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On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:15:23 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> 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
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>R
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>S
>P
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>C
>E
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>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 
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