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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-20 (Saturday)
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On 4/21/2024 8:24 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 4/21/24 8:09 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> 
>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>> On 4/21/2024 8:18 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>> I watched:
>>>
>>> Now You See Me (Blu-ray) 2013 movie about 4 shady street magicians  
>>> who are mysteriously brought together to form a Vegas act that fronts 
>>> for
>>> various heists they disguise as magic tricks.  Mark Ruffalo costars as
>>> an FBI agent hot on their trail and Morgan Freeman plays a magician
>>> debunker who is helping the FBI (and himself) to figure out how they
>>> pull off their heists.
>>
>> I liked this movie
>>
>>> Now You See Me 2 (4K disc) 2016 sequel which finds everyone from the
>>> first movie returning for round 2 of payback and revenge with some
>>> magical heists thrown in for good measure.
>>
>> I didn’t like this movie nearly as much as the first installment.
> 
> Agreed on both counts.
> 

+`2

> I feel bad for Lizzy Caplan - she tried her best, and indeed may have 
> been the best thing about the sequel - but she already had, like, 7 
> strikes against her. Including the fact that the second one, esp. the 
> denouement, was asinine.
> 
> That said, I would be up for a third film (esp. if they brought back 
> Isla Fisher), and am surprised they never tried to do one. (AFAICT, 
> there's been no talk of another sequel at all lately...)
> 
> 

There's definitely a third one on the way.  There's been a lot of 
chatter about it recently.  I *almost* didn't watch the first two 
because I expect it to arrive in the next year or two.