I spent most of yesterday (day) cleaning my place for the coming
holiday. I didn't even finish yesterday, but I did make a lot of
progress, enough that my cleaning today will be mostly finishing up...
But I did get through a couple more movies, and soaps:
soaps:
DOOL - Mon's & Tue's ep's. Alex ends up not ratting Joy and Johnny
out to Chanel. Johnny still feels guilty, but doesn't tell Chanel.
Paulina puts pressure on Jada to find Hattie, but Jada kind of swats her away; later, Paulina loses it on Marlena when she thinks Marlena is
Hattie. Leo has another amusing session with Marlena. Javi still wants nothing to do with Leo... Tue's ep was the Thanksgiving ep. By
contrivance, most of the cast gathers at the diner for Thanksgiving, including NuPhilip, which causes friction with Alex (both Alex and
Philip seem to be vying for Stephanie - Stephanie's crazy if she ends up
with Philip!) and Xander (as Philip is trying to take Titan away from Xander).
GH - Tue's ep. Ava's trial is underway, and Ric does a pretty good
job discrediting Dante, and then successfully does get Kristina to melt
down on the stand. Sasha talks with Maxie (Zenon!!) about potentially
being preggers (though she doesn't tell Maxie about Michael) - at the
end, it's confirmed that Sasha is preggers. By coincidence, Cody picks
up the escaping NuNuLulu on the side of the road, and takes her into
town - it was unclear to me if Cody recognized who Lulu was and kept
quiet about it or not (there would be no way that Cody wouldn't have
seen pictures of Lulu at Dante's place, so he should have known who she was...) - at the end, Lulu was about to walk into Maxie's place (with
Sasha there): this will be a good scene on Wed's ep.
Y&R - Mon's ep. Filis[sic!] is irate that Nick is still defending Sharon, and is more irate that Michael is defending Sharon as her
lawyer! Sharon "wishes" Linden Ashby's ghost(!) to the cornfield. After talking with Faith and Mariah, I think Nick is starting to figure out
that Sharon is being framed for running Filis off the road. Billy's and Sally's "morning after" puts Adam off; then Victor pokes the bear - I
don't think Sally likes Billy's thirst for REVENGE! against Victor (even though it is totally justified!!).
Then, I picked up where I left off with the flicks on Tubi:
Sidenote: Once again, both of these flicks looked crappy. The recurring
theme here seems to be that all of the 2000's-era direct-to-video flicks
look lousy (at least on Tubi). I've got to think that's because they're
all DVD-rips, and DVD-rips just look bad on HDTV's, no matter what you
do...
Cruel Intentions 2 (Tubi) - Like the "Center Stage" flicks, "Cruel
Intentions 2" & "3" are leaving Tubi in a few days. So I decided to
revisit them too.
This 2000/2001 flick is the one that was originally a Fox TV series, but Fox cancelled it in the middle of filming episode #2 (due to controversy), so they turned it into a direct-to-video flick by filming
a few extra scenes and throwing in some naked nudity (but not
enough!! ;p ).
Considering this was to be a TV show, the cast for this is kind of mind-blowing - they had Mimi Rodgers playing Kathryn Merteuil's mom, and
they had Amy-friggin'-Adams playing Kathryn Merteuil!
It blows my mind that Amy Adams was almost in a TV series. AFAIR,
Adams never really did TV in her early career, though apparently she did
an episode of "Charmed" very early in her career that I had forgotten
about! (and later did an episode of "Smallville", in a fat suit!!) - so
I must have seen her back then.
Adams is so young here that she's almost kind of unrecognizable. The other thing that amazes me is that Amy Adams is a multiple-Academy Award nominee, but Sarah-Michelle Gellar *blows Adams away* in this role. And
it just can't be chalked up to the writing or "the character is younger"
here - Adams just isn't nearly as good at the role as Gellar.
Overall, this is fine, as long as it's tracking what the TV show filmed. But they must have tacked on the "twist" ending (I hope the TV
series wasn't intending to end up in the same place!), and it doesn't
work at all, IMO. (Movie/TV #1: You need to have somebody to "root for"
- if you don't, you have nothing.)
Wild Things: Foursome (Tubi) - The fourth, and final, "Wild Things"
flick from 2010 (which I had never seen before, and indeed don't even
think I even knew existed until maybe a decade later!).
This one interested me because it stars Jillian Murray early in her career (this is just a year after she recurred on "Sonny with a Chance"
and had done the flicks "Forget Me Not" and "The Graves") - and she does
look like a virtual baby here - along with Marnette Patterson! I'm
actually shocked to see that Marnette Patterson is still working, though she's fallen *way* down the Hollywood ladder from her heights (esp.
compared to Murray!) and as you might expect she didn't really keep her looks.
