Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-18 (Wednesday)

On 12/19/2024 6:43 PM, shawn wrote:

On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:40:12 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
 

On 12/19/2024 5:15 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 12/19/24 4:54 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
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suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:

On 12/19/2024 1:39 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
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Finished grading the final for the first of my two sections, and then
did a little bit of finish up work on the lab class... With that, I
got
through:
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What did you watch?

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Hey, thanks for asking!
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THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS on The Plex
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Howard Keel

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I thought you meant, "Jaws" at first.  I was about to say, I didn't know
Jaws was in this movie.  LOL
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plays one of the few sighted people in a world of the blind

threatened by poison spitting mobile carnivorous plants. It held up
a lot
better than I thought it would.
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They changed it a lot from the book which may have been for the better
because there aren’t really many answers either way. A mysterious
meteor
shower leaves the world blind. Conspiracy theorists think it was
some sort
of Russian weapon that went wrong and got everybody.
In the book, Triffids are known to the world and kept in pens for as I
recall their oil.  And their poison sacks are kept clipped. With the
world
gone blind there’s nothing to keep them from escaping and wackiness
ensuing.  In the movie, they just appear out of nowhere after the
meteor
shower. It’s hard to imagine these two events as being accidental and
unconnected. But there are no answers to be had just efforts to
survive.
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Meanwhile, Janette Scott (yes, from Rocky Horror Picture Show)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSSlYwVEMSM
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and

her real
life husband who starred in together in CRACK IN THE WORLD, are
trapped in
a lighthouse and besieged by the Triffids. At the end, he turns the
fire
hose on them because he’s run out of things to throw, and it turns
out that
seawater disintegrates them. Well, that was an easy fix!

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I know there are several versions of this movie, but I think I only ever
saw the old, black and white version.  I have *wanted* to see one of the
newer versions for a while now, but no one is streaming them.

 That would be true.. if only it weren't true..

Youtube never even crossed my mind!  LOL.  But thanks for the links.  I think I'll book mark the links and the next time I'm in a hotel room with nothing to watch, that might be a good time to finally check out the new version.
Though it is true for

those unwilling or unable to look, but those who seek, so shall they
find..
 First we start with the classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBVm4Jsa3fQ
 Then there is a 2009 version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDVMLCQT4Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH9FWueZWEY
 How about the audio book version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFVed5FX8XU
  Or the 1981 BBC version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REvX97bTvrY
  Another audio book version from 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIHuvCxsdos
  There are yet more that could be listed but that seems like
enough to prove a point. ;)
 

Yay, you got to watch something!

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iPhone, ear buds  :)

 Ear buds are a great help.
  

"Baywatch" is on The Tubi! (And a bunch of other places, I'm sure...)
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Baywatch?  Are you trying to get him to break his phone?
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This is a two day catch up.
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I watched:
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The Faculty (4K disc) 1998 horror movie directed by Robert Rodriguez and
starring a whose who list of late 90s teens who must save the world when
their high school teachers are taken over by aliens.  This movie name
checks both "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "The Puppet Masters,"
but isn't as good as either.

 Ah, but it has Jordana Brewster and Famke Janssen in it.
 

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Survivor - Season finale.  I am happy with who won.  Last week I had no
idea who they were.  But given the events of the finale, I'm happy with
the outcome.

 It was a great ending to a good season. They had a good cast and they
kept it close till the end. Well, not the very end as the vote was a
bit of a land slide. LOL. Other than the one person  who clearly only
voted for the person they liked the most and not on game play (or as
some suggested they voted clearly on the gender of the winner.)
  As for me.. I watched the SURVIVOR finale and finished off the SECRET
LEVEL episodes. Great little series with pretty good stories in a
short show. Some wouldn't work if the episode were any longer but as
was it was good enough. Looking at you, Spelunky.
 

That reminds me, I need to finish watching Secret Level.

Ah, I also watched the latest episode of FBI MOST WANTED which had the
team going after the dumbest group of bad cops I've seen. Cops that
decided the best way to stop crime was to kill off the bad guys as did
David Crosby when facing off against Dirty Harry. Only they decide to
double down once the FBI shows up and prove how tough they are by
trying to run the FBI out of town. It does not go well for them.
 What did you watch?