From: nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com
On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:43:02 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb
wrote:
>On 12/31/2025 9:48 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>> On 12/31/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>
>> My brother let his Netflix lapse (I don't blame him!) so I could not
>> watch "House of Dynamite".
>>
>> But he still has Prime Video, so I watched:
>>
>> A Working Man (Prime) - Personal fave Jason Statham plays a man named...
>> Don Chick?... or something, and after some Russian mobsters makes him
>> mad by kidnapping his boss's (Michael Pena) daughter (Arianna Rivas, who
>> I thought was super hott - she's sort of like a young Emmanuelle
>> Chriqui) to traffic her... It just so happens that (Don Chick??) is an
>> ex-mob assassin ex-special forces dude who has connections (David
>> Harbour).
>> Anyway, this flick sees Statham take righteous justice/vengeance on
>> Russian mobsters and various related American accomplices while trying
>> to rescue the girl.
>> I enjoyed this for what it was, and I think it was Arthur who
>> pointed out that this flick has an extra level of enjoyment as the
>> victim (Rivas) is constantly fighting back against her attackers rather
>> than crying and whining lost most victims in these flicks do.
>>
>
>I was thinking to myself, there's no kidnap victim fighting back in
>"Wrath of Man" then I realized you were talking about "Working Man."
>These Statham flicks could at least come up with different sounding
>names. LOL
Hey, what about THE BEEKEEPER. Say what you will it was at least a
different sort of name for a Statham flix. ;)
>> I also watched soaps (episodes from late last week):
>>
>> DOOL - Everyone is rescued from Kristen's EVOL! brother who hangs near
>> death. Brady confronts Kritsen for lying to him about Rachel's role in
>> EJ's shooting, but allows Kristen to be reunited with Rachel for X-Mas.
>> (Meanwhile, still waiting for them to write out Chad, though that seems
>> like it's being set up...)
>>
>> GH - They kind of bungled one of the marquee storylines in this ep -
>> Willow manages to convince EVOL! Drew to allow daughter Scout to spend
>> Boxing Day with Alexis & co. but they end the epie before anyone can
>> profusely thank Willow for it (would have loved to see awful Kristina
>> eat crow over this!). Meanwhile, Ned's annoying kid finds the violin
>> that Ned & Sonny bought for Gio, and everyone guilts poor Gio into
>> playing it - but this was an effective scene nonetheless (it helps that
>> the actor actually plays violin).
>>
>> What did you watch?
>>
>>
>
>I watched:
>
>Robot Jox (blu-ray) 1990 post-apocalyptic movie produced by Albert Band
>and Charles Band. The movie is set after World War III where
>territorial disputes between nations are settled by giant robots
>fighting. Gary Graham stars as a Jox who pilots a giant robot.
>
>
>Crash and Burn (blu-ray) 1990 post-apocalyptic movie directed by Charles
>Band. The movie is set in the future after evil corporations have taken
>over Earth and the plot revoles around one of the evil corporation's
>cyborg's murdering a group of people because one of them is against the
>corporation. I saw this once on VHS when it first came out and the way
>I remembered it this movie had giant robots fighting. The cover of the
>blu-ray case has a giant robot and the Wikipedia page says the original
>title was Robot Jox 2. So I was more than a bit disappointed when the
>plot revolved around a stupid killer cyborg. Although to be fair there
>is about 5 minutes of giant robot footage shoehorned in at the end of
>the movie.
>
>
>Robot Wars (Streamed on DVR) 1993 post-apocalyptic movie produced and
>directed by Albert Band. This movie brings back Danny Kamekona who
>co-stared in Robot Jox as a different character and he is joined by Yuji
>Okumoto who costared with Kameknona in Karate Kid 2. The two of them
>play the bad guys in this movie. The movie has them steal a giant robot
>and it's up to the good guys who repurpose a decommissioned giant robot
>to save the day. I also saw this once on VHS when it first came out. I
>think this was the movie I was expecting to watch when I put "Crash and
>Burn" on.
>
>
>Pacific Rim (blu-ray) 2013 post-apocalyptic movie directed by Guillermo
>del Toro. The movie stars Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba as a pair of
>Jox who pilot giant robots which are used to fight giant monsters. For
>the first time, I skipped the 3D version and I finally got around to
>listening to the excellent del Toro commentary track.
Was an enjoyable flick that I watched around when it came out.
>
>Pacific Rim Uprising (4K disc) 2018 post-apocalyptic sequel with John
>Boyega and Scott Eastwood as a pair of Jox who pilot giant robots to
>fight more giant aliens. This isn't as good as the first one, but as
>long as you turn your brain all the way off... All the way off! It
>kills the time. This was mostly background noise with the director
>commentary.
Yeah, this really doesn't hold up in comparison to the original.
As for me, I watched about half of THE COPENHAGEN TEST last night
before I had to go to sleep. It's okay, just okay, based on what I've
seen but they haven't got into what I think is the main story line at
this point (half way thru the first episode) so it may get better when
I watch the rest of the episode.
What did YOU watch?
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
|
