Bob Odenkirk plays the temporary Sheriff for the town of Normal, Minnesota when the previous sheriff dies unexpectedly. Odenkirk as Ulysses has issues of his own, but nothing compared to the weirdness going on in the town. There sure are a lot of guns. Everything goes to hell when two sweet but inept bank robbers try to rob the local bank. See, the bank is full of Yakuza money. The only person out of the loop is Ulysses. This sets off a massive shootout throughout town full of glorious blood kills, more akin to a horror film than an action shoot-up.

All in all, I enjoyed this. Loud dumb fun. But not too dumb. Odenkirk continues to lean into his action hero persona. Like I said, lots of gruesome kills.

What is with this week? And as will probably be said many times in many places, not the right 80 year old.

Iconic actor. Big part of my teen years.

2026 continues to blow in so many way. She was only 80, but had been having health problems for quite some time.

Ken Watanabe - begins with a frantic duel but being set by a theater, nothing is as it seems. A plot within a plot. I figured out the first plot. The second plot was clever. Enjoyable storytelling which unfolds nicely. Good airplane movie

He laid down a mean rhythm.

Ah, Lanterns. Hal Jordan is busy training his replacement Jon Sterwart in the most dickish way possible. The show starts briefly when Hal Jordan gets the ring in 1996. They we get the training stuff and the mystery in 2016. It has a brief coda in 2026. The mystery happens in 2016 in some small town in the midwest where Hal has been before. Jordan wants to investigate but the Sheriff wants him to get lost. They run into some local preppers led by the local wealthy guy who wants Hal on his side to help him fight against aliens.

Kyle Chandler plays Jordan as a Green Lantern that seems really tired with being Green Lantern. Or maybe he is just tired. And he really doesn't want a replacement. If you've seen the trailer, you see what Jordan does to poor John Stewart.

So, far, I'm invested. It's a bit slow but it goes to fun places.

She was brilliant in Heroes. Then that show fell apart with the writers’ strike and she went on to shows that didn’t interest me.

Only 36.

Mark Wahlberg stretches his acting chops by playing an unlikable jerk in this based on a true story tale of an adventure racing team that adopts a stray dog in the Dominican Republic. Wahlberg takes one last chance to win the first place trophy of the World Championship Adventure Racing league or some such nonsense. He's been out of the sport for a few years after a disastrous campaign a few years ago. But he wants to try one last time for the trophy so he can finally settle down and sell real estate.  He has to go raise money and convince people to join with him on the team. Simu Liu a member of the embarrassment squad, now an influencer, agrees to come back.

They start the race. They do dumb things. They have problems. Blah. Blah. Blah. But at one of the stops, Marky Mark feeds a stray dog and the dog decides to join the team. Adventures and tear jerking ensue.

It was a dumb movie. But I had followed the actual story on social media and it was crazy pants. This movie sucked all the excitement out of a great feel good story. But they did manipulate you to tears many times or tried to.

No sword fights. But lots of stupidity.

(06-27-2026, 01:24 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote:

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