What did you watch?
What did you watch?
On 4/30/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
Two-day catch-up, but I've been busy with work both days, so I haven't watched much:
soaps: Y&R - Ep from a couple of weeks ago. Traci meets with Sharon and Filis[sic!} to discuss their kidnapping by Martin Laurent - Filis is
kind of insistent for answers with Traci, and seems to be hanging on by
a thread mentally/emotionally.
DOOL - Mon's ep. Not an interesting ep. They are threatening to kill off Bo again (off-screen, of course), so Shawn and Kayla & Roman are all devastated. Marlena and Steven return to town (why?! they still haven't
even found John yet!). In another dumb bit, Tate asks NuSophia to "prom"
- I didn't understand the point of this as Holly wasn't even in this ep!
GH - Mon's ep. Whoa! Brick (Stephen A. Smith continues to moonlight
on GH!) just coldly executes the assassin who had come to rub out Sonny!
Then Brick calls in NuJack Brennan to "clean" the evidence, 'cos Jack
Brennan just happened to be in L.A. too (apparently he was chasing
Carly!). Kristina is such a dumb bitch - she and poor dumb innocent
Molly castigate Alexis for considering involuntarily committing Kristina
- at least Molly can claim to know really know what's going on, but
Kristina should know *why* Alexis was considering this, and Kristina
still acts all indignant. OK, I think it's going to turn out that the
new professor dude (Daniel Goddard) was either having an affair with
Emma in California, or was influencing her (in a cult?), and he's the
one that got Emma arrested and expelled in California... By pure
coincidence, the professor dude strikes up a conversation with Anna,
which Josslyn the Spy observes.
Dead Sea (Hulu) - I couldn't remember if I had seen this 2024 flick
before... and after watching it (again?) I am still not sure!
If I didn't watch this particular flick before, I watched a film
very like it - in which a young woman (Isabel Gravitt, who I think must
be playing John Hamm's daughter in the current "Your Friends &
Neighbors" series on Apple TV+) gets kidnapped by a human trafficker
boat captain on the open seas, and has to work to rescue her injured
friend (Genneya Walton, from "Project MC2") and herself from the situation.
If I did watch this before, I must have been paying, like, *zero* attention the first time! as I didn't remember the "jet ski" beginning
of the film with the two dudes, and I didn't remember that Gravitt's character nearly dies at the film's end, and that the end this film
turns into a virtual recruitment vehicle for the U.S. Coast Guard!
Overall, this was barely OK as a thriller, though Gravitt fills out
a bikini pretty good.
And I must have watched this flick over the weekend, but forgot to
mention it:
Dead Shot (Pee+) - A dreary 2023 British film set in the 1970s about the
IRA and the Troubles.
Colin Morgan stars as an (ex?) IRA member whose pregnant wife is accidentally killed/executed by a British soldier (Aml Ameen) - so of
course the IRA dude swears to track down and kill the British soldier
who did it, in revenge!
travel to London(?) in order to do so.
The only interesting thing about this flick is that it co-stars Felicity Jones, but she's not in this enough to come close to saving it.
What did you watch?
Dead Shot (Pee+) - A dreary 2023 British film set in the 1970s about the
IRA and the Troubles.
Colin Morgan stars as an (ex?) IRA member whose pregnant wife is
accidentally killed/executed by a British soldier (Aml Ameen) - so of
course the IRA dude swears to track down and kill the British soldier
who did it, in revenge! but has to re-up with an evil IRA handler and
travel to London(?) in order to do so.
The only interesting thing about this flick is that it co-stars
Felicity Jones, but she's not in this enough to come close to saving it.
Ian J. Ball <[email protected]d> wrote:
Dead Shot (Pee+) - A dreary 2023 British film set in the 1970s about the
IRA and the Troubles.
Colin Morgan stars as an (ex?) IRA member whose pregnant wife is
accidentally killed/executed by a British soldier (Aml Ameen) - so of
course the IRA dude swears to track down and kill the British soldier
who did it, in revenge! but has to re-up with an evil IRA handler and
travel to London(?) in order to do so.
The only interesting thing about this flick is that it co-stars
Felicity Jones, but she's not in this enough to come close to saving it.
Which was it? Was her death an accidental killing or an execution? Seems
like it's too important a plot point to gloss over.
What did you watch?
On 4/30/25 9:58 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Ian J. Ball <[email protected]d> wrote:
Dead Shot (Pee+) - A dreary 2023 British film set in the 1970s about the >>> IRA and the Troubles.
Colin Morgan stars as an (ex?) IRA member whose pregnant wife is
accidentally killed/executed by a British soldier (Aml Ameen) - so of
course the IRA dude swears to track down and kill the British soldier
who did it, in revenge! but has to re-up with an evil IRA handler and
travel to London(?) in order to do so.
The only interesting thing about this flick is that it co-stars
Felicity Jones, but she's not in this enough to come close to saving it.
Which was it? Was her death an accidental killing or an execution? Seems
like it's too important a plot point to gloss over.
