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Movies I watched in July

Air (2023 - B. Affleck)
The Idol - series (2003 - S. Levinson)
New Jack City (1991 - M. Van Peebles)
Asteroid City (2023 - W. Anderson)
Big Night (1996 - S. Tucci & C. Scott)
They Live By Night (1948 - N. Ray)
Book Club (2018 - B. Holderman)
Gold Brick (2023 - J. Rozan)
A Long Way Down (2014 - P. Chaumeil)
About Endlessness (2019 - R. Andersson)
UHF (1989 - J. Levey)
SS-GB - series (2017 - P. Kadelbach)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935 - L. McCarey)
Murder at the Gallop (1964 - G. Pollock)
Million Dollar Legs (1932 - E. Cline)
Celebrity (1998 - W. Allen)
The Hospital (1971 - A. Hiller)
Shin Kamen Rider (2023 - H. Anno)
Oppenheimer (2023 - C. Nolan)
Barbie (2023 - G. Gerwig)
Full Circle - series (2023 - S. Soderbergh)
Boyz N the Hood (1991 - J. Singleton)
From Russia with Love (1963 - T. Young)
Pathaan (2023 - S. Anand)

Busy month with 21 movies including three on the big screen. I liked all three of Asteroid City, Oppenheimer and Barbie in their own way but I think Asteroid City has stayed with me the most.

Air was a total dad movie. It kept me engaged but then again I'm a dad. Big Night was a wonderful little film with Stanley Tucci and Tony Salhoub as brothers running a restaurant. It's one of the great foodie movies. They Live By Night is a famous noir that I'd never seen. The plot setup of young lovers on the run from the law has been done so many times since that the film lost some of its impact for me.

About Endlessness was a bizarre film of comic vignettes by Swedish director Roy Andersson. He has a very unique style using a static camera and deep focus compositions that can be a bit boring at times but I enjoyed his bone dry humor. I needed something dumb after that so Weird Al's UHF it was. Lots of hit-or-miss gags but some genuine laughs to be had.

Mrs. E wanted to watch Ruggles of Red Gap on her birthday for some reason. It's an underrated classic comedy that I hadn't seen in decades but still holds up. Murder at the Gallop was one of the 60s Miss Marple mysteries starring Margaret Rutherford that worked better as comedy than a whodunit. Million Dollar Legs was an early talkie with a plot that involved the 1932 LA Olympics. It wasn't very good in large part because W.C. Fields wasn't on screen enough.

My daughter somehow convinced me to watch Book Club as a gag. It was insipid and predictable but had a few laughs. I'd go with 80 for Brady as far as grandma movies go. A Long Way Down is an English comedy about a friendship between four people who tried to commit suicide on the same night. It was alright if you can get past that improbable premise.

New Jack City and Boyz N the Hood were as close as I came to a themed viewing this month. The heavy melodrama hasn't aged well in either but New Jack City came off worse in this department with its cartoonish cops and crooks. I'd seen parts of Boyz N the Hood many times but I think this was the first time I ever saw it start to finish.

The Hospital was a solid 70s drama/black comedy. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and George C. Scott's embattled doctor character seemed like kind of a dry run for Chayefsky's Howard Beale character in Network. The streaming print was badly faded like a lot of films from the 70s that haven't been digitally restored. Celebrity was a mediocre Woody Allen 90s movie that was notable only for Kenneth Branagh playing his role like a Woody Allen impersonator. From Russia with Love is the most old school of all the 007 movies and is still one of my favorites.
 
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I'm doing a separate post for two new foreign language action movies on Prime because more people might be interested in them than the usual old stuff I watch.

Shin Kamen Rider is an absolutely insane Japanese superhero movie. Some might be put off by the cornball dialog, ultra violence and stuntmen wrestling around in insect costumes but I was blown away by the spectacle. It's like a Japanese manga come to life even down to the way scenes are shot and edited. Some of the exposition was awkward but the action sequences played much more like comic books than the usual MCU and DC movies.

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Pathaan is a much more conventional film. It's basically an Indian take on the Mission Impossible series with some very CGI-heavy action. The hero is jokey in sort of a Roger Moore/007 way, his female partner is gorgeous and the super terrorist villain is named Jim, that's it just Jim. I was entertained by it but it seemed like everything about it has been done better in other movies. You gotta love it though when a secret agent gets introduced via a Bollywood musical number. Pathaan is part of a loosely constructed Indian franchise called the YRF Spy Universe. I don't know if I liked it enough to jump into the shared universe but never say never.

