Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-28 (Sunday)

On 4/29/2024 5:39 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Yesterday, I actually had to start getting done the work that I had blown off doing on Saturday, so I didn't get through much TV yesterday...:
 soaps: GH - Fri's. Laura righteously tells Sonny that their "friendship" is *over* (as Ava eavesdrops); Sonny seemed genuinely shocked that someone has had enough of his thug lifestyle. Nina informs Carly about the divorce, and that Ava has wormed her way into Sonny's confidence. NuNuNuMolly wants Alexis to talk to Kristina (who wasn't on this epie). Finn and Gregory argue about getting an in-home care nurse; later, Alexis insists that Finn go to a meeting, while Tracy sets Gregory straight on his priorities. Olivia hires Sasha to be the new Quartermaine cook (this is always a bad sign - it means they have no idea what to do with the Sasha character...).
    I didn't even get to DOOL, so I'm now an episode behind.
 The Replacement Daughter (Lifetime) - Never trust Kristen DiMeras bearing gifts!!
    This was about what I expected, except that Stacy Haiduk's character was even crazier and more homicidal than I was expecting.

Stacy Haiduk is in this?  Why didn't you lead with that?!?

    And, yeah - Kristi Murdoch plays the original mom, who ends up in a coma. So, as a result, Murdoch is barely in the film, on in the beginning and the end parts, but entirely missing from the middle.
  What did you watch?
 

I watched:
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (blu-ray) 1984 sci-fi movie starring Peter Weller as an expert in everything who has the save the world from aliens from Planet 10.  The movie holds up great.  I think I probably liked it even more than usual.  I never saw this in the theater.  Most of my viewings in the 80s would have been on a tiny TV screen in pan and scan.  While not the first time I've watched it in proper aspect ratio, watching it blown up on a giant screen was a whole other experience.
Big Trouble in Little China (blu-ray) 1986 action comedy directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell as an average guy caught up in a magical adventure to save the world.  A plot point of the movie involves a girl being kidnapped by a gang sold as part of the villain's evil plan.  The hero gets involved when he goes looking for the girl instead of the police.  Victor Wong co-stars as a wise old man who helps the hero on his journey.  Peter Kwong pops up as one of the villain's henchmen who is killed by being impaled by a blade.  And everyone's favorite character actor James Hong stars as a villain.  At the end of the movie the villain tries to stab the hero with a knife but fails. The hero takes that same knife and uses it to kill the villain.  I love this movie, but I think this may be the first time I realized the plot makes *no* sense!  But the movie is way too much fun to let something as small as that get in the way.
The Golden Child (blu-ray) 1986 action comedy starring Eddie Murphy as an average guy caught up in a magical adventure to save the world.  A plot point of the movie involves a girl being kidnapped by a gang sold as part of the villain's evil plan.  The hero gets involved when he goes looking for the girl instead of the police. Victor Wong co-stars as a wise old man who helps the hero on his journey.  Peter Kwong pops up as one of the villain's henchmen who is killed by being impaled by a blade.   And everyone's favorite character actor James Hong stars as a good guy.  At the end of the movie the villain tries to stab the hero with a knife but fails.  The hero takes that same knife and uses it to kill the villain.  This is such an underrated movie.  It's loads of fun and Murphy chews the scenery like only 80s Murphy could.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhF5iwB_vE
Whatever happened to the actress who played the love interest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETkJs0Mhnmo
The Equalizer - "DOA" - Episode from last week.  McCall gets caught up with international spies.  Just the type of thing a low level street helper would be doing.
"Legendary" - McCall rescues kids at a conversion therapy camp.
A Chef's Deadly Revenge (Lifetime) -  A stalker picks The Wrong Chef who decides to stalk her stalker back.  I'm still working my way through this. But so far this is pretty good.