Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow.
What did you watch?
On 8/2/2025 12:10 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow. >>Just admit it, you're never going to tell us what you watch anymore. :P
What did you watch?
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 14:47:58 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 8/2/2025 12:10 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow. >>>
What did you watch?
Just admit it, you're never going to tell us what you watch anymore. :P
But he is making a list.
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow.
What did you watch?
On Aug 2, 2025 at 12:10:10 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> >wrote:
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow. >>
What did you watch?
We did a movie marathon last night.
WAR OF THE WORLDS - The new version on the Primes starring Ice Cube and Eva >Longoria. This was terrible. The lead (Ice Cube) is not a good actor. He can >play a South Central drug dealer believably enough but not much else. The >movie was done in the 'screenlife' style of UNFRIENDED and SEARCHING, where >the entire film takes place on various computer screens and apps manipulated >by Cube's DHS intel analyst character. In this version, the aliens are >invading earth to inexplicably feed on our computer data. Their arrival >coincided with the DHS director's (Clark Gregg) activation of a new >super-surveillance system that hoovers up data on every person on earth by the >terabyte. This essentially rang the dinner bell for the aliens. Yes, it's >stupid and makes no sense.
THE AMATEUR - This was a much better film. Rami Malek is a nerdy CIA tech guy >whose wife goes on a trip to London and ends up murdered in a terrorist >attack. Malek decides he needs REVENGE! and blackmails the bosses on the Ops >side of the house to give him the training he needs to hunt them down one at a >time. Also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Julianne Nicholson, John Bernthal, and >Laurence Fishburne.
READY OR NOT - Samara Weaving stars as a woman who is marrying into an >old-money family that made its wealth in the board game business. She >discovers on her wedding night that each new addition to the family must play >a game as sort of family tradition. The bride or groom must draw the game to >be played at random. Most games are benign-- checkers, chess, tic-tac-toe, >etc.-- but she draws Hide and Seek, which she discovers to her horror means >she hides while the rest of the family tracks her down to ritualistically >murder her in service to the contract the family's patriarch made to Satan, >who is responsible for giving them their vast wealth. Will the bride manage to >survive until dawn? Or will Lucifer have his prize?
On Aug 2, 2025 at 5:12:32 PM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> >wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 23:45:20 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
On Aug 2, 2025 at 12:10:10 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow.
What did you watch?
We did a movie marathon last night.
WAR OF THE WORLDS - The new version on the Primes starring Ice Cube and Eva >>> Longoria. This was terrible. The lead (Ice Cube) is not a good actor. He can
play a South Central drug dealer believably enough but not much else. The >>> movie was done in the 'screenlife' style of UNFRIENDED and SEARCHING, where >>> the entire film takes place on various computer screens and apps manipulated
by Cube's DHS intel analyst character. In this version, the aliens are
invading earth to inexplicably feed on our computer data. Their arrival
coincided with the DHS director's (Clark Gregg) activation of a new
super-surveillance system that hoovers up data on every person on earth by >>> the
terabyte. This essentially rang the dinner bell for the aliens. Yes, it's >>> stupid and makes no sense.
Have not watched it but did see the trailer this afternoon. Looked a
bit confusing and not exactly demanding it be watched. If they are
feeding on the data then they can feed forever right? It's not like
the data gets erased when someone reads it.
THE AMATEUR - This was a much better film. Rami Malek is a nerdy CIA tech guy
whose wife goes on a trip to London and ends up murdered in a terrorist
attack. Malek decides he needs REVENGE! and blackmails the bosses on the Ops
side of the house to give him the training he needs to hunt them down one at
a
time. Also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Julianne Nicholson, John Bernthal, and >>> Laurence Fishburne.
I liked this film a good deal. He doesn't deal with the bad guys in
the normal way because he's not exactly what one expects from an
agent.
READY OR NOT - Samara Weaving stars as a woman who is marrying into an
old-money family that made its wealth in the board game business. She
discovers on her wedding night that each new addition to the family must play
a game as sort of family tradition. The bride or groom must draw the game to
be played at random. Most games are benign-- checkers, chess, tic-tac-toe, >>> etc.-- but she draws Hide and Seek, which she discovers to her horror means >>> she hides while the rest of the family tracks her down to ritualistically >>> murder her in service to the contract the family's patriarch made to Satan, >>> who is responsible for giving them their vast wealth. Will the bride manage >>> to
survive until dawn? Or will Lucifer have his prize?
