Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-26 (Friday)

On 4/27/24 7:35 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 4/27/2024 7:25 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 4/27/24 7:05 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 4/27/2024 5:18 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
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There were two movies that debuted this weekend.  "Boy Kills World" and "Challengers."  "Boy Kills World" is a new action comedy starring Bill Skarsgård as a deaf-mute young man who goes on a blood soaked revenge spree to slaughter the people who killed his family.  The movie also stars Jessica Rothe, Famke Janssen, Sharlto Copley, and "Mad Dog" from the Raid movies.  How could you possibly go wrong? "Challengers" on the other hand is a 2 hour long drama starring Zendeya.  The plot involves her being in a love triangle with tennis players.  So it was not a hard decision picking which movie to see on Thursday night.  Except "Boy Kills World" was not playing in IMAX or Dolby cinema.  All the high quality theater screens had been taken over by "Challengers."  So I went to the local theater and saw  "Boy Kills World" on a regular screen...
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"Boy Kills World" - I actually saw this on Thursday night, but didn't feel like talking about it.  Given the cast and premise I went into this with high expectations.  My expectations were crushed.  I though I was going to get "Crank" and instead I got "Gamer."  :-(

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I recently watched 'Gamer' (aka 'Crank 3').  You thought there was a noticeable difference between it and the Crank movies?

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Yes - "Gamer" was much worse than the "Crank" films (even the second one!).

 Yeah, I commented at the time that I *want* to like "Gamer" but it just doesn't work for me.  Something similar happened with "Equilibrium." It's an excellent movie.  Then the writer/director's next movie, "Ultraviolet" which went for the same vibe, but was pure crap.

Wow. Some fun facts - Kurt Wimmer didn't direct another film after 2006's "Ultraviolet" until the "Children of the Corn" reboot in 2020 (which I've been meaning to get to).
But he's written a bunch of stuff since, including "Law Abiding Citizen", "Salt", the "Total Recall" and "Point Break" reboots (in addition to "Children of the Corn"), and "The Beekeeper"!