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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-28 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:14:26 -0700
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On 4/29/2024 1:17 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 4/29/2024 5:39 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>> Yesterday, I actually had to start getting done the work that I had
>>> blown off doing on Saturday, so I didn't get through much TV yesterday...:
>>>
>>> soaps: GH - Fri's. Laura righteously tells Sonny that their "friendship"
>>> is *over* (as Ava eavesdrops); Sonny seemed genuinely shocked that
>>> someone has had enough of his thug lifestyle. Nina informs Carly about
>>> the divorce, and that Ava has wormed her way into Sonny's confidence.
>>> NuNuNuMolly wants Alexis to talk to Kristina (who wasn't on this epie).
>>> Finn and Gregory argue about getting an in-home care nurse; later,
>>> Alexis insists that Finn go to a meeting, while Tracy sets Gregory
>>> straight on his priorities. Olivia hires Sasha to be the new
>>> Quartermaine cook (this is always a bad sign - it means they have no
>>> idea what to do with the Sasha character...).
>>>     I didn't even get to DOOL, so I'm now an episode behind.
>>>
>>> The Replacement Daughter (Lifetime) - Never trust Kristen DiMeras
>>> bearing gifts!!
>>>     This was about what I expected, except that Stacy Haiduk's character
>>> was even crazier and more homicidal than I was expecting.
>>
>> Stacy Haiduk is in this?  Why didn't you lead with that?!?
>>
>>>     And, yeah - Kristi Murdoch plays the original mom, who ends up in a
>>> coma. So, as a result, Murdoch is barely in the film, on in the
>>> beginning and the end parts, but entirely missing from the middle.
>>>
>>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>
>> I watched:
>>
>> The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (blu-ray)
>> 1984 sci-fi movie starring Peter Weller as an expert in everything who
>> has the save the world from aliens from Planet 10.  The movie holds up
>> great.  I think I probably liked it even more than usual.  I never saw
>> this in the theater.  Most of my viewings in the 80s would have been on
>> a tiny TV screen in pan and scan.  While not the first time I've watched
>> it in proper aspect ratio, watching it blown up on a giant screen was a
>> whole other experience.
> 
> I first saw it at comicon, so on a medium size screen, but with the perfect
> audience for it. We’re still waiting for the sequel.
> 
> 
> 
>> Big Trouble in Little China (blu-ray) 1986 action comedy directed by
>> John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell as an average guy caught up in
>> a magical adventure to save the world.  A plot point of the movie
>> involves a girl being kidnapped by a gang sold as part of the villain's
>> evil plan.  The hero gets involved when he goes looking for the girl
>> instead of the police.  Victor Wong co-stars as a wise old man who helps
>> the hero on his journey.  Peter Kwong pops up as one of the villain's
>> henchmen who is killed by being impaled by a blade.  And everyone's
>> favorite character actor James Hong stars as a villain.  At the end of
>> the movie the villain tries to stab the hero with a knife but fails.
>> The hero takes that same knife and uses it to kill the villain.  I love
>> this movie, but I think this may be the first time I realized the plot
>> makes *no* sense!  But the movie is way too much fun to let something as
>> small as that get in the way.
> 
> Still waiting for the sequel to this as well:
> 
> Big Trouble Escaping the Thing from New York’s Little China
> 
> Jack, Mac, and Snake together again for the first time!
> 
> 

They call Buckaroo Banzai for help and find out the World Crime League, 
which turns out to be the same aliens from "They Live," is really behind 
it all.

> 
>> The Golden Child (blu-ray) 1986 action comedy starring Eddie Murphy as
>> an average guy caught up in a magical adventure to save the world.  A
>> plot point of the movie involves a girl being kidnapped by a gang sold
>> as part of the villain's evil plan.  The hero gets involved when he goes
>> looking for the girl instead of the police. Victor Wong co-stars as a
>> wise old man who helps the hero on his journey.  Peter Kwong pops up as
>> one of the villain's henchmen who is killed by being impaled by a blade.
>>   And everyone's favorite character actor James Hong stars as a good
>> guy.  At the end of the movie the villain tries to stab the hero with a
>> knife but fails.  The hero takes that same knife and uses it to kill the
>> villain.  This is such an underrated movie.  It's loads of fun and
>> Murphy chews the scenery like only 80s Murphy could.
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhF5iwB_vE
>> Whatever happened to the actress who played the love interest?
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
> 
> Originally Murphy was supposed to be in Star Trek the whale one which is
> why it takes place in the 20th century (somebody at Paramont figured they
> had a contract to make a Murphy movie and the contract to make a Star Trek
> movie and why not kill two birds of prey with one stone).  but in much the
> same way they would lose Sean Connery in the next movie. They kept delaying
> and delaying and never got Murphy his contract and so he decided to do the
> golden child instead and he was replaced as Kirks love interest by Tucker’s
> Witch.
> 
> Come on guys I’m good, but even I couldn’t make that up.
> 
> 

This one still stings.  Murphy is such a huge Trek fan it's surprising 
he couldn't pull some strings to make it happen.