What a lovely surprise for a bride. I'm sure it makes her want to be a
long time member of the family. If she survives till dawn does the
family get dragged to hell?
Gung'f jung ure arj uhfonaq ernyvmrf. Jura gur zbivr fgnegrq, ur qvqa'g >ernyvmr oryvrir gur snzvyl phefr jnf erny naq qvqa'g rkcrpg uvf jvsr jbhyq >qenj gur Uvqr & Frrx pneq fvapr ab bar unq qenja vg sbe nyzbfg n praghel. Ur >cerggl zhpu urycf ure fheivir guebhtubhg gur svyz ohg ng gur raq, ur >haqrefgnaqf gung rira vs fur fheivirf, fur'yy arire jnag gb or jvgu uvz >nalzber, fb ur fjvgpurf fvqrf naq urycf gur erfg bs gur snzvyl fhoqhr ure sbe >gur evghny.
Fur npghnyyl qbrf fheivir naq whfg nf gur fha fgnegf gb pyrne gur ubevmba gur >snzvyl fgnegf gb rkcybqr bar ng n gvzr vagb ohpxrgf bs oybbq naq tber naq ovgf >bs obar, nsgre juvpu Fngna nccrnef oevrsyl ng gur urnq bs gur qvavat ebbz >gnoyr gb gvc uvf ung gb gur oybbq-qerapurq oevqr.
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 23:45:20 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
On Aug 2, 2025 at 12:10:10 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow.
What did you watch?
We did a movie marathon last night.
WAR OF THE WORLDS - The new version on the Primes starring Ice Cube and Eva >> Longoria. This was terrible. The lead (Ice Cube) is not a good actor. He can >> play a South Central drug dealer believably enough but not much else. The
movie was done in the 'screenlife' style of UNFRIENDED and SEARCHING, where >> the entire film takes place on various computer screens and apps manipulated >> by Cube's DHS intel analyst character. In this version, the aliens are
invading earth to inexplicably feed on our computer data. Their arrival
coincided with the DHS director's (Clark Gregg) activation of a new
super-surveillance system that hoovers up data on every person on earth by >> the
terabyte. This essentially rang the dinner bell for the aliens. Yes, it's
stupid and makes no sense.
Have not watched it but did see the trailer this afternoon. Looked a
bit confusing and not exactly demanding it be watched. If they are
feeding on the data then they can feed forever right? It's not like
the data gets erased when someone reads it.
THE AMATEUR - This was a much better film. Rami Malek is a nerdy CIA tech guy
whose wife goes on a trip to London and ends up murdered in a terrorist
attack. Malek decides he needs REVENGE! and blackmails the bosses on the Ops >> side of the house to give him the training he needs to hunt them down one at >> a
time. Also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Julianne Nicholson, John Bernthal, and
Laurence Fishburne.
I liked this film a good deal. He doesn't deal with the bad guys in
the normal way because he's not exactly what one expects from an
agent.
READY OR NOT - Samara Weaving stars as a woman who is marrying into an
old-money family that made its wealth in the board game business. She
discovers on her wedding night that each new addition to the family must play
a game as sort of family tradition. The bride or groom must draw the game to >> be played at random. Most games are benign-- checkers, chess, tic-tac-toe, >> etc.-- but she draws Hide and Seek, which she discovers to her horror means >> she hides while the rest of the family tracks her down to ritualistically
murder her in service to the contract the family's patriarch made to Satan, >> who is responsible for giving them their vast wealth. Will the bride manage >> to
survive until dawn? Or will Lucifer have his prize?
What a lovely surprise for a bride. I'm sure it makes her want to be a
long time member of the family. If she survives till dawn does the
family get dragged to hell?
