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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-21 (Sunday)
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On 4/22/2024 9:49 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>> On 4/22/2024 6:27 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>> Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Netflix disc rip)
>> "Sherman, a young boy, misuses a time machine made by his scientist
>> father Mr. Peabody and causes the world history to go haywire. It is now
>> up to Mr. Peabody to rescue his son and the world."  (IMDb)
>>
> 
> But was it any good? The Piper Perabo Rocky and Bullwinkle film was such a
> disaster it cost me a lot of money.
> 
Meh.  It wasn't horrible but it also wasn't great.  They tried real hard 
and came sorta close to the snarkiness of the original but fell a little 
short.  Honestly I can't remember why I had it in my Netflix queue in 
the first place, but that's true of a number of titles I buzz-sawed my 
way thru in the final months of Netflix DVD.

> 
>> Time Traveling Trivia!
>> The stuffed animal with which Sherman sleeps is Dudley Do-Right's horse
>> from another division of the Bullwinkleverse.
>> WABAC stands for Wavelength Acceleration Bi-directional Asynchronous
>> Controller. This is a nod to the early INIAC and UNIVAC computers. While
>> obviously being a reworking of the term "way back", the fancier meaning
>> was added when a viewer (being devoid of imagination) wanted to know
>> what "WABAC" meant.  This term has entered the common lexicon. One
>> example is a WABAC-named website devoted to providing nostalgic content
>> for baby boomers.
>> Allison Janney, the voice of Ms. Grunion was born on 19 November 1959,
>> the day when The Bullwinkle Show (1959) debuted on television.
>> Much of the irreverence in this film is a direct reflection of the
>> original irreverence that permeated the various sub-shows within The
>> Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, which included Peabody episodes. The creator
>> / producer Jay Ward would sometimes get in trouble because of this. For
>> one example, Bullwinkle tells the viewers to make sure to tune in next
>> time, advising them to make sure of this by gluing down the channel
>> knobs on their TV sets. A number of TV sets were destroyed by kid due to
>> this.
>> Just before the end credits, as the Trojan Horse is being pulled
>> off-screen, it is followed fittingly by the mustachioed little street
>> cleaner from the "parade" title sequence of the first Peabody's
>> Improbable History (1959) cartoons.
>> The glass monitors on the hallway to the WABAC hangar (and some of the
>> controls inside the WABAC) have symbols similar to the Gallifreyan
>> symbols seen in Doctor Who (2005).
>>
>> Quotes: "Every dog should have a boy."
>>
>>
>> Spider-Man: No Way Home (DVR)
>> "With Spider-Man's identity now revealed, Peter asks Doctor Strange for
>> help. When a spell goes wrong, dangerous foes from other worlds start to
>> appear, forcing Peter to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man."
>>   (IMDb)
>>
>> Spider-Trivia!
>> Benedict Cumberbatch admitted to not reading the full script, wanting to
>> surprise himself with the final product.
>> J.K. Simmons had enjoyed playing J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's
>> Spider-Man Trilogy, and admitted to being heartbroken that he wouldn't
>> be able to revisit the character in a fourth movie. Naturally, when
>> Marvel approached him to reprise his role in Spider-Man: Far from Home
>> (2019)'s stinger and this film, he jumped at the chance. Simmons also
>> expressed excitement in adapting Jameson to the modern-day era,
>> describing him more as a media blowhard than a newspaper editor. To make
>> up for the fact that his character was now bald, Simmons insisted on
>> keeping Jameson's cigar and mustache for this film, due to wanting to
>> have some aspects from his portrayal in Sam Raimi's trilogy to carry
>> over in the MCU.
>> Tom Holland helped to save this movie from cancellation by forcing
>> renegotiations between Sony and Disney. Under the terms of the new deal,
>> not only does this movie still take place within the Marvel Cinematic
>> Universe (MCU), but Spider-Man can also appear in future MCU movies, as
>> well as Sony's own Spider-Man franchise.
>> According to Zendaya and Tom Holland, Willem Dafoe's portrayal of the
>> Green Goblin in this movie genuinely frightened everyone on-set, making
>> the characters' reactions to the Goblin's appearance in the actual film
>> all the more real.
>> Willem Dafoe went to the premiere wearing a green face mask.  (There's
>> "method acting" and there's "METHOD acting".  :P )
>> According to VFX Supervisor Kelly Port, there are only 80 shots that
>> don't have any visual effects in the entire film.  (Is this where
>> someone compares Spider-Man to Jackie Chan?  :P )
> 
> Theme music up!
> 
> Jackie Chan
> Jackie Chan
> Does whatever a Jackie can
> Spins a web.
> Any size
> Catches thieves
> Eat those guys
> Hey wait!
> Don’t do that Jackie Chan.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> One of the film's working titles was "Serenity Now".
>> Immediately after filming his scenes for this film in Atlanta, Benedict
>> Cumberbatch returned to London to make Doctor Strange in the Multiverse
>> of Madness (2022).  (Which I also have on my DVR.)
>> Some people wondered if the film would be shown in China. It was stated
>> that in order for the film to be released in China, the scenes
>> concerning Dr. Strange and magic had to be removed. Furthermore, China
>> supposedly wanted the latter half of the film to take place solely on
>> the Statue of Liberty.
> 
> Because that’s a completely reasonable request
> 
>> Sony refused, hence, the film was banned in the
>> country.
>>
>>
>> What Did You Watch?
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.