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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-18 (Monday)
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 07:17:20 -0800
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On 11/21/2024 12:45 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 11/19/2024 6:34 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>> After an arduous workout, I watched:
>>>>
>>>> Nothing.
>>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>> Hey, thanks for asking!
>>>
>>> Multi day catch-up.
>>>
>>> In rehab I have DIRECTV streaming but you really can’t read the menu so I
>>> just end up trying to find some Law & Order and let it run or something.
>>
>> Law & Order is a show you can just jump in on the middle of any random
>> episode, then let the show play in any random order and wouldn't matter.
>>   And if there is a recognizable guest star, you don't even have to
>> guess who the killer is.
> 
> Yep. Once in a while, you get a very special episode when a character joins
> or leaves. Ian knows which my favorite is.
> 
> 
>>
>>> Scored yesterday with Abby Carmichael.  On BBCA. Would it kill them to show
>>> me some British stuff?
>>>
>>> The first couple nights I was here.
>>
>> Wishing a speedy recovery.  I've never had to spend the night in a
>> hospital but came close when I got COVID a few years ago.
>>
>> I watched Erin Brockovich over and over
>>> again, which turns out not to be as awful as I thought it would be same
>>> notation for Ashley Judd is double Jeopardy.
>>>
>>> I wish they had some 24 hour westerns or game shows. It seems to be mostly
>>> awful reality stuff.  And news.
>>>
>>
>> Check if they have The Game Show Network.
> 
> Nope
> 
> 
>>
>>> I did catch this weeks terrible Blue Bloods thanks to my free preview of
>>> Paramount+ from the last time I ordered Chinese food. I’ve been waiting for
>>> somebody to discuss it. With only a handful of episodes yet left they still
>>> aren’t concentrating on wrapping up the family.
>>>
>>> I got the Wi-Fi password for the place so I was able to go on the gray and
>>> watch the most recent two episodes of season 18 of Murdoch mysteries
>>> including last night’s very special Christmas episode
>>>
>>> I watched DEEP IMPACT. It was as terrible as I remembered, but it was sort
>>> of fun seeing all these actors as babies.
>>>
>>
>> Technically, I like Deep Impact, but I haven't watched it since 2010
>> when I paired it with Armageddon.  I sort of want to watch Deep Impact
>> again, but I won't watch one without the other, and I don't want to
>> watch Armageddon.
> 
> Hard to blame you
> 
> Actually, there's your problem, if you had watched
>> Armageddon first, you would have realized Deep Impact is an OK movie.
> 
> Lol
> 
> 
>> It's not Deep Impact's fault you didn't watch Armageddon first. That's
>> on you. ;-)
> 
> I saw ARMAGEDDON first because the laser disk was on sale and it seemed
> like something it would be worth watching on wide screen. I thought it was
> pretty lousy.
> 
> Later, I watched DEEP IMPACT because a friend worked on it. I thought it
> was even more lousy!
> 

I'd have to watch them again to do a proper comparison, but I don't 
recall ever thinking Deep Impact is worse.  But depending on mood I 
could see Armageddon being considered the better dumb action movie since 
Deep Impact was never trying to be that.

> At least with Armageddon I was watching the story. With deep impact it was
> so uninvolved. I was just watching the mechanics of it. Stuff like how Tea
> Leoni doesn’t change at all in the years that pass and she becomes a news
> anchor. At least give her a new hairstyle!
> 
> As far as I understand, blowing the comet to hell so close that it dumps
> all the fragments in the atmosphere is exactly the wrong thing to do. And
> was their comet made of rock?
> 
> And let’s choose the million people we’re going to save by lottery.  Come
> on, at least weed out the sick.
> 

They made it clear that lottery was only for a certain percentage of 
people.  And mainly to keep society from collapse while they built the 
shelters.  The people they *wanted* to save were going to get saved.


> And really if you survived the initial impact the world is just OK the next
> day?
> 
>>At the time I think the main selling point of Deep Impact over 
Armageddon was 1) Deep Impact wasn't as dumb.  And 2) The asteroid 
actually hits Earth.
Now can you actually outrun the end of the world on a moped?  Who cares. 
  You get to see the devastation.