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

On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 08:24:07 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

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...:
 

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.

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

He is trying to keep her for himself.

    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?
 

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I watched:
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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.

Another movie that I've watched more than a few times over the years.
Though never on a big screen.

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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.

A great movie with great characters. Egg Shen and Jack Burton help
make the movie great.

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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
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Hmm, seems like there is a lot of similarity between this movie and
the previous one. LOL.

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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.

I saw that but decided to not give it a try. Instead I've been trying
to work through JUPITER ASCENDING but it is not easy going. There's
the bones of a good story here but the writing let everyone down and
none of the actors are good enough to rise above the writing. At least
we get to see a nice naked butt.

Oh, I also rewatched more of POWERLESS, a short lived comedy about a
bunch of people working at a tech company in a city full of super
heroes and villains. That had Anim8r's favorite person as a recurring
guest, Green Fury AKA Natalie Morales (the actress, not the hostess.)

What did you watch?