Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-26 (Wednesday) & 2025-03-27 (Thursday)

On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:01:41 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 3/28/2025 5:46 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Sorry - yesterday was my "work-from-home" day, and I didn't feel like
posting one of these yesterday morning... So this will be a two-day
catch-up.
 
As usual, I haven't watched anything since soaps. I'm starting to create
another backlog of streaming shows to watch, but I don't really have the
time to binge through them right now - I may try to start "School
Spirits" this weekend... So soaps it is:
 
soaps: DOOL - Wed's & Thur's ep's. More fallout from Tate ratting out
Doug III as the thief to Julie... Of course now Holly The Brat wants to
dump Tate - her motive of wanting to dump Tate in order to boff Doug is
transparent! - Holly is as bad as her mom!! When NuSophia hears the news
from Doug that Holly may be dumping Tate, she virtually drools. (Really
wish the old Sophia actress was still playing the role.) And Melinda
Trask claims to have sold the stolen necklace to JJ (who should have
arrested her!)... Meanwhile, after overhearing Philip and Stephanie
talk, Xander is convinced they're having an affair - Sarah tries to talk
Xander out of doing anything about it, but he confronts Philip and Alex
overhears. Meanwhile, outrageously, Sarah wants Stephanie to play along
with the idea to Alex - if Stephanie does, she's as dumb as a box of
rocks, and for once deserves the romantic disaster that will befall her!
Thur's ep instead ends with Stephanie seemingly ready to tell Alex the
truth - that Philip is a fraud!
    GH - Wed's ep. Lulu and Brook Lynn continue to clash and Brook Lynn
basically calls Lulu and EVOL! bitch! and later Lulu wonders to Cody if
Brook Lynn is right about that (she is!!). As I predicted, dumb Kristina
walked in before Ava could let Sonny righteously die from a heart
attack, so Kristina orders Ava to leave and saves Sonny. Later, Ava
tells Ric that something is seriously wrong (physically) with Sonny...
The new city councilman character played by Daniel Cosgrove (he goes all
the way back to BH, 90210!) continues to agitate against Laura and
Jordan. Drew is outraged that Curtis seems to be working with Tracy
against him.
 
I also put "Jupiter Ascending" on in the background yesterday - I had no
idea that a young Vanessa Kirby was in this playing Mila Kunis'
scantily-clad roommate. Nor that Eddie Redmayne was in this as the main
villain... This is one movie that would definitely benefit from 4k,
though I was watching it off an HBO cable channel, so no such luck.
 

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It looks great in 3D.  I'm one of the few who really likes the movie.
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What did you watch?
 
 

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The only thing I watched worth mentioning is:
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A Working Man (theatrical) New action movie written by Sylvester
Stallone, directed by David Ayer, and starring Jason Statham.  Statham
stars as (checks notes) a working Man. He works for a construction
company run by Michael Peña.  Michael Peña's adult daughter also works
there, and one day she gets herself kidnapped by Russian sex
traffickers.  These Russians are straight out of the "John Wick" /
"Equalizer" central casting office.  Peña knows his friend Stathan has a
particular set of skills.  Skills that would make him a nightmare for
the people who took his daughter, so he asks Statham to rescue her.
Statham then sets off to kill his way through Russians.  He even
occasionally remembers to ask where the girl is at.  But he's mostly
killing Russians and in spite of doing the bare minimalist
interrogation, he somehow keeps stumbling his way up the chain of
traffickers.  At times this movie was so over the top that it almost
felt like a parody of action movies.  Between the two, how in the world
is "The Beekeeper" the more grounded and realistic movie?  At one point
Statham strapped a gun to his back that was so big that I immediately
thought of the buddy cop parody movie, "Hot Fuzz."
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This movie is basically "Taken" but set in the John Wick universe.  They
really weren't trying to hide it.  But if you want to see Statham shoot
Russians for 2 hours with increasingly larger weapons, then this is the
movie for you.

Turn brain off and watch the bullets fly. Sounds good to me. ;)

But I do have one question.  If you are setting out to rescue someone
who has been kidnapped, why would you bring with you *multiple*
grenades?  Where in the thought process do you say to yourself, I'm
gonna need a few grenades for this job.  Not that I'm complaining,
seeing as how it turns out he was right.
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Grenades are an important equalizer and easy to carry. I thought
everyone knew that.