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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-20 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 21:39:26 -0700
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On 4/21/24 8:49 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> 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.

Wow, it looks like you're right. Last time I checked was when I watched 
both films last year, and there was no news. It looks like news on "3" 
has just broken in the last week:

https://people.com/now-you-see-me-3-everything-to-know-8635079
https://screenrant.com/now-you-see-me-3-lizzy-caplan-missing/