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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 439128" data-attributes="member: 23">Masterminds (2016)

<img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.blogs.es%2F865c58%2Fmasterminds%2F1366_2000.jpg&amp;f=1&amp;nofb=1&amp;ipt=4c817901c423ccc142358dd064603161c3a822996434df598711b86afe72943b" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 818px" />A blind and spontaneous watch, chosen because it was short, looked lighthearted (from the thumbnail) and is due to leave Prime in a matter of days.I find it frustrating that contemporary films don&#039;t have opening credits as it would be nice not to have to spend time wondering who this actor or that actress is. As I watched I didn&#039;t recognise any of the cast apart from Owen Wilson, but I thought the woman might be Jennifer Aniston until I saw a profile and realised this actress had a small, far less distinguished nose and deduced I had not watched her in anything. Turns out it was Kristen Wiig whom I&#039;ve previously watched in the godawful Ghostbusters reboot and playing a very badly-cast Cheetah in Wonder Woman 1984. Perhaps the no credits thing worked out after all... I enjoyed her very much in this, without the baggage of my previous unpleasant experiences weighing me down.A lot of the cast are associated with Saturday Night Live, and the director had previously worked on films like Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre. This probably gives a good idea of the film&#039;s tone. The broad strokes were quite welcome last night and the gross out aspects of the humour tolerable.When it was intimated at film&#039;s end that it was based on a true story I found myself thinking that it was too ridiculous to be true. But I was wrong again... it is a comic retelling of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1997_Loomis_Fargo_robbery" target="_blank">October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery (AKA The Hillbilly Heist).</a>Art this isn&#039;t, but it entertained me nicely for an hour and a half.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 439128, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Masterminds[/SIZE][/B] (2016) [IMG width="818px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.blogs.es%2F865c58%2Fmasterminds%2F1366_2000.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=4c817901c423ccc142358dd064603161c3a822996434df598711b86afe72943b[/IMG][/CENTER] A blind and spontaneous watch, chosen because it was short, looked lighthearted (from the thumbnail) and is due to leave Prime in a matter of days. I find it frustrating that contemporary films don't have opening credits as it would be nice not to have to spend time wondering who this actor or that actress is. As I watched I didn't recognise any of the cast apart from Owen Wilson, but I thought the woman might be Jennifer Aniston until I saw a profile and realised this actress had a small, far less distinguished nose and deduced I had not watched her in anything. Turns out it was Kristen Wiig whom I've previously watched in the godawful [I]Ghostbusters[/I] reboot and playing a very badly-cast Cheetah in [I]Wonder Woman 1984.[/I] Perhaps the no credits thing worked out after all... I enjoyed her very much in this, without the baggage of my previous unpleasant experiences weighing me down. A lot of the cast are associated with [I]Saturday Night Live[/I], and the director had previously worked on films like [I]Napoleon Dynamite [/I]and[I] Nacho Libre[/I]. This probably gives a good idea of the film's tone. The broad strokes were quite welcome last night and the gross out aspects of the humour tolerable. When it was intimated at film's end that it was based on a true story I found myself thinking that it was too ridiculous to be true. But I was wrong again... it is a comic retelling of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1997_Loomis_Fargo_robbery']October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery (AKA The Hillbilly Heist).[/URL] Art this isn't, but it entertained me nicely for an hour and a half. [/QUOTE]

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