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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-17 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:16:46 -0700
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On 7/18/25 1:13 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 7/18/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> 
>> What did you watch?
> 
> In The Lost Lands (Hulu) - Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista... are... In 
> The Lost Lands!!
>     Another Paul W.S. Anderson special starring his wife.
>     OMG - Jovovich's character's name in this is "Gray Alys"! - Her name 
> is "Alice" *again*?!?!!
>     Interesting - this is apparently based on a short story from George 
> R.R. Martin!
>     Note: This was also filmed "300"/"Dark City" style

Sorry - make that: "..."300"/"SIN City" style..."

>  - I'm sure that 
> about 100% of this was filmed in greenscreen with the cool visuals added 
> in later in post. (And this is a "budget" operation, so unlike, say, 
> "Colonials" (Colonials!), this film's greenscreen/CGI work doesn't look 
> like sh*t!!)
>     Gist: Post-apocalyptic sword/western & sorcery flick. After a 
> nuclear war, an age of monsters and magic is ushered in! (I know I've 
> seen this angle done somewhere before! Hmmmmmm...  ;p  )
>     Jovovich's "Gray Alys" is a "witch", hunted (as a witch!) by the 
> "church" (with the main baddie being a warrior/enforcer "nun"(?) played 
> by Arly Jover). For some reason, she *must* grant any wish/quest asked 
> of her. The "Queen" (Amara Okereke) does make a "wish" - that Gray Alys 
> kill the resident "werewolf" and take his power to make the Queen a 
> werewolf too.
>     The "werewolf" lives... In The Lost Lands! so Gray Alys needs a 
> guide, Boyce (Bautista) to track him down.
>     Wackiness ensues on their 7-day quest to get to the werewolf by the 
> full moon, while being hunted by the evol! enforcer nun and her band of 
> church crazies!
>     Meanwhile, the Queen has to fend off various forces on her way to 
> ascend to power.
>     This was an OK timekiller, but it wasn't the best from Anderson or 
> Jovovich, or the best of sword/western & sorcery flicks or all- 
> greenscreen/CGI flicks (though most of the visuals are pretty cool 
> looking).