Less to watch yesterday. But I got through:

NFL football: The game between the Chiefs and the Raiders (the latter
came into this game 2-9!) shouldn't have been anywhere as close as it
was. But the Raiders did indeed lose, but in the most embarrassing
fashion possible, when on the last play of the game (when the Raiders
were in go-ahead field goal range!), the center hiked the ball to the
Raiders QB before the QB was ready - so the Raiders fumbled the ball on
the last play allowing the Chiefs to recover. This was high school football-level incompetence!

I saw part of "The Living Daylights" with Timothy Dalton, which I had
never watched before, on Pluto's "007" channel.

And thanks to my niece's Netflix account, I was finally able to watch:

Anyone But You (the 'Flix) - Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell (from
"Twisters" - where did this guy come from?!) star in an amusing,
semi-raunchy romcom.
Sweeney, whose character is a klutz, meets cute Powell's character
at a coffee shop. They have a wonderful night together, but then due to
a misunderstanding they end up not staying together, with prejudice!
Months later, they are reunited for Sweeney's sister's (relative
newcomer Hadley Robinson) lesbian wedding to Alexandra Shipp, in Australia!
Their mutual antipathy for each other is threatening to ruin the
wedding, so the others at the wedding conspire to get the two back
together. But Sweeney's character quickly figures this out, and gets
Powell's character to agree to act like the scheme is working to thwart
to interferers!
Comedic wackiness ensues!
This wasn't deep, and it breaks little new ground (the Aussie himbo
played by Joe Davidson was amusing), but Sweeney and Powell make this entertaining.
I would have preferred an ending that at least attempted to break
the romcom mold, but otherwise this was mostly fun.


What did you watch?

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On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 07:46:52 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

Less to watch yesterday. But I got through:

NFL football: The game between the Chiefs and the Raiders (the latter
came into this game 2-9!) shouldn't have been anywhere as close as it
was. But the Raiders did indeed lose, but in the most embarrassing
fashion possible, when on the last play of the game (when the Raiders
were in go-ahead field goal range!), the center hiked the ball to the
Raiders QB before the QB was ready - so the Raiders fumbled the ball on
the last play allowing the Chiefs to recover. This was high school >football-level incompetence!

I saw part of "The Living Daylights" with Timothy Dalton, which I had
never watched before, on Pluto's "007" channel.

And thanks to my niece's Netflix account, I was finally able to watch:

Anyone But You (the 'Flix) - Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell (from
"Twisters" - where did this guy come from?!) star in an amusing,
semi-raunchy romcom.
Sweeney, whose character is a klutz, meets cute Powell's character
at a coffee shop. They have a wonderful night together, but then due to
a misunderstanding they end up not staying together, with prejudice!
Months later, they are reunited for Sweeney's sister's (relative
newcomer Hadley Robinson) lesbian wedding to Alexandra Shipp, in Australia!
Their mutual antipathy for each other is threatening to ruin the
wedding, so the others at the wedding conspire to get the two back
together. But Sweeney's character quickly figures this out, and gets
Powell's character to agree to act like the scheme is working to thwart
to interferers!
Comedic wackiness ensues!
This wasn't deep, and it breaks little new ground (the Aussie himbo
played by Joe Davidson was amusing), but Sweeney and Powell make this >entertaining.
I would have preferred an ending that at least attempted to break
the romcom mold, but otherwise this was mostly fun.

What did you watch?

I watched much of the Georgia-Georgia Tech game which almost matched
the record for overtimes as it ended after 8 OTs (the record is 9
OTs.) I wanted Georgia to win because I want to see SEC do well, but I
also wanted Ga Tech to do well due to having spent a few years there.
Either way both teams put on a good show with GT putting on a great
show in the first half with the basically shutting down Georgia. Sadly
that didn't remain the case as Georgia came back and tied up the game
putting them into overtime.

I also watched the first episode of THE AGENCY. I was not sure what
the show was going to be like but now I know it's going to be a slow
moving show as it is intended to be more realistic. So you don't get
much action unlike many spy shows. Apparently this is going to be a
retelling of the French show, THE BUREAU. The first episode as the
main character being a field agent who is recalled to London which
forces him to leave behind his girlfriend. Someone whom he has gotten
a bit too close to but is hiding that from the Agency.

