Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-26 (Wednesday) & 2025-03-27 (Thursday)

On 3/29/25 8:07 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 3/29/2025 12:13 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 3/28/25 2:01 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 3/28/2025 5:46 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
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Sorry - yesterday was my "work-from-home" day, and I didn't feel like
posting one of these yesterday morning... So this will be a two-day
catch-up.
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As usual, I haven't watched anything since soaps. I'm starting to
create another backlog of streaming shows to watch, but I don't really
have the time to binge through them right now - I may try to start
"School Spirits" this weekend... So soaps it is...
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I also put "Jupiter Ascending" on in the background yesterday - I had
no idea that a young Vanessa Kirby was in this playing Mila Kunis'
scantily-clad roommate. Nor that Eddie Redmayne was in this as the
main villain... This is one movie that would definitely benefit from
4k, though I was watching it off an HBO cable channel, so no such luck.

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It looks great in 3D.  I'm one of the few who really likes the movie.
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What did you watch?

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The only thing I watched worth mentioning is:
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A Working Man (theatrical) New action movie written by Sylvester
Stallone, directed by David Ayer, and starring Jason Statham.  Statham
stars as (checks notes) a working Man. He works for a construction
company run by Michael Peña.  Michael Peña's adult daughter also works
there, and one day she gets herself kidnapped by Russian sex
traffickers.  These Russians are straight out of the "John Wick" /
"Equalizer" central casting office.  Peña knows his friend Stathan has a
particular set of skills.  Skills that would make him a nightmare for
the people who took his daughter, so he asks Statham to rescue her.
Statham then sets off to kill his way through Russians.  He even
occasionally remembers to ask where the girl is at.  But he's mostly
killing Russians and in spite of doing the bare minimalist
interrogation, he somehow keeps stumbling his way up the chain of
traffickers.  At times this movie was so over the top that it almost
felt like a parody of action movies.  Between the two, how in the world
is "The Beekeeper" the more grounded and realistic movie?  At one point
Statham strapped a gun to his back that was so big that I immediately
thought of the buddy cop parody movie, "Hot Fuzz."
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This movie is basically "Taken" but set in the John Wick universe.  They
really weren't trying to hide it.  But if you want to see Statham shoot
Russians for 2 hours with increasingly larger weapons, then this is the
movie for you.

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I absolutely *do* want to see that!!
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But I do have one question.  If you are setting out to rescue someone
who has been kidnapped, why would you bring with you *multiple*
grenades?  Where in the thought process do you say to yourself, I'm
gonna need a few grenades for this job.  Not that I'm complaining,
seeing as how it turns out he was right.

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Sounds like a blast!

 It's a solid turn your brain off and enjoy the ride type of flick.
 I intentionally didn't give any details about the girl they kidnapped. She has her own little side movie going on.  She barely even needed Statham to save her!
 

Though I enjoyed "The Beekeeper" a lot, so I'm not
sure this flick can top it!  ;p

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They really need to do a beekeeper two. And then beekeeper the series.

 They are doing a Beekeeper sequel. 

Hell yeah!!:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jason-statham-beekeeper-2-1236149188/
I totally didn't hear about this! I am psyched!!  :)
Too bad filming doesn't start until the fall though - that means no release until 2026...  :(

Originally I was going to watch "The Beekeeper" and "Wrath of Man" (another Statham revenge flick) before this, then changed my mind and decided to hold off and save "The Beekeeper" for when the sequel comes out.