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Since I'm on a roll with international action movies, I watched Hidden Strike, currently #1 on Netflix. In spite of two bankable action stars in Jackie Chan and John Cena, the movie languished without a release for five years since filming wrapped in 2018. That's usually a pretty good sign that it's not going to be a classic.

It's a Chinese production with locations in China and Mongolia doubling as Iraq in the film. The stars are former soldiers who are initially on opposite sides of some nonsense involving a USB drive that controls a massive oil refinery. They remain adversaries long enough to square up against each other. Chan has been doing variations on the mismatched buddy/action/comedy genre for 30 years so it's not a big spoiler to reveal than he and Cena eventually team up.

Chan and Cena have decent chemistry together in spite of the lame script. Quite a bit of the dialog is in Chinese including some by Cena. The fight scenes are the highlights of the film although it's probably telling that the outtakes that run over the ending credits mostly feature flubbed dialog rather than Jackie doing his own stuntwork in his mid 60s. There are also some big CGI vehicle chases that play like a poor man's Fury Road. I watched it about an hour ago and have already have forgotten the fiendish plan of the bad guys.
 
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Death of Stalin (Hulu): I had seen this once before but didn't remember much. I watched it again after a podcaster called it his favorite recent comedy. I enjoyed it the second time, and it is funny... but nothing like a greatest comedy. It's worth a watch.
 
They Cloned Tyrone (Netflix): This was better than I expected. After the other Netflix Jamie Foxx movie (Day Shift) I didn't expect much. This also had John Boyega and Teyonah Parris, and the interactions between the three main characters was the best part of the movie. As you can guess from the title, there's a scifi angle to this as the main plot, and that was fine enough, but it was mainly about the interplay between the leads.
 
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They Cloned Tyrone (Netflix): This was better than I expected. After the other Netflix Jamie Foxx movie (Day Shift) I didn't expect much. This also had John Boyega and Teyonah Parris, and the interactions between the three main characters was the best part of the movie. As you can guess from the title, there's a scifi angle to this as the main plot, and that was fine enough, but it was mainly about the interplay between the leads.
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Enjoyed this, and like you said the three leads had terrific chemistry, fun movie.
 
Source Code (Tubi): Jake Gyllenhall, Vera Farmiga, Michelle Monaghan movie from 2011, 7.5 on IMDB. This is a scifi construct, but the scenes are conventional. I thought this was good - Jake G and Vera F did a really good job, I thought. The only odd thing is the ending - I think Jake has to teach history now, which he isn’t equipped for. Still, nice story.
 
Villainess (Peacock free): I had watched the opening sequence a while back and was blown away by it, but never got back to watch the rest of the movie until now. The rest of the movie didn't live up to it. As an apparent racist, I had a little trouble keeping some of the Korean men straight, which is rough in a movie that bounces between present and past a lot and has a complicated plot. I'll admit that there's a major piece of the plot I can't understand, even after reading the Wiki plot summary - a motivation/plan in the past doesn't make sense to me. The movie is bleak - it didn't follow some movie tropes about redemption and heroic sacrifice - it just got darker and darker. The action was pretty tame after that incredible opening sequence. While it isn't bad, I might have accidentally hit on the right formula initially - watch the opening sequence, then bail.

I always go with subs over dubs, but this time I accidentally ended up with dubs and didn't hate it. It worked well with folding laundry, since I could look away more easily.
 
2nd Summer in a row where I've used my extended vacation time to do a themed "film fest" over the course of the summer. Last year the theme was Epics. This year it's westerns. I chose the movies a little based on what I own, what is streaming and what helps cover the genre and make little themed pockets. So far I've watched:

  1. The Magnificent Seven
  2. Broken Arrow*
  3. The Naked Spur
  4. The Furies
  5. Johnny Guitar
  6. The Lusty Men
  7. The Shooting*
  8. True Grit (2010)
  9. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)*
  10. Django (Spaghetti Western, not the QT)
  11. Texas, Adios*
  12. For a Few More Dollars*
  13. Death Rides a Horse
*first time watch

- For a Few More Dollars was by far the best new watch. I have seen the other Leone movies several times but somehow just never saw this one. What a great movie and honestly not too far behind The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

- Broken Arrow was interesting for the time, had to be one of the first Hollywood Westerns to paint the Native Americans as not only human but mostly as the just side in the fight. I wonder if this was pretty controversial at the time?

