On 8/15/2023 8:01 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 8/15/2023 6:20 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
snip
>
>
> Stargate: SG-1 S9E14 'Stronghold' - DVD
> "Teal'c and Master Bra'tac are upset when a member of the Jaffa High
> Council, Ka'lel, suddenly changes her vote just hours after assuring
> them they had her support. They think she is being duplicitous but in
> fact there is something far more sinister at work. When Teal'c fails to
> return and misses an important council meeting, Bra'tac turns to the SGC
> for help. They soon find that Ba'al has returned. Meanwhile, Mitchell
> has pulled some strings to have close a friend and fellow pilot, Bryce
> Ferguson, cared for at a hospital that may have the technology to deal
> with his aneurysm."
>
>     Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: How'd you resist the brainwashing? I
> figure I might be in that situation some day, and I don't reckon I'm
> going through the Rite of M'al Sharran.
>     Teal'c: To resist the influence of others, knowledge of one's self
> is most important.
>     Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: Right. Thanks.
>     [Teal'c leaves]
>     Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: Yeah, I'm workin' on it.
>
> Trivia: When Mitchell and Ferguson are playing video games, there is a
> pizza box from "DeLuise and Son Pizzeria" with a picture of episode
> director Peter DeLuise and his father Dom DeLuise.
>
> Commentary: Director Peter DeLuise and actor Gary Jones.  What happened
> to them being banned from doing more commentaries together?!?!?!?!

I was about to ask that same question! LOL

Hmmm,
> this may have been recorded prior to the one where they told us they
> weren't allowed to do anymore.  They want to give Ba'al a Jack Russel
> Terrier because that would make him even more evil.
>
>
> What Did You Watch?
>
>

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
> On 8/16/23 7:20 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>
>> On Aug 16, 2023 at 6:57:09 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>> On 8/16/2023 10:07 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 8/15/23 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Beast (Prime) - This was OK. (Filmed in Namibia!!)
>>>>>>> Idris Elba, his two daughters - a bratty teen (Iyana Halley), and a
>>>>>>> sweet, shy tween (Leah Sava Jeffries) - and Sharlto Copley as a South
>>>>>>> African park ranger(?) - are menaced by a rogue lion that wants to kill
>>>>>>> every human ever!! after some EVOL poachers exterminate his pride.
>>>>>>> This was an OK survival/escape pic.
>>>>>>> The ending is kind of brutal when Elba "sacrifices" himself to save
>>>>>>> the daughters, but is saved by "lions ex machina"!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Might have to check that out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have you seen ROGUE with Megan Fox?
>>>>>
>>>>> BEAST has been checked out. While it was pretty good, and I found the
>>>>> animals wholly convincing (IMDb says there’s not a real animal in the
>>>>> thing, and it probably helped that the presentation was so soft. It looks
>>>>> like it had been been shot through a sock) there was a lot of bad directing
>>>>> going on. All in all I think ROGUE is probably the better film if for no
>>>>> other reason, then it has cute girls in it.
>>>>>
>>>>> IMDB points out that the end with Elba fighting the lion isn’t possibly
>>>>> survivable on his side and they’re right.
>>>>>
>>>>> I could’ve done without the dream and hallucination sequences as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> I actually shouted at Elba when, while fleeing the lion, he breaks into the
>>>>> old school and… Leaves the front door standing open. Really?
>>>>>
>>>>> I also found the older daughter, who fancies her self a photographer But
>>>>> brings along one role of black-and-white film because she likes film better
>>>>> just too stupid to live. So you’ve got 36 shots for your entire trip to
>>>>> Africa? Fuck film. Bring your iPhone and take 36,000 shots and play the law
>>>>> of averages.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then the Prime suggested I watch The Rock in RAMPAGE, apparently, because
>>>>> both movies have evil poachers in them.
>>>>>
>>>>> You don’t realize how good the CGI animals in BEAST are until you suffer
>>>>> through several hours of terrible obvious CGI animals in this.
>>>>>
>>>> Well, they were pixel based video game monsters so what did you expect?
>>>>
>>>>> There are times when they almost get some of the science in this right. A
>>>>> mysterious serum has caused the albino ape to almost double in size and
>>>>> mass overnight. Miss Moneypenny says he must be starving, because…
>>>>> Apparently he’s consuming his mass to make… More mass… So they
>>>> have to get
>>>>> him some food. To replace the mass he used making more mass. So close.
>>>>>
>>>>> The serum somehow only affects three animals as it falls from orbit. The
>>>>> albino ape in San Diego, and an alligator in the Everglades (I’m pretty
>>>>> sure those aren’t on the same orbital path), and the wolf somewhere along
>>>>> the way in between. The ape just becomes big and mean, the others mutate
>>>>> into almost unrecognizable, big, and mean things. Malin Akerman
>>>>> single-handedly reduces the film to Asylum level as the evil executive in
>>>>> charge.
>>>>>
>>>>> Moneypenny is OK as the scientist who created this mess but it would’ve
>>>>> been better. Had she been played by Hi ho the Dario.
>>>
>>>> Well, don't you feel that way about pretty much every movie?
>>>
>>> Alexandra Daddario IS Eleanor Roosevelt in The Eleanor Roosevelt Story.
>>
>> Is there nothing she can't do?
>
> I don't feel like she could play "Sweet Tooth" on "Twisted Metal"...
>
>
>

She could play “sweet tooth” on me.

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On 8/16/2023 7:41 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> On 8/15/2023 8:01 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 8/15/2023 6:20 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> snip

Anim's gonna getcha for that!

