• What Did You Watch? 2026-07-04 (Saturday)

    From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 04:30:41 2026
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?

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  • From Ian J. Ball@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 13:28:45 2026
    On 7/5/26 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    I watched soccer, Thur's ep of DOOL (yep, EJ and DiMera are responsible
    for Holly getting sick! and rather than get in front of it they're going
    to do... nothing?!!), and...

    Well, I procrastinated all day, but decided to get some over-Summer work
    done Sat. night. So I needed to put some movies on as background noise
    while I did the work. That meant there was only one solution!

    Movies off The Tubi!! :D

    So I watched three movies off Tubi:

    #Missing Couple (Tubi) - Heard about this 2024 film (it's pretty much a "mystery film") from Reddit, in the topic thread "Horror movies that
    could happen in real life" - I am pretty sure the recommendation post
    for this film in that thread was from a marketing bot because... well,
    let's just say it doesn't fit the topic.
    The gist: The title gives it away!! The movie is about a young
    "influencer couple" - so this is similar to a "found-footage" film - who
    go missing: I think they start off as annoying "van life" influencers,
    but they quickly transition to "cabin life" influencers when they buy a
    cabin in deepest darkest... Mississippi(!?!).
    (Fun fact: I did some research and there is indeed a county in
    Mississippi that has a population density of *less than 1 person per
    square km* (which may be the lowest I found anywhere in the U.S.!),
    though this movie is not set in that county, but in the county in the southwest corner of Mississippi that has a population density of about 5 people per square km.)
    The film is structured such that it starts out with a few of the influencer couple's videos, and then switches to, basically, videos from
    a "true crime"-type of influencer who is trying to track down what
    happened to the missing couple.
    This starts interestingly, and basically has one of three ways to go
    with this set-up:
    1) Gabby Petito
    2) Stalker
    3) Blair Witch
    One of these scenarios is much less interesting (and much more cliched!)
    than the other two. So I will give you one guess as to which one of the
    three the movie ends up going with!
    Like I said, the films starts promisingly, but I think just declines
    from there through the end.
    One problem I has was the film's structure - they keep switching back-and-forth between the couple's videos and the true-crime guy's
    (later) videos, and I didn't like this. I think it would have worked
    better if they set up with the couple's videos, and then mostly switched
    to the true-crime guy trying to find out what happened to them. The
    switching back-and-forth bled momentum from the proceedings.
    I also really didn't like that they based this film off a well-known
    hoax (please see:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Van_Dorn_Slaughter). This also
    seriously detracted from the latter half of the film - better to make something up than base your film on a well-debunked hoax.
    Anyway, this could have been a decent underrated outing of a flick
    if the filmmaker(s) had made some different choices here.

    Followers (Tubi) - This 2024 film is a sequel to the 2022 film
    "Follower" which I watched a year or two back... So I've been meaning to
    get to the sequel (even though the original was very low-budget and not
    that great) for a while.
    The sequel starts very lazily - literally the first 5-10 minutes of "Followers" is just a quick-cut synopsis of the original "Follower" film.
    However, this one doesn't take too long before it actually gets
    better than the original.
    After their ordeal in the first film, our three heroines(tm) seem to
    go their separate ways for more than a year, with the one heroine (Gigi
    James) who did most of the "saving" in the original film being the most traumatized. The "influencer" one of the group (Revell Carpenter)
    manages to stage a reunion among all three, and their current beaus
    (Jackson Jones and Michael Bonini). (Somehow, Annika Foster's kind of
    hippie character also turns up in this - I missed how/why.)
    The problem? The online incel cult from the first film wants revenge
    on these three women for what happened in the first film.
    While this film is still pretty low budget, in terms of tension and suspense I think it does a much better job than the original.
    The problems I had with it were that the "twist" wasn't very
    surprising, and I hated the downbeat ending of the sequel, pretty much
    turning the ending of the original film on its head. Really did not care
    for that.
    But I guess there won't be a third film!!

    Simp (Tubi) - Yikes, this was a mess!
    "Simp" is a 2024 film that has a very similar set-up/premise to
    another film I've seen in the last few years (but whose title I can't remember... :/ ) - a model is kidnapped from a photo shoot and is held
    captive where she has to outwit her captor to escape - the difference is
    that the latter film is suspense/psychological cat-and-mouse horror and "Simp"... tries to find the comedy(?!) in cat-and-mouse human
    trafficking! (Wait, *what*?!?!!)
    I watched this because the lead, Brooke Piedra, is attractive, and I
    know the actor (Mike Markoff) who plays her captive from Lifetime flicks.
    But, like I said, this movie is a mess - being tonally all wrong,
    and making the cat-and-mouse aspect dreadfully dull rather than
    riveting. In fact, the only part of this flick I did like was the
    model's ex (Todd Wilber, maybe?), at the behest of her mom, trying to
    piece together where/how she was kidnapped. But that's a very thin reed indeed, and that and Piedra's decent performance aren't enough here.
    And, worst of all, the film kind of ends abruptly and kind of unsatisfactorily.




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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 14:14:11 2026
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?


    Hey, thanks for asking!

