And what did you watch?
And what did you watch?
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
And what did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
Monsieur Spade episode three
80% of it may be in French, but at least the action scenes are shot in
total darkness
This week Murdoch Mysteries doesn’t seem to have dropped yet
The TMZ special Robin told us about reporting on really stupid decisions
made by celebrities. This was pretty lousy. Some of the decisions weren’t lousy at all. Some of them weren’t decisions, and a lot of the reporting ranged from idiocy to out and out lies to blatant racism. For instance,
they were saying, a Pepsi commercial starring Kendall Jenner was terrible, because it was written by a room full of white men, and if they just had
some black women in there, it all would’ve been great. But they offered no evidence whatsoever for who wrote the thing..
This week’s installment of Texas John Slaughter on GRIT is once again just a repeat of the extended pilot movie
I tried to watch THE COWBOYS on OUTLAW, but they screwed up and didn’t show the first half of the pilot episode, so I have no idea what the set up is
and I just erased all the other episodes unsampled
And what did you watch?
The Twilight Zone S2E17 'Twenty-Two' DVR
Liz Powell has a recurring dream in which she follows a nurse to the
hospital morgue.
Her doctor is Jonathan Harris, no wonder she has nightmares!
The Twilight Zone S2E18 'The Odyssey of Flight 33' DVR
On the way from England to America, a jetliner and its crew travel
backward in time.
The Twilight Zone S2E19 'Mr. Dingle, the Strong' DVR
A timid man (Burgess Meredith) acquires superhuman strength; with Don Rickles.
Well, being the sole survivor of a nuclear was can have strange effects
on one.
The Twilight Zone S2E20 'Static' DVR
Ed Lindsay has an old radio which only pics up old radio shows.
Can I get a TV that does that with TV shows?
What Did You Watch?
On 1/29/2024 7:43 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
And what did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
Monsieur Spade episode three
80% of it may be in French, but at least the action scenes are shot in
total darkness
This week Murdoch Mysteries doesn’t seem to have dropped yet
It doesn't air until Mondays. That's always been its night. Even when
it's gray.
The TMZ special Robin told us about reporting on really stupid decisions
made by celebrities. This was pretty lousy. Some of the decisions weren’t >> lousy at all. Some of them weren’t decisions, and a lot of the reporting >> ranged from idiocy to out and out lies to blatant racism. For instance,
they were saying, a Pepsi commercial starring Kendall Jenner was terrible, >> because it was written by a room full of white men, and if they just had
some black women in there, it all would’ve been great. But they offered no >> evidence whatsoever for who wrote the thing..
This week’s installment of Texas John Slaughter on GRIT is once again just >> a repeat of the extended pilot movie
I tried to watch THE COWBOYS on OUTLAW, but they screwed up and didn’t show
the first half of the pilot episode, so I have no idea what the set up is
and I just erased all the other episodes unsampled
Sunday was the last day to do "prep work" for the semester, and
football, so I got through very little, leaving football on while I did
the last of the prep work...:
NFL playoffs - I've been predicting a Baltimore-Detroit Super Bowl for
weeks or months, so of course the Kansas City Chiefs shocked Baltimore,
and the 49ers came from behind to beat Detroit, to set up YA
49ers-vs-Chiefs Super Bowl!! [hard shrug!]
On 1/29/2024 8:03 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
And what did you watch?
The Twilight Zone S2E17 'Twenty-Two' DVR
Liz Powell has a recurring dream in which she follows a nurse to the
hospital morgue.
Her doctor is Jonathan Harris, no wonder she has nightmares!
The pain, the pain.
The Twilight Zone S2E18 'The Odyssey of Flight 33' DVR
On the way from England to America, a jetliner and its crew travel
backward in time.
The Twilight Zone S2E19 'Mr. Dingle, the Strong' DVR
A timid man (Burgess Meredith) acquires superhuman strength; with Don
Rickles.
Well, being the sole survivor of a nuclear was can have strange
effects on one.
A well respected thespian such as Burgess Meredith would never stoop so
low as to do an episode of Twilight Zone or any other television series.
