Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-18 (Monday)

On 11/19/2024 6:03 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 11/19/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 Not much:
 soaps: GH - Disgusting: Molly continues to play nice with pathetic Kristina - I'm holding out hope that Molly is just biding her time through Sam's funeral, and then will return to hating the Kristina bitch soon after. I did like Ric laying out Alexis for ignoring Molly once again. The rest of this was the set-up to Sam's funeral. Nina tells Drew it's his last chance to be totally honest about the Willow situation with her - the episode ends before he responds, but I can guess he's going to double-down on lying.
    DOOL - Boring ep: "Body & Soul" (the soap-within-a-soap) premieres, and they don't even show us any scenes or footage from the episode!! (And no Stephanie this ep!) Otherwise, this was just Johnny feeling uncomfortable because stupid Chanel invited Joy to watch the premiere with them. Meanwhile, someone has sent "poisoned cupcakes" to the cast and crew (Hattie seems the most likely suspect).
 I saw some of the Jamaica vs. U.S. soccer game - if you wanted a high- scoring game, this was your game, as the final was 4-2 for the U.S.
 

I don't watch soccer so I can't tell if that's a legitimately high score for soccer or sarcasm.

I then saw most of the second-half of the Texans vs. the Cowboys - the Texans buried the Cowboys (34-10!) who apparently suck this year!
  What did you watch?
 

I watched:
Cruel Intentions 2 (DVD) 2000 direct to video movie written and directed by Roger Kumble.  It's a prequel to "Cruel Intentions."  This movie originally started out as a TV series, but was cancelled before airing, then reedited (with gratuitous nudity added) into a prequel for the movie.  The plot follows Sebastian Valmont (Robin Dunne) whose womanizing father marries a rich woman played by Mimi Rogers.  Sebastian (who's already a jerk to begin with) then meets his evil stepsister (Amy Adams as Kathryn Merteuil) who by the end of the movie has made him as evil and twisted as she is.  The overall story is somewhat of a rehash of the plot of the first movie with Kathryn trying to turn the new girl into the school slut while also messing with her stepbrother's head. The picture quality on the DVD is of course fuzzy, but the overall movie is pretty good, especially considering what they had to work with. They clearly knew the TV show was cancelled (breaking the 4th wall at one point to mention it) and did reshoots to turn what was filmed into a coherent movie with an ending.
Cruel Intentions (blu-ray) 1999 movie written and directed by Roger Kumble.  Ryan Phillippe (as Sebastian Valmont) and Sara Michelle Gellar (as Kathryn Merteuil) play step siblings who like to use sex to destroy people's lives for fun.  Their latest targets are Selma Blair, who Gellar wants to destroy by turning into the school slut, and Reese Witherspoon, who Philippe targets as part of a bet with Gellar.  But Phillippe winds up falling in love with Witherspoon over the course of the movie.  The movie holds up very well.  One thing I noticed, and I have no idea why they made this change, but in this movie, Phillippe references Gellar's mom as being a gold digger who married his father for his money, but in the prequel movie it's clearly reversed and a plot point.  There was also a Cruel Intentions 3, which I'm sure at some point I watched, but I don't remember.  And the original movie was also turned into a stage musical.  Now there's an upcoming new TV series debuting in a few days on Amazon Prime.
(At some point I need to get around to watching "Dangerous Liaisons" which I've never seen before.)
Cross (Amazon Prime) - I finished the last 3 episode of the show. Overall, I liked it.  Ed Ramsey played a great psycho who often had me at the edge of my seat.  That being said, the ending was a little rushed.  Instead of shoehorning in two villains for Cross to deal with, they probably should have saved the reveal of the second villain for a season ending cliffhanger.