Path: ...!news.mixmin.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: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:09:30 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: <1a6m6jh13vj9orrm7dllagmkpd39s3n9ur@4ax.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:09:32 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3c071eee6af28afac9280f84b8f75b19"; logging-data="2472626"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19XB2KSnIh+3etDSAiXHULJoHkFwtX9oH0=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:EvnBFhnXpqk/zAJimkPamlRz41Y= Bytes: 3009 On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:44:46 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" wrote: >On 6/12/24 10:18 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote: > >> On 6/12/2024 11:40 AM, shawn wrote: >>> 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 >> >> Same.  I'm holding out hope for a third one. > >What I found out while watching this - Jessica Rothe is pushing 40!! >believe it or not. > >When I found that out, I pretty much realized that there likely won't be >another HDD flick. It also explains why Rothe's career has cooled down >in the last few years. > Given the timing it does seem unlikely we get a third movie. 2017 was the year of the first movie and 2019 the second was released. We are now five years past the second movie so a third seems unlikely. It's a problem with many of the ideas that people base movies/shows on. The actual actors have this habit of getting older which goes against the idea the movie was based on.