Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.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? 2024-04-25 (Thursday) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:30:58 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <737213671.735849987.512046.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: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:30:58 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7b401f68786204f16409f3870cbe6616"; logging-data="4071966"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/g1q0WOlzX0z0zi9A6FQ4r" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:IYQk6yBg5aze7uR/nsSxy6QGvo8= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <737213671.735849987.512046.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Bytes: 3586 On 4/26/24 11:49 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >> On 4/26/2024 5:51 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote: >>> On 4/26/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote: >>> >>>> What did you watch? >>> >>> I had to finish a pestiferous online training yesterday, so I only got >>> through two things on TV: >>> >>> Fallout (Prime) - "The Trap" (ep. #1.6). No Norm or Vault 33 this episode. >>>    At first, Maximus wants out of the vault they're in, Vault 4, but >>> Lucy wants to stay a while. However, Lucy begins investigating the vault >>> after meeting its overseer (Chris Parnell), who is a cyclops!! Lucy is >>> shocked and disgusted by what she finds. Meanwhile, Maximus is soon >>> "bought off" by the comforts of life in the vault. >>>    The Ghoul is captured by some thuggy "lawmen" in the employ a >>> self-proclaimed "president" of New California (Glenn Fleshler). But The >>> Ghoul ultimately overpowers them. We also get some more flashbacks of >>> him when he was Howard, before the bombs dropped. We are shown that >>> Moldaver was also alive 200 years ago, and was organizing against >>> Vault-Tec even back then. >>> >>> Fatal Fixer Upper (LMN) - This was very "mid" for a Hybrid flick - it >>> was far from their worst one (my vote for that is probably "The Wrong >>> Real Estate Agent", which was so bad that AFAICT Lifetime has only aired >>> it once, unlike nearly all of the other "Wrong" flicks that have aired >>> multiple time since premiering!), but it still wasn't very good. >>>    One the plus side, Jasmine Aivaliotis did look supes-cute in this, >>> despite one or two ridiculous outfits they put her in. >>>    Meanwhile, Dorian Gregory had, I think, all of two scenes in this, >>> despite playing Aivaliotis father(?) - he doesn't show up at all >>> throughout the end of the film, after Aivaliotis' character has figured >>> out the original homeowner is a psycho! (You would think she would have >>> told her dad about this!!) >> >> I have to wonder which do they come up with first, the title, or the plot. > > Usually they come up with a buzzword title, write a script to fit it, and > then change the title. That definitely seems to be the Lifetime MO, about half the time, based on IMDb having different movie titles than what Lifetime goes with for a good percentage of these flicks.