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On 5/9/2026 5:33 AM, The True Melissa wrote:
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This is a multi-day catch up. Over the last few days I watched:
The Boys (Amazon Prime) "Though the Heavens Fall" - Episode 6. Things
are starting to wrap up as Sister Sage's brilliant plan turns out to be
not so brilliant. Still a lot happened and only 2 more episodes to go.
Law & Order - "Once Burned" - Team Law & Order go after a fireman for
being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - "Old Friends" - I'm not even going
to try and summarize this one. I have no idea what was going on!
Something about some old friends at a sleep over and one got assaulted.
Beyond that I don't know.
The Hidden Fortress (HBOMax) 1958 epic Japanese movie. I've never seen
this before, but it was apparently one of the main inspirations for
George Lucas when he made Star Wars and I wanted to finally watch it
before the next time I watched Star Wars. The movie opens in a desert
with two bickering soldiers. I forgot their names, so I'll just call
them R2-D2 and C3P0. Anyway R2-D2 and C3P0 start the movie off
bickering and decide to go their own separate ways, but they are quickly captured and reunited as prisoners of war. They escape and are seeking
to make their fortune when they encounter a soldier. I forgot his name,
so I'll just call him Han Skywalker. Han Skywalker must save a princess
from an evil empire. I forget her name, so I'll just call her Princess
Leia. So, Han Skywalker, R2-D2 and C3P0 join forces to save Princess
Leia from an evil empire. Along the way Han Skywalker encounters an old
enemy who he fights in a duel. I almost forgot, the old enemy's face is disfigured so he wears a mask. Let's just call the old enemy with a disfigured face who wears a mask Darth Vader for short. At the end of
the movie after they have saved the day, there is a ceremony where
Princess Leia gives the heroes an award. And that was pretty much the
movie. I don't know why people think this movie inspired Lucas. It's
not as if there were any similarities. I'm not sure if I should admit
this or not, for fear of being hunted by film geeks everywhere, but I
actually did not like this movie. I found it mind mumbling boring.
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (blu-ray) 1985 animated sci-fi movie. The
movie opens with a young man who has been a slave his whole life. He and
his people live in an underground crystal mind ruled over by robots.
The young man finds a sword hilt which thanks to a special power, let's
call "The force" for lack of a better word, he is able to activate and
use like a laser sword, or lightsaber lack of a better word. Teen boy
escapes to surface where he quickly encounters a smuggler. You know,
the scruffy nerf herder type. He smuggles crystal in a sleek ship that
flies as smooth as a Falcon and would give you the ride of a Millennium.
They escape the planet wind up with two comic relief robots and find a female love interest. The love interest is very regal and can best be described as "She's rich." They have a war in the stars in order to
save the day from a would-be evil robot empire. Now that I think about
it, this movie has a similar plot to another movie I saw once. Maybe
the "The Hidden Fortress" but set in space.
It's actually a pretty good movie, as rip offs of "The Hidden Fortress"
go. My one gripe is the movie was originally released in theaters in
3D. I never saw the movie in 3D. But watching it now and seeing all
the space battles and things flying at the screen, I wish I could
experience it the way it was meant to be seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8UZ2WfLG70
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