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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-26 (Wednesday) & 2025-03-27
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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 08:07:34 -0700
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On 3/29/2025 12:13 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> 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! 

It's a solid turn your brain off and enjoy the ride type of flick.

I intentionally didn't give any details about the girl they kidnapped. 
She has her own little side movie going on.  She barely even needed 
Statham to save her!


Though I enjoyed "The Beekeeper" a lot, so I'm not
>> sure this flick can top it!  ;p
> 
> They really need to do a beekeeper two. And then beekeeper the series.
> 
> 


They are doing a Beekeeper sequel.  Originally I was going to watch "The 
Beekeeper" and "Wrath of Man" (another Statham revenge flick) before 
this, then changed my mind and decided to hold off and save "The 
Beekeeper" for when the sequel comes out.