- Johnny Guitar is a masterpiece, it's very melodramatic for a western but it's maybe the best movie so far. Neck and neck with Few More Dollars. Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden and Mercedes McCambridge are all electric in this. And it looks incredible for a western that's much more stagey than it is sprawling.

- Biggest disappointment was The Shooting. Interesting to see a very very young Jack at least. This movie is considered kind of a cult classic but I didn't care for it, didn't get it. It's plot is similar to True Grit but it has a twist ending and just very little of it worked for me.
 
Zom 100 (Netflix): The live-action movie, not the animated show. Based on a manga by the guy who wrote Alice in Borderlands. Japanese zombie movie where the outbreak is a relief to a guy who was miserable and overworked at his job. He makes a list of things he wants to do before he becomes a zombie. Japanese zombies were just as crunchy and poppy as Korean zombies. I liked this movie. lt was funny and I liked watching the main characters have fun in such a bleak setting. It went way over the top at one point - the Z Nation people were rolling their eyes at a section of the movie. Still, it was fun overall.
 
The Man With No Name said:
Ilov80s said:
The Man With No Name said:

Ilov80s, have you seen The Great Silence? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Silence​

It is rated 7.7 on imdb
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No but it's on a long list of movies I want to see eventually
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Klaus Kinski is in it, one of the bad guys from For a Few Dollars More that you mentioned
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Oh yeah I saw. I am very familiar with him from Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, Wrath of God. Those movies are incredible and his performances are legendary.
 
Speaking of westerns...

I was just wondering if Little Big Man holds up. Thought my kids might enjoy it. That and My Name is Nobody (spoof spaghetti western) are two I remember being on tv a lot in the 70s, and I liked them both a lot as a kid.
 
GotG 3 - woof. Glad I waited for Disney+
Might actually be worse than the 2nd one

Outside of Loki S2 not sure there’s another Marvel series /film I’m interested in
 
Eephus said:
A Long Way Down is an English comedy about a friendship between four people who tried to commit suicide on the same night. It was alright if you can get past that improbable premise.
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Nick Hornby book. I had no idea it had been made into a movie. I'd like to check this one out.
 
El Floppo said:
Speaking of westerns...

I was just wondering if Little Big Man holds up. Thought my kids might enjoy it. That and My Name is Nobody (spoof spaghetti western) are two I remember being on tv a lot in the 70s, and I liked them both a lot as a kid.
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That’s one I haven’t seen yet either
 
krista4 said:
Eephus said:
A Long Way Down is an English comedy about a friendship between four people who tried to commit suicide on the same night. It was alright if you can get past that improbable premise.
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Nick Hornby book. I had no idea it had been made into a movie. I'd like to check this one out.
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It's not as good as High Fidelity or About a Boy but it's better than Fever Pitch (both of 'em)
 
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El Floppo said:
Speaking of westerns...

I was just wondering if Little Big Man holds up. Thought my kids might enjoy it. That and My Name is Nobody (spoof spaghetti western) are two I remember being on tv a lot in the 70s, and I liked them both a lot as a kid.
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Haven't seen Little Big Man in decades. It's streaming on Prime so you've piqued my interest.

I'd read the book before seeing the movie and I remember Young Eephus not loving the casting of Dustin Hoffman.
 
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Eephus said:
El Floppo said:
Speaking of westerns...

I was just wondering if Little Big Man holds up. Thought my kids might enjoy it. That and My Name is Nobody (spoof spaghetti western) are two I remember being on tv a lot in the 70s, and I liked them both a lot as a kid.
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Haven't seen Little Big Man in decades. It's streaming on Prime so you've piqued my interest.

I'd read the book before seeing the movie and I remember Young Eephus not loving the casting of Dustin Hoffman.
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Lmk how it goes.
 
Clerks 2 (Tubi for 3 more hours): I had only seen this once around 2006, and expected it to be pretty weak, but it remains a good movie. Better rating than you'd expect (7.3 IMDB), and it earns it. Rosario Dawson still demands attention when she's on the screen, but even more so when she was younger. The comedy held up and the story also works well. Jay was just great in this, which isn't the case in all the Kevin Smith movies.
 