    JAWS

    --
    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 21:24:04 2026
    On Jul 5, 2026 at 1:28:45 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

    On 7/5/26 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    #Missing Couple (Tubi) - Heard about this 2024 film (it's pretty much a "mystery film") from Reddit, in the topic thread "Horror movies that
    could happen in real life" - I am pretty sure the recommendation post
    for this film in that thread was from a marketing bot because... well,
    let's just say it doesn't fit the topic.
    The gist: The title gives it away!! The movie is about a young "influencer couple" - so this is similar to a "found-footage" film - who
    go missing: I think they start off as annoying "van life" influencers,
    but they quickly transition to "cabin life" influencers when they buy a cabin in deepest darkest... Mississippi(!?!).
    (Fun fact: I did some research and there is indeed a county in Mississippi that has a population density of *less than 1 person per
    square km* (which may be the lowest I found anywhere in the U.S.!),
    though this movie is not set in that county, but in the county in the southwest corner of Mississippi that has a population density of about 5 people per square km.)

    I can't believe that anywhere in Mississippi is less dense than Wyoming. It's almost literally an entire state of nothing. Beautiful country but ain't no
    one there.

    I also really didn't like that they based this film off a well-known hoax (please see:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Van_Dorn_Slaughter).

    You mean a claim of white supremacist violence turned out to be a just another hoax? Say it ain't so!



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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 18:58:45 2026
    Verily, in article <1379066040.804977300.210034.anim8rfsk- cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this message:

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?

    Hey, thanks for asking!

    JAWS


    Upload has gotten pretty silly in s4, so I took a break and tried a show called The Boys. It's set in a world where superpowers are real and corporatized. The hero's girlfriend is killed when a superspeeder
    carelessly runs into her, shattering her into molecules, and the
    handlers try to buy his silence. It's a generous offer, and he says
    he'll think about it. Meanwhile, a hero is retiring from The Seven, the biggest supersquad, and the replacement is a bright, earnest young
    lassie called Starlight who believes superpowered people should save the world. She promptly has a hardcore #MeToo experience, and the highest-
    ranking woman of The Seven tells her not to let the public see her until
    she's together. Things go harder from there.

    I tried another Best Medicine. I enjoyed it, but it's already feeling a
    little formulaic. Once again, a mystery illness affects multiple
    townspeople. Once again, Martin tries to shut down an event and becomes
    Public Enemy #1.

    I also watched the first episode of Fallout, another Prime show based on
    the Fallout series of video games. It's set in the same world, but the
    plot is nothing like the game. I enjoyed it, but there were several
    places where the actors said their lines so quietly that I couldn't make
    it out over the AC. Prime doesn't seem to have a way to turn closed
    captions on, which seems strange, so there's probably a way I'm not
    seeing. I'll watch more.


    What did everyone else watch?


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  • From Ian J. Ball@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 16:00:27 2026
    On 7/5/26 2:24 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    On Jul 5, 2026 at 1:28:45 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

    On 7/5/26 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    #Missing Couple (Tubi) - Heard about this 2024 film (it's pretty much a
    "mystery film") from Reddit, in the topic thread "Horror movies that
    could happen in real life" - I am pretty sure the recommendation post
    for this film in that thread was from a marketing bot because... well,
    let's just say it doesn't fit the topic.
    The gist: The title gives it away!! The movie is about a young
    "influencer couple" - so this is similar to a "found-footage" film - who
    go missing: I think they start off as annoying "van life" influencers,
    but they quickly transition to "cabin life" influencers when they buy a
    cabin in deepest darkest... Mississippi(!?!).
    (Fun fact: I did some research and there is indeed a county in
    Mississippi that has a population density of *less than 1 person per
    square km* (which may be the lowest I found anywhere in the U.S.!),
    though this movie is not set in that county, but in the county in the
    southwest corner of Mississippi that has a population density of about 5
    people per square km.)

    I can't believe that anywhere in Mississippi is less dense than Wyoming.

    I didn't do an extensive search - but that river county in Mississippi
    was the lowest density one I could find in the South, and it may have
    been the lowest density county east of the Mississippi river.

    It's
    almost literally an entire state of nothing. Beautiful country but ain't no one there.

    I also really didn't like that they based this film off a well-known
    hoax (please see:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Van_Dorn_Slaughter).

    You mean a claim of white supremacist violence turned out to be a just another
    hoax? Say it ain't so!

    That was dumb on the film's part, but it was hardly the biggest problem
    with the film.



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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 23:14:21 2026
    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Upload has gotten pretty silly in s4, so I took a break and tried a show >called The Boys. It's set in a world where superpowers are real and >corporatized. The hero's girlfriend is killed when a superspeeder
    carelessly runs into her, shattering her into molecules, and the
    handlers try to buy his silence. It's a generous offer, and he says
    he'll think about it. Meanwhile, a hero is retiring from The Seven, the >biggest supersquad, and the replacement is a bright, earnest young
    lassie called Starlight who believes superpowered people should save the >world. She promptly has a hardcore #MeToo experience, and the highest- >ranking woman of The Seven tells her not to let the public see her until >she's together. Things go harder from there.

