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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-02 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 11:58:42 -0800
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On 1/3/2025 9:58 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> On 1/3/2025 8:32 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>> On 1/3/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>
>> During the day, not much. In the afternoon, I watched some of the 
>> Sugar Bowl, where Notre Dame easily beat Georgia, to grab the last 
>> College Football Playoff semi-final spot.
>>
>> That night, I mostly caught up on "General Hospital" (it turns out I 
>> haven't missed many episodes over the holidays as ABC has preempted GH 
>> on multiple days over the past couple of weeks).
>>
>> GH - NuNuLulu 
> 
> I thought this was ROT13 at first.
> 
> catches up with Charlotte in Prague, but fails to convince
>> Charlotte to come back with her; then Valentin, and then Dante, show 
>> up - a sniper is about to take Valentin out... Brook Lynn is still not 
>> pregnant, so she and Chase are going to go to the doctor to get 
>> checked out... Robin's teen daughter Emma turns out to be a real piece 
>> of work - Anna discovers that Emma got herself expelled from college; 
>> then Emma seems to goad grieving Josslyn over their teen rivalry over 
>> Cameron and over Cameron's new girlfriend. (What a bitch!)... Ava is 
>> in desperate financial straits, after the Cassadine estate cancelled 
>> her divorce settlement... The hospital seems to be going after Lizzie, 
>> after a potential third victim is ID'ed, so Ric Lansing lawyers her 
>> up... Nina and Drew encourage Willow to go on the offensive about the 
>> custody of the kids, after Lucas irately berates Willow for taking the 
>> kids away from Michael.
>>
>>
>> What did you watch?
>>
>>
> 
> I watched:
> 
> Creature Commandos (HBOMax) "Priyatel Skelet" - Episode 6 and I think 
> the penultimate episode.  This one has the backstory of  "Doctor 
> Phosphorus" while in the present the Suicide Squad, I mean Creature 
> Commandos, continue their mission while Frankenstein's monster continues 
> to stalk his reluctant bride.  Another good episode.  But I have to 
> mention this show is just so violent! One character punched their fist 
> through a man's heart pulled out his still beating heart and showed it 
> to him.  And what Doctor Phosphorus does to people every week can't even 
> be described.  But let's say it involves a lot of screams and melted off 
> flesh.
> 
> 
> The Phantom of the Opera (4K disc) - I watched the 1943 classic 
> Universal Studios version.  When I put the disc in, I was expecting the 
> 1925 black and white, silent version, and was very pleasantly surprised 
> when this version (filmed in color) played instead. I bought a 4K box 
> set of the classic Universal horror movies a couple of years ago.  I'm 
> finally cracking it open to start to watch some of them.  With the 
> exception of "Dracula" and "Frankenstein," I've never seen any of the 
> classic Universal horror films.
> 
> Going into this, I was only familiar with the Andrew Lloyd Webber 
> musical version.  In that version the identity of the phantom is 
> unknown.  And he's already the Phantom at the start.  In this version 
> Claude Rains plays a music composer who believes someone is stealing his 
> work and tries to murder the man.  The man's wife throws acid on his 
> face to stop him.  So, everyone knows who the Phantom is and his back 
> story.  He spends the movie trying to help a young woman in the opera 
> become a star. To my surprise, this version is practically a musical too.
> 
> 
> The Wolf Man (4K disc) 1943 version of the Universal Studios classic 
> about a man who is bitten by a werewolf and turns into one himself.  On 
> the commentary they said the movie was a huge success.  I forget the 
> names, but when all the money came flowing in, one guy bought his wife a 
> diamond ring, another got a $50,000 bonus, and another asked for a $25 
> raise, and to the guy who requested the $25 raise, Universal said, no.
> 
> When I pulled out the box set, I had a general idea of which movies I 
> planned to watch, but not the order.  My first thought was to go to 
> Wikipedia, figure out the release order, and watch in that order.  But I 
> *wanted* to watch Phantom first, so that's what I went with.  Turns out, 
> Claude Rains stars in this movie too.  And he stars in "The Invisible 
> Man." Had I known that I would have started with "The Invisible Man" and 
> watched in release order.  In addition to Claude Rains this movie stars 
> Lon Chaney Jr. as The Wolf Man and Bela Lugosi as a different werewolf. 
> I was on the fence, but I decided to hold off on watching "The Invisible 
> Man" until the reboot's sequel is released. I'm holding off on watching 
> "Frankenstein" for similar reasons.
> 
> 
> The Wolfman (4K disc) 2010 remake of the 1943 classic starring Bencio 
> del Toro as the Wolfman and Anthony Hopkins as his father.  I watched 
> with a new commentary.  The guy doing the commentary talked about how 
> much of a mess this movie was to make, in particular due to the director 
> being replaced along with other behind the scenes fighting. 
> Unfortunately there were often long gaps of silence, I suspect because 
> much of what he was saying being edited out.  That wouldn't have been 
> too bad but for whatever reason, they muted the movie audio, so whenever 
> he was speaking there was just dead silence.
> 
> 
> The Creature From the Black Lagoon (4K disc) 1954 Universal Studios 
> classic about a group of scientists who go on an expedition to find a 
> strange fossil and find a living creature instead.  This was just above 
> background noise with the commentary, but it did generally hold my 
> interest whenever I looked up to watch.  On the commentary they said the 
> movie was originally going to be shot in color and 3D, but they crunched 
> the numbers and realized that they could save $100,000 if they shot it 
> in 3D black and white instead. They also mentioned they weren't going to 
> let the elaborate suit they constructed for this movie go to waste, so 
> they quickly cranked out a sequel.  My box set only includes the 4K 
> version, but a 3D version is also available too.
> 
> 
> Abbott Elementary (Hulu) "Ava vs. Superintendent" Season2, episode 12. 
> Another "best" episode.  This one picks up with Principal, "Ava" after 
> she loses her blackmail leverage over the school superintendent.  She 
> has to go to the school board and make a presentation to keep her job 
> and funding for the school.  Some of the other teachers come up with a 
> scheme where they will do the presentation "with" her.  All she has to 
> do is stand there and smile while they do all the actual work.  It was 
> OK, I guess.
> 
> 
> Silo (AppleTV+) - "The Book of Quinn" - I can't really say what happened 
> without getting into spoilers.  But there were some revelations and 
> confirmations this episode. The slow pace of this season is killing me, 
> but at least we are slowly getting answers and making limited progress.
> 
Yeah, it's slow, though I still keep wondering if I missed an episode.