On Christmas Eve, I got ready for the holidays, and didn't watch much seriously.
soaps: DOOL - Tue's ep. In the weirdess/silliest bit, the "Rafe double dude"! (I think I just barely remember this storyline...) is back, and pestering EJ for more money and/or a new mission!... NuPhilip continues
to be an annoying twitchy pest, this time trying to rub Alex's face in
his relationship with Stephanie. Stephanie continues to be neurotic headcase, justifying blowing off Alex and allowing NuPhilip to pursue
her. Jada is sort of half-heartedly raked over the coals by Mayor
Paulina, and then she and RealRafe sort of come to an understanding
about their respective, but conflicting, jobs.
ÿÿ GH - Mon's ep. Reader's digest version: NuNuLulu is put into contact with Charlotte (Scarlett Fernandez returns as Charlotte - I did wonder
if they were going to recast the role...) by Rocco, and goes off to
secretly retrieve Charlotte all by herself after swearing Rocco to
secrecy. Gio comes across Robin's (and Patrick Drake's, a character I
barely remember!) SORASed and recast daughter, Emma Drake (now played by newcomer Braedyn Bruner), who seems to be a rebellious (and
pickpocketing?!) teen - but Gio is into her. Alexis and Ric put aside
their differences to try and throw a festive Christmas for a shocked Molly.
Beyond that, I mostly left Christmas movies on.
I saw "Sincerely Truly Christmas" (2023) with Paula Brancati and Jake Epstein on Lifetime, which I hadn't seen before. In this one, Brancati magically can get people to reveal their Christmas wishes. Somehow,
Epstein gets roped into helping her.
Later on, I also saw "Snowed in Christmas" (2021) on UPtv with the
lovely Kayla Wallace (who may be the thing that gets me to finally watch "Landman" on the Pee+!). I think I had maybe seen this one before, but
this time I watched it off the Spectrum app so I could at least watch it
in 1080!
What did you watch?
On 12/25/2024 3:58 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
On Christmas Eve, I got ready for the holidays, and didn't watch much
seriously.
I did a bit of straightening up and DVR clearing.
soaps: DOOL - Tue's ep. In the weirdess/silliest bit, the "Rafe double
dude"! (I think I just barely remember this storyline...) is back, and
pestering EJ for more money and/or a new mission!... NuPhilip continues
to be an annoying twitchy pest, this time trying to rub Alex's face in
his relationship with Stephanie. Stephanie continues to be neurotic
headcase, justifying blowing off Alex and allowing NuPhilip to pursue
her. Jada is sort of half-heartedly raked over the coals by Mayor
Paulina, and then she and RealRafe sort of come to an understanding
about their respective, but conflicting, jobs.
ÿÿ GH - Mon's ep. Reader's digest version: NuNuLulu is put into contact
with Charlotte (Scarlett Fernandez returns as Charlotte - I did wonder
if they were going to recast the role...) by Rocco, and goes off to
secretly retrieve Charlotte all by herself after swearing Rocco to
secrecy. Gio comes across Robin's (and Patrick Drake's, a character I
barely remember!) SORASed and recast daughter, Emma Drake (now played by
newcomer Braedyn Bruner), who seems to be a rebellious (and
pickpocketing?!) teen - but Gio is into her. Alexis and Ric put aside
their differences to try and throw a festive Christmas for a shocked Molly. >>
Beyond that, I mostly left Christmas movies on.
Same.
I saw "Sincerely Truly Christmas" (2023) with Paula Brancati and JakeI watched:
Epstein on Lifetime, which I hadn't seen before. In this one, Brancati
magically can get people to reveal their Christmas wishes. Somehow,
Epstein gets roped into helping her.
Later on, I also saw "Snowed in Christmas" (2021) on UPtv with the
lovely Kayla Wallace (who may be the thing that gets me to finally watch
"Landman" on the Pee+!). I think I had maybe seen this one before, but
this time I watched it off the Spectrum app so I could at least watch it
in 1080!
What did you watch?
Dear Santa (Paramount+) New Christmas movie from the Farrelly brothers
about a preteen boy who writes a letter to Santa. Except the boy's
dyslexic and misspells Santa, Satan. Next thing you know, Jack Black
shows up offering to grant 3 wishes in exchange for the boy's soul.
