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Originally posted by Rey
...the movie where he hid the winning lottery ticket in the newspaper at the bottom of a bird cage. I was hoping that movie had a sequel as well when I first saw it.

"Paycheck" if I'm not mistaken, I liked it as well. If you aren't too married to Christianity to have a sense of humor about it, then "Dogma" might also be a fun watch.

As for this franchise, I predict if there is a third movie it will end with tne younger brother driving the airstream into the sunset.

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Originally posted by apprentice:

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Originally posted by Rey
...the movie where he hid the winning lottery ticket in the newspaper at the bottom of a bird cage. I was hoping that movie had a sequel as well when I first saw it.

"Paycheck" if I'm not mistaken, I liked it as well. If you aren't too married to Christianity to have a sense of humor about it, then "Dogma" might also be a fun watch.

As for this franchise, I predict if there is a third movie it will end with tne younger brother driving the airstream into the sunset.

Paycheck sounds right. I'll look for Dogma.

I was thinking of another sequel to the Accountant but I thought Ben was sporting some gray hairs in the movie. I wish they had come out with the sequel sooner to get more in.

I don't want it to get to the point where it's like the last Equalizer movie. As much as I enjoyed the series, I don't want to see another movie where I expect Denzel Washington to be sporting a walker to maim his opponents.

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Many comedic scenes. It took me a while to understand the punchline of the younger brother looking at the pictures on the wall and he said, “She didn’t kill this one. Or that one.” Well played.

That was a well played scene...Medina's reaction and Chris' follow up line were very well done also

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Originally posted by 9mmepiphany:

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Many comedic scenes. It took me a while to understand the punchline of the younger brother looking at the pictures on the wall and he said, “She didn’t kill this one. Or that one.” Well played.

That was a well played scene...Medina's reaction and Chris' follow up line were very well done also

Without Chris' follow-up line, I would never have figured it out. So that was very much needed for me. It's not like he had to "explain" the joke.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
I was surprised it went to Prime in such a short time after release. Did it not get enough views on release? Was the first movie not successful enough?

It’s the new way of film release. Theaters, first, exclusive. 30-60 days, to whatever streaming platform they work the deal with. (Big Big $$$ here). Then like you, who wants physical media, is the last little piece of cash they grab. Not me, but most people will pay for streaming to see a film. Us physical media buyers are the last to get the bag.

When I looked it up, it releases at the end of this month on 4k blu ray. (The way it should be watched, full audio). I think it was 6/23 when Amazon said they’d ship the 4k disc.

I got interrupted, so still have 30 minutes or so to finish. It's okay, but it doesn't really feel like a continuation of the first one.

One, I have a hard time reconciling the rather stoic character in the first movie with the speed dating/line dancing savant in the second. What happened to the metal therapy?

Two, his "team" is pretty far-fetched. Yeah yeah yeah, it's a movie, but I found the idea of Justine with a uber-computer in the basement of a treatment center a lot more believable than her neuro-divergent cyber war room.

To your second point, I believe the connection he had with Anna Kendrick's character opened up a world in which Christian could actually make romantic connections with people, so he's exploring that with the speed dating.

As for Justine's team, they're living at the house and have the capability, so why shouldn't she utilize them? Of couse, the physical presence of the war room is highly suspect, since her parents or the staff would have to know about it. Not like all those deliveries and the installation of the servers could have gone totally without notice.

As dreamy as Anna Kendrick is, I just find it a stretch.

Equally stretchy is that Justine is gonna be able to 1) ID the kind of morally flexible neuro divergent kid they need for such work AND 2) get said kid into the program and 3) kid is gonna be fine doing it.

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS!!!

Two other things I kinda balked at....

Burke's shooter was way too fast with that bolt gun.

Chris and Braxton work way too well together for guys who saw each other briefly eight years prior.

