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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-11 (Tuesday)
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:40:17 -0400
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On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:52:25 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

>On 6/12/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>
>> What did you watch?
>
>I should have gotten stuff done yesterday, but instead I just watched 
>movies all day!!:
>
>First, in the morning, I got sucked into watching "Happy Death Day", on 
>the Siffy channel, once again! I really do like this movie - esp. the 
>wrinkle about how she "accumulates damage" (IOW, loses "hit points"!) 
>after each successive death. Maybe the only issue with this flick is 
>that I feel like the Third Act isn't quite as strong as the first two 
>acts (the killer's motivation was especially weak, IMO). (And, like, how 
>do the cops not take her in for murder after that?!!)
>    Siffy did not play "Happy Death Day 2" immediately after, which is 
>quite a different film, but even if they had I am not sure I would have 
>watched it as I wasn't up for it...

I really enjoyed this film


>Station Eleven (Max) - Episodes #3 and #4. Episode #3 was a slog, 
>focusing on a character we barely saw before this, who gets stuck in 
>Malaysia when the plague hits.
>    Episode #4 was somewhat better (special guest star: David Cross!!), 
>as at least they follow up on what this Prophet dude is after in 2040, 
>and what he's willing to do.
>    Still, this is more slog than not, and the unnecessarily excessive 
>use of non-linear storytelling is a minus, not a plus here.
>
>Uncharted (Hulu) - In glorious 4k! (on Hulu, yet!!)
>    Finally got to seeing this.
>    It was OK-to-decent - pretty much in the vein of "National Treasure" 
>or something like that.
>    There was a very conspicuous cameo from Nolan North in this, which 
>doesn't make such for such a low profile actor... unless he voiced the 
>video game series this film is based on, which of course he did (North 
>voices Tom Holland's character in the games).
>    This apparently did a lot better at the box office than I remembered 
>(I thought it was a flop) - well enough that it sounds like a sequel is 
>in the planning (though not production) stages...

That's pretty much the consensus from other people that I've heard
from. The game's story is much more enjoyable that the movie.


>
>What did you watch?