After an arduous workout, I watched:

Democrats SHUT DOWN Congress Blocking Censure Of Al Green, OBSTRUCT House
w/Joe Redden | Timcast IRL

Hosts:
Tim @Timcast (everywhere)
Phil @PhilThatRemains (X)
Charles @Frank_Trueblue (X)
Serge @SergeDotCom (everywhere)

Guest:
The Older Millennial @teameffujoe (X)

https://www.youtube.com/live/kqV6teYLICI?si=zwuqWvCi9ei5z6pn

What did you watch?

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On 3/7/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

The day before giving an exam, I'm usually busy, and so it was
yesterday. So all I got through were soaps:

soaps: Y&R - Mon's ep. This was mostly a snooze. Nate is indignant that
Lily interfered with and tried to get dirt on Damien. Damien meets with
his mom Amy, and seems to reconcile. Billy and Sally cook dinner for
Jack and Diane. Meh.
GH - Wed's ep. While Maxie stalls/runs interference, Lulu goes
through Martin's notes discovering Brook Lynn and Dante had a son in
high school (but apparently not that it's Gio), and that Dante doesn't
know about it; later, while Lois retrieves the notes from Martin to
destroy them (and I think Martin realized they'd been tampered with),
Lulu goes to Cody to surreptitiously confirm that Brook Lynn had a child
way back when. Felicia is concerned about Carly's relationship with
NuJack Brennan. While out to dinner with Jack, Carly concludes he's a
"player", and tries to stop the date, but Jack talks his way out of it. (Meanwhile, Jack Brennan gets an update about Josslyn's spy training
during the date!) Portia whines to Ava about Drew blackmailing her, but
Ava can't offer much help! Dante's son Rocco gets a location from
Charlotte, and is outraged when Jason's son Danny tells Jason the
location - Jason and Anna then immediately leave town without telling
anyone to try to retrieve Charlotte.

Besides that, I was working on stuff.

What did you watch?

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On 3/7/2025 5:35 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 3/7/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

The day before giving an exam, I'm usually busy, and so it was
yesterday. So all I got through were soaps:

soaps: Y&R - Mon's ep. This was mostly a snooze. Nate is indignant that
Lily interfered with and tried to get dirt on Damien. Damien meets with
his mom Amy, and seems to reconcile. Billy and Sally cook dinner for
Jack and Diane. Meh.
   GH - Wed's ep. While Maxie stalls/runs interference, Lulu goes
through Martin's notes discovering Brook Lynn and Dante had a son in
high school (but apparently not that it's Gio), and that Dante doesn't
know about it; later, while Lois retrieves the notes from Martin to
destroy them (and I think Martin realized they'd been tampered with),
Lulu goes to Cody to surreptitiously confirm that Brook Lynn had a child
way back when. Felicia is concerned about Carly's relationship with
NuJack Brennan. While out to dinner with Jack, Carly concludes he's a "player", and tries to stop the date, but Jack talks his way out of it. (Meanwhile, Jack Brennan gets an update about Josslyn's spy training
during the date!) Portia whines to Ava about Drew blackmailing her, but
Ava can't offer much help! Dante's son Rocco gets a location from
Charlotte, and is outraged when Jason's son Danny tells Jason the
location - Jason and Anna then immediately leave town without telling
anyone to try to retrieve Charlotte.

Besides that, I was working on stuff.

What did you watch?

I watched:

Invincible (Amazon) "What Have I Done?" - Season 3, penultimate episode.
Angstrom, the dimension shifting villain, turns out not to be as dead
as thought. And if you saw the bloodied mess that Invincible left the
last time they fought that was a surprise. Anyway Angstrom recruited 18
evil versions of Invincible from across the multiverse and basically
lets them lose on Earth to destroy everything in sight and make sure
everyone blames Invincible, even if later they find out it wasn't him,
no one would care. This was an action packed nonstop adrenaline rush
episode as this was basically what a full Viltrum invasion would look
like. I don't want to spoil what went down, but it was really good, and
set up the finale.


Matlock - "This is That Moment" - Episode 12, from a few weeks ago. The
firm handles a divorce / custody case and because this is TV show, in
the middle of the case one of the lawyers from the same firm suddenly
takes over representing the other side. But not only lawyers from the
same firm, but lawyers from the same firm who just happen to be in the
middle of their own divorce. Did I mention this is a TV show?


Severance (ApplyTV+) - "Sweet Vitriol" - Season 2, episode 8. This is
one of those confusing (even for this show) episodes that is nothing but
the writers messing the audience. None of the main characters show up.
The episode focuses on Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette) visiting her
home town and talking to family. But everyone talks weird, because this Severance and that's what they do on this show. If any episode was
going to make someone on the fence say, I'm out, this is that episode.
I'm not out, but any more like this and I will be.


