What did you watch?
On 11/18/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
No movies yesterday. In fact, I mostly just put football on throughout
the day 'cos we're at the part of the year where Lifetime is only
running X-Mas movies, and LMN wasn't rerunning anything good yesterday!
NFL football - I don't even remember the morning game... I think it was
the Steelers vs. the Ravens - disgustingly, the Steelers won.
The afternoon game was the 49ers vs the Seahawks - the 49ers threw
this game away. >:/
The evening game was the Chargers vs. the Bengals - after taking a commanding lead in the first half, the Chargers nearly threw this game
away in the second half, letting the Bengals score with near impunity.
The Chargers managed to get it together at the last second of the game
to take a go-ahead touchdown. A win is a win, but this was the kind of
win that makes you wonder if these guys have what it takes! :|
soaps: Fri's ep's.
GH - Drew is right about one thing - he aggressively challenges
Carly after she goes to bat for Jason after Jason attacked Drew. Drew
sends Ric to try to make a deal with Jason to keep his mouth shut - no
deal is made, though Jason does pledge to keep quiet. The new guy
(Xavier?) is offered a job at GH. Anna discusses the Robert situation
with Felicia.
DOOL - Sophia throws it all away!! After Tate calls her "Holly" accidentally during the "love making", Sophia says they're "over!" and
storms out. She goes running to Ava for a shoulder to cry on. (I love
how Ava is suddenly this sympathetic matronly type!!) Tate goes to Holly
and tells her he wants to get back together afterall. Brady discusses
the Kristen situation with Ava; Brady then tells Kristen that this
situation between then hasn't changed, but I'm pretty sure Kristen
smells blood in the water! Dumb Kayla agrees to give Sarah Dr Rolf's serum.
What did you watch?
On 11/18/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
No movies yesterday. In fact, I mostly just put football on throughout
the day 'cos we're at the part of the year where Lifetime is only
running X-Mas movies, and LMN wasn't rerunning anything good yesterday!
NFL football - I don't even remember the morning game... I think it was
the Steelers vs. the Ravens - disgustingly, the Steelers won.
The afternoon game was the 49ers vs the Seahawks - the 49ers threw
this game away. >:/
The evening game was the Chargers vs. the Bengals - after taking a
commanding lead in the first half, the Chargers nearly threw this game
away in the second half, letting the Bengals score with near impunity.
The Chargers managed to get it together at the last second of the game
to take a go-ahead touchdown. A win is a win, but this was the kind of
win that makes you wonder if these guys have what it takes! :|
soaps: Fri's ep's.
GH - Drew is right about one thing - he aggressively challenges
Carly after she goes to bat for Jason after Jason attacked Drew. Drew
sends Ric to try to make a deal with Jason to keep his mouth shut - no
deal is made, though Jason does pledge to keep quiet. The new guy
(Xavier?) is offered a job at GH. Anna discusses the Robert situation
with Felicia.
DOOL - Sophia throws it all away!! After Tate calls her "Holly"
accidentally during the "love making", Sophia says they're "over!" and
storms out. She goes running to Ava for a shoulder to cry on. (I love
how Ava is suddenly this sympathetic matronly type!!) Tate goes to Holly
and tells her he wants to get back together afterall. Brady discusses
the Kristen situation with Ava; Brady then tells Kristen that this
situation between then hasn't changed, but I'm pretty sure Kristen
smells blood in the water! Dumb Kayla agrees to give Sarah Dr Rolf's serum.
What did you watch?
On 11/18/2024 6:58 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
On 11/18/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
No movies yesterday. In fact, I mostly just put football on throughout
the day 'cos we're at the part of the year where Lifetime is only
running X-Mas movies, and LMN wasn't rerunning anything good yesterday!
NFL football - I don't even remember the morning game... I think it was
the Steelers vs. the Ravens - disgustingly, the Steelers won.
The afternoon game was the 49ers vs the Seahawks - the 49ers threw
this game away. >:/
The evening game was the Chargers vs. the Bengals - after taking a
commanding lead in the first half, the Chargers nearly threw this game
away in the second half, letting the Bengals score with near impunity.
The Chargers managed to get it together at the last second of the game
to take a go-ahead touchdown. A win is a win, but this was the kind of
win that makes you wonder if these guys have what it takes! :|
soaps: Fri's ep's.
GH - Drew is right about one thing - he aggressively challenges
Carly after she goes to bat for Jason after Jason attacked Drew. Drew
sends Ric to try to make a deal with Jason to keep his mouth shut - no
deal is made, though Jason does pledge to keep quiet. The new guy
(Xavier?) is offered a job at GH. Anna discusses the Robert situation
with Felicia.