WAR OF THE WORLDS - The new version on the Primes starring Ice Cube and Eva >Longoria. This was terrible. The lead (Ice Cube) is not a good actor. He can >play a South Central drug dealer believably enough but not much else. The >movie was done in the 'screenlife' style of UNFRIENDED and SEARCHING, where >the entire film takes place on various computer screens and apps manipulated >by Cube's DHS intel analyst character. In this version, the aliens are >invading earth to inexplicably feed on our computer data. Their arrival >coincided with the DHS director's (Clark Gregg) activation of a new >super-surveillance system that hoovers up data on every person on earth by the >terabyte. This essentially rang the dinner bell for the aliens. Yes, it's >stupid and makes no sense.
On Aug 2, 2025 at 12:10:10 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow. >>
What did you watch?
We did a movie marathon last night.
WAR OF THE WORLDS - The new version on the Primes starring Ice Cube and Eva Longoria. This was terrible. The lead (Ice Cube) is not a good actor. He can play a South Central drug dealer believably enough but not much else. The movie was done in the 'screenlife' style of UNFRIENDED and SEARCHING, where the entire film takes place on various computer screens and apps manipulated by Cube's DHS intel analyst character.
In this version, the aliens are
invading earth to inexplicably feed on our computer data. Their arrival coincided with the DHS director's (Clark Gregg) activation of a new super-surveillance system that hoovers up data on every person on earth by the
terabyte. This essentially rang the dinner bell for the aliens. Yes, it's stupid and makes no sense.
THE AMATEUR - This was a much better film. Rami Malek is a nerdy CIA tech guy whose wife goes on a trip to London and ends up murdered in a terrorist attack. Malek decides he needs REVENGE! and blackmails the bosses on the Ops side of the house to give him the training he needs to hunt them down one at a
time. Also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Julianne Nicholson, John Bernthal, and Laurence Fishburne.
READY OR NOT - Samara Weaving stars as a woman who is marrying into an old-money family that made its wealth in the board game business. She discovers on her wedding night that each new addition to the family must play a game as sort of family tradition. The bride or groom must draw the game to be played at random. Most games are benign-- checkers, chess, tic-tac-toe, etc.-- but she draws Hide and Seek, which she discovers to her horror means she hides while the rest of the family tracks her down to ritualistically murder her in service to the contract the family's patriarch made to Satan, who is responsible for giving them their vast wealth. Will the bride manage to
survive until dawn? Or will Lucifer have his prize?
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
WAR OF THE WORLDS - The new version on the Primes starring Ice Cube and Eva >> Longoria. This was terrible. The lead (Ice Cube) is not a good actor. He can >> play a South Central drug dealer believably enough but not much else. The
movie was done in the 'screenlife' style of UNFRIENDED and SEARCHING, where >> the entire film takes place on various computer screens and apps manipulated >> by Cube's DHS intel analyst character. In this version, the aliens are
invading earth to inexplicably feed on our computer data. Their arrival
coincided with the DHS director's (Clark Gregg) activation of a new
super-surveillance system that hoovers up data on every person on earth by the
terabyte. This essentially rang the dinner bell for the aliens. Yes, it's
stupid and makes no sense.
If they had a better broadband connection they wouldn't have needed to
come here at all.
On Aug 2, 2025 at 5:12:32 PM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 23:45:20 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
On Aug 2, 2025 at 12:10:10 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow.
What did you watch?
We did a movie marathon last night.
WAR OF THE WORLDS - The new version on the Primes starring Ice Cube and Eva >>> Longoria. This was terrible. The lead (Ice Cube) is not a good actor. He can
play a South Central drug dealer believably enough but not much else. The >>> movie was done in the 'screenlife' style of UNFRIENDED and SEARCHING, where >>> the entire film takes place on various computer screens and apps manipulated
by Cube's DHS intel analyst character. In this version, the aliens are
invading earth to inexplicably feed on our computer data. Their arrival
coincided with the DHS director's (Clark Gregg) activation of a new
super-surveillance system that hoovers up data on every person on earth by >>> the
terabyte. This essentially rang the dinner bell for the aliens. Yes, it's >>> stupid and makes no sense.
Have not watched it but did see the trailer this afternoon. Looked a
bit confusing and not exactly demanding it be watched. If they are
feeding on the data then they can feed forever right? It's not like
the data gets erased when someone reads it.
THE AMATEUR - This was a much better film. Rami Malek is a nerdy CIA tech guy
whose wife goes on a trip to London and ends up murdered in a terrorist
attack. Malek decides he needs REVENGE! and blackmails the bosses on the Ops
side of the house to give him the training he needs to hunt them down one at
a
time. Also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Julianne Nicholson, John Bernthal, and >>> Laurence Fishburne.