    I've watched through Season 3. I started watching Season 4 but wasn't
    getting into it; I'll probably finish the last two seasons at some
    point.

    Best performance is by Antony Starr as Homelander. He has a way of
    holding his lips on a slight angle. It's off putting and really helps
    create the character. He's from New Zealand although he almost never
    lets the accent slip through. He was the star of the terrific Banshee,
    with all those well-choreographed fight scenes.

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  • From Arthur Lipscomb@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 16:34:08 2026
    On 7/5/2026 1:28 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
    On 7/5/26 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    I watched soccer, Thur's ep of DOOL (yep, EJ and DiMera are responsible
    for Holly getting sick! and rather than get in front of it they're going
    to do... nothing?!!), and...

    Well, I procrastinated all day, but decided to get some over-Summer work done Sat. night. So I needed to put some movies on as background noise
    while I did the work. That meant there was only one solution!

    Movies off The Tubi!!ÿ :D

    So I watched three movies off Tubi:

    #Missing Couple (Tubi) - Heard about this 2024 film (it's pretty much a "mystery film") from Reddit, in the topic thread "Horror movies that
    could happen in real life" - I am pretty sure the recommendation post
    for this film in that thread was from a marketing bot because... well,
    let's just say it doesn't fit the topic.
    ÿÿ The gist: The title gives it away!! The movie is about a young "influencer couple" - so this is similar to a "found-footage" film - who
    go missing: I think they start off as annoying "van life" influencers,
    but they quickly transition to "cabin life" influencers when they buy a cabin in deepest darkest... Mississippi(!?!).
    ÿÿ (Fun fact: I did some research and there is indeed a county in Mississippi that has a population density of *less than 1 person per
    square km* (which may be the lowest I found anywhere in the U.S.!),
    though this movie is not set in that county, but in the county in the southwest corner of Mississippi that has a population density of about 5 people per square km.)
    ÿÿ The film is structured such that it starts out with a few of the influencer couple's videos, and then switches to, basically, videos from
    a "true crime"-type of influencer who is trying to track down what
    happened to the missing couple.
    ÿÿ This starts interestingly, and basically has one of three ways to go with this set-up:
    ÿÿ 1) Gabby Petito
    ÿÿ 2) Stalker
    ÿÿ 3) Blair Witch
    One of these scenarios is much less interesting (and much more cliched!) than the other two. So I will give you one guess as to which one of the three the movie ends up going with!
    ÿÿ Like I said, the films starts promisingly, but I think just declines from there through the end.
    ÿÿ One problem I has was the film's structure - they keep switching back-and-forth between the couple's videos and the true-crime guy's
    (later) videos, and I didn't like this. I think it would have worked
    better if they set up with the couple's videos, and then mostly switched
    to the true-crime guy trying to find out what happened to them. The switching back-and-forth bled momentum from the proceedings.
    ÿÿ I also really didn't like that they based this film off a well-known hoax (please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
    Camp_Van_Dorn_Slaughter). This also seriously detracted from the latter
    half of the film - better to make something up than base your film on a well-debunked hoax.
    ÿÿ Anyway, this could have been a decent underrated outing of a flick
    if the filmmaker(s) had made some different choices here.

    Followers (Tubi) - This 2024 film is a sequel to the 2022 film
    "Follower" which I watched a year or two back... So I've been meaning to
    get to the sequel (even though the original was very low-budget and not
    that great) for a while.
    ÿÿ The sequel starts very lazily - literally the first 5-10 minutes of "Followers" is just a quick-cut synopsis of the original "Follower" film.
    ÿÿ However, this one doesn't take too long before it actually gets
    better than the original.
    ÿÿ After their ordeal in the first film, our three heroines(tm) seem to
    go their separate ways for more than a year, with the one heroine (Gigi James) who did most of the "saving" in the original film being the most traumatized. The "influencer" one of the group (Revell Carpenter)
    manages to stage a reunion among all three, and their current beaus
    (Jackson Jones and Michael Bonini). (Somehow, Annika Foster's kind of
    hippie character also turns up in this - I missed how/why.)
    ÿÿ The problem? The online incel cult from the first film wants revenge
    on these three women for what happened in the first film.
    ÿÿ While this film is still pretty low budget, in terms of tension and suspense I think it does a much better job than the original.
    ÿÿ The problems I had with it were that the "twist" wasn't very
    surprising, and I hated the downbeat ending of the sequel, pretty much turning the ending of the original film on its head. Really did not care
    for that.
    ÿÿ But I guess there won't be a third film!!


    What's the movie about (first one and sequel)?

    Simp (Tubi) - Yikes, this was a mess!
    ÿÿ "Simp" is a 2024 film that has a very similar set-up/premise to
    another film I've seen in the last few years (but whose title I can't remember... :/ ) - a model is kidnapped from a photo shoot and is held captive where she has to outwit her captor to escape - the difference is that the latter film is suspense/psychological cat-and-mouse horror and "Simp"... tries to find the comedy(?!) in cat-and-mouse human
    trafficking! (Wait, *what*?!?!!)
    ÿÿ I watched this because the lead, Brooke Piedra, is attractive, and I know the actor (Mike Markoff) who plays her captive from Lifetime flicks.
    ÿÿ But, like I said, this movie is a mess - being tonally all wrong,
    and making the cat-and-mouse aspect dreadfully dull rather than
    riveting. In fact, the only part of this flick I did like was the
    model's ex (Todd Wilber, maybe?), at the behest of her mom, trying to
    piece together where/how she was kidnapped. But that's a very thin reed indeed, and that and Piedra's decent performance aren't enough here.
    ÿÿ And, worst of all, the film kind of ends abruptly and kind of unsatisfactorily.




