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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: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 08:42:32 -0700
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On 3/29/25 8:07 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

> 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.  

Hell yeah!!:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jason-statham-beekeeper-2-1236149188/

I totally didn't hear about this! I am psyched!!  :)

Too bad filming doesn't start until the fall though - that means no 
release until 2026...  :(

> 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.