Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-20 (Sunday)

On 4/21/2025 1:27 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 4/21/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 Yesterday, I got through work, but I also managed to watch a fair amount of stuff:
 soaps: Fri's ep's.
    DOOL - Xander rants and rails against Philip after finding out about Philip's fraud. Of course, cowardly Sarah fails to fess up her role. Gabi whines to Melinda Trask that JJ thinks that Gabi is a suspect (she totally is!!), and hires Melinda; later Shawn and JJ threaten to arrest Melinda when Melinda's gun shows up, but she throws Ava (who's off the show anyway) under the bus for it. Rafe tells Sami about telling Jada the truth about their affair; later Sami, and Vivian, leave town for international destinations.
    GH - Mostly boring stuff involving Jordan and Natalia with Jenz Sidwell; also, Jason and Sidwell throw Natalia under the bus to Maxie & Brook Lynn, and Lucy, respectively. Joss The Spy follows the professor dude to a lab at GH. Dumb Emma has a bad time with her community service at GH with children.
 golf: Well, I got this one wrong! At the start of the final day at The Heritage in Hilton Head, it did look like Justin Thomas was pretty much out of it. But Si Woo Kim basically fell apart and dropped way down the leaderboard. Meanwhile, Thomas got his s**t together, and got back in the lead throughout most of the day. Lurking, though, was younger guy Andrew Novak, looking for his first PGA win - Novak birdied the final hole to force a playoff (for the second week in a row!). But just last last week's Master's playoff, this one also only went to one playoff hole, with the leader, this time Justin Thomas, birding it for the win! New family man Justin Thomas wins his first tourney in 3 years!
 Then I watched two movies:
 Companion (Max) - Interesting - I thought this 2025 flick was an A24 pic, but it isn't.

It's not?  I thought it was too.

 Y2K (Max) - This 2024 "horror comedy" (emphasis on the "comedy" over the "horror") flick is actually legitimately an A24 flick.

But *this* is A24?!?  Based on the trailers, I had no interest in seeing this.

    Anim would love this one, based on the casting, as both Rachel Zegler and Alicia Silverstone are in this (as is Fred Durst, playing himself!!).
    This one is about two high school nerds, and what happens to them on New Year's Eve 1999 when the clock strikes midnight and Y2K hits.
    I was surprised that one of the nerds was played by Julian Dennison from "Deadpool 2". The other was played by Jaeden Martell, and his nerd character is in love with a popular girl (Zegler) who also, conveniently, happens to be some kind of master coder.
    Anyway, it takes too long to get there, but when midnight hits, Y2K is unleashed, and the electronic machines come... ALIVE!
    A wacky vision of the "robot apocalypse" ensues as the machines assemble themselves together to eradicate and enslave mankind!
    Can this wacky assortment of high schoolers save the world?!
    I didn't like this nearly as much as "Companion". It was OK - and Durst is somewhat amusing playing a douche-y version(?) of himself.
    But this wasn't as funny as it thought it was, I think, and they didn't balance the humorous tone with the actual apocalypse well IMO.
 

I don't know.  You're not inspiring me to watch this.

 What did you watch?
  

I watched:
Death Becomes Her (4K disc) 1992 movie directed by Robert Zemeckis.  The movie stars Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn as two aging frenemies who were fighting over Bruce Willis' affections, but when they discover a magic potion that will keep then eternally alive (no matter what) wackiness ensues.  I know I saw this in the theater in 1992 when it first came out, but I'm not sure if I ever watched it again after that.  I just recall at the time not caring for it.  But I decided to give it a second chance.  It was slightly better than I remembered.
Forrest Gump (4K disc) 1994 movie directed by Robert Zemeckis.  The movie stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright.  The two play star-crossed lovers who keep running into and away from each other over the years, as Hanks also manages to influence or participate in just about every major event in the U.S. between the 60s and 80s.  This is another movie that I'm not sure if I've watched since the original release.  In this case, I know I liked it when it first came out, I've just had zero interest in ever watching it again.  I bought the blu-ray and it sat unopened in the shrink wrap for years, until I upgraded to the 4K which also sat unopened in the shrinkwrap for years, until now.
Here (Netflix) 2024 movie directed by Robert Zemeckis.  The movie stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright.  They play a married couple living in a house, but the focus of the movie isn't so much Hanks and Wright, but the house and the general location.  The movie starts with the time period where dinosaurs walked the Earth then constantly jumps around through time showing different period at that location and the various families who lived there.  Hanks and Wright just happen to be one of many people who lived in that house/location.  I had been looking forward to seeing this movie since I first heard about it.  It turned out to be a major disappointment.  Zemeckis took what should have been an interesting premise and somehow made it boring.  I really didn't care about *any* of the people who lived in that house!  Couldn't there have been at least 1 interesting family?  And the jumping around in time didn't help matters, since I rarely knew what time period they were supposed to be in.
Flight (blu-ray) 2012 movie directed by Robert Zemeckis.  The movie stars Denzel Washington as an alcoholic airline pilot who, in spite of being drunk and high on cocaine, manages to crash land a malfunctioning airplane with only a handful of fatalities, while all the simulations say everyone should have died.  This is an excellent movie, and which features Denzel bringing his A-game.  The movie also reunites Denzel with John Goodman, who plays Denzel's drug dealer, who knows just which combination of drugs will sober him up.
Watson - "The Man with the Alien Hand" - Team Watson try to help a man with "alien hand syndrome: and along the way Inspector (or was it detective?) Lestrade is introduced.
The Last of Us - "Through the Valley" - I can't really discuss this episode without major, and I mean *major* spoilers.  But seeing as how I was on the fence about this show, this episode would be a good jumping off point for me to dump it for good and not look back.  If you know, you know.