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I watched:

A Bucket of Extreme Disappointment From KFC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mNqOUqRiDg
[Talk about "deceptive chicken"!]

Cat hearing the ancient Egyptian cat call https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wIVbM0dWRY

Chefs Don't Want to Cook For Vegans Anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPw_0TeND7A

GREAT WAY TO FLOP YOUR MOVIE – Supergirl's Milly Alcock ATTACKS Fans
AGAIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iunK2jYYd6A

Hollywood Race-Swapped Betty Boop And The Film Press Is Attacking
Anyone Who NOTICES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o5gPp1LwMw

James Bond and The Odyssey Casting DRAMA Explodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfZxInN6E4U

Stephen Colbert's INAPPROPRIATE Comments About Guests He's Found
Attractive with Late Night Hosts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0-NfRiNm2Q

The Chelsea Handler vs. Spencer Pratt Hollywood Feud Goes Political https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfyqRjuHSnI

The Most Intense Reality Show On TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELSKXZZ3S_Y

The Mystery of AM Radio 1710
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJwpTHzKQhE

Why Didn't Florida Join The American Revolution? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUY5POMuVmM

Why It Sucks To Be Born As A Fire Ant Queen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgP_kGLG2WM

What did you watch?
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On 5/24/26 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

Finished grading exams for the year(!), so just a couple of episodes of
DOOL yesterday.

Starting today, and for probably the next week, I plat to start actually watching the TV shows and movies I've missed out on over the past year
of working. I am mostly likely to queue up season #2 of "Twisted Metal"
first, probably starting today. :)


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Verily, in article <UBI20260523@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
deliver unto us this message:

What did you watch?

I watched Blumhouse's Fantasy Island, billed as a horror reboot of the
classic 70s series. Someone else here reported watching this, but (as
usual) I've forgotten whom.

It's not horror in the slasher sense. It's more of a vague sense of
menace gathering into fantasies going horribly wrong, though the blood
and jump scares do ramp up toward the end. Before we even meet the
guests, we see that things are grimmer here than on TV: Roarke's helper
hears the airplane approaching and blurts "The plane" with obvious dread before pelting for the landing. Roarke glares at his workers and snarls, "SMILES, everyone. SMILES!" at workers who continue staring with dead
eyes.

We meet two post-college brothers who want to be billionaire playboys, a
woman who was badly bullied in school, a woman who regrets declining a marriage proposal, and a man who wants to live out his childhood dream
of being a soldier. These guests are a little more reality-connected
than the ones on TV. When they meet people from their pasts, they say
things like "Wait, did you actually kidnap him for this?" instead of
just accepting it. The movie's Roarke dodges such questions expertly and leaves them to live out their fantasies, which cannot be interrupted no
matter how badly they go.

This was really good. I started it on a whim, but I enjoyed it a lot. In
the end, all the versions of all the plots dovetailed and made sense. I
liked the complexity and the different layers. One less positive note is
that I'm not sure I buy the final villain's perfect misdirection during
the earlier parts of the scheme. I suppose the island was helping.

What did everyone else watch?
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On 5/24/26 9:12 AM, The True Melissa wrote:

Verily, in article <UBI20260523@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:

What did you watch?

I watched Blumhouse's Fantasy Island, billed as a horror reboot of the classic 70s series. Someone else here reported watching this, but (as
usual) I've forgotten whom.

IIRC, I did see this a couple of years back - I remember Lucyfer Hale
being in it, so I am pretty sure I watched this.

It's currently on Hulu, according to JustWatch.


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Verily, in article <10uvaqd$m3lu$1@dont-email.me>, did
ijball@mac.invalid deliver unto us this message:

On 5/24/26 9:12 AM, The True Melissa wrote:

I watched Blumhouse's Fantasy Island, billed as a horror reboot of

the

classic 70s series. Someone else here reported watching this, but (as usual) I've forgotten whom.

IIRC, I did see this a couple of years back - I remember Lucyfer Hale
being in it, so I am pretty sure I watched this.

It's currently on Hulu, according to JustWatch.

That's where I saw it. It was featured, so they probably just added it.
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On May 24, 2026 at 1:30:41 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

I watched:

GREAT WAY TO FLOP YOUR MOVIE – Supergirl's Milly Alcock ATTACKS Fans
AGAIN

It's hilarious how every time Hollywood makes a horrible movie or TV show,
it's now the audience's fault for rejecting their dreck. The tactic *never* works, but they keep doing it anyway, every single time.

Hollywood Race-Swapped Betty Boop And The Film Press Is Attacking
Anyone Who NOTICES!

"There is only one reason to bring back an iconic piece of Americana just to race-swap it like this. Even a faithful Betty Boop reboot probably wouldn't sell many tickets. A race-swapped Betty Boop has absolutely no chance of success. But they do it anyway out of spite. They aren't even trying to make money. It's just pure racial resentment." --Matt Walsh

100% spot-on. They're just trying to tear down the culture anywhere and any
way they can.

What's next? An OL' YELLER remake with the yellow Lab replaced with a Mexican chihuahua?


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Verily, in article <10uvi3e$ntc0$3@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com
deliver unto us this message:

I watched:

GREAT WAY TO FLOP YOUR MOVIE ? Supergirl's Milly Alcock ATTACKS Fans
AGAIN

It's hilarious how every time Hollywood makes a horrible movie or TV show, it's now the audience's fault for rejecting their dreck. The tactic *never* works, but they keep doing it anyway, every single time.

I think it's a way of pretending not to care. "The people who didn't
watch are bad people anyway, and those grapes are sour."
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The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

Verily, in article <UBI20260523@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:

What did you watch?

I watched Blumhouse's Fantasy Island, billed as a horror reboot of the classic 70s series. Someone else here reported watching this, but (as
usual) I've forgotten whom.

I’ve seen it twice, the regular version and the unrated unreleased version, where at the party scene. A girl in the extreme background takes off her
top for 2 ms possibly revealing nipples one pixel high.

It's not horror in the slasher sense. It's more of a vague sense of
menace gathering into fantasies going horribly wrong, though the blood
and jump scares do ramp up toward the end. Before we even meet the
guests, we see that things are grimmer here than on TV: Roarke's helper hears the airplane approaching and blurts "The plane" with obvious dread before pelting for the landing. Roarke glares at his workers and snarls, "SMILES, everyone. SMILES!" at workers who continue staring with dead
eyes.

We meet two post-college brothers who want to be billionaire playboys, a woman who was badly bullied in school, a woman who regrets declining a marriage proposal, and a man who wants to live out his childhood dream
of being a soldier. These guests are a little more reality-connected
than the ones on TV. When they meet people from their pasts, they say
things like "Wait, did you actually kidnap him for this?" instead of
just accepting it. The movie's Roarke dodges such questions expertly and leaves them to live out their fantasies, which cannot be interrupted no matter how badly they go.

This was really good. I started it on a whim, but I enjoyed it a lot. In
the end, all the versions of all the plots dovetailed and made sense. I liked the complexity and the different layers. One less positive note is that I'm not sure I buy the final villain's perfect misdirection during
the earlier parts of the scheme. I suppose the island was helping.

What did everyone else watch?

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