DOOL - Sophia throws it all away!! After Tate calls her "Holly"
accidentally during the "love making", Sophia says they're "over!" and
storms out. She goes running to Ava for a shoulder to cry on. (I love
how Ava is suddenly this sympathetic matronly type!!) Tate goes to Holly
and tells her he wants to get back together afterall. Brady discusses
the Kristen situation with Ava; Brady then tells Kristen that this
situation between then hasn't changed, but I'm pretty sure Kristen
smells blood in the water! Dumb Kayla agrees to give Sarah Dr Rolf's serum. >>
What did you watch?
I watched:
Gantz (blu-ray) 2011 Japanese sci-fi movie. The plot is very hard to >summarize.
Basically, the movie opens inside a subway station when a
young man see's his old friend apparently fall into the subway tracks.
He goes to help him get off the tracks and accidentally falls down too.
The two of them are hit by a train and wake up in a strange room with
several other people and a large black orb. They soon learn the orb is >called "Gantz" and that they along with everyone else in the room died.
Gantz brought them back to life and now sends them out on missions to
hunt aliens on Earth. The people who are brought back often have no
idea that they died and no idea what's happening or why. Most of them
tend to stand around asking questions until an alien kills them. But
the survivors who see this catch on quickly enough or die. People are
given weapons and advanced suits that powers them up. They can take a
great deal of damage, and as long as they don't die, Gantz can
completely heal any damage. Each alien is totally different and it's
unclear if they are related in any way or why Gantz wants the aliens
dead. Much of this is not entirely clear and the people sort learn by
doing as they muddle through on the missions. At the end of each
mission Gantz awards a few points based on performance and send them
back to their old lives until Gantz teleports them back to fight another >alien. Once someone hits 100 points, they can have their memory wiped
and be set free or resurrect someone who has died. This is a movie that
I like, but it is very frustrating to watch. A lot of the details were
left very ambiguous like did they die or not, because if they were dead
how were they so easily reintegrated into their old lives? The movie
ends with one friend being killed and the other vowing to earn enough
points to resurrect him.
Gantz: Perfect Answer (blu-ray) 2011 sequel. First, let me mention that
in 2011 there was a made for TV movie called, "Another Gantz." I've
never seen it before and it's not available to stream. According to >Wikipedia, the plot takes place at the same time as the first movie, but
from the perspective of a journalist investigating the events of the
first movie. I think it *really* would have helped if I could have
watched this movie! Part 2 opens with a recap of the first movie and >introduces the journalist character from the TV movie. The opening
recap clarifies when people died, their bodies disappeared and the
people who disappeared. This explains how two people could be hit by a
train yet return to their old lives. Everyone saw the accident, but
there were no bodies. This is what prompted the journalist to start his >investigation. Along with the damage left behind from the multiple
battles they found against various aliens, which left damage, but no
evidence as to what caused the damage.
Anyway, part 2 picks up where part 1 ends, but at first plays out more
like a mystery as the journalist begins to learn more about the
mysterious Gantz, and the people who are being forced to fight aliens
against their will as well as a separate secret group that is also
looking into Gantz for their own sinister reasons. But Gantz does have
its' own army of people at its' disposal to fight back leading to the
second half of the movie having a lot more action with battles spilling
into the public.
Dune: Prophecy (HBOMax) "The Hidden Hand" - Season 1, episode 1. New
series set in the Denis Villeneuve "Dune" universe and set 10,000 years >before those movies and about a century after humanity defeated the
machines in the war against the thinking machines. This prequel series >focuses on the creation of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood. I'm not even
going to try to summarize the plot of the first episode, but I'll say
Mark Strong played the emperor who is being manipulated on multiple
sides, some of which he can clearly see. Emily Watson plays the leader
of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, and she has plans within plans to
manipulate the empire, particular through arranged marriages for genetic >manipulation. And Travis Fimmel (Raised by Wolves) pops up, and I'm
pretty sure he's the same character he played in Raised by Wolves. Dude >wasn't even trying to do something different. I don't mean that in a
bad way. This show was essentially "Game of Thrones" mixed with "Raised
By Wolves," and "Foundation." There might have even been some "Dune"
thrown into the mix too, but I'm not sure. Is it worth watching? To
see Travis Fimmel basically reprise his Raised by Wolves character, yes
it is. I also strongly suspect that we are going to see a lot more
human vs. thinking machines as a subplot as the series moves forward.
