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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-26 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 19:25:05 -0700
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On 4/27/24 7:05 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

> On 4/27/2024 5:18 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>
>> There were two movies that debuted this weekend.  "Boy Kills World" 
>> and "Challengers."  "Boy Kills World" is a new action comedy starring 
>> Bill Skarsgård as a deaf-mute young man who goes on a blood soaked 
>> revenge spree to slaughter the people who killed his family.  The 
>> movie also stars Jessica Rothe, Famke Janssen, Sharlto Copley, and 
>> "Mad Dog" from the Raid movies.  How could you possibly go wrong?  
>> "Challengers" on the other hand is a 2 hour long drama starring 
>> Zendeya.  The plot involves her being in a love triangle with tennis 
>> players.  So it was not a hard decision picking which movie to see on 
>> Thursday night.  Except "Boy Kills World" was not playing in IMAX or 
>> Dolby cinema.  All the high quality theater screens had been taken 
>> over by "Challengers."  So I went to the local theater and saw  "Boy 
>> Kills World" on a regular screen...
>>
>> "Boy Kills World" - I actually saw this on Thursday night, but didn't 
>> feel like talking about it.  Given the cast and premise I went into 
>> this with high expectations.  My expectations were crushed.  I though 
>> I was going to get "Crank" and instead I got "Gamer."  :-( 
> 
> I recently watched 'Gamer' (aka 'Crank 3').  You thought there was a 
> noticeable difference between it and the Crank movies?

Yes - "Gamer" was much worse than the "Crank" films (even the second one!).