Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-27 (Wednesday)
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:43:57 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 43
Message-ID: <via33t$jaji$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 16:43:58 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e7111e1eb907e97eb0c67f664278fa86";
	logging-data="633458"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18NZz3mWF7Q3+IhIelKr8Dv"
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:VsR8HYT0VmVw37M1S+ToGnVR6vE=
Content-Language: en-US

Finished cleaning my place yesterday morning, and then had family come 
to town, so I didn't get through much yesterday:

I(We) watched a couple of the Pierce Brosnan-Bond movies off Pluto TV's 
"007" channel. (Sidenote: When I first discovered Pluto TV, years ago, 
it had a Bond channel. But it quickly disappeared back then. I'm 
expecting the same again - I'll bet Pluto will have a "007" channel for 
the holidays, but I bet it's gone by the New Year).

I'm quite sure I saw "Die Another Day" in the theater. I can't remember 
if I saw "The World Is Not Enough" in the theater - I'm sure I must 
have, but I don't remember it... Anyway, these were a fine way to pass 
the time.

In the evening, I did get home and watch:

Cruel Intentions 3 (Tubi) - This 2004 third and final film in the series 
is also leaving Tubi in mere days, so I decided to get to it now.
    FTR, this one is a true, though kind of tangential, "sequel" to the 
original film - Kathryn is explicitly referenced (she's the main 
character's cousin), and Sebastian is indirectly referenced as being dead.
    As I remembered, it is generally underwhelming, and also off-putting 
(this one includes a rape from a genuine psychopath which I thought 
generally ruined the whole thing).
    The best part is probably Kristina Anapau, playing the lead(?), 
Kathryn Merteuil's cousin, Cassidy - she at least brings some evol! 
gusto to the role.
    The top-billed lead is Kerr Smith who brings his usual brand of 
sleepy smarminess to the role.
    The third lead, Nathan J. Wetherington, looked familiar, though I'm 
not sure what else I've seen him in. He plays the true psychopath.
    The secondary cast includes several people I've never seen before, 
but does include Natalie Ramsey (from "Beyond the Break") as one of 
Kerr's budding conquests, and Tom Parker as her boyfriend.
    This includes what I'd call "incidental" naked nudity, and none from 
the leads or main secondary cast.
    As per usual, I especially didn't like the ending of this one, which 
basically serves as one giant reset button, and shows the characters 
(esp. Anapau's) had learned nothing after ostensibly doing a good dead.
    It's little wonder that this film series ended here.


What did you watch?