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From: suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-30 (Monday)
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:09:25 -0800
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On 12/31/2024 8:49 AM, shawn wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 08:31:37 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb
> <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> 
>> I've been making my way through various movie groupings.  On Monday I
>> watched Dragon movies:
>>
>>
>> Dragonslayer (4K disc) 1981 movie starring Peter MacNicol as a
>> sorcerer's apprentice who takes over his master's promise to battle a
>> dragon.  This was a childhood favorite, but it's not as good as it was
>> when I was a kid.  I think probably because when I was a kid I just
>> cared about the dragon, and now I also look at the plot.  The disc has a
>> new commentary track with Matthew Robbins who writer and directed the
>> movie and  Guillermo del Toro.  At first I was confused why del Toro was
>> on the track, but it turns out Robbins has written several movies for
>> del Toro, and del Toro was geeking out on the track about how much of a
>> huge Dragonslayer fan he is.
>>
>>
>> Dragonheart (4K disc) 1996 movie starring Dennis Quaid who teams up with
>> a Dragon (voiced by Sean Connery) to run a con where the dragon flies
>> over a town then Quaid rides in and offers to rid the town of their
>> dragon problem for a fee.  But the two end up having to stop their con
>> and fight an evil king by movie's end.  OK, I guess.  I know they made
>> umpteen sequels, but this was good enough for me.
>>
>>
>> Eragon (blu-ray) 2006 movie starring Ed Spellers as a young man who
>> finds a dragon's egg.  The egg hatches and he has a magical bond with
>> his dragon.  Which is a good thing because now everyone is counting on
>> him and his dragon to overthrow the evil king (John Malkovich).  Jeremy
>> Irons costars as a good knight who trains Eragon (Speleers) and Robert
>> Carlyle serves as the king's evil magical enforcer and main villain.  I
>> swear, Carlyle's evil character here was basically "Mr. Gold" with
>> different makeup.  I really like this movie and I continued to be upset
>> the movie ended without any resolution so it could set up a sequel that
>> never got made.
>>
>>
>> Dragon Wars: D-War (blu-ray) 2007 movie with a vary convoluted plot.
>> But basically an evil sorcerer and his army are trying to take over the
>> world and they've got dragons.  I think.  Like I said, the plot is
>> convoluted, but the important thing is, this movie has dragons fighting
>> the modern military.  And that's all I care about.  I love that the FBI
>> has a supernatural task force that's up to speed on these types of
>> things, and knows exactly what needs to be done to handle it.  And
>> unlike Reign of Fire (a movie I will never stop cursing), this movie
>> actually has attack copters vs. dragons.
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_5iRVuof0A
>>
>>
>> Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (4K disc) 2023 movie based on
>> the board game.  Chris Pine leads a cast of thieves who are trying to
>> steal treasure and rescue Pine's daughter from her evil adoptive father.
>>   It's an OK movie, but I know others liked it a lot more than I did.
>> There's a scene in the movie where they briefly show characters from the
>> 80s cartoon version.  I grew up watching that cartoon and those were the
>> characters I wanted to follow.  Hopefully some day someone will make
>> that version into a movie.
>>
>>
>> What did you watch?
> 
> I finished out Season 5 of The Expanse. Yes, I'm that far behind. Got
> distracted and stopped watching the series but I still recorded all of
> them.
> 
I started watching it, then life intervened and I didn't get back to it 
for many. I couldn't figure out where I left off, so decided to read the 
first book, thinking that would help. It didn't because there's so much 
more in the book, I just kept going with the series. Glad I did, because 
there's two books more beyond the series.