Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-02 (Sunday)

On 3/3/2025 5:55 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 3/3/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 I got through:
 soaps: Y&R - Thur's & Fri's ep. Sharon and Filis[sic!] continue to struggle in captivity, variously bickering and working together - the best bit in these episodes was Filis and Sharon waking up in each other's arms (Filis is a hugger!!), and then recoiling as soon as they realized they were in each other's arms! The mysterious kidnapper (voice) lets them make one phone call, so Sharon and Filis call Nick and Summer, respectively (Summer wasn't in that ep so she wasn't shown), to make up some story about what happened to them, but Nick and Daniel aren't buying the story as there are too many coincidences/oddities. Billy and Sally return to town - Billy is immediately suspicious of the Filis story, while Sally catches up with Audra who tells Sally about her past with Holden. Also, more Adam and Chelsea crap [vomit!].
    GH - Fri's ep. A somewhat disappointing ep. We are once again subjected to awful NuKristina (man I wish this incarnation of the character would just *die*!!) as she gets into it with Ava and Ric (Ric got some great shots in on Kristina!) in front of Sonny, and Alexis and NuNuNuMolly - when her parents get into it, Molly flees, and later admits to Cody that Molly hates that her parents hate each other. Meanwhile, a supplier deal for Deception goes up in smoke, forcing Maxie to consider doing a deal with Jenz Sidwell (that Lucy is pushing), but then Sasha shows up to remind them all that Sidwell kidnapped her. Carly (and Olivia) want to offer Sasha a job, so she doesn't have to work at the Quartermaines anymore.
 golf - Young guy Joe Highsmith (played golf at Pepperdine), who had barely made the cut for this tournament, came out of nowhere to defeat Jacob Bridgeman and Jake Knapp (Knapp had a terrible shot at the waterline of one hole, hitting it back into the water, which pretty much killed his lead) to win the Cognizant Classic (what used to be the Jackie Gleason Classic) for his first PGA win.
 Murder at the Lighthouse (recorded off Lifetime on Feb. 23) - This was OK, but was a not so subtle iteration of "Misery". Abused wife of a disgraced cop (recent Lifetime staple Skye Coyne, who is up there with Brianna Cohen as Lifetime's most recent "It Girl") tries to flee to Canada, taking a boat across Lake Superior. But the ship (and the captain) are lost on the journey, and she washes up on shore where she is rescued by a kind of a hermit lady (Shelli Manzoline) who is a lighthouse keeper. It's pretty clear early on that the hermit lady is stalling our heroine's escape. Meanwhile, the abusive husband shows up, and when our heroine isn't there, the lighthouse keeper brutally murders him. Now they're wrapped up in murder! which seems to be another reason to keep our heroine around. "Misery"-based wackiness eventually ensues... At least this flick was pretty good at ratcheting up the tension.
  What did you watch?
 

I watched:
The Host (HBO) 2006 movie written and directed by Bong Joon-ho.  Song Kang-ho stars as a father trying to rescue his daughter from a sea monster (that also goes on land) and Go Ah-sung plays his daughter. It's an OK movie.  I was a little caught off guard when the movie was in Korean since I'd only ever watched the dubbed version before.  And the first scene in the movie is in English, so I wasn't expecting to suddenly have to start to read sub titles.
Snowpiercer (4K disc) 2013 movie written and directed by Bong Joon-ho. Chris Evans stars as one of a handful of human survivors living on a train forever circling a postapocalyptic frozen Earth.  He leads the oppressed survivors at the end of the train as they battle their way to the front of the train.  Song Kang-ho also stars as a one of the designers of the train and he is reunited with Go Ah-sung who once again plays his daughter.
Parasite (4K disc) 2019 movie written and directed by Bong Joon-ho. Song Kang-ho stars as a father who along with his family one by one con their way into the lives of an affluent family.  The son and daughter pretend to be tutors, the wife takes the maid's job and the husband becomes the new chauffeur.  Sure there are already some people doing these jobs, but they are easy enough for the family to deal with, one way or another.  Soon the family of scammers are enjoying the good life until the original maid returns and reveals a huge secret.  I knew Bong Joon-ho directed both Snowpiercer and Parasite, but I never watched both movies back-to-back before.  Watching them back-to-back you can see he's telling stories about class relations in different settings.  Based on the trailers I assume his upcoming "Mickey 17" will follow the same theme, only in space.
The Academy Awards - Every year I *try* to watch all the films nominated for Best Picture / Director, and all the movies with acting nominations.   This year I tried my best, but I wasn't able to see a lot of the nominated movies.  It seemed like the theaters this year were putting a lot less effort in making the nominated films available to see.  In particular there was one movie I didn't get a chance to see, and that stupid movie swept the night.
The actual viewing experience was a nightmare.  For whatever reason the signal from ABC was pixelated and kept freezing up.  So I switched over to Hulu's live broadcast.  But a few times I tried to switch back to ABC but Xfinity went from pixelization, to not being able to tune the channel at all.  So I settled on just watching it on Hulu, when suddenly it just stopped with a message the live stream had ended.  So I headed back to Xfinity and tried to play the DVR recording I was making in real time, but that wouldn't play back either.  I won't even get into Xfinity's joke of tech support.  I was eventually able to get the DVR recording to play back, but I wonder how many other people had a similar experience trying to watch/stream the show.