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On 2024-11-12 14:39:58 +0000, Arthur Lipscomb said:

> On 11/12/2024 6:17 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>> On 11/12/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>> 
>>> What did you watch?
>> 
>> Despite the fact that I had more time yesterday evening/night and could 
>> have watched a movie, I just didn't feel like it - instead I came home 
>> and listened to music, and put "Baywatch" on Tubi (it was the epie 
>> where Parker Stevenson starts to drool over April Giminski! who can 
>> blame him!!) on as background noise before I went to bed. So all I got 
>> through was a couple of soaps:
>> 
>> soaps: DOOL - Frankly, pass - I think all the happened is that Chad got 
>> Cat sprung from prison so Clyde can take his revenge on her. Oh, and 
>> Brady guilted Kristen into giving the serum to Sarah and Xander.
>>    GH - Anna tries to get info out of Jason on the rescue of Sasha, but 
>> like an asshole he tells her nothing. Holly begs Brennan's help to 
>> leave town to escape her debts. Felicia advises Sasha to bury the 
>> hatchet with Holly, but it's seemingly too late. Brennan warns Jason 
>> not to help Anna find Valentin. A distraught (and tedious!) NuKristina 
>> gets in a car wreck with Natalia, so Natalia calls Sonny in. Michael 
>> again catches Drew with Willow, and I think he's going to sandbag 
>> Willow with a surprise divorce! (You go, dude!!)
>> 
>> And that was it.
>> 
>> 
>> What did you watch?
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> I watched:
> 
> Alexander (blu-ray) 2004 historical epic movie written and directed by 
> Oliver Stone starring Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great.  The movie 
> jumps around in time chronicling Alexander's conquest of the then known 
> world as well as following his various love affairs.  This was the 
> "Revisited: The Final Cut" which put back in every last frame of film 
> and the kitchen sink pushing the run time to just under 4 hours.

4 hours, yikes! I have the DVD and according to my database it's 175 
min. (easily enough to get me antsy).

> I read a review that complained about the movie being incomprehensible 
> and the added run time doesn't help.  I recalled liking the movie from 
> past viewings, and watching it again, I still liked it. I really didn't 
> have any problem following the plot, even with the jumping around in 
> time, it all made perfect sense to me.
> 
> 
> Gladiator (4K disc)  2000 historical epic movie directed by Ridley 
> Scott and starring Russell Crowe as the general who became a slave, the 
> slave who became a gladiator, and the gladiator who defied an empire.  
> Joaquin Phoenix costars as the emperor who became vexed.  The movie 
> holds up great.

Yes it does, I have the DVD. Incidentally I heard scholarly types 
spotted at least one serious blooper in the new Gladiator II that's 
coming out -- a Roman general is shown reading a newspaper 1,200 years 
before the invention of the printing press. lol.

> Black Hawk Down (4K disc) 2001 movie directed by Ridley Scoot which 
> follows the real life downing of an American Black Hawk during the 
> Somalian civil war in the 90s.  I wasn't always giving the movie my 
> full attention, but when I was, the movie looked great in 4K and was 
> pretty much nonstop action.  I couldn't help but notice that the score 
> sounded a *lot* like the score from Gladiator.  I checked and sure 
> enough Hans Zimmer did the score for this too.

Ridley Scott has done some great stuff -- I own 9 of his movies -- but 
this one I'm not fond of. I wound up selling it on eBay (nice fold-out 
2-disc package though). Seems like I remember it was just too much 
"Bang!" "Pow!" "Bang!" all the time, even for a war movie.