Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-02 (Sunday)

In article <v3kn7m$3uc18$1@dont-email.me>,
 "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

The Wolf of Wall Street (Apple TV+) - In glorious 4k. (But it's film,
and grainy, so I don't think this one really benefited much.)
    Yeah, I had never seen this before.
    If you enjoy funny stories about inveterate addict swindlers, this
2013 film is one of the better examples of the "genre", even despite
clocking in at 3 hours. Leo even does a pretty good job.

And Margo Robbie at her finest.

Ruthless (Hulu) - (Not in 4k, though it still looked great.) This 2023
flick was what I wanted/needed to wrap up the night - this was a
low-budget, somewhat leisurely-paced and low-key "revenge flick".
    (How do I know this flick is "low-budget"? - Because Texas Battle
shows up in this, and Battle was in at least half of the low-budget
latter-day Bruce Willis flicks too!)
    Dermot Mulroney stars as a high school wrestling coach (the dude is
virtually magic, though, as his "wrestling" skills seem to give him the
same abilities as an ex-special forces soldier, which he uses often!!).
    Anyway, in the film's beginning, his daughter is murdered.
    Four years later, he's still coaching high school wrestling, and is
now being hassled by a plucky (but kind of obnoxious) female student
(Melissa Diaz) who is bad at wrestling but wants to get better. Soon
enough, her mom's boyfriend pops her one in the face, and Mulroney's
character doesn't take kindly to it, and breaks the boyfriend's arm in
retaliation.
    The mom's boyfriend, being a total scumbag, retaliates by selling
the girl to human traffickers.
    Once Mulroney figures out she's missing, he springs into action to
get her back, cops (Niko Foster), be damned!
    This, of course, is all ridiculous (e.g. somehow, during her
kidnapping ordeal, the girl is never raped, which is pretty much not how
human traffickers work!), but I enjoyed the nonsense, with Mulroney
taking righteous revenge on a whole bunch of scumbags in this flick.

So this guys goes all Liam Neeson when one of his students is kidnapped
but he didn't when his own daughter was murdered?