IdleRich

IdleRich
He's on my screen right now, with Jennifer Aniston, and this morning I saw a trailer for an upcoming film with him in it. It seems he's still out there, lurking, every time you think he's gone away he pops up and, suddenly he's there right in front of you again like he'd never been away.
 

sufi

lala

same film as the first one but there's some real moments in here. It begins with a US drone strike failing to kill an international terrorist and instead a party of civilians. Years later, the terrorists plot a revenge attack in london which manages to kill every president of countries americans might care about but also not so big so as to alienate a large foreign audience- so goodbye England, France, Germany, Canada, and Japan.

Gerard Butler and the US president are now trapped in a london in which every police officer is actually an under cover arab terrorist. think escape from new york. This time even the president racks up a body count and Gerard Butler tells arab man to go back to 'Fuckheadistan.' They escape.

The movie ends with what is surely the only heroic drone strike ever put to film. Morgan Freeman, the vice president, delivers a one liner over telephone before the terrorist finds death from above. Notice this is the films way of righting the wrong of the opening scene in which they erroneously droned a 13-and-under girls soccer team. Morgan Freedman delivers these closing remarks to the public which I will quote directly:
haha this one is on telly right now - westminster abbey and chelsea bridge just got blown up & the police are all terrorists, Bonanza!
 

version

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I finally watched Shooter last night and have been mulling over a Mark Wahlberg thread.

There's a hilarious bit near the beginning when he's retired in disgust at the government and you've got him with a ponytail and living in a cabin in the woods with a dog who brings him a Budweiser from the fridge and a copy of the 9/11 Commission Report on his desk.
 

william_kent

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I finally watched Shooter last night and have been mulling over a Mark Wahlberg thread.

fucking pussy! Marky Mark will never come back to Manchester because some Salford lad threw a slice of pizza at him on Oxford road... weak if you ask me...( and that was some time in the 90s... call you self hard Marky Mark? pussy! )

oh, what the fuck is that film where he's crying at the flowers? is that what you call a midnight shalamar disaster? painful!
 

linebaugh

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I finally watched Shooter last night and have been mulling over a Mark Wahlberg thread.

There's a hilarious bit near the beginning when he's retired in disgust at the government and you've got him with a ponytail and living in a cabin in the woods with a dog who brings him a Budweiser from the fridge and a copy of the 9/11 Commission Report on his desk.
that movies a relic now. Everything in it is radioactive culture war fodder but in 2007 its all still harmless action movie fun
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Flicking through the channels, I come across an intriguing looking film entitled (apparently) O Rebelde Salvafdor, but a little investigation reveals that when you translate it from foreign into English, it's apparently called Machine Gun Preacher and it stars the unstoppable Gerard Butler. He's like my version of the Mandela Effect in that three or four years ago he definitely didn't exist, but now suddenly he's in about half the films that have ever been made. I've obviously moved into a different reality, one where the person in charge thought it would be funny to take the most average looking guy - a kind of, not even "boy next door" if such a type is recognised, but rather the "ugly cantankerous old weirdo next door" and make him, first of all an action hero, and then, even more improbably have him porking Catherine Zeta-Jones, Thandie Newton, and now Michelle Monaghan. People who aren't just out of his league... these are the biggest mismatches I've seen since Real Madrid played Man City!

In fact I particularly want to talk about Thandie Newton whom he gets together with in Rock n Rolla - first of all (as you'd expect with the Mandela Effect thing) he definitely wasn't in that film the first two or three times I saw it, then, last time, suddenly he was the star, and somehow he's being chased by Thandie Newon AND Tom Hardy, we're supposed to believe this guy who looks like a brick with a beard is irresistible to men and women?
 
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