Black quickly catches on the boy thinks he Santa and decides to play
along in order to get the boy's soul. Overall, I liked this movie, but >there were some spoilerish implications with the end of the movie that
were just completely glossed over, and I'm not just talking about Satan >coming to Earth to trick children into selling their souls for eternal >damnation. I was honestly shocked with the ending, but maybe I was just >overthinking it.
The Muppets Christmas Carol (Disney+) 1992 movie based on the Charles >Dickens classic, but with the Muppets and Michael Caine as Ebenezer
Scooge. This was the uncut version that's available on Disney+. I'm
pretty sure I've never seen this movie before now, but I kept hearing
about it. I kept hearing how good it was, and apparently in spite of
using Muppets is the closest version stayed truer to the novel. It was
OK, I guess. I don't have any real complaints. And it was definitely
the right choice to have Caine play the role straight.
Sugarplummed (Hallmark) A stressed out mom is granted a Christmas wish
and wishes Sugarplum or Ms. Sue Garplum, from the popular TV movie
franchise into reality. Ms. Garplum follows all the rules of a made for
TV Christmas movie, but she soon discovers those rules don't work in the >real world.
Carol for Another Christmas (TCM) 1964 made for TV version of A
Christmas Carol written by Rod Serling. SPOILERS for a 1964 TV movie!
This is set in modern America with a bigoted isolationist businessman
being visited by three ghosts to teach him the error of his ways. The
movie has a very antiwar message and Serling was definitely not messing >around with this movie. He has the ghost of Christmas (war?) past
taking the scrooge character to visit Hiroshima and visit children with >their faces melted off from the atom bomb. And the ghost of Christmas >(war?) future takes him to a post-apocalyptic America. Where Peter
Sellers sits as a judge who has fully embraced the selfish bigoted
attitudes that lead to the nuclear war, and Sellers preaches those
attitudes to an eager audience. One guy shows up and tries to preach
peace and tolerance and they hand a little boy a gun and the boy shoots
him. How have I never heard of this before now?!?
You Better Watch Out (Lifetime) New Lifetime movie about a woman stuck
at a small snowed in airport who discovers a kidnapped woman tied up in
a van in the airport parking garage. I don't want to get into spoilers,
but I *hated* what the woman did next. None of what that woman did made >*any* sense!!! I pretty much just hate watched this movie.
What If...? (Disney+) "What If... the Red Guardian Stopped the Winter >Soldier?" - The plot is the title of the episode. They were trying to
be funny, but weren't funny. The overall episode was otherwise OK, I guess.
Dear Santa (Paramount+) New Christmas movie from the Farrelly brothers
about a preteen boy who writes a letter to Santa. Except the boy's
dyslexic and misspells Santa, Satan. Next thing you know, Jack Black
shows up offering to grant 3 wishes in exchange for the boy's soul.
Black quickly catches on the boy thinks he Santa and decides to play
along in order to get the boy's soul. Overall, I liked this movie, but >there were some spoilerish implications with the end of the movie that
were just completely glossed over, and I'm not just talking about Satan >coming to Earth to trick children into selling their souls for eternal >damnation. I was honestly shocked with the ending, but maybe I was just >overthinking it.
Carol for Another Christmas (TCM) 1964 made for TV version of A
Christmas Carol written by Rod Serling. SPOILERS for a 1964 TV movie!
This is set in modern America with a bigoted isolationist businessman
being visited by three ghosts to teach him the error of his ways. The
movie has a very antiwar message and Serling was definitely not messing >around with this movie. He has the ghost of Christmas (war?) past
taking the scrooge character to visit Hiroshima and visit children with >their faces melted off from the atom bomb. And the ghost of Christmas >(war?) future takes him to a post-apocalyptic America. Where Peter
Sellers sits as a judge who has fully embraced the selfish bigoted
attitudes that lead to the nuclear war, and Sellers preaches those
attitudes to an eager audience. One guy shows up and tries to preach
peace and tolerance and they hand a little boy a gun and the boy shoots
him. How have I never heard of this before now?!?
On Christmas Eve, I got ready for the holidays, and didn't watch much seriously.
