Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-25 (Wednesday)

On 12/26/24 10:10 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 12/26/2024 9:05 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Christmas Day was partly a travel day for me, so we just watched football and movies:
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football - We didn't see the first game (Kansas City blew out the Steelers! yay!!), but we did see the second where the Ravens just absolutely *mauled* the Texans, who managed all of 2 points in the entire game on a defensive safety - the rest of the game, the Ravens offense just had their way with things.

 I didn't see any football, but the family had some basketball game on.
 

    A couple of points: Netflix still hasn't perfected live broadcasting, though this wasn't a disaster like the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight was - but it seemed like they had sound syncing issues (this might have been partly on our end, but our experiment with a browser stream had the same issue, so I think it was a Netflix issue) and occasional visual artifacts. Also, Beyonce's halftime show seemed to go on forever (it seemed longer than a Superbowl halftime show!!) - while I've seen worse than this, my brother hated it! Ha!
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Movies:
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Unfrosted (Netflix) - A very silly but very fun 2024 Netflix flick from Jerry Seinfeld about the "cereal wars" between Kellogg's and Post that led to the creation of Pop-Tarts (and the eventual failure of Post's rival "Country Squares" product) in the early 1960s.
    Hey, they get Jon Hamm and John Slattery from "Mad Men" to cameo!!
    This was, I'm sure, in no way historically accurate, but it was pretty amusing. It's nice to see that Seinfeld can put out something funny without Larry David.

 This has been on and off my watch list.  I like the general concept for the movie, but the previews I've seen have not been funny.

I would definitely recommend it if you are a fan of Seinfeld of being silly.

We then watched "Zoolander" which I haven't seen in quite few years. Still hilarious.
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What did you watch?

  I watched:
 The 12 Days of Christmas Eve (Lifetime) 2022 TV movie starring Kelsey Grammer as a business man who dies on Christmas Eve and meets Santa Claus who turns out to manage the afterlife.  Santa agrees to send him back to Earth who a redo and find the true meaning of Christmas, but he keeps dying over and over sort of like Groundhog's Day.  But every time Santa sends him back (up to 12 times) to keep trying to find the true meaning of Christmas. This was mostly background noise.

I think this is better than background noise. I'd give a closer look the next time your watch it...