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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-29 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:23:17 -0700
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On 3/30/2025 1:17 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 3/30/2025 9:54 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>> On 3/30/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
> 
>>>
>>> Reacher (Prime) - Ep's #3.1 & 3.2. With the way the season premiere ep
>>> started off, I thought for sure something was up... Sure enough, much of
>>> it was staged, and Reacher was sent in, undercover, to investigate...
>>> Anthony Michael Hall! And Reacher is sent in by a DEA agent played by
>>> Sonya Cassidy - the good news is that she's not using her native British
>>> accent! the bad news is that she is *not* pulling off a convincing
>>> Boston accent either!! I don't know what accent that's supposed to be,
>>> but I don't hear Boston!... Anyway, I kind of don't like this set up any
>>> more than season #2's, as this isn't "Man Against Town" Reacher again
>>> (see season #1), but Reacher working with a "team" (as Cassidy has two
>>> other DEA types helping her). But it's better than S2 I guess, as
>>> Reacher is doing most of the work solo, with the DEAs just providing
>>> backup... In ep. #3.2, Reacher brutally murders a thug who knows too
>>> much like it's nothing!!
>>>
>>
>> When that happened I was stunned.  At first I thought the guy was just
>> unconscious, then I though maybe it was accident.  I mean Reacher
>> wouldn't just murder a guy in cold blood would he?  Yeah, he would.
>> Then you hear the bones crunching as he's folding him up.
>>
> 
> See, it was a mercy killing, think how much that would hurt if you were
> still alive!
> 
>>
>>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>
>> I watched:
>>
>>
>> Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (Tubi) 1983 sci-fi movie
>> starring Peter Strauss as a bounty hunter who travels to a hostile
>> planet run by Michael Ironside to save three women from Earth who crash
>> landed there.  Strauss teams up with a young Molly Ringwald and Ernie
>> Hudson so save the day.  I haven't watched this since the 80s.  I was
>> shocked by how much of it came back to me as I watched, and how
>> surprisingly watchable it turned out to be.  I watched "Cherry 2000" on
>> Friday and the two movies have very similar plot lines of man being
>> guided through wasteland by woman or in this case a teenage girl.
>>
>>
>> Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (blu-ray) 1983 sci-fi movie.  I
>> wasn't paying attention to the plot, I don't know, stuff happened I
>> guess.  This is another 80s flick I watched all the time on TV in the
>> 80s, and I could never tell the difference between this one and
>> Spacehunter.
> 
> L O L I am glad somebody else had that problem!
> 
> 

I was about 6 or 7 when these came out.  I used to watch them on TV, but 
I'm not sure if I ever realized they were two different movies.  It 
could have been Metalstorm: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone or 
Spacehunter: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, and I wouldn't have known the 
difference.  When I picked up Metalstorm a while back, I'm sure I 
thought I was buying Spacehunter.  When I watched Metalstorm it was only 
vaguely familiar, but when I watched Spacehunter yesterday, it was the 
movie I thought I was getting when I bought Metalstorm.


> Now that I've watched them back to back, Spacehunter was
>> by far the better of the two movies.  I watched Metalstorm a few years
>> ago in 3D, and it was a horrible viewing experience.  This time I went
>> for the 2D option and the picture quality was fine, but I had already
>> made up my mind I wasn't going to pay attention to the movie.
>>
>>
>> The Ice Pirates (blu-ray) 1984 sci-fi comedy starring Robert Ulich as a
>> space pirate who chases after a space princess while trying to avoid
>> catching space herpes.
> 
> First date. We go to the multiplex and I let her pick the movie and she
> picks ice pirates. She hated it. She hated it so much. She blamed me and
> never went out with me again.
> 
> I should have gone with her original suggestion, which was to hang around
> her place and presumably fool around, but I was friends with her brothers,
> and we didn’t know how long they’d be gone…
> 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Galaxy Quest (4K disc) 1999 sci-fi comedy starring Tim Allen, Alan
>> Rickman, Sam Rockwell, and Sigourney Weaver as actors on an old Sci-fi
>> TV show who along with several other castmates from their show get
>> recruited by aliens who think the show is real and want the actors to
>> engage in a real life Battle Beyond the Stars.  "By Grabthar's Hammer,
>> by the Suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!"
> 
> The end with Tim Allen versus the rock monster was originally supposed to
> be the end of Star Trek five but Paramount cut Shatner’s shooting days
> short because of a threatened strike. It was fun to see it show up here,
> but it makes me wonder how much better Star Trek five might have been with
> that ending.
> 
> 

It definitely wouldn't have been worse.