Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-03 (Saturday)

On 5/4/2025 8:07 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

All I watched on Saturday was the Thur. episodes of DOOL and GH, and I don't really feel like commenting on them. Otherwise, most of the day I played my video game, and in the evening I did some grading and recorded last night's Lifetime flick for later. (And, yes - my Lifetime/LMN movie backlog on my DVR is now 10 TV movies deep! [sigh...] )
 

You made me look.  I have 8, including a Hallmark Christmas movie from 2023, I've yet to watch.

What did you watch?
 

I watched:
Colossus: The Forbin Project (blu-ray) 1970 movie starring Eric Braeden (Escape From the Planet of the Apes) as a computer scientist who as the movie opens is putting the finishing touches on a new supercomputer called Skynet, I mean Colossus, that is buried in the Rocky Mountains that controls the U.S. weapons systems and will make human decision making in war obsolete.  It was hooked into everything and trusted to run it all.  Then it got smart, a new order of intelligence.  The people in charge panicked and tried to pull the plug.  Skynet, I mean Colossus, decided humanity's fate in a microsecond.
Demon Seed (Fawesome) 1977 movie starring Fritz Weaver as a computer scientist who as the movie opens is putting the finishing touches on a new supercomputer buried deep underground that will make human decision making obsolete.  Then it got smart, a new order of intelligence.  The people in charge panicked and tried to pull the plug.  Unfortunately, not before the computer decided it wanted to impregnate a woman (Julie Christie).  "You like games?  So do I."
I think I only saw this once on TV about 30 years ago.  Xfinity gave me a list of streaming options.  I first tried to stream this on XumoPLay, but it was in the wrong aspect ratio.  I then selected Fawesome and it showed it in the proper 2.40:1 aspect ratio.  So this would be my first time getting to see it in the proper aspect ratio.
Wargames (4K disc) 1983 movie which opens with the U.S. military putting the finishing touches on a new supercomputer called Skynet, I mean Colossus, I mean WOPR that is buried in the Rocky Mountains that controls the U.S. weapons systems and will make human decision making in war obsolete.  But when Ferris Bueller decides to take the day off from school, he hacks into Skynet, I mean WOPR so he can play a little Global Thermonuclear War.  "Shall We Play a game?"
Her (blu-ray) 2013 movie written and directed by Spike Jonze starring Joaquin Phoenix as a man who buys a new operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson) to help organize his life but the operating system becomes self aware and the two fall in love with each other.  It's sort of like a nonmusical version of "Electric Dreams."
Jexi (blu-ray) 2019 R-rated comedy starring Adam DeVine as a man who buys a new smart phone with an operating system (voiced by Rose Byrne)which turns out to be self aware.  But instead of helping to organize his life it constantly berates him, and does pretty much the opposite of whatever he tells it to do.  Of course he tries to get rid of it, but it just downloads itself to his new device.  Set in San Francisco, this is another "Electric Dreams" rip off, but oddly doesn't directly reference "Electric Dreams."
Doctor Who (Disney+) - "Lucky Day" - I think just about every season recently, they have one episode where the Doctor only makes a cameo. This must be this season's episode without the Doctor.  After a brief cameo at the start to introduce a new character the focus shifts to present day where the Doctor's former companion Ruby Sunday. Ruby befriends the same young man the Doctor met at the start of the episode.   From there, things get spoilery.  Much like the last time the Doctor wasn't in an episode, they once again brought in UNIT to help fill the gap.