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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-01 (Tuesday)
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On 7/2/2025 9:01 AM, Melissa Hollingsworth wrote:
> Verily, in article <UBI20250701@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
> deliver unto us this message:
>>
>> I watched:
>>
>> HOGAN'S HEROES:
> 
> That show confused me as a kid. I didn't understand why they were called
> "prisoners" when they seemed to move around freely and do whatever they
> wanted. :-)
> 

That never occurred to me.  I got the joke even as a kid.  But what used 
to confuse me was in "Transformers: The Movie" there is a scene where 
characters are on trial and the judge is asked "guilty" or "Innocent" 
and when the verdict is "Innocent" the sentence is death.  As a kid I 
used to wonder if they are innocent then why are they being sentenced to 
death.  Now I realize the villains were so evil that they were 
sentencing innocent people to death, but as a kid it went over my head.


> I watched Jumanji. I didn't see it when it came out, because the
> advertising made it look like they were all pulled into the game and
> just had a dopey adventure.
> 
> It's a good movie. It explored some themes about trust and growing up,
> and I liked Alan's realization that his "evil and abusive" father did
> love him. 

Did you catch the same actor played both the father and the big-game hunter?

Turns out it's a great family movie *and* a dopey adventure.
> 
> I'm not sure it was wise for the older two to go back to 1969. They get
> another chance at their youths, but it's at the cost of the younger
> two's existence. Things will go differently this time, so it's likely
> they'll never be born. 

I don't think that's ever occurred to me before now.

I'd have preferred it if they'd picked up and
> gone on from where they were, as real life requires.
> 
> That's a minor point, though. It's a great movie overall.
> 

I like Jumangi now a lot more than I did when it first came out.  But I 
still think the sequel, "Zathura: A Space Adventure" is better.  It's 
basically a rehash of Jumangi, except set in outer space.