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I put together the BB-8 Brick Sketch today.
I had a delightful phone convo with J.
I had a delightful phone convo with K.
I walked with M.
I watched a movie! I watched _Mr. Right!_, which is a very odd movie and was exactly mine kind of movie. Basically, hit man did not love his job and wanted to quit, but The Corporation did not want him to, so his handler / mentor / partner tried but failed to kill him leaving him with an entertaining scar (back story).
OH ALSO SPOILERS!
At the beginning of the movie he is skipping through his new non-profit / charitable work, in which he basically takes job offers (and the initial or total payment — this is never made clear, which is fine!) and then kills the person who tries to hire him to kill someone because murder is wrong. Hard to argue with! In so many ways.
Anyway, his old handler is still trying to capture / kill / WTF him.
He meets Our Heroine in a drug store (no, like the CVS kind, come on!) and it is definitely Meet Cute when the condom package display is knocked over and Our Hero catches a bunch of boxes neatly stacked in his hands, and Our Heroine catches at least one and then wants to know how he did that. You know they are meant for each other, because these are Chaos Ballet Dancers — creating epic, physical melee and sliding through (relatively) unscathed. She spends a lot of the movie basically pretending to be normal, and relapsing into passivity whenever her inner Chaos Dancer is triggered, but eventually, she is motivated (ha ha ha! That is such a great scene! It is like that torture scene in The Long Kiss Goodnight, but not so drawn out and distressing, and without the personal connection) and Takes Action Herself. It is pretty cool, altho I could wish she had had a bit more training than a casual Play Catch with Knives session. OTOH, training montages kinda suck, so, sorta awesome that a lot of what this pair do is presented as being Naturals.
I think the very best thing about this movie is that he promises to stop killing people because she has a really negative reaction to seeing him kill someone. He had been very honest about what he was doing, but she thought he was joking. Obviously, not killing people presents him with a much more difficult problem when dealing with multiple attackers (gotta worry about the ones you put down getting back up, when they are not dead). And he develops some new social skills in the course of this! He says things that strongly encourage people to run away. Ultimately, he also specifically befriends (?) a couple of the black men hired to come kill him. So while all the other men hired to come kill him (and the man who hired them) do wind up dead, one way or the other _the two black men survive_. They are not totally unscathed, but this is a movie that does not gratuitously kill the black guy early on. This is so amazing in an action movie. It is so ridiculously pathetic that this is amazing in an action movie. And yet, here we are.
I do not think I will be watching the director’s earlier two movies (The Appeared is horror, so not my thing, and Rage does not look that appealing to me). However, I will be keeping an eye out for more from him, and may take a look at some of the TV episodes he has directed.
I had a delightful phone convo with J.
I had a delightful phone convo with K.
I walked with M.
I watched a movie! I watched _Mr. Right!_, which is a very odd movie and was exactly mine kind of movie. Basically, hit man did not love his job and wanted to quit, but The Corporation did not want him to, so his handler / mentor / partner tried but failed to kill him leaving him with an entertaining scar (back story).
OH ALSO SPOILERS!
At the beginning of the movie he is skipping through his new non-profit / charitable work, in which he basically takes job offers (and the initial or total payment — this is never made clear, which is fine!) and then kills the person who tries to hire him to kill someone because murder is wrong. Hard to argue with! In so many ways.
Anyway, his old handler is still trying to capture / kill / WTF him.
He meets Our Heroine in a drug store (no, like the CVS kind, come on!) and it is definitely Meet Cute when the condom package display is knocked over and Our Hero catches a bunch of boxes neatly stacked in his hands, and Our Heroine catches at least one and then wants to know how he did that. You know they are meant for each other, because these are Chaos Ballet Dancers — creating epic, physical melee and sliding through (relatively) unscathed. She spends a lot of the movie basically pretending to be normal, and relapsing into passivity whenever her inner Chaos Dancer is triggered, but eventually, she is motivated (ha ha ha! That is such a great scene! It is like that torture scene in The Long Kiss Goodnight, but not so drawn out and distressing, and without the personal connection) and Takes Action Herself. It is pretty cool, altho I could wish she had had a bit more training than a casual Play Catch with Knives session. OTOH, training montages kinda suck, so, sorta awesome that a lot of what this pair do is presented as being Naturals.
I think the very best thing about this movie is that he promises to stop killing people because she has a really negative reaction to seeing him kill someone. He had been very honest about what he was doing, but she thought he was joking. Obviously, not killing people presents him with a much more difficult problem when dealing with multiple attackers (gotta worry about the ones you put down getting back up, when they are not dead). And he develops some new social skills in the course of this! He says things that strongly encourage people to run away. Ultimately, he also specifically befriends (?) a couple of the black men hired to come kill him. So while all the other men hired to come kill him (and the man who hired them) do wind up dead, one way or the other _the two black men survive_. They are not totally unscathed, but this is a movie that does not gratuitously kill the black guy early on. This is so amazing in an action movie. It is so ridiculously pathetic that this is amazing in an action movie. And yet, here we are.
I do not think I will be watching the director’s earlier two movies (The Appeared is horror, so not my thing, and Rage does not look that appealing to me). However, I will be keeping an eye out for more from him, and may take a look at some of the TV episodes he has directed.