On 2/15/2024 5:44 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
On 2/15/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
Wed. is my long workday, so not much:
soaps: DOOL - Valentine's Day ep, so this was a huge waste of time. We
got old flashback footage (from the 80s!?!) of Steve and Kayla. Chanel
and Johnny get married before Paulina's surgery. And NuTheresa thinks
Alex is going to ask her to marry him, and she tells Marlena, but that's
not what's going on at all... No follow-up at all on Xander's arrest. :/
GH - Carly gets to Sonny before Sonny wastes Dex, and admits to
being Dex's project "funder", but Sonny figures out that it was really Michael behind Dex's being in Sonny's organization, and Sonny storms off
to sulk! Most of the rest of this one was also Valentine's Day nonsense, though Sam's son (with Jason) acts like a teen and gets drunk which
angers Sam - lots of mentions of Jason in this one, obviously to set up
his return to the show next month.
I put "Chicago Med" and some of "Chicago Fire" on in the background,
when my Spectrum app once again did not work. (How the hell do they
expect to get rid of their cable boxes when their streaming app doesn't
work at least 50% of the time?!?!!) But I didn't pay them any attention.
And then I went to bed.
I watched:
Good Burger (Showtime) - 1997 comedy starring Keenan Thompson and Kel
Mitchell based on their characters from a popular Nickelodeon sketch
show. I never watched the original sketch show, but I was aware it
existed. I vaguely remember seeing a scene from this movie years
(decades?) ago and thinking it was good. I figured I'd watch the movie
and then the new sequel. I suffered through about 30 minutes of this
mess before I deleted it. Good Burger 2 definitely will not be getting watched!
Bob Marley: One Love (theatrical) New biopic about Bob Marley. I went
into this knowing almost nothing about Bob Marley. I was hoping to learn
about him from this movie. From that level the movie failed me. When
the movie starts Marley is already world famous. He's also the target
of an assassination plot. Not having lived through the early 70s I had
*no* context as to the political situation in Jamaica or why Marley's
music was seen as a political threat to the point that someone would
kill him over it. I'm not saying the movie didn't put up some text, but
this is a movie, show don't tell. The movie then follows Marley's life
for a few years until his return to Jamaica for a reunifying concert.
As a movie it was watchable. But for anyone like me who really doesn't
know who Marley was, this movie doesn't shed much light on him.
Although if you like Marley's music, it's in the movie. I'm not really
a fan of his music, but I found it pleasing enough to sit through during
the movie.
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