Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-19 (Sunday)

On 1/20/2025 9:53 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 1/20/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 I finished my work for the coming week while watching disappointing football games. I also watched soaps, 3 more episodes of "Silo" season #2, and got through a disappointing movie on Tubi:
 soaps: DOOL - Thur's ep. Well, that was fast - Leo enthusiastically runs his latest "Javi is Lady Whistleblower" theory by Marlena, who points out that Leo's "evidence" is entirely circumstantial. But this is cleared up later when Leo and Marlena run across Javi and Kerry, and Javi tells Leo that the "I [Heart] Rochester" sweat shirt is actually Kerry's... There was also Holly/Tate/Doug III stuff, but meh. (I am very disappointed to discover that they are going to recast Sophia, which I think is a bad choice as Madelyn Kientz is good in the role; apparently they're also going to recast brat Rachel...) On the latter front, Brady and Ava discuss the Rachel problem, while Kristen convinces Rachel to get her head shrunk! (and her head needs a lot of shrinking!!).
    Y&R - Wed's ep. After Daniel basically says he wants nothing to do with it, Billy reveals his big anti-Victor "plot" to Filis[sic!], and she rightly poo-poos it with prejudice!... Claire reveals to Victoria and Nikki that she fed Jordan a bill of goods (too bad - I was hoping Claire was actually being honest with Jordan), and then declares that the only way out of this is to kill Jordan! (She's not wrong!) Nick and Victor get an update from Chance, proving that Sharon was kidnapped. Sharon tries to free herself.
 football - The Rams choke against the Eagles. Then Bills outplay the Ravens (who at least kept it close). And now I am out of teams in the playoffs...  >:/
    Luckily, next weekend is golf at Torrey Pines.  :)
 Silo (Apple TV+) - Ep's #2.5-2.7. Juliette comes down with an infection, and then Solo uses that to coerce Juliette to solve Solo's "flooding" problem in his Silo. But then it seems like Juliette is sabotaged, and when she "returns to base" it looks like someone has possibly attacked Solo and he is nowhere to be found.
    Mechanical continues to undermine Bernard, and outwitting Sims' replacement.
    The Sheriff gets closer to discovering what Juliette knew before she was put out of the Silo.
    Sims' Lady MacBeth wife continues to play both ends against the middle (really, she's betting against Bernard), even without telling Sims what she is up to, including allowing Shirley and Knox to escape Bernard's goons... Later, now Judge Sims refuses to help out Bernard, pretty much declaring open war between the two.
    I love how Lukas Kyle, who was originally dragged into this mess by Juliette, keeps getting passes from Silo's authorities! - after getting his sentence shortened by the late judge, he is drafted by Bernard to restore Juliette's hard drive, and then to attempt to decode an old letter - he is even made Bernard's shadow! And it's revealed that Bernard has a secret AI inside the "IT" vault. (Does Solo have one of these too?...)
    Three more episodes of this to go, which I will get to today.
 The Death That Awaits (Tubi) - Very disappointing "horror" (not really) flick from 2024.
    Allison Paige is third-billed in this, but literally doesn't show up until the last 3 minutes of the film. Paul Johansson is last-billed, but it actually probably the third most important cast member.
    The lead Katya Martín is attractive, but this film doesn't go anywhere interesting, and I thought the ending was a real letdown.
    Gist: A drifter with a past (Martín) is hired to basically "caretake" a sick teen (Megan Lawless). What's wrong with the teen? - Well, early on it's clear she's either turning into a vampire or a werewolf. They settle on which of these fairly early on.
    And then pretty much nothing happens.
    Until the ending which again I thought was nonsense.
    I'm also getting very tired of vampires that can walk around in the Sun - the whole point of vampires is that they can't do that!
 

I thought vampires sparkled in sunlight.  You mean they don't sparkle?

What did you watch?
 

I watched 4 movies from my Columbia Studios 4K Box sets.  Each set has 6 movies, and of the 6 there are only ever 2 or 3 I actually want, but I have to buy the whole set to get them.  These were the remaining movies in the sets I didn't actually want to watch, but I paid for them, so I was going to watch them!  I watched:
The Last Picture Show (4K disc) 1971 drama set in a small Texas town about the lives and loves of the various teenagers including Cybill Shepherd who is in a love triangle between two best friends played by Timothy Bottoms and Jeff Bridges while also being sought after by Randy Quaid.  I know there is a sequel, and I have been keeping an eye out for it for a couple of years now, but it *never* airs it's not available on any of the usual streaming sites.
Kramer vs. Kramer (4K disc) 1979 drama staring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep as married couple who have a troubled custody fight when Streep takes off one day then shows up 18 months later demanding Hoffman hand over their kid.  This had a pretty good commentary to help distract me from realizing I was watching Kramer vs. Kramer.
Sleepless in Seattle (4K disc) 1993 romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks as a recent widow whose young son decides to pimp him out on a call-in radio show.  Meg Ryan plays a stalker who lives across the country and in spite of the fact she's already engaged to Bill Pullman she hears Hanks and his kid on the show and starts to stalk Hanks.  Ryan goes so far as to hire a private investigator to spy on him and fly cross country to see him.  How is any of this OK?!?  It doesn't help matters that Hank's kid decides he wants Ryan to be his new mother, so the kid eggs her on.  This was my first time watching this movie.  I guess it was OK.  But fair warning, Ryan's character is not named Sally, and at no point did anyone say, "I'll have what she's having" or "You've Got Mail."
As Good as It Gets (4K disc) 1997 romantic comedy starring Jack Nicholson as the rudest man in New York.  He falls for a waitress (Helen Hunt) who is the only person living in New York willing to put up with his rudeness.  He also befriends his next door neighbor (Greg Kinnear) after his neighbor is assaulted and he has to take care of his neighbor's dog for a few weeks.  I don't think I've ever watched this before, but I'm not 100% sure.  I've watched so many clips from the movie over the years I'm not sure if I've seen it before or just remembering the clips from seeing them on TV.  Anyway, I guess it was OK, but it felt like it went on forever.  They could have cut 30 minutes out and I wouldn't have missed them.
I have now watched all the movies in the box sets except for 1, and I will get to that movie probably next year.