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This dude's a *beep* bad ass!!!


Go watch these movies. There's tits! And hot bitches! There's shoot outs! He breaks outta prison like half a dozen times! This dude's a bad ass and this and the first one are AWESOME!!!

You think living in a house of crazy people would be fun, but it's actually really depressing.-Bart

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Yeah! And he beats his wife! Robs powerful man so he has to escape the country and leave his children behind! Try to rescue his friends from a prison with the most insipid plan ever conceived! ( Park the car, Shoot the guards. Spoiler: Doesn`t work out, everyone is killed. ) Continues on to become a gangster even when he has a stable job!

YES! This is the kind of person the world needs!

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"Spoiler: Doesn`t work out, everyone is killed."

Well actually, it did.

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He lost his job as an architect due to downsizing. Mesrine has become a postwar icon in France comparable to Che in South America. He must have done something different than the average criminal to get to this iconic point.

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Yeah he was great at self promotion and portraying himself as a revolutionary when in fact he was a self interested gangster and thug. But he had a ton of charisma and died in service to his "cause" so he's of course romanticized. This film did a good job of exposing his warts and all brutality and misogyny though. The scene where he brutalizes his wife is just off the hook.

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Well, brutalize is a big word... he slapped her once

I'm sure that he must have done much worse in real life, but obviously you can't show that in a film that romanticizes a criminal figure...

Le beau est bizarre

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Yah cos people the actual world needs and characters that make for good movies are one and the same!
You bafoon...



- A point in every direction is the same as no point at all.

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both of these were better then the pg 13 super hero movies that are called "action" movies today


Rob Zombie is one of the greatest directors today

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Mesrine was a great film. I didn't check my watch once. lol





"Men like you don't die on toilets." Mel Gibson-Riggs, Lethal Weapon

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Is a 'bad' ass better than a good ass?

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