    Why was it called, "Simp?" Was the kidnapped considered a simp?

    I may do a multiday catch up tomorrow.

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  • From Arthur Lipscomb@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 16:35:55 2026
    On 7/5/2026 2:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?


    Hey, thanks for asking!

    JAWS


    That's next year.

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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 00:11:33 2026
    On Jul 5, 2026 at 3:58:45 PM PDT, "The True Melissa"
    <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <1379066040.804977300.210034.anim8rfsk- cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this message:

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?

    Hey, thanks for asking!

    JAWS


    Upload has gotten pretty silly in s4, so I took a break and tried a show called The Boys. It's set in a world where superpowers are real and corporatized. The hero's girlfriend is killed when a superspeeder
    carelessly runs into her, shattering her into molecules, and the
    handlers try to buy his silence. It's a generous offer, and he says
    he'll think about it. Meanwhile, a hero is retiring from The Seven, the biggest supersquad, and the replacement is a bright, earnest young
    lassie called Starlight who believes superpowered people should save the world. She promptly has a hardcore #MeToo experience, and the highest- ranking woman of The Seven tells her not to let the public see her until she's together. Things go harder from there.

    I tried another Best Medicine. I enjoyed it, but it's already feeling a little formulaic. Once again, a mystery illness affects multiple townspeople. Once again, Martin tries to shut down an event and becomes Public Enemy #1.

    I also watched the first episode of Fallout, another Prime show based on
    the Fallout series of video games. It's set in the same world, but the
    plot is nothing like the game. I enjoyed it, but there were several
    places where the actors said their lines so quietly that I couldn't make
    it out over the AC. Prime doesn't seem to have a way to turn closed
    captions on, which seems strange, so there's probably a way I'm not
    seeing. I'll watch more.

    I can turn captions on and off on Prime pretty easily. Have you updated your app?



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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 20:38:08 2026
    Verily, in article <112errl$1hrqu$2@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com deliver unto us this message:

    On Jul 5, 2026 at 3:58:45 PM PDT, "The True Melissa" <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Prime doesn't seem to have a way to turn closed
    captions on, which seems strange, so there's probably a way I'm not seeing. I'll watch more.

    I can turn captions on and off on Prime pretty easily. Have you updated your app?

    No. Is this a new feature within the past six months or so?

    How do you do it?

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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 00:42:23 2026
    On Jul 5, 2026 at 5:38:08 PM PDT, "The True Melissa"
    <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <112errl$1hrqu$2@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com deliver unto us this message:

    On Jul 5, 2026 at 3:58:45 PM PDT, "The True Melissa"
    <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Prime doesn't seem to have a way to turn closed
    captions on, which seems strange, so there's probably a way I'm not
    seeing. I'll watch more.

    I can turn captions on and off on Prime pretty easily. Have you updated your
    app?

    No. Is this a new feature within the past six months or so?

    How do you do it?

    I use it through Apple TV, so with the Apple remote, I just swipe up to bring up the progress bar and viewing options, then there's a captions button above the progress bar. When you choose it, it give you a toggle to turn them on and off.



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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 00:52:53 2026
    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    I also watched the first episode of Fallout, another Prime show based on
    the Fallout series of video games. It's set in the same world, but the
    plot is nothing like the game. I enjoyed it, but there were several
    places where the actors said their lines so quietly that I couldn't make
    it out over the AC. Prime doesn't seem to have a way to turn closed
    captions on, which seems strange, so there's probably a way I'm not
    seeing. I'll watch more.

    The control isn't in the Prime app. It's in the carrier. When I watched
    via the Roku stick, I controlled captions through the Roku settings.

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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 20:28:56 2026
    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
    Verily, in article <1379066040.804977300.210034.anim8rfsk- cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this message:

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?

    Hey, thanks for asking!

    JAWS


    Upload has gotten pretty silly in s4, so I took a break and tried a show called The Boys. It's set in a world where superpowers are real and corporatized. The hero's girlfriend is killed when a superspeeder
    carelessly runs into her, shattering her into molecules, and the
    handlers try to buy his silence. It's a generous offer, and he says
    he'll think about it. Meanwhile, a hero is retiring from The Seven, the biggest supersquad, and the replacement is a bright, earnest young
    lassie called Starlight who believes superpowered people should save the world. She promptly has a hardcore #MeToo experience, and the highest- ranking woman of The Seven tells her not to let the public see her until she's together. Things go harder from there.

    I tried another Best Medicine. I enjoyed it, but it's already feeling a little formulaic. Once again, a mystery illness affects multiple townspeople. Once again, Martin tries to shut down an event and becomes Public Enemy #1.

