• Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-28 (Friday)

    From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Mon Feb 23 02:49:28 2026
    Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

    John Grissom's The Rainmaker (Showtime) 1997 movie starring Matt Damon
    as a young man fresh out of law school who gets a job working at a bar
    while waiting to take the bar exam. But it turns out the bar's owner >(Mickey Rourke) is also a crooked lawyer, and hires Damon for his small >firm. Danny DeVito also stars as the firm's paralegal who mentors Damon
    on his first big case going up against an insurance company that refuses
    to pay claims. I'm sure I probably watched this back in 97 but I had no >memory of the movie. It was OK.

    Didn't we discuss this a few months ago? Danny DeVito was the best thing
    in this movie. Claire Danes murdered her husband.

    Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (Cinemax) Charles Bronson stars as a
    vigilante who is coerced into going after a drug gang. I've been slowly >making my way through this over the past few days. I guess it was OK.
    I'm not sure if I've ever watched Death Wish 3 or not, but the plot of
    this one seemed stand alone enough that it didn't matter.

    There's a fifth one!

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Mon Feb 23 02:53:19 2026
    Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
    Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

    John Grissom's The Rainmaker (Showtime) 1997 movie starring Matt Damon
    as a young man fresh out of law school who gets a job working at a bar >>while waiting to take the bar exam. But it turns out the bar's owner >>(Mickey Rourke) is also a crooked lawyer, and hires Damon for his small >>firm. Danny DeVito also stars as the firm's paralegal who mentors Damon >>on his first big case going up against an insurance company that refuses >>to pay claims. I'm sure I probably watched this back in 97 but I had no >>memory of the movie. It was OK.

    Didn't we discuss this a few months ago? Danny DeVito was the best thing
    in this movie. Claire Danes murdered her husband.

    Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (Cinemax) Charles Bronson stars as a
    vigilante who is coerced into going after a drug gang. I've been slowly >>making my way through this over the past few days. I guess it was OK.
    I'm not sure if I've ever watched Death Wish 3 or not, but the plot of >>this one seemed stand alone enough that it didn't matter.

    There's a fifth one!

    I have no idea why your 2024 article just showed up as new.

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