What did you watch?
Did you watch anything?...
On 2/8/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
Wed. is my long workday, so very little:
soaps: DOOL - Tues' ep. So the lady uniformed cop (she's barely more
than an extra!) that I had fingered as Clyde Weston's "mole" was
involved in a shooting in which she killed one of Clyde's drug dealers -
so I'm pretty sure I am right about this, and she staged this execution
as a "righteous shoot" in order to prevent Clyde's dealer from singing
like a canary or something!!... But, otherwise, the cops' "drug bust"
was successful. Chad and Everett go to interview Clyde in prison, and he tries to goad Chad, but I think they got the better of Clyde when they needled him about what a disaster the drug bust was for Clyde's
business!... Kristen tries to get Alex to work with her to keep Theresa
and Brady apart, and I think she convinced Alex to conspire with her.
The "morning after"(?!) with Abe, Paulina gets a call from the hospital
that her tumor has grown, and they've moved up her surgery to, like, tomorrow!
Wheel of Fortune - I hate this "superfan" tournament thing they're
doing, but one of Wed's contestant was like some kind of savant who was solving puzzles with just 1 or 2 letters showing! But she didn't get the final puzzle for the big money.
Then, while I figured out how I want to rebalance my IRA, I left
"Chicago Med" and half of "Chicago Fire" on in the background. Neither
was worth commenting on, though "Fire" had Canadian actress Kim Shaw as
the guest star.
Did you watch anything?...
The Thief of Baghdad (TCM) 1940 fantasy adventure starring Sabu as
Aladdin, I mean Abu who with help from a genie saves his friend and a >princess from the evil Jaffar. This movie holds up ridiculously well
for a movie that was made in the 40s. Even the effects that are
obviously fake looking have a certain charm.
Jungle Book (TCM) 1942 movie starring Sabu as Mowgli, a young man who
was raised by wolves. I never saws this before and was more or less >expecting a live action version of the Disney movie, but this was a >completely different story. Instead of seeing Mowgli learning about the
bare necessities while living in the jungle he returns to his village
and struggles to live among other humans. Although it is a fantasy with >talking animals. Some of the animal effects looked really fake. While
in The Thief of Baghdad the fakeness was charming, here it took me out
of the movie. Although I guess for less sophisticated audiences of the
40s it probably looked real to them.
On 2/8/2024 5:38 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
On 2/8/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
Did you watch anything?...
I watched:
The Thief of Baghdad (TCM) 1940 fantasy adventure starring Sabu as
Aladdin, I mean Abu who with help from a genie saves his friend and a princess from the evil Jaffar. This movie holds up ridiculously well
for a movie that was made in the 40s. Even the effects that are
obviously fake looking have a certain charm.
Jungle Book (TCM) 1942 movie starring Sabu as Mowgli, a young man who
was raised by wolves. I never saws this before and was more or less expecting a live action version of the Disney movie, but this was a completely different story. Instead of seeing Mowgli learning about the bare necessities while living in the jungle he returns to his village
and struggles to live among other humans. Although it is a fantasy with talking animals. Some of the animal effects looked really fake. While
in The Thief of Baghdad the fakeness was charming, here it took me out
of the movie. Although I guess for less sophisticated audiences of the
40s it probably looked real to them.
On 2/8/24 8:11 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
On 2/8/2024 5:38 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
On 2/8/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
Did you watch anything?...
I watched:
The Thief of Bagdad (TCM) 1940 fantasy adventure starring Sabu as
Aladdin, I mean Abu who with help from a genie saves his friend and a
princess from the evil Jaffar. This movie holds up ridiculously well
for a movie that was made in the 40s. Even the effects that are
obviously fake looking have a certain charm.
Jungle Book (TCM) 1942 movie starring Sabu as Mowgli, a young man who
was raised by wolves. I never saws this before and was more or less
expecting a live action version of the Disney movie, but this was a
completely different story. Instead of seeing Mowgli learning about
the bare necessities while living in the jungle he returns to his
village and struggles to live among other humans. Although it is a
fantasy with talking animals. Some of the animal effects looked
really fake. While in The Thief of Bagdad the fakeness was charming,
here it took me out of the movie. Although I guess for less
sophisticated audiences of the 40s it probably looked real to them.
Hmmmm... I wonder if either of these are also available on Max.
I'm pretty sure I saw "The Thief of Bagdad" once, but it was probably
back when "AMC" was actually still "American Movie Classics", so that
would likely be 30 years ago or more. I've never seen the latter movie
at all.
On 2/8/24 8:11 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
On 2/8/2024 5:38 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
On 2/8/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
Did you watch anything?...
I watched:
The Thief of Baghdad (TCM) 1940 fantasy adventure starring Sabu as
Aladdin, I mean Abu who with help from a genie saves his friend and a
princess from the evil Jaffar. This movie holds up ridiculously well
for a movie that was made in the 40s. Even the effects that are
obviously fake looking have a certain charm.
Jungle Book (TCM) 1942 movie starring Sabu as Mowgli, a young man who
was raised by wolves. I never saws this before and was more or less
expecting a live action version of the Disney movie, but this was a
completely different story. Instead of seeing Mowgli learning about the
bare necessities while living in the jungle he returns to his village
and struggles to live among other humans. Although it is a fantasy with
talking animals. Some of the animal effects looked really fake. While
in The Thief of Baghdad the fakeness was charming, here it took me out
of the movie. Although I guess for less sophisticated audiences of the
40s it probably looked real to them.
Hmmmm... I wonder if either of these are also available on Max.
I'm pretty sure I saw "The Thief of Baghdad" once, but it was probably
back when "AMC" was actually still "American Movie Classics", so that
would likely be 30 years ago or more. I've never seen the latter movie
at all.
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