    I also watched the first episode of Fallout, another Prime show based on
    the Fallout series of video games. It's set in the same world, but the
    plot is nothing like the game. I enjoyed it, but there were several
    places where the actors said their lines so quietly that I couldn't make
    it out over the AC. Prime doesn't seem to have a way to turn closed
    captions on, which seems strange, so there's probably a way I'm not
    seeing. I'll watch more.

    At least on the fire stick, you press the down button, which gives you sub menues, such as start over, next episode, subtitles/cc, and audio options



    What did everyone else watch?





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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 20:28:57 2026
    Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
    On 7/5/26 2:24 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    On Jul 5, 2026 at 1:28:45 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

    On 7/5/26 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    #Missing Couple (Tubi) - Heard about this 2024 film (it's pretty much a
    "mystery film") from Reddit, in the topic thread "Horror movies that
    could happen in real life" - I am pretty sure the recommendation post
    for this film in that thread was from a marketing bot because... well,
    let's just say it doesn't fit the topic.
    The gist: The title gives it away!! The movie is about a young
    "influencer couple" - so this is similar to a "found-footage" film - who >>> go missing: I think they start off as annoying "van life" influencers,
    but they quickly transition to "cabin life" influencers when they buy a
    cabin in deepest darkest... Mississippi(!?!).
    (Fun fact: I did some research and there is indeed a county in
    Mississippi that has a population density of *less than 1 person per
    square km* (which may be the lowest I found anywhere in the U.S.!),
    though this movie is not set in that county, but in the county in the
    southwest corner of Mississippi that has a population density of about 5 >>> people per square km.)

    I can't believe that anywhere in Mississippi is less dense than Wyoming.

    I didn't do an extensive search - but that river county in Mississippi
    was the lowest density one I could find in the South, and it may have
    been the lowest density county east of the Mississippi river.

    Hey Siri, what?s the lowest density county in the United States?

    ?Excluding the census areas of Alaska, Lake and Peninsula Borough is the
    least densely populated county equivalent with 0.069/sq mi (0.027/kmý). The District of Columbia and Guam each only have one county-equivalent, so
    their most/least densely populated county is the same.?



    It's
    almost literally an entire state of nothing. Beautiful country but ain't no >> one there.

    I also really didn't like that they based this film off a well-known
    hoax (please see:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Van_Dorn_Slaughter).

    You mean a claim of white supremacist violence turned out to be a just another
    hoax? Say it ain't so!

    That was dumb on the film's part, but it was hardly the biggest problem
    with the film.






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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 20:28:58 2026
    Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
    On 7/5/2026 2:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?


    Hey, thanks for asking!

    JAWS


    That's next year.


    Every fourth of July.

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  • From Ian J. Ball@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 21:03:21 2026
    On 7/5/26 4:34 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

    On 7/5/2026 1:28 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
    On 7/5/26 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    I watched soccer, Thur's ep of DOOL (yep, EJ and DiMera are
    responsible for Holly getting sick! and rather than get in front of it
    they're going to do... nothing?!!), and...

    Well, I procrastinated all day, but decided to get some over-Summer
    work done Sat. night. So I needed to put some movies on as background
    noise while I did the work. That meant there was only one solution!

    Movies off The Tubi!!ÿ :D

    So I watched three movies off Tubi:
    [snip]

    Followers (Tubi) - This 2024 film is a sequel to the 2022 film
    "Follower" which I watched a year or two back... So I've been meaning
    to get to the sequel (even though the original was very low-budget and
    not that great) for a while.
    ÿÿÿ The sequel starts very lazily - literally the first 5-10 minutes
    of "Followers" is just a quick-cut synopsis of the original "Follower"
    film.
    ÿÿÿ However, this one doesn't take too long before it actually gets
    better than the original.
    ÿÿÿ After their ordeal in the first film, our three heroines(tm) seem
    to go their separate ways for more than a year, with the one heroine
    (Gigi James) who did most of the "saving" in the original film being
    the most traumatized. The "influencer" one of the group (Revell
    Carpenter) manages to stage a reunion among all three, and their
    current beaus (Jackson Jones and Michael Bonini). (Somehow, Annika
    Foster's kind of hippie character also turns up in this - I missed
    how/why.)
    ÿÿÿ The problem? The online incel cult from the first film wants
    revenge on these three women for what happened in the first film.
    ÿÿÿ While this film is still pretty low budget, in terms of tension
    and suspense I think it does a much better job than the original.
    ÿÿÿ The problems I had with it were that the "twist" wasn't very
    surprising, and I hated the downbeat ending of the sequel, pretty much
    turning the ending of the original film on its head. Really did not
    care for that.
    ÿÿÿ But I guess there won't be a third film!!

    What's the movie about (first one and sequel)?

    I mention it in passing - online incel cult.

    In the first one, the women are hiking (somewhere remote), but the
    influencer has attracted the interest of the online incel cult, and so
    the women start to be stalked and menaced by one (or more) of the online
    incel cultists.

    In the sequel, the online incel cult wants revenge for what happened in
    the first film.