What did you watch?
THE JETTY: A 2024 miniseries on Hulu starring Jenna Coleman from DR. WHO. >>>This miniseries consists of 4 hour long episodes and plays out a murder mystery.
No nudity and very little swearing/violence, so this is suitable for the whole family.
The first episode starts off weak as the Jenna Coleman character seems like >>>nothing more than a fairly incompetent detective. The episodes get better as
they go along. Plus, you get a few witty lines of dialog such as:
Thanks for the recommend. I’ll try to check that out although annoyingly Disney+
no longer works on the iPad. It requires the newest system update which the iPad\
can’t handle. But I can probably still look at it on the iPhone.
OK, that was thoroughly confusing. Even after I read spoiler ridden
synopses on places like radio times that promised they knew who
did everything I still can’t find anybody who has any idea who killed Riz (the podcaster)
Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
Dear Santa (Paramount+) New Christmas movie from the Farrelly brothers
about a preteen boy who writes a letter to Santa. Except the boy's
dyslexic and misspells Santa, Satan. Next thing you know, Jack Black
shows up offering to grant 3 wishes in exchange for the boy's soul.
Black quickly catches on the boy thinks he Santa and decides to play
along in order to get the boy's soul. Overall, I liked this movie, but
there were some spoilerish implications with the end of the movie that
were just completely glossed over, and I'm not just talking about Satan
coming to Earth to trick children into selling their souls for eternal
damnation. I was honestly shocked with the ending, but maybe I was just
overthinking it.
It was on Showtime a few weeks ago. I made it 20 minutes.
Carol for Another Christmas (TCM) 1964 made for TV version of A
Christmas Carol written by Rod Serling. SPOILERS for a 1964 TV movie!
I posted a review of this a year ago. It's somewhat interesting.
This is set in modern America with a bigoted isolationist businessman
being visited by three ghosts to teach him the error of his ways. The
movie has a very antiwar message and Serling was definitely not messing
around with this movie. He has the ghost of Christmas (war?) past
taking the scrooge character to visit Hiroshima and visit children with
their faces melted off from the atom bomb. And the ghost of Christmas
(war?) future takes him to a post-apocalyptic America. Where Peter
Sellers sits as a judge who has fully embraced the selfish bigoted
attitudes that lead to the nuclear war, and Sellers preaches those
attitudes to an eager audience. One guy shows up and tries to preach
peace and tolerance and they hand a little boy a gun and the boy shoots
him. How have I never heard of this before now?!?
Apparently it aired just one time, not uncommon in the days of fully-sponsored programs.
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
On Christmas Eve, I got ready for the holidays, and didn't watch much
seriously.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
Here’s a conversation between me and Ob Veeus:
Ob:
THE JETTY: A 2024 miniseries on Hulu starring Jenna Coleman from DR. WHO. >>>> This miniseries consists of 4 hour long episodes and plays out a murder mystery.
No nudity and very little swearing/violence, so this is suitable for the whole family.
The first episode starts off weak as the Jenna Coleman character seems like
nothing more than a fairly incompetent detective. The episodes get better as
they go along. Plus, you get a few witty lines of dialog such as:
"It is not the cough that carries you off.
It is the coffin that they carry you off in."
Me:
Thanks for the recommend. I’ll try to check that out although annoyingly Disney+
no longer works on the iPad. It requires the newest system update which the iPad\
can’t handle. But I can probably still look at it on the iPhone.
Ob:
The built-in obsolescence of modern devices is really annoying. I am sure that
there is no valid reason why they can't continue to offer streaming to your iPad
other than that they want to sell you a new device instead. The same TV
sets
worked for the first 50 years of broadcasting. Black & white TV sets even worked
for color broadcasts, they just didn't show the colors. Now, sets that are just a few
years old are becoming unusable without add-on devices (like
Roku/Firestick) just
because the manufacturers stop updating software and try to force people to buy
newer devices.
On 12/25/2024 9:00 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
Dear Santa (Paramount+) New Christmas movie from the Farrelly brothers
about a preteen boy who writes a letter to Santa. Except the boy's
dyslexic and misspells Santa, Satan. Next thing you know, Jack Black
shows up offering to grant 3 wishes in exchange for the boy's soul.
