Path: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-24 (Sunday) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 23:03:48 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 75 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:03:48 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3a1dca0f6cfcb209f610255b8ebeab74"; logging-data="1446512"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19L/EQc2ICyi8IYPkO6NYqjgs9eK9XGv2g=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vdfcf6Of1DaYgr4MgKu91f3CfZM= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 4403 Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >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. Seriously? The studio wanted him for stunt casting? Retire while you've still got it. >>>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? Possibly. >>>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. It wasn't hitting for me in the first couple of episodes. It just emphasized the weird. I had a rather different impression of it from the trailers.