Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:43:03 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-02 (Sunday) References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 11:39:55 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 39 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-3gOQ7P8JCo7NMYJrd0KiY+UQU57CQOl5zGsdogljpHAVP35Y6K38O7Y+W5TnB5Q7eYyAieEnEUzg6Zu!RJzrc/FK12q1DxMBlrb8f6aEDV+J4xCNFnfepLlRUXhJtl9QNaBpOISe91eiNUrawjBluZATRnSh!Pp0= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3192 In article , "Ian J. Ball" wrote: > The Wolf of Wall Street (Apple TV+) - In glorious 4k. (But it's film, > and grainy, so I don't think this one really benefited much.) > Yeah, I had never seen this before. > If you enjoy funny stories about inveterate addict swindlers, this > 2013 film is one of the better examples of the "genre", even despite > clocking in at 3 hours. Leo even does a pretty good job. And Margo Robbie at her finest. > Ruthless (Hulu) - (Not in 4k, though it still looked great.) This 2023 > flick was what I wanted/needed to wrap up the night - this was a > low-budget, somewhat leisurely-paced and low-key "revenge flick". > (How do I know this flick is "low-budget"? - Because Texas Battle > shows up in this, and Battle was in at least half of the low-budget > latter-day Bruce Willis flicks too!) > Dermot Mulroney stars as a high school wrestling coach (the dude is > virtually magic, though, as his "wrestling" skills seem to give him the > same abilities as an ex-special forces soldier, which he uses often!!). > Anyway, in the film's beginning, his daughter is murdered. > Four years later, he's still coaching high school wrestling, and is > now being hassled by a plucky (but kind of obnoxious) female student > (Melissa Diaz) who is bad at wrestling but wants to get better. Soon > enough, her mom's boyfriend pops her one in the face, and Mulroney's > character doesn't take kindly to it, and breaks the boyfriend's arm in > retaliation. > The mom's boyfriend, being a total scumbag, retaliates by selling > the girl to human traffickers. > Once Mulroney figures out she's missing, he springs into action to > get her back, cops (Niko Foster), be damned! > This, of course, is all ridiculous (e.g. somehow, during her > kidnapping ordeal, the girl is never raped, which is pretty much not how > human traffickers work!), but I enjoyed the nonsense, with Mulroney > taking righteous revenge on a whole bunch of scumbags in this flick. So this guys goes all Liam Neeson when one of his students is kidnapped but he didn't when his own daughter was murdered?