Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-11 (Tuesday) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:40:17 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:40:21 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5fab050fdb981d7dcd4a14cdb9e30c2e"; logging-data="1888137"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+SdNZlTQPJOJgw3ibXmH/A77ZRgbJ97ZQ=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:6dXZV9WgZixi8C34u6naU0SleNg= Bytes: 3283 On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:52:25 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" wrote: >On 6/12/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote: > >> What did you watch? > >I should have gotten stuff done yesterday, but instead I just watched >movies all day!!: > >First, in the morning, I got sucked into watching "Happy Death Day", on >the Siffy channel, once again! I really do like this movie - esp. the >wrinkle about how she "accumulates damage" (IOW, loses "hit points"!) >after each successive death. Maybe the only issue with this flick is >that I feel like the Third Act isn't quite as strong as the first two >acts (the killer's motivation was especially weak, IMO). (And, like, how >do the cops not take her in for murder after that?!!) > Siffy did not play "Happy Death Day 2" immediately after, which is >quite a different film, but even if they had I am not sure I would have >watched it as I wasn't up for it... I really enjoyed this film >Station Eleven (Max) - Episodes #3 and #4. Episode #3 was a slog, >focusing on a character we barely saw before this, who gets stuck in >Malaysia when the plague hits. > Episode #4 was somewhat better (special guest star: David Cross!!), >as at least they follow up on what this Prophet dude is after in 2040, >and what he's willing to do. > Still, this is more slog than not, and the unnecessarily excessive >use of non-linear storytelling is a minus, not a plus here. > >Uncharted (Hulu) - In glorious 4k! (on Hulu, yet!!) > Finally got to seeing this. > It was OK-to-decent - pretty much in the vein of "National Treasure" >or something like that. > There was a very conspicuous cameo from Nolan North in this, which >doesn't make such for such a low profile actor... unless he voiced the >video game series this film is based on, which of course he did (North >voices Tom Holland's character in the games). > This apparently did a lot better at the box office than I remembered >(I thought it was a flop) - well enough that it sounds like a sequel is >in the planning (though not production) stages... That's pretty much the consensus from other people that I've heard from. The game's story is much more enjoyable that the movie. > >What did you watch?