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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-20 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 09:32:41 -0800
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On 12/21/2024 3:22 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> I watched:
>>
>> Several YouTube videos.
>>
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Hey, thanks for asking!
> 
> BATMAN, the movie 1966
> Watched it with an eye towards what I would reshoot if I had the time and
> money between when they wrapped, and when it was released.
> 

But why? It's fine as is!
"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb."

> There was less than I thought. A lot of shots where you could tell the
> stunt people, and they could’ve used at least inserts of the real villains.
> It annoys me that the yacht at the beginning is headed for them and yet
> when the batcopter spots it they’re coming at it from the stern. I think
> you could fix that with some judicious flipping film left and right and a
> shot ofthe batcopter hanging a U-turn.
> 

I doubt I would even notice.

> And either replace the shots of Los Angeles with shots of New York or
> forget the shots of New York and just make it all Los Angeles.
> 
> But then maybe the cheesiness is what makes it work.
> 
> 

This is a multi day catch up.  When I wasn't rewatching the Superman 
trailer, I watched:


Creature Commandos (HBOMax) "Chasing Squirrels" - Episode 4 gives 
Weasel's backstory while also continuing the Suicide Squad, I  mean 
Creature Commando's present day story with their wrapping up the capture 
of Circe.  Unfortunately for the Commando's things aren't as wrapped up 
as they thought.  Another good episode.


Lower Decks (Paramount+) - "The New Next Generation" - The series 
finale.  Picking up on where the penultimate episode ended, it's up to 
the crew of The USS Cerritos to save the universe.  This was an OK 
finale that wrapped things up, but left the door open for more.  The 
voice cast has been very vocal about wanting to do more seasons.  I hope 
their campaign to save their show works.


Silo (AppleTV+) - "Barricades" - Season 2, episode 6.  Back at the main 
Silo as each side geers up for war, Bernard makes the first move by 
cutting off the food supply to the lower levels.  But the lower levels 
have a new trick up their sleeves that Bernard has never seen before. 
Another good episode.  I like how Bernard has his pressure book that has 
a plan for everything and as events unfold he is smugly calling them 
out, of that's ahead of schedule, until something happens that's not in 
his book.


Boy in the Walls (LMN) 2023 made for TV movie about a newly married 
woman who moves into a new home with her husband and step kids and gets 
an uneasy feeling that someone else is in the house with them.  The 
husband dismisses her concerns, and the kids blame her for the weird 
occurrences, but this is a lifetime movie so it turns out she was right! 
  Based on the name, I was expecting an actual boy living in the walls, 
and the plot isn't exactly that, but close enough I guess.


Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (Disney+) - "Can't Say I Remember No At Attin" 
- Episode 4 has the plucky crew arriving on a planet they think is home, 
and I and probably half the audience thought was the home after time 
dilation space travel.  Another meh episode.


Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (theatrical) Latest entry in the franchise about a 
really fast talking hedgehog.  This time around Team Sonic (or Team 
Knuckles if you ask Knuckles) is up against Shadow the Hedgehog (Keanu 
Reeves).  Shadow  has teamed up with Robotnik's grandfather (both 
Robotnik's played by Jim Carrey) and it's up to Sonic to stop their evil 
plan to destroy the Earth.  Krysten Ritter joins the franchise as part 
of the military organization that sends Team Sonic on their latest 
mission, but then for no reason that makes sense, Team Sonic decides 
they can't trust the organization any more.  Now that I think about it, 
the mistrust was so they could do a ridiculously convoluted break in 
scene instead of just having Team Sonic walk in through the front door.

In spite of revisiting the first two movies, I was often lost following 
this one.  It felt like there was a TV series that takes place in 
between the movies and a lot of the background details from this movie 
came from that show.  Or it's just I never played the video game, so I 
didn't recognize any of the game Easter eggs.  But the audience I 
watched it with seemed to love the movie, clapping and cheering and 
getting all the references that went over my head.  The movie certainly 
looked nice, with lots of things blowing up.  And it more or less held 
my interest even if I didn't get *any* of the game references.  I think 
fans of the game will probably like the movie, and non game fans can 
enjoy stuff going boom along with Carrey hamming it up for the cameras. 
"It's almost as if we're in a movie with one actor playing two different 
characters."