Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-20 (Thursday)

On 6/21/2024 9:24 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 6/21/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 On the last workday of the (summer!) work week, I watched soaps and some more movies!:
 soaps: DOOL - This was mostly set up for the "prom" episode that will come Friday. (Uh, it's mid- to late-June - Do HS's *anywhere* have prom this late in the year?!!) Anyway, NuTate's date (can't remember her name) overhears Tate and his friend (can't remember his name) talking about prom, and realizes that Tate isn't interested in her and is just using her to get close to Holly - later, Tate's date rats out their scheme to NuTheresa! So they're going to get busted on Friday. Meanwhile, Theresa has a disturbing dream about giving it all up for Brady! Stefan forces EJ to reveal he's DA again to Nicole.
    GH - Finn's bosses refuse to let him back to work, and he takes it about as well as expected. Spinelli gets the audio file of Carly's incriminating confession that Jagger has been holding over Jason and makes a copy for Sam, who beelines it to Carly.
    Y&R - I only saw a little bit of this - Victoria's younger daughter still resents the insertion of Claire into their lives. Claire commiserates with Kyle (I can't even figure it out - are they blood relatives, or not?! I think they're not...).
 Target: My Daughter (Tubi) - This was interesting - this 2017 thriller felt too low-budget to be a Lifetime flick (IOW, even lower budget than a Hybrid Films flick!), so it never made it to Lifetime.
    Also, I have a theory that Yancy Butler has been blackballed by Lifetime

I thought she was blacklisted by Hollywood in general.
(I think she appeared in a Lifetime film or two a decade or

more ago, but has not been in a Lifetime flick in at least a decade!), so they probably wouldn't take a movie with her anyway...
    But it also stars Karis Cameron, c. 2017 - so between Cameron doing "Open Heart" in 2015 and her first Lifetime flick (which was "Identity Theft of a Cheerleader") in 2019 - back when Karis Cameron was still young and beautiful (and before she put on the weight, post-2020 - Cameron effectively hasn't worked since 2022).
    Anyway, in this, Cameron's character witnesses the murder of her father (via cell phone), by a gangster (Aurelio Di Nunzio), and so she and her mother (Butler) - who, of course, happens to be ex-special forces or something - are put into witness protection (the original title of this flick was "Witness Protection") in a coastal village somewhere (this couldn't look more like British Columbia if they tried!!).
    And, of course, the gangster sends a hitman (hey! it's Sebastian Spence!) after them.
    This was barely OK, but I enjoyed Butler's twitchy performance as sort of crummy mom-type, and Karis Cameron has perhaps never looked better than here.
 Prowl (2010) (Tubi) - OK, I am about 95% sure I have seen this 2010 flick before, most likely on the Chiller channel back in the midish-2010s.
    This has an even more laughable crediting sitch' than the movies I watched on Wednesday - the indisputable "star" of this 2010 horror flick is Courtney Hope (before she f**ked up her looks and got gigs on B&B and Y&R - Hope is naturally thin-lipped as you can see here, but in later life she has refused to accept this fact...  :/  ) - anyway, Hope is credited *third* in the film's primary end-credits, and *fifth*!! in the film's cast list credits. Despite being the film's clear lead!! That's ridic.

She needs a better agent.

    Anyway, Hope's character ropes in a bunch of friends (among them, a young Perdita Weeks (after she did "The Tutors" but before "As Above, So Below"), Ruta Gedmintas and Josh Bowman (from "Revenge")) to accompany her to Chicago. For [reasons], they are eventually to be transported there by a truck driver played by Bruce Payne - hint: if your driver is played by Bruce Payne, he is up to no good.
    From this point, the film doesn't waste anytime in getting to (improbable!) horror.
    This was about on part with Wed's flick "Underground" - it's a decent "ride", once it gets started.
    P.S. In this one, Perdita Weeks has arguably the most horrific death scene.  :/
 My Two Husbands (LMN) - This wasn't nearly as lurid as I was hoping.
    Also, I was kind of hoping that Kabby Borders would figure out a way to get out from under the EVOL! first husband, and just live "happily ever after" with the conned second husband.
    Part of the issue with this film is that both Kabby Borders' character, and the character of the step-daughter played by Isabelle Almoyan, were both too stupid to live!
    It's hard to root for anybody when your lead characters are too stupid to live!
    Anyway, this was just mostly OK, though it was kind of fun to see Almoyan's character continually get herself into situations where she should have ended up dead!!
  What did you watch?
 

