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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-11 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 15:29:30 -0700
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On 5/12/2025 9:17 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> 
>> Step Up Revolution (3D blu-ray) 2012 sequel which movies the action to
>> Miami.  This means lots of gratuitous shots of women in bikinis.
> 
> Dude! It's tuitous. There is no reason to watch without cheesecake.
> 
>> A Simple Favor (4K disc) 2018 mystery movie directed by Paul Feig and
>> starring Anna Kendrick as a single mom who befriends the mother (Blake
>> Lively) of her young son's friend.  Blake asks Anna for a simple favor,
>> watch her young son, and then lots of very spoilerly things happen.
>> Henry Golding also stars as Blake's husband.  This was mostly background
>> noise with the director's commentary.
> 
> Was this made for tv? I watched it when it was new and disliked it. I
> can't believe they made a sequel.
> 

It had a theatrical release and made a bit of money.  I liked it for all 
the twists and turns when it first came out, but once you know all the 
twists and turns it's replay value goes down.  I was extremely happy for 
the commentary track, but even that barely held my interest.

>> Watson - "My Life's Work Part 2" - Season 1 finale which has Moriarty
>> and Watson pretty much going head to head against each other.  This was
>> a surprisingly good finale, made possible by Watson, and I think his
>> entire team, being willing to throw away the Hippocratic Oath.  The only
>> weak link in this episode, and the series in general, was Randall Park
>> as Professor Moriarty.  I have liked Park in everything I've seen him in
>> except for this show.  Moriarty is clearly supposed to be evil, and Park
>> is just way too likeable to pull off evil.
> 
> Heh, yeah. I noted that in the pilot episode. Louis Huang cannot pull
> off brilliant evil mastermind.