Watched Death Wish last night. I liked it. I don’t expect Hollywood to get guns right. It was entertaining for $5 in Amazon Prime
Watched Death Wish last night. I liked it. I don’t expect Hollywood to get guns right. It was entertaining for $5 in Amazon Prime
Just a Hairy Special Snowflake supply clerk with no field experience, shooting an Asymetric carbine as a Try Hard. Snarky and easily butt hurt. Favorite animal is the Cape Buffalo....likely indicative of a personality disorder.
"If I had a grandpa, he would look like Delbert Belton".
On Dagga Boy's recommendation, I started watching The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher this week on Netflix. A disgraced 19th Century Metropolitan Police copper goes into the "private enquiry" business. Well written and acted like so much British TV. Worth a watch.
And on a very serious and useful note, I watched a three episode series recommended by William Aprill. November 13 - Attack on Paris is a personal narrative documentary of the 11/13/2015 coordinated attacks on Paris: the stadium, several bistros/bars and the Bataclan concert venue. I found much value in watching victim psychology, the attitudes of the cops/firefighters (btw, they're just like us Americans in devotion to duty) and in how interaction between terrorist hostage takers and their victims creates complex problems.
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Tried to watch a Jack Reacher movie and the newest Transformers - didn't make it past 10 minutes in. Watched a science show on whales.
Used my Father's Day trump card to watch "The Last Starfighter" with my kids. They had the desired reaction: a little cheesy, but a lot of fun.
"The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so."
― Ennius
"Therefore, since the world has still... Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure, Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure,
I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good." -- A.E. Housman
This weekend, we watched the first episode of Condor airing on Audience, a limited series version of Three/Six(movie/book) Days of the Condor. At first I didn't think I would like it as the main character was all full of angst... but then the killing started.
"You can't win a war with choirboys. " Mad Mike Hoare
Gawd...Three Days of the Condor was yuuuge to me as a kid, book and movie. I'll definitely check this out when it's on Amazon/Hulu/Netflix, thanks for the heads up.
My wife is too young (humble brag) to have seen the original Death Wish and all it's sequels, but she really liked Bruce's version, me, too, fwiw. I was both surprised and pleased that the director, Eli Roth of Hostel fame, cut out the infamous rape scene.