;-)
The Twilight Zone S2E20 'Static' DVR
Ed Lindsay has an old radio which only pics up old radio shows.
Can I get a TV that does that with TV shows?
What Did You Watch?
I watched:
Mayor of Kingstown (Showtime) - "Five at Five" - Season 2, episode 3.
I'm still watching reruns off of Showtime since it's easier for me to
keep up that way. A good episode, but what did they inject into Iris' stomach?!?!?
Law & Order: Organized Crime - "Deliver Us From Evil" - I'm guessing
this episode introduced the season's new big bad.
Paris, Texas (TCM) 1984 drama directed by Wim Wenders. The movie stars Harry Dean Stanton as a man found in the desert. He won't speak, but
the people who find him search his wallet and find the number of his
brother (Dean Stockwell), who comes to pick him up. Stanton (and his
wife) had gone missing 4 years earlier. And their toddler was
mysteriously dropped off at Stockwell's house. Now 4 years later,
Stanton is back but not saying much. He moves in with them which causes disruption but won't say what happened to him or his still missing wife
for the past 4 years. Then one day after bonding with his son Stanton
takes off with the kid in search of the missing wife. I've never
watched this movie before. I assumed it would be a record then delete unwatched type of movie. But as it turns out I was about to watch a different movie directed by Wim Wenders and looking for something to
pair it with, this popped up. And since I had it sitting on my DVR I figured now or never. It's an odd flick. I can't help but wonder why Stockwell put up with Stanton's silent treatment for so long without
taking him to a doctor or something. There's one scene where Stockwell yells at him for a moment but then immediately backtracks and say it's
not his business. He raised the man's son for 4 years! That makes it
his business! But it was the 80s so that probably explains it.
Until the End of the World (blu-ray) 1991 sci-fi drama written and
directed by Wim Wenders. I saw this once on TV when it first came out.
The version I saw was about 2 1/2 hours long. At the time, I don't
think I even fully understood the plot of the movie. Just that it was
long and epic. I now know the reason I didn't understand the movie is because half of it had been cut. The blu-ray is the director's cut, at
just under 5 hours and spread over two discs. I only vaguely remembered
the version I originally saw but had no idea what to expect for this version. Set in the year 1999, the movie is set in the backdrop of most people worried about a radioactive satellite that's falling from orbit
and could hit any country at any time. The U.S. is threatening to shoot
it down but that could trigger other nuclear satellites. People all
over the world are constantly fleeing as it passes overhead. But the
main plot involves a woman (Solveig Dommartin) who gets into a car
accident with a pair of friendly bank robbers. Due to injuries and car damage they offer to cut her in for 30% of the money if she delivers it
to Paris for them. She agrees, but along the way she picks up a man (William Hurt) who is on the run from a man with a gun. Hurt offers to
help her drive but takes some of the money while she sleeps. Although
he does leave an IOU behind. She then encounters the man with the gun
still on the hunt for Hurt and decides to track Hurt down herself to
protect him leading to a worldwide adventure as she keeps tracking him
across multiple continents, and he ditches her, all the while the two
slowly fall in love. Sam Neill also stars as Dommartin's long suffering husband who alternates between financing her search for a man she
clearly plans to leave him for and tracking her down for a weird love triangle.
The only thing I remembered about the version I saw in 1991 was one
scene where Dommartin goes to Russia searching for Hurt's character and there's a Russian search computer program. And I remember the very end
of the movie has Dommartin in a space station smiling or something for a happy ending. I went into this version not knowing what to expect but
just assumed it would be the same movie but longer. But this movie, at least the second half, is totally different. First, even though I
really don't remember the theatrical cut, I have a strong impression
that Sam Neill's character was either not in it, or extremely minimized
while in this version he is clearly a co-lead. And regardless as to how much screen time Neil had in the theatrical cut, this version has a
totally different second half. There's an entire subplot where Hurt and
his father (Max Von Sydow) are scientists working on technology to let
blind people see then later the technology can record people's dreams.
