Path: ...!feed.opticnetworks.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? 2024-06-20 (Thursday) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:23:40 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 205 Message-ID: <7mnb7j9pplh9p8q6d8fndon4v0ra3rqbid@4ax.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 22:23:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="87416dd8f6a519604d7edc9fa87a53b5"; logging-data="3506813"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX191AK/2Gaat2Hx8eCHSZ4l9khbzd5Ip7ZI=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z6qhYaeFVtV/tV+/QS1Z68RlXIs= Bytes: 10883 On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:15:23 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >On 6/21/2024 9:24 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote: >> On 6/21/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote: >> >>> What did you watch? >> >> On the last workday of the (summer!) work week, I watched soaps and some >> more movies!: >> >> soaps: DOOL - This was mostly set up for the "prom" episode that will >> come Friday. (Uh, it's mid- to late-June - Do HS's *anywhere* have prom >> this late in the year?!!) Anyway, NuTate's date (can't remember her >> name) overhears Tate and his friend (can't remember his name) talking >> about prom, and realizes that Tate isn't interested in her and is just >> using her to get close to Holly - later, Tate's date rats out their >> scheme to NuTheresa! So they're going to get busted on Friday. >> Meanwhile, Theresa has a disturbing dream about giving it all up for >> Brady! Stefan forces EJ to reveal he's DA again to Nicole. >>    GH - Finn's bosses refuse to let him back to work, and he takes it >> about as well as expected. Spinelli gets the audio file of Carly's >> incriminating confession that Jagger has been holding over Jason and >> makes a copy for Sam, who beelines it to Carly. >>    Y&R - I only saw a little bit of this - Victoria's younger daughter >> still resents the insertion of Claire into their lives. Claire >> commiserates with Kyle (I can't even figure it out - are they blood >> relatives, or not?! I think they're not...). >> >> Target: My Daughter (Tubi) - This was interesting - this 2017 thriller >> felt too low-budget to be a Lifetime flick (IOW, even lower budget than >> a Hybrid Films flick!), so it never made it to Lifetime. >>    Also, I have a theory that Yancy Butler has been blackballed by >> Lifetime > >I thought she was blacklisted by Hollywood in general. Is it really a black list when your own actions with alcohol have lead people to feel like she wouldn't be a reliable performer. Though she's clearly gotten plenty of roles over the years. Nothing major but at least she's been able to keep working. Though nothing in the last few years. >(I think she appeared in a Lifetime film or two a decade or >> more ago, but has not been in a Lifetime flick in at least a decade!), >> so they probably wouldn't take a movie with her anyway... >>    But it also stars Karis Cameron, c. 2017 - so between Cameron doing >> "Open Heart" in 2015 and her first Lifetime flick (which was "Identity >> Theft of a Cheerleader") in 2019 - back when Karis Cameron was still >> young and beautiful (and before she put on the weight, post-2020 - >> Cameron effectively hasn't worked since 2022). >>    Anyway, in this, Cameron's character witnesses the murder of her >> father (via cell phone), by a gangster (Aurelio Di Nunzio), and so she >> and her mother (Butler) - who, of course, happens to be ex-special >> forces or something - are put into witness protection (the original >> title of this flick was "Witness Protection") in a coastal village >> somewhere (this couldn't look more like British Columbia if they tried!!). >>    And, of course, the gangster sends a hitman (hey! it's Sebastian >> Spence!) after them. >>    This was barely OK, but I enjoyed Butler's twitchy performance as >> sort of crummy mom-type, and Karis Cameron has perhaps never looked >> better than here. >> >> Prowl (2010) (Tubi) - OK, I am about 95% sure I have seen this 2010 >> flick before, most likely on the Chiller channel back in the midish-2010s. >>    This has an even more laughable crediting sitch' than the movies I >> watched on Wednesday - the indisputable "star" of this 2010 horror flick >> is Courtney Hope (before she f**ked up her looks and got gigs on B&B and >> Y&R - Hope is naturally thin-lipped as you can see here, but in later >> life she has refused to accept this fact...  :/  ) - anyway, Hope is >> credited *third* in the film's primary end-credits, and *fifth*!! in the >> film's cast list credits. Despite being the film's clear lead!! That's >> ridic. > >She needs a better agent. I only know her from her role in the game, CONTROL. She's great in that game. Haven't seen Y&R in years since I only saw it when visiting my parents. >>    Anyway, Hope's character ropes in a bunch of friends (among them, a >> young Perdita Weeks (after she did "The Tutors" but before "As Above, So >> Below"), Ruta Gedmintas and Josh Bowman (from "Revenge")) to accompany >> her to Chicago. For [reasons], they are eventually to be transported >> there by a truck driver played by Bruce Payne - hint: if your driver is >> played by Bruce Payne, he is up to no good. >>    From this point, the film doesn't waste anytime in getting to >> (improbable!) horror. >>    This was about on part with Wed's flick "Underground" - it's a >> decent "ride", once it gets started. >>    P.S. In this one, Perdita Weeks has arguably the most horrific death >> scene.  :/ >> >> >> What did you watch? >> > >I watched: > > >The Boys - "Wisdom of the Ages" - I'm not even going to try and >summarizing it. But I guess it was OK. Is that episode 4? Haven't got to that just yet. The season is definitely pushing the edges. >Evil (Paramount+) - "How To Fly an Airplane" - Team Evil investigate a >potentially holy artifact. Meanwhile the most annoying TV kids ever >prove why they need a babysitter. > > >Hose of the Dragon (HBO) - "A Son for a Son" - Season 2, episode 1. I >don't know why HBO even bothered with that pathetic thing they called a >recap at the start of the episode. I tracked down a slightly better >recap, but I was still lost. I no longer know who is who! Anyway, I >guess it was OK. > > >Superman: Red Son (4K disc) 2020 Stand alone DC animated movie starting >in an alternate 1955 where Superman was raised in Soviet Russia by >Joseph Stalin. In this world Lois Lane is married to Lex Luthor. And >since it's the 50s everyone smokes. But it's OK because Lane smokes the >same brand of cigarettes as her doctor. Anyway, Superman finds out that >Stalin isn't the nicest guy and decides to take him out and become the >new leader of the Soviet Union. He then reunites Korea by force and >promises to bring his style of truth, justice, and the Soviet way to the >rest of the world. The movie then goes on through the 80s showing what >the world would have been like with Superman a Russian and Lex Luthor >(who eventually becomes President) the protector of the U.S. Batman is >also in this but in this version he is also a Russian, and out to defeat >Superman. This was pretty good. I almost skipped it. I very glad I >decided to go ahead and watch it. Yeah, it's a different spin on the story but I enjoyed it. > >Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (4K disc) 2020 Final movie in the >DCAMU. When the movie started and the first thing on the screen was >rated "R" I knew it was going to be good! And it was. This is probably >the best movie in the entire DCAMU. > >The DCAMU started in 2013 with Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. >We all know the story, Flash goes back in time to save his mom and >instead creates a new timeline where everything is horrible. At the end >of Flashpoint Flash thinks he resets the timeline, but doesn't. There's >a post credit scene with a boomtube from Apokalyspe. The next movie was >"Justice League: War" which had the individual members of the League >teaming up to fight an invasion from Apokalypse. After that there were >over a dozen movies in the DCAU within this continuity. There were >"Justice League" movies, "Teen Titan" movies, "Suicide Squad" movies, a >ton of "Batman" movies, and some "Dark" movies featuring Constantine. >"Justice League Dark: Apokolips War" brings everyone together for one >massive "Avengers: Infantry War" style movie. > >SPOILERS Follow!!! > >SPOILER SPACE >P >O >I >L >E >R > >S >P >A >C >E > >The movie opens with Superman assembling the League and the Titans (who >are still on Earth) and explaining the League is about to launch a full >assault on Apokalpsyse to handle Darkseid once and for all. The Titans >will remain behind as back-up. The League arrives and it's a trap. >Darkseid was ready for them. Cut to 2 years later and Earth is shown in >ruins. Darkseid has conquered Earth. A depowered Superman and Raven go >into a bar to find a drunk Constantine and even drunker Etrigan trying >to drown their sorrows away. From there Superman reveals the Earth is >being drained by Darkseid and only has about a week left before the ========== REMAINDER OF ARTICLE TRUNCATED ==========