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I was less disappointed in The Matrix Resurrections than I was in this sequel. By the fourth Matrix movie, I knew all the big ideas had been spent. The Accountant 2 abandoned the motif that made the first movie attractive: a lone, lethal, perfectionist criminal with a heart of gold. Instead, the second movie was like The Autistic Avengers. Like a Marvel movie, the villain is shallowly motivated and makes consistently irrational decisions despite operating a vast and successful criminal enterprise, and every plot turn is another arbitrary move made by this antagonist. It felt like all the mediocre action flicks I've seen in the last few years with the confetti of neurodivergence.
Ben Affleck scarcely did better than I'd expect Jason Momoa to do playing an autist, avoiding eye contact but somehow never losing an inappropriate smirk.
I give it two out of five meat morsels on the k00bimeater.
He became a different kind of autistic between movies
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I just recently saw the first Accountant for the first time and was impressed by Affleck’s performance. I felt like there was some really good autistic behavior demonstrated. I’m bummed to hear the second one doesn’t live up to the first, though honestly that’s not a surprise.
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104 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b OP 8 Jun
The first accountant was so good. It might just be me. IMDb has it near 7/10.
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First Accountant was like a dream life for a nomadic genius. It reminded me of House MD. I want to be like them.
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It was much better than I expected. I didn’t know about the neurodivergence aspect ahead of time
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Oof. You're not the first person I've heard dislike it this much. I enjoyed the first one a lot, but I'm not sure it needed a sequel.
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I'm with you on, I enjoyed the first one, and was stoked to get a sequal but this took the fast and furious route real quick, there was hardly any accounting moments in it, just a generic kick ass by numbers flick with some rando plot device
Also turning the kids into super hackers took me out of the story, i was like when did they become a mission impossible level IMF threat
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K00bimeater?! I fucking love that.
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137 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 8 Jun
Yeah buddy. Everyone should have their own weird measurement system imo. What would yours be?
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I usually go on a system of 1-10 thumbs up. I certainly should come up with something more creative.
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Damn I was excited for this movie
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60 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 8 Jun
Must they make a sequel of everything?
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Money grab
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I was just going to crank it up on Amazon and watch it with the wife. We had seen the first one and thought it was good but as someone else said, “Must they make sequels of everything?” I guess we have to see for ourselves.
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