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Sicario: Day of the Soldado ain't that great
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 8:43 AM Author: 718-662-5970 Tbf, the first movie is flawless and so it's the definition of a hard act to follow
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But Soldado inserts a comical "oops almost hit a kid with my car" plot point, just to have the same kid recognize Benecio Del Toro in a different country days later and blow his cover. Bad luck, Benecio!
The kid executes Benecio with a headshot, dropping his corpose into the Mexico dust where he bleeds out for 6 hours. ... Only BAM to come back alive - the bullet only went through his cheeks! Good luck, Benecio! Shot through the head/cheeks, Benecio can still wander miles through the hot desert, take a car, and not only drive it to the border, but battle with grenades while doing so.
Then, flash forward, he finds the kid and says, "You wanna be a Sicario?", suggesting he will train the kid. BAM, credits roll.
Imagine Villenueve in the first movie closing on the line, "Wow, youre a real Sicario", or something like that. Lmao.
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 8:44 AM Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW) I like when they smoke all those Mexicans in the pickup (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898408) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 8:46 AM Author: 718-662-5970 yeah everyone focuses on benecio, but brolin's character is probably the one that needs his own movie
yells at the mexicans, "stand up, stand up", then scythes them |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 8:47 AM Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (You = Privy to The Great Becumming™ & Yet You Recognize Nothing) the first one is one of my POTUS films.
should i watch the second?
Also, should I watch Civil War |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 8:50 AM Author: 718-662-5970 yeah watch the second if you love the first. it will make you like it more.
second is fun, but its hollywood, and what the first one would have been without villenueve
civil war, lol. entertaining lib masturbation fantasy. I dont even mind that california went into the conservative alliance, or whatever, suspension of disbelief. But in the middle of a 2020s civil war, people are like "STILL PHOTO JOURNALISTS ARE SO IMPORTANT!"
Even combatants are risking their lives, "SAVE THAT CAMERA-MAN, WE NEED JOURNALISM!" while the guy clicks his Nikon |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 8:55 AM Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (You = Privy to The Great Becumming™ & Yet You Recognize Nothing) WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN RECENTLY THAT IS GOOD (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898430) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 9:02 AM Author: 718-662-5970 i just watch violent "guy" movies.
American Sniper is also terrible... lmao.... terrible. But I watch this shit anyway and will not stop
best thing i have watched in years i watched this year. "patriot" tv show on prime
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 9:08 AM Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (You = Privy to The Great Becumming™ & Yet You Recognize Nothing) ljljl I even enjoyed Shooter (2007 film)
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 12:58 PM Author: Juan Eighty Patriot is 180000000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48899018) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 8:49 AM Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW) then his boys put finishing shots on all of them. that’s good training (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898417) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 8:56 AM Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (You = Privy to The Great Becumming™ & Yet You Recognize Nothing) 18000000 scene god fucking damnit.
which is better, that one, or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjVmj18co9M |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 9:02 AM Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW) pickup scene
that ending scene always underwhelmed me because I think he could have and would have made them suffer much more than he did. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 9:07 AM Author: 718-662-5970 indisputed potus of sicario scenes is the border traffic scene in the first one. I made a thread about it a few weeks ago
its remarkable mostly because they avoid the hollywood trope of "it all goes wrong!", which the second movie is full of
all the tension and violence of that scene... and it all goes fine. its all no big deal, and they shrug and pull it off |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 9:08 AM Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW) idk man, that chick ruins every scene that she’s in imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898473) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 9:10 AM Author: 718-662-5970 http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708586&mc=2&forum_id=2
she's just the audience stand-in and I think she works well in that role
the absence of a normal / moral person in the second is felt. they try to make the little girl some moral center, but dont have time or space to allow her to be, and she's fucking 15 and shouldnt be nearly as smart or moral as she is |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 9:09 AM Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (You = Privy to The Great Becumming™ & Yet You Recognize Nothing) "indisputed potus of sicario scenes is the border traffic scene in the first one. I made a thread about it a few weeks ago its remarkable mostly because they avoid the hollywood trope of "it all goes wrong!", which the second movie is full of"
PLZ LIST SOME OTHER POTUS SCENES ON THIS LEVEL, ANY FILM OR TV SHOW. THANKK. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 8:58 AM Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (You = Privy to The Great Becumming™ & Yet You Recognize Nothing) What other films is Benicio del Toro 180 in (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898436) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 9:03 AM Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW) everything that I’ve ever seen him in
Sin City and Usual Suspects come to mind |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 9:04 AM Author: 718-662-5970 Sin City is 18000000000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898455) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 9:06 AM Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (You = Privy to The Great Becumming™ & Yet You Recognize Nothing) Saw it Year$ ago friend time is a lie tho cuz i recall nothing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898464) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 10:58 AM Author: Lawrence, of Arabia (SSPX Masterman- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ) Fear and loathing in Las Vegas (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898647) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 8:58 AM Author: 718-662-5970 Tyler Sheridan (Yellowstone) wrote all this stuff. He's bewildering bc he will get some things so right.
