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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-26 (Wednesday) & 2025-03-27
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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 19:34:56 -0700
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On 3/28/25 2:01 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

> On 3/28/2025 5:46 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>
>> Sorry - yesterday was my "work-from-home" day, and I didn't feel like 
>> posting one of these yesterday morning... So this will be a two-day 
>> catch-up.
>>
>> As usual, I haven't watched anything since soaps. I'm starting to 
>> create another backlog of streaming shows to watch, but I don't really 
>> have the time to binge through them right now - I may try to start 
>> "School Spirits" this weekend... So soaps it is...
>>
>> I also put "Jupiter Ascending" on in the background yesterday - I had 
>> no idea that a young Vanessa Kirby was in this playing Mila Kunis' 
>> scantily-clad roommate. Nor that Eddie Redmayne was in this as the 
>> main villain... This is one movie that would definitely benefit from 
>> 4k, though I was watching it off an HBO cable channel, so no such luck.
> 
> It looks great in 3D.  I'm one of the few who really likes the movie.
> 
>> What did you watch?
> 
> The only thing I watched worth mentioning is:
> 
> A Working Man (theatrical) New action movie written by Sylvester 
> Stallone, directed by David Ayer, and starring Jason Statham.  Statham 
> stars as (checks notes) a working Man. He works for a construction 
> company run by Michael Peña.  Michael Peña's adult daughter also works 
> there, and one day she gets herself kidnapped by Russian sex 
> traffickers.  These Russians are straight out of the "John Wick" / 
> "Equalizer" central casting office.  Peña knows his friend Stathan has a 
> particular set of skills.  Skills that would make him a nightmare for 
> the people who took his daughter, so he asks Statham to rescue her. 
> Statham then sets off to kill his way through Russians.  He even 
> occasionally remembers to ask where the girl is at.  But he's mostly 
> killing Russians and in spite of doing the bare minimalist 
> interrogation, he somehow keeps stumbling his way up the chain of 
> traffickers.  At times this movie was so over the top that it almost 
> felt like a parody of action movies.  Between the two, how in the world 
> is "The Beekeeper" the more grounded and realistic movie?  At one point 
> Statham strapped a gun to his back that was so big that I immediately 
> thought of the buddy cop parody movie, "Hot Fuzz."
> 
> https://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/8/81/HFL1A1SLR-4.jpg/601px- 
> HFL1A1SLR-4.jpg
> 
> This movie is basically "Taken" but set in the John Wick universe.  They 
> really weren't trying to hide it.  But if you want to see Statham shoot 
> Russians for 2 hours with increasingly larger weapons, then this is the 
> movie for you.

I absolutely *do* want to see that!!

> But I do have one question.  If you are setting out to rescue someone 
> who has been kidnapped, why would you bring with you *multiple* 
> grenades?  Where in the thought process do you say to yourself, I'm 
> gonna need a few grenades for this job.  Not that I'm complaining, 
> seeing as how it turns out he was right.

Sounds like a blast! Though I enjoyed "The Beekeeper" a lot, so I'm not 
sure this flick can top it!  ;p