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? 2024-05-06 (Monday) Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 14:59:52 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 23:59:53 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="96cdd6a7c437ecbcd394eec39a2926cd"; logging-data="3676368"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/gOtx8rfhXgn3pRzJHFK60" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:5qYRwb9d6qFEg0KI+873RlhwXrg= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3008 On 5/7/24 8:53 AM, shawn wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2024 07:22:11 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" > wrote: >> On 5/7/24 6:32 AM, shawn wrote: >>> On Tue, 7 May 2024 05:43:24 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" >>> wrote: >>>> On 5/6/24 10:54 PM, shawn wrote: >>>> >>>>> Did a rewatch of SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO which was a revisit to >>>>> the same team we saw in the previous movie. This time the starter >>>>> event was a terrorist bombing in Kansas that appears to have been done >>>>> by people that crossed the Mexico border and been at least partially >>>>> funded by a Mexican cartel. This leads the US to decide to start a war >>>>> between the cartels by doing various things. There's a number of >>>>> events that occur in the movie that shows how you can never trust the >>>>> government to have your back. Good movie and well worth watching, but >>>>> don't go in expecting lots of action. There is some but it's more a >>>>> mood movie with some great mood setting music. >>>> >>>> Yeah, this flick is mostly good. I just don't like the ending much. >>> >>> Which part of the ending. The final bit where the two meet up to set >>> up the kid's future? Or the way they treat the main guy? >> >> The way they retconned one character, who should be dead, still being >> alive (IIRC...). > > Ah, but if they killed that character off how would there be a third > film. They don't him for another film. They really only need Brolin (the girlfriend beater, that everybody seems to have conveniently forgotten about... :/ ) for another flick. > That and the wound that they showed is survivable. Of course > getting that wound is incredibly lucky. That and the fact that he > didn't move after being shot when that wound shouldn't have knocked > him out.