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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-29 (Wednesday)
Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 21:22:42 -0400
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On Thu, 30 May 2024 17:44:57 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 May 2024 10:40:00 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
>> <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 5/30/2024 6:07 AM, shawn wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 30 May 2024 05:02:00 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>> I watched:
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> You didn’t ask, which is OK because I didn’t watch anything.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Only thing I watched was TOP CHEF where Lara returned from the Last
>>>> Chance Kitchen and kicked butt. As usual some of the chefs had trouble
>>>> when they were asked to do something outside of their normal comfort
>>>> zone without restrictions. Some chefs shine when given freedom to do
>>>> what they will while others really like to have limitations placed on
>>>> what they can do. Seems to be something that has been true since the
>>>> very first season.
>>>> 
>>>> What did you watch?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Over the past couple of days I watched:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ghosts - "Isaac's Wedding" - Season 3 finale Isaac plans to get married 
>>> but has second thoughts.  Meanwhile a vengeance ghost from the past 
>>> makes a reappearance.
>> 
>> If you are in the mood for a drama involving ghosts may I recommend
>> GHOST WARS. Just finished re watching this and it really shines on
>> this ultra wide monitor as it was shot in wide aspect like a film.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Inside Out (4K disc) 2015 Pixar movie that mostly takes place in a young 
>>> girls head following her emotions (Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and 
>>> Disgust).  Joy (Amy Poehler) pretty much runs things and bullies the 
>>> other emotions into doing things her way.  She especially bullies 
>>> Sadness (Phyllis Smith), to the point of at one point drawing a circle 
>>> on the floor and telling Sadness to not leave the circle.  When the 
>>> girl's family moves to a new city the tension between Joy who insists on 
>>> forcing a positive spin on everything and Sadness reach a breaking point 
>>> with the two emotions accidentally being expelled from the girl's head 
>>> leaving Fear, Anger, and Disgust in charge while Joy and Sadness have to 
>>> make their way back to headquarters.  The movie holds up very well.
>> 
>> Pixar doing Pixar type things usually does well. Haven't seen this yet
>> but it's on my list. Sad to think that we may never see the good films
>> from them again if Iger has his way as Pixar is one of the places
>> where he plans to cut a large number of the staff. They can still make
>> some good stuff like the PIXAR POPCORN but the big films will be too
>> much to tackle.
>
>The purge has been done. My friend there survived, but he says they lost a
>lot of truly amazing people.

That was round one. There is supposed to be another round of thousands
of people released in September. (That is across the various Disney
companies.) There is a fight going over the number among the board and
Iger but it does look like they will be releasing more people in the
fall.

>Somebody has to pay for the hundreds of millions of dollars that stinky
>cheese Larson has cost them.

I wonder if anyone will pay for that mistake. LOL, as if that ever
happens.