What did you watch?
On 2/8/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
Yesterday, I managed to get through a movie - if I hadn't been so tired
after a long week, I could have gotten through two (probably the new
Tubi flick), but I was tried enough that I went to bed relatively early
after the first movie.
I watched:
soaps: Y&R - Mon's ep. Not very interesting. Filis[sic!] is outraged, rightly, that Sharon will have no charges against her, but they ruin the character by having her knuckle under to Daniel and NuSummer rather than going after Sharon. Pathetic. Later, Billy pitches his new business idea
to Filis and Daniel, and Daniel correctly points out that this seems
like he's still going after Adam, just in a different way... After
finding out about the Jordan/Ian stuff, Jack goes over to Nikki, and
runs into the whole Newman clan, including the vile Mustache who acts
like his typical asshole self. In the least interesting storyline, it's revealed that the guy Nate has been talking to is not his brother, but instead is working for his brother. Meanwhile, Audra keeps talking about
her mother, which makes me wonder if the show is going to introduce
Audra's mom to the show.
Then, the reason I haven't watched "Beeteljuice Beeteljuice" yes is
because I felt like I had to watch the original "Beeteljuice" (which I haven't seen in decades!) first. So I finally got to that last night:
Beetlejuice (back on Max, after a month on Peacock) - In "glorious 4k!"
- or, rather, it would have been had Max not taken that away from us
cable subscribers!! >:/
I admit - I was fooled by the opening credits fly-over shot. In
fact, I still can't figure out if that was partly real footage of a fly-
over of the actual Vermont(?) village (note: the film is actually
supposedly set in Connecticut, though I missed this if it was said onscreen...) they filmed that seamlessly transitions to a fly-over of
the model, or if it was the model 100% of the time (which means the
first part of the model was so life-like as to fool the audience!).
This is an enjoyable film. I am not a Burton fan, but this may be
the most easily enjoyable film Burton has ever done. Yes, it's still
"weird", but it's weird in fun ways, rather than being either precious, annoying or overdone.
More amazingly - it's pleasingly *short*, clocking in at just 92 minutes.
I honestly had forgotten the "plot" of this movie, and didn't
realize going in that its "stars" were really a young Alec Baldwin (puh- TUWIE!!) and Geena Davis (easy to forget how attractive she was back in
the 1980s!),
(with malice of forethought!) by a small dog on a bridge into town.
They soon realize they are ghosts, trapped in the country house they were trying to fix up before they died.
Soon enough, though, a nouveau riche family moves in, led by the
awful "artist" stepmom (Catherine O'Hara) married to a schmuck (Jeffrey Jones, before getting nailed as a child predator) - his daughter is a
sullen weirdo teen (patented Winona Ryder of the era). O'Hara's stepmom
has got a gay best-friend/partner in crime (Glenn Shadix).
The now-ghost couple can't stand the parents (they come to like
Winona Ryder's weirdo teen, as the only one who can initially see them
as ghosts) and want to drive the family out of the house.
That's where Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton, at his most enjoyably, and gross! "wacky"!) comes in, as 'independent contractor spirit' who
specializes in "bio-exorcism" (IOW, driving living folks out of places
that ghosts don't want them in!).
Of course Beetlejuice is more than anyone bargained for. Oops.
This has a lot of fun people in it (e.g. Robert Goulet, Dick Cavet), but Sylvia Sidney probably steals the show as the couple's "spirit case worker".
This isn't deep, but it's mostly fun...
What is with this flick and the almost non-stop Harry Bellafonte tunes?!
I am now curious as to how the sequel is going to explain the
absences of Baldwin and Davis (and without them, it will be easy to omit Sidney, who died in 1999, as well), not to mention Jones...
What did you watch?
On National Fetticine Alfredo Day, I watched:
Various YouTube videos.
What did you watch?
--
Don't jump!
On 2/8/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
Yesterday, I managed to get through a movie - if I hadn't been so tired
after a long week, I could have gotten through two (probably the new
Tubi flick), but I was tried enough that I went to bed relatively early
after the first movie.
