Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-01 (Saturday)

On 6/2/2024 2:24 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

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

On 6/2/2024 9:28 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 6/2/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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I watched:
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Blumhouse's Fantasy Island (Hulu) - In glorious 4k!

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Hulu has it in 4K?!?  The movie was released on disc only on blu-ray.  :-/
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 OK, here’s the thing. The freestanding Hulu app has it, but doesn’t list 4K
or any choice of resolution on the iPhone, which should support 4K.
 The Disney+ app doesn’t list it at all!
 

    I think I liked this 2020 flick quite a bit more than Anim did.
Yeah, the ending was a little too all over the place, and "too cute".
And this was unfortunately "PG-13 horror" when I was expecting(/hoping
for) "hard R horror" out of this,

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Well...if you watched it on disc you could have watched the unrated
version.  :-)
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Here is a comparison of theatrical vs unrated cut:
https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=246728
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 Thanks for the link. That’s the stupidest and most petty batch of
censorship I’ve ever seen.
 

Listen to some movie commentary tracks.  The pettiness of the MPA knows no bounds!

 

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Blacklight (Hulu) - Also in glorious 4k!
    Honestly, it kind of blows me away that even relatively "low-budget"
flicks like this one (though, I guess USD$43 mil isn't exactly
"low-budget"...) are now getting 4k presentations on the streamers.
    Anyway, this was just OK - it's kind of like "The Parallax View" but

 Am I the only one that can’t tell Liam Neeson movies apart? I have no idea
if I’ve seen this or not.
 However, one of my streamers has been pushing me to watch the parallax
view!
  

I watched:
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Doctor Who (Disney+) - "Dot and Bubble" - The Doctor and Ruby land on a
planet with a small colony of spoiled rich kids who are so self-absorbed
they can't be bothered to leave their social bubble, both literally and
figuratively.  Their refusal to see the world as it really is will lead
to their deaths unless they listen to the Doctor.  Unfortunately for
them the Doctor isn't in their social bubble.

 Here’s the thing. The point where they decided not to believe the doctor
was when he said the tardis had technology that let it be bigger on the
inside.

No.  That was not the point.  It wouldn't have mattered.  The episode was an allegory on racism.  There were lots of subtle and not so subtle indications of this throughout the episode.  But it was easy not to notice if you didn't realize what was happening.  Here are some of the clues going from memory in no particular order:
Everyone on the planet was White.  When the Doctor (or Ruby) made a comment about the planet being for young people they said it was more exclusive than that.  When the Doctor first appeared they immediately blocked him.  They did not block Ruby. Throughout they consistently ignored or dismissed the Doctor, they did not do that with Ruby.  Again, it may have been to subtle to pick up on because of the pace of the episode but they treated the Doctor and Ruby differently.  There was a comment about not recognizing the Doctor as the same person they saw and said something about looking the same to them.  There were lots more but these are just the ones I remember off the top of my head.  Then of course the more blatant obvious being everyone being in a bubble.
I remember hearing a while back they were going to do an episode that addresses racism with the new Doctor being Black.  This must have been that episode.  I had assumed it would be more overt, but I actually liked it better this way.
  They think he’s just talking nonsense and everybody dies because

they don’t believe him.
 But… He’s standing right in front of the tardis! He’s pointing at the
bloody tardis! Why the hell doesn’t he just open the door and show them?
 Two episodes in a row that were pretty good and didn’t have a lot of Dr in
them, but we’re ruined completely by the stupid endings.
  

Confess, Fletch (Showtime) 2022 movie (which has been sitting on my DVR
since 2022) starring John Hamm as "Fletch," who gets caught up in a
convoluted plot involving a stolen painting and a murder.  Beyond that I
really didn't follow the plot of this movie at all.  I've been working
my way through this for the past few days and finally finished it.  The
movie was just sort of on as I watched Fletch make wise cracks and annoy
the police.  Maybe fans of the character will like it more, but I was
just waiting for it to be over.

 Fletch movies just aren’t very good unfortunately. I saw the first one with
Chevy Chase as my first viewing experience in the Cinerama dome in
Hollywood - any movie seems wonderful there!
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I think I saw the two Chevy Chase movies once.  Maybe I saw the first one twice.  But I don't recall liking either of them.