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I watched:

Digging Holes with Nukes? - Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Kurzgesagt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGd00_i6mq8

15 Missing The Boys Characters Too Offensive & Vulgar For Even This
Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q10YDbuzOs

Why The Logan's Run TV Series Was Doomed to Fail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VyZIad1JsM

Why We Are Invisible to the Rest of the Universe (No One Can See Us) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm7VRQiBI-M

SUPERGIRL IS DEAD ON ARRIVAL – Milly Alcock’s “How to Kill Your Movie” Playbook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwmDxSSmwlE

INVISIBLE INVADERS:
A trio of scientists and an MP hide out to find a way to defeat
invisible aliens who inhabit corpses.

THE MANSTER:
An American journalist who is stationed in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a mad scientist, turning him into a murderous two-headed
monster.

SCREAM, BLACKULA, SCREAM:
Someones uses voodoo to control Blackula.

What did you watch?
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On 4/5/26 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

I spent all day grading (good news: I finished the worst batch of it!!),
so pretty much nothing but soaps, and nothing really happened on the
soaps either.



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On 4/5/2026 12:26 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 4/5/26 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

I spent all day grading (good news: I finished the worst batch of it!!),
so pretty much nothing but soaps, and nothing really happened on the
soaps either.

I watched a batch of fantasy movies, including new 4K discs of:

Krull (4K disc) - I actually watched this Friday night. This 1983
science fiction fantasy stars Ken Marshall as a young prince who must
save his world from an alien sorcerer. I think. I just sit back and
enjoy the movie and not worry too much about the details. I was just
glad to have the movie in 4K with a new Dolby Atmos soundtrack. As an
aside, since Krull is such a wonderful movie, I specially ordered a
Krull poster off eBay to get signed by Ken Marshall at the upcoming
Vegas Star Trek convention. When I ordered the poster, the page said
there was only one left. I wondered who is buying up all the Krull
posters. But there are lot of different Krull posters for sale online,
so someone must be buying them.


The Neverending Story 1984 fantasy movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen
about a boy (Barret Oliver) who steels a book from a mysterious
bookstore and learns the book is as fictional as he thought. I watched
this twice. First a new 4K disc with a new commentary. Then I watched a blu-ray of the German cut of the movie. This was my first time watching
the German cut. It was an interesting experience. This is one of my
favorite movies and I love the score. But the German cut, in addition to
being a slightly different edit of the movie, has a different score.
Missing is the iconic sound and Giorgio Moroder's beautiful music.
Although both cuts of the movie do share a few of the same music cues. Overall, I prefer the U.S. edit, mainly because of the music. I can't
even wrap my brain around watching the movie (again) without the score. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yegQ9X2QSeI


Legend (blu-ray) 1985 fantasy movie directed by Ridley Scott and
starring Tom Cruise as a long hero who must rescue a damsel in distress
from Tim Curry'e Darkness. When watched back-to-back with Krull, the
plots of the two movies are surprisingly similar.


The Golden Child (4K disc) 1986 fantasy comedy starring Eddie Murphy as
a wisecracking finder of lost children who is tasked with locating a
mystical child before the power of evil can kill him. I watched this
with a new and informative commentary track.
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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

The Golden Child (4K disc) 1986 fantasy comedy starring Eddie Murphy as
a wisecracking finder of lost children who is tasked with locating a >mystical child before the power of evil can kill him. I watched this
with a new and informative commentary track.

This is a terrible, terrible movie. I think the script might have made a
good movie. I blame the director for not having Eddie Murphy just act
instead of doing his usual comedy bits that have nothing to do with the
script. For utterly inexplicable reasons, the movie found an enormous
audience. And, in much of the movie, Murphy shows that he can act and
get humor out of the situation. He should have taken charge of his
career during production and thwarted the useless director.
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Verily, in article <10qud0c$1kj89$1@dont-email.me>, did
ijball@mac.invalid deliver unto us this message:

On 4/5/26 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

I spent all day grading (good news: I finished the worst batch of it!!),
so pretty much nothing but soaps, and nothing really happened on the
soaps either.

I watched the latest from the revived Scrubs, but I barely remember any
of it. They put in the work for the first few episodes, but it's quickly becoming forgettable.
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On 4/5/2026 2:07 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

The Golden Child (4K disc) 1986 fantasy comedy starring Eddie Murphy as
a wisecracking finder of lost children who is tasked with locating a
mystical child before the power of evil can kill him. I watched this
with a new and informative commentary track.

