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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-04 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 08:56:16 -0800
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On 1/5/25 8:33 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

> On the final weekend of my staycation I did some much needed straitening 
> up while I also continued to make my way through selected animated films 
> in my collection.  I watched:
> 
> 
> The Secret of NIMH (blu-ray) 1982 animated film directed by Don Bluth. 
> This was a childhood favorite.
> 
> The Last Unicorn (4K disc) 1982 animated film directed by Rankin and 
> Bass based on the novel by Peter S. Beagle.

Yeah, I've been meaning to rewatch both of these sometime, especially 
"The Last Unicorn", but I haven't gotten around to them yet...

> Akira (4K disc) 1988 Japanese R-rated animated film.  This is set in a 
> post world war III future in Neo-Tokyo and follows the leader of a biker 
> gang who winds up having to do battle against his telekinetic friend. 
> The movie holds up great.  But where is Taika Waititi's long promised 
> live-action remake?!?

And this is one of those films I should watch one of these days...

> What did you watch?

My grand-nephew's(!) 5th-year B-day party was yesterday, so not a whole 
lot...:

football - Final week of the regular season. As expected, the Ravens 
buried the hapless Browns (who end up with a 3-14 record!). And then, in 
a mild (and pleasing!!) surprise, the Bengals outlasted the Steelers - 
now the Ravens have locked up the AFC North, and the Bengals keep their 
still improbable playoff hopes alive!!

The Last Thing She Said (Lifetime) - I finally got through one of the 
recent Lifetime/LMN flicks I had missed recently (though I fell asleep 
towards the end, and had to finish it off OnDemand this morning).
    This stars the lovely Canuck actress Kylee Bush, but she's not 
allowed to be very lovely in this as first she's sexually harassed, and 
then she's kidnapped and held captive in a basement.
    This was sort of an odd choice for a thriller plot - they set up all 
these red herrings as Bush's kidnapper, but that lasts all of about 
20-30 minutes, and then the rest of it is Bush trying to escape as two 
cop detectives try to figure out what's going on after Bush goes missing.
    I wish they had given Bush's first headlining (Lifetime) flick a 
better plotline for her.