Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ubiquitous Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-16 (Saturday) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 04:30:44 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <40365720.732414441.335060.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Injection-Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:30:44 -0000 Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3aafb4a8958320ea11675fe8151843b7"; logging-data="166545"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1//eYKiykMWfLn/oHwXf8sSLTbaj6Px3as=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:/6O4KNsH3SUMExz9QG/Ot81Gquk= X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.12N (x86 32bit) Bytes: 2713 anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote: >Ubiquitous wrote: >> While recovering from a back injury, I watched: > >AMERIGEDDON (2016) >If this was a lot better, it might be bad enough to be an asylum film. Evil >terrorists shut down the power grid in the USA. We know this because people >in their lit homes are watching the news broadcast from the completely >electrified studios. But that's not what it was about at ALL! Oh, AMERIgeddon... >IRON CHEF >The original series; episodes from season five. I kept flipping away >because they were eating horrible stuff and saying stupid things about it. >Turtle soup made in the turtles own shell (upside down). Tuna, cooked in >peanut oil and moon salt, which is salt that is only harvested underwater >during the full moon, and as the pretty actress judge tells us, has magical >powers. [eye roll] >And of course, whole octopus. Was it still alive and kicking? >THE THUNDERMANS >And then there's this which I just heard of for the first time. They're >advertising the snot out of it because they just released a reunion movie >from this 2013 TV series that’s a complete rip off and intended replacement >for The Wizards of Waverly Place. The parents and especially the father >are indistinguishable from the earlier and vastly superior show. I don't >think I've ever seen anything as aggressively stupid and unfunny. And I've >definitely never heard a worse or more intrusive laugh track. I watched the >original pilot episode and about five minutes of the new movie, which is as >much as I could stand. it has one redeeming feature and that's that the >lead actress is really cute. But not even close to cute enough. Didn't you watch this when it first aired? I remember you and Ian commenting on it. -- Let's go Brandon!