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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-11 (Tuesday)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:08:57 -0000 (UTC)
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shawn  <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:44:46 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>On 6/12/24 10:18 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>>
>>> On 6/12/2024 11:40 AM, shawn wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:52:25 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 6/12/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>>
>>>>> I should have gotten stuff done yesterday, but instead I just watched
>>>>> movies all day!!:
>>>>>
>>>>> First, in the morning, I got sucked into watching "Happy Death Day", on
>>>>> the Siffy channel, once again! I really do like this movie - esp. the
>>>>> wrinkle about how she "accumulates damage" (IOW, loses "hit points"!)
>>>>> after each successive death. Maybe the only issue with this flick is
>>>>> that I feel like the Third Act isn't quite as strong as the first two
>>>>> acts (the killer's motivation was especially weak, IMO). (And, like, how
>>>>> do the cops not take her in for murder after that?!!)
>>>>>     Siffy did not play "Happy Death Day 2" immediately after, which is
>>>>> quite a different film, but even if they had I am not sure I would have
>>>>> watched it as I wasn't up for it...
>>>>
>>>> I really enjoyed this film
>>> 
>>> Same.  I'm holding out hope for a third one.
>>
>>What I found out while watching this - Jessica Rothe is pushing 40!! 
>>believe it or not.
>>
>>When I found that out, I pretty much realized that there likely won't be 
>>another HDD flick. It also explains why Rothe's career has cooled down 
>>in the last few years.
>>
>
>Given the timing it does seem unlikely we get a third movie. 2017 was
>the year of the first movie and 2019 the second was released. We are
>now five years past the second movie so a third seems unlikely. It's a
>problem with many of the ideas that people base movies/shows on. The
>actual actors have this habit of getting older which goes against the
>idea the movie was based on.

They do not get older. Shirley Temple was contractually obligated not
to age page 9 in the 1930s.