Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-14 (Sunday)

On 4/15/2024 4:04 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

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

On 4/15/2024 7:22 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 4/15/2024 6:06 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

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What did you watch?

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Gamer - Netflix disc rip (screencapping project)
AKA 'Crank 3'.  Made by the same pair that made the Jason Statham
vehicles 'Crank' and 'Crank 2' it is much like those two with Gerald
Butler instead.  Turn your brain off and let it come to a complete stop
before watching to avoid damage.
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I *want* to like this movie but it just rubs me the wrong way.  But it's
one of those movies that I keep watching hoping that this time maybe
it'll be good.
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I watched:
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (HBO) 2014 spy movie based on the TV show
directed by Guy Ritchie.  Set in the 1960s Henry Cavill stars as a
smooth talking Gentleman/con artist who works for the CIA and is
assigned to rescue a kidnapped scientist's daughter (Alicia Vikander)
from East Berlin.  Armie Hammer also stars as a Russian KGB agent who is
assigned to stop him.  But soon the two are forced by their governments
to team up and work together to stop a new rival group from developing a
new type of nuclear bomb.  Hugh Grant also pops up as a British MI6
agent who runs to the two agents.  This was my first time watching it
since seeing it in the theater.  I guess it was OK.

 How much of a fan of the TV show were you?
 

Not much of one.  I don't recall watching reruns when I was a kid. Although I'm sure I must have watched one or two episodes at some point.   Much like Mission Impossible, I knew the show existed but never went out of my way to watch reruns of it.  Also keep in mind my ability to even watch was extremely limited given the show was canceled nearly a decade before I was even born... :-)
Was the movie like the original show?  I was actually curious if Cavill's counterpart in the show was also a thief blackmailed by the CIA into working for them.