Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-26 (Wednesday) & 2025-03-27 (Thursday)

On 3/28/25 2:01 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 3/28/2025 5:46 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
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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.
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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...
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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."
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 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