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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-18 (Wednesday)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 03:00:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On Jun 19, 2025 at 6:35:29 PM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 20:08:14 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 19, 2025 at 12:13:31 PM PDT, "Ian J. Ball" <IJBall@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>>  On 2025-06-19 08:30:41 +0000, Ubiquitous said:
>>>  
>>>>   What did you watch?
>>>  
>>>  Just soaps - I've missed a day or two of GH, so watched Wed's ep, and 
>>>  then watched the CBS soaps - Y&R, B&B and BtB. Not really worth 
>>>  commenting on, except on GH Lizzie let Kristina know that she knows, 
>>>  and that seemed to put Kristina in her place!
>>>  
>>>  What did you watch?
>> 
>> I watched CLEANER on the Max.
>> 
>> Basically a warmed-over retread of DIE HARD. Eco-terrorists take over the
>> board
>> meeting after-party at a big energy company and force them to confess their
>> 'crimes' before strapping explosive vests on them all and setting a countdown
>> timer to red goo.
>> 
>> Daisy Ridley stars as a plucky window cleaner who unluckily happens to be
>> late
>> finishing her daily window quota and is caught outside when the building
>> takeover occurs. From there, she transforms into John McClane and we're off
>> to
>> the races.
>> 
>> It was okay as an action movie but it doesn't come anywhere close to matching
>> DIE HARD for sheer entertainment value. Put it this way: in 40 years, no
>> one's
>> going to be making pop culture references to CLEANER or quoting its lines.
>> 
> 
> Was it at all believable with Ridley in the role? That was the big
> thing I thought when I first saw the description of the movie. I
> thought it might have worked with someone like Statham in the role but
> not Daisy Ridley.

They gave her a special forces Army background and a prologue that showed her
as a kid climbing like a monkey all over her high-rise apartment to lay the
groundwork for her death-defying feats on the outside of the skyscraper later
in the movie.