I liked this film a good deal. He doesn't deal with the bad guys in
the normal way because he's not exactly what one expects from an
agent.
READY OR NOT - Samara Weaving stars as a woman who is marrying into an
old-money family that made its wealth in the board game business. She
discovers on her wedding night that each new addition to the family must play
a game as sort of family tradition. The bride or groom must draw the game to
be played at random. Most games are benign-- checkers, chess, tic-tac-toe, >>> etc.-- but she draws Hide and Seek, which she discovers to her horror means >>> she hides while the rest of the family tracks her down to ritualistically >>> murder her in service to the contract the family's patriarch made to Satan, >>> who is responsible for giving them their vast wealth. Will the bride manage >>> to
survive until dawn? Or will Lucifer have his prize?
What a lovely surprise for a bride. I'm sure it makes her want to be a
long time member of the family. If she survives till dawn does the
family get dragged to hell?
Gung'f jung ure arj uhfonaq ernyvmrf. Jura gur zbivr fgnegrq, ur qvqa'g ernyvmr oryvrir gur snzvyl phefr jnf erny naq qvqa'g rkcrpg uvf jvsr jbhyq qenj gur Uvqr & Frrx pneq fvapr ab bar unq qenja vg sbe nyzbfg n praghel. Ur cerggl zhpu urycf ure fheivir guebhtubhg gur svyz ohg ng gur raq, ur haqrefgnaqf gung rira vs fur fheivirf, fur'yy arire jnag gb or jvgu uvz nalzber, fb ur fjvgpurf fvqrf naq urycf gur erfg bs gur snzvyl fhoqhr ure sbe gur evghny.
Fur npghnyyl qbrf fheivir naq whfg nf gur fha fgnegf gb pyrne gur ubevmba gur snzvyl fgnegf gb rkcybqr bar ng n gvzr vagb ohpxrgf bs oybbq naq tber naq ovgf
bs obar, nsgre juvpu Fngna nccrnef oevrsyl ng gur urnq bs gur qvavat ebbz gnoyr gb gvc uvf ung gb gur oybbq-qerapurq oevqr.
On 8/2/25 2:56 PM, shawn wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 14:47:58 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 8/2/2025 12:10 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow.
What did you watch?
Just admit it, you're never going to tell us what you watch anymore. :P
I did do a TV week wrap-up last weekend, so I think I can do one this weekend.
But it's true that I'm not watching anything outside of soaps and
Lifetime flicks right now.
But he is making a list.
My current lists involve heroes, titans, equipment, and dungeons...
On Sun, 3 Aug 2025 00:35:12 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
On Aug 2, 2025 at 5:12:32 PM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> >> wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 23:45:20 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
On Aug 2, 2025 at 12:10:10 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> >>>> wrote:
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow.
What did you watch?
We did a movie marathon last night.
WAR OF THE WORLDS - The new version on the Primes starring Ice Cube and Eva
Longoria. This was terrible. The lead (Ice Cube) is not a good actor. He can
play a South Central drug dealer believably enough but not much else. The >>>> movie was done in the 'screenlife' style of UNFRIENDED and SEARCHING, where
the entire film takes place on various computer screens and apps manipulated
by Cube's DHS intel analyst character. In this version, the aliens are >>>> invading earth to inexplicably feed on our computer data. Their arrival >>>> coincided with the DHS director's (Clark Gregg) activation of a new
super-surveillance system that hoovers up data on every person on earth by >>>> the
terabyte. This essentially rang the dinner bell for the aliens. Yes, it's >>>> stupid and makes no sense.
Have not watched it but did see the trailer this afternoon. Looked a
bit confusing and not exactly demanding it be watched. If they are
feeding on the data then they can feed forever right? It's not like
the data gets erased when someone reads it.
THE AMATEUR - This was a much better film. Rami Malek is a nerdy CIA tech guy
whose wife goes on a trip to London and ends up murdered in a terrorist >>>> attack. Malek decides he needs REVENGE! and blackmails the bosses on the Ops
side of the house to give him the training he needs to hunt them down one at
a
time. Also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Julianne Nicholson, John Bernthal, and >>>> Laurence Fishburne.
