Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-20 (Saturday)

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:49:45 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 4/21/2024 8:24 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 4/21/24 8:09 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
 

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

On 4/21/2024 8:18 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
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What did you watch?

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I watched:
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Now You See Me (Blu-ray) 2013 movie about 4 shady street magicians 
who are mysteriously brought together to form a Vegas act that fronts
for
various heists they disguise as magic tricks.  Mark Ruffalo costars as
an FBI agent hot on their trail and Morgan Freeman plays a magician
debunker who is helping the FBI (and himself) to figure out how they
pull off their heists.

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I liked this movie

I liked it too. Finally got around to seeing it a month or two ago.
Didn't see the end coming which is always nice.

Now You See Me 2 (4K disc) 2016 sequel which finds everyone from the
first movie returning for round 2 of payback and revenge with some
magical heists thrown in for good measure.

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I didn’t like this movie nearly as much as the first installment.

 
Agreed on both counts.

Haven't seen it but it is on the list.

 

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+`2
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I feel bad for Lizzy Caplan - she tried her best, and indeed may have
been the best thing about the sequel - but she already had, like, 7
strikes against her. Including the fact that the second one, esp. the
denouement, was asinine.
 
That said, I would be up for a third film (esp. if they brought back
Isla Fisher), and am surprised they never tried to do one. (AFAICT,
there's been no talk of another sequel at all lately...)
 
 

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There's definitely a third one on the way.  There's been a lot of
chatter about it recently.  I *almost* didn't watch the first two
because I expect it to arrive in the next year or two.