Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-22 (Saturday)

On 2/23/2025 5:39 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 2/23/2025 8:09 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

I spent most of yesterday procrastinating, but I did eventually gets
stuff done in the afternoon and evening. But this all meant that I
didn't get through much yesterday:
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soaps: Y&R - Tue's and Wed's ep's. The main event(s) here were Claire's
and Kyle's lunch with Victor, which went exactly how you'd expect,
except that Victor showed his cards and tipped off Kyle and the Abbotts
that he's still coming after them. And (Nu)Summer's clear jealousy of
Claire with Kyle, which Daniel keeps calling her on (I love how he said
she's going all "Phyllis" on this, and Summer *is* acting exactly like
Filis[sic!] here!), which ended up annoying Summer so badly that she
left Daniel at the restaurant!... Meanwhile, Filis is missing (wanna bet
she flew to Paris to go after Billy?!).
    DOOL - Fri's ep. So much for Kristen getting the memory erasing
drug! - It's too late! Brady and Patch(!) rescue Ava, and confirm her
story about Rachel Blake still being alive, so they all haul Rachel
Blake down to the cop shop! (Kristen can't use that drug now!!) But EJ
still had a chance, so EJ goes to inject captive Rafe with the drug
(who, of course, Patch *didn't* discover), but Rafe breaks free and they
struggle over the syringe! (I will love it if EJ accidentally gets
injected with the drug instead!) Meanwhile, Shawn bickers with Belle
about her "relationship" with EJ (he is right - it's unprofessional!).
Javi tells Jada that FauxRafe cheated on her with the stripper on the
night before their ill-fated wedding.
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My Amish Double Life (Lifetime) - I was really hoping that it was going
to turn out that there were two totally separate and unrelated
conspiracies around the two murders involved in this flick. The fact
that I'm disappointed should tell you how this turned out.
    And the identity of the main "big bag" was way too obvious as well.
About the only somewhat unexpected wrinkle was who their accomplice was.
    Gist: Sheltered Amish girl Emma (Lexi Minetree, the new Elle
Woods!!) is heart-broken when her daddy dies under somewhat mysterious
circumstances, and is even more alienated when the Amish elders and even
her Mom (Lifetime semi-staple Lesa Wilson) sweep the mysterious aspects
of his death under the rug. So, under the influence of her rebellious
friend (I think this is as high a profile role as Rachel Coopes has
gotten yet), Emma sneaks out to the "English" world, where she meets a
seemingly nice guy (Ty Trumbo) at a nightclub. On their second date, he
has to leave town, and conveniently(?) lets Emma stay overnight at his
mansion as she's fed up with the Amish elders stonewalling looking into
her father's death. Of course, that night Emma is knocked out and the
dude's estranged(?) wife is murdered, with the murder pinned on Emma.
    In a fit of rare common sense for a Lifetime heroine, Emma picks up
all of the incriminating evidence, and beats it out of there and back to
Amish land. (How did she know to take the evidence?! She doesn't watch
"Law & Order"! She's Amish!!!) But, of course, the cops end up tracking
her down anyway. And he "boyfriend" seems all to willing to throw Emma
under the bus.
    This went exactly where I expected it too. I was really hoping that
Emma's mom would turn out to be EVOL! too, and was involved in the dad's
death along with the Amish elders, but this movie didn't have close to
that much wit about it.
    So, I thought this was pretty "par for the course" for a middling
Lifetime flick, though I guess Emma makes for a relatively "plucky"
heroine (until the ending when she acts like an idiot that would have
gotten herself killed!) - I mean, she is "young Elle Woods" afterall!  :p
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What did you watch?
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I was out and about yesterday.  I caught the new "Back to the Future"
musical.  I wasn't impressed.  I just kept being annoyed by all the plot
changes they made, one in particular seemed to create a huge plot hole
that was glossed over.  But all the scenes featuring the Delorean were
really good, especially when gur pne syrj ng gur raq. Say what you will
about the plot, they spent some money on the production.
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Resuming my Quentin Tarantino watch (which I'm interpreting broadly) I
watched:
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Sin City (blu-ray) 2005 movie based on the Frank Miller comic directed
by Robert Rodriguez (Tarantino directed a scene or something) with an
all star cast including Bruce Willis as the only honest cop in the city
who saves a young girl who grows up to be Jessica Alba who he then has
to save again from Nick Stahl.  Powers Boothe plays Stahl's evil father.
  Mickey Rourke steals the show as Marv, a big thug with a heart of
gold.  With Rosario Dawson leading a group of hookers, and way too many
more famous people to even try and list.  It's been a while since I last
watched this but it held up great.
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (3D blu-ray) 2014 prequel and sequel which
expands on the original movie with many of the original cast back
including Mickey Rourke as Marv and Powers Boothe as the evil Senator
who this time is going up against Joseph Gordon-Levitt.  The way I
remembered it, this movie wasn't that good, but I found myself enjoying
it.  It's not as good as the first one, but nowhere near as bad as I
thought it was going to be.  And the 3D was great.
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I tried to post this the other day, but I'm not sure it went through.

 I saw your post. I started to reply about PULP FICTION, but didn’t get to
it.
 Many many moons ago a friend of mines absolute favorite movie was pulp
fiction. I got it on laser disk and it actually had a provision to play in
linear order. So I made him a linear VHS as a Christmas or birthday gift or
something. He was so horrified about how much he hated it that he actually
destroyed the tape!
 

I have *no* interest in ever watching Pulp Fiction in linear order!  The Sin City disc has an option to watch the segments in order instead of jumping around from segment to segment.  I didn't even consider watching the movie that way.