Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-11 (Tuesday)

On 6/11/2024 7:23 PM, shawn wrote:

On this day I watched THE IMITATION GAME from 2014. A wonderful movie
about the sad life of Alan Turing. Someone who can truly be called the
father of modern computing. The story is mostly a bit of his child
hood at one the British boarding schools with the obligatory harsh
treatment of anyone seen as out of the ordinary and his work during
World War II in breaking the Enigma machine cryptography. Such poor
treatment of the man after all he did during the war and the lives he
helped saved that helped lead to his eventual suicide at a young age
(only in his early 40s.) All because he was homosexual and that was
very much against the law in the 40s/50s.
 What did you watch?

I watched:
Batman: Assault on Arkham (blu-ray) - 2014 direct to video animated movie.  I'm slowly making my way through the DC Animated Universe (DCAU) movies heading to the "Tommorrowverse" and "Crisis" movies.  I own close to all of them.  Most I've already watched, but a lot of the more recent ones, I haven't gotten too yet.  I have a list to help me keep track of where I left off.  I went to get the next two on the list and noticed a couple of movies sitting on the shelf that weren't on the list.  Turns out in addition to the DCAU there are also "standalone" movies and Batman: Assault on Arkham is considered a "standalone" and not part of the DCAU. I went ahead and watched it.  Basically Amanda Waller (CCH Pounder) sends a group of super villains on a suicide mission with the promise of exploding their heads if they refuse to go, or time off their sentence if they obey.  The plot was convoluted!  I'm still not entirely sure what their objective was.  Anyway, it was otherwise OK.
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (blu-ray) 2015 direct to video animated movie.  This is the next flick in the DCAU.  Following the events of  "Justice League: War" the League is a League in name only with no one showing up to meetings.  A nuclear submarine is attacked in the middle of the Atlantic so the government sends Cyborg (Shemar Moore) to investigate.  He is also attacked but escapes.  Cyborg then calls the League together to investigate this new undersea threat.  Meanwhile "Arthur Curry" (Matt Lanter) learns he is the future King of Atlantis but his evil half brother King Orin (also voiced by Matt Lanter) is trying to provoke a war.  Basically it's almost the exact same plot as the live action movie except with the Justice League thrown in.  It was generally pretty good except I was very annoyed by how Orin was able to almost single-handedly take out the entire Justice League with his magic Trident. He had some serious plot shield going on because Superman should have been able to single shot him and ended the whole thing in seconds.  Anyway by the end Aquaman is part of the League and they are basically a team now.