Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-29 (Sunday)

On 12/30/2024 6:48 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 Just football. And the only game worth mentioning was the evening game of
Atlanta vs. Washington which at least went to overtime - Washington’s win
helps Tampa get into the playoffs.
    

I watched:
Conan the Barbarian  (4K disc) 1982 sword and sorcery movie which has Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) escaping enslavement, falling in love, and battling Darth Vader all in the same movie.  This was a new 4K set with tons of new extras including new multiple cuts of the movie, multiple commentary tracks, and a new Dolby Atmos sound.   Contemplate this on the tree of woe, do you watch this new disc with a new commentary or Dolby Atmos?  It was a tough call, but I went for the extended cut (longest option available) and the Dolby Atmos track.
Conan the Destroyer (4K disc) 1984 sword and sorcery sequel which finds Conan being sent on a quest by Sarah Douglas to escort a princess (Olivia d'Abo) to obtain a magic horn.  Growing up as a kid this was my Conan movie.  I saw it so many times before I ever got around to seeing the first.  I don't think I even knew this was a sequel.  The disc had several new commentary tracks.  I decided to watch with a Sarah Douglas commentary.  She didn't talk much about the movie, but she did talk a lot about her life and career which was more than enough to keep me happy. Although when she did talk about the movie she and her commentary track companions were generally making snarky comments about it, and that was good too.
Red Sonja (4K disc) 1985 sword and sorcery movie which stars Brigette Nielsen as Red Sonja, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan, I mean Kalidor.  The two of them team up to go on a quest to stop an evil queen from destroying the world.  Unfortunately this disc doesn't have a commentary track.  It's directed by the same guy who directed "Conan the Destroyer." I briefly sampled about a minute of the Conan the Destroyer director's commentary and he mentioned he was one of the few directors to ever survive making multiple movies for Dino De Laurentiis (who produced this and the Conan movies).  If I ever get around to rewatching Conan the Destroyer with the director's commentary, hopefully he'll have some good stories about making this movie too.
The Northman (4K disc) 2022 movie directed by Robert Eggers and starring   Alexander Skarsgård as a man, who when he was a boy saw his father murdered and his mother (Nicole Kidman) taken.  He escaped and vowed to return as a man and get revenge and rescue his mother.  I didn't enjoy it as much as I did when I watched it before, but maybe I wasn't in the mood.
What If...? - (Disney+) "What If... the Watcher Disappeared?" - Some other Fifth Dimensional beings (hey isn't that where Mxyzptlk lives?) are fed up with the Watcher interfering so they decide to step in and stop him.  But a multiverse team of heroes he has helped in the past notice and decide to attempt a rescue.
"What If... What If?" - In the sense shattering series finale, it's the multiverse heroes vs. the Watchers.