    Simp (Tubi) - Yikes, this was a mess!
    ÿÿÿ "Simp" is a 2024 film that has a very similar set-up/premise to
    another film I've seen in the last few years (but whose title I can't
    remember... :/ ) - a model is kidnapped from a photo shoot and is held
    captive where she has to outwit her captor to escape - the difference
    is that the latter film is suspense/psychological cat-and-mouse horror
    and "Simp"... tries to find the comedy(?!) in cat-and-mouse human
    trafficking! (Wait, *what*?!?!!)
    ÿÿÿ I watched this because the lead, Brooke Piedra, is attractive, and
    I know the actor (Mike Markoff) who plays her captive from Lifetime
    flicks.
    ÿÿÿ But, like I said, this movie is a mess - being tonally all wrong,
    and making the cat-and-mouse aspect dreadfully dull rather than
    riveting. In fact, the only part of this flick I did like was the
    model's ex (Todd Wilber, maybe?), at the behest of her mom, trying to
    piece together where/how she was kidnapped. But that's a very thin
    reed indeed, and that and Piedra's decent performance aren't enough here.
    ÿÿÿ And, worst of all, the film kind of ends abruptly and kind of
    unsatisfactorily.

    Why was it called, "Simp?"ÿ Was the kidnapped considered a simp?

    I actually am not even sure why that is the title (I wonder if it's
    because the kidnapper himself is a "simp"?...). Like I said - this movie
    is a mess!

    I may do a multiday catch up tomorrow.


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  • From Arthur Lipscomb@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jul 5 21:27:39 2026
    On 7/5/2026 3:58 PM, The True Melissa wrote:
    Verily, in article <1379066040.804977300.210034.anim8rfsk- cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this message:

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?

    Hey, thanks for asking!

    JAWS


    Upload has gotten pretty silly in s4, so I took a break and tried a show called The Boys. It's set in a world where superpowers are real and corporatized. The hero's girlfriend is killed when a superspeeder
    carelessly runs into her, shattering her into molecules, and the
    handlers try to buy his silence. It's a generous offer, and he says
    he'll think about it. Meanwhile, a hero is retiring from The Seven, the biggest supersquad, and the replacement is a bright, earnest young
    lassie called Starlight who believes superpowered people should save the world. She promptly has a hardcore #MeToo experience, and the highest- ranking woman of The Seven tells her not to let the public see her until she's together. Things go harder from there.

    I tried another Best Medicine. I enjoyed it, but it's already feeling a little formulaic. Once again, a mystery illness affects multiple
    townspeople. Once again, Martin tries to shut down an event and becomes Public Enemy #1.

    I also watched the first episode of Fallout, another Prime show based on
    the Fallout series of video games.

    I need to get around to watching the second season, but I just haven't
    really cared that much to bother with it yet. I have a few different
    shows that technically I liked, but I haven't bothered to watch the
    second season yet.

    It's set in the same world, but the
    plot is nothing like the game. I enjoyed it, but there were several
    places where the actors said their lines so quietly that I couldn't make
    it out over the AC. Prime doesn't seem to have a way to turn closed
    captions on, which seems strange, so there's probably a way I'm not
    seeing. I'll watch more.


    Prime definitely has captions. I almost always have them on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcBs1JbAw6s




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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 06:12:17 2026
    Verily, in article <112eu95$1ibuj$1@dont-email.me>, did ahk@chinet.com
    deliver unto us this message:

    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    I also watched the first episode of Fallout, another Prime show based on >the Fallout series of video games. It's set in the same world, but the >plot is nothing like the game. I enjoyed it, but there were several
    places where the actors said their lines so quietly that I couldn't make >it out over the AC. Prime doesn't seem to have a way to turn closed >captions on, which seems strange, so there's probably a way I'm not >seeing. I'll watch more.

    The control isn't in the Prime app. It's in the carrier. When I watched
    via the Roku stick, I controlled captions through the Roku settings.

    So Hulu and the rest are just passing instructions down? Okay, that's
    good to know. If I can't find it, I should be able to turn them on in
    Hulu and then go back to Prime.

    Prime's interface is really quite awful. There's no way to turn off the autoplaying of the next episode. I can turn off autoplay of trailers,
    but not of next episode, so if I fall asleep my watch history is hosed. There's also no way to reset the watch history.

    Maybe I'll finally ditch Prime when I'm tired of The Boys.

    --
    The True Melissa - Canal Winchester - Ohio
    United States of America - North America - Earth
    Solar System - Milky Way - Local Group
    Virgo Cluster - Laniakea Supercluster - Cosmos

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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 06:15:28 2026
    Verily, in article <112farr$1m0dg$1@dont-email.me>, did arthur@alum.calberkeley.org deliver unto us this message:
    I need to get around to watching the second season, but I just haven't really cared that much to bother with it yet. I have a few different
    shows that technically I liked, but I haven't bothered to watch the
    second season yet.

    Yeah, I know what you mean. I've got several like that. They're
    watchable, but they don't really call me back.

    I watched a *lot* of TV for a few years there, but now I'm starting to
    do other stuff. There are evenings when I'd rather work on a DND module
    than watch someone else's story.

