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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-28 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 22:27:42 -0700
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On 3/29/2024 8:26 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> On 3/29/2024 4:31 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 3/29/2024 4:19 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>>> On 3/29/2024 4:05 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>>> On 2024-03-29 22:42:16 +0000, Dimensional Traveler said:
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't remember either episode of Twilight Zone mentioned.  I 
>>> especially don't remember an episode where someone ages backwards. 
>>> The closes I can think is the guy who was obsessed with his mom and 
>>> the episode ends with him being a child again while his wife looks on 
>>> in horror.
>>>
>> That was an earlier episode.
>>
>>>
>>>>> Apparently I missed the time travel bus to today that departed 
>>>>> yesterday so you'll just have to settle for what I watched 
>>>>> yesterday, not what I'm going to watch this evening.
>>>>
>>>> You didn't - Ubi trolled the rest of us, and I didn't notice because 
>>>> I just followed up to Anim.
>>>>
>>>>> What Did You Watch?
>>>>
>>>> I saw:
>>>>
>>>> March Madness - San Diego State, which did OK in the first half, 
>>>> gets blown out by UConn in the second. Arizona loses a close one. 
>>>> UNC loses a close one. Meh.
>>>>
>>>> An ep. of B&B - Gotta love how you can check back on this show after 
>>>> months, and have missed absolutely nothing! But, in this one, it 
>>>> seems like they're going to write out Thomas (and his kid) at least 
>>>> temporarily, which leaves dumb Hope with *nothing*, which I do find 
>>>> amusing. But at the end, Steffi shows up to gloat, which just makes 
>>>> her an asshole!
>>>>
>>>> A lackluster ep. of "Wheel of Fortune" in which Pat made two 
>>>> uncharacteristic mistakes.
>>>>
>>>> Part of "Moneyball", which I had never seen before.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It's a good movie.  It was on my short list when I did a sports movie 
>>> marathon a few weeks ago.  But all the sports movies I watched were 
>>> football based and this is baseball movie.
>>>
>>>
>>> I watched:
>>>
>>>
>>> Invincible (Amazon streaming) Season 2 resumed a couple of weeks ago. 
>>> I watched the first two episodes that were already available.
>>>
>>> "This Must Come as a Shock" - Season 2, episode 5.  Picking up where 
>>> the last episode ended Mark is still on an alien planet.  The people 
>>> build a ship so he can return home but ask that he take his half 
>>> brother with him.  He does and his mother takes it surprisingly well, 
>>> all things considered.  She is basically asked to raise her murderous 
>>> ex husband's son.  Meanwhile the Martians finally head towards Earth 
>>> forcing the team to break into two with one group going to stop the 
>>> Martians and the other left to protect Earth resulting in a 
>>> cliffhanger ending involving both teams.
>>>
>>> "It's Not That Simple" - Season 2, episode 6. This episode resolves 
>>> the cliffhangers from the previous episode.
>>>
>>>
>>> Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (theatrical) Latest entry in the new 
>>> Godzillaverse franchise.
>>
>> Trademark pending.
>>
>>> Picking up after "Godzilla vs. Kong" there is an uneasy truce between 
>>> the two titans.  Kong lives in hollow Earth and is searching for his 
>>> people while Godzilla remains on the surface and is hunting other 
>>> monsters and has basically become the savior of humanity. Although 
>>> it's almost comical how one country tries to "stop" Godzilla from 
>>> trashing one of their cities.  Look if Godzilla needs to trash your 
>>> city to stop some other monster, just stay out of his way and let him 
>>> do his thing!  Anyway Kong finally finds his people and it turns out 
>>> they aren't very nice.  Forcing him to call Godzilla for 
>>> reinforcements and once again save the day.  Story wise, the plot was 
>>> paper thin.  But it did deliver on giant monsters smashing stuff. 
>>> I'll take what I can get.   But I would appreciate a better story 
>>> next time.  Or at least better acting!  I know it's a giant monster 
>>> flick, I was a bit spoiled with the earlier movies having much better 
>>> casts and stories than this one.
>>
>> So the CGI needs to take some acting classes?
>>
> 
> 
> The CGI was OK.  I'm actually planning to see it a second time in IMAX 
> 3D.  A lot of the look of the movie was clearly meant to be in 3D and I 
> think it will benefit from the extra dimension.  But the actors were for 
> the most part just sort of alright.  I think the movie suffered from 
> losing all of their A-List cast.  Even Millie Bobby Brown ditched the 
> franchise.  I was actually expecting to see her in it.  And I was also 
> hoping to see some of the TV series cast and they were MIA too.  Kurt 
> Russel would have done wonders for this movie.  Look at the cast 
> comparison:
> 
> Godzilla: Ken Watanabe (Academy Award nominee), Juliette Binoche 
> (Academy Award nominee), Elizabeth Olsen (multiple award nominee), Sally 
> Hawkins (multiple award nominee), David Strathairn (multiple award 
> nominee), and Aaron Taylor-Johnson (multiple award nominee), Bryan 
> Cranston (Academy Award nominee).  This movie is *stacked* with Academy 
> Award / Golden Globe Award nominees and winners.
> 
> Kong: Skull Island: I'm not going to go through the whole list, but once 
> again you have multiple Academy Award nominated actors including Sam 
> Jackson.
> 
> Godzilla: King of the Monsters: Once again excellent cast multiple 
> Academy Award nominated actors.  This one is my favorite of the franchise.
> 
> Godzilla vs. Kong: This is the one where they started to sideline the 
> actors a bit and worry less about plot.  Look, I know these are all 
> giant monster flicks.  I'm not saying any of them are best picture 
> material.  Just the actors weren't necessarily phoning it in, in the 
> earlier movies, and even if they were Ken Watanabe or Sam Jackson's B 
> game is still better than most other actors A game.
> 
> Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire: The actors were phoning it in!  This 
> was just a pay check.  Top billing went to Rebecca Hall, a respectable 
> actress, but completely forgettable.  And the other hold over was Brian 
> Tyree Henry who I was over the top, but not in a good way.
> 
> I think what the earlier movies understood is when you're not watching a 
> giant monster smash something, you're watching the actors act.  So don't 
> skimp on that part.  This movie did.

So you're saying that Kong and Godzilla were better actors than the 
humans.   :P

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