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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-07 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 08:48:36 -0800
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On 3/8/2024 6:48 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> On the day of the State of the Union Show, I watched:
>>
>>
>>
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Hey, thanks for asking!
> 
> I’ve been listening to the malfunctioning, Amazon fire stick, and this is
> truly a habit I must break. It recommended:
> 
> 
> Five blind dates.
> 
> OMG this was horrible! Shame on you, Amazon for recommending it.
> 
> Basically a Hallmark format movie with the plucky protagonist who has to
> return to her hometown for a wedding and falls in love with a guy she left
> behind. Yawn.
> 
>

You couldn't tell what you were getting from the description?


I watched:

Night Court - After reading Brent Spinner was reprising his famous 
pre-Star Trek character from Night Court I watched the last two episodes 
only for Spinner nowhere to be found.  :-(


Imaginary (theatrical) New PG-13 horror movie written and directed by 
Jeff Wadlow about a woman who moves back into her childhood home with 
her husband and step children.  The youngest step daughter promptly 
makes an imaginary friend which happens to be the same evil entity the 
woman had when she was a child (but forgot about).  This was a very 
disappointing / underwhelming movie.  For some reason I went into this 
thinking it was going to be a hard "R" rated movie, but it turned out to 
be PG-13.  That in and of itself doesn't mean it can't be good horror, 
but *nothing* happened in this flick until the third act!  Once stuff 
did finally start to happen, I guess it was OK, but I kept thinking to 
myself someone wrote a $100 million script and was only given $10 
million to film it.  The movie is supposed to be about an entity that 
feeds on a child's imagination where anything imaginable is possible, 
yet what we get is essentially a bottle story with a handful of 
characters and when they finally enter the world of the imagination it's 
the same handful of characters.  With nothing truly imaginative or 
elaborate taking place.  The evil entity doesn't count!  This might have 
worked as a TV movie with lower expectations but for the big screen I 
expect more.