I also need to watch it again. I missed something with the connection between Anais, Burke, and the Slavic dude Justine calls at the end. Is he like the go-to guy for hit men? I gather both Anais and Braxton are his "employees". He and Anais know who Chris is (at least by reputation). I also wonder about the scene where Anais tears herself out of the photo. Her husband is dead, does she think her son is as well or is she just like "Well, he's in good hands with the brothers, no need for him to meet hitmom"

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:


It’s the new way of film release. Theaters, first, exclusive. 30-60 days, to whatever streaming platform they work the deal with. (Big Big $$$ here). Then like you, who wants physical media, is the last little piece of cash they grab. Not me, but most people will pay for streaming to see a film. Us physical media buyers are the last to get the bag.

When I looked it up, it releases at the end of this month on 4k blu ray. (The way it should be watched, full audio). I think it was 6/23 when Amazon said they’d ship the 4k disc.

When I say I "buy" it, I mean I buy the license on Fandango at Home. I've since copied my physical dvds to cloud storage in both virtual disk and MP4 format.

I love the scene during the shootout in Mexico (? - not sure as I wasn't paying too much attention to the plot by this point). Affleck is shooting the AR and his mag runs out. He drops the mag, turns it over, reinserts it and continues shooting. Not two mags taped together, no...a single magazine.

Sorry. I liked the first one, but this one sucks.

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Originally posted by AllenInAR:
HERE THERE BE SPOILERS!!!

I also need to watch it again. I missed something with the connection between Anais, Burke, and the Slavic dude Justine calls at the end. Is he like the go-to guy for hit men? I gather both Anais and Braxton are his "employees". He and Anais know who Chris is (at least by reputation). I also wonder about the scene where Anais tears herself out of the photo. Her husband is dead, does she think her son is as well or is she just like "Well, he's in good hands with the brothers, no need for him to meet hitmom"

The Slavic guy is a facilitator. He accepts contracts and matches them up with independent contractors to be fulfilled. He pays them when contracts are completed after taking his commission.

Anais and Braxton are independent contractors who receive contracts through this facilitator. Burke is a client who has contracted to have Anais killed, before she can kill him, and King killed as he was getting too close to exposing his operation.

Justine calls the facilitator to let him know to take a step back from the contract taken out by Burke...cut his losses

Anais tearing herself out of the photo is referencing her taking herself out of that picture/life because she knows she is no longer able to life that life since her TBI

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Originally posted by AllenInAR:
I got interrupted, so still have 30 minutes or so to finish. It's okay, but it doesn't really feel like a continuation of the first one.

One, I have a hard time reconciling the rather stoic character in the first movie with the speed dating/line dancing savant in the second. What happened to the metal therapy?

Those scenes are meant to indicate his emotional/empathetic growth since the first movie. That's why Brax was so stunned and cheering him on

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Originally posted by Orguss:
As for Justine's team, they're living at the house and have the capability, so why shouldn't she utilize them? Of couse, the physical presence of the war room is highly suspect, since her parents or the staff would have to know about it. Not like all those deliveries and the installation of the servers could have gone totally without notice.

While a bit of a strech. it played well.

Seeing how Justine has grown sine the first movie...while still non-verbal, she is much calmer and interacts with the other kids...I would think the assumption is that her father might be more consumed with running the facility and he lets her spend Chris' donations however she wants; since she seems to control all that funding

I don't know that her parents know where the funding is coming from. I was under the impression the father thought they were anonymous donations.

I didn't like the second one as much as the first, but I still liked it quite a bit. Took me a bit to warm up to Ben Affleck cranking the awkwardness up another couple levels from the first one, but then again, he's probably been even more isolated than normal since the end of the 1st movie.

I loved the banter between him and his brother. The scene at the bar where Chris very deliberately provokes a fist fight just so his brother will have fun killed me.

So does Chris do John Wick's accounting? If he and The Equalizer have a fender bender in the parking lot, who survives? Fun movies. I'm willing to suspend disbelief.

The scene in the truck after the bar fight when Chris shows his brother the hot chick's number on his hand -- who else was dying to hear "how do you like those apples?"