But thinking more on the big plot point in Soldado... Some CIA guys nearly hit a mexican teen in a Target parking lot. These guys are highly trained deep undercover, DOD's best black site torturers, wet work men, etc.
But they nearly hit this kid and while the camera underscores the kid staring deeply into Benecio's eyes, memorizing his face apparently for no explained reason, the CIA doods flip on a siren at the kid, to say... "hey fucker we are police-affiliated", I guess? Wtf. CIA lifers just blowing cover in a parking lot, over a 5mph pedestrian close call
And then, in the middle of the night in a migrant gathering point, the kid sees Benecio in a cowboy hat and poncho, in the dark, through a window, about 50 yards out surrounded by other mexican migrants, and is like "THATS THE GUY FROM TARGET WHO IS POLICE", ids him to the cartel, who then stage a massive murder ambush on this kid's target parking lot id
thats the big plot hinge in the movie and every part of it is the dumbest shit you ever heard |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 9:15 AM Author: david copafeel first one is overrated and sequel is underrated. bad take tbh. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898484) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 9:20 AM Author: 718-662-5970 im open to argument. How would you address my three main charges:
1. Accidental and random encounter permits future identification of undercover main character
2. Headshot execution of main character drops him, apparently dead and pouring blood in the desert. Psyche, he is still alive and near full strength
3. "Wanna be a SICARIO?" -- curtain drops
Any of these three are unacceptable, but esp the third |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 9:29 AM Author: Judas Jones "Ju wanna be a sicario, esse?" *aggressively sucks lollipop* (Rubio) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898501) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 10:50 AM Author: butt cheeks (✅🍑) it's a very good movie when compared to the whole universe of other movies, it's just no master piece so it's nowhere near as good as the first one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898626) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 10:55 AM Author: Lawrence, of Arabia (SSPX Masterman- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ) I started watching NCIS from the beginning last summer, watch about two episodes a week. I also didn’t start watching breaking bad until it had been out about 5 years
Both of them ruined me for most movies although I am planning to see accountant 2 this weekend. I started gladiator 2 on a plane trip recently and made it 15 minutes before I got too irritated
I also liked conclave up until the shitlib ending. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 11:01 AM Author: Faggottini The first movie is kind of trash too as a movie, but it has cool visual setpieces and a broader idea of imagining the GWOT in mexico (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898650) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 12:00 PM Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW) Mexico is getting GWOT very soon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898816) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 12:00 PM Author: Faggottini Do you promise to hold your breath until that happens? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898818) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 12:05 PM Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW) 1) secure the border
2) deport the cartel/gang psychos who would cause problems when it starts
3) use drones and SF to target the leadership
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 12:04 PM Author: Traditional Latin ass (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898824) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2025 12:53 PM Author: ChadGPT-5 They glorified Colombian hitmen that they flipped in the 80s; would be nice if they focused on how the CIA is directly involved in arms and drug trafficking like with Tom Cruise in "American Made" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719527&forum_id=2Elisa#48898992) |