And there's a plot where the U.S. shoots down the radioactive satellite causing a nuclear blast in space, an EMP, and lost communications. The
main characters hide out in Australia like "On the Beach" waiting for
the radiation to kill them all or at least to survive humanity getting
mostly wiped out. I might not remember the theatrical cut, but I know
that didn't happen in it! And now the title of the movie actually makes sense.
At nearly 5 hours long this is more of a mini series than a movie,
especially since things take a major turn for the last two hours. But
if you have the stamina, it's watchable.
. . .
The Guilded Age (Max) - "In Terms of Winning and Losing" (ep. #2.8, the >season finale - which sucks: season #1 had 10 episodes, but season #2
has just 8!).
Geez, this season has been predictable - too predictable!! The only
thing I didn't see coming was Maud Beaton being in on the con of Oscar.
But the finale went exactly as I predicted - after Oscar loses
nearly all of Agnes's fortune, it turns out that "Robert Sean Leonard"
leaves Ada a sizeable inheritance! So they won't lose the house, or the >servants! But now Ada will be paying the servants' salaries, which means
Ada, and not Agnes, will now be the "lady of the house"!!
The other predictable thing is that Bertha "daughter sells" Gladys
(Gladys hasn't figured this out yet, nor has George) to the Duke of >Buckingham in order to secure the Duke's presence at the opening of the >Met!...
. . .
Marian calls off the wedding with Dashiell Montgomery, concluding that
he is still in love with his late wife, and she is not with him;
at the end, Harry plants one on her, after hearing the news.
And Peggy quits the paper after seeing Mr. Fortune's wife and
infant child; Peggy and the Scotts and the rest manage to save 2 of the
3 "colored" schools from the Board of Education.
This would have been an acceptable series finale, but I am glad that
it has gotten a third season...
. . .
A well respected thespian such as Burgess Meredith would never stoop so
low as to do an episode of Twilight Zone or any other television series.
;-)
suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:
On 1/29/2024 7:43 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
And what did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
Monsieur Spade episode three
80% of it may be in French, but at least the action scenes are shot in
total darkness
This week Murdoch Mysteries doesn’t seem to have dropped yet
It doesn't air until Mondays. That's always been its night. Even when
it's gray.
IMDb says it was due yesterday.
I watched:
Until the End of the World (blu-ray) 1991 sci-fi drama written and
directed by Wim Wenders. I saw this once on TV when it first came out.
The version I saw was about 2 1/2 hours long. At the time, I don't
think I even fully understood the plot of the movie. Just that it was
long and epic. I now know the reason I didn't understand the movie is because half of it had been cut. The blu-ray is the director's cut, at
just under 5 hours and spread over two discs. I only vaguely remembered
the version I originally saw but had no idea what to expect for this version...
At nearly 5 hours long this is more of a mini series than a movie,
especially since things take a major turn for the last two hours. But
if you have the stamina, it's watchable.
On 1/29/2024 9:32 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:
On 1/29/2024 7:43 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
And what did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
Monsieur Spade episode three
80% of it may be in French, but at least the action scenes are shot in >>>> total darkness
This week Murdoch Mysteries doesn’t seem to have dropped yet
It doesn't air until Mondays. That's always been its night. Even when
it's gray.
IMDb says it was due yesterday.
Then how come I can't get it until late Monday evenings?
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
. . .
The Guilded Age (Max) - "In Terms of Winning and Losing" (ep. #2.8, the
season finale - which sucks: season #1 had 10 episodes, but season #2
has just 8!).
Geez, this season has been predictable - too predictable!! The only
thing I didn't see coming was Maud Beaton being in on the con of Oscar.
But the finale went exactly as I predicted - after Oscar loses
nearly all of Agnes's fortune, it turns out that "Robert Sean Leonard"
leaves Ada a sizeable inheritance! So they won't lose the house, or the
servants! But now Ada will be paying the servants' salaries, which means
Ada, and not Agnes, will now be the "lady of the house"!!
Yeah. If you remember, this was a plot point on Upstairs Downstairs. The parents went broke and were about to lose the lease on the house.
Suddenly the daughter received a massive forture and just signed it over
to her parents. Magic!
