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On 6/3/2024 9:27 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> Sunday, I focused on movies, though I also finished up soaps for the
>> week, and finished the Canadian Open:
>>
>>
>>
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Hey, thanks for asking!
> 
> I watched the two most recent episodes of DARK MATTER, which is quickly
> turning into sliders and becoming impossible to follow as well as full of
> big stupid
> 
> 

I keep forgetting about this.  I need to watch it.

> Caught up on a couple more episodes of THE FALL GUY.
> 
> 
> The Plex is offering me the new THE FALL GUY movie so I’ll probably give
> that a shot today.  I also added ATLAS to my watchlist so I could laugh
> along with everybody else. MYSTERY ON MONSTER ISLAND. THE BLUE ANGELS.  THE
> FINAL PROGRAMME.  And THE PRISONER, which looks absolutely beautiful.
> 
> 
> FANTASY ISLAND 1998
> Reboot with Malcolm McDowell
> I sampled about half of the dozen or so episodes they made mostly based on
> guest stars. A lot more magic than the real series! 

I enjoyed it and was upset when it was cancelled.




I watched:

Apt Pupil (blu-ray) 1998 movie directed by Bryan Singer and starring 
Brad Renfro as a high school teenager who discovers that one of his 
neighbors (Ian McKellen) is a former Nazi who ran a concentration camp. 
McKellen is currently in hiding under a fake identity.  Renfro 
blackmails McKellen into wearing a Nazi uniform and telling him stories 
of being a Nazi murderer.  However, as their lives become intertwined 
McKellen gets the upper hand and forces Renfro to do what he wants instead.


Bully (blu-ray) 2001 movie based on real events, directed by Larry 
Clark, and starring Brad Renfro as a bullied teen who along with several 
friends plot the murder of his best friend and bully (Nick Stahl). 
These idiot teens openly plot the murder and once they pull it off, they 
can't stop talking about it.  It's a good movie but would have benefited 
from someone other than Larry Clark directing it.


Alpha Dog (blu-ray) 2006 movie based on real events, directed by Nick 
Cassavetes, starring Ben Foster as a low level criminal who owes money 
to another criminal played by Emile Hirsch.  The two of them go back and 
forth at each other for a while until finally Hirsch gets the bright 
idea have his friends played by Shawn Hatosy and Justin Timberlake 
kidnap Foster's young brother played by Anton Yelchin.  At first Yelchin 
goes along with the kidnapping and treats his kidnappers like friends 
taking him on an adventure.  They don't particularly hide the kidnapping 
taking him out in public and telling lots of people what they are doing. 
  But with Yelchnin's parents (including Sharon Stone as his mother) 
call the cops.  Plus Foster knows who obviously kidnapped his younger 
brother and starts making death threats.  With all this heat on him 
Hirsh decides to end the kidnapping by extreme measures.  Bruce Willis 
also costars as Hirsh's shady father.  Good movie.  It's very similar to 
"Bully" but without the Larry Clark sleaze factor.


Body Heat (TCM) 1981 - After going through and deleted a bunch of movies 
on my DVR I finally settled on watching this one.  It's a 1981 crime 
movie starring William Hurt as a lawyer who falls for Kathleen Turner in 
her film debut.  Turner talks Hurt into murdering her husband but all 
isn't as it seems.  I'm about 90% sure I've never watched this movie 
before now.  I guess it was OK.  But Hurt should have had a better 
motivation for agreeing to murder a guy beyond Turner sleeping with him. 
  But I guess in the real world that sort of thing and motivation does 
happen all the time.


Interview with the Vampire (AMC) - "I Want You More Than Anything in the 
World" - I just have one question.  How in the world is Claudia still 
alive and when are the other vampires going to kill her?  Anyway OK episode.