Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Heads of State Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2025 22:41:36 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 42 Message-ID: <104eu30$2g9ms$4@dont-email.me> References: <10476s7$d4o1$1@dont-email.me> <1328995767.773404062.725254.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <104eodi$2dsqb$10@dont-email.me> <104es83$2f62e$5@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:41:37 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bca962195ebfc19a4dab9d69958d6843"; logging-data="2631388"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/UpCxXMc4KxKm0w3gUYjvC" User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dj9FcPGx/qfYHDIDVCxwCg91WBU= On Jul 6, 2025 at 3:10:11 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" wrote: > BTR1701 wrote: >> On Jul 5, 2025 at 3:45:54 AM PDT, "anim8rfsk" wrote: >> >>> Rhino wrote: >>>> New from Amazon, we have John Sena and Idris Elba headlining an >>>> action-comedy. Sena plays new American President Will Derringer while >>>> Elba is the Prime Minister of the UK. President Derringer is a >>>> Schwartzenegger-style movie star renowned for his action movies and Elba >>>> doesn't much like him but circumstances - the shooting down of Air Force >>>> One over Belarus - force them to work together and to try to save NATO. >>>> There's also a romantic subplot between the Prime Minister and a woman >>>> from his past. >>>> >>>> I won't spoil any more of the plot. Suffice it to say that there's lot >>>> of shootin' and killin' to keep us engaged and a fair number of puns. >>> >>> I enjoyed the fact that they acknowledged they were in a punning contest >>> and working to come up with new ones. >>> >>>> It's not going to win any awards for realism but I enjoyed myself and I >>>> think you will too. >>>> >>>> IMDB gives it 6.5 but I think it deserves higher. >>>> >>> Agreed. >>> >>> Hey, BTR, did you ever get to ride in "The Beast"? >> >> Yes, I drove it twice. >> >> It's a lot more resilient than they portrayed in the movie. >> >> And it doesn't have a sunroof for Jamie Foxx to shoot out of like in WHITE >> HOUSE DOWN. In fact none of the windows move at all. They're welded in place. > > If there's no sun roof, then how does the ejector seat work? Poorly.