    --
    The True Melissa - Canal Winchester - Ohio
    United States of America - North America - Earth
    Solar System - Milky Way - Local Group
    Virgo Cluster - Laniakea Supercluster - Cosmos

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 07:05:27 2026
    On 7/5/2026 2:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?


    Hey, thanks for asking!

    JAWS

    The two Bond movies with Jaws?

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 09:49:49 2026
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 7/5/2026 2:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?


    Hey, thanks for asking!

    JAWS

    The two Bond movies with Jaws?


    That would?ve been cute although Moonraker is pretty awful. Still I
    could?ve watched the one with Caroline Munro.

    --
    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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  • From Arthur Lipscomb@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 10:12:20 2026
    On 7/6/2026 9:49 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 7/5/2026 2:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?


    Hey, thanks for asking!

    JAWS

    The two Bond movies with Jaws?


    That would?ve been cute although Moonraker is pretty awful. Still I
    could?ve watched the one with Caroline Munro.


    The opening of Moonraker is still one of the best Bond openings ever.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87MO-gtYFT8

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 17:17:42 2026
    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
    Verily, in article <112eu95$1ibuj$1@dont-email.me>, did ahk@chinet.com >deliver unto us this message:

    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    I also watched the first episode of Fallout, another Prime show based on >> >the Fallout series of video games. It's set in the same world, but the
    plot is nothing like the game. I enjoyed it, but there were several
    places where the actors said their lines so quietly that I couldn't make >> >it out over the AC. Prime doesn't seem to have a way to turn closed
    captions on, which seems strange, so there's probably a way I'm not
    seeing. I'll watch more.

    The control isn't in the Prime app. It's in the carrier. When I watched
    via the Roku stick, I controlled captions through the Roku settings.

    So Hulu and the rest are just passing instructions down? Okay, that's
    good to know. If I can't find it, I should be able to turn them on in
    Hulu and then go back to Prime.

    For this purpose, Hulu is an app reselling Prime. For all I know, Prime
    resells Hulu too.

    The question is, what device is receiving the stream? That's where you
    activate closed captions. In my case, it was the Roku stick. If I were
    using the X1 box as the receiver for the Prime app, I'd activate CC at
    the X1 box.

    I think the whole thing was handled poorly. CC started off being
    activated at the receiver level because, in antenna days, one used the television set as both receiver and monitor, so no one thought it
    mattered. When tvs became both input switches and monitors and the
    built-in receiver was not used, then CC had to be activated elsewhere.

    If CC were activated as a monitor feature, in other words, always in the
    stream but not displayed till activated in the monitor, it would have
    simplfied things for the viewer. Instead, it has to be made visible in
    the stream first, before it's output to the monitor.

    Prime's interface is really quite awful. There's no way to turn off the >autoplaying of the next episode. I can turn off autoplay of trailers,
    but not of next episode, so if I fall asleep my watch history is hosed. >There's also no way to reset the watch history.

    I agree. It was niserable trying to see closing titles and hear end
    music. Hulu via a different Roku stick gave me less grief.

    Maybe I'll finally ditch Prime when I'm tired of The Boys.

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    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 17:43:59 2026
    On Jul 6, 2026 at 3:12:17 AM PDT, "The True Melissa"
    <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <112eu95$1ibuj$1@dont-email.me>, did ahk@chinet.com deliver unto us this message:

    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    I also watched the first episode of Fallout, another Prime show based on >> >the Fallout series of video games. It's set in the same world, but the
    plot is nothing like the game. I enjoyed it, but there were several
    places where the actors said their lines so quietly that I couldn't make >> >it out over the AC. Prime doesn't seem to have a way to turn closed
    captions on, which seems strange, so there's probably a way I'm not
    seeing. I'll watch more.

    The control isn't in the Prime app. It's in the carrier. When I watched
    via the Roku stick, I controlled captions through the Roku settings.

    So Hulu and the rest are just passing instructions down? Okay, that's
    good to know. If I can't find it, I should be able to turn them on in
    Hulu and then go back to Prime.

    Prime's interface is really quite awful. There's no way to turn off the autoplaying of the next episode. I can turn off autoplay of trailers,
    but not of next episode, so if I fall asleep my watch history is hosed. There's also no way to reset the watch history.

    I had this problem with Netflix. Turns out you can turn autoplay off, but not directly in the app. You have to go to Netflix.com on the web and log in,
    where there are account settings that aren't accessible on your TV. One of
    them is turning off autoplay.



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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 15:54:45 2026
    Verily, in article <112gnvm$24oo6$3@dont-email.me>, did ahk@chinet.com
    deliver unto us this message:
    [snip]
    If CC were activated as a monitor feature, in other words, always in
    the
    stream but not displayed till activated in the monitor, it would have simplfied things for the viewer. Instead, it has to be made visible in
    the stream first, before it's output to the monitor.

    I found it in the Roku settings, so that should help the next time
    things get tense while the AC's on.


    Prime's interface is really quite awful. There's no way to turn off the >autoplaying of the next episode. I can turn off autoplay of trailers,
    but not of next episode, so if I fall asleep my watch history is hosed. >There's also no way to reset the watch history.