I liked this film a good deal. He doesn't deal with the bad guys in
the normal way because he's not exactly what one expects from an
agent.
READY OR NOT - Samara Weaving stars as a woman who is marrying into an >>>> old-money family that made its wealth in the board game business. She
discovers on her wedding night that each new addition to the family must play
a game as sort of family tradition. The bride or groom must draw the game to
be played at random. Most games are benign-- checkers, chess, tic-tac-toe, >>>> etc.-- but she draws Hide and Seek, which she discovers to her horror means
she hides while the rest of the family tracks her down to ritualistically >>>> murder her in service to the contract the family's patriarch made to Satan,
who is responsible for giving them their vast wealth. Will the bride manage
to
survive until dawn? Or will Lucifer have his prize?
What a lovely surprise for a bride. I'm sure it makes her want to be a
long time member of the family. If she survives till dawn does the
family get dragged to hell?
Gung'f jung ure arj uhfonaq ernyvmrf. Jura gur zbivr fgnegrq, ur qvqa'g
ernyvmr oryvrir gur snzvyl phefr jnf erny naq qvqa'g rkcrpg uvf jvsr jbhyq >> qenj gur Uvqr & Frrx pneq fvapr ab bar unq qenja vg sbe nyzbfg n praghel. Ur >> cerggl zhpu urycf ure fheivir guebhtubhg gur svyz ohg ng gur raq, ur
haqrefgnaqf gung rira vs fur fheivirf, fur'yy arire jnag gb or jvgu uvz
nalzber, fb ur fjvgpurf fvqrf naq urycf gur erfg bs gur snzvyl fhoqhr ure sbe
gur evghny.
Fur npghnyyl qbrf fheivir naq whfg nf gur fha fgnegf gb pyrne gur ubevmba gur
snzvyl fgnegf gb rkcybqr bar ng n gvzr vagb ohpxrgf bs oybbq naq tber naq ovgf
bs obar, nsgre juvpu Fngna nccrnef oevrsyl ng gur urnq bs gur qvavat ebbz
gnoyr gb gvc uvf ung gb gur oybbq-qerapurq oevqr.
Trr, jung n zrzbel fur'f tbvat gb unir.
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
On 8/2/25 2:56 PM, shawn wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 14:47:58 -0700, Dimensional TravelerI did do a TV week wrap-up last weekend, so I think I can do one this
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 8/2/2025 12:10 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow.
What did you watch?
Just admit it, you're never going to tell us what you watch anymore. :P >>
weekend.
But it's true that I'm not watching anything outside of soaps and
Lifetime flicks right now.
OK, that reminds me of the one thing I watched yesterday that wasn’t rerun background noise. So,
Hey, thanks for asking!
THE JANE MYSTERIES on lifetime.
This was absolutely horrendously terrible. It’s part of a series starring one of the lesser talented daughters from Fuller House.
It was so awful. I
looked on IMDb to see what the hell was being inflicted on me and even the fans of the show give it a one.
The lead is a frumpy old woman who is contacted by an old boyfriend who
looks easily old enough to be her father and turned out to be played by Rainbow Sun Franks! A.K.A. RSF of Stargate Atlantis SGA (the “A” stands for: ATLANTIS!).
Franks, who looks like Ford’s grandfather, wants the frumpy old woman or FOW to solve a mystery from when they were canoodling in college or CIC and so she puts on a black wig and nobody knows who she is. I gave up often and early.
But he is making a list.
My current lists involve heroes, titans, equipment, and dungeons...
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
On Aug 2, 2025 at 5:12:32 PM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> >> wrote:Qbrf fur trg gur zbarl?
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 23:45:20 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
On Aug 2, 2025 at 12:10:10 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> >>>> wrote:
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow.
What did you watch?
We did a movie marathon last night.