Some movies leaving soon:
Warrior - Roku, 8/12
Ghost in the Shell (live action) - Pluto, 8/15
Overlord - Pluto, 8/15
Top Gun Maverick - Prime, 8/15
Prisoners - Netflix, 8/22
Silver Linings Playbook - Prime, 8/29
Iron Giant - Prim, 9/1
Grand Budapest Hotel - Hulu, 9/5
Shape of Water - Hulu, 9/5
 
Warrior (Roku): MMA movie with Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton (and Nick Nolte). I don’t know what Rocky tricks they pulled in this movie, but they sure worked on me - I got all emotional watching this as the tournament went along. I was surprised at how abruptly it ended - I expected a little follow-up on all of the main characters, since there were a few story lines to resolve - maybe the director was just exhausted like I was watching it. Totally worth watching, I thought.
 
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Warrior (Roku): MMA movie with Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton (and Nick Nolte). I don’t know what Rocky tricks they pulled in this movie, but they sure worked on me - I got all emotional watching this as the tournament went along. I was surprised at how abruptly it ended - I expected a little follow-up on all of the main characters, since there were a few story lines to resolve - maybe the director was just exhausted like I was watching it. Totally worth watching, I thought.
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I watch this damn movie every time I stumble across it, the scene with Nick Nolte in the hotel room is phenomenal acting.
 
CGRdrJoe said:
Tick said:
Warrior (Roku): MMA movie with Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton (and Nick Nolte). I don’t know what Rocky tricks they pulled in this movie, but they sure worked on me - I got all emotional watching this as the tournament went along. I was surprised at how abruptly it ended - I expected a little follow-up on all of the main characters, since there were a few story lines to resolve - maybe the director was just exhausted like I was watching it. Totally worth watching, I thought.
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I watch this damn movie every time I stumble across it, the scene with Nick Nolte in the hotel room is phenomenal acting.
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He also had a moment where he shifted from looking old and used up to looking strong and content - it was like watching the Theoden transformation from Two Towers, but without CGI.
 
Overlord (Pluto): First half is a decent WW2 movie - its spectacle of the paratrooper landing doesn’t land as well after Band of Brothers, but they did a good job. Then it turns to Nazi occult, so a bit like Captain America… there aren’t really zombies, but when the super soldiers look a bit scrambled and get shot a few times, it’s close enough, even if they don’t infect others.

I liked the gory Marvel movie well enough.
 
I've been watching stuff, but not posting for some reason. The above posts reminded me that I actually really liked a western. Criterion had as one of their collections Jimmy Stewart directed by Anthony Mann and I watched a few of them. I liked them all, but REALLY enjoyed Winchester '73. I also watched Bend of the River and The Far Country.
 
KarmaPolice said:
I've been watching stuff, but not posting for some reason. The above posts reminded me that I actually really liked a western. Criterion had as one of their collections Jimmy Stewart directed by Anthony Mann and I watched a few of them. I liked them all, but REALLY enjoyed Winchester '73. I also watched Bend of the River and The Far Country.
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The Naked Spur is also very good
 
Tron: Legacy (Disney+): Sequel to Tron from 2010. I didn’t care for this. I can’t explain exactly where my line is between good scifi world building and annoying mumbo jumbo, but this is definitely on the annoying side. Pretty much every bit of dialogue in the movie annoyed me - just a ton of random computery words thrown together.

It did look great - a nice update but in the Tron visual theme. Funny how easily Daft Punk just fit in with no changes needed. There was some disappointing de-aging CGI with young Jeff Bridges where they never got the mouth right - they knew it and pixelated it whenever they could, but oof. Fight choreography also looked really slow or over-rehearsed… like a little kid doing a kata in karate class to get his belt but not putting any power into any of the motions.
 
KarmaPolice said:
I've been watching stuff, but not posting for some reason. The above posts reminded me that I actually really liked a western. Criterion had as one of their collections Jimmy Stewart directed by Anthony Mann and I watched a few of them. I liked them all, but REALLY enjoyed Winchester '73. I also watched Bend of the River and The Far Country.
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Winchester 73 rules. Dan Duryea (Waco Johnie Dean) is one of the best creeps in Hollywood history.
 
