Sujet : What Did You Watch? 2024-12-26 (Thursday)
De : ijball (at) *nospam* mac.invalid (Ian J. Ball)
Groupes : rec.arts.tvDate : 27. Dec 2024, 19:40:11
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Yesterday was a deliberately lazy Boxing Day. But I did manage to get another movie locked away by Netflix watched!! along with some other flicks:
Thanksgiving (Netflix) - A 2023 Eli Roth special!!
I'll admit, this is not what I was expecting: I was expecting a horror flick set circa 1621 with vengeful natives taking their gory revenge on some Pilgrims! (As Arthur pointed out, was this very idea a fake/spoof movie trailer in some other movie?!...)
Instead, this film begins with a Thanksgiving sale opening that turns into a riot/stampede with some gory death and injuries! (including of a headliner!), at a store owned by "Suits'" Rick Hoffman (and his new trophy wife, "Mutant X's" Karen Cliche!!), and crashed by some teens led by Hoffman's daughter (Nell Verlaque, previously best known for a Lifetime flick).
Sidenote: With all the Canucks in the cast, this was clearly filmed in Can-a-der.
We pick up a year later, and - no surprises here! - someone is plotting revenge! sweet REVENGE! against everyone involved in the store riot/massacre, especially the HS teen group centered around Verlaque and her bestie (Addison Rae), in bloody and gory fashion!!
This was OK (I liked Nell Verlaque), but I was disappointed when they didn't pull a "Scream" and go with a two-killer solution, which I thought they were clearly hinting at. (More likely explanation: They had more than one "double" playing the killer, and they were different heights/builds!!)
They may be making a sequel to this, which seems extraneous, esp. after they killed off the cute Russian-Ametican teen played by Jenna Warren (from "Deadly Dance Mom"!! - and she's obviously a dancer! - I'm not sure if I ever saw "Deadly Dance Mom" on Lifetime: it may never have been released on TV in the U.S....).
football - In an extraneous TNF game, the Seawhawks played the Bears, which the Seahawks won/the Bears lost, 6-3, in uninspired fashion when the Bears threw a final second interception on their last second attempt to try to tie the game by setting up a field goal.
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain (Prime) - Originally a 2023 Peacock original, it has apparently been released by Peacock as it's now on Prime.
A silly, but generally fun, flick from the 3 SNL writers/performers - this seems like some kind of "love letter" to flicks like "The Goonies".
Conan O'Brien co-stars in this as the asshole father of one of the "Please Don't Destroy" guys.
The Big Lebowski (Peacock) - Cult-classic 1998 Coen brothers flick starring Jeff Bridges and John Goodman.
Yeah, I still had never seen this, so we decided to pull the trigger and have me finally watch it.
I found this to be pretty typical Coen brothers "indie cred" film-making, though this one is elevated by good performances nearly throughout, esp. from Bridges and Goodman.
What did you watch?