Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-28 (Sunday) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:14:26 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 109 Message-ID: References: <523686567.736113027.257406.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:14:27 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f91bd149fd527c9a35dc2b73f5eb327c"; logging-data="2110476"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19J/LdZQWzAgAEDpnDEcz+DOLKTAzhBrcA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:tWP9eQ3bTMejnWikngWiHmIUnmg= In-Reply-To: <523686567.736113027.257406.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 6713 On 4/29/2024 1:17 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >> On 4/29/2024 5:39 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote: >>> Yesterday, I actually had to start getting done the work that I had >>> blown off doing on Saturday, so I didn't get through much TV yesterday...: >>> >>> soaps: GH - Fri's. Laura righteously tells Sonny that their "friendship" >>> is *over* (as Ava eavesdrops); Sonny seemed genuinely shocked that >>> someone has had enough of his thug lifestyle. Nina informs Carly about >>> the divorce, and that Ava has wormed her way into Sonny's confidence. >>> NuNuNuMolly wants Alexis to talk to Kristina (who wasn't on this epie). >>> Finn and Gregory argue about getting an in-home care nurse; later, >>> Alexis insists that Finn go to a meeting, while Tracy sets Gregory >>> straight on his priorities. Olivia hires Sasha to be the new >>> Quartermaine cook (this is always a bad sign - it means they have no >>> idea what to do with the Sasha character...). >>>    I didn't even get to DOOL, so I'm now an episode behind. >>> >>> The Replacement Daughter (Lifetime) - Never trust Kristen DiMeras >>> bearing gifts!! >>>    This was about what I expected, except that Stacy Haiduk's character >>> was even crazier and more homicidal than I was expecting. >> >> Stacy Haiduk is in this? Why didn't you lead with that?!? >> >>>    And, yeah - Kristi Murdoch plays the original mom, who ends up in a >>> coma. So, as a result, Murdoch is barely in the film, on in the >>> beginning and the end parts, but entirely missing from the middle. >>> >>> >>> What did you watch? >>> >> >> I watched: >> >> The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (blu-ray) >> 1984 sci-fi movie starring Peter Weller as an expert in everything who >> has the save the world from aliens from Planet 10. The movie holds up >> great. I think I probably liked it even more than usual. I never saw >> this in the theater. Most of my viewings in the 80s would have been on >> a tiny TV screen in pan and scan. While not the first time I've watched >> it in proper aspect ratio, watching it blown up on a giant screen was a >> whole other experience. > > I first saw it at comicon, so on a medium size screen, but with the perfect > audience for it. We’re still waiting for the sequel. > > > >> Big Trouble in Little China (blu-ray) 1986 action comedy directed by >> John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell as an average guy caught up in >> a magical adventure to save the world. A plot point of the movie >> involves a girl being kidnapped by a gang sold as part of the villain's >> evil plan. The hero gets involved when he goes looking for the girl >> instead of the police. Victor Wong co-stars as a wise old man who helps >> the hero on his journey. Peter Kwong pops up as one of the villain's >> henchmen who is killed by being impaled by a blade. And everyone's >> favorite character actor James Hong stars as a villain. At the end of >> the movie the villain tries to stab the hero with a knife but fails. >> The hero takes that same knife and uses it to kill the villain. I love >> this movie, but I think this may be the first time I realized the plot >> makes *no* sense! But the movie is way too much fun to let something as >> small as that get in the way. > > Still waiting for the sequel to this as well: > > Big Trouble Escaping the Thing from New York’s Little China > > Jack, Mac, and Snake together again for the first time! > > They call Buckaroo Banzai for help and find out the World Crime League, which turns out to be the same aliens from "They Live," is really behind it all. > >> The Golden Child (blu-ray) 1986 action comedy starring Eddie Murphy as >> an average guy caught up in a magical adventure to save the world. A >> plot point of the movie involves a girl being kidnapped by a gang sold >> as part of the villain's evil plan. The hero gets involved when he goes >> looking for the girl instead of the police. Victor Wong co-stars as a >> wise old man who helps the hero on his journey. Peter Kwong pops up as >> one of the villain's henchmen who is killed by being impaled by a blade. >> And everyone's favorite character actor James Hong stars as a good >> guy. At the end of the movie the villain tries to stab the hero with a >> knife but fails. The hero takes that same knife and uses it to kill the >> villain. This is such an underrated movie. It's loads of fun and >> Murphy chews the scenery like only 80s Murphy could. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhF5iwB_vE >> Whatever happened to the actress who played the love interest? >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= > > Originally Murphy was supposed to be in Star Trek the whale one which is > why it takes place in the 20th century (somebody at Paramont figured they > had a contract to make a Murphy movie and the contract to make a Star Trek > movie and why not kill two birds of prey with one stone). but in much the > same way they would lose Sean Connery in the next movie. They kept delaying > and delaying and never got Murphy his contract and so he decided to do the > golden child instead and he was replaced as Kirks love interest by Tucker’s > Witch. > > Come on guys I’m good, but even I couldn’t make that up. > > This one still stings. Murphy is such a huge Trek fan it's surprising he couldn't pull some strings to make it happen.