...as well as the bloodsoaked crime melodrama Killerman...
...and the Spanish animated feature Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles...
The Kid and I also caught up with the action thriller Angel Has Fallen...
...which completes the trilogy begun by Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen, about Secret Service agent Gerard Butler protecting President Morgan Freeman. It's reasonably enjoyable mayhem, but what's probably most notable about it is, first, a supporting turn by Nick Nolte, who looks these days like any panhandler you've ever seen, as our hero's paranoid recluse of a dad, and second, the frequency with which the words "Shit" and "Fuck" are repeated in the dialogue, especially by our hero. I would guess that they're his most frequently used expressions; the former when he realizes that something terribly inconvenient is about to happen; the latter after it does.
The screenwriters should get an Oscar nomination; this is truly realistic speech. I talk this way all day long, over matters far less urgent than the welfare of a good president. Indeed, I talk this way every day, simply in response to the daily awareness of Our Current President.
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