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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-04 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2025 12:36:49 -0700
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On 4/5/2025 11:49 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 4/5/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> 
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Yesterday? Before a scheduled power outage at 10pm, just "Reacher" (ep's 
> #3.5 & #3.6). I quite enjoyed ep. #3.6 where Reacher's cover is blown.
> 
> But I'd rather do a two-day tomorrow. Hopefully, I'll remember what 
> happened in these ep's when I do!
> 
> What did you watch?
> 


This is a multi-day catch up.  I watched:


9-1-1 - "Invisible" - Team 9-1-1 have to keep saving the same guy over 
and over.


Penn & Teller: Fool Us - "Penn and Teller Get Ducked" - This was a 
really good one with multiple foolers.  One magician *should* have 
fooled them with a great trick, and I have *no* idea how he did it.  P&T 
wouldn't have known either, except this guy literally taught them how to 
do the trick years ago. I couldn't stop laughing when Penn tour into 
him, did you think we wouldn't remember you *taught* Teller how to do 
that trick?


Cobra Kai (Netflix) - I watched a couple more episodes.  Silver is back 
to his evil old tricks.  Now Miyagi-do has to battle both Cobra Kai and 
Silver's evil dogo.  One of the episodes had everyone engaging in a 
massive brawl.  This happens *every* season!  Someone even broke the 
fourth wall to comment on it.


Final Destination 5 (3D blu-ray) 2011 horror movie, and fifth in the 
franchise.  A bus load of factory workers are on their way to a company 
retreat when as they are about to drive over a bridge one of them 
(Nicholas D'Agosto) gets a premonition that the bridge will collapse and 
kill all of them.  We then see the bridge collapse and deaths in 
glorious in your face 3D.  D'Agosto gets off the bus and several of his 
coworkers follow, just in time to watch in horror as the bridge does in 
fact collapse, but now "death" is owed some lives and comes collecting.

I haven't watched any of these movies since 2011, and except for the 
ending, I had no idea what was going to happen.  This movie was a wild 
ride.  First up one of the coworkers happens to be a gymnast and the 
slow build up of the woman walking along the uneven bars with a nail 
sticking up was a bit much to take.  Then there up was a trip to an 
acupuncturist.  I foolishly left my eyes open during that segment.  And 
there up was a trip to a lasik eye surgeon.  I had the good sense to 
close my eyes and just wait for the screaming to stop.  This franchise 
is known for it's rubes goldberg machine deaths, any by part 5 they more 
than knew what they were doing.  Tony Todd of course pops up to chew 
some scenery as the cryptic coroner who seems to know way too much about 
what's going on.  Then there's the movie's excellent ending which was 
the only thing I remembered about part 5 going in.

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