Then it turns out that the girl friend has been moved to London and
the field agent hooks up with her. Even though his old Syrian ID has
been killed off and he's not supposed to have any contact with people
from Syria that knew him under the old fake ID. Which raises a
question of how does it happen that he gets called back to London and
shortly after his GF is also sent to London. Is she a spy trying to
work him or is it just coincidence that she's in London?

Also it turns out that one of the people working with the CIA but not
for the CIA may be either trying to restart his life elsewhere as he
has gone missing or he's been taken by someone, likely to try and get information on all the CIA projects that he knows.

It's a well made show but I don't expect it to last more than a season
based on the story they are trying to tell.

What did you watch?

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Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

I saw part of "The Living Daylights" with Timothy Dalton, which I had
never watched before, on Pluto's "007" channel.

Why not watch the whole movie? This was made either during or after
MGM's 27th bankruptcy. Despite the studio bleeding cash they scraped
together 98 cents. I think they made something decently entertaining.
Spending more money on a James Bond movie doesn't make it entertaining.

This was, technically, Dalton's only Bond flick. They were deluding
themselves that Roger Moore would be able to make another movie but he
didn't return. They barely revised the script that was written for
Moore, and it shows. Dalton brought such a serious performance to the
character despite the usual Bond absurdities that the audience could
only imagine what might have been if Dalton had truly been given a Bond
script to showcase his talents.

Maryam d'Abo wasn't bad as the Bond girl. We expected little from her performance but she turned out to be pretty decent.

Joe Don Baker plays a very different character than he will in the two
Pierce Brosnan movies.

I like Licence (note the British spelling) to Kill (1989) a lot, but
it's James Bond stuck into a story lacking a proper Bond villain. The
set piece tanker truck chase is terrific, one of the most original car
chases I've ever seen in a movie.

There was a script, never to be produced, for a third Dalton flick, buy
MGM went bankrupt for the 28th time, prevent it from going into
production.

And thanks to my niece's Netflix account, I was finally able to watch:

Anyone But You (the 'Flix) - Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell (from
"Twisters" - where did this guy come from?!) star in an amusing,
semi-raunchy romcom.

Hey! I warned you. I warned everyone on Usenet!

. . .

Comedic wackiness ensues!

Yer drunck.

This wasn't deep, and it breaks little new ground (the Aussie himbo
played by Joe Davidson was amusing), but Sweeney and Powell make this >entertaining.

Barf

I would have preferred an ending that at least attempted to break
the romcom mold, but otherwise this was mostly fun.

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On 11/30/2024 8:28 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

I saw part of "The Living Daylights" with Timothy Dalton, which I had
never watched before, on Pluto's "007" channel.

Why not watch the whole movie? This was made either during or after
MGM's 27th bankruptcy. Despite the studio bleeding cash they scraped
together 98 cents. I think they made something decently entertaining. Spending more money on a James Bond movie doesn't make it entertaining.

This was, technically, Dalton's only Bond flick.

What, does License (note the proper American spelling) to Kill not exist
to you? :-P

They were deluding

themselves that Roger Moore would be able to make another movie but he
didn't return. They barely revised the script that was written for
Moore, and it shows. Dalton brought such a serious performance to the character despite the usual Bond absurdities that the audience could
only imagine what might have been if Dalton had truly been given a Bond script to showcase his talents.

Maryam d'Abo wasn't bad as the Bond girl. We expected little from her performance but she turned out to be pretty decent.

Joe Don Baker plays a very different character than he will in the two
Pierce Brosnan movies.

I like Licence (note the British spelling) to Kill (1989) a lot,

Well, it is a great Bond movie after all. And I love the two theme songs.

but

it's James Bond stuck into a story lacking a proper Bond villain. The
set piece tanker truck chase is terrific, one of the most original car
chases I've ever seen in a movie.

There was a script, never to be produced, for a third Dalton flick, buy
MGM went bankrupt for the 28th time, prevent it from going into
production.

And thanks to my niece's Netflix account, I was finally able to watch:

Anyone But You (the 'Flix) - Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell (from
"Twisters" - where did this guy come from?!)

Hollywood manufactures these generic leading men type in a lab.


star in an amusing,

semi-raunchy romcom.

Hey! I warned you. I warned everyone on Usenet!