Yes, it was a set up to reverse the position of the two sisters,
development for the sake of PLOT but lousy story telling. Will Ada abuse
her power and authority over her sister? I thought the whole thing with introducing Ada's romance, then killing off her husband faster than Joe Gerard (David Groh) was written out of Rhoda, was incredibly mean spirited.
Every plot development concerning the Marian character (Louisa Jacobson)
has been a dud. It's all too shallow. She can be disappointed in romance
but there's an utter lack of passion.
I'm making a prediction: Given that Julian Fellowes is exploring similar story lines as he had in Downton Abbey but from the American side and
decades earlier, Gladys is going to turn out to be the aunt or great aunt
or sister-in-law of someone in Downton Abbey family, probably Robert's grandfather. When this was being written as a novel, Fellowes said it
was a prequel.
Gladys is clearly the Cora character. Oscar is in the same vein as Robert
and his several ancestors: Talentless wealthy man who MUST NOT be allowed
to manage fortunes for they will soon put the family into bankruptcy. Men
are stupid!
I like the servants in the Russell household. They've had a few plots centered on "downstairs" but thus far, Fellowes has avoided the same over-the-top plots about the servants that we saw throughout Downton
Abbey. A few of them almost have fully-drawn characters.
The other predictable thing is that Bertha "daughter sells" Gladys
(Gladys hasn't figured this out yet, nor has George) to the Duke of
Buckingham in order to secure the Duke's presence at the opening of the
Met!...
It's hard to believe George is that oblivious and will let Bertha get
away with it. The wedding is going to happen and George will betray his daughter.
. . .
Marian calls off the wedding with Dashiell Montgomery, concluding that
he is still in love with his late wife, and she is not with him;
I hated hated hated the way this was handled. They made two supposedly
adult characters act like idiots. Of course an older man who has had a
lot more life experience than you will have loved other women and will
still love the people he's lost. That doesn't mean he loves his deceased
wife to the exclusion of loving you. The two of them needed, at some
point, to have had a real, honest, and thorough discussion of the
prospect of marriage and whether it might work. But because PLOT, he
proposed in such a way that she felt she was being railroaded. She may
have been falling in love with him but THAT slammed the door on whether
her feelings for him would ever deepen. The line of dialogue about still being in love with his late wife was just something she could say as an
easy out.
The way it ended was out of character for both of them.
at the end, Harry plants one on her, after hearing the news.
Larry?
He knows his mother will have Marian killed if he seriously pursues her.
And Peggy quits the paper after seeing Mr. Fortune's wife and
infant child; Peggy and the Scotts and the rest manage to save 2 of the
3 "colored" schools from the Board of Education.
This would have been an acceptable series finale, but I am glad that
it has gotten a third season...
It's Julian Fellowes. It's fluff. It's literally gilded. It's still more entertaining than Downton Abbey had been but this is as good as his
writing will ever get. It's a good cast and they can handle far more challenging drama, or comedy for that matter.
. . .
On 1/29/24 11:19 AM, suzeeq wrote:
On 1/29/2024 9:32 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:
On 1/29/2024 7:43 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
And what did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
Monsieur Spade episode three
80% of it may be in French, but at least the action scenes are shot in >>>>> total darkness
This week Murdoch Mysteries doesn’t seem to have dropped yet
It doesn't air until Mondays. That's always been its night. Even when
it's gray.
IMDb says it was due yesterday.
Then how come I can't get it until late Monday evenings?
Let me save you all some time:
The default position is: Somebody messed up the IMDb, and it is wrong!!
On 1/29/2024 9:32 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:Then how come I can't get it until late Monday evenings?
On 1/29/2024 7:43 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
And what did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
Monsieur Spade episode three
80% of it may be in French, but at least the action scenes are shot in >>>> total darkness
This week Murdoch Mysteries doesn’t seem to have dropped yet
It doesn't air until Mondays. That's always been its night. Even when
it's gray.
IMDb says it was due yesterday.
