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this is a pathetic old white guy fantasy


how can someone not hear a car rushing at them in a quiet night? jon lightglow talking shit to that young guy lol. 30 min car conversation, really? how the fuck did this show get an 8.4 on imdb?

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So should the Equalizer be called a pathetic old black guy fantasy?

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never seen it but i sure as hell wouldn't care if someone made a post about it on that movie's forum.

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Okay, you want to be taken seriously here. Yeah, pretty much everyone agrees about the operatives not hearing the car (though today's cars are pretty damned quiet, even the non-electric ones), but Harper's take down of the young CIA officer was some great dialogue, I thought. What's your problem with it?

As for the rest? Yeah, it's fantasy. Of course. Fiction. A story. What's pathetic about it? As Harper's character points out, Chase has aged, he's not up to his game—I think that's the point of the title. Can a man who once had mad skills but has since aged & grown relatively soft, survive these forces arrayed against him?

Honestly now, what were you expecting from the title & capsule description?

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let's say a car's engine could be quiet enough, he's driving on a dirt road and at high enough speed to surprise someone. that's not loud enough to hear? as for the movie itself, i expected him to actually outsmart them, which is entirely possible with good writing. the reason i say it's a pathetic fantasy is it's illogical and is written in such a way to make the old guy win without actually being clever. yea all movies are fantasies but it's pathetic if it's a pure fantasy without a rational basis. basically this is old guy winning porn.

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> how did this show get an 8.4 on imdb?

Jeff Bridges' sock-puppets voting on IMDB.

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