Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-21 (Thursday) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 11:13:07 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d9a31948d50e38d07029400dd93f53ec"; logging-data="3151626"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18yGJqouokZp9XAyF+clN+Ur9YaIRVLAbk=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:eM2omc8saT622QA4Kgf6z+PnY5A= Bytes: 2380 On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 06:42:21 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" wrote: >On 3/22/24 6:04 AM, shawn wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 05:33:38 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" >> wrote: >> >>> What did you watch? >> >> The other thing I watched was a movie called THE EXPATRIATE about a >> guy who was hired for a temporary job breaking security devices for a >> company, but it turns out it was all a fake as all of the employees >> are killed once they break enough devices. The setup was to enable >> someone to break into a CIA black vault and steal some documents. >> Documents that it turns out prove a company was shipping military >> weapons to rebels in Africa when the ship carrying the weapons went >> down. It was just watchable and not a movie I would seek out. > >There's no movie with that actual title, though apparently this is an >"alt title" for the 2012 film "Erased" with Aaron Exkhart – Is that this >movie you're talking about? Yep, that's the one. Because he is an expatriate dealing with others my brain just substituted the name. >If it is, I stumbled across it... let's say about 5 years ago, and it >ended up being more engrossing than I was expecting (though I believe I >didn't watch the whole movie, having missed the beginning). > >And it co-stars Olga K!! Yes, it does and she is lovely. Though clearly evil! ;)