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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-24 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 23:03:48 -0000 (UTC)
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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>On 3/25/2024 11:37 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> 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.