Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-24 (Sunday)

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 3/25/2024 11:37 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

The Crying Game (Showtime) 1992 movie written and directed by Neil
Jordan and staring Stephen Rea as an IRA member who kidnaps a British
solder played by Forest Whitaker.  While a hostage Rea and Whitaker sort
of become friends and Whitaker tells Rea about his girlfriend back in
London.  Whitaker winds getting killed during a rescue attempt and Rea
decides to head to London to look up Whitaker's girl.  But in a shocking
reveal Whitaker's girl turns out to be a Goa'uld named Ra.

And then... he entirely dropped out of movie acting.

The way I heard it he had no interest in acting and asked for a million
dollars to do Stargate because he didn't think they'd pay it.  And when
did they pay he basically took the money and ran.

Seriously? The studio wanted him for stunt casting? Retire while you've
still got it.

Repo Men (blu-ray) 2010 sci-fi movie starring Jude Law and Forest
Whitaker as repo men who instead of repossessing cars for a missed
payment, they repossess human organs while the person is still out and
about on the street.  Things take a turn when Jude Law winds up with one
of the company's hearts keeping him alive and his best friend Whitaker
is sent to retrieve it.  This has been on my rewatch list forever.  I
haven't watched this since seeing it the theater and forgot pretty much
everything about it except the ending.

Oh, I want to like this movie. Wasn't this like the second or third
adaptation? I was really never clear. I think it's from a graphic novel.

I was on the fence about maybe trying to squeeze in "Repo! The Genetic
Opera" and very surprised that it came out first.  Is it what you were
thinking of?

Possibly.

The Talented Mr. Ripley (blu-ray) 1999 movie starring Matt Damon as a
con man who is paid by Jude Law's father to travel to Italy and talk his
son into returning to America.  But instead Damon weasels his way into
Jude's life and begins to take it over, especially after he murders Law
and has to keep murdering people to cover up what he did.  The movie
holds up great.  It's been on my rewatch list forever.  I finally broke
down and forced myself to watch it again since there is a new Netflix
series debuting next week.

There is? Why?

It's a new TV series starring Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley.  It debuts
April 4th on Netflix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley_(TV_series)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE0byWSKp0E

I noticed John Malkovich who played Ripley in "Ripley's Game" in 2002.

The performances are great, especially Jude Law. This movie needed to be
better.

The Regime (HBO) - "Midnight Feast" - Picking up a few months after the
last episode, Kate Winselt's henchman has been rotting in a dungeon. He
then meets the previous prime minister who was also locked away.  The
former minister thinks the henchman would make a good ally, but the
henchman has other plans.

I need to catch up, or decide to drop it.

It's a weird series. The satire can be hit or miss, but it mostly works
for me.

It wasn't hitting for me in the first couple of episodes. It just
emphasized the weird. I had a rather different impression of it from the
trailers.