I watched:
soaps: Y&R - Mon's ep. Not very interesting. Filis[sic!] is outraged, rightly, that Sharon will have no charges against her, but they ruin the character by having her knuckle under to Daniel and NuSummer rather than going after Sharon. Pathetic. Later, Billy pitches his new business idea
to Filis and Daniel, and Daniel correctly points out that this seems
like he's still going after Adam, just in a different way... After
finding out about the Jordan/Ian stuff, Jack goes over to Nikki, and
runs into the whole Newman clan, including the vile Mustache who acts
like his typical asshole self. In the least interesting storyline, it's revealed that the guy Nate has been talking to is not his brother, but instead is working for his brother. Meanwhile, Audra keeps talking about
her mother, which makes me wonder if the show is going to introduce
Audra's mom to the show.
Then, the reason I haven't watched "Beeteljuice Beeteljuice" yes is
because I felt like I had to watch the original "Beeteljuice" (which I haven't seen in decades!) first. So I finally got to that last night:
Beetlejuice (back on Max, after a month on Peacock) - In "glorious 4k!"
- or, rather, it would have been had Max not taken that away from us
cable subscribers!! >:/
I admit - I was fooled by the opening credits fly-over shot. In
fact, I still can't figure out if that was partly real footage of a
fly-over of the actual Vermont(?) village (note: the film is actually supposedly set in Connecticut, though I missed this if it was said onscreen...) they filmed that seamlessly transitions to a fly-over of
the model, or if it was the model 100% of the time (which means the
first part of the model was so life-like as to fool the audience!).
This is an enjoyable film. I am not a Burton fan, but this may be
the most easily enjoyable film Burton has ever done. Yes, it's still
"weird", but it's weird in fun ways, rather than being either precious, annoying or overdone.
More amazingly - it's pleasingly *short*, clocking in at just 92
minutes.
I honestly had forgotten the "plot" of this movie, and didn't
realize going in that its "stars" were really a young Alec Baldwin (puh-TUWIE!!) and Geena Davis (easy to forget how attractive she was
back in the 1980s!), whose characters are heinously and deliberately
murdered (with malice of forethought!) by a small dog on a bridge into town.
They soon realize they are ghosts, trapped in the country house they
were trying to fix up before they died.
Soon enough, though, a nouveau riche family moves in, led by the
awful "artist" stepmom (Catherine O'Hara) married to a schmuck (Jeffrey Jones, before getting nailed as a child predator) - his daughter is a
sullen weirdo teen (patented Winona Ryder of the era). O'Hara's stepmom
has got a gay best-friend/partner in crime (Glenn Shadix).
The now-ghost couple can't stand the parents (they come to like
Winona Ryder's weirdo teen, as the only one who can initially see them
as ghosts) and want to drive the family out of the house.
That's where Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton, at his most enjoyably, and gross! "wacky"!) comes in, as 'independent contractor spirit' who
specializes in "bio-exorcism" (IOW, driving living folks out of places
that ghosts don't want them in!).
Of course Beetlejuice is more than anyone bargained for. Oops.
This has a lot of fun people in it (e.g. Robert Goulet, Dick Cavet),
but Sylvia Sidney probably steals the show as the couple's "spirit case worker".
This isn't deep, but it's mostly fun...
What is with this flick and the almost non-stop Harry Bellafonte tunes?!
I am now curious as to how the sequel is going to explain the
absences of Baldwin and Davis (and without them, it will be easy to omit Sidney, who died in 1999, as well), not to mention Jones...
What did you watch?
On 2/8/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
Then, the reason I haven't watched "Beeteljuice Beeteljuice" yes is
because I felt like I had to watch the original "Beeteljuice" (which I haven't seen in decades!) first. So I finally got to that last night:
Beetlejuice (back on Max, after a month on Peacock) - In "glorious 4k!"
- or, rather, it would have been had Max not taken that away from us
cable subscribers!! >:/
I admit - I was fooled by the opening credits fly-over shot. In
fact, I still can't figure out if that was partly real footage of a
fly-over of the actual Vermont(?) village
Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
On National Fetticine Alfredo Day, I watched:
Various YouTube videos.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
The final episodes of THE PRACTICE, leaving me free to start watching
BOSTON LEGAL.
SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
1939 John Wayne cavalry classic that the critics say is the first movie he actually started acting in.
It has a running gag where somebody will try to
apologize and Wayne will stop them saying “never apologize, it’s a sign of
weakness“ so now we know where Gibbs got his rule number six.
A couple mid third season BUFFY episodes when the series was still at its peak.
A couple GUNSMOKE episodes. Chester was still there and they were in black-and-white and faux wide screen.
Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
On National Fetticine Alfredo Day, I watched:
Various YouTube videos.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
The final episodes of THE PRACTICE, leaving me free to start watching
BOSTON LEGAL.
SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
1939 John Wayne cavalry classic that the critics say is the first movie he actually started acting in. It has a running gag where somebody will try to apologize and Wayne will stop them saying “never apologize, it’s a sign of
weakness“ so now we know where Gibbs got his rule number six.
A couple mid third season BUFFY episodes when the series was still at its peak.
On 2/8/2025 11:21 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
On National Fetticine Alfredo Day, I watched:
Various YouTube videos.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
The final episodes of THE PRACTICE, leaving me free to start watching
BOSTON LEGAL.
SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
1939 John Wayne cavalry classic that the critics say is the first movie he >> actually started acting in. It has a running gag where somebody will try to >> apologize and Wayne will stop them saying “never apologize, it’s a sign of
weakness“ so now we know where Gibbs got his rule number six.
A couple mid third season BUFFY episodes when the series was still at its
peak.
On disc or streaming? How was the picture quality?
On 2/8/25 11:21 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
On National Fetticine Alfredo Day, I watched:
Various YouTube videos.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
The final episodes of THE PRACTICE, leaving me free to start watching
BOSTON LEGAL.
SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
1939 John Wayne cavalry classic that the critics say is the first movie he >> actually started acting in.
That's bunk, as I recall him actually acting in "Stagecoach" (released
the same year - maybe it was released after this film?).
It has a running gag where somebody will try to
apologize and Wayne will stop them saying “never apologize, it’s a sign of
weakness“ so now we know where Gibbs got his rule number six.
A couple mid third season BUFFY episodes when the series was still at its
peak.
A couple GUNSMOKE episodes. Chester was still there and they were in
black-and-white and faux wide screen.
Which apparently is one of the most streamed "classic TV series" of last year.
I still have never seen an episode of it!
Arthur Lipscomb <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/8/2025 11:21 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
On National Fetticine Alfredo Day, I watched:
Various YouTube videos.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
The final episodes of THE PRACTICE, leaving me free to start watching
BOSTON LEGAL.
SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
1939 John Wayne cavalry classic that the critics say is the first movie he >>> actually started acting in. It has a running gag where somebody will try to >>> apologize and Wayne will stop them saying “never apologize, it’s a sign of
weakness“ so now we know where Gibbs got his rule number six.
A couple mid third season BUFFY episodes when the series was still at its >>> peak.
On disc or streaming? How was the picture quality?
Buffy on the Hulu. It’s 4:3 but the image quality is excellent. There are also 16:9 versions of it. The originals of those were horrendous, but the
new ones look pretty good. Same notation for Angel.
On 2/8/2025 2:46 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Arthur Lipscomb <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/8/2025 11:21 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
On National Fetticine Alfredo Day, I watched:
Various YouTube videos.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
The final episodes of THE PRACTICE, leaving me free to start watching
BOSTON LEGAL.
SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
1939 John Wayne cavalry classic that the critics say is the first movie he >>>> actually started acting in. It has a running gag where somebody will try to
apologize and Wayne will stop them saying “never apologize, it’s a sign of
weakness“ so now we know where Gibbs got his rule number six.
A couple mid third season BUFFY episodes when the series was still at its >>>> peak.
On disc or streaming? How was the picture quality?
Buffy on the Hulu. It’s 4:3 but the image quality is excellent. There are >> also 16:9 versions of it. The originals of those were horrendous, but the
new ones look pretty good. Same notation for Angel.
Good to know. If this new series gets off the ground I'm going to want
to revisit the original. But I don't think my DVDs are up to the job.
Beetlejuice (back on Max, after a month on Peacock) - In "glorious 4k!"
- or, rather, it would have been had Max not taken that away from us
cable subscribers!! >:/
I admit - I was fooled by the opening credits fly-over shot. In
fact, I still can't figure out if that was partly real footage of a
fly-over of the actual Vermont(?) village (note: the film is actually >supposedly set in Connecticut, though I missed this if it was said >onscreen...) they filmed that seamlessly transitions to a fly-over of
the model, or if it was the model 100% of the time (which means the
first part of the model was so life-like as to fool the audience!).
Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
On National Fetticine Alfredo Day, I watched:
Various YouTube videos.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
The final episodes of THE PRACTICE, leaving me free to start watching
BOSTON LEGAL.
Arthur Lipscomb <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/8/2025 2:46 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Arthur Lipscomb <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/8/2025 11:21 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
On National Fetticine Alfredo Day, I watched:
Various YouTube videos.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
The final episodes of THE PRACTICE, leaving me free to start watching >>>>> BOSTON LEGAL.
SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
1939 John Wayne cavalry classic that the critics say is the first movie he
actually started acting in. It has a running gag where somebody will try to
apologize and Wayne will stop them saying “never apologize, it’s a sign of
weakness“ so now we know where Gibbs got his rule number six.
A couple mid third season BUFFY episodes when the series was still at its >>>>> peak.
On disc or streaming? How was the picture quality?
Buffy on the Hulu. It’s 4:3 but the image quality is excellent. There are >>> also 16:9 versions of it. The originals of those were horrendous, but the >>> new ones look pretty good. Same notation for Angel.
Good to know. If this new series gets off the ground I'm going to want
to revisit the original. But I don't think my DVDs are up to the job.
I just started season four (the college years) on the Hulu. These are now 16:9. And they look great. I haven’t had an opportunity to side-by-side compare the current 4:3 versions of Buffy and angel with the current 16:9 versions From the same source (for instance I was watching 16:9 season
three Buffy on Comet broadcast and decided to switch over to Hulu to get
rid of commercials). And I’m watching on the iPad. But anything I’m seeing
right now should be up to the task.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the pilot for angel in 16:9…
[email protected] wrote:
Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
On National Fetticine Alfredo Day, I watched:
Various YouTube videos.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
The final episodes of THE PRACTICE, leaving me free to start watching
BOSTON LEGAL.
The ones with The Shat?
--
Don't jump!
On 2/8/2025 11:56 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Arthur Lipscomb <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/8/2025 2:46 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Arthur Lipscomb <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/8/2025 11:21 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
On National Fetticine Alfredo Day, I watched:
Various YouTube videos.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
The final episodes of THE PRACTICE, leaving me free to start watching >>>>>> BOSTON LEGAL.
SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
1939 John Wayne cavalry classic that the critics say is the first movie he
actually started acting in. It has a running gag where somebody will try to
apologize and Wayne will stop them saying “never apologize, it’s a sign of
weakness“ so now we know where Gibbs got his rule number six.
A couple mid third season BUFFY episodes when the series was still at its
peak.
On disc or streaming? How was the picture quality?
Buffy on the Hulu. It’s 4:3 but the image quality is excellent. There are
also 16:9 versions of it. The originals of those were horrendous, but the >>>> new ones look pretty good. Same notation for Angel.
Good to know. If this new series gets off the ground I'm going to want
to revisit the original. But I don't think my DVDs are up to the job.
I just started season four (the college years) on the Hulu. These are now
16:9. And they look great. I haven’t had an opportunity to side-by-side
compare the current 4:3 versions of Buffy and angel with the current 16:9
versions From the same source (for instance I was watching 16:9 season
three Buffy on Comet broadcast and decided to switch over to Hulu to get
rid of commercials). And I’m watching on the iPad. But anything I’m seeing
right now should be up to the task.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the pilot for angel in 16:9…
The first season Angel DVDs are 1:33 before switching to anamorphic wide screen for the rest. All the Buffy episodes are 1:33. I'm assuming
"Once More With Feeling" is nonanamorphic wide screen.
I watched the entire series of both Buffy and Angel back in 2011. And I
even figured out when to swap discs for the cross over episodes. It was great.
series would be a great excuse to watch some of the best episodes again.
I just need to know *when* so I can have enough time to plan for it.
A couple mid third season BUFFY episodes when the series was still at its >peak.
On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 12:21:39 -0700, anim8rfsk <[email protected]>
wrote:
A couple mid third season BUFFY episodes when the series was still at its
peak.
Still can't believe Armin Shimerman managed both season 3 Buffy (he
was the principal who became a snake demon in the season finale)
Deep Space Nine simultaneously. 1999 must have been quite a year for
him!
He played a fairly important role in the Buffy season 3 finale.
Yet on IMDB he doesn't appear on the main page of Buffy's cast list
(he did 19 episodes which is only one less than Eliza Dushku (Faith))
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