On 1/29/24 11:19 AM, suzeeq wrote:
On 1/29/2024 9:32 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:
On 1/29/2024 7:43 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
And what did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
Monsieur Spade episode three
80% of it may be in French, but at least the action scenes are shot in >>>>> total darkness
This week Murdoch Mysteries doesn’t seem to have dropped yet
It doesn't air until Mondays. That's always been its night. Even when
it's gray.
IMDb says it was due yesterday.
Then how come I can't get it until late Monday evenings?
Let me save you all some time:
The default position is: Somebody messed up the IMDb, and it is wrong!!
On 1/29/2024 9:32 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:Then how come I can't get it until late Monday evenings?
On 1/29/2024 7:43 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
And what did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
Monsieur Spade episode three
80% of it may be in French, but at least the action scenes are shot in >>>> total darkness
This week Murdoch Mysteries doesn’t seem to have dropped yet
It doesn't air until Mondays. That's always been its night. Even when
it's gray.
IMDb says it was due yesterday.
On 1/29/24 9:21 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
I watched:
Until the End of the World (blu-ray) 1991 sci-fi drama written and
directed by Wim Wenders. I saw this once on TV when it first came
out. The version I saw was about 2 1/2 hours long. At the time, I
don't think I even fully understood the plot of the movie. Just that
it was long and epic. I now know the reason I didn't understand the
movie is because half of it had been cut. The blu-ray is the
director's cut, at just under 5 hours and spread over two discs. I
only vaguely remembered the version I originally saw but had no idea
what to expect for this version...
At nearly 5 hours long this is more of a mini series than a movie,
especially since things take a major turn for the last two hours. But
if you have the stamina, it's watchable.
"It's watchable."
I want a *heck of a lot more* of a recommendation than this if I'm going
to put in 5 hours of my time!!!
Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
A well respected thespian such as Burgess Meredith would never stoop so
low as to do an episode of Twilight Zone or any other television series.
;-)
I know you're joking but I never read that Meredith resented doing television. He did quite a bit of tv in his long career. Or was that
David Wayne? I thought the two men, among Hollywood's best known character actors, pretty much shared the same career.
On 1/29/24 9:21 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
I watched:
Until the End of the World (blu-ray) 1991 sci-fi drama written and
directed by Wim Wenders. I saw this once on TV when it first came
out. The version I saw was about 2 1/2 hours long. At the time, I
don't think I even fully understood the plot of the movie. Just that
it was long and epic. I now know the reason I didn't understand the
movie is because half of it had been cut. The blu-ray is the
director's cut, at just under 5 hours and spread over two discs. I
only vaguely remembered the version I originally saw but had no idea
what to expect for this version...
At nearly 5 hours long this is more of a mini series than a movie,
especially since things take a major turn for the last two hours. But
if you have the stamina, it's watchable.
"It's watchable."
I want a *heck of a lot more* of a recommendation than this if I'm going
to put in 5 hours of my time!!!
On 1/29/2024 11:19 AM, suzeeq wrote:
On 1/29/2024 9:32 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:Then how come I can't get it until late Monday evenings?
On 1/29/2024 7:43 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
And what did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
Monsieur Spade episode three
80% of it may be in French, but at least the action scenes are shot in >>>>> total darkness
This week Murdoch Mysteries doesn’t seem to have dropped yet
It doesn't air until Mondays. That's always been its night. Even when
it's gray.
IMDb says it was due yesterday.
Anim's computer hates you, of course.
The Twilight Zone S2E17 'Twenty-Two' DVR
Liz Powell has a recurring dream in which she follows a nurse to the
hospital morgue.
Her doctor is Jonathan Harris, no wonder she has nightmares!
The Twilight Zone S2E18 'The Odyssey of Flight 33' DVR
On the way from England to America, a jetliner and its crew travel
backward in time.
The Twilight Zone S2E19 'Mr. Dingle, the Strong' DVR
A timid man (Burgess Meredith) acquires superhuman strength; with Don >Rickles.
Well, being the sole survivor of a nuclear was can have strange effects
on one.
The Twilight Zone S2E20 'Static' DVR
Ed Lindsay has an old radio which only pics up old radio shows.
Can I get a TV that does that with TV shows?
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