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

On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:52:25 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On 6/12/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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I should have gotten stuff done yesterday, but instead I just watched
movies all day!!:
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First, in the morning, I got sucked into watching "Happy Death Day", on
the Siffy channel, once again! I really do like this movie - esp. the
wrinkle about how she "accumulates damage" (IOW, loses "hit points"!)
after each successive death. Maybe the only issue with this flick is
that I feel like the Third Act isn't quite as strong as the first two
acts (the killer's motivation was especially weak, IMO). (And, like, how
do the cops not take her in for murder after that?!!)
   Siffy did not play "Happy Death Day 2" immediately after, which is
quite a different film, but even if they had I am not sure I would have
watched it as I wasn't up for it...

I really enjoyed this film

Station Eleven (Max) - Episodes #3 and #4. Episode #3 was a slog,
focusing on a character we barely saw before this, who gets stuck in
Malaysia when the plague hits.
   Episode #4 was somewhat better (special guest star: David Cross!!),
as at least they follow up on what this Prophet dude is after in 2040,
and what he's willing to do.
   Still, this is more slog than not, and the unnecessarily excessive
use of non-linear storytelling is a minus, not a plus here.
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Uncharted (Hulu) - In glorious 4k! (on Hulu, yet!!)
   Finally got to seeing this.
   It was OK-to-decent - pretty much in the vein of "National Treasure"
or something like that.
   There was a very conspicuous cameo from Nolan North in this, which
doesn't make such for such a low profile actor... unless he voiced the
video game series this film is based on, which of course he did (North
voices Tom Holland's character in the games).
   This apparently did a lot better at the box office than I remembered
(I thought it was a flop) - well enough that it sounds like a sequel is
in the planning (though not production) stages...

That's pretty much the consensus from other people that I've heard
from. The game's story is much more enjoyable that the movie.

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What did you watch?