Right now, Christian is watching some movie called The Marine. It’s about… well… a marine, and Charlie Sheen’s dad is the bad guy, and some wrestler guy is “The Marine,” who because the movie’s named after him must be the good guy. That’s about the extent of what I understand in the movie. I stopped caring what happened at the point when the bad guys used excessive fire power in a diamond robbery.
I really hate in movies when you just know it must surely cost more money to pull off a heist than the heist is actually worth. Now, if we’re talking revenge or a political coup or even trying to win over a girl, then I can accept it, but commodities? Ugh! That’s just tasteless. Especially when it’s something as common as diamonds. These guys had enough firepower to go hop over to Africa and take over some actual diamond mines if they felt like it. Why waste time and money on a bunch of rocks that they won’t be able to unload because they’re probably laser-etched with serial numbers, and thus totally traceable? Honestly, Charlie Sheen’s Dad! I expected so much more from you.
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Ha! The Mister’s big pet peeve with movies is where people go through all this effort to save one life and end up killing many lives in the process. He’s right though it is annoying.