Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-10 (Friday)

On 1/11/2025 10:09 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 1/11/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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I'm going to mostly pass on this today.
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I thought I was getting better yesterday, and I thought my fever might
have actually broken last night. But when I woke up, my fever was back
to 103°F.
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If this keeps up another day or two I'm going to have to drive myself to
Kaiser...  :/

 Do us all a favor and call a friend or an Uber or something instead
 

+1

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So, while I thought I was getting better yesterday, I watched B&B and
Y&R "live" (with ads). Then, in the evening, I watched a series of low
challenging movies like "The Wizard of Oz" (on TCM).
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Today, I'm not sure I'm going to get through anything more than Wild
Card football, unless I start feeling better in the evening again.
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What did you watch?
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I watched:
The Bear (Hulu) - "The Bear" - Season 2, episode 10.  This was the season finale.  Carmy and the crew assemble for the restaurant's soft opening.  Early on Carmy is accidentally locked in a refrigerated storage room.  The staff are able to pull together and handle things without him, while Carmy has a major melt down.  Overall, it was an OK finale and one of the better episodes for season 2.
"Tomorrow" - Season 3, episode 1.  It's nice being able to binge these season back to back instead of having to wait a full year.  That being said, this new season premier was a complete mess.  After the episode I headed over to Wikipedia to figure out what I had just suffered through, and they described the plot as, "...a disjointed, chaotic collection of brief flashbacks..."  Oh, and it picks up the day after the events of the season 2 finale.
Paprika (4K disc) 2006 Japanese "R" rated animated movie based on the novel of the same name.  The plot involves someone who steals a device that allows him to enter people's dreams.  Use of the device cause people to lose their grip on reality.  A therapist enters dreams to save people who are having their dreams invaded by the device.  This was my first time watching it since seeing it in the theater.  I'm not sure I understood it any better this time around.  The movie with all of its' dream set pieces can be hard to follow at times.
I almost immediately noticed a lot of similarities between "Paprika" and "Inception" which was released after "Paprika."  I checked and I wasn't the only one who noticed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_(2006_film)#Inception
And a side-by-side comparison here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/ctbr5n/similarities_between_inception_2010_and_paprika/
Coincidentally, "Paprika" is currently back in theaters in limited release for the film's 15th anniversary.