vault 33 this episode.
    At first, Maximus wants out of the vault they're in, Vault 4, but
Lucy wants to stay a while. However, Lucy begins investigating the vault
after meeting its overseer (Chris Parnell), who is a cyclops!! Lucy is
shocked and disgusted by what she finds. Meanwhile, Maximus is soon
"bought off" by the comforts of life in the vault.
    The Ghoul is captured by some thuggy "lawmen" in the employ a
self-proclaimed "president" of New California (Glenn Fleshler). But The
Ghoul ultimately overpowers them. We also get some more flashbacks of
him when he was Howard, before the bombs dropped. We are shown that
Moldaver was also alive 200 years ago, and was organizing against
Vault-Tec even back then.
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Fatal Fixer Upper (LMN) - This was very "mid" for a Hybrid flick - it
was far from their worst one (my vote for that is probably "The Wrong
Real Estate Agent", which was so bad that AFAICT Lifetime has only aired
it once, unlike nearly all of the other "Wrong" flicks that have aired
multiple time since premiering!), but it still wasn't very good.
    One the plus side, Jasmine Aivaliotis did look supes-cute in this,
despite one or two ridiculous outfits they put her in.
    Meanwhile, Dorian Gregory had, I think, all of two scenes in this,
despite playing Aivaliotis father(?) - he doesn't show up at all
throughout the end of the film, after Aivaliotis' character has figured
out the original homeowner is a psycho! (You would think she would have
told her dad about this!!)

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I have to wonder which do they come up with first, the title, or the plot.

 Usually they come up with a buzzword title, write a script to fit it, and
then change the title.

That definitely seems to be the Lifetime MO, about half the time, based on IMDb having different movie titles than what Lifetime goes with for a good percentage of these flicks.