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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-18 (Monday)
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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>On 11/19/2024 6:03 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

>>. . . 

>>I saw some of the Jamaica vs. U.S. soccer game - if you wanted a high- 
>>scoring game, this was your game, as the final was 4-2 for the U.S.

>I don't watch soccer so I can't tell if that's a legitimately high score 
>for soccer or sarcasm.

Soccer final scores can often be 1-0 or 2-1. One side scoring 4 goals is
a high number of goals. In some federations, games can end in ties.

>Cruel Intentions 2 (DVD) 2000 direct to video movie written and directed 
>by Roger Kumble.  It's a prequel to "Cruel Intentions."  This movie 
>originally started out as a TV series, but was cancelled before airing, 
>then reedited (with gratuitous nudity added) into a prequel for the 
>movie.  The plot follows Sebastian Valmont (Robin Dunne) whose 
>womanizing father marries a rich woman played by Mimi Rogers.  Sebastian 
>(who's already a jerk to begin with) then meets his evil stepsister (Amy 
>Adams as Kathryn Merteuil) who by the end of the movie has made him as 
>evil and twisted as she is.  The overall story is somewhat of a rehash 
>of the plot of the first movie with Kathryn trying to turn the new girl 
>into the school slut while also messing with her stepbrother's head. 
>The picture quality on the DVD is of course fuzzy, but the overall movie 
>is pretty good, especially considering what they had to work with. They 
>clearly knew the TV show was cancelled (breaking the 4th wall at one 
>point to mention it) and did reshoots to turn what was filmed into a 
>coherent movie with an ending.

Wow. How many times do we get tv series cancelled and it's clear that
the writers never intended to write a proper ending? I'd say every
single fucking time, with this one exception you watched. Maybe I'll
track this down for the novelty of having a proper ending of something
intended for tv.

What was the intended aspect ratio, 4:3?