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Experienced Slacker |
"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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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. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Casuistic Thinker and Daoist![]() |
That was a well played scene...Medina's reaction and Chris' follow up line were very well done also No, Daoism isn't a religion | |||
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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. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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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. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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Charmingly unsophisticated |
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. _______________________________ The artist formerly known as AllenInWV | |||
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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. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Charmingly unsophisticated |
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. _______________________________ The artist formerly known as AllenInWV | |||
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Charmingly unsophisticated |
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" _______________________________ The artist formerly known as AllenInWV | |||
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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. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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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. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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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 No, Daoism isn't a religion | |||
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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 No, Daoism isn't a religion | |||
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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 No, Daoism isn't a religion | |||
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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'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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The Quiet Man |
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. | |||
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Experienced Slacker |
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?" ![]() | |||
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