Black quickly catches on the boy thinks he Santa and decides to play
along in order to get the boy's soul. Overall, I liked this movie, but
there were some spoilerish implications with the end of the movie that
were just completely glossed over, and I'm not just talking about Satan
coming to Earth to trick children into selling their souls for eternal
damnation. I was honestly shocked with the ending, but maybe I was just >>> overthinking it.
It was on Showtime a few weeks ago. I made it 20 minutes.
I recorded it off of Showtime when it aired, but I watched the version
from Paramount+. The Paramount+ version had much better picture and
sound. I'm trying to force myself into the habit of checking the
streaming services because they will often have superior quality over
cable. Which one of the reasons I am extra annoyed that HBOMax
downgraded their free service to take away the superior sound and audio
they used to offer.
Carol for Another Christmas (TCM) 1964 made for TV version of A
Christmas Carol written by Rod Serling. SPOILERS for a 1964 TV movie!
I posted a review of this a year ago. It's somewhat interesting.
What I found interesting (and often do) is just how much of what Serling
was talking about then is still applicable today.
This is set in modern America with a bigoted isolationist businessman
being visited by three ghosts to teach him the error of his ways. The
movie has a very antiwar message and Serling was definitely not messing
around with this movie. He has the ghost of Christmas (war?) past
taking the scrooge character to visit Hiroshima and visit children with
their faces melted off from the atom bomb. And the ghost of Christmas
(war?) future takes him to a post-apocalyptic America. Where Peter
Sellers sits as a judge who has fully embraced the selfish bigoted
attitudes that lead to the nuclear war, and Sellers preaches those
attitudes to an eager audience. One guy shows up and tries to preach
peace and tolerance and they hand a little boy a gun and the boy shoots
him. How have I never heard of this before now?!?
Apparently it aired just one time, not uncommon in the days of
fully-sponsored programs.
TCM didn't air an introduction, but I found one online that mentioned
that. Seeing as how the intro and outro already exist, would it kill
TCM to just air them before and after the movie?
TCM Introduction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuMR8WeU1X8
TCM Outro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei7htt7hmVo
On 12/25/2024 9:50 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
On Christmas Eve, I got ready for the holidays, and didn't watch much
seriously.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
Here’s a conversation between me and Ob Veeus:
Ob:
THE JETTY: A 2024 miniseries on Hulu starring Jenna Coleman from DR. WHO.
This miniseries consists of 4 hour long episodes and plays out a murder mystery.
No nudity and very little swearing/violence, so this is suitable for the whole family.
The first episode starts off weak as the Jenna Coleman character seems like
nothing more than a fairly incompetent detective. The episodes get better as
they go along. Plus, you get a few witty lines of dialog such as:
"It is not the cough that carries you off.
It is the coffin that they carry you off in."
Me:
Thanks for the recommend. I’ll try to check that out although annoyingly Disney+
no longer works on the iPad. It requires the newest system update which the iPad\
can’t handle. But I can probably still look at it on the iPhone.
Ob:
The built-in obsolescence of modern devices is really annoying. I am sure >> that
there is no valid reason why they can't continue to offer streaming to your >> iPad
other than that they want to sell you a new device instead. The same TV
sets
worked for the first 50 years of broadcasting. Black & white TV sets even >> worked
for color broadcasts, they just didn't show the colors. Now, sets that are >> just a few
years old are becoming unusable without add-on devices (like
Roku/Firestick) just
because the manufacturers stop updating software and try to force people to >> buy
newer devices.
The other week I was trying to get the built in Netflix to work on my mother's TV then it turns out Netflix won't work even though it's built
in because it's an older TV model. And as far as iPads go, I have games
I paid for that won't work on the newer models. And my much older model stopped working a long time ago. One of these days, I might see about getting the old one fixed so I can play those games again.
But in the case of the iPad, it's the software updates that will cause certain apps to no longer work. Although that's nothing new for Windows users. You never knew what game would suddenly no longer be compatible
with the latest operating system update. But it's way more annoying
with iPad software updates since that's less of a choice. At least with Windows you had to go out of your way to buy the update and it was
usually well known in advance what would or wouldn't work after an update.
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