This is easily the worst of the "Wild Things" flicks IMO, despite sporting Murray in slutty trailer park short-shorts and a bikini top
through most of the film, and even sporting a flash of Murray
toplessness! (I am quite sure that everyone got stunt butts here, tho...)
For one, I think this flick lost something by replacing Linden Ashby from "2" and "3" as the detective cop with John Schneider. (Though, considering the fate of the character, it maybe makes sense why they
didn't brink Ashby back...) (Sidenote: I like how Marc Macaulay was in 3
of the 4 "Wild Things" flicks, each time playing a different character!
- in "4", he plays Schneider's police captain boss...)
For another, this one seems to start out being centered around a
male lead (Ashley Parker Angel), though that's a bait-and-switch and
Murray and Patterson are indeed the leads through most of the film.
And then there's the fact that the third girl in the "foursome" just basically disappears from the last 2/3 of the flick. :/
Like "2", much of "4" concern's Schneider's detective trying to
figure out what is going on and what Murray and Patterson are up to.
Anyway, this one was only interesting to see Murray early in her career, and to see Patterson play against type as a scheming femme fatale-type (OTOH, Murray has been playing those since the beginning of
her career...).
But I thought the ending of this one was particularly weak, esp. compared to the endings of "2" and "3", which largely worked IMO.
What did you watch?
On 11/27/2024 8:50 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
I spent most of yesterday (day) cleaning my place for the coming
holiday. I didn't even finish yesterday, but I did make a lot of
progress, enough that my cleaning today will be mostly finishing up...
But I did get through a couple more movies, and soaps:
soaps:
DOOL - Mon's & Tue's ep's. Alex ends up not ratting Joy and Johnny
out to Chanel. Johnny still feels guilty, but doesn't tell Chanel.
Paulina puts pressure on Jada to find Hattie, but Jada kind of swats her
away; later, Paulina loses it on Marlena when she thinks Marlena is
Hattie. Leo has another amusing session with Marlena. Javi still wants
nothing to do with Leo... Tue's ep was the Thanksgiving ep. By
contrivance, most of the cast gathers at the diner for Thanksgiving,
including NuPhilip, which causes friction with Alex (both Alex and
Philip seem to be vying for Stephanie - Stephanie's crazy if she ends up
with Philip!) and Xander (as Philip is trying to take Titan away from
Xander).
GH - Tue's ep. Ava's trial is underway, and Ric does a pretty good
job discrediting Dante, and then successfully does get Kristina to melt
down on the stand. Sasha talks with Maxie (Zenon!!) about potentially
being preggers (though she doesn't tell Maxie about Michael) - at the
end, it's confirmed that Sasha is preggers. By coincidence, Cody picks
up the escaping NuNuLulu on the side of the road, and takes her into
town - it was unclear to me if Cody recognized who Lulu was and kept
quiet about it or not (there would be no way that Cody wouldn't have
seen pictures of Lulu at Dante's place, so he should have known who she
was...) - at the end, Lulu was about to walk into Maxie's place (with
Sasha there): this will be a good scene on Wed's ep.
Y&R - Mon's ep. Filis[sic!] is irate that Nick is still defending
Sharon, and is more irate that Michael is defending Sharon as her
lawyer! Sharon "wishes" Linden Ashby's ghost(!) to the cornfield. After
talking with Faith and Mariah, I think Nick is starting to figure out
that Sharon is being framed for running Filis off the road. Billy's and
Sally's "morning after" puts Adam off; then Victor pokes the bear - I
don't think Sally likes Billy's thirst for REVENGE! against Victor (even
though it is totally justified!!).
Then, I picked up where I left off with the flicks on Tubi:
Sidenote: Once again, both of these flicks looked crappy. The recurring
theme here seems to be that all of the 2000's-era direct-to-video flicks
look lousy (at least on Tubi). I've got to think that's because they're
all DVD-rips, and DVD-rips just look bad on HDTV's, no matter what you
do...
Cruel Intentions 2 (Tubi) - Like the "Center Stage" flicks, "Cruel
Intentions 2" & "3" are leaving Tubi in a few days. So I decided to
revisit them too.
This 2000/2001 flick is the one that was originally a Fox TV series, >> but Fox cancelled it in the middle of filming episode #2 (due to
controversy), so they turned it into a direct-to-video flick by filming
a few extra scenes and throwing in some naked nudity (but not
enough!! ;p ).
Considering this was to be a TV show, the cast for this is kind of
mind-blowing - they had Mimi Rodgers playing Kathryn Merteuil's mom, and
they had Amy-friggin'-Adams playing Kathryn Merteuil!
I know! The last time I watched the movie Amy Adams probably wasn't
even on my radar. But now I was like, she's in this?
It blows my mind that Amy Adams was almost in a TV series. AFAIR,
Adams never really did TV in her early career, though apparently she did
an episode of "Charmed" very early in her career that I had forgotten
about! (and later did an episode of "Smallville", in a fat suit!!) - so
I must have seen her back then.
