Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Ian J. Ball" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-24 (Monday) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:48:21 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <1755227159.741040814.289949.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 02:48:22 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b79b2b394c19f7abf68afe4855200782"; logging-data="1897554"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18DMn1W3YEwAhP+ZRpxnZM6" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:3akCD1HyNgGapbMNyniXcNerghw= In-Reply-To: <1755227159.741040814.289949.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3106 On 6/25/24 2:00 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Ian J. Ball wrote: >> On 6/25/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote: >> >>> What did you watch? >> >> The Canyon (Tubi) - 2009 flick starring Yvonne Stra-hotski, and Eion >> Bailey (with special appearance from Will Patton!). >> I actually am pretty sure I've seen this flick, or at least part of >> it, before. > > Me too > >> Stra-hotski and Bailey play newlyweds - he wants to take her on a >> mule ride tour of the Grand Canyon for the honeymoon. But he didn't book >> in advance, so he's screwed! Until old salt guide Will Patton shows up, >> and offers to take them (likely on the D.L.!). >> Of course, you know this is going to end in disaster, and it does >> when Patton is bitten by rattlesnakes > > If only it had been Patton Oswalt Patton Oswalt would have ruined this film. >> and the mules run off. >> So they're far away from civilization, get lost, make horrible and >> dumb mistakes, and are menaced by wolves most of the time. >> The ending is straight out of "The Mist" (which predates this film >> by two years), which I wasn't really expecting. In fact, I would have >> liked a more definitive ending, period. >> This apparently was poorly received critically, but sports a >> 5.8/1000 on IMDb which generally indicates a pretty solidly entertaining >> film. > > I think it simply indicates that Strahotsky was still in her Yvonne can do > no wrong phase. She looks pretty good here, yeah. And that's factoring in that she's supposed to look like crap in the film's second half! >> This would have been a lot better if it were based on some true >> story though... > > What it would have benefited most by is naked showering under the > waterfalls sequences. Think Tanya Roberts in Sheena. Well, I can tell you "Devil's Prey" (2001) absolutely would have benefited from scenes like that!! ;)