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Subject: Re: Heads of State
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2025 22:41:36 -0000 (UTC)
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On Jul 6, 2025 at 3:10:11 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> BTR1701  <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> On Jul 5, 2025 at 3:45:54 AM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>> 
>>>  Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>>   New from Amazon, we have John Sena and Idris Elba headlining an 
>>>>   action-comedy. Sena plays new American President Will Derringer while 
>>>>   Elba is the Prime Minister of the UK. President Derringer is a 
>>>>   Schwartzenegger-style movie star renowned for his action movies and Elba 
>>>>   doesn't much like him but circumstances - the shooting down of Air Force 
>>>>   One over Belarus - force them to work together and to try to save NATO. 
>>>>   There's also a romantic subplot between the Prime Minister and a woman 
>>>>   from his past.
>>>>   
>>>>   I won't spoil any more of the plot. Suffice it to say that there's lot 
>>>>   of shootin' and killin' to keep us engaged and a fair number of puns. 
>>>  
>>>  I enjoyed the fact that they acknowledged they were in a punning contest
>>>  and working to come up with new ones.
>>>  
>>>>   It's not going to win any awards for realism but I enjoyed myself and I 
>>>>   think you will too.
>>>>   
>>>>   IMDB gives it 6.5 but I think it deserves higher.
>>>>   
>>>  Agreed.
>>>  
>>>  Hey, BTR, did you ever get to ride in "The Beast"?
>> 
>> Yes, I drove it twice.
>> 
>> It's a lot more resilient than they portrayed in the movie.
>> 
>> And it doesn't have a sunroof for Jamie Foxx to shoot out of like in WHITE
>> HOUSE DOWN. In fact none of the windows move at all. They're welded in place.
> 
> If there's no sun roof, then how does the ejector seat work?

Poorly.