WAR OF THE WORLDS - The new version on the Primes starring Ice Cube and Eva
Longoria. This was terrible. The lead (Ice Cube) is not a good actor. He can
play a South Central drug dealer believably enough but not much else. The >>>> movie was done in the 'screenlife' style of UNFRIENDED and SEARCHING, where
the entire film takes place on various computer screens and apps manipulated
by Cube's DHS intel analyst character. In this version, the aliens are >>>> invading earth to inexplicably feed on our computer data. Their arrival >>>> coincided with the DHS director's (Clark Gregg) activation of a new
super-surveillance system that hoovers up data on every person on earth by
the
terabyte. This essentially rang the dinner bell for the aliens. Yes, it's >>>> stupid and makes no sense.
Have not watched it but did see the trailer this afternoon. Looked a
bit confusing and not exactly demanding it be watched. If they are
feeding on the data then they can feed forever right? It's not like
the data gets erased when someone reads it.
THE AMATEUR - This was a much better film. Rami Malek is a nerdy CIA tech >>>> guy
whose wife goes on a trip to London and ends up murdered in a terrorist >>>> attack. Malek decides he needs REVENGE! and blackmails the bosses on the Ops
side of the house to give him the training he needs to hunt them down one at
a
time. Also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Julianne Nicholson, John Bernthal, and >>>> Laurence Fishburne.
I liked this film a good deal. He doesn't deal with the bad guys in
the normal way because he's not exactly what one expects from an
agent.
READY OR NOT - Samara Weaving stars as a woman who is marrying into an >>>> old-money family that made its wealth in the board game business. She >>>> discovers on her wedding night that each new addition to the family must >>>> play
a game as sort of family tradition. The bride or groom must draw the game to
be played at random. Most games are benign-- checkers, chess, tic-tac-toe,
etc.-- but she draws Hide and Seek, which she discovers to her horror means
she hides while the rest of the family tracks her down to ritualistically >>>> murder her in service to the contract the family's patriarch made to Satan,
who is responsible for giving them their vast wealth. Will the bride manage
to
survive until dawn? Or will Lucifer have his prize?
What a lovely surprise for a bride. I'm sure it makes her want to be a
long time member of the family. If she survives till dawn does the
family get dragged to hell?
Gung'f jung ure arj uhfonaq ernyvmrf. Jura gur zbivr fgnegrq, ur qvqa'g
ernyvmr oryvrir gur snzvyl phefr jnf erny naq qvqa'g rkcrpg uvf jvsr jbhyq >> qenj gur Uvqr & Frrx pneq fvapr ab bar unq qenja vg sbe nyzbfg n praghel. Ur
cerggl zhpu urycf ure fheivir guebhtubhg gur svyz ohg ng gur raq, ur
haqrefgnaqf gung rira vs fur fheivirf, fur'yy arire jnag gb or jvgu uvz
nalzber, fb ur fjvgpurf fvqrf naq urycf gur erfg bs gur snzvyl fhoqhr ure >> sbe
gur evghny.
Fur npghnyyl qbrf fheivir naq whfg nf gur fha fgnegf gb pyrne gur ubevmba >> gur
snzvyl fgnegf gb rkcybqr bar ng n gvzr vagb ohpxrgf bs oybbq naq tber naq >> ovgf
bs obar, nsgre juvpu Fngna nccrnef oevrsyl ng gur urnq bs gur qvavat ebbz >> gnoyr gb gvc uvf ung gb gur oybbq-qerapurq oevqr.
On 8/2/25 8:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
On 8/2/25 2:56 PM, shawn wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 14:47:58 -0700, Dimensional TravelerI did do a TV week wrap-up last weekend, so I think I can do one this
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 8/2/2025 12:10 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow.
What did you watch?
Just admit it, you're never going to tell us what you watch anymore. :P >>>
weekend.
But it's true that I'm not watching anything outside of soaps and
Lifetime flicks right now.
OK, that reminds me of the one thing I watched yesterday that wasn’t rerun >> background noise. So,
Hey, thanks for asking!
THE JANE MYSTERIES on lifetime.
"Jane Mysteries" is on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, not Lifetime/LMN:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmark_Mystery#Current_series
This was absolutely horrendously terrible. It’s part of a series starring >> one of the lesser talented daughters from Fuller House.
The one I hate! Haven't you been paying attention?!!
It was so awful. I
looked on IMDb to see what the hell was being inflicted on me and even the >> fans of the show give it a one.
The lead is a frumpy old woman who is contacted by an old boyfriend who
looks easily old enough to be her father and turned out to be played by
Rainbow Sun Franks! A.K.A. RSF of Stargate Atlantis SGA (the “A” stands >> for: ATLANTIS!).
