Path: ...!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? 2024-04-12 (Friday) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 18:23:53 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 60 Message-ID: References: <1263722996.734740148.460057.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: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 03:23:54 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f15ff7b44b33be81761a22c7fccb2ad7"; logging-data="3462893"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19911/VHNZTTsoO1N2zNNOP" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:stAeDt93LGJNaEAHn4OH+rW7vJ4= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4017 On 4/13/24 5:34 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote: > On 4/13/2024 3:57 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: >> Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >>> On 4/13/2024 8:41 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote: >>> >>>> What did you watch? >>>> >>>> (I am working on IMDb stuff right now, so I will follow-up to myself a >>>> little later...) >>> >>> I watched: >>> >>> The Birds (blu-ray) 1963 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a >>> small town being terrorized by birds that keep attacking for no reason. >>> I could have sworn this movie was in black and white and was shocked >>> when it was in color. My best guess is the last time I watched it was >>> maybe 40 or so years ago on a black and white TV.  Either that or I just >>> flat out forgot it was in color.  Regardless, the movie holds up well >>> enough.  I just have one more Hitchcock movie to go, then I think I will >>> have watched all the ones I want to watch. >> >> Which one do you have left to go? >> >> Perhaps more importantly, which do you intend to skip? > > I have a Hitchcock blu-ray box set.  A while back I watched: Rope, Rear > Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, and Dial M For Murder (off > of TCM).  Time really flies!  I could have sworn I watched these a year > or less ago, but it was actually 2 years ago.  Yesterday I watched The > Birds and today I'm watching my Psycho 4K box set. > > In the Hitchcock blu-ray box set that I didn't watch: Marnie, Saboteur, > Shadow of a Doubt, The Trouble with Harry, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, > and Family Plot.  I'm not sure if I've seen any of these before.  I'm > vaguely aware of the plot of The Trouble with Harry, but that doesn't > mean I seen it before.  Same goes for "Frenzy."  Although if they did a > remake, *maybe* I saw the remake.  I really don't know for sure.  The > set also includes 7 episodes of Hitchcock Presents and 3 episodes of The > Hitchcock Hour.  I don't know which episodes are included. You can skip "The 39 Steps", that's for sure!! > As an aside, something very weird has been going on with my news reader > for a long while.  One of the issues I occasional experience is when I > click on a post it shows as if someone else sent it.  That's not > something that's easy to catch, but it happens to my posts too.  The > only way I knew for sure this posted is because you responded to it.  On > my end, I could see it was sent, but couldn't see the actual post. Every > time I clicked it Ian's post appeared instead.  It's getting worse and > worse, I click on one person's post but someone else's' post appears. > I'm going to have uninstall and reinstall Thunderbird or maybe use a > different newsreader.  This is getting out of hand. Are you Mac, or PC? I would definitely check for updates, and if no update is available, try a reinstall.