Sunday!
Now, it was no The Last Stand, mind you. But it took what worked from each of their movies last year (and, yeah, what didn’t) and threw it in a blender and we got Escape Plan.
Sylvester Stallone is the most serious man in the world. His job is “Security Consultant” and he breaks out of prisons for a living because of an awful tragedy in his past. Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the world’s biggest movie stars and, in this movie, he’s playing a guy who is locked in a prison that was built by a guy who read Sylvester Stallone’s book.
Together, they fight crime.
Well, maybe not “crime” but they end up in the toughest-to-escape-from prison on the planet and, you guessed it, they have to get out.
The only thing that I didn’t really understand was the motivation of the bad guys. Without veering too deeply into politics, when you’re dealing with the worst of the worst, the most evil of the most evil, the toughest of the toughest… isn’t “a private prison” a really, really, really, really expensive solution? We’re well past “reasonable doubt” considerations here. And that’s without getting into the specific motivations of the bad guys in this movie that I couldn’t explain to you if I wanted to give spoilers.
But it’s Stallone/Schwarzenegger. If you *REALLY* cared about that sort of thing, you’d have gone to see some movie with somebody else in it.
So… what are you reading and/or watching?
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Watching my beloved Cats tonight, whose last two games have been two of the best tournament games I’ve seen in a long time. I’m kinda hoping that tonight they blow Michigan out, because I’m not sure my blood pressure can withstand another best tournament game I’ve seen in years.
Other than that, we started Orphan Black, and my son and I are working through season 4 of Warehouse 13.
Reading a copy of Quo Vadis with type so small it hurts my eyes.Report
For Orphan Black, you are going to have to swallow some pretty implausible things right up front, and I am not convinced it’s a great show yet. That said, it’s entertaining and Maslany deserves every bit of the hype and all the awards.Report
We’re 4 episodes in, and I see what you.mean. R. and I have different opinions so far — she is loving it, and I am ambivalent — but it’s one season, and we’re almost out of Netflix and Prime TV at the moment, so it can’t hurt to make it all the way through.Report
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Three of the best tournament games I’ve seen in years. I watched almost all of this one through my fingers.Report
I picked up a novel called Suspects by David Thomson, who mainly writes film history and criticism. It is his only novel.
The book is interesting, it consists of imaginary biographies of film characters. Mainly from the classic Hollywood/Film Noir of WWII to the mid-50s but there are also bios of characters from movies from the Hollywood Renaissance like Chinatown and the King of Marvin Gardens up to the early 80s with Cutter’s Way. The bios are before and after the events of the movie and only a few pages long. At the end of every few bios, a narrator comes in and makes a comment in italics about what he or she is writing and seems deeply disturbed and like he or she knew all the characters and events.Report
Watching Game of Thrones Season 3. Just finished reading In a Fix (Grimes), now I am reading When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune and also wallowing in The Novel Cure.Report
I’d be interesting in hearing what you think of the season when you’ve finished watching it.Report
Sure, I’ll try to remember to report. Honestly the level of attention I am paying to “television series I’ve already read the books for” right now, though, with everything else going on in my life …. it’s basically like “ooh, dragons fishing! grr, mean people; haha Tyrion is funny.” So it might not be terribly meaningful.Report
Fair enough. Would you be happier if I did a discussion post on the season?Report
Sure! I’d love to read it, once I’m done watching. 🙂Report
Let me know when you’re finished watching, then. 🙂Report
So I’m still watching Breaking Bad.
Lain has learned the word “Cook.”Report
What a role model…..
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Finished Angel’s Flight, a Harry Boesch novel by Michael Connelly. I only had the abridged version of this one, which was a shame because it wasn’t one of the novels that lended itself to abridging. And they apparently cut out the part explaining what happened to the marriage that occurred at the end of the previous novel.
I also made my way through Grisham’s The Associate, which actually felt like a Brad Meltzer novel.Report