Hello Jimmy!

** On Saturday 13.06.20 - 11:27, Jimmy Anderson wrote to August Abolins:

 -=>> August Abolins wrote to Doug Cooper <=-

 AA>> For action, watching Charlize Theron in "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015) is
 AA>> practically non-stop action..

 JA> Some time ago, I had taken my lunch break and finished up a show or
 JA> movie and had a few minutes left, so I thought, "I'll start Fury Road
 JA> and when it stops to take a breath I'll stop." Took 35 minutes! LOL

Heheheh.. there ya go.

There's a motorcycle chase in one of the Bourne movies (can't remember  
which one) but the assassin is chasing Bourne along the streets, across  
impossible barriers, and finally under an overpass roadway or something..  
but the chase scene runs for several l-o-n-g minutes as the fight  
continues between the riders of both bikes.  Very intense.  The editing  
work for that sequence had to be a brutal job.


 AA>> Despite some criticisms I've heard of Tom Cruise in films (eg, the Jack
 AA>> Reacher ones, and Mission Impossible), I thought he's pretty good wrt
 AA>> performing his own stunts and as long as he has good lines to read.

 JA> Jack Reacher (first one) was a tremendous movie to me!

The 1st JR was an excellent script.  The toughness of the JR character of  
the books came through well.  The 2nd one seemed a bit too mushy in places  
wrt to his supposed daughter, but the pair-up worked well.


 JA> And Edge of Tomorrow is a HUGE favorite too!!!

I watched the Edge of Tomorrow after having seeing it mentioned here  
recently.  It was pretty smart in a time-travel twisty kinda groundhog day  
sort of way.  Cruise did quite alright.

For a film involving alien+human cohabitation (or is it?) check out  
"District 9" from 2009.  It wasn't anything like what I expected. The  
storyline was smart (a message about alien+human coexistance) and the  
special effects were amazing.


  ../|ug

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