Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-24 (Sunday) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:31:57 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 72 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 22:16:26 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9117a1b15bcc3e8e0b8c31a0a5ab0619"; logging-data="1402417"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1992SKRPuXJeSmPatof+Dqz/r0VRzMzapA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:YIZJByqjALkgl3wRObQ90TAuh+Y= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4347 On 3/25/2024 11:37 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: > Arthur Lipscomb wrote: > >> The Crying Game (Showtime) 1992 movie written and directed by Neil >> Jordan and staring Stephen Rea as an IRA member who kidnaps a British >> solder played by Forest Whitaker. While a hostage Rea and Whitaker sort >> of become friends and Whitaker tells Rea about his girlfriend back in >> London. Whitaker winds getting killed during a rescue attempt and Rea >> decides to head to London to look up Whitaker's girl. But in a shocking >> reveal Whitaker's girl turns out to be a Goa'uld named Ra. > > And then... he entirely dropped out of movie acting. > The way I heard it he had no interest in acting and asked for a million dollars to do Stargate because he didn't think they'd pay it. And when did they pay he basically took the money and ran. >> Repo Men (blu-ray) 2010 sci-fi movie starring Jude Law and Forest >> Whitaker as repo men who instead of repossessing cars for a missed >> payment, they repossess human organs while the person is still out and >> about on the street. Things take a turn when Jude Law winds up with one >> of the company's hearts keeping him alive and his best friend Whitaker >> is sent to retrieve it. This has been on my rewatch list forever. I >> haven't watched this since seeing it the theater and forgot pretty much >> everything about it except the ending. > > Oh, I want to like this movie. Wasn't this like the second or third > adaptation? I was really never clear. I think it's from a graphic novel. > I was on the fence about maybe trying to squeeze in "Repo! The Genetic Opera" and very surprised that it came out first. Is it what you were thinking of? >> The Talented Mr. Ripley (blu-ray) 1999 movie starring Matt Damon as a >> con man who is paid by Jude Law's father to travel to Italy and talk his >> son into returning to America. But instead Damon weasels his way into >> Jude's life and begins to take it over, especially after he murders Law >> and has to keep murdering people to cover up what he did. The movie >> holds up great. It's been on my rewatch list forever. I finally broke >> down and forced myself to watch it again since there is a new Netflix >> series debuting next week. > > There is? Why? > It's a new TV series starring Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley. It debuts April 4th on Netflix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley_(TV_series) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE0byWSKp0E I noticed John Malkovich who played Ripley in "Ripley's Game" in 2002. > The performances are great, especially Jude Law. This movie needed to be > better. > >> The Regime (HBO) - "Midnight Feast" - Picking up a few months after the >> last episode, Kate Winselt's henchman has been rotting in a dungeon. He >> then meets the previous prime minister who was also locked away. The >> former minister thinks the henchman would make a good ally, but the >> henchman has other plans. > > I need to catch up, or decide to drop it. It's a weird series. The satire can be hit or miss, but it mostly works for me.