Mickey 17 (theatrical) New sci-fi movie written and directed by Bong
Joon-ho, based on the novel Mickey 7. Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey,
a man who books passage on a spaceship leaving Earth to colonize a new
planet. But in order to get on board with no money he volunteered to be
an "expendable." Basically they send him to do all the dangerous stuff
and if he gets killed they simply print out a new version of him with
the same memories. Because he's an expendable they treat him like dirt,
and don't just send him on dangerous missions, they send him on
*unnecessarily* dangerous missions just to see what happens, because why
not. They can always make a new one. Steven Yeun co stars as Mickey's
friend. Along with Mark Ruffalo as a cult like leader who is heading
the colony, and Toni Collette as Ruffalo's wife. I'm still not sure
what to make of this movie. I guess I liked it, but it was a bit long.
They could have easily shaved off 10 or 15 minutes. If you liked,
"Moon" this is basically a comedic version of that.

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On 3/7/2025 5:35 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

What did you watch?

'Casino Royale' (2006). On the final Bond actor, just a few more movies
before I reach the end of the Bond series. Too bad there won't ever be
another Bond movie again.

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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 3/7/2025 5:35 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

What did you watch?

'Casino Royale' (2006). On the final Bond actor, just a few more movies before I reach the end of the Bond series. Too bad there won't ever be another Bond movie again.

OMG

This means you’re about to face quantum of solace.

Quit.

Now

Run like the wind.

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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

'Casino Royale' (2006). On the final Bond actor, just a few more movies >before I reach the end of the Bond series. Too bad there won't ever be >another Bond movie again.

Wow. It's hard to believe that this movie is nearly two decades old.

So, revisiting the movie, what did you think?

I still love the gag in The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo making Mikael
Blomkvist whiney when Lisbeth was sterilizing his wounds. He's not
playing James Bond in this movie!

Daniel Craig just turned 57 on March 2. He made the dreadful movie
Dream House (2010), then married Rachel Weisz, his co-star, shortly
after production wrapped. Talk about turning lemons into lemonade...

I envy him.

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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

'Casino Royale' (2006). On the final Bond actor, just a few more movies
before I reach the end of the Bond series. Too bad there won't ever be
another Bond movie again.

Wow. It's hard to believe that this movie is nearly two decades old.

So, revisiting the movie, what did you think?

Worst of the three versions of Casino Royale.

I still love the gag in The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo making Mikael Blomkvist whiney when Lisbeth was sterilizing his wounds. He's not
playing James Bond in this movie!

Daniel Craig just turned 57 on March 2. He made the dreadful movie
Dream House (2010), then married Rachel Weisz, his co-star, shortly
after production wrapped. Talk about turning lemons into lemonade...

I envy him.

--
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On 3/7/25 3:34 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

'Casino Royale' (2006). On the final Bond actor, just a few more movies >>> before I reach the end of the Bond series. Too bad there won't ever be
another Bond movie again.

Wow. It's hard to believe that this movie is nearly two decades old.

So, revisiting the movie, what did you think?

Worst of the three versions of Casino Royale.

Three?... What's the third?

I still love the gag in The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo making Mikael
Blomkvist whiney when Lisbeth was sterilizing his wounds. He's not
playing James Bond in this movie!

Daniel Craig just turned 57 on March 2. He made the dreadful movie
Dream House (2010), then married Rachel Weisz, his co-star, shortly
after production wrapped. Talk about turning lemons into lemonade...

I envy him.

Rachel Weisz was never in a "St. Trinian's" flick - it's a black mark
against her! ;p

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

On 3/7/25 3:34 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

'Casino Royale' (2006). On the final Bond actor, just a few more movies >>>> before I reach the end of the Bond series. Too bad there won't ever be >>>> another Bond movie again.

Wow. It's hard to believe that this movie is nearly two decades old.

So, revisiting the movie, what did you think?

Worst of the three versions of Casino Royale.

Three?... What's the third?

Really?

Craig would be the third.

Sellers would be the second.

And the senses shattering 1st:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310853/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk


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On 3/7/25 5:07 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

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

On 3/7/25 3:34 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

'Casino Royale' (2006). On the final Bond actor, just a few more movies >>>>> before I reach the end of the Bond series. Too bad there won't ever be >>>>> another Bond movie again.

Wow. It's hard to believe that this movie is nearly two decades old.

So, revisiting the movie, what did you think?

Worst of the three versions of Casino Royale.

Three?... What's the third?

Really?

Craig would be the third.

Sellers would be the second.

And the senses shattering 1st:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310853/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

That was before my time!! ;p


Ian (I'm not sure I buy Peter Lorre in that role...)

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On 3/7/2025 3:34 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

'Casino Royale' (2006). On the final Bond actor, just a few more movies >>> before I reach the end of the Bond series. Too bad there won't ever be
another Bond movie again.

