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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-04 (Friday - The 4th of July!!)
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2025 15:44:33 -0700
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On 7/6/2025 3:27 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 7/5/2025 11:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>> I guess I should do one of these before it's too late.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>> Hey, thanks for asking.
>>>
>>> I finally finished Ironheart. It wasn’t easy. I kept falling asleep and the
>>> Disney+ app which has turned to total shit would restart in the wrong place
>>> or the wrong episode and showed episode three with the video and audio and
>>> closed captioning, all completely out of sync.
>>>
>>> How bad was it? Well it’s still better than Marvels
>>
>> I liked "The Marvels."  The musical number may have been a bit too
>> jokey, along with some of the stuff at the end, but otherwise it was an
>> OK movie.
> 
> Sorry, I booted the name.
> 
> I meant Ms. Marvel the TV show on Disney+.
> 
> As awful as Ironheart was, I made it through to the end (granted Disney+
> screwing up meant I only had to watch about 2/3 of it). I didn’t make it
> past the second episode of Ms. Marvel.
> 
> 
> 
>> but it’s Stargate
>>> Origins SGO (the “O” stands for: Origins!) bad.
>>>
>>> Since I think I am the only one that sat all the way through SGO you might
>>> ask “how bad is that?“
>>>
>>> Really really really really really really really really bad. Try to picture
>>> the sound made by a sheep exploding. It’s Ssss BOOM baaah bad.
>>>
>>> And the end was absolutely the worst part of it.
>>>
>>> Without significant spoilers, let me say I’m completely perplexed that this
>>> little idiot doesn’t just call for help. Like Doctor Strange or somebody.
>>>
>>
>> Why would Dr. Strange come and save The Hood from Ironheart?  Oh, did
>> you mean, the supervillain known as Ironheart should have called Dr.
>> Strange?  They already explained why that wouldn't work when another
>> character asked and Ironheart listed all the evil deeds that she had
>> been doing.  I'm pretty sure this series is a villain origin story.
> 
> Yeah. Again beyond her working in the garage, no resemblance to the comic.
> 
> Did anybody ever say why the hell MIT didn’t send someone after the suit?
> Like war machine?  It was built on Stark’s dime.
> 
> The one thing I found interesting in the whole mess was that she not only
> knew who Dormammu is, she had a drawing of him. Has anyone but Doctor
> Strange ever seen him?
> 
> They should never have made the bad guy Mephisto. He would have won in the
> end. Surely there must be some minor demon they could’ve invoked.
> 
>> LOL.  Especially since, and I didn't notice this myself, but others have
>> said that there is a brief shot where Vebaurneg vf jrnevat gur ubbq'f
>> pybnx bire ure Vebaurneg fhvg.
> 
> V’z fher vg’f n tbbq svg.
> 
> 
>> This is a multi-day catch up.  Over the last few days I watched:
>>
>>
>> Independence Day (4K disc) 1996 sci-fi movie where Will Smith and Jeff
>> Goldblum save the Earth from aliens by giving them a cold.  Holds up
>> very well (more or less). And I still love the speech Bill Pullman gives
>> at the end.
> 
> And he stopped the aliens with an apple computer.
> 
Well, Apple computers are based off the alien's tech...  :P

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