XPost: alt.usenet.legends.lester-mosley
From: arthur@alum.calberkeley.org
On 12/23/2025 3:34 PM, marika wrote:
> Ubiquitous wrote:
>> I watched:
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>> AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH UNDERPERFORMS AT THE BOX OFFICE
>> Avatar: Fire and Ash's box office performance is analyzed, comparing its
>> opening weekend to predecessors. The video explores its domestic and
>> international earnings, contextualizing them against previous Avatar films.
>> Several possible explanations for the film's performance are discussed.
>> https://youtu.be/xXT0A4xmhks?si=h9NI0qs92wHa0ONR
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>> CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S THE ODYSSEY | OFFICIAL TRAILER - REACTION!
>> https://youtu.be/8ONAxxAPpsU?si=XYjetOIBxZVG-vgm
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> I watched the 1997 series “Odyssey” this week. Mainly to see Ron Cook
play
> Eurybates. It was pretty good in spite of the old special effects.
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> Vanessa Williams as Calypso, very enjoyable.
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> I am amazed how very similar the Nolan trailer visuals are so very similar
> to this older version.
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I already have my IMAX 70mm tickets for next year. And that is when
I'll also be revisiting the 1997 series. Unfortunately I only have it
on an old DVD. But I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a blu-ray upgrade
by then.
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>> What did you watch?
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I watched:
Run Lola Run (blu-ray) 1998 movie starring Franka Potente as a "Lola"
who has only a few minutes to get a cross town to save her boyfriend
from mobsters. Lola is sort of in a repeating time loop with Lola
repeating the same run over and over again, with different results each
time. I don't think Lola herself was ever aware she was repeating
things over and over again, but I'm not sure. I got bored around the
second or third loop and stopped paying attention. I think this must
have been only my second time watching it since the original release in
1998. I could have sworn it was more entertaining.
The Butterfly Effect (blu-ray) 2004 movie starring Ashton Kutcher as a
young man who can travel back to his own personal history by reading
from his journals. He keeps traveling into his past to try to improve
his life and the life of his friends but instead of making things better
he keeps making things worse. I watched the director's cut with the
director commentary. The director cut is much darker than the
theatrical cut with a totally different ending. Overall, the director's
cut is better than the theatrical cut. But the disc itself was
frustrating since it was encoded in a way that with the commentary track
on, there was no subtitle option for the movie, and no way to toggle the
audio track.
The Butterfly Effect 2 (blu-ray) 2006 direct to video sequel. This was
one of the most pointless wastes of time sequels ever. The movie stars
Eric Lively who can travel into his own past by looking at old photos.
And he uses this power to change a car accident from a year earlier
where his girlfriend (Erica Durrance) was killed. And all the changes
in this movie are within about a year time frame and are pointless
wastes of time. I watched with a director commentary, but the
commentary was just as bland as the movie.
The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (blu-ray) 2009 direct to video
sequel. This one, I actually really like. Mild Spoilers. The movie
stars Chris Carmack as a man who can travel back into his own past.
He's using this ability to help the police search for his girlfriend's
killer. But as he uses his ability more and more, the killer slowly
becomes a serial killer and Carmacks's life gets worse and worse. There
is a twist in this movie that is not present in the other movies.
Carmack's character isn't the only one who can time travel. Carmack
isn't aware that someone else is also traveling through time and
interfering with his own time traveling efforts. And that other time
traveler is always one step ahead of him. I think the movie actually
works better on later viewings if you know who the evil time traveler
is. There are lots of subtle clues that you wouldn't catch on first
viewing.
Needle in a Timestack (blu-ray) 2021 Sci-fi movie set in a future where
time travel is a fact of life. Rich people are able to vacation in the
past and if they happen to change something it sends a time wave that
everyone is aware of and for a brief time everyone is aware of what
changed before the memory of the old timeline more or less fades away.
Intentionally changing history is illegal, but that doesn't stop it from
happening. The plot involves a happily married couple (Leslie Odom Jr.
and Cynthia Erivo) who are targeted by the wife's ex husband (Orlando
Bloom). Bloom is wealthy and uses his money to keep making subtle
changes in the timeline to intentionally screw up his ex's marriage and
get her back. As this happening, Odom Jr. keeps shouting at the top of
his lungs that Bloom is screwing with history, but no one believes him,
not even his wife. I liked a plot device of a company people can go to,
to try and store/save memories from alternate timelines. It works with
mixed success at best.
I wonder how does the economics of such a company work. If in 1
timeline you hire the company but in the alternate timeline you didn't,
the company still has your prepaid stored memories, but do they still
have your money? Little details like that were completely glossed over.
I liked the movie, but didn't care much for the ending. And that
memory company is a rip off! What good is their free money back
guarantee if you don't remember they owe you the money?
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