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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-06 (Monday)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 14:59:52 -0700
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On 5/7/24 8:53 AM, shawn wrote:

> On Tue, 7 May 2024 07:22:11 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
> wrote:
>> On 5/7/24 6:32 AM, shawn wrote:
>>> On Tue, 7 May 2024 05:43:24 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 5/6/24 10:54 PM, shawn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Did a rewatch of SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO which was a revisit to
>>>>> the same team we saw in the previous movie. This time the starter
>>>>> event was a terrorist bombing in Kansas that appears to have been done
>>>>> by people that crossed the Mexico border and been at least partially
>>>>> funded by a Mexican cartel. This leads the US to decide to start a war
>>>>> between the cartels by doing various things. There's a number of
>>>>> events that occur in the movie that shows how you can never trust the
>>>>> government to have your back. Good movie and well worth watching, but
>>>>> don't go in expecting lots of action. There is some but it's more a
>>>>> mood movie with some great mood setting music.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, this flick is mostly good. I just don't like the ending much.
>>>
>>> Which part of the ending. The final bit where the two meet up to set
>>> up the kid's future? Or the way they treat the main guy?
>>
>> The way they retconned one character, who should be dead, still being
>> alive (IIRC...).
> 
> Ah, but if they killed that character off how would there be a third
> film. 

They don't him for another film. They really only need Brolin (the 
girlfriend beater, that everybody seems to have conveniently forgotten 
about...  :/  ) for another flick.

> That and the wound that they showed is survivable. Of course
> getting that wound is incredibly lucky. That and the fact that he
> didn't move after being shot when that wound shouldn't have knocked
> him out.