On 1/12/2026 4:23 AM, The True Melissa wrote:
Verily, in article <UBI20260111@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:
FANTASY ISLAND:
"The Prince; The Sheriff". The crown prince of a small European country
wants the experience of being an average man to better understand what
his people go through; and a New York City cop tracks down his
partner's killers -- with the intent to obtain an eye for an eye.
What did you watch?
I caught that one a couple of years ago. I thought the cop story was
more interesting. I liked how they handled the prince story, though, particularly that it wasn't about romance.
Over the past few days, I watched Roofman, a movie available on
Paramount Plus.
I didn't know this was available to stream. I want to see this. I
heard the trailers were misleading and it's actually good.
A guy escapes from prison and hides in the ceiling of a
Toys R Us (it's a new movie, but it's set a bit in the past). There's a pretty and nice store clerk for him to fall in love with, and also a
crabby store manager who might reform. It wasn't as amusing as I'd
hoped.
:-/
There was a lot of filler, and it was rather predictable overall,
but it was decent and watchable. I didn't realize until the closing
credits that it was based on a true story.
I watched a Bob's Burgers rerun, "The Secret Ceramics Room of Secrets."
I like this one. Louise goes nuts, which is usually a good plot impetus.
I followed it with "Sleeping with the Frenemy," a Tina episode, which is okay. I went on to watch a few others from season 8, which is a solid
season in general.
I also went back into Krapopolis
I refuse to accept that's the actual name of a TV show! LOL
and watched "Nike (the Goddess)." This
was pretty good. I did think it was lame that none of them could think
of a sincere compliment. "Stupendous, you're one of the bravest people I know. Hippocampus, you're truly brilliant. Ty, you have the biggest
heart in Greece." Done. Still, if I can believe that all three of them
had brain freeze, the rest of the episode was good.
What did everyone else watch?
Over the past few days I've been making my way through the Kevin Smith
movies in my collection. I won't go through all of them, but highlights included:
Dazed and Confused (4K disc) - Yeah, I know this is not a Kevin Smith
movie. It was written and directed by Richard Linklater, but it's a
movie set in high school featuring several actors who later star in
Kevin Smith movies including Ben Affleck and Joey Lauren. So I decided
to start my Kevin Smithathon off with this one. It was mostly
background noise with the director's commentary.
Clerks (blu-ray) - Kevin Smith's first movie. It held up very well all
things considered.
Mallrats (4K disc) - This was Smith's second movie. I watched a new 4K
disc which included an extended cut I'd never seen before. The extended
cut has about 30 minutes of new footage, and most of that new footage
(about 20 minutes) takes place before they even go to the mall. It
involves this ridiculous, not funny, subplot where the main character is thought to be a terrorist who tried to assassinate the governor. All references to this subplot were deleted from the movie. Smith did an introduction before the extended cut where he basically says the studio
hired a professional movie editor to cut the movie, and the professional editor removed all this nonsense. But when he was given permission to do
his own edit, he literally just put back in every frame of film that was
shot.
(Skipping recaps of Smith movies I watched.)
Jersey Girl - I mention this one not because I did watch it, but because
I *wanted* to watch it and the only place that had it was some no name
low rent streaming service, that kept messing up the stream, until I
gave up on it. And this is why I own my movies on disc! I actually had
a similar issue with Clerks II. I do own the disc, but the disc had
playback issues, and with nowhere to stream for free, I found myself
forced to watch clips of scenes on YouTube whenever the disc would
freeze up. Fortunately, the disc would freeze at key scenes that were available to watch on YouTube.
(Skipping recaps of Smith movies I watched.)
Clerks III (4K disc) - This was my first time watching Clerks III since
I saw it in the theater. This is somewhat autobiographical and has
Randal (Jeff Anderson) deciding to make a low budget black and white
movie about his life as a clerk. It holds up very well and closes out
the chapter on those characters.
The 4:30 Movie (Streamed on DVR) - This is Kevin Smith's latest movie.
It came out a couple of years ago. I missed it in the theater, but I
think it wasn't actually showing near me. This is another
autobiographical movie, but this one is set in the mid 80s and is about
a teenage boy who is obsessed with movies and the friends he hangs
around with. It was an OK movie. Lots of cameos from the regulars.
Steven Spielberg basically did the same thing with his own
autobiography, "The Fablemans." But while The Fablemans spans years of Spielberg's childhood, The 4:30 Movie is just a day in the life of a
movie obsessed kid.
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