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    From Jimmy Anderson@1:116/17 to August Abolins on Sat Jun 13 11:27:00 2020
    August Abolins wrote to Doug Cooper <=-

    For action, watching Charlize Theron in "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015) is practically non-stop action. The logistics to pull off most of the
    stunts looked amazing. I remember needing to pause the film a couple
    of times so that I could catch my breath.

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

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

    Jack Reacher (first one) was a tremendous movie to me! And Edge of Tomorrow
    is a HUGE favorite too!!!




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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Jimmy Anderson on Sun Jun 14 20:53:00 2020
    Hello Jimmy!

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

    August Abolins wrote to Doug Cooper <=-

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

    Some time ago, I had taken my lunch break and finished up a show or
    movie and had a few minutes left, so I thought, "I'll start Fury Road
    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.


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

    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.


    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.


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  • From Doug Cooper@1:227/702 to Jimmy Anderson on Sun Jun 14 22:26:54 2020
    Jack Reacher (first one) was a tremendous movie to me! And Edge of

    Love all the Jack Reachers. Which for some reason reminded me to mention The Punisher series on Netflix. LOVE the show.

    Despite Tom Cruises wierd personal life, I love most of his movies. I
    actually like the Mission Impossibles. He never seems to age, that asshole. I'm really excited to see Top Gun as he's the instructor now, not the top gun pilot. And the camera shots are apparently from within the cockpits, and the actors are flying copilot "for real" in the movie. It's killing me waiting
    for this movie to release.

    I also want to see the new Wonder Woman and the Avenger Chick (Hot chick,
    can't rember her name .. Black something .. or Poison something .. I don't care, just want to see her kick ass.)

    -d

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