. . .

Comedic wackiness ensues!

Yer drunck.

This wasn't deep, and it breaks little new ground (the Aussie himbo
played by Joe Davidson was amusing), but Sweeney and Powell make this
entertaining.

Barf

I would have preferred an ending that at least attempted to break
the romcom mold, but otherwise this was mostly fun.

This is a quick catch up. I haven't really been watching much thanks to
being at a convention. I did manage to watch:


Cruel Intentions 3 (Tubi) - I caught this just before they yanked it.
Already covered by Ian.


Survivor - Mostly background noise.


Moana 2 (theatrical) - I also watched the first one the other day. The
first one is OK, I guess. This sequel has Moana going on a mission to
reunite her people with the rest of the world. I'm not sure I noticed
in the first movie they were isolated. I know they were on an island and
all, but somehow I missed they were also cut off from the rest of
humanity. This was not as good as the first one. Apparently it was
originally going to be a TV series and at the last minute they reworked
it into a movie. Had this remained a TV series, I wouldn't have
bothered to watch. A certain something happens in this movie, and when
it happened, I said to myself did I just see what I think I just saw.
And then behind me I could suddenly here some kid start to cry, loudly.
Later in the day I saw this warning online to parents they may not want
to take their kids to see this movie in the theater because of a certain
scene (they didn't say what to avoid spoilers), so watch it in the
safety of your home instead. And I instantly knew what scene they were
talking about. It made one kid cry! LOL. It's not funny, but it is
funny. I don't see how watching that scene at home makes it any better.

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On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 09:11:17 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 11/30/2024 8:28 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

I saw part of "The Living Daylights" with Timothy Dalton, which I had
never watched before, on Pluto's "007" channel.

Why not watch the whole movie? This was made either during or after
MGM's 27th bankruptcy. Despite the studio bleeding cash they scraped
together 98 cents. I think they made something decently entertaining.
Spending more money on a James Bond movie doesn't make it entertaining.

This was, technically, Dalton's only Bond flick.

What, does License (note the proper American spelling) to Kill not exist
to you? :-P

They were deluding

themselves that Roger Moore would be able to make another movie but he
didn't return. They barely revised the script that was written for
Moore, and it shows. Dalton brought such a serious performance to the
character despite the usual Bond absurdities that the audience could
only imagine what might have been if Dalton had truly been given a Bond
script to showcase his talents.

Maryam d'Abo wasn't bad as the Bond girl. We expected little from her
performance but she turned out to be pretty decent.

Joe Don Baker plays a very different character than he will in the two
Pierce Brosnan movies.

I like Licence (note the British spelling) to Kill (1989) a lot,

Well, it is a great Bond movie after all. And I love the two theme songs.

but

it's James Bond stuck into a story lacking a proper Bond villain. The
set piece tanker truck chase is terrific, one of the most original car
chases I've ever seen in a movie.

There was a script, never to be produced, for a third Dalton flick, buy
MGM went bankrupt for the 28th time, prevent it from going into
production.

And thanks to my niece's Netflix account, I was finally able to watch:

Anyone But You (the 'Flix) - Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell (from
"Twisters" - where did this guy come from?!)

Hollywood manufactures these generic leading men type in a lab.

star in an amusing,

semi-raunchy romcom.

Hey! I warned you. I warned everyone on Usenet!

. . .

Comedic wackiness ensues!

Yer drunck.

This wasn't deep, and it breaks little new ground (the Aussie himbo
played by Joe Davidson was amusing), but Sweeney and Powell make this
entertaining.

Barf

I would have preferred an ending that at least attempted to break
the romcom mold, but otherwise this was mostly fun.

This is a quick catch up. I haven't really been watching much thanks to >being at a convention. I did manage to watch:

Cruel Intentions 3 (Tubi) - I caught this just before they yanked it.
Already covered by Ian.

Survivor - Mostly background noise.

How can you say that when it was one of the better episodes of the
season? Rachel got a unique advantage challenge that showed some real creativity by challenge creation team.

