[Pollster1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW0PrPgI8F8
American Assassin - Movie to be released in about a week.

https://www.amazon.com/American-Assassin-Thriller-Mitch-Novel/dp/1416595198
Apparently based on the Mitch Rapp novel by Vince Flynn

They deviated from the books for diversity in casting (Irene Kennedy is black), but it looks like the Americans are the good guys, Muslim terrorists are the bad guys, guns in the right hands are good, and morality matters. That is unusual for Hollywood. I wouldn’t quite say I’m optimistic, but I will at least check what people I respect say. I may actually see a current movie this year.

[Rummyfan]

Ridley Scott was a young director and chose (for most of us) almost unheard of people to play the parts, which they did superbly. He was in the middle of a few projects at the time, soon to do Aliens, and it almost seemed like a bit of an effort to fill a void, both in his time and in the movie genre then....

Blade Runner was made after Alien and the first two Star Wars so both Scott and Harrison Ford were bona fire stars at that point. Don't get me wrong I love the flick - the director's cut without the voice over is my favorite. The sequel coming my this fall.... meh.

[a fool in paradise]

The trailer looked like a social justice warrior film about slaves and a looming battle between humans and replicant/robot workers.

The original sprang from the production team on Jodorowsky’s Dune and European sci-fi comics (like ‘Heavy Metal’).

This doesn’t look like it will deliver the awe of the first one.

[MomwithHope]

I’ve never seen the final cut. Don’t even think I saw the original movie all the way through. But I have heard about the sequel and a few weeks ago ordered the final cut of the original from the library, I am only #17 in line. LOL

[djf]

Well, folks... only five days to go! I’m pretty sure I won’t go see it on Friday or Saturday. Most likely Monday evening.