    I agree. It was niserable trying to see closing titles and hear end
    music. Hulu via a different Roku stick gave me less grief.

    Isn't that terrible? The closing credits should be played by default,
    but on Prime I have to hit a button if I want to watch them or it'll
    just skip to the next episode.



    --
    The True Melissa - Canal Winchester - Ohio
    United States of America - North America - Earth
    Solar System - Milky Way - Local Group
    Virgo Cluster - Laniakea Supercluster - Cosmos

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 14:24:53 2026
    Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
    On 7/6/2026 9:49 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 7/5/2026 2:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?


    Hey, thanks for asking!

    JAWS

    The two Bond movies with Jaws?


    That would?ve been cute although Moonraker is pretty awful. Still I
    could?ve watched the one with Caroline Munro.


    The opening of Moonraker is still one of the best Bond openings ever.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87MO-gtYFT8


    I saw MOONRAKER in the theater with my astronaut friend, who had problems
    with things like the fact that the orbiter doesn?t have a fuel tank when
    being carried on a 747 so how the hell did they launch it?

    Great song though.

    --
    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 14:24:54 2026
    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
    Verily, in article <112gnvm$24oo6$3@dont-email.me>, did ahk@chinet.com deliver unto us this message:
    [snip]
    If CC were activated as a monitor feature, in other words, always in
    the
    stream but not displayed till activated in the monitor, it would have
    simplfied things for the viewer. Instead, it has to be made visible in
    the stream first, before it's output to the monitor.

    I found it in the Roku settings, so that should help the next time
    things get tense while the AC's on.


    Prime's interface is really quite awful. There's no way to turn off the >>> autoplaying of the next episode. I can turn off autoplay of trailers,
    but not of next episode, so if I fall asleep my watch history is hosed. >>> There's also no way to reset the watch history.

    I agree. It was niserable trying to see closing titles and hear end
    music. Hulu via a different Roku stick gave me less grief.

    Isn't that terrible? The closing credits should be played by default,
    but on Prime I have to hit a button if I want to watch them or it'll
    just skip to the next episode.

    I hate that. There should be an overall setting ?show the whole damn
    program uninterrupted?



    --
    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 17:38:57 2026
    Verily, in article <830020282.805065766.832632.anim8rfsk- cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this message:

    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Isn't that terrible? The closing credits should be played by default,
    but on Prime I have to hit a button if I want to watch them or it'll
    just skip to the next episode.

    I hate that. There should be an overall setting ?show the whole damn
    program uninterrupted?

    ... and only that program.


    --
    The True Melissa - Canal Winchester - Ohio
    United States of America - North America - Earth
    Solar System - Milky Way - Local Group
    Virgo Cluster - Laniakea Supercluster - Cosmos

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Dimensional Traveler@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 17:40:40 2026
    On 7/6/2026 2:24 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
    On 7/6/2026 9:49 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 7/5/2026 2:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?


    Hey, thanks for asking!

    JAWS

    The two Bond movies with Jaws?


    That would?ve been cute although Moonraker is pretty awful. Still I
    could?ve watched the one with Caroline Munro.


    The opening of Moonraker is still one of the best Bond openings ever.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87MO-gtYFT8


    I saw MOONRAKER in the theater with my astronaut friend, who had problems with things like the fact that the orbiter doesn?t have a fuel tank when being carried on a 747 so how the hell did they launch it?

    Because he's JAMES BOND!!

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jul 6 18:07:39 2026
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 7/6/2026 2:24 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
    On 7/6/2026 9:49 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 7/5/2026 2:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?


    Hey, thanks for asking!

    JAWS

    The two Bond movies with Jaws?


    That would?ve been cute although Moonraker is pretty awful. Still I
    could?ve watched the one with Caroline Munro.


    The opening of Moonraker is still one of the best Bond openings ever.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87MO-gtYFT8


    I saw MOONRAKER in the theater with my astronaut friend, who had problems
    with things like the fact that the orbiter doesn?t have a fuel tank when
    being carried on a 747 so how the hell did they launch it?

    Because he's JAMES BOND!!


    And what happened to the stewardess on the plane?

    --
    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
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  • From Dimensional Traveler@3:633/10 to All on Tue Jul 7 06:45:23 2026
    On 7/6/2026 6:07 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 7/6/2026 2:24 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
    On 7/6/2026 9:49 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 7/5/2026 2:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    On the semiquincentennial Indepenence Day, I watched:

    Various coverage of the semiquincentennial.

    What did you watch?


    Hey, thanks for asking!

    JAWS

    The two Bond movies with Jaws?


    That would?ve been cute although Moonraker is pretty awful. Still I
    could?ve watched the one with Caroline Munro.


    The opening of Moonraker is still one of the best Bond openings ever.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87MO-gtYFT8


    I saw MOONRAKER in the theater with my astronaut friend, who had problems >>> with things like the fact that the orbiter doesn?t have a fuel tank when >>> being carried on a 747 so how the hell did they launch it?

    Because he's JAMES BOND!!


    And what happened to the stewardess on the plane?

    Jaws ate her.

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)