Adams is so young here that she's almost kind of unrecognizable.
The
other thing that amazes me is that Amy Adams is a multiple-Academy Award
nominee, but Sarah-Michelle Gellar *blows Adams away* in this role. And
it just can't be chalked up to the writing or "the character is younger"
here - Adams just isn't nearly as good at the role as Gellar.
Agreed.
Overall, this is fine, as long as it's tracking what the TV show
filmed. But they must have tacked on the "twist" ending (I hope the TV
series wasn't intending to end up in the same place!), and it doesn't
work at all, IMO. (Movie/TV #1: You need to have somebody to "root for"
- if you don't, you have nothing.)
I wouldn't call it a "twist" ending. Like you said, it was tacked on.
Had the series not been cancelled, the younger brother would have been
the protagonist. I'm seeing the same thing play out in the new Amazon >series. The new series has a very similar plot structure as the movie
and the cancelled Fox series where the sister orders her step brother to
help her in her latest evil scheme. The brother agrees to do it, but
it's all under the sister's thumb. With the Fox series being cancelled,
they had to link it to the movie where at the start of the movie he's
going to do her bidding instead of challenging her.
So is Cruel Intentions 3 worth checking out before it leaves?
Wild Things: Foursome (Tubi) - The fourth, and final, "Wild Things"
flick from 2010 (which I had never seen before, and indeed don't even
think I even knew existed until maybe a decade later!).
There's a fourth one?!?
This one interested me because it stars Jillian Murray early in her
career (this is just a year after she recurred on "Sonny with a Chance"
and had done the flicks "Forget Me Not" and "The Graves") - and she does
look like a virtual baby here - along with Marnette Patterson! I'm
actually shocked to see that Marnette Patterson is still working, though
she's fallen *way* down the Hollywood ladder from her heights (esp.
compared to Murray!) and as you might expect she didn't really keep her
looks.
This is easily the worst of the "Wild Things" flicks IMO, despite
sporting Murray in slutty trailer park short-shorts and a bikini top
through most of the film, and even sporting a flash of Murray
toplessness! (I am quite sure that everyone got stunt butts here, tho...)
For one, I think this flick lost something by replacing Linden Ashby >> from "2" and "3" as the detective cop with John Schneider. (Though,
considering the fate of the character, it maybe makes sense why they
didn't brink Ashby back...) (Sidenote: I like how Marc Macaulay was in 3
of the 4 "Wild Things" flicks, each time playing a different character!
- in "4", he plays Schneider's police captain boss...)
For another, this one seems to start out being centered around a
male lead (Ashley Parker Angel), though that's a bait-and-switch and
Murray and Patterson are indeed the leads through most of the film.
And then there's the fact that the third girl in the "foursome" just >> basically disappears from the last 2/3 of the flick. :/
Like "2", much of "4" concern's Schneider's detective trying to
figure out what is going on and what Murray and Patterson are up to.
Anyway, this one was only interesting to see Murray early in her
career, and to see Patterson play against type as a scheming femme
fatale-type (OTOH, Murray has been playing those since the beginning of
her career...).
But I thought the ending of this one was particularly weak, esp.
compared to the endings of "2" and "3", which largely worked IMO.
What did you watch?
I watched:
Planet Terror (blu-ray) This was not on my original watch list, but I'm >planning to watch some other Robert Rodriguez and Eli Roth movies over
the next couple of days, and figured I'd squeeze in "Grindhouse."
"Grindhouse" was a double feature movie that came out in 2007. The
movie featured fake trailers for movies like "Machete" and
"Thanksgiving" which eventually became real movies. It was split it
into two separate movie releases for home video. First up is "Planet
Terror" directed by Robert Rodriguez. It's designed to look like a low >budget schlock movie from the 70s. The plot has a cast of famous actors
(too many to list) battling zombie like monsters. Watching it again
after all this time was loads of fun. It holds up great. I'll see if I
can watch the other half tonight or tomorrow.
Rose McGowan as "Cherry Darling"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRdhagZzBoY
. . .
Wow.. The next paragraph says that she was in PSYCHO BEACH PARTY
which I watched because of Nicholas Brendon but enjoyed because of
Lauren Ambrose. Don't remember Amy Adams from that movie so she
clearly didn't make much of an impression on me back then.
shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
. . .
Wow.. The next paragraph says that she was in PSYCHO BEACH PARTY
which I watched because of Nicholas Brendon but enjoyed because of
Lauren Ambrose. Don't remember Amy Adams from that movie so she
clearly didn't make much of an impression on me back then.
I remember her. She lost her bikini bottoms.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206226/mediaviewer/rm579075841/
On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:19:38 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
On 11/27/2024 8:50 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
I spent most of yesterday (day) cleaning my place for the coming
holiday. I didn't even finish yesterday, but I did make a lot of
progress, enough that my cleaning today will be mostly finishing up...
