Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-23 (Saturday)

On 11/24/2024 10:23 AM, shawn wrote:

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 09:07:47 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
 

On 11/24/24 9:04 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
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I didn't do much of anything yesterday, except take it easy. Just did a
chore or two.
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I watched:
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Christmas in the Spotlight (Lifetime) - This really was 100% just
straight up lifted from Taylor Swift's and Travis Kelce's romance.
     This was OK, I guess.
     Jessica Lord is somehow unrecognizable from her "The Next Step" days
- I think it's the combination of weary (too much!!) makeup her,

 No one should be wearing weary makeup. Unless they are supposed to be
worn out from a hard day. ;)
 

We'll try this again: "I think it's the combination of her wearing (too
much!!) makeup here, and..."
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and her hair.
     Laith Wallschleger seems to less be playing Travis Kelce here, and
more playing Gronk. But, whatever.
     Also, have quarterback and wide receiver brothers ever played on the
same NFL team in the history of the NFL?! I can't recall an example of
this...
     Anyway, this was OK - "Taylor Swift" meets-cute "Gronk" at her
concert, through "Gronk's" niece, and they start up a romance. But of
course "Taylor" wants to keep it "casual" and secret. There are
obstacles along the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah...
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What did you watch?

 I split some time between the various college games watching Georgia
come back from what looked like a potential loss in the first quarter.
Then seeing Auburn pull off a win in 4th Overtime (yes, 4 overtimes)
and Florida do the same. Both of which helped Georgia's ranking.
 I also watched THE EXPENDABLES 2 where we only got a small bit of
Charisma Carpenter

Yeah, I thought she was in part 2.
and Jet Li as they made Dolph Lundgren a full

member

I mean, he only betrayed and tried to kill them in the first one. What's to forgive?
  of the team and has both Schwarzenegger and Chuck Norris play

big parts along with Jean- Claude Van Damme as the Vilain. They also
had Bruce Willis show up again as the guy getting everything going as
the CIA contact who actually got into the fight this time.
 Oddly enough they added a female helper, Yu Nan, who got to show off
more martial arts skills in this movie than Jet Li did in the previous
movie.
 

I don't remember her character.  I guess she was the replacement for Li.   I really wish he had a bigger role in 2 and 3.  Was he even in 4?

The plot is the team needs to retrieve a package from a plane that
crashed in a remote area. They manage to pull it off with seconds to
go. Sadly as they leave they run into the bad guys who want the box
they retrieved from the plane. Seems the box has a map to tons of
plutonium that was left behind by the Soviet Union. Since they have
the good guys covered and one of the good guys captured the good guys
give over the box, but Vilain proves his a villain by killing the
captured good guy before they leave.
 That leads to the good guys hunting down the bad guys (sounds
familiar) and end up taking them out with lots of explosive help from
Arnold, Chuck and Bruce. A bit of mindless fun.
  What did you watch?