If that's the case, then I'm all in. I really want to see *that* story >played out, even if it's after the fact.
Cross (AmazonPrime) - I binged episodes 2 through 5. It was really
bugging me that I sort of recognized the main villain character, but
couldn't place him. But once I heard his name said out loud I was able
to figure out the villain is played by Ryan Eggold who was the husband
on "The Blacklist." The blonde dye job was throwing me.
On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 07:59:35 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
On 11/18/2024 6:58 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
On 11/18/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
No movies yesterday. In fact, I mostly just put football on throughout
the day 'cos we're at the part of the year where Lifetime is only
running X-Mas movies, and LMN wasn't rerunning anything good yesterday!
NFL football - I don't even remember the morning game... I think it was
the Steelers vs. the Ravens - disgustingly, the Steelers won.
The afternoon game was the 49ers vs the Seahawks - the 49ers threw >>> this game away. >:/
The evening game was the Chargers vs. the Bengals - after taking a >>> commanding lead in the first half, the Chargers nearly threw this game
away in the second half, letting the Bengals score with near impunity.
The Chargers managed to get it together at the last second of the game
to take a go-ahead touchdown. A win is a win, but this was the kind of
win that makes you wonder if these guys have what it takes! :|
soaps: Fri's ep's.
GH - Drew is right about one thing - he aggressively challenges
Carly after she goes to bat for Jason after Jason attacked Drew. Drew
sends Ric to try to make a deal with Jason to keep his mouth shut - no
deal is made, though Jason does pledge to keep quiet. The new guy
(Xavier?) is offered a job at GH. Anna discusses the Robert situation
with Felicia.
DOOL - Sophia throws it all away!! After Tate calls her "Holly"
accidentally during the "love making", Sophia says they're "over!" and
storms out. She goes running to Ava for a shoulder to cry on. (I love
how Ava is suddenly this sympathetic matronly type!!) Tate goes to Holly >>> and tells her he wants to get back together afterall. Brady discusses
the Kristen situation with Ava; Brady then tells Kristen that this
situation between then hasn't changed, but I'm pretty sure Kristen
smells blood in the water! Dumb Kayla agrees to give Sarah Dr Rolf's serum. >>>
What did you watch?
I watched:
Gantz (blu-ray) 2011 Japanese sci-fi movie. The plot is very hard to
summarize.
I always thought of the plot as being very simple. Aliens bring dead
people back to life and force them to hunt other aliens or die. Though
I've seen part of the original anime show as well as this movie.
Basically, the movie opens inside a subway station when a
young man see's his old friend apparently fall into the subway tracks.
He goes to help him get off the tracks and accidentally falls down too.
The two of them are hit by a train and wake up in a strange room with
several other people and a large black orb. They soon learn the orb is
called "Gantz" and that they along with everyone else in the room died.
Gantz brought them back to life and now sends them out on missions to
hunt aliens on Earth. The people who are brought back often have no
idea that they died and no idea what's happening or why. Most of them
tend to stand around asking questions until an alien kills them. But
the survivors who see this catch on quickly enough or die. People are
given weapons and advanced suits that powers them up. They can take a
great deal of damage, and as long as they don't die, Gantz can
completely heal any damage. Each alien is totally different and it's
unclear if they are related in any way or why Gantz wants the aliens
dead. Much of this is not entirely clear and the people sort learn by
doing as they muddle through on the missions. At the end of each
mission Gantz awards a few points based on performance and send them
back to their old lives until Gantz teleports them back to fight another
alien. Once someone hits 100 points, they can have their memory wiped
and be set free or resurrect someone who has died. This is a movie that
I like, but it is very frustrating to watch. A lot of the details were
left very ambiguous like did they die or not, because if they were dead
how were they so easily reintegrated into their old lives? The movie
ends with one friend being killed and the other vowing to earn enough
points to resurrect him.
Gantz: Perfect Answer (blu-ray) 2011 sequel. First, let me mention that
in 2011 there was a made for TV movie called, "Another Gantz." I've
never seen it before and it's not available to stream. According to
Wikipedia, the plot takes place at the same time as the first movie, but >>from the perspective of a journalist investigating the events of the
first movie. I think it *really* would have helped if I could have
watched this movie! Part 2 opens with a recap of the first movie and
introduces the journalist character from the TV movie. The opening
recap clarifies when people died, their bodies disappeared and the
people who disappeared. This explains how two people could be hit by a
train yet return to their old lives. Everyone saw the accident, but
there were no bodies. This is what prompted the journalist to start his
investigation. Along with the damage left behind from the multiple
battles they found against various aliens, which left damage, but no
evidence as to what caused the damage.
