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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-11 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 08:38:40 -0700
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On 5/12/24 8:17 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>
>>> What did you watch?
> 
> 
> I'm going to get to meet Fairuza Balk in person in a few weeks so I 
> decided to revisit some of her movies.  I watched:
> 
> Return to Oz (blu-ray) - 1985 sequel to "The Wizard of Oz"...
> 
> 
> The Craft (4K disc) 1996 movie starring Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and 
> Rachel True and three would-be witches who come into real power when 
> Robin Tunney moves into town and completes their coven.
> 
> 
> The Craft Legacy (blu-ray) 2020 sequel which picks up with a new 
> generation of young witches who come into power once a fourth moves into 
> town.  I think this was my second or third time watching the movie, and 
> I think I liked it a bit more on this viewing.  Sure it hits a lot of 
> the same beats, but it's not a total rehash of the first movie there are 
> a couple of twists and turns in it.  Although I would have like it more 
> had the original cast returned in a prominent role.

I still have never seen this. It has literally never come to a streamer 
at the time that I had that streamer. I think it has been locked up by 
Starz (nobody gets Starz!!) this entire time.

So I still have never seen it.

> As an aside, I caught "Funny Girl" on stage.  I couldn't help but 
> constantly compare it to the movie.  There were obviously lots of 
> similarities with scenes and bits of dialogue that were identical in 
> both.  But to my surprise the stage version had Fanny's mother and 
> Fanny's friend who helped her get her first job as major characters 
> throughout.  While they were afterthoughts at best in the movie.  And 
> the lady who played the role on stage knocked it out of the park.  She 
> was better than Streisand in the movie IMO.

Is it hard to be better than Streisand?!!  ;p