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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-26 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 19:35:44 -0700
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On 4/27/2024 7:25 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 4/27/24 7:05 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 
>> On 4/27/2024 5:18 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>>
>>> There were two movies that debuted this weekend.  "Boy Kills World" 
>>> and "Challengers."  "Boy Kills World" is a new action comedy starring 
>>> Bill Skarsgård as a deaf-mute young man who goes on a blood soaked 
>>> revenge spree to slaughter the people who killed his family.  The 
>>> movie also stars Jessica Rothe, Famke Janssen, Sharlto Copley, and 
>>> "Mad Dog" from the Raid movies.  How could you possibly go wrong? 
>>> "Challengers" on the other hand is a 2 hour long drama starring 
>>> Zendeya.  The plot involves her being in a love triangle with tennis 
>>> players.  So it was not a hard decision picking which movie to see on 
>>> Thursday night.  Except "Boy Kills World" was not playing in IMAX or 
>>> Dolby cinema.  All the high quality theater screens had been taken 
>>> over by "Challengers."  So I went to the local theater and saw  "Boy 
>>> Kills World" on a regular screen...
>>>
>>> "Boy Kills World" - I actually saw this on Thursday night, but didn't 
>>> feel like talking about it.  Given the cast and premise I went into 
>>> this with high expectations.  My expectations were crushed.  I though 
>>> I was going to get "Crank" and instead I got "Gamer."  :-( 
>>
>> I recently watched 'Gamer' (aka 'Crank 3').  You thought there was a 
>> noticeable difference between it and the Crank movies?
> 
> Yes - "Gamer" was much worse than the "Crank" films (even the second one!).
> 
> 
> 

Yeah, I commented at the time that I *want* to like "Gamer" but it just 
doesn't work for me.  Something similar happened with "Equilibrium." 
It's an excellent movie.  Then the writer/director's next movie, 
"Ultraviolet" which went for the same vibe, but was pure crap.