Have not watched either one but I did check. ANOTHER GANTZ is
available on Usenet so if you were willing to search the gray you
could find it. I'm sure the various torrent sites would have it.
Anyway, part 2 picks up where part 1 ends, but at first plays out more
like a mystery as the journalist begins to learn more about the
mysterious Gantz, and the people who are being forced to fight aliens
against their will as well as a separate secret group that is also
looking into Gantz for their own sinister reasons. But Gantz does have
its' own army of people at its' disposal to fight back leading to the
second half of the movie having a lot more action with battles spilling
into the public.
Dune: Prophecy (HBOMax) "The Hidden Hand" - Season 1, episode 1. New
series set in the Denis Villeneuve "Dune" universe and set 10,000 years
before those movies and about a century after humanity defeated the
machines in the war against the thinking machines. This prequel series
focuses on the creation of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood. I'm not even
going to try to summarize the plot of the first episode, but I'll say
Mark Strong played the emperor who is being manipulated on multiple
sides, some of which he can clearly see. Emily Watson plays the leader
of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, and she has plans within plans to
manipulate the empire, particular through arranged marriages for genetic
manipulation. And Travis Fimmel (Raised by Wolves) pops up, and I'm
pretty sure he's the same character he played in Raised by Wolves. Dude
wasn't even trying to do something different. I don't mean that in a
bad way. This show was essentially "Game of Thrones" mixed with "Raised
By Wolves," and "Foundation." There might have even been some "Dune"
thrown into the mix too, but I'm not sure. Is it worth watching? To
see Travis Fimmel basically reprise his Raised by Wolves character, yes
it is. I also strongly suspect that we are going to see a lot more
human vs. thinking machines as a subplot as the series moves forward.
If that's the case, then I'm all in. I really want to see *that* story
played out, even if it's after the fact.
Haven't checked this out yet but it's on my list.
On 11/18/2024 8:40 AM, shawn wrote:
On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 07:59:35 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
On 11/18/2024 6:58 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
On 11/18/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
No movies yesterday. In fact, I mostly just put football on throughout >>>> the day 'cos we're at the part of the year where Lifetime is only
running X-Mas movies, and LMN wasn't rerunning anything good yesterday! >>>>
NFL football - I don't even remember the morning game... I think it was >>>> the Steelers vs. the Ravens - disgustingly, the Steelers won.
The afternoon game was the 49ers vs the Seahawks - the 49ers threw >>>> this game away. >:/
The evening game was the Chargers vs. the Bengals - after taking a >>>> commanding lead in the first half, the Chargers nearly threw this game >>>> away in the second half, letting the Bengals score with near impunity. >>>> The Chargers managed to get it together at the last second of the game >>>> to take a go-ahead touchdown. A win is a win, but this was the kind of >>>> win that makes you wonder if these guys have what it takes! :|
soaps: Fri's ep's.
GH - Drew is right about one thing - he aggressively challenges >>>> Carly after she goes to bat for Jason after Jason attacked Drew. Drew
sends Ric to try to make a deal with Jason to keep his mouth shut - no >>>> deal is made, though Jason does pledge to keep quiet. The new guy
(Xavier?) is offered a job at GH. Anna discusses the Robert situation
with Felicia.
DOOL - Sophia throws it all away!! After Tate calls her "Holly" >>>> accidentally during the "love making", Sophia says they're "over!" and >>>> storms out. She goes running to Ava for a shoulder to cry on. (I love
how Ava is suddenly this sympathetic matronly type!!) Tate goes to Holly >>>> and tells her he wants to get back together afterall. Brady discusses
the Kristen situation with Ava; Brady then tells Kristen that this
situation between then hasn't changed, but I'm pretty sure Kristen
smells blood in the water! Dumb Kayla agrees to give Sarah Dr Rolf's serum.
What did you watch?
I watched:
Gantz (blu-ray) 2011 Japanese sci-fi movie. The plot is very hard to
summarize.
I always thought of the plot as being very simple. Aliens bring dead
people back to life and force them to hunt other aliens or die. Though
I've seen part of the original anime show as well as this movie.
