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

On 11/19/24 7:14 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 11/19/2024 8:41 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

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

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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.

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

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Soccer final scores can often be 1-0 or 2-1. One side scoring 4 goals is
a high number of goals. In some federations, games can end in ties.
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 Thanks.  I thought that might have been the case but wasn't sure.
 

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.

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Wow. How many times do we get tv series cancelled and it's clear that
the writers never intended to write a proper ending? I'd say every
single fucking time, with this one exception you watched. Maybe I'll
track this down for the novelty of having a proper ending of something
intended for tv.
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What was the intended aspect ratio, 4:3?

 It was made for TV in 2000.  The DVD has both 4:3 and 1.78 anamorphic widescreen.  I watched the widescreen version.  As originally intended it was going to be an ongoing weekly TV series on network TV. It wasn't designed to have an ending.  But then it got cancelled before ever airing and they had all of that footage so they did some reshoots to add an ending to turn it into a prequel movie.
 If you like "Cruel Intentions" it's definitely worth watching as it's own thing.  And it does lead into the movie even though they obviously changed some details around for the show.  It's available for free on Tubi.
 https://tubitv.com/movies/658561/cruel-intentions-2

Not for long - I saw that Cruel Intentions 2 and 3 are marked on Tubi as "leaving soon".