Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-10 (Monday)

On 6/11/2024 10:03 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 6/11/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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I watched:
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Doomsday Machine - Nostalgia Critic:
Nostalgia Critic takes a look at the Sci-Fi public domain classic Doomsday
Machine.
https://youtu.be/TBgUk2ZGsx8?si=XkAcV5vHunwq-9fu

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Wow, a movie from 1976 is already in the public domain?! - Somebody really f**ked up to make that happen!!
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And this one actually has an UMDb cast list mostly full of actor portrait pics!!
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But 2.6/10 (>1000 votes) on IMDb is pretty bad.
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What did you watch?

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Ran morning errands, watched soaps, caught a movie on Tubi, and finally started in on a streaming series I've been meaning to get to for a while...:
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soaps: DOOL - Well, that sucks. They (specifically Xander) killed off Constantine. This also means that NuTheresa gets off scot free, and because Constantine only hinted at Alex really not being Victor's son, everyone is still in the dark about that too. All in all, disappointing. And, to cap it all off John is being "Pawnified" on the spot, and may kill an already shot Steve!... Bah!

 All may not be as it seems....
 

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Station Eleven (Max) - First two episodes of the Max Original Series.
    This is a very odd show.
    I thought episode #1 was much stronger than episode #2, and it looks likely to me that episode #1 will be the strongest of the bunch, unfortunately.
    This is a "apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic" series, but not in the usual "Mad Max"/"The Walking Dead" kind of way.
    Episode #1 deals with a sudden plague that wipes most of humanity out in less than a few months, mostly focusing on "Day One" - Jeevan a failing(?) internet "journalist" is at a staging of King Lear(?) when the play's lead star drops dead. He ends up having to chaperone one of the child actresses in the play, Kirsten (Matilda Lawler as a child; Mackenzie Davis as an adult in the flashforward), in the chaos. He soon gets a call from his doctor sister who tells him to immediately get to their loner brother's apartment and hunker down until this "flu/plague" passes. So, he takes the child actress with him to the brother's place.
    This is pretty much what happens in episode #1, and at least it was compelling.
    Episode #2 is mostly 20 years in the future (in "2040"), after the plague wiped most people out, and now the survivors are wandering around. Kirsten has gotten herself in with a roaming "theater troupe", headed by Lori Petty which travels the country putting on Shakespearean plays. But, of course, some creepy types start showing up.
    I found this stuff *much less interesting* than episode #1. If the remaining 8 episodes spend most of the time in 2040, this show is going to be a slog...
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It was kind of a slog, but I kept watching to see where it was going.