It appeared to be accidental - she was lying down in the backseat of a
car, and I guess moved or something so the dude shot her. But he also
didn't really check to see what he was shooting at. In fact, it was a
plot point that Mark Strong said Ameen's character was going to be
"charged with murder" for it unless he joined Strong's super-secret >counter-IRA squad in order to make the charges go away.
Trust me, this probably sounds way more interesting than it was in the >movie...
I watched SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL on the Netflix. A Mark Wahlburg action
movie from 2020 that somehow slipped under my radar. It took me about
1/3rd of the way through before I realized it's actually an attempted
reboot of that old TV show SPENSER FOR HIRE from the 80s.
On Apr 30, 2025 at 1:30:41 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <[email protected]> wrote:
What did you watch?
I watched SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL on the Netflix. A Mark Wahlburg action movie >from 2020 that somehow slipped under my radar. It took me about 1/3rd of the >way through before I realized it's actually an attempted reboot of that old >TV show SPENSER FOR HIRE from the 80s.
Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
Fringe S1E10 'Safe'. Walking through walls isn't as easy and safe as it >appears. Mr. Jones returns. The license plate number of the van used
by the thieves is 1R2D21. The glyphs spell "Trade".
BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:
I watched SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL on the Netflix. A Mark Wahlburg action
movie from 2020 that somehow slipped under my radar. It took me about
1/3rd of the way through before I realized it's actually an attempted
reboot of that old TV show SPENSER FOR HIRE from the 80s.
I just looked at the Wikipedia page. I think this was intended to be a theatrical movie that got dumped onto Netflix due to COVID. I see no
Netflix production funding.
I loved Robert Urich in the tv series, truly embodied the Robert B.
Parker character. Of course, the scripts were weak and they got rid of
the girlfriend (then brought her back), and Avery Brooks was a fine
Hawk. Really can't picture Mark Wahlberg.
How did the cast do playing these familiar characters?
This is an adaptation of a novel that Parker still put his name on, not letting death stop him from writing more Spenser novels (nor voting in Chicago).
Apr 30, 2025 at 9:48:43 PM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]>:
BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:
I watched SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL on the Netflix. A Mark Wahlburg action >>>movie from 2020 that somehow slipped under my radar. It took me about >>>1/3rd of the way through before I realized it's actually an attempted >>>reboot of that old TV show SPENSER FOR HIRE from the 80s.
I just looked at the Wikipedia page. I think this was intended to be a >>theatrical movie that got dumped onto Netflix due to COVID. I see no >>Netflix production funding.
I loved Robert Urich in the tv series, truly embodied the Robert B.
Parker character. Of course, the scripts were weak and they got rid of
the girlfriend (then brought her back), and Avery Brooks was a fine
Hawk. Really can't picture Mark Wahlberg.
How did the cast do playing these familiar characters?
As I never watched the original series or read the books, I have no
idea how well they pulled it off. The movie was of average entertainment >value, though.
For about 75% of the movie I thought Spenser was one of those action heroes >who eschews guns but then at the end he armed himself for the big battle. >Rejecting guns only works if your enemy also rejects them. Otherwise you end >up like that swordsman in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
On Apr 30, 2025 at 1:30:41 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <[email protected]> wrote:
What did you watch?
I watched SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL on the Netflix. A Mark Wahlburg action movie from 2020 that somehow slipped under my radar. It took me about 1/3rd of the way through before I realized it's actually an attempted reboot of that old TV
show SPENSER FOR HIRE from the 80s.
BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:
Apr 30, 2025 at 9:48:43 PM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]>:
BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:
I watched SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL on the Netflix. A Mark Wahlburg action
movie from 2020 that somehow slipped under my radar. It took me about
1/3rd of the way through before I realized it's actually an attempted
reboot of that old TV show SPENSER FOR HIRE from the 80s.
I just looked at the Wikipedia page. I think this was intended to be a
theatrical movie that got dumped onto Netflix due to COVID. I see no
Netflix production funding.
I loved Robert Urich in the tv series, truly embodied the Robert B.
Parker character. Of course, the scripts were weak and they got rid of
the girlfriend (then brought her back), and Avery Brooks was a fine
Hawk. Really can't picture Mark Wahlberg.
How did the cast do playing these familiar characters?
As I never watched the original series or read the books, I have no
idea how well they pulled it off. The movie was of average entertainment
value, though.
Thanks
I've read Parker's original novels but refuse to read the novels he
wrote after death. In reading about this adaption, it says they retained nothing of the novel except character names, so this might as well have
been a new script. Also, the movie is a comedy which the novel wouldn't
have been.
I forgot to mention that there were three made-for-tv movies starring
Joe Mantegna; I forgot who played Hawk. I recall one of the movies,
which was a straight adaptation of its novel and wasn't a comedy.
For about 75% of the movie I thought Spenser was one of those action heroes >> who eschews guns but then at the end he armed himself for the big battle.
Rejecting guns only works if your enemy also rejects them. Otherwise you end >> up like that swordsman in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
The guy who played Bob Lee Swagger might echew guns? Heh
btw, I've read that Harrison Ford was sick that day and wasn't up to the physical demands of a choreographed sword fight, which is why he just
shot him. It's a better scene!
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