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Gunpowder Milkshake (Netflix)

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The trailers have been out for a bit, but I haven't seen any threads on it. It looks potentially fun and will be released on Netflix in July. Has kind of a Kill Bill feel to it for me.

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The film has a big name cast, including Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Michelle Yeoh, Carla Gugino, and Angela Bassett. Karen plays the protagonist, Sam, whose mother Scarlet (Lena) is a professional assassin who had to leave her daughter behind on one mission. The two are estranged, but Sam followed in her mother's footsteps and became an assassin as well. When she decides to save a young girl from being held hostage and ignites a huge gang war as a result, Sam will need the help of her mother and the sisterhood to take down the enemy army.
 
I hadn't seen the trailer before, but the cast list had my interest anyway. I'll have a look when it comes out:)
 
I've been looking forward to this when it first announced its cast. It looks like it's going to be a lot of fun!

I mean...who doesn't want to watch Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Michelle Yeoh, Carla Gugino, and Angela Bassett kick ass?! :D
 
Alternate trailer with some additional funny scenes:

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The all-female Expendables never happened, although there was a super low budget flick that ran with the concept several years ago. Plus the Expendables name has lost its shine, if it ever had one. This just happens to be an action movie with mostly female leads. Likely better than anything the Expendables studio would've pulled off.
 
Aragorn said:
The all-female Expendables never happened, although there was a super low budget flick that ran with the concept several years ago. Plus the Expendables name has lost its shine, if it ever had one. This just happens to be an action movie with mostly female leads. Likely better than anything the Expendables studio would've pulled off.
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I want to say it was called Mercenaries? Think I saw it on tv a while back, but it hasn't stuck with me.
 
Well, that looks creatively bankrupt and vile. I'm not a fan of the John Wick series' nonsensical far-reaching assassin mythology, but at least the franchise has avoided one of pop culture's laziest and most vapid cliches - the professional killer who suddenly discovers a conscience when a kid comes into the mix. So, this movie aims to combine those two bad factors of assassin glamorization and the magical redemptive power of children, along with nihilistic, substance-free #GirlBoss posturing and comedy utterly devoid of humor? For shame - all these performers deserve far better. :barf:
 
I just watched it and the film is every bit of the ridiculous, bloody, absurd, silly, outrageous, fun action flick that it looks like, complete with ass-kicking women who keep their motherfudging language in check for the sake of the eight-year old (and three quarters!) girl in the room.

Is it light on plot? Yes, but I don't care because the whole thing is so much damn fun to watch. The whole cast is amazing (shocking, I know!) but Karen Gillan is in a special league of her own, stealing every scene she's in. That's saying a lot when her co-stars are Lena Headey, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett, and Carla Gugino! :D
 
I really wanted to like this but it felt like it was trying too hard to be something that it just wasn't deep down ("try-hard"). Every moment of dialogue felt hastily written on a napkin and only there because movies must have them and the flashy visuals something first timers were playing with aping from other movies. That said, there were occasional moments where something would successfully connect with the visuals or action but not thoroughly enough. I think movies can be dumb and can be style over substance and all that but this just left me hungry and unsatisfied afterwards. Disappointing because I am a fan of a lot of the cast here.

Seeing Karen Gillan in some of those environments gave me flashbacks to The Girl Who Waited.

This isn't just a crime committed by this movie alone but I find action way more exciting when bullets can penetrate. In particular, can we retire the whole thing with cars so bulletproof they don't even leave a mark? Is there anything less exciting?
 
It was everything I'd hoped it would be. :lol:
Sure, it was a not-as-well-done-as-Tarantino Tarantino film, but I had fun.
And I hope I find a chance to use Angela Basset's cleaned-up-for-the-8 3/4-year-old line: "I'm gonna bring the sky down on these mother fudgers." :lol:
 
It was fun. Definitely rather Kill Bill ish for me, though I consider that a good thing. It's perhaps a bit more light hearted and sillier than KB, which is also not necessarily a bad thing. My favorite line was probably:

"Where does this go?"
"F*cking Narnia!"

:D
 
Forbin said:
And I hope I find a chance to use Angela Basset's cleaned-up-for-the-8 3/4-year-old line: "I'm gonna bring the sky down on these mother fudgers." :lol:
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Unicron said:
My favorite line was probably:

"Where does this go?"
"F*cking Narnia!"

:D
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Both of those were awesome. :lol:

I'm also a big fan of this exchange:

"You think you have a chance here? I have an army!"
"Oh, yeah? I've got my mom!"
 
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