Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-22 (Thursday)

On 5/23/2025 10:56 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

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

On 5/23/2025 7:27 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Fringe S2E21 'Northwest Passage'.
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Peter finds Newton in Twin Peaks while running away from home.
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The glyphs in this episode spell "Return".
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Dr. Walter Bishop: The hadron super collider is less complicated than
that infernal dishwater.
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LOL
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On Peter's Sat Nav it shows that he is in Snoqualmie, Washington. This
is one of the filming locations of Twin Peaks to which this episode
bears several similarities.
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What Did You Watch?
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I watched:
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Family Guy - Another episode or two as I continue to make my way through
my backlog.
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Welcome to Wrehxam - "Disney FC" - Season 4, episode 3.  They are still
desperately trying to portray this team as the underdog when they are
anything but the underdog.
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Law & Order: Organized Crime (Peacock) - "Beautiful Disaster" - Almost
the entire cast was missing from this episode.  If they explained why
they were all gone, I missed it.  But Stabler teams up with a federal
unit to track some local terrorist using technology to kill people.
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (theatrical) - This is part 2
of the last movie, which ended not so much on a cliffhanger, as it just
sort of stopped.  This one picks up 2 months later with Ethan (Tom
Cruise) and his team still on the run.  And the evil AI (AKA Skynet) is
plotting the downfall of humanity.  This movie felt like 50% Mission
Impossible film, and the rest were made up of bits from "The Hunt for
Red October," "The Abyss," "Fail Safe," "War Games," and maybe a little
"Dr. Strangelove" too.  I mean, fighting in the war room *would* be a
"Dr. Strangelove" reference, right?  It was definitely derivative, but
that's not necessarily a bad thing.  It was certainly nice to look at.
The submarine/underwater sequences probably took up at least 1/3 of the
movie, but they ripped off the best, so it was good.  The stunt
sequences with the two biplanes was worth the price of admission alone!
Whoever did those stunts, deserve every penny they were paid and whoever
filmed them doing those stunts deserve every penny too!  My only issue
is, while clocking in at just under 3 hours, the movie felt rushed.  The
editing was weird and I'm 100% positive there is at least a half hour of
movie they cut for run time purposes but the result left the film
disjointed at times, which lots of flashbacks for exposition because
they obviously cut those in context scenes from the movie.  There was
also a character who appears in this movie that put a massive smile on
my face.  When they first appeared on screen I instantly recognized them
and their significance.  I think I heard a couple of other audible gasps
from the audience from others who similarly recognized the character.
And that would have been perfect as is, but they went out of their way
to explain who the character was, multiple times. Don't explain!  Either
you *know* who it is or you don't and leave at that!
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 You had me at 1/3 submarine action.
 

Ohio-class nuclear submarine in IMAX.
"So you want to poke the bear?  You picked the right captain for that."  :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyawtWcXQ9E