Moana 2 (theatrical) - I also watched the first one the other day. The
first one is OK, I guess. This sequel has Moana going on a mission to >reunite her people with the rest of the world. I'm not sure I noticed
in the first movie they were isolated. I know they were on an island and
all, but somehow I missed they were also cut off from the rest of
humanity. This was not as good as the first one. Apparently it was >originally going to be a TV series and at the last minute they reworked
it into a movie. Had this remained a TV series, I wouldn't have
bothered to watch. A certain something happens in this movie, and when
it happened, I said to myself did I just see what I think I just saw.
And then behind me I could suddenly here some kid start to cry, loudly.
Later in the day I saw this warning online to parents they may not want
to take their kids to see this movie in the theater because of a certain >scene (they didn't say what to avoid spoilers), so watch it in the
safety of your home instead. And I instantly knew what scene they were >talking about. It made one kid cry! LOL. It's not funny, but it is
funny. I don't see how watching that scene at home makes it any better.

As for myself I spent the day moving between various college games and
knocking out first few episodes of JUSTIFIED. It's not a deep show but
I'm enjoying it.

What did you watch?

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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 11/30/2024 8:28 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

I saw part of "The Living Daylights" with Timothy Dalton, which I had >>>never watched before, on Pluto's "007" channel.

Why not watch the whole movie? This was made either during or after
MGM's 27th bankruptcy. Despite the studio bleeding cash they scraped >>together 98 cents. I think they made something decently entertaining. >>Spending more money on a James Bond movie doesn't make it entertaining.

This was, technically, Dalton's only Bond flick.

What, does License (note the proper American spelling) to Kill not exist
to you? :-P

As I said, its villain wasn't a Bond villain, but I enjoy the movie.

The movie never found its audience despite a summer release, so later
Bond movies got switched back to a Christmas release. It had a
notoriously awful marketing campaign. Nevertheless, the American versus
British spelling of "Licence" was blamed for keeping Americans out of
theaters.

I still wanted another TImothy Dalton movie.

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On Dec 1, 2024 at 9:11:17 AM PST, "Arthur Lipscomb" <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Moana 2 (theatrical) - I also watched the first one the other day. The
first one is OK, I guess. This sequel has Moana going on a mission to reunite her people with the rest of the world. I'm not sure I noticed
in the first movie they were isolated. I know they were on an island and
all, but somehow I missed they were also cut off from the rest of
humanity. This was not as good as the first one. Apparently it was originally going to be a TV series and at the last minute they reworked
it into a movie. Had this remained a TV series, I wouldn't have
bothered to watch. A certain something happens in this movie, and when
it happened, I said to myself did I just see what I think I just saw.
And then behind me I could suddenly here some kid start to cry, loudly.
Later in the day I saw this warning online to parents they may not want
to take their kids to see this movie in the theater because of a certain scene (they didn't say what to avoid spoilers), so watch it in the
safety of your home instead. And I instantly knew what scene they were talking about. It made one kid cry! LOL. It's not funny, but it is
funny. I don't see how watching that scene at home makes it any better.

Okay, ROT-13 it for those of us who are curious but are absolutely not going
to go see the movie just to find out.

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On 12/1/2024 12:33 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Dec 1, 2024 at 9:11:17 AM PST, "Arthur Lipscomb" <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Moana 2 (theatrical) - I also watched the first one the other day. The
first one is OK, I guess. This sequel has Moana going on a mission to
reunite her people with the rest of the world. I'm not sure I noticed
in the first movie they were isolated. I know they were on an island and
all, but somehow I missed they were also cut off from the rest of
humanity. This was not as good as the first one. Apparently it was
originally going to be a TV series and at the last minute they reworked
it into a movie. Had this remained a TV series, I wouldn't have
bothered to watch. A certain something happens in this movie, and when
it happened, I said to myself did I just see what I think I just saw.
And then behind me I could suddenly here some kid start to cry, loudly.
Later in the day I saw this warning online to parents they may not want
to take their kids to see this movie in the theater because of a certain
scene (they didn't say what to avoid spoilers), so watch it in the
safety of your home instead. And I instantly knew what scene they were
talking about. It made one kid cry! LOL. It's not funny, but it is
funny. I don't see how watching that scene at home makes it any better.

Okay, ROT-13 it for those of us who are curious but are absolutely not going to go see the movie just to find out.

This is one of those things where I can describe what I saw, but my
words really aren’t going to do it justice. The actual visual on screen
was much more powerful and intense than my ability to describe it. But
I’ll make a go of it.


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