Project Almanac (Prime): 2015 movie, IMDB 6.3. High school seniors find an unfinished time machine and get it to work, then start out fixing a few things before it spirals. This reminded me of Chronicle crossed with Butterfly Effect. The effects were good, the kids were stupid. Some things didn’t quite fit for me - things like a silly episode of trying to pass a verbal quiz where they took a few trips back… no sure why they didn’t run into multiple copies of themselves. I thought this was a pretty fun movie, though - worth checking out.
 
Prisoners (Netflix for a couple of weeks): Denis Villeneuve movie starring Jake Gyllenhall, Huge Jacked Man, Paul Dano, and Maria Bello. Two girls go missing, police investigate, a father decides he'll do whatever he has to in order to find them... and that gets ugly. It had some fakeouts, the casting was perfect, and the acting was great. I think I prefer Villeneuve's sci-fi movies to his conventional movies, but this was still really good. With that cast and a decent box office performance, I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this before I started searching out Villeneuve movies.

Huh - while writing this, I made two connections I hadn't before. Things fit together a little better than I thought with those fakeouts. Nice.
 
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I finally saw Top Gun Maverick and liked it a lot. It’s a shame I didn’t see it in the theater.
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The good: Well, it's a kick *** movie that is about as good as a sequel can get (especially decades later)

The bad: it encourages more of the same, and largely I am tired of sequels and remakes.
 
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Tick said:
I finally saw Top Gun Maverick and liked it a lot. It’s a shame I didn’t see it in the theater.
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The good: Well, it's a kick *** movie that is about as good as a sequel can get (especially decades later)

The bad: it encourages more of the same, and largely I am tired of sequels and remakes.
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Yeah, Barbie kind of does the same. Now we are going to get a million terrible Mattel movies. But hey, that's how Hollywood has always been I suppose. Jaws and Star Wars and even Spartacus inspired a lot of meh-miserable movies.
 
Ilov80s said:
KarmaPolice said:
Tick said:
I finally saw Top Gun Maverick and liked it a lot. It’s a shame I didn’t see it in the theater.
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The good: Well, it's a kick *** movie that is about as good as a sequel can get (especially decades later)

The bad: it encourages more of the same, and largely I am tired of sequels and remakes.
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Yeah, Barbie kind of does the same. Now we are going to get a million terrible Mattel movies. But hey, that's how Hollywood has always been I suppose. Jaws and Star Wars and even Spartacus inspired a lot of meh-miserable movies.
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I hear you. In the end the art:business ratio is backwards for my tastes, but I am not funding the movies. Like you were getting to above, once a thing is good or popular, the reaction is 100 similar darts trying to get a similar hit.
 
KarmaPolice said:
Ilov80s said:
KarmaPolice said:
Tick said:
I finally saw Top Gun Maverick and liked it a lot. It’s a shame I didn’t see it in the theater.
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The good: Well, it's a kick *** movie that is about as good as a sequel can get (especially decades later)

The bad: it encourages more of the same, and largely I am tired of sequels and remakes.
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Yeah, Barbie kind of does the same. Now we are going to get a million terrible Mattel movies. But hey, that's how Hollywood has always been I suppose. Jaws and Star Wars and even Spartacus inspired a lot of meh-miserable movies.
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I hear you. In the end the art:business ratio is backwards for my tastes, but I am not funding the movies. Like you were getting to above, once a thing is good or popular, the reaction is 100 similar darts trying to get a similar hit.
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For sure and the fact that every once in awhile something that appears to be a craven money grab like Maverick or Barbie ends up being supremely entertaining and maybe even a bit important is the real miracle. For every Sistine Chapel, there was likely 1000 mediocre imitations. For every Guernica there was surely a million bad ideas.
 
Sunshine Cleaning (Prime): Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, 2008, IMDB 6.8. A drama with a few funny moments, good actors, nothing really happens despite a setup that would make you think something it would. This is one of those stories that doesn't have a full resolution because it's a slice of these people's lives, and there's rarely a tidy ending for that kind of story. It was odd seeing young Emily Blunt - to me, she sprung fully formed as a full-on adult in Edge of Tomorrow, so seeing her at age 25 playing a young adult trying to find her way was odd - basically a Krysten Ritter role. I also realized that Amy Adams is Cuter Pam. I liked the way that people in this movie didn't throw a big fit every time they made a big decision - you could tell that they had decided, the stated it and moved on. There were also a couple of understated odd romantic connections that felt more real than typical.

I'm left wondering about the future of Emily Blunt's character - somehow, I'm worried about this fictional character's future after a movie from 15 years ago.
 
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