Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-17 (Monday)

On 2/18/2025 8:07 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 2/18/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 Mondays are my longest workdays, so not much:
 

Monday was a holiday for me.  I was able to start my Tarantino watch early.

soaps: GH - Mon's ep. Lizzie goes to Anna with her "evidence" implicating Cyrus in the original hospital murders, and possibly two more at the rehab facility. Cyrus is clearly planning to kill again - and Lizzie looks to be his target, though Lizzie is still in the cop shop. Josslyn gets rid of Trina by sending her on a "Valentine's Day" date with Kai the (ex-)football player so she can continue to investigate Cyrus... Sasha is becoming really unlikeable - now she wants Jason to go along with actively pretending to be her baby's father, and even plants one on Jason in the cop shop in front of Mac, Anna and Willow, to throw Willow off the trail. (I hope Willow slaughters Sasha when she finds out the baby is Michael's!) Carly tells Sonny about the "Jason is the father of Sasha's baby" theory, but Sonny tells her to stay out of it. Sonny also tells Carly he cut a custody deal with Ava, which makes Carly suspicious.
 Then I finished off the parts of the "SNL 50" special I missed on Peacock, which just included Tom Hank's "In Memoriam" segment of "inappropriate skits" (except most of them looked pretty good!), a "musical" performance from Little Wayne that I did not enjoy at all, the Debbie Downer skit with Robert De Niro, and the beginning of the "scared straight" prison sketch that I missed the first time.
 

Basically the same thing.  I think I dosed off during the scared straight sketch, but woke up for the rest.

I then randomly watched parts of the SNL episode with Chris Rock and musical guest Gracie Abrams off Peacock.
  What did you watch?
 

I watched
Natural Born Killers (4K disc) 1994 movie written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Oliver Stone.  Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis star as a pair of psycho killers who travel the country senselessly murdering people for no reason.  Stone went way over the top in making this movie and really could have used someone to step in and force some restraint.
True Romance (4K disc) 1993 movie written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott.   Christian Slater stars as a video store clerk who falls in love with a prostitute played by Patricia Arquette.  In an act of true romance Slater murders Arquette's pimp (Gary Oldman) and takes off with his drugs.  This prompts Oldman's business partner played by Christopher Walken to come after them to get the drugs back.
On the commentary track Scott said he read the script for this and Reservoir Dogs back to back.  He wanted to direct Reservoir Dogs, but Tarantino told him he was going to direct Reservoir Dogs himself, so Scott had to settle for directing True Romance.  Also on the commentary Scott talked about the scene between Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken, Scott wanted Walken to put the gun to Hopper's head, but Hopper didn't want to have the gun touch his forehead.  To prove to Hopper it was safe, Scott had the prop guy put the gun to Scott's forehead and pull the trigger.  This caused the barrel to come out cutting Scott's head and making him bleed.  I guess Hopper had a point.
Reservoir Dogs (4K disc) 1992 movie written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.  This was Tarantino's debut film.  The story jumps around in time to reveal a bank robbery gone terribly wrong with the surviving bank robbers returning to their hideout to figure out what went wrong. This movie has never looked this good.  This new 4K looks outstanding.
Pulp Fiction (4K disc) 1994 movie written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.  John Travolta and Samuel J. Jackson star as a pair of hitmen who having philosophical conversations while also trying to not break anyone's concentration.  Great movie and this new 4K disc looks great. The reason my Quentin Tarantino watch has been delayed multiple times over the past few years is every time I was about to watch the movies another movie would get a 4K upgrade so I would hold off and push the watch date back.  And this just kept happening again and again.  But now that I'm locked in and watching these it was worth the wait.  These 4K discs look stunning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QGeMApnBQQ
 From Dusk Till Dawn (blu-ray) 1996 movie written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Robert Rodriquez.  George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino play a pair of murderous bank robbers who take Harvey Keitel and Juliette Lewis hostage to help sneak across the border to Mexico.  But they make a stop at a bar that turns out to be a hangout for blood thirsty vampires.  It's been a while since I last watched this.  The movie holds up great, but the print on this disc has seen better days.