This is a terrible, terrible movie. I think the script might have made a
good movie. I blame the director for not having Eddie Murphy just act
instead of doing his usual comedy bits that have nothing to do with the script. For utterly inexplicable reasons, the movie found an enormous audience. And, in much of the movie, Murphy shows that he can act and
get humor out of the situation. He should have taken charge of his
career during production and thwarted the useless director.

They actually talked a lot about this on the commentary. They said it
was a very deliberate choice to have Murphy be Murphy, instead of "act."
For the exact same reasons they picked that director, because that
specific director would get out of the way and not try to direct Murphy.
They said they didn't want Murphy doing multiple takes, they wanted
him to show up on set each day and ad lib jokes.

They said one of the directors considered was John Carpenter, but he
decided to do "Big Trouble in Little China" instead. But The Golden
Child would go on to make more in its' first week than Big Trouble made
in its' entire run. I always thought The Golden Child was a bit of a
flop but they said the movie was actually a huge hit at the time, but
compared to Murphy's other hits it didn't perform the way Murphy wanted
it too, so he made Beverly Hills Cop 2 as his next movie to ensure a big
hit again.

A funny beat on the commentary had one of the commentators mentioning
the reviews at the time savaging The Golden Child, with a few notable exceptions. And one of the commentators said they actually like The
Golden Child more than Beverly Hills Cop with the other commentator
giving a you can't be serious response. But I for one agree. I also
like the Golden Child more than Beverly Hills Cop.


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zIqCoRnS5dc


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AZQVcrz7XXg
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On 4/5/26 2:07 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

The Golden Child (4K disc) 1986 fantasy comedy starring Eddie Murphy as
a wisecracking finder of lost children who is tasked with locating a
mystical child before the power of evil can kill him. I watched this
with a new and informative commentary track.

This is a terrible, terrible movie.

Maybe. But I enjoyed the heck of it when I saw it in the theater way
back when!! :p

I think the script might have made a
good movie. I blame the director for not having Eddie Murphy just act
instead of doing his usual comedy bits that have nothing to do with the script. For utterly inexplicable reasons, the movie found an enormous audience. And, in much of the movie, Murphy shows that he can act and
get humor out of the situation. He should have taken charge of his
career during production and thwarted the useless director.

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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 4/5/2026 2:07 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

The Golden Child (4K disc) 1986 fantasy comedy starring Eddie Murphy as
a wisecracking finder of lost children who is tasked with locating a >>>mystical child before the power of evil can kill him. I watched this
with a new and informative commentary track.

This is a terrible, terrible movie. I think the script might have made a >>good movie. I blame the director for not having Eddie Murphy just act >>instead of doing his usual comedy bits that have nothing to do with the >>script. For utterly inexplicable reasons, the movie found an enormous >>audience. And, in much of the movie, Murphy shows that he can act and
get humor out of the situation. He should have taken charge of his
career during production and thwarted the useless director.

They actually talked a lot about this on the commentary. They said it
was a very deliberate choice to have Murphy be Murphy, instead of "act."

This was absolutely obvious to the audience at the time. Still, he
actually acts in portions of the movie, a huge hint that they really
could have made a good movie instead.

For the exact same reasons they picked that director, because that
specific director would get out of the way and not try to direct Murphy.

I'm sure the director chose not to direct on orders of the producer and
studio bosses.

They said they didn't want Murphy doing multiple takes, they wanted
him to show up on set each day and ad lib jokes.

They said one of the directors considered was John Carpenter, but he
decided to do "Big Trouble in Little China" instead. But The Golden
Child would go on to make more in its' first week than Big Trouble made
in its' entire run. I always thought The Golden Child was a bit of a
flop but they said the movie was actually a huge hit at the time, but >compared to Murphy's other hits it didn't perform the way Murphy wanted
it too, so he made Beverly Hills Cop 2 as his next movie to ensure a big
hit again.

I thought I had recalled that it flopped too, till I looked it up.

A funny beat on the commentary had one of the commentators mentioning
the reviews at the time savaging The Golden Child, with a few notable >exceptions. And one of the commentators said they actually like The
Golden Child more than Beverly Hills Cop with the other commentator
giving a you can't be serious response. But I for one agree. I also
like the Golden Child more than Beverly Hills Cop.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zIqCoRnS5dc

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AZQVcrz7XXg

I was never a big fan of Beverly Hills Cop. I've seen it once. I
remember really liking Nick Nolte, with Murphy starrkng in an unrelated
movie.
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Verily, in article <10qupcj$1n21p$1@dont-email.me>, did
ijball@mac.invalid deliver unto us this message:

This is a terrible, terrible movie.

Maybe. But I enjoyed the heck of it when I saw it in the theater way
back when!! :p

I think I was thinking of the wrong movie when I typed that.
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