Fair enough. That is an accurate description. But what confused me in
the first movie was how someone could get hit by a train, everyone see
them get hit by the train, and yet they show up for work the next day
like nothing happened. The questions I had while watching for the most
part were also asked by the characters in the movie, they just weren't >answered. That left both the characters and audience in confusion. It >wasn't until the sequel that they revealed there was no body left behind.
I am curious about the anime. I'm pretty sure I've never watched any of
the anime. It's also not available to stream. I can wait for it to pop
up on an official source.
Basically, the movie opens inside a subway station when a
young man see's his old friend apparently fall into the subway tracks.
He goes to help him get off the tracks and accidentally falls down too.
The two of them are hit by a train and wake up in a strange room with
several other people and a large black orb. They soon learn the orb is
called "Gantz" and that they along with everyone else in the room died.
Gantz brought them back to life and now sends them out on missions to
hunt aliens on Earth. The people who are brought back often have no
idea that they died and no idea what's happening or why. Most of them
tend to stand around asking questions until an alien kills them. But
the survivors who see this catch on quickly enough or die. People are
given weapons and advanced suits that powers them up. They can take a
great deal of damage, and as long as they don't die, Gantz can
completely heal any damage. Each alien is totally different and it's
unclear if they are related in any way or why Gantz wants the aliens
dead. Much of this is not entirely clear and the people sort learn by
doing as they muddle through on the missions. At the end of each
mission Gantz awards a few points based on performance and send them
back to their old lives until Gantz teleports them back to fight another >>> alien. Once someone hits 100 points, they can have their memory wiped
and be set free or resurrect someone who has died. This is a movie that >>> I like, but it is very frustrating to watch. A lot of the details were
left very ambiguous like did they die or not, because if they were dead
how were they so easily reintegrated into their old lives? The movie
ends with one friend being killed and the other vowing to earn enough
points to resurrect him.
Gantz: Perfect Answer (blu-ray) 2011 sequel. First, let me mention that >>> in 2011 there was a made for TV movie called, "Another Gantz." I've
never seen it before and it's not available to stream. According to
Wikipedia, the plot takes place at the same time as the first movie, but >>>from the perspective of a journalist investigating the events of the
first movie. I think it *really* would have helped if I could have
watched this movie! Part 2 opens with a recap of the first movie and
introduces the journalist character from the TV movie. The opening
recap clarifies when people died, their bodies disappeared and the
people who disappeared. This explains how two people could be hit by a
train yet return to their old lives. Everyone saw the accident, but
there were no bodies. This is what prompted the journalist to start his >>> investigation. Along with the damage left behind from the multiple
battles they found against various aliens, which left damage, but no
evidence as to what caused the damage.
Have not watched either one but I did check. ANOTHER GANTZ is
available on Usenet so if you were willing to search the gray you
could find it. I'm sure the various torrent sites would have it.
Anyway, part 2 picks up where part 1 ends, but at first plays out more
like a mystery as the journalist begins to learn more about the
mysterious Gantz, and the people who are being forced to fight aliens
against their will as well as a separate secret group that is also
looking into Gantz for their own sinister reasons. But Gantz does have
its' own army of people at its' disposal to fight back leading to the
second half of the movie having a lot more action with battles spilling
into the public.
Dune: Prophecy (HBOMax) "The Hidden Hand" - Season 1, episode 1. New
series set in the Denis Villeneuve "Dune" universe and set 10,000 years
before those movies and about a century after humanity defeated the
machines in the war against the thinking machines. This prequel series
focuses on the creation of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood. I'm not even
going to try to summarize the plot of the first episode, but I'll say
Mark Strong played the emperor who is being manipulated on multiple
sides, some of which he can clearly see. Emily Watson plays the leader
of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, and she has plans within plans to
manipulate the empire, particular through arranged marriages for genetic >>> manipulation. And Travis Fimmel (Raised by Wolves) pops up, and I'm
pretty sure he's the same character he played in Raised by Wolves. Dude >>> wasn't even trying to do something different. I don't mean that in a
bad way. This show was essentially "Game of Thrones" mixed with "Raised >>> By Wolves," and "Foundation." There might have even been some "Dune"
thrown into the mix too, but I'm not sure. Is it worth watching? To
see Travis Fimmel basically reprise his Raised by Wolves character, yes
it is. I also strongly suspect that we are going to see a lot more
human vs. thinking machines as a subplot as the series moves forward.
If that's the case, then I'm all in. I really want to see *that* story
played out, even if it's after the fact.
Haven't checked this out yet but it's on my list.
It's worth checking out. I thought the first episode was only so-so,
but I do see a lot of potential depending on which way the series goes.
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