Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-11 (Tuesday) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:08:57 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <1a6m6jh13vj9orrm7dllagmkpd39s3n9ur@4ax.com> Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:08:57 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="93e545551e2c96d5bff3d14b0a5ec2a1"; logging-data="2493677"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX182cg/ipnXeDXNiNd/gEARbwx6v5FTFfP8=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q8l7D/sp6HeMzzZobzrusBhReVY= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3074 shawn wrote: >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. They do not get older. Shirley Temple was contractually obligated not to age page 9 in the 1930s.