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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-18 (Monday)
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On 11/19/24 7:14 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

> On 11/19/2024 8:41 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Thanks.  I thought that might have been the case but wasn't sure.
> 
>>> 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?
> 
> It was made for TV in 2000.  The DVD has both 4:3 and 1.78 anamorphic 
> widescreen.  I watched the widescreen version.  As originally intended 
> it was going to be an ongoing weekly TV series on network TV. It wasn't 
> designed to have an ending.  But then it got cancelled before ever 
> airing and they had all of that footage so they did some reshoots to add 
> an ending to turn it into a prequel movie.
> 
> If you like "Cruel Intentions" it's definitely worth watching as it's 
> own thing.  And it does lead into the movie even though they obviously 
> changed some details around for the show.  It's available for free on Tubi.
> 
> https://tubitv.com/movies/658561/cruel-intentions-2

Not for long - I saw that Cruel Intentions 2 and 3 are marked on Tubi as 
"leaving soon".