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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-11 (Wednesday)
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 22:56:36 -0800
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On 12/13/2024 9:05 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> On 12/13/24 5:19 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>
>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 12/12/24 9:13 AM, shawn wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:59:28 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb
>>>>> <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/12/2024 8:03 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>>>>>> On 12/12/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> With things starting to wind down a little for the year, I got through
>>>>>>> soaps... and a Tubi movie yesterday!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Shark Bait (Tubi) - A 2022 Tubi Original flick!
>>>>>>>     This is one of those annoying flicks that has a bunch of (unknown!)
>>>>>>> British actors pretending to be Americans (from Kansas!).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kansas?  How did the shark get in someone's backyard swimming pool?  And
>>>>>> why didn't people see the shark before they got into the pool?  Or did
>>>>>> the shark ring people's doorbells pretending to be a candygram?
>>>>>
>>>>> Now now. It might be a bull shark in a river. Not that bull sharks
>>>>> are common in Kansas, but they don't have a problem with fresh water
>>>>> and a river , if it is deep enough, can provide plenty of space and
>>>>> food for a shark.
>>>>
>>>> I mentioned this was filmed in Malta, right?! It should be pretty clear
>>>> from that that these Kansas young adults were on vacation (though this
>>>> film never says where it's supposed to be - I assumed the Caribbean but
>>>> it was maybe supposed to be Mexico(?)...).
>>>
>>> I made it 20 or 30 minutes into this, but it was just awful. Especially the
>>> Ashley Crow character. I just didn’t care who the sharks got.
>>>
>>> So the hero girl gets sent to the bar for more drinks. The bar apparently
>>> inexplicably being the quietest area of the party. Instead, she just goes
>>> and sits on the steps, so creepy guy can talk to her.
>>>
>>> The Ashley Crow character, the blonde, is the only one who can’t swim, so
>>> she’s the only one they don’t let on the JetSki.
>>>
>>> Aka Jetski
>>>
>>> Addendum:
>>>
>>> OK using my new shiny earbuds and my iPad. I watched the rest of this truly
>>> dreadful film. I don’t have much else to add.
>>
>> It desperately needed:
>>
>> 1) Likeable characters
>> 2) Naked nudity
>>
>> And not necessarily in that order!  ;p
> 
> A coherent plot might have helped.
> 
Depends on the movie.

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