On 8/20/2026 3:52 AM, The True Melissa wrote:
Ubiquitous wrote in article <UBI20260819@dont-email.me>:
On D&D Night, I watched:
Nothing.
Wghat did you watch?
I also watched basically nothing due to D&D. In my case, I was
working on a new emergency module for players who bailed on the
adventure I'd planned.
I did watch some more American Dad reruns.
This is a catchup post. Over the last couple of days I watched:
Insidious: Chapter 3 (HBOMax) 2015 prequel to "Insidious" which shows
Elise (Lin Shaye) teaming up with the two ghost hunters for the first
time to save a teenage girl from a local demon.
Insidious: The Last Key (HBOMax) 2018 prequel to "Insidious" which
delves deeper into Elise's backstory. This one alternates between
Elise's childhood when she first got her powers and closer to present
day (but before the events of "Insidious" where Elise and her ghost
hunting friends try to help her estranged brother and his family.
Insidious (4K disc) 2011 horror movie about a family (Patrick Wilson and
Rose Byrne are the parents) that moves into a haunted house and their
young child is taken by a Poltergeist, I mean demon. They try moving somewhere else, but the Poltergeist, I mean demon, follows them. To
save the child from the Poltergeist, I mean demon, the family gets help
from some ghost hunters lead by Elise (Lin Shaye). I am forever getting
this movie confused and conflated with 2012's "Sinister". I'm pretty
sure "Sinister" is the better movie, but oddly enough I don't own Sinister.
Insidious: Chapter 2 (blu-ray) 2013 sequel which picks up where part 1
ended with those pesky Poltergeists, I mean demons, still bothering the family. And this time the Poltergeist, I mean demon, possessed the
father. This was almost pure background noise. I could have sworn
there was another franchise where in the first movie Poltergeist kidnap
to a family's kid and ghost hunters had to show up and help get the kid
back, then in the sequel the Poltergeist possessed the father. But that couldn't possibly be the case. I mean no horror franchise would ever
rip off another horror franchise. There's one more Insidious movie to
go. I'll get to it before I see the latest movie in the theater.
The Twilight Zone (DVD) - "A Matter of Minutes" Segment from season 1
episode 15 of the 1980s Twilight Zone. This segment has a couple (Adam
Arkin and Karen Austin) awaken in their bedroom to discover mysterious
blue workman inside their house and neighborhood building everything.
They are told by the foreman (Adolph Casesar) that they have slipped
through a crack in time into the future and are getting a glimpse of how
the future is built minute by minute. This episode reminds me a lot of
"The Adjustment Bureau" and feels like it's from the same source
material, even though it's not. Also, the DVD quality looks *horrible*
which is one of the reasons why as much as I love the 80s Twilight Zone
I also never revisit it.
The Adjustment Bureau (blu-ray) 2011 movie based on a story by Philip K.
Dick. Matt Damon stars as a politician who meets a woman (Emily Blunt)
and it's love at first sight. Damon is inspired by Blunt, but they
otherwise don't connect until he randomly runs into her a year later.
Except that second meeting was never supposed to happen. A team of
Angels are set out to keep them apart, which Damon accidentally learns
about when he walks in and sees the Angels making an "adjustment." The
Angles warn Damon to stay away from Blunt but he's burning with true
love and keeps seeking her out while the Angles do everything in their
power to keep them apart because their being together is counter to the
grand plan.
Blade Runner (4K disc) 1982 movie based on a story by Philip K. Dick.
Set in the far off distant future year of 2019 when there will be flying
cars and off world colonies, Harrison Ford stars as a "Blade Runner" a specially trained cop who hunts and kills "replicants" or androids that
look like people and dream of electric sheep. The movie holds up well.
Blade Runner 2049 (4K disc) 2017 sequel which has a new Blade Runner
played by Ryan Gosling teaming up with Harrison Ford to stop Jared Leto
and his evil plan. I love this movie, it's better than the original.
Next (blu-ray) 2007 movie based on a story by Philip K. Dick. Nicolas
Cage stars as a man who can see about 2 minutes into his own future. He
is forcibly recruited by an FBI agent played by Julianne Moore to help
stop a terrorist attack on U.S. soil. But Cage would rather make googly
eyes at Jessica Biel. This is a frustrating movie. It's an interesting premise, but they don't really do anything with it and the movie also
feels too much like a rip off of "Paycheck." Which reminds me, I really
need to get my scheduling better in order so I can properly watch Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck, and Next back-to-back. Which was the
plan this time, but my vacation screwed that up.
Speaking of vacations, I posted a convention report in a separate thread
the other day. I put links to some of the things I saw while on vacation.
The End of Oak Street (theatrical) New movie staring Anne Hathaway and
Ewan McGregor as parents of two teens in 1982 who wake up one morning to
find their house, along with their entire neighborhood, has been
transported back in time to when dinosaurs walked the Earth. They and
their neighbors must fight off prehistoric monsters to survive. Yes,
it's basically Jurassic Park. But it's Jurassic Park where the
dinosaurs actually get to eat the people. No scientists or
paleontologist, just families getting eaten alive. My only gripe is the
way the movie ends. It creates a minor logic issue. It's a logic issue
(for lack of a better term) that is very common to time travel movies
and is often ignored. But it still bugged me slightly. I read in the
imdb trivia section that the filmed ending was not the original ending.
IMO they should have kept the original ending, that would have removed
the logic problem.
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