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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-18 (Wednesday)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:33:03 -0800
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On 12/19/2024 6:43 PM, shawn wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:40:12 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb
> <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/19/2024 5:15 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>> On 12/19/24 4:54 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>
>>>> suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 12/19/2024 1:39 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Finished grading the final for the first of my two sections, and then
>>>>>>> did a little bit of finish up work on the lab class... With that, I
>>>>>>> got
>>>>>>> through:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey, thanks for asking!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS on The Plex
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Howard Keel
>>
>> I thought you meant, "Jaws" at first.  I was about to say, I didn't know
>> Jaws was in this movie.  LOL
>>
>> plays one of the few sighted people in a world of the blind
>>>>>> threatened by poison spitting mobile carnivorous plants. It held up
>>>>>> a lot
>>>>>> better than I thought it would.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They changed it a lot from the book which may have been for the better
>>>>>> because there aren’t really many answers either way. A mysterious
>>>>>> meteor
>>>>>> shower leaves the world blind. Conspiracy theorists think it was
>>>>>> some sort
>>>>>> of Russian weapon that went wrong and got everybody.
>>>>>> In the book, Triffids are known to the world and kept in pens for as I
>>>>>> recall their oil.  And their poison sacks are kept clipped. With the
>>>>>> world
>>>>>> gone blind there’s nothing to keep them from escaping and wackiness
>>>>>> ensuing.  In the movie, they just appear out of nowhere after the
>>>>>> meteor
>>>>>> shower. It’s hard to imagine these two events as being accidental and
>>>>>> unconnected. But there are no answers to be had just efforts to
>>>>>> survive.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Meanwhile, Janette Scott (yes, from Rocky Horror Picture Show)
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSSlYwVEMSM
>>
>> and
>>>>>> her real
>>>>>> life husband who starred in together in CRACK IN THE WORLD, are
>>>>>> trapped in
>>>>>> a lighthouse and besieged by the Triffids. At the end, he turns the
>>>>>> fire
>>>>>> hose on them because he’s run out of things to throw, and it turns
>>>>>> out that
>>>>>> seawater disintegrates them. Well, that was an easy fix!
>>>>>
>>
>> I know there are several versions of this movie, but I think I only ever
>> saw the old, black and white version.  I have *wanted* to see one of the
>> newer versions for a while now, but no one is streaming them.
> 
> That would be true.. if only it weren't true.. 

Youtube never even crossed my mind!  LOL.  But thanks for the links.  I 
think I'll book mark the links and the next time I'm in a hotel room 
with nothing to watch, that might be a good time to finally check out 
the new version.

Though it is true for
> those unwilling or unable to look, but those who seek, so shall they
> find..
> 
> First we start with the classic.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBVm4Jsa3fQ
> 
> Then there is a 2009 version
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDVMLCQT4Us
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH9FWueZWEY
> 
> How about the audio book version:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFVed5FX8XU
> 
> 
> Or the 1981 BBC version:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REvX97bTvrY
> 
> 
> Another audio book version from 2001
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIHuvCxsdos
> 
> 
> There are yet more that could be listed but that seems like
> enough to prove a point. ;)
> 
>>>>> Yay, you got to watch something!
>>>>
>>>> iPhone, ear buds  :)
> 
> Ear buds are a great help.
> 
>   
>>> "Baywatch" is on The Tubi! (And a bunch of other places, I'm sure...)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Baywatch?  Are you trying to get him to break his phone?
>>
>>
>> This is a two day catch up.
>>
>> I watched:
>>
>> The Faculty (4K disc) 1998 horror movie directed by Robert Rodriguez and
>> starring a whose who list of late 90s teens who must save the world when
>> their high school teachers are taken over by aliens.  This movie name
>> checks both "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "The Puppet Masters,"
>> but isn't as good as either.
> 
> Ah, but it has Jordana Brewster and Famke Janssen in it.
> 
>>
>>
>> Survivor - Season finale.  I am happy with who won.  Last week I had no
>> idea who they were.  But given the events of the finale, I'm happy with
>> the outcome.
> 
> It was a great ending to a good season. They had a good cast and they
> kept it close till the end. Well, not the very end as the vote was a
> bit of a land slide. LOL. Other than the one person  who clearly only
> voted for the person they liked the most and not on game play (or as
> some suggested they voted clearly on the gender of the winner.)
> 
> 
> As for me.. I watched the SURVIVOR finale and finished off the SECRET
> LEVEL episodes. Great little series with pretty good stories in a
> short show. Some wouldn't work if the episode were any longer but as
> was it was good enough. Looking at you, Spelunky.
> 

That reminds me, I need to finish watching Secret Level.


> Ah, I also watched the latest episode of FBI MOST WANTED which had the
> team going after the dumbest group of bad cops I've seen. Cops that
> decided the best way to stop crime was to kill off the bad guys as did
> David Crosby when facing off against Dirty Harry. Only they decide to
> double down once the FBI shows up and prove how tough they are by
> trying to run the FBI out of town. It does not go well for them.
> 
> What did you watch?