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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-26 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 08:34:50 -0700
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On 5/27/2024 7:25 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
> 
>> What did you watch?
> 
> I finally saw a couple of episodes of the most recent season of “The Next
> Step” (season #8?…) Now I understand why it wasn’t picked up
> internationally. The show is atrocious now. The acting was always sketchy
> on this show, but now the cast is pretty universally terrible with no
> standouts (neither on the dancing end either).
> 
> And not only are there no original cast members left, even the people who
> were main cast in season #7 have all disappeared.
> 
> I am going to guess that there will be no season #9!
> 
> 
> 
> 
Does this have any connection to the "Step Up" movies?

I watched:


Showdown in Little Tokyo (blu-ray) 1991 action movie starring Dolph 
Lundgren as a rule breaking lethal Weapon of a cop who is Out for 
Justice while making the bad guys Die Hard.  Brandon Lee co-stars as his 
buy the books cop buddy.  With Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as the over the top 
villain and Tia Carrere as the eye candy in distress who cares how bad 
the plot is?  Just watch Lundgren shoot stuff while tossing out one-liners.


Rapid Fire (blu-ray) 1992 action movie starring Brandon Lee as a student 
who is coerced by law enforcement into agreeing to testify against a mob 
boss.  But the cops assigned to protect him work for the mob and after 
being forced to kill the cops protecting him he's on the one from both 
the mob and the cops.  Powers Boothe co-stars as a cop with a vendetta 
against the mob who Lee is forced to work with to bring down the mob.


The Crow (4K disc) 1994 movie starring Brandon Lee as a musician who 
along with his fiancée is murdered the night before his wedding.  A year 
later he returns from the grave as an unstoppable killing machine out to 
reap vengeance on the men who wronged him.  Hold's up great and Lee's 
best movie.


Atlas (Netflix) New sci-fi movie starring Jennifer Lopez as a consultant 
helping the government fight their war against an evil AI (Simu Liu) who 
reprogrammed domestic robots to rebel against humanity.  After millions 
dead humanity was able to get the upper hand forcing Liu to flee off 
world.  Once humanity learns where Liu is hiding they send a military 
force after him and Lopez bullies her way into tagging along.  Except in 
spite of the AI rebellion humanity still uses AI and on this mission 
Lopez will be forced to work with an AI even though she hates them.  I 
know I have a very high tolerance for bad movies, but this movie really 
isn't nearly as bad as the reviews would have you believe.  It's a 
standard turn your brain off and watch things get blown up sci-fi movie. 
  I didn't watch this for the acting.  I watched this to watch people in 
giant mech suits battle androids.  This movie delivers on that, more or 
less.  So I'm not going to complain.


Interview with the Vampire (AMC) "What Can the Damned Really Say to the 
Damned" and "Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death" - I caught 
up on the first two episodes of season 2.  Once again a network has 
waited well over a year between seasons.  Picking up where season 1 
ended Louis and Claudia have "killed" Lestat and fled to Europe.  They 
search for vampires and eventually end up in France where they meet a 
theatre troupe of vampires lead by Armand and Santiago.  Claudia likes 
her new friends but Louis is terrified the vampires will discover what 
they did to Lestat.  And the fact vampires can read minds definitely 
doesn't set him at ease.  But Claudia is just throwing all caution to 
the wind.  Eric Bogosian returns as the journalist interviewing Louis 
and continues to provide snark whenever Louis' story doesn't add up.  At 
the start of the first episode there was a title card that said "the 
role of Claudia will now be played by Delainey Hayles."  I'm guessing 
the original actress either aged out or was too busy making Avatar 
movies.  But it was a nice acknowledgement that they changed actors.