Franks, who looks like Ford’s grandfather, wants the frumpy old woman or >> FOW to solve a mystery from when they were canoodling in college or CIC and >> so she puts on a black wig and nobody knows who she is. I gave up often and >> early.
But he is making a list.
My current lists involve heroes, titans, equipment, and dungeons...
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
On 8/2/25 8:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
On 8/2/25 2:56 PM, shawn wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 14:47:58 -0700, Dimensional TravelerI did do a TV week wrap-up last weekend, so I think I can do one this
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 8/2/2025 12:10 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow.
What did you watch?
Just admit it, you're never going to tell us what you watch anymore. :P >>>>
weekend.
But it's true that I'm not watching anything outside of soaps and
Lifetime flicks right now.
OK, that reminds me of the one thing I watched yesterday that wasn’t rerun
background noise. So,
Hey, thanks for asking!
THE JANE MYSTERIES on lifetime.
"Jane Mysteries" is on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, not Lifetime/LMN:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmark_Mystery#Current_series
This was absolutely horrendously terrible. It’s part of a series starring >>> one of the lesser talented daughters from Fuller House.
The one I hate! Haven't you been paying attention?!!
I thought you hated the neighbor
It was so awful. I
looked on IMDb to see what the hell was being inflicted on me and even the >>> fans of the show give it a one.
The lead is a frumpy old woman who is contacted by an old boyfriend who
looks easily old enough to be her father and turned out to be played by
Rainbow Sun Franks! A.K.A. RSF of Stargate Atlantis SGA (the “A” stands >>> for: ATLANTIS!).
Franks, who looks like Ford’s grandfather, wants the frumpy old woman or >>> FOW to solve a mystery from when they were canoodling in college or CIC and >>> so she puts on a black wig and nobody knows who she is. I gave up often and >>> early.
But he is making a list.
My current lists involve heroes, titans, equipment, and dungeons...
On Aug 2, 2025 at 12:10:10 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
Probably won't get to my week-long viewing recap today. Hopefully tomorrow. >>
What did you watch?
We did a movie marathon last night.
WAR OF THE WORLDS - The new version on the Primes starring Ice Cube and Eva Longoria. This was terrible. The lead (Ice Cube) is not a good actor. He can play a South Central drug dealer believably enough but not much else. The movie was done in the 'screenlife' style of UNFRIENDED and SEARCHING, where the entire film takes place on various computer screens and apps manipulated by Cube's DHS intel analyst character. In this version, the aliens are invading earth to inexplicably feed on our computer data. Their arrival coincided with the DHS director's (Clark Gregg) activation of a new super-surveillance system that hoovers up data on every person on earth by the
terabyte. This essentially rang the dinner bell for the aliens. Yes, it's stupid and makes no sense.
Producer Guy really loved this movie. The stupider the pitch got, the more >jazzed he became.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fhLdREPEF4
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
Producer Guy really loved this movie. The stupider the pitch got, the more >>jazzed he became.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fhLdREPEF4
Ryan George is making these again? I keep forgetting to look. Thanks.
Trr, jung n zrzbel fur'f tbvat gb unir.
A sequel has been made and is currently scheduled for release on April
10, 2026.
What a lovely surprise for a bride. I'm sure it makes her want to be a
long time member of the family. If she survives till dawn does the
family get dragged to hell?
READY OR NOT - Samara Weaving stars as a woman who is marrying into an >old-money family that made its wealth in the board game business. She >discovers on her wedding night that each new addition to the family must
play a game as sort of family tradition. The bride or groom must draw the >game to be played at random. Most games are benign-- checkers, chess, tic- >tac-toe, etc.-- but she draws Hide and Seek, which she discovers to her >horror means she hides while the rest of the family tracks her down to >ritualistically murder her in service to the contract the family's patriarch >made to Satan,who is responsible for giving them their vast wealth. Will
the bride manage to survive until dawn? Or will Lucifer have his prize?