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On 8/16/2023 7:32 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>> On 8/16/2023 10:07 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/15/23 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Beast (Prime) - This was OK. (Filmed in Namibia!!)
>>>>>> Idris Elba, his two daughters - a bratty teen (Iyana Halley), and a
>>>>>> sweet, shy tween (Leah Sava Jeffries) - and Sharlto Copley as a South
>>>>>> African park ranger(?) - are menaced by a rogue lion that wants to kill
>>>>>> every human ever!! after some EVOL poachers exterminate his pride.
>>>>>> This was an OK survival/escape pic.
>>>>>> The ending is kind of brutal when Elba "sacrifices" himself to save
>>>>>> the daughters, but is saved by "lions ex machina"!
>>>>>
>>>>> Might have to check that out.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you seen ROGUE with Megan Fox?
>>>>
>>>> BEAST has been checked out. While it was pretty good, and I found the
>>>> animals wholly convincing (IMDb says there’s not a real animal in the
>>>> thing, and it probably helped that the presentation was so soft. It looks
>>>> like it had been been shot through a sock) there was a lot of bad directing
>>>> going on. All in all I think ROGUE is probably the better film if for no
>>>> other reason, then it has cute girls in it.
>>>>
>>>> IMDB points out that the end with Elba fighting the lion isn’t possibly
>>>> survivable on his side and they’re right.
>>>>
>>>> I could’ve done without the dream and hallucination sequences as well.
>>>>
>>>> I actually shouted at Elba when, while fleeing the lion, he breaks into the
>>>> old school and… Leaves the front door standing open. Really?
>>>>
>>>> I also found the older daughter, who fancies her self a photographer But
>>>> brings along one role of black-and-white film because she likes film better
>>>> just too stupid to live. So you’ve got 36 shots for your entire trip to
>>>> Africa? Fuck film. Bring your iPhone and take 36,000 shots and play the law
>>>> of averages.
>>>>
>>>> Then the Prime suggested I watch The Rock in RAMPAGE, apparently, because
>>>> both movies have evil poachers in them.
>>>>
>>>> You don’t realize how good the CGI animals in BEAST are until you suffer
>>>> through several hours of terrible obvious CGI animals in this.
>>>>
>>> Well, they were pixel based video game monsters so what did you expect?
>>>
>>>> There are times when they almost get some of the science in this right. A
>>>> mysterious serum has caused the albino ape to almost double in size and
>>>> mass overnight. Miss Moneypenny says he must be starving, because…
>>>> Apparently he’s consuming his mass to make… More mass… So they
>>> have to get
>>>> him some food. To replace the mass he used making more mass. So close.
>>>>
>>>> The serum somehow only affects three animals as it falls from orbit. The
>>>> albino ape in San Diego, and an alligator in the Everglades (I’m pretty
>>>> sure those aren’t on the same orbital path), and the wolf somewhere along
>>>> the way in between. The ape just becomes big and mean, the others mutate
>>>> into almost unrecognizable, big, and mean things. Malin Akerman
>>>> single-handedly reduces the film to Asylum level as the evil executive in
>>>> charge.
>>>>
>>>> Moneypenny is OK as the scientist who created this mess but it would’ve
>>>> been better. Had she been played by Hi ho the Dario.
>>
>>> Well, don't you feel that way about pretty much every movie?
>>
>> Alexandra Daddario IS Eleanor Roosevelt in The Eleanor Roosevelt Story.
>>
>
> You’re missing the part where the idea is that she’s costarring with the
> Rock.
>
She can play the part of the Rock!

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On 2023-08-15 19:45:26 +0000, Ian J. Ball said:

> On 8/15/23 11:02 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>
>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Beast (Prime) - This was OK. (Filmed in Namibia!!)
>>> Idris Elba, his two daughters - a bratty teen (Iyana Halley), and a
>>> sweet, shy tween (Leah Sava Jeffries) - and Sharlto Copley as a South
>>> African park ranger(?) - are menaced by a rogue lion that wants to kill
>>> every human ever!! after some EVOL poachers exterminate his pride.
>>> This was an OK survival/escape pic.
>>> The ending is kind of brutal when Elba "sacrifices" himself to save
>>> the daughters, but is saved by "lions ex machina"!
>>
>> I wrote about this months ago but you have me kill filed. I was bored.
>> Basically, I got the impression that Elba wanted a studio to pay for a
>> vacation and incidentally appeared in this movie.
>
> Looks like I will have to go my old laptop if I want to find that thread...

OK, if you reviewed "Beast", it wasn't in a standalone thread. It must
have been in either a WDYW? thread or some other thread...

Ian J. Ball <IJBall@mac.invalid> wrote:
> On 2023-08-15 19:45:26 +0000, Ian J. Ball said:
>
>> On 8/15/23 11:02 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>
>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Beast (Prime) - This was OK. (Filmed in Namibia!!)
>>>> Idris Elba, his two daughters - a bratty teen (Iyana Halley), and a
>>>> sweet, shy tween (Leah Sava Jeffries) - and Sharlto Copley as a South
>>>> African park ranger(?) - are menaced by a rogue lion that wants to kill
>>>> every human ever!! after some EVOL poachers exterminate his pride.
>>>> This was an OK survival/escape pic.
>>>> The ending is kind of brutal when Elba "sacrifices" himself to save
>>>> the daughters, but is saved by "lions ex machina"!
>>>
>>> I wrote about this months ago but you have me kill filed. I was bored.
>>> Basically, I got the impression that Elba wanted a studio to pay for a
>>> vacation and incidentally appeared in this movie.
>>
>> Looks like I will have to go my old laptop if I want to find that thread...
>
> OK, if you reviewed "Beast", it wasn't in a standalone thread. It must
> have been in either a WDYW? thread or some other thread...
>

You have both of those killfiled, right?

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