But I did get through a couple more movies, and soaps:
[snip]
Then, I picked up where I left off with the flicks on Tubi:
Sidenote: Once again, both of these flicks looked crappy. The recurring
theme here seems to be that all of the 2000's-era direct-to-video flicks >>> look lousy (at least on Tubi). I've got to think that's because they're
all DVD-rips, and DVD-rips just look bad on HDTV's, no matter what you
do...
Cruel Intentions 2 (Tubi) - Like the "Center Stage" flicks, "Cruel
Intentions 2" & "3" are leaving Tubi in a few days. So I decided to
revisit them too.
This 2000/2001 flick is the one that was originally a Fox TV series, >>> but Fox cancelled it in the middle of filming episode #2 (due to
controversy), so they turned it into a direct-to-video flick by filming
a few extra scenes and throwing in some naked nudity (but not
enough!! ;p ).
Considering this was to be a TV show, the cast for this is kind of >>> mind-blowing - they had Mimi Rodgers playing Kathryn Merteuil's mom, and >>> they had Amy-friggin'-Adams playing Kathryn Merteuil!
I know! The last time I watched the movie Amy Adams probably wasn't
even on my radar. But now I was like, she's in this?
It blows my mind that Amy Adams was almost in a TV series. AFAIR, >>> Adams never really did TV in her early career, though apparently she did >>> an episode of "Charmed" very early in her career that I had forgotten
about! (and later did an episode of "Smallville", in a fat suit!!) - so
I must have seen her back then.
Adams is so young here that she's almost kind of unrecognizable.
Only around 25 when she did this.
The
other thing that amazes me is that Amy Adams is a multiple-Academy Award >>> nominee, but Sarah-Michelle Gellar *blows Adams away* in this role. And
it just can't be chalked up to the writing or "the character is younger" >>> here - Adams just isn't nearly as good at the role as Gellar.
Agreed.
Interesting take. I looked it up over on Wikipedia and see that some
reviewer had a very different take on her performance.
"In Los Angeles, Adams auditioned for whatever parts came her way, but
she was mostly given roles of "the bitchy girl".[14][19][20] Her first assignment came within a week of her relocation in the Fox television
series Manchester Prep, a spin-off of the film Cruel Intentions, in
the lead role of Kathryn Merteuil (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar in
the film).[4] Following numerous script revisions and two production shutdowns, the series was canceled.[21] Adams later said a
controversial scene in which her character encourages a girl to
masturbate on a horse was the primary reason for its cancellation.[19]
The three filmed episodes were re-edited and released later in 2000 as
the direct-to-video film Cruel Intentions 2.[4] Despite a negative
critical reception, Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club wrote that Adams
plays her "alpha-bitch role with vicious glee largely missing from
Sarah Michelle Gellar's sterile take on the character".[22][23]"
Wow.. The next paragraph says that she was in PSYCHO BEACH PARTY
which I watched because of Nicholas Brendon but enjoyed because of
Lauren Ambrose. Don't remember Amy Adams from that movie so she
clearly didn't make much of an impression on me back then.
Overall, this is fine, as long as it's tracking what the TV show
filmed. But they must have tacked on the "twist" ending (I hope the TV
series wasn't intending to end up in the same place!), and it doesn't
work at all, IMO. (Movie/TV #1: You need to have somebody to "root for"
- if you don't, you have nothing.)
I wouldn't call it a "twist" ending. Like you said, it was tacked on.
Had the series not been cancelled, the younger brother would have been
the protagonist. I'm seeing the same thing play out in the new Amazon
series. The new series has a very similar plot structure as the movie
and the cancelled Fox series where the sister orders her step brother to
help her in her latest evil scheme. The brother agrees to do it, but
it's all under the sister's thumb. With the Fox series being cancelled,
they had to link it to the movie where at the start of the movie he's
going to do her bidding instead of challenging her.
So is Cruel Intentions 3 worth checking out before it leaves?
Wild Things: Foursome (Tubi) - The fourth, and final, "Wild Things"
flick from 2010 (which I had never seen before, and indeed don't even
think I even knew existed until maybe a decade later!).
There's a fourth one?!?
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 04:06:00 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>: >>shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
. . .
Wow.. The next paragraph says that she was in PSYCHO BEACH PARTY
which I watched because of Nicholas Brendon but enjoyed because of
Lauren Ambrose. Don't remember Amy Adams from that movie so she
clearly didn't make much of an impression on me back then.
I remember her. She lost her bikini bottoms.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206226/mediaviewer/rm579075841/
So I see
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206226/mediaviewer/rm4169294593
but to be honest it's hard to look at those images and see the Amy
Adams we know from her other films. That blonde hair isn't working for
her.
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