In article <106m7ug$1ba4v$1@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:
READY OR NOT - Samara Weaving stars as a woman who is marrying into an
old-money family that made its wealth in the board game business. She
discovers on her wedding night that each new addition to the family must
play a game as sort of family tradition. The bride or groom must draw the
game to be played at random. Most games are benign-- checkers, chess, tic- >> tac-toe, etc.-- but she draws Hide and Seek, which she discovers to her
horror means she hides while the rest of the family tracks her down to
ritualistically murder her in service to the contract the family's patriarch >> made to Satan,who is responsible for giving them their vast wealth. Will
the bride manage to survive until dawn? Or will Lucifer have his prize?
Makes you wonder if the choice was really random or if the other games
were the Squid Games version?
On Aug 8, 2025 at 10:28:19 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
In article <106m7ug$1ba4v$1@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:
READY OR NOT - Samara Weaving stars as a woman who is marrying into an
old-money family that made its wealth in the board game business. She
discovers on her wedding night that each new addition to the family must >>> play a game as sort of family tradition. The bride or groom must draw the >>> game to be played at random. Most games are benign-- checkers, chess, tic- >>> tac-toe, etc.-- but she draws Hide and Seek, which she discovers to her
horror means she hides while the rest of the family tracks her down to
ritualistically murder her in service to the contract the family's patriarch
made to Satan,who is responsible for giving them their vast wealth. Will >>> the bride manage to survive until dawn? Or will Lucifer have his prize?
Makes you wonder if the choice was really random or if the other games
were the Squid Games version?
When he was still trying to help her survive, the husband told her that the other games were just what they sounded like. Just plain old chess or tic-tac-toe. Hide and Seek was the only one that was violent and bloody. She just had the bad luck to draw the one bad card in the deck.
On 8/8/25 12:24 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
On Aug 8, 2025 at 10:28:19 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote: >>
In article <106m7ug$1ba4v$1@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:
READY OR NOT - Samara Weaving stars as a woman who is marrying into an >>>> old-money family that made its wealth in the board game business. She >>>> discovers on her wedding night that each new addition to the family must >>>> play a game as sort of family tradition. The bride or groom must draw the >>>> game to be played at random. Most games are benign-- checkers, chess, tic-Makes you wonder if the choice was really random or if the other games
tac-toe, etc.-- but she draws Hide and Seek, which she discovers to her >>>> horror means she hides while the rest of the family tracks her down to >>>> ritualistically murder her in service to the contract the family's patriarch
made to Satan,who is responsible for giving them their vast wealth. Will >>>> the bride manage to survive until dawn? Or will Lucifer have his prize? >>>
were the Squid Games version?
When he was still trying to help her survive, the husband told her that the >> other games were just what they sounded like. Just plain old chess or
tic-tac-toe. Hide and Seek was the only one that was violent and bloody. She
just had the bad luck to draw the one bad card in the deck.
IIRC, I always got the impression that... SATAN!! made sure that that
one came up.
Aug 8, 2025 at 1:50:41 PM PDT, Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote: >>8/8/25 12:24 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
Aug 8, 2025 at 10:28:19 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote: >>>>atropos@mac.com wrote:
READY OR NOT - Samara Weaving stars as a woman who is marrying into an >>>>>old-money family that made its wealth in the board game business. She >>>>>discovers on her wedding night that each new addition to the family >>>>>must play a game as sort of family tradition. The bride or groom
must draw the game to be played at random. Most games are benign-- >>>>>checkers, chess, tic- tac-toe, etc.-- but she draws Hide and Seek, >>>>>which she discovers to her horror means she hides while the rest of >>>>>the family tracks her down to ritualistically murder her in service to >>>>>the contract the family's patriarch made to Satan,who is responsible >>>>>for giving them their vast wealth. Will the bride manage to survive >>>>>until dawn? Or will Lucifer have his prize?
Makes you wonder if the choice was really random or if the other games >>>>were the Squid Games version?
When he was still trying to help her survive, the husband told her that >>>the other games were just what they sounded like. Just plain old chess
or tic-tac-toe. Hide and Seek was the only one that was violent and >>>bloody. She just had the bad luck to draw the one bad card in the deck.
IIRC, I always got the impression that... SATAN!! made sure that that
one came up.
Maybe in this case, but they made a point of letting us know that this
was the first time it had come up in like 80 years. So if Satan is >controlling the deck, he doesn't rig the game every time.
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