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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-23 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:55:51 -0800
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On 11/24/2024 10:23 AM, shawn wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 09:07:47 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/24/24 9:04 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>
>>> I didn't do much of anything yesterday, except take it easy. Just did a
>>> chore or two.
>>>
>>> I watched:
>>>
>>> Christmas in the Spotlight (Lifetime) - This really was 100% just
>>> straight up lifted from Taylor Swift's and Travis Kelce's romance.
>>>      This was OK, I guess.
>>>      Jessica Lord is somehow unrecognizable from her "The Next Step" days
>>> - I think it's the combination of weary (too much!!) makeup her,
> 
> No one should be wearing weary makeup. Unless they are supposed to be
> worn out from a hard day. ;)
> 
>> We'll try this again: "I think it's the combination of her wearing (too
>> much!!) makeup here, and..."
>>
>>> and her hair.
>>>      Laith Wallschleger seems to less be playing Travis Kelce here, and
>>> more playing Gronk. But, whatever.
>>>      Also, have quarterback and wide receiver brothers ever played on the
>>> same NFL team in the history of the NFL?! I can't recall an example of
>>> this...
>>>      Anyway, this was OK - "Taylor Swift" meets-cute "Gronk" at her
>>> concert, through "Gronk's" niece, and they start up a romance. But of
>>> course "Taylor" wants to keep it "casual" and secret. There are
>>> obstacles along the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah...
>>>
>>>
>>> What did you watch?
> 
> I split some time between the various college games watching Georgia
> come back from what looked like a potential loss in the first quarter.
> Then seeing Auburn pull off a win in 4th Overtime (yes, 4 overtimes)
> and Florida do the same. Both of which helped Georgia's ranking.
> 
> I also watched THE EXPENDABLES 2 where we only got a small bit of
> Charisma Carpenter 

Yeah, I thought she was in part 2.

and Jet Li as they made Dolph Lundgren a full
> member

I mean, he only betrayed and tried to kill them in the first one. 
What's to forgive?

  of the team and has both Schwarzenegger and Chuck Norris play
> big parts along with Jean- Claude Van Damme as the Vilain. They also
> had Bruce Willis show up again as the guy getting everything going as
> the CIA contact who actually got into the fight this time.
> 
> Oddly enough they added a female helper, Yu Nan, who got to show off
> more martial arts skills in this movie than Jet Li did in the previous
> movie.
> 

I don't remember her character.  I guess she was the replacement for Li. 
  I really wish he had a bigger role in 2 and 3.  Was he even in 4?

> The plot is the team needs to retrieve a package from a plane that
> crashed in a remote area. They manage to pull it off with seconds to
> go. Sadly as they leave they run into the bad guys who want the box
> they retrieved from the plane. Seems the box has a map to tons of
> plutonium that was left behind by the Soviet Union. Since they have
> the good guys covered and one of the good guys captured the good guys
> give over the box, but Vilain proves his a villain by killing the
> captured good guy before they leave.
> 
> That leads to the good guys hunting down the bad guys (sounds
> familiar) and end up taking them out with lots of explosive help from
> Arnold, Chuck and Bruce. A bit of mindless fun.
> 
> 
> What did you watch?