Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Ian J. Ball" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-26 (Friday) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 19:25:05 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 04:25:05 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5d774527bf2abc7fab53221b934406f5"; logging-data="868979"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18vlOBCDTiZuZ70+AYbs20v" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZcsKYznOFogYZih9jAm3pLfdAB0= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2596 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!).