I watched:
The Boys - "Wisdom of the Ages" - I'm not even going to try and summarizing it.  But I guess it was OK.
Evil (Paramount+) - "How To Fly an Airplane" - Team Evil investigate a potentially holy artifact.  Meanwhile the most annoying TV kids ever prove why they need a babysitter.
Hose of the Dragon (HBO) - "A Son for a Son" - Season 2, episode 1.  I don't know why HBO even bothered with that pathetic thing they called a recap at the start of the episode.  I tracked down a slightly better recap, but I was still lost.  I no longer know who is who!  Anyway, I guess it was OK.
Superman: Red Son (4K disc) 2020 Stand alone DC animated movie starting in an alternate 1955 where Superman was raised in Soviet Russia by Joseph Stalin.  In this world Lois Lane is married to Lex Luthor.  And since it's the 50s everyone smokes. But it's OK because Lane smokes the same brand of cigarettes as her doctor.  Anyway, Superman finds out that Stalin isn't the nicest guy and decides to take him out and become the new leader of the Soviet Union.  He then reunites Korea by force and promises to bring his style of truth, justice, and the Soviet way to the rest of the world.  The movie then goes on through the 80s showing what the world would have been like with Superman a Russian and Lex Luthor (who eventually becomes President) the protector of the U.S.  Batman is also in this but in this version he is also a Russian, and out to defeat Superman.  This was pretty good.  I almost skipped it.  I very glad I decided to go ahead and watch it.
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (4K disc) 2020 Final movie in the DCAMU.  When the movie started and the first thing on the screen was rated "R" I knew it was going to be good!  And it was.  This is probably the best movie in the entire DCAMU.
The DCAMU started in 2013 with Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. We all know the story, Flash goes back in time to save his mom and instead creates a new timeline where everything is horrible.  At the end of Flashpoint Flash thinks he resets the timeline, but doesn't.  There's a post credit scene with a boomtube from Apokalyspe.  The next movie was "Justice League: War" which had the individual members of the League teaming up to fight an invasion from Apokalypse.  After that there were over a dozen movies in the DCAU within this continuity.  There were "Justice League" movies, "Teen Titan" movies, "Suicide Squad" movies, a ton of "Batman" movies, and some "Dark" movies featuring Constantine. "Justice League Dark: Apokolips War" brings everyone together for one massive "Avengers: Infantry War" style movie.
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The movie opens with Superman assembling the League and the Titans (who are still on Earth) and explaining the League is about to launch a full assault on Apokalpsyse to handle Darkseid once and for all.  The Titans will remain behind as back-up.  The League arrives and it's a trap. Darkseid was ready for them.  Cut to 2 years later and Earth is shown in ruins.  Darkseid has conquered Earth.  A depowered Superman and Raven go into a bar to find a drunk Constantine and even drunker Etrigan trying to drown their sorrows away.  From there Superman reveals the Earth is being drained by Darkseid and only has about a week left before the planet dies and what's left of the League and what's left of the Suicide Squad is about to make a final stand against Darkseid on Apokalypse. It's later revealed that those of the League that Darkseid didn't kill, he twisted and corrupted into his loyal servants.  Except for Flash who is literally running on a treadmill to power Apocalypse.  The movie is basically a series of battles and final stands until a final epic showdown on Apocalpyse.  But when all was said and done they acknowledged all of this happened because of Flashpoint so Flash goes to undo Flashpoint and essentially wipes out the DCAMU.  And that lead to the Tomorrowverse.
Like I said, this was basically Avengers: Infinity War with Darkseid in the Thanos role, tearing through heroes as if they were made of butter.
The Green Lanterns put up a good fight but were no match for Darkseid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ukFFyXSGw
The Suicide Squad goes out with a bang:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fNxg7Q32gg