Wow. It's hard to believe that this movie is nearly two decades old.

So, revisiting the movie, what did you think?

Worst of the three versions of Casino Royale.

Worse than "Jimmy Bond"?! Unpossible!

--
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On 3/7/2025 11:44 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

'Casino Royale' (2006). On the final Bond actor, just a few more movies
before I reach the end of the Bond series. Too bad there won't ever be
another Bond movie again.

Wow. It's hard to believe that this movie is nearly two decades old.

So, revisiting the movie, what did you think?

I liked it. I remember back when it first came out my super-short
review of it was "Bond's got 'tude!" :)

I think the Connery ones were rough. The Moore ones were fun. Dalton
and Brosnan wanted darker, grittier but didn't really get that. Craig
_did_ get dark and gritty. 'Casino Royale' was a reboot in more ways
than one. It wasn't just another change in actor but a change in how
Eon approached Bond movies. And having a story line that actually
spanned multiple films is a big plus in my mind.

--
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dirty old man.

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On 3/7/2025 5:24 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 3/7/25 5:07 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

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

On 3/7/25 3:34 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

'Casino Royale' (2006).  On the final Bond actor, just a few more >>>>>> movies
before I reach the end of the Bond series.  Too bad there won't
ever be
another Bond movie again.

Wow. It's hard to believe that this movie is nearly two decades old. >>>>>
So, revisiting the movie, what did you think?

Worst of the three versions of Casino Royale.

Three?... What's the third?

Really?

Craig would be the third.

Sellers would be the second.

And the senses shattering 1st:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310853/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

That was before my time!!  ;p

Be grateful. Be very grateful!

Ian  (I'm not sure I buy Peter Lorre in that role...)

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

3/7/25 3:34 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

'Casino Royale' (2006). On the final Bond actor, just a few more movies >>>>before I reach the end of the Bond series. Too bad there won't ever be >>>>another Bond movie again.

Wow. It's hard to believe that this movie is nearly two decades old.

So, revisiting the movie, what did you think?

Worst of the three versions of Casino Royale.

Three?... What's the third?

The 1954 episode of the Climax! anthology series starring Barry Nelson,
with Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre. Ian Fleming couldn't get a movie
adaptation made and sold rights to the first novel separately, leading
to the Charles K. Feldman adaptation in 1967.

Since MGM was unable to finance the movie in 2006, it was financed by
Columbia which may or may not have owned rights, but this meant MGM
couldn't get sued. The only way to properly adapt the first novel was at
the time of recasting the Bond character.

Quantum of Solace was also financed by Columbia; it was a two-picture
deal with MGM. Alas it's among the worst of the EON movies. It's vile. I despise it. I want the director dead.

I still love the gag in The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo making Mikael >>>Blomkvist whiney when Lisbeth was sterilizing his wounds. He's not >>>playing James Bond in this movie!

Daniel Craig just turned 57 on March 2. He made the dreadful movie
Dream House (2010), then married Rachel Weisz, his co-star, shortly
after production wrapped. Talk about turning lemons into lemonade...

I envy him.

Rachel Weisz was never in a "St. Trinian's" flick - it's a black mark
against her! ;p

I'm missing the gag given that she wasn't born yet. I never saw any of
the movies in the series.

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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

3/7/2025 11:44 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

'Casino Royale' (2006). On the final Bond actor, just a few more movies >>>before I reach the end of the Bond series. Too bad there won't ever be >>>another Bond movie again.

Wow. It's hard to believe that this movie is nearly two decades old.

So, revisiting the movie, what did you think?

I liked it. I remember back when it first came out my super-short
review of it was "Bond's got 'tude!" :)

Craig was playing Ian Fleming's character, all right, something we
hadn't seen so purely since Dr. No.

I think the Connery ones were rough. The Moore ones were fun. Dalton
and Brosnan wanted darker, grittier but didn't really get that. Craig
_did_ get dark and gritty. 'Casino Royale' was a reboot in more ways
than one. It wasn't just another change in actor but a change in how
Eon approached Bond movies. And having a story line that actually
spanned multiple films is a big plus in my mind.

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Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

3/7/2025 11:44 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

'Casino Royale' (2006). On the final Bond actor, just a
few more movies before I reach the end of the Bond
series. Too bad there won't ever be another Bond movie
again.

Wow. It's hard to believe that this movie is nearly two
decades old.

So, revisiting the movie, what did you think?

I liked it. I remember back when it first came out my
super-short review of it was "Bond's got 'tude!" :)

Craig was playing Ian Fleming's character, all right,
something we hadn't seen so purely since Dr. No.

Plus, Daniel Craig played Bond a heck of a lot better than
David Niven did in the original Casino Royale film from the
1960's...

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