Are you saying you don’t like to be lectured by strangers on how things are done PROPER-LIKE?
Huh. 
The Accountant (2016) - dir. Gavin O’Connor
Ben Affleck is Christian Wolff, an autistic savant who acts as a forensic accountant to major criminals, drug cartels, etc. As it happens, he was raised by a hardass miltary father who basically abused him into becoming one of those hyper-efficient killing machines that only seem to exist in movies. He is called on to find an embezzler in John Lithgow’s tech firm that makes advanced prosthetics. As he investigates (along with junior accountant Anna Kendrick), people start dying, mostly at the hand of Brax (Jon Bernthal) Cue the revelation that Christian keeps a major arsenal handy for just such occasions. Violence ensues.
What we have in all this is something like Rain Man meets any random Jason Statham movie. If you stop and think even a little about the plot, it all comes apart. Affleck tries to imbue Christian with some personality, but his ‘autistic’ flatness and robotic quality put up a wall.
There’s a sequel out now, almost a decade later, which is what prompted me and the missus to watch this one, as she has a great (and totally justified) affection for Bernthal, who has face and presence to make fantastic tough guys, as his work on Walking Dead and The Punisher series showed.
We might go see the sequel this weekend just for Bernthal. Poor Ben doesn’t look like he’s having any fun. Serious “Sad Affleck Meme” energy.
It’s currently on Prime, but I can’t recommend this for any reason other than background noise while you fold laundry.
2 out of 5 ceiling mounted chain guns that happen to be lying around.
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Started watching The Eternaut on Netflix, made it to episode 4. Pretty good so far, looks like there’s a new element being added to the story. I’ll most likely finish it tonight.
the new season of Poker Face just came out. hope to catch an episode tonight.
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We watched Black Bag with Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbinder last night. Very well done — fun & twisty. As far as WhoDunnits go, this far more enjoyable and clever than The Glass Onion.
We also gave this one a try a few nights ago, but I forgot to post about it.
Started off promising, then I lost my patience over too much quirk.
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I’m stuck home sick, but Shudder just dropped a bunch of stuff. The Ugly Stepsister is now available as well as the absolute classic, Tremors
There also an interesting little slow burn of a movie called The Devil’s Business. Two hit men, and old experienced one and a young new rookie. But, while waiting for their target, they they find a disturbing black magic alter, and, well, nothing good ever happens after you find one of those. And at only 69 minutes it isn’t a commitment.
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The Ugly Stepsister is on our list. Have you watched it yet?
We watched The Luckiest Man in America last night, with Walton Goggins, David Strathairn 
& Paul Walter Houser, who was absolutely incredible in Blackbird.
Based on a true story about a guy who cons a game show out of a sizable amount of money in the early 80s. We liked it, but thought it ended rather abruptly, and strangely.
Yeah. I linked to my review above. TLDR: definitely worth watching, but kinda pales in comparison to The Substance, which treads similarly themed ground. That’s not the film’s fault, though.
It’s relatively up there on the wince inducing body horror.
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Beats wince inducing reality. Maybe we’ll check it oot tonight.
We watched it last night and greatly enjoyed it. There were some seriously cringey body horror things, and a highly surprising view of a fully erect dingdong as well as a fairly long focus on a woman’s behind & vulva .
The “rhinoplasty” scene was horrifying!
The lengths women still go through bc of patriarchal expectations is pretty depressing 
Watch the first episode last night and it was good, but the amount of ads was really depressing. I don’t watch very much TV with ads in them anymore and I find them really annoying and distracting to the overall story. Not that motivated to continue.
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