Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-26 (Sunday)

On 5/27/2024 7:25 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 I finally saw a couple of episodes of the most recent season of “The Next
Step” (season #8?…) Now I understand why it wasn’t picked up
internationally. The show is atrocious now. The acting was always sketchy
on this show, but now the cast is pretty universally terrible with no
standouts (neither on the dancing end either).
 And not only are there no original cast members left, even the people who
were main cast in season #7 have all disappeared.
 I am going to guess that there will be no season #9!
   

Does this have any connection to the "Step Up" movies?
I watched:
Showdown in Little Tokyo (blu-ray) 1991 action movie starring Dolph Lundgren as a rule breaking lethal Weapon of a cop who is Out for Justice while making the bad guys Die Hard.  Brandon Lee co-stars as his buy the books cop buddy.  With Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as the over the top villain and Tia Carrere as the eye candy in distress who cares how bad the plot is?  Just watch Lundgren shoot stuff while tossing out one-liners.
Rapid Fire (blu-ray) 1992 action movie starring Brandon Lee as a student who is coerced by law enforcement into agreeing to testify against a mob boss.  But the cops assigned to protect him work for the mob and after being forced to kill the cops protecting him he's on the one from both the mob and the cops.  Powers Boothe co-stars as a cop with a vendetta against the mob who Lee is forced to work with to bring down the mob.
The Crow (4K disc) 1994 movie starring Brandon Lee as a musician who along with his fiancée is murdered the night before his wedding.  A year later he returns from the grave as an unstoppable killing machine out to reap vengeance on the men who wronged him.  Hold's up great and Lee's best movie.
Atlas (Netflix) New sci-fi movie starring Jennifer Lopez as a consultant helping the government fight their war against an evil AI (Simu Liu) who reprogrammed domestic robots to rebel against humanity.  After millions dead humanity was able to get the upper hand forcing Liu to flee off world.  Once humanity learns where Liu is hiding they send a military force after him and Lopez bullies her way into tagging along.  Except in spite of the AI rebellion humanity still uses AI and on this mission Lopez will be forced to work with an AI even though she hates them.  I know I have a very high tolerance for bad movies, but this movie really isn't nearly as bad as the reviews would have you believe.  It's a standard turn your brain off and watch things get blown up sci-fi movie.   I didn't watch this for the acting.  I watched this to watch people in giant mech suits battle androids.  This movie delivers on that, more or less.  So I'm not going to complain.
Interview with the Vampire (AMC) "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned" and "Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death" - I caught up on the first two episodes of season 2.  Once again a network has waited well over a year between seasons.  Picking up where season 1 ended Louis and Claudia have "killed" Lestat and fled to Europe.  They search for vampires and eventually end up in France where they meet a theatre troupe of vampires lead by Armand and Santiago.  Claudia likes her new friends but Louis is terrified the vampires will discover what they did to Lestat.  And the fact vampires can read minds definitely doesn't set him at ease.  But Claudia is just throwing all caution to the wind.  Eric Bogosian returns as the journalist interviewing Louis and continues to provide snark whenever Louis' story doesn't add up.  At the start of the first episode there was a title card that said "the role of Claudia will now be played by Delainey Hayles."  I'm guessing the original actress either aged out or was too busy making Avatar movies.  But it was a nice acknowledgement that they changed actors.