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John Wick 3 - Parabellum - Review
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Which we had been looking forward to for so long - and tonight was the night, the reviews, all fine or better - the daughter and I in the theatre, popcorn, sodas in hand...
It was disappointing. On this we agreed.
The character development - poor. Poor or worse. Not good. There could be integrity in the world of assassins, but there very apparently isn't.
The world building - more and more intricate and convoluted, ornate, embellished onto the nonsensical, less would have been more...that said -
...the action scenes are good. Great. That's why we're here. The early scene with the Chinatown assassins - great. As were some of the other scenes. Not all of them. And I know, I know, I'm not watching this for the acting, the plot, the themes, the character development - but it's the glue that holds it all together. Less world building, leave the audience with questions - that's OK. Keep the characters - that survive - intact, or change and evolve them in plausible ways, not always for the worse.
For all the anticipation and hype I would say just miss it. It will always be better in your head. And since it wasn't the worst movie ever but it was so much less than it promised and what the other two offered, I would give it 0 Stars, not that it deserves that, but - life is short, there are other films, and like sex with a beautiful woman it's too often better imagined than realized...
Miss.
$100,000 AU nugget found in Australia
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....And articles like this:
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-australia-48331769
You know that it's a slow news day in Australia when they report this stuff because, basically the entire continent is made out of Gold Nuggets and Koala Bears.
The Australian Firefighter is back, beard ever longer, and as he sits in the restaurant I tease him mercilessly, the lazy Australian who has to come to Canada for work because he's too lazy to pick up all of the gold nuggets outside his front door...
AU - The abbreviation for both Gold and Australia. We live in a world of metaphor and that can hardly be a coincidence...
624 Gram Gold Nugget found in Australia
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Work, Sleep, Calgary, and when I return and catch up one news it has to be articles like this:
Link: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/australia/aussie-girl-stumbles-across-35k-gold-nugget
Free Drugs
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Now this is something that occurred to me, what with our increasing liberalness around Marijuana and the Opioid epidemic, is that safe injection sites should offer free drugs. Treating addiction as a crime clearly does not work, however our criminalization of it has the effect of creating a culture of crime that accompanies it. Canada, as a country, could purchase heroin from second and third world suppliers at pennies per dose - given the costs associated with safe injection sites (needles, nurses, staff, rent, etc) this would be the smallest expense associated with our tolerance of addiction, and would ensure that addicts received quality "medication". Benefits to this would include - lack of crime surrounding both the dealing and trafficking of drugs (how are you going to sell crap drugs when quality drugs are available for free), a decline in overdoses and an incredible reduction in crime related to addicts attempting to subsidize their habit.
Upon the slightest consideration the only objection to this is a "moral" one, in which addiction is perceived as a moral failing or weakness and not an illness - which is clearly wrong - and by changing our thinking we can improve the quality of life for everyone living both with addicts, addictions and in the cities in general. Treating addiction as an illness is the first step towards curing it, and any costs associated with "Free Drugs" will be recovered a hundred fold by the associated reduction in crime.
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